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The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)[]
The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Studio | Box-office gross rental |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Longest Day | 20th Century Fox | $17,600,000[1] |
| 2 | Lawrence of Arabia | Columbia Pictures | $16,700,000[1] |
| 3 | The Music Man | Warner Bros. | $8,100,000[2] |
| 4 | That Touch of Mink | Universal Pictures | $7,942,000[2] |
| 5 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $7,410,000[2] |
| 6 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Universal Pictures | $7,112,000[2] |
| 7 | Hatari! | Paramount Pictures | $7,000,000[2] |
| 8 | Gypsy | Warner Bros. | $6,000,000[2] |
| 9 | Bon Voyage! The Interns |
Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution Columbia Pictures |
$5,000,000[2] |
| 10 | In Search of the Castaways | Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution | $4,900,000[3] |
Events[]
- May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
- June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca-Universal.
- July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board.
- 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.
Awards[]
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
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia
- Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Best Actress: Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth
- Comedy or Musical:
- Best Picture − Comedy: That Touch of Mink
- Best Picture − Musical: The Music Man
- Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni – Divorce Italian Style
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell – Gypsy
- Other
- Best Supporting Actor: Omar Sharif – Lawrence of Arabia
- Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury – The Manchurian Candidate
- 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
1962 film releases[]
United States unless stated
January–March[]
- January 1962
- 1 January
- Heaven and Earth Magic
- Sanjuro (Japan)
- 9 January
- The Nun and the Sergeant
- 11 January
- Only Two Can Play
- 12 January
- Bachelor Flat
- 14 January
- 17 January
- The Intruder
- 18 January
- My Geisha
- 19 January
- Tender Is the Night
- A View from the Bridge
- 26 January
- The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
- 1 January
- February 1962
- 7 February
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Light in the Piazza
- 10 February
- 12 February
- 15 February
- Pontius Pilate
- 21 February
- The Couch
- Walk on the Wild Side
- 28 February
- 7 February
- March 1962
- 1 March
- Posse from Hell
- 5 March
- Rome Adventure
- 7 March
- The Premature Burial
- 9 March
- State Fair
- 10 March
- Journey to the Seventh Planet
- 14 March
- The Road to Hong Kong
- 21 March
- Hitler
- Sweet Bird of Youth
- Gorath (Japan)
- 23 March
- Satan in High Heels
- Satan Never Sleeps
- 28 March
- Hand of Death
- The Manster (U.S./Japan)
- Six Black Horses
- 1 March
April–June[]
- April 1962
- 2 April
- 5 April
- Moon Pilot
- 6 April
- 11 April
- All Fall Down
- Follow That Dream
- House of Women
- The Magic Sword
- 12 April
- Cape Fear
- 13 April
- Experiment in Terror
- 17 April
- 18 April
- The Horizontal Lieutenant
- 19 April
- Five Finger Exercise
- 22 April
- Hands of a Stranger
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- 23 April
- Escape from Zahrain
- 25 April
- May 1962
- 3 May
- The Brain That Wouldn't Die
- Invasion of the Star Creatures
- 9 May
- Jessica
- War Hunt
- 17 May
- Bon Voyage!
- 24 May
- The Inspector
- Lonely Are the Brave
- 25 May
- The Cabinet of Caligari
- When the Girls Take Over
- 3 May
- June 1962
- 6 June
- 13 West Street
- Big Red
- Lad, A Dog
- 9 June
- 13 June
- It Happened in Athens
- Lolita
- Merrill's Marauders
- 15 June
- Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
- 19 June
- Hatari!
- The Music Man
- That Touch of Mink
- 20 June
- Confessions of an Opium Eater
- The Pigeon That Took Rome
- Ride the High Country
- 21 June
- 26 June
- Hell Is for Heroes
- 27 June
- Safe at Home!
- 29 June
- 6 June
July–September[]
- July 1962
- 3 July
- Birdman of Alcatraz
- The Creation of the Humanoids
- Tarzan Goes to India
- 4 July
- Tales of Terror
- The Three Stooges in Orbit
- 5 July
- Panic in Year Zero!
