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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1981.

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.

November 1981

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• William Holden, 63, American actor, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the dark comedy Sunset Boulevard (1950), ^[1] and he won the same award for his role in the war film Stalag 17 (1953), ^[2] he bled to death in his apartment after lacerating his forehead by slipping on a rug while intoxicated and hitting a bedside table. The forensic evidence recovered at the scene suggested that Holden was conscious for at least half an hour after the fall. His body was found four days later. ^{[3] [4]}

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• Jack Albertson, 74, American actor, comedian, dancer, singer, and vaudevillian, ^[5] he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Subject Was Roses (1968), ^[6] colon cancer ^{[7] [8]}

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• Lotte Lenya, 83, Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the romantic drama The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), ^[9] she portrayed the antagonist Rosa Klebb in the spy film From Russia with Love (1963) ^[10] , and her film character was described as one "the most dangerous female villains of the decade", ^[11] cancer ^[12]

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• Natalie Wood, 43, American actress, she began acting at age four and co-starred at age eight in Miracle on 34th Street (1947), ^[13] critics have suggested that her cinematic career represents a portrait of modern American womanhood in transition, as she was one of the few actresses to take both child roles and those of middle-aged characters, ^{[14] [15]} death due to accidental drowning and hypothermia. ^[16] Wood was on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina Island on board Splendour, a 58-foot (18 m) motor yacht owned by her husband, ^[17] the local authorities recovered her body from the water, one mile (1.6 km) from the boat, with a small Valiant-brand inflatable dinghy beached nearby. ^[18]

References

1. "The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on January 28, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
2. "The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
3. Bennett, Bruce. "William Holden's Unscripted Fall From Grace" Archived September 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine , The New York Sun , July 2, 2008.
4. Death Certificate of William Holden, autopsyfiles.org; accessed September 28, 2016.
5. Obituary Variety , December 2, 1981.
6. "The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
7. "From the Archives: Jack Albertson Dies of Cancer". Los Angeles Times. November 26, 1981. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
8. Jack Albertson at the Internet Broadway Database
9. "The 34th Academy Awards (1962) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
10. Terence Young. From Russia with Love audio commentary . MGM Home Entertainment. Accessed 17 October 2008.From Russia with Love Ultimate Edition, Disc 1
11. Funnell, Lisa (2011), Waters, Melanie (ed.), "Negotiating Shifts in Feminism: The "Bad" Girls of James Bond" , Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 199–212, doi:10.1057/9780230301979_14, ISBN   978-0-230-30197-9 , retrieved May 29, 2021
12. "Lotte Lenya: A Detailed Chronology 1970–1981". Kurt Weill Foundation. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
13. Wilkins, Barbara (December 13, 1976). "Second Time's the Charm – Marriage, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner". People . 6 (24). Archived from the original on April 21, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
14. Lucia, Cynthia; Grundmann, Roy; Simon, Art, eds. (2015). 'Natalie Wood, Studio Stardom and Hollywood in Transition.' in American film history : selected readings. Chicester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 423–447. ISBN   978-1118475133. OCLC   908086219.
15. Sullivan, Rebecca (2016). Natalie Wood. London: British Film Institute. ISBN   978-1844576371. OCLC   933420525.
16. Noguchi & DiMona 1983, p. 43.
17. Rulli & Davern 2009, p. 219.
18. Winton, Richard (July 9, 2012). "Natalie Wood death probe yields more unanswered questions". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2016.

Sources

• Noguchi, Thomas T.; DiMona, Joseph (1983). Coroner. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN   0-671-46772-7.
• Rulli, Marti; Davern, Dennis (2009). Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour. Medallion. ISBN   978-1-59777-639-4.

External links

• List of November 1981 deaths at IMDb