# 1960 in film

The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.

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

The top ten 1960 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1960 :
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
| 1 | Spartacus | Universal | $14,000,000 |
| 2 | Psycho | Paramount | $9,100,000 |
| 3 | Exodus | United Artists | $8,500,000 |
| 4 | Swiss Family Robinson | Buena Vista | $8,100,000 |
| 5 | The Alamo | United Artists | $7,900,000 |
| 6 | The World of Suzie Wong | Paramount | $7,500,000 |
| 7 | BUtterfield 8 | MGM | $6,800,000 |
| 8 | The Apartment | United Artists | $6,700,000 |
| 9 | Ocean's 11 | Warner Bros. | $5,500,000 |
| 10 | From the Terrace | 20th Century Fox | $5,200,000 |
* ↑ After Psycho was released, Paramount transferred the film rights to Hitchcock, who later sold the distribution rights to Universal Pictures in 1962.

## Top-grossing films by country

The highest-grossing 1960 films in countries outside of North America.
| Country | Title | Director | Revenue | Admissions |
| France | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | — | 13,826,124 |
| West Germany | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | — | 13,525,000 |
| India | Mughal-e-Azam | K. Asif | $23,110,000 | 100,000,000 |
| Italy | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | — | 15,400,000 |
| Soviet Union | Far from the Motherland | Aleksei Shvachko | $2,625,000 | 42,000,000 |
| Spain | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | — | 4,653,194 |
| United Kingdom | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | — | 13,200,000 |

## Events

* March 5 – For the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood to film G.I. Blues
* June 16 – Premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's landmark film, Psycho in the United States. Controversial since release, it sets new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and is a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre.
* August 10 – Filming of West Side Story begins.
* October 6 & December 16 – Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films Spartacus and Exodus, released in the United States on these dates.
* October 27 – Film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning released, first of the British social-realist wave.
* November 4 – Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, the last film for both (though Monroe will be working on another at the time of her death).

## Awards

| Category/Organization | 18th Golden Globe Awards March 16, 1961 | 18th Golden Globe Awards March 16, 1961 | 33rd Academy Awards April 17, 1961 |
| Category/Organization | Drama | Comedy or Musical | 33rd Academy Awards April 17, 1961 |
| Best Film | Spartacus | The Apartment (Comedy) Song Without End (Musical) | The Apartment |
| Best Director | Jack Cardiff Sons and Lovers | Jack Cardiff Sons and Lovers | Billy Wilder The Apartment |
| Best Actor | Burt Lancaster Elmer Gantry | Jack Lemmon The Apartment | Burt Lancaster Elmer Gantry |
| Best Actress | Greer Garson Sunrise at Campobello | Shirley MacLaine The Apartment | Elizabeth Taylor BUtterfield 8 |
| Best Supporting Actor | Sal Mineo Exodus | Sal Mineo Exodus | Peter Ustinov Spartacus |
| Best Supporting Actress | Janet Leigh Psycho | Janet Leigh Psycho | Shirley Jones Elmer Gantry |
| Best Foreign Language Film | La Vérité The Trials of Oscar Wilde The Virgin Spring | La Vérité The Trials of Oscar Wilde The Virgin Spring | The Virgin Spring |

## 1960 film releases

United States unless stated

### January–March

* January 1960
** 5 January
*** When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Japan)
** 12 January
*** Mrs. Warren's Profession (West Germany)
** 20 January
*** The Immoral Mr. Teas
** 21 January
*** Toby Tyler
** 26 January
*** Two Way Stretch (U.K.)
** 27 January
*** Cash McCall
*** Take Aim at the Police Van (Japan)
** 28 January
*** The Lady with the Dog (U.S.S.R.)
* February 1960
** 1 February
*** Hell Bent for Leather
** 3 February
*** The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
** 4 February
*** Visit to a Small Planet
** 5 February
*** La Dolce Vita (Italy)
** 11 February
*** Once More, with Feeling!
*** Sink the Bismarck! (U.K.)
** 19 February
*** Devi (India)
*** The Last Voyage
** 24 February
*** The Bramble Bush
*** Kidnapped
** 25 February
*** The Battle of the Sexes (U.K.)
** 27 February
*** Cleopatra's Daughter
*** The Hypnotic Eye
* March 1960
** 1 March
*** Comanche Station
*** Heller in Pink Tights
** 2 March
*** Eyes Without a Face (France)
** 3 March
*** Home from the Hill
** 4 March
*** Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (U.K.)
** 5 March
*** The 3rd Voice
** 9 March
*** Can-Can
** 10 March
*** Purple Noon (France)
** 12 March
*** Seven Thieves
** 15 March
*** 5 Branded Women
*** The Angry Silence (U.K.)
** 17 March
*** Breathless (France)
** 18 March
*** The Hole (France)
** 23 March
*** The Big Risk (France)
** 31 March
*** Please Don't Eat the Daisies

