1963 in film

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The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1963 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1963
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	Cleopatra	20th Century Fox	$26,000,000^[1]
2	How the West Was Won	MGM	$20,932,883^[2]
3	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	United Artists	$20,800,000^[1]
4	Tom Jones		$17,070,000^[3]
5	Irma la Douce		$11,921,784^[3]
6	Son of Flubber	Buena Vista	$9,100,000^[1]
7	Charade	Universal	$6,363,000^[4]
8	Bye Bye Birdie	Columbia	$6,200,000^[4]
9	Come Blow Your Horn Move Over, Darling	Paramount 20th Century Fox	$6,000,000^[4]
10	The Great Escape	United Artists	$5,546,000^[4]

Events

January 9 –
MGM and is replaced by Robert O'Brien
.

February 20 – The classic epic western How the West Was Won premieres in the United States. It is an instant success with both audiences and critics and becomes the biggest moneymaker for MGM since Ben-Hur.
June 12 – one of the highest-grossing motion pictures of all time
.

November 7 – The comedy
The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
.

December 25 – Walt Disney's production of The Sword in the Stone premieres. It is the second adaptation of T. H. White's The Once and Future King after the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical Camelot, the first cinematic adaptation of the novel, and the 13th film adaptation of the legend of King Arthur.

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Tom Jones — Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert (British)

Best Director: Tony Richardson – Tom Jones

Best Actor: Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field

Best Actress: Patricia Neal – Hud

Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas – Hud

Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford – The V.I.P.s

Best Foreign Language Film: 8½ (Otto e mezzo), directed by Federico Fellini
, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Cardinal

Best Actor: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field

Best Actress: Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room

Comedy or Musical:

Best Picture: Tom Jones

Best Actor: Alberto Sordi - To Bed or Not to Bed

Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce

Other

Best Supporting Actor: John Huston - The Cardinal

Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford – The V.I.P.s

Best Director: Elia Kazan - America America

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), directed by Luchino Visconti, Italy

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città), directed by Francesco Rosi
, Italy

Golden Bear
(Berlin Film Festival):

Il diavolo (To Bed... or Not to Bed), directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro
, Italy

1963 film releases

United States
unless stated

January–March

January 1963
16 January
The Hook

Son of Flubber

22 January
The Young Racers

25 January
The Raven

30 January
Diamond Head

February 1963
13 February
8½ (Italy)

A Child Is Waiting

14 February
The Day Mars Invaded Earth

27 February
Follow the Boys

March 1963
1 March
High and Low (Japan)

3 March
California

The Long Ships

4 March
In the Cool of the Day

6 March
Diary of a Madman

Papa's Delicate Condition

7 March
I Could Go On Singing

15 March
House of the Damned

21 March
The Balcony

26 March
Operation Bikini

27 March
Come Fly with Me

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

28 March
The Birds

Love Is a Ball

29 March
Miracle of the White Stallions

April–June

April 1963
3 April
It Happened at the World's Fair

My Six Loves

Nine Hours to Rama

The Ugly American

4 April
Bye Bye Birdie

Call Me Bwana

8 April
The Sadist

13 April
Critic's Choice

17 April
The Man from the Diners' Club

21 April
Youth of the Beast (Japan)

24 April
Free, White and 21

29 April
Flaming Creatures

May 1963
May 12
Lord of the Flies (United Kingdom)

15 May
Black Zoo

Drums of Africa

16 May
Spencer's Mountain

20 May
Maniac

22 May
Dime with a Halo

29 May
55 Days at Peking

Hud

The List of Adrian Messenger

Tammy and the Doctor

June 1963
2 June
Savage Sam

4 June
The Nutty Professor

5 June
Come Blow Your Horn

Irma la Douce

Lancelot and Guinevere

12 June
Cleopatra

Donovan's Reef

The Girl Hunters

Island of Love

15 June
The Yellow Canary

17 June
The Terror

19 June
Captain Sindbad

Jason and the Argonauts

PT 109 released five months before John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.^[5]

The Stripper

21 June
A Gathering of Eagles

July–September

July 1963
4 July
The Great Escape

6 July
Blood Feast

7 July
Summer Magic

17 July
Tarzan's Three Challenges

The Thrill of It All

31 July
Cattle King

Gidget Goes to Rome

Toys in the Attic

August 1963
7 August
Beach Party

For Love or Money

10 August
The Young and The Brave

11 August
Matango (Japan)

14 August
Flipper

15 August
Billy Liar (United Kingdom)

Promises! Promises!

