1964 in film

The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including three highly successful musical films, Mary Poppins, ''My Fair Lady, and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.''

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1964 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	Mary Poppins	Disney Studios Motion Pictures\|Buena Vista]	$31,000,000
2	My Fair Lady	Warner Bros.	$30,000,000
3	Goldfinger	United Artists	$22,500,000
4	The Carpetbaggers	Paramount	$15,500,000
5	From Russia With Love	United Artists	$9,200,000
6	A [Shot in the Dark (1964 film)\|A Shot in the Dark]	United Artists	$6,748,000
7	What a Way to Go!	20th Century Fox	$6,100,000
8	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	MGM	$6,040,000
9	Pink Panther (1963 film)\|The Pink Panther]	United Artists	$5,935,000
10	A Hard Day's Night	United Artists	$5,800,000

Events

January 29 – 50-year-old actor Alan Ladd is found dead in bed at his home in Palm Springs, California. An autopsy confirms the cause of death as cerebral edema caused by an acute overdose of "alcohol and three other drugs" His death is ruled accidental. Ladd's final film, The Carpetbaggers, is released in April and, despite mostly negative reviews from critics, becomes a major commercial success.
March 6 – Elvis Presley's 14th motion picture, Kissin' Cousins, is released to theaters.
March 15 - Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton.
June 3 – The animated film Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! is released. Not only it is the first theatrical feature produced by Hanna-Barbera but also the first full-length theatrical animated film based on the animated television program.
July 6 – A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premieres.
August 27 – The film Mary Poppins is released. Not only is it a massive hit with both critics and audiences, but it also becomes Disney's highest-grossing film of all time. It goes on to win five Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Julie Andrews.
October – In Photoplay magazine, Hedda Hopper announces that Sophia Loren and Paul Newman will star in the film version of Arthur Miller's play After the Fall, with Loren in the role that was written about Marilyn Monroe. The film is never made.

Awards

Academy Awards:
Golden Globe Awards:
Palme d'Or :
Golden Lion :
'''Golden Bear :'''

1964 film releases

unless stated

Notable films released in 1964

unless stated

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3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt, starring Mamie Van Doren and Tommy Noonan
7 Faces of Dr. Lao, starring Tony Randall, Barbara Eden and Arthur O'Connell, with special effects by George Pal
The 7th Dawn, starring William Holden and Susannah York
633 Squadron, starring Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris and Maria Perschy –

A

Adobe and Mirror, directed by Ebrahim Golestan, starring Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi and Pari Saberi
Advance to the Rear, directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens and Melvyn Douglas
Adventures of Zatoichi, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda –
Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens
The Alive and the Dead –
All These Women, directed by Ingmar Bergman –
The Americanization of Emily, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring James Garner and Julie Andrews
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise, directed by André Cayatte –
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc, directed by André Cayatte –
The Ape Woman, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Annie Girardot –
Assassination –
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul –
Atentát –
A [Trip to the Moon (Chronicle)|A Trip to the Moon]
Ayee Milan Ki Bela –

B

Back Door to Hell, starring Jimmie Rodgers and Jack Nicholson
Backfire, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg –
Ballad in Blue, directed by Paul Henreid and starring Ray Charles
Band of Outsiders, directed by Jean-Luc Godard –
The Bargee, starring Harry H. Corbett and Eric Sykes –
The Beauty Jungle, starring Ian Hendry –
Becket, directed by Peter Glenville, starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton –
Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando, David Niven and Shirley Jones
Before the Revolution, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci –
Behold a Pale Horse, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif
Belarmino, a Cinema Novo docufiction –
The Best Man, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, written by Gore Vidal, starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson
Bikini Beach, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer and Don Rickles
Black God, White Devil –
Black Like Me, starring James Whitmore and Roscoe Lee Browne
Black Peter, directed by Miloš Forman –
The Black Torment, directed by Robert Hartford-Davis –
Blood and Black Lace, directed by Mario Bava –
Blood on the Arrow, directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Dale Robertson and Martha Hyer
La bonne soupe, directed by Robert Thomas –
The Brass Bottle, starring Tony Randall, Burl Ives and Barbara Eden
Bullet for a Badman, starring Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin and Ruta Lee