### April–June

* April 1960
** 2 April
*** Twelve Hours to Kill
** 5 April
*** The League of Gentlemen (U.K.)
** 6 April
*** Tall Story
*** The Unforgiven
** 10 April
*** The Secret of the Telegian (Japan)
*** Hell Is a City
** 13 April
*** Obaltan (South Korea)
** 14 April
*** The Fugitive Kind
** 15 April
*** Who Was That Lady?
** 21 April
*** The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia)
** 24 April
*** Private Property
** 27 April
*** The Demon of Mount Oe (Japan)
* May 1960
** 16 May
*** Peeping Tom (U.K.)
** 17 May
*** The Challenge (U.K.)
** 19 May
*** Crack in the Mirror
*** Pollyanna
** 25 May
*** Faust (West Germany)
** 26 May
*** Wild River
* June 1960
** 3 June
*** Cruel Story of Youth (Japan)
** 7 June
*** Never Let Go (U.K.)
** 9 June
*** Macario (Mexico)
** 15 June
*** The Apartment
** 16 June
*** Psycho
** 17 June
*** The Story of Ruth
*** A Terrible Beauty
** 22 June
*** The Gallant Hours
*** House of Usher
** 23 June
*** Bells Are Ringing
*** The Party Is Over (Argentina)
*** Portrait in Black
** 24 June
*** Dinosaurus!
** 27 June
*** Letter Never Sent (Russia)
** 28 June
*** Murder, Inc.
** 29 June
*** L'Avventura (Italy)
*** Strangers When We Meet

### July–September

* July 1960
** 7 July
*** The Brides of Dracula
*** Elmer Gantry
*** Inherit the Wind
** 10 July
*** 13 Ghosts
*** The Rat Race
** 13 July
*** The Lost World
** 15 July
*** From the Terrace
*** Knights of the Teutonic Order (Poland)
** 20 July
*** The Bellboy
** 25 July
*** The Entertainer (U.K.)
** 30 July
*** Jigoku (Japan)
* August 1960
** 5 August
*** Last Woman on Earth
*** Mughal-e-Azam (India)
*** Parakh (India)
** 7 August
*** It Started in Naples
** 9 August
*** Make Mine Mink (U.K.)
** 10 August
*** Jungle Cat
*** Ocean's 11
** 11 August
*** Black Sunday (Italy)
*** Song Without End
** 14 August
*** Alakazam the Great (Japan)
** 17 August
*** The Enchanting Shadow (Hong Kong)
*** The Time Machine
** 20 August
*** College Confidential
* September 1960
** 6 September
*** Rocco and His Brothers (Italy/France)
** 8 September
*** Let's Make Love
** 9 September
*** September Storm
*** The City of the Dead (U.K.)
** 14 September
*** The Little Shop of Horrors
** 15 September
*** Under Ten Flags
** 16 September
*** High Time
** 19 September
*** The Bad Sleep Well (Japan)
** 28 September
*** Sunrise at Campobello
** 29 September
*** Kapo (Italy)
*** Surprise Package
** 30 September
*** Hell to Eternity

