Date of Death between 1960-01-01 and 1960-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Clark Gable
Actor | It Happened One Night
William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and William Henry Gable, an oil-well driller. He was of German, Irish, and Swiss-German descent. When he was seven months old, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle ...
2. Ward Bond
Actor | The Maltese Falcon
Gruff, burly American character actor. Born in 1903 in Benkelman, Nebraska (confirmed by Social Security records; sources stating 1905 or Denver, Colorado are in error.) Bond grew up in Denver, the son of a lumberyard worker. He attended the University of Southern California, where he got work as ...
3. Margaret Sullavan
Actress | The Shop Around the Corner
Born in Norfolk, Virginia to wealthy stockbroker Cornelius Hancock Sullavan and heiress Garland Council Sullavan, Margaret Brooke overcame a muscle weakness in her childhood to go on to become a rebellious teenager at posh private schools. She went on to perform with the University Players at ...
4. Richard Cromwell
Actor | The Wrong Road
With smooth, boyish good looks, Richard Cromwell had the makings of a Hollywood star while talking movies were in their infancy. Falling far short of that goal, some of which was his own doing, he is hardly remembered today. The equivalent back then in fresh-faced, fair-haired appeal to 60s Dr. ...
5. John Charlesworth
Actor | Scrooge
John Charlesworth was born on November 12, 1935 in Hull, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Christmas Carol (1951), Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) and The Children of the New Forest (1955). He died on April 2, 1960 in Birmingham, England, UK.
6. Hope Emerson
Actress | Caged
Although there may have been "bigger" actresses in Hollywood's history, there were few larger than Hope Emerson. She notably appeared as a witness for the defense in "Adam's Rib". At 6' 2" and 230 pounds, she towered over many of her male co-stars, and her size, brusque voice and stern demeanor ...
7. Joseph N. Welch
Actor | Anatomy of a Murder
Joseph N. Welch was born on October 22, 1890 in Primghar, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Startime (1959) and Kraft Theatre (1947). He was previously married to Agnes Mevay (Rodgers) Brown and Judith Hampton Lyndon. He died on October 6, 1960 in Hyannis, ...
8. Edward Brophy
Actor | The Thin Man
Edward S. Brophy was born on February 27, 1895 in New York City and educated at the University of Virginia. He became a bit and small-part in the movies starting in 1919, but switched to behind-the-scenes work for job security, though he continued appearing in small parts. While serving as a ...
9. Alexander Gauge
Actor | The Pickwick Papers
Alexander Gauge was born on July 29, 1914 in Wenchow, China. He was an actor, known for The Pickwick Papers (1952), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1955). He was previously married to Phyllis Anne Lilley. He died on August 29, 1960 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK.
10. Melva Cornell
Actress | Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Melva Cornell was born on December 15, 1904 in Santa Barbara, CA. Her parents Tom and Mabel Cornell found work in the wardrobe department of The American Film Company, which was based in Santa Barbara. Young Melva caught the acting bug and was an extra for that company in 1916. She also sought ...
11. Douglas Spencer
Actor | The Thing from Another World
Douglas Spencer was born on February 10, 1910 in Princeton, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Thing from Another World (1951), This Island Earth (1955) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). He died on October 6, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
12. Lynn Baggett
Actress | D.O.A.
Tall, regal, sultry, flame-haired (later blonde) Lynn Baggett is better remembered for her turbulent, unhappy private life than for her "B" level acting roles. Born Ruth Baggett in Wichita Falls, Texas, on May 10, 1923, her father, David L., was in the oil business and her mother, the former Ruth ...
13. Victor Sjöström
Actor | Smultronstället
Victor Sjöström was born on September 20, 1879, and is the undisputed father of Swedish film, ranking as one of the masters of world cinema. His influence lives on in the work of Ingmar Bergman and all those directors, both Swedish and international, influenced by his work and the works of ...
14. Véra Clouzot
Actress | Les diaboliques
Véra Gibson-Amado, known professionally as Véra Clouzot, was a Brazilian-French actress.
In 1941, Véra met French actor Léo Lapara, a member of the theater company of Louis Jouvet, who toured in Brazil during World War II. Vera married the actor, taking part in the company's South American tour that...
15. Louis Jean Heydt
Actor | The Big Sleep
An American character actor who specialized in "average joes", often timid or down-on-their-luck, Louis Jean Heydt was born in Montclair, New Jersey, and educated at Worcester Academy and Dartmouth College. He intended a career in journalism and worked as a reporter for the old New York World, but ...
16. Jacques Becker
Writer | Le trou
His interest in films was stimulated by a meeting with King Vidor, who offered him employment in the US as actor and assistant director. However, he remained in France and became assistant to Jean Renoir, a friend of the family, during that director's peak period (1932-39). In 1934 he ventured ...
