March 5 - For the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood to film G.I. Blues
August 10 - Filming of West Side Story begins.
October 27 - Film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning released, first of the British social-realist wave.
November 4 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (the last film for both, though Monroe was working on another at the time of her death).
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
Academy Awards:
Best Picture:
The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists
Best Director:
Billy Wilder -
The Apartment
Best Actor:
Burt Lancaster -
Elmer Gantry
Best Actress:
Elizabeth Taylor -
BUtterfield 8
Best Supporting Actor:
Peter Ustinov -
Spartacus
Best Supporting Actress:
Shirley Jones -
Elmer Gantry
Best Foreign Language Film:
The Virgin Spring (
Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture:
Spartacus
Best Actor:
Burt Lancaster –
Elmer Gantry
Best Actress:
Greer Garson –
Sunrise at Campobello
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture (tie):
The Apartment
Best Picture (tie):
Song Without End
Best Actor:
Jack Lemmon –
The Apartment
Best Actress:
Shirley MacLaine –
The Apartment
Other
Best Director:
Jack Cardiff –
Sons and Lovers
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Le passage du Rhin (
The Crossing of the Rhine), directed by André Cayatte, Italy / France / W.Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
El lazarillo de tormes, directed by César Fernández Ardavín, Spain / Italy
U.S.A. unless stated
January 1960
5 January
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Japan)
12 January
Mrs. Warren's Profession (West Germany)
26 January
Two Way Stretch (U.K.)
27 January
Cash McCall
28 January
The Lady with the Dog (U.S.S.R.)
February 1960
1 February
Hell Bent for Leather
3 February
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
4 February
Visit to a Small Planet
5 February
La Dolce Vita (Italy)
11 February
Once More, with Feeling!
Sink the Bismarck! (U.K.)
16 February
Cimarron
19 February
Devi (India)
The Last Voyage
24 February
The Bramble Bush
27 February
Cleopatra's Daughter
The Hypnotic Eye
March 1960
1 March
Comanche Station
Heller in Pink Tights
2 March
Eyes Without a Face (France)
3 March
Home from the Hill
4 March
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (U.K.)
5 March
The 3rd Voice
9 March
Can-Can
10 March
Purple Noon (France)
12 March
Seven Thieves
15 March
5 Branded Women
The Angry Silence (U.K.)
17 March
Breathless (France)
18 March
The Hole (France)
23 March
The Big Risk (France)
31 March
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
April 1960
2 April
Twelve Hours to Kill
5 April
The League of Gentlemen (U.K.)
6 April
Tall Story
The Unforgiven
10 April
Hell Is a City
13 April
Obaltan (South Korea)
15 April
Who Was That Lady?
21 April
The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia)
May 1960
16 May
Peeping Tom (U.K.)
17 May
The Challenge (U.K.)
19 May
Crack in the Mirror
Pollyanna
25 May
Faust (West Germany)
26 May
Wild River
June 1960
3 June
Cruel Story of Youth (Japan)
7 June
Never Let Go (U.K.)
9 June
Macario (Mexico)
15 June
The Apartment
16 June
Psycho
17 June
The Story of Ruth
A Terrible Beauty
22 June
The Gallant Hours
House of Usher
23 June
Bells Are Ringing
The Party Is Over (Argentina)
Portrait in Black
28 June
Murder, Inc.
29 June
L'Avventura (Italy)
Strangers When We Meet
July 1960
7 July
The Brides of Dracula
Elmer Gantry
Inherit the Wind
10 July
13 Ghosts
The Rat Race
13 July
The Lost World
15 July
From the Terrace
Knights of the Teutonic Order (Poland)
20 July
The Bellboy
25 July
The Entertainer (U.K.)
30 July
Jigoku (Japan)
August 1960
5 August
Last Woman on Earth
Mughal-e-Azam (India)
Parakh (India)
7 August
It Started in Naples
9 August
Make Mine Mink (U.K.)
