1962 in film

Notable films released in 1962

United States unless stated

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• The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker
• 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, and Larry Storch

A

• Abhijan (The Expedition), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
• Advise & Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
• Alaverdoba, directed by Giorgi Shengelaia – (Georgia)
• All Fall Down, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty
• All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)
• All Souls' Day (Zaduszki) – (Poland)
• The American Beauty (La belle américaine), directed by Robert Dhéry – (France)
• The Amphibian Man (Chelovek-amfibiya) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Asli-Naqli (Real and Fake), starring Dev Anand – (India)
• Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) – (Spain)
• Attack of the Normans (I normanni), directed by Giuseppe Vari – (Italy)
• An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• The Awful Dr. Orloff (Gritos en la noche), directed by Jesús Franco – (Spain)

B

• Baat Ek Raat Ki (A Tale of One Night), starring Dev Anand – (India)
• Bachelor Flat, starring Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm
• Bees Saal Baad – (India)
• The Bellboy and the Playgirls, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Fritz Umgelter
• Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
• Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp – (U.K.)
• Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day and Jimmy Durante
• Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas
• Boccaccio '70, directed by Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren – (Italy)
• Bon Voyage!, starring Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman
• The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Richard Todd – (U.K.)
• Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner
• The Brain That Wouldn't Die, starring Virginia Leith
• The Brainiac (El baron del terror), directed by Chano Urueta – (Mexico)
• The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) – ()
• The Broken Land, starring Kent Taylor, Diana Darrin and Jack Nicholson

C

• Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
• Captain Clegg (released as Night Creatures in the U.S.), directed by Peter Graham Scott – (U.K.)
• Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
• Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
• Cartouche, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale – (France/Italy)
• The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor, starring Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
• Chased by the Dogs (El less wal kilab) – (Egypt)
• Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda – (France)
• The Condemned of Altona (I sequestrati di Altona), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell – (Italy)
• Convicts 4, starring Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Vincent Price, Ray Walston, Sammy Davis Jr.
• The Counterfeit Traitor, directed by George Seaton, starring William Holden
• Crazy Paradise (Det tossede paradis), directed by Gabriel Axel and starring Dirch Passer – (Denmark)
• Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie
• The Cursed Palace, starring Salah Zulfikar and Mariam Fakhr Eddine – (Egypt)

D

• Damon and Pythias (Il tiranno di Siracusa), directed by Curtis Bernhardt – (U.S./Italy)
• A Date at the Tower, directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny – (Egypt)
• David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
• Days of Wine and Roses, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
• Dead Man's Evidence, directed by Francis Searle – (U.K.)
• The Devil's Agent (Im Namen des Teufels), directed by John Paddy Carstairs – (U.K.//Ireland)
• Le Doulos (The Finger Man), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
• Dr. No, first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Ursula Andress – (U.K.)
• Dungeon of Harrow, directed by Pat Boyette

E

• The Easy Life (Il sorpasso), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (Italy)
• Eclipse (L'Eclisse), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti – (Italy/France)
• Eighteen in the Sun (Diciottenni al sole), directed by Camillo Mastrocinque – (Italy)
• Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas – (Greece)
• The Elusive Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur – (France)
• Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
• Escape from Zahrain, starring Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo and Jack Warden
• Eva (released in the U.K. as Eve), starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi – (Italy/France)
• Experiment in Terror, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin
• The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)

F

G

• Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
• Geronimo, starring Chuck Connors
• Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
• Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
• Go to Blazes, directed by Michael Truman – (U.K.)
• The Golden Arrow (L'arciere delle mille e una notte), directed by Antonio Margheriti – (Italy)
• Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
• The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy)
• Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
• Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice – (U.K.)
• Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood

H

I

• If a Man Answers, starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
• In Search of the Castaways, starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier
• In the Affirmative (L'Amour avec des si), directed by Claude Lelouch – (France)
• In the French Style, starring Jean Seberg
• The Inn on the River (Das Gasthaus an der Themse), directed by Alfred Vohrer – ()
• The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
• The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – ()
• The Intruder, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner
• The Iron Maiden, starring Anne Helm and Jeff Donnell
• It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield – (Greece/United States)
• It's Only Money, directed by Frank Tashlin. starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien
• Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (U.S.S.R.)

