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The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
[edit]The top ten 1960 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spartacus | Universal | $14,000,000[1] |
| 2 | Psycho | Paramount [nb 1] | $9,100,000[1] |
| 3 | Exodus | United Artists | $8,500,000[1] |
| 4 | Swiss Family Robinson | Buena Vista | $8,100,000[3] |
| 5 | The Alamo | United Artists | $7,900,000[1] |
| 6 | The World of Suzie Wong | Paramount | $7,500,000[4] |
| 7 | BUtterfield 8 | MGM | $6,800,000[5] |
| 8 | The Apartment | United Artists | $6,700,000[1] |
| 9 | Ocean's 11 | Warner Bros. | $5,500,000[1] |
| 10 | From the Terrace | 20th Century Fox | $5,200,000[1] |
- ^ After Psycho was released, Paramount transferred the film rights to Hitchcock, who later sold the distribution rights to Universal Pictures in 1962.[2]
Top-grossing films by country
[edit]The highest-grossing 1960 films in countries outside of North America.
| Country | Title | Director | Revenue | Admissions | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | — | 13,826,124 | [6] |
| West Germany | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | — | 13,525,000 | [7] |
| India | Mughal-e-Azam | K. Asif | $23,110,000 | 100,000,000 | [n 1][10] |
| Italy | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | — | 15,400,000 | [11] |
| Soviet Union | Far from the Motherland | Aleksei Shvachko | $2,625,000 | 42,000,000 | [n 3] |
| Spain | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | — | 4,653,194 | [15] |
| United Kingdom | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | — | 13,200,000 | [16] |
Events
[edit]- March 5 – For the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood to film G.I. Blues
- June 16 – Premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's landmark film, Psycho in the United States. Controversial since release, it sets new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and is a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre.
- August 10 – Filming of West Side Story begins.
- October 6 & December 16 – Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films Spartacus and Exodus, released in the United States on these dates.
- October 27 – Film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning released, first of the British social-realist wave.
- November 4 – Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, the last film for both (though Monroe will be working on another at the time of her death).
Awards
[edit]| Category/Organization | 18th Golden Globe Awards March 16, 1961 |
33rd Academy Awards April 17, 1961 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | Comedy or Musical | ||
| Best Film | Spartacus | The Apartment (Comedy) Song Without End (Musical) |
The Apartment |
| Best Director | Jack Cardiff Sons and Lovers |
Billy Wilder The Apartment | |
| Best Actor | Burt Lancaster Elmer Gantry |
Jack Lemmon The Apartment |
Burt Lancaster Elmer Gantry |
| Best Actress | Greer Garson Sunrise at Campobello |
Shirley MacLaine The Apartment |
Elizabeth Taylor BUtterfield 8 |
| Best Supporting Actor | Sal Mineo Exodus |
Peter Ustinov Spartacus | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Janet Leigh Psycho |
Shirley Jones Elmer Gantry | |
| Best Foreign Language Film | La Vérité The Trials of Oscar Wilde The Virgin Spring |
The Virgin Spring | |
1960 film releases
[edit]United States unless stated
January–March
[edit]- January 1960
- 5 January
- 12 January
- 20 January
- 21 January
- 26 January
- Two Way Stretch (U.K.)
- 27 January
- 28 January
- February 1960
- 1 February
- 3 February
- 4 February
- 5 February
- 11 February
- 19 February
- 24 February
- 25 February
- 27 February
- March 1960
- 1 March
- 2 March
- 3 March
- 4 March
- 5 March
- 9 March
- 10 March
- 12 March
- 15 March
- 17 March
- Breathless (France)
- 18 March
- 23 March
- 31 March
April–June
[edit]- April 1960
- 2 April
- 5 April
- 6 April
- 10 April
- 13 April
- 14 April
- 15 April
- 21 April
- 24 April
- 27 April
- May 1960
- 16 May
- 17 May
- 19 May
- 25 May
- 26 May
- June 1960
- 3 June
- 7 June
- 9 June
- 15 June
- 16 June
- 17 June
- 22 June
- 23 June
- 24 June
- 27 June
- Letter Never Sent (Russia)
- 28 June
- 29 June
- L'Avventura (Italy)
- Strangers When We Meet
July–September
[edit]- July 1960
- 7 July
- 10 July
- 13 July
- 15 July
- 20 July
- 25 July
- 30 July
- August 1960
- 5 August
- 7 August
- 9 August
- Make Mine Mink (U.K.)
