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1922 in film

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This is a list of significant films that were released in 1922.

Contents

Events

  • June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
  • November 26 – The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

    • Notable films released in 1922

    U.S.A. unless stated

  • Beauty's Worth, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
  • Beyond the Rocks, directed by Sam Wood; starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
  • A Bill of Divorcement, directed by Denison Clift, starring Constance Binney, Fay Compton – (Britain)
  • The Blacksmith, a Buster Keaton short
  • A Blind Bargain, directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney
  • Blood and Sand, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, and Lila Lee
  • The Bohemian Girl, Starring Gladys Cooper and Ivor Novello – (GB)
  • The Bride's Play, directed by George Terwilliger, starring Marion Davies and Carl Miller
  • The Burning Soil (Der brennende Acker) – (Germany)
  • The Card, directed by A.V. Bramble – (Britain)
  • Clarence, directed by William C. deMille, starring Wallace Reid
  • Cocaine, directed by Graham Cutts – (GB)
  • Cops, a Buster Keaton film
  • Crainquebille (Coster Bill of Paris), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
  • Daydreams, a Buster Keaton short
  • A Debt of Honour, starring Isobel Elsom and Clive Brook (Britain)
  • Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler), directed by Fritz Lang; starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge – (Germany)
  • Dr. Jack, starring Harold Lloyd
  • The Electric House, a Buster Keaton short
  • Fair Lady, directed by Kenneth Webb
  • La Femme de nulle part, directed by Louis Delluc – (France)
  • Flames of Passion, starring Mae Marsh and C. Aubrey Smith – (GB)
  • Flesh and Blood, starring Lon Chaney
  • Foolish Wives, directed by & starring Erich von Stroheim
  • The Frozen North, starring Buster Keaton
  • The Ghost Breaker, directed by Alfred E. Green; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
  • Grandma's Boy, starring Harold Lloyd
  • The Grass Orphan, directed by Frank Hall Crane; starring Margaret Bannerman, Reginald Owen – (Britain)
  • Häxan, directed by Benjamin Christensen – (Sweden/Denmark)
  • Laborer's Love (Laogong zhi aiqing) – (China)
  • Lorna Doone, directed by Maurice Tourneur
  • The Loves of Pharaoh (Das Weib des Pharao), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
  • Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Richard Oswald, starring Conrad Veidt and Liane Haid (Germany)
  • Manslaughter, starring Thomas Meighan
  • Marizza (aka Marizza, called the Smuggler Madonna), directed by F.W. Murnau – (Germany)
  • Moran of the Lady Letty, directed by George Melford, starring Dorothy Dalton & Rudolph Valentino
  • More to Be Pitied Than Scorned, directed by Edward LeSaint
  • Mud and Sand, a parody of Blood and Sand, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
  • My Boy, starring Jackie Coogan
  • My Wife's Relations, starring Buster Keaton
  • Nanook of the North, a documentary directed by Robert J. Flaherty
  • Nathan the Wise, directed by Manfred Noa (Germany)
  • Nice People, directed by William C. deMille; starring Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels
  • Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror), directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Max Schreck – (Germany)
  • Number 13, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; starring Ernest Thesiger – (GB)
  • Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan
  • One Exciting Night, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Carol Dempster & Henry Hull
  • The Paleface, starring Buster Keaton
  • Pay Day, a Charles Chaplin short
  • Peg o' My Heart, directed by King Vidor
  • Phantom, directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover and Lya De Putti – (Germany)
  • Polikushka – (U.S.S.R.)
  • The Primitive Lover, directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Constance Talmadge
  • The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone
  • Rent Free, directed by Howard Higgin; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
  • Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan; starring Douglas Fairbanks
  • Rob Roy, directed by W.P. Kellino (GB)
  • Saturday Night, starring Leatrice Joy and Conrad Nagel
  • The Scarlet Letter, starring Sybil Thorndike – (GB)
  • Shadows, directed by Tom Forman; starring Lon Chaney and Marguerite De La Motte
  • Sherlock Holmes, Starring John Barrymore and Roland Young
  • Smilin' Through, starring Norma Talmadge
  • Sodom and Gomorrah, directed by Michael Curtiz – (Austria)
  • La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet) – (France)
  • Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep directed by George Pearson; starring Betty Balfour – (GB)
  • The Suram Fortress (Suramis tsikhe) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Tess of the Storm Country, starring Mary Pickford
  • The Three Must-Get-Theres directed by and starring Max Linder
  • The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong
  • Vaskresenja ne biva bez smrti, (There's no resurrection without death), the first Montenegrin movie
  • What's Wrong with the Women?, directed by Roy William Neill; starring Constance Bennett & Hedda Hopper
  • When Knighthood Was in Flower, starring Marion Davies
  • Wildness of Youth, directed by Ivan Abramson
  • The Young Diana, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
  • The Young Rajah, starring Rudolph Valentino

