1925 in film

Z

• Zander the Great, directed by George W. Hill, starring Marion Davies and Harrison Ford

Comedy film series

• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
• Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
• Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924–1936)

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables
  (1921–1934)
• Alice Comedies
  • Alice Cans the Cannibals
  • Alice the Toreador
  • Alice Gets Stung
  • Alice Solves the Puzzle
  • Alice's Egg Plant
  • Alice Loses Out
  • Alice is Stage Struck
  • Alice Wins the Derby
  • Alice Picks the Champ
  • Alice's Tin Pony
  • Alice Chops the Suey
  • Alice the Jail Bird
  • Alice Plays Cupid
  • Alice Rattled by Rats
  • Alice in the Jungle
• Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
• Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
• Un-Natural History (1925–1927)

Births

• January 6 – Enrique Carreras, Peruvian-born director and producer (died 1995)
• January 9 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (died 1989)
• January 13 – Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (died 2000)
• January 15 - Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor (died 2023)
• January 21 – Charles Aidman, American actor (died 1993)
• January 24 – Helen Stenborg, American actress (died 2011)
• January 26
  • Joan Leslie, American actress (died 2015)
  • Paul Newman, American actor (died 2008)
• February 2 – Elaine Stritch, American actress (died 2014)
• February 3
  • Shelley Berman, American comedian, actor, and writer (died 2017)
  • John Fiedler, American actor and voice actor (died 2005)
• February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (died 2001)
• February 11 – Kim Stanley, American actress (died 2001)
• February 17
  • Ron Goodwin, English film composer (died 2003)
  • Hal Holbrook, American actor (died 2021)
• February 18 –
  George Kennedy
  , American actor (died 2016)
• February 20 – Robert Altman, American director (died 2006)
• February 21 – Sam Peckinpah, American director (died 1984)
• February 25 – Aino Seep, Estonian singer and actress (died 1982)
• February 26 – Selma Archerd, American actress (died 2023)
• March 11 – Peter R. Hunt, British director, editor and producer (died 2002)
• March 13 – Corrado Gaipa, Italian actor and voice actor (died 1989)
• March 17 - Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (died 2015)
• April 14 – Rod Steiger, American actor (died 2002)
• April 18 – Bob Hastings, American actor (died 2014)
• April 19 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (died 2016)
• April 28 – Bruce Kirby, American character actor (died 2021)
• May 2 – John Neville, English-Canadian actor (died 2011)
• May 25 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (died 2003)
• May 26 – Alec McCowen, English actor (died 2017)
• May 28 – Martha Vickers, American model, actress (died 1971)
• June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (died 2010)
• June 5 - Henny Orri, Dutch actress (died 2022)
• June 7 – John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer (died 2008)
• June 8 – Charles Tyner, American actor (died 2017)
• June 10 - Diana Maggi, Italian-born Argentine actress (died 2022)
• June 13 – Kristine Miller, American actress (died 2015)
• June 16 – Otto Muehl, Austrian experimental director (died 2013)
• June 20 – Audie Murphy, American soldier, actor, songwriter, rancher (died 1971)
• June 21 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (died 2006)
• June 25
  • June Lockhart, American actress
  • Virginia Patton, American actress (died 2022)
• June 29
  • John Fujioka, American actor of Japanese descent (died 2018)
  • Cara Williams, American actress (died 2021)
• July 1 – Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011)
• July 6 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (died 2002)
• July 10 – Mildred Kornman, American actress (died 2022)
• July 11 – David Graham, English retired actor
• July 13 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and scriptwriter (died 2020)
• July 14 – Pip Freedman, South African radio comedian and actor (died 2003)
• July 15 – D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (died 2019)
• July 23 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress (died 2016)
• July 24 – Miiko Taka, American actress (died 2023)
