1968 in film explained
The year 1968 in film involved some significant events, with the release of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as two highly successful musical films, Funny Girl and Oliver!, the former earning Barbra Streisand the Academy Award for Best Actress (an honour she shared with Katharine Hepburn for her role in The Lion in Winter) and the latter winning both the Best Picture and Best Director awards.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
See also: List of 1968 box office number-one films in the United States. The top ten 1968 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1968| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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| 1 | Funny Girl | Columbia | $24,900,000[1] |
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| 2 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | MGM | $21,500,000 |
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| 3 | The Odd Couple | Paramount | $20,000,000 |
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| 4 | Bullitt | Warner Bros. | $19,000,000 |
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| 5 | Oliver! | Columbia | $16,800,000 |
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| 6 | Planet of the Apes | 20th Century Fox | $15,000,000 |
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| 7 | Rosemary's Baby | Paramount | $15,000,000 |
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| 8 | Romeo and Juliet | Paramount | $14,500,000 |
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| 9 | Yours, Mine and Ours | United Artists | $11,500,000 |
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| 10 | The Lion in Winter | AVCO Embassy | $10,006,000[2] | |
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Events
- November 1 – The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.
Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): canceled due to events of
May 1968Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
(Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed), directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?), directed by Jan Troell, Sweden
1968 films
By country/region
By genre/medium
Notable films released in 1968
Note: U.S. releases unless stated.
A
B
- Baby Love, starring Linda Hayden and Keith Barron– (U.K.)
- Bandits in Milan (Banditi a Milano), starring Gian Maria Volonté – (Italy)
- Bandolero!, starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Will Geer
- Barbarella, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda – (France/Italy)
- Be Sick... It's Free (Il medico della mutua), starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
- Berserk!, starring Joan Crawford and Diana Dors – (U.K.)
- Les Biches, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (France)
- The Biggest Bundle of Them All, starring Raquel Welch and Edward G. Robinson
- The Birthday Party, directed by William Friedkin, starring Robert Shaw – (U.K.)
- Black Jesus (Seduto alla sua destra), starring Woody Strode – (Italy)
- Blackbeard's Ghost, starring Dean Jones, Peter Ustinov, Suzanne Pleshette
- Blue, starring Terence Stamp, Joanna Pettet, Karl Malden, and Ricardo Montalbán
- The Bofors Gun, starring Nicol Williamson and Ian Holm – (U.K.)
- Boom!, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton – (U.K.)
- The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda
- The Bride Wore Black (La Mariée était en noir), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Bouquet – (France)
- Brilliantovaya ruka (The Diamond Arm) – a hugely popular Russian comedy – (U.S.S.R.)
- The Brotherhood, starring Kirk Douglas
- Bullitt, directed by Peter Yates, starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, starring Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas
- Bye Bye Braverman, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Joseph Wiseman
C
- Candy, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Ringo Starr – (France/Italy/U.S.)
- Capricious Summer (Rozmarné léto), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia)
- Carry On... Up the Khyber, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave – (U.K.)
- Charly, starring Cliff Robertson
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, starring Dick Van Dyke – (U.K.)
- The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach – (West Germany)
- Colonel Wolodyjowski, directed by Jerzy Hoffman – (Poland)
- Coogan's Bluff, directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud
- Corruption, directed by Robert Hartford-Davis – (U.K.)
- Countdown, directed by Robert Altman and starring James Caan and Robert Duvall
- Counterpoint, starring Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Leslie Nielsen
- Curse of the Crimson Altar (a.k.a. The Crimson Cult), starring Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff – (U.K.)
D
- A Dandy in Aspic, starring Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, and Mia Farrow – (U.K.)
- , starring John Phillip Law and Michel Piccoli – (Italy/U.S.)
- Dark of the Sun (a.k.a. The Mercenaries), starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux – (U.K./U.S.)
