1967 in film explained
The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered one of the most ground-breaking years in American cinema, with "revolutionary" films highlighting the shift towards forward thinking European standards at the time, including: Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Cool Hand Luke, The Dirty Dozen, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, The Jungle Book and You Only Live Twice.[1]
Highest-grossing films
North America
See also: List of 1967 box office number-one films in the United States. The top ten 1967 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1967| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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| 1 | The Graduate | United Artists / Embassy | $43,100,000[2] |
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| 2 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | | $25,500,000 |
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| 3 | Bonnie and Clyde | Warner Bros. | $22,000,000 |
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| 4 | The Dirty Dozen | MGM | $20,100,000 |
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| 5 | Valley of the Dolls | | $20,000,000 |
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| 6 | To Sir, with Love | Columbia | $19,100,000 |
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| 7 | You Only Live Twice | United Artists / Eon | $18,000,000 |
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| 8 | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Universal | $14,700,000 |
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| 9 | The Jungle Book | | $13,000,000 |
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| 10 | Camelot | Warner Bros. | $12,300,000 | |
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Outside North America
The highest-grossing 1967 films in countries outside North America.
Events
- April 28 — The prototype for the IMAX large-format-film acquisition and screening system is exhibited at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- July 8 — Vivien Leigh, best known for starring in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, dies from tuberculosis in London.
- July 15 — Seven Arts Productions acquire substantially all the assets and business of Warner Bros. creating Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
- August 13 — Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Gene Hackman, premieres. It breaks many taboos of its time, such as the visual depiction of violence. It will be considered a landmark film in Hollywood filmmaking, with its groundbreaking and ingenious visual styles. The success of Bonnie and Clyde helps bring forth the New Hollywood era, a period of artistic and commercial renewal.
- October 18 — Walt Disney's production of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book premieres. It is the last animated feature film to be personally supervised by Disney before his death the previous year. It is also one of the last Disney films to be personally approved by him, along with The Happiest Millionaire and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. The story's moral message of friendship, love and trust will be embraced by critics and audiences worldwide. The Jungle Book is notable for its realistic character animation and voice casting. The film's soundtrack (scored by George Bruns), which includes the Academy Award-nominated "The Bare Necessities", '"I Wan'na Be Like You", "Trust in Me" and "My Own Home", also contributes to the film's enormous success. It will be the most successful animated film to be made by Disney until The Rescuers, ten years later.
- December 21 — The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman (in his acting film debut), Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross, premieres. It tells a story of an aimless young man, seduced and betrayed by an older woman, while falling in love with her daughter. The theme of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, misdirected, seduced (literally and figuratively) and betrayed by a corrupt, decadent and discredited older generation (that finds its stability in the film's keyword "plastics") is well understood by film audiences and captures the spirit of the times, in light of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the increasing turbulence in American society in the mid-to-late 1960s. Like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate breaks many well-established taboos in American cinema and represents a new era in groundbreaking achievements in filmmaking.
- The MPAA adopts a new logo, which is used until 2019.
Awards
(Cannes Film Festival):
Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Belle de jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, France / Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Le départ, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium
1967 film releases
US unless stated
January–March
- January 1967
- 5 January
- 18 January
- 19 January
- 25 January
- 26 January
- 27 January
- February 1967
- 1 February
- 3 February
- 7 February
- 8 February
- 9 February
- 10 February
- 12 February
- 15 February
- 18 February
- 22 February
- 25 February
- 28 February
- March 1967
- 1 March
- 8 March
- 9 March
- 12 March
- 13 March
- 14 March
- 15 March
- 18 March
- 21 March
- 22 March
- 25 March
- 26 March
- 31 March
April–June
- April 1967
- 1 April
- 12 April
- 13 April
- 14 April
- 18 April
- 22 April
- 24 April
- 28 April
- 29 April
- May 1967
- 1 May
- 3 May
- 12 May
- 15 May
- 17 May
- 22 May
- 24 May
- 25 May
- 26 May
- 27 May
- June 1967
- 9 June
- 11 June
- 13 June
- 14 June
- 15 June
- 16 June
- 18 June
- 21 June
- 23 June
- 27 June
- 28 June
- 30 June
July–September
- July 1967
- 6 July
- 12 July
- 13 July
- 19 July
- 21 July
- 22 July
- 23 July
- 26 July
- 27 July
- August 1967
- 1 August
- 2 August
- 3 August
- 12 August
- 13 August
- 18 August
- 22 August
- 23 August
- 30 August
- 31 August
- September 1967
- 1 September
- 8 September
- 14 September
- 17 September
- 20 September
- 22 September
- 26 September
- 28 September
October–December
- October 1967
- 1 October
- 3 October
- 9 October
- 13 October
- 16 October
- 18 October
- 19 October
- 23 October
- 25 October
- 26 October
- 31 October
- November 1967
- 1 November
- 4 November
- 5 November
- 9 November
- 10 November
- 13 November
- 15 November
- 22 November
- December 1967
- 1 December
- 5 December
- 6 December
- 10 December
- 12 December
- 13 December
- 14 December
- 15 December
- 16 December
- 17 December
- 18 December
- I'll Never Forget What's'isname (U.K.)
