1976 in film

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The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)[]

See also: List of 1976 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1976 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1976
Rank Title Distributor Box-office gross rental
1 Rocky United Artists $55,900,000[1]
2 A Star Is Born Warner Bros. $37,100,000[1]
3 King Kong Paramount $36,900,000[1]
4 Silver Streak 20th Century Fox $30,018,000[2]
5 All the President's Men Warner Bros. $30,000,000[1]
6 The Omen 20th Century Fox $28,500,000[1]
7 The Bad News Bears Paramount $24,800,000[1]
8 The Enforcer Warner Bros. $24,000,000[1]
9 In Search of Noah's Ark Sunn Classic $23,800,000[1]
10 Midway Universal $21,610,435[2]

Events[]

  • January – Paramount Pictures sets up a separate motion picture division and names David V. Picker as president.[3]
  • March 22 – Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film. In one of the most lucrative business decisions in film history, Lucas declines his directing fee of $500,000 in exchange for complete ownership of merchandising and sequel rights.
  • April 1 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater (Now the IFC Center) in Greenwich Village in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there as of 2013 all around the world.[4]
  • April 9 – Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot, is released.
  • July 29 - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton divorce again.
  • August 11 – John Wayne appears in his final film, The Shootist.
  • August 26 – Alan Ladd Jr. is promoted from head of worldwide production to president of 20th Century Fox's film division.
  • November 15 – Michael Eisner is brought in as president and CEO of Paramount Pictures.
  • November 21 – Rocky, the first in the film series opens. It becomes the highest-grossing film released in the year and goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
  • December 5 – Bound for Glory debuts and is the first motion picture in which inventor/operator Garrett Brown used his new Steadicam for filming moving scenes,[5] although its use had already been seen in Marathon Man and Rocky which were filmed later but released earlier.
  • December 17 - King Kong opens to the year's highest opening weekend gross and overall box office success.

Awards[]

Category/Organization 34th Golden Globe Awards
January 29, 1977		 30th BAFTA Awards
March 24, 1977		 49th Academy Awards
March 28, 1977
Drama Musical or Comedy
Best Film Rocky A Star Is Born One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Rocky
Best Director Sidney Lumet
Network		 Milos Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		 John G. Avildsen
Rocky
Best Actor Peter Finch
Network		 Kris Kristofferson
A Star Is Born		 Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		 Peter Finch
Network
Best Actress Faye Dunaway
Network		 Barbra Streisand
A Star Is Born		 Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		 Faye Dunaway
Network
Best Supporting Actor Laurence Olivier
Marathon Man		 Brad Dourif
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		 Jason Robards
All the President's Men
Best Supporting Actress Katharine Ross
Voyage of the Damned		 Jodie Foster
Taxi Driver and Bugsy Malone		 Beatrice Straight
Network
Best Screenplay, Adapted Paddy Chayefsky
Network		 Alan Parker
Bugsy Malone		 William Goldman
All the President's Men
Best Screenplay, Original Paddy Chayefsky
Network
Best Original Score Kenneth Ascher and Paul Williams
A Star Is Born		 Bernard Herrmann
Taxi Driver		 Jerry Goldsmith
The Omen
Leonard Rosenman
Bound for Glory
Best Original Song "Evergreen"
A Star Is Born		 N/A "Evergreen"
A Star Is Born
Best Foreign Language Film Face to Face N/A Black and White in Color

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, United States

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, directed by Robert Altman, United States

Notable films released in 1976[]

United States unless stated

#[]

  • 7-Man Army (Ba dao lou zi), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)
  • 1900, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland – (Italy/France)

A[]

  • A Queda (The Fall) – (Brazil)
  • All the President's Men, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
  • The Anchorite (El anacoreta) – (Spain)
  • Any Day Now (Vandaag of morgen) – (Netherlands)
  • The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) – (U.S.S.R.) – Golden Bear winner
  • Assault on Precinct 13, directed by John Carpenter, starring Austin Stoker
  • Astral Factor, starring Stefanie Powers
  • At the Earth's Core, starring Peter Cushing and Doug McClure – (U.K.)

