1969 in film

Events

Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980. From 1969 to 1979, the festival is non-competitive.

Al Pacino's film debut (Me, Natalie)

Elvis Presley's film career ends with the release of Change of Habit.

On August 9, Sharon Tate, the 26-year-old actress, model and Roman Polanski's wife, is murdered by Charles Manson's followers

On June 22, Judy Garland dies at age 47 of a drug overdose in London.

By date

Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

January–March

January 23: Some Girls Do

March 5: The Big Bounce

March 10: The Assassination Bureau (U.K.)

March 12: Where Eagles Dare

March 26:

100 Rifles

The Illustrated Man

Support Your Local Sheriff!

April–June

April 1:

Sam Whiskey

Sweet Charity

April 3: Goodbye, Columbus

April 24: If....s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

May 7:

Sinful Davey

Where It's At

May 10: Mackenna's Gold

May 14: Nightmare in Wax

May 15: Midas Run

May 22:

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (U.K.)

Winning

May 25: Midnight Cowboy

May 27: Popi

May 28: The April Fools

May 29: Che!

June 6: Hook, Line & Sinker

June 11:

Rascal

True Grit

June 18: The Wild Bunch

June 19: Last Summer

June 24: Chastity

June 25:

The Bridge at Remagen

The Chairman

Hello Down There

July–September

July 2: Three Into Two Won't Go

July 7: How to Commit Marriage

July 14: Easy Rider

July 23: Castle Keep

August 6: The Learning Tree

August 18: Take the Money and Run

August 19: Alice's Restaurant

August 20: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

August 21: Number One

August 27:

Medium Cool

The Rain People

August 28: The Gypsy Moths

September 3:

The Trouble with Girls

The Valley of Gwangi

September 17: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

October–December

October 4: Hail, Hero!

October 8: The Monitors

October 12: The Madwoman of Chaillot

October 15: Paint Your Wagon

October 22:

Marlowe

The Sterile Cuckoo

October 24: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

October 29: The Secret of Santa Vittoria

November 10:

Change of Habit

Marooned

November 15: Goodbye, Mr. Chips

November 18: The Arrangement

November 19: The Comic

November 27: The Undefeated

December 4: A Boy Named Charlie Brown

December 10: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

December 16:

Cactus Flower

Hello, Dolly!

December 18:

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

December 19: Topaz

December 20: All Monsters Attack (Japan)

December 24: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

December 25: The Reivers

December 30: The Wrecking Crew

Notable films released in 1969

Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

100 Rifles, starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds

A

Ådalen 31, directed by Bo Widerberg – (Sweden)

Adelheid, directed by František Vláčil – (Czechoslovakia)

The Adjutant of His Excellency (Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva) – (U.S.S.R.)

Age of Consent, directed by Michael Powell, starring James Mason and Helen Mirren – (Australia)

Alfred the Great, starring David Hemmings – (U.K.)

Alice's Restaurant, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Arlo Guthrie

All Monsters Attack (Gojira Minira Gabara Ōru Kaijū Daishingeki, also known as Godzilla's Revenge), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)

All My Compatriots (Všichni dobří rodáci) – (Czechoslovakia)

Angel in My Pocket, starring Andy Griffith

Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, John Colicos, Anthony Quayle – winner of 4 Golden Globes – (U.K.)

The April Fools, starring Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford

Aradhana (Worship) – (India)

Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret – (France)

The Arrangement, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Kirk Douglas and Deborah Kerr

Arthur? Arthur!, starring Shelley Winters, Terry-Thomas, Tammy Grimes

The Assassination Bureau, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas – (U.K.)

B

Ballad of Carl-Henning (Balladen om Carl-Henning) – (Denmark)

Bambi Meets Godzilla, very short cult film by Marv Newland

Battle of Britain, starring Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer – (U.K.)

Battle of Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi), starring Sergei Bondarchuk and Yul Brynner – (Yugoslavia)

The Bed-Sitting Room, directed by Richard Lester, starring Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Marty Feldman – (U.K.)

Before Winter Comes, starring David Niven – (U.K.)

The Big Bounce, starring Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor-Young

Blue Movie, directed by Andy Warhol

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon

Boy (Shonen), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

The Brain (Le Cerveau), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven – (France/Italy)

The Bridge at Remagen, starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, Robert Vaughn

The Brothers Karamazov (Bratya Karamazovy) – (U.S.S.R.)

