This article is about the films released in 1965. For the 2015 Singaporean film, see
1965 (film).
Overview of the events of 1965 in film
The year 1965 in film involved several significant events, with The Sound of Music Academy Awards .
The top ten 1965 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1965
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
The Sound of Music 20th Century Fox
$72,000,000[ 1]
2
Doctor Zhivago MGM
$43,000,000[ 1]
3
Thunderball United Artists / Eon
$27,000,000[ 1]
4
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines 20th Century Fox
$14,000,000[ 2]
5
The Great Race Warner Bros.
$11,400,000[ 3]
6
That Darn Cat! Buena Vista
$9,500,000[ 1]
7
Cat Ballou Columbia
$9,300,000[ 1]
8
What's New Pussycat? United Artists
$8,469,000[ 3]
9
Shenandoah Universal
$7,771,000[ 3]
10
Von Ryan's Express 20th Century Fox
$7,700,000[ 3]
Events
February 15 – George Stevens ' production of The Greatest Story Ever Told Jesus Christ , premieres in New York City, New York . It was such a flop with critics and audiences that its failure discouraged production of religious epics for many years. It is considered notable in the 21st century for its astonishing landscapes, powerful and provocative cinematography, Max von Sydow 's debut acting performance in an American film, and the final film performance of Claude Rains .
March 2 – The Rodgers and Hammerstein film adaptation of The Sound of Music Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer , premieres. It quickly became a worldwide phenomenon and an instant classic. It successfully displaced Gone with the Wind the highest-grossing film of all-time . The Sound of Music is credited as the film that saved and restored Twentieth Century-Fox from bankruptcy after it suffered from extremely high production costs of Cleopatra
July 1 – Blake Edwards 's epic comedy The Great Race ,Tony Curtis , Jack Lemmon , Natalie Wood , Peter Falk , and Keenan Wynn , premieres. Initially a flop with critics and audiences, some do admire Edwards' direction, the acting by its ensemble cast, Henry Mancini 's music and its climactic pie fight.
August 10 - A massive vault fire at MGM studios in Culver City , California, destroys the only known copies of hundreds of archived silent films, including Lon Chaney 's London After Midnight The Divine Woman
December 22 – David Lean 's film adaptation of Boris Pasternak 's Doctor Zhivago Omar Sharif , Julie Christie , Rod Steiger , and Alec Guinness , premieres and, like The Sound of Music , quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. Its moral story and message of a love and human spirit that defied the communist Soviet Union have made the film a true classic with critics and audiences. It was included among top films by the American Film Institute . In a decade of very difficult times for its studio, Zhivago became the most successful and acclaimed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film since How the West Was Won ;Ben-Hur
Awards
Academy Awards :
Best Picture : The Sound of Music 20th Century Fox Best Director : Robert Wise The Sound of Music Best Actor : Lee Marvin Cat Ballou Best Actress : Julie Christie Darling Best Supporting Actor : Martin Balsam A Thousand Clowns Best Supporting Actress : Shelley Winters A Patch of Blue Best Foreign Language Film : The Shop on Main Street Obchod na korze ), directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos , CzechoslovakiaBAFTA Film Awards :
Best Film from Any Source : My Fair Lady Best British Film : The Ipcress File Golden Globe Awards :
Drama: Best Picture : Doctor Zhivago Best Actor : Omar Sharif Doctor Zhivago Best Actress : Samantha Eggar The Collector Comedy or Musical: Best Picture : The Sound of Music Best Actor : Lee Marvin Cat Ballou Best Actress : Julie Andrews The Sound of Music Other Best Supporting Actor : Oskar Werner The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Best Supporting Actress : Ruth Gordon Inside Daisy Clover Best Director : David Lean Doctor Zhivago Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
