1944 in film

N

• The Nail (El clavo) – (Spain)
• National Velvet, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney
• None but the Lonely Heart, starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore
• None Shall Escape, starring Alexander Knox

O

• On Approval, starring Clive Brook and Googie Withers – (GB)
• Once Upon a Time, starring Cary Grant, Ted Donaldson, Janet Blair
• Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, starring Gail Russell and Diana Lynn

P

• Pardon My Rhythm, starring Gloria Jean
• Passage to Marseille, starring Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
• The Pearl of Death, a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as Watson; co-starring Rondo Hatton and Evelyn Ankers
• Phantom Lady, starring Franchot Tone and Ella Raines
• Pin Up Girl, starring Betty Grable
• Port of Freedom (Große Freiheit Nr. 7) – (Germany)
• Possession (Besættelse) – (Denmark)
• The Princess and the Pirate, starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo
• The Purple Heart, starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte and Farley Granger

R

• Rainbow (Raduga) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Rationing, starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main
• The Rats of Tobruk (aka The Fighting Rats of Tobruk), starring Peter Finch and Chips Rafferty – (Australia)
• The Respectable Ladies of Pardubice (Počestné paní pardubické), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)

S

• The Scarlet Claw, a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as Watson
• The Seventh Cross, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Spencer Tracy
• Sherlock Holmes and The Spider Woman, a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson; co-starring Gale Sondergaard
• Since You Went Away, starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple
• Something for the Boys starring Carmen Miranda, Michael O'Shea and Vivian Blaine
• Song of Russia, starring Robert Taylor
• The Soul of a Monster, starring George Macready
• Storm Over Lisbon, starring Vera Ralston
• The Story of Dr. Wassell, starring Gary Cooper
• Sunday Dinner for a Soldier, starring Anne Baxter and John Hodiak
• The Suspect, starring Charles Laughton

T

• Tall in the Saddle, starring John Wayne
• Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson
• This Happy Breed, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills and Celia Johnson – (GB)
• The Three Caballeros, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Dora Luz (released in South America in 1944, but was released in 1945 in the U.S.)
• Time Flies, starring Tommy Handley (GB)
• To Have And Have Not, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
• Torment (Hets), directed by Alf Sjoberg – (Sweden)
• The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (La Torre de los Siete Jorobados) – (Spain)
• Tunisian Victory, directed by Frank Capra, Hugh Stewart and John Huston – (US/GB)
• Two Thousand Women, starring Flora Robson and Phyllis Calvert – (GB)

U

• The Uninvited, starring Ray Milland
• Up in Arms, starring Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore

W

• The Way Ahead (Immortal Battalion), directed by Carol Reed, starring David Niven and Stanley Holloway – (GB)
• Weird Woman, starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Anne Gwynne
• When Strangers Marry, starring Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum
• The White Cliffs of Dover, starring Irene Dunne
• Wilson, a biopic of President Woodrow Wilson, starring Alexander Knox and Charles Coburn
• Wing and a Prayer, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Dana Andrews and Don Ameche
• The Woman in the Window, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett

Y

• The Yellow Rose of Texas, starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

1944 film releases

January–March

• January 1944
• 7 January
• Standing Room Only
• 11 January
• Career Girl
• 14 January
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• 28 January
• Lifeboat
• Phantom Lady
• February 1944
• 3 February
• None Shall Escape
• The Fighting Sullivans
• 5 February
• Captain America
• 10 February
• Lady in the Dark
• 11 February
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• 22 February
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-issue)
• March 1944
• 2 March
• The Curse of the Cat People
• 16 March
• A Guy Named Joe
• 17 March
• Knickerbocker Holiday
• 22 March
• Cover Girl
• 23 March
• The Heavenly Body

April–June

• April 1944
• 9 April
• Rosie the Riveter (film)
• 17 April
• The Lady and the Monster
• 25 April
• Pin Up Girl
• And the Angels Sing
• 26 April
• The Hitler Gang
• The Story of Dr. Wassell
• May 1944
• 5 May
• Follow the Boys
• 8 May
• Time Flies – (Great Britain)
• 11 May
• The White Cliffs of Dover
• 13 May
• Cowboy and the Senorita
• 27 May
• The Tiger Woman
• June 1944
• 1 June
• Address Unknown
• 8 June
• Days of Glory
• 27 June
• Bathing Beauty

July–September

• July 1944
• 2 July
• The Hairy Ape
• 6 July
• Double Indemnity
• 7 July
• The Mummy's Ghost
• 8 July
• Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More
• 12 July
• The Invisible Man's Revenge
• 14 July
• Summer Storm
• 20 July
• Since You Went Away
• 22 July
• The Adventures of Mark Twain
• 24 July
• The Seventh Cross
• August 1944
• 1 August
• Wilson
• 12 August
• Mr. Skeffington
• 16 August
• Going My Way
• 17 August
• Cry of the Werewolf
• The Soul of a Monster
• 23 August
• Marriage Is a Private Affair
• 30 August
• Till We Meet Again
• September 1944
• 2 September
• Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
• 9 September
• Crime by Night
• 12 September
• Strangers in the Night
• 23 September
• Arsenic and Old Lace

