The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Awards
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1947 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Notable films released in 1947
United States unless stated
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A
B
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, starring Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy
- Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, starring Hildegard Knef â (Germany)
- The Big Fix, starring Sheila Ryan
- The Bishop's Wife, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
- Black Narcissus, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons â (GB)
- Body and Soul, directed by Robert Rossen, starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer
- Boomerang, starring Dana Andrews
- Born to Kill, starring Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney
- The Brasher Doubloon, starring George Montgomery
- Brute Force, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Burt Lancaster
- Buck Privates Come Home, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Bury Me Dead, starring June Lockhart and Hugh Beaumont
C
- Captain Boycott, directed by Frank Launder, starring Stewart Granger â (GB)
- Captain from Castile, starring Tyrone Power
- Carnegie Hall, starring Marsha Hunt
- Cass Timberlane, starring Spencer Tracy and Lana Turner
- Cinderella (Zolushka) â (U.S.S.R.)
- Copacabana, starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda
- Crossfire, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
- Cynthia (film), starring Elizabeth Taylor and George Murphy
D
- Daisy Kenyon, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
- Dancing with Crime, starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim â (GB)
- Dark Passage, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall'
- Dead Reckoning, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott
- Deep Valley, directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Ida Lupino
- Desert Fury, starring John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott
- Desperate, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Steve Brodie and Raymond Burr
- Devil in the Flesh (Diable au corps) â (France)
- The Devil Thumbs a Ride, starring Lawrence Tierney
- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, starring Boris Karloff and Ralph Byrd
- Driftwood, starring Walter Brennan and Natalie Wood
- A Double Life, starring Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters
- Down to Earth, starring Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks
- Dreams That Money Can Buy, directed by Hans Richter
E
F
- Fame is the Spur, a Boulting Brothers film, with Michael Redgrave â (GB)
- Far Away Love, directed by Chen Liting, starring Zhao Dan and Qin Yi â (China)
- The Farmer's Daughter, starring Loretta Young
- Fear in the Night, starring DeForest Kelley
- Fireworks, directed by Kenneth Anger
- The Flame, starring Vera Ralston and Broderick Crawford
- Flesh Will Surrender (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo), starring Aldo Fabrizi â (Italy)
- Forever Amber, starring Linda Darnell
- The Foxes of Harrow, starring Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara â (GB/U.S.)
- Framed, starring Glenn Ford
- Frieda, directed by Basil Dearden, starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling â (GB)
- The Fugitive, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Dolores del RÃÂo
- Fun and Fancy Free, an animated film from Disney and RKO
G
- The Garcias Return! (áVuelven los Garcia!), starring Pedro Infante â (Mexico)
- Gentleman's Agreement, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, Celeste Holm, John Garfield
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison
- Golden Earrings, starring Ray Milland and Marlene Dietrich
- Good News, starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford
- Green Dolphin Street, starring Lana Turner and Donna Reed
- The Guilt of Janet Ames, starring Rosalind Russell
- The Guilty, starring Bonita Granville
H
I
- An Ideal Husband, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Michael Wilding and Paulette Goddard â (GB)
- If Winter Comes, starring Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Angela Lansbury
- The Imperfect Lady, starring Ray Milland and Teresa Wright
- In Those Days (In jenen Tagen) â (Germany)
- It Always Rains on Sunday, starring Googie Withers and Jack Warner â (GB)
- It Happened in Brooklyn, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, and Jimmy Durante
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue, starring Victor Moore, Don DeFore, Gale Storm, Charlie Ruggles
J
K
L
- The Lady from Shanghai, directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Rita Hayworth
- Lady in the Lake, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
- Last of the Redskins, starring Michael O'Shea
- The Last Stage (Ostatni etap) â (Poland)
- The Late George Apley, starring Ronald Colman
- Law of the Lash, starring Lash LaRue
- Life with Father, starring William Powell and Elizabeth Taylor
- A Likely Story, starring Barbara Hale and Bill Williams
- Living in a Big Way, starring Gene Kelly and Marie McDonald