Burn! (Queimada), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Marlon Brando – (Italy)

The Bushbaby, directed by John Trent and starring Margaret Brooks and Lou Gossett

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

C

Cactus Flower, starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, starring Anthony Newley and Joan Collins

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, starring Robert Ryan and Chuck Connors

Carry On Camping, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor – (U.K.)

Castle Keep, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk

The Chairman, starring Gregory Peck

Change of Habit, starring Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner

Chastity, starring Cher

Che!, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Omar Sharif and Jack Palance

The Color of Pomegranates (Nran guyne) – (U.S.S.R.)

The Comic, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Dick Van Dyke

Il Commissario Pepe (Police Chief pepe), starring Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, starring Kurt Russell

The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol) – (Czechoslovakia)

D

The Damned (La caduta degli dei), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde and Ingrid Thulin – (Italy/West Germany)

Daughter of the Mind, starring Don Murray and Ray Milland

De Sade, starring Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, John Huston – (U.S./West Germany)

Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto), starring Michel Piccoli and Anita Pallenberg – (Italy)

Don't Drink the Water, directed by Howard Morris, written by Woody Allen, starring Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Michael Constantine

Do Raaste (Two Roads) – (India)

Doppelgänger, starring Roy Thinnes, Lynn Loring, Herbert Lom

Double Suicide (Shinjū: Ten no amijima) – (Japan)

Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv

The Dragon of Evil Against the Warrior Saint (O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro), directed by Glauber Rocha – (Brazil)

E

Easy Rider, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson

End of a Priest (Farářův konec) – (Czechoslovakia)

Eros Plus Massacre (Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) – (Japan)

The Exquisite Cadaver (Las crueles), starring Capucine – (Spain)

The Extraordinary Seaman, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda

Eye of the Cat, starring Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker

F

Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy)

Flashback, directed by Raffaele Andreassi – (Italy)

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)

Fraulein Doktor, starring Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Capucine

Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Sōretsu), by Toshio Matsumoto – (Japan)

G

Gaily, Gaily, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, George Kennedy, Margot Kidder

A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce), directed by Robert Bresson, starring Dominique Sanda – (France)

Goodbye, Columbus, starring Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw and Jack Klugman

Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark

Goyokin, directed by Hideo Gosha – (Japan)

The Grasshopper, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jim Brown

The Great Love (Le grand amour) – (France)

The Gypsy Moths, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Bonnie Bedelia

H

Hail, Hero! directed by David Miller Starring Michael Douglas and Peter Strauss.

Hamlet, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Anthony Hopkins – (U.K.)

Handcuffs (Lisice) – (Yugoslavia)

Hannibal Brooks, starring Oliver Reed

Hard Contract, starring James Coburn, Lee Remick, Burgess Meredith – (U.K.

Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly, starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Tommy Tune, Louis Armstrong

Hello Down There, starring Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Jim Backus, Charlotte Rae, Ken Berry, Roddy McDowall, Richard Dreyfuss

Honeycomb (La madriguera), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin – (Spain)

The Honeymoon Killers, starring Tony LoBianco and Shirley Stoler

Hook, Line & Sinker, starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lawford

How to Commit Marriage, starring Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Tina Louise, Maureen Arthur, Leslie Nielsen

Heaven Is Never a Great Distance, starring Mohammad Ali Fardin – Iran

I

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, starring Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Michael Constantine

I'm an Elephant, Madame (Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame) – (West Germany)

The Italian Job, directed by Peter Collinson, starring Michael Caine and Noël Coward – (U.K.)

The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom

It's Tough Being a Man (Otoko wa tsurai yo) – (Japan)

Ittefaq, starring Rajesh Khanna – (India)

J

Jackal of Nahueltoro (El Chacal de Nahueltoro) – (Chile)

John and Mary, starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow

K

Katrina – (South Africa)

Katzelmacher, directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Hanna Schygulla – (West Germany)

Kes, directed by Ken Loach – (U.K.)

Khamoshi (Silence) – (India)

L

L'Amour fou, directed by Jacques Rivette – (France)

The Land (Al-ard), directed by Youssef Chahine – (Egypt)

Larks on a String (Skřivánci na niti), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia) – banned until 1990

Last Summer, starring Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns

Laughter in the Dark (La Chambre obscure), directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson and Anna Karina – (France/U.K.)