17 August
Black Sabbath

18 August
A Ticklish Affair

21 August
Cairo

The Caretakers

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze

28 August
The Gun Hawk

The Haunted Palace

September 1963
2 September
The Cool World

4 September
The Crawling Hand

Wall of Noise

6 September
Goldilocks and the Three Bares

11 September
Of Love and Desire

Shock Corridor

Twice-Told Tales

13 September
The V.I.P.s

18 September
The Haunting

In the French Style

X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes

The Young Swingers

25 September
Dementia 13

Thunder Island

29 September
Tom Jones

October–December

October 1963
1 October
Lilies of the Field

10 October
From Russia with Love (United Kingdom/United States)

16 October
Twilight of Honor

17 October
All the Way Home

19 October
Johnny Cool

23 October
Under the Yum Yum Tree

24 October
Mary, Mary

26 October
The Lost World of Sinbad (Japan)

29 October
Cry of Battle

30 October
A New Kind of Love

The Old Dark House

31 October
The World Ten Times Over (United Kingdom)

November 1963
5 November
Palm Springs Weekend

6 November
Gunfight at Comanche Creek

7 November
Carry On Cabby (United Kingdom)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

13 November
The Skydivers

Sunday in New York

Take Her, She's Mine

14 November
The Wheeler Dealers

18 November
The Victors

20 November
The Incredible Journey

23 November
McLintock!

27 November
Fun in Acapulco

Soldier in the Rain

28 November
Who's Minding the Store?

December 1963
5 December
Charade

13 December
The Cardinal

15 December
America America

18 December
The Ceremony

Kings of the Sun

The Pink Panther

Samson and the Slave Queen

22 December
Atragon (Japan)

23 December
Captain Newman, M.D.

Ladybug Ladybug

One Man's Way

25 December
4 for Texas

The Comedy of Terrors

Love with the Proper Stranger

Move Over, Darling

The Prize

The Sword in the Stone

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

26 December
Act One

Notable films released in 1963

United States
except where noted..

#

Japan
)

13 Frightened Girls, directed and produced by William Castle

4 for Texas, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ursula Andress, Anita Ekberg

Italy
)

55 Days at Peking, starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven

A

France
)

Act One, directed by Dore Schary and starring George Hamilton

Japan
)

Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din (Saladin), directed by Youssef Chahine – (Egypt)

All the Way Home, starring Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Ronnie Claire Edwards

Japan
)

America, America (a.k.a. The Anatolian Smile) by Elia Kazan

Italy
)
Italy/Yugoslavia
)

Japan
)

Japan
)

B
France
)
The Balcony, starring Shelley Winters, Peter Falk and Leonard Nimoy

West Germany
)

India
)

Brazil
)

Japan
)

France
)

Bob Cummings, Dorothy Malone

Italy
)

India
)

U.K.
)
The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy

U.K.
)

West Germany
)

France
)

Blood Feast, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

Italy
)

Italy
)

Japan
)

Bye Bye Birdie, starring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret

C

Call Me Bwana, directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams

Captain Newman, M.D., directed by David Miller, starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Bobby Darin, Eddie Albert, Angie Dickinson

Captain Sindbad

France
)

Carbide and Sorrel (Karbid und Sauerampfer) – (East Germany)

The Cardinal, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Romy Schneider, John Huston

U.K.
)

The Caretakers, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Stack, Polly Bergen

France
)

U.K.
)

U.K.
)

Czechoslovakia
)

The Ceremony, directed by Laurence Harvey

France
)

Charade, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, James Coburn

A Child Is Waiting, starring Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster

U.K./Switzerland
)

Romania
)
Come Blow Your Horn, starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Bill, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John

Come Fly With Me, starring Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Dolores Hart

The Conjugal Bed (L'ape regina), starring Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)

France
)

The Cool World, directed by Shirley Clarke

The Corrupt (Symphonie pour un massacre), directed by Jacques Deray

The Courtship of Eddie's Father, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Dina Merrill, Ron Howard

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, documentary film directed by Robert Drew