B[]

C[]

  • Caddie, starring Helen Morse – (Australia)
  • Canoa (Canoe) – (Mexico)
  • Car Wash, starring Franklyn Ajaye and Richard Pryor
  • The Career of a Chambermaid (Telefoni bianchi), directed by Dino Risi – (Italy)
  • Caro Michele, directed by Mario Monicelli – (Italy)
  • Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
  • The Cassandra Crossing, starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Lee Strasberg, Martin Sheen, O. J. Simpson – (U.K.)
  • A Child in the Crowd (Un enfant dans la foule) – (France)
  • Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)
  • Chitchor (Heart Stealer) – (India)
  • The Clown Murders
  • Cop (Strømer) – (Denmark)
  • Coup de Grâce (Der Fangschuß), directed by Volker Schlöndorff – (West Germany/France)
  • A Cricket in the Ear (Shturets v uhoto), directed by , starring , Tatyana Lolova, Itzhak Fintzi – (Bulgaria)

D[]

E[]

  • The Eagle Has Landed, starring Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland – (U.K./United States)
  • Eat My Dust, starring Ron Howard and Christopher Norris
  • Embryo, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Carrera
  • The Enforcer, starring Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Tyne Daly
  • Escape from the Dark, starring Alastair Sim – (U.K.)

F[]

  • F comme Fairbanks (F Like Fairbanks), starring Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou – (France)
  • Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson – (Sweden)
  • Family Plot, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (his final film), starring Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane
  • Farsighted for Two Diopters (Dva Dioptara Dalekogledstvo), directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Georgi Partsalev – (Bulgaria)
  • Fellini's Casanova, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Donald Sutherland – (Italy)
  • The Fifth Seal (Az ötödik pecsét), directed by Zoltán Fábri – (Hungary)
  • The First Nudie Musical, directed by Bruce Kimmel, starring Cindy Williams, Stephen Nathan, Diana Canova
  • The Food of the Gods, starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino
  • Freaky Friday, directed by Gary Nelson, starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster
  • From Noon till Three, starring Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland
  • The Front, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Andrea Marcovicci, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy
  • Fumō Chitai (Wasted Land) – (Japan)
  • Futureworld, starring Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner

G[]

  • Gable and Lombard, starring James Brolin and Jill Clayburgh
  • Gator, starring Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed
  • Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer) – (Israel)
  • God Told Me To, starring Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis
  • Griffin and Phoenix, starring Peter Falk and Jill Clayburgh
  • Grizzly, starring Christopher George
  • The Gumball Rally, starring Michael Sarrazin
  • Gus, starring Don Knotts and Ed Asner

H[]

I[]

  • Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti), directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Lino Ventura – (Italy)
  • The Inheritance (L'eredità Ferramonti), starring Anthony Quinn and Dominique Sanda – (Italy)
  • In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no Korīda), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
  • L'innocente, directed by Luchino Visconti – (Italy)
  • The Inugamis (Inugami-ke no ichizoku), directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan)
  • I Will, I Will... for Now, directed by Norman Panama, starring Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Victoria Principal

J[]

K[]

  • Kabhie Kabhie (Sometimes), starring Shashi Kapoor – (India)
  • Kalicharan – (India)
  • The Killer Inside Me, starring Stacy Keach
  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel
  • King Kong, directed by John Guillermin, starring Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin
  • King Kung Fu, directed by and starring Lance D. Hayes
  • Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit), directed by Wim Wenders – (West Germany)

L[]

  • The Last Hard Men, starring Charlton Heston and James Coburn
  • The Last Supper (La Última Cena) – (Cuba)
  • The Last Tycoon, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Ray Milland, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson
  • Leadbelly, a biopic directed by Gordon Parks
  • Lipstick, starring Margaux Hemingway, Mariel Hemingway, Chris Sarandon
  • The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen
  • Logan's Run, directed by Michael Anderson, starring Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter

M[]

  • Mako: The Jaws of Death, directed by William Grefe, starring Richard Jaeckel
  • The Man on the Roof (Mannen på taket), directed by Bo Widerberg – (Sweden)
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark – (U.K.)
  • Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (Marečku, podejte mi pero!) – (Czechoslovakia)
  • Marathon Man, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, Marthe Keller, William Devane
  • The Marquise of O, directed by Éric Rohmer – (West Germany/France)
  • Massacre at Central High, directed by Rene Daalder
  • Master of the Flying Guillotine (a.k.a. One-Armed Boxer 2), starring Jimmy Wang – (Taiwan/Hong Kong)
  • A Matter of Time, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ingrid Bergman, Liza Minnelli, Charles Boyer, Isabella Rossellini – (U.S./Italy)
  • Max Havelaar, directed by Fons Rademakers – (Netherlands)
  • The Memory of Justice, a documentary film by Marcel Ophüls – (France/West Germany/U.K./U.S.)
  • Midway, starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Toshiro Mifune, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook
  • Mikey and Nicky, directed by Elaine May, starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk
  • The Missouri Breaks, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson
  • Mohammad, Messenger of God, directed by Moustapha Akkad, starring Anthony Quinn – (Morocco/Libya)
  • Mother, Jugs & Speed, directed by Peter Yates, starring Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel
  • Mr. Klein, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Alain Delon and Jeanne Moreau – (France)
  • Murder by Death, starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester, James Coco, Truman Capote
  • The Mysterious Monsters, starring Peter Graves and Peter Hurkos

N[]

  • Network, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall
  • The Next Man, starring Sean Connery
  • Next Stop, Greenwich Village, starring Shelley Winters, Lenny Baker, Ellen Greene
  • Nickelodeon, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal, John Ritter, Stella Stevens
  • Nightmare in Badham County, starring Deborah Raffin and Chuck Connors
  • No Deposit, No Return, starring David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Barbara Feldon, Kim Richards

O[]

  • Obsession, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
  • Ode to Billy Joe, directed by Max Baer Jr., starring Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, James Best
  • The Omen, directed by Richard Donner, starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Leo McKern – (UK/US)
  • One Summer Love, aka Dragonfly, directed by Gilbert Cates, starring Susan Sarandon and Beau Bridges
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Chief Dan George, Sam Bottoms, Sondra Locke, John Vernon
  • Oz or 20th Century Oz, a Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie, starring Bruce Spence, Joy Dunstan – (Australia)

P[]

R[]

  • Raise Ravens (Cria Cuervos), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin – (Spain)
  • The Rat Savior (Izbavitelj) – (Yugoslavia)
  • Rich Man, Poor Man, television mini-series, starring Nick Nolte and Peter Strauss
  • The Ritz, directed by Richard Lester, starring Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, Jack Weston
  • Robin and Marian, directed by Richard Lester, starring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw – (UK/US)
  • Rocky, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire, Burt Young

S[]