### October–December

* October 1960
** 1 October
*** Autumn Has Already Started
*** Never on Sunday (Greece/United States)
** 6 October
*** Spartacus
** 8 October
*** A False Student (Japan)
*** Everything Goes Wrong (Japan)
** 9 October
*** Night and Fog in Japan (Japan)
** 12 October
*** The Magnificent Seven
** 13 October
*** Midnight Lace
** 17 October
*** The Devil's Eye (Sweden)
** 18 October
*** The Millionairess (U.K.)
** 24 October
*** The Alamo
** 27 October
*** Everybody Go Home (Italy)
*** Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (U.K.)
** 28 October
*** Zazie in the Metro (France)
** 31 October
*** Man in the Moon (U.K.)
* November 1960
** 1 November
*** Her Brother (Japan)
*** Ten Who Dared
** 3 November
*** El Cochecito (Spain)
*** Five Cartridges (East Germany)
*** The Housemaid (South Korea)
** 4 November
*** BUtterfield 8
*** G.I. Blues
** 10 November
*** The World of Suzie Wong (U.K./U.S.)
** 13 November
*** Late Autumn (Japan)
*** North to Alaska
** 14 November
*** The Facts of Life
** 16 November
*** Fortunat (France/Italy)
** 22 November
*** Cinderfella
** 23 November
*** Go to Hell, Hoodlums!
*** The Naked Island (Japan)
** 25 November
*** Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete (Italy)
* December 1960
** 1 December
*** Cimarron
** 7 December
*** Village of the Damned (U.K.)
** 8 December
*** The Sundowners
** 9 December
*** Barsaat Ki Raat (India)
** 11 December
*** The Human Vapor
** 12 December
*** The River of Love (Egypt)
*** The Yellow Gloves (Greece)
** 14 December
*** Esther and the King (U.S./Italy)
** 16 December
*** Exodus
*** The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
** 17 December
*** Innocent Sorcerers (Poland)
** 20 December
*** Flaming Star
*** Pepe
*** Tunes of Glory (U.K.)
*** The Wackiest Ship in the Army
** 21 December
*** Swiss Family Robinson
** 23 December
*** The Grass Is Greener
** 28 December
*** Where the Boys Are
** 30 December
*** The Last Witness (West Germany)

## Notable films released in 1960

United States unless stated
* The 3rd Voice, directed by Hubert Cornfield, starring Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London
* 5 Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau
* 13 Ghosts, directed by William Castle

### A

* Adua and Friends (Adua e le compagne), starring Simone Signoret – (Italy)
* Alakazam the Great (Saiyu-ki), an anime film – (Japan)
* The Alamo, directed by and starring John Wayne, co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone
* Ali Baba Bujang Lapok – (Malaysia/Singapore)
* The Angry Silence, starring Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)
* Anuradha – (India)
* The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edie Adams
* Autumn Has Already Started (Aki tachinu), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan)
* L'Avventura (The Adventure), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni – (Italy)

### B

* Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście) – (Poland)
* Barsaat Ki Raat, starring Madhubala and Bharat Bhushan – (India)
* The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
* Because They're Young, starring Dick Clark
* Beat Girl, starring David Farrar, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Christopher Lee – (U.K.)
* The Bellboy, starring Jerry Lewis
* Bells Are Ringing, starring Dean Martin and Judy Holliday
* Beyond the Time Barrier
* The Big Risk (Classe tous risques), starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
* Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) – (Italy)
* Les Bonnes Femmes (The Girls), directed by Claude Chabrol – (France)
* The Bramble Bush, starring Richard Burton and Angie Dickinson
* Breathless (À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg – (France)
* The Brides of Dracula, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
* The Broken Pots (Kırık Çanaklar) – (Turkey)
* BUtterfield 8, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey

### C

* Can-Can, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse
* Carry On Constable, starring Sid James and Eric Barker – (U.K.)
* Cash McCall, starring James Garner and Natalie Wood
* The Challenge, a.k.a. It Takes A Thief, starring Jayne Mansfield – (U.K.)
* Cidade Ameaçada (a.k.a. Jerry the Gangster) – (Brazil)
* Cimarron, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter
* Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti
* Circus of Horrors, starring Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence – (U.K.)
* Cleopatra's Daughter, starring Debra Paget
* The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Daka Tara), directed by Ritwik Ghatak – (India)
* El Cochecito (The Little Coach), directed by Marco Ferreri – (Spain)
* College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren
* Comanche Station, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott
* Come Back, Africa, documentary film – (South Africa)
* Crack in the Mirror, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Juliette Gréco
* The Criminal, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker – (U.K.)
* Cruel Story of Youth (Seishun Zankoku Monogatari), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)