The Knack ...and How to Get It Richard Lester , United KingdomGolden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa Sandra of a Thousand Delights ), directed by Luchino Visconti , ItalyGolden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard , France / Italy
1965 film releases
United States unless stated
January 1965
January 8
January 15
January 28
February 1965
February 10
February 15
February 23
February 24
March 1965
March 2
March 5
March 6
March 15
March 21
March 24
March 31
April 1965
April 3
April 6
April 7
April 8
April 9
April 14
May 1965
5 May
7 May
13 May
14 May
26 May
June 1965
June 2
June 3
June 9
June 16
June 18
June 23
June 24
June 30
July 1965
July 1
July 3
July 12
July 14
July 21
July 22
July 29
August 1965
August 1
August 3
August 8
August 9
August 14
August 18
August 23
August 25
September 1965
September 1
September 3
September 8
September 15
September 20
September 24
September 27
October 1965
October 6
October 7
October 11
October 13
October 15
October 17
October 27
November 1965
November 4
November 6
November 10
November 15
November 18
November 19
November 24
November 25
November 26
November 27
December 1965
December 2
December 8
December 10
December 13
December 15
December 16
December 19
December 22
December 23
December 24
December 29
Notable films released in 1965
United States unless stated
A
Abashiri Prison Ken Takakura – (Japan )Adventures of a Dentist Elem Klimov – (U.S.S.R. )The Adventures of the Smurfs Belgium )The Agony and the Ecstasy Carol Reed , starring Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison The Alphabet Murders Frank Tashlin , starring Tony Randall and Anita Ekberg Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard – (France )Always Further On Luis Alcoriza – (Mexico )The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders Kim Novak , Richard Johnson and Angela Lansbury The Art of Love Norman Jewison , starring James Garner , Angie Dickinson , Elke Sommer and Dick Van Dyke Arzoo Sadhana – (India )The Ashes Andrzej Wajda – (Poland )
B
Baby the Rain Must Fall Steve McQueen and Lee Remick Bad Girls Go to Hell Doris Wishman Battle of the Bulge Henry Fonda , Robert Shaw and Robert Ryan The Battle of the Villa Fiorita Delmer Daves , starring Maureen O'Hara , Rossano Brazzi , Olivia Hussey Beach Blanket Bingo William Asher , starring Annette Funicello , Frankie Avalon , Deborah Walley , Don Rickles The Bedford Incident Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier – (US /UK )Behind the Mask of Zorro Ricardo Blasco and starring Tony Russel – (Italy /Spain )Billie Don Weis and starring Patty Duke Black Humor Claude Autant-Lara , Giancarlo Zagni and José María Forqué – (France /Italy /Spain )Black Wind Servando González – (Mexico )Boeing Boeing Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis La Bohème Franco Zeffirelli – (West Germany )Le Bonheur Agnès Varda – (France )Brainstorm William Conrad , starring Anne Francis and Jeffrey Hunter The Brigand of Kandahar Oliver Reed and Yvonne Romain Bunny Lake Is Missing Otto Preminger , starring Laurence Olivier and Carol Lynley – (U.K. )Bus Riley's Back in Town Ann-Margret and Michael Parks
C
The Camp Followers Anna Karina – (Italy )Carry On Cowboy Sid James , Kenneth Williams , Jim Dale – (U.K. )Casanova 70 Marcello Mastroianni and Virna Lisi – (Italy )Cat Ballou Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin Catch Us If You Can Having a Wild Weekend ), starring the Dave Clark Five – (U.K. )China! , a documentary written by Felix Greene Chronicle of a Boy Alone Argentina )The Cincinnati Kid Norman Jewison , starring Steve McQueen , Edward G. Robinson , Ann-Margret , Karl Malden , Tuesday Weld , Joan Blondell City Under the Sea Vincent Price and Tab Hunter Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion Marshall Thompson and Betsy Drake Cloportes Pierre Granier-Deferre – (France /Italy )Coast of Skeletons Robert Lynn and starring Richard Todd and Dale Robertson – (U.K. /South Africa )The Collector William Wyler , starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar – (U.K. /U.S.)Crack in the World Dana Andrews , Kieron Moore , Janette Scott Cup Fever Bernard Cribbins – (U.K.)Curse of the Fly Brian Donlevy , George Baker , Carole Gray Curse of the Voodoo Lindsay Shonteff – (U.K. )
