Date of Death between 1963-01-01 and 1963-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Zasu Pitts
Actress | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Classic comedienne Zasu Pitts, of the timid, forlorn blue eyes and trademark woebegone vocal pattern and fidgety hands, was born to Rulandus and Nellie (Shay) Pitts, the third of four children on January 3, 1894. Her aged New York-native father, who lost a leg back in the Civil War era, had settled...
2. Yasujirô Ozu
Writer | Tôkyô monogatari
Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first ...
3. Dick Powell
Actor | Murder, My Sweet
Few actors ever managed a complete image transition as thoroughly as did Dick Powell: in his case, from the boyish, wavy-haired crooner in musicals to rugged crime fighters in film noirs. Powell grew up in the town of Little Rock, Arkansas, one of three brothers (one of them, Howard, ended up as ...
4. Pedro Armendáriz
Actor | From Russia with Love
Born in Mexican revolution times, Pedro Armendáriz was the first child of Mexican Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and American Adele Hastings. He was raised in Churubusco, then a suburb of Mexico City, before the family traveled to Laredo, Texas. They lived there until 1921, the year Armendáriz' ...
5. Jack Carson
Actor | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
When Jack Carson arrived in Hollywood in 1937, he found work at RKO as an extra. His first major acting role came alongside Humphrey Bogart in the romantic comedy Stand-In (1937). After a few years, he developed into a popular character actor who would be seen in a large number of comedies, ...
6. Joseph Sweeney
Actor | 12 Angry Men
Joseph Sweeney was born on July 26, 1884 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for 12 Angry Men (1957), The United States Steel Hour (1953) and Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950). He died on November 25, 1963 in New York City, New York, USA.
7. Henry Daniell
Actor | The Philadelphia Story
One of Hollywood's greatest screen villains, Charles Henry Pywell Daniell was born in London, England, the son of Elinor Mary (Wookey) and Henry Pyweh Daniell, L.R.C.P. He had the profound misfortune to make his professional theatrical debut on the eve of World War I. His life thus interrupted, he ...
8. Sabu
Actor | The Thief of Bagdad
Sabu Dastagir (or Selar Shaik Sabu, depending on your resource) was born on January 27, 1924, in the little town of Mysore, India, which is nestled in the jungles of Karapur. The son of an elephant driver (mahout) in service for the Maharajah of his town, the young stable boy learned responsibility...
9. Karyn Kupcinet
Actress | The Little Shop of Horrors
Karyn Kupcinet was born on March 6, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Gertrude Berg Show (1961) and G.E. True (1962). She died on November 28, 1963 in West Hollywood, California, USA.
10. Adolphe Menjou
Actor | Paths of Glory
The words "suave" and "debonair" became synonymous with the name Adolphe Menjou in Hollywood, both on- and off-camera. The epitome of knavish, continental charm and sartorial opulence, Menjou, complete with trademark waxy black mustache, evolved into one of Hollywood's most distinguished of artists...
11. John F. Kennedy
Writer | Profiles in Courage
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Rose Kennedy (née Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald) and Joseph P. Kennedy. John was named after his maternal grandfather, John "HoneyFitz" Fitzgerald, the mayor of Boston. John was very ill as a child and was given the last ...
12. Clem Bevans
Actor | Saboteur
Born in 1879, Clem Bevans spent most of his performing career on the stage. First appearing in 1900 in a vaudeville act with Grace Emmett as a boy and girl act, he would move on to burlesque and eventually make the move to Broadway and even opera productions. His first screen appearance did not ...
13. John Farrow
Writer | Around the World in 80 Days
John Farrow wrote short stories and plays during his four-year career in the navy. In the late 1920s he came to Hollywood as a technical advisor for a film about Marines and stayed as a screenwriter, from A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927) through Tarzan Escapes (1936). He married Tarzan's Jane, Maureen ...
14. Mary Gordon
Actress | Bride of Frankenstein
Scots actress, long in the United States, who specialized in housekeepers and mothers, most notably the housekeeper Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the Thirties and Forties. She was born Mary Gilmour, the daughter of a Glasgow wire weaver. She worked as a dressmaker before ...
15. Jean Brooks
Actress | The Seventh Victim
The fourth and youngest child of Horace and Robina Kelly, Jean Brooks spent her early years in her native Texas before relocating to Costa Rica with her mother after her father's death. Her time in Costa Rica enabled her to become fluent in Spanish, and she began her professional career as a singer...
16. Jean Cocteau
Writer | La belle et la bête
Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor. He began writing at 10 and was a published poet by age 16. He collaborated with the "Russian Ballet" company of Sergei...
17. Douglas Croft
Actor | Batman
Who was the first "Robin, the Boy Wonder"? No, not Burt Ward, but this popular, curly-haired child actor of the 1940s. In addition to being in the first "Batman" film, he appeared in many other major films, mostly at Warner Brothers. In almost all of these films, he played the hero as a boy, "...