- 7 July
- 15 July
- Kujira Gami aka The Whale God (Japan)
- 16 July
- 17 July
- 21 July
- 25 July
- 26 July
- The Lion
- The Notorious Landlady
- 28 July
- The Miracle Worker
- 3 July
- August 1962
- 1 August
- Kid Galahad
- 2 August
- The Underwater City
- 3 August
- The Spiral Road
- 7 August
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
- 8 August
- The Interns
- 11 August
- King Kong vs. Godzilla (Japan)
- 17 August
- Two Weeks in Another Town
- Guns of Darkness
- 22 August
- Five Weeks in a Balloon
- 29 August
- The 300 Spartans
- 1 August
- September 1962
- 15 September
- 16 September
- Harakiri (Japan)
- Billy Budd
- 25 September
- The Longest Day
- 26 September
- Carnival of Souls
- 27 September
- Gigot
October–December[]
- October 1962
- 1 October
- A Kind of Loving
- 3 October
- Zotz!
- 4 October
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- 5 October
- The Chapman Report
- Dr. No – (U.K.)
- 10 October
- If a Man Answers
- Long Day's Journey into Night
- 16 October
- 18 October
- Phaedra
- 22 October
- Escape from East Berlin
- 24 October
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Tower of London
- 25 October
- Tonight for Sure
- The War Lover
- 31 October
- Period of Adjustment
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- 1 October
- November 1962
- 1 November
- How the West Was Won
- Gypsy
- 2 November
- 8 November
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- 14 November
- 21 November
- It's Only Money
- Two for the Seesaw
- Girls! Girls! Girls!
- 27 November
- 1 November
- December 1962
- 2 December
- Pressure Point
- 6 December
- 10 December
- Lawrence of Arabia
- 12 December
- Five Miles to Midnight
- Freud: The Secret Passion
- 17 December
- Gay Purr-ee
- 19 December
- Taras Bulba
- 22 December
- The Trial
- 25 December
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Who's Got the Action?
- 26 December
- David and Lisa
- Days of Wine and Roses
- 31 December
- 2 December
Notable films released in 1962[]
United States unless stated
#[]
- The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker
- 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, and Larry Storch
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 – (Georgia)
- 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 American Beauty (La belle américaine), directed by Robert Dhéry – (France)
- 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)
- Attack of the Normans (I normanni), directed by Giuseppe Vari – (Italy)
- An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
- The Awful Dr. Orloff (Gritos en la noche), directed by Jesús Franco – (Spain)
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)
- The Bellboy and the Playgirls, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Fritz Umgelter
- 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 Brainiac (El baron del terror), directed by Chano Urueta – (Mexico)
- The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) – (West Germany)
- The Broken Land, starring Kent Taylor, Diana Darrin and Jack Nicholson
C[]
- Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
- Captain Clegg (released as Night Creatures in the U.S.), directed by Peter Graham Scott – (U.K.)
- Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
- Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
- Carry On Jack, starring Kenneth Williams, Bernard Cribbins and Juliet Mills – (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
- Crazy Paradise (Det tossede paradis), directed by Gabriel Axel and starring Dirch Passer – (Denmark)
- Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie
D[]
- Damon and Pythias (Il tiranno di Siracusa), directed by Curtis Bernhardt – (U.S./Italy)
- 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
- Dead Man's Evidence, directed by Francis Searle – (U.K.)
- The Devil's Agent (Im Namen des Teufels), directed by John Paddy Carstairs – (U.K./West Germany/Ireland)
- 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.)
- Dungeon of Harrow, directed by Pat Boyette
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)
- Eighteen in the Sun (Diciottenni al sole), directed by Camillo Mastrocinque – (Italy)
- Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas – (Greece)
- Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
- Escape from Zahrain, starring Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo and Jack Warden
- Eva (released in the U.K. as Eve), starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi – (Italy/France)
- 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[]
- The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Baron Prášil), directed by Karel Zeman – (Czechoslovakia)
- Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
- The Female: Seventy Times Seven (Setenta veces siete), starring Isabel Sarli – (Argentina)
- 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
- The Fury of Hercules (La furia di Ercole), written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini – (Italy)
G[]
- Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
- Geronimo, starring Chuck Connors
- Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
- Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
- Go to Blazes, directed by Michael Truman – (U.K.)
- The Golden Arrow (L'arciere delle mille e una notte), directed by Antonio Margheriti – (Italy)
- Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
- The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy)
- Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
- Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice – (U.K.)
- Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood
H[]
- H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K.)
- Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala – (India)
- Hand of Death, starring John Agar
- Hands of a Stranger, directed by Newt Arnold
- 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
- The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy)
- 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 Inn on the River (Das Gasthaus an der Themse), directed by Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany)
- The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
- The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany)
- 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/United States)
- 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[]
- Jack the Giant Killer, starring Kerwin Mathews
- Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
- La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker – (France)
- Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner – (U.K.)
- Journey to the Seventh Planet, directed by Sid Pink – (Denmark)
- 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 – (UK/US)
- The Legend of Lobo, a Walt Disney production
- Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig – (U.K.)
- Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
- The Lion, starring William Holden and Trevor Howard
- Lisa (aka The Inspector), starring Stephen Boyd – (U.S./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, Thy Name Be Sorrow (Koiya koi nasuna koi), directed by Tomu Uchida – (Japan)
- 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 Magic Sword, directed by Bert I. Gordon
- 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
- Mediterranean Holiday (Traumreise unter weissen Segeln), a documentary directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber – (West Germany)
- The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women (열녀문 – Yeolnyeomun), directed by Shin Sang-ok – (South Korea)
- 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, directed by Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti – (Italy)
- A Monkey in Winter (Un singe en hiver), directed by Henri Verneuil – (France)
- 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 (retitled Burn, Witch, Burn! in the U.S.), 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
- Operation Snatch, directed by Robert Day and starring Terry-Thomas and George Sanders – (U.K.)
- O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte – (Brazil)
P[]
- 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
- The Pirates of Blood River, directed by John Gilling – (U.K.)
- Pitfall (Otoshiana) – (Japan)
- Play It Cool, starring Billy Fury – (U.K.)
- 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)
- The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (Das Rätsel der Roten Orchidee), directed by Helmut Ashley – (West Germany)
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)
- Samar, directed by and starring George Montgomery
- Sanjuru (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
- Satan in High Heels, starring Meg Myles and Grayson Hall
- Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
- Seven Seas to Calais (Il dominatore dei sette mari), directed by Rudolph Maté – (Italy)
- Shaheed, starring Musarrat Nazir, Talish, Allauddin, Ejaz, ()
- She'll Have to Go (released in the United States as Maid for Murder), directed by Robert Asher – (U.K.)
- She Knows Y'Know, directed by Montgomery Tully – (U.K.)
- Slaughter of the Vampires (La strage dei vampiri), directed by Roberto Mauri – (Italy)
- Solo for Sparrow, directed by Gordon Flemyng – (U.K.)
- Some People, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
- 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
- Swordsman of Siena (La congiura dei dieci/Le mercenaire), starring Stewart Granger – (Italy/France)
- 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)
- Tales of Terror, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone
- Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
- Tarzan Goes to India, Jock Mahoney's first film as Tarzan
- Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
- Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret – (U.K.)
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany)
- That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
- Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret – (France)
- The Three Stooges In Orbit, starring the Three Stooges
- Time to Remember, directed by Charles Jarrott – (U.K.)
- To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
- Tobacco (Tyutyun) – (Bulgaria)
- Tonny, directed by Nils R. Müller and Per Gjersøe – (Norway)
- Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
- Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
- Treasure of the Silver Lake, directed by Harald Reinl – (West Germany)
- The Cursed Palace, starring Salah Zulfikar and Mariam Fakhr Eddine – (Egypt)
- 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)
- – (Romania)
- The Twelve Chairs (Las doce sillas), directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – (Cuba)
- 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
U[]
- The Unscrupulous Ones (Os Cafajestes), directed by Ruy Guerra – (Brazil)
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)
- Violent Life (Una vita violenta), directed by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi – (Italy)
- Vive le Tour, documentary by Louis Malle – (France)
W[]
- Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
- Waltz of the Toreadors (a.k.a. The Amorous General), directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
- War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) – (France)
- We Joined the Navy, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
- 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
- The Witch's Curse (Maciste all'inferno), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy)
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom
Z[]
- Zorro the Avenger[clarification needed]
- Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston
Short film series[]
- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Terrytoons (1930–1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- Bugs Bunny (1940–1964)
- Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
- Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
- The Alvin Show (1961-1962)
Births[]
- January 4 – Michael France, American screenwriter (d. 2013)
- January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron, American actress
- January 7 – Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
