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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.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)[]
The top ten 1969 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Studio | Box-office gross rental |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 20th Century Fox | $29,200,000[1] |
| 2 | The Love Bug | Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution | $21,000,000[1] |
| 3 | Midnight Cowboy | United Artists | $20,500,000[2] |
| 4 | Easy Rider | Columbia Pictures | $16,900,000[1] |
| 5 | Hello, Dolly! | 20th Century Fox | $15,000,000[1] |
| 6 | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Columbia Pictures | $14,600,000[1] |
| 7 | Paint Your Wagon | Paramount Pictures | $14,500,000[1] |
| 8 | True Grit | $14,300,000[1] | |
| 9 | Cactus Flower | Columbia Pictures | $11,900,000[1] |
| 10 | Goodbye, Columbus | Paramount Pictures | $10,500,000[1] |
Events[]
- January 14 - Louis F. Polk Jr. becomes president and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- February 23 - Madhubala dies due to a congenital heart disease, at age 36.
- June 22 - American singer and actress Judy Garland dies at age 47 of an accidental barbiturate overdose in London.
- July 8 - Kinney National Services Inc. acquire substantially all of the assets of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
- July 13 - Al Pacino's film debut (Me, Natalie).
- Summer - 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.
- August 8 - Kirk Kerkorian buys 24% of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, becoming the biggest shareholder.
- August 9 - Tate murders: Sharon Tate, the 26-year-old actress, model and Roman Polanski's wife, is murdered by Charles Manson's "Family" at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, California.
- November 10 - Elvis Presley's film career ends with the release of Change of Habit.
- Jack and Jill: A Postscript becomes the first feature film to receive an Australian Film Institute Award.
Awards[]
| Category/Organization | 27th Golden Globe Awards February 2, 1970 |
23rd BAFTA Awards March 8, 1970 |
42nd Academy Awards April 7, 1970 | |
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| Drama | Musical or Comedy | |||
| Best Film | Anne of the Thousand Days | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Midnight Cowboy | |
| Best Director | Charles Jarrott Anne of the Thousand Days |
John Schlesinger Midnight Cowboy | ||
| Best Actor | John Wayne True Grit |
Peter O'Toole Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
Dustin Hoffman John and Mary / Midnight Cowboy |
John Wayne True Grit |
| Best Actress | Genevieve Bujold Anne of the Thousand Days |
Patty Duke Me, Natalie |
Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Gig Young They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
Laurence Olivier Oh! What a Lovely War |
Gig Young They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Goldie Hawn Cactus Flower |
Celia Johnson The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
Goldie Hawn Cactus Flower | |
| Best Screenplay, Adapted | Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove Anne of the Thousand Days |
Waldo Salt Midnight Cowboy |
Waldo Salt Midnight Cowboy | |
| Best Screenplay, Original | William Goldman Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | |||
| Best Original Score | Burt Bacharach Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
N/A | Burt Bacharach Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman Hello, Dolly! | |
| Best Original Song | "Jean" The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
N/A | "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Z | N/A | Z | |
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, United Kingdom
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Rani Radovi (Early Works), directed by Želimir Žilnik, Yugoslavia
Films released in 1969[]
- Note: U.S. releases unless stated.
January–March[]
- January 1969
- January 15
- More Dead Than Alive
- Riot
- January 23
- Dillinger Is Dead (Italy)
- Some Girls Do
- January 24
- Before Winter Comes
- January 27
- January 15
- February 1969
- February 5
- The Wrecking Crew
- February 9
- February 12
- February 19
- February 26
- February 5
- March 1969
- March 2
- March 5
- The Big Bounce
- March 7
- The Brain
- March 10
- The Assassination Bureau (U.K.)
- Oh! What a Lovely War
- March 11
- March 12
- Where Eagles Dare
- March 13
- Charro!
- The Love Bug
- March 21
- Gamera vs. Guiron (Japan)
- March 26
- 100 Rifles
- The Illustrated Man
- Support Your Local Sheriff!
- March 27
- Age of Consent
April–June[]
- April 1969
- April 1
- Model Shop
- Sam Whiskey
- Sweet Charity
- April 2
- Angel in My Pocket
- April 3
- Goodbye, Columbus
- April 9
- April 16
- April 17
- Salesman
- April 24
- April 30
- The Big Cube
- Hard Contract
- Midas Run
- April 1
- May 1969
- May 1
- The Mad Room
- May 6
- May 7
- May 10
- May 14
- Krakatoa, East of Java
- Nightmare in Wax
- May 15
- May 22
- May 25
- Midnight Cowboy
- May 27
- Popi
- May 28
- The April Fools
- Guns of the Magnificent Seven
- May 29
- Carry On Camping
- Che!
