The year 1966 in film involved some significant events. A Man for All Seasons won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Top-grossing films
North America
The top ten 1966 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Outside North America
The highest-grossing 1966 films in countries outside North America.
Events
Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons â Highland, Columbia
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann â A Man for All Seasons
Best Actor: Paul Scofield â A Man for All Seasons
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor â Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau â The Fortune Cookie
Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis â Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Foreign Language Film: A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch, France
BAFTA Film Awards:
Best Film from any Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best British film: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Golden Globe Awards:
<u>Drama:</u>
Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons
Best Actor: Paul Scofield â A Man for All Seasons
Best Actress: Anouk Aimée â A Man and a Woman
<u>Comedy or Musical:</u>
Best Picture: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Best Actor: Alan Arkin â The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Best Actress: Lynn Redgrave â Georgy Girl
<u>Other</u>
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Attenborough â The Sand Pebbles
Best Supporting Actress: Jocelyne LaGarde â Hawaii
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann â A Man for All Seasons
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch, France
Signore & Signori (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians), directed by Pietro Germi, Italy
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Location: Italy
Silver Ribbon
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria / Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Cul-de-sac, directed by Roman Polanski, United Kingdom
1966 film releases
United States unless stated
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Notable films released in 1966
United States unless stated
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A
- Aakhri Khat (The Last Letter) â (India)
- After the Fox, starring Peter Sellers and Victor Mature
- Alfie, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin â (U.K.)
- Alice in Wonderland, a TV film starring John Gielgud, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers â (U.K.)
- Alvarez Kelly, starring William Holden
- Ambush Bay, starring Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney and James Mitchum
- An American Dream, starring Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker
- Amrapali, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt â (India)
- Andrei Rublev, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky â (USSR)
- The Appaloosa, starring Marlon Brando
- Arabesque, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck
- Around the World Under the Sea, starring Lloyd Bridges
- As Long as You've Got Your Health (Tant qu'on a la santé), directed by and starring Pierre ÃÂtaix â (France)
- Assault on a Queen, starring Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa
- Au hasard Balthazar (Chosen by Lot Balthazar), directed by Robert Bresson â (France/Sweden)
- Aybolit-66 â (USSR)
B
- Bariera (Barrier), directed by Jerzy Skolimowski â (Poland)
- Batman, starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Lee Meriwether, Frank Gorshin
- The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo â Golden Lion winner â (Italy/Algeria)
- Beau Geste, directed by Douglas Heyes
- Beregis Avtomobilya (Beware of the Automobile) â (USSR)
- ', directed by John Huston, starring Stephen Boyd, Franco Nero, Ava Gardner, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole
- The Big Gundown (La resa dei conti), starring Lee Van Cleef â (Italy)
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady, starring Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore & Signori), directed by Pietro Germi â (Italy)
- Birds Do It, starring Soupy Sales
- Black Girl (La Noire de...), directed by Ousmane Sembène â (France/Senegal)
- Blindfold, directed by Philip Dunne, starring Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale
- Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring David Hemmings and Vanessa RedgraveâÂÂwinner of Palme d'Or, 1967 Cannes Film Festival â (Italy/U.K./U.S.)
- The Blue Max, starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress â (U.K.)
- Borom Sarret (The Wagoner) â (Senegal)
- Born Free, starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers â (U.K.)
- Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, starring Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Elke Sommer
- A Bullet for the General (El Chucho, quién sabe?), starring Gian Maria Volonté and Klaus Kinski â (Italy)
C
- Cairo 30 (Al-Kahira 30), directed by SalÃÂḥ Abu Seif â (Egypt)
- Carry On Screaming!, starring Harry H. Corbett and Kenneth Williams â (U.K.)
- Cast a Giant Shadow, starring Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Yul Brynner, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra
- Chafed Elbows, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
- Chappaqua, featuring William S. Burroughs
- The Chase, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson and Robert Redford
- Chelsea Girls, directed by Andy Warhol, starring Nico
- Chimes at Midnight (a.k.a. Falstaff), directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Jeanne Moreau and John Gielgud â (France/Spain/Switzerland)
- Cinerama's Russian Adventure, a documentary on the USSR introduced by Bing Crosby
- Circus of Fear, starring Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Klaus Kinskiâ (U.K.)