- Day of the Evil Gun, starring Glenn Ford
- The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta), starring Claudia Cardinale and Franco Nero – (Italy)
- Dead Season (Myortvyy sezon) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Deadfall, starring Michael Caine – (U.K.)
- Death by Hanging (Kōshikei), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
- Death Laid an Egg (La morte ha fatto l'uovo), directed by Giulio Questi – (Italy/France)
- Destroy All Monsters (Kaijū Sōshingeki), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
- The Detective, starring Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom, Robert Duvall
- The Devil Rides Out, starring Christopher Lee and Charles Gray – (U.K.)
- The Devil's Brigade, starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
- Diamonds for Breakfast, directed by Christopher Morahan – (U.K.)
- The Doll (Lalka), directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has – (Poland)
- Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis
- Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, starring Christopher Lee – (U.K.)
- Duniya (The World), starring Dev Anand and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
E
F
- Faces, directed by John Cassavetes
- Fando y Lis (Fando and Lis) – (Mexico)
- Finian's Rainbow, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Al Freeman Jr.
- Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes, directed by Alexander Rou, starring Natalya Sedykh and Georgy Millyar – (U.S.S.R.)
- Firecreek, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gary Lockwood, Jack Elam, James Best, Inger Stevens
- The Fixer, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K.)
- For Love of Ivy, starring Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Robert Duvall
- For Singles Only, starring John Saxon, Mary Ann Mobley, Milton Berle
- Funny Girl, directed by William Wyler, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
G
- The Girl on a Motorcycle, starring Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull – (U.K./France)
- The Girl with the Pistol (La ragazza con la pistola), starring Monica Vitti and Stanley Baker – (Italy)
- Great Catherine, starring Peter O'Toole and Jeanne Moreau
- The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski – (Italy)
- The Green Berets, directed by and starring John Wayne, with Jim Hutton, David Janssen
- Greetings, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Robert De Niro
- Guns for San Sebastian, starring Anthony Quinn, Charles Bronson and Anjanette Comer
H
- Hammerhead, starring Vince Edwards and Diana Dors
- Hang 'Em High, directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood
- Hatsukoi Jigokuhen (The Inferno of First Love) – (Japan)
- Head, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring the Monkees
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, starring Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke
- Hell in the Pacific, directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune
- Hellfighters, starring John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton
- High School, directed by Frederick Wiseman
- The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, starring Dean Jones
- Hot Millions, starring Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith
- Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann – (Sweden)
- House of Cards, starring George Peppard, Inger Stevens and Orson Welles
- How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, starring Dean Martin and Stella Stevens
- How Sweet It Is!, starring James Garner and Debbie Reynolds
I
- I Am Curious (Blue) (Jag är nyfiken – en film i blått) – (Sweden)
- I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, starring Peter Sellers
- Ice Station Zebra, directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine
- If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell – Palme d'Or winner – (U.K.)
- The Immortal Story, directed by and starring Orson Welles – (France)
- In Enemy Country, starring Anthony Franciosa
- Inspector Clouseau, starring Alan Arkin – (U.K.)
- Interlude, starring Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Donald Sutherland
- Isabel, starring Geneviève Bujold – (Canada)
- Isadora, a.k.a. The Loves of Isadora, a biopic of Isadora Duncan, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, James Fox – (U.K.)
- It Rains in My Village (Biće skoro propast sveta), starring Annie Girardot – (Yugoslavia)
J
K
L
- Lady in Cement, starring Frank Sinatra, Dan Blocker, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan
- The Last of the Mohicans (Ultimul Mohican) – (Romania)
- The Legend of Lylah Clare, starring Kim Novak and Peter Finch
- El Libro de piedra (The Book of Stone) – (Mexico)
- The Lion in Winter, starring Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn – (U.K.)
