1962 in film

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Events

• February – Warner Bros. buys the film rights for My Fair Lady for the unprecedented sum of $5.5 million plus 47¼% of the gross over $20 million.
• May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
• June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca-Universal.
• July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board.
• August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose.
• September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace begins and will continue for another 5 years.
• October 5 – Dr. No launches the James Bond series, the second longest-running film franchise of all time, still running 60 years later. It also launches the career of Sean Connery.

  Awards

1962 film releases

January–March

• January 1962
• *1 January
• **Heaven and Earth Magic
• **Sanjuro
• *9 January
• **The Nun and the Sergeant
• *11 January
• **Only Two Can Play
• *12 January
• **Bachelor Flat
• *14 January
• **I Thank a Fool
• *17 January
• **The Intruder
• *18 January
• **My Geisha
• *19 January
• **Tender Is the Night
• **A [View from the Bridge |A View from the Bridge]
• *26 January
• **The [Three Stooges Meet Hercules]
• February 1962
• *7 February
• **Four [Horsemen of the Apocalypse |Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]
• **Light in the Piazza
• *10 February
• **Sergeants 3
• *12 February
• **The Bellboy and the Playgirls
• *15 February
• **Pontius Pilate
• *21 February
• **The Couch
• **Walk on the Wild Side
• *28 February
• **Too Late Blues
• March 1962
• *1 March
• **Posse from Hell
• *5 March
• **Rome Adventure
• *7 March
• **Premature Burial |The Premature Burial]
• *9 March
• **State Fair
• *10 March
• **Journey to the Seventh Planet
• *14 March
• **The Road to Hong Kong
• *21 March
• **Hitler
• **Sweet Bird of Youth
• **Gorath
• *23 March
• **Satan in High Heels
• **Satan Never Sleeps
• *28 March
• **Hand of Death
• **The Manster
• **''Six Black Horses''

  April–June

• April 1962
• *2 April
• **The Broken Land
• *5 April
• **Moon Pilot
• *6 April
• **Ivan's Childhood
• *11 April
• **All Fall Down
• **Follow That Dream
• **House of Women
• **The Magic Sword
• *12 April
• **Cape Fear
• *13 April
• **Experiment in Terror
• *17 April
• **The Counterfeit Traitor
• *18 April
• **The Horizontal Lieutenant
• *19 April
• **Five Finger Exercise
• *22 April
• **Hands of a Stranger
• **The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• *23 April
• **Escape from Zahrain
• *25 April
• **Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules
• May 1962
• *3 May
• **The Brain That Wouldn't Die
• **Invasion of the Star Creatures
• *9 May
• **Jessica
• **War Hunt
• *17 May
• **Bon Voyage!
• *24 May
• **The Inspector
• **Lonely Are the Brave
• *25 May
• **The Cabinet of Caligari
• **When the Girls Take Over
• *29 May
• **Hatari!
• June 1962
• *6 June
• **13 West Street
• **Big Red
• **Lad, A Dog
• *9 June
• **Eegah
• *13 June
• **It Happened in Athens
• **Lolita
• **Merrill's Marauders
• *14 June
• **That Touch of Mink
• *15 June
• **Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
• *19 June
• **The Music Man
• *20 June
• **Confessions of an Opium Eater
• **The Pigeon That Took Rome
• **Ride the High Country
• *21 June
• **Boys' Night Out
• *26 June
• **Hell Is for Heroes
• *27 June
• **Safe at Home!
• *29 June
• **''Beauty and the Beast''

  July–September

• July 1962
• *3 July
• **Birdman of Alcatraz
• **The Creation of the Humanoids
• **Tarzan Goes to India
• *4 July
• **Tales of Terror
• **The Three Stooges in Orbit
• *5 July
• **Panic in Year Zero!
• *7 July
• **Advise & Consent
• *15 July
• **Kujira Gami aka The Whale God
• *16 July
• **Jack the Giant Killer
• *17 July
• **Air Patrol
• *21 July
• **Black Gold
• *25 July
• **Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
• *26 July
• **The Lion
• **The Notorious Landlady
• *28 July
• **The Miracle Worker
• August 1962
• *1 August
• **Kid Galahad
• *2 August
• **The Underwater City
• *3 August
• **The Spiral Road
• *7 August
• **The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
• *8 August
• **The Interns
• *11 August
• **King Kong vs. Godzilla
• *17 August
• **Two Weeks in Another Town
• **Guns of Darkness
• *22 August
• **Five Weeks in a Balloon
• *29 August
• **The 300 Spartans
• September 1962
• *15 September
• **Convicts 4
• *16 September
• **Harakiri
• **Billy Budd
• *25 September
• **The Longest Day
• *26 September
• **Carnival of Souls
• *27 September
• **''Gigot''