Critic's Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball

West Germany
)

Czechoslovakia
)

D

U.K.
)

France
)

Dementia 13, directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Italy
)

Diamond Head, starring Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, France Nuyen, George Chakiris, James Darren

Diary of a Madman, starring Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Elaine Devry

India
)

Donovan's Reef, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin

Hungary
)

E

Israel
)

Hong Kong
)

Italy
)

The Engagement (I fidanzati), directed by Ermanno Olmi – (Italy)

Spain
)

F

U.K.
)

Italy
)

France
)

Flaming Creatures, directed by Jack Smith

Flipper, starring Chuck Connors and Luke Halpin

Follow the Boys, starring Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Dany Robin, Janis Paige

For Love or Money, starring Kirk Douglas and Mitzi Gaynor

U.S.
)

Fun in Acapulco, starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress

G

A Gathering of Eagles, starring Rock Hudson

Gidget Goes to Rome, starring Cindy Carol

The Girl Hunters, starring Mickey Spillane (as Mike Hammer), with Lloyd Nolan, Shirley Eaton

Italy
)

Italy
)

Gone Are the Days!, starring Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Godfrey Cambridge

Goryeojang (고려장), written, produced and directed by Kim Ki-young – (South Korea)

The Great Escape, directed by John Sturges, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence

Portugal
)

H

Hallelujah the Hills, directed by Adolfas Mekas

Italy
)

The Haunted Palace, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price

U.K.
)

France
)

U.K.
)

Japan
)

The Hook, starring Kirk Douglas

Italy
)

India
)

How to Be Loved (Jak być kochaną), starring Zbigniew Cybulski – (Poland)

Hud, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Melvyn Douglas

I

U.S.
)

Czechoslovakia
)

Turkey
)

In the Cool of the Day, starring Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury

West Germany
)

The Incredible Journey

Japan
)

Irma la Douce, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine

U.K.
)

Island of Love, starring Robert Preston and Walter Matthau

It Happened at the World's Fair, starring Elvis Presley

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Phil Silvers, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Edie Adams, Dick Shawn and many more

U.K.
)

U.S.S.R.
)

J

U.S.
)

Johnny Cool, starring Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery

France
)

K

Japan
)

Kings of the Sun, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Yul Brynner and George Chakiris

Kiss of the Vampire, directed by Don Sharp

L

U.K.
)

Ladybug Ladybug, directed by Frank Perry

Italy
)

Netherlands
)

Lilies of the Field, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Sidney Poitier

The List of Adrian Messenger, directed by John Huston, starring George C. Scott

France
)

U.K.
)

Hong Kong
)

Love Is a Ball, starring Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Charles Boyer, Ricardo Montalbán

Love with the Proper Stranger, starring Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen

M

West Germany
)

Italy
)

The Man from the Diner's Club, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Danny Kaye

Maniac, directed by Michael Carreras

Barry Nelson

Japan
)

Spain
)

U.K.
)

McLintock!, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara

U.K.
)

Miracle of the White Stallions, starring Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Eddie Albert

Monstrosity (a.k.a. The Atomic Brain), directed by Joseph V. Mascelli

Egypt
)

U.K.
)

Move Over, Darling, starring Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Chuck Connors

India
)

U.S.
)

France
)

My Six Loves, starring Debbie Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, David Janssen

N

Naked Among Wolves (Nackt unter Wölfen) – (East Germany)

India
)

A New Kind of Love, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

Japan
)

U.S.
)

Not on Your Life (El Verdugo), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Nino Manfredi
– (Spain)

Spain
)

U.K.
)

Spain
)
The Nutty Professor, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, with Stella Stevens

O

U.S.
)

One Man's Way, directed by Denis Sanders and starring Don Murray

Operation Bikini, starring Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Gary Crosby

France
)

Italy
)

U.S.S.R.
)

Italy
)

P

PT 109, starring Cliff Robertson as John F. Kennedy

Papa's Delicate Condition, starring Jackie Gleason

Mexico
)

U.K.
)

Passenger (Pasażerka) – (Poland)

The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine

Pour la suite du monde (For Those Who Will Follow) – (Canada)

The Prize, starring Paul Newman and Elke Sommer

Promises! Promises!, starring Jayne Mansfield

U.K.
)

