2003 in Film - Notable Deaths

Notable Deaths

Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 1 Royce D. Applegate 63 USA Actor O Brother, Where Art Thou? • Seabiscuit • Rain Man • Splash • Gods and Generals • The Rookie • Under Siege 2: Dark Territory • Dr. Dolittle
4 Conrad Hall 72 Tahiti Cinematographer American Beauty • Cool Hand Luke • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • Road to Perdition • Marathon Man • Sleepy Hollow • In Cold Blood
8 Ron Goodwin 77 UK Composer Where Eagles Dare • Frenzy • Battle of Britain
11 Anthony Havelock-Allan 98 UK Producer Romeo and Juliet • Great Expectations • Ryan's Daughter • Othello
12 Maurice Gibb 53 Isle of Man Singer, Composer, Actor Saturday Night Fever • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
13 Norman Panama 88 USA Screenwriter White Christmas • The Court Jester • Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
18 Richard Crenna 76 USA Actor First Blood • Summer Rental • Sabrina • Leviathan • Hot Shots! Part Deux • The Flamingo Kid
20 David Battley 67 UK Actor Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory • Krull • The Waiter • The London Connection
20 Nedra Volz 94 USA Actress 10 • Earth Girls Are Easy • National Lampoon's Movie Madness
23 Nell Carter 54 USA Actress The Grass Harp • Bébé's Kids • Modern Problems
February 3 Lana Clarkson 40 USA Actress Scarface • Fast Times at Ridgemont High • Barbarian Queen
9 Vera Hruba Ralston 82 Czech Republic Actress The Fighting Kentuckian • Dakota • The Wild Blue Yonder • Jubilee Trail
13 Stacy Keach, Sr. 88 USA Actor Pretty Woman • Saturday the 14th • The Parallax View • Armed and Dangerous • Brewster McCloud
22 Daniel Taradash 89 USA Screenwriter From Here to Eternity • Hawaii • Castle Keep • Storm Center
27 Fred Rogers 74 USA Actor, Mr. Rogers Casper
March 3 Horst Buchholz 69 Germany Actor The Magnificent Seven • Life is Beautiful • Nine Hours to Rama • One, Two, Three
8 Adam Faith 62 UK Actor, Singer McVicar • Stardust
12 Lynne Thigpen 54 USA Actress Anger Management • The Insider • Shaft • Tootsie • The Paper • Just Cause • Blankman • Bicentennial Man • Novocaine
19 Rick Zumwalt 51 USA Actor Batman Returns • Over the Top • Father Hood • The Presidio
24 Phillip Yordan 88 USA Screenwriter Broken Lance • El Cid • Johnny Guitar • Battle of the Bulge • Detective Story • Dillinger
31 Michael Jeter 50 USA Actor The Green Mile • Jurassic Park III • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas • Air Bud • Waterworld • Patch Adams • Tango & Cash • Open Range • MouseHunt • Drop Zone • The Fisher King
April 2 Michael Wayne 68 USA Producer McLintock! • The Green Berets • Brannigan
8 Bing Russell 76 USA Actor The Magnificent Seven • Tango & Cash • Brannigan • Dick Tracy • The Apple Dumpling Gang
12 Sydney Lassick 80 USA Actor One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • Carrie • Cool as Ice • Man on the Moon • History of the World, Part I • Tom and Jerry: The Movie
16 Graham Jarvis 72 USA Actor Misery • Silkwood • Mr. Mom
25 Jesse Nilsson 25 Canada Actor The Skulls • Model Behaviour
26 Peter Stone 73 USA Screenwriter Charade • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
May 3 Suzy Parker 70 USA Actress Funny Face • The Best of Everything • The Interns
9 Carmen Filpi 80 USA Actor Ed Wood • Beetlejuice • The Wedding Singer • Wayne's World • The Beverly Hillbillies
14 Wendy Hiller 90 UK Actress The Elephant Man • A Man for All Seasons • Murder on the Orient Express • Separate Tables • Pygmalion • Sons and Lovers • Toys in the Attic
14 Robert Stack 84 USA Actor Written on the Wind • Airplane! • The High and the Mighty • Is Paris Burning? • Bwana Devil • Beavis and Butthead Do America • House of Bamboo • Bullfighter and the Lady • Uncommon Valor • The Last Voyage • John Paul Jones • 1941 • Joe vs. The Volcano • The Tarnished Angels • A Date with Judy • Caddyshack II • The Mortal Storm • The Transformers: The Movie
24 Rachel Kempson 92 UK Actress Out of Africa • Tom Jones • Georgy Girl
28 Martha Scott 90 USA Actress Ben-Hur • The Ten Commandments • Airport 1975
June 2 Richard Cusack 77 USA Actor The Fugitive • High Fidelity • Eight Men Out • Chain Reaction • While You Were Sleeping • Return to Me
7 Trevor Goddard 40 UK Actor Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl • Mortal Kombat • Deep Rising
11 William Marshall 78 USA Actor Blacula • Maverick • Skullduggery • Curtain
12 Gregory Peck 85 USA Producer To Kill a Mockingbird • Roman Holiday • The Omen • Cape Fear • The Guns of Navarone • Twelve O'Clock High • The Million Pound Note • How the West Was Won • Moby Dick • Pork Chop Hill • MacArthur
15 Hume Cronyn 90 USA Singer, Actor The Seventh Cross • Cocoon • Shadow of a Doubt • Cleopatra • The Pelican Brief • Hamlet • The Postman Always Rings Twice • Marvin's Room
15 Philip Stone 79 UK Actor The Shining • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom • A Clockwork Orange • Flash Gordon • Barry Lyndon • Hitler: The Last Ten Days
