1975 in film

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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.

Highest-grossing films[]

North America[]

See also: List of 1975 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1975
Rank Title Distributor Box-office gross rental
1 Jaws Universal $133,400,000[1]
2 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest United Artists $59,200,000[1]
3 Shampoo Columbia $23,822,000[2]
4 Dog Day Afternoon Warner Bros. $22,500,000[1]
5 The Return of the Pink Panther United Artists $20,017,000[2]
6 Three Days of the Condor Paramount $20,014,000[2]
7 Funny Lady Columbia $19,313,000[2]
8 The Other Side of the Mountain Universal $18,012,000[2]
9 Tommy Columbia $17,793,000[2]
10 The Apple Dumpling Gang Disney $16,580,000[2]

International[]

The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America.

International market Film Revenue Admissions Ref Production country
France The Towering Inferno N/A 4,466,376 [3] United States
Germany Jaws N/A 7,000,000 [4]
India Sholay $41,790,000 100,000,000+ [n 1][7] India
Italy My Friends N/A 10,467,254 [8] Italy
Soviet Union Bobby $21,440,000 62,600,000 [n 2] India
Spain Jaws N/A 5,918,754 [13] United States
United Kingdom Jaws £11,800,000 16,200,000 [14][15]
United States and Canada Jaws $260,000,000 128,078,800 [16]

Worldwide gross[]

The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1975. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1975. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases.

Title Revenue Admissions (est.) Country
Jaws $470,653,000[16] 242,800,000[17] United States
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest N/A 78,706,404[n 3]
The Rocky Horror Picture Show $140,846,387[n 4] 58,431,570[n 5] United Kingdom
United States
Sholay $65,080,000[n 8] 250,000,000[29] India
Dog Day Afternoon N/A 24,861,525[n 9] United States

Events[]

  • March 26: The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London.
  • May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.
  • June 20: Jaws is released and becomes the highest-grossing movie of all-time and the highest-grossing movie of the year and the first movie to earn $100 million in US and Canadian theatrical rentals,[32] setting the standard for future blockbusters.
  • August 14: The cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show premieres in London.
  • November 23: Sneak Previews, the first American film review show, premieres and launches the careers of critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. They will remain a team, and a staple among film critics, through various programs for the next twenty-four years.
  • December: Warner Bros. reorganize following John Calley's decision to step down as president-COO. Frank Wells becomes president again and shares CEO duties with Ted Ashley who also returns as chairman.[32]

Awards[]

Awards ceremonies[]

Notable awards[]

Category/Organization Golden Globe Awards
January 24, 1976		 BAFTA Awards
February 29, 1976		 Academy Awards
March 29, 1976
Comedy or Musical Drama
Best Film The Sunshine Boys One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Director Miloš Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		 Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon		 Miloš Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actor Walter Matthau
The Sunshine Boys		 Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		 Al Pacino
Dog Day Afternoon /
The Godfather Part II		 Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress Ann-Margret
Tommy		 Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		 Ellen Burstyn
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore		 Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Supporting Actor Richard Benjamin
The Sunshine Boys		 Fred Astaire
The Towering Inferno		 George Burns
The Sunshine Boys
Best Supporting Actress Brenda Vaccaro
Once Is Not Enough		 Diane Ladd
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore		 Lee Grant
Shampoo
Best Screenplay, Adapted One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman		 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Robert Getchell		 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
Best Screenplay, Original Dog Day Afternoon
Frank Pierson
Best Original Score John Williams
Jaws		 John Williams
Jaws
The Towering Inferno		 John Williams
Jaws
Leonard Rosenman
Barry Lyndon
Best Original Song "I'm Easy"
Nashville		 N/A "I'm Easy"
Nashville
Best Foreign Language Film Lies My Father Told Me N/A Dersu Uzala

Films released 1975[]

Note: US releases unless stated.

