The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra, Alfred Hitchcock's horror The Birds, and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
February 20 – The classic epic western How the West Was Won premieres.
June 12 – Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. Its staggering production costs nearly bankrupted Twentieth Century Fox and the adulterous affair between Taylor and Burton made the publicity even worse. Cleopatra marked the only instance that a film would be the highest-grossing film of a year while still losing money, thus establishing it as, at the time, the biggest box office disaster in cinema history. The film's terrible reception harmed the reputation of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who had an esteemed career for directing classics like A Letter to Three Wives, All About Eve, Julius Caesar, The Barefoot Contessa, Guys and Dolls, and Suddenly, Last Summer. It effectively destroyed the career of its well-known producer Walter Wanger, who never worked in Hollywood or on another film again; he died five years later at the age of 74 of a heart attack. Much of the blame of the film's failures could be pointed at Taylor's super-diva personality, her and Burton's adulterous affair, and the studio's inadequate management. It wouldn't be until two years later that Rodgers and Hammerstein's adaptation of The Sound of Music would help rescue Fox from bankruptcy by becoming one of the highest-grossing motion pictures of all time.
November 7 – The classic comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres and it boasts one of the finest all-star ensemble casts ever, easily the most impressive for a comedy. It is also the first comedy film ever directed by Stanley Kramer, best known for directing serious human drama films on controversial subjects like The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
December 25 – Walt Disney's production of The Sword in the Stone premieres. It is the second adaptation of T. H. White's The Once and Future King after the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical Camelot, the first cinematic adaptation of the novel, and the 13th film adaptation of the legend of King Arthur.
Academy Awards:
Best Picture:
Tom Jones — Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert (British)
Best Director: Tony Richardson –
Tom Jones
Best Actor: Sidney Poitier –
Lilies of the Field
Best Actress: Patricia Neal –
Hud
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas –
Hud
Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford –
The V.I.P.s
Best Foreign Language Film:
8½ (
Otto e mezzo), directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture:
The Cardinal
Best Actor: Sidney Poitier -
Lilies of the Field
Best Actress: Leslie Caron -
The L-Shaped Room
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture:
Tom Jones
Best Actor: Alberto Sordi -
Il diavolo
Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine -
Irma la Douce
Other
Best Director: Elia Kazan -
America, America
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
The Leopard (
Il Gattopardo), directed by Luchino Visconti, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Hands Over the City (
Le mani sulla città), directed by Francesco Rosi, Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Il diavolo (
To Bed... or Not to Bed), directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro, Italy
U.S.A. unless stated.
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8½, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée -- Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film - (Italy)
55 Days at Peking, starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven
A
An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojō Henge), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din (Saladin), directed by Youssef Chahine - (Egypt)
All the Way Home, starring Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Ronnie Claire Edwards
Alone on the Pacific (Taiheiyo hitori-botchi), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
America, America (a.k.a. The Anatolian Smile) by Elia Kazan
Any Number Can Win (Mélodie en sous-sol), starring Jean Gabin and Alain Delon - (France/Italy)
Atragon (Kaitei gunkan), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
B
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (La Boulangère de Monceau), directed by Éric Rohmer, starring Barbet Schroeder - (France)
The Balcony, starring Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Leonard Nimoy
Bandini (Imprisoned), directed by Bimal Roy, starring Ashok Kumar - (India)
Barren Lives (Vidas Secas) - (Brazil)
Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges), directed by Jacques Demy, starring Jeanne Moreau - (France)
Beach Party, directed by William Asher, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Bob Cummings, Dorothy Malone
The Big City (Mahanagar), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
Billy Liar, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie - (U.K.)
The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy
Bitter Harvest, starring Janet Munro - (U.K.)
