1962 In Film

The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• February – Warner Bros. buy the film rights for My Fair Lady for the unprecedented sum of $5.5 million plus 47¼% of the gross over $20 million.
• May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
• June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca-Universal.
• July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board.
• August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose.
• September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace begins and will continue for another 5 years.
• October 5 – Dr. No launches the James Bond series, the second longest-running film franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), still running 60 years later (No Time to Die, 2021). It also launches the career of Sean Connery.

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia – Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia
Best Director: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
Best Actress: Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker
Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley – Sweet Bird of Youth
Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker
Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:
Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia
Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
Best Actress: Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth

Comedy or Musical:
Best Picture − Comedy: That Touch of Mink
Best Picture − Musical: The Music Man
Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni – Divorce Italian Style
Best Actress: Rosalind Russell – Gypsy

Other
Best Director: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
Best Supporting Actor: Omar Sharif – Lawrence of Arabia
Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury – The Manchurian Candidate

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy
My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

All of these films are from the United States unless stated.

January–March

• January 1962
  • 1 January
    • Heaven and Earth Magic
    • Sanjuro (Japan)
  • 9 January
    • The Nun and the Sergeant
  • 11 January
    • Only Two Can Play
  • 12 January
    • Bachelor Flat
  • 14 January
    • I Thank a Fool
  • 17 January
    • The Intruder
  • 18 January
    • My Geisha
  • 19 January
    • Tender Is the Night
    • A View from the Bridge
  • 26 January
    • The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
• February 1962
  • 7 February
    • Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
    • Light in the Piazza
  • 10 February
    • Sergeants 3
  • 12 February
    • The Bellboy and the Playgirls
  • 15 February
    • Pontius Pilate
  • 21 February
    • The Couch
    • Walk on the Wild Side
  • 28 February
    • Too Late Blues
• March 1962
  • 1 March
    • Posse from Hell
  • 5 March
    • Rome Adventure
  • 7 March
    • The Premature Burial
  • 9 March
    • State Fair
  • 10 March
    • Journey to the Seventh Planet
  • 14 March
    • The Road to Hong Kong
  • 21 March
    • Hitler
    • Sweet Bird of Youth
    • Gorath (Japan)
  • 23 March
    • Satan in High Heels
    • Satan Never Sleeps
  • 28 March
    • Hand of Death
    • The Manster (U.S./Japan)
    • Six Black Horses

April–June

• April 1962
  • 2 April
    • The Broken Land
  • 5 April
    • Moon Pilot
  • 6 April
    • Ivan's Childhood (U.S.S.R)
  • 11 April
    • All Fall Down
    • Follow That Dream
    • House of Women
    • The Magic Sword
  • 12 April
    • Cape Fear
  • 13 April
    • Experiment in Terror
  • 17 April
    • The Counterfeit Traitor
  • 18 April
    • The Horizontal Lieutenant
  • 19 April
    • Five Finger Exercise
  • 22 April
    • Hands of a Stranger
    • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • 23 April
    • Escape from Zahrain
  • 25 April
    • Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (Italy)
• May 1962
  • 3 May
    • The Brain That Wouldn't Die
    • Invasion of the Star Creatures
  • 9 May
    • Jessica
    • War Hunt
  • 17 May
    • Bon Voyage!
  • 24 May
    • The Inspector
    • Lonely Are the Brave
  • 25 May
    • The Cabinet of Caligari
    • When the Girls Take Over
  • 29 May
    • Hatari!
• June 1962
  • 6 June
    • 13 West Street
    • Big Red
    • Lad, A Dog
  • 9 June
    • Eegah
  • 13 June
    • It Happened in Athens
    • Lolita
    • Merrill's Marauders
  • 14 June
    • That Touch of Mink
  • 15 June
    • Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
  • 19 June
    • The Music Man
  • 20 June
    • Confessions of an Opium Eater
    • The Pigeon That Took Rome
    • Ride the High Country
  • 21 June
    • Boys' Night Out
  • 26 June
    • Hell Is for Heroes
  • 27 June
    • Safe at Home!
  • 29 June
    • Beauty and the Beast