  October–December

• October 1962
• *1 October
• **A Kind of Loving
• *3 October
• **Zotz!
• *4 October
• **Sodom and Gomorrah
• *5 October
• **The Chapman Report
• **Dr. No –
• *10 October
• **If a Man Answers
• **Long Day's Journey into Night
• *16 October
• **Requiem for a Heavyweight
• *18 October
• **Phaedra
• *22 October
• **Escape from East Berlin
• *24 October
• **The Manchurian Candidate
• **Tower of London
• *25 October
• **Tonight for Sure
• **The War Lover
• *31 October
• **Period of Adjustment
• **What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• November 1962
• *1 November
• **How the West Was Won
• **Gypsy
• *2 November
• **The Reluctant Saint
• *8 November
• **Mutiny on the Bounty
• *14 November
• **In Search of the Castaways
• *21 November
• **It's Only Money
• **Two for the Seesaw
• **Girls! Girls! Girls!
• *27 November
• **The Main Attraction
• December 1962
• *2 December
• **Pressure Point
• *6 December
• **Billy Rose's Jumbo
• *10 December
• **Lawrence of Arabia
• *12 December
• **Five Miles to Midnight
• **Freud: The Secret Passion
• *17 December
• **Gay Purr-ee
• *19 December
• **Taras Bulba
• *22 December
• **The Trial
• *25 December
• **To Kill a Mockingbird
• **Who's Got the Action?
• *26 December
• **David and Lisa
• **Days of Wine and Roses
• *31 December
• **''40 Pounds of Trouble''

  Notable films released in 1962

#

• The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker
• 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, and Larry Storch

  A

• Abhijan, directed by Satyajit Ray –
• Advise & Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
• Alaverdoba, directed by Giorgi Shengelaia –
• All Fall Down, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty
• All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough –
• All Souls' Day –
• The American Beauty, directed by Robert Dhéry –
• The Amphibian Man –
• Asli-Naqli, starring Dev Anand –
• Atraco a las tres –
• Attack of the Normans, directed by Giuseppe Vari –
• An Autumn Afternoon, directed by Yasujirō Ozu –
• The Awful Dr. Orloff, directed by Jesús Franco –

  B

• Baat Ek Raat Ki, starring Dev Anand –
• Bachelor Flat, starring Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm
• Bees Saal Baad –
• The Bellboy and the Playgirls, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Fritz Umgelter
• Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung –
• Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp –
• Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day and Jimmy Durante
• Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas
• Boccaccio '70, directed by Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren –
• Bon Voyage!, starring Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman
• The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Richard Todd –
• Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner
• The Brain That Wouldn't Die, starring Virginia Leith
• The Brainiac , directed by Chano Urueta –
• The [Bread of Those Early Years |The Bread of Those Early Years] –
• The Broken Land, starring Kent Taylor, Diana Darrin and Jack Nicholson

  C

• Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
• Captain Clegg, directed by Peter Graham Scott –
• Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
• Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams –
• Cartouche, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale –
• The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor, starring Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
• Chased by the Dogs –
• Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda –
• The Condemned of Altona, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell –
• Convicts 4, starring Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Vincent Price, Ray Walston, Sammy Davis Jr.
• The Counterfeit Traitor, directed by George Seaton, starring William Holden
• Crazy Paradise, directed by Gabriel Axel and starring Dirch Passer –
• Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie

  D

• Damon and Pythias, directed by Curtis Bernhardt –
• A Date at the Tower, directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny –
• David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
• Days of Wine and Roses, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
• Dead Man's Evidence, directed by Francis Searle –
• The Devil's Agent, directed by John Paddy Carstairs –
• Le Doulos, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo –
• Dr. No, first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Ursula Andress –
• Dungeon of Harrow, directed by Pat Boyette