29 Katharine Hepburn 96 USA Actress The Lion in Winter • On Golden Pond • Bringing Up Baby • The Philadelphia Story • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner • The African Queen • Morning Glory • Summertime • The Rainmaker • Rooster Cogburn • Little Women • Adam's Rib • Love Affair • Song of Love • Desk Set • Suddenly, Last Summer • Pat and Mike
30 Buddy Hackett 78 USA Actor It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • The Little Mermaid • The Love Bug • Scrooged • The Music Man
July 1 N!xau 58 Namibia Actor The Gods Must Be Crazy
6 Buddy Ebsen 95 USA Actor Breakfast at Tiffany's • The Beverly Hillbillies • Mail Order Bride
25 John Schlesinger 77 UK Director Midnight Cowboy • Pacific Heights • Marathon Man • The Next Best Thing • Sunday Bloody Sunday • A Kind of Loving • Billy Liar
27 Bob Hope 100 USA Actor Road to Singapore • Road to Morocco • Road to Hong Kong • Road to Rio • Road to Zanzibar • Road to Utopia • Road to Bali • My Favorite Blonde • The Muppet Movie • I'll Take Sweden • Spies Like Us
31 Frederick Coffin 60 USA Actor Wayne's World • Hard to Kill • Identity • Mother's Day
August 2 Don Estelle 70 UK Actor Santa Claus • A Private Function
9 Gregory Hines 57 USA Actor The Cotton Club • Running Scared • Renaissance Man • The Preacher's Wife
30 Charles Bronson 81 USA Actor The Great Escape • Death Wish • The Dirty Dozen • Once Upon a Time in the West • Murphy's Law • The Indian Runner • The White Buffalo
September 9 Larry Hovis 67 USA Actor Lone Star State of Mind
11 John Ritter 54 USA Actor Sling Blade • Bad Santa • North • Clifford's Really Big Movie • It • Problem Child
12 Johnny Cash 71 USA Singer, Actor Five Minutes to Live • The Hunted • A Gunfight
16 Sheb Wooley 82 USA Actor Hoosiers • The Outlaw Josey Wales • High Noon • Silverado • Giant
22 Gordon Jump 71 USA Actor Conquest of the Planet of the Apes • Making the Grade • The Fury
26 George Plimpton 76 USA Actor Good Will Hunting • Reds • Nixon • EDtv • When We Were Kings • Just Cause • The Bonfire of the Vanities • Rio Lobo • Just Visiting
27 Donald O'Connor 78 USA Actor Singin' in the Rain • Toys • That's Entertainment! • Tom Sawyer, Detective
28 Elia Kazan 94 Turkey Director A Streetcar Named Desire • On the Waterfront • East of Eden • Splendor in the Grass • America, America • Viva Zapata! • Gentleman's Agreement
October 3 Florence Stanley 79 USA Actress Atlantis: The Lost Empire • Bulworth • Trapped in Paradise • The Odd Couple II • A Goofy Movie • The Brainiacs.com
5 Denis Quilley 75 UK Actor King David • Mister Johnson
20 Jack Elam 82 USA Actor The Cannonball Run • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid • Rio Lobo • Support Your Local Sheriff! • The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
November 9 Art Carney 85 USA Actor Harry and Tonto • Last Action Hero • Firestarter • Take This Job and Shove It • The Muppets Take Manhattan • The Yellow Rolls-Royce
11 Robert Brown 82 UK Actor Octopussy • Licence to Kill • The Third Man • The Living Daylights • A View to a Kill • The Spy Who Loved Me
12 Jonathan Brandis 27 USA Actor The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter • Oliver & Company • Sidekicks • Ghost Dad • Fatal Attraction • Ride with the Devil
12 Penny Singleton 95 USA Actress, Voice of Jane Jetson Blondie • Jetsons: The Movie • After the Thin Man
14 Gene Anthony Ray 41 USA Actor Fame • Austin Powers in Goldmember • Eddie
15 Dorothy Loudon 70 USA Actress Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil • Garbo Talks
18 Michael Kamen 55 USA Composer Die Hard • Lethal Weapon • X-Men • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves • Highlander • The Iron Giant • Road House • Brazil • Hudson Hawk • Against the Ropes • The Three Musketeers • Event Horizon • The Last Boy Scout • 101 Dalmatians • First Daughter • Circle of Friends
20 Robert Addie 87 USA Director Excalibur • Another Country
27 Norman Burton 79 USA Actor Planet of the Apes • The Towering Inferno • Bloodsport • Diamonds Are Forever • The Gumball Rally
December 3 David Hemmings 62 USA Actor Gladiator • Gangs of New York • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen • Spy Game • Camelot • Barbarella • Blowup • Last Orders
14 Jeanne Crain 78 USA Actress State Fair • Leave Her to Heaven • Pinky • A Letter to Three Wives • Guns of the Timberland
17 Ed Devereaux 78 Australia Actor Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
19 Hope Lange 72 USA Actress Blue Velvet • Peyton Place • Death Wish • A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge • I Am the Cheese
19 Les Tremayne 90 UK Actor The War of the Worlds • North by Northwest • The Fortune Cookie • Goldfinger
27 Alan Bates 69 UK Actor Women in Love • Hamlet • Alexis Zorba • The Rose • The Mothman Prophecies • An Unmarried Woman • The Sum of All Fears • Gosford Park • The Statement
30 John Gregory Dunne 71 USA Screenwriter A Star is Born • Up Close and Personal • True Confessions • The Panic in Needle Park
31 Earl Hindman 61 USA Actor Three Men and a Baby • Silverado • Taps

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