Date of Death between 1949-01-01 and 1949-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Frank Morgan
Actor | The Wizard of Oz
Jovial, somewhat flamboyant Frank Morgan (born Francis Wuppermann) will forever be remembered as the title character in The Wizard of Oz (1939), but he was a veteran and respected actor long before he played that part, and turned in outstanding performances both before and after that film. One of ...
2. Maria Ouspenskaya
Actress | The Wolf Man
The daughter of a lawyer, Ouspenskaya studied singing at the Warsaw Conservatory and acting at Adasheff's School of the Drama in Moscow. She received her practical training as an actress touring in the Russian provinces. She later joined the Moscow Art Theatre. It was here that she first worked ...
3. Wallace Beery
Actor | A Date with Judy
In 1902, 16-year-old Wallace Beery joined the Ringling Brothers Circus as an assistant to the elephant trainer. He left two years later after a leopard clawed his arm. Beery next went to New York, where he found work in musical variety shows. He became a leading man in musicals and appeared on ...
4. Victor Fleming
Director | Gone with the Wind
Victor Fleming entered the film business as a stuntman in 1910, mainly doing stunt driving - which came easy to him, as he had been a mechanic and professional race-car driver. He became interested in working on the other side of the camera, and eventually got a job as a cameraman on many of the ...
5. Harry Davenport
Actor | Gone with the Wind
Character fame on film came quite late for long-time stage actor Harry Davenport at age 70, but he made up for lost time in very quick fashion with well over a hundred film roles registered from the advent of sound to the time of his death in 1949. Beloved for his twinkle-eyed avuncular and/or ...
6. Charles Middleton
Actor | Duck Soup
Charles Brown Middleton was born 7th October 1879. His father was a military man with a strong sense of discipline which conflicted with Charles' own outlook on how to live his life so when 12 he ran away to join a circus and looked after the elephants before moving into performing in dramatic ...
7. Fritz Leiber
Actor | Monsieur Verdoux
Fritz Leiber was born on January 31, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Bagdad (1949) and Romeo and Juliet (1916). He was previously married to Virginia Bronson. He died on October 14, 1949 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
8. Richard Dix
Actor | Cimarron
Richard Dix was a major leading man at RKO Radio Pictures from 1929 through 1943. He was born Ernest Carlton Brimmer July 18, 1893, in St. Paul, Minnesota. There he was educated, and at the desires of his father, studied to be a surgeon. His obvious acting talent in his school dramatic club led him...
9. Sam Wood
Director | Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Following a two-year apprenticeship under Cecil B. DeMille as assistant director, Samuel Grosvenor Wood had the good fortune to have assigned to him two of the biggest stars at Paramount during their heyday: Wallace Reid (between 1919 and 1920) and Gloria Swanson (from 1921 to 1923). By the time ...
10. Bill Robinson
Soundtrack | The Shape of Water
Bill Robinson quit school at age seven and began work as a professional dancer the following year. Bojangles (the name referred to his happy-go-lucky ebullience) starred in vaudeville, musical stage and movies. He invented the stair tap routine and was considered one of the world's greatest tap ...
11. Will Hay
Actor | Oh, Mr. Porter!
William Thompson Hay was probably one of the most versatile of entertainers. He was not only a character comedian of the first rank, but was also an astronomer of high repute - he discovered the spot on the planet Saturn in 1933 - and a fully qualified air pilot; he was once an engineer. Born in ...
12. Owen Davis Jr.
Actor | Bunker Bean
Owen Davis Jr. was born on October 6, 1907 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Bunker Bean (1936), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and It Could Happen to You (1937). He was previously married to Laina Muroni. He died on May 21, 1949 in Long Island Sound, ...
13. Felix Bressart
Actor | The Shop Around the Corner
With his lanky frame, big nose, toothbrush moustache and horn-rimmed glasses he looked like someone had decided to cross Groucho Marx with Albert Einstein. The perennial scene-stealer Felix Bressart had two distinct careers as a comic actor: an earlier one, on stage and screen in his native Germany...
14. Howard Hickman
Actor | Gone with the Wind
Howard Hickman was born on February 9, 1880 in Columbia, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), Kitty Kelly, M.D. (1919) and Nobody's Kid (1921). He was previously married to Bessie Barriscale. He died on December 31, 1949 in San Anselmo, California, USA.
15. Oscar Polk
Actor | Gone with the Wind
Oscar Polk was born on December 25, 1899 in Marianna, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), The Green Pastures (1936) and Reap the Wild Wind (1942). He was previously married to Ivy V. Polk. He died on January 4, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.
16. Tom Walls
Actor | Lady in Danger
Comedy farceur Tom Walls is indelibly associated with the popular Aldwych Theatre farces of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in 1883, this English gent was a former constable and jockey before making his stage debut in 1905. As the star and producer of a succession of witty spoofs typically denigrating ...