July–September

• July 1962
  • 3 July
    • Birdman of Alcatraz
    • The Creation of the Humanoids
    • Tarzan Goes to India
  • 4 July
    • Tales of Terror
    • The Three Stooges in Orbit
  • 5 July
    • Panic in Year Zero!
  • 7 July
    • Advise & Consent
  • 15 July
    • Kujira Gami aka The Whale God (Japan)
  • 16 July
    • Jack the Giant Killer
  • 17 July
    • Air Patrol
  • 21 July
    • Black Gold
  • 25 July
    • Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
  • 26 July
    • The Lion
    • The Notorious Landlady
  • 28 July
    • The Miracle Worker
• August 1962
  • 1 August
    • Kid Galahad
  • 2 August
    • The Underwater City
  • 3 August
    • The Spiral Road
  • 7 August
    • The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
  • 8 August
    • The Interns
  • 11 August
    • King Kong vs. Godzilla (Japan)
  • 17 August
    • Two Weeks in Another Town
    • Guns of Darkness
  • 22 August
    • Five Weeks in a Balloon
  • 29 August
    • The 300 Spartans
• September 1962
  • 15 September
    • Convicts 4
  • 16 September
    • Harakiri (Japan)
    • Billy Budd
  • 25 September
    • The Longest Day
  • 26 September
    • Carnival of Souls
  • 27 September
    • Gigot

October–December

• October 1962
  • 1 October
    • A Kind of Loving
  • 3 October
    • Zotz!
  • 4 October
    • Sodom and Gomorrah
  • 5 October
    • The Chapman Report
    • Dr. No – (U.K.)
  • 10 October
    • If a Man Answers
    • Long Day's Journey into Night
  • 16 October
    • Requiem for a Heavyweight
  • 18 October
    • Phaedra
  • 22 October
    • Escape from East Berlin
  • 24 October
    • The Manchurian Candidate
    • Tower of London
  • 25 October
    • Tonight for Sure
    • The War Lover
  • 31 October
    • Period of Adjustment
    • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• November 1962
  • 1 November
    • How the West Was Won
    • Gypsy
  • 2 November
    • The Reluctant Saint
  • 8 November
    • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • 14 November
    • In Search of the Castaways
  • 21 November
    • It's Only Money
    • Two for the Seesaw
    • Girls! Girls! Girls!
  • 27 November
    • The Main Attraction
• December 1962
  • 2 December
    • Pressure Point
  • 6 December
    • Billy Rose's Jumbo
  • 10 December
    • Lawrence of Arabia
  • 12 December
    • Five Miles to Midnight
    • Freud: The Secret Passion
  • 17 December
    • Gay Purr-ee
  • 19 December
    • Taras Bulba
  • 22 December
    • The Trial
  • 25 December
    • To Kill a Mockingbird
    • Who's Got the Action?
  • 26 December
    • David and Lisa
    • Days of Wine and Roses
  • 31 December
    • 40 Pounds of Trouble

United States unless stated

#

• The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker
• 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, and Larry Storch

A

• Abhijan (The Expedition), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
• Advise & Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
• Alaverdoba, directed by Giorgi Shengelaia – (Georgia)
• All Fall Down, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty
• All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)
• All Souls' Day (Zaduszki) – (Poland)
• The American Beauty (La belle américaine), directed by Robert Dhéry – (France)
• The Amphibian Man (Chelovek-amfibiya) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Appointment at the Tower, directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny – (Egypt)
• Asli-Naqli (Real and Fake), starring Dev Anand – (India)
• Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) – (Spain)
• Attack of the Normans (I normanni), directed by Giuseppe Vari – (Italy)
• An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• The Awful Dr. Orloff (Gritos en la noche), directed by Jesús Franco – (Spain)

