1966 in film explained
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events. A Man for All Seasons won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Top-grossing films
North America
See also: List of 1966 box office number-one films in the United States. The top ten 1966 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1966| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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| 1 | Hawaii | United Artists | $15,600,000[1] |
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| 2 | | 20th Century Fox | $15,000,000 |
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| 3 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Warner Bros. | $14,500,000 |
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| 4 | The Sand Pebbles | 20th Century Fox | $13,500,000 |
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| 5 | A Man for All Seasons | Columbia | $12,800,000 |
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| 6 | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | United Artists | $9,800,000 |
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| 7 | Grand Prix | MGM | $9,300,000 |
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| 8 | The Professionals | Columbia | $8,800,000 |
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| 9 | Alfie | Paramount | $8,500,000[2] |
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| 10 | Georgy Girl | Columbia | $7,600,000 |
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Outside North America
The highest-grossing 1966 films in countries outside North America.
Events
Awards
Academy Awards
Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons – Highland, Columbia
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann – A Man for All Seasons
Best Actor: Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau – The Fortune Cookie
Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Foreign Language Film: A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch, France
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Film from any Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best British film: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Golden Globe Awards
Drama:
Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons
Best Actor: Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons
Best Actress: Anouk Aimée – A Man and a Woman
Comedy or Musical:
Best Picture: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Best Actor: Alan Arkin – The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Best Actress: Lynn Redgrave – Georgy Girl
Other
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Attenborough – The Sand Pebbles
Best Supporting Actress: Jocelyne LaGarde – Hawaii
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann – A Man for All Seasons
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch, France
Signore & Signori (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians), directed by Pietro Germi, Italy
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Location: Italy
Silver Ribbon
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria / Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Cul-de-sac, directed by Roman Polanski, United Kingdom
1966 film releases
United States unless stated
January–March
- January 1966
- 5 January
- 9 January
- 16 January
- 20 January
- 27 January
- February 1966
- 2 February
- 9 February
- 12 February
- 18 February
- 19 February
- 21 February
- 23 February
- 25 February
- March 1966
- 2 March
- 4 March
- 5 March
- 9 March
- 14 March
- 25 March
- 30 March
- 31 March
April–June
- April 1966
- 1 April
- 4 April
- 6 April
- 7 April
- 10 April
- 13 April
- 17 April
- May 1966
- 5 May
- 11 May
- 14 May
- 19 May
- 25 May
- 27 May
- 31 May
- June 1966
- 1 June
- 7 June
- 8 June
- 9 June
- 10 June
- 15 June
- 21 June
- 22 June
- 29 June
July–September
- July 1966
- 1 July
- 7 July
- 12 July
- 13 July
- 14 July
- 20 July
- 29 July
- 30 July
- 31 July
- August 1966
- 3 August
- 5 August
- 10 August
- 13 August
- 16 August
- 24 August
- 31 August
- September 1966
- 1 September
- 2 September
- 7 September
- 8 September
- 14 September
- 15 September
- 16 September
- 28 September
October–December
- October 1966
- 5 October
- 9 October
- 10 October
- 11 October
- 12 October
- 13 October
- 16 October
- 17 October
- 19 October
- 23 October
- 24 October
- 26 October
- 27 October
- 28 October
- November 1966
- 2 November
- 5 November
- 7 November
- 8 November
- 10 November
- 18 November
- 19 November
- December 1966
- 1 December
- 8 December
- 9 December
- 10 December
- 12 December
- 15 December
- 16 December
- 17 December
- 18 December
- 20 December
- 21 December
- 21 December
- 22 December
- 30 December
Notable films released in 1966
United States unless stated
A
- Aakhri Khat (The Last Letter) – (India)
- After the Fox, starring Peter Sellers and Victor Mature
- Alfie, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin – (U.K.)