Black Sabbath (I tre volti della paura), starring Boris Karloff - (Italy/U.K./France)
Blood Feast, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Il Boom, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (Bushidô zankoku monogatari) Golden Bear winner - (Japan)
Bye Bye Birdie, starring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Bobby Rydell, Maureen Stapleton, Paul Lynde
C
Call Me Bwana, directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams
Captain Newman, M.D., directed by David Miller, starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Bobby Darin, Eddie Albert, Angie Dickinson
Captain Sindbad
The Carabineers (Les Carabiniers), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
Carbide and Sorrel (Karbid und Sauerampfer) - (East Germany)
The Cardinal, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Romy Schneider, John Huston
The Caretaker, starring Alan Bates and Robert Shaw - (U.K.)
The Caretakers, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Stack, Polly Bergen
Carry On Cabby, starring Sid James and Hattie Jacques - (U.K.)
Carry On Jack, starring Kenneth Williams and Bernard Cribbins - (U.K.)
The Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) - (Czechoslovakia)
Chair de poule (a.k.a. Highway Pickup), directed by Julien Duvivier - (France)
Charade, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, James Coburn
A Child Is Waiting, starring Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster
Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Richard Burton - (U.S.A./U.K./Switzerland)
Codine - (France/Romania)
Come Blow Your Horn, starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Bill, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John
Come Fly With Me, starring Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Dolores Hart
The Conjugal Bed (L'ape regina), starring Ugo Tognazzi - (Italy)
Contempt, (Le Mépris), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli - (France)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Dina Merrill, Ron Howard
Critic's Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
The Cry (Křik) - (Czechoslovakia)
D
The Damned, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Macdonald Carey - (U.K.)
The Day and the Hour (Le jour et l'heure), directed by Rene Clement, starring Simone Signoret and Stuart Whitman - (France)
Dementia 13, directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Diamond Head, starring Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, France Nuyen, George Chakiris, James Darren
Diary of a Madman, starring Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Elaine Devry
Il diavolo (The Devil), starring Alberto Sordi, Golden Bear winner - (Italy)
Dil Ek Mandir (The Heart is a Temple) - (India)
Donovan's Reef, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin
Drama of the Lark (Pacsirta) - (Hungary)
Un drôle de paroissien (a.k.a. Heaven Sent), starring Bourvil - (France)
E
El Dorado, directed by Menahem Golan, starring Topol - (Israel)
Empress Wu Tse-Tien - (Hong Kong)
The Empty Canvas (La noia), starring Bette Davis and Horst Buchholz - (Italy)
The Engagement (I fidanzati), directed by Ermanno Olmi - (Italy)
The Executioner (El Verdugo), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Nino Manfredi - (Spain)
F
Father Came Too!, starring James Robertson Justice and Leslie Phillips - (U.K.)
The Fire Within (Le feu follet), directed by Louis Malle - (France)
Flaming Creatures, directed by Jack Smith
Flipper, starring Chuck Connors and Luke Halpin
Follow the Boys, starring Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Dany Robin, Janis Paige
For Love or Money, starring Kirk Douglas and Mitzi Gaynor
4 for Texas, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ursula Andress, Anita Ekberg
From Russia with Love, the second James Bond film, starring Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya - (U.K.)
Fun in Acapulco, starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress
G
A Gathering of Eagles, starring Rock Hudson
Gidget Goes to Rome, starring Cindy Carol
The Girl Hunters, starring Mickey Spillane (as Mike Hammer), with Lloyd Nolan, Shirley Eaton
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (La ragazza che sapeva troppo), directed by Mario Bava - (Italy)
Le glaive et la balance (a.k.a. Two are Guilty), starring Anthony Perkins - (France/Italy)
The Great Escape, directed by John Sturges, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence
The Green Years (Os Verdes Anos) - (Portugal)
H
Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città), directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Rod Steiger - Golden Lion winner - (Italy)
The Haunted Palace, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price
The Haunting, directed by Robert Wise, starring Julie Harris - (U.K.)