C

A Carol for Another Christmas, starring Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland
The Carpetbaggers, starring George Peppard, Carroll Baker and Elizabeth Ashley
Carry On Cleo, starring Sid James and Amanda Barrie –
Carry On Jack, starring Kenneth Williams and Bernard Cribbins –
Carry On Spying, starring Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor –
Castle of Blood, directed by Antonio Margheriti and Sergio Corbucci –
Castle of the Living Dead, directed by Warren Kiefer –
The Chairman –
The Chalk Garden, starring Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills –
Charulata, directed by Satyajit Ray –
Cheyenne Autumn, directed by John Ford, starring Carroll Baker, Richard Widmark, Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden
Circle of Love, directed by Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda –
Circus World, starring John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth
The Comedy Man, starring Kenneth More and Cecil Parker –
The Comedy of Terrors, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone
Crooks in Cloisters, starring Ronald Fraser and Barbara Windsor –
The Curse of the Hidden Vault, directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb –
The Curse of the Living Corpse, produced, written and directed by Del Tenney
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, directed by Michael Carreras –

D

Dark Purpose, starring Shirley Jones
Dead Ringer, starring Bette Davis, Peter Lawford
Dear Heart, directed by Delbert Mann, starring Geraldine Page, Glenn Ford and Angela Lansbury
Dear John, directed by Lars-Magnus Lindgren –
Devil Doll, directed by Lindsay Shonteff –
The Devil-Ship Pirates, starring Christopher Lee and Andrew Keir
Diamonds of the Night, directed by Jan Němec –
Diary of a Bachelor, directed by Sandy Howard, starring William Traylor, Joe Silver and Dagne Crane
Diary of a Chambermaid, directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli –
The Disorderly Orderly, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Jerry Lewis and Susan Oliver
A Distant Trumpet, starring Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette and Diane McBain
Dog Eat Dog, starring Jayne Mansfield –
Dogora, directed by Ishirō Honda –
Dosti, directed by Satyen Bose –
Dr. Crippen, starring Donald Pleasence –
Dr. Sex, directed by Ted V. Mikels
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott –
Dry Summer, directed by Metin Erksan –

E

The Earth Dies Screaming, starring Willard Parker, Virginia Field and Dennis Price –
East of Sudan, starring Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms and Jenny Agutter –
Empire, directed by Andy Warhol
Ensign Pulver, a sequel to Mister Roberts, starring Robert Walker Jr. and Burl Ives
El extraño viaje, directed by Fernando Fernán Gómez –
The Evil of Frankenstein, directed by Freddie Francis –
The Evil Stairs, directed by Lee Man-hee –
The Eyes of Annie Jones, starring Richard Conte and Francesca Annis –

F

Face of the Screaming Werewolf, starring Lon Chaney –
Fail-Safe, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy and Walter Matthau
Empire (film)|The Fall of the Roman Empire], starring Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd and Alec Guinness
Fanny Hill, directed by Russ Meyer –
Fantômas, starring Jean Marais –
Fate Is the Hunter, starring Glenn Ford, Rod Taylor and Suzanne Pleshette
Father Came Too!, starring James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips and Stanley Baxter –
Father Goose, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard
Father of a Soldier, directed by Revaz Chkheidze –
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear, directed by Zbyněk Brynych –
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight, directed by Kenji Misumi –
First Men in the Moon, starring Edward Judd and Lionel Jeffries, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen –
A Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood –
The Flesh Eaters, starring Martin Kosleck
Flight from Ashiya, starring Yul Brynner and Richard Widmark
Flipper's New Adventure, starring Luke Halpin and Pamela Franklin
The Flower and the Angry Waves, directed by Seijun Suzuki –
For Men Only, directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar, starring Soad Hosny and Nadia Lutfi –
For Those Who Think Young, starring Pamela Tiffin and James Darren
Forest of the Hanged, directed by Liviu Ciulei –
Four Days in November, a documentary directed by Mel Stuart

G

Gate of Flesh, directed by Seijun Suzuki –
Gertrud, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer –
Get Yourself a College Girl, starring Mary Ann Mobley and Nancy Sinatra
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster –
The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre, starring Martin Landau, Judith Anderson and Diane Baker
Girl with Green Eyes, starring Peter Finch and Rita Tushingham –
A Global Affair, starring Bob Hope
Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery as James Bond), with Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton and Gert Fröbe –
Goodbye Charlie, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis and Pat Boone
Good Neighbor Sam, starring Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider
The Gorgon, starring Peter Cushing, Barbara Shelley and Christopher Lee –
The Gospel According to St. Matthew, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini –
Greed in the Sun, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo –
The Guns, directed by Ruy Guerra –
Guns at Batasi, starring Richard Attenborough and Jack Hawkins –
The Guns of August, a documentary directed by Nathan Kroll and narrated by Fritz Weaver

H

Hamlet, starring Richard Burton
Hamlet –
Haqeeqat –
A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester, starring the Beatles –
Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, a Hanna-Barbera feature production
Hide and Seek, starring Ian Carmichael and Curd Jürgens –
High Infidelity, starring Nino Manfredi –
Honeymoon Hotel, starring Robert Morse and Robert Goulet
The Horror of Party Beach, directed by Del Tenney
Hot Enough for June, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina –
A House Is Not a Home, starring Shelley Winters and Robert Taylor
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland

I

I Am Cuba, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov –
The Incredible Mr. Limpet, starring Don Knotts, Jack Weston and Andrew Duggan
Intentions of Murder, directed by Shōhei Imamura –
Invitation to a Gunfighter, starring Yul Brynner, George Segal, Janice Rule
It's Not Just You, Murray!, a short film directed by Martin Scorsese
Italiani brava gente, directed by Giuseppe De Santis –

J

Joseph Kilian, directed by Pavel Juráček and Jan Schmidt –
Joy House, directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon and Jane Fonda –

K

The Killers, directed by Don Siegel, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes and, in his final film, Ronald Reagan
King & Country, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde and Tom Courtenay –
Kiss Me Quick!, starring Althea Currier
Kiss Me, Stupid, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Dean Martin and Kim Novak
Kisses for My President, starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray
Kissin' Cousins, starring Elvis Presley and Yvonne Craig
Kitten with a Whip, starring Ann-Margret and John Forsythe
Kwaidan, directed by Masaki Kobayashi –

L

Lady General Hua Mu-lan –
Lady in a Cage, directed by Walter Grauman, starring Olivia de Havilland and James Caan
Lana, Queen of the Amazons, starring Catherine Schell –
The Last Gun, directed by Sergio Bergonzelli –
The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price –
The Last Steps, starring Michèle Morgan and Jean-Louis Trintignant –
Leader, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala –
The Leather Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Rita Tushingham –
Lemonade Joe, directed by Oldřich Lipský –
Let's Talk About Women, directed by Ettore Scola –
Lilith, directed by Robert Rossen, starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg
The Lively Set, starring James Darren, Pamela Tiffin and Doug McClure
London in the Raw, a documentary about London nightlife –
The Lonely Wife, directed by Satyajit Ray –
The Long Hair of Death, directed by Antonio Margheriti –
The Long Ships, starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier –
Looking for Love, starring Connie Francis
Lorna, directed by Russ Meyer
Love in 4 Dimensions, directed by Mino Guerrini –
Loving Couples, directed by Mai Zetterling –
The Luck of Ginger Coffey, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Robert Shaw

M

Madu Tiga, starring P. Ramlee –
The Magnificent Cuckold, directed by Antonio Pietrangeli –
Mail Order Bride, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Buddy Ebsen and Lois Nettleton
Male Companion, directed by Philippe de Broca –
Male Hunt, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo –
Man in the Middle, starring Robert Mitchum
Man's Favorite Sport?, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss
Marnie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery
Marriage Italian Style, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni –
A Married Woman, directed by Jean-Luc Godard –
Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke
The Masque of the Red Death, starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court and Jane Asher –
McHale's Navy, based on the television sitcom of the same name, starring Ernest Borgnine
Men and Women, directed by Walter Hugo Khouri –
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk
The Moon-Spinners, starring Hayley Mills
Mothra vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda –
Murder Ahoy!, starring Margaret Rutherford and Lionel Jeffries
Murder Most Foul, starring Margaret Rutherford and Ron Moody
My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison
My Friend Lefterakis –

N

The Naked Kiss, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Constance Towers
The New Interns, starring Dean Jones and Michael Callan
Night Must Fall, starring Albert Finney, Mona Washbourne and Susan Hampshire –
The Night of the Iguana, directed by John Huston, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon
Night Train to Paris, starring Leslie Nielsen, Aliza Gur and Dorinda Stevens –
The Night Walker, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor
Nightmare, directed by Freddie Francis –
Nobody Waved Good-bye, directed by Don Owen –
Nothing But a Man, starring Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln and Yaphet Kotto
Nothing But the Best, starring Alan Bates and Millicent Martin –