- Alice in Wonderland, a TV film starring John Gielgud, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
- Alvarez Kelly, starring William Holden
- Ambush Bay, starring Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney and James Mitchum
- An American Dream, starring Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker
- Amrapali, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt – (India)
- Andrei Rublev, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (USSR)
- The Appaloosa, starring Marlon Brando
- Arabesque, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck
- Around the World Under the Sea, starring Lloyd Bridges
- As Long as You've Got Your Health (Tant qu'on a la santé), directed by and starring Pierre Étaix – (France)
- Assault on a Queen, starring Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa
- Au hasard Balthazar (Chosen by Lot Balthazar), directed by Robert Bresson – (France/Sweden)
- Aybolit-66 – (USSR)
B
- Bariera (Barrier), directed by Jerzy Skolimowski – (Poland)
- Batman, starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Lee Meriwether, Frank Gorshin
- The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo - Golden Lion winner – (Italy/Algeria)
- Beau Geste, directed by Douglas Heyes
- Beregis Avtomobilya (Beware of the Automobile) – (USSR)
- , directed by John Huston, starring Stephen Boyd, Franco Nero, Ava Gardner, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole
- The Big Gundown (La resa dei conti), starring Lee Van Cleef – (Italy)
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady, starring Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore & Signori), directed by Pietro Germi – (Italy)
- Birds Do It, starring Soupy Sales
- Black Girl (La Noire de...), directed by Ousmane Sembène – (France/Senegal)
- Blindfold, directed by Philip Dunne, starring Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale
- Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave—winner of Palme d'Or, 1967 Cannes Film Festival – (Italy/U.K./U.S.)
- The Blue Max, starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress – (U.K.)
- Borom Sarret (The Wagoner) – (Senegal)
- Born Free, starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers – (U.K.)
- Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, starring Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Elke Sommer
- A Bullet for the General (El Chucho, quién sabe?), starring Gian Maria Volonté and Klaus Kinski – (Italy)
C
- Cairo 30 (Al-Kahira 30), directed by Salāḥ Abu Seif – (Egypt)
- Carry On Screaming!, starring Harry H. Corbett and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
- Cast a Giant Shadow, starring Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Yul Brynner, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra
- Chafed Elbows, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
- Chappaqua, featuring William S. Burroughs
- The Chase, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson and Robert Redford
- Chelsea Girls, directed by Andy Warhol, starring Nico
- Chimes at Midnight (a.k.a. Falstaff), directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Jeanne Moreau and John Gielgud – (France/Spain/Switzerland)
- Cinerama's Russian Adventure, a documentary on the USSR introduced by Bing Crosby
- Circus of Fear, starring Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Klaus Kinski– (U.K.)
- Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia)
- Come Drink with Me (Da zui xia), directed by King Hu – (Hong Kong)
- The Crazy-Quilt, directed by John Korty
- Cul-de-sac, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorléac – (U.K.)
- Curse of the Swamp Creature, starring John Agar, Francine York
- Curse of the Vampires (Dugo ng vampira, a.k.a. Blood of the Vampires or Creatures of Evil), directed by Gerardo de León – (Philippines)
- Cyborg 2087, starring Michael Rennie and Wendell Corey
D
- Daimajin, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda – (Japan)
- Daisies (Sedmikrásky), directed by Věra Chytilová – (Czechoslovakia)
- , starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
- The Daydreamer, a Rankin-Bass and Embassy Pictures stop-motion/live-action film
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, starring James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Robert Webber and Rose Marie
- The Deadly Bees, directed by Freddie Francis and starring Suzanna Leigh – (U.K.)
- Death of a Bureaucrat (La muerte de un burócrata), directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – (Cuba)
- The Defector, directed by Raoul Lévy and starring Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger and Macha Méril – (France/West Germany)
- Degueyo, directed by Giuseppe Vari – (Italy)
- Destination Inner Space, starring Gary Merrill and Sheree North
- The Diabolical Dr. Z (Miss Muerte), directed by Jesús Franco – (France/Spain)
- Dimension 5, starring Jeffrey Hunter
- Django, starring Franco Nero – (Italy/Spain)
- Don't Look Now, We're Being Shot At (La grande vadrouille), starring Terry-Thomas and Bourvil – (France/U.K.)
- Le deuxieme souffle (a.k.a. Second Breath), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura – (France)
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (Le spie vengono dal semifreddo), directed by Mario Bava – (Italy/U.S.)
- , starring Christopher Lee – (U.K.)
- Drop Dead Darling, starring Tony Curtis
- Duel at Diablo, starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier
- Dutchman, starring Al Freeman, Jr. and Shirley Knight
E
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (Gojira, Ebira, Mosura Nankai no Daikettō), directed by Jun Fukuda – (Japan)
- El Dorado, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan
- The Elusive Avengers (Neulovimye mstiteli), directed by Edmond Keosayan – (USSR)
- Eye of the Devil, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven and Sharon Tate
F
- The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) – (Japan)
- Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut, starring Julie Christie and Oskar Werner – (U.K.)