  E

• The Easy Life, directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant –
• Eclipse, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti –
• Eighteen in the Sun, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque –
• Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas –
• The Elusive Corporal, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur –
• Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
• Escape from Zahrain, starring Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo and Jack Warden
• Eva, starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi –
• Experiment in Terror, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin
• The Exterminating Angel, directed by Luis Buñuel –

  F

• The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, directed by Karel Zeman –
• Family Diary, starring Marcello Mastroianni –
• The Female: Seventy Times Seven, starring Isabel Sarli –
• Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules
• Five Finger Exercise, starring Rosalind Russell
• Five Miles to Midnight, starring Sophia Loren
• Five Weeks in a Balloon
• Follow That Dream, starring Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Joanna Moore
• The [Four Days of Naples |The Four Days of Naples] –
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Yvette Mimieux
• Freud: The Secret Passion, directed by John Huston, starring Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
• The Fury of Hercules, written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini –

  G

• Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
• Geronimo, starring Chuck Connors
• Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
• Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
• Go to Blazes, directed by Michael Truman –
• The Golden Arrow '', directed by Antonio Margheriti –
• Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• The Grim Reaper, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci –
• Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao –
• Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice –
• Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood

  H

• H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde –
• Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala –
• Hand of Death, starring John Agar
• Hands of a Stranger, directed by Newt Arnold
• Harakiri, directed by Masaki Kobayashi –
• Hatari!, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli
• Hell Is for Heroes, starring Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin
• Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Paul Newman
• Hero's Island, starring James Mason and Rip Torn
• Hombre de la esquina rosada –
• The Horizontal Lieutenant, starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss
• The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, directed by Riccardo Freda –
• House of Women, starring Shirley Knight and Constance Ford
• How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard and more
• Hussar Ballad –
• Hussar of the Dead, –

  I

• If a Man Answers, starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
• In Search of the Castaways, starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier
• In the Affirmative, directed by Claude Lelouch –
• In the French Style, starring Jean Seberg
• The Inn on the River, directed by Alfred Vohrer –
• The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
• The Invisible Dr. Mabuse, starring Wolfgang Preiss –
• The Intruder, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner
• The Iron Maiden, starring Anne Helm and Jeff Donnell
• It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield –
• It's Only Money, directed by Frank Tashlin. starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien
• Ivan's Childhood, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky –

  J

• Jack the Giant Killer, starring Kerwin Mathews
• Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
• La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker –
• Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner –
• Journey to the Seventh Planet, directed by Sid Pink –
• Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner –

  K

• Kanchanjangha, directed by Satyajit Ray –
• Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson
• A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates –
• King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• Knife in the Water, directed by Roman Polanski –

  L

• The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell –
• Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer –
• The Legend of Lobo, a Walt Disney production
• Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig –
• Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
• The Lion, starring William Holden and Trevor Howard
• Lisa, starring Stephen Boyd –
• Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
• The [Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner], directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay –
• Lonely Are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor
• Lonely Boy, a documentary about Paul Anka –
• Long Day's Journey into Night, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Katharine Hepburn
• The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and more
• Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow '''', directed by Tomu Uchida –
• Love at Twenty, a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls –
• Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot –
• Lulu, directed by Rolf Thiele, starring Nadja Tiller –

  M

• Madison Avenue, starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker
• Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi –
• The Magic Sword, directed by Bert I. Gordon
• The Magnificent Concubine –
• The Main Attraction, starring Pat Boone
• Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani –
• The Man of Gold –
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode
• The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Angela Lansbury
• March on Rome, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman –
• Merrill's Marauders, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin
• Flying Clipper, a documentary directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber –
• The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women, directed by Shin Sang-ok –
• The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol,
• Mix Me a Person, directed by Leslie Norman, starring Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden and Adam Faith –
• Mondo Cane, directed by Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti –
• A Monkey in Winter, directed by Henri Verneuil –
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
• Moon Pilot, starring Tom Tryon
• The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Ron Howard
• Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
• My Geisha, starring Shirley MacLaine
• My Life to Live, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina –

  N

• Night of the Eagle, starring Janet Blair
• Nine Days in One Year –
• The Notorious Landlady, starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire

  O

• On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom –
• Only Two Can Play, starring Peter Sellers
• Operation Snatch, directed by Robert Day and starring Terry-Thomas and George Sanders –
• O Pagador de Promessas, directed by Anselmo Duarte –

  P

• Panic in Year Zero!, starring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon
• Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, Lois Nettleton
• Phaedra, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins –
• The [Phantom of the Opera |The Phantom of the Opera], starring Herbert Lom –
• The Pigeon That Took Rome, starring Charlton Heston
• The Pirates of Blood River, directed by John Gilling –
• Pitfall –
• Play It Cool, starring Billy Fury –
• Pontius Pilate, starring Jean Marais, Jeanne Crain, Basil Rathbone
• Premature Burial, directed by Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Heather Angel
• Pressure Point, starring Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin
• Pretty Foe by Esmail Koushan
• Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor –
• The Puzzle of the Red Orchid, directed by Helmut Ashley –

  R

• Redhead –
• Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
• Revenge of the Snakes –
• Ride the High Country, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott
• The Road to Hong Kong, directed by Norman Panama, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Joan Collins
• Roaring Years, starring Nino Manfredi –
• Rome Adventure, starring Angie Dickinson and Suzanne Pleshette
• Der rote Rausch, starring Klaus Kinski –

  S

• Safe at Home!, starring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris
• Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt –
• Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi –
• Samar, directed by and starring George Montgomery
• Sanjuro, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune –
• Satan in High Heels, starring Meg Myles and Grayson Hall
• Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
• Seven Seas to Calais, directed by Rudolph Maté –
• Shaheed, starring Musarrat Nazir, Talish, Allauddin, Ejaz, Saqi
• She'll Have to Go, directed by Robert Asher –
• She Knows Y'Know, directed by Montgomery Tully –
• Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace/ Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Terence Fisher, written by Curt Siodmak, starring Christopher Lee as Holmes and Thorley Walters as Watson
• Slaughter of the Vampires, directed by Roberto Mauri –
• Solo for Sparrow, directed by Gordon Flemyng –
• Some People, starring Kenneth More –
• Something's Got to Give, starring Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin
• The Spiral Road, starring Rock Hudson and Gena Rowlands
• State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin
• The Suitor –
• Sundays and Cybele, starring Hardy Krüger and Nicole Courcel –
• Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
• Swordsman of Siena, starring Stewart Granger –
• A Symposium on Popular Songs, a Disney animation

  T

• The Tale of Zatoichi, directed by Kenji Misumi –
• The Tale of Zatoichi Continues, starring Shintaro Katsu –
• Tales of Terror, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone
• Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
• Tarzan Goes to India, Jock Mahoney's first film as Tarzan
• Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
• Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret –
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, starring Wolfgang Preiss –
• That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
• Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret –
• The Three Stooges In Orbit, starring the Three Stooges
• Time to Remember, directed by Charles Jarrott –
• To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
• Tobacco –
• Tonny, directed by Nils R. Müller and Per Gjersøe –
• Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• Treasure of the Silver Lake, directed by Harald Reinl –
• The Cursed Palace, starring Salah Zulfikar and Mariam Fakhr Eddine –
• The Trial, directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau –
• The Trial of Joan of Arc, directed by Robert Bresson –
• Tudor –
• The Twelve Chairs, directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea –
• Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
• Two Half Times in Hell, directed by Zoltán Fábri –
• Two Weeks in Another Town, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse

  U

• The Unscrupulous Ones, directed by Ruy Guerra –

  V

• A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot –
• A View from the Bridge, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Raf Vallone –
• Violent Life, directed by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi –
• Vive le Tour, documentary by Louis Malle –

  W

• Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck
• Waltz of the Toreadors, directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers –
• The War Lover, directed by Philip Leacock, starring Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner and Shirley Anne Field.
• War of the Buttons –
• We Joined the Navy, starring Kenneth More –
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
• Who's Got the Action? starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner
• The Witch's Curse, directed by Riccardo Freda –
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom

  Z

• Zorro the Avenger
• Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston

  Short film series

• Looney Tunes
• Terrytoons
• Merrie Melodies
• Bugs Bunny
• Yosemite Sam
• ''Speedy Gonzales''

  Births

• January 1 - Carlos Gomez, American actor
• January 4 – Michael France, American screenwriter
• January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron, American actress
• January 7
• *Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
• *Hallie Todd, American actress
• January 9 - Conrad Goode, American actor, screenwriter, screenwriter, producer and musician
• January 10 – C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor
• January 11
• *Kim Coles, American actress, comedian and game show host
• *Melanie Hill, British actress
• January 16 - Peter Lurie, American voice actor, sports anchor and television personality
• January 17
• *Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
• *Denis O'Hare, American actor
• January 19 - Kelly Coffield Park, American actress and comedian
• January 20 - Sophie Thompson, British actress
• January 21 - Marie Trintignant, French actress
• January 22
• *Tamra Davis, American director
• *Robert Mailhouse, American actor and musician
• *Piotr Polk, Polish actor and singer
• January 23
• *Pete Koch, American actor
• *Boris McGiver, American actor
• *Richard Roxburgh, Australian actor, writer, producer and director
• February 2 - Michael T. Weiss, American actor
• February 4
• *Jim O'Heir, American actor and comedian
• *Michael Riley, Canadian actor
• February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
• February 7 - Eddie Izzard, English stand-up comedian, actor and writer
• February 8 - Martin Wuttke, German actor and director
• February 12 - Diane Franklin, American actress and producer
• February 13 – Michele Greene, American actress
• February 14
• *Sakina Jaffrey, American actress
• *Kirk Thatcher, American writer, producer and director
• February 16 - Alexa Kenin, American actress
• February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
• February 18 - Julie Strain, American actress and model
• February 22
• *Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, television personality, conservationist, actor
• *Sylva Kelegian, American actress
• *Ethan Wayne, American actor
• February 27 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
• March 2 - Jon Bon Jovi, American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• March 8
• *Leon Robinson, American actor and singer
• *Cecilia Yip, Hong Kong actress
• March 10 – Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, dancer and director
• March 11 - Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
• March 12
• *Julia Campbell, American actress
• *Chris Sanders, American actor, animator, director and voice actor
• *Titus Welliver, American actor
• March 18
• *Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• *Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
• March 20 – Stephen Sommers, American director, screenwriter and producer
• March 21
• *Matthew Broderick, American actor
• *Kathy Greenwood, Canadian actress and comedian
• *Rosie O'Donnell, American actress and comedian
• March 23 - Jenny Wright, American actress
• March 25
• *Thom Bierdz, American actor
• *Marcia Cross, American actress
• March 26
• *Marita Geraghty, American actress
• *Eric Allan Kramer, American actor
• March 29 - Tyra Ferrell, American actress
• April 2 – Clark Gregg, American actor, director and screenwriter
• April 3 - Jennifer Rubin, American actress and model
• April 5 - Lana Clarkson, American actress and model
• April 15
• *Tom Kane, American actor and voice actor
• *Alex Veadov, American actor
• April 18 - Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist, stand-up comedian and actor
• April 23 - John Hannah, Scottish actor
• April 24 - Jason Salkey, English actor
• April 27 – James LeGros, American actor
• May 2 - Elizabeth Berridge, American actress
• May 5 - Manoj Sood, Indo-Canadian actor
• May 9 - Sean McNamara, American director, producer, actor and screenwriter
• May 12 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
• May 14 - Danny Huston, American actor, director and writer
• May 17 - Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American television host, comedian, author and actor
• May 18
• *Nathaniel Parker, English actor
• *Karel Roden, Czech actor
• May 26 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor, comedian and director
• May 27
• *Bin Bunluerit, Thai actor and director
• *Steven Brill, American actor, producer, director and screenwriter
• May 29 - John D. LeMay, American former actor
• May 31 - Sebastian Koch, German actor
• June 4 - Lindsay Frost, American former actress
• June 5
• *Jeff Garlin, American comedian and actor
• *Ken Hudson Campbell, American actor
• June 6 - Todd Kimsey, American actor
• June 7 - Lance Reddick, American actor and musician
• June 10
• *Gina Gershon, American actress
• *Tzi Ma, Hong Kong-American actor
• June 12
• *Paul Schulze, American actor
• *Jodi Thelen, American actress
• June 13 – Ally Sheedy, American actress
• June 16 - Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
• June 19 – Paula Abdul, American singer
• June 22 - Nicholas Lea, Canadian actor
• June 23 - Billy Wirth, American actor and producer
• June 27
• *Emel Heinreich, Turkish-Austrian actress, author and film-director
• *Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor
• *Laird Macintosh, American actor and comedian
• June 30 - Predrag Bjelac, Serbian actor
• July 1 - Andre Braugher, American actor
