The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry.
Events
Awards
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1943 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Top Ten Money Making Stars
Films by country/region
Notable films
Films produced in the United States unless stated otherwise
A
- Above Suspicion, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray
- Action in the North Atlantic, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey
- The Adventures of Tartu, directed by Harold S. Bucquet, starring Robert Donat and Valerie Hobson â (GB)
- Air Force, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Garfield and Harry Carey
- Angels of Sin (Les Anges du péché), directed by Robert Bresson, starring Renée Faure â (France)
B
- Background to Danger, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring George Raft, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre
- Bataan, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Taylor, Thomas Mitchell and Lloyd Nolan
- The Bells Go Down, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Tommy Trinder and James Mason â (GB)
- Best Foot Forward, directed by Edward Buzzell, starring Lucille Ball and Harry James
- Bombardier, directed by Richard Wallace, starring Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott
C
- Cabin in the Sky, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Lena Horne
- Calling Dr. Death, directed by Reginald LeBorg, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
- Coney Island, directed by Walter Lang, starring Betty Grable, George Montgomery and Cesar Romero
- The Constant Nymph, directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith and Charles Coburn
- Le Corbeau (The Raven), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Pierre Fresnay â (France)
- Crash Dive, directed by Archie Mayo, starring Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter and Dana Andrews
- Cry 'Havoc', directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern and Joan Blondell
D
- The Dancing Masters, directed by Malcolm St. Clair, starring Laurel and Hardy
- Day of Wrath (Vredens dag), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer â (Denmark)
- The Demi-Paradise, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Laurence Olivier â (GB)
- Destination Tokyo, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Cary Grant and John Garfield
- Destroyer, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson
- Dixie, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour
- Du Barry Was a Lady, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly and Tommy Dorsey
E
F
- Five Graves to Cairo, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter and Erich von Stroheim
- Flesh and Fantasy, directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Cummings
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, directed by Sam Wood, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Béla Lugosi
- Der Fuehrer's Face, animated propaganda film directed by Jack Kinney for Walt Disney Productions, featuring Donald Duck
G
- The Gang's All Here, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda and Benny Goodman
- The Ghost Ship, directed by Mark Robson, starring Richard Dix
- Girl Crazy, directed by Norman Taurog and Busby Berkeley, starring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Tommy Dorsey
- Guadalcanal Diary, directed by Lewis Seiler, starring Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte and Anthony Quinn
- A Guy Named Joe, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne
H
- Hangmen Also Die!, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan
- The Hard Way, directed by Vincent Sherman, starring Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan and Joan Leslie
- Heaven Can Wait, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Gene Tierney, Don Ameche and Charles Coburn
- Hello, Frisco, Hello, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Alice Faye, John Payne and Jack Oakie
- Hit the Ice, directed by Charles Lamont, starring Abbott and Costello
- Holy Matrimony, directed by Charles Lamont, starring Monty Woolley and Gracie Fields
- The Human Comedy, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Mickey Rooney and Frank Morgan
I
J
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L
M
- The Mad Ghoul, directed by James P. Hogan, starring Turhan Bey
- Madame Curie, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
- The Man in Grey, directed by Leslie Arliss, starring Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger â (GB)
- Meshes of the Afternoon, directed by and starring Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid
- Millions Like Us, directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, starring Patricia Roc â (GB)
- Mission to Moscow, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Walter Huston and Ann Harding
- The More the Merrier, directed by George Stevens, starring Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn
- Mr. Lucky, directed by H. C. Potter, starring Cary Grant and Laraine Day
- Münchhausen, directed by Josef von Báky, starring Hans Albers â (Germany)
N
O