D
Darling John Schlesinger , starring Laurence Harvey , Dirk Bogarde , Julie Christie – (U.K. )Dear Brigitte James Stewart , Bill Mumy , Glynis Johns , Ed Wynn , Brigitte Bardot The Decadent Influence Claude Lelouch – (France )A Devilish Homicide South Korea )Die! Die! My Darling! Fanatic Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers Dingaka Stanley Baker – (South Africa )Do Not Disturb Doris Day and Rod Taylor Doctor Zhivago David Lean , starring Omar Sharif , Julie Christie , Geraldine Chaplin , Rod Steiger , Alec Guinness —winner of 5 Academy Awards – (U.K. )The Dolls Nino Manfredi , Monica Vitti , Elke Sommer and Gina Lollobrigida – (Italy )Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine Vincent Price and Frankie Avalon Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – (U.K.)Dr. Who and the Daleks Peter Cushing – (U.K. )
E
F
The Face of Fu Manchu Don Sharp and starring Christopher Lee – (U.K. /West Germany )The Family Jewels Jerry Lewis Fantômas se déchaîne Jean Marais – (France )Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Russ Meyer Ferry Cross the Mersey Gerry and the Pacemakers – (U.K. )Film Samuel Beckett and directed by Alan Schneider Fists in the Pocket Italy )The Flight of the Phoenix Robert Aldrich , starring James Stewart , Richard Attenborough , Hardy Krüger , Ernest Borgnine , Peter Finch For a Few Dollars More Sergio Leone , starring Clint Eastwood – (Italy )Frankenstein Conquers the World Ishirō Honda – (Japan )Funny Things Happen Down Under Olivia Newton-John – (Australia )
G
Il Gaucho Vittorio Gassman and Nino Manfredi – (Italy /Argentina )Gendarme in New York Louis de Funès – (France /Italy /U.S.)Genghis Khan Omar Sharif , Stephen Boyd and James Mason Girl Happy Elvis Presley The Girls on the Beach William N. Witney , starring Noreen Corcoran and Martin West The Glory Guys Arnold Laven , starring Tom Tryon and Harve Presnell Goldstein The Second City , including Severn Darden The Great Race Blake Edwards , starring Tony Curtis , Jack Lemmon , Natalie Wood , Peter Falk , Ross Martin The Great Sioux Massacre Sidney Salkow and starring Joseph Cotten , Darren McGavin and Philip Carey The Greatest Story Ever Told George Stevens , starring Max von Sydow , Charlton Heston , Dorothy McGuire , David McCallum , Martin Landau , Telly Savalas Guide Vijay Anand , starring Dev Anand – (India )Gumnaam Manoj Kumar – (India)
H
The Hallelujah Trail John Sturges , starring Burt Lancaster , Lee Remick , Jim Hutton , Pamela Tiffin Hands of a Gunfighter Rafael Romero Marchent – (Italy /Spain )Happiness Agnès Varda – (France )Harlow Carroll Baker , Peter Lawford , Red Buttons , Mike Connors , Leslie Nielsen , Angela Lansbury Harlow Carol Lynley , Efrem Zimbalist Jr. , Barry Sullivan , Hurd Hatfield , Ginger Rogers Harum Scarum Harem Holiday , starring Elvis Presley , Mary Ann Mobley , Fran Jeffries Harvey Middleman, Fireman Help! Richard Lester , starring the Beatles – (U.K.)The Heroes of Telemark Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris A High Wind in Jamaica Anthony Quinn and James Coburn – (U.K. )The Hill Sidney Lumet , starring Sean Connery , Ian Bannen , Ossie Davis – (U.K.)The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga Brazil )How to Murder Your Wife Jack Lemmon and Virna Lisi How to Stuff a Wild Bikini Annette Funicello , Dwayne Hickman , Buster Keaton , Beverly Adams , Mickey Rooney
I