October–December

• October 1944
• 11 October
• To Have and Have Not
• 17 October
• Fiddlers Three – (GB)
• None but the Lonely Heart
• November 1944
• 1 November
• Something for the Boys
• 3 November
• The Woman in the Window
• 10 November
• Enemy of Women
• 11 November
• Bluebeard
• 15 November
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
• 28 November
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• December 1944
• 1 December
• House of Frankenstein
• 5 December
• Blonde Fever
• 6 December
• Nothing but Trouble
• 15 December
• Hollywood Canteen
• 18 December
• Dangerous Passage
• 22 December
• Winged Victory
• The Mummy's Curse
• 23 December
• Lake Placid Serenade
• 24 December
• I'll Be Seeing You
• 29 December
• Tomorrow, the World!

Serials

• Black Arrow
• Captain America, starring Dick Purcell
• The Desert Hawk, starring Gilbert Roland and Charles Middleton
• The Great Alaskan Mystery
• Haunted Harbor, starring Kane Richmond
• Mystery of the River Boat
• Raiders of Ghost City
• The Tiger Woman, starring Linda Stirling
• Zorro's Black Whip, starring Linda Stirling

Short film series

• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Animated short film series

• Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Donald Duck (1934–1956)
• Porky Pig (1935–1965)
• Daffy Duck (1937–1968)
• Goofy (1939–1955)
• Andy Panda (1939–1949)
• Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
• Bugs Bunny (1940–1964)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941–1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943–1949)
• Droopy (1943–1958)
• Screwball Squirrel (1944–1946)
• Sylvester the Cat (1944–1966)

