1977 in film

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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.

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

The top ten 1977 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1977
Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	Star Wars	Fox	$221,280,994^[1]
2	Smokey and the Bandit	Universal	$126,737,428^[2]
3	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Columbia	$116,395,460^[3]
4	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount	$94,213,184^[4]
5	The Goodbye Girl	Warner Bros.	$82,000,470^[5]
6	A Bridge Too Far	United Artists	$50,750,000^[6]
7	The Deep	Columbia	$47,346,365^[7]
8	The Spy Who Loved Me	United Artists	$46,838,673^[8]
9	Oh, God!	Warner Bros.	$41,687,243^[9]
10	Annie Hall	United Artists	$38,251,425^[10]

Events[]

February 23 – During a press conference at Sardi's in Manhattan, it is officially announced that Christopher Reeve will be playing the role of Superman.
March 28 – At the 49th Academy Awards, Rocky picks up the Academy Award for Best Picture. Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight all win Oscars for their performances in Network for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress, while Jason Robards wins for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in All the President's Men. He will win again the following year, becoming the only person to win two consecutive Best Supporting Actor awards.
May 25 – Star Wars opens in theaters and becomes the highest-grossing film of the year. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production. It also embraces the notion of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence. Lucas, told by the Directors Guild of America that he must have an opening credits sequence, instead distributes the film independently, sans the opening credits. The film's release is often considered one of the most important events in film history.
June 22 – Walt Disney Productions releases The Rescuers, which brings back an interest in animation that had been lost to both filmgoers and critics throughout the beginning of the 1970s.^[11]
November 16 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens to widespread critical acclaim and massive box office success, becoming one of the top-grossing films to date and cementing Steven Spielberg's status as one of the most talented and profitable film directors of all time.
The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25.

Awards[]

Category/Organization	35th Golden Globe Awards January 28, 1978		31st BAFTA Awards March 16, 1978	50th Academy Awards April 3, 1978
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	31st BAFTA Awards March 16, 1978	50th Academy Awards April 3, 1978
Best Film	The Turning Point	The Goodbye Girl	Annie Hall
Best Director	Herbert Ross The Turning Point		Woody Allen Annie Hall
Best Actor	Richard Burton Equus	Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl	Peter Finch Network	Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl
Best Actress	Jane Fonda Julia	Diane Keaton Annie Hall Marsha Mason The Goodbye Girl	Diane Keaton Annie Hall
Best Supporting Actor	Peter Firth Equus		Edward Fox A Bridge Too Far	Jason Robards Julia
Best Supporting Actress	Vanessa Redgrave Julia		Jenny Agutter Equus	Vanessa Redgrave Julia
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Neil Simon The Goodbye Girl		Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Annie Hall	Alvin Sargent Julia
Best Screenplay, Original	Neil Simon The Goodbye Girl		Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Annie Hall	Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Annie Hall
Best Original Score	John Williams Star Wars		John Addison A Bridge Too Far	John Williams Star Wars Jonathan Tunick A Little Night Music
Best Original Song	"You Light Up My Life" You Light Up My Life		N/A	"You Light Up My Life" You Light Up My Life
Best Foreign Language Film	A Special Day		N/A	Madame Rosa

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Father and Master (Padre padrone), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larisa Shepitko, USSR

Notable films released in 1977[]

US unless stated

#[]

3 Women, directed by Robert Altman, starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule
21 Up, a TV made documentary film – (UK)

A[]

ABBA: The Movie – directed by Lasse Hallström – (Sweden/Australia)
Airport '77, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Christopher Lee, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, James Stewart
Alien Prey, directed by Norman J. Warren, starring Glory Annen – (UK)
Alice or the Last Escapade (Alice ou la dernière fugue), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Sylvia Kristel – (France)
Allegro Non Troppo, a musical animated film – (Italy)
Amar Akbar Anthony, starring Amitabh Bachchan – (India)
The American Friend (Der amerikanische Freund), directed by Wim Wenders, starring Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz – (West Germany)
Andy Warhol's Bad, starring Carroll Baker and Perry King
Annie Hall, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon
Audrey Rose, directed by Robert Wise, starring Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck
The Ascent, directed by Larisa Shepitko – (USSR)
An Average Little Man (Un borghese piccolo piccolo), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)

B[]

Backroads, directed by Phillip Noyce – (Australia)
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, starring Jackie Earle Haley and William Devane
Black Joy, starring Norman Beaton – (UK)
Black Sunday, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller
A Bridge Too Far, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring James Caan, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford – (US/UK)
Brothers, starring Bernie Casey, Vonetta McGee, Ron O'Neal, Stu Gilliam, Renny Roker
The Brothers Lionheart (Bröderna Lejonhjärta) – (Sweden)

C[]

Candleshoe, starring David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster
The Car, starring James Brolin
Ceddo, directed by Ousmane Sembène – (Senegal)
Charleston, starring Bud Spencer, James Coco, Herbert Lom
The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
Chinatown Kid (Tang ren jie xiao zi), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)
The Choirboys, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Charles Durning, Louis Gossett, Jr., Perry King, Phyllis Davis, Barbara Rhoades
Cinderella, starring Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith
Circuit no Ōkami (The Circuit Wolf) – (Japan)
Citizen's Band, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Paul Le Mat and Candy Clark
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr
Cross of Iron, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason – (UK/West Germany)
Crossed Swords, starring Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston, George C. Scott

D[]

Damnation Alley, directed by Jack Smight, starring George Peppard and Jan-Michael Vincent
Death of a President (Śmierć prezydenta) – (Poland)
The Deep, directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Jr.
Demon Seed, directed by Donald Cammell, starring Julie Christie
Desperate Living, directed by John Waters
The Devil Probably (Le diable probablement), directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
Dharam Veer, starring Dharmendra – (India)
Dinner for Adele (Adéla ještě nevečeřela) – (Czechoslovakia)
The Disappearance, starring Donald Sutherland and David Hemmings
The Dog Who Loved Trains (Pas koji je voleo vozove) – (Yugoslavia)
The Domino Principle, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Eli Wallach, Richard Widmark
Dot and the Kangaroo – (Australia)
Double Murder, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Peter Ustinov
The Duellists, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel – (UK)

E[]

Elisa, vida mía (Elisa, My Life), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin and Fernando Rey – (Spain)
Equus, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Richard Burton and Peter Firth – (US/UK)
Eraserhead, directed by David Lynch, starring Jack Nance
Executioners from Shaolin (Hong Xi Guan) – (Hong Kong)
Exorcist II: The Heretic, directed by John Boorman, starring Richard Burton, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher

F[]

First Love, starring Susan Dey, William Katt, Beverly D'Angelo
Full Circle, aka The Haunting of Julia, starring Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti
Fun with Dick and Jane, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Jane Fonda and George Segal

G[]

The Gauntlet, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke
The Getting of Wisdom, directed by Bruce Beresford – (Australia)
Golden Rendezvous, starring Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, David Janssen
The Goodbye Girl, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason
Grand Theft Auto, directed by and starring Ron Howard with Nancy Morgan
The Grateful Dead Movie, directed by Jerry Garcia and Leon Gast
The Greatest, starring Muhammad Ali as himself
Gulliver's Travels

H[]

Halloween with the New Addams Family
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, directed by Vincent McEveety, starring Dean Jones and Don Knotts
Heroes, starring Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford
High Anxiety, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Howard Morris, Cloris Leachman
The Hills Have Eyes, directed by Wes Craven
Hitler: A Film from Germany, directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – (West Germany)
The Hobbit, an animated film
House (Hausu) – (Japan)
The Hunters (Oi kynigoi), directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos – (Greece)

I[]

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, starring Kathleen Quinlan
In the Name of the Pope King (In nome del papa re), starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
In Search of Noah's Ark
Iphigenia, directed by Michael Cacoyannis – (Greece)
The Iron Prefect (Il prefetto di ferro) – (Italy)
The Iron-Fisted Monk (San De huo shang yu Chong Mi Liu), directed by and starring Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
The Island of Dr. Moreau, starring Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Barbara Carrera
Islands in the Stream, starring George C. Scott

J[]

J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) – (Canada)
Jabberwocky, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Michael Palin – (UK)
Joseph Andrews, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Ann-Margret
Jubilee, by Derek Jarman, starring Adam Ant, Toyah Willcox, Little Nell – (UK)
Julia, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards

K[]

The Kentucky Fried Movie, directed by John Landis, starring Bill Bixby and George Lazenby
Kingdom of the Spiders, starring William Shatner and Tiffany Bolling
The King of the Street Cleaners (Çöpçüler Kralı) – (Turkey)
Die Konsequenz (The Consequence), directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Jürgen Prochnow – (West Germany)

L[]

La Soufrière, a documentary film directed by Werner Herzog – (West Germany)
The Lacemaker (La Dentellière), starring Isabelle Huppert – (France)
The Last Remake of Beau Geste, directed by and starring Marty Feldman
The Last Wave, directed by Peter Weir – (Australia)
The Late Show, directed by Robert Benton, starring Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy
A Little Night Music, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down, Diana Rigg
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere
The Lorry (Le Camion), directed by and starring Marguerite Duras with Gérard Depardieu – (France)

M[]

MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck
Madame Rosa, starring Simone Signoret – Academy Award for Best Foreign Film – (France)
The Magic Pony
Ma-ma – (Romania/USSR/France)
Mama, I'm Alive (Mama, ich lebe) – (East Germany)
Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru), directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
The Man Who Loved Women (L'Homme qui aimait les femmes), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Leslie Caron – (France)
Manly Times, directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Grigor Vachkov, Mariana Dimitrova, Velko Kanev – (Bulgaria)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
March or Die, directed by Dick Richards, starring Gene Hackman, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow
Martin, directed by George A. Romero
Mimino – (USSR)
Mogliamante – (Wifemistress) – (Italy)
Mr. Billion, starring Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason

N[]

Nasty Habits, starring Glenda Jackson, Melina Mercouri, Geraldine Page, Anne Jackson, Sandy Dennis
Nenè – (Italy)
New York, New York, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro
A Nice Plate of Spinach (Což takhle dát si špenát) – (Czechoslovakia)

O[]

Office Romance (Sluzhebnyy roman) – (USSR)
Oh, God!, directed by Carl Reiner, starring George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Paul Sorvino
One on One, starring Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G. D. Spradlin
One Sings, the Other Doesn't (L'une chante, l'autre pas), directed by Agnès Varda – (France)
Opening Night, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Orca, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Bo Derek
The Other Side of Midnight, starring Marie-France Pisier, Susan Sarandon, John Beck, Clu Gulager, Raf Vallone
Outlaw Blues, starring Peter Fonda and Susan Saint James

P[]

Padre Padrone (Father and Master), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani – (Italy) – Palme d'Or winner
Pafnucio Santo – (Mexico)
Pete's Dragon, directed by Don Chaffey, starring Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney
The Picture Show Man, starring Rod Taylor – (Australia)
A Piece of the Action, directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and James Earl Jones
Plae Kao (The Scar) – (Thailand)
Portrait of a Hitman, starring Jack Palance and Rod Steiger
Providence, directed by Alain Resnais, starring John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn – (France/Switzerland)
Pumping Iron, a docudrama starring Arnold Schwarzenegger