Heavens Above!, directed by the Boulting brothers, starring Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
High and Low (天国と地獄), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
The Hook, starring Kirk Douglas
The Householder (Gharbar), directed by James Ivory, starring Shashi Kapoor and Leela Naidu - (India)
How to Be Loved (Jak być kochaną), starring Zbigniew Cybulski - (Poland)
Hud, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Melvyn Douglas
I
I Could Go On Singing, starring Judy Garland and Dirk Bogarde - (U.K./U.S.A.)
Ikarie XB-1 (Icarus XB-1) - (Czechoslovakia)
L'Immortelle (The Immortal) - (France/Turkey)
In the Cool of the Day, starring Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury
The Incredible Journey
The Insect Woman (Nippon konchūki), directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan)
Irma la Douce, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
Island of Love, starring Robert Preston and Walter Matthau
It Happened at the World's Fair, starring Elvis Presley
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Phil Silvers, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Edie Adams, Dick Shawn and many more
J
Jason and the Argonauts, starring Todd Armstrong - (U.K./U.S.A.)
Johnny Cool, starring Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery
Judex, directed by Georges Franju - (France)
K
Kanto Wanderer (Kantō mushuku) - (Japan)
Kings of the Sun, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Yul Brynner and George Chakiris
L
Ladies Who Do, starring Harry H. Corbett, Robert Morley and Peggy Mount - (U.K.)
Ladybug Ladybug, directed by Frank Perry
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon - Palme d'Or winner - (Italy)
Like Two Drops of Water (Als twee druppels water), directed by Fons Rademakers - (Netherlands)
Lilies of the Field, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Sidney Poitier
The List of Adrian Messenger, directed by John Huston, starring George C. Scott
Lord of the Flies, directed by Peter Brook - (U.K.)
The Love Eterne (Liang Shan Bo yu Zhu Ying Tai) - (Hong Kong)
Love Is a Ball, starring Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Charles Boyer, Ricardo Montalbán
Love with the Proper Stranger, starring Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen
M
The Man from the Diner's Club, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Danny Kaye
Mary, Mary, starring Debbie Reynolds, Diane McBain and Barry Nelson
Matango (a.k.a. Attack of the Mushroom People), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
Mathias Sandorf
A Matter of Choice, directed by Vernon Sewell, starring Anthony Steel - (U.K.)
McLintock!, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
The Mind Benders, starring Dirk Bogarde and Mary Ure - (U.K.)
Miracle of the White Stallions, starring Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Eddie Albert
I mostri (a.k.a. Opiate '67), directed by Dino Risi - (Italy)
Mother of the Bride (Omm el aroussa) - (Egypt)
Move Over, Darling, starring Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Chuck Connors
Mujhe Jeene Do (Let Me Live), starring Sunil Dutt - (India)
Muriel (a.k.a. Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour), directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig - (France)
My Six Loves, starring Debbie Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, David Janssen
N
Naked Among Wolves (Nackt unter Wölfen) - (East Germany)
Nartanasala, starring N. T. Rama Rao and Savitri - (India)
A New Kind of Love, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
Nine Hours to Rama, directed by Mark Robson, starring Horst Buchholz, Diane Baker, Jose Ferrer - (UK/U.S.A.)
Not on Your Life (El Verdugo), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Nino Manfredi - (Spain)
Nunca pasa nada (Nothing Ever Happens), directed by Juan Antonio Bardem - (Spain)
The Nutty Professor, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, with Stella Stevens
O
One Got Fat, a bicycle safety film
Operation Bikini, starring Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Gary Crosby
Optimistic Tragedy - (U.S.S.R.)
The Organizer (I compagni), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
P
PT 109, starring Cliff Robertson as John F. Kennedy
Papa's Delicate Condition, starring Jackie Gleason
The Paper Man (El hombre de papel) - (Mexico)
Paranoiac, starring Janette Scott and Oliver Reed - (U.K.)
Passenger (Pasażerka) - (Poland)
The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine
Pour la suite du monde (For Those Who Will Follow) - (Canada)
The Prize, starring Paul Newman and Elke Sommer
Promises! Promises!, starring Jayne Mansfield
The Punch and Judy Man, starring Tony Hancock - (U.K.)
