In memoriam: actors and TV figures we lost in 1953

Remembering 31 people from the world of film and television who died in 1953, most recent first, with the work they are best known for.

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Morgan Wallace

12 Dec 1953 · aged 72

Acting

Sam De Grasse

29 Nov 1953 · aged 78

Acting

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Thomas R. Mills

29 Nov 1953 · aged 75

Acting

Millard Mitchell

13 Oct 1953 · aged 50

Acting

James Finlayson

9 Oct 1953 · aged 66

Acting

Nigel Bruce

8 Oct 1953 · aged 58

Acting

Porter Hall

6 Oct 1953 · aged 65

Acting

Raymond Lovell

1 Oct 1953 · aged 53

Acting

Lewis Stone

12 Sep 1953 · aged 73

Acting

Francis Ford

5 Sep 1953 · aged 72

Acting

Anatoliy Rzhanov

16 Aug 1953 · aged 58

Acting

Houseley Stevenson

6 Aug 1953 · aged 74

Acting

Germaine Reuver

22 Jul 1953 · aged 67

Acting

Herbert Rawlinson

12 Jul 1953 · aged 67

Acting

Vsevolod Pudovkin

30 Jun 1953 · aged 60

Directing

Ivor Barnard

30 Jun 1953 · aged 66

Acting

Edmund Breon

24 Jun 1953 · aged 70

Acting

Godfrey Tearle

8 Jun 1953 · aged 68

Acting

Roland Young

5 Jun 1953 · aged 65

Acting

William Farnum

5 Jun 1953 · aged 76

Acting

Django Reinhardt

16 May 1953 · aged 43

Acting

Crauford Kent

14 May 1953 · aged 71

Acting

Lee Phelps

19 Mar 1953 · aged 59

Acting

Carl Stockdale

15 Mar 1953 · aged 79

Acting

Joseph Stalin

5 Mar 1953 · aged 74

Acting

Paul Hurst

27 Feb 1953 · aged 64

Acting

Cliff Clark

8 Feb 1953 · aged 63

Acting

Edgar Norton

6 Feb 1953 · aged 84

Acting

Alan Curtis

2 Feb 1953 · aged 43

Acting

William Tubbs

25 Jan 1953 · aged 45

Acting

Arthur Hoyt

4 Jan 1953 · aged 78

Acting