- Closely Watched Trains (OstÃ
Âe sledované vlaky), directed by JiÃ
ÂàMenzel â (Czechoslovakia)
- Come Drink with Me (Da zui xia), directed by King Hu â (Hong Kong)
- Congress of Love, starring Curd Jürgens and Lilli Palmer (Austria/France/W. Germany)
- The Crazy-Quilt, directed by John Korty
- Cul-de-sac, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorléac â (U.K.)
- Curse of the Swamp Creature, starring John Agar, Francine York
- Curse of the Vampires (Dugo ng vampira, a.k.a. Blood of the Vampires or Creatures of Evil), directed by Gerardo de León â (Philippines)
- Cyborg 2087, starring Michael Rennie and Wendell Corey
D
- Daimajin, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda â (Japan)
- Daisies (Sedmikrásky), directed by VÃÂra Chytilová â (Czechoslovakia)
- ', starring Peter Cushing â (U.K.)
- The Daydreamer, a Rankin-Bass and Embassy Pictures stop-motion/live-action film
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, starring James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Robert Webber and Rose Marie
- The Deadly Bees, directed by Freddie Francis and starring Suzanna Leigh â (U.K.)
- Death of a Bureaucrat (La muerte de un burócrata), directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea â (Cuba)
- The Defector, directed by Raoul Lévy and starring Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger and Macha Méril â (France/West Germany)
- Degueyo, directed by Giuseppe Vari â (Italy)
- Destination Inner Space, starring Gary Merrill and Sheree North
- The Diabolical Dr. Z (Miss Muerte), directed by Jesús Franco â (France/Spain)
- Dimension 5, starring Jeffrey Hunter
- Django, starring Franco Nero â (Italy/Spain)
- Don't Look Now, We're Being Shot At (La grande vadrouille), starring Terry-Thomas and Bourvil â (France/U.K.)
- Le deuxieme souffle (a.k.a. Second Breath), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura â (France)
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (Le spie vengono dal semifreddo), directed by Mario Bava â (Italy/U.S.)
- ', starring Christopher Lee â (U.K.)
- Drop Dead Darling, starring Tony Curtis
- Duel at Diablo, starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier
- Dutchman, starring Al Freeman, Jr. and Shirley Knight
E
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (Gojira, Ebira, Mosura Nankai no DaikettÃ
Â), directed by Jun Fukuda â (Japan)
- El Dorado, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan
- The Elusive Avengers (Neulovimye mstiteli), directed by Edmond Keosayan â (USSR)
- Eye of the Devil, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven and Sharon Tate
F
- The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) â (Japan)
- Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut, starring Julie Christie and Oskar Werner â (U.K.)
- The Family Way, a Boulting brothers film, starring Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett â (U.K.)
- Fantastic Voyage, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch
- The Fat Spy, starring Phyllis Diller, Jayne Mansfield, Brian Donlevy
- Fighting Elegy (Kenka erejii), directed by Seijun Suzuki â (Japan)
- A Fine Madness, starring Sean Connery and Joanne Woodward
- Fireball 500, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Fabian Forte
- Follow Me, Boys!, directed by Norman Tokar, starring Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Kurt Russell
- For Love and Gold (L'armata Brancaleone), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio Gassman â (Italy)
- The Fortune Cookie (a.k.a. Meet Whiplash Willie), directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
- Frankie and Johnny, starring Elvis Presley and Donna Douglas
- Funeral in Berlin, starring Michael Caine â (U.K.)
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, directed by Richard Lester, starring Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers, Michael Crawford â (U.S./U.K.)
G
- Galia, directed by Georges Lautner and starring Mireille Darc â (France/Italy)
- Gambit, starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine
- The Game Is Over (La curée), directed by Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda â (France/Italy)
- Gamera vs. Barugon, directed by Shigeo Tanaka â (Japan)
- Georgy Girl, directed by Silvio Narizzano, starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason and Alan Bates â (U.K.)