I, a Woman Mac Ahlberg – (Denmark /Sweden )I Knew Her Well Stefania Sandrelli , Nino Manfredi , Franco Nero – (Italy )I'll Take Sweden Bob Hope , Dina Merrill , Frankie Avalon , Tuesday Weld Impossible on Saturday Italy /France /Israel )In Harm's Way Otto Preminger , starring John Wayne , Kirk Douglas , Patricia Neal , Brandon deWilde , Paula Prentiss , Henry Fonda Inside Daisy Clover Natalie Wood , Robert Redford , Christopher Plummer Inside the Forbidden City Hong Kong )Intimate Lighting Ivan Passer – (Czechoslovakia )Invasion of Astro-Monster Ishirō Honda – (Japan )The Ipcress File Sidney J. Furie , starring Michael Caine – BAFTA Award for Best British Film – (U.K. )I Saw What You Did Joan Crawford
J
K
L
The Lace Wars René Clair – (France /Romania )Lady L Peter Ustinov , starring Sophia Loren , Paul Newman and David Niven Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's Robert Youngson Licensed to Kill Tom Adams – (U.K. )Life at the Top Laurence Harvey and Jean Simmons – (U.K. )The Liquidator Jack Cardiff , starring Rod Taylor and Trevor Howard (U.K.)La Loba Mexico )Lord Jim Peter O'Toole – (UK /US )Love and Kisses Rick Nelson The Love Goddesses , a documentary directed by Saul J. Turell Love Has Many Faces Lana Turner , Hugh O'Brian and Cliff Robertson Love Meetings Pier Paolo Pasolini – (Italy )The Loved One Tony Richardson , starring Robert Morse and Jonathan Winters Loves of a Blonde Miloš Forman – (Czechoslovakia )
M
A Maiden for a Prince Virna Lisi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy )Major Dundee Sam Peckinpah , starring Charlton Heston , Richard Harris , James Coburn , Jim Hutton The Man from Button Willow Man Is Not a Bird Yugoslavia )Marco the Magnificent Denys de La Patellière and Noël Howard – (Multiple countries)Marriage on the Rocks Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin and Deborah Kerr Marvelous Angelique Bernard Borderie – (France /Italy /West Germany )McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force Mickey One Arthur Penn , starring Warren Beatty Mirage Edward Dmytryk , starring Gregory Peck , Diane Baker and Walter Matthau Mister Moses Ronald Neame and starring Robert Mitchum and Carroll Baker The Moment of Truth Francesco Rosi – (Italy )The Money Trap Glenn Ford , Rita Hayworth , Ricardo Montalbán , Joseph Cotten , Elke Sommer The Monkey's Uncle Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk Morituri Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner Mozambique Robert Lynn – (U.K. /West Germany )My Baby Is Black! France )
N
The Nanny Bette Davis – (U.K. )The Naked Prey Cornel Wilde – (U.S. /South Africa )Never Too Late Paul Ford , Maureen O'Sullivan , Connie Stevens , Jim Hutton Nightmare Castle Barbara Steele – (Italy )Nightmare in the Sun Ursula Andress , John Derek , Aldo Ray and Sammy Davis Jr. Ninety Degrees in the Shade Třicet jedna ve stínu ), directed by Jiří Weiss – (U.K. /Czechoslovakia )None but the Brave Frank Sinatra , with Clint Walker and Tommy Sands
O
Once a Thief Alain Delon and Ann-Margret – (United States /France )One Way Pendulum Peter Yates – (U.K. )Operation C.I.A. Burt Reynolds and Danielle AubryOperation Crossbow Sophia Loren – (U.K. )Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures Aleksandr Demyanenko – (U.S.S.R. )OSS 117– Mission for a Killer André Hunebelle and starring Frederick Stafford – (France )Othello Stuart Burge , starring Laurence Olivier , Maggie Smith , Frank Finlay – (U.K. )
P
Pandora and the Magic Box , directed by Joseph W. Sarno Paris Secret , a documentary directed by Edouard LogereauA Patch of Blue Sidney Poitier , Elizabeth Hartman , Shelley Winters Pierrot le Fou Jean-Luc Godard , starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina – (France )Pinocchio in Outer Space Ray Goossens – (U.S./Belgium )A Pistol for Ringo Duccio Tessari Planet of the Vampires Mario Bava – (Italy /Spain )The Possessed Luigi Bazzoni and Franco Rossellini – (Italy )Promise Her Anything Arthur Hiller , starring Warren Beatty and Leslie Caron
R