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Notable films released in 1975[]

Note: US releases unless stated

#[]

  • 92 in the Shade, starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Elizabeth Ashley, Margot Kidder

A[]

B[]

  • Barry Lyndon, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson (US/UK)
  • The Beehive, directed by Fereydun Gole. (Iran)
  • The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures, directed by James Algar (documentary)
  • Bim (Trinidad)
  • Bite the Bullet (June 20), directed by Richard Brooks, starring Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson
  • The Black Bird (December 25), starring George Segal
  • A Boy and His Dog, starring Don Johnson
  • Brannigan, starring John Wayne
  • Breakheart Pass, starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna
  • Breakout (May 22), starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall
  • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, a documentary film about the Great Depression (UK)
  • Bucktown, starring Fred Williamson and Pam Grier
  • Bugs Bunny: Superstar

C[]

  • Capone, starring Ben Gazzara
  • Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des Années de Braise) (Algeria)
  • Chupke Chupke (Hush Hush), starring Dharmendra (India)
  • The Claws of Light (Maynila... sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag) (Philippines)
  • Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, starring Tamara Dobson and Stella Stevens
  • Conduct Unbecoming, starring Stacy Keach, Michael York and Richard Attenborough (UK)
  • Cooley High, starring Glynn Turman
  • Coonskin, an animated film by Ralph Bakshi
  • Cornbread, Earl and Me, starring Laurence Fishburne
  • Crazy Mama, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Cloris Leachman, Ann Sothern, Linda Purl
  • The Cycle (Dayereh-ye Mina) (Iran)

D[]

  • The Day of the Locust, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Donald Sutherland, William Atherton, Karen Black
  • Deafula, first film entirely in American Sign Language
  • Death Race 2000, directed by Paul Bartel, starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone
  • Deep Red, directed by Dario Argento, starring David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi (Italy)
  • Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa (USSR/Japan)
  • Deewaar (The Wall), starring Shashi Kapoor (India)
  • The Devil's Rain, starring Ernest Borgnine
  • Dialogues of Exiles (Diálogos de exiliados) (Chile)
  • Diamonds, starring Robert Shaw, Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey
  • Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, starring Ron Ely
  • Dog Day Afternoon (September 21), directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, Charles Durning
  • The Drowning Pool, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Melanie Griffith

E[]

  • The Eiger Sanction, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with George Kennedy and Jack Cassidy
  • The Empress Dowager (Qing guo qing cheng), starring Lisa Lu (Hong Kong)
  • End of the Game, starring Maximilian Schell, Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw
  • Das Erdbeben in Chili, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms (West Germany)
  • Escape to Witch Mountain, starring Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence
  • Evrydiki BA 2O37 (Ευριδίκη ΒΑ 2Ο37), directed by Nikos Nikolaidis (Greece/West Germany)

F[]

  • Fantozzi (a.k.a. White Collar Blues) (Italy)
  • Farewell, My Lovely, directed by Dick Richards, starring Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvia Miles, John Ireland
  • Flame, starring Slade (UK)
  • The Flower in His Mouth (Gente di rispetto), starring Jennifer O'Neill and Franco Nero (Italy)
  • Fore Play, starring Zero Mostel and Estelle Parsons
  • The Fortune, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing
  • Fox (Faustrecht der Freiheit), directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder (West Germany)
  • Framed, directed by Phil Karlson, starring Joe Don Baker
  • French Connection II, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard
  • Friday Foster, starring Pam Grier
  • Funny Lady (March 15), directed by Herbert Ross, starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif
  • Furtivos (Poachers) (Spain)

G[]

  • Galileo, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Topol, Edward Fox, John Gielgud (UK)
  • The Giant Spider Invasion, starring Barbara Hale, Leslie Parrish, Alan Hale, Jr.
  • Give 'em Hell, Harry!, a biopic of Harry S. Truman starring James Whitmore
  • God's Gun, starring Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance (Italy/Israel)
  • Gone with the West, starring James Caan, Stefanie Powers and Aldo Ray
  • Graveyard of Honor (Jingi no hakaba) (Japan)
  • Great, animated short (UK)
  • The Great Waldo Pepper, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder, Susan Sarandon
  • Grey Gardens, a documentary film

H[]