### D

* The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, starring Dorothy McGuire, Shirley Knight, Robert Preston
* Dentist in the Chair, starring Bob Monkhouse and Kenneth Connor – (U.K.)
* Desire in the Dust, starring Joan Bennett, Martha Hyer, Raymond Burr
* Devi (a.k.a. The Goddess), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
* The Devil's Eye (Djävulens öga), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson – (Sweden)
* La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg – (Italy)

### E

* Elmer Gantry, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones
* The Enchanting Shadow (Ching nu yu hun) – (Hong Kong)
* The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Laurence Olivier – (U.K.)
* Esther and the King, starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan – (U.S./Italy)
* Everybody Go Home (Tutti a casa), directed by Luigi Comencini – (Italy)
* Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, John Derek
* Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage), starring Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli – (France)

### F

* The Facts of Life, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
* A False Student (Nise daigakusei) – (Japan)
* Faust – (West Germany)
* Five Cartridges (Fünf Patronenhülsen) – (East Germany)
* Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden
* Fortunat (Fortunate), starring Bourvil and Michèle Morgan – (France/Italy)
* From the Terrace, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ina Balin, George Grizzard, Myrna Loy

### G

* G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse
* The Gallant Hours, a biopic of Admiral "Bull" Halsey starring James Cagney
* Girl of the Night, starring Anne Francis and John Kerr
* Go to Hell, Hoodlums! (Kutabare gurentai) – (Japan)
* Goliath and the Dragon
* Goliath II, a Disney animated short
* The Grass Is Greener, starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
* Guns of the Timberland, starring Alan Ladd

### H

* Hell Bent for Leather, starring Audie Murphy and Felicia Farr
* Hell Is a City, starring Stanley Baker – (U.K.)
* Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
* Hell to Eternity, starring Jeffrey Hunter and David Janssen
* Her Brother (Otôto), directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan)
* High Time, starring Bing Crosby
* Hobbi al-Wahid (My Only Love), starring Omar Sharif – (Egypt)
* The Hole (Le Trou) (a.k.a. The Night Watch), directed by Jacques Becker – (France)
* Home from the Hill, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
* House of Usher, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price
* The Housemaid (Hanyeo) – (South Korea)
* The Human Vapor (Gasu Ningen dai Ichigo), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
* The Hypnotic Eye, starring Jacques Bergerac

### I

* Il Mattatore, directed by Dino Risi – (Italy)
* I Aim at the Stars, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Curd Jürgens, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala
* Ice Palace, starring Richard Burton, Robert Ryan and Carolyn Jones
* The Iceman Cometh, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Jason Robards Jr., Myron McCormick, and Robert Redford – (made for TV)
* Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Dick York
* Inni Attahim, directed by Hassan el-Imam, starring Zubaida Tharwat, Salah Zulfikar, Emad Hamdy – (Egypt)
* Innocent Sorcerers (Niewinni czarodzieje), directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
* It Started in Naples, starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren

### J

* Jaali Note (Counterfeit Money), starring Madhubala and Dev Anand – (India)
* Jigoku (Hell) – (Japan)
* Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (The Land Where the Ganges Flows), starring Raj Kapoor – (India)

### K

* Kanoon (The Law), starring Ashok Kumar – (India)
* Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyżacy), directed by Aleksander Ford – (Poland)

### L

* The Lady with the Dog (Dama s sobachkoy) – (U.S.S.R.)
* The Last Voyage, starring Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone
* The Last Witness (Der Letzte Zeuge) – (West Germany)
* Last Woman on Earth, directed by Roger Corman
* Late Autumn (Akibiyori), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
* The League of Gentlemen, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Jack Hawkins – (U.K.)
* Let's Make Love, starring Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand
* The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman
* Linda, starring Carol White – (U.K.)
* The Lost World, starring Michael Rennie and Jill St. John
* Love and Adoration, directed by Hassan el-Imam, starring Salah Zulfikar and Taheyya Kariokka – (Egypt)
* Love in Simla, starring Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana – (India)

### M

* Macario, directed by Roberto Gavaldón – (Mexico)
* Macumba Love – (United States/Brazil)
* The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz
* Make Mine Mink, starring Terry-Thomas – (U.K.)
* Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas (a.k.a. That Joyous Eve), directed by Fons Rademakers – (Netherlands)
* Man in the Moon, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
* Manzil (Destination), starring Dev Anand – (India)
* Midnight Lace, starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy
* The Millionairess, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
* Money and Women, directed by Hassan el-Imam, starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny – (Egypt)
* The Mountain Road, starring James Stewart
* Mrs. Warren's Profession (Frau Warrens Gewerbe), starring Lilli Palmer (West Germany)
* Mughal-e-Azam (The Greatest of the Mughals), starring Madhubala and Dilip Kumar – (India)
* Murder, Inc., starring Peter Falk, Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan

### N

* The Naked Island (Hadaka no shima) – (Japan)
* Never Let Go, directed by John Guillermin, starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars and Adam Faith – (U.K.)
* Never on Sunday, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri – (Greece/United States)
* Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, starring Patrick Allen and Gwen Watford – (U.K.)
* Night and Fog in Japan (Nihon no yoru to kiri), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
* The Ninth Circle (Deveti krug) – (Yugoslavia)
* North to Alaska, starring John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Capucine, Fabian Forte

### O

* Obaltan (a.k.a. The Stray Bullet) – (South Korea)
* Ocean's 11, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson
* Once More, with Feeling!, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner
* Our Last Spring (a.k.a. Eroica), directed by Michael Cacoyannis – (Greece)

### P

* Parakh, directed by Bimal Roy – (India)
* The Party Is Over (Fin de fiesta) – (Argentina)
* Le Passage du Rhin, starring Charles Aznavour – (France/Italy/West Germany)
* Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell, starring Karl Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer – (U.K.)
* Pepe, starring Cantinflas
* Please Don't Eat the Daisies, starring Doris Day and David Niven
* Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills
* Portrait in Black, starring Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee
* The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, starring Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren
* Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, John Gavin
* The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, starring Cecil Parker and Joyce Grenfell – (U.K.)
* Purple Noon (Plein Soleil), a.k.a. Blazing Sun, directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon – (France)

### Q

* The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) – (U.S.S.R.)

### R

* The Rat Race, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Don Rickles
* The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Ray Danton and Karen Steele
* The River of Love (Nahr el hub), starring Omar Sharif – (Egypt)
* Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Alain Delon – (Italy/France)
* Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julie a tma) – (Czechoslovakia)
* The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers – (U.K.)

### S

* Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts – (U.K.)
* The Savage Innocents, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Anthony Quinn
* Scent of Mystery, starring Denholm Elliott and Elizabeth Taylor
* School for Scoundrels, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas – (U.K.)
* September Storm, starring Joanne Dru
* Sergeant Rutledge, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode
* Seven Days... Seven Nights (Moderato cantabile), starring Jeanne Moreau – (France)
* Seven Thieves, starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins
* Shoot the Pianist (Tirez sur le pianiste), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour – (France)
* Sink the Bismarck!, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
* The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (El Esqueleto de la señora Morales), starring Arturo de Córdova – (Mexico)
* Song Without End, starring Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Patricia Morison
* Sons and Lovers, directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard – (U.K.)
* Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis
* The Spider's Web, directed by Godfrey Grayson. Based on an Agatha Christie play (U.K.)
* The Story of Ruth, a Biblical drama starring Stuart Whitman and Peggy Wood
* Strangers When We Meet, starring Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs
* Struggle for Eagle Peak (Venner) – (Norway)
* The Subterraneans, starring George Peppard
* The Sundowners, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum – (US/UK/Australia)
* Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a.k.a. Season of Passion, starring Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills
* Sunrise at Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy (as Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Greer Garson
* Surprise Package, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward
* Swiss Family Robinson, starring John Mills and Dorothy McGuire

### T

* Tall Story, starring Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Ray Walston
* Tarzan the Magnificent, starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine
* A Terrible Beauty, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Mitchum and Anne Heywood
* Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau – (France)
* There Was a Crooked Man, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)
* The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse), directed by Fritz Lang – (West Germany)
* The Three Worlds of Gulliver, starring Kerwin Mathews
* The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux
* Too Hot to Handle, starring Jayne Mansfield – (U.K.)
* The Trials of Oscar Wilde, starring Peter Finch – (U.K.)
* The Truth (La Vérité), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
* Tunes of Glory, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness – (U.K.)
* Twelve Hours to Kill, starring Nico Minardos and Barbara Eden
* Two-Way Stretch, starring Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
* Two Women, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren – (Italy)