J

• Jack the Giant Killer, starring Kerwin Mathews
• Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
• La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker – (France)
• Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner – (U.K.)
• Journey to the Seventh Planet, directed by Sid Pink – (Denmark)
• Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner – (France)

K

• Kanchanjangha, directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
• Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson
• A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates – (U.K.)
• King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
• Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie), directed by Roman Polanski – (Poland)

L

• The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell – (U.K.)
• Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer – (UK/US)
• The Legend of Lobo, a Walt Disney production
• Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig – (U.K.)
• Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
• The Lion, starring William Holden and Trevor Howard
• Lisa (aka The Inspector), starring Stephen Boyd – (U.S./U.K.)
• Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay – (U.K.)
• Lonely Are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor
• Lonely Boy, a documentary about Paul Anka – (Canada)
• Long Day's Journey into Night, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Katharine Hepburn
• The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and more
• Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow (Koiya koi nasuna koi), directed by Tomu Uchida – (Japan)
• Love at Twenty, a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls – (International)
• Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
• Lulu, directed by Rolf Thiele, starring Nadja Tiller – (Austria)

M

• Madison Avenue, starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker
• Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
• The Magic Sword, directed by Bert I. Gordon
• The Magnificent Concubine (Yang Kwei Fei) – (Hong Kong)
• The Main Attraction, starring Pat Boone
• Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani – (Italy)
• The Man of Gold (Az aranyember) – (Hungary)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode
• The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Angela Lansbury
• March on Rome (La marcia su Roma), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
• Merrill's Marauders, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin
• Flying Clipper (Traumreise unter weissen Segeln), a documentary directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber – ()
• The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women (열녀문 – Yeolnyeomun), directed by Shin Sang-ok – (South Korea)
• The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, (on NBC-TV)
• Mix Me a Person, directed by Leslie Norman, starring Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden and Adam Faith – (U.K.)
• Mondo Cane, directed by Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti – (Italy)
• A Monkey in Winter (Un singe en hiver), directed by Henri Verneuil – (France)
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
• Moon Pilot, starring Tom Tryon
• The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Ron Howard
• Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
• My Geisha, starring Shirley MacLaine
• My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina – (France)

N

• Night of the Eagle (retitled Burn, Witch, Burn! in the U.S.), starring Janet Blair
• Nine Days in One Year (9 dney odnogo goda) – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Notorious Landlady, starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire

O

• On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)
• Only Two Can Play, starring Peter Sellers
• Operation Snatch, directed by Robert Day and starring Terry-Thomas and George Sanders – (U.K.)
• O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte – (Brazil)

P

• Panic in Year Zero!, starring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon
• Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, Lois Nettleton
• Phaedra, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins – (Greece)
• The Phantom of the Opera, starring Herbert Lom – (U.K.)
• The Pigeon That Took Rome, starring Charlton Heston
• The Pirates of Blood River, directed by John Gilling – (U.K.)
• Pitfall (Otoshiana) – (Japan)
• Play It Cool, starring Billy Fury – (U.K.)
• Pontius Pilate, starring Jean Marais, Jeanne Crain, Basil Rathbone
• Premature Burial, directed by Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Heather Angel
• Pressure Point, starring Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin
• Pretty Foe by Esmail Koushan (Iran)
• Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor – (India)
• The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (Das Rätsel der Roten Orchidee), directed by Helmut Ashley – ()

R

• Redhead (Die Rote or La rossa) – (West Germany/Italy)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
• Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) – (Turkey)
• Ride the High Country (a.k.a. Guns in the Afternoon), directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott
• The Road to Hong Kong, directed by Norman Panama, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Joan Collins
• Roaring Years (Anni ruggenti), starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
• Rome Adventure, starring Angie Dickinson and Suzanne Pleshette
• Der rote Rausch (The Red Intoxication), starring Klaus Kinski – (Austria)