18. Al St. John
Actor | Outlaws of the Plains
Al St. John was born on September 10, 1893 in Santa Ana, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Outlaws of the Plains (1946), Billy the Kid Trapped (1942) and A Face in the Fog (1936). He was previously married to Yvonne June Villon Price Pearce (actress), Lillian Marion Ball and ...
19. Gordon Jones
Actor | Flying Tigers
Gordon Jones was born on April 5, 1911 in Alden, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Flying Tigers (1942), The Green Hornet (1940) and My Sister Eileen (1942). He was previously married to Lucile Van Winkle. He died on June 20, 1963 in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA.
20. Monty Woolley
Actor | The Pied Piper
Large and hearty Monty Woolley was born to privilege on August 17, 1888, the son of a hotel proprietor who owned the Marie Antoinette Hotel on Broadway. A part of Manhattan's elite social circle at a young age, he studied at both Yale (Master's degree) and Harvard and returned to Yale as an English...
21. Jason Robards Sr.
Actor | Ship of Wanted Men
Famed American stage actor. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. Appeared in many films, initially as a leading man, then in character roles and occasional bits. Consistently billed as Jason Robards, as his more famous son, Jason Robards, did not come into fame until the end of the ...
22. Constance Worth
Actress | Angels Over Broadway
Australian leading lady of 40s B films. Brought over by RKO they dropped her after her first two American features. She spent three years at Columbia then freelanced mostly in poverty row thrillers and westerns. She was briefly married to the actor George Brent.
23. Tom London
Actor | Chasing Trouble
A character actor and veteran of hundreds of Hollywood westerns, Tom London seemed to be born in the saddle. As a trick rider he performed riding specialties in a number of films. His career started in the teens and through the 1920s he alternated between good guy and bad. He made appearances in ...
24. C.S. Lewis
Writer | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis was born in 1898 and brought up in a very strict, religious household. While he was quite young, his mother died of cancer but the "stiff upper lip" in favour at the time meant he wasn't allowed to grieve. He became an Oxford don and led a sheltered life. He seriously questioned his ...
25. Larry Keating
Actor | When Worlds Collide
Larry Keating was born on April 13, 1899 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for When Worlds Collide (1951), Mister Ed (1961) and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950). He was previously married to Ruth Elizabeth Evans, Consuelo Blanche Hamer and Mary Kathleen Rauh. He died ...
26. Don C. Harvey
Actor | Forbidden Jungle
Prolific character actor Don Harvey started his career playing in tent shows, repertory companies and radio with his wife Jean Harvey. While in Hollywood he starred on a radio show with Hedda Hopper. Harvey signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1949 and played in a several serials of the era: ...
27. Barbara Read
Actress | Make Way for Tomorrow
Barbara Read was born on December 29, 1917 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Three Smart Girls (1936) and The Spellbinder (1939). She was previously married to William Talman, Willard Edward Josephy, John Pershing Crawford and William Paul ...
28. George Dolenz
Actor | Scared Stiff
George Dolenz was born in Italy in 1908 to a large family. He left Italy in the 1920s to start a new life and it seemed that he didn't want to look back on his old one. He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1940s and it was there that he somehow met up with Howard Hughes. Hughes signed him up as a ...
29. Lee Harvey Oswald
Writer | Frontline
Alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, son of Marguerite Frances Claverie Oswald. He never knew his father, Robert Edward Lee Oswald, who had died 2 months before his birth of a heart attack. Oswald had 1 older full brother and another half-brother (from his mother's first marriage). Young ...
30. Richard Barthelmess
Actor | Only Angels Have Wings
Richard Barthelmess was born into a theatrical family in which his mother was an actress. While attending Trinity College in Connecticut, he began appearing in stage productions. While on vacation in 1916, a friend of his mother, actress Alla Nazimova, offered him a part in War Brides (1916), and ...
31. Vernon Dent
Actor | The Shadow
Familiar to many as the frustrated cop, businessman or landlord in countless two-reel comedies by The Three Stooges, Vernon Dent got his start in show business as a member of a singing troupe traveling in Southern California in the early 1920s. He was befriended by comedian Hank Mann, a member of ...
32. Raymond Greenleaf
Actor | All the King's Men
Raymond Greenleaf was born on November 27, 1892 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for All the King's Men (1949), Ten Tall Men (1951) and Pinky (1949). He died on October 29, 1963 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
33. Édith Piaf
Soundtrack | A Star Is Born
When one thinks of Edith Piaf, one thinks of love, sorrow and beautiful music. One did not breathe without the other two. Born in Paris practically on the streets on December 19, 1915, she struggled from day one, the daughter of street performers. The mother, a singer, eventually abandoned both ...
34. John Sutton
Actor | The Three Musketeers
Of British parentage, John Sutton was born in Rawalpindi, India (now part of Pakistan), on October 22, 1908. After graduating from Wellington College, he spent a decade or so working in various British colonies, including several in Africa, as a hunter, rancher and tea plantation manager. An avid ...