O

Of Human Bondage, starring Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey and Siobhán McKenna –
One Potato, Two Potato, starring Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton and Richard Mulligan
Onibaba, directed by Kaneto Shindo –
The Outrage, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom and Edward G. Robinson

P

Pajama Party, starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk
Pale Flower –
Panic Button, starring Jayne Mansfield and Maurice Chevalier
Paris When It Sizzles, starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn
The Patsy, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Brock Peters
The Pleasure Seekers, starring Pamela Tiffin, Carol Lynley, Brian Keith, Tony Franciosa and Ann-Margret
Point of Order!, a documentary directed by Emile de Antonio
Psyche 59, directed by Alexander Singer –
The Pumpkin Eater, starring Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch –

Q

Quick, Before It Melts, starring George Maharis, Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer and Yvonne Craig
The Quick Gun, starring Audie Murphy

R

Raiders from Beneath the Sea, starring Ken Scott and Merry Anders
Rattle of a Simple Man directed by Muriel Box, starring Diane Cilento and Harry H. Corbett –
The Ravishing Idiot, starring Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins –
Red Desert, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris –
Rhino!, starring Robert Culp
Ride the Wild Surf, starring Tab Hunter, Fabian Forte, Shelley Fabares and Barbara Eden
Ring of Spies, starring Bernard Lee –
Rio Conchos, starring Stuart Whitman, Tony Franciosa, Richard Boone and Wende Wagner
Robin and the 7 Hoods, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Bing Crosby
Robinson Crusoe on Mars, directed by Byron Haskin, starring Paul Mantee, Vic Lundin and Adam West
Room 13, directed by Harald Reinl –
Roustabout, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Stanwyck
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – TV film by Rankin/Bass Productions

S

Sallah Shabati, starring Chaim Topol –
Sangam, starring Vyjayanthimala, Raj Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar –
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, directed by Nicholas Webster
Séance on a Wet Afternoon, starring Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough –
The Secret Invasion, starring Stewart Granger and Mickey Rooney
Seduced and Abandoned, starring Stefania Sandrelli –
Send Me No Flowers, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson
Seven Days in May, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March and Ava Gardner
Seven Up!, a documentary directed by Paul Almond –
Sex and the Single Girl, starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall
Shehar Aur Sapna, directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas –
A Shot in the Dark, second Pink Panther film, directed by Blake Edwards. starring Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer –
Sleep, by Andy Warhol
Smokescreen, starring Yvonne Romain
The Soft Skin, directed by François Truffaut, starring Françoise Dorléac –
Strait-Jacket, directed by William Castle, starring Joan Crawford and Diane Baker
Swedish Wedding Night, directed by Åke Falck –
The System, starring Oliver Reed

T

T.A.M.I. Show, a concert film filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
That Man from Rio, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac –
The Thin Red Line, starring Keir Dullea and Jack Warden
This Is My Street, directed by Sidney Hayers –
The Three Lives of Thomasina, starring Patrick McGoohan and Susan Hampshire –
The Third Secret, starring Stephen Boyd and Pamela Franklin –
Those Calloways, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Norman Tokar
Three Outlaw Samurai –
La Tía Tula –
A Tiger Walks, starring Brian Keith and Vera Miles
Time of Indifference, starring Claudia Cardinale, Rod Steiger and Shelley Winters –
The Time Travelers, starring Preston Foster and Merry Anders
Tintin and the Blue Oranges, starring Jean-Pierre Talbot –
To the Moon and Beyond, a film created for the 1964 New York World's Fair
The Tomb of Ligeia, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd
Topkapi, starring Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell and Peter Ustinov
The Train, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau –
The Troops of Saint-Tropez, directed by Jean Girault –
Troubled Waters,, starring Tab Hunter –
Two Stage Sisters, directed by Xie Jin –
Two Thousand Maniacs!, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

U

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo –
The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell and Ed Begley
The Unvanquished, starring Alain Delon –

V

The Visit, directed by Bernhard Wicki –
Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret

W

Weekend at Dunkirk, directed by Henri Verneuil –
Welcome, or No Trespassing, starring Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev –
What a Way to Go!, starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke
Where Love Has Gone, starring Bette Davis and Susan Hayward
Whirlwind, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki –
White Voices, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa –
Wild and Wonderful, starring Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufmann
Wild West Story starring Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Lena Granhagen and Gerald Mohr
Witchcraft, starring Lon Chaney and Jack Hedley –
Woh Kaun Thi? –
Woman in the Dunes (film)|Woman in the Dunes], directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara –
Woman of Straw, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery –
World Without Sun, directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau –
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers, composed of five segments –
Wonderful Life, starring Cliff Richard and the Shadows –
The World of Henry Orient, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss and Angela Lansbury

Y

Yearning, directed by Mikio Naruse –
The Yellow Rolls-Royce, starring Rex Harrison and Jeanne Moreau –
[The Young Lovers (1964 film)|The Young Lovers], starring Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny
Youngblood Hawke, starring James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette and Geneviève Page
Your Cheatin' Heart, a biopic of Hank Williams, starring George Hamilton

Z

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold, directed by Kazuo Ikehiro –
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword, directed by Kazuo Ikehiro –
Zhavoronok, starring Gennadi Yukhtin –
Zindagi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar and Prithviraj Kapoor –
Zogue fe Agaza, starring Salah Zulfikar and Laila Taher –
Zorba the Greek, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates –
Zulu, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Michael Caine and Jack Hawkins –

