List of Famous people who died in 1972

Rudy Bowman was an American actor.

Robert Meyn was a German stage, film and television actor.

Robert Emmett "Bobby" Dolan was a Broadway conductor, composer, and arranger beginning in the 1920s. He moved on to radio in the 1930s, and then went to Hollywood in the early 1940s as a musical director for Paramount. He scored, arranged, and conducted many musical and dramatic films in the 1940s and 1950s and produced three musicals. At the end of his career, he returned to the stage – where he had begun.

Howard Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor. He worked on several films and television series. His career began in 1933, when he edited One Sunday Afternoon.

James Mitchell Leisen was an American director, art director, and costume designer.

Charles Sullivan, also known as Charlie Sullivan, was an American character actor who was born just before the turn of the 20th century on April 24, 1899. He would begin his acting career at the age of 25, in the 1924 silent film, His People. Over his highly prolific 30-plus-year career some sources have him appearing in over 500 films, while the American Film Institute credits him with appearing in over 250 films.