# List of American films of 1963

A list of American films released in 1963.
Cleopatra - the highest-grossing film of 1963.

## A-C

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| 13 Frightened Girls | William Castle | Murray Hamilton, Joyce Taylor | Thriller | Columbia |
| 4 for Texas | Robert Aldrich | Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| 55 Days at Peking | Nicholas Ray | Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven | Drama | Allied Artists |
| Act One | Dore Schary | George Hamilton, Jason Robards, Jack Klugman, George Segal | Biography | Warner Bros. |
| All the Way Home | Alex Segal | Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle | Drama | Drama James Agee book |
| America America | Elia Kazan | Frank Wolff, Stathis Giallelis, Lou Antonio, Joanna Frank | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Atom Age Vampire | A.G. Majano | Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, Sergio Fantoni | Horror | |
| The Balcony | Joseph Strick | Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Leonard Nimoy, Ruby Dee | Drama | play by Jean Genet |
| Beach Party | William Asher | Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon | Comedy | AIP |
| The Birds | Alfred Hitchcock | Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright | Suspense | Universal |
| Black Zoo | Robert Gordon | Michael Gough, Jeanne Cooper, Rod Lauren | Horror | Allied Artists |
| Blonde Cobra | Ken Jacobs | Jack Smith | Short | |
| Blood Feast | H.G. Lewis | William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Scott H. Hall | Horror | |
| Bye Bye Birdie | George Sidney | Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Janet Leigh, Bobby Rydell, Maureen Stapleton | Musical | Columbia. Based on the play |
| Cairo | Wolf Rilla | George Sanders, Richard Johnson | Crime | MGM |
| California | Hamil Petroff | Jock Mahoney, Faith Domergue | Western | AIP; Remake of 1947 film |
| Call Me Bwana | Gordon Douglas | Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams | Comedy | United Artists |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | David Miller | Gregory Peck, Angie Dickinson, Tony Curtis, Eddie Albert, Robert Duvall, Larry Storch, Bobby Darin | Drama | Universal. 3 Oscar nominations |
| Captain Sindbad | Byron Haskin | Guy Williams, Heidi Brühl, Pedro Armendáriz | Adventure | MGM |
| The Cardinal | Otto Preminger | Tom Tryon, John Huston, Carol Lynley, Romy Schneider, Ossie Davis | Drama | Columbia. 6 Oscar nominations |
| The Caretakers | Hall Bartlett | Joan Crawford, Robert Stack, Polly Bergen | Suspense | U.A. |
| Cattle King | Tay Garnett | Robert Taylor, Joan Caulfield | Western | MGM |
| The Ceremony | Laurence Harvey | Laurence Harvey, Sarah Miles | Crime | United Artists |
| Charade | Stanley Donen | Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, Ned Glass, George Kennedy | Suspense | Universal |
| A Child Is Waiting | John Cassavetes | Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands | Drama | United Artists |
| Cleopatra | Joseph Mankiewicz | Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Carroll O'Connor, Hume Cronyn | Epic | Fox; won 4 Oscars; Remake of 1934 film |
| Come Blow Your Horn | Bud Yorkin | Frank Sinatra, Tony Bill, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John | Comedy | Paramount. Script by Neil Simon |
| Come Fly with Me | Henry Levin | Dolores Hart, Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Hugh O'Brian | Romance | MGM |
| The Comedy of Terrors | Jacques Tourneur | Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone | Horror | American International |
| The Cool World | Shirley Clarke | Yolanda Rodríguez, Antonio Fargas, Carl Lee | Drama | |
| The Courtship of Eddie's Father | Vincente Minnelli | Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Dina Merrill, Ron Howard, Jerry Van Dyke | Comedy | MGM. Inspired TV series |
| The Crawling Hand | Herbert L. Strock | Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Alan Hale Jr. | Horror | |
| Critic's Choice | Don Weis | Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell, Rip Torn | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Cry of Battle | Irving Lerner | Van Heflin, Rita Moreno | War | Allied Artists |