R[]

Rabid, starring Marilyn Chambers (Canada)
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, an animated film with the voices of Didi Conn and Mark Baker
Rembrandt 1669 – (Netherlands)
The Report (Gozāresh), directed by Abbas Kiarostami – (Iran)
The Rescuers, animated film with voices of Eva Gabor and Bob Newhart
Rollercoaster, starring Timothy Bottoms, George Segal, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda
Rolling Thunder, starring William Devane
Roseland, starring Teresa Wright, Geraldine Chaplin, Lou Jacobi, Christopher Walken
Ruby, starring Piper Laurie

S[]

Saturday Night Fever, directed by John Badham, starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney
Scott Joplin, starring Billy Dee Williams, Margaret Avery, Clifton Davis, Art Carney
Semi-Tough, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Bert Convy
The Sentinel, starring Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, José Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner
September 30, 1955, directed by James Bridges, starring Richard Thomas, Susan Tyrrell, Dennis Quaid, Tom Hulce, Dennis Christopher
The Serpent's Egg, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring David Carradine and Liv Ullmann – (US/West Germany)
Short Eyes, directed by Robert M. Young, starring Bruce Davison and Jose Perez
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, directed by Sam Wanamaker, starring Patrick Wayne and Jane Seymour – (US/UK)
Slap Shot, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Strother Martin
Smokey and the Bandit, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason
Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje), directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Rutger Hauer – (Netherlands)
Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider
A Special Day (Una giornata particolare), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon – (Italy)
Speedtrap, starring Joe Don Baker and Tyne Daly
Spider-Man, starring Nicholas Hammond
The Spy Who Loved Me, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond) with Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel – (UK)
Starship Invasions, starring Christopher Lee, Robert Vaughn, Helen Shaver
Star Wars, directed by George Lucas, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing
Stroszek, directed by Werner Herzog, starring Bruno S. and Eva Mattes – (West Germany)
Suspiria, directed by Dario Argento, starring Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Alida Valli – (Italy)
Sweeney!, starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman – (UK)

T[]

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (Hishū monogatari) – (Japan)
Telefon, directed by Don Siegel, starring Charles Bronson and Lee Remick
Tenda dos Milagres (Tent of Miracles), directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos – (Brazil)
Tentacles, starring John Huston, Shelley Winters, Henry Fonda
That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina – (France/Spain)
That's Carry On!, a compilation film featuring Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor – (UK)
Thunder and Lightning, starring David Carradine and Kate Jackson
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Czech: Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem) – (Czechoslovakia)
Tongpan – (Thailand)
The Turning Point, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Tom Skerritt, Mikhail Baryshnikov
Twilight's Last Gleaming, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, Burt Young

U[]

Unsichtbare Gegner directed by Valie Export – (Austria)

V[]

Viva l'Italia! (I nuovi mostri), starring Vittorio Gassman and Ornella Muti – (Italy)
Viva Knievel!, featuring Evel Knievel

W[]

The War in Space (Wakusei Daisensō: Za uō in Supesu) – (Japan)
Which Way Is Up?, directed by Michael Schultz, starring Richard Pryor, Margaret Avery, Lonette McKee
White Bim Black Ear (Belyy Bim, Chyornoe ukho) – (USSR)
The White Buffalo, starring Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Slim Pickens, Kim Novak
Wilma, starring Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington
The Wishing Tree (Drevo zhelania) – (USSR)
Wizards – animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi
The World's Greatest Lover, directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise
Wounded Game (Podranki) – (USSR)

Y[]

The Year of the Hare (Jäniksen vuosi) – (Finland)
The Yellow Handkerchief (Shiawase no kiiroi hankachi) – (Japan)
You Light Up My Life, starring Didi Conn

1977 Wide-release movies[]

January–March[]


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J A N U A R Y	7	The Sentinel	Universal Pictures	James B. Harris (director); Jeffrey Konvitz (screenplay); Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, José Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner, John Carradine, Arthur Kennedy, Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, Deborah Raffin, Eli Wallach, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, Beverly D'Angelo, Hank Garrett, Nana Visitor, Tom Berenger, William Hickey, Jeff Goldblum	Horror	Live Action
	18	Pumping Iron	Cinema 5 / White Mountain Films	George Butler (director/screenplay); Charles Gaines (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Franco Columbu, Mike Katz, Ken Waller, Ed Corney, Serge Nubret	Documentary	Live Action
	21	Scalpel	United International Pictures / PJ Productions	John Grissmer (director/screenplay); Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Sandy Martin, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, Muriel Moore, Stan Wojno, Laura Whyte, Larry Quackenbush, Mimi Honce	Thriller	Live Action
	23	Roots	ABC / Warner Bros. Television / Wolper Productions	Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses (directors); Alex Haley, James Lee (screenplay); John Amos, Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Leslie Uggams, Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia Cole, Vic Morrow, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Edward Asner, Lynda Day George, Robert Reed, Madge Sinclair, Chuck Connors, Sandy Duncan, Carolyn Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Brad Davis, Lane Bickley, Hilly Hicks, Lynne Moody, Austin Stoker, Ralph Waite, Cicely Tyson, Thalmus Rasulala, Moses Gunn, Hari Rhodes, Ren Woods, Ernest Lee Thomas, Lorne Greene, Scatman Crothers, George Hamilton, Lillian Randolph, Roxie Roker, Richard Roundtree, Thayer David, Tanya Boyd, John Quade, Maya Angelou, O.J. Simpson, Beverly Todd, Paul Shenar, Gary Collins, Richard Farnsworth, Raymond St. Jacques, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, John Schuck, Macdonald Carey, Ian McShane, Doug McClure, Burl Ives, Richard McKenzie, Sally Kemp, William C. Watson, Charles Cyphers, Macon McCalman, Brion James, Tracey Gold, Todd Bridges, Ross Chapman, Grand L. Bush	Drama	Live Action
	25	Providence	Cinema 5 Distributing	Alain Resnais (director); David Mercer (screenplay); Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner, Elaine Stritch, Cyril Luckham, Denis Lawson, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Milo Sperber, Anna Wing, Peter Arne, Tanya Lopert	Drama	Live Action
	28	The Late Show	Warner Bros.	Robert Benton (director/screenplay); Rodolfo Sonego (screenplay); Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy, John Considine, Ruth Nelson, Howard Duff, John Davey	Neo-Noir, Mystery	Live Action
F E B R U A R Y	4	Raw Deal	Greater Union / Homestead Films	Russell Hagg (director); Patrick Edgeworth (screenplay); Gerard Kennedy, Gus Mercurio, Rod Mullinar, Christopher Pate, Hu Pryce, John Cousins, Michael Carman, Norman Yemm, Gary Day, Briony Behets	Western	Live Action
	9	Fun with Dick and Jane	Columbia Pictures	Ted Kotcheff (director); David Giler, Jerry Belson, Mordecai Richler (screenplay); George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon, Dick Gautier, Allan Miller, Hank Garcia, John Dehner, Mary Jackson, Walter Brooke, Sean Frye, Fred Willard, Thayer David, Burke Byrnes, Dewayne Jesse, Anne Ramsey, Jon Christian Erickson, Gloria Stroock, Thalmus Rasulala, Jay Leno	Comedy	Live Action
		Twilight's Last Gleaming	Allied Artists / Lorimar Productions	Robert Aldrich (director); Ronald M. Cohen (screenplay); Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Cotten, Richard Jaeckel, Roscoe Lee Browne, William Marshall, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Leif Erickson, Charles Aidman, Charles McGraw, William Smith, Simon Scott, Morgan Paull, Bill Walker, Ed Bishop, Phil Brown, Don Fellows, Garrick Hagon, David Healy, William Hootkins, Ray Jewers, John Ratzenberger, Lionel Murton, Shane Rimmer, Mark Russell, M. Phil Senini, David Baxt, Glenn Beck, Gary Cockrell, Weston Gavin, Elizabeth Halliday, Thomasine Heiner, Ron Lee, Robert Sherman, Robert MacLeod, Robert O'Neil, Pamela Roland, Rich Steber, Drew W. Wesche, Kent O. Doering, Allan Dean Moore, Rich Demarest, Gary Harper	Thriller	Live Action
		Wizards	20th Century Fox / Bakshi Productions	Ralph Bakshi (director/screenplay); Bob Holt, Jesse Welles, Richard Romanus, David Proval, Steve Gravers, Mark Hamill, Susan Tyrrell, Ralph Bakshi, James Connell, Angelo Grisanti	Fantasy	Animation
	11	Fire Sale	20th Century Fox	Alan Arkin (director); Robert Klane (screenplay); Alan Arkin, Rob Reiner, Vincent Gardenia, Anjanette Comer, Kay Medford, Sid Caesar, Byron Stewart, Alex Rocco, Oliver Clark, Barbara Dana	Comedy	Live Action
		In Search of Noah's Ark	Sunn Classic Pictures	James L. Conway (director/screenplay); Charles E. Sellier Jr. (screenplay); Brad Crandall, Vern Adix	Documentary	Live Action
		Thieves	Paramount Pictures / Brut Productions	John Berry (director); Herb Gardner (screenplay); Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Héctor Elizondo, Mercedes McCambridge, John McMartin, Gary Merrill, Ann Wedgeworth, Larry B. Scott, Bob Fosse, Norman Matlock, Ian Martin, Janet Colazzo, Kenneth Kimmins, Santos Morales, MacIntyre Dixon, Bill Lazarus, Alice Drummond, Zvee Scooler, Craig Barrie, Victor Le Guillow, Lee Wallace, Jess Osuna, Joan Kaye	Comedy	Live Action
	20	The Spell	Worldvision Enterprises / MGM Television / Charles Fries Productions / Stonehenge Productions	Lee Philips (director); Brian Taggert (screenplay); Lee Grant, Susan Myers, Lelia Goldoni, Helen Hunt, Jack Colvin, James Olson, James Greene, Wright King, Barbara Bostock, Doney Oatman, Richard Carlyle, Kathleen Hughes, Robert Gibbons, Arthur Peterson, Marneen Fields	Horror	Live Action
	25	Slap Shot	Universal Pictures / Pan Arts / Kings Road Entertainment	George Roy Hill (director); Nancy Dowd (screenplay); Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse, Jerry Houser, Andrew Duncan, Jeff Carlson, Steve Carlson, David Hanson, Yvon Barrette, Allan Nicholls, Brad Sullivan, Stephen Mendillo, Yvan Ponton, Matthew Cowles, Kathryn Walker, Melinda Dillon, M. Emmet Walsh, Swoosie Kurtz, Paul D'Amato, Ronald L. Docken, Guido Tenesi, Jean Rosario Tėtreault, Christopher Murney, Blake Ball, Ned Dowd, Larry Block, Paul Dooley, Bruce Boudreau, Galen Head, Connie Madigan, Joe Nolan, Dick Roberge, Ross Smith, Steve Stirling, Cliff Thompson, Nancy N. Dowd, Barbara L. Shorts, Dan Belisle Jr., Rod Bloomfield, Susan Kendall Newman, Ray Schultz, Carol Shelton	Sports, Comedy	Live Action
	25	Tentacles	American International Pictures	Ovidio G. Assonitis (director); Steven W. Carabatsos (screenplay); John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Delia Boccardo, Claude Akins, Franco Diogene, Marc Fiorini, Alan Boyd, Sherry Buchanan	Horror	Live Action
M A R C H	3	Mr. Billion	20th Century Fox / Pantheon Pictures	Jonathan Kaplan (director/screenplay); Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason, Slim Pickens, William Redfield, Chill Wills, Dick Miller, R.G. Armstrong	Comedy, Action, Adventure	Live Action
	4	Death Weekend	American International Pictures / Cinépix Film Properties	William Fruet (director/screenplay); Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata, Richard Ayres, Kyle Edwards, Don Granberry, Ed McNamara, Michael Kirby, and Richard Donat	Horror, Thriller	Live Action
	9	The Farmer	Columbia Pictures / Milway Productions	David Berlatsky (director); John Carmody, Janice Eymann, George Fargo, Patrick Regan (screenplay); Lewell Akins, Gary Conway, Michael Dante, Dave Graig, Stratton Leopold, Ray McIver, George Memmoli, Timothy Scott, Sonny Shroyer, Angel Tompkins, Bill Moses, Judge Parker, Don Payne, Louis C. Pessolano, Johnny Popwell, Ken Renard, Wayne Stewart, Roy Tatum, Jack Waltzer, Eric Weston, Laura Whyte	Crime, Action	Live Action
	9	Islands in the Stream	Paramount Pictures	Franklin J. Schaffner (director); Denne Bart Petitclerc (screenplay); George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell, Richard Evans, Claire Bloom, Julius Harris, Hart Bochner, Brad Savage, Michael-James Wixted, Hildy Brooks	Drama	Live Action
	11	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman (directors); Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Vance Gerry, Xavier Atencio, Ken Anderson, Julius Svendsen, Ted Berman, Eric Cleworth (screenplay); Sterling Holloway, John Fiedler, Junius Matthews, Paul Winchell, Howard Morris, Bruce Reitherman, Jon Walmsley, Timothy Turner, Ralph Wright, Clint Howard, Barbara Luddy, Hal Smith, Sebastian Cabot, Dori Whitaker	Family, Musical	Animation
		Black Sunday	Paramount Pictures	John Frankenheimer (director); Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross, Ivan Moffat (screenplay); Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Bekim Fehmiu, Steven Keats, Michael V. Gazzo, William Daniels, Walter Gotell, Victor Campos, Joe Robbie, Robert Wussler, Pat Summerall, Tom Brookshier, Walter Brooke, Clyde Kusatsu, Tom McFadden, Than Wyenn, James Jeter, Robert Patten	Thriller	Live Action
		Airport '77	Universal Pictures	Jerry Jameson (director); Michael Scheff, David Spector (screenplay); Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, James Stewart, George Kennedy, Brenda Vaccaro, Christopher Lee, Darren McGavin, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Foxworth, Robert Hooks, Monte Markham, Kathleen Quinlan, Gil Gerard, James Booth, Monica Lewis, Maidie Norman, Pamela Bellwood, Arlene Golonka, Tom Sullivan, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Pataki, George Furth, Richard Venture, Elizabeth Cheshire, Anthony Battaglia	Action, Disaster	Live Action
	25	Eraserhead	Warner Bros. Pictures / Libra Films	David Lynch (director/screenplay); Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Roberts, Jack Fisk, Laurel Near	Horror	Live Action
		The American Friend	Paramount Pictures	Wim Wenders (director/screenplay); Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Jean Eustache, Sandy Whitelaw, Lou Castel, David Blue, Andreas Dedecke	Neo-Noir	Live Action
		The Domino Principle	AVCO Embassy Pictures / ITC Entertainment	Stanley Kramer (director); Adam Kennedy (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Richard Widmark, Edward Albert, Eli Wallach, Ken Swofford, Neva Patterson, Jay Novello, Joseph V. Perry, Majel Barrett	Neo-Noir, Thriller	Live Action
	27	Jesus of Nazareth	ITC Entertainment / RAI / NBC	Franco Zeffirelli (director/screenplay); Anthony Burgess, Suso Cecchi d'Amico (screenplay); Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger, James Earl Jones, Peter Ustinov, Claudia Cardinale, Valentina Cortese, James Farentino, Stacy Keach, Tony Lo Bianco, James Mason, Ian McShane, Donald Pleasence, Fernando Rey, Ralph Richardson, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Yorgo Voyagis, Ian Bannen, Marina Berti, Regina Bianchi, Maria Carta, Lee Montague, Renato Rascel, Oliver Tobias, Norman Bowler, Robert Beatty, John Phillips, Ken Jones, Nancy Nevinson, Renato Terra, Roy Holder, Jonathan Adams, Oliver Smith, Murray Salem, Tony Vogel, Michael Cronin, Derek Godfrey, Renato Montalbano, John Duttine, Keith Skinner, Cyril Shaps, John Tordoff, Francis de Wolff, Mark Eden, Bruno Barnabe, Simon MacCorkindale, Forbes Collins, Martin Benson, Carl Forgione, Donald Sumpter, Pino Colizzi, Robert Brown, Harold Bennett, Abdelmajid Lakhal	Epic, Drama	Live Action

