1956 in Film - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 12 - Norman Kerry, American actor (born 1894)
  • January 23 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director, the founder of London Films (born 1893)
  • March 25 - Robert Newton, English actor (born 1905)
  • April 15 - Kathleen Howard, Canadian-American opera singer & film character actress (born 1884)
  • June 6 - Margaret Wycherly, English stage & screen actress born of American parents (born 1881)
  • June 30 - Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (born 1880)
  • July 16 - Olof Winnerstrand, Swedish actor (born 1875)
  • August 16 - Béla Lugosi, Hungarian-born American actor best known for Dracula (born 1882)
  • October 9 - Marie Doro, American actress famous on Broadway and in silent films (born 1882)
  • November 30 - Viggo Wiehe, Danish actor (born 1874)
  • December 12 - Ewald André Dupont, German director (born 1891)
  • December 26 - Holmes Herbert, British actor in silents and sound films (born 1882)

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    As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.
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