- The Family Way, a Boulting brothers film, starring Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett – (U.K.)
- Fantastic Voyage, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch
- The Fat Spy, starring Phyllis Diller, Jayne Mansfield, Brian Donlevy
- Fighting Elegy (Kenka erejii), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)
- A Fine Madness, starring Sean Connery and Joanne Woodward
- Fireball 500, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Fabian Forte
- Follow Me, Boys!, directed by Norman Tokar, starring Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Kurt Russell
- For Love and Gold (L'armata Brancaleone), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
- The Fortune Cookie (a.k.a. Meet Whiplash Willie), directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
- Frankie and Johnny, starring Elvis Presley and Donna Douglas
- Funeral in Berlin, starring Michael Caine – (U.K.)
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, directed by Richard Lester, starring Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers, Michael Crawford – (U.S./U.K.)
G
- Galia, directed by Georges Lautner and starring Mireille Darc – (France/Italy)
- Gambit, starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine
- The Game Is Over (La curée), directed by Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda – (France/Italy)
- Gamera vs. Barugon, directed by Shigeo Tanaka – (Japan)
- Georgy Girl, directed by Silvio Narizzano, starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason and Alan Bates – (U.K.)
- The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, starring Don Knotts
- The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, starring Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Nancy Sinatra
- The Glass Bottom Boat, starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor
- Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (Gojira, Ebira, Mosura Nankai no Daikettō) – (Japan)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef– (Italy)
- Grand Prix, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring James Garner, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune, Eva Marie Saint, Jessica Walter
- The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, starring Frankie Howerd and Dora Bryan – (U.K.)
- The Group, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Candice Bergen, Shirley Knight, Joan Hackett, Joanna Pettet and Jessica Walter
- Gunpoint, starring Audie Murphy, Joan Staley and Warren Stevens
H
- Harper, starring Paul Newman, Robert Wagner, Lauren Bacall, Pamela Tiffin, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh
- Hawaii, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris
- The Hawks and the Sparrows (Uccellacci e uccellini), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Totò – (Italy)
- The Hellbenders (I Crudeli), starring Joseph Cotten – (Italy)
- Here Is Your Life (Här har du ditt liv) – (Sweden)
- The Hills Run Red (Un Fiume di dollari), directed by Carlo Lizzani – (Italy)
- Hold On!, starring Peter Noone and Shelley Fabares
- How to Steal a Million, directed by William Wyler, starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
- Hotel Paradiso, directed by Peter Glenville and starring Alec Guinness – (U.K.)
- The Hunchback of Soho (Der Bucklige von Soho), directed by Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany)
- Hunger (Sult) – (Denmark/Norway/Sweden)
- The Hunt (La Caza), directed by Carlos Saura – (Spain)
I
- The Idol, directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Jennifer Jones and Michael Parks – (U.K.)
- Incident at Phantom Hill, directed by Earl Bellamy
- Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?), directed by René Clément, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron – (France/United States)
- Island of Terror, starring Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray
- It Happened Here, starring Sebastian Shaw – (U.K.)
J
K
L
- Let's Kill Uncle, directed by William Castle
- Lightning Bolt (Operazione Goldman), directed by Antonio Margheriti – (Italy)
- Lord Love a Duck, starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld
- Lost Command, directed by Mark Robson, starring Anthony Quinn, George Segal, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
- Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., starring Dick Van Dyke and Nancy Kwan
M
- Madame X, starring Lana Turner
- Made in Paris, starring Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Chad Everett, Edie Adams
- Made in U.S.A., directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Pierre Léaud – (France)
- Mademoiselle, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Jeanne Moreau – (France/U.K.)
- Mamta, starring Ashok Kumar – (India)
- A Man and a Woman, directed by Claude Lelouch, starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant -- Palme d'Or winner – (France)
- The Man Called Flintstone, directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna
- A Man for All Seasons, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles - winner of 6 Academy Awards and 5 BAFTAs – (U.K.)
- A Man Could Get Killed, starring James Garner and Sandra Dee
- , starring and written, directed and produced by Harold P. Warren
- Masculine-Feminine by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud – (France)
- Mera Saaya (My Shadow), starring Sunil Dutt and Sadhana – (India)
- Mission to Death
- Mister Buddwing, directed by Delbert Mann, starring James Garner, Jean Simmons, Angela Lansbury, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross
- Misunderstood (Incompreso), directed by Luigi Comencini – (Italy)
- Modesty Blaise, starring Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp – (U.K.)