35. Beverly Wills
Actress | Some Like It Hot
Beverly Wills was born in Los Angeles, California on June 7, 1934. The daughter of actress Joan Davis, Beverly, too, would enter acting, but would not be as successful as her mother. She only appeared in six films, one TV series, and two guest appearances elsewhere. Her first film was in 1945, when...
36. Patsy Cline
Soundtrack | Assassin's Creed
Patsy Cline was born Virginia Patterson Hensley on September 8, 1932 in Winchester, Virginia. Her brush with show business came at age four when she won a prize in an amateur tap dancing contest. By the time she entered grade school, her family was fully aware of her musical talent. On her eighth ...
37. Aldous Huxley
Writer | A Woman's Vengeance
Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, at Laleham in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was the third of four children. His brother Julian Huxley was a biologist known for his theories of evolution. His grandfather, named Thomas Henry Huxley, was a naturalist known as "Darwin's Bulldog." His ...
38. Clifford Odets
Writer | Sweet Smell of Success
Clifford Odets dropped out of high school to pursue acting. In the 1930s he became a charter member of the Group Theatre, the famous "Method" acting troupe founded by Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg and Cheryl Crawford. Beginning with "Waiting for Lefty" (1935), Odets quickly became the most famous ...
39. Dolores Reed
Actress | Invasion of the Star Creatures
Dolores Reed was born on October 11, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962), Hit and Run (1957) and Anybody Can Play (1958). She was previously married to Boyce Leon Mosco, Larry Eugene Reed and Philip Hoffman. She died on August 4, 1963 ...
40. Tom Keene
Actor | Plan 9 from Outer Space
Not much is known about the early life of darkly handsome "B" cowboy actor Tom Keene, who was born George Duryea on December 30, 1896, in Rochester, New York. However, he did arrive in Hollywood in the late 1920s after college studies at Columbia and Carnegie Tech and immediately made an impact as ...
41. Bryant Washburn
Actor | Captain Midnight
Bryant Washburn was born on April 28, 1889 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Captain Midnight (1942), Skinner's Baby (1917) and Till I Come Back to You (1918). He was previously married to Virginia Vance and Mabel Forrest. He died on April 30, 1963 in Hollywood, Los...
42. Theodore Newton
Actor | Jalna
Theodore Newton was born on August 4, 1904 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Jalna (1935), The World Changes (1933) and Let's Try Again (1934). He was previously married to Emily Lawrence and Alexandrina (Drina) Hill. He died on February 28, 1963 in Hollywood, California...
43. Monte Blue
Actor | Key Largo
Stalwart, durable Monte Blue, a romantic leading man of the silent days, was born January 11, 1887, as Gerard Monte Blue (some sources indicate 1890, but his mother's application for his admission to the Soldier's and Sailor's Orphan's Home lists his birth date as January 11, 1887). Various sources...
44. John Close
Actor | Sudden Danger
John Close was born on June 1, 1921 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Sudden Danger (1955), The Girl on the Bridge (1951) and Whirlybirds (1957). He was previously married to Paula Teagarden. He died on December 21, 1963 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
45. Dan Sheridan
Actor | Lawman
Dan Sheridan was born on September 3, 1916 in Athlone, Ireland, UK. He was an actor, known for Lawman (1958), Death Valley Days (1952) and Casey Jones (1957). He was previously married to Suzanne Josephine Hayes. He died on June 29, 1963 in Encino, California, USA.
46. James Kirkwood
Director | In Wrong
A veteran stage actor, James Kirkwood entered films in 1909 as an actor and was soon playing leads in many of D.W. Griffith's early pictures. He turned to directing in 1912, and by 1914 was the favorite director of Mary Pickford, with whom he made nine films; he also co-starred in three of them. ...
47. Grant Richards
Actor | Night of Mystery
Grant Richards was born on December 21, 1911 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Night of Mystery (1937), My Old Kentucky Home (1938) and The Untouchables (1959). He was previously married to Jean Stevens and Joan Valerie. He died on July 4, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, ...
48. Patti Brill
Actress | Live Wires
Patti Brill was born on March 8, 1923 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Live Wires (1946), Music in Manhattan (1944) and Sing Your Way Home (1945). She was previously married to Perry Rigsby Osborne, Max Egbert Albright, Hugo Edward Fredlund and Red Knight. She died ...
49. Mario Fabrizi
Actor | The Army Game
Mario Fabrizi was born on June 25, 1924 in Holborn, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Army Game (1957), The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959) and The Mouse on the Moon (1963). He was previously married to Katherine Boyce. He died on April 4, 1963 in ...
50. Robert Hamer
Director | Kind Hearts and Coronets
Robert James Hamer was born in 1911 along with his twin sister Barbara, the son of Owen Dyke Hamer, a bank clerk, and his wife, Annie Grace Brickell. He was educated at Cambridge University where he wrote some poetry and was published in a collection 'Contemporaries and Their Maker', along with the...