17. Koo Koo
Actress | Freaks
"Koo Koo the Bird Girl" was born Minnie Woolsey in Rabun County, Georgia in 1880. She suffered from a rare congenital skeletal disorder called Virchow-Sechel or Harper's syndrome, also known as bird-headed dwarfism or nanocephaly. This very rare syndrome is characterized by various physical ...
18. George Zucco
Actor | The Cat and the Canary
At 22, George Zucco decided to begin his stage career in earnest in the Canadian provinces in 1908. In the course of the following decade, he also performed in an American vaudeville tour with his young wife, Frances, in a routine called "The Suffragette." As World War I grew in scale, Zucco ...
19. Diana Barrymore
Actress | Between Us Girls
"Too Much, Too Soon" was the story of Diana's life, and the title of her autobiography. Her father was stage and screen legend John Barrymore and her mother was Blanche Oelrichs (who wrote under the masculine pseudonym Michael Strange), who had just divorced Mr. Thomas and had 2 children (Leonard ...
20. Matt Moore
Actor | Rain
Matt Moore was born on January 8, 1888 in County Meath, Ireland. He was an actor and director, known for Rain (1932), The Unholy Three (1925) and Minnie (1922). He died on January 20, 1960 in Hollywood, California, USA.
21. Gregory Ratoff
Actor | All About Eve
Producer, director and actor Gregory Ratoff was born in Samara, Russia on April 20, 1897, and studied at the University of St. Petersburg. His pursuit of a law career was interrupted by service in the Czar's army, and he fought in World War I. He later changed his focus and went on to make a name ...
22. Cedric Gibbons
Art Director | An American in Paris
After graduating from New York's Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, ...
23. Dennis Hoey
Actor | Terror by Night
Dennis Hoey was born on March 30, 1893 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Terror by Night (1946), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) and The Spider Woman (1943). He was previously married to Josephine Marta Ricca and Sarah Pearl Lyons (known as Cissie). He died on July 25, 1960 in ...
24. Sam Buffington
Actor | Invasion of the Saucer Men
Sam Buffington was born on October 12, 1931 in Swansea, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), Unwed Mother (1958) and Damn Citizen (1958). He was previously married to Patsy Ann Whitehouse. He died on May 15, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
25. John Miljan
Actor | The Ten Commandments
John Miljan was born on November 9, 1892 in Lead City, South Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Ten Commandments (1956), Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939) and The Fallen Sparrow (1943). He was previously married to Victoria Lowe Creighton. He died on January 24, 1960 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, ...
26. Phyllis Haver
Actress | Thunder
Phyllis Haver was born Phyllis O'Haver on January 6, 1899, in Douglas, KS. When she was a child her family moved to California. Young Phyllis got a job playing piano at a local movie theater. Producer Mack Sennett saw her and hired her to be one of his "Sennett Bathing Beauties". Between 1916-20 ...
27. Lucien Littlefield
Actor | Seven Keys to Baldpate
Lucien Littlefield was born on August 16, 1895 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929), The Little Foxes (1941) and To Have and to Hold (1922). He was previously married to Constance Palmer. He died on June 4, 1960 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, ...
28. Basil Ruysdael
Actor | Broken Arrow
Basil Ruysdael was born on July 24, 1878 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Broken Arrow (1950), Pinky (1949) and Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955). He was previously married to Kathleen Dobbyn, Rose Swettenham and Eleanor Mason Manierre. He died on October 10...
29. Arturo Ambrosio
Producer | Amleto
Arturo Ambrosio was born on December 3, 1870 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a producer and director, known for Hamlet (1914), The Newspaper (1914) and Cavalleria infernale (1906). He died on March 25, 1960 in Pancalieri, Piedmont, Italy.
30. Frank Lloyd
Director | Mutiny on the Bounty
Frank Lloyd was an unpretentious, technically skilled director, who crafted several enduring Hollywood classics during the 1930's. He started out as a stage actor and singer in early 1900's London and was well-known as an imitator of Harry Lauder. After several years in music hall and with touring ...
31. Dudley Nichols
Writer | Stagecoach
Dudley Nichols was born on April 6, 1895 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Stagecoach (1939), Sister Kenny (1946) and The Informer (1935). He was previously married to Esther "Esta" Varez. He died on January 4, 1960 in Hollywood, California, USA.
32. Maude Eburne
Actress | The Bat Whispers
Eburne started on the stage in Ontario and New York, later appearing on Broadway in 1914, playing a cockney maid. She played comic servants on stage until 1930 then moved to films in 1931. On screen, she played a variety of roles from maids to aristocrats to pipe-smoking harridans. Eburne retired ...
33. George Relph
Actor | Ben-Hur
George Relph was born on January 27, 1888 in Cullercoats, North Tyneside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Ben-Hur (1959), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) and The Final Test (1953). He was previously married to Mercia Swinburne and Deborah Nanson. He died on April 24, ...