S

• Safe at Home!, starring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris
• Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (King, Queen and Slave), starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt – (India)
• Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi – (Italy)
• Samar, directed by and starring George Montgomery
• Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
• Satan in High Heels, starring Meg Myles and Grayson Hall
• Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
• Seven Seas to Calais (Il dominatore dei sette mari), directed by Rudolph Maté – (Italy)
• Shaheed, starring Musarrat Nazir, Talish, Allauddin, Ejaz, Saqi (Pakistani film on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict)
• She'll Have to Go (released in the United States as Maid for Murder), directed by Robert Asher – (U.K.)
• She Knows Y'Know, directed by Montgomery Tully – (U.K.)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace/ Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes (German) a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Terence Fisher, written by Curt Siodmak, starring Christopher Lee as Holmes and Thorley Walters as Watson
• Slaughter of the Vampires (La strage dei vampiri), directed by Roberto Mauri – (Italy)
• Solo for Sparrow, directed by Gordon Flemyng – (U.K.)
• Some People, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
• Something's Got to Give, starring Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin (unfinished)
• The Spiral Road, starring Rock Hudson and Gena Rowlands
• State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin
• The Suitor (Le Soupirant) – (France)
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), starring Hardy Krüger and Nicole Courcel – (France)
• Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
• Swordsman of Siena (La congiura dei dieci/Le mercenaire), starring Stewart Granger – (Italy/France)
• A Symposium on Popular Songs, a Disney animation

T

• The Tale of Zatoichi (Zatōichi monogatari), directed by Kenji Misumi – (Japan)
• The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatōichi Monogatari), starring Shintaro Katsu – (Japan)
• Tales of Terror, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone
• Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
• Tarzan Goes to India, Jock Mahoney's first film as Tarzan
• Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
• Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret – (U.K.)
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – ()
• That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
• Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret – (France)
• The Three Stooges In Orbit, starring the Three Stooges
• Time to Remember, directed by Charles Jarrott – (U.K.)
• To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
• Tobacco (Tyutyun) – (Bulgaria)
• Tonny, directed by Nils R. Müller and Per Gjersøe – (Norway)
• Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• Treasure of Silver Lake, directed by Harald Reinl – ()
• The Trial (Le Procès), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau – (France/Italy/)
• The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
• Tudor – (Romania)
• The Twelve Chairs (Las doce sillas), directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – (Cuba)
• Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
• Two Half Times in Hell (Két félidő a pokolban), directed by Zoltán Fábri – (Hungary)
• Two Weeks in Another Town, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse

U

• The Unscrupulous Ones (Os Cafajestes), directed by Ruy Guerra – (Brazil)

V

• A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
• A View from the Bridge (Vu du Pont), directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Raf Vallone – (France/Italy)
• Violent Life (Una vita violenta), directed by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi – (Italy)
• Vive le Tour, documentary by Louis Malle – (France)

W

• Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck
• Waltz of the Toreadors (a.k.a. The Amorous General), directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
• The War Lover, directed by Philip Leacock, starring Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner and Shirley Anne Field.
• War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) – (France)
• We Joined the Navy, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
• Who's Got the Action? starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner
• The Witch's Curse (Maciste all'inferno), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy)
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom

Z

• Zorro the Avenger
• Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston

Short film series

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• Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
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• August 20
• Geoffrey Blake, American actor
• Ravil Isyanov, Russian actor (d. 2021)
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• Ian James Corlett, Canadian-American voice actor
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• Moya Brady, English actress
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• Paul Feig, American actor, director, comedian and filmmaker
• Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
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• David Bedella, American actor
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• T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, American actress and singer
• Kelly Preston, American actress (d. 2020)
• October 14
• Trevor Goddard, English actor (d. 2003)
• Chris Thomas King, American musician and actor
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• October 22 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
• October 26 – Cary Elwes, English actor
• October 27 - Brontis Jodorowsky, Mexican-French actor
• October 28
• Jason Watkins, English actor
• Daphne Zuniga, American actress
• November 1 - Brenda Chapman, American writer, storyboard artist and director
• November 5 - Michael Gaston, American actor
• November 7 - Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
• November 9 - Rick Batalla, American actor
• November 10 - Barry Del Sherman, American actor
• November 11
• Gerard Horan, British actor
• Demi Moore, American actress and producer
• November 14
• Laura San Giacomo, American actress
• Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and comedian
• November 18 - Tim Guinee, American actor
• November 19 – Jodie Foster, American actress and director
• November 28
• Rose Abdoo, American actress and comedian
• Jon Stewart, American actor and comedian
• November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor
• November 30 - P. J. Hogan, Australian director and screenwriter
• December 2 - Brendan Coyle, British-Irish actor
• December 6 - Janine Turner, American actress
• December 8 - Wendell Pierce, American actor
• December 9 – Felicity Huffman, American actress
• December 10 - Scott Capurro, American comedian, writer and actor
• December 13 - Jim Fall, American director and producer
• December 14 - Ginger Lynn, American pornographic actress
• December 18
• James Sie, American actor
• Michel Vuillermoz, French actor and screenwriter
• December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress
• December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor
• December 23 - Peter Ramsey, American storyboard artist, story artist, director, writer and producer

Deaths

• January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
• January 28 – Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor, The Pearl Maker of Madrid
• February 1 – Carey Wilson, American screenwriter, Mutiny on the Bounty
• February 19 – James Barton, American actor, Here Comes the Groom, Yellow Sky
• February 20 – Halliwell Hobbes, 84, British actor, Gaslight, That Hamilton Woman
• February 27 – Willie Best, 48, American actor, Nothing but the Truth, The Red Dragon
• February 28 – Chic Johnson, 70, American comedian, actor, Hellzapoppin'
• March 17 – Frank Orth, 82, American actor, Nancy Drew... Detective, Here Come the Girls
• April 10 – Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood
• April 15 – Clara Blandick, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer
• April 17 – Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Alice in Wonderland
• April 22
• Angus MacPhail, 59, British screenwriter, Spellbound, The Wrong Man
• Vera Reynolds, 62, American actress, The Night Club, Feet of Clay
• May 14 – Florence Auer, 82, American actress, The Bishop's Wife, State of the Union
• June 2 – Aeneas MacKenzie, 72, Scottish screenwriter, The Ten Commandments, Ivanhoe
• June 6 – Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, 63, American actor, Nevada, Southwest Passage
• June 19
• Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
• Will Wright, 68, American actor, Quantrill's Raiders, Alias Jesse James
• June 24 – Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress, Waterloo Bridge, Made for Each Other
• July 2 – Valeska Suratt, 80, American stage and screen actress, The Immigrant
• July 4 – Rex Bell, 58, American actor, Broadway to Cheyenne, Law and Lead
• July 13 – Jerry Wald, 50, American screenwriter and producer, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place
• July 23 – Victor Moore, 86, American actor, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Louisiana Purchase
• July 30 – Myron McCormick, 54, American actor, The Hustler, No Time for Sergeants
• August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress, Hollywood icon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot
• August 23 – Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor, Action, The Horse Soldiers
• September 7 – Louis King, 64, American director, Typhoon, Green Grass of Wyoming
• October 2 – Frank Lovejoy, 50, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Goodbye, My Fancy
• October 6 – Tod Browning, 82, American director, Dracula, Freaks
• October 26 – Louise Beavers, 60, American actress, Holiday Inn, The Jackie Robinson Story
• November 15 – Irene, American costume designer, Shall We Dance, Midnight Lace
• December 15 – Charles Laughton, 63, British actor, Spartacus, Witness for the Prosecution
• December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, 70, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind
• December 21 – Syd Saylor, 67, American actor, The Lost Jungle, The Three Mesquiteers
• December 23 – Luis Alberni, 76, Spanish actor, Svengali, The Count of Monte Cristo
• December 28 – Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted
• December 29 – Hugh Sinclair, 59, British actor, The Saint's Vacation, Judgment Deferred

Film debuts

References

External links

• List of 1962 films at IMDb
• List of 1962 deaths at IMDb
• List of 1962 births at IMDb