Short film series

Births

January 1 - Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress
January 4 - David Bowe, American character actor
January 6
*Lorne Cardinal, Canadian actor
*Cara Seymour, British actress
January 7 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, producer and director
January 11 – Patrícia Pillar, Brazilian actress
January 13 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
January 14 - Mark Addy, English actor
January 15 – Craig Fairbrass, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
January 18
*Jane Horrocks, English actress
*Michael Roberds, Canadian actor
January 19 - Ty Granderson Jones, Creole American actor, screenwriter and producer
January 20 - Francesca Buller, English actress
January 21 - Eric Matheny, American actor and screenwriter
January 23 - Mariska Hargitay, American actress
January 27 – Bridget Fonda, American actress
February 1 - Linus Roache, British actor
February 5 – Laura Linney, American actress
February 10 - Francesca Neri, Italian actress
February 15 – Chris Farley, American actor
February 16 – Christopher Eccleston, English actor
February 17 - Angelica Page, American actress, director, producer and screenwriter
February 18 – Matt Dillon, American actor
February 20
*Willie Garson, American actor
*Rodney Rowland, American actor
*French Stewart, American actor
February 21 - Adrian Schiller, English actor
February 22 - James Wlcek, American actor
February 23 - Ronan Vibert, English actor
February 24 – Todd Field, American director and actor
February 25 - Lee Evans, English stand-up comedian and actor
February 26 - Mark Dacascos, American actor and martial artist
February 27 - John Pyper-Ferguson, Canadian actor
March 3 - Laura Harring, Mexican-American actress
March 6 - Yvette Wilson, American actress and comedian
March 7
*Ellen McElduff, Canadian actress
*Wanda Sykes, American actress, comedian and writer
March 8 - Bob Bergen, American voice actor
March 9 – Juliette Binoche, French actress
March 11
*Peter Berg, American director, producer, writer and actor
*Emma Chambers, English actress
*Shane Richie, English actor, comedian, television presenter and singer
March 16 - Gore Verbinski, American director, screenwriter, producer and musician
March 17 – Rob Lowe, American actor
March 23
*Hope Davis, American actress
*Chris Henchy, American director, producer and screenwriter
March 25 - LisaGay Hamilton, American actress
March 27 - Clive Rowe, British actor
March 29 - Elle Macpherson, Australian actress and model
March 30 - Ian Ziering, American actor
April 4 – David Cross, American actor and comedian
April 6 - Deborah Theaker, Canadian actress
April 7 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor
April 8 - Biz Markie, American rapper and actor
April 9 - Daniel Escobar, American actor
April 12 - Mark Camacho, Canadian actor and voice actor
April 13 - Caroline Rhea, Canadian-American actress, voice artist and stand-up comedian
April 14 - Gina McKee, English actress
April 16
*Boyd Banks, Canadian stand-up comedian and actor
*Yorick van Wageningen, Dutch actor
April 17 - Lela Rochon, American actress
April 20
* Crispin Glover, American actor
* Andy Serkis, English actor
April 22 - Chris Makepeace, Canadian former actor
April 24
*Djimon Hounsou, American actor
*Cedric the Entertainer, American actor and comedian
*Gregory Sporleder, American actor and filmmaker
April 25 – Hank Azaria, American actor, voice actor, comedian and producer
May 1 - Scott Coffey, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
May 5 - Don Payne, American writer and producer
May 6
*Dana Hill, American actress
*Lars Mikkelsen, Danish actor
May 10 - Sam Pancake, American actor, writer and comedian
May 11 - Tim Blake Nelson, American actor, writer and director
May 12
*Tiffany Helm, American actress
*Pierre Morel, French film director
May 13
*Stephen Colbert, American comedian, television host, and writer
*Sakichi Sato, Japanese actor, director and screenwriter
*Tom Verica, American actor, director and producer
May 16 - Rebecca Front, English actress, writer and comedian
May 19 - Sean Whalen, American actor and writer
May 20 - Paolo Seganti, Italian actor
May 22 - Mark Christopher Lawrence, American character actor, stand-up comedian and voice-over artist
May 25 – Ray Stevenson, Irish actor
May 26 - Lenny Kravitz, American singer, songwriter and actor
May 27 - Adam Carolla, American radio personality, comedian, actor and podcaster
May 28 - Christa Miller, American actress
June 3 - James Purefoy, English actor
June 7
*Judie Aronson, American actress
*Gia Carides, Australian actress
June 9 – Gloria Reuben, Canadian-American actress, producer, and singer
June 10
*Tony Martin, New Zealand comedian, writer and actor
*Vincent Perez, Swiss actor, director and photographer
June 12 - Paula Marshall, American actress
June 13
*Kathy Burke, English actress, comedian, writer, producer, and director
*Laura Kightlinger, American actress, comedian and writer
June 15 – Courteney Cox, American actress
June 16 - Danny Burstein, American actor and singer
June 21 – David Morrissey, English actor and filmmaker
June 22
*Hiroshi Abe, Japanese actor and model
*Amy Brenneman, American actress and producer
*Paterson Joseph, British actor
June 23 - Joss Whedon, American filmmaker and composer
June 26 - Ian Tracey, Canadian actor
June 27
*Michael Reilly Burke, American actor
*Terry Serpico, American actor
June 29 - Kathleen Wilhoite, American actress and musician
June 30
*Ivan Trojan, Czech actor
*Mark Waters, American screenwriter, director and producer
July 1 - Peter Marquardt, American actor and video game producer
July 2 - Eric Michels, American actor
July 3
*Peyton Reed, American director