B

• Baat Ek Raat Ki (A Tale of One Night), starring Dev Anand – (India)
• Bachelor Flat, starring Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm
• Bees Saal Baad – (India)
• The Bellboy and the Playgirls, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Fritz Umgelter
• Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
• Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp – (U.K.)
• Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day and Jimmy Durante
• Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas
• Boccaccio '70, directed by Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren – (Italy)
• Bon Voyage!, starring Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman
• The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Richard Todd – (U.K.)
• Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner
• The Brain That Wouldn't Die, starring Virginia Leith
• The Brainiac (El baron del terror), directed by Chano Urueta – (Mexico)
• The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) – (West Germany)
• The Broken Land, starring Kent Taylor, Diana Darrin and Jack Nicholson

C

• Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
• Captain Clegg (released as Night Creatures in the U.S.), directed by Peter Graham Scott – (U.K.)
• Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
• Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
• Carry On Jack, starring Kenneth Williams, Bernard Cribbins and Juliet Mills – (U.K.)
• Cartouche, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale – (France/Italy)
• The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor, starring Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
• Chased by the Dogs (El less wal kilab) – (Egypt)
• Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda – (France)
• The Condemned of Altona (I sequestrati di Altona), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell – (Italy)
• Convicts 4, starring Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Vincent Price, Ray Walston, Sammy Davis, Jr.
• The Counterfeit Traitor, directed by George Seaton, starring William Holden
• Crazy Paradise (Det tossede paradis), directed by Gabriel Axel and starring Dirch Passer – (Denmark)
• Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie

D

• Damon and Pythias (Il tiranno di Siracusa), directed by Curtis Bernhardt – (U.S./Italy)
• David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
• The Day of the Triffids, starring Howard Keel – (U.K.)
• Days of Wine and Roses, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
• Dead Man's Evidence, directed by Francis Searle – (U.K.)
• The Devil's Agent (Im Namen des Teufels), directed by John Paddy Carstairs – (U.K./West Germany/Ireland)
• Le Doulos (The Finger Man), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
• Dr. No, first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Ursula Andress – (U.K.)
• Dungeon of Harrow, directed by Pat Boyette

E

• The Easy Life (Il sorpasso), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (Italy)
• Eclipse (L'Eclisse), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti – (Italy/France)
• Eighteen in the Sun (Diciottenni al sole), directed by Camillo Mastrocinque – (Italy)
• Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas – (Greece)
• The Elusive Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur – (France)
• Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
• Escape from Zahrain, starring Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo and Jack Warden
• Eva (released in the U.K. as Eve), starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi – (Italy/France)
• Experiment in Terror, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin
• The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)

F

• The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Baron Prášil), directed by Karel Zeman – (Czechoslovakia)
• Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
• The Female: Seventy Times Seven (Setenta veces siete), starring Isabel Sarli – (Argentina)
• Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules
• Five Finger Exercise, starring Rosalind Russell
• Five Miles to Midnight, starring Sophia Loren
• Five Weeks in a Balloon
• Follow That Dream, starring Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Joanna Moore
• The Four Days of Naples (Le Quattro giornate di Napoli) – (Italy)
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Yvette Mimieux
• Freud: The Secret Passion, directed by John Huston, starring Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
• The Fury of Hercules (La furia di Ercole), written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini – (Italy)

G

• Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
• Geronimo, starring Chuck Connors
• Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
• Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
• Go to Blazes, directed by Michael Truman – (U.K.)
• The Golden Arrow (L'arciere delle mille e una notte), directed by Antonio Margheriti – (Italy)
• Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
• The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy)
• Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
• Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice – (U.K.)
• Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood

H

• H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K.)
• Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala – (India)
• Hand of Death, starring John Agar
• Hands of a Stranger, directed by Newt Arnold
• Harakiri (Seppuku), directed by Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan)
• Hatari!, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli
• Hell Is for Heroes, starring Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin
• Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Paul Newman
• Hero's Island, starring James Mason and Rip Torn
• Hombre de la esquina rosada (Man on Pink Corner) – (Argentina)
• The Horizontal Lieutenant, starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss
• The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy)
• House of Women, starring Shirley Knight and Constance Ford
• How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard and more
• Hussar Ballad (Gusarskaya ballada) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Hussar of the Dead (El Húsar de la Muerte), (Restored, originally released in 1925) – (Chile)

I

• If a Man Answers, starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
• In Search of the Castaways, starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier
• In the Affirmative (L'Amour avec des si), directed by Claude Lelouch – (France)
• In the French Style, starring Jean Seberg
• The Inn on the River (Das Gasthaus an der Themse), directed by Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany)
• The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
• The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany)
• The Intruder, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner
• The Iron Maiden, starring Anne Helm and Jeff Donnell
• It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield – (Greece/United States)
• It's Only Money, directed by Frank Tashlin. starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien
• Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (U.S.S.R.)

J

• Jack the Giant Killer, starring Kerwin Mathews
• Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
• La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker – (France)
• Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner – (U.K.)
• Journey to the Seventh Planet, directed by Sid Pink – (Denmark)
• Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner – (France)

K

• Kanchanjangha, directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
• Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson
• A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates – (U.K.)
• King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
• Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie), directed by Roman Polanski – (Poland)

L

• The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell – (U.K.)
• Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer – (UK/US)
• The Legend of Lobo, a Walt Disney production
• Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig – (U.K.)
• Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
• The Lion, starring William Holden and Trevor Howard
• Lisa (aka The Inspector), starring Stephen Boyd – (U.S./U.K.)
• Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay – (U.K.)
• Lonely Are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor
• Lonely Boy, a documentary about Paul Anka – (Canada)
• Long Day's Journey into Night, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Katharine Hepburn
• The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and more
• Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow (Koiya koi nasuna koi), directed by Tomu Uchida – (Japan)
• Love at Twenty, a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls – (International)
• Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
• Lulu, directed by Rolf Thiele, starring Nadja Tiller – (Austria)

M

• Madison Avenue, starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker
• Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
• The Magic Sword, directed by Bert I. Gordon
• The Magnificent Concubine (Yang Kwei Fei) – (Hong Kong)
• The Main Attraction, starring Pat Boone
• Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani – (Italy)
• The Man of Gold (Az aranyember) – (Hungary)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode
• The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Angela Lansbury
• March on Rome (La marcia su Roma), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
• Merrill's Marauders, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin
• Mediterranean Holiday (Traumreise unter weissen Segeln), a documentary directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber – (West Germany)
• The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women (열녀문 – Yeolnyeomun), directed by Shin Sang-ok – (South Korea)
• The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, (on NBC-TV)
• Mix Me a Person, directed by Leslie Norman, starring Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden and Adam Faith – (U.K.)
• Mondo Cane, directed by Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti – (Italy)
• A Monkey in Winter (Un singe en hiver), directed by Henri Verneuil – (France)
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
• Moon Pilot, starring Tom Tryon
• The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Ron Howard
• Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
• My Geisha, starring Shirley MacLaine
• My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina – (France)

N

• Night of the Eagle (retitled Burn, Witch, Burn! in the U.S.), starring Janet Blair
• Nine Days in One Year (9 dney odnogo goda) – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Notorious Landlady, starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire

O

• On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)
• Only Two Can Play, starring Peter Sellers
• Operation Snatch, directed by Robert Day and starring Terry-Thomas and George Sanders – (U.K.)
• O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte – (Brazil)