- Moment to Moment, starring Jean Seberg and Honor Blackman
- Morgan! (a.k.a. Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment), directed by Karel Reisz – (U.K.)
- Munster, Go Home!, starring Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis
- Murderers' Row, starring Dean Martin (as Matt Helm), with Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, Ann-Margret
- My Wife, the Director General, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, starring Salah Zulfikar and Shadia – (Egypt)
N
- Namu, the Killer Whale, directed by László Benedek
- Navajo Joe, starring Burt Reynolds – (Italy/Spain)
- Nayak, directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
- Nevada Smith, starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Suzanne Pleshette and Arthur Kennedy
- Night Games (Nattlek), directed by Mai Zetterling and starring Ingrid Thulin – (Sweden)
- Nobody Wanted to Die (Niekas nenorėjo mirti) – (USSR)
- Not with My Wife, You Don't!, starring Tony Curtis, George C. Scott and Virna Lisi
- The Nun (La religieuse), directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Anna Karina – (France)
O
- Once Before I Die, starring Ursula Andress and John Derek
- One Million Years B.C., starring Raquel Welch – (U.K.)
- Operazione San Gennaro (a.k.a. The Treasure of San Gennaro), starring Nino Manfredi and Senta Berger – (Italy)
- The Oscar, starring Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Jill St. John, Tony Bennett
- Our Man Flint, starring James Coburn
- Our Man in Marrakesh, a.k.a. Bang! Bang! You're Dead!, starring Tony Randall
P
- The Pad and How to Use It, directed by Brian G. Hutton
- Paradise, Hawaiian Style, starring Elvis Presley
- Penelope, starring Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Dick Shawn, Jonathan Winters, Ian Bannen and Arlene Golonka
- Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (Father Christmas Has Blue Eyes), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud – (France)
- Persona, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann – (Sweden)
- Pharaoh (Faraon), directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz – (Poland)
- Phool Aur Patthar, starring Dharmendra – (India)
- Picture Mommy Dead, starring Don Ameche and Zsa Zsa Gabor
- The Plague of the Zombies, starring André Morell – (U.K.)
- The Plainsman, starring Don Murray, Abby Dalton and Leslie Nielsen
- The Poppy Is Also a Flower, directed by Terence Young, starring Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Rita Hayworth, Yul Brynner and Angie Dickinson
- The Pornographers (Erogotoshitachi yori Jinruigaku nyumon), directed by Shōhei Imamura – (Japan)
- The Priest and the Girl (O Padre e a Moça) – (Brazil)
- The Professionals, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance and Claudia Cardinale
- The Projected Man, starring Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday and Ronald Allen– (U.K.)
Q
R
- Rage, starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens
- The Rare Breed, starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith and Juliet Mills
- A Report on the Party and the Guests (O slavnosti a hostech), directed by Jan Němec – (Czechoslovakia)
- The Reptile, starring Noel Willman, Ray Barrett and Jennifer Daniel– (U.K.)
- Return of the Seven, starring Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Claude Akins and Warren Oates
- Ride in the Whirlwind, directed by Monte Hellman, starring Jack Nicholson and Millie Perkins
- Ringo and His Golden Pistol (Johnny Oro), directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Mark Damon – (Italy)
- Roman Candles, directed by John Waters
- Rondo, directed by Zvonimir Berković– (Yugoslavia)
- Rosalie, a short directed by Walerian Borowczyk – (France)
- The Round-Up (Szegénylegények), directed by Miklós Jancsó – (Hungary)
- Run, Appaloosa, Run, starring Rex Allen
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Alan Arkin, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner and Eva Marie Saint
S
- The Sand Pebbles, directed by Robert Wise, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen and Richard Crenna
- The Sandwich Man, starring Michael Bentine and Dora Bryan – (U.K.)
- Savage Pampas, starring Robert Taylor, Ron Randell and Marc Lawrence (U.S./Spain/Argentina)
- Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Rock Hudson
- The She Beast, starring Barbara Steele, John Karlsen, Ian Ogilvy
- Shiroi Kyotō (The White Tower) – (Japan)
- The Shooting, starring Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson and Millie Perkins
- Sri Krishna Pandaveeyam, directed by and starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
- The Silencers, starring Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Cyd Charisse and Nancy Kovack
- The Singing Nun, starring Debbie Reynolds and Greer Garson
- Sound of Horror, starring James Philbrook, Arturo Fernandez and Soledad Miranda
- Spinout, starring Elvis Presley
- The Spy with a Cold Nose, directed by Daniel Petrie – (U.K.)