## D-G

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| The Day Mars Invaded Earth | Maury Dexter | Kent Taylor, Marie Windsor | Science fiction | 20th Century Fox |
| Dementia 13 | Francis Ford Coppola | William Campbell, Patrick Magee | Thriller | A.I.P. |
| Diamond Head | Guy Green | Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux | Drama | Columbia; based on Peter Gilman novel |
| Diary of a Madman | Reginald Le Borg | Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Lewis Martin | Horror | United Artists |
| Dime with a Halo | Boris Sagal | Barbara Luna, Roger Mobley | Comedy | MGM |
| Donovan's Reef | John Ford | John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Dorothy Lamour, Elizabeth Allen, Cesar Romero | Comedy | Paramount; final Ford-Wayne collaboration |
| Drums of Africa | James B. Clark | Frankie Avalon, Mariette Hartley | Adventure | MGM |
| Eat | Andy Warhol | Robert Indiana | | |
| Face in the Rain | Irvin Kershner | Rory Calhoun, Marina Berti | Drama | Embassy |
| Five Minutes to Love | John Hayes | Rue McClanahan | Drama | Headliner Productions |
| Flaming Creatures | Jack Smith | Frances Francine, Mario Montez | Experimental | |
| Flipper | James B. Clark | Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin | Family | MGM. Based on the TV series |
| Follow the Boys | Richard Thorpe | Connie Francis, Janis Paige, Paula Prentiss, Russ Tamblyn | Comedy Romance | MGM |
| For Love or Money | Michael Gordon | Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Thelma Ritter, Gig Young, Leslie Parrish, Julie Newmar | Comedy Romance | Universal |
| Free, White and 21 | Larry Buchanan | Frederick O'Neal, Annalena Lund | Drama | AIP |
| From Russia with Love | Terence Young | Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Lotte Lenya | Spy | United Artists |
| Fun in Acapulco | Richard Thorpe | Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Elsa Cárdenas, Alejandro Rey | Musical | Paramount |
| A Gathering of Eagles | Delbert Mann | Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Barry Sullivan | Drama | Universal |
| Gidget Goes to Rome | Paul Wendkos | Cindy Carol, Don Porter | Comedy | Columbia. Gidget sequel |
| The Girl Hunters | Roy Rowland | Mickey Spillane, Shirley Eaton | Mystery | from Spillane's novel |
| Goldilocks and the Three Bares | Herschell Gordon Lewis | Alison Edwards, Rex Marlow, Thomas Sweetwood, Joey Maxim | Erotic Comedy | |
| The Great Escape | John Sturges | Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, James Donald, Donald Pleasence, David McCallum | War | United Artists; based on book by Paul Brickhill |
| Gunfight at Comanche Creek | Frank McDonald | Audie Murphy, Colleen Miller | Western | Allied Artists |
| The Gun Hawk | Edward Ludwig | Rory Calhoun, Rod Cameron, Ruta Lee | Western | Allied Artists |

## H-M

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| Harbor Lights | Maury Dexter | Kent Taylor, Míriam Colón, Jeff Morrow | Action | 20th Century Fox |
| The Haunted Palace | Roger Corman | Vincent Price, Debra Paget | Horror | AIP. Paget's final film |
| The Haunting | Robert Wise | Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn | Horror | MGM. From Shirley Jackson novel |
| The Hook | George Seaton | Kirk Douglas, Nick Adams | War | MGM |
| Hootenanny Hoot | Gene Nelson | Peter Breck, Ruta Lee, Johnny Cash | Musical | MGM |
| House of the Damned | Maury Dexter | Ron Foster, Merry Anders, Richard Crane | Thriller | 20th Century Fox |
| Hud | Martin Ritt | Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde | Drama | Paramount. From Larry McMurtry novel; Oscars for Douglas, Neal |
| I Could Go On Singing | Ronald Neame | Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde | Drama | United Artists. Garland's final film |
| In the Cool of the Day | Robert Stevens | Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury | Drama | MGM |
| In the French Style | Robert Parrish | Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker, Philippe Forquet | Romance | Columbia |
| The Incredible Journey | Fletcher Markle | Émile Genest, John Drainie | Family | |
| Irma la Douce | Billy Wilder | Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine | Comedy | United Artists. 3 Oscar nominations and 1 win. |
| Island of Love | Morton DaCosta | Robert Preston, Tony Randall, Walter Matthau | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| It Happened at the World's Fair | Norman Taurog | Elvis Presley, Joan O'Brien, Gary Lockwood, Vicky Tiu, Yvonne Craig, Kam Tong, Kurt Russell | Musical | MGM |
| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Stanley Kramer | Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers | Comedy | United Artists. 6 Academy Award nominations with 1 win; top-grossing film of 1963 |
| Jason and the Argonauts | Don Chaffey | Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman | Fantasy | Columbia |
| Johnny Cool | William Asher | Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jim Backus | Crime | United Artists |
| Kings of the Sun | J. Lee Thompson | Yul Brynner, George Chakiris | Adventure | United Artists |
| Ladybug Ladybug | Frank Perry | Jane Connell, William Daniels, Nancy Marchand | Drama | United Artists |
| Lilies of the Field | Ralph Nelson | Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala | Drama | United Artists. Oscar for Poitier |
| The List of Adrian Messenger | John Huston | George C. Scott, Dana Wynter | Mystery | Universal. Many cameos |
| The Long Ships | Jack Cardiff | Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn | Adventure | Columbia |
| Love Is a Ball | David Swift | Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Telly Savalas | Comedy | United Artists |
| Love with the Proper Stranger | Robert Mulligan | Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams | Drama | Paramount. 5 Oscar nominations |
| The Man from the Diners' Club | Frank Tashlin | Danny Kaye, Martha Hyer, Telly Savalas | Comedy | Columbia |
| Maniac | Michael Carreras | Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston | Horror | |
| Mary, Mary | Mervyn LeRoy | Debbie Reynolds, Barry Nelson, Michael Rennie | Comedy | Warner Bros. From Jean Kerr play |
| McLintock! | Andrew V. McLaglen | John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Stefanie Powers, Yvonne De Carlo | Western | United Artists |
| Miracle of the White Stallions | Arthur Hiller | Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens | War drama | Disney |
| Move Over, Darling | Michael Gordon | Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen | Comedy | 20th Century Fox. My Favorite Wife remake |
| My Six Loves | Gower Champion | Debbie Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, David Janssen | Comedy | Paramount |

## N-S

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| A New Kind of Love | Melville Shavelson | Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Eva Gabor | Comedy | Paramount |
| Nine Hours to Rama | Mark Robson | Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Diane Baker | Drama | 20th Century Fox. From Stanley Wolpert book |
| The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis | Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens | Comedy | Paramount; Remade in 1996 |
| Of Love and Desire | Richard Rush | Merle Oberon, Steve Cochran | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| The Old Dark House | William Castle | Tom Poston, Joyce Grenfell, Janette Scott | Horror | Columbia; remake of 1932 film |
| One Man's Way | Denis Sanders | Don Murray, Diana Hyland, Carol Ohmart, William Windom, Veronica Cartwright, Virginia Sale | Biography | story of Norman Vincent Peale |
| Operation Bikini | Anthony Carras | Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Jim Backus, Gary Crosby | War Drama | AIP |
| PT 109 | Leslie H. Martinson | Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Robert Blake | War | Warner Bros.; story of John F. Kennedy |
| Palm Springs Weekend | Norman Taurog | Troy Donahue, Stefanie Powers, Connie Stevens | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Papa's Delicate Condition | George Marshall | Jackie Gleason, Glynis Johns, Charlie Ruggles | Comedy | Paramount. Oscar for Best Song |
| The Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale | Comedy | United Artists. First of a series |
| Police Nurse | Maury Dexter | Ken Scott, Merry Anders | Crime | 20th Century Fox |
| The Prize | Mark Robson | Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Kevin McCarthy, Diane Baker | Drama | MGM. From Irving Wallace novel |
| Promises! Promises! | King Donovan | Jayne Mansfield, Tommy Noonan | Comedy | First feature with nudity by a star actress |
| The Quick and the Dead | Robert Totten | Victor French, Majel Barrett | War | Independent |
| The Raiders | Herschel Daugherty | Brian Keith, Robert Culp | Western | Universal; Remake of 1952 film |
| Rampage | Phil Karlson | Robert Mitchum, Jack Hawkins, Elsa Martinelli | Adventure | Seven Arts |
| The Raven | Roger Corman | Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre | Horror | AIP. Edgar Allan Poe story |
| The Running Man | Carol Reed | Lawrence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates | Drama | Columbia Pictures; Remade in 1987 |
| The Sadist | James Landis | Arch Hall Jr. | Science fiction | Fairway International Pictures |
| Savage Sam | Norman Tokar | Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk | Western | Disney |
| Shock Corridor | Samuel Fuller | Peter Breck, Constance Towers | Drama | Allied Artists |
| Showdown | R. G. Springsteen | Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley | Western | Universal |
| The Skydivers | Coleman Francis | Anthony Cardoza, Jimmy Bryant | Drama | Crown International Pictures |
| The Slime People | Robert Hutton | Robert Hutton, Susan Hart | Horror | Donald J. Hansen Enterprises |
| Soldier in the Rain | Ralph Nelson | Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld | Comedy | Allied Artists. From William Goldman novel |
| Son of Flubber | Robert Stevenson | Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Tommy Kirk, William Demarest, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn, Paul Lynde, Leon Ames, Elliott Reid, Edward Andrews | Comedy | Disney. The Absent-Minded Professor sequel |
| Spencer's Mountain | Delmer Daves | Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara | Family | Warner Bros. From Earl Hamner Jr. novel |
| Stolen Hours | Daniel Petrie | Susan Hayward, Diane Baker | Drama | United Artists. Dark Victory remake |
| The Stripper | Franklin J. Schaffner | Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Summer Magic | James Neilson | Hayley Mills, Burl Ives | Musical comedy | Disney |
| Sunday in New York | Peter Tewksbury | Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor, Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp | Comedy | MGM; from Norman Krasna play |
| The Sword in the Stone | Wolfgang Reitherman | voices of Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson | Animated | Disney |