17. Geneva Mitchell
Actress | Behind the Evidence
Geneva Doris Mitchell was born on February 3, 1908 in Medarysville, Indiana. Her father died in 1909 and her mother Verna Mitchell became a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl. When she was fourteen Geneva was hired to be in the Follies too. Florenz Ziegfeld said she was "the find" of the season. Her ...
18. Craig Reynolds
Actor | Perils of Pauline
Craig Reynolds was born on July 15, 1907 in Anaheim, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Perils of Pauline (1933), Back in Circulation (1937) and Love Birds (1934). He was previously married to Barbara Pepper. He died on October 22, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
19. Roman Bohnen
Actor | The Best Years of Our Lives
Roman Bohnen, known as "Bud" to his family and friends was not only an excellent film actor but also a stage actor of note. As a member of the prestigious Group Theatre from 1934-40, he appeared in such classic productions as "Waiting for Lefty", "Golden Boy", "Awake and Sing" and "The Gentle ...
20. Jean Spangler
Jean was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1923. She graduated from Franklin High School in Los Angeles in 1941. Soon, Jean was working as a model for a local clothing firm. Later, she was a dancer with the Earl Carroll Theatre. Jean got married to Dexter Benner, and they had a daughter, Christine, ...
21. Herbert Stothart
Music Department | The Wizard of Oz
Of Scottish and German ancestry, Herbert Stothart was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1885. At first, he was slated for a career as a teacher of history. However, he became enamored with music while singing in a school choir, and again, later, while attending the University of Wisconsin. There, he...
22. Kiki Palmer
Actress | La marcia nuziale
Kiki Palmer was born on July 11, 1907 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Wedding March (1936) and La luce del mondo (1935). She died on August 11, 1949 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
23. Richard Strauss
Soundtrack | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Richard Strauss was a German composer best known for symphonic poem 'Also sprach Zarathustra' (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1896) used as the music score in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by director Stanley Kubrick.
He was born Richard Georg Strauss on June 11, 1864, in Munich, Bavaria (now Germany). His ...
24. Philip Barry
Writer | The Philadelphia Story
Philip Barry was born on June 18, 1896 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Philadelphia Story (1940), High Society (1956) and Holiday (1938). He was previously married to Ellen Marshall Semple. He died on December 3, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.
25. Moore Marriott
Actor | Oh, Mr. Porter!
Largely forgotten today, comic actor Moore Marriott reigned supreme for a time in the 1930s alongside Will Hay and Graham Moffatt in British film farce. The trio came about by happenstance, but it was their audiences who insisted they reappear together again and again.
Born in 1885, Marriott started...
26. C.V. France
Actor | The Skin Game
C.V. France was born on June 30, 1868 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Skin Game (1931), If I Were King (1938) and Went the Day Well? (1942). He died on April 13, 1949 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
27. Nora Gregor
Actress | La règle du jeu
Nora Gregor was an operetta diva, stage and film actress. She made her debut in Graz, Austria, and from there went to the Volksbühne an das Raimund-Theater in Vienna. She also worked at the Reinhardt Bühne in Berlin. From 1930 to 1933 she lived in Hollywood and also in Berlin. She made her first ...
28. Drew Demorest
Actor | Men of San Quentin
Drew Demorest was born on August 31, 1893 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Men of San Quentin (1942), Shadows of the Night (1928) and Today (1930). He was previously married to Henrietta Frazer. He died on February 21, 1949 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
29. Alfred Drayton
Actor | The Squeaker
Stocky, bald and rather cold-eyed English character actor, who made a career of playing choleric, hectoring or exasperated authority figures. A former brewery worker, he first appeared in amateur dramatics and over the years built up a reputation as an incisive theatrical performer, both in stage ...
30. Margaret Mitchell
Writer | Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She was a writer, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), Luan shi yao ji (1956) and E o Vento Levou (1956). She was previously married to John R. Marsh and Berrien Kinnard "Red" Upshaw. She died on August 16, 1949 in Atlanta, ...
31. Jean Gillie
Actress | Decoy
British actress Jean Gillie met husband Jack Bernhard while he was stationed in Britain during the war. When they came to Hollywood, he produced and directed Decoy in May 1946 as a vehicle to showcase her talents to American audiences, while Gillie was simultaneously at work in The Macomber Affair ...
32. Elmer Clifton
Director | The Secret of Treasure Island
He acted on the stage from 1907 and worked with D.W. Griffith in various capacities between 1913-22, including appearances in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916). He became a director in 1917, with his best-known production probably being the big-budget whaling epic Down to the Sea ...
33. William Wright
Actor | A Man's World
Handsome actor William Wright's mid-film 1940s career was pushed with a wave of Columbia Studio publicity promoting him as World War II's answer to Clark Gable. The push ultimately did not work and Wright's rather obscure career faded within a decade.
The Utah-born actor moved to California after ...