- Old Acquaintance, directed by Vincent Sherman, starring Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins and Gig Young
- Ossessione (Obsession), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti â (Italy)
- The Outlaw, directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell and Walter Huston
- The Ox-Bow Incident, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews
P
R
S
- Sahara, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Humphrey Bogart
- Sanshiro Sugata, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Susumu Fujita â (Japan)
- The Seventh Victim, directed by Mark Robson, starring Tom Conway
- Shadow of a Doubt, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten
- Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- Sherlock Holmes in Washington, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- The Sky's the Limit, directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie
- So Proudly We Hail!, directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake
- Son of Dracula, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
- The Song of Bernadette, directed by Henry King, starring Jennifer Jones and Charles Bickford
- Squadron Leader X (lost), directed by Lance Comfort, starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak â (GB)
- Stage Door Canteen, directed by Frank Borzage, featuring an ensemble cast
- Stormy Weather, directed by Andrew L. Stone, starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, the Nicholas Brothers and Fats Waller
T
- Tender Comrade, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Ginger Rogers and Robert Ryan
- Thank Your Lucky Stars, directed by David Butler, starring Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie and Dennis Morgan
- This is the Army, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring George Murphy, Joan Leslie and Ronald Reagan
- This Land Is Mine, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara and George Sanders
- Thousands Cheer, directed by George Sidney, starring Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly and Mary Astor
- Titanic, directed by Herbert Selpin and Werner Klingler â (Germany)
V
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Release dates
United States
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Serials
Comedy film series
Animated short film series
Births
- January 1 â Don Novello, American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer and comedian
- January 13 â Richard Moll, American actor (died 2023)
- January 14 â Holland Taylor, American actress
- January 18
- Paul Angelis, English actor and writer (died 2009)
- Paul Freeman, English actor
- January 19 - Larry Clark, American director, producer and writer
- January 24 â Sharon Tate, American actress and model (murdered 1969)
- January 25 â Tobe Hooper, American director and screenwriter (died 2017)
- January 26 - Kathryn Leigh Scott, American actress and writer
- January 28 â John Beck, American actor
- January 31 â Peter McRobbie, Scottish-born American actor
- February 1 - Linda Gaye Scott, American actress
- February 3
- Blythe Danner, American actress
- SeizÃ
 Fukumoto, Japanese actor (died 2021)
- February 5 - Michael Mann, American director, screenwriter and producer
- February 9 â Joe Pesci, American actor
- February 13 - Donald Sumpter, British actor
- February 20 â Mike Leigh, English director
- February 25 â George Harrison, English musician and songwriter (died 2001)
- February 26 â Bill Duke, American actor and director
- March 8 â Lynn Redgrave, English actress (died 2010)
- March 15 â David Cronenberg, Canadian director and screenwriter
- March 25 â Paul Michael Glaser, American actor and director
- March 26 - Giusi Merli, Italian actress
- March 28 â Conchata Ferrell, American actress (died 2020)
- March 29
- Eric Idle, English actor, comedian, author and musician
- Vangelis, Greek-born film composer (died 2022)
- March 31 â Christopher Walken, American actor
- April 3 - Jonathan Lynn, English director, producer, writer and actor
- April 5 â Max Gail, American actor
- April 8 â Jack O'Halloran, American actor
- April 10 - Tom Pollock, American producer (died 2020)
- April 20 â Edie Sedgwick, American actress, socialite, model and heiress (died 1971)
- April 26 â Leon Pownall, Welsh-Canadian actor (died 2006)
- May 5 â Michael Palin, English actor, comedian and musician
- May 7 - Donal McCann, Irish actor (died 1999)
- May 10 - David Clennon, American actor
- May 21 - Shannon Wilcox, American character actress (died 2023)
- May 25 - Leslie Uggams, American actress and singer
- May 27 â Raye Birk, American actor
- June 2
- Charles Haid, American actor and film director
- Kevork Malikyan, English-Armenian actor
- June 4 - Tom Luddy, American producer (died 2023)
- June 7 â Michael Pennington, English actor, director and writer
- June 8 - Colin Baker, English actor
- June 11 - Oleg Vidov, Russian-American actor, director and producer (died 2017)
- June 13 â Malcolm McDowell, English actor
- June 19 - Peter Belli, Danish actor and singer (died 2023)
- June 22
- Judith Barker, English actress
- Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor and director
- June 23 â Patrick Bokanowski, French director
- June 24 â George Stanford Brown, American actor and director