- The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, starring Don Knotts
- The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, starring Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Nancy Sinatra
- The Glass Bottom Boat, starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor
- Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (Gojira, Ebira, Mosura Nankai no DaikettÃ
Â) â (Japan)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleefâ (Italy)
- Grand Prix, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring James Garner, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune, Eva Marie Saint, Jessica Walter
- The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, starring Frankie Howerd and Dora Bryan â (U.K.)
- The Group, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Candice Bergen, Shirley Knight, Joan Hackett, Joanna Pettet and Jessica Walter
- Gunpoint, starring Audie Murphy, Joan Staley and Warren Stevens
H
- Harper, starring Paul Newman, Robert Wagner, Lauren Bacall, Pamela Tiffin, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh
- Hawaii, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris
- The Hawks and the Sparrows (Uccellacci e uccellini), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Totò â (Italy)
- The Hellbenders (I Crudeli), starring Joseph Cotten â (Italy)
- Here Is Your Life (Här har du ditt liv) â (Sweden)
- The Hills Run Red (Un Fiume di dollari), directed by Carlo Lizzani â (Italy)
- Hold On!, starring Peter Noone and Shelley Fabares
- How to Steal a Million, directed by William Wyler, starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
- Hotel Paradiso, directed by Peter Glenville and starring Alec Guinness â (U.K.)
- The Hunchback of Soho (Der Bucklige von Soho), directed by Alfred Vohrer â (West Germany)
- Hunger (Sult) â (Denmark/Norway/Sweden)
- The Hunt (La Caza), directed by Carlos Saura â (Spain)
I
- The Idol, directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Jennifer Jones and Michael Parks â (U.K.)
- Incident at Phantom Hill, directed by Earl Bellamy
- Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?), directed by René Clément, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron â (France/United States)
- Island of Terror, starring Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray
- It Happened Here, starring Sebastian Shaw â (U.K.)
J
K
L
- Let's Kill Uncle, directed by William Castle
- Lightning Bolt (Operazione Goldman), directed by Antonio Margheriti â (Italy)
- Lord Love a Duck, starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld
- Lost Command, directed by Mark Robson, starring Anthony Quinn, George Segal, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
- Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., starring Dick Van Dyke and Nancy Kwan
M
- Madame X, starring Lana Turner
- Made in Paris, starring Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Chad Everett, Edie Adams
- Made in U.S.A., directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Pierre Léaud â (France)
- Mademoiselle, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Jeanne Moreau â (France/U.K.)
- Mamta, starring Ashok Kumar â (India)
- A Man and a Woman, directed by Claude Lelouch, starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant -- Palme d'Or winner â (France)
- The Man Called Flintstone, directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna
- A Man for All Seasons, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles â winner of 6 Academy Awards and 5 BAFTAs â (U.K.)
- A Man Could Get Killed, starring James Garner and Sandra Dee
- ', starring and written, directed and produced by Harold P. Warren
- Masculine-Feminine by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud â (France)
- Mera Saaya (My Shadow), starring Sunil Dutt and Sadhana â (India)
- Mission to Death
- Mister Buddwing, directed by Delbert Mann, starring James Garner, Jean Simmons, Angela Lansbury, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross
- Misunderstood (Incompreso), directed by Luigi Comencini â (Italy)
- Modesty Blaise, starring Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp â (U.K.)
- Moment to Moment, starring Jean Seberg and Honor Blackman
- Morgan! (a.k.a. Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment), directed by Karel Reisz â (U.K.)
- Munster, Go Home!, starring Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis
- Murderers' Row, starring Dean Martin (as Matt Helm), with Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, Ann-Margret
- My Wife, the Director General, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, starring Salah Zulfikar and Shadia â (Egypt)
N
- Namu, the Killer Whale, directed by László Benedek
- Navajo Joe, starring Burt Reynolds â (Italy/Spain)
- Nayak, directed by Satyajit Ray â (India)
- Nevada Smith, starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Suzanne Pleshette and Arthur Kennedy
- Night Games (Nattlek), directed by Mai Zetterling and starring Ingrid Thulin â (Sweden)
- Nobody Wanted to Die (Niekas nenorÃÂjo mirti) â (USSR)
- Not with My Wife, You Don't!, starring Tony Curtis, George C. Scott and Virna Lisi
- The Nun (La religieuse), directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Anna Karina â (France)
O
- Once Before I Die, starring Ursula Andress and John Derek
- One Million Years B.C., starring Raquel Welch â (U.K.)