- The Little Golden Calf (Zolotoy telyonok) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Live a Little, Love a Little, starring Elvis Presley and Michele Carey
- The Love Bug, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Dean Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett
- A Lovely Way to Die, starring Kirk Douglas and Sylva Koscina
- Lucía – (Cuba)
M
- Madigan, directed by Don Siegel, starring Richard Widmark, Inger Stevens, Henry Fonda, James Whitmore, Susan Clark
- The Magus, starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn and Candice Bergen – (U.K.)
- The Man Who Lies (L'homme qui ment / Muž, ktorý luže), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant – (France/Czechoslovakia)
- The Man Who Lost His Shadow, directed by Kamal El Sheikh, starring Salah Zulfikar, Magda and Kamal El-Shennawi – (Egypt)
- Mandabi (Le mendat), directed by Ousmane Sembène – (Senegal)
- Matthew's Days (Żywot Mateusza) – (Poland)
- Mayerling, starring Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve – (U.K./France)
- Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) – (Cuba)
- Mera Naam Joker (My Name is Joker), directed by and starring Raj Kapoor – (India)
- The Mercenary, also known as A Professional Gun, starring Franco Nero and Jack Palance – (Italy)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Hall, starring Derek Godfrey, Ian Holm, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren – (U.K.)
- A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die, starring Alex Cord, Arthur Kennedy, Robert Ryan – (Italy)
- The Money Jungle, starring Lola Albright and Leslie Parrish
- Monterey Pop, a concert film by D. A. Pennebaker, featuring Simon & Garfunkel, The Mamas & the Papas, Jimi Hendrix and others
- Murder a la Mod, directed by Brian De Palma
- My Wife's Goblin, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, starring Salah Zulfikar and Shadia – (Egypt)
N
- Naked Children (L'enfance nue), directed by Maurice Pialat – (France)
- Neel Kamal – (India)
- Negatives, starring Peter McEnery, Glenda Jackson and Diane Cilento– (U.K.)
- Never a Dull Moment, starring Dick Van Dyke, Dorothy Provine, Edward G. Robinson
- The Night of the Following Day, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno
- Night of the Living Dead, first in the zombie trilogy by George A. Romero
- The Night They Raided Minsky's, directed by William Friedkin, starring Jason Robards
- The Nile and the Life, directed by Youssef Chahine, starring Salah Zulfikar – (Egypt)
- Nobody Runs Forever (a.k.a. The High Commissioner), directed by Ralph Thomas, starring Rod Taylor, Scobie Malone and Christopher Plummer – (U.K./U.S.)
- Nobody's Perfect, starring Doug McClure
- No Way to Treat a Lady, starring Rod Steiger, George Segal, Lee Remick
- Las Noches del Hombre Lobo (Nights of the Werewolf) – (Spain/France)
O
- The Odd Couple, directed by Gene Saks, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
- Oliver!, directed by Carol Reed, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Mark Lester – winner of six Academy Awards – (U.K.)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West), directed by Sergio Leone, starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards – (Italy)
- The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, starring Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Kurt Russell, Wally Cox, Lesley Ann Warren
- One Plus One (a.k.a. Sympathy for the Devil), a docudrama directed by Jean-Luc Godard, featuring the Rolling Stones – (U.K.)
- Otley, starring Tom Courtenay and Romy Schneider – (U.K.)
P
- Padosan (Neighbour), starring Sunil Dutt – (India)
- Palo y hueso (Stick and Bone) – (Argentina)
- The Party, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet
- Performance, directed by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell, starring Mick Jagger and James Fox – (U.K.)
- Petulia, starring Julie Christie and George C. Scott
- The Pink Jungle, starring James Garner
- P.J., starring George Peppard, Gayle Hunnicutt, Raymond Burr, Susan Saint James
- A Place for Lovers (Amanti), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Faye Dunaway
- Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
- The Power, starring George Hamilton
- Pretty Poison, starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins
- The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, starring Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller
- The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
- The Prophet (Il profeta), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Ann-Margret – (Italy)
- The Profound Desire of the Gods (Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubō), directed by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
- Project X, directed by William Castle
- Prudence and the Pill, starring Deborah Kerr and David Niven – (U.K.)