### U

* Under Ten Flags, starring Van Heflin and Charles Laughton
* The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn
* Universe – (Canada)

### V

* Vice Raid, starring Mamie Van Doren
* Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley – (U.K.)
* The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow – (Sweden)
* Visit to a Small Planet, starring Jerry Lewis

### W

* The Wackiest Ship in the Army, starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson
* Watch Your Stern, starring Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips – (U.K.)
* When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan)
* Where the Boys Are, starring George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis
* The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rößl) – (West Germany/Austria)
* Who Was That Lady?, starring Dean Martin, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
* Wild River, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Montgomery Clift
* The World of Suzie Wong, starring Nancy Kwan and William Holden – (U.K./U.S.)

### Y

* The Yellow Gloves (Ta kitrina gantia) – (Greece)
* The Young One (La Joven), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico/United States)

### Z

* Zazie dans le Métro, directed by Louis Malle – (France)

## Short film series

* Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
* Terrytoons (1930–1964)
* Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
* Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
* Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
* Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

## Births

* January 1 - Shinya Tsukamoto, Japanese filmmaker and actor
* January 4 – April Winchell, American actress, voice actress, writer, talk radio host and commentator
* January 9
** Peter Hastings, American writer, director and producer
** Terje Pennie, Estonian actress
* January 10 – Gurinder Chadha, British director
* January 12
** Wanda Cannon, Canadian actress
** Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
* January 13 – Kevin Anderson, American actor
* January 15 – Kelly Asbury, American director, writer and voice actor (died 2020)
* January 18 – Mark Rylance, English actor
* January 25 – Kerry Noonan, American actress
* February 4 – Jenette Goldstein, American actress
* February 7
** Robert Smigel, American actor, comedian, writer, director, producer and puppeteer
** James Spader, American actor
* February 8 - Suzanna Hamilton, English actress
* February 9 – David Bateson, British actor and comedian
* February 13 – Matt Salinger, American actor and producer
* February 14 – Meg Tilly, Canadian-American actress
* February 18
** Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
** Greta Scacchi, Italian-Australian actress
* February 20 – Wendee Lee, American voice actress
* February 21 – Joel McKinnon Miller, American actor
* February 22 - Brian Anthony Wilson, American actor
* February 25 – Douglas Hodge, English actor, director and musician
* February 28 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress (died 1980)
* March 11 - Simon Curtis, English director and producer
* March 12
** Jason Beghe, American actor
** Courtney B. Vance, American actor
* March 13 – Joe Ranft, American screenwriter, animator and voice actor (died 2005)
* March 17
** Arye Gross, American actor
** Vicki Lewis, American singer and actress
** Cameron Thor, American actor, filmmaker and acting coach
* March 22 – Nicole Holofcener, American film director and screenwriter
* March 25 – Brenda Strong, American actress and director
* March 26 – Jennifer Grey, American actress
* March 29
** Annabella Sciorra, American actress and producer
** Hiromi Tsuru, Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator (died 2017)
* March 31 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (died 2010)
* April 1 – Jennifer Runyon, American actress
* April 4
** Hugo Weaving, Australian actor
** Lorraine Toussaint, Trinidadian-American actress
* April 5 - Timothy V. Murphy, Irish actor
* April 7 – Elaine Miles, American actress
* April 14 – Brad Garrett, American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian and professional poker-player
* April 23
** Craig Sheffer, American actor
** Valerie Bertinelli, American actress
* April 29 - Steve Blum, American voice actor
* May 3 - Amy Steel, American actress
* May 6 - Frank Wood, American actor
* May 9 - Lisa Henson, American actress and producer actress
* May 10 - Richard Graham, English actor
* May 15 - Rob Bowman, American director
* May 16 - Rosario Fiorello, Italian actor, comedian and singer
* May 20 - Tony Goldwyn, American actor, singer, producer and director
* May 21 – Mohanlal, Indian actor
* May 24
** Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
** Doug Jones, American actor
* May 26 - Doug Hutchison, American character actor
* May 31
** Chris Elliott, American actor and comedian
** Don Harvey, American actor and voice actor
* June 2 - Pip Torrens, English actor
* June 5 - James Isaac, American director and visual effects supervisor (died 2012)