- Operazione San Gennaro (a.k.a. The Treasure of San Gennaro), starring Nino Manfredi and Senta Berger â (Italy)
- The Oscar, starring Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Jill St. John, Tony Bennett
- Our Man Flint, starring James Coburn
- Our Man in Marrakesh, a.k.a. Bang! Bang! You're Dead!, starring Tony Randall
P
- The Pad and How to Use It, directed by Brian G. Hutton
- Paradise, Hawaiian Style, starring Elvis Presley
- Penelope, starring Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Dick Shawn, Jonathan Winters, Ian Bannen and Arlene Golonka
- Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (Father Christmas Has Blue Eyes), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud â (France)
- Persona, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann â (Sweden)
- Pharaoh (Faraon), directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz â (Poland)
- Phool Aur Patthar, starring Dharmendra â (India)
- Picture Mommy Dead, starring Don Ameche and Zsa Zsa Gabor
- The Plague of the Zombies, starring André Morell â (U.K.)
- The Plainsman, starring Don Murray, Abby Dalton and Leslie Nielsen
- The Poppy Is Also a Flower, directed by Terence Young, starring Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Rita Hayworth, Yul Brynner and Angie Dickinson
- The Pornographers (Erogotoshitachi yori Jinruigaku nyumon), directed by ShÃ
Âhei Imamura â (Japan)
- The Priest and the Girl (O Padre e a Moça) â (Brazil)
- The Professionals, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance and Claudia Cardinale
- The Projected Man, starring Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday and Ronald Allenâ (U.K.)
Q
R
- Rage, starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens
- The Rare Breed, starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith and Juliet Mills
- A Report on the Party and the Guests (O slavnosti a hostech), directed by Jan NÃÂmec â (Czechoslovakia)
- The Reptile, starring Noel Willman, Ray Barrett and Jennifer Danielâ (U.K.)
- Return of the Seven, starring Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Claude Akins and Warren Oates
- Ride in the Whirlwind, directed by Monte Hellman, starring Jack Nicholson and Millie Perkins
- Ringo and His Golden Pistol (Johnny Oro), directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Mark Damon â (Italy)
- Roman Candles, directed by John Waters
- Rondo, directed by Zvonimir BerkoviÃÂâ (Yugoslavia)
- Rosalie, a short directed by Walerian Borowczyk â (France)
- The Round-Up (Szegénylegények), directed by Miklós Jancsó â (Hungary)
- Run, Appaloosa, Run, starring Rex Allen
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Alan Arkin, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner and Eva Marie Saint
S
- The Sand Pebbles, directed by Robert Wise, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen and Richard Crenna
- The Sandwich Man, starring Michael Bentine and Dora Bryan â (U.K.)
- Savage Pampas, starring Robert Taylor, Ron Randell and Marc Lawrence (U.S./Spain/Argentina)
- Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Rock Hudson
- The She Beast, starring Barbara Steele, John Karlsen, Ian Ogilvy
- Shiroi KyotÃ
 (The White Tower) â (Japan)
- The Shooting, starring Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson and Millie Perkins
- Sri Krishna Pandaveeyam, directed by and starring N. T. Rama Rao â (India)
- The Silencers, starring Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Cyd Charisse and Nancy Kovack
- The Singing Nun, starring Debbie Reynolds and Greer Garson
- Sound of Horror, starring James Philbrook, Arturo Fernandez and Soledad Miranda
- Spinout, starring Elvis Presley
- The Spy with a Cold Nose, directed by Daniel Petrie â (U.K.)
