The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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.
Note: U.S. releases unless stated.
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 1:
Sam Whiskey
Sweet Charity
April 3: Goodbye, Columbus
April 24: If It'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 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 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
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)
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)
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
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
Other
Best 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
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
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