- 10 August
- 11 August
- 14 August
- 17 August
- 20 August
- September 1960
- 6 September
- 8 September
- 9 September
- 14 September
- 15 September
- 16 September
- 19 September
- The Bad Sleep Well (Japan)
- 28 September
- 29 September
- 30 September
October–December
[edit]- October 1960
- 1 October
- 6 October
- 8 October
- 9 October
- 12 October
- 13 October
- 17 October
- 18 October
- 24 October
- 27 October
- 28 October
- 31 October
- Man in the Moon (U.K.)
- November 1960
- 1 November
- 3 November
- 4 November
- 10 November
- The World of Suzie Wong (U.K./U.S.)
- 13 November
- 14 November
- 16 November
- 22 November
- 23 November
- 25 November
- December 1960
- 1 December
- 7 December
- 8 December
- 9 December
- 11 December
- 12 December
- 14 December
- 16 December
- 17 December
- 20 December
- 21 December
- 23 December
- 28 December
- 30 December
Notable films released in 1960
[edit]United States unless stated
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[edit]- The 3rd Voice, directed by Hubert Cornfield, starring Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London
- 5 Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau
- 13 Ghosts, directed by William Castle
A
[edit]- Adua and Friends (Adua e le compagne), starring Simone Signoret – (Italy)
- Alakazam the Great (Saiyu-ki), an anime film – (Japan)
- The Alamo, directed by and starring John Wayne, co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone
- Ali Baba Bujang Lapok – (Malaysia/Singapore)
- The Angry Silence, starring Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)
- Anuradha – (India)
- The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edie Adams
- Autumn Has Already Started (Aki tachinu), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan)
- L'Avventura (The Adventure), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni – (Italy)
B
[edit]- Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście) – (Poland)
- Barsaat Ki Raat, starring Madhubala and Bharat Bhushan – (India)
- The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
- Because They're Young, starring Dick Clark
- Beat Girl, starring David Farrar, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Christopher Lee – (U.K.)
- The Bellboy, starring Jerry Lewis
- Bells Are Ringing, starring Dean Martin and Judy Holliday
- Beyond the Time Barrier
- The Big Risk (Classe tous risques), starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
- Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) – (Italy)
- Les Bonnes Femmes (The Girls), directed by Claude Chabrol – (France)
- The Bramble Bush, starring Richard Burton and Angie Dickinson
- Breathless (À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg – (France)
- The Brides of Dracula, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
- The Broken Pots (Kırık Çanaklar) – (Turkey)
- BUtterfield 8, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey
C
[edit]- Can-Can, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse
- Carry On Constable, starring Sid James and Eric Barker – (U.K.)
- Cash McCall, starring James Garner and Natalie Wood
- The Challenge, a.k.a. It Takes A Thief, starring Jayne Mansfield – (U.K.)
- Cidade Ameaçada (a.k.a. Jerry the Gangster) – (Brazil)
- Cimarron, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter
- Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti
- Circus of Horrors, starring Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence – (U.K.)
- Cleopatra's Daughter, starring Debra Paget
- The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Daka Tara), directed by Ritwik Ghatak – (India)
- El Cochecito (The Little Coach), directed by Marco Ferreri – (Spain)
- College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren
- Comanche Station, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott
- Come Back, Africa, documentary film – (South Africa)
- Crack in the Mirror, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Juliette Gréco
- The Criminal, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker – (U.K.)
- Cruel Story of Youth (Seishun Zankoku Monogatari), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
D
[edit]- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, starring Dorothy McGuire, Shirley Knight, Robert Preston
- Dentist in the Chair, starring Bob Monkhouse and Kenneth Connor – (U.K.)
- Desire in the Dust, starring Joan Bennett, Martha Hyer, Raymond Burr
- Devi (a.k.a. The Goddess), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
- The Devil's Eye (Djävulens öga), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson – (Sweden)
- La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg – (Italy)
E
[edit]- Elmer Gantry, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones
- The Enchanting Shadow (Ching nu yu hun) – (Hong Kong)
- The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Laurence Olivier – (U.K.)