- January 17 – C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor (d. 2016)
- January 17 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
- February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
- February 7 - Eddie Izzard, English stand-up comedian, actor, writer and political activist
- February 13 – Michele Greene, American actress
- February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
- February 22 – Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, television personality, conservationist, actor (d. 2006)
- February 27 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
- March 8 – Cecilia Yip, Hong Kong actress
- March 10 – Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, dancer and director
- March 12 – Chris Sanders, American actor, animator, director and voice actor
- March 18 – Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
- March 20 – Stephen Sommers, American director, screenwriter and producer
- March 21
- Matthew Broderick, American actor
- Rosie O'Donnell, American actress and comedian
- April 2 – Clark Gregg, American actor, director and screenwriter
- April 15 – Tom Kane, American actor and voice actor
- April 27 – James LeGros, American actor
- May 12 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
- May 17 - Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American television host, comedian, author and actor
- May 18 – Karel Roden, Czech actor
- May 26 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor, comedian and director
- May 29 - John D. LeMay, American former actor
- May 31 - Sebastian Koch, German actor
- June 5 - Jeff Garlin, American comedian and actor
- June 13 – Ally Sheedy, American actress
- June 19 – Paula Abdul, American singer
- June 22 - Nicholas Lea, Canadian actor
- June 27
- Emel Heinreich, Turkish-Austrian actress, author and film-director
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor
- July 3 – Tom Cruise, American actor
- July 4 - Neil Morrissey, English actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and businessman
- July 13 – Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian
- July 19 – Anthony Edwards, American actor
- July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor
- July 29 - Kevin Spirtas, American actor
- July 31 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
- August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress
- August 13 – John Slattery, American actor
- August 16 – Steve Carell, American actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
- August 20 - Ravil Isyanov, Russian actor (d. 2021)
- August 24 – David Koechner, American actor and comedian
- August 25 - Rusty Schwimmer, American character actress and singer
- August 27 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
- August 29 – Ian James Corlett, Canadian-American voice actor
- August 31 – Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
- September 8 – Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
- September 11 – Kristy McNichol, American actress
- September 15 – Scott McNeil, Australian-Canadian voice actor
- September 17 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
- September 19 - Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
- September 21 - Mark Holden, Canadian actor, writer and producer
- September 24 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress and producer
- September 26 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
- October 1 – Esai Morales, American actor
- October 2 – Jeff Bennett, American actor and voice actor
- October 11 – Joan Cusack, American actress
- October 12 – Deborah Foreman, American actress
- October 13 – Kelly Preston, American actress (d. 2020)
- October 20 - David Mickey Evans, American director and screenwriter
- October 22 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
- October 26 – Cary Elwes, English actor
- October 28 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
- November 7 - Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
- November 11 – Demi Moore, American actress
- November 14 – Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and comedian
- November 19 – Jodie Foster, American actress and director
- November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor
- December 9 – Felicity Huffman, American actress[4]
- December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress
- December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor
Deaths[]
- January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
- January 28 – Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor, The Pearl Maker of Madrid
- February 1 – Carey Wilson, American screenwriter, Mutiny on the Bounty
- February 19 – James Barton, American actor, Here Comes the Groom, Yellow Sky
- February 20 – Halliwell Hobbes, 84, British actor, Gaslight, That Hamilton Woman
- February 28 – Chic Johnson, 70, American comedian, actor, Hellzapoppin'
- March 17 – Frank Orth, 82, American actor, Nancy Drew... Detective, Here Come the Girls
- April 10 – Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood
- April 15 – Clara Blandick, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer
- 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
- Vera Reynolds, 62, American actress, The Night Club, Feet of Clay
- 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 13 – Jerry Wald, 50, American screenwriter and producer, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place
- 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
- November 15 – Irene, American costume designer, Shall We Dance, Midnight Lace
- 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 23 – Luis Alberni, 76, Spanish actor, Svengali, The Count of Monte Cristo
- December 28 – Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted
- December 29 – Hugh Sinclair, 59, British actor, The Saint's Vacation, Judgment Deferred
Film debuts[]
- Bernardo Bertolucci (director) – The Grim Reaper
- Jackie Chan – Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
- Julie Christie – Crooks Anonymous
- Tom Courtenay – Private Potter
- Robert Duvall – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Samantha Eggar – Dr. Crippen
- Sally Field – Moon Pilot
- John Hurt – The Wild and the Willing
- Ian McShane – The Wild and the Willing
- Sarah Miles – Term of Trial
- Sydney Pollack (actor) – War Hunt
- George A. Romero (director) –
- Tom Skerritt – War Hunt
- Terence Stamp – Term of Trial
- David Warner – We Joined the Navy
References[]
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