The Rabbit Is Me East Germany )A Rage to Live ,Walter Grauman and starring Suzanne Pleshette The Railroad Man Pietro Germi – (Italy )The Railrodder Buster Keaton in his last film – (Canada )Rapture John Guillermin , starring Melvyn Douglas , Patricia Gozzi and Dean Stockwell – (France /U.S.)Răscoala Mircea Mureșan – (Romania )Red Beard Akira Kurosawa , starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan )Red Line 7000 Howard Hawks and starring James Caan Repulsion Roman Polanski , starring Catherine Deneuve – (U.K. )Return from the Ashes Maximilian Schell and Samantha Eggar The Return of Mr. Moto Henry Silva – (U.K. )The Return of Ringo Duccio Tessari Rotten to the Core John Boulting – (U.K. )The Rounders Burt Kennedy , starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda
S
Samurai Spy Japan )Sandra Luchino Visconti , starring Claudia Cardinale – (Italy )São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima Brazil )The Saragossa Manuscript Zbigniew Cybulski – (Poland )The Sandpiper Vincente Minnelli , starring Elizabeth Taylor , Richard Burton and Eva Marie Saint Sands of the Kalahari Stuart Whitman , Stanley Baker , Susannah York – (U.K. )The Satan Bug George Maharis and Anne Francis Secrets Behind the Wall Japan )Sergeant Deadhead Frankie Avalon and Deborah Walley Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors U.S.S.R. )Shakespeare Wallah James Ivory , starring Shashi Kapoor , Felicity Kendal , Madhur Jaffrey The Shameless Old Lady René Allio – (France )She Ursula Andress and Peter Cushing – (U.K. )Shenandoah James Stewart , Doug McClure , Rosemary Forsyth , Katharine Ross Ship of Fools Stanley Kramer , starring Vivien Leigh , Simone Signoret , Lee Marvin , Michael Dunn , José Ferrer The Shop on Main Street Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos (Czechoslovakia )Simon of the Desert Luis Buñuel – (Mexico )The Sin Egypt )Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious Alec Guinness , Mike Connors , Robert Redford Ski Party Frankie Avalon and Yvonne Craig The Skull Peter Cushing , Christopher Lee , Patrick Wymark – (U.K. )Slalom Vittorio Gassman , Adolfo Celi , Beba Lončar , Daniela Bianchi – (Italy )The Sleeping Car Murders Costa-Gavras , starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret – (France )The Slender Thread Sydney Pollack , starring Sidney Poitier , Anne Bancroft , Telly Savalas and Ed Asner The Sons of Katie Elder Henry Hathaway , starring John Wayne and Dean Martin The Sound of Music Robert Wise , starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Martin Ritt , starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom – (U.K. )Sting of Death William Grefe Story of a Prostitute Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)Strange Bedfellows Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida A Study in Terror Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by James Hill, starring John Neville as Holmes, Donald Houston as Watson, and Anthony Quayle - (U.K. )A Swingin' Summer James Stacy and Raquel Welch Sword of the Beast Hideo Gosha – (Japan )Sylvia Carroll Baker and George Maharis Synanon Richard Quine , starring Edmond O'Brien , Chuck Connors , Stella Stevens
T
Tattooed Life Seijun Suzuki – (Japan )Ten Little Indians Shirley Eaton , Hugh O'Brian , Daliah Lavi , Stanley Holloway , Wilfred Hyde-White , Fabian Forte – (U.K. )That Darn Cat! Dean Jones That Funny Feeling Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee That Man in Istanbul Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi and starring Horst Buchholz – (France /Italy /Spain )The Third Day George Peppard and Elizabeth Ashley Thirty Three U.S.S.R. )Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines Ken Annakin , starring Stuart Whitman , Sarah Miles , Robert Morley , Gert Fröbe – (U.K. )A Thousand Clowns Jason Robards , Barry Gordon , Martin Balsam , Barbara Harris Thunderball Sean Connery (as James Bond ), with Claudine Auger , Luciana Paluzzi , Adolfo Celi – (U.K. )Tickle Me Elvis Presley Tokyo Olympiad Kon Ichikawa – (Japan )Town Tamer Lesley Selander and starring Dana Andrews The Truth About Spring Richard Thorpe , starring Hayley Mills and John Mills Two on a Guillotine William Conrad and starring Connie Stevens