- Esther and the King, starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan – (U.S./Italy)
- Everybody Go Home (Tutti a casa), directed by Luigi Comencini – (Italy)
- Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, John Derek
- Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage), starring Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli – (France)
F
[edit]- The Facts of Life, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
- A False Student (Nise daigakusei) – (Japan)
- Faust – (West Germany)
- Five Cartridges (Fünf Patronenhülsen) – (East Germany)
- Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden
- Fortunat (Fortunate), starring Bourvil and Michèle Morgan – (France/Italy)
- From the Terrace, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ina Balin, George Grizzard, Myrna Loy
G
[edit]- G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse
- The Gallant Hours, a biopic of Admiral "Bull" Halsey starring James Cagney
- Girl of the Night, starring Anne Francis and John Kerr
- Go to Hell, Hoodlums! (Kutabare gurentai) – (Japan)
- Goliath and the Dragon
- Goliath II, a Disney animated short
- The Grass Is Greener, starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
- Guns of the Timberland, starring Alan Ladd
H
[edit]- Hell Bent for Leather, starring Audie Murphy and Felicia Farr
- Hell Is a City, starring Stanley Baker – (U.K.)
- Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
- Hell to Eternity, starring Jeffrey Hunter and David Janssen
- Her Brother (Otôto), directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan)
- High Time, starring Bing Crosby
- Hobbi al-Wahid (My Only Love), starring Omar Sharif – (Egypt)
- The Hole (Le Trou) (a.k.a. The Night Watch), directed by Jacques Becker – (France)
- Home from the Hill, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
- House of Usher, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price
- The Housemaid (Hanyeo) – (South Korea)
- The Human Vapor (Gasu Ningen dai Ichigo), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
- The Hypnotic Eye, starring Jacques Bergerac
I
[edit]- Il Mattatore, directed by Dino Risi – (Italy)
- I Aim at the Stars, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Curd Jürgens, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala
- Ice Palace, starring Richard Burton, Robert Ryan and Carolyn Jones
- The Iceman Cometh, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Jason Robards Jr., Myron McCormick, and Robert Redford – (made for TV)
- Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Dick York
- Inni Attahim, directed by Hassan el-Imam, starring Zubaida Tharwat, Salah Zulfikar, Emad Hamdy – (Egypt)
- Innocent Sorcerers (Niewinni czarodzieje), directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
- It Started in Naples, starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren
J
[edit]- Jaali Note (Counterfeit Money), starring Madhubala and Dev Anand – (India)
- Jigoku (Hell) – (Japan)
- Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (The Land Where the Ganges Flows), starring Raj Kapoor – (India)
K
[edit]- Kanoon (The Law), starring Ashok Kumar – (India)
- Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyżacy), directed by Aleksander Ford – (Poland)
L
[edit]- The Lady with the Dog (Dama s sobachkoy) – (U.S.S.R.)
- The Last Voyage, starring Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone
- The Last Witness (Der Letzte Zeuge) – (West Germany)
- Last Woman on Earth, directed by Roger Corman
- Late Autumn (Akibiyori), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
- The League of Gentlemen, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Jack Hawkins – (U.K.)
- Let's Make Love, starring Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand
- The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman
- Linda, starring Carol White – (U.K.)
- The Lost World, starring Michael Rennie and Jill St. John
- Love and Adoration, directed by Hassan el-Imam, starring Salah Zulfikar and Taheyya Kariokka – (Egypt)
- Love in Simla, starring Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana – (India)
M
[edit]- Macario, directed by Roberto Gavaldón – (Mexico)
- Macumba Love – (United States/Brazil)
- The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz
- Make Mine Mink, starring Terry-Thomas – (U.K.)
- Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas (a.k.a. That Joyous Eve), directed by Fons Rademakers – (Netherlands)
- Man in the Moon, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
- Manzil (Destination), starring Dev Anand – (India)
- Midnight Lace, starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy
- The Millionairess, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
- Money and Women, directed by Hassan el-Imam, starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny – (Egypt)
- The Mountain Road, starring James Stewart
- Mrs. Warren's Profession (Frau Warrens Gewerbe), starring Lilli Palmer (West Germany)
- Mughal-e-Azam (The Greatest of the Mughals), starring Madhubala and Dilip Kumar – (India)
- Murder, Inc., starring Peter Falk, Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan
N
[edit]- The Naked Island (Hadaka no shima) – (Japan)
- Never Let Go, directed by John Guillermin, starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars and Adam Faith – (U.K.)
- Never on Sunday, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri – (Greece/United States)
- Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, starring Patrick Allen and Gwen Watford – (U.K.)
- Night and Fog in Japan (Nihon no yoru to kiri), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
- The Ninth Circle (Deveti krug) – (Yugoslavia)
- North to Alaska, starring John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Capucine, Fabian Forte
O
[edit]- Obaltan (a.k.a. The Stray Bullet) – (South Korea)
- Ocean's 11, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson
- Once More, with Feeling!, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner
- Our Last Spring (a.k.a. Eroica), directed by Michael Cacoyannis – (Greece)
P
[edit]- Parakh, directed by Bimal Roy – (India)
- The Party Is Over (Fin de fiesta) – (Argentina)
- Le Passage du Rhin, starring Charles Aznavour – (France/Italy/West Germany)
- Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell, starring Karl Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer – (U.K.)
- Pepe, starring Cantinflas
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies, starring Doris Day and David Niven
- Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills
- Portrait in Black, starring Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee
- The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, starring Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren
- Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, John Gavin
- The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, starring Cecil Parker and Joyce Grenfell – (U.K.)
- Purple Noon (Plein Soleil), a.k.a. Blazing Sun, directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon – (France)
Q
[edit]- The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) – (U.S.S.R.)
R
[edit]- The Rat Race, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Don Rickles
- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Ray Danton and Karen Steele
- The River of Love (Nahr el hub), starring Omar Sharif – (Egypt)
- Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Alain Delon – (Italy/France)
- Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julie a tma) – (Czechoslovakia)
- The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
S
[edit]- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts – (U.K.)
- The Savage Innocents, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Anthony Quinn
- Scent of Mystery, starring Denholm Elliott and Elizabeth Taylor
- School for Scoundrels, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas – (U.K.)
- September Storm, starring Joanne Dru
- Sergeant Rutledge, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode
- Seven Days... Seven Nights (Moderato cantabile), starring Jeanne Moreau – (France)
- Seven Thieves, starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins
- Shoot the Pianist (Tirez sur le pianiste), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour – (France)
- Sink the Bismarck!, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
- The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (El Esqueleto de la señora Morales), starring Arturo de Córdova – (Mexico)
- Song Without End, starring Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Patricia Morison
- Sons and Lovers, directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard – (U.K.)
- Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis
- The Spider's Web, directed by Godfrey Grayson. Based on an Agatha Christie play (U.K.)
- The Story of Ruth, a Biblical drama starring Stuart Whitman and Peggy Wood
- Strangers When We Meet, starring Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs
- Struggle for Eagle Peak (Venner) – (Norway)
- The Subterraneans, starring George Peppard
- The Sundowners, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum – (US/UK/Australia)
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a.k.a. Season of Passion, starring Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills
- Sunrise at Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy (as Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Greer Garson
- Surprise Package, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward
- Swiss Family Robinson, starring John Mills and Dorothy McGuire
T
[edit]- Tall Story, starring Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Ray Walston
- Tarzan the Magnificent, starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine
- A Terrible Beauty, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Mitchum and Anne Heywood
- Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau – (France)
- There Was a Crooked Man, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)
- The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse), directed by Fritz Lang – (West Germany)
- The Three Worlds of Gulliver, starring Kerwin Mathews
- The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux
- Too Hot to Handle, starring Jayne Mansfield – (U.K.)
- The Trials of Oscar Wilde, starring Peter Finch – (U.K.)
- The Truth (La Vérité), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
- Tunes of Glory, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness – (U.K.)
