List of Famous people who died in 1985

Josef Dahmen was a German stage, film and television actor.

Franco Ferrara was an Italian conductor.

John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."

Samuel P. Spiegel was an American independent film producer born in Polish speaking part of Austria-Hungary. Financially responsible for some of the most critically acclaimed motion pictures of the twentieth century, Spiegel's films won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times, a Hollywood first for a sole independent producer.

Harold "Pee-Wee" Oliver was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played for the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) and the Boston Bruins and New York Americans of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was a member of the Tigers' 1924 WCHL championship and won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins in 1929. Oliver played nearly 600 games in a professional career that spanned 16 seasons and scored 217 goals. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1967.

Guy L'Écuyer was a Canadian actor from Montreal, Quebec. He was most noted for his performance in André Forcier's 1983 film Au clair de la lune, for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984.

George K. Arthur was an English actor and producer. He appeared in 59 films between 1919 and 1935. After retiring as an actor, he became a producer and distributor of short films. He won an Academy Award for Best Short Film in 1956 for the film The Bespoke Overcoat.