U
V
A Very Special Favor Rock Hudson and Leslie Caron Victim Five Robert Lynn – (U.K. )Viva Maria! Louis Malle , starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau – (France )Von Ryan's Express Mark Robson , starring Frank Sinatra , Trevor Howard , Edward Mulhare , Adolfo Celi Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet Basil Rathbone
W
Waqt Sunil Dutt and Sadhana – (India )The War Game docudrama directed by Peter Watkins – (U.K. )The War Lord Charlton Heston , Richard Boone , Rosemary Forsyth What's New Pussycat? Clive Donner , starring Peter Sellers , Peter O'Toole , Woody Allen , Romy Schneider , Paula Prentiss , Capucine Who Killed Teddy Bear Sal Mineo , Juliet Prowse and Elaine Stritch Wild on the Beach Sherry Jackson , Frankie Randall , Sonny & Cher Willy McBean and His Magic Machine ,Arthur Rankin Jr. and Videocraft International Winter Kept Us Warm David Secter – (Canada )The World of Abbott and Costello Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Y
Z
Short film series
Births
January 1 - Dan Yeager , American actor, writer, producer and director
January 3 – Jens Albinus , Danish actor
January 4
January 5 - Vinnie Jones , British actor, producer and singer
January 8 - Michelle Forbes , American actress
January 9 – Joely Richardson , English actress
January 10 – Butch Hartman , American animator, writer, producer and director
January 12 - Rob Zombie , American singer-songwriter, filmmaker and actor
January 15 – James Nesbitt , Northern Irish actor
January 22
January 24 - Carlos Saldanha , Brazilian animator, director, producer and voice actor
January 27 – Alan Cumming , Scottish actor
January 28 - Lynda Boyd , Canadian actress, singer, musician and writer
January 31 - Matt McColm , American actor and stuntman
February 1
February 3 – Maura Tierney , American actress
February 5 - Jordi Caballero , Spanish actor, writer and producer
February 7
February 9
February 12 - Christine Elise , American actress
February 13 - Andy Buckley , American actor
February 15 - Claire Yarlett , English-born American actress
February 17 - Michael Bay , American director and producer
February 18 – Dr. Dre , American music producer
February 20
February 23 – Kristin Davis , American actress
February 27 - Noah Emmerich , American actor and director
March 4 - Stacy Edwards , American actress
March 9
March 11 - Wallace Langham , American actor
March 13 - Steve Bacic , Canadian actor
March 14
March 18
March 19 - Fred Stoller , American actor and stand-up comedian
March 23
March 25 – Sarah Jessica Parker , American actress
March 31 – Steve Bing , American businessman, philanthropist and film producer (d. 2020)
April 1 - José Zúñiga , Honduran-American actor
April 3 - Angela Featherstone , actress and writer
April 4 – Robert Downey Jr. , American actor
April 9 - Mark Pellegrino , American actor
April 11 - Lynn Ferguson , Scottish writer and actress
April 16
April 17
April 22 - Roman Coppola , American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer
April 25
April 26 – Kevin James , American actor and comedian
April 27 - Anna Chancellor , English actress
April 30 - Adrian Pasdar , American actor and voice artist
May 2 - Ari Lehman , American actor
May 3 - Rob Brydon , Welsh actor, comedian, presenter, singer and writer
May 10 - Kiyoyuki Yanada , Japanese voice actor (d. 2022)
May 12 - Anthony Brandon Wong , Australian actor
May 13 - Lari White , American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2018)
May 16 - Vincent Regan , British actor
May 19 - Mikhail Gorevoy , Russian actor
May 23 – Liina Tennosaar , Estonian actress
May 24
May 27 – Zenobia Shroff , Indian-American actress and comedienne
