The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia the year's top-grossing film as well as winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
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 more than 50 years later (Spectre, 2015). It also launches the career of Sean Connery.
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
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
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture (tie):
That Touch of Mink
Best Picture (tie):
The Music Man
Best Actor:
Marcello Mastroianni –
Divorce Italian Style
Best Actress:
Rosalind Russell –
Gypsy
Other
Best Director:
David Lean –
Lawrence of Arabia
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
U.S.A. unless stated
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The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker
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
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 Amphibian Man (Chelovek-amfibiya) – (U.S.S.R.)
Asli-Naqli (Real and Fake), starring Dev Anand – (India)
Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) – (Spain)
An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
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)
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 Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) – (West Germany)
C
Os Cafajestes (The Unscrupulous Ones) – (Brazil)
Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (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
Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie
D
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
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.)
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)
Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas – (Greece)
Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
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
Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
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
G
Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy)
Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood
Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice – (U.K.)
H
H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K.)
Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala – (India)
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
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 Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
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/U.S.A.)
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
Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker – (France)
Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner – (U.K.)
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 – (U.K./U.S.A.)
Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
Lisa (aka The Inspector), starring Stephen Boyd – (U.S./U.K.)
Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig – (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 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 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
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
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, 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
P
O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte – (Brazil)
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
Pitfall (Otoshiana) – (Japan)
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)
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)
Sanjuru (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
Shaheed, starring Musarrat Nazir, Talish, Allauddin, Ejaz, Saqi (Pakistani film on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict)
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
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)
Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret – (U.K.)
That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret – (France)
To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
Tobacco (Tyutyun) – (Bulgaria)
Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
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)
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
V
The Vanishing Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur – (France)
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)
W
Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
The Waltz of the Toreadors, directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, Prunella Scales
War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) – (France)
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
Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna), directed by Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom
XYZ
Zorro the Avenger
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, actress
January 7 - Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
January 17 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, actor
February 22 – Steve Irwin, actor (d. 2006)
February 27 – Adam Baldwin, actor
March 10 – Jasmine Guy, actress, singer, dancer, and director
March 18 – Thomas Ian Griffith, actor
March 20 – Stephen Sommers, director
March 21 – Matthew Broderick, actor
May 12 – Emilio Estevez, actor
June 13 – Ally Sheedy, actress
June 19 – Paula Abdul, singer
June 27 – Tony Leung, actor
July 3 – Tom Cruise, actor
July 13 – Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian
July 19 – Anthony Edwards, actor
July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor
July 31 – Wesley Snipes, actor
August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, actress
August 13 – John Slattery, actor
August 16 – Steve Carell, actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
August 27 – Vic Mignogna, voice actor
August 29 – Ian James Corlett, voice actor
September 11 – Kristy McNichol, actress
September 15 – Scott McNeil, voice actor
September 17 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
October 1 – Esai Morales, actor
October 11 – Joan Cusack, actress, sister of actor John Cusack
October 12 – Deborah Foreman, actress
October 13 – Kelly Preston, actress
October 26 – Cary Elwes, actor
November 11 – Demi Moore, actress
November 19 – Jodie Foster, actress and director
December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor
January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
January 28 – Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor
February 1 - Carey Wilson, American screenwriter, Mutiny on the Bounty
February 19 - James Barton, American actor, Here Comes the Groom, Yellow Sky
February 28 - Chic Johnson, 70, American comedian, actor, Hellzapoppin'
April 10 – Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood
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
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 19 – Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
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 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
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 28 – Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted
Bernardo Bertolucci(director) – The Grim Reaper
Jackie Chan – Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
Julie Christie – Crooks Anonymous
Robert Duvall – To Kill a Mockingbird
Sally Field – Moon Pilot
John Hurt – Young and Willing
Ian McShane – Young and Willing
Sarah Miles – Term of Trial
Sydney Pollack(actor) – War Hunt
Robert Redford – War Hunt
George A. Romero(director) – Expostulations
Tom Skerritt – War Hunt
Terence Stamp – Term of Trial
Lesley Ann Warren – The Chapman Report