*Yeardley Smith, American actress, voice actress, writer, author, comedian and painter
July 5 - Jillian Armenante, American actress
July 7 - Tracy Reiner, American actress
July 8 – Lam Suet, Hong Kong actor
July 9 – Courtney Love, American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress
July 11
*Laura Cayouette, American actress, writer, producer and director
*Greg Mottola, American director and screenwriter
July 15 - Shari Headley, American actress
July 16 – Canti Lau, Hong Kong actor
July 17 - Heather Langenkamp, American actress, writer, director and producer
July 19 - Peter Dobson, American actor
July 20 - Dean Winters, American actor
July 22
*Adam Godley, English actor
*David Spade, American actor, comedian, writer
July 26
*Sandra Bullock, American actress
*Danny Woodburn, American actor and comedian
July 28 — Lori Loughlin, American actress
July 30
*Vivica A. Fox, American actress
*Jim Wise, American actor, singer, writer and composer
August 1 - Melanie Shatner, American actress
August 2 – Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
August 4 - Sebastian Roché, French-American actor
August 6 - Lisa Boyle, American actress and model
August 7 - Tom McGrath, American voice actor, animator, screenwriter and director
August 11 - Lawrence Monoson, American retired actor
August 13 - Debi Mazar, American actress and television personality
August 14 - Andrew Kevin Walker, American screenwriter and actor
August 15 - Michael Berresse, American actor and director
August 16 – William Salyers, American actor and voice actor
August 18
*Craig Bierko, American actor
*Brian Stack, American actor, comedian and writer
August 20 – Flaminia Cinque, English actress
August 25
*Saverio Guerra, American actor
*Blair Underwood, American actor
August 27 - Robert Bogue, American actor
August 29 - Dina Spybey, American actress
August 30 - Nelson Ascencio, Cuban-American actor and comedian
August 31 - Mark Lewis Jones, Welsh actor
September 1 - Welker White, American actress
September 2 – Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor
September 5
*Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor and comedian
*Amanda Ooms, Dutch-Swedish actress and writer
September 6 - Rosie Perez, American actress
September 8 - Mitchell Whitfield, American actor
September 10 - Raymond Cruz, American actor
September 11 - Gary Lydon, British-Irish actor
September 14
*Stephen Dunham, American actor
*Faith Ford, American actress
September 16 - Molly Shannon, American actress and comedian
September 19 - Jennifer Cooke, American former actress
September 20 - Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
September 24 - Adam Alexi-Malle, Italian actor and singer
September 28 - Janeane Garofalo, American actress, voice artist, stand-up comedian and writer
September 30 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and model
October 3 – Clive Owen, English actor
October 8 - Ian Hart, English actor
October 9 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican filmmaker
October 10
*Quinton Flynn, American film, television and voice actor
*Tim Miller, American filmmaker
October 12 - Allen Covert, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
October 13 – Matt Walsh, American comedian and actor
October 14
*Adam Hollander, American actor
*David Kaye, Canadian-American voice actor
October 22 – Bill Camp, American actor
October 23 - David Sobolov, Canadian voice actor and director
October 25 – Kevin Michael Richardson, American actor and voice actor
October 30 - Mark Steven Johnson, American filmmaker
October 31 - Kirk Jones, English director and screenwriter
November 2
*Lauren Vélez, American actress
*Lorraine Vélez, American singer and actress
November 5 - Famke Janssen, Dutch actress
November 6 - Arkie Whiteley, Australian actress
November 7 - Garret T. Sato, American actor
November 11
*Calista Flockhart, American actress
*Angus Wright, American-born British actor
November 14 – Patrick Warburton, American actor and voice artist
November 16
*Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian-French actress, screenwriter and director
*Harry Lennix, American actor
November 17 - Ralph Garman, American actor, comedian, musician and radio host
November 18 - Nadia Sawalha, British actress, television personality and YouTuber
November 20 - Ned Vaughn, American actor
November 21 - Liza Tarbuck, English actress, comedian and presenter
November 23 - Boyd Kestner, American actor
November 24 - Garret Dillahunt, American actor
November 27 - Adam Shankman, American director, producer, writer, actor and choreographer
November 29 – Don Cheadle, American actor
November 30 - Richard Brake, Welsh-born American character actor
December 3 - Lisanne Falk, American former actress and producer
December 4 – Marisa Tomei, American actress
December 8
*Teri Hatcher, American actress
*John Refoua, American film editor
December 10 - Edith González, Mexican actress and dancer
December 15 - Paul Kaye, English comedian and actor
December 16 - Paul C. Vogt, American actor and comedian
December 18 - Stone Cold Steve Austin, American retired professional wrestler and actor
December 19
*Zhang Hanyu, Chinese actor
*Ben Becker, German actor
December 21 – Jack Noseworthy, American actor
December 23
*Shelley Malil, American actor
*Reg Rogers, American actor
December 24
*Fabiana Udenio, Italian-Argentine actress
*Mark Valley, American actor
December 27
*Ian Gomez, American actor
*Theresa Randle, American actress
December 29 - Michael Cudlitz, American actor
December 30
*George Newbern, American actor
*Sophie Ward, British actress
December 31 - Michael McDonald, American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter and director

