List of Famous people who died in 1979

Clarence Muse was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and composer. He was the first African American to appear in a starring role in a film. He acted for 50 years, and appeared in more than 150 films. He was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973.

Maurice Marceau (1905-1979) was a French film actor. A character actor he appeared in a number of small or supporting roles during the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s.

Lucien Andriot ASC (1892–1979) was a prolific French-American cinematographer. He shot more than 200 films and television programs over the course of his career.

Claude Génia (1913–1979) was a Russian-born French stage and film actress. She also appeared in television productions later in her career.

Eduardo Modesto Blanco Amor was a Galician writer and journalist who wrote in Galician and in Spanish.

Anne Green was an American writer and translator, the sister of Julien Green. While a child, Green's parents moved to France, where her father, ruined by a financial crisis and poor investments, came to settle. She spent her childhood in Le Havre, before her parents moved to Paris, where her brother Julien was born. She and her brother both participated in World War I, in which she volunteered as an ambulance driver.

George St John Brodrick, 2nd Earl of Midleton MC was an English aristocrat, landowner and soldier.

Jack Pulman was an award-winning British television screenwriter, most famous for the critically acclaimed 1976 BBC television series, I, Claudius, based on the novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves.

George Garnett Dunning was a Canadian filmmaker and animator. He is known for animating and directing the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine.