1922 in film

This is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows:

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	Robin Hood	United Artists	$2,101,044
2	Blood and Sand	Paramount	$1,250,000
3	Manslaughter	Paramount	$1,206,014
4	Grandma's Boy	Pathé Exchange	$1,100,000
5	Smilin' Through	First National	$1,000,000
6	Saturday Night	Paramount	$753,807
7	Rags to Riches	Warner Bros.	$418,000
8	Heroes of the Street	Warner Bros.	$366,000
9		Warner Bros.	$327,000
10	Your Best Friend	Warner Bros.	$132,000
-	-	Warner Bros.	-

Events

June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
November 26 – The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor.

Notable films released in 1922

United States unless stated

E

Estrellita del Cine, directed by José Nepomuceno –
The Electric House, directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
Esmeralda, directed by Edwin J. Collins, starring Sybil Thorndike, based on the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo –

F

Fair Lady, directed by Kenneth Webb
Faust, directed by Challis Sanderson, based on the 1808 play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe –
Faust, directed by Gérard Bourgeois, based on the 1808 play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe –
La Femme de nulle part , directed by Louis Delluc –
Flames of Passion, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Mae Marsh and C. Aubrey Smith –
Flesh and Blood, directed by Irving Cummings, starring Lon Chaney and Noah Beery Sr.
Foolish Wives, starring and directed by Erich von Stroheim
The Frozen North, directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton

G

The Ghost Breaker, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee, based on the 1909 play by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard
A Gipsy Cavalier, directed by J. Stuart Blackton, starring Georges Carpentier and Flora le Breton –
Grandma's Boy, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, starring Harold Lloyd
The Grass Orphan, directed by Frank Hall Crane –

H

The Haunted House, directed by Erle C. Kenton
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, starring and directed by Benjamin Christensen –
The Headless Horseman, directed by Edward D. Venturini, starring Will Rogers, based on the 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Heroes of the Street, directed by William Beaudine, starring Wesley Barry and Marie Prevost

I

In the Name of the Law, directed by Emory Johnson, starring Ralph Lewis and Claire McDowell

L

Laborer's Love , directed by Zhang Shichuan –
Lorna Doone, directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Madge Bellamy
The Loves of Pharaoh , directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Emil Jannings – Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Richard Oswald, starring Conrad Veidt and Liane Haid –

M

The Man from Beyond, directed by Burton L. King, starring Harry Houdini
Manslaughter, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Thomas Meighan and Lois Wilson
Marizza, directed by F. W. Murnau –
The Marriage Chance, written and directed by Hampton Del Ruth
Money To Burn, directed by Rowland V. Lee
Moran of the Lady Letty, directed by George Melford, starring Dorothy Dalton and Rudolph Valentino
More to Be Pitied Than Scorned, directed by Edward LeSaint
Mud and Sand, directed by Gilbert Pratt, starring Stan Laurel
My Boy, directed by Victor Heerman and Albert Austin, starring Jackie Coogan
My Wife's Relations, directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton

N

Nanook of the North, a documentary directed by Robert J. Flaherty
Nathan the Wise , directed by Manfred Noa –
Nice People, directed by William C. deMille, starring Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels and Conrad Nagel
Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens , directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker without authorization –
Number 13, directed by Alfred Hitchcock –

O

Oliver Twist, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Jackie Coogan and Lon Chaney
One Exciting Night, written and directed by D. W. Griffith
One Glorious Day, directed by James Cruze, starring Will Rogers and Lila Lee

P

The Paleface, directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
Pay Day, a Charles Chaplin short
Peg o' My Heart, directed by King Vidor, starring Laurette Taylor
Phantom, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover and Lya De Putti –
Polikushka , directed by Alexander Sanin –
The Primitive Lover, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Constance Talmadge and Harrison Ford
The Prisoner of Zenda, directed by Rex Ingram, starring Lewis Stone and Alice Terry

R

Rags to Riches, directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Wesley Barry
Rent Free, directed by Howard Higgin, starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery
Rob Roy, directed by W. P. Kellino –

S

Saturday Night, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Leatrice Joy and Conrad Nagel
The Scarlet Letter, directed by Challis Sanderson, starring Sybil Thorndike –
Shadows, directed by Tom Forman, starring Lon Chaney, Marguerite De La Motte and Harrison Ford
Sherlock Holmes, directed by Albert Parker, starring John Barrymore, based on the 1899 stage play by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle –
Smilin' Through, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Norma Talmadge
Sodom and Gomorrah, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lucy Doraine –
La Souriante Madame Beudet , directed by Germaine Dulac –
Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep, directed by George Pearson, starring Betty Balfour –
The Suram Fortress , directed by Ivan Perestiani –

T

Tess of the Storm Country, directed by John S. Robertson, starring Mary Pickford
The Three Must-Get-Theres, a Max Linder film
The Toll of the Sea, directed by Chester M. Franklin, starring Anna May Wong

W

What's Wrong with the Women?, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Constance Bennett
When Knighthood Was in Flower, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies
Wildness of Youth, directed by Ivan Abramson

Y

The Young Diana, directed by Albert Capellani and Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies
The Young Rajah. directed by Phil Rosen, starring Rudolph Valentino
Your Best Friend, written and directed by William Nigh, starring Vera Gordon