- Stagecoach, starring Ann-Margret, Bing Crosby, Red Buttons, Alex Cord, Mike Connors and Stefanie Powers
- Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, directed by Philip Saville
- Suraj, starring Vyjayanthimala and Rajendra Kumar – (India)
- The Swinger, starring Ann-Margret, Tony Franciosa and Yvonne Romain
- The Sword of Doom (Dai-bosatsu tōge) – (Japan)
T
- Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, starring Mike Henry and Nancy Kovack
- Teesri Kasam (Third Oath), starring Raj Kapoor – (India)
- Texas Across the River, starring Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth, Peter Graves, Joey Bishop
- They're a Weird Mob, directed by Powell and Pressburger – (Australia)
- This Property Is Condemned, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid
- Three on a Couch, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, with Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Mary Ann Mobley
- Thunderbirds Are Go, produced by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson, voices of Peter Dyneley, Shane Rimmer, Matt Zimmerman, David Graham, Christine Finn, Sylvia Anderson, Jeremy Wilkin, Ray Barrett
- Time to Die (Tiempo de morir), directed by Arturo Ripstein, starring Marga López and Jorge Martínez de Hoyos – (Mexico)
- Tokyo Drifter (Tōkyō nagaremono), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)
- Torn Curtain, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews
- Trace of Stones (Spur der Steine) – (East Germany)
- The Trap, starring Rita Tushingham and Oliver Reed – (U.K./Canada)
- Triple Cross, starring Christopher Plummer, Claudine Auger, Gert Fröbe – (U.K./France)
- The Trouble with Angels, directed by Ida Lupino, starring Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills
- Trunk to Cairo, directed by Menahem Golan, starring Audie Murphy – (Israel)
- The Trygon Factor, starring Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire and Robert Morley – (U.K./West Germany)
U
V
W
- Waco, starring Jane Russell and Howard Keel
- Walk, Don't Run, starring Cary Grant (in his final film), Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton
- The War Is Over (La Guerre est Finie), directed by Alain Resnais, starring Yves Montand and Ingrid Thulin – (France)
- The War of the Gargantuas (Furankenshutain no Kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira) – (Japan)
- Way...Way Out, starring Jerry Lewis and Connie Stevens
- What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, directed by Blake Edwards, starring James Coburn and Dick Shawn
- Where the Spies Are, directed by Val Guest and starring David Niven – (U.K.)
- Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (Qui êtes vous, Polly Maggoo?) – (France)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Elizabeth Taylor, (Best Actress Oscar), Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
- The Wild Angels, starring Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra
- Wings (Крылья), directed by Larisa Shepitko – (USSR)
- Winnetou and the Crossbreed (Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi), directed by Harald Philipp – (West Germany)
- Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (animated short)
- The Witches, starring Joan Fontaine
- The Wrong Box, starring John Mills, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Nanette Newman – (U.K.)
