# 1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures will celebrated their 50th anniversaries.

## Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1962 :
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
| 1 | The Longest Day | 20th Century Fox | $15,250,000 |
| 2 | Lawrence of Arabia | Columbia | $15,000,000 |
| 3 | The Music Man | Warner Bros. | $8,000,000 |
| 4 | That Touch of Mink | Universal | $7,942,000 |
| 5 | Mutiny on the Bounty | MGM | $7,410,000 |
| 6 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Universal | $7,112,000 |
| 7 | Hatari! | Paramount | $7,000,000 |
| 8 | Gypsy | Warner Bros. | $6,000,000 |
| 9 | Bon Voyage! The Interns | Buena Vista Columbia | $5,000,000 |
| 10 | In Search of the Castaways | Buena Vista | $4,900,000 |

## Events

* February – Warner Bros. buy 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 (next to Godzilla), still running 60 years later (No Time to Die, 2021). It also launches the career of Sean Connery.

## Awards

Academy Awards:
    Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia – Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia
    Best Director: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
    Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
    Best Actress: Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker
    Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley – Sweet Bird of Youth
    Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker
    Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France
Golden Globe Awards:
    Drama:
    Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia
    Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
    Best Actress: Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth
    Comedy or Musical:
    Best Picture − Comedy: That Touch of Mink
    Best Picture − Musical: The Music Man
    Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni – Divorce Italian Style
    Best Actress: Rosalind Russell – Gypsy
    Other
    Best Director: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
    Best Supporting Actor: Omar Sharif – Lawrence of Arabia
    Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury – The Manchurian Candidate
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
    Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
    Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy
    My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
    A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

## 1962 film releases

All of these films are from the United States unless stated.

### January–March

* January 1962
** 1 January
*** Heaven and Earth Magic
*** Sanjuro (Japan)
** 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
** 26 January
*** The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
* February 1962
** 7 February
*** 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
*** 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 (Japan)
** 23 March
*** Satan in High Heels
*** Satan Never Sleeps
** 28 March
*** Hand of Death
*** The Manster (U.S./Japan)
*** Six Black Horses

### April–June

* April 1962
** 2 April
*** The Broken Land
** 5 April
*** Moon Pilot
** 6 April
*** Ivan's Childhood (U.S.S.R)
** 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 (Italy)
* 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 (Japan)
** 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 (Japan)
** 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 (Japan)
*** 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 – (U.K.)
** 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

United States unless stated
* The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker
* 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, and Larry Storch

### A

* Abhijan (The Expedition), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
* Advise & Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
* Alaverdoba, directed by Giorgi Shengelaia – (Georgia)
* All Fall Down, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty
* All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)
* All Souls' Day (Zaduszki) – (Poland)
* The American Beauty (La belle américaine), directed by Robert Dhéry – (France)
* The Amphibian Man (Chelovek-amfibiya) – (U.S.S.R.)
* Asli-Naqli (Real and Fake), starring Dev Anand – (India)
* Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) – (Spain)
* Attack of the Normans (I normanni), directed by Giuseppe Vari – (Italy)
* An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
* The Awful Dr. Orloff (Gritos en la noche), directed by Jesús Franco – (Spain)

### B

* Baat Ek Raat Ki (A Tale of One Night), starring Dev Anand – (India)
* Bachelor Flat, starring Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm
* Bees Saal Baad – (India)
* 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 – (Hong Kong)
* Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp – (U.K.)
* 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 – (Italy)
* Bon Voyage!, starring Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman
* The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Richard Todd – (U.K.)
* Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner
* The Brain That Wouldn't Die, starring Virginia Leith
* The Brainiac (El baron del terror), directed by Chano Urueta – (Mexico)
* The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) – (West Germany)
* 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 (released as Night Creatures in the U.S.), directed by Peter Graham Scott – (U.K.)
* Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
* Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
* Carry On Jack, starring Kenneth Williams, Bernard Cribbins and Juliet Mills – (U.K.)
* Cartouche, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale – (France/Italy)
* The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor, starring Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
* Chased by the Dogs (El less wal kilab) – (Egypt)
* Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda – (France)
* The Condemned of Altona (I sequestrati di Altona), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell – (Italy)
* 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 (Det tossede paradis), directed by Gabriel Axel and starring Dirch Passer – (Denmark)
* Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie

### D

* Damon and Pythias (Il tiranno di Siracusa), directed by Curtis Bernhardt – (U.S./Italy)
* A Date at the Tower, directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny – (Egypt)
* David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
* The Day of the Triffids, starring Howard Keel – (U.K.)
* 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 – (U.K.)
* The Devil's Agent (Im Namen des Teufels), directed by John Paddy Carstairs – (U.K./West Germany/Ireland)
* Le Doulos (The Finger Man), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
* Dr. No, first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Ursula Andress – (U.K.)
* Dungeon of Harrow, directed by Pat Boyette

### E

* The Easy Life (Il sorpasso), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (Italy)
* Eclipse (L'Eclisse), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti – (Italy/France)
* Eighteen in the Sun (Diciottenni al sole), directed by Camillo Mastrocinque – (Italy)
* Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas – (Greece)
* The Elusive Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur – (France)
* Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
* Escape from Zahrain, starring Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo and Jack Warden
* Eva (released in the U.K. as Eve), starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi – (Italy/France)
* Experiment in Terror, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin
* The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)

### F

* The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Baron Prášil), directed by Karel Zeman – (Czechoslovakia)
* Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
* The Female: Seventy Times Seven (Setenta veces siete), starring Isabel Sarli – (Argentina)
* 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 (Le Quattro giornate di Napoli) – (Italy)
* 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 (La furia di Ercole), written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini – (Italy)

### 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 – (U.K.)
* The Golden Arrow (L'arciere delle mille e una notte), directed by Antonio Margheriti – (Italy)
* Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
* The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy)
* Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
* Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice – (U.K.)
* Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood

### H

* H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K.)
* Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala – (India)
* Hand of Death, starring John Agar
* Hands of a Stranger, directed by Newt Arnold
* Harakiri (Seppuku), directed by Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan)
* 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 (Man on Pink Corner) – (Argentina)
* The Horizontal Lieutenant, starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss
* The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy)
* 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 (Gusarskaya ballada) – (U.S.S.R.)
* Hussar of the Dead (El Húsar de la Muerte), (Restored, originally released in 1925) – (Chile)

### 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 (L'Amour avec des si), directed by Claude Lelouch – (France)
* In the French Style, starring Jean Seberg
* The Inn on the River (Das Gasthaus an der Themse), directed by Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany)
* The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
* The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany)
* 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 – (Greece/United States)
* It's Only Money, directed by Frank Tashlin. starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien
* Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (U.S.S.R.)

### J

* Jack the Giant Killer, starring Kerwin Mathews
* Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
* La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker – (France)
* Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner – (U.K.)
* Journey to the Seventh Planet, directed by Sid Pink – (Denmark)
* Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner – (France)

### K

* Kanchanjangha, directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
* Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson
* A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates – (U.K.)
* King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
* Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie), directed by Roman Polanski – (Poland)

### L

* The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell – (U.K.)
* Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer – (UK/US)
* The Legend of Lobo, a Walt Disney production
* Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig – (U.K.)
* Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
* The Lion, starring William Holden and Trevor Howard
* Lisa (aka The Inspector), starring Stephen Boyd – (U.S./U.K.)
* Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
* The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay – (U.K.)
* Lonely Are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor
* Lonely Boy, a documentary about Paul Anka – (Canada)
* 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 (Koiya koi nasuna koi), directed by Tomu Uchida – (Japan)
* Love at Twenty, a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls – (International)
* Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
* Lulu, directed by Rolf Thiele, starring Nadja Tiller – (Austria)