10 August
Ocean's 11
11 August
Black Sunday (Italy)
Song Without End
14 August
Alakazam the Great (Japan)
17 August
The Enchanting Shadow (Hong Kong)
The Time Machine
20 August
College Confidential
September 1960
6 September
Rocco and His Brothers (Italy/France)
8 September
Let's Make Love
9 September
September Storm
14 September
The Little Shop of Horrors
15 September
Under Ten Flags
16 September
High Time
19 September
The Bad Sleep Well (Japan)
28 September
Sunrise at Campobello
29 September
Surprise Package
30 September
Hell to Eternity
October 1960
1 October
Autumn Has Already Started
Never on Sunday (Greece/U.S.A.)
6 October
Spartacus
8 October
A False Student (Japan)
9 October
Night and Fog in Japan (Japan)
13 October
Midnight Lace
17 October
The Devil's Eye (Sweden)
18 October
The Millionairess (U.K.)
23 October
The Magnificent Seven
24 October
The Alamo
27 October
Everybody Go Home (Italy)
28 October
Zazie in the Metro (France)
31 October
Man in the Moon (U.K.)
November 1960
1 November
Her Brother (Japan)
3 November
El Cochecito (Spain)
Five Cartridges (East Germany)
The Housemaid (South Korea)
4 November
BUtterfield 8
10 November
The World of Suzie Wong (U.K./U.S.)
13 November
Late Autumn (Japan)
North to Alaska
14 November
The Facts of Life
16 November
Fortunat (France/Italy)
23 November
G.I. Blues
Go to Hell, Hoodlums!
The Naked Island (Japan)
December 1960
7 December
Village of the Damned (U.K.)
8 December
The Sundowners
11 December
The Human Vapor
12 December
The River of Love (Egypt)
The Yellow Gloves (Greece)
14 December
Esther and the King (U.S./Italy)
16 December
Cinderfella
Exodus
The Three Worlds of Gulliver
20 December
Flaming Star
Pepe
Tunes of Glory (U.K.)
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
21 December
Swiss Family Robinson
23 December
The Grass Is Greener
28 December
Where the Boys Are
30 December
The Last Witness (West Germany)
U.S.A. unless stated
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The 3rd Voice, starring Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London
5 Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau
13 Ghosts, directed by William Castle
A
Adua and Friends (Adua e le compagne), starring Simone Signoret - (Italy)
Alakazam the Great (Saiyu-ki), an anime film - (Japan)
The Alamo, directed by and starring John Wayne, co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone
Ali Baba Bujang Lapok - (Malaysia/Singapore)
The Angry Silence, starring Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
Anuradha - (India)
The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edie Adams
Autumn Has Already Started (Aki tachinu), directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)
L'Avventura (The Adventure), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - (Italy)
B
Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście) - (Poland)
The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
Because They're Young, starring Dick Clark
Beat Girl, starring David Farrar, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Christopher Lee - (U.K.)
The Bellboy, starring Jerry Lewis
Bells Are Ringing, starring Dean Martin and Judy Holliday
Beyond the Time Barrier
The Big Risk (Classe tous risques), starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) - (Italy)
Les Bonnes Femmes (The Girls), directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)
The Bramble Bush, starring Richard Burton and Angie Dickinson
Breathless (À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg - (France)
The Brides of Dracula, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
The Broken Pots (Kırık Çanaklar) - (Turkey)
BUtterfield 8, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey
C
Can-Can, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse
Carry On Constable, starring Sid James and Eric Barker - (U.K.)
Cash McCall, starring James Garner and Natalie Wood
The Challenge, a.k.a. It Takes A Thief, starring Jayne Mansfield - (U.K.)
Cidade Ameaçada (a.k.a. Jerry the Gangster) - (Brazil)
Cimarron, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter
Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti
Circus of Horrors, starring Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence - (U.K.)
Cleopatra's Daughter, starring Debra Paget
El Cochecito (The Little Coach), directed by Marco Ferreri - (Spain)
College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren
Comanche Station, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott
Come Back, Africa, documentary film - (South Africa)
Crack in the Mirror, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Juliette Gréco
The Criminal, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker - (U.K.)
