Death year 1979 celebrities
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Harry Meyen (born as Harald Haubenstock, 31 August 1924 – 15 April 1979) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films and television productions between 1948 and 1975. In the 1960s he also worked as a theatre director in West Germany.
Mika Toimi Waltari ( pronunciation ) (19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Finnish: Sinuhe egyptiläinen).
Louise Lagrange (1898–1979) was a French film actress. She was married to the film director Maurice Tourneur.
Hannelore Schmatz (February 16, 1940 – October 2, 1979) was a German mountaineer. She collapsed and died on October 2, 1979 as she was returning from successfully summiting Mount Everest via the southern route, the first woman and first German citi
Samuel Andrew Leslie (Sambo) (July 26, 1905, Moss Point, Mississippi—January 21, 1979, Pascagoula, Mississippi) was a first baseman for Major League Baseball’s New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1929 to 1938.
Nikolai Olimpievich Gritsenko (Russian: Николай Олимпиевич Гриценко, Ukrainian: Микола Олімпійович Гриценко Mykola Olimpiyovych Hrytsenko, 24 July 1912 – 8 December 1979) was a Soviet actor of Russi
Kazimierz Opaliński (22 February 1890 – 6 June 1979) was a Polish film actor. He appeared in more than forty films between 1936 and 1975.
Leslie James “Les” Clark (November 17, 1907 – September 12, 1979) was the first of Disney’s Nine Old Men. Joining Disney in 1927, he was the only one to work on the origins of Mickey Mouse with Ub Iwerks.
Alan Crofoot (June 2, 1929 – March 5, 1979) was a Canadian operatic Heldentenor, character tenor specialist, and actor. He is best remembered as the host of Mr. Piper, a 1960s children’s television series that aired on the CBC in Canada.
Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Muse was the first African American to “star” in a film. He acted for mor
Charles P. Thompson (January 2, 1891 – October 26, 1979) was an American stage, film, and television actor.