  • Hababam Sınıfı (Outrageous Class) (Turkey)
  • Hagiga B'Snuker (Party at the Snooker) (Israel)
  • Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (Anderusen Dōwa Ningyo hime) (Japan)
  • The Happy Hooker, starring Lynn Redgrave and Jean-Pierre Aumont
  • Hard Times (October 8), directed by Walter Hill, starring Charles Bronson and James Coburn
  • Hearts of the West, starring Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, Andy Griffith
  • Hedda, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Peter Eyre and Glenda Jackson (UK)
  • Hedgehog in the Fog (Yozhik v tumane) (USSR)
  • Hello, I'm Your Aunt! (Zdravstvuyte, ya vasha tyotya!) (USSR)
  • Hennessy, starring Rod Steiger and Lee Remick
  • Hester Street, starring Carol Kane
  • The Hiding Place, starring Julie Harris
  • The Hindenburg, directed by Robert Wise, starring George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Gig Young
  • The 'Human' Factor, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring George Kennedy, John Mills, Rita Tushingham
  • Hustle, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson

I[]

  • In Celebration, directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Alan Bates and Brian Cox (UK)
  • Inserts, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins (UK)
  • The Irony of Fate (Ironiya sudby, ili S lyogkim parom!) (USSR)

J[]

  • Jacob the Liar (Jakob, der Lügner) (East Germany/Czechoslovakia)
  • Jaws (June 20), directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, starring Delphine Seyrig (France/Belgium)
  • Journey into Fear, starring Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux (Canada)

K[]

  • Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute, documentary by Shohei Imamura (Japan)
  • Kaddu Beykat (a.k.a. Letter from My Village) (Senegal)
  • Keetje Tippel (Katie Tippel), directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Monique van de Ven and Rutger Hauer (Netherlands)
  • The Killer Elite, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Caan and Robert Duvall

L[]

  • L'important c'est d'aimer (That Most Important Thing: Love), starring Romy Schneider (France)
  • The Land That Time Forgot, starring Doug McClure (UK)
  • Legend of the Lawman (a.k.a. Walking Tall Part 2), starring Bo Svenson
  • Legend of the Werewolf, starring Peter Cushing (UK)
  • Lepke, starring Tony Curtis
  • Let Joy Reign Supreme (Que la Fete Commence), directed by Bertrand Tavernier (France)
  • Let's Do It Again, directed by and starring Sidney Poitier with Bill Cosby
  • Lies My Father Told Me, directed by Ján Kadár (Canada)
  • , documentary short
  • Lisztomania, directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas (UK)
  • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta (West Germany)
  • Love and Death, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton
  • Lucky Lady, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds

M[]

  • Mackintosh and T.J., starring Roy Rogers
  • The Magic Flute (Trollflöjten), a film version of the Mozart opera directed by Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)
  • Mahogany, directed by Berry Gordy, starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Jean-Pierre Aumont
  • La Maldicion de la Bestia (Horror of the Werewolf), starring Paul Naschy (Spain)
  • Man Friday, starring Peter O'Toole
  • The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Maximilian Schell and Lois Nettleton
  • The Man Who Would Be King, directed by John Huston, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey (UK/US)
  • Mandingo, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring James Mason, Susan George, Ken Norton, Perry King
  • Milestones
  • The Mirror (Zerkalo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (USSR)
  • Mitchell, starring Joe Don Baker, Linda Evans, Martin Balsam, Merlin Olsen
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail, directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Gilliam and Jones (UK)
  • Moonrunners, starring James Mitchum
  • Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (West Germany)
  • Mr. Ricco, starring Dean Martin
  • My Friends (Amici miei), directed by Mario Monicelli (Italy)

N[]

  • Nashville, directed by Robert Altman, starring Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black, Michael Murphy, Barbara Harris, Ned Beatty
  • Night Moves, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren
  • Nights and Days (Noce i dnie) (Poland)
  • Nishant (India)
  • Numéro deux (aka Number Two) directed by Jean-Luc Godard (France)
  • The Noah, starring Robert Strauss

O[]