• July 2 - Doug Benson, American comedian, television host and actor
• July 3
• *Tom Cruise, American actor
• *Thomas Gibson, American actor
• July 4 - Neil Morrissey, English actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and businessman
• July 8 - Oreste Baldini, Italian actor and voice actor
• July 13
• *Michael Jace, American former character actor
• *Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian
• *Paul Mercier, American actor and voice actor
• July 15 – Martin Roach, Canadian actor
• July 18 - Lee Arenberg, American actor
• July 19 – Anthony Edwards, American actor
• July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor
• July 23 - Eriq La Salle, American actor, director, writer and producer
• July 29
• *Kevin Chapman, American actor
• *Kevin Spirtas, American actor
• July 31
• *Al Sapienza, American actor
• *Wesley Snipes, American actor
• August 1
• *Jesse Borrego, American actor
• *Thomas Jay Ryan, American actor
• August 2 - Cynthia Stevenson, American actress
• August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress
• August 12 - Miss Cleo, American television personality
• August 13 – John Slattery, American actor
• August 14 - Steve Reevis, Native American actor
• August 15 - David Zayas, Puerto Rican actor
• August 16 – Steve Carell, American actor, comedian, producer, writer and director
• August 17 - John Marshall Jones, American actor
• August 20
• *Geoffrey Blake, American actor
• *Ravil Isyanov, Russian actor
• August 21 - Cleo King, American actress
• August 24 – David Koechner, American actor and comedian
• August 25 - Rusty Schwimmer, American character actress and singer
• August 27 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
• August 28 - David Fincher, American filmmaker
• August 29
• *Ian James Corlett, Canadian-American voice actor
• *Lycia Naff, American actress
• August 31 – Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
• September 1 - Michelle Meyrink, Canadian former actress
• September 8
• *Moya Brady, English actress
• *Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
• September 11 – Kristy McNichol, American actress
• September 12 - Amy Yasbeck, American actress
• September 15 – Scott McNeil, Australian-Canadian voice actor
• September 16 - Jonathan Pienaar, South African actor, writer and comedian
• September 17
• *Paul Feig, American actor, director, comedian and filmmaker
• *Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
• September 21 - Mark Holden, Canadian actor, writer and producer
• September 22 - Rob Morrow, American actor and director
• September 24 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress and producer
• September 25
• *David Bedella, American actor
• *Aida Turturro, American actress
• September 26 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
• October 1
• *Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Nigerian-British actor and producer
• *Esai Morales, American actor
• October 2 – Jeff Bennett, American actor and voice actor
• October 5 - Ricky Harris, American producer, actor and comedian
• October 6 - Joaquín Cosío, Mexican actor
• October 9 - Peter Hewitt, English director and writer
• October 10 - Tony Pitts, English actor
• October 11 – Joan Cusack, American actress
• October 12 – Deborah Foreman, American actress
• October 13
• *T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, American actress and singer
• *Kelly Preston, American actress
• October 14
• *Trevor Goddard, English actor
• *Chris Thomas King, American musician and actor
• October 15 - Simon Kunz, English actor
• October 16 - Christian Stolte, American character actor
• October 17 - Mike Judge, American actor, animator, filmmaker and musician
• October 19 - Antonio Monda, Italian writer and filmmaker
• October 20 - David Mickey Evans, American director and screenwriter
• October 22 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
• October 26 – Cary Elwes, English actor
• October 27 - Brontis Jodorowsky, Mexican-French actor
• October 28
• *Jason Watkins, English actor
• *Daphne Zuniga, American actress
• November 1 - Brenda Chapman, American writer, storyboard artist and director
• November 5 - Michael Gaston, American actor
• November 7 - Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
• November 9 - Rick Batalla, American actor
• November 10 - Barry Del Sherman, American actor
• November 11
• *Gerard Horan, British actor
• *Demi Moore, American actress and producer
• November 14
• *Laura San Giacomo, American actress
• *Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and comedian
• November 18 - Tim Guinee, American actor
• November 19 – Jodie Foster, American actress and director
• November 28
• *Rose Abdoo, American actress and comedian
• *Jon Stewart, American actor and comedian
• November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor
• November 30 - P. J. Hogan, Australian director and screenwriter
• December 2 - Brendan Coyle, British-Irish actor
• December 6 - Janine Turner, American actress
• December 8 - Wendell Pierce, American actor
• December 9 – Felicity Huffman, American actress
• December 10 - Scott Capurro, American comedian, writer and actor
• December 13 - Jim Fall, American director and producer
• December 14 - Ginger Lynn, American pornographic actress
• December 18
• *James Sie, American actor
• *Michel Vuillermoz, French actor and screenwriter
• December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress
• December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor
• December 23 - Peter Ramsey, American storyboard artist, story artist, director, writer and producer

