1997 (people)


 * January - Camera operator Geoff Meldrum died.
 * 2 January - Actor Tony Snell died.
 * 8 January - Actor Tom Bowman died.
 * 19 January - Artist Richard Jennings died.
 * 23 January - Actor Shaheen Jafargholi was born.
 * 30 January - Director Nicholas Mallett died.
 * 30 January - Actor Michael Owen died.
 * 8 February - Actor Elroy Josephs died.
 * 25 February - Actor Arthur Hewlett died.
 * 9 March - Writer Terry Nation died.
 * 13 March - Actor Ronald Fraser died.
 * April - Actor Meriel Hobson died.
 * 15 April - Actor Maisie Williams was born.
 * 19 June - Director Julia Smith died.
 * 22 June - Actor Don Henderson died.
 * 7 July - Actor Royston Tickner died.
 * 16 July - Actor Hugh Martin died.
 * 19 July - Actor Amita Suman was born.
 * 27 July - Actor Brian Glover died.
 * 4 August - Film cameraman Dick Bush died.
 * 16 August - Actor Robin Wentworth died.
 * 20 August - Actor Bill Mitchell died.
 * 22 August - Actor Jacob Dudman was born.
 * 7 September - News reporter Alex MacIntosh died.
 * 12 September - Actor Leonard Maguire died.
 * 14 September - Actor Robert Cawdron died.
 * 16 September - Actor Oscar Lloyd was born.
 * 17 September - Actor Brian Hall died.
 * 19 September - Actor Jack May died.
 * 20 September - Actor Roy Pattison died.
 * 25 September - Director Paul Bernard died.
 * 30 September - BBC Head of Serials Graeme MacDonald died.
 * October - Film editor William Symon died.
 * 5 October - Actor Andrew Keir died.
 * 6 October - Actor Adrienne Hill died.
 * 13 October - Writer Ian Stuart Black died.
 * 20 October - Actor John Bell was born.
 * 20 October - Actor Ron Tarr died.
 * 30 October - Head of Drama Sydney Newman died.
 * 17 November - Actor Roma Woodnutt died.
 * 14 December - Actor Stubby Kaye died.
 * 16 December - Actor Leon Eagles died.