  • The Old Gun (Le vieux fusil), starring Philippe Noiret and Romy Schneider (France)
  • Once Is Not Enough, starring Kirk Douglas, David Janssen, Brenda Vaccaro, Deborah Raffin, George Hamilton
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (November 19), directed by Miloš Forman, starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Danny DeVito
  • One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, starring Peter Ustinov and Helen Hayes (US/UK)
  • Operation Daybreak, starring Timothy Bottoms, Anthony Andrews, Martin Shaw (US/Czechoslovakia)
  • Osadeni Dushi (Doomed Souls) (Bulgaria)
  • The Other Side of the Mountain, starring Marilyn Hassett and Beau Bridges
  • Out of Season, starring Vanessa Redgrave
  • Overlord, directed by Stuart Cooper (UK)

P[]

  • The Passenger, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Steven Berkoff (Italy/France)
  • Peeper, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Michael Caine
  • Permission to Kill, starring Dirk Bogarde and Ava Gardner
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir, starring Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse (Australia)
  • Pick-Up
  • The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (Flåklypa Grand Prix) (Norway)
  • Posse, directed by and starring Kirk Douglas
  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue, directed by Melvin Frank, starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft
  • The Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana), directed by Andrzej Wajda (Poland)

Q[]

R[]

  • Race with the Devil, starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker
  • Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, starring Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips
  • Rancho Deluxe, starring Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, Harry Dean Stanton, Slim Pickens
  • The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill
  • The Return of the Pink Panther (May 21), directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom (UK)
  • The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (Kaette kita onna hissatsu ken) (Japan)
  • Ride a Wild Pony, starring Robert Bettles, Eva Griffith, Michael Craig (US/ Australia)
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show (August 14), directed by Jim Sharman, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Richard O'Brien, Barry Bostwick (US/UK)
  • Rollerball, directed by Norman Jewison, starring James Caan, John Houseman, John Beck, Maud Adams
  • The Romantic Englishwoman, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger (UK)
  • Rooster Cogburn, starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn
  • Rosebud, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Peter O'Toole
  • Royal Flash, directed by Richard Lester, starring Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates (UK)
  • Russian Roulette, starring George Segal

S[]

  • Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (aka Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy/France)
  • Le Sauvage (a.k.a. Lovers Like Us), starring Catherine Deneuve and Yves Montand (France)
  • The Sensuous Nurse (L'Infermiera), starring Ursula Andress, Luciana Paluzzi, Jack Palance (Italy)
  • Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze), directed by Lina Wertmüller (Italy)
  • Shampoo (February 11), directed by Hal Ashby, starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher
  • Shivers (a.k.a. They Came from Within) (Canada)
  • Sholay, the highest grossing Bollywood film of all time (India)
  • Slashed Dreams, starring Peter Hooten and Robert Englund
  • Smile, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon
  • Special Section (Section spéciale), directed by Costa Gavras (France)
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, re-release
  • The Stepford Wives (February 12), directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Tina Louise
  • The Story of Adele H. (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.), directed by François Truffaut, starring Isabelle Adjani and Bruce Robinson (France)
  • The Strongest Man in the World, starring Kurt Russell
  • Sunday Too Far Away, starring Jack Thompson (Australia)
  • The Sunshine Boys, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
  • Supervixens, cult adult film directed by Russ Meyer
  • Switchblade Sisters (a.k.a. The Jezebels), directed by Jack Hill

T[]

  • Take a Hard Ride, starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef
  • Terror of Mechagodzilla (Mekagojira no gyakushu), directed by Ishirō Honda (Japan)
  • They Fought for Their Country (Они сражались за Родину), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk (USSR)
  • Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
  • Tommy (March 19), directed by Ken Russell, starring Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Jack Nicholson, Roger Daltrey (UK)
  • The Travelling Players (Ο Θίασος; O Thiassos), directed by Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)

U[]

  • The Ultimate Warrior, starring Yul Brynner
  • Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms (West Germany)

V[]

  • Villa Zone (Vilna Zona), directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Itzhak Fintzi, Katya Paskaleva, Naum Shopov (Bulgaria)

W[]

  • W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Burt Reynolds and Art Carney
  • Walking Tall Part 2, starring Bo Svenson
  • White Line Fever, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Kay Lenz
  • The Wilby Conspiracy, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine (UK)
  • The Wild Party, directed by James Ivory, starring Raquel Welch, James Coco, Perry King
  • The Wind and the Lion (May 22), directed by John Milius, starring Sean Connery and Candice Bergen
  • A Woman's Decision (Bilans kwartalny) (Poland)
  • The Wrong Move, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Rüdiger Vogler and Hanna Schygulla (West Germany)

