1968 in film

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The year **1968 in film** involved some significant events.

## Events

* November 1 – The MPAA's film rating system was introduced.

## Films released

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. Rosemary's Baby
4. Night of the Living Dead
5. Faces
6. Monterey Pop
7. The Color of Pomegranates
8. Planet of the Apes

## Action films released in 1968

1. Where Eagles Dare
2. Kill!
3. Danger: Diabolik
4. Dark of the Sun
5. Coogan's Bluff
6. Destroy All Monsters
7. Ice Station Zebra
8. Kill Them All and Come Back Alone
9. Ho!

## Rockumentary films released in 1968

1. Monterey Pop
2. Sympathy for the Devil

## Sports films released in 1968

* The Love Bug
* Seven Old Men and a Girl
* Paper Lion

## Short film series

* *Looney Tunes* (1930–1969)
* *Merrie Melodies* (1931–1969)
* *Speedy Gonzales* (1953–1968)
* *Daffy Duck* (1937–1968)

## Awards

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): canceled due to events of May 1968

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

*Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos* (*Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed*), directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

*Ole dole doff* (*Who Saw Him Die?*), directed by Jan Troell, Sweden
## Actor's debuts

* Gary Busey – *Wild in the Streets*
* John Cleese – *Interlude*
* Timothy Dalton – *The Lion in Winter*
* Goldie Hawn – *The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band*
* Malcolm McDowell – *if...*
* Hanna Schygulla – *The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp*
* Barbra Streisand – *Funny Girl*
* Jack Thompson – *Personnel, or People?*

## Births

* January 2 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor
* January 6 – John Singleton, director and writer
* January 14 – LL Cool J, rapper, actor
* January 29 – Edward Burns, actor and producer
* February 1 – Pauly Shore, actor
* February 12 – Josh Brolin, American actor
* February 18 – Molly Ringwald, actress
* March 2 – Daniel Craig, actor
* March 4 – Patsy Kensit, actress
* March 12 – Aaron Eckhart, actor
* March 30 – Celine Dion, singer
* April 8 – Patricia Arquette, actress
* April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, actor
* April 19 – Ashley Judd, actress
* April 24 – Stacy Haiduk, actress
* May 3 – Amy Ryan, American actress
* May 12 – Tony Hawk, actor and professional skateboarder
* May 20 – Timothy Olyphant, actor
* July 8 – Billy Crudup, actor
* July 18 – Grant Bowler, actor
* July 26 – Olivia Williams, actress
* August 11 – Sophie Okonedo, actress
* August 28 – Billy Boyd, actor
* September 9 – Julia Sawalha, actor
* September 10 – Guy Ritchie, director, writer, husband of Madonna (2000–08)
* September 15 – Danny Nucci, actor
* September 15 – Shawn Doyle, actor
* September 22 – Megan Hollingshead, voice actress
* September 25 – Will Smith, actor
* September 26 – Jim Caviezel, actor, *The Passion of the Christ*
* September 28 – Naomi Watts, actress
* October – Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Zambian director
* October 11 – Tiffany Grant, voice actress
* October 12 – Hugh Jackman, actor
* October 13 – Tisha Campbell, actress
* October 27 – Dileep, Indian actor
* November 5 – Sam Rockwell, actor
* November 6 – Kelly Rutherford, actresses
* November 18 – Owen Wilson, actor
* November 21 – Sean Schemmel, voice actor
* December 2 – Lucy Liu, actress
* December 3 – Brendan Fraser, actor
* December 7 – Greg Ayres, voice actor

