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The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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1 | Ben-Hur | MGM | $36,000,000[1] |
2 | The Shaggy Dog | Buena Vista | $9,600,000[2] |
3 | Operation Petticoat | Universal | $9,321,555[3] |
4 | Some Like It Hot | United Artists | $8,127,835[3] |
5 | Pillow Talk | Universal | $7,669,713[3] |
6 | Imitation of Life | $6,417,807[3] | |
7 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Columbia | $6,375,000[3] |
8 | Rio Bravo The Nun's Story |
Warner Bros. | $5,750,000[3] |
9 | North by Northwest | MGM | $5,740,000[4] |
10 | Anatomy of a Murder | Columbia | $5,500,000[1] |
Events
- January 23 – Republic Pictures releases its last production, Plunderers of Painted Flats.[5]
- January 29 – Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).
- April 30 – François Truffaut's The 400 Blows opens the 1959 Cannes Film Festival bringing international attention to the French New Wave.
- June 4 – The Three Stooges release their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters.
- June 7 – A contract between Paramount and Jerry Lewis Productions is signed specifying a payment of $10 million plus 60% of the profits for 14 films over a seven-year period.[6] This contract makes Lewis the highest paid individual Hollywood talent to date and is unprecedented in that he has unlimited creative control, including final cut, and the return of film rights after 30 years.
- July 1 - Herbert J. Yates, founder of Republic Pictures, sells his controlling stake in the company.
- July – Les Cousins, another film of the French New Wave, wins the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
- July 22 – sword and sandalsgenre.
- August 4 – The Big Fisherman is the first film released in Super Panavision 70.
- September 30 – The film of Cork Film Festival, the first feature-length Irish languagefilm.
- October 7 – Pillow Talk alongside Doris Dayfor the first time.
- October 14 – Legendary Australian-born actor Errol Flynn dies of a heart attack in Vancouver, Canada at the age of 50.
- November 18 – William Wyler's Ben-Hur, the most expensive film up to this date with a budget of $15,175,000, premieres at Loew's State Theatre (New York City). It goes on to win a record 11 Academy Awards. Principal photography had wrapped on January 7 with filming the last shots of the crucifixion scene at Cinecittà in Rome.[7]
- December 2 – The battle of the smellies starts with the release of the documentary Behind the Great Wall in AromaRama, with scents pumped into the theater during the film.
Awards
Category/Organization | 17th Golden Globe Awards March 10, 1960 |
12th BAFTA Awards March 26, 1960 |
32nd Academy Awards April 4, 1960 | |
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Comedy or Musical | Drama | |||
Best Film | Some Like It Hot (Comedy) Porgy and Bess (Musical) |
Ben-Hur | Room at the Top | Ben-Hur |
Best Director | William Wyler Ben-Hur |
- | William Wyler Ben-Hur | |
Best Actor | Jack Lemmon Some Like It Hot |
Anthony Franciosa Career |
The Defiant Ones |
Charlton Heston Ben-Hur |
Best Actress | Marilyn Monroe Some Like It Hot |
Elizabeth Taylor Suddenly, Last Summer |
Simone Signoret Room at the Top |
Simone Signoret Room at the Top |
Best Supporting Actor | Stephen Boyd Ben-Hur |
- | Hugh Griffith Ben-Hur | |
Best Supporting Actress | Susan Kohner Imitation of Life |
- | Shelley Winters The Diary of Anne Frank | |
Best Screenplay, Adapted | Room at the Top Neil Paterson |
Orders to Kill Paul Dehn |
Room at the Top Neil Paterson | |
Best Screenplay, Original |
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro), directed by Marcel Camus, France
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Il Generale della Rovere (General della Rovere), directed by Roberto Rossellini, Italy / France
- La grande guerra (The Great War), directed by Mario Monicelli, Italy / France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Les Cousins (The Cousins), directed by Claude Chabrol, France
1959 film releases
United States
unless stated
January–March
- January 1959
- 2 January
- India)
- 6 January
- 13 January
- 16 January
- India)
- 22 January
- Britain)
- West Germany)
- 25 January
- Italy)
- 28 January
- 29 January
- 2 January
- February 1959
- 11 February
- 12 February
- 15 February
- 17 February
- 19 February
- 22 February
- 24 February
- Britain)
- 26 February
- March 1959
- 3 March
- The Giant Behemoth
- A Stranger in My Arms
- 4 March
- 5 March
- Britain)
- 6 March
- 8 March
- Britain)
- 10 March
- Britain)
- 11 March
- France)
- 12 March
- 18 March
- 19 March
- 20 March
- 25 March
- Al Capone
- Britain)
- 29 March
- Spain)
- Some Like It Hot
- 3 March
April–June
- April 1959
- 1 April
- 4 April
- 6 April
- 8 April
- 10 April
- 14 April
- [[ ]]
- 16 April
- West Germany)
- 21 April
- Britain)
- 23 April
- 25 April
- USSR)
- Westbound
- 29 April
- 30 April
- May 1959
- 1 May
- India)
- 2 May
- France)
- 4 May
- France)
- Britain)
- 8 May
- 9 May
- USSR)
- 12 May
- Face of a Fugitive
- Japan)
- 14 May
- Britain)
- 19 May
- 21 May
- Ask Any Girl
- U.S./Ireland)
- 23 May
- 27 May
- 29 May
- 1 May
- June 1959
- 4 June
- Mexico)
- 10 June
- Japan)
- 12 June
- Italy)
- The Horse Soldiers
- 16 June
- Don't Give Up The Ship
- John Paul Jones
- Ten Seconds to Hell
- 17 June
- 18 June
- 24 June
- 25 June
- 26 June
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People (With Donald in Mathmagic Land released with it)
- This Earth Is Mine
- 27 June
- USSR)
- 4 June
July–September
- July 1959
- 1 July
- 2 July
- 3 July
- The Beat Generation
- The Heart of a Man
- Return of the Fly
- 5 July
- 8 July
- 11 July
- 14 July
- 15 July
- 16 July
- 17 July
- Britain)
- 18 July
- 20 July
- 22 July
- 24 July
- 29 July
- 30 July
- August 1959
- 4 August
- 5 August
- 6 August
- The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
- Britain)
- 9 August
- 11 August
- 13 August
- Britain)
- 19 August
- 20 August
- Britain)
- 22 August
- USSR)
- 24 August
- U.S.S.R./Finland)
- September 1959
- 3 September
- Britain)
- 4 September
- 9 September
- France)
- 10 September
- 11 September
- 12 September
- USSR)
- 15 September
- Britain)
- 16 September
- Britain)
- 18 September
- India)
- 24 September
- 25 September
- Italy)
- Britain)
- 26 September
- Italy)
- 3 September
October–December
- October 1959
- 3 October
- 6 October
- Pillow Talk
- 7 October
- 8 October
- Egypt)
- 9 October
- 15 October
- 16 October
- France)
- 18 October
- 21 October
- 22 October
- West Germany)
- The Last Angry Man
- 23 October
- Britain)
- 25 October
- Japan)
- 27 October
- 30 October
- India)
- The Wasp Woman
- November 1959
- 2 November
- 3 November
- Japan)
- 4 November
- 6 November
- Britain)
- 10 November
- 11 November
- Italy)
- Shadows
- Yellowstone Kelly
- 12 November
- The Miracle
- Mexico)
- 13 November
- France)
- 14 November
- Italy)
- India)
- 17 November
- 18 November
- 22 November
- 23 November
- 29 November
- 30 November
- Britain)
- December 1959
- 1 December
- 5 December
- Mexico)
- Operation Petticoat
- 7 December
- 11 December
- Britain)
- Li'l Abner
- Britain)
- 12 December
- Italy)
- Philippines)
- 15 December
- Britain)
- 16 December
- Philippines)
- The Gazebo
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- France)
- The Shakedown
- 17 December
- 18 December
- Denmark)
- 20 December
- 21 December
- Britain)
- 25 December
- Japan)
- 26 December
- Japan)
- 28 December
- Italy)
- 30 December
- Britain)
- 31 December
- USSR)
Notable films released in 1959
United States
unless stated
#
- 4D Man, starring Robert Lansing and Lee Meriwether
- The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, starring Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine
- Britain)
- France)Nights
- 1001 Arabian Nights, animated film directed by Jack Kinney.
A
- USSR)
- Al Capone, starring Rod Steiger[8]
- Alias Jesse James, starring Bob Hope
- The Alligator People, starring Beverly Garland
- India)
- Anatomy of a Murder, directed by Otto Preminger, starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, Arthur O'Connell, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott
- The Angry Hills, starring Robert Mitchum and Gia Scala
- The Angry Red Planet (aka Invasion of Mars), starring Gerald Mohr
- Argument About Basia (Awantura o Basię) – (Poland)
B
- Italy)
- U.S.S.R.)
- The Bat, starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead
- Battle Beyond the Sun (Nebo zovet) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Japan)
- Britain)
- The Beat Generation, starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren
- Beloved Infidel, starring Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr
- Golden Globes
- The Best of Everything, starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford
- The Big Circus, starring Victor Mature, Rhonda Fleming, Red Buttons, Gilbert Roland, Kathryn Grant
- The Big Fisherman, starring Howard Keel
- The Big Operator, starring Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren
- Japan)
- Italy)
- Philippines)
- Breakout, starring Hazel Court
- West Germany)
- A Bucket of Blood, directed by Roger Corman
- But Not for Me, directed by Walter Lang, starring Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb
C
- Britain)
- Career, starring Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Franciosa
- Britain)
- Carry On Nurse, starring Shirley Eaton and Kenneth Connor – (Britain)
- Carry On Teacher, starring Kenneth Connor and Leslie Phillips – (Britain)
- Norway)
- City of Fear, score by Jerry Goldsmith
- Italy)
- Compulsion, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, E. G. Marshall
- West Germany)
- France)
- The Crimson Kimono, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring James Shigeta
D
- Britain)
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People, starring Sean Connery
- Date With Death, starring Gerald Mohr
- Day of the Outlaw, starring Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Burl Ives
- West Germany)
- U.S.S.R.)
- Britain)
- The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by George Stevens, starring Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn
- India)
- Donald in Mathmagic Land (short subject)
- Don't Give Up The Ship, starring Jerry Lewis
- Norway)
E
- Britain)
F
- The FBI Story, starring James Stewart
- Face of a Fugitive, starring Fred MacMurray
- Italy)
- Mexico)
- Japan)
- The Five Pennies, starring Danny Kaye
- Floating Weeds (Ukikusa), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
- Britain)
- Forbidden Women, directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar, starring Salah Zulfikar and Huda Sultan – (Egypt)
- The Fugitive Kind, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward
G
- The Gazebo, starring Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
- Italy)
- The Giant Behemoth, starring Gene Evans and André Morell
- Gidget, starring Sandra Dee
- Girls Town, starring Mamie Van Doren
- Japan)
- La grande guerra (The Great War), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
- The Gunfight at Dodge City, starring Joel McCrea
- Guns, Girls and Gangsters, directed by Edward L. Cahn
H
- The Hanging Tree, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Gary Cooper, Karl Malden, George C. Scott
- The Hangman, starring Robert Taylor and Tina Louise
- Hannibal, starring Victor Mature and Rita Gam
- Happy Anniversary, starring David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor
- Britain)
- France/Japan)
- A Hole in the Head, starring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Carolyn Jones, Eddie Hodges
- Holiday for Lovers, starring Jane Wyman, Clifton Webb, Jill St. John
- USSR)
- Spain)
- The Horse Soldiers, starring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
- Britain)
- House on Haunted Hill, starring Vincent Price
I
- Britain)
- Imitation of Life, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Juanita Moore
- The Immoral Mr. Teas, directed by Russ Meyer
- The Indian Tomb, directed by Fritz Lang – (West Germany)
- Insan Jaag Utha, starring Madhubala – (India)
- It Happened to Jane, starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
- It Started with a Kiss, starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford
J
- Jazz on a Summer's Day, concert film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, directed by Bert Stern and Aram Avakian
- The Jazz Singer, a television film starring Jerry Lewis
- Jet Over the Atlantic, starring Guy Madison and Virginia Mayo
- Britain)
- John Paul Jones, starring Robert Stack
- The Journey, starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr
- Journey to the Center of the Earth, starring James Mason and Pat Boone
K
- India)
- France/Yugoslavia)
- Killers of Kilimanjaro, starring Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey
L
- The Last Angry Man, starring Paul Muni
- Last Train from Gun Hill, starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman
- The Law (La Legge), starring Gina Lollobrigida and Yves Montand – (Italy)