- Psych-Out, directed by Richard Rush, starring Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson
R
S
- Saathi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar and Simi Garewal – (India)
- Salt and Pepper, directed by Richard Donner, starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford – (U.K.)
- The Scalphunters, starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Telly Savalas
- The Sea Gull, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Simone Signoret – (U.S./ U.K./Greece)
- Sebastian, starring Dirk Bogarde and Susannah York – (U.K.)
- Secret Ceremony, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum
- The Secret Life of an American Wife, starring Walter Matthau
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg, starring Paul Newman
- The Sergeant, starring Rod Steiger and John Phillip Law
- Sergeant Ryker, starring Lee Marvin and Vera Miles
- The Shakiest Gun in the West, starring Don Knotts and Barbara Rhoades
- Shalako, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot – (U.K.)
- Shame (Skammen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow – (Sweden)*
- Sherlock Holmes (British) a series of 15 Sherlock Holmes films made for BBC-TV, starring Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson
- The Shoes of the Fisherman, starring Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Oskar Werner, Leo McKern, David Janssen, Barbara Jefford
- Signs of Life (Lebenszeichen), directed by Werner Herzog – (West Germany)
- Single Room Furnished, starring Jayne Mansfield in her final film
- Skidoo, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing and, in his final film, Groucho Marx
- Sol Madrid, starring David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn
- Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell – (made for television) – (U.K.)
- Speedway, starring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra
- Spider Baby, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
- Spirits of the Dead, directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda – (France/Italy)
- The Split, starring Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Julie Harris
- The Stalking Moon, starring Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint
- Star!, starring Julie Andrews
- Stay Away, Joe, starring Elvis Presley
- Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Delphine Seyrig – (France)
- The Strange Affair, starring Susan George – (U.K.)
- The Subject was Roses, starring Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
- Sunghursh, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
- The Swedish Kings (Shvedskite krale), directed by Lyudmil Kirkov, starring Kiril Gospodinov – (Bulgaria)
- The Sweet Ride, starring Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset
- The Swimmer, starring Burt Lancaster
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, directed by William Greaves
T
- Targets, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Boris Karloff
- Teorema, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Silvana Mangano and Terence Stamp – (Italy)
- Tevye and His Seven Daughters (Tuvia Vesheva Benotav), directed by Menahem Golan – (Israel)
- They Came to Rob Las Vegas, starring Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance
- The Thomas Crown Affair, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway
- Three in the Attic, starring Christopher Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett
- A Twist of Sand, starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman – (U.K.)
- Twisted Nerve, starring Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills – (U.K.)
U
V
W
- What's So Bad About Feeling Good?, starring George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore
- Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, starring Rosalind Russell
- Where Eagles Dare, directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood – (U.K./U.S.)
- Who Saw Him Die? (Ole dole doff), directed by Jan Troell – (Sweden)
- The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, starring Elke Sommer and Bob Crane
- Wild 90, directed by and starring Norman Mailer
- Wild in the Streets, starring Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook
- Will Penny, starring Charlton Heston and Joan Hackett
- Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (animation short)
- Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price – (U.K.)
