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 | | $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 – (U.S.S.R.)
- 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 – (U.S.S.R.)
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) – (U.S.S.R.)
- , 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 U.S.S.R. 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 – (U.S.S.R.)
- 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) – (U.S.S.R.)
- 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 – (U.S.S.R.)
- 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 - Claudia Wells, American actress
- 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
- 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
- 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 - Maddie Taylor, American voice actress and comedian
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 .