  Deaths

• January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
• January 28 – Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor, The Pearl Maker of Madrid
• February 1 – Carey Wilson, American screenwriter, Mutiny on the Bounty
• February 19 – James Barton, American actor, Here Comes the Groom, Yellow Sky
• February 20 – Halliwell Hobbes, 84, British actor, Gaslight, That Hamilton Woman
• February 27 – Willie Best, 48, American actor, Nothing but the Truth, The Red Dragon
• February 28 – Chic Johnson, 70, American comedian, actor, Hellzapoppin'
• March 17 – Frank Orth, 82, American actor, Nancy Drew... Detective, Here Come the Girls
• April 10 – Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The [Adventures of Robin Hood |The Adventures of Robin Hood]
• April 15 – Clara Blandick, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer
• April 17 – Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Alice in Wonderland
• April 22
• *Angus MacPhail, 59, British screenwriter, Spellbound, The Wrong Man
• *Vera Reynolds, 62, American actress, The Night Club, Feet of Clay
• May 14 – Florence Auer, 82, American actress, The Bishop's Wife, State of the Union
• June 2 – Aeneas MacKenzie, 72, Scottish screenwriter, The Ten Commandments, Ivanhoe
• June 6 – Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, 63, American actor, Nevada, Southwest Passage
• June 19
• *Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
• *Will Wright, 68, American actor, Quantrill's Raiders, Alias Jesse James
• June 24 – Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress, Waterloo Bridge, Made for Each Other
• July 2 – Valeska Suratt, 80, American stage and screen actress, The Immigrant
• July 4 – Rex Bell, 58, American actor, Broadway to Cheyenne, Law and Lead
• July 13 – Jerry Wald, 50, American screenwriter and producer, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place
• July 23 – Victor Moore, 86, American actor, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Louisiana Purchase
• July 30 – Myron McCormick, 54, American actor, The Hustler, No Time for Sergeants
• August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress, Hollywood icon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot
• August 23 – Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor, Action, The Horse Soldiers
• September 7 – Louis King, 64, American director, Typhoon, Green Grass of Wyoming
• October 2 – Frank Lovejoy, 50, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Goodbye, My Fancy
• October 6 – Tod Browning, 82, American director, Dracula, Freaks
• October 26 – Louise Beavers, 60, American actress, Holiday Inn, The Jackie Robinson Story
• November 15 – Irene, American costume designer, Shall We Dance, Midnight Lace
• December 15 – Charles Laughton, 63, British actor, Spartacus, Witness for the Prosecution
• December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, 70, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind
• December 21 – Syd Saylor, 67, American actor, The Lost Jungle, The Three Mesquiteers
• December 23 – Luis Alberni, 76, Spanish actor, Svengali, The [Count of Monte Cristo |The Count of Monte Cristo]
• December 28 – Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted
• December 29 – Hugh Sinclair, 59, British actor, The Saint's Vacation, ''Judgment Deferred''

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