April–June[]


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
A P R I L	1	Breaker! Breaker!	American International Pictures / Paragon Films Inc. / Worldwide Productions	Don Hulette (director); Terry Chambers (screenplay); Chuck Norris, George Murdock, Jack Nance, Terry O'Connor, Michael Augenstein, Don Gentry, John Di Fusco, Ron Cedillos, Dan Vandegrift, Douglas Stevenson, Paul Kawecki, Larry Feder	Action	Live Action
		Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure	20th Century Fox / The Bobbs-Merrill Company / Richard Williams Productions	Richard Williams (director); Max Wilk (screenplay); Claire Williams, Didi Conn, Mark Baker, Mason Adams, Allen Swift, Sheldon Harnick, George S. Irving, Arnold Stang, Joe Silver, Alan Sues, Marty Brill, Paul Dooley, Joe Raposo, Hetty Galen, Ardyth Kaiser, Margery Gray, Lynne Stuart, Niki Flacks, Fred Stuthman	Musical, Fantasy	Live Action / Animation
		The Van	Crown International Pictures	Sam Grossman (director); Celia Susan Cotelo, Robert J. Rosenthal (screenplay); Stuart Getz, Deborah White, Danny DeVito, Harry Moses, , Bill Adler, Stephen Oliver, Connie Lisa Marie	Teen, Comedy	Live Action
	2	The Eagle Has Landed	Columbia Pictures / ITC Entertainment	John Sturges (director); Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay); Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh, Sven-Bertil Taube, Judy Geeson, Siegfried Rauch, John Standing, Treat Williams, Larry Hagman, Michael Byrne, Maurice Roeves, Keith Buckley	War	Live Action
	6	Audrey Rose	United Artists / Sterobcar Productions	Robert Wise (director); Frank De Felitta (screenplay); Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd, John Hillerman, Robert Walden, Stephen Pearlman, Mary Jackson, Richard Lawson, Ivy Jones, Aly Wassil, Elizabeth Farley	Horror, Drama	Live Action
	8	Demon Seed	Warner Bros. Pictures (United States/Canada) / Cinema International Corporation (international) / Herb Jaffe Productions	Donald Cammell (director); Dean Koontz (screenplay); Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, Larry J. Blake, Alfred Dennis, Patricia Wilson, Barbara O. Jones, Felix Silla, Robert Vaughn, John O'Leary, Davis Roberts, E. Hampton Beagle, Michael Glass, Dana Laurita, Monica MacLean, Harold Oblong, Georgie Paul, Michelle Stacy, Tiffany Potter	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
	8	Rabid	Cinépix Film Properties / New World Pictures / Cinema Entertainment Enterprises / DAL Productions / The Dibar Syndicate	David Cronenberg (director/screenplay); Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, Patricia Gage, Susan Roman, Terry Schonblum, Allan Moyle, John Boylan, Vlasta Vrana, Peter MacNeill, Louis Negin, J. Roger Periard, Lynne Deragon, Victor Désy, Julie Anna, Gary McKeehan, Terence G. Ross	Horror	Live Action
	15	Jabberwocky	Columbia Pictures (United States/Canada) / Warner Bros. (international) / Python Films / Umbrella Films	Terry Gilliam (director/screenplay); Charles Alverson (screenplay); Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier, Warren Mitchell, Annette Badland, Max Wall, Deborah Fallender, Jerold Wells, Bernard Bresslaw, Rodney Bewes, John Bird, Neil Innes, Terry Jones, Brian Glover, Graham Crowden, Terry Gilliam, David Prowse	Fantasy, Comedy	Live Action
	20	Annie Hall	United Artists	Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Marshall Brickman (screenplay); Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Janet Margolin, Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken, Colleen Dewhurst, Donald Symington, Joan Newman, Marshall McLuhan, Mordecai Lawner, Truman Capote, John Glover, Jeff Goldblum, Beverly D'Angelo, Sigourney Weaver	Romance, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	20	3 Women	20th Century Fox / Lion's Gate Films	Robert Altman (director/screenplay); Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier, Ruth Nelson, John Cromwell, Sierra Pecheur, Craig Richard Nelson, Maysie Hoy, Belita Moreno, Leslie Ann Hudson, Patricia Ann Hudson, Beverly Ross	Drama	Live Action
	27	Between the Lines	Midwest Films / Vestron Video	Joan Micklin Silver (director); Fred Barron, David M. Helpern Jr. (screenplay); John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum, Gwen Welles, Bruno Kirby, Stephen Collins, Joe Morton, Marilu Henner, Richard Cox, Michael J. Pollard, Lane Smith, Raymond J. Barry, Guy Boyd, Charles Levin, Jill Eikenberry, Susan Haskins	Drama	Live Action
	27	The Man Who Loved Women	United Artists / Les Films du Carrosse	François Truffaut (director/screenplay); Michel Fermaud, Suzanne Schiffman (screenplay); Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel, Leslie Caron, Nathalie Baye, Valérie Bonnier, Jean Dasté, Roger Leenhardt, François Truffaut	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
M A Y	6	Andy Warhol's Bad	New World Pictures / Factory Films	Jed Johnson (director); Pat Hackett, George Abagnalo, Andy Warhol (screenplay); Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrrell, Stefania Casini, Cyrinda Foxe, Susan Blond, Tere Tereba, Lawrence Tierney, Tamara Horrocks, Charles McGregor, Matthew Anton, Cathy Roskam, Mary Boylan, Gordon Oas-Heim, Michael Forella, Kitty Bruce, Renee Paris, John Starke, Ruth Jaroslow	Comedy	Live Action
		The Picture Show Man	Village Roadshow Pictures / Umbrella Entertainment / Limelight Productions	John Power (director); Joan Long (screenplay); Rod Taylor, John Meillon, John Ewart, Harold Hopkins, Patrick Cargill, , Garry McDonald, Sally Conabere, Judy Morris, Gerry Duggan	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		The White Buffalo	Warner Bros. Pictures	J. Lee Thompson (director); Richard Sale (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak, Slim Pickens, Clint Walker, Stuart Whitman, John Carradine, Ron Thompson	Fantasy, Western	Live Action
	13	The Car	Universal Pictures	Elliot Silverstein (director); Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack, Lane Slate (screenplay); James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, Elizabeth Thompson, Ronny Cox, R.G. Armstrong, John Rubinstein, Kim Richards, Kyle Richards, Roy Jenson, Kate Murtagh, Doris Dowling, Eddie Little Sky, Lee McLaughlin, Melody Thomas Scott, Geraldine Keams	Horror	Live Action
	17	A Special Day	Surf Film / Gold Film / Compagnia Cinematografica / Champion / Canafox Films	Ettore Scola (director/screenplay); Maurizio Costanzo, Ruggero Maccari (screenplay); Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Vittorio Guerrieri, Alessandra Mussolini, Patrizia Basso, Tiziano De Persio, Maurizio Di Paolantonio, Antonio Garibaldi, Nicole Magny	Drama	Live Action
	18	Handle with Care	Paramount Pictures	Jonathan Demme (director); Paul Brickman (screenplay); Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Bruce McGill, Roberts Blossom, Richard Bright, Charles Napier, Ann Wedgeworth, Marcia Rodd, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Northup, Will Seltzer, Alix Elias, Michael Rothman, Michael Mahler, Leila Smith	Comedy	Live Action
	18	Joseph Andrews	United Artists / Paramount Pictures / Woodfall Film Productions	Tony Richardson (director); Chris Bryant (screenplay); Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, Jim Dale, Beryl Reid, Natalie Ogle, John Gielgud, Hugh Griffith, Peter Bull, Karen Dotrice, Peggy Ashcroft, James Villiers, Timothy West, Wendy Craig, Ronald Pickup, Penelope Wilton, Kenneth Cranham, Norman Rossington, Patsy Rowlands	Period, Comedy	Live Action
	20	Cross of Iron	EMI Films / Constantin Film / AVCO Embassy Pictures / Anglo-EMI Productions / Rapid Film / Terra-Filmkunst / ITC Entertainment	Sam Peckinpah (director/screenplay); James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna, Roger Fritz, Dieter Schidor, Burkhard Driest, Fred Stillkrauth, Michael Nowka, Véronique Vendell, Arthur Brauss, Senta Berger, Igor Galo, Slavko Štimac, Demeter Bitenc, Vladan Živković, Bata Kameni, Hermina Pipinić	War	Live Action