The Learning Tree, directed by Gordon Parks

Lock Up Your Daughters, starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Glynis Johns

Lost Flight, starring Anne Francis, Lloyd Bridges, Billy Dee Williams

The Lost Man, starring Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus

The Love God?, directed by Nat Hiken, starring Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Maureen Arthur

Love Is Colder Than Death (Liebe ist kälter als der Tod), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)

M

Machine Gun McCain, starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk

Mackenna's Gold, starring Gregory Peck, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, and Omar Sharif

Macunaíma – (Brazil)

The Madwoman of Chaillot, starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer, John Gavin, Danny Kaye

The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Raquel Welch – (U.K.)

Marlowe, directed by Paul Bogart, starring James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Carroll O'Connor, Bruce Lee

Marooned, directed by John Sturges, starring Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman

Marquis de Sade: Justine, starring Romina Power, Klaus Kinski, Jack Palance – (Italy)

Medea, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Maria Callas – (Italy/France/West Germany)

Medium Cool, directed by Haskell Wexler, starring Robert Forster, Marianna Hill, Peter Bonerz

Midas Run, starring Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire

Midnight Cowboy, directed by John Schlesinger, screenplay by Waldo Salt, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman

The Milky Way (La Voie Lactée), directed by Luis Buñuel – (France/Italy/West Germany)

Mississippi Mermaid (La sirène du Mississipi), directed by François Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)

The Monitors, starring Guy Stockwell and Susan Oliver

Mon oncle Benjamin (My Uncle Benjamin) – (France)

Monsieur Hawarden – (Belgium/Netherlands)

Monte Carlo or Bust!, aka Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies, starring Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore – (U.K./France/Italy)

Mosquito Squadron, starring David McCallum – (U.K.)

My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud), directed by Éric Rohmer – (France)

N

The Night of Counting the Years (Al-Mummia) – (Egypt)

Nightmare in Wax, starring Cameron Mitchell and Anne Helm

Number One, starring Charlton Heston, Jessica Walter, Bruce Dern

O

The Oblong Box, starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee

Oh! What a Lovely War, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Mills – (U.K.)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby (as James Bond), with Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas – (U.K.)

P

Paint Your Wagon, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, with songs by Lerner and Loewe

The Passion of Anna, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson – (Sweden)

Pigsty (Porcile), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini – (Italy)

La Piscine (The Swimming Pool), starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider – (France)

Play Dirty, starring Michael Caine – (U.K.)

Popi, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Alan Arkin and Rita Moreno

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Maggie Smith (Academy Award winner) – (U.K.)

The Promise, starring John Castle and Ian McKellen – (U.K.)

Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey, Sr.

Q

A Quiet Place in the Country (Un tranquillo posto di campagna), starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave – (Italy/France)

R

The Rain People, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Robert Duvall, Shirley Knight

Rani Radovi (Early Years) – Golden Bear winner – (Yugoslavia)

Rascal, starring Bill Mumy and Steve Forrest

The Red Tent (Krasnaya palatka) – (U.S.S.R./Italy/U.K.)

The Reivers, based on the novel by William Faulkner, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel, Will Geer, narrated by Burgess Meredith

La residencia (The Boarding School), starring Lilli Palmer – (Spain)

Rider on the Rain (Le Passager de la pluie), directed by René Clément, starring Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert – (France)

Ring of Bright Water, starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna – (U.K.)

Riot, starring Jim Brown and Gene Hackman

The Royal Hunt of the Sun, starring Robert Shaw and Christopher Plummer – (U.K./U.S.)

S

Sabata, starring Lee Van Cleef – (Italy)

Sam Whiskey, starring Burt Reynolds and Angie Dickinson

Satyakam, starring Dharmendra and Ashok Kumar – (India)

The Secret of Santa Vittoria, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani – Golden Globe for best comedy film

Shining Star starring Ahmad Ghadakchian and Forouzan. (Iran)

Shinsengumi, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)

The Sicilian Clan (Le Clan des Siciliens), starring Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura – (France)

Sinful Davey, directed by John Huston, starring John Hurt

Slaves

Some Girls Do, starring Richard Johnson and Daliah Lavi

Some Kind of a Nut, starring Dick Van Dyke, Rosemary Forsyth, Angie Dickinson

The Southern Star, starring George Segal, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress

Staircase, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton

The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Liza Minnelli

Stiletto, starring Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Joseph Wiseman, Patrick O'Neal

Support Your Local Sheriff!, starring James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam

Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Shirley MacLaine

T

Take the Money and Run, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Janet Margolin and Louise Lasser

A Talent for Loving, directed by Richard Quine, starring Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Topol, Fran Jeffries

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Michael Sarrazin, Red Buttons

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, starring Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake

The Great Bank Robbery

This Man Must Die (Que la bête meure), directed by Claude Chabrol – (France/Italy)

Three Into Two Won't Go, starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Peggy Ashcroft

Till Death Us Do Part, starring Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols – (U.K.)