XYZ[]

Births[]

  • January 1: Sonali Bendre, Indian actress
  • January 2: Dax Shepard, American actor
  • January 3
    • Jason Marsden, American actor
    • Danica McKellar, American actress
  • January 5: Bradley Cooper, American actor and film director
  • January 31: Preity Zinta, Indian actress
  • February 14: Malik Zidi, French actor
  • February 22: Drew Barrymore, American actress and director
  • March 11: Josh Robert Thompson, American voice actor, actor, comedian and the impressionist
  • March 15: Will.i.am, American actor and singer/rapper
  • March 22:
  • March 27: Stacy Ferguson, American actress and singer-songwriter
  • April 2:
    • Deedee Magno, Filipino-American actress and singer
    • Adam Rodriguez, American actor
  • April 6 Zach Braff, American actor, director, screenwriter and producer
  • May 3: Christina Hendricks, American actress
  • May 8: Wilmer Calderon, Puerto Rican-American actor
  • May 9: Chris Diamantopoulos, Greek-Canadian actor and voice artist
  • May 22: Harriet Toompere, Estonian actress
  • May 24: Will Sasso, Canadian-American actor, comedian, voice actor and former podcaster
  • June 4: Angelina Jolie, American actress
  • June 8: Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
  • June 25: Linda Cardellini, American actress
  • June 27: Tobey Maguire, American actor
  • July 6: 50 Cent, American actor and rapper
  • July 7: Nina Hoss, German film and stage actress
  • July 11: Bridgette Andersen, American actress (d. 1997)
  • July 17: Cécile de France, Belgian actress
  • July 20:
    • Judy Greer, American actress
    • Jason Raize, American actor, singer and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme (d. 2004)
  • July 23: Suriya, Indian actor
  • July 28: Ori Pfeffer, Israeli actor
  • August 7: Charlize Theron, South African actress
  • August 11: Roger Craig Smith, American actor and voice actor
  • August 12: Casey Affleck, American actor
  • August 18: Kaitlin Olson, American actress, comedian and producer
  • August 29: Dante Basco, American actor
  • September 18: Jason Sudeikis, American actor, comedian and screenwriter
  • September 22: Mireille Enos, American actress
  • September 30
    • Asia Argento, Italian actress
    • Marion Cotillard, French actress
  • October 3 - Alanna Ubach, American actress
  • October 5
    • Parminder Nagra, English actress
    • Scott Weinger, American actor
    • Kate Winslet, English actress
    • Monica Rial, American voice actress
  • October 7: Kaspars Znotiņš, Latvian actor
  • October 16: Kellie Martin, American actress
  • November 6: Sean Patrick Maclam, Scottish Grindhouse film director
  • November 12: Steven Kynman, British actor, puppeteer, writer and voice actor
  • November 19: Sushmita Sen, Indian actress
  • November 22: James Madio, American actor
  • December 1: David Hornsby, American actor
  • December 5: Paula Patton, American actress
  • December 17
    • Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress
    • Hilje Murel, Estonian actress
  • December 27: Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (d. 1988)

Deaths[]

Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 1 Arthur Pierson 73 Norway/US Director, Actor
9 Pierre Fresnay 77 France Actor
  • La Grande Illusion
  • Le Corbeau
18 Gertrude Olmstead 77 US Actress
21 Marie Lohr 84 Australia Actress
24 Larry Fine 72 US Actor
  • The Three Stooges
  • 4 for Texas
27 Bill Walsh 61 US Screenwriter, Producer
  • Mary Poppins
  • Bedknobs and Broomsticks
February 1 Richard Wattis 62 UK Actor
  • The Longest Day
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
11 Maria Balcerkiewiczówna 71 Poland Actress
17 George Marshall 83 US Director
  • How the West Was Won
  • Destry Rides Again
20 Robert Strauss 61 US Actor
  • Stalag 17
  • The Seven Year Itch
20 Lillian Fontaine 88 UK Actress
  • The Locket
  • The Lost Weekend
March 3 Edward H. Griffith 86 US Director
4 Renée Björling 76 Sweden Actress
7 Ben Blue 73 Canada/US Actor
  • The Big Broadcast of 1938
  • The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
8 George Stevens 70 US Director, Producer
  • A Place in the Sun
  • Giant
9 Shirley Ross 62 US Actress
  • The Big Broadcast of 1938
  • Thanks for the Memory
14 Susan Hayward 57 US Actress
15 John H. Auer 68 Hungary Director, Producer
15 Arthur Crabtree 74 UK Director, Screenwriter
19 Harry Lachman 88 US Director
22 Cass Daley 59 US Actress, Singer
25 Michele Girardon 36 France Actress
  • The Lovers
  • Hatari!
April 3 Mary Ure 42 UK Actress
5 Inez Courtney 67 US Actress
10 Marjorie Main 85 US Actress
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Ma and Pa Kettle
13 Larry Parks 60 US Actor
  • The Jolson Story
  • Down to Earth
14 Fredric March 77 US Actor
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • A Star Is Born
15 Richard Conte 65 US Actor
15 William Hartnell 67 UK Actor
22 Mary Philips 74 US Actress
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • Leave Her to Heaven
May 4 Moe Howard 77 US Actor
  • The Three Stooges
  • Men in Black
9 Philip Dorn 73 Netherlands Actor
  • Random Harvest
  • I Remember Mama
30 Michel Simon 80 Switzerland Actor
June 3 Ozzie Nelson 69 US Actor
4 Evelyn Brent 75 US Actress
  • Underworld
  • The Last Command
6 Larry Blyden 49 US Actor
  • On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  • Kiss Them for Me
28 Rod Serling 50 US Screenwriter
  • Seven Days in May
  • Planet of the Apes
July 2 James Robertson Justice 68 UK Actor
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • Moby Dick
20 Richard Gaines 70 US Actor
  • Double Indemnity
  • The More the Merrier
28 Alfred L. Werker 78 US Director
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • Repeat Performance
August 2 Jean Yarbrough 73 US Director
7 Phyllis Povah 82 US Actress
  • The Women
  • Pat and Mike
23 Sidney Buchman 73 US Screenwriter
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan
23 Hank Patterson 86 US Actor
  • The Arizona Kid
  • Tarantula
25 Joseph Kane 81 US Director
29 Bob Baker 64 US Actor
September 9 John McGiver 61 US Actor
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • Midnight Cowboy
19 Pamela Brown 58 UK Actress
  • Lust for Life
  • Becket
24 Clive Morton 71 UK Actor
27 Mark Frechette 27 US Actor
October 18 Al Lettieri 47 US Actor
  • The Godfather
  • The Getaway
24 Martin Boddey 68 UK Actor
  • Carry on Sergeant
  • Carry on Nurse
31 Joseph Calleia 78 Malta/US Actor, Singer
  • After the Thin Man
  • Touch of Evil
November 2 Pier Paolo Pasolini 53 Italy Director, Screenwriter, Actor
  • The Hawks and the Sparrows
  • Teorema
4 Sheila Ryan 54 US Actress
5 Annette Kellerman 88 Australia Actress
17 Kay Johnson 70 US Actress
December 7 Hardie Albright 71 US Actor
9 William A. Wellman 79 US Director
13 Cyril Delevanti 88 UK Actor
14 Arthur Treacher 81 UK Actor
  • Thank You, Jeeves!
  • Heidi
20 William Lundigan 61 US Actor
21 Rowland V. Lee 84 US Director
  • Son of Frankenstein
  • Captain Kidd
24 Bernard Herrmann 64 US Composer
  • Psycho
  • Taxi Driver

Film debuts[]