	20	The Greatest	Columbia Pictures / British Lion Films / EMI Films	Tom Gries, Monte Hellman (directors); Muhammad Ali (screenplay); Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, James Earl Jones, Robert Duvall, John Marley, Lloyd Haynes, David Huddleston, Ben Johnson, Dina Merrill, Roger E. Mosley, Paul Winfield, Annazette Chase, Mira Waters, Drew Bundini Brown, Malachi Throne, Richard Venture, Arthur Adams, Stack Pierce, Paul Mantee, Skip Homeier, David Clennon, Nai Bonet, Chip McAllister, Rahman Ali, Howard Bingham, Don Dunphy, Lloyd Wells, Harold Conrad, Pat Patterson, Gene Kilroy	Biography, Sports	Live Action
	25	Star Wars	20th Century Fox / Lucasfilm	George Lucas (director/screenplay); Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Phil Brown, Shelagh Fraser, Jack Purvis, Eddie Byrne, Denis Lawson, Garrick Hagon, Don Henderson, Leslie Schofield, Richard LeParmentier, Alex McCrindle, Alfie Curtis, Peter Geddis, Michael Leader, Robert Clarke	Action, Adventure, Fantasy	Live Action
	27	Cinderella	Group 1	Michael Pataki (director); Frank Ray Perilli (screenplay); Cheryl Smith, Yana Nirvana, Marilyn Corwin, Jennifer Stace, Sy Richardson, Brett Smiley, Kirk Scott, Boris Moris, Pamela Stonebrook, Frank Ray Perilli	Musical, Comedy	Live Action
		Desperate Living	New Line Cinema / Dreamland	John Waters (director/screenplay); Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Jean Hill, Cookie Mueller, Channing Wilroy, Ed Peranio, Paul Swift, George Figgs, Sharon Niesp, George Stover, Turkey Joe, Al Strapelli, Brook Blake, Karen Gerwig, Marina Melin	Comedy	Live Action
		Smokey and the Bandit	Universal Pictures / Rastar	Hal Needham (director); James Lee Barrett, Charles Shyer, Alan Mandel (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason, Mike Henry, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, Macon McCalman, Michael McManus, Ben Jones, Joe Klecko, Hank Worden, Sonny Shroyer, Susan McIver, George Reynolds, Laura Lizer Sommers, Michael Mann, Lamar Jackson, Ronnie Gay, Quinnon Sheffield, Alfie Wise, Pat Hustis, Ingeborg Kjeldsen, Gene Witham, Susan Sindelar	Road, Action, Comedy	Live Action
J U N E	1	The Grateful Dead Movie	Monarch Films	Jerry Garcia, Leon Gast (directors); Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Donna Godchaux, Keith Godchaux, Mickey Hart	Concert	Live Action
	3	Fraternity Row	Paramount Pictures	Thomas Pope (director); Charles Gary Allison (screenplay); Peter Fox, Gregory Harrison, Scott Newman, Nancy Morgan, Wendy Phillips, Robert Emhardt, Cliff Robertson, Dean Smith	Drama	Live Action
	3	Crossed Swords	Warner Bros. Pictures / International Film Production / Prince and the Pauper Film Export A.G.	Richard Fleischer (director); George MacDonald Fraser (screenplay); Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston, George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Harry Andrews, Julian Orchard, Murray Melvin, Lalla Ward, Felicity Dean, Sybil Danning, Graham Stark, Preston Lockwood, Arthur Hewlett, Tommy Wright, Harry Fowler, Richard Hurndall, Don Henderson, Dudley Sutton, Ruth Madoc	Action, Adventure	Live Action
	8	The Other Side of Midnight	20th Century Fox	Charles Jarrott (director); Herman Raucher (screenplay); Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Gulager, Christian Marquand, Michael Lerner, Sorrell Booke, Antony Ponzini, Louis Zorich, Charles Cioffi, Howard Hesseman, Titos Vandis, Dimitra Arliss, Josette Banzet	Drama	Live Action
	10	For the Love of Benji	Mulberry Square Releasing	Joe Camp (director/screenplay); Ben Vaughn (screenplay); Benjean, Patsy Garrett, Cynthia Smith, Allen Fiuzat, Ed Nelson, Peter Bowles, Art Vasil, Bridget Armstrong, Tiffany	Family	Live Action
		Grand Theft Auto	New World Pictures	Ron Howard (director/screenplay); Rance Howard (screenplay); Ron Howard, Nancy Morgan, Marion Ross, Peter Isacksen, Don Steele, Clint Howard, Rance Howard, Paul Linke, Elizabeth Rogers, Barry Cahill, Jack Perkins, Paul Bartel, Garry Marshall, Leo Rossi, Allan Arkush, Bill Conklin, Robby Weaver, James Ritz	Comedy, Road	Live Action
		Rollercoaster	Universal Pictures	James Goldstone (director); Sanford Sheldon, Richard Levinson, William Link, Tommy Cook (screenplay); George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Harry Guardino, Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda	Disaster, Thriller	Live Action
	15	A Bridge Too Far	United Artists / Joseph E. Levine Productions	Richard Attenborough (director); William Goldman (screenplay); Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann, Michael Byrne, Denholm Elliott, Peter Faber, Christopher Good, Frank Grimes, Jeremy Kemp, Nicholas Campbell, Paul Copley, Donald Douglas, Keith Drinkel, Richard Kane, Paul Maxwell, Stephen Moore, Donald Pickering, Gerald Sim, John Stride, Alun Armstrong, David Auker, Michael Bangerter, Philip Raymond, Michael Graham Cox, Garrick Hagon, John Ratzenberger, Arthur Hill, Ben Cross, Mark Sheridan, George Innes, Wolfgang Preiss, Walter Kohut, Hartmut Becker, Hans von Borsody, Lex van Delden, Fred Williams, Erik Chitty, Richard Attenborough	Epic, War	Live Action
	17	Exorcist II: The Heretic	Warner Bros. Pictures	John Boorman (director); William Goodhart (screenplay); Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Paul Henreid, James Earl Jones, Ned Beatty, Richard Paul, Dana Plato, Belinha Beatty, Rose Portillo, Barbara Mason, Joey Green, Tiffany Kinney, Charles Parks, Lorry Goldman, Robert Lussier, George Skaff, Karen Knapp	Horror	Live Action
	17	The Getting of Wisdom	Roadshow / Southern Cross Films	Bruce Beresford (director); Eleanor Witcombe (screenplay); Susannah Fowle, Hilary Ryan, Terence Donovan, Patricia Kennedy, Sheila Helpmann, Candy Raymond, Barry Humphries, John Waters, Julia Blake, Diana Greentree, Monica Maughan, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Phillip Adams, Kerry Armstrong, Sigrid Thornton, Celia De Burgh, Kim Deacon, Alix Longman, Jo-Anne Moore, Amanda Ring, Janet Shaw, Karen Sutton	Drama	Live Action
	21	New York, New York	United Artists / Chartoff-Winkler Productions	Martin Scorsese (director); Mardik Martin, Earl Mac Rauch (screenplay); Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus, Mary Kay Place, Frank Sivero, Georgie Auld, George Memmoli, Harry Northup, Dick Miller, Clarence Clemons, Casey Kasem, Adam David Winkler, Jack Haley	Musical, Drama	Live Action
	24	Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	Vincent McEveety (director); Arthur Alsberg, Don Nelson (screenplay); Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, Jacques Marin, Roy Kinnear, Bernard Fox, Eric Braeden, Xavier Saint-Macary, Alan Caillou, Laurie Main, Johnny Haymer, Gérard Jugnot, Richard Warlock, Carey Loftin, Katia Tchenko, Josiane Balasko, François Lalande, Mike Kulcsar	Comedy, Adventure	Live Action
		The Rescuers	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery, Art Stevens (directors); Larry Clemmons, Vance Gerry, Ken Anderson, Frank Thomas, Burny Mattinson, Fred Lucky, Dick Sebast, David Michener, Ted Berman (screenplay); Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Michelle Stacy, Geraldine Page, Joe Flynn, Jim Jordan, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan, Pat Buttram, Bernard Fox, James McDonald, George Lindsey, Larry Clemmons, Dub Taylor, John Fiedler, Shelby Flint, Bill McMillian	Adventure, Comedy, Drama	Animation
		Sorcerer	Universal Pictures (U.S.A & Canada) / Paramount Pictures (International) / Film Properties International N.V.	William Friedkin (director); Walon Green (screenplay); Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri, Karl John, Peter Capell, Anne-Marie Deschodt, Friedrich von Ledebur, Chico Martinez, Joe Spinell, Rosario Almontes, Richard Holley, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques François, Gerard Murphy, Randy Jurgensen, Cosmo Allegretti	Thriller	Live Action