### M

* Madison Avenue, starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker
* Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
* The Magic Sword, directed by Bert I. Gordon
* The Magnificent Concubine (Yang Kwei Fei) – (Hong Kong)
* The Main Attraction, starring Pat Boone
* Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani – (Italy)
* The Man of Gold (Az aranyember) – (Hungary)
* 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 (La marcia su Roma), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
* Merrill's Marauders, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin
* Mediterranean Holiday (Traumreise unter weissen Segeln), a documentary directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber – (West Germany)
* The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women (열녀문 – Yeolnyeomun), directed by Shin Sang-ok – (South Korea)
* The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
* Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, (on NBC-TV)
* Mix Me a Person, directed by Leslie Norman, starring Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden and Adam Faith – (U.K.)
* Mondo Cane, directed by Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti – (Italy)
* A Monkey in Winter (Un singe en hiver), directed by Henri Verneuil – (France)
* 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 (Vivre sa vie), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina – (France)

### N

* Night of the Eagle (retitled Burn, Witch, Burn! in the U.S.), starring Janet Blair
* Nine Days in One Year (9 dney odnogo goda) – (U.S.S.R.)
* The Notorious Landlady, starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire

### O

* On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)
* Only Two Can Play, starring Peter Sellers
* Operation Snatch, directed by Robert Day and starring Terry-Thomas and George Sanders – (U.K.)
* O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte – (Brazil)

### 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 – (Greece)
* The Phantom of the Opera, starring Herbert Lom – (U.K.)
* The Pigeon That Took Rome, starring Charlton Heston
* The Pirates of Blood River, directed by John Gilling – (U.K.)
* Pitfall (Otoshiana) – (Japan)
* Play It Cool, starring Billy Fury – (U.K.)
* 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 (Iran)
* Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor – (India)
* The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (Das Rätsel der Roten Orchidee), directed by Helmut Ashley – (West Germany)

### R

* Redhead (Die Rote or La rossa) – (West Germany/Italy)
* Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
* Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) – (Turkey)
* Ride the High Country (a.k.a. Guns in the Afternoon), 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 (Anni ruggenti), starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
* Rome Adventure, starring Angie Dickinson and Suzanne Pleshette
* Der rote Rausch (The Red Intoxication), starring Klaus Kinski – (Austria)

### S

* Safe at Home!, starring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris
* Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (King, Queen and Slave), starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt – (India)
* Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi – (Italy)
* Samar, directed by and starring George Montgomery
* Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
* 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 (Il dominatore dei sette mari), directed by Rudolph Maté – (Italy)
* Shaheed, starring Musarrat Nazir, Talish, Allauddin, Ejaz, Saqi (Pakistani film on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict)
* She'll Have to Go (released in the United States as Maid for Murder), directed by Robert Asher – (U.K.)
* She Knows Y'Know, directed by Montgomery Tully – (U.K.)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace/ Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes (German) 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 (La strage dei vampiri), directed by Roberto Mauri – (Italy)
* Solo for Sparrow, directed by Gordon Flemyng – (U.K.)
* Some People, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
* Something's Got to Give, starring Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin (unfinished)
* The Spiral Road, starring Rock Hudson and Gena Rowlands
* State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin
* The Suitor (Le Soupirant) – (France)
* Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), starring Hardy Krüger and Nicole Courcel – (France)
* Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
* Swordsman of Siena (La congiura dei dieci/Le mercenaire), starring Stewart Granger – (Italy/France)
* A Symposium on Popular Songs, a Disney animation

### T

* The Tale of Zatoichi (Zatōichi monogatari), directed by Kenji Misumi – (Japan)
* The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatōichi Monogatari), starring Shintaro Katsu – (Japan)
* 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 – (U.K.)
* The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany)
* That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
* Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret – (France)
* The Three Stooges In Orbit, starring the Three Stooges
* Time to Remember, directed by Charles Jarrott – (U.K.)
* To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
* Tobacco (Tyutyun) – (Bulgaria)
* Tonny, directed by Nils R. Müller and Per Gjersøe – (Norway)
* 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 – (West Germany)
* The Cursed Palace, starring Salah Zulfikar and Mariam Fakhr Eddine – (Egypt)
* The Trial (Le Procès), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau – (France/Italy/West Germany)
* The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
* Tudor – (Romania)
* The Twelve Chairs (Las doce sillas), directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – (Cuba)
* Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
* Two Half Times in Hell (Két félidő a pokolban), directed by Zoltán Fábri – (Hungary)
* Two Weeks in Another Town, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse

### U

* The Unscrupulous Ones (Os Cafajestes), directed by Ruy Guerra – (Brazil)

### V

* A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
* A View from the Bridge (Vu du Pont), directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Raf Vallone – (France/Italy)
* Violent Life (Una vita violenta), directed by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi – (Italy)
* Vive le Tour, documentary by Louis Malle – (France)

### W

* Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck
* Waltz of the Toreadors (a.k.a. The Amorous General), directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
* War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) – (France)
* We Joined the Navy, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
* 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 (Maciste all'inferno), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy)
* 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 (1930–1969)
* Terrytoons (1930–1964)
* Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
* Bugs Bunny (1940–1964)
* Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
* Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

## Births

* January 1 - Carlos Gomez, American actor
* January 4 – Michael France, American screenwriter (d. 2013)
* January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron, American actress
* January 7 – Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
* January 9 - Conrad Goode, American actor, screenwriter, screenwriter, producer and musician
* January 10 – C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor (d. 2016)
* 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
* January 19 - Kelly Coffield Park, American actress and comedian
* January 20 - Sophie Thompson, British actress
* January 21 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
* 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 (d. 1985)
* February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
* February 18 - Julie Strain, American actress and model (d. 2021)
* February 22
** Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, television personality, conservationist, actor (d. 2006)
** 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
* 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 (d. 2003)
* 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 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 (d. 2016)
* June 7 - Lance Reddick, American actor and musician (d. 2023)
* June 10
** Gina Gershon, American actress
** Tzi Ma, Hong Kong-American actor
* 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
* June 30 - Predrag Bjelac, Serbian actor
* July 1 - Andre Braugher, American actor (d. 2023)
* 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
* August 2 - Cynthia Stevenson, American actress
* August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress
* August 12 - Miss Cleo, American television personality (d. 2016)
* August 13 – John Slattery, American actor
* August 14 - Steve Reevis, Native American actor (d. 2017)
* August 15 - David Zayas, Puerto Rican actor
* August 16 – Steve Carell, American actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
* August 20
** Geoffrey Blake, American actor
** Ravil Isyanov, Russian actor (d. 2021)
* 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 - 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 (d. 2016)
* 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 (d. 2020)
* October 14 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (d. 2003)
* October 15 - Simon Kunz, English actor
* October 16 - Christian Stolte, American character actor
* October 17 - Mike Judge, American actor, animator, filmmaker and musician
* 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 7 - Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
* November 9 - Rick Batalla, American actor
* November 11
** Gerard Horan, English actor
** Demi Moore, American actress
* November 14 – 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
* 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 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
* 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
* 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

## Film debuts

* Erick Avari – Kanchenjungha
* Bernardo Bertolucci (director) – The Grim Reaper
* Peter Bowles – Live Now, Pay Later
* Jackie Chan – Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
* Julie Christie – Crooks Anonymous
* Tom Courtenay – Private Potter
* Charles Durning – The Password Is Courage
* Robert Duvall – To Kill a Mockingbird
* Samantha Eggar – Dr. Crippen
* Sally Field – Moon Pilot
* Edward Fox – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
* Paul Gleason – Panic in Year Zero!
* Sid Haig – The Firebrand
* John Hurt – The Wild and the Willing
* Ian McShane – The Wild and the Willing
* Arthur Malet – Convicts 4
* Bill McKinney – Secret File: Hollywood
* Sarah Miles – Term of Trial
* Sydney Pollack (actor) – War Hunt
* Jack Riley – Days of Wine and Roses
* W. Morgan Sheppard – Strongroom
* Tom Skerritt – War Hunt
* Terence Stamp – Term of Trial
* David Warner – We Joined the Navy
* William Windom – To Kill a Mockingbird