- Twelve Hours to Kill, starring Nico Minardos and Barbara Eden
- Two-Way Stretch, starring Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
- Two Women, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren – (Italy)
U
[edit]- Under Ten Flags, starring Van Heflin and Charles Laughton
- The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn
- Universe – (Canada)
V
[edit]- Vice Raid, starring Mamie Van Doren
- Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley – (U.K.)
- The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow – (Sweden)
- Visit to a Small Planet, starring Jerry Lewis
W
[edit]- The Wackiest Ship in the Army, starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson
- Watch Your Stern, starring Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips – (U.K.)
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan)
- Where the Boys Are, starring George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis
- The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rößl) – (West Germany/Austria)
- Who Was That Lady?, starring Dean Martin, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
- Wild River, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Montgomery Clift
- The World of Suzie Wong, starring Nancy Kwan and William Holden – (U.K./U.S.)
Y
[edit]- The Yellow Gloves (Ta kitrina gantia) – (Greece)
- The Young One (La Joven), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico/United States)
Z
[edit]- Zazie dans le Métro, directed by Louis Malle – (France)
Short film series
[edit]- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Terrytoons (1930–1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
- Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
- Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
Births
[edit]- January 1 - Shinya Tsukamoto, Japanese filmmaker and actor
- January 4 – April Winchell, American actress, voice actress, writer, talk radio host and commentator
- January 9 – Terje Pennie, Estonian actress
- January 10 – Gurinder Chadha, British director
- January 12
- Wanda Cannon, Canadian actress
- Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
- January 13 – Kevin Anderson, American actor
- January 15 – Kelly Asbury, American director, writer and voice actor (died 2020)
- January 18 – Mark Rylance, English actor
- January 25 – Kerry Noonan, American actress
- February 4 – Jenette Goldstein, American actress
- February 7
- Robert Smigel, American actor, comedian, writer, director, producer and puppeteer
- James Spader, American actor
- February 8 - Suzanna Hamilton, English actress
- February 9 – David Bateson, British actor and comedian
- February 13 – Matt Salinger, American actor and producer
- February 14 – Meg Tilly, Canadian-American actress
- February 18
- Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
- Greta Scacchi, Italian-Australian actress
- February 20 – Wendee Lee, American voice actress
- February 21 – Joel McKinnon Miller, American actor
- February 22 - Brian Anthony Wilson, American actor
- February 25 – Douglas Hodge, English actor, director and musician
- February 28 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress (died 1980)
- March 12
- Jason Beghe, American actor
- Courtney B. Vance, American actor
- March 13 – Joe Ranft, American screenwriter, animator and voice actor (died 2005)
- March 17
- Arye Gross, American actor
- Vicki Lewis, American singer and actress
- Cameron Thor, American actor, filmmaker and acting coach
- March 22 – Nicole Holofcener, American film director and screenwriter
- March 25 – Brenda Strong, American actress and director
- March 26 – Jennifer Grey, American actress
- March 29
- Annabella Sciorra, American actress and producer
- Hiromi Tsuru, Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator (died 2017)
- March 31 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (died 2010)
- April 1 – Jennifer Runyon, American actress
- April 4
- Hugo Weaving, Australian actor
- Lorraine Toussaint, Trinidadian-American actress
- April 7 – Elaine Miles, American actress
- April 14 – Brad Garrett, American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian and professional poker-player
- April 23
- Craig Sheffer, American actor
- Valerie Bertinelli, American actress
- April 29 - Steve Blum, American voice actor
- May 3 - Amy Steel, American actress
- May 6 - Frank Wood, American actor
- May 9 - Lisa Henson, American actress and producer actress
- May 10 - Richard Graham, English actor
- May 15 - Rob Bowman, American director
- May 16 - Rosario Fiorello, Italian actor, comedian and singer