- Stagecoach, starring Ann-Margret, Bing Crosby, Red Buttons, Alex Cord, Mike Connors and Stefanie Powers
- Stop the World â I Want to Get Off, directed by Philip Saville
- Suraj, starring Vyjayanthimala and Rajendra Kumar â (India)
- The Swinger, starring Ann-Margret, Tony Franciosa and Yvonne Romain
- The Sword of Doom (Dai-bosatsu tÃ
Âge) â (Japan)
T
- Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, starring Mike Henry and Nancy Kovack
- Teesri Kasam (Third Oath), starring Raj Kapoor â (India)
- Texas Across the River, starring Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth, Peter Graves, Joey Bishop
- They're a Weird Mob, directed by Powell and Pressburger â (Australia)
- This Property Is Condemned, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid
- Three on a Couch, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, with Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Mary Ann Mobley
- Thunderbirds Are Go, produced by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson, voices of Peter Dyneley, Shane Rimmer, Matt Zimmerman, David Graham, Christine Finn, Sylvia Anderson, Jeremy Wilkin, Ray Barrett
- Time to Die (Tiempo de morir), directed by Arturo Ripstein, starring Marga López and Jorge MartÃÂnez de Hoyos â (Mexico)
- Tokyo Drifter (TÃ
ÂkyÃ
 nagaremono), directed by Seijun Suzuki â (Japan)
- Torn Curtain, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews
- Trace of Stones (Spur der Steine) â (East Germany)
- The Trap, starring Rita Tushingham and Oliver Reed â (U.K./Canada)
- Triple Cross, starring Christopher Plummer, Claudine Auger, Gert Fröbe â (U.K./France)
- The Trouble with Angels, directed by Ida Lupino, starring Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills
- Trunk to Cairo, directed by Menahem Golan, starring Audie Murphy â (Israel)
- The Trygon Factor, starring Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire and Robert Morley â (U.K./West Germany)
U
V
W
- Waco, starring Jane Russell and Howard Keel
- Walk, Don't Run, starring Cary Grant (in his final film), Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton
- The War Is Over (La Guerre est Finie), directed by Alain Resnais, starring Yves Montand and Ingrid Thulin â (France)
- The War of the Gargantuas (Furankenshutain no KaijÃ
«: Sanda tai Gaira) â (Japan)
- Way...Way Out, starring Jerry Lewis and Connie Stevens
- What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, directed by Blake Edwards, starring James Coburn and Dick Shawn
- Where the Spies Are, directed by Val Guest and starring David Niven â (U.K.)
- Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (Qui êtes vous, Polly Maggoo?) â (France)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Elizabeth Taylor, (Best Actress Oscar), Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
- The Wild Angels, starring Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra
- Wings (ÃÂÃÂÃÂûÃÂÃÂ), directed by Larisa Shepitko â (USSR)
- Winnetou and the Crossbreed (Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi), directed by Harald Philipp â (West Germany)
- Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (animated short)
- The Witches, starring Joan Fontaine
- The Wrong Box, starring John Mills, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Nanette Newman â (U.K.)
Y
Z
Short film series
Births
- January 2 â Kate Hodge, American actress and producer
- January 8
- Adrian Pang, Singaporean actor
- Maria Pitillo, American former actress
- January 13 â Patrick Dempsey, American actor
- January 17 â Joshua Malina, American actor
- January 20 â Rainn Wilson, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
- January 24 â Julie Dreyfus, French actress
- January 31 â Dexter Fletcher, English film director and actor
- February 1 â Anthony Johnson, American actor and comedian (d. 2021)
- February 3 - Frank Coraci, American director, actor and screenwriter
- February 4 â Piret Kalda, Estonian actress
- February 10 - Meadow Williams, American actress and producer
- February 12 â Lochlyn Munro, Canadian actor
- February 13 â Neal McDonough, American actor and producer
- February 14 â Kristen Dalton, American actress
- February 15
- Mo Gallini, American actor
- Cynthia Lamontagne, American former actress
- Kim Myers, American actress
- February 19 â Justine Bateman, American actress, writer, director and producer
- February 22 â Rachel Dratch, American actress, comedian, writer and producer
- February 24
- Ben Miller, English actor
- Sherrie Rose, American actress, producer, director and screenwriter
- Billy Zane, American actor
- February 25
- Alexis Denisof, American actor
- Téa Leoni, American actress
- February 26 - Jennifer Grant, American actress
