List of Famous people who died in 1997

Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Aleksandr Zarkhi was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and received Stalin Prize in 1946. His film Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival in 1981.

Arthur Ibbetson BSC was a British cinematographer.

Robert Erickson was an American composer.

Jürgen Neukirch was a German mathematician known for his work on algebraic number theory.

Robin Huntington Lee was an American figure skater. He was the 1935-1939 U.S. national champion. At age 12, he became the youngest skater to win the junior national title. At the 1935 United States Figure Skating Championships, at the age of 15, he became the first and, as of 2008, the only skater to defeat a seven time national champion in the United States.

Rudolf Ulrich was a German film actor. He appeared in 67 films between 1954 and 1986. He died in Berlin at age 75.

Fernand Cornez was a French professional road bicycle racer.

Paul Lambert was an American character actor who appeared in movies and on television.

Stanley Cortez, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer. He worked on over seventy films, including Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955), Nunnally Johnson's The Three Faces of Eve (1957), and Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor (1963) and The Naked Kiss (1964).

Olivia Joyce Compton was an American actress.