July–September[]


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J U L Y	1	2001: A Space Odyssey (re-release)	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Stanley Kubrick Productions	Stanley Kubrick (director/screenplay); Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay); Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, Douglas Rain, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Edward Bishop, Penny Brahms, Alan Gifford, Ann Gillis, Vivian Kubrick, Kenneth Kendall, Frank Miller, Edwina Carroll, Heather Downham, Maggie d'Abo, Chela Matthison, Judy Keirn	Epic, Sci-Fi	Live Action
	1	Greased Lightning	Warner Bros. Pictures	Michael Schultz (director); Melvin Van Peebles (screenplay); Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, Pam Grier, Cleavon Little, Vincent Gardenia, Richie Havens, Julian Bond, Earl Hindman, Lucy Saroyan, Noble Willingham, Bill Cobbs, Georgia Allen, Bruce Atkins, Steve Fifield	Biography	Live Action
	8	The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training	Paramount Pictures	Michael Pressman (director); Paul Bickman (screenplay); William Devane, Jackie Earle Haley, Clifton James, Chris Barnes, Erin Blunt, Jimmy Baio, Alfred W. Lutter, Brett Marx, David Pollock, Jeffrey Louis Starr, David Stambaugh, Jaime Escobedo, George Gonzales, Quinn Smith, Lane Smith, Dolph Sweet, Pat Corley, Douglas Anderson, Jerry Lawson, Fred Stuthman	Sports, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	12	Stroszek	Werner Herzog Filmproduktion / ZDF	Werner Herzog (director/screenplay); Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz	Tragicomedy	Live Action
	13	The Spy Who Loved Me	United Artists / Eon Productions	Lewis Gilbert (director); Christopher Wood, Richard Maibaum (screenplay); Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro, Geoffrey Keen, Edward de Souza, George Baker, Lois Maxwell, Walter Gotell, Vernon Dobtcheff, Desmond Llewelyn, Michael Billington, Bernard Lee, Shane Rimmer, Bryan Marshall, Sue Vanner, Bob Sherman, Sydney Tafler, Valerie Leon, Nadim Sawalha, Eva Rueber-Staier, Olga Bisera, Victor Tourjansky	Spy, Action	Live Action
	13	The Island of Dr. Moreau	American International Pictures	Don Taylor (director); John Herman Shaner (screenplay); Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, Richard Basehart, Nick Cravat, Fumio Demura, The Great John L., Bob Ozman, Gary Baxley, John Gillespie, David Cass	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
	14	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	New World Pictures	Anthony Page (director); Roger Corman (screenplay); Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, Ben Piazza, Lorraine Gary, Martine Bartlett, Darlene Craviotto, Reni Santoni, Susan Tyrrell, Signe Hasso, Diane Varsi, Norman Alden, Sylvia Sidney, Dennis Quaid, Clint Howard, Robert Viharo, Jeff Conaway, Mel Gibson, Margo Ann Berdeshevsky, Karin de la Penha, Carol Worthington	Fantasy, Drama	Live Action
	15	The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington	Cannon Films	William A. Levey (director); Bob Kaufman (screenplay); Joey Heatherton, George Hamilton, Ray Walston, Jack Carter, Louisa Moritz, Rip Taylor, Phil Foster, David White, Joe E. Ross, Billy Barty, Harold Sakata, Edy Williams, Larry Storch, Will Hutchins, Cisse Cameron	Comedy	Live Action
		MacArthur	Universal Pictures	Hal Barwood (director); Matthew Robbins (screenplay); Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders, Dan O'Herlihy, Ivan Bonar, Ward Costello, Nicolas Coster, Marj Dusay, Art Fleming, Russell Johnson, Sandy Kenyon, Robert Mandan, Allan Miller, Dick O'Neill, G.D. Spradlin, Addison Powell, Garry Walberg, James Shigeta	Biography, War	Live Action
		The Last Remake of Beau Geste	Universal Pictures	Marty Feldman (director/screenplay); Sam Bobrick (screenplay); Marty Feldman, Michael York, Ann-Margret, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones, Trevor Howard, Henry Gibson, Roy Kinnear, Spike Milligan, Terry-Thomas, Sinéad Cusack, Burt Kwouk, Avery Schreiber, Irene Handl, Hugh Griffith, Stephen Lewis, Ed McMahon, Michael McConkey	Historical, Comedy	Live Action
	17	The Deep	Columbia Pictures / Casablanca FilmWorks / EMI Films	Peter Yates (director); Peter Benchley (screenplay); Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Eli Wallach, Dick Anthony Williams, Earl Maynard, Bob Minor, Teddy Tucker, Robert Tessier, Lee McClain, Colin Shaw	Adventure	Live Action
	22	One on One	Warner Bros.	Lamont Johnson (director); Robby Benson, Jerry Segal (screenplay); Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G. D. Spradlin, Lamont Johnson, Melanie Griffith, Hector Morales, Gail Strickland, Cory Faucher, Charles Fleischer	Sports, Drama	Live Action
		Orca	Paramount Pictures / Famous Films	Michael Anderson (director); Sergio Donati, Robert Towne (screenplay); Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Bo Derek, Keenan Wynn, Robert Carradine, Scott Walker, Peter Hooten, Don "Red" Barry	Thriller	Live Action
		The Hills Have Eyes	New World Pictures / Vanguard / Blood Relations Company	Wes Craven (director/screenplay); Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, Dee Wallace, Russ Grieve, John Steadman, Michael Berryman, Virginia Vincent, Janus Blythe, James Whitworth, Cordy Clark, Lance Gordon, Peter Locke, Brenda Marinoff	Horror	Live Action
	29	Empire of the Ants	American International Pictures / Cinema 77	Bert I. Gordon (director/screenplay); Jack Turley (screenplay); Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott, Pamela Susan Shoop, Robert Pine, Tom Fadden, Irene Tedrow, Edward Power, Brooke Palance, Harry Holcombe	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
		House	Toho	Nobuhiko Obayashi (director); Chiho Katsura (screenplay); Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Ai Matubara, Kumiko Oba, Mieko Sato, Eriko Tanaka, Masayo Miyako, Yōko Minamida, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Saho Sasazawa, Haruko Wanibuchi	Comedy, Horror	Live Action
		Walking Tall: Final Chapter	American International Pictures	Jack Starrett (director); Howard B. Kreitsek, Samuel A. Peeples (screenplay); Bo Svenson, Lurene Tuttle, Forrest Tucker, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn, Simpson Hemphill, Sandy McPeak, Logan Ramsey, Morgan Woodward, Clay Tanner, Maggie Blye, Bruce Glover, Red West, David Adams, Michael Allen Honaker, Vance Davis, Libby Boone	Action, Crime, Drama	Live Action
A U G U S T	3	Brothers	Warner Bros. / Edward Lewis Productions / Soho Productions	Arthur Barron (director); Bernie Casey, Vonetta McGee, Ron O'Neal, John Lehne, Stu Gilliam, Renny Roker, Owen Pace, Dwan Smith, Martin St. Judge, Al Turner, Samantha Harper, Carl M. Craig, Sam Nudell, Jim Swoopes, Dick Yarmy, Charles Ricardo Brown, Susan Barrister, Alphonso Williams, Oliver Fletcher, Sidney Galanty, Joseph Havener, Cynthia Songé, Mercedes Alberti, John Zaremba,	Biography, Drama	Live Action
	5	March or Die	Columbia Pictures / ITC Entertainment	Dick Richards (director); David Zelag Goodman (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Max von Sydow, Ian Holm, Catherine Deneuve, Jack O'Halloran, Rufus, Marcel Bozzuffi, Liliane Rovère, André Penvern, Paul Sherman, Vernon Dobtcheff, Marne Maitland, Gigi Bonos, Wolf Kahler, Jean Champion, Walter Gotell, Arnold Diamond, Guy Deghy, Eve Brenner, Margaret Modlin, Mathias Hell, Paul Antrim, Maurice Arden, Albert Woods, Villena	War, Drama	Live Action
	10	The Kentucky Fried Movie	United Film Distribution Company / Kentucky Fried Theater	John Landis (director); Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker (screenplay); Bill Bixby, George Lazenby, Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Donald Sutherland, Henry Gibson, Barry Dennen, Agneta Eckemyr, Tony Dow, Stephen Bishop, Shadoe Stevens, Janice Kent, Michael Laurence, Rick Baker, Uschi Digard, Jerry Zucker, Tony Dow, Marilyn Joi, Saul Kahan, Robert Starr	Comedy	Live Action
	10	The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane	Astral Films / Cinema International Corporation / American International Pictures / Claremont Productions / Zev Braun Productions / I.C.L. Industries / La Societe Filmel / Ypsilon Films	Nicolas Gessner (director); Laird Koenig (screenplay); Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, Scott Jacoby, Connie Foster	Drama, Horror, Mystery	Live Action
	12	Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger	Columbia Pictures / Andor Films	Sam Wanamaker (director); Ray Harryhausen, Beverley Cross (screenplay); Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting, Jane Seymour, Patrick Troughton, Kurt Christian, Nadim Sawalha, Damien Thomas, Bruno Barnabe, Bernard Kay, Salami Coker, David Sterne, Peter Mayhew	Fantasy	Live Action
	14	Outlaw Blues	Warner Bros.	Richard T. Heffron (director); Bill L. Norton (screenplay); Peter Fonda, Susan Saint James, John Crawford, James T. Callahan, Michael Lerner, Steve Fromholz, Richard Lockmiller, Matt Clark, Jan Rita Cobler, Gene Rader, Curtis Harris, Jerry Greene, Dave Helfert, Jeffrey Friedman, James N. Harrell	Drama	Live Action
	14	Suspiria	20th Century Fox / Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (Italy) / Seda Spettacoli	Dario Argento (director); Daria Nicolodi (screenplay); Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi, Susanna Javicoli, Eva Axén, Alida Valli, Joan Bennett, Udo Kier, Rudolf Schündler, Franca Scagnetti, Renato Scarpa, Dario Argento, Giuseppe Transocchi, Jacopo Mariani, Margherita Horowitz, Giovanni Di Bernardo, Lela Svasta	Horror	Live Action
	17	That Obscure Object of Desire	Greenwich Film Productions / Les Films Galaxie / InCine / GEF-CCFC	Luis Buñuel (director/screenplay); Jean-Claude Carrière (screenplay); Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber, Milena Vukotic	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	18	Journey Among Women	Greater Union / Ko-An Film Productions	Tom Cowan (director/screenplay); John Weiley, Dorothy Hewett (screenplay); Jeune Pritchard, Nell Campbell, Diana Fuller, Lisa Peers, Jude Kuring, Robyn Moase, Michelle Johnson, Rose Lilley, Lillian Crombie, Therese Jack, Kay Self, Helenka Link, Ralph Cotterill, Martin Phelan, Tim Elliot	Drama	Live Action
	24	Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown	Paramount Pictures / Bill Melendez Productions / Lee Mendelson Film Productions / United Feature Syndicate	Bill Melendez (director); Phil Roman (co-director); Charles M. Schulz (screenplay); Duncan Watson, Stuart Brotman, Gail Davis, Liam Martin, Melanie Kohn, Jimmy Ahrens, Kirk Jue, Jordan Warren, Tom Muller, Greg Felton, Joseph Biter, Bill Melendez, Jackson Beck, Fred Van Amburg	Adventure, Comedy	Animation
	24	Thunder and Lightning	20th Century Fox	Corey Allen (director); William Hjortsberg (screenplay); Sterling Holloway, Patrick Cranshaw, Charles Napier, George Murdock, Ron Feinberg, David Carradine, Kate Jackson, Roger C. Carmel, Eddie Barth, Charles Willeford, Emilio Rivera, Richard Holden, Hope Pomerance, Malcolm Jones, Christopher Raynolds, Claude Earl Jones	Action, Comedy	Live Action
	26	Joyride	American International Pictures	Joseph Ruben (director/screenplay); Peter Rainer (screenplay); Desi Arnaz, Jr., Robert Carradine, Melanie Griffith, Anne Lockhart, Tom Ligon, Cliff Lenz, Robert Loper, Diana Grayf	Adventure	Live Action
	31	The War of the Worlds (re-release)	Paramount Pictures	Byron Haskin (director); Barré Lyndon (screenplay); Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Bob Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin, Housely Stevenson Jr., Paul Frees, William Phipps, Vernon Rich, Henry Brandon, Jack Kruschen, Sir Cedric Hardwicke	Sci-Fi	Live Action
	31	You Light Up My Life	Columbia Pictures	Joseph Brooks (director/screenplay); Didi Conn, Joe Silver, Michael Zaslow, Melanie Mayron, Jerry Keller, Joseph Brooks, Ken Olfson, Stephen Nathan, Lisa Reeves, John Gowans, Simmy Bow, Bernice Nicholson, Ed Morgan, Amy Letterman, Marty Zagon, Martin Gish	Romance, Drama	Live Action
S E P T E M B E R	11	The Haunting of Julia	Astral Films / Cinema International Corporation / Canadian Film Development Corporation	Richard Loncraine (director); Dave Humphries (screenplay); Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti, Jill Bennett, Robin Gammell, Cathleen Nesbitt, Anna Wing, Edward Hardwicke, Mary Morris, Pauline Jameson, Arthur Howard, Peter Sallis, Damaris Hayman, Sophie Ward, Hilda Fenemore, Nigel Havers, Samantha Gates, Denis Lill, Julian Fellowes, Michael Bilton, Susan Porrett	Horror	Live Action
	16	THX-1138 (re-release)	Warner Bros. / American Zoetrope	George Lucas (director/screenplay); Walter Murch (screenplay); Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, James Wheaton	Sci-Fi	Live Action
	21	Shock Waves	Joseph Brenner Associates / Lawrence Friedricks Enterprises / Zopix Company	Ken Wiederhorn (director/screenplay); John Harrison (screenplay); Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Brooke Adams, Fred Buch, Jack Davidson, Luke Halpin, D. J. Sidney, Don Stout	Horror	Live Action
	22	Soldier of Orange	Tuschinski Film Distribution / The Rank Organisation / The International Picture Show Company / Excelsior Films / Film Holland / Rob Houwer Productions	Paul Verhoeven (director/screenplay); Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, , Gerard Soeteman (screenplay); Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Derek de Lint, Edward Fox, Susan Penhaligon, Lex van Delden, Huib Rooymans, Dolf de Vries, Eddy Habbema, Belinda Meuldijk, Peter Faber, Rijk de Gooyer, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Andrea Domburg, Guus Hermus, Bert André, Hugo Koolschijn, Brûni Heinke	Romance, Thriller	Live Action
	28	Another Man, Another Chance	United Artists / Chartoff-Winkler Productions	Claude Lelouch (director/screenplay); James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell, Jennifer Warren, Ross Harris, Linda Lee Lyons, Jacques Villeret, Fred Stuthman, Diana Douglas, Michael Berryman, William S. Bartman, Dominic Barto, Dick Farnsworth, George Flaherty, Christopher Lloyd	Western	Live Action
	28	Short Eyes	Film League	Robert M. Young (director); Miguel Piñero (screenplay); Bruce Davison, Jose Perez, Joseph Carberry, Nathan George, Don Blakely, Tito Goya, Shawn Elliott, Bob Maroff, Miguel Piñero, Luis Guzmán, Curtis Mayfield, Freddy Fender	Drama	Live Action
	29	Bobby Deerfield	Columbia Pictures (U.S.A / Canada) / Warner Bros. (International) / First Artists	Sydney Pollack (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey, Walter McGinn, Romolo Valli, Stephan Meldegg, Jaime Sánchez, Norm Nielsen, Mickey Knox, Guido Alberti, Gérard Hernandez, Antonino Faà Di Bruno, André Valardy, Féodor Atkine, Al Silvani, Franco Ressel, Monique Lejeune, Steve Gadler, Van Doude, Patrick Floersheim, Bernie Pollack	Romance, Drama	Live Action
	30	A Little Night Music	New World Pictures	Harold Prince (director); Hugh Wheeler (screenplay); Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down, Hermione Gingold, Laurence Guittard, Christopher Guard, Lesley Dunlop, Heinz Marecek, Chloe Franks, Jonathan Tunick	Musical	Live Action