- February 27 â Donal Logue, Canadian-Irish actor, producer and writer
- March 1
- Michelle Berube, American actress
- Zack Snyder, American director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer
- March 3
- Tone Loc, American rapper and actor
- Heidi Swedberg, American former actress
- March 4 â Steve Bastoni, Italian-born Australian actor
- March 5 â Aasif Mandvi, British-American actor and comedian
- March 9 â Alison Doody, Irish model and actress
- March 10 â Stephen Mailer, American actor
- March 12 - Jane Perry, British-Canadian actress
- March 14
- Elise Neal, American actress
- Gary Anthony Williams, American actor, comedian and filmmaker
- March 22 â Sara Crowe, Scottish actress
- March 23 â Marin Hinkle, American actress
- March 26 â Michael Imperioli, American actor
- April 8 â Robin Wright, American actress
- April 9 â Cynthia Nixon, American actress
- April 13 â Andy Nyman, English actor, director and writer
- April 14 â Lloyd Owen, British actor
- April 22 â Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor and producer
- April 27 â Matt Reeves, American director, producer and screenwriter
- May 1
- Anne Fletcher, American director and actress
- Tina Lifford, American actress
- May 3 â Firdous Bamji, Indian actor and writer
- May 4 â Murray McArthur, English actor
- May 8 â Eileen Bowman, American actress
- May 10 â Ilian Djevelekov, Bulgarian film director and producer
- May 12 â Stephen Baldwin, American actor
- May 15
- Sommore, American comedian and actress
- Greg Wise, English actor and producer
- May 16 â Scott Reeves, American actor and country music singer
- May 17 - Hill Harper, American actor
- May 19 â Polly Walker, English actress
- May 20 â Mindy Cohn, American actress and voice actress
- May 23 â H. Jon Benjamin, American actor and comedian
- May 24 - Eric Cantona, French actor
- May 26 â Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
- May 28 - Roger Kumble, American director and screenwriter
- May 30 - Fahim Fazli, Afghan-American actor
- June 4 - Robert Pralgo, American actor
- June 5 â Dwayne Hill, Canadian voice actor
- June 7 â Tom McCarthy, American director, screenwriter and actor
- June 8 â Julianna Margulies, American actress
- June 10 - Laura Silverman, American actress
- June 16 â Phil Vischer, American filmmaker, animator, musician and voice actor
- June 17 â Jason Patric, American actor
- June 19 â Samuel West, English actor, director and voice actor
- June 22
- Carlos Gallardo, Mexican actor, producer, screenwriter and director
- Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
- June 24 â Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
- June 27 â J. J. Abrams, American filmmaker and composer
- June 28
- John Cusack, American actor, brother of actress Joan Cusack
- Ã
Âenay Gürler, Turkish actress
- Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
- Sara Stewart, Scottish actress
- June 29 â DJ Pooh, American rapper, actor and filmmaker
- June 30
- Ian Bliss, Australian character actor
- Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
- Peter Outerbridge, Canadian actor
- July 5
- Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, American director
- Claudia Wells, American actress
- July 6
- Mark Mitchinson, English-born New Zealand actor
- Brian Posehn, American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, musician and writer
- July 7
- Jim Gaffigan, American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer
- William Haze, American actor (died 2016)
- July 8 â Mike Nawrocki, American director, animator, writer and voice actor
- July 9
- Pamela Adlon, American actress, voice actress, screenwriter, producer and director
- Jamie Bartlett, British-born South African actor (d. 2022)
- July 10 â A. O. Scott, American film critic of The New York Times
- July 11
- Debbe Dunning, American actress
- Greg Grunberg, American actor
- Elina Löwensohn, Romanian-American actress
- July 12 â Tamsin Greig, English actress, narrator and comedian
- July 14 â Matthew Fox, American actor
- July 15 â Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
- July 16 â Scott Derrickson, American filmmaker
- July 18 â Lori Alan, American actress and voice actress
- July 19 â Nancy Carrell, American actress, comedian and writer
- July 31 â Dean Cain, American actor, producer and television presenter
- August 1 â Dan Gerson, American screenwriter and voice actor (d. 2016)
- August 5
- James Gunn, American filmmaker and actor
- Jonathan Silverman, American actor
- August 8 â Verónica Falcón, Mexican actress
- August 10 â André Sogliuzzo, American voice actor
- August 12 - Sharon D. Clarke, English actress and singer
- August 14 â Halle Berry, American actress
- August 15