  • The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, starring Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles
  • Salon Kitty, directed by Tinto Brass, starring Helmut Berger and Ingrid Thulin – (Italy/West Germany/France)
  • The Scar (film), directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Sebastiane, directed by Derek Jarman – (U.K.)
  • Seclusion Near a Forest (Na samotě u lesa), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia)
  • The Sell Out, starring Richard Widmark
  • Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze), starring Fernando Rey – (Italy)
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Laurence Olivier – (UK/US)
  • Shadow of Angels (Schatten der Engel), starring Ingrid Caven and Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (Switzerland)
  • The Shaggy D.A., starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette
  • The Shootist, directed by Don Siegel, starring John Wayne (his final film), Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Richard Boone, Harry Morgan, James Stewart
  • Shout at the Devil, starring Lee Marvin, Roger Moore – (U.K.)
  • Silent Movie, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters
  • Silver Streak, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty, Ray Walston, Patrick McGoohan
  • Sister Street Fighter – Fifth Level Fist (Onna hissatsu godan ken) – (Japan)
  • Sky Riders, starring James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp
  • The Slipper and the Rose, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Gemma Craven and Richard Chamberlain – (U.K.)
  • Small Change (L'Argent de poche), directed by François Truffaut – (France)
  • The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (La Flûte à six schtroumpfs) – (Belgium)
  • Snuff – (Argentina/U.S.)
  • The Song Remains the Same, featuring Led Zeppelin – (UK/US)
  • Soy un delincuente (I Am a Criminal) – (Venezuela)
  • Sparkle, starring Irene Cara
  • A Star Is Born, starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
  • Stay Hungry, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • St. Ives, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson
  • Storm Boy, starring David Gulpilil – (Australia)
  • Swashbuckler, starring Robert Shaw
  • The Swiss Conspiracy, starring David Janssen and Elke Sommer
  • Sybil, starring Joanne Woodward and Sally Field

T[]

  • Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster
  • The Tenant (Le Locataire), directed by and starring Roman Polanski, with Isabelle Adjani and Melvyn Douglas – (France)
  • That's Entertainment, Part II, documentary featuring Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly
  • Tatlong taong walang Diyos (Three Godless Years) – (Philippines)
  • To Fly!, a documentary film
  • To the Devil a Daughter, starring Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski – (U.K.)
  • Todo modo, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
  • Tosun Paşa – (Turkey)
  • The Town That Dreaded Sundown, starring Ben Johnson and Dawn Wells
  • Trackdown, starring James Mitchum
  • Tracks, directed by Henry Jaglom, starring Dennis Hopper
  • Treasure of Matecumbe, starring Joan Hackett, Robert Foxworth, Peter Ustinov
  • The Twist, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Bruce Dern, Stéphane Audran, Charles Aznavour, Ann-Margret – (France)
  • Two-Minute Warning, starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, David Janssen, Jack Klugman, Gena Rowlands, Walter Pidgeon, Beau Bridges

U[]

  • Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
  • Up!, directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Raven De La Croix

V[]

  • Vigilante Force, starring Kris Kristofferson and Victoria Principal
  • Voyage of the Damned, starring Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Katharine Ross, Max von Sydow, Orson Welles, Oskar Werner – (U.K.)

W[]

1976 Wide-release movies[]

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

  • October 1976
  • November 1976
    • 1 November
    • 3 November
      • Carrie
    • 5 November
      • John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13. (Los Angeles and New York City openings).
    • 10 November
      • The Next Man
    • 12 November
    • 13 November
      • Alice, Sweet Alice
    • 14 November
      • Sybil
    • 17 November
      • The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
    • 19 November
      • The Last Tycoon
    • 21 November
      • Rocky
    • 24 November
    • 27 November
      • Network nationwide 13 days after its previous (November 14) Los Angeles and New York City openings.
  • December 1976

Births[]