- May 1
- June 1969
- June 5
- The Italian Job
- June 8
- That Cold Day in the Park
- June 11
- The First Time
- Rascal
- June 12
- Blue Movie
- June 13
- True Grit
- June 18
- Eye of the Cat
- Mississippi Mermaid (France)
- Ring of Bright Water
- The Wild Bunch
- June 19
- The Bed Sitting Room
- Last Summer
- June 24
- Chastity
- June 25
- The Bridge at Remagen
- The Chairman
- Hello Down There
- My Side of the Mountain
- June 5
July–September[]
- July 1969
- July 2
- July 7
- July 10
- Putney Swope
- July 11
- The Lost Man
- July 13
- Dance of Death
- Me, Natalie
- July 14
- Alfred the Great
- Easy Rider
- The Haunted House of Horror
- July 18
- July 19
- July 20
- Guns in the Heather
- NASA Apollo 11 Moon Landing
- July 23
- July 26
- Boy (Japan)
- Latitude Zero (Japan)
- August 1969
- August 6
- The Learning Tree
- August 9
- The Love God?
- More (France/West Germany)
- August 18
- Take the Money and Run
- August 19
- Alice's Restaurant
- Venus in Furs
- August 20
- August 21
- Number One
- August 27
- Medium Cool
- The Rain People
- August 28
- The Gypsy Moths
- August 6
- September 1969
- September 3
- The Trouble with Girls
- The Valley of Gwangi
- September 5
- September 12
- Army of Shadows (France)
- September 15
- Battle of Britain
- September 17
- September 24
- September 29
- September 3
October–December[]
- October 1969
- October 4
- October 5
- A Walk with Love and Death
- October 6
- The Royal Hunt of the Sun
- October 8
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
- The Monitors
- October 10
- Psycho (re-issue)
- October 12
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
- October 14
- The Damned (Italy/West Germany)
- October 15
- Eros + Massacre (Japan)
- Paint Your Wagon
- The Virgin Soldiers
- October 21
- October 22
- Marlowe
- The Sterile Cuckoo
- October 24
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- October 29
- The Secret of Santa Vittoria
- November 1969
- November 6
- Downhill Racer
- Trilogy
- November 10
- Change of Habit
- Flareup
- Marooned
- The Passion of Anna (Sweden)
- November 11
- November 13
- Women in Love
- November 15
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Kes
- November 18
- The Arrangement
- The Girl Who Knew Too Much
- November 19
- November 26
- November 27
- The Undefeated
- November 6
- December 1969
- December 4
- A Boy Named Charlie Brown
- December 8
- The Sicilian Clan (France)
- December 10
- December 12
- The Magic Christian
- December 14
- John and Mary
- December 15
- December 16
- Cactus Flower
- Gaily, Gaily
- Hello, Dolly!
- December 18
- Anne of the Thousand Days
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
- December 19
- December 20
- All Monsters Attack (Japan)
- December 21
- Burn!
- Hamlet
- The Happy Ending
- December 24
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
- December 25
- The Reivers
- December 4
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)
- Death of a Gunfighter, starring Richard Widmark and Lena Horne
- 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)
- Everything for Sale (Wszystko na sprzedaż), written and directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
- 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)
- The Girl from Rio, starring Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler and George Sanders – (Spain/West Germany/U.S.)
- 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)
- Guns of the Magnificent Seven, directed by Paul Wendkos, starring George Kennedy and James Whitmore
- 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
- The Happy Ending, starring Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges and Teresa Wright
- Hard Contract, starring James Coburn, Lee Remick, Burgess Meredith – (U.K.)
- The Haunted House of Horror (a.k.a. Horror House or The Dark), starring Frankie Avalon and Jill Haworth – (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
- Lions Love, directed by Agnès Varda
- 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, directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade – (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)
- More, directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grünberg – (France/West Germany)
- 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)
- Salesman, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
- 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
- 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 and Lino Ventura – (France)
- Sinful Davey, directed by John Huston, starring John Hurt
- Slaves, directed by Herbert Biberman, starring Dionne Warwick, Ossie Davis and Stephen Boyd
- Some Girls Do, starring Richard Johnson and Daliah Lavi
- Some Kind of a Nut, starring Dick Van Dyke, Rosemary Forsyth and Angie Dickinson
- The Southern Star, starring George Segal, Orson Welles and 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 and Patrick O'Neal
- Support Your Local Sheriff!, starring James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan and 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[]
- The Wedding Party, directed by Wilford Leach, Brian De Palma and Cynthia Monroe
- What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon and 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), directed by Vladimir Motyl – (U.S.S.R.)
- The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates
- Winning, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Thomas, Robert Wagner
- The Witness (A tanu), directed by Péter Bacsó – (Hungary)
- Women in Love, directed by Ken Russell, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson – (U.K.)
- The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Nagagutsu o Haita Neko), directed by Kimio Yabuki – (Japan)
- The Wrecking Crew, starring Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise and Sharon Tate
Y[]
- Young Billy Young, starring Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr.
Z[]
Short film series[]
- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- Cool Cat (1967—1969)
- Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967—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)
Film debuts[]
- Bob Balaban – Midnight Cowboy
- Bonnie Bedelia – The Gypsy Moths
- Ed Begley Jr. – The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
- David Bowie – The Virgin Soldiers
- Jill Clayburgh – The Wedding Party
- Bruce Davison – Last Summer
- Sam Elliott – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Farrah Fawcett – Love Is a Funny Thing
- Bridget Fonda – Easy Rider
- Melanie Griffith – Smith!