Deaths

January 21 - Joseph Schildkraut, 67, Austrian actor, The [Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)|The Diary of Anne Frank], The Life of Emile Zola, Viva Villa!
January 22 – Lissy Arna, 63, German actress, Eva in Silk, The Dance Goes On
January 27 – Norman Z. McLeod, 65, American director, The Paleface, The [Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film)|The Secret Life of Walter Mitty]
January 29 – Alan Ladd, 50, American actor, Shane, The Blue Dahlia
February 19 – Edward Gargan, 62, American actor, Little Miss Broadway, Adventures of Gallant Bess
February 24 – Frank Conroy, 73, British actor, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Naked City
February 27 – Orry-Kelly, 66, Australian costume designer, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon
February 29 – Frank Albertson, 55, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Psycho
March 1 – Dennis Moore, 56, American actor, The Lone Rider and the Bandit, Overland Stagecoach
March 4 – Edwin August, 80, American actor, director and screenwriter
March 10 – Arthur Hohl, 74, American actor, Cleopatra, Private Detective 62
March 23 – Peter Lorre, 59, Hungarian actor, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon
March 24 – Kitty McShane, 66, Irish actress, Old Mother Riley
April 18 – Ben Hecht, 70, American playwright and screenwriter, Notorious, His Girl Friday
April 29 – J. M. Kerrigan, 79, Irish actor
May 10 – Carol Haney, 39, American dancer, actress, The Pajama Game, Invitation to the Dance
May 13 – Diana Wynyard, 58, British actress, Cavalcade, Gaslight
June 20 - Edgar Barrier, 57, American actor, Phantom on the Opera, Macbeth
June 27 – Mona Barrie, 54, British actress, Mystery Woman, Ladies Love Danger
July 15 – Myles Connolly, 66, American screenwriter, State of the Union, Hans Christian Andersen
July 26 – William A. Seiter, 73, American film director, The Beautiful and Damned, Sons of the Desert, Roberta
August 5 – Charles Quigley, 58, American actor, The Shadow, The Game That Kills
August 6
*Cedric Hardwicke, 71, British actor, Rope, Suspicion
*Reed Howes, 64, American model and actor, The Dawn Rider, Paradise Canyon
August 12 – Ian Fleming, 56, British author of James Bond novels, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
August 27 – Gracie Allen, 69, American comedy actress, A Damsel in Distress, The Big Broadcast of 1936
September 23 – Fred M. Wilcox, 56, American director, Forbidden Planet, Lassie Come Home
September 28
*Harpo Marx, 75, American comedy actor, Duck Soup, A [Night at the Opera (film)|A Night at the Opera]
*Nacio Herb Brown, 68, American songwriter and composer, The Broadway Melody, Glorifying the American Girl
October 10 – Eddie Cantor, 72, American actor, singer, comedian, Whoopee!, Kid Millions
October 15 – Cole Porter, 73, American composer and songwriter, Night and Day, High Society
October 19 – Russ Brown, American actor, Damn Yankees, Anatomy of a Murder
October 22 – Whip Wilson, 53, American actor, Night Raiders
October 23 – Jo Swerling, 71, American screenwriter, It's a Wonderful Life, Guys and Dolls
October 27 – Rudolph Maté, 66, Hungarian cinematographer and director, D.O.A., When Worlds Collide
November 10 – Sam Newfield, 64, American director, The Terror of Tiny Town, I Accuse My Parents
November 22 – George Tomasini, 55, American film editor, Psycho, Rear Window
December 11 – Percy Kilbride, 76, American actor, The Southerner, State Fair
December 14 – William Bendix, 58, American actor, Lifeboat, Detective Story
December 31 – Gertrude Michael, 53, American actress, Murder at the Vanities, ''Women in Bondage''

Film debuts

Jenny Agutter – East of Sudan
Elizabeth Ashley – The Carpetbaggers
René Auberjonois – Lilith
Erika Blanc – Il disco volante
Stanley Brock – Black Like Me
Jim Brown – Rio Conchos
Ellen Burstyn – For Those Who Think Young
David Carradine – Taggart
Jean-Pierre Castaldi – Angélique, Marquise des Anges
Cheng Pei-pei – The Last Woman of Shang
Matt Clark – Black Like Me
Tim Conway – McHale's Navy
Kitty Courbois – Spuit Elf
Maria Cumani Quasimodo – Shivers in Summer
Dom DeLuise – Diary of a Bachelor
Judi Dench – The Third Secret
Paul Dooley – The Parisienne and the Prudes
Olympia Dukakis – Lilith
Sanjay Dutt – Yaadein
Morgan Freeman – The Pawnbroker
Brenda Fricker – Of Human Bondage
George Furth – The Best Man
Elliott Gould – Quick, Let's Get Married
Clu Gulager – The Killers
Moses Gunn – Nothing But a Man
Julius Harris – Nothing But a Man
James Earl Jones – Dr. Strangelove
Lee Majors – Strait-Jacket
Margaret Nolan – Saturday Night Out
Charlotte Rampling – A Hard Day's Night
Roy Scheider – The Curse of the Living Corpse
Raquel Welch – ''A House Is Not a Home''