P

• Panic in Year Zero!, starring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon
• Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, Lois Nettleton
• Phaedra, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins – (Greece)
• The Phantom of the Opera, starring Herbert Lom – (U.K.)
• The Pigeon That Took Rome, starring Charlton Heston
• The Pirates of Blood River, directed by John Gilling – (U.K.)
• Pitfall (Otoshiana) – (Japan)
• Play It Cool, starring Billy Fury – (U.K.)
• Pontius Pilate, starring Jean Marais, Jeanne Crain, Basil Rathbone
• Premature Burial, directed by Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Heather Angel
• Pressure Point, starring Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin
• Pretty Foe by Esmail Koushan (Iran)
• Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor – (India)
• The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (Das Rätsel der Roten Orchidee), directed by Helmut Ashley – (West Germany)

R

• Redhead (Die Rote or La rossa) – (West Germany/Italy)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
• Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) – (Turkey)
• Ride the High Country (a.k.a. Guns in the Afternoon), directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott
• The Road to Hong Kong, directed by Norman Panama, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Joan Collins
• Roaring Years (Anni ruggenti), starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
• Rome Adventure, starring Angie Dickinson and Suzanne Pleshette
• Der rote Rausch (The Red Intoxication), starring Klaus Kinski – (Austria)

S

• Safe at Home!, starring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris
• Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (King, Queen and Slave), starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt – (India)
• Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi – (Italy)
• Samar, directed by and starring George Montgomery
• Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
• Satan in High Heels, starring Meg Myles and Grayson Hall
• Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
• Seven Seas to Calais (Il dominatore dei sette mari), directed by Rudolph Maté – (Italy)
• Shaheed, starring Musarrat Nazir, Talish, Allauddin, Ejaz, Saqi (Pakistani film on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict)
• She'll Have to Go (released in the United States as Maid for Murder), directed by Robert Asher – (U.K.)
• She Knows Y'Know, directed by Montgomery Tully – (U.K.)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace/ Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes (German) a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Terence Fisher, written by Curt Siodmak, starring Christopher Lee as Holmes and Thorley Walters as Watson
• Slaughter of the Vampires (La strage dei vampiri), directed by Roberto Mauri – (Italy)
• Solo for Sparrow, directed by Gordon Flemyng – (U.K.)
• Some People, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
• Something's Got to Give, starring Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin (unfinished)
• The Spiral Road, starring Rock Hudson and Gena Rowlands
• State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin
• The Suitor (Le Soupirant) – (France)
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), starring Hardy Krüger and Nicole Courcel – (France)
• Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
• Swordsman of Siena (La congiura dei dieci/Le mercenaire), starring Stewart Granger – (Italy/France)
• A Symposium on Popular Songs, a Disney animation

T

• The Tale of Zatoichi (Zatōichi monogatari), directed by Kenji Misumi – (Japan)
• The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatōichi Monogatari), starring Shintaro Katsu – (Japan)
• Tales of Terror, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone
• Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
• Tarzan Goes to India, Jock Mahoney's first film as Tarzan
• Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
• Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret – (U.K.)
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany)
• That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
• Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret – (France)
• The Three Stooges In Orbit, starring the Three Stooges
• Time to Remember, directed by Charles Jarrott – (U.K.)
• To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
• Tobacco (Tyutyun) – (Bulgaria)
• Tonny, directed by Nils R. Müller and Per Gjersøe – (Norway)
• Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• Treasure of the Silver Lake, directed by Harald Reinl – (West Germany)
• The Cursed Palace, starring Salah Zulfikar and Mariam Fakhr Eddine – (Egypt)
• The Trial (Le Procès), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau – (France/Italy/West Germany)
• The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
• Tudor – (Romania)
• The Twelve Chairs (Las doce sillas), directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – (Cuba)
• Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
• Two Half Times in Hell (Két félidő a pokolban), directed by Zoltán Fábri – (Hungary)
• Two Weeks in Another Town, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse

U

• The Unscrupulous Ones (Os Cafajestes), directed by Ruy Guerra – (Brazil)

V

• A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
• A View from the Bridge (Vu du Pont), directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Raf Vallone – (France/Italy)
• Violent Life (Una vita violenta), directed by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi – (Italy)
• Vive le Tour, documentary by Louis Malle – (France)