- 19 December
- 20 December
- 21 December
- 22 December
- 26 December
- 27 December
- 29 December
Notable films released in 1967
U.S. unless stated
A
B
- The Ballad of Josie, starring Doris Day
- Banning, starring Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Susan Clark, Gene Hackman
- Barefoot in the Park, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda
- Battle Beneath the Earth, starring Kerwin Mathews and Peter Arne – (U.K.)
- Beach Red, starring Cornel Wilde and Rip Torn
- Bedazzled, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch – (U.K.)
- Belle de jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve - winner of Golden Lion – (France)
- Berserk!, starring Joan Crawford – (U.K.)
- Bewitched Love (El amor brujo) – (Spain)
- The Big Mouth, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
- Billion Dollar Brain, directed by Ken Russell, starring Michael Caine – (U.K.)
- The Birch Tree (Breza), directed by Ante Babaja – (Yugoslavia)
- The Blood Demon (Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel, a.k.a. The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism), directed by Harald Reinl – (West Germany)
- The Bobo, starring Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Adolfo Celi, Rossano Brazzi, Al Lettieri – (U.K.)
- Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard
- Born Losers, directed by and starring Tom Laughlin
- Branded to Kill (Koroshi no rakuin), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)
- The Busy Body, starring Sid Caesar, Robert Ryan, Jan Murray, Arlene Golonka, Richard Pryor
C
- Camelot, a musical directed by Joshua Logan, starring Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, with songs by Lerner and Loewe
- The Cape Town Affair, starring James Brolin and Jacqueline Bisset
- Caprice, starring Doris Day and Richard Harris
- Carry On Doctor, starring Frankie Howerd and Sid James – (U.K.)
- Case of the Naves Brothers (O Caso dos Irmãos Naves) – (Brazil)
- Casino Royale, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, Daliah Lavi, Barbara Bouchet – (U.K.)
- Catalina Caper, starring Tommy Kirk
- Cervantes, starring Horst Buchholz and Gina Lollobrigida – (Spain/France/Italy)
- The Champagne Murders (Le scandale), directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Anthony Perkins – (France)
- Charlie Bubbles, directed by and starring Albert Finney with Billie Whitelaw and Liza Minnelli – (U.K.)
- China Is Near (La Cina è vicina) – (Italy)
- La Chinoise, directed by Jean-Luc Godard – (France)
- Chuka, starring Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills
- Clambake, starring Elvis Presley and Shelley Fabares
- The Collector (La collectionneuse), directed by Éric Rohmer – (France)
- The College Girl Murders (Der Mönch mit der Peitsche, a.k.a. The Monk with the Whip), directed by Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany)
- A Colt Is My Passport (Koruto wa ore no pasupoto), starring Joe Shishido – (Japan)
- Come Spy with Me, starring Troy Donahue
- The Comedians, starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness
- Commissar – (USSR)
- Cool Hand Luke, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy
- Counterpoint, starring Charlton Heston
- A Countess from Hong Kong, directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren – (U.K.)
- Custer of the West, starring Robert Shaw, Mary Ure and Robert Ryan
D
- Day of Anger (I giorni dell'ira), starring Lee Van Cleef – (Italy)
- A Degree of Murder (Mord und Totschlag), directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Anita Pallenberg – (West Germany)
- The Departure (Le départ), directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud – (Belgium)
- Deadlier Than the Male, starring Richard Johnson and Elke Sommer – (U.K.)
- The Deadly Affair, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring James Mason and Simone Signoret – (U.K.)