34. Ian Keith
Actor | The Ten Commandments
Ian Keith became a well regarded fixture on the Broadway stage during the 1920s, but from 1924 through the remainder of the decade he expanded his acting into a string of silent movies as well. To begin the next decade, he appeared in the cast of Abraham Lincoln (1930), one of the later movies of ...
35. Oscar Hammerstein II
Soundtrack | State Fair
Oscar Hammerstein II was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and musical theatre director from New York City. He won a total of 8 Tony Awards for his best known works, "South Pacific" (1949), "The King and I" (1951), and "The Sound of Music" (1959). He twice won the Academy Award...
36. Mack Sennett
Producer | A Small Town Idol
Mack Sennett was born Michael Sinnott on January 17, 1880 in Danville, Quebec, Canada, to Irish immigrant farmers. When he was 17, his parents moved the family to East Berlin, Connecticut, and he became a laborer at American Iron Works, a job he continued when they moved to Northampton, ...
37. Robert Griffin
Actor | I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Robert Griffin was born on July 31, 1902 in Hutchinson, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), Serpent of the Nile (1953) and Gunsight Ridge (1957). He was previously married to Margaret Fuller. He died on December 19, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
38. Walter Catlett
Actor | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Walter Catlett carved out a career for himself playing excitable, officious blowhards, and few actors did it better. A San Francisco native, he started out in vaudeville - with a detour for a while in opera - before breaking into films in the mid-1920s. Two of his best remembered roles were as the ...
39. Alma Kruger
Actress | Saboteur
Matronly or grandmotherly, Alma Kruger appeared onscreen between 1935-47. She was 64 years old when she made her film debut in William Wyler's These Three (1936). She then proceeded to appear in over 40 films in the space of little more than a decade, appearing in, among others, Mother Carey's ...
40. Eddie Parker
Actor | All Ashore
Eddie Parker was born on December 12, 1900 in Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for All Ashore (1953), Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) and The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942). He was previously married to Bess. He died on January 20, 1960 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.
41. Clara Kimball Young
Actress | The Common Law
Clara Kimball Young was born Clarisa Kimball on September 6, 1890, to Edward Kimball and the former Mrs. E.M. Kimball, traveling stock company actors with the Holden Co. Though she claimed Chicago as her birthplace, there are no records of her being born in Cook County--which includes Chicago--and ...
42. Pierre Watkin
Actor | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Pierre Watkin was one of a stable of tall, distinguished-looking and sophisticated character actors (such as Russell Hicks, Jonathan Hale, Selmer Jackson and Samuel S. Hinds) whom Hollywood kept steadily employed playing political leaders, army officers, lawyers, wealthy businessmen and the like. ...
43. Lawrence Tibbett
Actor | The Cuban Love Song
One of the great voices of the Metropolitan Opera, Lawrence Mervil Tibbet was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1896. Born at the end of the "wild west" era, he was only six when his father, who was a Kern County deputy sheriff, was killed by bandits. After training with, among others, ...
44. Amy Veness
Actress | Lorna Doone
Amy Veness was born on February 26, 1876 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Lorna Doone (1934), Oliver Twist (1948) and This Happy Breed (1944). She was previously married to Basil Springett. She died on September 22, 1960 in Saltdean, Sussex, England, UK.
45. Albert Camus
Writer | Bajo la metralla
Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913, in Mondovi, Algeria. His parents were Spanish-French-Algerian (pied noir) colonists. His father, Lucien, died in the Battle of Marne (1914) during WWI. His mother, named Catherine Helene Sintes was of Spanish origin, she was a deaf mute due to a stroke, ...
46. Prince Aly Khan
Self | Champagne Safari
Prince Aly Khan was born on June 13, 1911 in Turin, Italy. He was previously married to Rita Hayworth and Joan Yarde-Buller. He died on May 12, 1960 in France.
47. Alfred E. Green
Director | The Jolson Story
One of the more prolific American directors, Alfred E. Green entered films in 1912 as an actor for the Selig Polyscope Co. He became an assistant to director Colin Campbell and started directing two-reelers, turning to features in 1917. His career lasted into the mid-1950s but his output was mostly...
48. Bob Reeves
Actor | Riding for Life
Robert "Bob" Jasper Reeves was born on January 28, 1892 in Marlin, Texas. He attended Texas A&M University and served in the US Army during World War I. In 1921 he was cast in a series of Western shorts that were called "Cactus Features". He and his leading lady Maryon Aye would make 18 Cactus ...
49. David Cavendish
Actor | Captain Blood
David Cavendish was born on October 29, 1893 in Camberwell, Lambeth, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Captain Blood (1935), Two Arabian Knights (1927) and Random Harvest (1942). He died on October 9, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
50. Helen Freeman
Actress | Mrs. Parkington
Helen Freeman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in Denver, Colorado. Her father was Benjamin Freeman, a banker, who was killed in an auto crash in 1937. Helen appeared in several silent films in 1915. Thereafter, she appeared on the New York stage, and entered the motion picture business ...