- Spain)
- France)
- The Legend of Tom Dooley, starring Michael Landon
- France)
- USSR)
- Little Greaser
- Britain)
- Li'l Abner, directed by Melvin Frank, starring Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Stella Stevens, Julie Newmar, Stubby Kaye
- Britain)
M
- Magic Boy (Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke) – Japanese animated film
- France)
- Britain)
- The Man in the Net, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Alan Ladd and Carolyn Jones
- The Man Who Could Cheat Death, starring Anton Diffring and Hazel Court
- Model for Murder, starring Keith Andes and Hazel Court
- Norway)
- Czechoslovakia)
- The Miracle, starring Carroll Baker and Roger Moore
- Mise Éire – (Ireland)
- Britain)
- The Mummy, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – (Britain)
- Japan)
N
- Mexico)
- Never So Few, starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen
- Night Train (Pociąg) – (Poland)
- Egypt)
- No Name on the Bullet, starring Audie Murphy
- North by Northwest, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
- Britain)
- The Nun's Story, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Audrey Hepburn
O
- Japan)
- Odds Against Tomorrow, starring Harry Belafonte and Robert Ryan
- On the Beach, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins
- Operation Petticoat, starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
- Britain)
- USSR)
P
- India)
- France)
- Pillow Talk, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson
- Spain)
- Plan 9 from Outer Space, directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr., starring Tor Johnson, Vampira, Bela Lugosi
- Porgy and Bess, a musical directed by Otto Preminger, starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge, music by George and Ira Gershwin
- Pork Chop Hill, starring Gregory Peck
R
- West Germany)
- Return of the Fly, starring Vincent Price
- Ride Lonesome, starring Randolph Scott
- Rio Bravo, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson
- The Rookie, starring Julie Newmar, Tommy Noonan, Peter Marshall
- Britain)
- The Roots of Heaven, directed by John Huston, starring Errol Flynn, Trevor Howard, Juliette Gréco, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles
S
- U.S.S.R./Finland)
- Britain)
- Say One for Me, starring Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds and Robert Wagner
- The Scapegoat, starring Alec Guinness and Bette Davis – (Britain)
- Serious Charge, starring Anthony Quayle – (Britain)
- Shadows, directed by John Cassavetes
- The Shaggy Dog, starring Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen and Tommy Kirk
- The Shakedown, starring Donald Pleasence and Hazel Court
- Shake Hands with the Devil, starring James Cagney – (U.S./Ireland)
- Sleeping Beauty, animated film produced by Walt Disney
- Mexico)
- Solomon and Sheba, starring Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida
- Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
- Britain)
- The Sound and the Fury, starring Yul Brynner and Joanne Woodward
- Bulgaria)
- Suddenly, Last Summer, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Katharine Hepburn
- A Summer Place, starring Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee
T
- Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, directed by John Guillermin, starring Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sean Connery
- Telegrame – (Romania)
- Ten Seconds to Hell, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Jack Palance
- Philippines)
- That Kind of Woman, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter
- The Unknown Woman, directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar, starring Shadia, Shoukry Sarhan and Kamal El-Shennawi – (Egypt)
- USSR)
- These Thousand Hills, starring Richard Egan, Don Murray, Lee Remick
- They Came to Cordura, starring Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Richard Conte, Dick York, Tab Hunter
- Third Man on the Mountain, starring Michael Rennie
- Britain)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur, directed by Fritz Lang – (West Germany)
- The Tingler, starring Vincent Price
- Tommy the Toreador, starring Tommy Steele – (Britain)
- Too Many Crooks, starring Terry-Thomas and George Cole – (Britain)
- Train Without a Timetable (Vlak bez voznog reda) – (Yugoslavia)
- The Trap, starring Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Earl Holliman, Tina Louise
- France)
U
- Up Periscope, starring James Garner and Edmond O'Brien
V
- Il vedovo (The Widower), directed by Dino Risi, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
- Spain)
- France)
W
- Warlock, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark and Anthony Quinn
- The Wasp Woman, starring Susan Cabot
- Denmark)
- Westbound, starring Randolph Scott and Virginia Mayo
- Czechoslovakia)
- The Wild and the Innocent, starring Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Sandra Dee
- Woman Obsessed, starring Susan Hayward
- The Wonderful Country, starring Robert Mitchum and Julie London
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil, starring Harry Belafonte and Inger Stevens
- India)
- U.S.)