Cruel Story of Youth (Seishun Zankoku Monogatari), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
D
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, starring Dorothy McGuire, Shirley Knight, Robert Preston
Dentist in the Chair, starring Bob Monkhouse and Kenneth Connor - (U.K.)
Desire in the Dust, starring Joan Bennett, Martha Hyer, Raymond Burr
Devi (a.k.a. The Goddess), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
The Devil's Eye (Djävulens öga), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson - (Sweden)
La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg - (Italy)
E
Elmer Gantry, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones
The Enchanting Shadow (Ching nu yu hun) - (Hong Kong)
The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Laurence Olivier - (U.K.)
Esther and the King, starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan - (U.S./Italy)
Everybody Go Home (Tutti a casa), directed by Luigi Comencini - (Italy)
Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, John Derek
Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage), starring Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli - (France)
F
The Facts of Life, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
A False Student (Nise daigakusei) - (Japan)
Faust - (West Germany)
Five Cartridges (Fünf Patronenhülsen) - (East Germany)
Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden
Fortunat (Fortunate), starring Bourvil and Michèle Morgan - (France/Italy)
From the Terrace, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ina Balin, George Grizzard, Myrna Loy
G
G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse
The Gallant Hours, a biopic of Admiral "Bull" Halsey starring James Cagney
Girl of the Night, starring Anne Francis and John Kerr
Go to Hell, Hoodlums! (Kutabare gurentai) - (Japan)
Goliath and the Dragon
Goliath II, a Disney animated short
The Grass Is Greener, starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
Guns of the Timberland, starring Alan Ladd
H
Hell Bent for Leather, starring Audie Murphy and Felicia Farr
Hell Is a City, starring Stanley Baker - (U.K.)
Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
Hell to Eternity, starring Jeffrey Hunter and David Janssen
Her Brother (Otôto), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
High Time, starring Bing Crosby
Hobbi al-Wahid (My Only Love), starring Omar Sharif - (Egypt)
The Hole (Le Trou) (a.k.a. The Night Watch), directed by Jacques Becker - (France)
Home from the Hill, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
House of Usher, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price
The Housemaid (Hanyeo) - (South Korea)
The Human Vapor (Gasu Ningen dai Ichigo), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
The Hypnotic Eye, starring Jacques Bergerac
I
Il Mattatore, directed by Dino Risi - (Italy)
I Aim at the Stars, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Curd Jürgens, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala
Ice Palace, starring Richard Burton, Robert Ryan and Carolyn Jones
Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Dick York
It Started in Naples, starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren
J
Jigoku (Hell) - (Japan)
Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (The Land Where the Ganges Flows), starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
K
Kanoon (The Law), starring Ashok Kumar - (India)
Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyżacy), directed by Aleksander Ford - (Poland)
L
The Lady with the Dog (Dama s sobachkoy) - (U.S.S.R.)
The Last Voyage, starring Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone
The Last Witness (Der Letzte Zeuge) - (West Germany)
Last Woman on Earth, directed by Roger Corman
Late Autumn (Akibiyori), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
The League of Gentlemen, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Jack Hawkins - (U.K.)
Let's Make Love, starring Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand
The Little Soldier (Le petit soldat), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina - (France)
The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman
Linda, starring Carol White - (U.K.)
The Lost World, starring Michael Rennie and Jill St. John
Love in Simla, starring Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana - (India)
M
Macario, directed by Roberto Gavaldón - (Mexico)
Macumba Love - (U.S.A./Brazil)
The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz
Make Mine Mink, starring Terry-Thomas - (U.K.)
Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas (a.k.a. That Joyous Eve), directed by Fons Rademakers - (Netherlands)
Man in the Moon, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
Manzil (Destination), starring Dev Anand - (India)
Midnight Lace, starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy
The Millionairess, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
The Mountain Road, starring James Stewart
Mrs. Warren's Profession (Frau Warrens Gewerbe), starring Lilli Palmer (West Germany)
Mughal-e-Azam (The Greatest of the Mughals), starring Dilip Kumar and Madhubala - (India)
Murder, Inc., starring Peter Falk, Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan
N
The Naked Island (Hadaka no shima) - (Japan)
Never Let Go, directed by John Guillermin, starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars and Adam Faith - (U.K.)
Never on Sunday, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri - (Greece/U.S.A.)
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, starring Patrick Allen and Gwen Watford - (U.K.)
Night and Fog in Japan (Nihon no yoru to kiri), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
The Ninth Circle (Deveti krug) - (Yugoslavia)
North to Alaska, starring John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Capucine, Fabian Forte
O
Obaltan (a.k.a. The Stray Bullet) - (South Korea)
Ocean's 11, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson
Once More, with Feeling!, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner
Our Last Spring (a.k.a. Eroica), directed by Michael Cacoyannis - (Greece)
P
Parakh, directed by Bimal Roy - (India)
The Party Is Over (Fin de fiesta) - (Argentina)
Le Passage du Rhin, starring Charles Aznavour - (France/Italy/West Germany)
Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell, starring Karl Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer - (U.K.)
Pepe, starring Cantinflas
Please Don't Eat the Daisies, starring Doris Day and David Niven
Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills
Portrait in Black, starring Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, starring Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren
Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, John Gavin
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, starring Cecil Parker and Joyce Grenfell - (U.K.)
Purple Noon (Plein Soleil), a.k.a. Blazing Sun, directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon - (France)
Q
The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) - (U.S.S.R.)
R
The Rat Race, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Don Rickles
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Ray Danton and Karen Steele
The River of Love (Nahr el hub), starring Omar Sharif - (Egypt)
Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Alain Delon - (Italy/France)
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julie a tma) - (Czechoslovakia)
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
S
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts - (U.K.)
The Savage Innocents, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Anthony Quinn
Scent of Mystery, starring Denholm Elliott and Elizabeth Taylor
School for Scoundrels, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas - (U.K.)
September Storm, starring Joanne Dru
Sergeant Rutledge, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode
Seven Days... Seven Nights (Moderato cantabile), starring Jeanne Moreau - (France)
Seven Thieves, starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins
Shoot the Pianist (Tirez sur le pianiste), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour - (France)
Sink the Bismarck!, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (El Esqueleto de la señora Morales), starring Arturo de Córdova - (Mexico)
Song Without End, starring Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Patricia Morison
Sons and Lovers, directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard - (U.K.)
Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis
The Spider's Web, directed by Godfrey Grayson. Based on an Agatha Christie play (U.K.)
The Story of Ruth, a Biblical drama starring Stuart Whitman and Peggy Wood
Strangers When We Meet, starring Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs
Struggle for Eagle Peak (Venner) - (Norway)
The Subterraneans, starring George Peppard
The Sundowners, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum - (U.S.A./U.K./Australia)
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a.k.a. Season of Passion, starring Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills
Sunrise at Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy (as Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Greer Garson
Surprise Package, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward
Swiss Family Robinson, starring John Mills and Dorothy McGuire
T
Tall Story, starring Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Ray Walston
Tarzan the Magnificent, starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine
A Terrible Beauty, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Mitchum and Anne Heywood
Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau - (France)
There Was a Crooked Man, starring Norman Wisdom - (U.K.)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse), directed by Fritz Lang - (West Germany)
The Three Worlds of Gulliver, starring Kerwin Mathews
The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux
Too Hot to Handle, starring Jayne Mansfield - (U.K.)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde, starring Peter Finch - (U.K.)
The Truth (La Vérité), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
Tunes of Glory, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness - (U.K.)
Twelve Hours to Kill, starring Nico Minardos and Barbara Eden
Two-Way Stretch, starring Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
Two Women, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren - (Italy)
U
Under Ten Flags, starring Van Heflin and Charles Laughton
The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn
Universe - (Canada)
V
Vice Raid, starring Mamie Van Doren
Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley - (U.K.)