  • January 2 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
  • January 6
    • Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor, voice actor
    • Danny Pintauro, American actor
  • January 13 – Michael Peña, American actor
  • January 21 – Lars Eidinger, German film, television and stage actor
  • January 28 – Lee Ingleby, English film, television and stage actor
  • February 3 – Isla Fisher, Australian actress
  • February 5 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
  • February 9 – Charlie Day, American actor, screenwriter, producer, comedian, director and musician
  • February 11 – Brice Beckham, American actor
  • February 23
    • Aaron Aziz, Singaporean actor
    • Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
  • February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress
  • March 8 – Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor, voice actor, writer and producer
  • March 13 – Danny Masterson, American actor
  • March 16 – Paul Schneider, American actor
  • March 21 – Rachael MacFarlane, American voice actress, singer and writer
  • March 22 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress
  • March 23
    • Michelle Monaghan, American actress
    • Keri Russell, American actress
  • March 26 – Amy Smart, American actress
  • April 1
    • Troy Baker, American voice actor
    • David Oyelowo, English actor, producer, director
  • April 5 – Sterling K. Brown, American actor
  • April 6 - Candace Cameron Bure, American actress
  • April 13 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)
  • April 15 – Susan Ward, American actress
  • April 20 – Joey Lawrence, American actor
  • April 23 – Gabriel Damon, American actor
  • April 26 – Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
  • April 27 – Sally Hawkins, English actress
  • May 5 – Sage Stallone, American actor (d. 2012)
  • May 22 – Külli Teetamm, Estonian actress
  • May 25
    • Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
    • Ethan Suplee, American film and television actor
    • J. Michael Tatum, American voice actor
  • May 30 – Omri Katz, American retired actor
  • May 31 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
  • July 3 - Andrea Barber, American actress
  • July 9 – Fred Savage, American actor
  • July 15 – Diane Kruger, German actress
  • July 19
    • Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
    • Vinessa Shaw, American actress
  • July 31 – Mela Lee, American voice actress
  • August 2 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor
  • August 6
    • Andero Ermel, Estonian actor
    • Soleil Moon Frye, American actress and director
  • August 9 – Audrey Tautou, French actress
  • August 26 – Mike Colter, American actor
  • August 27 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress, model and voice artist
  • September 3 – Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
  • September 5 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
  • September 6
    • Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor
    • Naomie Harris, English actress
  • September 20 – Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
  • September 26 – Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress
  • October 3 – Seann William Scott, American actor, comedian and producer
  • October 4 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress
  • October 20 – Dan Fogler, American actor, comedian and writer
  • October 21 – Andrew Scott, Irish actor
  • October 23 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
  • October 31 – Piper Perabo, American actress
  • November 29
    • Chadwick Boseman, American actor (d. 2020)
    • Anna Faris, American actress
  • December 7 – Mark Duplass, American actor
  • December 8 – Dominic Monaghan, English actor
  • December 29 – Danny McBride, American actor, comedian and writer

Notable deaths[]

Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 1 Walter Janssen 88 Germany Actor
12 Agatha Christie 85 UK Writer
13 Margaret Leighton 53 UK Actress
  • The Go-Between
  • The Best Man
18 Sonia Dresdel 66 UK Actress
23 Paul Robeson 77 US Actor, Singer
  • Show Boat
  • The Proud Valley
29 Michael Gwynn 59 UK Actor
  • Cleopatra
  • Jason and the Argonauts
February 4 Roger Livesey 69 UK Actor
11 Lee J. Cobb 64 US Actor
  • On the Waterfront
  • The Exorcist
11 John Twist 77 US Screenwriter
  • King Richard and the Crusaders
  • Annie Oakley
12 Sal Mineo 37 US Actor
  • Rebel Without a Cause
  • Exodus
13 Lily Pons 77 France Singer, Actress
13 John Lounsbery 64 US Animator
  • Dumbo
  • Lady and the Tramp
15 Maria Corda 77 Hungary Actress
16 Campbell Singer 66 UK Actor
24 Peter Madden 71 UK Actor
  • From Russia with Love
  • Doctor Zhivago
26 Frieda Inescort 75 UK Actress
  • A Place in the Sun
  • The Letter
March 3 Doris Hill 70 US Actress
5 Charles Lederer 69 US Screenwriter
14 Busby Berkeley 80 US Director, Choreographer
17 Luchino Visconti 69 Italy Director, Writer
  • The Leopard
  • Death in Venice
20 Michael Goodliffe 61 UK Actor
  • Cromwell
  • Jigsaw
28 Richard Arlen 76 US Actor
  • Wings
  • Wildcat
April 2 Ray Teal 74 US Actor
  • Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Ace in the Hole
4 George Pastell 53 Cyprus Actor
5 Howard Hughes 70 US Director, Producer
5 Robert Lord 75 US Screenwriter, Producer
  • One Way Passage
  • 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
11 Liam Dunn 59 US Actor
  • Blazing Saddles
  • Young Frankenstein
12 Paul Ford 74 US Actor
21 Léonide Moguy 75 Russia Director, Writer
25 Carol Reed 69 UK Director, Writer
  • OIiver!
  • The Third Man
26 Neil McCallum 46 Canada Actor
26 Sid James 62 UK Actor
29 Thelma Connell 63 UK Film Editor
  • Alfie
  • The Deadly Affair
May 3 David Bruce 62 US Actor
7 Alan Baxter 67 US Actor
  • Saboteur
  • The Set-Up
27 Hilde Hildebrand 78 Germany Actress
  • Victor and Victoria
  • Little Dorrit
27 Ruth McDevitt 80 US Actress
  • The Parent Trap
  • The Birds
June 5 Violet Wilkey 73 US Actress
6 Victor Varconi 85 Hungary Actor
  • The King of Kings
  • The Sea Hawk
9 Sybil Thorndike 93 UK Actress
10 Adolph Zukor 103 US Producer, Studio Executive
  • Wings
  • Shanghai Express
25 Johnny Mercer 66 US Songwriter
  • The Harvey Girls
  • Darling Lili
28 Stanley Baker 48 UK Actor
July 2 Frances Howard 73 US Actress
7 Norman Foster 72 US Actor, Director
12 James Wong Howe 76 China Cinematographer
  • The Rose Tattoo
  • Hud
17 Rina Morelli 67 Italy Actress
  • The Leopard
  • Senso
28 Lucie Mannheim 77 Germany Actress
August 2 Fritz Lang 85 Germany Director, Writer
  • Metropolis
  • The Big Heat
6 William Mervyn 64 UK Actor
  • The Ruling Class
  • The Long Arm
10 Ray Corrigan 74 US Actor
17 William Redfield 49 US Actor
17 Murvyn Vye 60 US Actor
18 Luigi Serventi 91 Italy Actor
28 Alastair Sim 75 UK Actor
September 10 Dalton Trumbo 70 US Screenwriter
  • Spartacus
  • Roman Holiday
30 Paul Dehn 63 UK Screenwriter
  • Goldfinger
  • Murder on the Orient Express
October 5 Barbara Nichols 47 US Actress
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • The Naked and the Dead
14 Edith Evans 88 UK Actress
November 15 Jean Gabin 72 France Actor
  • La Grande Illusion
  • Port of Shadows
22 Rupert Davies 60 UK Actor
28 Rosalind Russell 69 US Actress
29 Godfrey Cambridge 43 US Actor
December 3 Mary Nash 92 US Actress
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • The Human Comedy
8 Cathy Downs 50 US Actress
  • My Darling Clementine
  • The Dark Corner
12 Jack Cassidy 49 US Actor
20 Walter Fitzgerald 80 UK Actor

Film debuts[]

  • Albert Brooks – Taxi Driver
  • Bruce Campbell – It's Murder!
  • Stephen Collins – All the President's Men
  • Lindsay Crouse – All the President's Men
  • Richard Griffiths – It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
  • Mariel Hemingway – Lipstick
  • Ernie Hudson – Leadbelly
  • Amy Irving – Carrie
  • Jessica Lange – King Kong
  • Delroy Lindo – Find the Lady
  • Mark Margolis – The Opening of Misty Beethoven
  • Lena Olin – Face to Face
  • Jonathan Pryce – Voyage of the Damned
  • John Ratzenberger – The Ritz
  • James Rebhorn – The Yum Yum Girls
  • Mercedes Ruehl – Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
  • Theresa Russell – The Last Tycoon
  • Brooke Shields – Alice, Sweet Alice
  • Debra Winger – Slumber Party '57
  • Chow Yun-fat – Tou tai ren

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 360–361. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Top 20 Films of 1976 by Domestic Revenue
  3. ^ "Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76". Daily Variety. October 26, 1976. p. 208.
  4. ^ rock Horror Picture Show film booking in Feb 2011 Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Steadicam 30th anniversary press release". Archived from the original on 2014-04-30.
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