Y
Z
Short film series
Births
- January 2 - Kate Hodge, American actress and producer
- January 13 - Patrick Dempsey, American actor
- January 17 - Joshua Malina, American actor
- January 20 – Rainn Wilson, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
- January 24 - Julie Dreyfus, French actress
- January 31 - Dexter Fletcher, English film director and actor
- February 1 - Anthony Johnson, American actor and comedian (died 2021)
- February 4 - Piret Kalda, Estonian actress
- February 12 - Lochlyn Munro, Canadian actor
- February 13 - Neal McDonough, American actor and producer
- February 14 - Kristen Dalton, American actress
- February 15
- February 19 - Justine Bateman, American actress, writer, director and producer
- February 22 - Rachel Dratch, American actress, comedian, writer and producer
- February 24
- February 25
- February 27 - Donal Logue, Canadian-Irish actor, producer and writer
- March 1
- March 3 - Tone Loc, American rapper and actor
- March 4 - Steve Bastoni, Italian-born Australian actor
- March 5 - Aasif Mandvi, British-American actor and comedian
- March 9 - Alison Doody, Irish model and actress
- March 10 - Stephen Mailer, American actor
- March 14
- March 22 - Sara Crowe, Scottish actress
- March 23 - Marin Hinkle, American actress
- March 26 - Michael Imperioli, American actor
- April 8 - Robin Wright, American actress
- April 9 - Cynthia Nixon, American actress
- April 13 - Andy Nyman, English actor, director and writer
- April 14 - Lloyd Owen, British actor
- April 22 - Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor and producer
- April 27 - Matt Reeves, American director, producer and screenwriter
- May 3 - Firdous Bamji, Indian actor and writer
- May 10 - Ilian Djevelekov, Bulgarian film director and producer
- May 12 - Stephen Baldwin, American actor
- May 15 - Greg Wise, English actor and producer
- May 16 - Scott Reeves, American actor and country music singer
- May 19 - Polly Walker, English actress
- May 20 - Mindy Cohn, American actress and voice actress
- May 23 - H. Jon Benjamin, American actor and comedian
- May 26 - Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
- June 5 - Dwayne Hill, Canadian voice actor
- June 7 - Tom McCarthy, American director, screenwriter and actor
- June 8 - Julianna Margulies, American actress
- June 16 - Phil Vischer, American filmmaker, animator, musician and voice actor
- June 17 - Jason Patric, American actor
- June 19 - Samuel West, English actor, director and voice actor
- June 22
- June 24 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (died 2006)
- June 27 - J. J. Abrams, American filmmaker and composer
- June 28
- June 30
- July 5
- July 6
- July 7
- July 8 - Mike Nawrocki, American director, animator, writer and voice actor
- July 9
- Pamela Adlon, American actress, voice actress, screenwriter, producer and director
- Jamie Bartlett, British-born South African actor (died 2022)
- July 10 - A. O. Scott, American film critic of The New York Times
- July 11
- July 12 - Tamsin Greig, English actress, narrator and comedian
- July 14 - Matthew Fox, American actor
- July 15 - Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
- July 16 - Scott Derrickson, American filmmaker
- July 18 - Lori Alan, American actress and voice actress
- July 19 - Nancy Carrell, American actress, comedian and writer
- July 31 - Dean Cain, American actor, producer and television presenter
- August 1 - Dan Gerson, American screenwriter and voice actor (died 2016)
- August 5
- August 8 - Verónica Falcón, Mexican actress
- August 10 - André Sogliuzzo, American voice actor
- August 14 - Halle Berry, American actress
- August 15
- August 17 - Matt Maiellaro, American actor
- August 18
- August 20
- August 25 - Julia Davis, English actress, comedian, director and writer
- August 29 - Stacey Travis, American actress
- August 30 - Michael Michele, American actress
- September 1 - James Nguyen, Vietnamese filmmaker
- September 2 - Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
- September 7 - Toby Jones, English actor
- September 9 - Adam Sandler, American actor
- September 12 - Darren E. Burrows, American actor
- September 13 - Louis Mandylor, Australian actor
- September 16 - Sean Frye, American former actor
- September 20 - Niki Caro, New Zealand film director and screenwriter
- September 22
- September 25 - Jason Flemyng, English actor
- October 6 - Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
- October 9 - Tim Herlihy, American actor, producer and screenwriter
- October 11 - Luke Perry, American actor (died 2019)
- October 16 - Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress
- October 17 - Mark Gatiss, English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director and producer
- October 19 - Jon Favreau, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- October 24 - Zahn McClarnon, American actor
- October 26 - Steve Valentine, English actor
- October 28
- November 2 – David Schwimmer, American actor, director and producer
- November 3
- November 5 - Leni Parker, Canadian actress
- November 6 - Peter DeLuise, American actor
- November 11 - Vince Colosimo, Australian actor
- November 17 - Sophie Marceau, French actress and director
- November 19
- November 22
- November 23 - Vincent Cassel, French actor
- November 25 - Billy Burke, American actor