- Death Rides a Horse (Da uomo a uomo), starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law – (Italy)
- Diabolically Yours (Diaboliquement vôtre), starring Alain Delon and Senta Berger – (France/Italy/West Germany)
- The Dirty Dozen, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin and an ensemble cast
- Divorce American Style, starring Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons
- Doctor Dolittle, a musical directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley
- Doctor Faustus, directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill – (U.K.)
- Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!, starring Sandra Dee and George Hamilton
- Dont Look Back, a documentary by D. A. Pennebaker, featuring Bob Dylan
- Don't Make Waves, starring Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Sharon Tate
- Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley
- Dragon Gate Inn (Lóng mén kè zhàn) (international release), directed by King Hu – (Taiwan)
E
- Easy Come, Easy Go, starring Elvis Presley
- Eight on the Lam, starring Bob Hope, Jonathan Winters, Shirley Eaton, Jill St. John
- Elvira Madigan, directed by Bo Widerberg – (Sweden)
- Entranced Earth (Terra em Transe), directed by Glauber Rocha – (Brazil)
- An Evening in Paris, starring Shammi Kapoor – (India)
- The Exchange Student (Les grandes vacances), directed by Jean Girault – (France/Italy)
F
- Faccia a faccia (Face to Face), starring Gian Maria Volonté – (Italy)
- Far from the Madding Crowd, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates – (U.K.)
- The Fastest Guitar Alive, starring Roy Orbison
- Fathom, starring Raquel Welch – (U.K.)
- The Fearless Vampire Killers, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Sharon Tate – (U.K./U.S.)
- Festival, a documentary about Newport Folk Festival
- The Firemen's Ball (Hoří, má panenko), directed by Miloš Forman – (Czechoslovakia)
- Fitzwilly, starring Dick Van Dyke and Barbara Feldon
- The Flim-Flam Man, starring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin
- Follow That Camel (a.k.a. Carry On...Follow That Camel), starring Phil Silvers and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
- Fort Utah, starring John Ireland and Virginia Mayo
- The Fox, starring Sandy Dennis, Anne Heywood, Keir Dullea
- Frankenstein Created Woman, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
- The Frozen Dead, starring Dana Andrews, Anna Palk
G
- Games, starring Simone Signoret, Katharine Ross and James Caan
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach – (Italy)
- Good Times, starring Sonny & Cher
- The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross
- Grand Slam, starring Janet Leigh and Edward G. Robinson – (Italy/Spain/West Germany)
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier
- A Guide for the Married Man, directed by Gene Kelly, starring Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens and Robert Morse
- Gunfight in Abilene, starring Bobby Darin
- Gunn, starring Craig Stevens
H
- Half a Sixpence, starring Tommy Steele – (U.K.)
- Hatey Bazarey (The Market Place), starring Ashok Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
- Hamraaz, starring Sunil Dutt and Raaj Kumar – (India)
- The Happening, starring Anthony Quinn, Michael Parks, Faye Dunaway
- The Happiest Millionaire, starring Fred MacMurray, Greer Garson, Tommy Steele, Lesley Ann Warren, John Davidson
- The Heathens of Kummerow (Die Heiden von Kummerow und ihre lustigen Streiche), the first co-production between East Germany and West Germany
- Hell on Wheels, starring Marty Robbins
- Hells Angels on Wheels, starring Jack Nicholson
- Herostratus, directed by Don Levy – (Australia/U.K.)
- Hombre, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Fredric March, Diane Cilento, Richard Boone, Martin Balsam, Barbara Rush
- The Honey Pot, starring Rex Harrison, Cliff Robertson, Susan Hayward, Edie Adams
- Hotel, directed by Richard Quine, starring Rod Taylor, Melvyn Douglas, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Merle Oberon
- Hour of the Gun, directed by John Sturges, starring James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan
- The House of 1,000 Dolls, starring Vincent Price – (Spain/West Germany)
- How I Won The War, directed by Richard Lester, starring Michael Crawford, John Lennon Michael Hordern – (U.K.)
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallée, Maureen Arthur
- Hurry Sundown, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jane Fonda, Michael Caine, Diahann Carroll, Beah Richards, Faye Dunaway
I
- I, a Man, directed by Andy Warhol
- I Am Curious (Yellow) (Jag är nyfiken – en film i gult) – (Sweden)
- I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Skupljači perja) – (Yugoslavia)
- In Cold Blood, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, Paul Stewart, John Forsythe
- I'll Never Forget What's 'isname, directed by Michael Winner, starring Oliver Reed and Orson Welles – (U.K.)