- The Long Night, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes
- Lost Honeymoon, starring Franchot Tone and Ann Richards
- The Lost Moment, starring Robert Cummings and Susan Hayward
- Lost Youth (Gioventù perduta), directed by Pietro Germi â (Italy)
- Love from a Stranger, starring John Hodiak
- Lured, starring George Sanders and Lucille Ball
M
- The Macomber Affair, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett
- The Man I Love, starring Ida Lupino and Robert Alda
- The Mark of Cain, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst (GB)
- Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten) â (East Germany)
- Mine Own Executioner, starring Burgess Meredith â (GB)
- Miracle on 34th Street, starring Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Maureen O'Hara
- Monsieur Verdoux, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
- Monsieur Vincent, starring Pierre Fresnay â (France)
- Moss Rose, starring Peggy Cummins and Victor Mature
- Mother Wore Tights, starring Betty Grable
- Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave
- My Favourite Brunette, starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour
- My Wild Irish Rose, a biopic starring Dennis Morgan (as Chauncey Olcott)
N
O
P
- The Paradine Case, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan, Charles Laughton
- The Pearl (La Perla), directed by Emilio Fernández, starring Pedro Armendáriz â (Mexico)
- The Perils of Pauline, starring Betty Hutton
- Pirates of Monterey, starring Rod Cameron and Maria Montez
- Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Van Heflin
- Pursued, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright
Q
R
- Railroaded!, directed by Anthony Mann, starring John Ireland and Hugh Beaumont
- Ramrod, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku), directed by YasujirÃ
 Ozu â (Japan)
- The Red House, starring Edward G. Robinson and Judith Anderson
- Repeat Performance, starring Louis Hayward and Joan Leslie
- Ride the Pink Horse, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
- Riffraff, starring Pat O'Brien and Anne Jeffreys
- Road to Rio, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge, starring Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh
- The Root of All Evil, starring Phyllis Calvert and Michael Rennie â (GB)
- Roses Are Red, starring Peggy Knudsen
S
- Scared to Death, starring Bela Lugosi and George Zucco
- School for Postmen (L'ÃÂcole des facteurs), a comedy short directed by and starring Jacques Tati â (France)
- The Sea of Grass, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
- Secret Agent (Podvig razvedchika), directed by Boris Barnet â (U.S.S.R.)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo
- The Senator Was Indiscreet, starring William Powell
- A Ship to India (Skepp till India land), directed by Ingmar Bergman â (Sweden)
- The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, starring Betty Grable
- Sinbad the Sailor, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Maureen O'Hara
- Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, starring Susan Hayward
- Snow Trail (Ginrei no hate), starring Toshiro Mifune â (Japan)
- So Well Remembered, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring John Mills and Martha Scott â (GB)
- Something in the Wind, starring Deanna Durbin and Donald O'Connor
- Song of Scheherazade, starring Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Donlevy
- Song of the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- The Spring River Flows East (Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu) â (China)
- Story of a Bad Woman (Historia de una mala mujer), starring Dolores del RÃÂo â (Argentina)
T
- T-Men, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dennis O'Keefe
- Temptation Harbour, starring Robert Newton and Simone Simon â (GB)
- They Made Me a Fugitive, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Trevor Howard â (GB)
- They Won't Believe Me, starring Robert Young and Susan Hayward
- This Time for Keeps, starring Esther Williams and Jimmy Durante
- The Three Garcias (Los tres GarcÃÂa), starring Pedro Infante â (Mexico)
- To Live in Peace (Vivere in pace) â (Italy)
- The Two Mrs. Carrolls, starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
- Trail Street, starring Randolph Scott
U
V
W
Serials
Short film series
Births
- January 4 â Tim Rooney, American actor (d. 2006)
- January 8 â David Bowie, English singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
- January 10 â Mario Ernesto Sánchez, Cuban-American actor (d. 2025)
- January 11
- William Caskey Swaim, American actor
- Vinny Vella, American actor, talk show host and comedian (d. 2019)
- January 15 â Andrea Martin, Canadian-American actress
- January 17
- Jane Elliot, American actress
- Peter Werner, American director (d. 2023)
- January 18 â Takeshi Kitano, Japanese writer-director, actor, comedian, author and video game creator
- January 23 â Joel Douglas, American producer
- January 26 â Richard Portnow, American actor
- January 27 â Peter Burroughs, British actor
- January 29 â Ernie Lively, American actor and acting coach (d. 2021)
- January 31
- Jonathan Banks, American actor
- Glynn Turman, American actor, writer, director and producer
- February 2 â Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009)
- February 3
- Paul Auster, American novelist, screenwriter and director (d. 2024)
- Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor
- Tonea Stewart, American actress
- February 5 â David Ladd, American producer, actor
- February 7 â Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (d. 2009)
- February 11 â Brian Capron, English actor
- February 24 â Edward James Olmos, American actor
- February 28 â Stephanie Beacham, English actress
- March 1 â Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor (d. 2016)
- March 4 â Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor (d. 2015)
- March 6
- Martin Kove, American actor and martial artist
- Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, producer and director (d. 2025)
- March 9 â Frank Grimes, Irish actor (d. 2025)
- March 10 â Colin Stinton, Canadian actor
- March 12 â Rupert Frazer, British actor
- March 18
- Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
- Aleksander Krupa, Polish actor
- Nicholas Le Prevost, English actor
- March 19
- Glenn Close, American actress
- Dermot Crowley, Irish stage, film and television actor
- March 20 â Anthony Peck, American actor (d. 1996)
- March 22 â Tony Pope, American voice actor (d. 2004)
- March 23
- Terry Alexander, American actor
- Kim Hee-ra, South Korean movie actor
- March 25 â Elton John, English singer and songwriter
- March 26 â John Morton, American movie actor, stuntman and writer
- March 27 â Chick Vennera, American actor (d. 2021)
- April 2
- Sam Anderson, American actor
- Ezra Dagan, Israeli actor
- April 6 â John Ratzenberger, American actor
- April 11
- Peter Riegert, American actor, director and screenwriter
- Meshach Taylor, American actor (d. 2014)
- April 12 â Dan Lauria, American actor
- April 15 â Lois Chiles, American actress
- April 17 â Charles Frank, American actor
- April 18
- Cindy Pickett, American actress
- James Woods, American actor
- April 19 â Gillian Jones, Australian actress
- April 25
- Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
- April 26 â Ron McLarty, American actor and playwright (d. 2020)
- April 30 â Elizabeth Hawthorne, New Zealand actress
- May 2 - Nirut Sirijanya, Thai actor
- May 4 â Richard Jenkins, American actor
- May 6 â Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
- May 8
- Jamie Donnelly, American actress
- Katia Tchenko, French actress
- May 9 â Anthony Higgins, English actor
- May 13 â Charles Gordon, American producer (d. 2020)
- May 14 â Hans Strydom, South African actor and writer
- May 16 â Bill Smitrovich, American actor
- May 18 â Hugh Keays-Byrne, British-Australian actor and director (d. 2020)
- May 25 â Jacki Weaver, Australian actress
- May 31 â Steven Kampmann, American actor, writer and director
- June 1 â Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
- June 6 â Robert Englund, American actor
- June 10 â Fred Asparagus, American comedian and actor (d. 1998)
- June 11 - Ken Bones, English actor
- June 18 â Hanns Zischler, German actor
- June 19 â Youn Yuh-jung, South-Korean actress
- June 20 â Candy Clark, American actress
- June 21
- Michael Gross, American actor
- Lex van Delden, Dutch actor and singer (d. 2010)
- June 22 â David Lander, American character actor, comedian, musician and baseball scout (d. 2020)
- June 23
- Bryan Brown, Australian actor
- Kerry Rossall, American stunt coordinator, stuntman, actor and producer
- June 24 â Peter Weller, American actor
- June 25 â Jimmie Walker, American actor and comedian
- June 29 - Richard Lewis, American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (d. 2024)
- June 30 â Tõnis Rätsep, Estonian actor
- July 2
- Larry David, American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer
- Stephen Stucker, American actor (d. 1986)
- July 6 â Richard Beckinsale, English actor (d. 1979)
- July 9 â O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor (d. 2024)
- July 19 - Rikiya Yasuoka, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
- July 22
- Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian and director
- J. Kenneth Campbell, American actor
- July 23 - Mohan Agashe, Indian actor
- July 24 â Robert Hays, American actor
- July 29 â Dennis Cleveland Stewart, American actor and dancer (d. 1994)
- July 30
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and 38th Governor of California
- William Atherton, American actor
- July 31 â Richard Griffiths, English actor (d. 2013)
- August 3 â John Wesley, American actor (d. 2019)
- August 5 â Angry Anderson, Australian singer-songwriter, television personality and actor
- August 6 - Oliver Tobias, English actor
- August 8 - George Costigan, English actor
- August 15 â Jenny Hanley, English actress
- August 17 - Jennifer Rhodes, American actress
- August 19 â Gerald McRaney, American actor
- August 20 â Ray Wise, American actor
- August 22 â Cindy Williams, American actress (d. 2023)
- August 24 â Anne Archer, American actress
- August 27 â Barbara Bach, American actress
- August 28 - Alice Playten, American actress (d. 2011)
- August 31 â Mona Marshall, American voice actress