## T-Z

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| Take Her, She's Mine | Henry Koster | James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows | Comedy | Fox; based on Phoebe and Henry Ephron play |
| Tammy and the Doctor | Harry Keller | Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda | Romance | Universal. Third of series |
| Tarzan's Three Challenges | Robert Day | Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode | Adventure | MGM. Edgar Rice Burroughs character |
| Terrified | Lew Landers | Rod Lauren, Barbara Luddy | Horror | Crown International Pictures |
| The Terror | 5 directors | Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson | Horror | AIP |
| They Saved Hitler's Brain | David Bradley | Walter Stocker, Carlos Rivas | Science Fiction | |
| The Three Lives of Thomasina | Don Chaffey | Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber | Fantasy | Disney |
| The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze | Norman Maurer | The Three Stooges, Joan Freeman | Comedy | Columbia |
| The Thrill of It All | Norman Jewison | Doris Day, James Garner | Comedy | Universal. Script by Carl Reiner |
| Thunder Island | Jack Leewood | Gene Nelson, Fay Spain | Drama | 20th Century Fox. Script co-written by Jack Nicholson |
| A Ticklish Affair | George Sidney | Shirley Jones, Gig Young, Red Buttons | Comedy | MGM |
| Toys in the Attic | George Roy Hill | Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Wendy Hiller, Gene Tierney | Drama | United Artists; based on Lillian Hellman play |
| Twice-Told Tales | Sidney Salkow | Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland | Horror | United Artists |
| Twilight of Honor | Boris Sagal | Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Joey Heatherton, Joan Blackman, Claude Rains | Drama | MGM |
| The Ugly American | George Englund | Marlon Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Jocelyn Brando, | Drama | Universal |
| Under the Yum Yum Tree | David Swift | Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams | Comedy | Columbia |
| The V.I.P.s | Anthony Asquith | Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith | Drama | MGM; from Terence Rattigan play; Oscar for Rutherford |
| The Victors | Carl Foreman | George Peppard, George Hamilton, Vince Edwards, Romy Schneider | War | Columbia; from Alexander Baron story |
| Wall of Noise | Richard Wilson | Suzanne Pleshette, Dorothy Provine | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Wheeler Dealers | Arthur Hiller | James Garner, Lee Remick, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, Pat Crowley | Comedy | MGM |
| Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? | Daniel Mann | Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Carol Burnett, Richard Conte | Comedy | Paramount |
| Who's Minding the Store? | Frank Tashlin | Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Walston, Kathleen Freeman | Comedy | Paramount |
| Wives and Lovers | John Rich | Janet Leigh, Van Johnson | Romance | Paramount |
| X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes | Roger Corman | Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Don Rickles | Science Fiction | AIP; aka Man with the X-Ray Eyes |
| The Yellow Canary | Buzz Kulik | Pat Boone, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest | Crime | 20th Century Fox. Script by Rod Serling |
| The Young and the Brave | Francis D. Lyon | Rory Calhoun, William Bendix | War | MGM |
| The Young Racers | Roger Corman | Mark Damon, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee | Sports | AIP |
| The Young Swingers | Maury Dexter | Molly Bee, Rod Lauren | Musical | 20th Century Fox |