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

January 2 – Jason Evers, American actor
January 3 – Bill Travers, British actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist
January 10 – Hannelore Schroth, German actress
January 13 – Albert Lamorisse, French filmmaker, film producer and writer
January 16 – Irene Vernon, American actress
January 17 – Betty White, American actress and comedian
January 19 – Guy Madison, American actor
January 20 – Ray Anthony, American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor
January 21
*Telly Savalas, Greek-American actor
*Paul Scofield, English actor
January 31
*Joanne Dru, American actress
*William Sylvester, American actor
February 3 – Ulf Johanson, Swedish actor
February 4
* William Edward Phipps, American actor and producer
* Qin Yi, Chinese actress
February 6 – Patrick Macnee, British-American actor
February 7 – Hattie Jacques, English actress
February 8 – Audrey Meadows, American actress
February 9 – Kathryn Grayson, American actress and coloratura soprano
February 24 – Steven Hill, American actor
February 26 – Margaret Leighton, English actress
March 5
*James Noble, American actor
*Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer, film director, actor and playwright
March 8 – Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress
March 20 – Carl Reiner, American actor, author, comedian, director and screenwriter
March 21 – Russ Meyer, American filmmaker
March 23 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
March 31
*Richard Kiley, American actor and singer
*Patrick Magee, Irish actor
April 3 – Doris Day, American actress and singer
April 4
*Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor
*Alexandra Myšková, Czech-born Norwegian actress, director and theatre teacher
April 5 – Gale Storm, American actress and singer
April 7 – Margia Dean, American beauty queen and actress
April 15 – Michael Ansara, Syrian‐American actor
April 18 – Barbara Hale, American actress
April 24 – J. D. Cannon, American actor
April 26 – Mike Kellin, American actor
April 27 – Jack Klugman, American actor
May 2 – Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor and director
May 7
*Rolands Kalniņš, Latvian film director, screenwriter and producer
*Darren McGavin, American actor
May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress
May 12 - Murray Gershenz, American character actor and entrepreneur
May 13 - Truus Dekker, Dutch actress
May 14
*Richard Deacon, American actor
*Terence Longdon, English actor
May 17 - Wei Wei, Chinese actress
May 18 - Bill Macy, American actor
May 25 - Syd Heylen, Australian character actor and comedian
May 27 – Christopher Lee, English actor and singer
May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English actor
June 1
*Joan Caulfield, American actress and model
*Joan Copeland, American actress
June 9 – George Axelrod, American screenwriter and producer
June 10
*Judy Garland, American actress and singer
*Bill Kerr, British-Australian actor, comedian and vaudevillian
June 16 – Frances Rafferty, American actress, dancer, World War II pin-up girl and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player
June 22 – Mona Lisa, Filipino actress
June 26 – Eleanor Parker, American actress
June 28 - Erik Bauersfeld, American radio dramatist and voice actor
July 6 – William Schallert, American character actor
July 9 - Manos Zacharias, Greek film director, cinematographer and actor
July 11 – Gene Evans, American actor
July 19 - Bess Meisler, American actress
July 21 – Demeter Bitenc, Slovenian actor
July 23 - Sydney Lassick, American character actor
July 26
*Blake Edwards, American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter
*Jason Robards, American actor
July 27
*Adolfo Celi, Italian film actor and director
*Norman Lear, American screenwriter and producer
August 1
*Arthur Hill, Canadian actor
*Paul Lambert, American character actor
August 8 – Rory Calhoun, American actor
August 15 - Boris Sichkin, Soviet-American film actor, dancer, choreographer, composer and entertainer
August 22 – Micheline Presle, French actress
August 25 - Gloria Dea, American actress, dancer, artist, and magician
September 1
*Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
*Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress, dancer and singer
September 6 – Elizabeth Lawrence, American actress
September 8
*Sid Caesar, American comic actor and comedian
*Annabel Maule, British actress
September 10 – Barbara Chilcott, Canadian actress
September 14 – Michel Auclair, European actor
September 15 – Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
September 16
*Guy Hamilton, English film director
*Janis Paige, American actress and singer
September 23 – Louise Latham, American actress
September 24
*Bert I. Gordon, American film director, producer, screenwriter, and visual effects artist
*Theresa Merritt, American actress
September 29 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress, singer, and model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency
October 5 – Woodrow Parfrey, American actor
October 7 – Martha Stewart, American actress
October 8 – Eileen Essell, English actress
October 9 - Fyvush Finkel, American actor and director
October 20 – John Anderson, American character actor
October 23 – Coleen Gray, American actress
October 27 – Ruby Dee, American actress
October 28 - Jack Murdock, American actor
October 31 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress, artist and children's author
November 3 - George Morrison, Irish director of documentary films
November 9 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer
November 12 – Kim Hunter, American actress
November 13
*Madeleine Sherwood, Canadian actress
*Oskar Werner, Austrian actor
November 14 – Veronica Lake, American actress
November 15 – Francesco Rosi, Italian film director and screenwriter
November 16 – Royal Dano, American actor
November 17 - Ted Beniades, American character actor
November 22 – Lynne Roberts, American actress
November 26 – Adam Williams, American actor
November 27 - Jacqueline White, American former actress
November 29 – Laurie Main, Australian actor
December 2
*Don Fellows, American actor
*Leo Gordon, American actor and screenplay writer
December 3 - Len Lesser, American character actor
December 4 – Gérard Philipe, French actor
December 9 – Redd Foxx, American stand-up comedian and actor
December 11 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor and film producer
December 21 – Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, humanitarian, and inventor
December 22 – Ruth Roman, American actress
December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress
December 26 – Alfred Dennis, American actor
December 28
*Ivan Desny, French actor
*Stan Lee, American comic-book, editor, publisher and producer

Deaths

February 1 – William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal.
February 4 – Florence Deshon, American actress
March 4 – Bert Williams, American actor and singer
May 21 – Sidney Ainsworth, actor
May 26 – Walter Jones, American actor
June 6 – Lillian Russell, stage and screen actress
June 15 – Howard Crampton, actor
July 5 – Bobby Connelly, child star
September 23 – W. Chrystie Miller, veteran stage & screen actor
November 30 – René Cresté, actor and director