R

Rampage, starring Robert Mitchum and Elsa Martinelli

The Raven, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

Sweden
)

Greece
)

U.K.
)

S

The Sadist (a.k.a. Profile of Terror or Sweet Baby Charlie), directed by James Landis

U.K.
)

Savage Sam, a sequel to Old Yeller directed by Norman Tokar

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, directed by James Neilson

U.K.
)
Scum of the Earth!, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

U.K.
)

Shock Corridor, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Peter Breck and Constance Towers

Showdown, starring Audie Murphy

Sweden
)

U.K.
)

Soft Hands, directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar – (Egypt)

Sodom and Gomorrah, starring Stewart Granger, Anouk Aimée, Pier Angeli

Soldier in the Rain, starring Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason

Son of Flubber, starring Fred MacMurray

U.K.
)

Spencer's Mountain, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara

France
)

West Germany
)

The Stripper, starring Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Gypsy Rose Lee

Stolen Hours, starring Susan Hayward and Diane Baker

Italy
)

U.K.
)

Summer Magic, starring Dorothy McGuire, Hayley Mills, Deborah Walley

Sunday in New York, starring Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor, Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp

Czechoslovakia
)

France
)

France
)

Sweet Skin (Strip-tease), directed by
France
)

Disney
film

T

India
)

Take Her, She's Mine, starring James Stewart, Sandra Dee and Audrey Meadows

Take It All (À tout prendre, a.k.a. All Things Considered) directed by Claude Jutra – (Canada)

Tammy and the Doctor, starring Sandra Dee and Peter Fonda

Spain
)

U.S.
)

The Terror, produced and directed by Roger Corman

U.K.
)

U.K.
)

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze, starring the Three Stooges

The Thrill of It All, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Doris Day and James Garner

A Ticklish Affair, directed by George Sidney, starring Shirley Jones and Gig Young

To Beep or Not to Beep, written and directed by Chuck Jones, starring Wile E. Coyote and The Road runner

France
)

U.K.
)

France
)

Toys in the Attic, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Dean Martin, Geraldine Page and Yvette Mimieux

Twice-Told Tales, starring Vincent Price

Twilight of Honor, starring Richard Chamberlain

U

The Ugly American, starring Marlon Brando

U.K.
)

Under the Yum Yum Tree, starring Jack Lemmon, Dean Jones, Carol Lynley, Edie Adams

V

France
)

U.K.
)

Italy
)

U.K.
)

Czechoslovakia
)

W

U.S.S.R.
)

Wall of Noise, directed by Richard Wilson and starring Suzanne Pleshette and Ty Hardin

U.K.
)

What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, a short film directed by Martin Scorsese

The Wheeler Dealers, starring James Garner and Lee Remick

The Whip and the Body (La frusta e il corpo), directed by Mario Bava under the alias "John M. Old"

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, starring Dean Martin, Carol Burnett, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jill St. John

Who's Minding the Store?, starring Jerry Lewis, Agnes Moorehead, Jill St. John

Sweden
)

Wives and Lovers, starring Janet Leigh, Shelley Winters, Martha Hyer

Italy
)

U.K.
)

X

X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes, directed by Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland

Y

The Yellow Canary, starring Pat Boone

Italy
)

Japan
)

Greece
)

Japan
)

Z

Japan
)

Japan
)

Short film series

Looney Tunes (1930–1969)

Terrytoons (1930–1964)

Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)

Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)

Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

Births

January 3 - Rebecca Broussard, American former actress

January 4 - Dave Foley, Canadian actor and comedian

January 6 - Tony Halme, Finnish politician, author, actor and singer (d. 2010)

January 8 - Geoff Bell, English actor

January 14 - Steven Soderbergh, US director^[6]

January 20 - Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Lithuanian-Russian-British actress

January 22 - Nicola Duffett, English actress

January 26 - Chin Siu-ho, Hong Kong actor

February 3 - Kirk Baily, American actor (d. 2022)

February 12 - John Michael Higgins, American actor

February 13 - Barry Tubb, American actor and director

February 16 - Faran Tahir, Pakistani-American actor

February 17
Michael Jordan, US basketball player and occasional actor

Larry the Cable Guy, American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, singer and radio personality

February 19 - Joey Diaz, Cuban-American stand-up comedian and actor

February 21 - William Baldwin, actor

February 22 - Peggy Lu, American actress

March 4 - Daniel Roebuck, American actor and writer

March 11 - Alex Kingston, English actress

March 12 - Jake Weber, English actor

March 18 -
Vanessa L. Williams
, actress, singer and beauty queen

March 19
Stuart McQuarrie, Scottish actor

Mary Scheer, American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer

March 20
Kathy Ireland, American model and actress

Ofer Samra, American artist and actor

David Thewlis, English actor

March 22 - Francesco Quinn, Italian-born American actor (d. 2011)

March 27 - Quentin Tarantino, director

April 2 - Tim Hodge, American voice actor, story artist, writer, animator, comedian and director

April 4 - Graham Norton, Irish actor, comedian, commentator and presenter

April 8 - Dean Norris, American actor

April 17 - Joel Murray, actor

April 18
Conan O'Brien, television entertainer and talk show host

Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor

April 19 - Thomas Mills Wood, American actor

April 26 - Jet Li, Singaporean actor

April 27 - Yammie Lam, Hong Kong actress (d. 2018)^[7]

May 10 - Rich Moore, American director, screenwriter and voice actor

May 11 - Natasha Richardson, actress (d. 2009)

May 12 - Gavin Hood, South African filmmaker and actor

May 15
Brenda Bakke, American actress

Jamie Harris, British actor

Grant Heslov, American actor and filmmaker

May 16 - Marina Massironi, Italian actress

May 25 - Mike Myers, Canadian actor

May 30 - Cynthia Gouw, American actress

June 1
Brian Goodman, American director, writer and actor

David Rudman, American puppeteer, writer, director and producer

June 6 - Jason Isaacs, English actor

June 9 - Johnny Depp, US actor

June 10 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actress

June 12
Tim DeKay, actor & producer

Patrice Martinez, American actress (d. 2018)

June 15 - Helen Hunt, US actress and director

June 17 - Greg Kinnear, American actor, producer and television personality

June 22 - Heidi Kozak, Danish-American actress

June 25
John Benjamin Hickey, American actor

Jackie Swanson, American actress

June 29 - Judith Hoag, American actress

June 30 - Rupert Graves, English actor

July 2 - Mark Kermode, English critic

July 4
Raman Hui, Hong Kong animator, driector and producer

Monty Montgomery, American producer, director, actor and screenwriter

July 8 - Rocky Carroll, American actor and director

July 13 - Sandy Fox, American voice actress

July 15
Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress and singer

Joy Smithers, Australian actress

July 16 - Phoebe Cates, American former actress

July 17 - Stephen Tredre, English actor and writer (d. 1997)

July 18 - Jeff Burr, American director, writer and producer (d. 2023)

July 19 - Bettina Kupfer, German actress

July 20 - Frank Whaley, American actor, director, screenwriter and comedian

July 27 - Donnie Yen, Hong Kong actor

July 29 - Alexandra Paul, US actress

July 30 - Lisa Kudrow, US actress

August 1
Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor

John Carroll Lynch, American character actor and director

Coolio, American rapper and actor (d. 2022)

August 2 - Igor Khait, American animator (d. 2016)

August 3 - Lisa Ann Walter, American actress, comedian and producer

August 5 - Mark Strong, English actor

August 7
Ramon Estevez, American actor and director

Harold Perrineau, US actor

August 9 - Whitney Houston, American actress, producer and singer (d. 2012)

August 13 - Sridevi, Indian actress (d. 2018)

August 14 - Emmanuelle Béart, French actress

August 16 - Christine Cavanaugh, American actress (d. 2014)

August 19
Darcy DeMoss, American actress

John Stamos, American actor and musician

August 23 - Ed Gale, American actor and stunt performer

August 24 - Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game designer, director, producer, and writer

August 28 - Peter Mygind, Danish actor

August 30 - Michael Chiklis, American actor, director and producer

September 3
Serena Gordon, English actress

Holt McCallany, American actor, producer and writer

September 5 - Jonny Phillips, English actor

September 8
David Lee Smith, American actor

Larry Zerner, American actor

September 12 - Michael McElhatton, Irish actor and writer

September 17
Gian-Carlo Coppola, American producer and actor (d. 1986)

James Urbaniak, American character actor

September 18 - Christopher Heyerdahl, Canadian actor

September 19
Spencer Garrett, American actor

Dan Povenmire, animator and voice actor

September 20 - Ivan Heng, Singaporean actor

September 21 - Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor

September 25
Tate Donovan, American actor and director

Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor

September 27
Marc Maron, American stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer, actor, and musician

Brian Steele, American actor

October 1 - Beth Chamberlin, American actress

October 6 - Elisabeth Shue, US actress

October 8 - David Yates, English director, producer and writer

October 9 - Sheila Kelley, American actress

October 12
Rami Heuberger, Israeli actor and director

Dave Legeno, English actor (d. 2014)

October 14 - Lori Petty, American actress

October 23 - Allison Shearmur, American producer (d. 2018)

October 27 - Deborah Moore, English actress

October 28 - Lauren Holly, American-Canadian actress

October 29 - Jed Brophy, New Zealand actor

October 30 - Michael Beach, American actor

October 31
Sanjeev Bhaskar, British actor, comedian and television presenter

Dermot Mulroney, American actor

Rob Schneider, actor and comedian

November 3 - Brian Henson, American puppeteer, director and director

November 5 - Tatum O'Neal, American actress

November 10
Hugh Bonneville, English actor

Tommy Davidson, American actor and comedian

November 12 - Sam Lloyd, American actor and singer (d. 2020)

November 15 - Kevin J. O'Connor, American actor

November 17 - Perry Caravello, American actor and comedian

November 20 - Ming-Na Wen, American actress

November 22 - Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Icelandic actor

November 25 - Kevin Chamberlin, American actor and singer

November 27
Vladimir Mashkov, Russian actor

Fisher Stevens, American actor

December 5 - Carrie Hamilton, American actress and singer (d. 2002)

December 6
Jens Hultén, Swedish actor

Matt Malloy, American actor

December 8 - Wendell Pierce, American actor and producer

December 15 - Helen Slater, American actress

December 16
Benjamin Bratt, American actor, producer and activist

James Mangold, American filmmaker

December 18
Olivier Broche, French actor and producer

Brad Pitt, American actor

December 19
Jennifer Beals, actress

Til Schweiger, actor

December 20
Joel Gretsch, American actor

Iqbal Theba, Pakistani actor

December 23 - Jess Harnell, American voice actor and singer

Deaths

January 1 – Filippo Del Giudice, 70, Italian film producer^[8]

January 2
Dick Powell, 58, American actor, director, Murder, My Sweet, The Bad and the Beautiful

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mildred Pierce

January 6 – Frank Tuttle, 70, American director, This Gun for Hire, Waikiki Wedding

January 26 – Ole Olsen, 70, American actor and comedian, Hellzapoppin'

January 28 – John Farrow, 58, Australian director, Hondo, The Big Clock

February 2 – William Gaxton, 69, American actor and singer, Diamond Horseshoe, The Heat's On

February 8 – George Dolenz, 55, Hungarian actor, Vendetta, My Cousin Rachel

February 18 – Monte Blue, 76, American actor, Key Largo, White Shadows in the South Seas

March 18 – Wanda Hawley, 67, American actress, The Young Rajah, The Midnight Message

March 25 – Felix Adler, 79, American screenwriter, Saps at Sea, Block-Heads

April 4 – Jason Robards Sr., 70, American actor, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Isle of the Dead

April 30 – Bryant Washburn, 74, American actor, Sky Patrol, Adventures of Captain Marvel

May 2 – Oscar A. C. Lund, 77, Swedish film actor, director, and writer

May 6 – Monty Woolley, 74, American actor, The Bishop's Wife, The Man Who Came to Dinner

May 17 – Daniel Mendaille, 77, French actor, On Trial, Napoléon

May 19 – Luana Walters, 50, American actress, Mexicali Rose, The Corpse Vanishes

July 1 - Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, Egyptian director and producer, The Second Man, The River of Love

June 7 – ZaSu Pitts, 69, American actress, Greed, Life with Father

June 18 – Pedro Armendáriz, 51, Mexican actor, The Fugitive, Fort Apache

June 20 – Gordon Jones, 51, American actor, I Take This Oath, The Green Hornet

July 10 – John Sutton, 54, Pakistani actor, The Three Musketeers, Captain from Castile