- Con O'Neill, English actor
- Tasha de Vasconcelos, Mozambican-born Portuguese-Canadian actress
- August 17
- Tom Gallop, American actor
- Matt Maiellaro, American filmmaker, musician and voice actor
- August 18
- Sarita Choudhury, British actress
- MarÃÂa Onetto, Argentine actress (d. 2023)
- August 19 - Chris McGarry, American actor
- August 20
- Colin Cunningham, American actor
- David Rees Snell, American actor
- August 25 â Julia Davis, English actress, comedian, director and writer
- August 28 â Enzo Squillino Jr., British actor
- August 29 â Stacey Travis, American actress
- August 30 â Michael Michele, American actress
- September 1 â James Nguyen, Vietnamese filmmaker
- September 2 â Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
- September 5 - Achero Mañas, Spanish director and former actor
- September 7 â Toby Jones, English actor
- September 9
- David Bennent, Swiss actor
- Adam Sandler, American actor
- September 12
- Darren E. Burrows, American actor
- Khaled El Nabawy, Egyptian actor
- September 13 â Louis Mandylor, Australian actor
- September 16 â Sean Frye, American former actor
- September 18 - Christopher Shyer, Canadian-American actor
- September 20 â Niki Caro, New Zealand film director and screenwriter
- September 22
- Ira Heiden, American actor
- Ruth Jones, Welsh actress, comedian, writer and producer
- September 25 â Jason Flemyng, English actor
- September 28 - Leilani Sarelle, American actress
- September 29
- Ben Miles, English actor
- Jill Whelan, American actress
- October 1 - George Asprey, British character actor
- October 6 â Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
- October 9 â Tim Herlihy, American actor, producer and screenwriter
- October 10 - Bai Ling, Chinese-American actress
- October 11 â Luke Perry, American actor (d. 2019)
- October 16 â Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress
- October 17 â Mark Gatiss, English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director and producer
- October 19 â Jon Favreau, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- October 24 â Zahn McClarnon, American actor
- October 26 â Steve Valentine, English actor
- October 28
- Chris Bauer, American actor
- Alois Moyo, Zimbabwean-German actor
- Andy Richter, American actor, writer, comedian and talk show announcer
- October 31 - Mike O'Malley, American actor, writer and producer
- November 2 â David Schwimmer, American actor, director and producer
- November 3
- Vincent Franklin, English actor
- Jonathan Loughran, American actor
- November 5 â Leni Parker, Canadian actress
- November 6 â Peter DeLuise, American actor
- November 11 â Vince Colosimo, Australian actor
- November 17 â Sophie Marceau, French actress and director
- November 19
- Wolfgang Bodison, American actor
- Jason Scott Lee, American actor and martial artist
- November 22
- Nicholas Rowe, British actor
- Michael K. Williams, American actor (d. 2021)
- November 23
- Vincent Cassel, French actor
- Michelle Gomez, Scottish-American actress
- November 25 â Billy Burke, American actor
- November 26 â Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian actress and television personality
- December 1 â Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter
- December 2 â Katherine LaNasa, American actress
- December 4
- Fred Armisen, American actor and comedian
- Carey Means, American voice and stage actor
- December 7 â C. Thomas Howell, American actor
- December 8
- Tyler Mane, Canadian character actor
- Scott Shepherd, American actor
- Sinéad O'Connor, Irish actress and singer (d. 2023)
- December 9 â Toby Huss, American actor
- December 12 â Lydia Zimmermann, Spanish filmmaker
- December 14 â Boris IsakoviÃÂ. Serbian actor
- December 19 â Robert MacNaughton, American actor
- December 20 â Paul Ritter, English actor (d. 2021)
- December 21
- Martin Bayfield, English actor and stuntman
- Michelle Hurd, American actress
- Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor
- December 24 â Diedrich Bader, American actor and voice actor
- December 28 - David Fane, New Zealand actor
- December 30 â Akosua Busia, Ghanaian actress and writer
- December 31
- Bruce Ramsay, Canadian actor
- Maddie Taylor, American voice actress and comedian
Deaths
- January 3 â Rex Lease, 62, American actor, Rough Riding Ranger, Borrowed Wives
- January 17 â Vincent J. Donehue, 50, American director, Lonelyhearts, Sunrise at Campobello
- January 22 â Herbert Marshall, 75, British actor, The Letter, The Little Foxes
- January 31 â Elizabeth Patterson, 90, American actress, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Remember the Night
- February 1
- Buster Keaton, 70, American actor and director, The General, Sherlock Jr.