  • Kim Cattrall – Rosebud
  • Tim Curry – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Brad Dourif – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Griffin Dunne – The Other Side of the Mountain
  • Laurence Fishburne – Cornbread, Earl and Me
  • Carrie Fisher – Shampoo
  • Lorraine Gary – Jaws
  • Richard Gere – Report to the Commissioner
  • Bernard Hill – It Could Happen to You
  • Nastassja Kinski – The Wrong Move
  • Christopher Lloyd – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Mary Stuart Masterson – The Stepford Wives
  • Bill Murray – Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle
  • Kate Nelligan – The Romantic Englishwoman
  • Bill Paxton – Crazy Mama
  • Dennis Quaid – Crazy Mama
  • Rajinikanth – Apoorva Raagangal
  • Chris Sarandon – Dog Day Afternoon
  • Patrick Stewart – Hennessy
  • John Travolta – The Devil's Rain
  • Treat Williams – Deadly Hero (filmed in 1975, released in May 1976)
  • Rudy Ray Moore – Dolemite

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Sholay in India: ₹350 million at Indian box office,[5] 8.3759 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[6]
  2. ^ Bobby in the Soviet Union: 15.65 million SUR[nb 1] (US$21.44 million,[nb 2] ₹19.24 crore)[nb 3] in 1975
  3. ^ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest box office admissions:
    • North America – 53,685,400[18]
    • United Kingdom – 9.65 million[19]
    • France, Germany – 10,374,879[20]
    • Spain, Denmark – 4,996,125[21]
  4. ^ The Rocky Horror Picture Show gross revenue:
    • North America – $139,876,417[22]
    • United Kingdom – £600,000[23] ($916,667)
    • Australia, South Korea – $53,303[24]
  5. ^ The Rocky Horror Picture Show box office admissions:
    • North America – 55,069,400[25]
    • France, Germany – 3,362,170[26]
  6. ^ 60 million tickets sold,[27] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[10]
  7. ^ 64.4 руб per $100 in 1979[28]
  8. ^ Sholay gross revenue:
    • India – ₹350 million ($41.79 million)[n 1]
    • Soviet Union – 15 million руб[n 6] ($23.29 million)[n 7]
  9. ^ Dog Day Afternoon box office admissions:
    • North America – 24,390,200[30]
    • France – 471,325[31]
  1. ^ 62.6 million tickets sold,[9] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[10]
  2. ^ 0.73 Soviet rubles per US dollar in 1975[11]
  3. ^ 8.973 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[12]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 360–361. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Top 20 Films of 1975 by Domestic Revenue
  3. ^ "Bilan Annuel France – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Bilan Annuel Allemagne – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Sholay emerges as Bollywood's most successful re-run product even after 20 years". India Today. 15 September 1995.
  6. ^ "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  7. ^ Bahubali 2 Is The Biggest Hindi Blockbuster This Century Archived 24 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Box Office India, 8 June 2017
  8. ^ "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  9. ^ Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Зарубежные популярные фильмы в советском кинопрокате (Индия)".
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
  11. ^ Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
  12. ^ https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/PublicationsView.aspx?id=15268
  13. ^ "Bilan Annuel Espagne – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  14. ^ BFI Statistical Yearbook (PDF) (2012 ed.). London: British Film Institute. 2013. pp. 22 & 32. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  15. ^ "Jaws". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  16. ^ Jump up to: a b "Jaws (1975)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  17. ^ Records, Guinness World (2014). Guinness World Records. 60 (2015 ed.). pp. 160–161. ISBN 9781908843708.
  18. ^ "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  19. ^ "The Ultimate Film Chart". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  20. ^ "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  21. ^ "Пролетая над гнездом кукушки (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975) – Премьеры". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  22. ^ Box Office Information for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Numbers. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  23. ^ Hemley, Matthew (18 September 2015). "Rocky Horror Show tops UK cinema box office". The Stage.
  24. ^ "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – International". The Numbers. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  25. ^ "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  26. ^ "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  27. ^ "«Месть и закон» (Sholay, 1975)". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  28. ^ "Archive". Central Bank of Russia. Archived from the original on 29 December 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  29. ^ Mitra, Sumit (31 July 1985). "After series of box-office duds, Ramesh Sippy strikes back with romantic venture Saagar". India Today. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  30. ^ "Dog Day Afternoon (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  31. ^ "Dog Day Afternoon (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  32. ^ Jump up to: a b "Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76". Daily Variety. October 26, 1976. p. 206.
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