List of Famous people who died in 1972

Fritz Schulz was a German and Austrian movie and stage actor, singer and director.

Colin Gordon was a British actor born in Ceylon.

Charles Clifford Coleman was an American film director. Although as a full director he only generally directed 1930s B-films, it was an assistant director he was most prolific. As assistant director he worked on some of the biggest and most acclaimed pictures of the Golden Hollywood era, and was a frequent collaborator with Billy Wilder. Among his credits as assistant director are Twentieth Century (1934), Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday Inn (1942), Five Graves to Cairo (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), The Blue Dahlia (1946), The Heiress (1949), Sunset Boulevard, Ace in the Hole (1951), A Place in the Sun (1951), Stalag 17 (1954), Sabrina (1954), The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), Vertigo (1958), and Hud (1963).

Walter Byron was an English film actor.

Henry Marvin Bailey was an American sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the 25 m rapid fire pistol event.