- In Like Flint, starring James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale
- In the Heat of the Night, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger—winner of 5 Academy Awards including best picture
- The Incident, starring Martin Sheen and Beau Bridges
- It's a Bikini World, starring Deborah Walley and Tommy Kirk
J
K
L
M
- Mad Monster Party?, animated film featuring Boris Karloff
- Magical Mystery Tour - TV film with the Beatles – (U.K.)
- Maneater of Hydra, directed by Mel Welles – (Spain/West Germany)
- A Man Vanishes (Ningen Johatsu), directed by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
- Marat/Sade, directed by Peter Brook – (U.K.)
- Marketa Lazarová, directed by František Vláčil – (Czechoslovakia)
- The Million Eyes of Sumuru, starring George Nader, Frankie Avalon and Shirley Eaton – (U.K.)
- The Mitten (Varezhka), directed by Roman Kachanov – (USSR)
- More Than a Miracle (C'era una volta), starring Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif and Dolores del Río – (Italy/France)
- Mouchette, directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
- The Mummy's Shroud, starring André Morell and John Phillips – (U.K.)
- My Wife's Dignity, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, starring Salah Zulfikar and Shadia – (Egypt)
N
O
P
- Paranoia – (Netherlands)
- Pedro Páramo, starring John Gavin – (Mexico)
- Peppermint Frappé, directed by Carlos Saura – (Spain)
- The Plank, directed by and starring Eric Sykes with Tommy Cooper – (U.K.)
- Playing Soldiers (Mali vojnici) – (Yugoslavia)
- Playtime, directed by and starring Jacques Tati – (France)
- Point Blank, directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson
- Poor Cow, directed by Ken Loach, starring Terence Stamp and Carol White – (U.K.)
- Portrait of Jason, directed by Shirley Clarke
- The President's Analyst, starring James Coburn
- Privilege, directed by Peter Watkins, starring Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton – (U.K.)
Q
R
- Ram Aur Shyam (Ram and Shyam), starring Dilip Kumar – (India)
- The Rats Woke Up (Buđenje pacova) – (Yugoslavia)
- The Red and the White (Csillagosok, katonak), directed by Miklós Jancsó – (Hungary)
- Reflections in a Golden Eye, directed by John Huston, starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor
- The Reluctant Astronaut, starring Don Knotts
- The Ride to Hangman's Tree, directed by Alan Rafkin
- Robbery, directed by Peter Yates, starring Stanley Baker – (U.K.)
- Rosie!, starring Rosalind Russell
- Rough Night in Jericho, starring Dean Martin and George Peppard
S
- The Sailor from Gibraltar, starring Ian Bannen, Jeanne Moreau, Vanessa Redgrave, Orson Welles – (U.K.)
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, starring Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker and Jean Hale
- Le samouraï (The Samurai), starring Alain Delon – (France)
- Samurai Rebellion (Jōi-uchi: Hairyō tsuma shimatsu), directed by Masaki Kobayashi, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
- The Shooting, starring Warren Oates, Millie Perkins and Jack Nicholson
- The Shuttered Room, starring Gig Young, Carol Lynley and Oliver Reed – (U.K.)
- Slave Girls, starring Martine Beswick and Michael Latimer – (U.K.)
- Smashing Time, starring Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave and Michael York – (U.K.)
- Soleil O, written and directed by Med Hondo (Mauritania/France)
- The Sorcerers, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Boris Karloff and Ian Ogilvy – (U.K.)
- Son of Godzilla, directed by Jun Fukuda – (Japan)
- Stimulantia, anthology film by nine directors – (Sweden)
- The Stolen Airship (Ukradená vzducholoď), directed by Karel Zeman – (Czechoslovakia/Italy)
- The Stranger (Lo straniero), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
- Stranger in the House, starring James Mason, Geraldine Chaplin and Bobby Darin – (U.K.)
- A Stranger in Town (Un dollaro tra i denti), directed by Luigi Vanzi – (Italy/U.S.)
- Sweet Love, Bitter, starring Dick Gregory
T
- The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor – (Italy/U.S.)
- Ten Thousand Days (Tízezer nap) – (Hungary)
- The Thief of Paris, directed by Louis Malle and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Geneviève Bujold – (France)
- They Came from Beyond Space, directed by Freddie Francis – (U.K.)
