1913 was a particularly fruitful year for film as an art form, and is often cited one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1917. The year was one where filmmakers of several countries made great artistic advancements, producing notable pioneering masterpieces such as The Student of Prague (Stellan Rye), Suspense (Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber), Atlantis (August Blom), Raja Harischandra (D. G. Phalke), Juve contre Fantomas (Louis Feuillade), Quo Vadis? (Enrico Guazzoni), Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström), The Mothering Heart (D. W. Griffith), Ma lâÂÂamor mio non muore! (Mario Caserini), LâÂÂenfant de Paris (Léonce Perret) and Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Yevgenii Bauer).
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Births
- January 2 â Anna Lee, actress (died 2004)
- January 6 â Loretta Young, actress (died 2000)
- January 15
- Lloyd Bridges, actor (died 1998)
- Patricia Farr, actress (died 1948)
- January 28 - Maurice Gosfield, American stage, film, radio and television actor (died 1964)
- January 29 â Victor Mature, actor (died 1999)
- February 8 â Betty Field, actress (died 1973)
- February 10 â Douglas Slocombe, cinematographer (died 2016)
- February 25
- Jim Backus, actor (died 1989)
- Gert Fröbe, actor (died 1988)
- March 2 â Marjorie Weaver, actress (died 1994)
- March 3 - Harold J. Stone, actor died (died 2005)
- March 4 â John Garfield, actor (died 1952)
- March 15 â Macdonald Carey, actor (died 1994)
- March 18 â René Clément, director (died 1996)
- April 16 â Les Tremayne, English-American actor (died 2003)
- May 6 â Stewart Granger, actor (died 1993)
- May 8
- Sid James, actor and comedian (died 1976)
- Charles Scorsese, American actor (died 1993)
- May 10 â Maria Dominiani, actress (died 1993)
- May 18 â Mary Howard de Liagre, actress (died 2009)
- May 25 - Benjamin Melniker, American producer (died 2018)
- May 26 â Peter Cushing, actor (died 1994)
- May 27
- Willie Best, actor (died 1962)
- Linden Travers, actress (died 2001)
- July 4 â Barbara Weeks, actress (died 2003)
- July 10 â Joan Marsh, actress (died 2000)
- July 18
- Marvin Miller, American actor (died 1985)
- Red Skelton, actor, comedian (died 1997)
- July 29 â Gale Page, actress (died 1983)
- August 10 â Noah Beery Jr., actor (died 1994)
- August 11 â Paul Dupuis, actor (died 1976)
- August 13
- Rita Johnson, actress (died 1965)
- Felix Nelson, actor (died 1998)
- August 24 â Dorothy Comingore, actress (died 1971)
- September 3 â Alan Ladd, actor (died 1964)
- September 5 - Kathleen Burke, actress (died 1980
- September 6 â Julie Gibson, actress (died 2019)
- September 7 â Anthony Quayle, actor (died 1989)
- September 12 â Gerardo de Leon, Filipino director, actor, screenwriter, producer (died 1981)
- September 19 â Frances Farmer, actress (died 1970)
- September 27 - Margery Mason, British actress (died 2014)
- September 29
- Trevor Howard, British actor (died 1988)
- Stanley Kramer, producer, director (died 2001)
- September 30 â Bill Walsh, producer, writer (died 1975)
- October 7 â Evelyn Venable, actress (died 1993)
- October 10 â Janis Carter, actress (died 1994)
- October 17 â Robert Lowery, actor (died 1971)
- October 30 - Don Lusk, American animator (died 2018)
- November 2 â Burt Lancaster, American actor (died 1994)
- November 4 â Gig Young, actor (died 1978)
- November 5
- Guy Green, cinematographer (died 2005)
- Vivien Leigh, actress (died 1967)
- John McGiver, actor (died 1975)
- November 13 â Alexander Scourby, American actor (died 1985)
- November 16 - Ellen Albertini Dow, American character actress (died 2015)
- November 20 â Judy Canova, actress (died 1983)
- November 24
- Howard Duff, actor (died 1990)
- Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress (died 2005)
- December 1 â Mary Martin, actress (died 1990)
- December 25 â Tony Martin, singer, actor (died 2012)
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