- George Lazenby – On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Ian McKellen – A Touch of Love
- Ryan O'Neal – The Big Bounce
- Al Pacino – Me, Natalie
- John Savage – The Master Beater
- Arnold Schwarzenegger – Hercules in New York
- Sam Shepard – Me and My Brother
- Christopher Walken – Me and My Brother
- M. Emmet Walsh – Midnight Cowboy
Births[]
- January 1
- Mr. Lawrence, American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, animator and director
- Verne Troyer, American actor (died 2018)
- January 14 – Jason Bateman, American actor
- January 17 – James Waterston, American actor
- January 18 – Dave Bautista, American actor and former professional wrestler
- January 27 – Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer.
- February 8
- Brian Krause, American actor
- Mary McCormack, American actress
- February 11 –
- Jennifer Aniston, American actress
- Lee Tockar, Canadian voice actor and visual artist
- March 1 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
- March 10 – Paget Brewster, American actress
- March 11 – Terrence Howard, American actor
- March 23 - Richard Cadell, Illusionist, puppeteer and screenwriter
- April 2 – Ajay Devgan, Indian actor
- April 3 – Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
- April 6 – Paul Rudd, American actor
- April 21 – Toby Stephens, English actor
- April 22 - , American actress
- April 23 – Byron Thames, American actor
- April 24 - Rory McCann, Scottish actor
- April 25 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
- May 1 – Wes Anderson, American director
- May 10 - Lenny Venito, American actor
- May 14 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- May 25 – Anne Heche, American actress
- June 1 – Teri Polo, American actress
- June 7
- Adam Buxton, English actor, comedian and writer
- Kim Rhodes, American actress
- June 11 – Peter Dinklage, American actor
- June 15 – Ice Cube, American actor, rapper
- June 24 - Jensen Daggett, American actress
- June 28 – Tichina Arnold, American actress
- July 7 - Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress, voice actress and singer
- July 13 - Ken Jeong, American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, writer, television personality and licensed physician
- July 17 – Jason Clarke, Australian actor
- July 21 – Godfrey, American actor, comedian
- July 22 – James Arnold Taylor, American actor, writer and producer
- July 24
- Rick Fox, Canadian-Bahamian former basketball player and actor
- Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer
- August 4 – Vlad Ivanov, Romanian actor
- August 5 - Chuck Campbell, Canadian actor and comedian
- August 6 - Chris Edgerly, American voice actor, comedian and singer
- August 16 - Kate Higgins, American voice actress and singer
- August 18
- Edward Norton, American actor
- Christian Slater, American actor
- August 19 – Matthew Perry, Canadian-American actor
- August 28 – Jack Black, American actor, comedian, musician
- September 14 – Bong Joon-ho, Korean director and screenwriter
- September 25 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
- September 29 – Erika Eleniak, American actress
- October 1 – Zach Galifianakis, American actor
- October 9 – Steve McQueen, English director
- October 15 – Dominic West, English actor
- October 17
- Wood Harris, American actor
- Nancy Sullivan, American actress, television presenter, and screenwriter
- October 19 – Trey Parker, American actor, creator of South Park
- October 25 - Nika Futterman, American actress, voice actress and singer
- November 4 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor
- November 10 - Jennifer Cody, American dancer and actress
- November 13 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
- November 28 - Martin Cummins, Canadian actor
- December 9 - Allison Smith (actress), American actress, singer, writer and director
- December 19 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
- December 21 – Julie Delpy, French actress
- December 27 - Sarah Vowell, American 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, Blue Hawaii, Follow That Dream
- 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 23 - Madhubala, 36, Indian actress, Mahal, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Mughal-E-Azam
- February 27 – John Boles, 73, American actor, Frankenstein, Stella Dallas
- March 18 – Barbara Bates, 43, American actress, The Caddy, All About Eve
- March 19 – Lola Braccini, 79, Italian actress, My Little One, What a Distinguished Family
- March 25 – Alan Mowbray, 72, British actor, Terror by Night, My Darling Clementine
- 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
- 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[3]
- July 5 - Lambert Hillyer, 75, American director, Dracula's Daughter, Batman
- 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 13 - Bess Meredyth, 79, American screenwriter, The Unsuspected, Charlie Chan at the Opera
- 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
- July 26 – Raymond Walburn, 81, American actor, High, Wide, and Handsome, Third Finger, Left Hand
- 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
- September 14 – James Anderson, 48, American actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, Take the Money and Run
- September 19 – Rex Ingram, 73, American actor, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Thief of Bagdad
- October 8 – Eduardo Ciannelli, 81, Italian actor, Gunga Din, Strange Cargo
- 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
- November 8 – Dave O'Brien, 57, American actor, Captain Midnight, Brand of the Devil
- December 3 – Ruth White, 55, American actress, To Kill a Mockingbird, No Way to Treat a Lady
- December 7 – Eric Portman, 68, British actor, A Canterbury Tale, The Bedford Incident
- December 13 – Luigi Pavese, 72, Italian actor, Toto in Color, Il Mattatore
- December 22
- Ilse Steppat, 52, German actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Josef von Sternberg, 73, Austrian director, The Blue Angel, Macao
References[]
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