R
La Ragazza di Bube (Bébo's Girl), starring Claudia Cardinale and George Chakiris - (Italy)
Rampage, starring Robert Mitchum and Elsa Martinelli
The Raven, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Raven's End (Kvarteret Korpen), directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
The Red Lanterns (Ta Kokkina fanaria) - (Greece)
The Running Man, directed by Carol Reed, starring Laurence Harvey, Alan Bates, Lee Remick - (U.K.)
S
The Sadist
Sammy Going South, directed by Alexander Mackendrick - (U.K.)
The Servant, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, James Fox - (U.K.)
Shock Corridor, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Peter Breck and Constance Towers
The Sign of the Coyote
The Silence (Tystnaden), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Ingrid Thulin - (Sweden)
Sleep, by Andy Warhol
Sodom and Gomorrah, starring Stewart Granger, Anouk Aimee, Pier Angeli
Soldier in the Rain, starring Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason
Son of Flubber, starring Fred MacMurray
Sparrows Can't Sing, starring Barbara Windsor and Roy Kinnear - (U.K.)
Spencer's Mountain, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara
The Stripper, starring Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Gypsy Rose Lee
Stolen Hours, starring Susan Hayward and Diane Baker
Summer Holiday, starring Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters and The Shadows - (U.K.)
Summer Magic, starring Dorothy McGuire, Hayley Mills, Deborah Walley
Sunday in New York, starring Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor, Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp
Sunshine in a Net (Slnko v sieti) - (Czechoslovakia)
Suzanne's Career (La Carrière de Suzanne), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
The Sword in the Stone - an animated Disney film
T
Taj Mahal - (India)
Take Her, She's Mine, starring James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows
Tammy and the Doctor, starring Sandra Dee and Peter Fonda
Los Tarantos - (Spain)
This Sporting Life, directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts - (U.K.)
The Thrill of It All, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Doris Day and James Garner
A Ticklish Affair, directed by George Sidney, starring Shirley Jones and Gig Young
Tom Jones, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Albert Finney and Susannah York—winner 4 Oscars, 3 Golden Globes and 3 BAFTAs - (U.K.)
Les Tontons flingueurs (a.k.a. Crooks in Clover), starring Lino Ventura - (France/Italy/West Germany)
Torpedo Bay, starring James Mason and Lilli Palmer - (Italy/France)
Toys in the Attic, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller, Gene Tierney, Yvette Mimieux
Twilight of Honor, starring Richard Chamberlain
U
The Ugly American, starring Marlon Brando
Uncle Vanya, starring Michael Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright - (U.K.)
Under the Yum Yum Tree, starring Jack Lemmon, Dean Jones, Carol Lynley, Edie Adams
V
The Victors, starring George Peppard, George Hamilton, Vince Edwards, Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau - (U.K.)
La visita (The Visitor), starring Sandra Milo - (Italy)
The V.I.P.s, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Louis Jourdan, Margaret Rutherford, Orson Welles - (U.K.)
W
Walking the Streets of Moscow (Ya shagayu po Moskve) - (U.S.S.R.)