- This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver) – (Brazil)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing
- Thunder Alley, directed by Richard Rush, starring Annette Funicello
- The Tied Up Balloon, directed by Binka Zhelyazkova and starring Georgi Partsalev, Grigor Vachkov, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Konstantin Kotsev – (Bulgaria)
- The Tiger Makes Out, starring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson
- The Tiger and the Pussycat, starring Vittorio Gassman, Ann-Margret, Eleanor Parker – (Italy)
- Titicut Follies, a documentary by Frederick Wiseman
- To Sir, with Love, starring Sidney Poitier – (U.K.)
- Tobruk, starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard
- Tony Rome, directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Gena Rowlands, Richard Conte, Sue Lyon
- Torture Garden, starring Burgess Meredith, Michael Bryant, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Jack Palance – (U.K.)
- The Trip, directed by Roger Corman, starring Peter Fonda and Susan Strasberg
- Two for the Road, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney – (U.K.)
- The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant), directed by Claude Berri – (France)
U
V
- Valley of the Dolls, directed by Mark Robson, starring Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate, Susan Hayward, Paul Burke, Lee Grant
- The Venetian Affair, starring Elke Sommer, Robert Vaughn, Felicia Farr
- The Vengeance of Fu Manchu, starring Christopher Lee and Tony Ferrer – (U.K.)
- Violated Angels (Okasareta Hakui) – (Japan)
- Viy (aka Spirit of Evil) – (USSR)
- The Vulture, starring Robert Hutton and Diane Clare – (U.K.)
W
- Wait Until Dark, directed by Terence Young, starring Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Jack Weston and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
- War and Peace (Voyna i mir), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk – (USSR)
- The War Wagon, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas
- Warning Shot, starring David Janssen, Stefanie Powers, Joan Collins, Eleanor Parker, Lillian Gish and George Sanders
- Waterhole No. 3, starring James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor and Margaret Blye
- The Way West, starring Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, Lola Albright and Sally Field
- We Still Kill the Old Way (A ciascuno il suo), starring Gian Maria Volonté and Irene Papas – (Italy)
- Weekend (Week-end), directed by Jean-Luc Godard – (France)
- Welcome to Hard Times, starring Henry Fonda, Aldo Ray, Janice Rule and Warren Oates
- The Whisperers, starring Edith Evans and Nanette Newman – (U.K.)
- The White Bus, a short film by Lindsay Anderson – (U.K.)
- Who's Minding the Mint? starring Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine, Walter Brennan and Milton Berle
- Who's That Knocking at My Door, directed by Martin Scorsese
- The Witches (Le streghe), produced by Dino De Laurentiis – (Italy/France)
Y
Short film series
Births
- January 1
- January 2
- January 5 - Ross Mullan, Canadian-British actor and puppeteer
- January 7 - Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (d. 2020)
- January 9 - David Costabile, American actor
- January 10 - Trini Alvarado, American actress
- January 11 - Derek Riddell, Scottish actor
- January 12 - Vendela Kirsebom, Norwegian-Swedish model, television host and actress
- January 14
- January 17 - Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor
- January 20 - Stacey Dash, American actress
- January 23 - Steve Box, English animator and director
- January 24 - Phil LaMarr, American actor, voice actor, comedian and writer
- January 26 - Bryan Callen, American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and podcaster
- February 3 - Paul Grant, British actor and stuntman (d. 2023)
- February 5 - Chris Parnell, American actor, voice artist and comedian
- February 6 - Michelle Thrush, Canadian actress and activist
- February 10 - Laura Dern, American actress
- February 13 – Carolyn Lawrence, American actress and voice actress
- February 14 - Kelly AuCoin, American actor
- February 16 - Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Russian-American actor
- February 19 - Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
- February 20
- March 1
- March 4 - Sam Taylor-Johnson, born Samantha Taylor-Wood, English-born director
- March 6 - Connie Britton, American actress, singer and producer
- March 15 - Pierre Coffin, French voice actor, animator and film director, best known for voicing the Minions.