Y
- Yellowstone Kelly, starring Clint Walker and Edd Byrnes
- Britain)
- The Young Philadelphians, starring Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Brian Keith, Alexis Smith, Robert Vaughn
Z
- Zorro, the Avenger, feature film released outside of the U.S., compiled from six episodes of the Disney Zorro, the Avenger TV series, starring Guy Williams and Charles Korvin
Short film series
- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Terrytoons (1930–1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
- Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
- Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
- The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
- Loopy De Loop (1959–1965)
Births
- January 1 - Adrian Hall, English former actor and co-director
- January 4 - Vanity, Canadian singer, songwriter, model and actress (died 2016)
- January 5 – Clancy Brown, American actor and voice actor
- January 12 - Ralf Moeller, German actor
- January 13 - Alan Taylor, American director
- January 17 – Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese former actress and singer
- January 22 – Linda Blair, American actress
- January 23 - Robert Funaro, American actor
- January 26 - Herbert Sigüenza, American actor, writer, visual artist and performer
- January 27 - Glenn Taranto, American actor and writer
- January 28 - Frank Darabont, American director, screenwriter and producer
- January 30 - Alex Hyde-White, American actor
- January 31
- Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor
- Kelly Lynch, American actress
- February 1 - Slink Johnson, American rapper, actor and comedian
- February 2 – Laine Mägi, Estonian actress and dancer
- February 4 – Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
- February 8 - Henry Czerny, Canadian actor
- February 12 - Sigrid Thornton, Australian actress
- February 16 - Hazelle Goodman, American actress
- February 18 - Jayne Atkinson, British-American actress
- February 22 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
- March 3
- Taylor Nichols, American actor
- Olivier Rabourdin, French actor
- March 5 – Darío Grandinetti, Argentinian actor
- March 6 – Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
- March 7
- Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
- Nick Searcy, American character actor
- March 8 – Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor
- March 9 – Rodney A. Grant, American actor
- March 11 – Margus Oopkaup, Estonian actor and dramatist[9]
- March 12 - Luenell, American comedian and actress
- March 14
- Laila Robins, American actress
- Tamara Tunie, American actress, director and producer
- March 15 – Renny Harlin, Finnish director and producer
- March 16
- Gary Basaraba, Canadian actor
- Ludger Pistor, German actor
- March 18
- Luc Besson, French director and producer
- Irene Cara, American actress and singer (died 2022)
- March 22 – Matthew Modine, American actor
- March 23 – Catherine Keener, American actress
- March 27 - Brian Tarantina, American character actor (died 2019)
- April 1 - Ivan G'Vera, Czech actor
- April 3 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor
- April 4 - Phil Morris, American actor and voice actor
- April 10 - Jochen Nickel, German actor
- April 13 - Jodie Markell, American actress and director
- April 15
- Emma Thompson, English actress
- Thomas F. Wilson, American actor, comedian and musician
- April 17 – Sean Bean, English actor
- April 20
- Clint Howard, American actor
- Yuji Okumoto, American actor of Japanese descent
- April 23
- Tim Blaney, American puppeteer and voice actor
- Jonathan Sagall, Israeli actor
- April 24 - Glenn Morshower, American character actor
- April 27 - Neil Pearson, British actor
- May 3 - Ben Elton, English comedian, actor and director
- May 10 - Victoria Rowell, American actress
- May 12 - Ving Rhames, American actor
- May 15 - Chris Meledandri, American producer and founder and CEO of Illumination (company)
- May 16 – Mare Winningham, American actress
- May 19 - Jim Ward, American voice actor, radio personality and camera operator
- May 20 - Bronson Pinchot, American actor
- May 21
- Nick Cassavetes, American actor, director and writer
- Dana Kimmell, American former actress and model
- May 26 - Kevin Gage, American character actor
- May 29 – Rupert Everett, English actor
- June 6
- Neal H. Moritz, American producer
- Colin Quinn, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
- June 7 - Francis Magee, Irish actor
- June 8 - Bernard White, American actor, screenwriter and director
- June 11 – Hugh Laurie, English actor
- June 16 - Willard E. Pugh, American actor
- June 22 – Wayne Federman, American actor and comedian
- June 23 - Duane Whitaker, American character actor
- June 28 - Chris Doohan, Canadian actor
- June 29 - Charlotte Attenborough, British actress
- June 30 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
- July 2 - Jere Fields, American former actress
- July 3
- Elisa Gabrielli, American actress
- Andreas Wisniewski, German actor and former dancer
- July 8
- Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Swiss actor
- Robert Knepper, American actor
- July 9 - Kevin Nash, American actor and retired professional wrestler