A Time for Dying, starring Audie Murphy and Anne Randall

Topaz, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Frederick Stafford, John Forsythe, John Vernon, Roscoe Lee Browne

The Trouble with Girls, directed by Peter Tewksbury, starring Elvis Presley, Vincent Price, Dabney Coleman, Sheree North, John Carradine, Susan Olsen

True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeff Corey, Robert Duvall, Strother Martin, Dennis Hopper

Twinky, starring Charles Bronson and Susan George – (U.K.)

U

Ultraman, Ultraseven: Great Violent Monster Fight – (Japan)

The Undefeated, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson

The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran – (France)

V

The Valley of Gwangi, starring James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, with visual effects by Ray Harryhausen completing work by Willis O'Brien

Viimne reliikvia, directed by Grigori Kromanov (Estonian SSR, U.S.S.R.)

Viva Max!, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, John Astin, Jonathan Winters

W

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth

What's Good for the Goose, starring Norman Wisdom and Sally Geeson – (U.K.)

Where It's At, starring David Janssen and Rosemary Forsyth

Where's Jack?, starring Stanley Baker and Tommy Steele – (U.K.)

White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) – (U.S.S.R.)

The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Jaime Sánchez, Bo Hopkins, Edmond O'Brien

Winning, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Thomas, Robert Wagner

The Witness (A tanu) – (Hungary)

Women in Love, directed by Ken Russell, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson – (U.K.)

The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Nagagutsu o Haita Neko) – (Japan)

The Wrecking Crew, starring Dean Martin (as Matt Helm), Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise, Sharon Tate

Y

Young Billy Young, starring Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr.

Z

Z, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Irene Papas – (France/Algeria)

Short Film Series

Looney Tunes (1930–1969)

Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)

The Pink Panther (1963–1969, 1971–1977, 1978–1980)

The Inspector (1965-1969)

The Ant and the Aardvark (1969–1971)

Roland and Rattfink (1968–1971)

Tijuana Toads (1969–1972)

Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949, 1951–1972)

Chilly Willy (1955–1972)

The Beary Family (1962–1972)

Actor's debuts

Bob Balaban – Midnight Cowboy

Sam Elliott – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Farrah Fawcett – Love Is a Funny Thing

Melanie Griffith – Smith!

Ian McKellen – Thank You All Very Much

Al Pacino – Me, Natalie

Arnold Schwarzenegger – Hercules in New York

M. Emmet Walsh – Midnight Cowboy

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy - Hellman-Schlesinger, United Artists

Best Director: John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy

Best Actor: John Wayne – True Grit

Best Actress: Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Best Supporting Actor: Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Best Supporting Actress: Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower

Best Foreign Language Film: Z, directed by Costa-Gavras, Algeria

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Anne of the Thousand Days

Best Actor: John Wayne – True Grit

Best Actress: Geneviève Bujold – Anne of the Thousand Days

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Best Actor: Peter O'Toole – Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Best Actress: Patty Duke – Me, Natalie

OtherBest Director: Charles Jarrott – Anne of the Thousand Days

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Not awarded

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Rani Radovi (Early Works), directed by Želimir Žilnik, Yugoslavia

Births

January 1 – Mr. Lawrence, American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, animator and director

January 14 – Jason Bateman, American actor

January 17 – James Waterston, American actor

February 8

Brian Krause, American actor

Mary McCormack, American actress

February 11 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress

March 1 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor

April 2 – Ajay Devgan, Indian actor

April 6 – Paul Rudd, American actor

April 23 – Byron Thames, American actor

April 25 – Renée Zellweger, American actress

May 14 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress

May 25 – Anne Heche, American actress

June 1 – Teri Polo, American actress

June 28 – Tichina Arnold, American actress

July 21 – Godfrey, American actor, comedian

July 24 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer

August 4 – Vlad Ivanov, Romanian actor

August 18

Christian Slater, American actor

Edward Norton, American actor

August 28 – Jack Black, American actor, comedian, musician

September 25 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress

September 29 – Erika Eleniak, American actress

October 15 – Dominic West, English actor

October 19 – Trey Parker, American actor, creator of South Park

November 4 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor

November 13 - Gerard Butler, Scottish actor

December 21 – Julie Delpy, French actress

Deaths

January 1 – Barton MacLane, 66, American actor, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

