1918 in film

Comedy film series

Only the films of the series released in 1918 are collected

Buster Keaton (1917–1944)

Films starring Roscoe Arbuckle, featuring Buster Keaton released in 1918:

• January 20: Out West as Sheriff / Saloon owner.
• March 18: The Bell Boy as Bellboy.

Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)

• his autobiography
  .
• May 1918: Chase Me Charlie; a seven-reel montage of
  Essanay films, edited by Langford Reed. Released in England
  .

Charlie Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, and starred in 9 films for his own production company between 1918 and 1923. These films were distributed by First National. Below the movies released in 1918:

• 14 April: A Dog's Life
• 29 September: The Bond
• 20 October: Shoulder Arms

• How to Make Movies: Never assembled, although parts were used in The Chaplin Revue (see below)
  Reconstructed in 1981 by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill^[13]
• Untitled film: A charity film co-starring Harry Lauder.

Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)

Glasses character ("The Boy"):

• The Tip
• The Lamb
• Hit Him Again
• Beat It
• A Gasoline Wedding
• Look Pleasant, Please
• Here Come the Girls
• Let's Go
• On the Jump
• Follow the Crowd
• Pipe the Whiskers as Janitor
• It's a Wild Life
• Hey There!
• Kicked Out
• The Non-Stop Kid
• Two-Gun Gussie
• Fireman Save My Child
• The City Slicker
• Sic 'Em, Towser
• Somewhere in Turkey
• Are Crooks Dishonest? – sometimes wrongly titled as Doing, Doing, Done
• An Ozark Romance
• Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
• That's Him
• Bride and Gloom
• Two Scrambled
• Bees in His Bonnet
• Swing Your Partners
• Why Pick on Me?
• Nothing but Trouble
• Back to the Woods
• Hear 'Em Rave
• Take a Chance
• She Loves Me Not

Lupino Lane (1915–1939)

Short films acting as his character Mr. Butterbun released in 1918:

• His Busy Day
• His Salad Days
• Love and Lobster
• The Blunders of Mr. Butterbun: Trips and Tribunals
• The Blunders of Mr. Butterbun: Unexpected Treasure
• The Haunted Hotel

Births

• January 29 – John Forsythe, actor (died 2010)
• February 4 – Ida Lupino, actress, director (died 1995)
• February 15 - Allan Arbus, actor (died 2013)
• February 16 – Patty Andrews, singer, actress, member of The Andrews Sisters (died 2013)
• February 19 - Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (died 2019)
• March 1 – Roger Delgado, actor (died 1973)
• March 9
  • Marguerite Chapman, actress (died 1999)
  • Mickey Spillane, writer, actor (died 2006)
• March 14 –Dennis Patrick, actor (died 2002)
• April 14 – Mary Healy, actress, singer (died 2015)
• April 17
  • William Holden, actor (died 1981)
  • Anne Shirley, actress (died 1993)
• April 18 – Shinobu Hashimoto, screenwriter (died 2018)
• May 14 – June Duprez, actress (died 1984)
• May 15 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor (died 2009)
• May 20 - Patricia Ellis, American actress (died 1970)
• May 21 - Jeanne Bates, American actress (died 2008)
• May 26 – John Dall, actor (died 1971)
• June 8 – Robert Preston, actor, singer (died 1987)
• June 10 - Barry Morse, actor (died 2008)
• June 11 – Jane Bryan, actress (died 2009)
• June 13 - Ben Johnson, actor (died 1996)
• June 15 - Elisabeth Waldo, American former musician and actress
• June 21 - Adriana Sivieri, Italian actress
• June 26 – Ellen Liiger, actress (died 1987)
• July 6 – Sebastian Cabot, actor (died 1977)
• July 8 – Craig Stevens, American actor (died 2000)
• July 14 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish actor, writer, director (died 2007)
• July 16 – William Bishop, actor (died 1959)
• July 18 – Jane Frazee, singer, actress (died 1985)
• July 25 - Nan Grey, actress (died 1993)
• July 26 – Marjorie Lord, actress (died 2015)
• August 1 – Cheryl Walker, model, actress (died 1971)
• August 9 – Robert Aldrich, director (died 1983)
• August 17 – Evelyn Ankers, actress (died 1985)
• August 25 – Richard Greene, actor (died 1985)
• September – Rin Tin Tin, canine actor (died 1932)
• September 13 – Dick Haymes, Argentine actor, singer (died 1980)
• September 16 - Branka Veselinović, Serbian actress (died 2023)
• September 21 – Rand Brooks, American actor (died 2003)
• September 24 - Audra Lindley, American actress (died 1997)
• September 28 – Arnold Stang, American actor and comedian (died 2009)
• October 9 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (died 2000)
• October 13
  • Yvette Thuot, Canadian actress (died 2021)
  • Robert Walker, actor (died 1951)
• October 17 – Rita Hayworth, actress (died 1987)
• October 23 - Peggy Moran, actress (died 2002)
• October 25 - Milton Selzer, actor (died 2005)
• October 27 – Teresa Wright, actress (died 2005)
• October 29 – Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery ("Baby Peggy"), child silent film actress (died 2020)
• November 4
  • Art Carney, actor (died 2003)
  • Cameron Mitchell, actor (died 1994)
• November 27 - Stephen Elliott, actor (died 2005)
• November 30 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor (died 2014)
• December 10 – Anne Gwynne, actress, model (died 2003)
• December 15 –
  Jeff Chandler, actor (died 1961
  )

• January 8 – Johannes Pääsuke, 25, Estonian photographer and director (train crash)
• January 12 – Simeon Wiltsie, American actor
• February 1 – Joseph Kaufman, 36, American silent film actor & director, married to film star Ethel Clayton
• February 15 –
  Vernon Castle
  , 30, American dancer & writer
• March 13 –
  William Courtleigh, Jr.
  , 26, American actor
• April 30 – "Mother" Mary Maurice, 73, American veteran stage & film actress
• May 19 – Sidney Rankin Drew, 26, American actor and director.
• June 29 – John van den Broek, 23, Dutch cinematographer
• July 4 – Walter Stradling, 43, British cinematographer
• August 12 – Anna Held, 46, Polish actress & singer
• September 21 – Hal August, 28, American actor;
• October 2 - Edwin Arden, American stage & film actor
• October 19 – Harold Lockwood, 31, American actor
• October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, 27, American actress
• October 22 – Julian L'Estrange, 38, English actor
• October 28 – Louise Vale, American actress
• November 6 – William Shea, 67, Scottish veteran film actor & director
• November 18 – Wayland Trask Jr., 31, American comedian
• December 6 – Charles Gunn, 35, American actor
• December 29 – Jode Mullally, 32, American actor

Debuts

• Warner Baxter – All Woman(uncredited)
• Noël Coward – Hearts of the World
• Neil Hamilton – The Beloved Impostor (1918 film)
• Buck Jones – Western Blood (as Buck Gebhardt)
• Ben Lyon – The Transgressor
• Irene Rich – A Desert Wooing
• Will Rogers – Laughing Bill Hyde

References

External links

• List of 1918 films at IMDb
• List of 1918 deaths at IMDb
• List of 1918 births at IMDb