- With Six You Get Eggroll, directed by Howard Morris, starring Doris Day, Brian Keith, Barbara Hershey
- Woman in Chains (La prisonnière), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot – (France)
Y
Short film series
Births
- January 1 - Tom DeSanto, American producer and screenwriter
- January 2
- January 5 - Carrie Ann Inaba, American actress and singer
- January 6 – John Singleton, American director and writer (d. 2019)
- January 9 – Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
- January 12
- January 14 – LL Cool J, American rapper, actor
- January 15
- January 18 - David Ayer, American filmmaker
- January 19 – Matt Hill, Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian
- January 20 - Chris Miller, American voice actor, animator, director, screenwriter and storyboard artist
- January 29 – Edward Burns, American actor and producer
- January 31 - Matt King, English actor, DJ and comedian
- February 1 – Pauly Shore, American actor
- February 8 - Gary Coleman, American actor and comedian (d. 2010)
- February 12
- February 13 - Kelly Hu, American actress, voice artist, former fashion model and beauty queen
- February 14
- February 18 – Molly Ringwald, American actress
- February 21 - Patrick Gallagher, Canadian actor
- February 24 - Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (d. 2005)
- March 2 – Daniel Craig, British actor
- March 4 – Patsy Kensit, English actress
- March 6 - Moira Kelly, American actress
- March 12
- March 18 - Juan Carlos Vellido, Spanish actor
- March 20
- March 21 - Greg Ellis, English actor
- March 26 - Max Perlich, American actor
- March 29
- March 30
- April 3 - Charlotte Coleman, English actress (d. 2001)
- April 8
- Patricia Arquette, American actress
- Shawn Fonteno, American actor and rapper
- April 11 - Dimitri Diatchenko, American actor (d. 2020)
- April 12 - Alicia Coppola, American actress
- April 13 - Andrew Pleavin, English actor
- April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
- April 17 - Adam McKay, American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian
- April 18
- April 19 – Ashley Judd, American actress
- April 22 - Piera Coppola, American voice actress
- April 24
- April 29 - Jürgen Vogel, German actor and producer
- May 3 – Amy Ryan, American actress
- May 7 - Traci Lords, American actress and singer
- May 10 - Adrian Scarborough, English actor
- May 11 - Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
- May 12 - Tony Hawk, American actor and professional skateboarder
- May 16 - Stephen Mangan, English actor, comedian and presenter
- May 20 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor
- May 25 - Kevin Heffernan, American actor, writer, producer and director
- May 27 - Spencer Kayden, American actress, comedian and writer
- May 28 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
- June 2
- June 4
- June 9 - Eddie Marsan, English actor
- June 10 - Bill Burr, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
- June 12 - Sarah Trigger, retired British actress
- June 13 – Fred Tatasciore, American voice actor
- June 14 - Faizon Love, Cuban-born American actor and comedian
- June 16 - James Patrick Stuart, American actor
- June 19 - Kim Walker, American actress (d. 2001)
- June 20 - Robert Rodriguez, American filmmaker and visual effects supervisor
- June 26 - Travis Fine, American actor, writer, director and producer
- June 29 - Brian d'Arcy James, American actor and musician
- July 1 - Jordi Mollà, Spanish actor, writer and filmmaker
- July 5 - Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
- July 7
- July 8 – Billy Crudup, American actor
- July 11 - Conrad Vernon, American voice actor, director, writer and storyboard artist
- July 15
- Eddie Griffin, American comedian and actor
- Stan Kirsch, American actor (d. 2020)
- July 17 - Beth Littleford, American actress and comedian
- July 18
- July 19 - William Houston, English actor
- July 21 - Samuli Edelmann, Finnish actor and singer
- July 23 - Shawn Levy, Canadian director, producer and actor
- July 24
- July 26 – Olivia Williams, British actress
- July 27
- July 30 - Terry Crews, American actor, comedian, activist, artist, bodybuilder and former professional football player
- August 4 - Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean-American actor and producer
- August 7 - Sophie Lee, Australian actress
- August 9
- Gillian Anderson, American-British actress
- Eric Bana, Australian actor
- McG, American director and producer