May 28 - Alon Abutbul , Israeli actor
May 29 - Matthew Porretta , American actor
May 30 - Antoine Fuqua , American director
May 31
June 1 - Andrew Havill , English actor
June 8 - Frank Grillo , American actor
June 10 – Elizabeth Hurley , English model and actress
June 18 – Kim Dickens , American actress
June 19 – Sean Marshall , American child actor and singer
June 22 - J. J. Cohen , American actor
June 24 - Richard Lumsden , English actor, writer, composer and musician
June 25 - Tricia Cooke , American editor, screenwriter and producer
June 28 – Sonny Strait , American voice actor
July 1
July 3
July 4
Gérard Watkins , English-French actor, playwright, director and screenwriterTracy Letts , American actor, playwright and screenwriter
July 8
July 9
July 11
July 14 - Bibo Bergeron , French animator and director
July 16 - Daryl Mitchell , American actor and rapper
July 17
July 22 - Patrick Labyorteaux , American actor
July 23 - Allison Abbate , American producer and animator
July 24
July 25 – Illeana Douglas , American actress
July 26 – Jeremy Piven , American actor
July 28 - James Biberi , Albanian-American actor
August 1 - Sam Mendes , British director, producer and screenwriter
August 4 - James Tupper , Canadian actor
August 5
August 6
August 10 - Claudia Christian , American actress and singer
August 11
August 12 - Peter Krause , American actor, director and producer
August 16 - Brian McCann , American actor, comedian and writer
August 18
August 19
August 22
August 24 – Marlee Matlin , American actress
August 25 - Kim Kold , Danish actor
August 31
September 3 – Charlie Sheen , American actor
September 4 - Michael Bentt , British-born American actor
September 6 - John Polson , Australian actor and director
September 9
September 13 - Jeff Ross , American stand-up comedian and actor
September 15 - Joe Chrest , American academic and actor
September 17
September 19 - Cheri Oteri , American actress and comedian
September 21
September 25 - Gordon Currie , Canadian-American actor
September 28 - Christopher Evan Welch , American actor (d. 2013)
September 30 - Omid Djalili , British stand-up comedian, actor and writer of Iranian descent
October 1 - Cindy Margolis , American actress and model
October 8
October 10
October 11
October 14 – Steve Coogan , English actor
October 18 - Ralph Eggleston , American animator, art director, storyboard artist, writer, director and production designer (d. 2022)
October 19 – Merle Jääger , Estonian actress and poet
October 20 – William Zabka , American actor
October 22 - Valeria Golino , Italian actress and film director
October 25 – Mathieu Amalric , French actor and filmmaker
October 27 - Mohan Kapur , Indian actor and television host
October 28 - Jami Gertz , American actress
October 31 - Rob Rackstraw , British voice actor
November 1 - Ilia Volok , Ukrainian actor
November 2 – Shah Rukh Khan , Indian actor
November 7 - Mike Henry , American actor, comedian, writer and producer
November 19 - Paul Weitz , American filmmaker and actor
November 21 – Alexander Siddig , Sudanese-English actor
November 22 - Mads Mikkelsen , Danish actor
November 23 - Don Frye , American actor
November 24 – Shirley Henderson , Scottish actress
November 25 - Dougray Scott , Scottish actor
November 26 - Scott Adsit , American actor, comedian and writer
November 29 - Ellen Cleghorne , American actress and comedian
November 30
December 2 - Beatrice Macola , Italian actress (d. 2001)
December 3
December 7 – Jeffrey Wright , American actor
December 8
December 9 - Margaret Riley , producer (d. 2024)
December 14 - Ted Raimi , American character actor, director, comedian and writer
December 15 - Anjul Nigam , Indian-born American actor, producer and writer
December 16 – J.B. Smoove , American actor and comedian
December 19 - Jessica Steen , Canadian actress
December 21
Andy Dick , American comedian, actor, musician and television and film producerDeclan O'Brien , American writer and director (d. 2022)