- July 12 - Charlie Murphy, American actor, comedian and writer (died 2017)
- July 16 - Bob Joles, American voice actor and musician
- July 26 – Kevin Spacey, American actor
- July 29 – Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
- August 2
- Urbain Cancelier, French comedian and actor
- Jim Doughan, American actor and writer
- August 3 - John C. McGinley, American actor
- August 10 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress
- August 14 – Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
- August 22 - Mark Williams, English actor, presenter and screenwriter
- August 27 - Peter Mensah, Ghanaian-British actor
- August 28 - Brian Thompson, American actor
- August 29 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
- September 3 - Merritt Butrick, American actor (died 1989)
- September 10
- Michael Earl, American puppeteer, actor, writer and singer (died 2015)
- Jim Meskimen, American actor and comedian
- Peter Nelson, American actor, producer and writer
- September 11 - John Hawkes, American actor
- September 14
- Kirk Baltz, American actor
- Haviland Morris, American actress
- September 19 - Mark Gustafson, American animator and director (died 2024)
- September 23
- Jason Alexander, American actor
- Elizabeth Pena, American actress, writer, panelist and musician (died 2014)
- September 24 - Steve Whitmire, American puppeteer
- September 28 - Steve Hytner, American actor
- October 2 - Kevin Eldon, English actor and comedian
- October 3 – Greg Proops, American actor, stand-up comedian, voice artist and television host
- October 7 - Dylan Baker, American character actor
- October 10
- Julia Sweeney, American actress, comedian and author
- Bradley Whitford, American actor and producer
- October 17 - Norm Macdonald, Canadian stand-up comedian, writer and actor (died 2021)
- October 21
- Tony Ganios, American actor (died 2024)
- Melora Walters, American actress
- Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
- October 22 - Marc Lawrence, American director, screenwriter and producer
- October 23
- Sam Raimi, American filmmaker and producer
- Weird Al Yankovic, American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, satirist, actor, music video director, and author
- October 26 - François Chau, American actor
- October 31 - Michael DeLorenzo, American actor, director, writer, producer and musician
- November 2 - Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and filmmaker
- November 4 - Ken Kirzinger, Canadian actor and stuntman
- November 8 - Don McManus, American character actor
- November 10 - Mackenzie Phillips, American actress and singer
- November 13 - Caroline Goodall, British actress and screenwriter
- November 14 – Paul McGann, English actor
- November 19 – Allison Janney, American actress
- November 20 – Sean Young, American actress
- November 28 – Judd Nelson, American actor
- December 13 – Johnny Whitaker, American actor
- December 14 - Debbie Lee Carrington, American actress and stuntwoman (died 2018)
- December 24
- Lee Daniels, American producer, director and screenwriter
- Jesús Ochoa, Mexican actor
- December 29
- Patricia Clarkson, American actress
- Brian Sergent, New Zealand actor
- December 30 - Tracey Ullman, British-American actress, comedian, singer, writer, producer and director
- December 31
- Ronnie del Carmen, Filipino director, animator and voice actor
- Val Kilmer, American actor
Deaths
- January 21
- Cecil B. DeMille, 77, American director and producer, The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Show on Earth
- Carl Switzer, 31, American singer and actor, Our Gang
- February 1 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan, 85, American actress, King of the Zombies, In Old Chicago
- February 4 – The Adventures of Robin Hood
- February 5 – Gwili Andre, 51, Danish actress, Secrets of the French Police, No Other Woman
- February 20 – George Archainbaud, 68, French director, Thirteen Women, Girls of the Big House
- February 22 – Helen Parrish, 34, American actress, Too Many Blondes, X Marks the Spot
- March 2 – Eric Blore, 71, British actor, Top Hat, The Lady Eve, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
- March 3 – Lou Costello, 52, American comedian and actor, half of Abbott and Costello comedy team, Africa Screams, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- March 26 – Raymond Chandler, 70, American author and screenwriter, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity
- March 27 – Grant Withers, 54, American actor, My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache
- April 12 – James Gleason, 76, American actor, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, The Bishop's Wife
- April 17 – Cecil Cunningham, 70, American actress, The Awful Truth, Monkey Business
- April 18 – Irving Cummings, 70, American director, Louisiana Purchase, The Dolly Sisters
- May 3 – Troy Sanders, 57, American score arranger and composer, White Christmas, Going My Way
- June 2 – Lyda Borelli, 75, Italian actress, Malombra, The Moth
- June 4 – Gilda, Love Me or Leave Me
- June 16 – George Reeves, 45, American actor, Gone with the Wind, So Proudly We Hail!
