2003 in film

Deaths

• January 4 : Conrad Hall, Hollywood : cinematographer, a two-time Academy Award-winner
• January 8 : Ron Goodwin, British : film music composer and conductor
• January 11 : Maurice Pialat, French movie director
• January 11 : Anthony Havelock-Allan, British screenwriter
• January 12 : Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees, singer, composer, actor
• January 13 : Norman Panama, screenwriter and director
• January 18 : Richard Crenna, actor
• January 23 : Nell Carter, singer, actress
• January 25 : Robert Rockwell, actor
• January 29 : Peter Shaw, producer; husband of actress Angela Lansbury
• February 9 : Vera Hruba Ralston, actress
• February 18 : Jack Brodsky, movie : producer and publicist
• February 22 : Daniel Taradash, former president of AMPAS; Oscar-winning screenwriter of "From Here to Eternity"
• February 25 : Alberto Sordi, Italian comedy film legend
• March 3 : Horst Buchholz, German actor
• March 8 : Karen Morley, actress
• March 8 : Adam Faith, British singer and actor
• March 9 : Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
• March 12 : Lynne Thigpen, actor
• March 15 Dame Thora Hird, veteran British actress
• March 24 : Philip Yordan, screenwriter; won Oscar for "Broken Lance"
• March 31 : Michael Jeter, actor
• April 1 : Leslie Cheung, actor and singer
• April 2 : Michael Wayne, film producer; eldest son of John Wayne
• April 12 : Sydney Lassick, actor, best known playing asylum resident Cheswick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• April 21 : Nina Simone, jazz singer, "High Priestess of Soul"
• April 26 : Peter Stone, Oscar-and-(3-time)Tony-winning writer
• April 27 : Elaine Steinbeck, actress
• May 3 : Suzy Parker, actress, model
• May 14 Dame Wendy Hiller, actress
• May 14 : Robert Stack, actor
• May 28 : Martha Scott, actress
• June 2 : Richard Cusack, 77, ad executive turned actor/screenwriter
• June 7 : Trevor Goddard, actor
• June 7 : Tony McAuley : BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster & film-maker associated with traditional Irish music and arts
• June 12 : Gregory Peck, actor
• June 15 : Hume Cronyn, actor
• June 29 : Katharine Hepburn, actress
• June 30 : Buddy Hackett, comic, actor
• July 1 : N!xau, Namibian actor
• July 6 : Buddy Ebsen, actor
• July 25 : John Schlesinger, director
• July 27 : Bob Hope, comedian, actor
• August 1 : Marie Trintignant, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant.
• August 2 : Don Estelle, actor
• August 9 : Gregory Hines, actor, dancer.
• August 30 : Charles Bronson, actor
• September 8 : Leni Riefenstahl, German filmmaker
• September 9 : Larry Hovis, actor, played Carter on "Hogan's Heroes"
• September 10 : Harry Goz, cartoon voice actor.
• September 11 : John Ritter, American actor, played Jack Tripper on Three's Company
• September 12 : Johnny Cash, American country singer
• September 16 : Erich Hallhuber, Bavarian actor.
• September 22 : Gordon Jump, American actor.
• September 27 : Donald O'Connor, entertainer, actor
• September 28 : Elia Kazan, director
• October 2 : Gunther Philipp, Austrian actor
• October 3 : William Steig, American : cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek
• October 5 : Denis Quilley, British actor
• October 20 : Jack Elam, American actor, 84 years
• October 21 : Fred Berry, American actor,
• October 23 : Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster
• November 4 : Ken Gampu, South African actor
• November 6 : Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (41 years)
• November 9 : Art Carney, The Honeymooners actor (85 years)
• November 11 : Robert Brown, actor, played M in the James Bond series
• November 12 : Jonathan Brandis, actor, reportedly suicide (27 years)
• November 12 : Penny Singleton, actress (95 years)
• November 13 : Kellie Waymire, actress (35 years)
• November 14 : Gene Anthony Ray, actor and dancer
• November 15 : Dorothy Loudon, actress
• November 18 : Michael Kamen, composer
• November 20 : Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (58 years)
• November 20 : Robert Addie, British actor (43 years)
• November 27 : Will Quadflieg, German actor
• December 3 : David Hemmings, actor
• December 12 : Keiko, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame (27 years)
• December 14 : Jeanne Crain, Oscar-nominated actress (78 years)
• December 17 : Ed Devereaux, Australian actor
• December 19 : Hope Lange, actress in Peyton Place
• December 27 Sir Alan Bates, British actor
• December 30 : Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong actress
• December 30 : John Gregory Dunne, 71, screenwriter