December 22
December 27 – Salman Khan , Indian actor
December 31 – Gong Li , Chinese actress
Deaths
January 14 – Jeanette MacDonald , 61, American actress, singer, San Francisco One Hour with You
February 5 – Irving Bacon , 71, American actor, Meet John Doe Fort Ti
February 10 – Arnold Manoff , 50, American screenwriter, No Minor Vices Casbah
February 15 – Nat King Cole , 45, American singer and actor, St. Louis Blues Istanbul
February 23 – Stan Laurel , 74, British actor, The Flying Deuces Sons of the Desert
March 1 – Fred Immler , 84, German actor, Madame Du Barry Zapata's Gang
March 6 – Margaret Dumont , 82, American actress, Duck Soup A Night at the Opera
March 8 – Esther Howard , 72, American actress, The Big Noise Detour
March 23 – Mae Murray , 79, American actress, The Merry Widow The Delicious Little Devil
March 28
April 1 – Edna Tichenor , 64, American actress, London After Midnight The Show
April 3 – Ray Enright , 69, American director, Alibi Ike The Spoilers
April 8 – Lars Hanson , 78, Swedish actor, The Wind Flesh and the Devil
April 10 – Linda Darnell , 41, American actress, My Darling Clementine The Mark of Zorro
April 24 – Louise Dresser , 85, American actress, A Ship Comes In The Scarlet Empress
April 30 – Helen Chandler , 59, American actress, Dracula The Last Flight
5 May – John Waters , 71, screenwriter and director, The Big Country The Desperate Hours
June 6 – Lech Owron , 71, Polish actor, Vampires of Warsaw The Little Eagle
June 7 – Judy Holliday , 43, American actress, Born Yesterday Bells Are Ringing
June 8 – Florence Ryerson , 72, American screenwriter, The Wizard of Oz The Ice Follies of 1939
June 15 – Steve Cochran , 48, American actor, The Best Years of Our Lives White Heat
June 22 – David O. Selznick , 63, American producer, Gone with the Wind Rebecca
June 23 – Mary Boland , 85, American stage and film actress, The Women Ruggles of Red Gap
June 27 – Anthony Veiller , 62, American screenwriter, The Stranger The Killers
July 11 – Ray Collins , 78, American actor, Citizen Kane The Kid from Left Field
July 19 – Clyde Beatty , 62, American actor and animal trainer, Africa Screams Ring of Fear
July 24 – Constance Bennett , 60, American actress, Topper Merrily We Live
July 28 – Minor Watson , 75, American actor, Woman of the Year The Jackie Robinson Story
August 6
August 30 – Pauline Garon , 64, Canadian actress, The Heart of Broadway The College Hero
September 2 – Felix E. Feist , 55, American director, This Woman Is Dangerous The Big Trees
September 4 – Isabel Jeans , 93, British actress, Suspicion Gigi
September 7
September 8 – Dorothy Dandridge , 42, American actress, singer, Carmen Jones Porgy and Bess
September 27 – Clara Bow , 60, American actress, Wings It
September 29 – Eddie Gribbon , 75, American film actor, brother of Harry Gribbon
October 3 – Zachary Scott , 51, American actor, Mildred Pierce The Southerner
October 6 – Tom Kennedy , 80, American actor, Petticoat Larceny Bringing Up Father
October 18 – Henry Travers , 91, British actor, It's a Wonderful Life Shadow of a Doubt
October 21 – Marie McDonald , 42, American actress, The Geisha Boy Living in a Big Way
October 23 – Janice Logan , 50, American actress, Dr. Cyclops Opened by Mistake
October 31 – Rita Johnson , 52, American actress, Here Comes Mr. Jordan The Major and the Minor
November 14 – Russell Collins , 68, American actor, Miss Sadie Thompson Bad Day at Black Rock
November 26 – Wild Bill Elliott , 61, American actor, The San Antonio Kid Sudden Danger
December 5 – Joseph I. Breen , 77, chief administrator of the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (Hays Code) from 1934 to 1954
December 22 – Albert Ritz , 64, American entertainer of the Ritz Brothers , Sing, Baby, Sing Life Begins in College
December 29 – Frank S. Nugent , 57, American screenwriter, The Searchers She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Film debuts
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