## Deaths

* January 18 – John Ridgely, 58, American actor, *The Big Sleep*, *God Is My Co-Pilot*
* February 4 – Eddie Baker, 70, American actor, *Oranges and Lemons*, *Giant*
* February 7 – Nick Adams, 36, American actor, *Pillow Talk*, *Rebel Without a Cause*
* February 13 – Mae Marsh, 73, American actress, *The Birth of a Nation*, *3 Godfathers*
* February 20 – Anthony Asquith, 65, British director, *The V.I.P.s*, *The Winslow Boy*
* March 10 – Helen Walker, 47, American actress, *Impact*, *Call Northside 777*
* March 16 – June Collyer, 63, American actress, *Hangman's House*, *A Face in the Fog*
* March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, 79, Danish director, *The Passion of Joan of Arc*, *Gertrud*
* March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker
* March 30 – Bobby Driscoll, 31, American actor, *Peter Pan*, *Treasure Island*
* April 5 – Lois Andrews, 44, American actress, *Dixie Dugan*
* April 6 – Keith Pyott, 66, English actor, *Village of the Damned*
* April 16 – Fay Bainter, 74, American actress, *Woman of the Year*, *The Children's Hour*
* April 24 – Tommy Noonan, 46, American actor, *A Star is Born*, *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes*
* May 5 – Albert Dekker, 62, American actor, *The Wild Bunch*, *Kiss Me Deadly*
* May 9
	+ Albert Lewin, 73, American director, *Pandora and the Flying Dutchman*, *The Picture of Dorian Gray*
	+ Marion Lorne, 84, American actress, *The Graduate*, *Strangers on a Train*
* May 10 – Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor, *My Favorite Wife*, *The Jolson Story*
* May 21 – Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress, *The Sound of Music*, *Alice in Wonderland*
* May 25 – Charles K. Feldman, 64, American producer, *A Streetcar Named Desire*, *The Seven Year Itch*
* May 27 – Denise Legeay, 70, French actress, *Le signe de la mort*
* May 31 – Preben Uglebjerg, 37, Danish actor, *Pigen og vandpytten*
* June 4 – Dorothy Gish, 70, American actress, *The Cardinal*, *Orphans of the Storm*
* June 7 – Dan Duryea, 61, American actor, *Winchester '73*, *Scarlet Street*
* June 21 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, 72, Danish actress
* June 24 – Tony Hancock, 44, British comedian, *Call Me Genius*, *The Punch and Judy Man*
* June 29 – Hans Egede Budtz, 78, Danish actor, *Nøddebo Præstegård*
* July 1 – Virginia Weidler, 41, American actress, *The Philadelphia Story*, *The Women*
* July 12 – Antonio Pietrangeli, 49, Italian director, *It Happened in Rome*, *The Magnificent Cuckold*
* July 27 – Lilian Harvey, 62, British actress and singer, *Inglourious Basterds*, *The Three from the Filling Station*
* July 30 – Alexander Hall, 74, American director, *Here Comes Mr. Jordan*, *Little Miss Marker*
* August 23 – Hunt Stromberg, 74, American producer, *The Thin Man*, *The Great Ziegfeld*
* August 26 – Kay Francis, 63, American actress, *Charley's Aunt*, *Little Men*
* August 30 – William Talman, 53, American actor, *The Hitch-Hiker*, *Crashout*
* August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe, 60, American actor, *T-Men*, *Raw Deal*
* September 3 – Isabel Withers, 72, American actress, *Possessed*, *Lady of Burlesque*
* September 18 – Franchot Tone, 63, American actor, *The Mutiny on the Bounty*, *Advise & Consent*
* October 18 – Lee Tracy, 70, American actor, *Dinner at Eight*, *Bombshell*
* October 29 – Pert Kelton, 61, American actress, *The Music Man*, *Sing and Like It*
* October 30 – Ramon Novarro, 69, Mexican actor, *Ben-Hur*, *Mata Hari*
* November 8 – Wendell Corey, 54, American actor, *Rear Window*, *The Search*
* November 9 – Gerald Mohr, 54, American actor, *Gilda*, *The Angry Red Planet*
* November 18 – Walter Wanger, 74, American producer, *Cleopatra*, *I Want to Live!*
* November 25 – Upton Sinclair, 90, American writer and producer, *There Will Be Blood*, *The Gnome-Mobile*
* December 2 – Colin Kenny, 79, Irish actor, *The Adventures of Robin Hood*, *Captain Blood*
* December 5 – Fred Clark, 54, American actor, *White Heat*, *Auntie Mame*
* December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress, *Lifeboat*, *Stage Door Canteen*
* December 15 – Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress, *South Pacific*, *Red, Hot and Blue*

## References

1. ↑ "2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)". Box Office Mojo.
2. ↑ "Funny Girl (1968)". Box Office Mojo.
3. ↑ "The Love Bug, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
4. ↑ "The Odd Couple, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
5. ↑ "Bullitt, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
6. ↑ "Romeo and Juliet, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
7. ↑ "Box Office Information for Oliver!". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
8. ↑ "Rosemary's Baby, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
9. ↑ "Planet of the Apes, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
10. ↑ "Night of the Living Dead, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
11. ↑ "Box Office Information for Yours, Mine, and Ours". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
12. ↑ "The Lion in Winter, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
13. ↑ "The Green Berets, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
14. ↑ "Blackbeard's Ghost, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
15. ↑ "The Fox, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
16. ↑ "ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", *Variety*, 31 May 1973 pg 3
17. ↑ "The Boston Strangler, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
18. ↑ "Candy, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved March 4, 2012. Unknown parameter `|deadurl=` ignored (`|url-status=` suggested) (help)
19. ↑ "The Thomas Crown Affair, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
20. ↑ "Big Rental Films of 1968", *Variety*, 8 January 1969, pg 15.

## External links

* "Filmmaking in West Germany, 1968" (Goethe-Institut)

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