# List of American films of 1964

A list of American films released in 1964.
My Fair Lady won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

## A-C and 0-9

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt | Tommy Noonan | Mamie Van Doren, Tommy Noonan | Comedy | Independent |
| 633 Squadron | Walter Grauman | Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy | War | United Artists |
| 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | George Pal | Tony Randall, Arthur O'Connell, Barbara Eden | Fantasy | MGM |
| The 7th Dawn | Lewis Gilbert | William Holden, Susannah York, Tetsurō Tamba | Adventure | United Artists |
| Advance to the Rear | George Marshall | Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas | Western | MGM |
| Apache Rifles | William Witney | Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| The Americanization of Emily | Arthur Hiller | Julie Andrews, James Garner, James Coburn, Melvyn Douglas | War | MGM |
| Back Door to Hell | Monte Hellman | Jimmie Rodgers, Jack Nicholson, Annabelle Huggins | War | 20th Century Fox |
| Batman Dracula | Andy Warhol | | Avant-garde | |
| Bedtime Story | Ralph Levy | Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones | Comedy | Universal; Remake of 1941 film |
| Behold a Pale Horse | Fred Zinnemann | Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn | Drama | Columbia |
| The Best Man | Franklin J. Schaffner | Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Lee Tracy, Edie Adams, Ann Sothern | Drama | United Artists. Written by Gore Vidal |
| Bikini Beach | William Asher | Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Don Rickles | Comedy | AIP |
| Black Like Me | Carl Lerner | James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, Roscoe Lee Browne | Drama | Independent |
| Blood on the Arrow | Sidney Salkow | Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer | Western | Allied Artists |
| The Brass Bottle | Harry Keller | Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden, Kamala Devi, Edward Andrews | Fantasy | Universal |
| Bullet for a Badman | R. G. Springsteen | Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin, Ruta Lee | Western | Universal |
| The Candidate | Robert Angus | Mamie Van Doren, June Wilkinson, Ted Knight | Comedy | Independent |
| Carol for Another Christmas | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, Britt Ekland, Robert Shaw, Ben Gazzara, Eva Marie Saint | Drama | made for television |
| The Carpetbaggers | Edward Dmytryk | George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Alan Ladd, Elizabeth Ashley, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer, Martin Balsam | Drama | Paramount; based on the novel |
| The Cavern | Edgar G. Ulmer | John Saxon, Rosanna Schiaffino, Brian Aherne, Larry Hagman | War | 20th Century Fox. Co-production. |
| Cheyenne Autumn | John Ford | Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Arthur Kennedy, Dolores del Río, Sal Mineo | Western | Warner Bros. |
| Circus World | Henry Hathaway | John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale | Drama | Paramount |
| The Comedy of Terrors | Jacques Tourneur | Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff | Horror | AIP |
| Crack in the World | Andrew Marton | Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore | Science fiction | Paramount |
| The Creeping Terror | Arthur J. Nelson | Vic Savage | Science fiction | MST3K |
| The Curse of the Living Corpse | Del Tenney | Roy Scheider, Margot Hartman | Horror | 20th Century Fox |

## D-F

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| Dark Purpose | George Marshall | Shirley Jones, George Sanders | Drama | Universal |
| Dead Ringer | Paul Henreid | Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford | Horror | Warner Bros. Davis in two roles |
| Dear Heart | Delbert Mann | Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Diary of a Bachelor | Sandy Howard | William Traylor, Joe Silver, Dagne Crane | Comedy | AIP |
| The Disorderly Orderly | Frank Tashlin | Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Glenda Farrell | Comedy | Paramount |
| A Distant Trumpet | Raoul Walsh | Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette | Western | Warner Bros. |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones | Comedy | Columbia. 4 Oscar nominations; won 4 BAFTA awards |
| Dumb Patrol | Gerry Chiniquy | Yosemite Sam | Animated | Warner Bros. |
| Emil and the Detectives | Peter Tewksbury | Walter Slezak, Roger Mobley, Heinz Schubert | Drama | Disney |
| Ensign Pulver | Joshua Logan | Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Peter Marshall, James Coco, Jack Nicholson | Comedy | Warner Bros. Sequel to Mister Roberts |
| The Eyes of Annie Jones | Reginald Le Borg | Richard Conte, Francesca Annis | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Face of the Screaming Werewolf | 3 Directors | Lon Chaney Jr. | Horror | Indy |
| Fail-Safe | Sidney Lumet | Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Frank Overton, Dan O'Herlihy, Larry Hagman | Thriller | Columbia; based on the novel; Remake of 2000 film |
| The Fall of the Roman Empire | Anthony Mann | Sophia Loren, James Mason, Stephen Boyd, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quayle, Mel Ferrer, Omar Sharif, John Ireland | Epic | Paramount; Golden Globe for Best Original Score |
| False Hare | Robert McKimson | Bugs Bunny | Animated | Warner Bros. |
| Fanny Hill | Russ Meyer | Miriam Hopkins, Letícia Román, Karin Evans | Romance | Independent |
| Fate Is the Hunter | Ralph Nelson | Glenn Ford, Rod Taylor, Nancy Kwan, Suzanne Pleshette, Constance Towers, Jane Russell | Drama | 20th Century Fox. From Ernest K. Gann book |
| Father Goose | Ralph Nelson | Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard | Romantic comedy | Universal; won Oscar for screenplay |
| Firelight | Steven Spielberg | | Short | |
| The Flesh Eaters | Jack Curtis | Martin Kosleck, Ira Lewis | Horror | Independent |
| Flight from Ashiya | Michael Anderson | Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris | War | United Artists |
| Flight to Fury | Monte Hellman | Jack Nicholson, Dewey Martin | Drama | Independent |
| Flipper's New Adventure | Leon Benson | Luke Halpin, Francesca Annis, Pamela Franklin | Family | MGM. Based on TV series |
| For Those Who Think Young | Leslie H. Martinson | Pamela Tiffin, James Darren, Bob Denver, Nancy Sinatra, Tina Louise, Ellen Burstyn | Comedy | United Artists |