January 3 – Howard McNear, 63, American actor, Anatomy of a Murder, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

January 4 – Violet and Daisy Hilton, 60, English conjoined twins, actresses, appeared in film Freaks

January 8 – Leslie Goodwins, 69, English director, The Mummy's Curse, Mexican Spitfire

January 27 - Charles Winninger, 84, American actor, Destry Rides Again, The Sun Shines Bright

February 2 – Boris Karloff, 81, English actor, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Raven

February 5 – Thelma Ritter, 66, American actress, Rear Window, All About Eve

February 9 – Gabby Hayes, 83, American actor, The Man from Utah, In Old Oklahoma

February 11 – James Lanphier, 48, American actor, The Pink Panther, The Party

February 19 - Madge Blake, 69, American actress, The Long, Long Trailer, Batman

February 27 – John Boles, 73, American actor, Frankenstein, Stella Dallas

March 18 – Barbara Bates, 43, American actress, The Caddy, All About Eve

April 2 - Fortunio Bonanova, 74, Spanish actor, Citizen Kane, An Affair to Remember

April 23 – Krzysztof Komeda, 37, Polish composer, Rosemary's Baby, The Fearless Vampire Killers

May 3 - Karl Freund, 69, Czech-American cinematographer and director, Metropolis, The Mummy, Key Largo

May 24 – Mitzi Green, 48, American actress, Lost in Alaska, Skippy

March 25 – Alan Mowbray, 72, British actor, Terror by Night, My Darling Clementine

May 27 – Jeffrey Hunter, 42, American actor, The Searchers, King of Kings

June 2 – Leo Gorcey, 51, American actor, Ghost Chasers, Spook Busters

June 8 – Robert Taylor, 57, American actor, Quo Vadis, Camille, Bataan, Ivanhoe

June 10 – Frank Lawton, 64, English actor, A Night to Remember, The Devil-Doll

June 13 – Martita Hunt, 70, Argentine-English actress, Becket, Great Expectations

June 19 – Natalie Talmadge, 73, American silent screen actress, Our Hospitality, Intolerance

June 20 – Rudolf Schwarzkogler, 29, Austrian experimental filmmaker, Satisfaction

June 22 – Judy Garland, 47, American actress and singer, The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Star Is Born

July 5 – Leo McCarey, 72, American director, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way

July 7 - Erskine Sanford, 83, American actor, Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons

July 8 – Gladys Swarthout, 68, American singer, Romance in the Dark, Give Us This Night

July 15 - Peter van Eyck, 57, Polish actor, The Wages of Fear, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

July 18 - Barbara Pepper, 54, American actress, The Rogues Tavern, Kiss Me, Stupid

August 1 – Donald Keith, 65, American actor, The Plastic Age, Parisian Love

August 9 – Sharon Tate, 26, American actress, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Valley of the Dolls

August 14 – Sigrid Gurie, 58, American actress, Algiers, The Adventures of Marco Polo

August 15 – William Goetz, 66, American producer, studio executive, Sayonara, Les Misérables

August 26 – Martin Miller, 69, Czech actor, 55 Days at Peking, The Pink Panther

October 12 – Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian actress, former Olympic ice skater, Sun Valley Serenade, One in a Million

October 15 – Rod La Rocque, 70, American actor, Meet John Doe, The Shadow Strikes

October 28 - Constance Dowling, 49, American actress, Up in Arms, The Well-Groomed Bride

November 5 – Lloyd Corrigan, 69, American actor, Son of Paleface, The Thin Man Goes Home

December 7 - Eric Portman, 68, British actor, A Canterbury Tale, The Bedford Incident

December 16 – Luis Enrique Vergara, 47, Mexican filmmaker, House of Evil, Isle of the Snake People

December 22 – Ilse Steppat, 52, German actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

December 22 - Josef von Sternberg, 73, Austrian director, The Blue Angel, Macao