- Hedda Hopper, 80, American gossip columnist and actress, Sunset Boulevard, Topper
- February 9 â Sophie Tucker, 82, Russian-born American singer and actress, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry, Broadway Melody of 1938
- February 17 - Gail Kane, 80, American stage and film actress, Arizona, The Jungle, The Serpent's Tooth, The White Sister
- February 18 â Robert Rossen, 57, American writer and director, The Hustler, All the King's Men
- February 19 â James Edward Grant, 60, American writer and director, Angel and the Badman, The Alamo
- February 26 â Mientje Kling, 71, Dutch actress, The Devil in Amsterdam
- March 3
- William Frawley, 79, American actor, Miracle on 34th Street, The Lemon Drop Kid
- Alice Pearce, 48, American actress, On the Town, The Disorderly Orderly
- March 12 â Estelita Rodriguez, 34, Cuban actress, Tropical Heat Wave, Rio Bravo
- March 26 â Cyril Hume, 66, American screenwriter, The Great Gatsby, Forbidden Planet
- April 6
- Julia Faye, 73, American actress, Chicago, The Ten Commandments
- Edna Flugrath, 73, American silent-film actress, The Derby Winner, The Pursuit of Pamela
- April 16 â Marjie Millar, 34, American actress, Money from Home, About Mrs. Leslie
- June 5 â Natacha Rambova, 69, American actress, Salomé, Monsieur Beaucaire
- June 11 â Wallace Ford, 68, British-born American actor, Another Face, 3 Ring Circus
- June 19 â Ed Wynn, 79, American actor, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins
- July 5 â John P. Fulton, 63, American special effects supervisor, The Ten Commandments
- July 6 â Anne Nagel, 50, American actress, Under the Big Top, My Little Chickadee
- July 23
- Douglass Montgomery, 59, American actor, Little Women, Waterloo Bridge
- Montgomery Clift, 45, American actor, From Here to Eternity, A Place in the Sun
- August 3 â Lenny Bruce, 40, American satirist
- August 15
- Jan Kiepura, 64, Polish tenor and actor, My Song for You
- Seena Owen, 71, American actress, Queen Kelly, Victory
- August 23 â Francis X. Bushman, 83, American actor, Ben-Hur, The Phantom Planet
- August 25 â Lance Comfort, 58, British director, Penn of Pennsylvania, Eight O'Clock Walk
- August 26 â Art Baker, 68, American actor, Cover Up, The Farmer's Daughter
- August 29 â Joseph Egger, 77, Austrian actor, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More
- September 14 â Nikolai Cherkasov, 63, Soviet actor, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan The Terrible, Part II
- September 22 â Jules Furthman, 78, American screenwriter, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not
- October 13 â Clifton Webb, 76, American actor, Laura, The Man Who Never Was
- October 16 â George O'Hara, 67, American actor and writer, Side Street, The Grapes of Wrath
- October 23
- Eugenio Bava, 80, Italian cinematographer, Cabiria, Quo Vadis
- Claire McDowell, 88, American actress, The Mark of Zorro, Ben-Hur
- October 24 â Hans Dreier, 81, German art director of European and American films, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity
- November 3 â Byron Barr, 49, American actor, Double Indemnity, Pitfall
- November 9 â James V. Kern, 57, American screenwriter and director, Never Say Goodbye, Two Tickets to Broadway
- December 14
- Emma Dunn, 91, British actress, Mother, Life with Father
- Verna Felton, 76, American actress and voice actress, Picnic, Cinderella
- Richard Whorf, 60, American actor and director, Christmas Holiday, Yankee Doodle Dandy
- December 15 â Walt Disney, 65, American producer, cartoonist and studio executive, Steamboat Willie, Cinderella, Fantasia
- December 19 â Betty Kuuskemaa, 87, Estonian actress, ', '
- December 22
- Harry Beaumont, 78, American director, The Broadway Melody, Enchanted April
- Robert Keith, 68, American actor, The Lineup, Written on the Wind
Film debuts
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