- June 26 - John Beasley, American actor (died 2023)
- July 3 â Kurtwood Smith, American actor
- July 7 - Robert East, Welsh actor
- July 11 - Tom Holland, American screenwriter, actor and director
- July 21
- Michael Caton, Australian actor, comedian and television host
- Edward Herrmann, American actor (died 2014)
- July 25 - Janet Margolin, American actress (died 1993)
- July 26 â Mick Jagger, English singer, songwriter, actor, filmmaker, and dancer
- July 28 â Frances Lee McCain, American actress
- July 29 - Jim Ishida, Japanese-American character actor
- August 2 - Richard Fancy, American actor and comedian
- August 6 - Ray Buktenica, American character actor
- August 15 â Barbara Bouchet, German-American actress
- August 17 â Robert De Niro, American actor
- August 18 â Martin Mull, American actor and comedian (died 2024)
- August 20 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
- August 21
- Lino Capolicchio, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (died 2022)
- Hugh Wilson, American director, writer, television showrunner and actor (died 2018)
- August 27 â Tuesday Weld, American actress
- August 28 - David Soul, American-British actor and singer (died 2024)
- August 30 - Miri Fabian, Israeli actress
- September 1 â Don Stroud, American actor and musician
- September 3 â Valerie Perrine, American actress and model
- September 5 - Jack Charles, Australian actor (died 2022)
- September 9 â Art LaFleur, American character actor and acting coach (died 2021)
- September 10 â Daniel Truhitte, American actor
- September 19 - Diana Bellamy, American character actress (died 2001)
- September 21 â Jerry Bruckheimer, American producer
- September 23 - Toni Basil, American singer, actress and director
- September 24 â Randall Duk Kim, Korean American stage, film and television actor
- September 28 â J. T. Walsh, American character actor (died 1998)
- September 30 â Ian Ogilvy, English actor, playwright and novelist
- October 4 â John Bindon, English actor and bodyguard (died 1993)
- October 5 - Jennifer Hagan, Australian actress
- October 8 â Chevy Chase, American actor and comedian
- October 9 - Peter Faber, Dutch actor
- October 12 â Lin Shaye, American actress
- October 15 â Penny Marshall, American television actress, film director and producer (died 2018)
- October 16 â Christopher Mitchum, American film actor, screenwriter, and businessman
- October 20 â George Wyner, American actor
- October 22
- Jan de Bont, Dutch cinematographer, director and producer
- Catherine Deneuve, French actress
- October 24 â Martin Campbell, New Zealand director
- October 27 - Carmen Argenziano, American actor (died 2019)
- October 29
- Christopher Cain, American director, screenwriter and producer
- Margaret Nolan, English actress (died 2020)
- Don Simpson, American producer, screenwriter and actor (died 1996)
- November 1 â John McEnery, English actor and writer (died 2019)
- November 5 â Sam Shepard, American actor (died 2017)
- November 7 â Michael Byrne, British actor
- November 10 - William Hoyland, English actor (died 2017)
- November 12
- Valerie Leon, English actress and model
- Wallace Shawn, American actor
- November 16 - Wai Ching Ho, Hong Kong actress
- November 20 â Mie Hama, Japanese former actress, television presenter, radio presenter, and author
- November 23 â Tony Bonner, Australian actor and singer
- November 28
- George T. Miller, Scottish-Australian director and producer (died 2023)
- Randy Newman, American singer, film composer
- December 2 - Henry Kingi, American stuntman and actor
- December 8 - Mary Woronov, American actress and writer
- December 12
- Gianni Russo, American actor and singer
- Phyllis Somerville, American actress (died 2020)
- December 13 â Arturo Ripstein, Mexican director
- December 16 â Patti Deutsch, American voice artist, actress and comedian (died 2017)
- December 19 - Sam Kelly, English actor (died 2014)
- December 21 â Jack Nance, American actor (died 1996)
- December 23 â Harry Shearer, American voice actor
- December 25 - David Darlow, American actor
- December 31
- Ben Kingsley, English actor
- Victor Raider-Wexler, American actor
Deaths
- January 25 â Spencer Charters, 67, American actor, The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine, The Postman Didn't Ring
- February 14 â Dora Gerson, 43, German actress, Caravan of Death, On the Brink of Paradise
- February 19 â Lynne Overman, 58, American actor, Little Miss Marker, Union Pacific, Dixie
- February 20 â Donald Haines, 23, American child actor, Skippy, A Tale of Two Cities
- March 10 â Tully Marshall, 78, American actor, Paid in Full, The Big Trail
- April 3 â Conrad Veidt, 50, German actor, Casablanca, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Thief of Baghdad, The Spy in Black
- June 1 â Leslie Howard, 50, Academy Award-nominated British actor, Gone with the Wind, Pygmalion, The Petrified Forest, Of Human Bondage
- June 30 â Carlo Wieth, 57, Danish actor
- July 16 â Arthur Byron, 71, American actor, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Gabriel Over the White House
- November 24 - Frank Sheridan, 74, American actor,
Film debuts
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