October–December[]


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
O C T O B E R	1	The Yellow Handkerchief	Shochiku	Yoji Yamada (director/screenplay); Yoshitaka Asama (screenplay); Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Tetsuya Takeda, Kaori Momoi, Hachirō Tako, Hisao Dazai, Mari Okamoto, and Kiyoshi Atsumi	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	2	Julia	20th Century Fox	Fred Zinnemann (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Maximilian Schell, Meryl Streep, John Glover, Lisa Pelikan, Maurice Denham, Gérard Buhr, Cathleen Nesbitt, Lambert Wilson, Dora Doll, Elisabeth Mortensen, Susan Jones	Period, Drama	Live Action
	2	Roseland	Cinema Shares International Distribution	James Ivory (director); Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay); Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Geraldine Chaplin, Helen Gallagher, Joan Copeland, Christopher Walken, Conrad Janis, Lilia Skala, Don De Natale, Louise Kirkland, Hetty Galen, Carol Culver, Denny Shearer, Jayne Heller, Annette Rivera, Floyd Chisolm, Jeanmarie Evans, David Thomas, Edward Kogan, Madeline Lee, Stan Rubin, Dortha Duckworth	Drama, Music, Romance	Live Action
	7	Oh, God!	Warner Bros. Pictures	Carl Reiner (director); Larry Gelbart (screenplay); George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy, William Daniels, Barnard Hughes, Paul Sorvino, Barry Sullivan, Dinah Shore, Carl Reiner, Jeff Corey, George Furth, David Ogden Stiers, Titos Vandis, Moosie Drier, Jerry Dunphy, Mario Machado, Connie Sawyer, Wonderful Smith, Murphy Dunne, Zane Buzby, Bob McClurg, Rachel Longaker, Jane Lambert	Comedy	Live Action
		A Piece of the Action	Universal Pictures / First Artists	Sidney Poitier (director); Charles Blackwell (screenplay); Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas, Hope Clarke, Tracy Reed, Titos Vandis, Frances Foster, Jason Evers, Marc Lawrence, Ja'net Dubois, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Ernest Lee Thomas, Estelle Evans	Crime, Comedy	Live Action
		Rolling Thunder	American International Pictures / Lawrence Gordon Productions / TBC Film	John Flynn (director); Paul Schrader, Heywood Gould (screenplay); William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, James Best, Dabney Coleman, Luke Askew, James Victor, Cassie Yates, Paul A. Partain, James N. Harrell, Carol Baass Sowa, Lawrason Driscoll, Lisa Blake Richards, Randy Hermann, Charles Escamilla, Pete Ortega, Jordan Gerler, Jacque Burandt	Drama, Thriller	Live Action
	14	The Chicken Chronicles	AVCO Embassy Pictures	Frank Simon (director); Paul Diamond (screenplay); Phil Silvers, Ed Lauter, Steve Guttenberg, Lisa Reeves, Gino Baffa, Meridith Baer, Branscombe Richmond, Jon Gries, Raven De La Croix	Comedy	Live Action
	14	Starship Invasions	Warner Bros. Pictures / Hal Roach Studios	Ed Hunt (director/screenplay); Robert Vaughn, Christopher Lee, Daniel Pilon, Helen Shaver, Sean McCann, Tiiu Leek, Henry Ramer, Victoria Johnson, Doreen Lipson, Kate Parr, Sherri Ross, Linda Rennhofer, Richard Fitzpatrick, Ted Turner, Bob Warner, Kurt Schiegl	Sci-Fi	Live Action
	16	Alambrista!	First Run Features / Filmhaus	Robert M. Young (director/screenplay); Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillen, Ned Beatty, and Jerry Hardin	Adventure, Drama	Live Action
	19	Equus	United Artists / Winkast Film Productions	Sidney Lumet (director); Peter Shaffer (screenplay); Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Harry Andrews, Eileen Atkins, Kate Reid, John Wyman, Frazier Mohawk, Brook Williams, Elva Mai Hoover, Ken James, David Gardner, James Hurdle, Sheldon Rybowski	Drama	Live Action
	19	Looking for Mr. Goodbar	Paramount Pictures	Richard Brooks (director/screenplay); Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere, Alan Feinstein, Tom Berenger, Priscilla Pointer, Laurie Prange, Alexander Courtney, Joel Fabiani, Julius Harris, Richard Bright, LeVar Burton, Brian Dennehy, Richard Venture, Elizabeth Cheshire	Crime, Drama	Live Action
	21	Damnation Alley	20th Century Fox	Jack Smight (director); Alan Sharp, Lukas Heller (screenplay); Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda, Paul Winfield, Jackie Earle Haley, Kip Niven, Mark L. Taylor, Robert Donner, Murray Hamilton	Sci-Fi	Live Action
	21	Ruby	Dimension Pictures	Curtis Harrington (director); George Edwards, Steve Krantz, Barry Schneider (screenplay); Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Roger Davis, Janit Baldwin, Paul Kent, Len Lesser, Fred Kohler Jr., Michael Alldredge, Sal Vecchio, Crystin Sinclaire, Jack Perkins, Eddy Donno, Rory Stevens, Kip Gillespie, Mary Margaret Robinson	Horror	Live Action
	28	Valentino	United Artists	Ken Russell (director/screenplay); Mardik Martin (screenplay); Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane, Felicity Kendal, Seymour Cassel, Huntz Hall, Alfred Marks, David de Keyser, Linda Thorson, Leland Palmer, Lindsay Kemp, Peter Vaughan, Penelope Milford, Emily Bolton, Anthony Dowell, William Hootkins, Don Fellows, John Justin, Anton Diffring, Jennie Linden, Dudley Sutton	Biography	Live Action
N O V E M B E R	2	Madame Rosa	Warner Bros. Pictures	Moshé Mizrahi (director/screenplay); Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Samy Ben-Youb, Gabriel Jabbour, Geneviève Fontanel, Claude Dauphin, Costa-Gavras, Bernard La Jarrige, Elio Bencoli, Stella Annicette, El Kebir, Ibrahim Seck, Mohamed Zinet	Drama	Live Action
	3	Pete's Dragon	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	Don Chaffey (director); Malcolm Marmorstein (screenplay); Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Jeff Conaway, Shelley Winters, Jane Kean, Jim Backus, Sean Marshall, Charlie Callas, Charles Tyner, Gary Morgan, Cal Bartlett, Walter Barnes	Musical, Fantasy	Live Action / Animation
	4	Heroes	Universal Pictures	Jeremy Kagan (director); James Carabatsos (screenplay); Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Val Avery, Olivia Cole, Hector Elias, Dennis Burkley, Tony Burton, Michael Cavanaugh, Stuart Margolin	Drama	Live Action
		First Love	Paramount Pictures	Joan Darling (director); Jane Stanton Hitchcock, David Freeman (screenplay); William Katt, Susan Dey, John Heard, Beverly D'Angelo, Robert Loggia, Swoosie Kurtz, Tom Lacy, June Barrett	Romance, Drama	Live Action
		Which Way Is Up?	Universal Pictures	Michael Schultz (director); Carl Gottlieb, Cecil Brown (screenplay); Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee, Margaret Avery, Morgan Woodward, Marilyn Coleman, BeBe Drake-Hooks, Gloria Edwards, Ernesto Hernandez, Otis Day, Morgan Roberts, Diane Rodriguez, Dolph Sweet, Timothy Thomerson, Danny Valdez, Luis Valdez, Harry Northup	Comedy	Live Action
	6	Black Joy	ITC Entertainment	Anthony Simmons (director); Jamal Ali (screenplay); Norman Beaton, Trevor Thomas, Floella Benjamin, Dawn Hope, Oscar James, Paul J. Medford, Vivian Stanshall	Comedy	Live Action
	14	The Turning Point	20th Century Fox	Herbert Ross (director); Arthur Laurents (screenplay); Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Tom Skerritt, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Martha Scott, James Mitchell, Alexandra Danilova, Lisa Lucas, Philip Saunders, Antoinette Sibley, Marshall Thompson, Starr Danias, Anthony Zerbe, Daniel Levans	Drama	Live Action
	16	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Columbia Pictures	Steven Spielberg (director/screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Roberts Blossom, Cary Guffey, Lance Henriksen, George DiCenzo, Gene Dynarski, Josef Sommer, Carl Weathers, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren Kemmerling, Philip Dodds, Merrill Connally	Sci-Fi	Live Action