- May 20 - Tony Goldwyn, American actor, singer, producer and director
- May 21 – Mohanlal, Indian actor
- May 24
- Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
- Doug Jones, American actor
- May 26 - Doug Hutchison, American character actor
- May 31
- Chris Elliott, American actor and comedian
- Don Harvey, American actor and voice actor
- June 2 - Pip Torrens, English actor
- June 5 - James Isaac, American director and visual effects supervisor (died 2012)
- June 8 - Gary Trousdale, American animator, director, screenwriter and storyboard artist
- June 16 - James M. Connor, American actor
- June 17 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor
- June 18 - Barbara Broccoli, American-British producer
- June 27 - Jeremy Swift, English actor
- July 5
- Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stuntman
- Pruitt Taylor Vince, American character actor
- July 10 – Jeff Bergman, American voice actor, comedian and impressionist
- July 11 – Jafar Panahi, Iranian director
- July 14
- Kyle Gass, American actor and musician
- Jane Lynch, American actress
- July 19 – Elizabeth Kaitan, Hungarian-American actress and model
- July 21 – Adrienne King, American actress and voice actress
- July 22 – John Leguizamo, American actor, comedian and producer
- July 23
- Jon Landau, American film producer (died 2024)
- Gabrielle Reidy, Irish actress (died 2014)
- July 30
- Richard Linklater, American director, producer and screenwriter
- Daniel McDonald, American actor (died 2007)
- August 5
- Steve Bannos, American actor
- John Mariano, American actor
- August 6 – Leland Orser, American actor
- August 7
- David Duchovny, American actor
- Rosana Pastor, Spanish actress
- August 10 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
- August 16 – Timothy Hutton, American actor
- August 17 – Sean Penn, American actor
- August 18 – Richard McCabe, Scottish actor
- August 19 - Paul Satterfield, American actor
- August 25 - Ashley Crow, American actress
- August 28 – Emma Samms, English actress
- August 29 – Viire Valdma, Estonian actress
- September 1 – Tahmineh Milani, Iranian filmmaker
- September 4 - Damon Wayans, American actor, comedian, producer and writer
- September 5 - Denis Forest, Canadian character actor (died 2002)
- September 9
- Bonnie Aarons, American actress
- Hugh Grant, English actor
- September 10
- Nancy Bernstein, American producer (died 2015)
- Colin Firth, English actor
- September 11 - Anne Ramsay, American actress
- September 12
- Robert John Burke, American actor
- Felicity Montagu, English actress
- September 13 - Greg Baldwin, American actor and voice actor
- September 14
- Melissa Leo, American actress
- Callum Keith Rennie, British-born Canadian actor
- September 16 - Danny John-Jules, British actor and singer
- September 17
- Kevin Clash, American puppeteer, director and producer
- Frédéric Pierrot, French actor
- September 21 - Mary Mara, American actress (died 2022)
- September 27
- Christopher Cousins, American actor
- Debi Derryberry, American voice actress
- October 1 - Elizabeth Dennehy, American actress
- October 5 - Daniel Baldwin, American actor, director and producer
- October 9 – Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (died 2008)
- October 12 - Hiroyuki Sanada, Japanese actor
- October 13 - Richard Sammel, German actor
- October 15 - Lobo Chan, British actor
- October 17
- Rob Marshall, American director and producer
- Grant Shaud, American actor
- October 18 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
- October 24 - BD Wong, American actor
- October 25 – Hong Sang-soo, South Korean director
- October 26 - Patrick Breen, American actor, screenwriter and director
- November 4 - Kathy Griffin, American comedian and actress
- November 5
- Tilda Swinton, English actress
- Yolanda Vázquez, Spanish actress
- November 6
- Lance Kerwin, American actor (died 2023)
- Denzil Smith, Indian actor and producer
- November 8
- Elizabeth Avellán, Venezuelan-born American producer
- Megan Cavanagh, American actress
- Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (died 2017)
- November 9 - Toni Hudson, American actress
- November 11 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
- November 13 – Neil Flynn, American actor and comedian
- November 17 - RuPaul, American drag queen, television personality, actor, singer, producer and writer
- November 18
- Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
- John Shepherd, American actor and producer
- November 20 - Amanda Wyss, American actress
- November 26 – Greg Berg, American voice actor