## G-H

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| Get Yourself a College Girl | Sidney Miller | Mary Ann Mobley, Chad Everett, Nancy Sinatra | Comedy | MGM |
| A Global Affair | Jack Arnold | Bob Hope, Michèle Mercier, Yvonne De Carlo | Comedy | MGM |
| The Golden Head | Richard Thorpe | George Sanders, Buddy Hackett, Jess Conrad | Comedy | MGM |
| Goldfinger | Guy Hamilton | Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Frobe | Spy | United Artists |
| Good Neighbor Sam | David Swift | Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Edward G. Robinson | Comedy | Columbia |
| Goodbye Charlie | Vincente Minnelli | Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Gunfighters of Casa Grande | Roy Rowland | Alex Nicol, Jorge Mistral | Western | MGM |
| Hag in a Black Leather Jacket | John Waters | | Short film | |
| A Hard Day's Night | Richard Lester | John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr | Musical comedy | United Artists |
| He Rides Tall | R. G. Springsteen | Tony Young, Dan Duryea, Jo Morrow | Western | Universal |
| Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! | Joseph Barbera and William Hanna | Yogi Bear | Animated feature | Columbia |
| Honeymoon Hotel | Henry Levin | Robert Goulet, Robert Morse, Nancy Kwan, Jill St. John, Elsa Lanchester, Anne Helm | Comedy | MGM |
| The Horror of Party Beach | Del Tenney | John Scott, Alice Lyon | Horror | 20th Century Fox |
| A House Is Not a Home | Russell Rouse | Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, Broderick Crawford, Kaye Ballard | Drama | Embassy |
| Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Robert Aldrich | Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor, George Kennedy | Horror | 20th Century Fox; 7 Oscar nominations; Astor's final film |

## I-K

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| I'd Rather Be Rich | Jack Smight | Sandra Dee, Robert Goulet, Andy Williams | Comedy | Universal |
| The Incredible Mr. Limpet | Arthur Lubin | Don Knotts, Jack Weston, Carole Cook | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies | Ray Dennis Steckler | Ray Dennis Steckler | Horror musical | MST3K |
| Invitation to a Gunfighter | Richard Wilson | Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, George Segal | Western | United Artists |
| Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? | Chuck Jones | | Animated | MGM |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | James B. Clark | Celia Kaye, Carlos Romero | Drama | Universal |
| It's Not Just You, Murray! | Martin Scorsese | | Short | |
| The Killers | Don Siegel | Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan | Crime drama | Reagan's final film role. Universal Pictures; Remake of 1946 film |
| Kiss Me Quick! | Peter Perry | Frank Coe | Sci-fi | |
| Kiss Me, Stupid | Billy Wilder | Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Cliff Osmond, Felicia Farr | Comedy | United Artists |
| Kisses for My President | Curtis Bernhardt | Polly Bergen, Fred MacMurray | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Kissin' Cousins | Gene Nelson | Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Glenda Farrell, Jack Albertson, Yvonne Craig | Musical | MGM |
| Kitten with a Whip | Douglas Heyes | Ann-Margret, John Forsythe | Crime drama | Universal |