	18	The Mouse and His Child	Murakami-Wolf-Swenson / Sanrio	Fred Wolf (director); Russell Hoban (screenplay); Peter Ustinov, Cloris Leachman, Sally Kellerman, John Carradine, Andy Devine, Don Lake, Joan Gerber, Frank Nelson, Cliff Norton, Regis Cordic, Neville Brand, Bob Holt, Robert Ridgely, Iris Rainer, Mel Leven, Cliff Osmond, Maitzi Morgan, Charles Woolf, Alan Barzman, Marcy Swenson	Adventure, Drama	Animation
		The Pack	Warner Bros. Pictures	Robert Clouse (director/screenplay); Joe Don Baker, , Richard B. Shull, R. G. Armstrong, Ned Wertimer, Richard O'Brien, Bibi Besch, , , and Paul Willson	Horror	Live Action
		Planet of Dinosaurs	Cineworld Pictures	James Shea (director); Jim Aupperle, Ralph Lucas (screenplay); James Whitworth, Pamela Bottaro, Louie Lawless, Harvey Shain, Charlotte Speer, Chuck Pennington, Derna Wylde, Max Thayer, Mary Appleseth	Sci-Fi	Live Action
		Semi-Tough	United Artists	Michael Ritchie (director); Walter Bernstein, Ring Lardner Jr. (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Lotte Lenya, Bert Convy, Brian Dennehy, Richard Masur, Carl Weathers, Roger E. Mosley, Mary Jo Catlett, Joe Kapp, Ron Silver, Jim McKrell, Peter Bromilow, Norman Alden	Sports, Comedy	Live Action
	27	The Hobbit	Rankin/Bass / Topcraft / ABC Video Enterprises	Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass (directors); Romeo Muller (screenplay); Orson Bean, Richard Boone, Hans Conried, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Cyril Ritchard, Brother Theodore, Paul Frees, Jack DeLeon, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Glenn Yarbrough, Thurl Ravenscroft	Musical	Animation
	30	The Goodbye Girl	Warner Bros. Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Rastar	Herbert Ross (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict, Barbara Rhoades, Theresa Merritt, Michael Shawn, Patricia Pearcy, Nicol Williamson	Romance, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	30	Scott Joplin	Universal Pictures / Motown Productions / NBC	Jeremy Kagan (director); Christopher Knopf (screenplay); Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, Eubie Blake, Godfrey Cambridge, Art Carney	Biography	Live Action
D E C E M B E R	9	The Disappearance	Hemdale Film Corporation	Stuart Cooper (director); Paul Mayersberg (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Francine Racette, David Hemmings, John Hurt, David Warner, Peter Bowles, Virginia McKenna, Christopher Plummer, Dan Howard, Robin Sachs, Michael Eric Kramer, Michèle Magny, Christina Greatrex, Robert Korne, Maureen Beck	Thriller	Live Action
	13	Goodbye Emmanuelle	Parafrance Films/ Warner Bros. Pictures / Columbia Pictures	François Leterrier (director); , François Leterrier, Emmanuelle Arsan (screenplay); Sylvia Kristel, Umberto Orsini, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Olga Georges-Picot, and Charlotte Alexandra	Drama, Romance	Live Action
	13	The Last Wave	McElroy & McElroy / South Australian Film Corporation / Australian Film Commission	Peter Weir (director/screenplay); Tony Morphett, Petru Popescu (screenplay); Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, Gulpilil, Nandjiwarra Amagula, Fred Parslow, Vivean Gray, Peter Carroll, Wallas Eaton, Walter Amagula, Roy Bara, Cedrick Lalara, Morris Lalara, Athol Compton, Hedley Cullen, Michael Duffield	Mystery, Drama	Live Action
	16	Candleshoe	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	Norman Tokar (director); David Swift, Rosemary Anne Sisson (screenplay); Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Leo McKern, Vivian Pickles, John Alderson, Mildred Shay, Michael Balfour, Sydney Bromley, Veronica Quilligan, Ian Sharrock, Sarah Tamakuni, David Samuels	Family, Adventure	Live Action
		Saturday Night Fever	Paramount Pictures	John Badham (director); Norman Wexler (screenplay); John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape, Donna Pescow, Bruce Ornstein, Val Bisoglio, Julie Bovasso, Martin Shakar, Lisa Peluso, Sam Coppola, Denny Dillon, Fran Drescher, Monti Rock III, Robert Costanzo, Nina Hansen, Bert Michaels, Robert Weil, Donald Gantry	Dance, Drama	Live Action
		Telefon	United Artists / Cinema International Corporation	Don Siegel (director); Peter Hyams, Stirling Silliphant (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel, Patrick Magee, Sheree North, Frank Marth, Helen Page Camp, Roy Jenson, Jacqueline Scott, Ed Bakey, John Mitchum, Iggie Wolfington, Hank Brandt, John Carter, Burton Gilliam, Regis Cordic, Carmen Zapata, Kathleen O'Malley, Åke Lindman, Ansa Ikonen, George O. Petrie, Cliff Emmich, Ville-Veikko Salminen, Derek Rydall, Michael Byrne	Spy, Action	Live Action
	18	The World's Greatest Lover	20th Century Fox	Gene Wilder (director/screenplay); Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise, Fritz Feld, Ronny Graham, Danny DeVito, Rolfe Sedan	Comedy	Live Action
	21	The Gauntlet	Warner Bros. Pictures / The Malpaso Company	Clint Eastwood (director); Dennis Shryack (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney, Michael Cavanaugh, Carole Cook, Mara Corday, Doug McGrath, Jeff Morris, Roy Jenson, Dan Vadis	Action, Thriller	Live Action
	22	The Choirboys	Universal Pictures / Lorimar Productions	Robert Aldrich (director); Jennifer Miller (screenplay); Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Clyde Kusatsu, Stephen Macht, Tim McIntire, Randy Quaid, Chuck Sacci, Don Stroud, James Woods, Burt Young, Robert Webber, Jim Davis, Phyllis Davis, Susan Batson, Cheryl Smith, Barbara Rhoades, Charles Haid	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	22	Summer City	Intertropic films / Avalon Film Corporation Studio	Christopher Fraser (director); Phil Avalon (screenplay); Mel Gibson, John Jarratt, Phil Avalon, Steve Bisley, James Elliott, Abigail, and Ward "Pally" Austin, Debbie Forman, Carl Rorke, Ross Bailey, Vicki Hekimian, Karen Williams	Drama, Thriller	Live Action
	25	The Duellists	Paramount Pictures / Enigma Productions / National Film Finance Consortium	Ridley Scott (director); Gerald Vaughan-Hughes (screenplay); Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Tom Conti, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines, Robert Stephens, John McEnery, Arthur Dignam, Diana Quick, Alun Armstrong, Maurice Colbourne, Gay Hamilton, Meg Wynn Owen, Jenny Runacre, Alan Webb, Matthew Guinness, Dave Hill, William Hobbs, W. Morgan Sheppard, Liz Smith, Hugh Fraser, Michael Irving, Tony Matthews, Pete Postlethwaite, Stacy Keach	Historical, Drama	Live Action
		High Anxiety	20th Century Fox	Mel Brooks (director/screenplay); Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson (screenplay); Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Dick Van Patten, Jack Riley, Charlie Callas, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson, Lee Delano, Richard Stahl, Darrell Zwerling, Murphy Dunne, Albert J. Whitlock, Eddie Ryder, Sandy Helberg, Billy Sands, Ira Miller, Beatrice Colen, Hunter von Leer, Frank Campanella, Arnold Soboloff, Bernie Kuby	Comedy	Live Action
		Opening Night	Universal Pictures / Faces Distribution	John Cassavetes (director/screenplay); Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert, John Cassavetes, John Tuell, Laura Johnson, Lady Rowlands, John Finnegan, Fred Draper, Katherine Cassavetes, Louise Lewis, Carol Warren, Ray Powers	Drama	Live Action
	26	ABBA: The Movie	Warner Bros. Pictures / Polar Music / Reg Grundy Productions	Lasse Hallström (director/screenplay); Robert Caswell (screenplay); Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, Robert Hughes, Tom Oliver, Stig Anderson, Richard Norton, Bruce Barry	Drama, Documentary	Live Action
	28	Grayeagle	American International Pictures	Charles B. Pierce (director/screenplay); Brad White, Michael O. Sajbel (screenplay); Ben Johnson, Iron Eyes Cody, Lana Wood, Jack Elam, Alex Cord, Paul Fix, Charles B. Pierce, Jacob Daniels, Jimmy Clem, Cindy Butler	Western, Adventure	Live Action

Births[]