W

• Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
• Waltz of the Toreadors (a.k.a. The Amorous General), directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
• War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) – (France)
• We Joined the Navy, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
• Who's Got the Action? starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner
• The Witch's Curse (Maciste all'inferno), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy)
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom

Z

• Zorro the Avenger^{[clarification needed]}
• Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940–1964)
• Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

• January 4 – Michael France, American screenwriter (d. 2013)
• January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron, American actress
• January 7 – Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
• January 9 - Conrad Goode, American actor, screenwriter, screenwriter, producer and musician
• January 10 – C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor (d. 2016)
• January 11 – Kim Coles, American actress, comedian and game show host
• January 16 - Peter Lurie, American voice actor, sports anchor and television personality
• January 17 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
• January 20 - Sophie Thompson, British actress
• January 21 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
• January 22 - Piotr Polk, Polish actor and singer
• January 23 - Richard Roxburgh, Australian actor, writer, producer and director
• February 2 - Michael T. Weiss, American actor
• February 4
  • Jim O'Heir, American actor and comedian
  • Michael Riley, Canadian actor
• February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
• February 7 - Eddie Izzard, English stand-up comedian, actor and writer
• February 8 - Martin Wuttke, German actor and director
• February 12 - Diane Franklin, American actress and producer
• February 13 – Michele Greene, American actress
• February 14 - Sakina Jaffrey, American actress
• February 16 - Alexa Kenin, American actress (d. 1985)
• February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
• February 18 - Julie Strain, American actress and model (d. 2021)
• February 22
  • Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, television personality, conservationist, actor (d. 2006)
  • Ethan Wayne, American actor
• February 27 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
• March 2 - Jon Bon Jovi, American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• March 8 – Cecilia Yip, Hong Kong actress
• March 10 – Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, dancer and director
• March 11 - Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
• March 12
  • Julia Campbell, American actress
  • Chris Sanders, American actor, animator, director and voice actor
  • Titus Welliver, American actor
• March 18
  • Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
  • Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
• March 20 – Stephen Sommers, American director, screenwriter and producer
• March 21
  • Matthew Broderick, American actor
  • Kathy Greenwood, Canadian actress and comedian
  • Rosie O'Donnell, American actress and comedian
• March 23 - Jenny Wright, American actress
• March 25 - Thom Bierdz, American actor
• March 26 - Marita Geraghty, American actress
• March 29 - Tyra Ferrell, American actress
• April 2 – Clark Gregg, American actor, director and screenwriter
• April 3 - Jennifer Rubin, American actress and model
• April 5 - Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (d. 2003)
• April 15 – Tom Kane, American actor and voice actor
• April 18 - Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist, stand-up comedian and actor
• April 23 - John Hannah, Scottish actor
• April 24 - Jason Salkey, English actor
• April 27 – James LeGros, American actor
• May 5 - Manoj Sood, Indo-Canadian actor
• May 9 - Sean McNamara, American director, producer, actor and screenwriter
• May 12 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
• May 14 - Danny Huston, American actor, director and writer
• May 17 - Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American television host, comedian, author and actor
• May 18
  • Nathaniel Parker, English actor
  • Karel Roden, Czech actor
• May 26 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor, comedian and director
• May 29 - John D. LeMay, American former actor
• May 31 - Sebastian Koch, German actor
• June 5
  • Jeff Garlin, American comedian and actor
  • Ken Hudson Campbell, American actor
• June 6 - Todd Kimsey, American actor (d. 2016)
• June 7 - Lance Reddick, American actor and musician (d. 2023)
• June 10
  • Gina Gershon, American actress
  • Tzi Ma, Hong Kong-American actor
• June 13 – Ally Sheedy, American actress
• June 16 - Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
• June 19 – Paula Abdul, American singer
• June 22 - Nicholas Lea, Canadian actor