The Wheeler Dealers, starring James Garner and Lee Remick
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, starring Dean Martin, Carol Burnett, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jill St. John
Who's Minding the Store?, starring Jerry Lewis, Agnes Moorehead, Jill St. John
Wives and Lovers, starring Janet Leigh, Shelley Winters, Martha Hyer
The Wrong Arm of the Law, starring Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
X
X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes, directed by Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland
Y
The Yellow Canary, starring Pat Boone
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - (Italy)
Yoso, directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa - (Japan)
Young Aphrodites (Mikres Afrodites) - (Greece)
Youth of the Beast (Yajū no seishun), directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)
Z
Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Terrytoons (1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
January 14 — Steven Soderbergh, director
February 17 — Michael Jordan, actor
March 18 — Vanessa L. Williams, actress, singer and former beauty queen
March 20 — David Thewlis, English actor
March 27 — Quentin Tarantino, director
April 26 — Jet Li, actor
May 11 — Natasha Richardson, actress (d. 2009)
May 25 — Mike Myers, Canadian actor
June 6 — Jason Isaacs, English actor
June 9 — Johnny Depp, US actor
June 10 — Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actress
June 12 — Tim DeKay, actor & producer
June 15 — Helen Hunt, US actress and director
July 30 — Lisa Kudrow, US actress
August 5 — Mark Strong, English actor
August 7 — Harold Perrineau, actor
August 14 — Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
October 6 — Elisabeth Shue, US actress
October 12 — Dave Legeno, actor
November 5 — Tatum O'Neal, US actress
November 27 — Vladimir Mashkov, Russian actor
December 15 — Helen Slater, US actress
December 18 — Brad Pitt, actor
December 19 — Til Schweiger, actor
January 2
Dick Powell, 58, American actor, director, Murder, My Sweet, The Bad and the Beautiful
Jack Carson, 52, Canadian actor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mildred Pierce
January 6 - Frank Tuttle, 70, American director, This Gun for Hire, Waikiki Wedding
January 26 - Ole Olsen, 70, American actor and comedian, Hellzapoppin'
January 28 - John Farrow, 58, Australian director, Hondo, The Big Clock
February 2 - William Gaxton, 69, American actor and singer, Diamond Horseshoe, The Heat's On
February 8 - George Dolenz, 55, Hungarian actor, Vendetta, My Cousin Rachel
February 18 - Monte Blue, 76, American actor, Key Largo, White Shadows in the South Seas
April 4 - Jason Robards, Sr., 70, American actor, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Isle of the Dead
May 6 - Monty Woolley, 74, American actor, The Bishop's Wife, The Man Who Came to Dinner
May 17 - Daniel Mendaille, French actor, 77, L'Affaire Maurizius, Napoléon
June 7 - ZaSu Pitts, 69, American actress, Greed, Life with Father
June 18 - Pedro Armendáriz, 51, Mexican actor, The Fugitive, Fort Apache
July 10 - John Sutton, 54, Pakistani actor, The Three Musketeers, Captain from Castile
July 25 - Leota Lane, 59, American singer, actress, Three Hollywood Girls
August 14 - Clifford Odets, 57, American playwright and screenwriter, Sweet Smell of Success, None but the Lonely Heart
August 17 - Richard Barthelmess, 68, American actor, Broken Blossoms, Only Angels Have Wings
August 25 - Edward L. Cahn, 64, American director, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Girls in Prison
October 18 - Constance Worth, 52, Australian actress, China Passage, Meet Boston Blackie
October 29 - Adolphe Menjou, 73, American actor, Paths of Glory, A Star is Born
October 31 - Henry Daniell, 69, British actor, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, The Great Dictator
November 1 - Elsa Maxwell, 82, American gossip columnist, Rhapsody in Blue, Stage Door Canteen
November 25 - Joseph Sweeney, 79, American actor, 12 Angry Men, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
November 29 - Charles Schnee, 47, American screenwriter, The Bad and the Beautiful, Red River
November 30 - Phil Baker, 67, American comedian and actor, The Gang's All Here, Take It or Leave It
December 2
Sabu, 39, Indian actor, Jungle Book, The Thief of Bagdad
Mario Zampi, 60, Italian director, The Naked Truth, Five Golden Hours
December 4 - Robert Hamer, 52, British director, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Dead of Night
December 5 - Tom London, 74, American actor, Calamity Jane, High Noon
December 12 - Yasujirō Ozu, 60, Japanese director and screenwriter, Tokyo Story, Late Spring
December 12 - Barbara Read, 45, Canadian actress, Three Smart Girls, The Shadow Returns
Alan Alda - Gone are the Days!
Mel Brooks - The Critic
James Caan - Irma la Douce
Héctor Elizondo - The Fat Black Pussycat
Kurt Russell - It Happened at the World's Fair
Lynn Redgrave - Tom Jones
Donald Sutherland - The World Ten Times Over
