Deaths in July 1982

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 1982.

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Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

July 1982

6

• Alma Reville, 82, English screenwriter and film editor^[1][2][3], she started her film career in the 1910s as a teenaged cutter for the Twickenham Film Studios^[4]

8

• Isa Miranda, 77, Italian actress, she played femme fatale roles while under contract with the film studio Paramount Pictures^[5]

12

• Kenneth More, 67, English actor, multiple system atrophy (MSA)^[6][7]

13

• John Alexander, 84, American actor^[8], he portrayed Teddy Brewster in the black comedy film Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)^[9], a lunatic character who thinks that he is Theodore Roosevelt, he also portrayed an actual version of Roosevelt in the Western comedy Fancy Pants (1950)

16

• Patrick Dewaere, 35, French actor, suicide by firearm^[10]

19

• John Harvey, 70, English actor, ^[11]he played Inspector Loomis in the film noir Stage Fright (1950)^[12]

20

• Jean Girault, 58, French film director and screenwriter, primarily known for comedy films, tuberculosis^[13]

21

• Baynes Barron, 65, American actor^[14], infantry sergeant during World War II^[15]
• Dave Garroway, 69, American television host and pioneer of the talk show genre in television, ^[16]he was the founding host and anchor of NBC's Today from 1952 until 1961, ^[17][18]suicide by shotgun. ^[19][20] Garroway had spent some weeks in and out of hospitals prior to his death, suffering long-term complications from a staph infection^[19][20]

23

• Vic Morrow, 53, American actor, he portrayed a thug student in his film debut Blackboard Jungle (1955), and he was subsequently typecast in portraying tough guys and juvenile delinquents due to his "menacing" appearance, ^[21]one of the victims of the Twilight Zone accident, a falling helicopter landed on top of him, killing him instantly. Morrow was also decapitated and mutilated by the helicopter's rotor blades^[22][23]

29

• Harold Sakata, 62, American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and actor, he won a silver medal at the light-heavyweight weight class of the weightlifting event at the 1948 Summer Olympics, ^[24]he portrayed the character Oddjob in the spy film Goldfinger, and the character's sharpened, steel-brimmed bowler hat became a famous and much-parodied trademark of the James Bond film series, ^[25][26]liver cancer^[27][28]