    • Short film series

  • Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)
  • Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
  • Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
  • Our Gang (1922–1944)

    • Animated short film series

  • Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
  • Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
  • Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)

    • Births

  • January 10 – Hannelore Schroth, actress (died 1987)
  • January 13 – Albert Lamorisse, director (died 1970)
  • January 17 – Betty White, actress
  • January 19 – Guy Madison, actor (died 1996)
  • January 21
  • Telly Savalas, actor (died 1994)
  • Paul Scofield, actor (died 2008)
  • January 31 – Joanne Dru, actress (died 1996)
  • February 6 – Patrick Macnee, actor (died 2015)
  • February 7 – Hattie Jacques, actress (died 1980)
  • February 9 – Kathryn Grayson, singer, actress (died 2010)
  • February 26 – Margaret Leighton, actress (died 1976)
  • March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director (died 1975)
  • March 20 – Carl Reiner, actor, director
  • March 21 – Russ Meyer, director, producer (died 2004)
  • April 5 – Gale Storm, singer, actress (died 2009)
  • April 18 – Barbara Hale, actress (died 2017)
  • April 27 – Jack Klugman, actor (died 2012)
  • May 10 – Nancy Walker, actress (died 1992)
  • May 27 – Christopher Lee, actor (died 2015)
  • May 31 – Denholm Elliott, actor (died 1992)
  • June 1 – Joan Caulfield, actress (died 1991)
  • June 10 – Judy Garland, singer, actress (died 1969)
  • June 26 – Eleanor Parker, actress (died 2013)
  • July 6 – William Schallert, actor, (died 2016)
  • July 26 – Blake Edwards, director (died 2010)
  • August 8 – Rory Calhoun, actor (died 1999)
  • September 1
  • Vittorio Gassman, actor, director (died 2000)
  • Yvonne De Carlo, actress (died 2007)
  • September 8 – Sid Caesar, actor (died 2014)
  • September 14 – Michel Auclair, actor (died 1988)
  • September 15 – Jackie Cooper, actor, director (died 2011)
  • September 16
  • Guy Hamilton, director (died 2016)
  • Janis Paige, actress
  • September 29 – Lizabeth Scott, actress (died 2015)
  • October 23 – Coleen Gray, actress (died 2015)
  • October 31 – Barbara Bel Geddes, actress (died 2005)
  • November 9 – Dorothy Dandridge, actress, singer (died 1965)
  • November 12 - Kim Hunter, actress (died 2002)
  • November 13
  • Oskar Werner, actor (died 1984)
  • Madeleine Sherwood, actress (2016)
  • November 14 – Veronica Lake, actress (died 1973)
  • December 2 – Leo Gordon, actor and screenplay writer (died 2000)
  • December 4 – Gérard Philipe, actor (died 1959)
  • December 22 – Ruth Roman, actress (died 1999)
  • December 24 – Ava Gardner, actress (died 1990)

    • Deaths

  • February 1 – William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal.
  • February 4 – Florence Deshon, American actress
  • March 4 - Bert Williams, American actor and singer
  • May 21 – Sidney Ainsworth, actor
  • May 26 - Walter Jones, American actor (b.1874)
  • June 6 – Lillian Russell, stage and screen actress
  • June 15 – Howard Crampton, actor
  • July 5 – Bobby Connelly, child star
  • September 23 – W. Chrystie Miller, veteran stage & screen actor
  • November 30 – René Cresté, actor and director

    • Film debuts

  • Clara Bow
  • Walt Disney – director, producer
  • Louise Dresser
  • Will Hay
  • William Powell
  • Darryl F. Zanuck – director, producer
  • Rin Tin Tin

    • References

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