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow - (Sweden)
Visit to a Small Planet, starring Jerry Lewis
W
The Wackiest Ship in the Army, starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson
Watch Your Stern, starring Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips - (U.K.)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki), directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)
Where the Boys Are, starring George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis
The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rößl) - (West Germany/Austria)
Who Was That Lady?, starring Dean Martin, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
Wild River, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Montgomery Clift
The World of Suzie Wong, starring Nancy Kwan and William Holden - (U.K./U.S.)
Y
The Yellow Gloves (Ta kitrina gantia) - (Greece)
The Young One (La Joven), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico/U.S.A.)
Z
Zazie dans le Métro, directed by Louis Malle - (France)
Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Terrytoons (1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
January 12 - Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
January 13 - Kevin Anderson, American actor
February 7 - James Spader, American actor
February 18 - Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
February 20 - Wendee Lee, American voice actress
February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress (died 1980)
March 31 - Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (died 2010)
April 4 - Hugo Weaving, Australian-British actor
April 14 – Brad Garrett, American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian & professional poker-player
May 21 - Mohanlal , Indian actor
May 24 - Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
May 31 - Chris Elliott, American actor and comedian
June 17 - Thomas Haden Church, American actor
July 5 - Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stuntman
July 14 - Jane Lynch, American actress
August 7
David Duchovny, American actor
Rosana Pastor, Spanish actress
August 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
August 16 - Timothy Hutton, American actor
August 17 - Sean Penn, American actor
August 29 - Viire Valdma, Estonian actress
September 9 - Hugh Grant, English actor
September 10 - Colin Firth, English actor
September 17 - Frédéric Pierrot, French actor
October 9 - Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (died 2008)
October 18 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
November 5 - Tilda Swinton, English actress
November 11 - Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
December 3
Daryl Hannah, American actress
Julianne Moore, American actress
December 10 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and film director
January 1 - Margaret Sullavan, 50, American actress, The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm
January 3 – Victor Sjöström, 80, Swedish film actor and director, The Phantom Carriage, Wild Strawberries
January 4 - Dudley Nichols, 64, American screenwriter, Bringing Up Baby, Stagecoach
January 21 - Matt Moore, 72, Irish-American actor, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Coquette
February 3 - Fred Buscaglione, 38, Italian actor and singer
March 19 - Sonya Levien, 71, Russian screenwriter, Oklahoma!, Quo Vadis, Interrupted Melody
April 5 - Alma Kruger, 90, American actress, His Girl Friday, Saboteur
April 25 - Hope Emerson, 62, American actress, Caged, Adam's Rib
May 27 - George Zucco, 74, British actor, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, My Favorite Blonde
July 26 - Cedric Gibbons, 67, Irish production designer and art director, An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful
September 4 - Alfred E. Green, 71, American director, Baby Face, Top Banana
September 5 - Aku Korhonen, 57, Finnish actor
September 11 - Edwin Justus Mayer, 63, American screenwriter, To Be or Not to Be, A Royal Scandal
October 15 - Clara Kimball Young, 70, American actress, My Official Wife, Kept Husbands
November 3 - Paul Willis, 59, American silent-film actor, The Fall of a Nation
November 5
Mack Sennett, 80, Canadian-American producer and director, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tango Tangles
Ward Bond, 57, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, The Searchers, Rio Bravo
November 16 - Clark Gable, 59, American actor, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind
November 19 - Phyllis Haver, 61, American actress, Chicago, Sal of Singapore
December 14 - Gregory Ratoff, 67, Russian actor and director, All About Eve, Intermezzo
Alan Bates - The Entertainer
Albert Finney - The Entertainer
Jane Fonda - Tall Story
Peter O'Toole - Kidnapped
Robert Redford - Tall Story
Gian Maria Volontè - Under Ten Flags
Susannah York - Tunes of Glory