- September 4 - David St. James, American character actor and comedian
- September 6
- Jane Curtin, American actress and comedian
- Keone Young, American actor and voice actor
- September 7 â David McGillivray, British screenwriter
- September 12 â Bjørn Floberg, Norwegian actor
- September 14 â Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
- September 15 â Sandra Prinsloo, South African actress
- September 21 â Stephen King, American author
- September 23
- Caroline Lagerfelt, French-born American actress
- Mary Kay Place, American actress
- September 24 â R. H. Thomson, Canadian actor
- September 27
- Denis Lawson, Scottish actor and director
- Meat Loaf, American singer and actor (d. 2022)
- September 29 â Martin Ferrero, American actor
- October 1
- Stephen Collins, American actor
- Richard E. Council, American actor
- October 7 - Jill Larson, American actress
- October 13 â Susan Blommaert, American actress
- October 16 â David Zucker, American director, producer and screenwriter
- October 17
- Simi Garewal, Indian actress and talk show host
- Rajendra Gupta, Indian actor and director
- Michael McKean, American actor and comedian
- October 18 â Joe Morton, American actor
- October 23
- Miles Anderson, British actor
- Frank DiLeo, American actor (d. 2011)
- October 24 â Kevin Kline, American actor
- October 26 â Ene Järvis, Estonian actress (d. 2025)
- October 27 - Angus MacInnes, Canadian actor (d. 2024)
- October 29 â Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
- November 7 - Holmes Osborne, American character actor
- November 9 - Robert David Hall, American actor
- November 13 â Joe Mantegna, American actor
- November 17 - Steven E. de Souza, American screenwriter, producer and director
- November 21 â Tiny Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2019)
- November 24
- Sasson Gabai, Israeli actor
- Dwight Schultz, American actor and voice actor
- November 25
- Jonathan Kaplan, American producer and director (d. 2025)
- John Larroquette, American actor
- Tracey Walter, American character actor
- November 30
- Stuart Baird, English editor, producer and director
- Jude Ciccolella, American actor and singer
- David Mamet, American filmmaker and screenwriter
- December 4 â Tõnu Kark, Estonian actor
- December 5 â JoBe Cerny, American actor
- December 8 â Bruce Kimmel, American actor, director, writer
- December 10 â Kathy Lamkin, American actress (d. 2022)
- December 12 â Wings Hauser, American actor, screenwriter, director and musician (d. 2025)
- December 13 - Darlene Cates, American actress (d. 2017)
- December 16 â Ben Cross, English actor (d. 2020)
- December 17 â Wes Studi, Cherokee American actor and film producer
- December 25
- Twink Caplan, American actress, comedian and producer
- Michael D. Roberts, American actor
- December 26
- Trina Parks, American actress
- Peter Sattmann, German actor (d. 2025)
- December 28 â Peter MacGregor-Scott, British producer (d. 2017)
- December 29 â Ted Danson, American actor
- December 31 â Tim Matheson, American actor, director and producer
Deaths
- January 26 â Grace Moore, 48, American opera singer and actress, One Night of Love, The King Steps Out, When You're in Love
- February 12 â Sidney Toler, 72, American actor, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, The Chinese Cat
- March 8 â Victor Potel, 57, American actor and comedian, Sullivan's Travels, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Palm Beach Story, The Egg and I
- May 18 â Lucile Gleason, 59, American actress, I Like It That Way, A Successful Failure, Should Husbands Work?, The Clock
- May 31 â Adrienne Ames, 39, American actress, The Death Kiss, You're Telling Me!, Slander House, Gigolette
- June 1 â Anna Hofman-Uddgren, 79, Swedish director and actress
- June 5 â Nils Olaf Chrisander, 63, Swedish actor and director
- July 15 â Henry Kolker, 72, American actor and director, Baby Face, Holiday, The Great Swindle, The Parson of Panamint
- July 28 â Robert Homans, 69, American actor, Suicide Squad, The Grapes of Wrath, Night Monster, The Scarlet Clue
- August 30 â Gunnar Sommerfeldt, 56, Danish actor and director
- September 21 â Harry Carey, 69, American actor, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Angel and the Badman, Red River, Beyond Tomorrow
- October 1 â Olive Borden, 40, American actress, 3 Bad Men, Half Marriage, Leave It to Me
- October 13 â LeRoy Mason, 44, American actor, The Painted Stallion, Silver Stallion
- October 17 â John Halliday, 67, American actor, The Philadelphia Story, Intermezzo
- October 18 â Harry C. Bradley, 78, American actor, Beyond the Law, Sing While You're Able
- October 24 â Dudley Digges, 68, Irish actor, The Maltese Falcon, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Fight for Life
- November 10 â Jack Rockwell, 57, American actor
- November 26 â Ernie Adams, 62, American actor The Pride of the Yankees, Invisible Ghost
- December 21 â Mark Hellinger, 47, American producer, High Sierra, They Drive By Night, The Two Mrs. Carrolls
- December 26 â Urban Gad, 68, Danish director and screenwriter, The Abyss, Little Angel, The Island of the Lost
Film debuts
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