## L-Q

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| Lady in a Cage | Walter Grauman | Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, Jennifer Billingsley | Thriller | Paramount |
| The Last Man on Earth | Ubaldo Ragona Sidney Salkow | Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart | Science fiction | A.I.P. |
| Law of the Lawless | William F. Claxton | Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo | Western | Paramount |
| Lilith | Robert Rossen | Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda | Drama | Columbia |
| The Lively Set | Jack Arnold | James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Doug McClure | Sports | Universal |
| Looking for Love | Don Weis | Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Johnny Carson | Musical | MGM |
| Lorna | Russ Meyer | Lorna Maitland, Althea Currier | Sexploitation | Independent |
| Mail Order Bride | Burt Kennedy | Buddy Ebsen, Keir Dullea, Lois Nettleton | Western | MGM |
| Man in the Middle | Guy Hamilton | Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen | Drama | 20th Century Fox; based on Howard Fast book |
| Man's Favorite Sport? | Howard Hawks | Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy | Comedy | Universal |
| Marnie | Alfred Hitchcock | Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren, Diane Baker | Suspense | Universal |
| Mary Poppins | Robert Stevenson | Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Hermione Baddeley, Elsa Lanchester, Glynis Johns, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Ed Wynn | Musical | Disney; won 5 Oscars; based on P. L. Travers book |
| The Masque of the Red Death | Roger Corman | Vincent Price, Hazel Court | Horror | A.I.P. |
| McHale's Navy | Edward Montagne | Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Joe Flynn | Comedy | Universal; based on TV series |
| The Misadventures of Merlin Jones | Robert Stevenson | Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk | Comedy | Disney; sequel in 1965 |
| Monstrosity | Joseph V. Mascelli | Marjorie Eaton | Science fiction | MST3K |
| The Moon-Spinners | James Neilson | Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Pola Negri | Family | Disney |
| Muscle Beach Party | William Asher | Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon | Comedy | A.I.P. |
| My Fair Lady | George Cukor | Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Stanley Holloway | Musical | Warner Bros. Based on Pygmalion; won 8 Academy Awards |
| The Naked Kiss | Samuel Fuller | Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley | Neo-noir | United Artists |
| The Nasty Rabbit | James Landis | Michael Terr, Arch Hall Sr. | Spy | Fairway International Pictures |
| The New Interns | John Rich | Michael Callan, Dean Jones, Telly Savalas, Barbara Eden, Inger Stevens, George Segal | Drama | Columbia. Sequel to The Interns |
| The Night of the Iguana | John Huston | Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, Grayson Hall | Drama | MGM. Tennessee Williams play; 4 Oscar nominations |
| The Night Walker | William Castle | Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Lloyd Bochner | Thriller | Universal. Screenplay by Robert Bloch |
| Nothing But a Man | Michael Roemer | Ivan Dixon, Yaphet Kotto | Drama | Independent |
| One Potato, Two Potato | Larry Peerce | Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton | Drama | Best Actress award at Cannes for Barrie |
| The Outrage | Martin Ritt | Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Edward G. Robinson, Claire Bloom | Western | MGM. Based on Rashomon |
| Pajama Party | Don Weis | Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk | Comedy | A.I.P. |
| Paris When It Sizzles | Richard Quine | Audrey Hepburn, William Holden | Romance | Paramount |
| The Patsy | Jerry Lewis | Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris | Comedy | Paramount. Final film of Peter Lorre |
| The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters | Drama | Allied Artists. BAFTA award, Oscar nomination for Steiger |
| The Pleasure Seekers | Jean Negulesco | Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Carol Lynley | Romance | 20th Century Fox |
| Point of Order | Emile de Antonio | | Documentary | |
| Quick, Before It Melts | Delbert Mann | Robert Morse, George Maharis, Anjanette Comer | Comedy | MGM |
| The Quick Gun | Sidney Salkow | Audie Murphy Merry Anders, Ted de Corsia | Western | Columbia |
| Quick, Let's Get Married | William Dieterle | Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Barbara Eden | Comedy | Independent. Unreleased until 1971 |