Births

• January 5 – Franco Ferrini, Italian screenwriter
• January 9 – Harun Farocki, German filmmaker (died 2014)
• January 10 – William Sanderson, American actor
• January 13 – Mike Edmonds, English actor
• January 20 – Margaret Avery, American actress
• January 22 – Pamela Salem, British actress (died 2024)
• January 23 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (died 2019)
• January 25 – Zully Montero, Cuban actress
• January 28 – Andrew Jack, British dialect coach and actor (died 2020)
• February 1 – Leo Burmester, American actor (died 2007)
• February 3 – Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress (died 2021)
• February 8
• Richard Durden, English actor
• Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (died 2014)
• Michael P. Moran, American actor (died 2004)
• February 13
• Yves Afonso, French actor (died 2018)
• Stockard Channing, American actress
• Michael Ensign, American actor
• February 14 – Alan Parker, English director, producer and screenwriter (died 2020)
• February 22 – Jonathan Demme, American director, producer and screenwriter (died 2017)
• February 29 – Dennis Farina, American actor (died 2013)
• March 5 – Peter Weibel, Ukrainian-born Austrian experimental filmmaker
• March 6 – Harold Hopkins, Australian actor (died 2011)
• March 10 – Richard Gant, American actor
• March 14 – Steve Daskewisz, American actor and stunt double (died 2018)
• March 19 – Guy Thauvette, Canadian actor
• March 24 – R. Lee Ermey, American film, television and voice actor (died 2018)
• March 26 – Diana Ross, American singer and actress
• March 28 – Ken Howard, American actor (died 2016)
• April 4 – Craig T. Nelson, American actor
• April 5 – Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dutch actress
• April 6 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian-born actress and model (died 2017)
• April 8 – Joey D. Vieira, American actor (died 2025)
• April 13 – Charles Burnett, American director
• April 30 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (died 2010)
• May 4 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress (died 2019)
• May 5
• Roger Rees, Welsh actor and director (died 2015)
• John Rhys-Davies, English actor
• May 10 – Jim Abrahams, American director, producer and screenwriter (died 2024)
• May 14 – George Lucas, American director, producer and screenwriter
• May 16 – Danny Trejo, American actor and voice actor
• May 19
• Peter Mayhew, English actor (died 2019)
• Frank Pellegrino, American actor (died 2017)
• May 25 – Frank Oz, American actor, filmmaker and puppeteer
• May 26
• Olga Bisera, Yugoslav-born Italian actress and producer
• Andre Stojka, American voice actor and singer
• May 28
• Sondra Locke, American actress (died 2018)
• Clement von Franckenstein, English actor (died 2019)
• May 29 – Helmut Berger, Austrian actor (died 2023)
• June 5 – Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer and actor
• June 11 – Roscoe Orman, American actor
• June 12 – Terence Kelly, Canadian actor
• June 14 – Joe Grifasi, American character actor
• June 20 – Oliver Cotton, English actor, comedian and playwright
• June 21 – Tony Scott, British director and producer (died 2012)
• June 23 – IngrÄ«da Andriņa, Latvian actress (died 2015)
• June 24 – Julian Holloway, British actor (died 2025)
• June 27 – Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (died 2019)
• June 29 – Gary Busey, American actor
• July 1 – Wahid Hamed, Egyptian screenwriter (died 2021)
• July 2 – Viiu Härm, Estonian actress
• July 4 – Emilio Echevarria, Mexican actor (died 2025)
• July 8 – Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
• July 12 – Delia Ephron, American writer and producer
• July 17 – Catherine Schell, Hungarian-born British actress
• July 18 – Sverre Anker Ousdal, Norwegian actor (died 2026)
• July 22
• Nick Brimble, English actor
• Peter Jason, American character actor (died 2025)
• July 23 – Pepe Serna, American actor
• July 30
• Frances de la Tour, English actress
• Yoon Jeong-hee, South Korean actress
• July 31 – Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
• August 4 – Richard Belzer, American actor and stand-up comedian (died 2023)
• August 7
• John Glover, American actor
• David Rasche, American actor
• August 9 – Sam Elliott, American actor
• August 11 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
• August 13
• Kevin Tighe, American actor
• Dan Ziskie, American actor (died 2025)
• August 19 – John Roselius, American actor (died 2018)
• August 21 – Peter Weir, Australian director, producer and screenwriter
• August 25 – Anthony Heald, American character actor
• August 26 – Stephen Greif, English actor (died 2022)
• August 27 – G. W. Bailey, American actor
• August 30 – Wolf Roth, German actor
• September 1 – Beau Starr, American actor
• September 6 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
• September 13 – Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
• September 15 – Pik-Sen Lim, Malaysian-British actress (died 2025)
• September 16 – Michael Edwards, American actor
• September 20 – Jeremy Child, British actor (died 2022)
• September 21 – Fannie Flagg, American actress and comedian
• September 22
• Kathe Green, American actress, model and singer
• Frazer Hines, English actor
• September 24 – Sven-Ole Thorsen, Danish retired actor, stuntman, bodybuilder and strongman competitor
• September 25 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
• September 26 – Helmut Bakaitis, German-born Australian director, actor and screenwriter
• September 28 – Matthew Cowles, American actor (died 2014)
• September 30 – Jarlath Conroy, Irish actor
• October 1 – Jean-Pierre Castaldi, French actor
• October 8 – Dale Dye, American actor, technical advisor, radio personality and writer
• October 10 – Lii Tedre, Estonian actress
• October 14 – Udo Kier, German actor (died 2025)
• October 20 – Robert Swan, American actor (died 2023)
• October 28 – Dennis Franz, American actor
• November 2 – Patrice Chéreau, French filmmaker, actor and producer (died 2013)
• November 4 – Linda Gary, American actress, voice actress (died 1995)
• November 14 – Keith Drinkel, English actor
• November 17
• Danny DeVito, American actor, comedian, producer and director
• Gary Goldman, American animator, producer and director
• Lorne Michaels, Canadian-American producer
• November 18 – Arthur J. Nascarella, American actor
• November 21 – Harold Ramis, American actor, director and screenwriter (died 2014)
• November 22 – Paul Brooke, retired English actor
• November 24 – Peter Maloney, American actor and director
• November 25
• Paul Copley, English character actor
• Will McMillan, American actor, producer and director (died 2015)
• Ben Stein, American actor and comedian
• December 4 – Carol Sutton, American actress (died 2020)
• December 5 – Jeroen Krabbe, Dutch actor and director
• December 8 – Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress
• December 11 – Teri Garr, American actress (died 2024)
• December 12 – Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor
• December 15 – Morgan Paull, American actor (died 2012)
• December 17 – Bernard Hill, English actor (died 2024)
• December 31 – Taylor Hackford, American director

Deaths

• January 3 – Aage Hertel, Danish actor (born 1873)
• March 14 – Merta Sterling, American actress (born 1883)
• April 10 – Pat West, American actor (born 1888)
• July 14 – Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (born 1884)
• July 18 – Alan Dinehart, American actor (born 1889)
• July 20 – Mildred Harris, American actress (born 1901)
• September 24 – Hugo Thimig, Austrian actor (born 1854)
• October 28 – Kurt Gerron, German film director (born 1897)
• November 27 – Jill Furse, British actress (born 1915)
• December 9 – Laird Cregar, American actor (born 1913)
• December 13 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (born 1908)
• December 15 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader, actor (born 1904)

Film debuts

References

Bibliography

External links

• List of 1944 films at IMDb
• List of 1944 deaths at IMDb
• List of 1944 births at IMDb