* June 8 - Gary Trousdale, American animator, director, screenwriter and storyboard artist
* June 16 - James M. Connor, American actor
* June 17 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor
* June 18 - Barbara Broccoli, American-British producer
* June 25 - Eve Gordon, American actress
* June 27 - Jeremy Swift, English actor
* July 5
** Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stuntman
** Pruitt Taylor Vince, American character actor
* July 10 – Jeff Bergman, American voice actor, comedian and impressionist
* July 11 – Jafar Panahi, Iranian director
* July 14
** Kyle Gass, American actor and musician
** Jane Lynch, American actress
* July 19 – Elizabeth Kaitan, Hungarian-American actress and model
* July 21 – Adrienne King, American actress and voice actress
* July 22 – John Leguizamo, American actor, comedian and producer
* July 23
** Jon Landau, American film producer (died 2024)
** Gabrielle Reidy, Irish actress (died 2014)
* July 30
** Richard Linklater, American director, producer and screenwriter
** Daniel McDonald, American actor (died 2007)
* August 5
** Steve Bannos, American actor
** Vivian Kubrick, American former composer and director
** John Mariano, American actor
* August 6 – Leland Orser, American actor
* August 7
** David Duchovny, American actor
** Rosana Pastor, Spanish actress
* August 10 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
* August 16 – Timothy Hutton, American actor
* August 17 – Sean Penn, American actor
* August 18 – Richard McCabe, Scottish actor
* August 19 - Paul Satterfield, American actor
* August 22 - Regina Taylor, American actress
* August 25 - Ashley Crow, American actress
* August 28 – Emma Samms, English actress
* August 29 – Viire Valdma, Estonian actress
* September 1 – Tahmineh Milani, Iranian filmmaker
* September 4 - Damon Wayans, American actor, comedian, producer and writer
* September 5 - Denis Forest, Canadian character actor (died 2002)
* September 9
** Bonnie Aarons, American actress
** Hugh Grant, English actor
* September 10
** Nancy Bernstein, American producer (died 2015)
** Colin Firth, English actor
* September 11 - Anne Ramsay, American actress
* September 12
** Robert John Burke, American actor
** Felicity Montagu, English actress
* September 13 - Greg Baldwin, American actor and voice actor
* September 14
** Melissa Leo, American actress
** Callum Keith Rennie, British-born Canadian actor
* September 16 - Danny John-Jules, British actor and singer
* September 17
** Kevin Clash, American puppeteer, director and producer
** Frédéric Pierrot, French actor
* September 21 - Mary Mara, American actress (died 2022)
* September 27
** Christopher Cousins, American actor
** Debi Derryberry, American voice actress
* October 1 - Elizabeth Dennehy, American actress
* October 5 - Daniel Baldwin, American actor, director and producer
* October 9 – Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (died 2008)
* October 12 - Hiroyuki Sanada, Japanese actor
* October 13 - Richard Sammel, German actor
* October 15 - Lobo Chan, British actor
* October 17
** Guy Henry, English actor
** Rob Marshall, American director and producer
** Grant Shaud, American actor
* October 18 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
* October 24 - BD Wong, American actor
* October 25 – Hong Sang-soo, South Korean director
* October 26 - Patrick Breen, American actor, screenwriter and director
* November 4 - Kathy Griffin, American comedian and actress
* November 5
** Tilda Swinton, English actress
** Yolanda Vázquez, Spanish actress
* November 6
** Lance Kerwin, American actor (died 2023)
** Denzil Smith, Indian actor and producer
* November 8
** Elizabeth Avellán, Venezuelan-born American producer
** Megan Cavanagh, American actress
** Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (died 2017)
* November 9 - Toni Hudson, American actress
* November 11 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
* November 13 – Neil Flynn, American actor and comedian
* November 17 - RuPaul, American drag queen, television personality, actor, singer, producer and writer
* November 18
** Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
** John Shepherd, American actor and producer
* November 20 - Amanda Wyss, American actress
* November 26 – Greg Berg, American voice actor
* November 29 – Cathy Moriarty, American actress and singer
* November 30 – Hiam Abbass, Palestinian actress and director
* December 3
** Daryl Hannah, American actress
** Julianne Moore, American actress
* December 9 – Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, American animator, writer, director, producer and voice actor
* December 10
** Kenneth Branagh, British actor and film director
** Michael Schoeffling, American actor and model
* December 22 - David Pasquesi, American actor and comedian
* December 26 – Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor
* December 27
** Maryam d'Abo, British actress
** Traci Wolfe, American actress and model
* December 28 - Chad McQueen, American actor, film producer, martial artist and race car driver (died 2024)