## R-V

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| Racing Fever | William Grefé | Joe Morrison, Charles G. Martin, Barbara Biggart | Drama | Allied Artists |
| Raiders from Beneath the Sea | Maury Dexter | Ken Scott, Merry Anders | Adventure | 20th Century Fox |
| Rhino! | Ivan Tors | Robert Culp, Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton | Adventure | MGM |
| Ride the Wild Surf | Don Taylor | Fabian, Shelley Fabares, Tab Hunter | Romance | Columbia |
| Rio Conchos | Gordon Douglas | Stuart Whitman, Richard Boone, Tony Franciosa, Edmond O'Brien, Jim Brown | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| Robin and the 7 Hoods | Gordon Douglas | Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Barbara Rush, Peter Falk, Bing Crosby | Musical | Warner Bros. |
| Robinson Crusoe on Mars | Byron Haskin | Adam West, Victor Lundin | Science fiction | Paramount |
| Roustabout | John Rich | Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Jack Albertson, Sue Ane Langdon, Pat Buttram | Musical | Paramount |
| Santa Claus Conquers the Martians | Nicholas Webster | John Call, Pia Zadora | Science fiction | Embassy; MST3K |
| The Secret Door | Gilbert Kay | Robert Hutton, Sandra Dorne, Peter Illing | War | Allied Artists |
| The Secret Invasion | Roger Corman | Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney | War | United Artists |
| Send Me No Flowers | Norman Jewison | Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall | Comedy | Universal |
| Seven Days in May | John Frankenheimer | Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam | Drama | Paramount; script by Rod Serling; 2 Oscar nominations |
| Sex and the College Girl | Joseph Adler | Charles Grodin, Julie Sommars, Valora Noland | Comedy | Independent |
| Sex and the Single Girl | Richard Quine | Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer | Comedy | Warner Bros.; based on a book by Helen Gurley Brown |
| Shell Shock | John Hayes | Beach Dickerson, Dolores Faith | War | Independent |
| Shock Treatment | Denis Sanders | Lauren Bacall, Stuart Whitman | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Signpost to Murder | George Englund | Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman | Drama | MGM |
| A Shot in the Dark | Blake Edwards | Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders | Comedy | United Artists. Sequel to The Pink Panther |
| Sleep | Andy Warhol | John Giorno | Avant-garde | |
| Stage to Thunder Rock | William F. Claxton | Barry Sullivan, Marilyn Maxwell, John Agar | Western | Paramount |
| The Starfighters | Will Zens | Bob Dorman, Shirley Olmstead | War | Independent |
| Strait-Jacket | William Castle | Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, George Kennedy | Thriller | Columbia |
| The Strangler | Burt Topper | Victor Buono, David McLean | Thriller | Allied Artists |
| Surf Party | Maury Dexter | Patricia Morrow, Bobby Vinton | Musical | 20th Century Fox |
| Taggart | R. G. Springsteen | Tony Young, Dan Duryea, Dick Foran, Elsa Cárdenas, Jean Hale | Western | Universal |
| Teen-Age Strangler | Ben Parker | Bill Bloom, John Ensign, Jo Canterbury, John Humphreys | Science fiction | MST3K |
| Terror in the City | Allen Baron | Lee Grant, Richard Bray, Michael Higgins | Drama | Allied Artists |
| The Thin Red Line | Andrew Marton | Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, Kieron Moore | War | Allied Artists |
| The Three Lives of Thomasina | Don Chaffey | Patrick McGoohan, Karen Dotrice | Family | |
| Those Calloways | Norman Tokar | Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon deWilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn, Linda Evans | Drama | Disney |
| A Tiger Walks | Norman Tokar | Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Pamela Franklin, Edward Andrews, Frank Aletter, Jack Albertson, Sabu | Family | Disney; Sabu's final film |
| The Time Travelers | Ib Melchior | Preston Foster, Merry Anders | Science fiction | AIP |
| To Trap a Spy | Don Medford | Robert Vaughn, David McCallum | Drama | MGM; pilot of TV series |
| Topkapi | Jules Dassin | Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell | Crime | United Artists; Academy Award for Ustinov |
| The Train | John Frankenheimer | Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau | War drama | United Artists |
| Two Thousand Maniacs! | H. G. Lewis | Connie Mason | Horror | |
| Under Age | Larry Buchanan | Annabelle Weenick, Judy Adler | Drama | A.I.P. |
| The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Charles Walters | Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Jack Kruschen, Ed Begley | Musical | MGM; based on Broadway show; 6 Oscar nominations |
| The Visit | Bernhard Wicki | Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Irina Demick | Drama | Fox |
| Viva Las Vegas | George Sidney | Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, Jack Carter, William Demarest | Musical | MGM |

## W-Z

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| What a Way to Go! | J. Lee Thompson | Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Robert Cummings, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelly | Comedy | 20th Century Fox; nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| Wheel of Fire | Julio Coll | Barry Sullivan, Martha Hyer, Soledad Miranda | Horror | AIP |
| Where Love Has Gone | Edward Dmytryk | Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Joey Heatherton | Drama | MGM; based on a novel by Harold Robbins |
| Wild and Wonderful | Michael Anderson | Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann | Romance | Universal |
| The World of Henry Orient | George Roy Hill | Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Phyllis Thaxter, Tom Bosley | Comedy | United Artists; based on a novel by Nora Johnson |
| A Yank in Viet-Nam | Marshall Thompson | Marshall Thompson, Enrique Magalona | War | Allied Artists |
| Youngblood Hawke | Delmer Daves | James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Eva Gabor, Geneviève Page, Mary Astor | Drama | Warner Bros.; based on a novel by Herman Wouk |
| The Young Lovers | Samuel Goldwyn Jr. | Peter Fonda, Sharon Hugueny, Deborah Walley | Drama | MGM |
| Your Cheatin' Heart | Gene Nelson | George Hamilton, Susan Oliver, Red Buttons | Musical, biography | MGM; bio of singer Hank Williams |