- March 16 - Lauren Graham, American actress
- March 20 - Marc Warren, English actor
- March 27 - Talisa Soto, American actress
- March 30 - Megumi Hayashibara, Japanese voice actress, singer, lyricist and radio personality
- April 2 - Renée Estevez, American actress and screenwriter
- April 6 – Kathleen Barr, Canadian voice, stage and television actress
- April 17 - Kimberly Elise, American actress
- April 18 - Maria Bello, American actress
- April 22 - Sherri Shepherd, American actress, comedian, author and television personality
- April 23 - Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
- April 26 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress
- April 29 - Master P, American rapper and actor
- May 1
- May 4
- May 15 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
- May 18 - Bob Stephenson, American actor
- May 19 - Geraldine Somerville, Irish-British actress
- May 20 - Stephanie Niznik, American actress (d. 2019)
- May 24 - Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, record producer, and actor (d. 2011)
- May 30 - Steven Mackintosh, English actor and narrator
- May 31 - Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
- June 3 - Jason Jones, Canadian actor and comedian
- June 5 - Ron Livingston, American actor
- June 6
- June 12 - Frances O'Connor, British-Australian actress and director
- June 15 - Fred Tatasciore, American voice actor
- June 17 - Sonya Eddy, American actress (d. 2022)
- June 19
- June 20 - Nicole Kidman, Australian actress
- June 28 - Gil Bellows, Canadian actor, screenwriter and director
- June 29 - Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
- July 1
- July 9 - Indrek Taalmaa, Estonian actor
- July 12 - Natalie Desselle-Reid, American actress (d. 2020)
- July 14 - Mary Woodvine, British actress
- July 16
- July 18 - Vin Diesel, American actor
- July 20
- July 22
- July 23 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014)
- July 25 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
- July 26 - Jason Statham, English actor
- July 27 - Jill Messick, American producer (d. 2018)
- July 31 - Rodney Harvey, American actor (d. 1998)
- August 3 - Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- August 4 - Timothy Adams, American actor and model
- August 7 - Edoardo Costa, Italian-born actor
- August 10 - Sean Blakemore, American actor
- August 11 - Collin Chou, Taiwanese actor and martial artist
- August 13 - Quinn Cummings, American former child actress
- August 19 - Lucy Briers, English actress
- August 21 - Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
- August 22
- August 25 - Tom Hollander, English actor
- August 26
- August 29 - Nick Fletcher, Welsh editor
- September 6 - Chad L. Coleman, American actor
- September 7 - Leslie Jones, American comedian and actress
- September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr., American actor and singer
- September 12 – Louis C.K., American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker
- September 14
- September 20 - Kristen Johnston, American actress
- September 25 - Saffron Henderson, Canadian voice actress and singer
- September 27 - Debi Derryberry, American voice actress
- September 28 - Mira Sorvino, American actress
- October 2 - Lew Temple, American actor
- October 3
- October 4 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
- October 5 - Guy Pearce, Australian actor
- October 7 - Khan Bonfils, Korean-Danish actor (d. 2014)
- October 11 - Artie Lange, American actor and comedian
- October 13 - Kate Walsh, American actress
- October 15 - Götz Otto, German actor
- October 27 - Scott Weiland, American singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
- October 28 - Julia Roberts, American actress
- October 29
- October 31 - Vanilla Ice, American rapper, actor, and television host
- November 2 - Akira Ishida, Japanese actor and voice actor
- November 6 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress and model (d. 1989)
- November 8 - Kamar de los Reyes, Puerto Rican actor (d. 2023)
- November 10 - Michael Jai White, American actor
- November 11 - Frank John Hughes, American actor and screenwriter
- November 13
- November 16 - Lisa Bonet, American actress
- November 17 - Dean Lorey, American actor, writer and producer
- November 22 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
- November 23 - Robert Popper, British producer, writer and actor
- November 25
- November 28 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (d. 2007)
- December 1 - Stephen Blackehart, American character actor, author and producer
- December 5
- December 6 - Judd Apatow, American comedian, director, producer and screenwriter
- December 8 - Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese voice actress, actress, singer and narrator
- December 11
- December 13 - Jamie Foxx, American actor
- December 14 - Janne Mortil, Canadian-American actress
- December 16 - Miranda Otto, Australian actress