January 7 – Dustin Diamond, American actor (d. 2021)
January 8 – Amber Benson, American actress
January 13 – Orlando Bloom, English actor
January 15 – Ronald Zehrfeld, German actor
January 19 – Taliesin Jaffe, American voice actor
January 28 – Joey Fatone, American singer and actor
January 29 – Justin Hartley, American actor
January 31
- Bobby Moynihan, American actor, comedian and writer
- Kerry Washington, American actress
February 16 – Paul Brittain, American actor and comedian
February 17 - Isaac Kappy, American actor and musician (d. 2019)
February 24 – Libero De Rienzo, Italian actor (d. 2021)
March 2 – Heather McComb, American actress
March 8 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
March 9 – Lydia Mackay, American voice actress
March 24 – Jessica Chastain, American actress
March 25 – Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor
April 2 – Michael Fassbender, Irish-German actor
April 3 - Alice Lowe, English actress, writer and comedian
April 10 – Stephanie Sheh, American voice actress
April 14 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
April 20 – Robert Wilfort, English actor
April 23
- John Cena, American professional wrestler and actor
- Kal Penn, American actor
April 26 – Tom Welling, American actor
May 13 – Samantha Morton, English actress
May 15 – Ben Whitehead, English actor, voice artist and read-in artist
May 16
- Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress
- Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer
May 19 – Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress
May 20 – Matt Czuchry, American actor
May 23 – Richard Ayoade, British comedian, actor, filmmaker, writer, author and television presenter
June 1 – Danielle Harris, American actress
June 2 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
June 5 – Liza Weil, American actress
July 1 – Liv Tyler, American actress
July 8 – Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
July 10 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
July 13 – Kari Wahlgren, American voice actress
July 24 - Danny Dyer, English actor and presenter
July 26 – Tony Sampson, Canadian oiler, former actor and voice artist
July 27 – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
July 30 – Jaime Pressly, American actress
August 2 – Edward Furlong, American actor
September 11 – Ludacris, American actor and rapper
September 15 – Tom Hardy, English actor
September 25
- Divya Dutta, Indian actress
- Clea DuVall, American actress
September 27 – Mike Maronna, American actor
October 3 - Hassan Johnson, American actor, model and producer
October 7 – Brandon Quinn, American actor
October 8 – Jamie Marchi, American voice actress
October 11 – Matthew Bomer, American actor
October 26 – Jon Heder, American actor
October 29 – Jon Abrahams, American actor
November 4 - Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Irish actor
November 10 – Brittany Murphy, American actress (d. 2009)
November 11 – Scoot McNairy, American actor
November 14 – Brian Dietzen, American actor
November 15 – Sean Murray, American actor
November 16 – Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
November 23 - Lateef Crowder dos Santos, Brazilian-American actor and stuntman
December 1 – Nate Torrence, American comedic actor
December 5 - Armando Riesco, Puerto Rican actor
December 8
- Maarja Jakobson, Estonian actress
- Matthias Schoenaerts, Belgian actor
December 10 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
December 15 – Geoff Stults, American actor
December 21 - Gregory Siff, American writer and actor
December 30 - Lucy Punch, English actress

Deaths[]

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	3	Tom Gries	54	US	Director	Will Penny The Hawaiians
	6	Niall MacGinnis	63	Ireland	Actor	Martin Luther Helen of Troy
	12	Henri-Georges Clouzot	69	France	Director, Screenwriter	The Wages of Fear Les Diaboliques
	14	Peter Finch	60	UK	Actor	Network Sunday Bloody Sunday
	18	Yvonne Printemps	82	France	Actress, Singer	Le Voyage en Amérique The Duel
	26	Margaret Hayes	60	US	Actress	Blackboard Jungle Good Day for a Hanging
	31	Daniel Mainwaring	74	US	Screenwriter	Out of the Past Invasion of the Body Snatchers
February	3	Pauline Starke	76	US	Actress	The Viking What Men Want
	17	Edward G. Boyle	78	Canada	Production Designer	The Apartment Gone with the Wind
	18	Andy Devine	71	US	Actor	Stagecoach The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
	22	Edith Barrett	70	US	Actress	Ladies in Retirement I Walked with a Zombie
	27	Allison Hayes	46	US	Actress	Count Three and Pray Gunslinger
	28	Eddie "Rochester" Anderson	71	US	Actor	Cabin in the Sky It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
March	25	Nunnally Johnson	79	US	Screenwriter, Director	The Grapes of Wrath The Dirty Dozen
	27	Diana Hyland	41	US	Actress	One Man's Way The Chase
April	17	Marjorie Gateson	86	US	Actress	Private Number The King's Vacation
	19	Marion Gering	75	Russia	Director	Devil and the Deep Rumba
	21	Gummo Marx	83	US	Actor, Agent
	28	Ricardo Cortez	76	US	Actor	The Case of the Black Cat The Maltese Falcon
May	10	Joan Crawford	71	US	Actress	Mildred Pierce What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
	15	Herbert Wilcox	87	UK	Director, Producer	Odette Irene
	21	Dorothy Christy	70	US	Actress	Parlor, Bedroom and Bath Bright Eyes
	31	William Castle	63	US	Producer, Director	Rosemary's Baby House on Haunted Hill
June	2	Stephen Boyd	45	Ireland	Actor	Ben-Hur Fantastic Voyage
	3	Roberto Rossellini	71	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Rome, Open City Germany, Year Zero
	5	Luis César Amadori	75	Italy/Argentina	Director, Screenwriter	Almafuerte Albéniz
	13	Matthew Garber	21	UK	Actor	Mary Poppins The Gnome-Mobile
	14	Alan Reed	69	US	Actor	Friendly Persuasion The Desperate Hours
	19	Geraldine Brooks	51	US	Actress	An Act of Murder The Reckless Moment
	20	Abner Biberman	68	US	Director, Actor	The Night Runner Behind the High Wall
July	2	William H. Ziegler	67	US	Film Editor	My Fair Lady Auntie Mame
July	22	Erik Chitty	70	UK	Actor	Doctor Zhivago Lola
August	3	Alfred Lunt	84	US	Actor	Sally of the Sawdust Second Youth
	14	George Oppenheimer	77	US	Screenwriter	Libeled Lady Adventures of Don Juan
	16	Elvis Presley	42	US	Actor, Singer	Love Me Tender Blue Hawaii
	17	Delmer Daves	73	US	Screenwriter, Director	3:10 to Yuma Dark Passage
	19	Groucho Marx	86	US	Actor, Screenwriter	Duck Soup A Night at the Opera
	19	Peter Dyneley	56	UK	Actor	Thunderbirds Are Go Thunderbird 6
	21	Danny Lockin	34	US	Actor	Hello Dolly!
	22	Sebastian Cabot	59	UK	Actor	The Time Machine The Jungle Book
	22	Alex Segal	62	US	Director	Ransom! Harlow
	29	Jean Hagen	54	US	Actress	Singin' in the Rain The Asphalt Jungle
	31	H. C. Potter	72	US	Director	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House The Farmer's Daughter
September	2	Stephen Dunne	59	US	Actor	Ten Thousand Bedrooms The Woman from Tangier
September	8	Zero Mostel	62	US	Actor	The Producers A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
October	3	Tay Garnett	83	US	Director	The Postman Always Rings Twice Cheers for Miss Bishop
	5	Fred F. Finklehoffe	67	US	Screenwriter	Meet Me in St. Louis The Stooge
	14	Bing Crosby	74	US	Actor, Singer	Going My Way White Christmas
	31	Joan Tetzel	56	US	Actress	The Paradine Case The File on Thelma Jordon
November	4	Betty Balfour	74	UK	Actress	Champagne 29 Acacia Avenue
	9	Gertrude Astor	90	US	Actress	The Strong Man The Cat and the Canary
	15	William C. McGann	84	US	Director	Times Square Playboy Girls on Probation
	18	Victor Francen	89	Belgium	Actor	San Antonio Hell and High Water
	25	Richard Carlson	65	US	Actor	Creature from the Black Lagoon The Helen Morgan Story
	30	Olga Petrova	93	UK	Actress, Screenwriter	Exile To the Death
	30	Terence Rattigan	66	UK	Screenwriter	The Yellow Rolls-Royce The V.I.P.s
December	4	Leila Hyams	72	US	Actress	Freaks Island of Lost Souls
	18	Cyril Ritchard	79	Australia	Actor	Blackmail Half a Sixpence
	19	Jacques Tourneur	73	France	Director	Out of the Past Cat People
	25	Charlie Chaplin	88	UK	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	The Great Dictator Modern Times
	26	Howard Hawks	81	US	Director	The Big Sleep Rio Bravo
	28	Charlotte Greenwood	87	US	Actress	Oklahoma! The Opposite Sex

Film debuts[]

Dan Aykroyd – Love at First Sight
Roberto Benigni – Berlinguer, I Love You
Tom Berenger – The Sentinel
Powers Boothe – The Goodbye Girl
Beverly D'Angelo – The Sentinel
Judy Davis – High Rolling
Brian Dennehy – Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Bo Derek – Orca
Fran Drescher – Saturday Night Fever
Charles Fleischer – One on One
Mel Gibson – I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
John Goodman – Jailbait Babysitter
Cary Guffey – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steve Guttenberg – Rollercoaster
Luis Guzmán – Short Eyes
John Heard – Between the Lines
Marilu Henner – Between the Lines
Tom Hulce – September 30, 1955
Helen Hunt – Rollercoaster
Michael Ironside – Outrageous!
Joe Mantegna – Medusa Challenger
Bruce McGill – Handle with Care
Michael McKean – Cracking Up
Kevin McNally – The Spy Who Loved Me
Joe Morton – Between the Lines
Sam Neill – Sleeping Dogs
Pete Postlethwaite – The Duellists
Meryl Streep – Julia
Stephen Tobolowsky – Keep My Grave Open
Craig Wasson – Rollercoaster
Sigourney Weaver – Annie Hall
Robin Williams – Can I Do It... 'Till I Need Glasses?
Rita Wilson – The Day It Came to Earth

References[]

^ "'Star Wars' B.O. History". Variety. May 17, 1999. p. 30.
^ "Smokey and the Bandit, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
^ "Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
^ "Saturday Night Fever, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
^ "The Goodbye Girl (1977-11-30)". Box office. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
^ "A Bridge Too Far (1977) , Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
^ "The Deep, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
^ "The Spy Who Loved Me, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
^ "Oh, God!". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
^ "Annie Hall, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
^ "Don Bluth The Disney Years: The Rescuers". cataroo.com. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

[1] "'Star Wars' B.O. History". Variety. May 17, 1999. p. 30.

[2] "Smokey and the Bandit, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.

[3] "Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.

[4] "Saturday Night Fever, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.

[5] "The Goodbye Girl (1977-11-30)". Box office. Retrieved January 14, 2018.

[6] "A Bridge Too Far (1977) , Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2016-11-18.

[7] "The Deep, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.

[8] "The Spy Who Loved Me, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.

[9] "Oh, God!". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 14, 2018.

[10] "Annie Hall, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.

[11] "Don Bluth The Disney Years: The Rescuers". cataroo.com. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

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