- August 10 - Cate Shortland, Australian screenwriter, director and writer
- August 11
- August 14
- August 15 - Debra Messing, American actress
- August 17
- August 21 - Julian Lewis Jones, Welsh actor
- August 25 - David Alan Basche, American actor
- August 27 - Lisa Marie Newmyer, American actress
- August 28 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
- September 2
- September 4 – John DiMaggio, American actor and voice actor
- September 5 - Glenn Fleshler, American actor
- September 6 - Mark Ivanir, Israeli actor
- September 7 - Camille Japy, Belgian-French actor
- September 8
- Brian Huskey, American character actor, comedian and writer
- Simon J. Smith, British animator, director, visual effects artist and voice actor
- September 9
- September 10 – Guy Ritchie, English director, screenwriter
- September 12 - Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor and writer
- September 15 – Danny Nucci, American actor
- September 16
- September 19 – Shawn Doyle, Canadian actor
- September 20 - Chad Stahelski, American stuntman and director
- September 22 – Megan Hollingshead, American voice actress
- September 23 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)
- September 25 – Will Smith, American actor
- September 26 – Jim Caviezel, American actor
- September 28 – Naomi Watts, British actress
- September 29
- October – Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Zambian director
- October 2
- October 9
- October 11
- Tiffany Grant, American voice actress
- Jane Krakowski, American actress and singer
- October 12
- October 13
- October 17 - Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician and actor
- October 19 - Yayan Ruhian, Indonesian martial artist and actor
- October 23 - Maria Darling, British voice actress
- October 24 - Mark Walton, American story artist and voice actor
- October 25 - Melinda McGraw, American actress
- October 27 – Dileep, Indian actor
- October 28 - Stephen Hunter, New Zealand actor
- October 29 - Grayson McCouch, American actor
- November 5 – Sam Rockwell, American actor
- November 6 – Kelly Rutherford, American actress
- November 8
- November 10
- November 16 - James Parks, American actor
- November 18
- November 19
- Mark Bonnar, Scottish actor
- Derek Drymon, American animator, writer, storyboard artist, director, comedian and producer
- November 21
- November 23 - Brennan Brown, American actor
- November 26 - Chris Coppola, American actor and comedian
- November 27 - Michael Vartan, French-American actor
- December 2
- December 3 – Brendan Fraser, American-Canadian actor
- December 5 - Margaret Cho, American stand-up comedian, actress and musician
- December 6
- December 7 – Greg Ayres, American voice actor
- December 13 - Scott Stuber, American film producer
- December 16 - Peter Dante, American character actor, comedian and singer
- December 18
- December 19
- Ken Marino, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- Chris Williams, Canadian-American animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor
- December 20 - Joe Cornish, English comedian and filmmaker
- December 22 - Dina Meyer, American actress
- December 23 - Angela Jones, American actress
- December 25 - Klea Scott, Panamanian-born Canadian actress
- December 26 - Byron Howard, American animator, director, producer and screenwriter
Deaths
- January 7 - Hugo Butler, 53, Canadian screenwriter, Edison, the Man, Lassie Come Home
- January 18 – John Ridgely, 58, American actor, The Big Sleep, God Is My Co-Pilot
- January 25 - Virginia Maskell, 31, British actress, Only Two Can Play, Virgin Island
- February 4 – Eddie Baker, 70, American actor, Oranges and Lemons, Giant
- February 7 – Nick Adams, 36, American actor, Pillow Talk, Rebel Without a Cause
- February 13 – Mae Marsh, 73, American actress, The Birth of a Nation, 3 Godfathers
- February 20 – Anthony Asquith, 65, British director, The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy
- March 10 – Helen Walker, 47, American actress, Impact, Call Northside 777
- March 11 – Pearl Doles Bell, 84, American film scenarist, novelist and editor, Her Elephant Man
- March 16 – June Collyer, 63, American actress, Hangman's House, A Face in the Fog
- March 18 - Harry Kurnitz, 60, American screenwriter, Witness for the Prosecution, How to Steal a Million
- March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, 79, Danish director, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Gertrud
- March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Great Adventure