## Deaths

* January 1 – Margaret Sullavan, 50, American actress, The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm
* January 3 – Victor Sjöström, 80, Swedish film actor and director, The Phantom Carriage, Wild Strawberries
* January 4 – Dudley Nichols, 64, American screenwriter, Bringing Up Baby, Stagecoach
* January 21 – Matt Moore, 72, Irish-American actor, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Coquette
* January 24 – John Miljan, 67, American actor, The Plainsman, Mississippi
* February 3
** Fred Buscaglione, 38, Italian actor and singer
** Pierre Watkin, 70, American actor, Pride of the Yankees, The Hunted
* March 19 – Sonya Levien, 71, Russian screenwriter, Oklahoma!, Quo Vadis, Interrupted Melody
* April 5 – Alma Kruger, 90, American actress, His Girl Friday, Saboteur
* April 25 – Hope Emerson, 62, American actress, Caged, Adam's Rib
* May 27 – George Zucco, 74, British actor, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, My Favorite Blonde
* June 4 – Lucien Littlefield, 64, American actor, The Cat and the Canary, Dirty Work
* June 29 – Dimples Cooper, 46, Filipina actress, Ang Tatlong Hambog, Miracles of Love
* July 2 – Gene Fowler, 70, American screenwriter, What Price Hollywood?, The Call of the Wild
* July 15 – Lawrence Tibbett, 63, American singer and actor, The Rogue Song, Under Your Spell
* July 26 – Cedric Gibbons, 67, Irish production designer and art director, An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful
* July 29 – Leonora Corbett, 52, British actress, Love on Wheels, Living Dangerously
* August 10 – Frank Lloyd, 74, Scottish director, Mutiny on the Bounty, Cavalcade
* September 4 – Alfred E. Green, 71, American director, Baby Face, Top Banana
* September 5 – Aku Korhonen, 57, Finnish actor
* September 11 – Edwin Justus Mayer, 63, American screenwriter, To Be or Not to Be, A Royal Scandal
* October 11 – Richard Cromwell, 50, American actor, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Jezebel
* October 15
** Maude Eburne, 84, Canadian actress, The Border Legion, Almost Married
** Clara Kimball Young, 70, American actress, My Official Wife, Kept Husbands
* November 3 – Paul Willis, 59, American silent-film actor, The Fall of a Nation
* November 5
** Mack Sennett, 80, Canadian-American producer and director, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tango Tangles
** Ward Bond, 57, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, The Searchers, Rio Bravo
* November 14 – Walter Catlett, 71, American actor, comedian, Slightly Scandalous, Henry, the Rainmaker, Here Comes the Groom
* November 16 – Clark Gable, 59, American actor, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind
* November 19 – Phyllis Haver, 61, American actress, Chicago, Sal of Singapore
* November 20 – Betty Lawford, 48, British actress, Criminal Lawyer, The Devil Thumbs a Ride
* December 14 – Gregory Ratoff, 67, Russian actor and director, All About Eve, Intermezzo

## Film debuts

* Gila Almagor – Burning Sands
* John Astin – The Pusher
* Karen Black – The Prime Time
* Bruce Boa – Man in the Moon
* Mark Burns – Tunes of Glory
* Dyan Cannon – The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
* Peter Cellier – Sink the Bismarck!
* Richard Chamberlain – The Secret of the Purple Reef
* Patrick Cranshaw – The Amazing Transparent Man
* Bruce Dern – Wild River
* Roy Dotrice – The Criminal
* Britt Ekland – G.I. Blues
* Albert Finney – The Entertainer
* Jane Fonda – Tall Story
* Derek Francis – The Criminal
* Sheila Hancock – Light Up the Sky!
* Diane Ladd – Murder, Inc.
* Murray Melvin – The Criminal
* Sylvia Miles – Murder, Inc.
* Peter O'Toole – Kidnapped
* Marisa Paredes – Police Calling 091
* Robert Redford – Tall Story
* Isela Vega – Verano violento
* Gian Maria Volonté – Under Ten Flags
* Susannah York – Tunes of Glory