- November 26 - Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian actress and television personality
- December 1 - Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter
- December 2 - Katherine LaNasa, American actress
- December 4
- December 7 - C. Thomas Howell, American actor
- December 8
- Tyler Mane, Canadian character actor
- Scott Shepherd, American actor
- Sinead O'Connor, Irish actress and singer (died 2023)
- December 9 - Toby Huss, American actor
- December 12 - Lydia Zimmermann, Spanish filmmaker
- December 14 - Boris Isaković. Serbian actor
- December 19 - Robert MacNaughton, American actor
- December 20 - Paul Ritter, English actor (died 2021)
- December 21
- December 24 - Diedrich Bader, American actor and voice actor
- December 30 - Akosua Busia, Ghanaian actress and writer
- December 31
Deaths
- January 3 - Rex Lease, 62, American actor, Rough Riding Ranger, Borrowed Wives
- January 17 - Vincent J. Donehue, 50, American director, Lonelyhearts, Sunrise at Campobello
- January 22 - Herbert Marshall, 75, British actor, The Letter, The Little Foxes
- January 31 - Elizabeth Patterson, 90, American actress, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Remember the Night
- February 1
- February 9 - Sophie Tucker, 82, Russian-born American singer and actress, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry, Broadway Melody of 1938
- February 18 - Robert Rossen, 57, American writer and director, The Hustler, All the King's Men[3]
- February 19 - James Edward Grant, 60, American writer and director, Angel and the Badman, The Alamo
- February 26 - Mientje Kling, 71, Dutch actress, The Devil in Amsterdam
- March 3
- March 12 - Estelita Rodriguez, 34, Cuban actress, Tropical Heat Wave, Rio Bravo
- March 26 - Cyril Hume, 66, American screenwriter, The Great Gatsby, Forbidden Planet[4] [5]
- April 6
- April 16 - Marjie Millar, 34, American actress, Money from Home, About Mrs. Leslie
- June 5 - Natacha Rambova, 69, American actress, Salomé, Monsieur Beaucaire
- June 11 - Wallace Ford, 68, British-born American actor, Another Face, 3 Ring Circus
- June 19 - Ed Wynn, 79, American actor, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins
- July 5 - John P. Fulton, 63, American special effects supervisor, The Ten Commandments
- July 6 - Anne Nagel, 50, American actress, Under the Big Top, My Little Chickadee
- July 23
- August 3 - Lenny Bruce, 40, American satirist
- August 15
- August 23 - Francis X. Bushman, 83, American actor, Ben-Hur, The Phantom Planet
- August 25 - Lance Comfort, 58, British director, Penn of Pennsylvania, Eight O'Clock Walk
- August 26 - Art Baker, 68, American actor, Cover Up, The Farmer's Daughter
- August 29 - Joseph Egger, 77, Austrian actor, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More
- September 14 - Nikolai Cherkasov, 63, Soviet actor, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan The Terrible, Part II
- September 22 - Jules Furthman, 78, American screenwriter, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not
- October 13 - Clifton Webb, 76, American actor, Laura, The Man Who Never Was
- October 16 - George O'Hara, 67, American actor and writer, Side Street, The Grapes of Wrath
- October 23
- October 24 - Hans Dreier, 81, German art director of European and American films, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity
- November 3 - Byron Barr, 49, American actor, Double Indemnity, Pitfall
- November 9 - James V. Kern, 57, American screenwriter and director, Never Say Goodbye, Two Tickets to Broadway
- December 14
- Emma Dunn, 91, British actress, Mother, Life with Father
- Verna Felton, 76, American actress and voice actress, Picnic, Cinderella
- Richard Whorf, 60, American actor and director, Christmas Holiday, Yankee Doodle Dandy
- December 15 - Walt Disney, 65, American producer, cartoonist and studio executive, Steamboat Willie, Cinderella, Fantasia
- December 19 - Betty Kuuskemaa, 87, Estonian actress, Estonian: Elu tsitadellis, Estonian: Pöördel
- December 22
Film debuts
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Finler, Joel Waldo . 2003 . The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press . 978-1-903364-66-6 . 358–359.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080615024122/http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1966.shtml Top 20 Films of 1966 by Domestic Revenue
- News: Robert Rossen Is Dead at 57; Maker of Films for 30 Years; Writer-Director-Producer Won International Fame for Trenchant Realism . 24 October 2021 . The New York Times . February 19, 1966 . 27 . subscription . 4 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211104202503/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/02/19/79292897.html?pageNumber=27 . live .
- Book: Howes . Durward . America's Young Men . 1938 . Richard Blank Publishing Company . 292 . 2021-10-18 . 2021-11-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211104202503/https://books.google.com/books?id=AZQ6AQAAIAAJ&q=%22helen+chandler%22+cyril+hume . live .
- News: Cyril Hume dies; wrote for films; did 'Great Gatsby' script in 1949--also a novelist . 17 October 2021 . . March 28, 1966 . subscription . 4 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211104202503/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/28/283355602.html?pageNumber=33 . live .