34. Al Shean
Actor | The Blue Bird
Al Shean was born on May 12, 1868 in Dornum, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia [now Lower Saxony, Germany]. He was an actor and writer, known for The Blue Bird (1940), Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and Live, Love and Learn (1937). He was previously married to Johanna Davidson. He died on August 12, ...
35. Richard Connell
Writer | Meet John Doe
Richard Connell was born In Dutchess County, New York in 1893. He began covering baseball games for his father's newspaper at age ten and was editing the paper at age sixteen. He served in World War I, and then lived in various European countries. After settling in Beverly Hills, California, ...
36. John Tyrrell
Actor | Legion of Terror
John Tyrrell entered show business at the age of 16 as half of the vaudeville dance team of Tyrrell and Mack. The act became very successful, and for the next ten years they played engagements all over the country and secured billing as featured players in the famous revue "George White's Scandals....
37. Leon Schlesinger
Producer | Somewhere in Sonora
Leon Schlesinger occupies an odd niche in Hollywood history. He was every bit a studio mogul but occupied a narrow, if extremely lucrative corner of the industry, an animation company. He might have shared this corner with Walt Disney but the two men couldn't have been more different in their ...
38. Blanca Estela Pavón
Actress | Cuando lloran los valientes
Blanca Estela Pavón was born on February 21, 1926 in Minatitlan, Veracruz, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Cuando lloran los valientes (1947), Ustedes, los ricos (1948) and ¡Vuelven los García! (1947). She died on September 26, 1949 in near Popocatépetl, Puebla, Mexico.
39. Johnnie Walker
Actor | The Spirit of the USA
Johnnie Walker was born on January 7, 1894 in New York City, New York. At the age of 20 he began singing and dancing in vaudeville. He starred in Edison films and then went to Fox where he was billed as a star. Johnnie's greatest movies were Over the Hill (1920) in which he played the black sheep ...
40. Robert McKenzie
Writer | The White Outlaw
Robert McKenzie was born on September 22, 1880 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland [now Ballymena District, Northern Ireland], UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The White Outlaw (1929), A Western Demon (1922) and Hell's Border (1922). He was previously married to Eva McKenzie. He died on ...
41. Wheeler Oakman
Actor | Lights of New York
Born in Washington, DC, in 1890, screen villain "par excellance" Wheeler Oakman got into films in 1912. He specialized in playing villains, but he wasn't just a one-note, mustache-twirling "bad guy"--a tall, solidly-built, distinguished-looking, almost patrician man, he could effectively play ...
42. Jack Overman
Actor | Brute Force
Jack Overman was born on March 26, 1917 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Brute Force (1947), Secret Agent X-9 (1945) and The Good Humor Man (1950). He was previously married to Norma. He died on December 24, 1949 in Burbank, California, USA.
43. Leyland Hodgson
Actor | The Ghost of Frankenstein
Leyland Hodgson was born on October 5, 1892 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) and Susannah of the Mounties (1939). He died on March 16, 1949 in Hollywood, California, USA.
44. Malcolm Waite
Actor | The Gold Rush
Malcolm Waite was born on May 7, 1892 in Menominee, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Gold Rush (1925), A Notorious Affair (1930) and Noah's Ark (1928). He died on April 25, 1949 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
45. Lee 'Lasses' White
Soundtrack | Mars Attacks!
Lee 'Lasses' White was born on August 28, 1888 in Wills Point, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Mars Attacks! (1996), Song of the Range (1944) and Rainbow Over the Rockies (1947). He died on December 16, 1949 in Hollywood, California, USA.
46. Tommy Handley
Actor | Time Flies
Tommy Handley was a showbiz conjurer as a child, and he became a good baritone singer during World War I. He soon discovered that he was talented in the field of comedy. He appeared on a number of radio shows. A very talented comedian, especially on radio, Handley created a number of characters ...
47. Linda Arvidson
Actress | Everyman
Linda Arvidson was born on July 12, 1884 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Everyman (1913), The Scarlet Letter (1913) and The Adventures of Dollie (1908). She was previously married to D.W. Griffith. She died on July 26, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.
48. William Desmond
Actor | Around the World in Eighteen Days
Born in the upstate New York town of Horseheads in 1878, William Desmond began his show business career in vaudeville and on the stage. He had his own theatrical company by the time he made his film debut in Kilmeny (1915). Starting out in dramatic parts, Desmond soon switched to westerns and ...
49. Luke Cosgrave
Actor | The Light That Failed
Luke Cosgrave was born on August 6, 1862 in Ballaghdreen, County Mayo, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was an actor, known for The Light That Failed (1923), Merton of the Movies (1924) and Welcome Home (1925). He died on June 28, 1949 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
50. Hannah Jones
Actress | Blackmail
Hannah Jones was born on October 15, 1872 in Shoreditch, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Blackmail (1929), When Boys Leave Home (1927) and Murder! (1930). She died in 1949 in Wood Green, London, England, UK.