• July 25 – Jerry Paris, American actor and director (died 1986)
• August 6 – Barbara Bates, American singer, actress (died 1969)
• August 11 – Arlene Dahl, American actress (died 2021)
• August 13
  • Carlos Balá, Argentine actor (died 2022)
  • Asao Sano, Japanese actor (died 2022)
• August 15 – Mike Connors, American actor (died 2017)
• August 22 – Honor Blackman, English actress (died 2020)
• August 23 – Robert Mulligan, American director (died 2008)
• August 27 - Susan Willis, American actress (died 2009)
• August 29 - Dick Cusack, American actor and filmmaker (died 2003)
• August 30 - Frank Ray Perilli, American actor and screenwriter (died 2018)
• September 2 - Ronnie Stevens, English character actor and voice artist (died 2006)
• September 3 - Anne Jackson, American actress (died 2016)
• September 8 – Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (died 1980)
• September 12
  • James Garbutt, British actor (died 2020)
  • Dickie Moore, American actor (died 2015)
• September 21 – Noor Jehan, Indian actress (died 2000)
• September 22 - Virginia Capers, American actress (died 2004)
• September 29 - Steve Forrest, American actor (died 2013)
• October 3 – Gore Vidal, American writer and actor (died 2012)
• October 4 - Edmund Lyndeck, American actor (died 2015)
• October 5 – Gail Davis, American actress (died 1997)
• October 11 – Nancy Guild, American actress (died 1999)
• October 16
  • Angela Lansbury, English-American actress (died 2022)
  • Lenka Peterson, American actress (died 2021)
• October 29
  • Geraldine Brooks, American actress (died 1977)
  • Robert Hardy, English actor (died 2017)
• October 31 – Lee Grant, American actress, documentarian, and director
• November 4 – Doris Roberts, American actress (died 2016)
• November 6 - Michel Bouquet, French actor (died 2022)
• November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (died 1984)
• November 11 - Jonathan Winters, American comedian, actor, author, television host and artist (died 2013)
• November 17 – Rock Hudson, American actor (died 1985)
• November 20 – Mark Miller, American actor (died 2022)
• November 22 - Carla Balenda, American actress
• November 25 – June Whitfield, English comic actress (died 2018)
• December 2 –
  Julie Harris
  , American Broadway and film actress (died 2013)
• December 3 – Kaljo Kiisk, Estonian actor and director (died 2007)
• December 7 – Sydney Samuelson, English cinematographer (died 2022)
• December 8 – Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician and actor (died 1990)
• December 12 – Anne V. Coates, English film editor (died 2018)
• December 13 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor
• December 18 – Peggy Cummins, Welsh-born Irish actress (died 2017)
• December 23 – Harry Guardino, American actor (died 1995)
• December 28 – Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (died 2002)

Deaths

• January 24 - Wilton Taylor, American actor (born 1869)
• February 4 - William Haggar, British cinema pioneer (born 1851)^[19]
• February 6 - James Kenyon, English businessman and cinema pioneer (born 1850)
• February 7 – Edward Jobson, American actor (born 1860)
• February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French director (born 1873)
• March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (born 1910)
• April 8 – Thecla Åhlander, Swedish actress (born 1855)
• April 13 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor (born 1875)
• April 16 – David Powell, Scottish actor (born 1883)
• July 29 – Mark Fenton, American actor (born 1866)
• September 28 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (born 1888)
• October 21 – Orme Caldara, American stage and film actor (born 1875)
• October 31 – Max Linder, French actor (born 1883)
• November 1 – Lester Cuneo American actor (born 1888)
• November 3 –
  Lucile McVey
  , American actress (born 1890)
• December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress (born 1888)
• December 9 –
  Harry Rattenberry
  , American actor (born 1857)
• December 21 – Lottie Lyell, Australian director/producer (born 1890)
• December 22 – Mary Thurman, American actress (born 1895)
• December 24 - James O. Barrows, American stage and screen actor (born 1855)
• December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards American director (born 1867)

Film debuts