- June 18 – Ethel Barrymore, 79, American actress, Portrait of Jennie, The Spiral Staircase
- August 6 – Preston Sturges, 60, American writer, director, Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve
- September 6
- Edmund Gwenn, 81, British actor, Miracle on 34th Street, Mister 880
- Kay Kendall, 32, British actress, Genevieve, Les Girls
- September 11 – Paul Douglas, 52, American actor, A Letter to Three Wives, It Happens Every Spring
- September 13 – The Wizard of Oz, The Women
- September 14 – Wayne Morris, 45, American actor, Kid Galahad, Paths of Glory
- September 25 – Swing Time
- September 30 – Taylor Holmes, 81, American actor, Kiss of Death, Sleeping Beauty
- October 3 – William Bishop, 41, American actor, Harriet Craig, Top Gun
- October 7 – Mario Lanza, 38, American singer and actor, The Great Caruso, Winged Victory
- October 12 – Edward Keane, 75, American actor, Frontier Pony Express, The Roaring Twenties
- October 14 – The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
- October 21 – Olive Blakeney, 60, American actress, Leave It to Blanche, Don't Get Me Wrong
- October 23 – Gosta Berlings Saga
- October 30 – Noel Francis, 53, American actress, Blonde Crazy, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
- November 7 – Victor McLaglen, 72, British actor, The Quiet Man, Gunga Din
- November 20 – Son of the Red Corsair
- November 21 – Max Baer, 50, American boxer and actor, The Prizefighter and the Lady, The Harder They Fall
- November 25 – Gérard Philipe, 36, French actor, Fan-Fan the Tulip, Beauties of the Night
- December 1 – Jose Nepomuceno, 66, Filipino filmmaker and producer, Country Maiden, The Three Humbugs
- December 22 – Gilda Gray, 58, American actress, Aloma of the South Seas, Cabaret
- December 24 – Edmund Goulding, 68, American director, Grand Hotel, The Razor's Edge
Film debuts
- Francesca Annis – The Cat Gang
- Diane Baker – The Diary of Anne Frank
- Jack Betts – The Bloody Brood
- Michael Callan – They Came to Cordura
- Seymour Cassel – Shadows
- James Coburn – Ride Lonesome
- Michael Constantine – The Last Mile
- Jean-Pierre Darras – Two Men in Manhattan
- David Doyle – Happy Anniversary
- Mia Farrow – John Paul Jones
- Don Francks – The Fast Ones
- Jerry Goldsmith (film composer) – Face of a Fugitive
- Richard Harris – Alive and Kicking
- Martin Landau – Pork Chop Hill
- Martin LaSalle – Pickpocket
- Mako – Never So Few
- John Meillon – On the Beach
- Lee Meriwether – 4D Man
- Tomas Milian – The Big Night
- Nichelle Nichols – Porgy and Bess
- Warren Oates – Up Periscope
- Millie Perkins – The Diary of Anne Frank
- Michael J. Pollard – It Happened to Jane
- Carl Reiner – Happy Anniversary
- Bert Remsen – Pork Chop Hill
- Jason Robards – The Journey
- George C. Scott – The Hanging Tree
- Lucille Soong – Ferry to Hong Kong
- Stella Stevens – Say One for Me
- Romolo Valli – Policarpo
- Peter Vaughan – The 39 Steps
- Billy Dee Williams – The Last Angry Man
- Clarence Williams III – Pork Chop Hill
Notes
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
- ^ "All-time top film grossers", Variety 8 January 1964 p 37.
- ^ a b c d e f Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M140-M196.
- ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ Plunderers of Painted Flats at the American Film Institute Catalog
- ISBN 978-1560983699.
- ISBN 978-0-8264-2977-3.
- ^ "Al Capone (1959)". BFI. Archived from the original on December 29, 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ Maaleht. Endine näitleja Margus Oopkaup: toitu saan päevas osta kolme euro eest. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2016.