- November 29 – Cathy Moriarty, American actress and singer
- November 30 – Hiam Abbass, Palestinian actress and director
- December 3
- Daryl Hannah, American actress
- Julianne Moore, American actress
- December 9 – Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, American animator, writer, director, producer and voice actor
- December 10
- Kenneth Branagh, British actor and film director
- Michael Schoeffling, American actor and model
- December 22 - David Pasquesi, American actor and comedian
- December 26 – Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor
- December 27
- Maryam d'Abo, British actress
- Traci Wolfe, American actress and model
- December 28 - Chad McQueen, American actor, film producer, martial artist and race car driver (died 2024)
Deaths
[edit]- January 1 – Margaret Sullavan, 50, American actress, The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm
- January 3 – Victor Sjöström, 80, Swedish film actor and director, The Phantom Carriage, Wild Strawberries
- January 4 – Dudley Nichols, 64, American screenwriter, Bringing Up Baby, Stagecoach
- January 21 – Matt Moore, 72, Irish-American actor, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Coquette
- January 24 – John Miljan, 67, American actor, The Plainsman, Mississippi
- February 3
- Fred Buscaglione, 38, Italian actor and singer
- Pierre Watkin, 70, American actor, Pride of the Yankees, The Hunted
- March 19 – Sonya Levien, 71, Russian screenwriter, Oklahoma!, Quo Vadis, Interrupted Melody
- April 5 – Alma Kruger, 90, American actress, His Girl Friday, Saboteur
- April 25 – Hope Emerson, 62, American actress, Caged, Adam's Rib
- May 27 – George Zucco, 74, British actor, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, My Favorite Blonde
- June 4 – Lucien Littlefield, 64, American actor, The Cat and the Canary, Dirty Work
- June 29 – Dimples Cooper, 46, Filipina actress, Ang Tatlong Hambog, Miracles of Love
- July 2 – Gene Fowler, 70, American screenwriter, What Price Hollywood?, The Call of the Wild
- July 15 – Lawrence Tibbett, 63, American singer and actor, The Rogue Song, Under Your Spell
- July 26 – Cedric Gibbons, 67, Irish production designer and art director, An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful
- July 29 – Leonora Corbett, 52, British actress, Love on Wheels, Living Dangerously
- August 10 – Frank Lloyd, 74, Scottish director, Mutiny on the Bounty, Cavalcade
- September 4 – Alfred E. Green, 71, American director, Baby Face, Top Banana
- September 5 – Aku Korhonen, 57, Finnish actor
- September 11 – Edwin Justus Mayer, 63, American screenwriter, To Be or Not to Be, A Royal Scandal
- October 11 – Richard Cromwell, 50, American actor, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Jezebel
- October 15
- Maude Eburne, 84, Canadian actress, The Border Legion, Almost Married
- Clara Kimball Young, 70, American actress, My Official Wife, Kept Husbands
- November 3 – Paul Willis, 59, American silent-film actor, The Fall of a Nation
- November 5
- Mack Sennett, 80, Canadian-American producer and director, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tango Tangles
- Ward Bond, 57, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, The Searchers, Rio Bravo
- November 14 – Walter Catlett, 71, American actor, comedian, Slightly Scandalous, Henry, the Rainmaker, Here Comes the Groom
- November 16 – Clark Gable, 59, American actor, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind[17]
- November 19 – Phyllis Haver, 61, American actress, Chicago, Sal of Singapore
- November 20 – Betty Lawford, 48, British actress, Criminal Lawyer, The Devil Thumbs a Ride
- December 14 – Gregory Ratoff, 67, Russian actor and director, All About Eve, Intermezzo
Film debuts
[edit]- Gila Almagor – Burning Sands
- John Astin – The Pusher
- Karen Black – The Prime Time
- Bruce Boa – Man in the Moon
- Dyan Cannon – The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
- Richard Chamberlain – The Secret of the Purple Reef
- Patrick Cranshaw – The Amazing Transparent Man
- Bruce Dern – Wild River
- Roy Dotrice – The Criminal
- Britt Ekland – G.I. Blues
- Albert Finney – The Entertainer
- Jane Fonda – Tall Story
- Derek Francis – The Criminal
- Sheila Hancock – Light Up the Sky!
- Diane Ladd – Murder, Inc.
- Murray Melvin – The Criminal
- Sylvia Miles – Murder, Inc.
- Peter O'Toole – Kidnapped
- Marisa Paredes – Police Calling 091
- Robert Redford – Tall Story
- Isela Vega – Verano violento
- Gian Maria Volonté – Under Ten Flags
- Susannah York – Tunes of Glory
Notes
[edit]References
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