List of Famous people who died in 1977

Holger Carl Minton Löwenadler was a Swedish film actor. He starred in Ingmar Bergman's A Ship to India (1947). He appeared in Divorced (1951), which was written by Bergman. Other appearances include Lacombe Lucien (1974).

Edmund Lincoln Anderson was an American comedian and actor. To a generation of early radio and television comedy he was known as "Rochester".

Jerry Bresler was an American film producer. He won an Oscar in 1944 as co-producer for Heavenly Music and in 1945 for Stairway to Light.

Sir Michael Elias Balcon was an English film producer known for his leadership of Ealing Studios in West London from 1938 to 1955. Under his direction, the studio became the one of the most important British film studios of the day. In an industry short of Hollywood-style moguls, Balcon emerged as a key figure, and an obdurately British one too, in his benevolent, somewhat headmasterly approach to the running of a creative organization. He is known for his leadership, as well as guidance of young Alfred Hitchcock.

Todor Dimitrov Pavlov was a Bulgarian Marxist philosopher, politician, journalist and leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was one of the three regents for the underage Simeon II from 1944 to 1946. From 1947 to 1962 he was the president of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Achille Campanile was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play.

Marriner Stoddard Eccles was an American banker, economist, and member and chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

Tom Reamy was an American science fiction and fantasy author and a key figure in 1960s and 1970s science fiction fandom. He died prior to the publication of his first novel; his work is primarily dark fantasy.