- December 18 - Robert Wahlberg, American actor
- December 26 - Steve Le Marquand, Australian actor
- December 30 - Steven Waddington, English actor
Deaths
- January 8 – Zbigniew Cybulski, 39, Polish actor, Ashes and Diamonds, The Saragossa Manuscript
- January 21 – Ann Sheridan, 51, American actress, Angels with Dirty Faces, Kings Row
- January 22 – Jobyna Ralston, 67, American actress, Wings, The Freshman
- January 28
- February 1 - Richard L. Breen, 48, American screenwriter, Captain Newman, M.D., Titanic
- February 6 – Martine Carol, 46, French actress, Lola Montes, Around the World in 80 Days
- February 10 – Ralph Murphy, 71, American director, I Want a Divorce, 70,000 Witnesses
- February 13 – Forugh Farrokhzad, 32, Iranian poet and film director, The House Is Black, in automobile accident
- February 14 – Sig Ruman, 82, German actor, Stalag 17, Ninotchka
- February 15 – Antonio Moreno, 79, Spanish-American actor and director, The Searchers, Creature from the Black Lagoon
- February 16
- February 17 - Louise Henry, 55, American actress, There Goes the Groom, 45 Fathers
- February 21
- February 24 – Franz Waxman, 60, German film composer, Stalag 17, Mister Roberts
- March 5 – Mischa Auer, 61, Russian actor, You Can't Take It With You, Destry Rides Again
- March 6 – Nelson Eddy, 65, American singer and actor, Make Mine Music, The Chocolate Soldier
- March 11 – Geraldine Farrar, 85, American singer and actress, Carmen, Joan the Woman
- April 10 - Aage Winther-Jørgensen, 66, Danish actor, The Rector of Veilbye, Bussen
- April 15 – Totò, 69, Italian actor and writer, Big Deal on Madonna Street, The Hawks and the Sparrows
- April 22 - Tom Conway, 62, Russian-American actor, The Falcon's Brother, Cat People
- April 24
- April 29 - Anthony Mann, 60, American director, El Cid, Winchester '73
- May 7 - Judith Evelyn, 58, American actress, Rear Window, Giant
- May 8
- May 14 - James Tinling, 78, American director, Charlie Chan in Shanghai, 45 Fathers
- May 30 – Claude Rains, 77, British actor, Casablanca, Notorious, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Invisible Man
- June 7 - Dorothy Parker, 73, American writer, A Star Is Born, Saboteur
- June 10
- Spencer Tracy, 67, American actor, Boys Town, Judgment at Nuremberg, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Frank Butler, 76, British-American screenwriter, Going My Way, Road to Morocco
- June 16 – Reginald Denny, 75, British actor, Rebecca, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
- June 26 – Françoise Dorléac, 25, French actress, The Soft Skin, Cul-de-sac
- June 29 – Jayne Mansfield, 34, American actress, The Wayward Bus, The Girl Can't Help It
- July 8 – Vivien Leigh, 53, British actress, Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire
- July 17
- July 21
- August 9 – Anton Walbrook, 70, Austrian actor, La Ronde, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- August 13 – Jane Darwell, 87, American actress, The Grapes of Wrath, Gone with the Wind
- August 25 – Paul Muni, 71, Ukrainian-American actor, Scarface, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
- August 28 – Maurice Elvey, 79, English director and producer, The Life Story of David Lloyd George, The Hound of the Baskervilles
- September 1 - James Dunn, 65, American actor, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Bright Eyes
- October 12 - Nat Pendleton, 72, American actor, former Olympic swimmer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld
- October 29 - Julien Duvivier, 71, French director, Tales of Manhattan, Flesh and Fantasy
- October 30 - Charles Trowbridge, 85, American actor, Sergeant York, Strange Alibi
- November 1 - Benita Hume, 61, British actress, The Worst Woman in Paris?, The Private Life of Don Juan
- November 4 - June Thorburn, 36, British actress, The Scarlet Blade, The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
- November 9 - Charles Bickford, 76, American actor, Days of Wine and Roses, The Song of Bernadette
- November 21 - Florence Reed, 84, American actress, The Eternal Mother, Great Expectations
- November 29 - Theo Marcuse, 47, American actor, The Cincinnati Kid, Harum Scarum
- December 4
- December 10 - Otis Redding, 26, American singer, Monterey Pop, Popcorn
- December 14 - Frank Moran, 80, American boxer and actor, Sailor's Luck, Return of the Ape Man
- December 21 - Stuart Erwin, 64, American actor, Pigskin Parade, Going Hollywood
- December 23 - Kaaren Verne, 49, German actress, All Through the Night, Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
- December 29 - Paul Whiteman, 77, American bandleader, King of Jazz, Thanks a Million
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Harris. Mark. Pictures at a revolution : five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood. 2009. Penguin Books. New York. 978-0143115038. registration.
- Book: Finler, Joel Waldo . 2003 . The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press . 978-1-903364-66-6 . 358–359.