• June 23 - Billy Wirth, American actor and producer
• June 27
  • Emel Heinreich, Turkish-Austrian actress, author and film-director
  • Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor
• June 30 - Predrag Bjelac, Serbian actor
• July 1 - Andre Braugher, American actor (d. 2023)
• July 2 - Doug Benson, American comedian, television host and actor
• July 3
  • Tom Cruise, American actor
  • Thomas Gibson, American actor
• July 4 - Neil Morrissey, English actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and businessman
• July 8 - Oreste Baldini, Italian actor and voice actor
• July 13
  • Michael Jace, American former character actor
  • Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian
• July 15 – Martin Roach, Canadian actor
• July 18 - Lee Arenberg, American actor
• July 19 – Anthony Edwards, American actor
• July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor
• July 23 - Eriq La Salle, American actor, director, writer and producer
• July 29
  • Kevin Chapman, American actor
  • Kevin Spirtas, American actor
• July 31 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
• August 1 - Jesse Borrego, American actor
• August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress
• August 12 - Miss Cleo, American television personality (d. 2016)
• August 13 – John Slattery, American actor
• August 14 - Steve Reevis, Native American actor (d. 2017)
• August 16 – Steve Carell, American actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
• August 20
  • Geoffrey Blake, American actor
  • Ravil Isyanov, Russian actor (d. 2021)
• August 21 - Cleo King, American actress
• August 24 – David Koechner, American actor and comedian
• August 25 - Rusty Schwimmer, American character actress and singer
• August 27 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
• August 28 - David Fincher, American filmmaker
• August 29
  • Ian James Corlett, Canadian-American voice actor
  • Lycia Naff, American actress
• August 31 – Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
• September 1 - Michelle Meyrink, Canadian former actress
• September 8 – Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
• September 11 – Kristy McNichol, American actress
• September 12 - Amy Yasbeck, American actress
• September 15 – Scott McNeil, Australian-Canadian voice actor
• September 17
  • Paul Feig, American actor, director, comedian and filmmaker
  • Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
• September 21 - Mark Holden, Canadian actor, writer and producer
• September 22 - Rob Morrow, American actor and director
• September 24 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress and producer
• September 26 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
• September 29 - Roger Bart, American actor and singer
• October 1
  • Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Nigerian-British actor and producer
  • Esai Morales, American actor
• October 2 – Jeff Bennett, American actor and voice actor
• October 5 - Ricky Harris, American producer, actor and comedian (d. 2016)
• October 6 - Joaquín Cosío, Mexican actor
• October 9 - Peter Hewitt, English director and writer
• October 11 – Joan Cusack, American actress
• October 12 – Deborah Foreman, American actress
• October 13
  • T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, American actress and singer
  • Kelly Preston, American actress (d. 2020)
• October 14 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (d. 2003)
• October 15 - Simon Kunz, English actor
• October 16 - Christian Stolte, American character actor
• October 17 - Mike Judge, American actor, animator, filmmaker and musician
• October 20 - David Mickey Evans, American director and screenwriter
• October 22 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
• October 26 – Cary Elwes, English actor
• October 27 - Brontis Jodorowsky, Mexican-French actor
• October 28
  • Jason Watkins, English actor
  • Daphne Zuniga, American actress
• November 1 - Brenda Chapman, American writer, storyboard artist and director
• November 7 - Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
• November 9 - Rick Batalla, American actor
• November 11
  • Gerard Horan, English actor
  • Demi Moore, American actress
• November 14 – Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and comedian
• November 18 - Tim Guinee, American actor
• November 19 – Jodie Foster, American actress and director
• November 28 – Jon Stewart, American actor and comedian
• November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor
• December 6 - Janine Turner, American actress
• December 9 – Felicity Huffman, American actress
• December 10 - Scott Capurro, American comedian, writer and actor
• December 14 - Ginger Lynn, American pornographic actress
• December 18 - James Sie, American actor
• December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress
• December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor
• December 23 - Peter Ramsey, American storyboard artist, story artist, director, writer and producer