- March 30 – Bobby Driscoll, 31, American actor, Peter Pan, Treasure Island
- April 5 – Lois Andrews, 44, American actress, Dixie Dugan, The Desert Hawk
- April 6 – Keith Pyott, 66, English actor, Village of the Damned
- April 16 – Fay Bainter, 74, American actress, Woman of the Year, The Children's Hour
- April 24 – Tommy Noonan, 46, American actor, A Star is Born, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- May 5 – Albert Dekker, 62, American actor, The Wild Bunch, Kiss Me Deadly
- May 9
- May 10 – Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife, The Jolson Story
- May 21 – Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress, Disraeli, Kind Lady
- May 23 – James Burke, 81, American actor, Little Orphan Annie, The Timber Trail
- May 25 – Charles K. Feldman, 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seven Year Itch
- May 26 - Joseph MacDonald, 62, Mexico-born American cinematographer, My Darling Clementine, The Young Lions
- May 27 – Denise Legeay, 70, French actress, Happy Couple, Zigano
- May 31 – Preben Uglebjerg, 37, Danish actor, Pigen og vandpytten
- June 4 – Dorothy Gish, 70, American actress, The Cardinal, Orphans of the Storm
- June 7 – Dan Duryea, 61, American actor, Winchester '73, Scarlet Street
- June 8 - Patricia Jessel, 47, British actress, The City of the Dead, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- June 21 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, 72, Danish actress
- June 24 – Tony Hancock, 44, British comedian, Call Me Genius, The Punch and Judy Man
- June 29 – Hans Egede Budtz, 78, Danish actor, Nøddebo Præstegård
- July 1 – Virginia Weidler, 41, American actress, The Philadelphia Story, The Women
- July 12 – Antonio Pietrangeli, 49, Italian director, It Happened in Rome, The Magnificent Cuckold
- July 27 – Lilian Harvey, 62, British actress and singer, Waltz of Love, Let's Live Tonight
- July 30 – Alexander Hall, 74, American director, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Little Miss Marker
- August 23 – Hunt Stromberg, 74, American producer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld
- August 25 – John George, 70, Ottoman-born American actor, Charley's Aunt, Don Juan
- August 26 – Kay Francis, 63, American actress, Black Orchids, Little Men
- August 30 – William Talman, 53, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Crashout
- August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe, 60, American actor, T-Men, Raw Deal
- September 3 – Isabel Withers, 72, American actress, Possessed, Lady of Burlesque
- September 16 - Nedrick Young, 54, American screenwriter, Inherit the Wind, The Defiant Ones
- September 18 – Franchot Tone, 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent
- September 24 - Virginia Valli, 70, American actress, The Pleasure Garden, Evening Clothes
- October 18 – Lee Tracy, 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight, The Best Man
- October 29 – Pert Kelton, 61, American actress, The Music Man, Sing and Like It
- October 30 – Ramon Novarro, 69, Mexican actor, Ben-Hur, Mata Hari
- November 8 – Wendell Corey, 54, American actor, Rear Window, Harriet Craig
- November 9 – Gerald Mohr, 54, American actor, Gilda, The Angry Red Planet
- November 13 – Berthold Bartosch, 74, Bohemian filmmaker, The Idea
- November 18 – Walter Wanger, 74, American producer, Cleopatra, I Want to Live!
- November 20 – Helen Gardner, 84 American actress, Cleopatra
- November 25 – Upton Sinclair, 90, American author and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile
- December 2 – Colin Kenny, 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
- December 4 - Archie Mayo, 77, American director, The Petrified Forest, A Night in Casablanca
- December 5 – Fred Clark, 54, American actor, White Heat, Auntie Mame
- December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen, Die! Die! My Darling
- December 14 – Jack Rice, 75, American actor, Lady, Let's Dance, Beware of Blondie
- December 15 – Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress, South Pacific, Red, Hot and Blue
- December 20 - John Steinbeck, 66, American author and screenwriter, Viva Zapata!, The Red Pony
- December 28 - Harry Woods, 79, American actress, Days of Jesse James, The Ghost Rider
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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/20080506090437/http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1968.shtml Top 20 Films of 1968 by Domestic Revenue