• January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
• January 28 – Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor, The Pearl Maker of Madrid
• February 1 – Carey Wilson, American screenwriter, Mutiny on the Bounty
• February 19 – James Barton, American actor, Here Comes the Groom, Yellow Sky
• February 20 – Halliwell Hobbes, 84, British actor, Gaslight, That Hamilton Woman
• February 27 – Willie Best, 48, American actor, Nothing but the Truth, The Red Dragon
• February 28 – Chic Johnson, 70, American comedian, actor, Hellzapoppin'
• March 17 – Frank Orth, 82, American actor, Nancy Drew... Detective, Here Come the Girls
• April 10 – Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood
• April 15 – Clara Blandick, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer
• April 17 – Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Alice in Wonderland
• April 22
  • Angus MacPhail, 59, British screenwriter, Spellbound, The Wrong Man
  • Vera Reynolds, 62, American actress, The Night Club, Feet of Clay
• May 14 – Florence Auer, 82, American actress, The Bishop's Wife, State of the Union
• June 2 – Aeneas MacKenzie, 72, Scottish screenwriter, The Ten Commandments, Ivanhoe
• June 6 – Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, 63, American actor, Nevada, Southwest Passage
• June 19
  • Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
  • Will Wright, 68, American actor, Quantrill's Raiders, Alias Jesse James
• June 24 – Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress, Waterloo Bridge, Made for Each Other
• July 2 – Valeska Suratt, 80, American stage and screen actress, The Immigrant
• July 4 – Rex Bell, 58, American actor, Broadway to Cheyenne, Law and Lead
• July 13 – Jerry Wald, 50, American screenwriter and producer, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place
• July 23 – Victor Moore, 86, American actor, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Louisiana Purchase
• July 30 – Myron McCormick, 54, American actor, The Hustler, No Time for Sergeants
• August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress, Hollywood icon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot
• August 23 – Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor, Action, The Horse Soldiers
• September 7 – Louis King, 64, American director, Typhoon, Green Grass of Wyoming
• October 2 – Frank Lovejoy, 50, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Goodbye, My Fancy
• October 6 – Tod Browning, 82, American director, Dracula, Freaks
• October 26 – Louise Beavers, 60, American actress, Holiday Inn, The Jackie Robinson Story
• November 15 – Irene, American costume designer, Shall We Dance, Midnight Lace
• December 15 – Charles Laughton, 63, British actor, Spartacus, Witness for the Prosecution
• December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, 70, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind
• December 21 – Syd Saylor, 67, American actor, The Lost Jungle, The Three Mesquiteers
• December 23 – Luis Alberni, 76, Spanish actor, Svengali, The Count of Monte Cristo
• December 28 – Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted
• December 29 – Hugh Sinclair, 59, British actor, The Saint's Vacation, Judgment Deferred

• Erick Avari – Kanchenjungha
• Bernardo Bertolucci (director) – The Grim Reaper
• Peter Bowles – Live Now, Pay Later
• Jackie Chan – Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
• Julie Christie – Crooks Anonymous
• Tom Courtenay – Private Potter
• Charles Durning – The Password Is Courage
• Robert Duvall – To Kill a Mockingbird
• Samantha Eggar – Dr. Crippen
• Sally Field – Moon Pilot
• Paul Gleason – Panic in Year Zero!
• Sid Haig – The Firebrand
• John Hurt – The Wild and the Willing
• Ian McShane – The Wild and the Willing
• Arthur Malet – Convicts 4
• Sarah Miles – Term of Trial
• Sydney Pollack (actor) – War Hunt
• Jack Riley – Days of Wine and Roses
• W. Morgan Sheppard – Strongroom
• Tom Skerritt – War Hunt
• Terence Stamp – Term of Trial
• David Warner – We Joined the Navy
• William Windom – To Kill a Mockingbird