July 25 – Leota Lane, 59, American singer, actress, Three Hollywood Girls

August 4 – Tom Keene, 66, American actor, Our Daily Bread, Ghost Valley

August 14 – Clifford Odets, 57, American playwright and screenwriter, Sweet Smell of Success, None but the Lonely Heart

August 17 – Richard Barthelmess, 68, American actor, Broken Blossoms, Only Angels Have Wings

August 23 – Mary Gordon, 81, Scottish actress, Smart Guy, Shamrock Hill

August 25 – Edward L. Cahn, 64, American director, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Girls in Prison

September 4 – Byron Russell, 79, Irish actor, Mutiny on the Bounty, Parnell

September 15 – Oliver Wallace, 76, English composer, Dumbo, Cinderella, Peter Pan

October 8 –
Frank R. Adams, 80, American composer and screenwriter, Peg o' My Heart, The Cowboy and the Lady

Grace Darmond, 68, Canadian actress, What Every Woman Wants, The Hope Diamond Mystery

October 11 – Jean Cocteau, 74, French director and screenwriter, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus

October 18 – Constance Worth, 52, Australian actress, China Passage, Meet Boston Blackie

October 29 –
A Star is Born

October 31
Henry Daniell, 69, British actor, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, The Great Dictator

Hans Jacoby, 59, German screenwriter, Reunion in Reno, Champagne for Caesar

November 1 – Elsa Maxwell, 82, American gossip columnist, Rhapsody in Blue, Stage Door Canteen

November 15 -
Paul Sloane, 70, American director, The Woman Accused, Down to Their Last Yacht

November 25
Jean Brooks, 47, American actress, The Leopard Man, The Seventh Victim

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

November 29 – Charles Schnee, 47, American screenwriter, The Bad and the Beautiful, Red River

November 30
Phil Baker, 67, American comedian and actor, The Gang's All Here, Take It or Leave It

Gina Malo, 54, American actress, The Gang Show, All In

December 2
Jungle Book, The Thief of Bagdad

Mario Zampi, 60, Italian director, The Naked Truth, Five Golden Hours

December 4 – Robert Hamer, 52, British director, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Dead of Night

December 5 – Tom London, 74, American actor, Calamity Jane, High Noon

December 12
Yasujirō Ozu, 60, Japanese director and screenwriter, Tokyo Story, Late Spring

Barbara Read, 45, Canadian actress, Three Smart Girls, The Shadow Returns

Film debuts

Alan Alda – Gone are the Days!

Martine Beswick – From Russia with Love

James Brolin – Take Her, She's Mine

Genevieve Bujold – Amanita Pestilens

Michael Byrne – The Scarlet Blade

James Caan – Irma la Douce

Robert Culp – PT 109

Héctor Elizondo – The Fat Black Pussycat

Antonio Fargas – The Cool World

Louise Fletcher – A Gathering of Eagles

Peter Fonda – Tammy and the Doctor

Teri Garr – Fun in Acapulco

George Gaynes – PT 109

Henry Gibson – The Nutty Professor

Julian Glover – Tom Jones

Arlene Golonka – Love with the Proper Stranger

Georgina Hale – The World Ten Times Over

Clint Howard – The Courtship of Eddie's Father

David Huddleston – All the Way Home

George Innes – Billy Liar

Yaphet Kotto – 4 for Texas

Jeroen Krabbé – Fietsen naar de Maan

Christopher Lambert – Who's Minding the Store?

Geoffrey Lewis – The Fat Black Pussycat

Ottavia Piccolo – The Leopard

Lynn Redgrave – Tom Jones

Andy Romano – Beach Party

Kurt Russell – It Happened at the World's Fair

Joffre Soares – Vidas secas

Philip Stone – Unearthly Stranger

Donald Sutherland – The World Ten Times Over

Dick Van Patten – Violent Midnight

Robert Walker Jr. – The Hook

Brook Williams – The V.I.P.s

Edy Williams – For Love or Money

References

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ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6
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^ Susan Sackett, The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits Billboard Books, 1996 p 160

^ ^a ^b Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M140-M196.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Top 20 Films of 1963 by Domestic Revenue

TCM.com

^ 1963 in film at the Encyclopædia Britannica

^ Leung, Rachel. "Former TVB actress Yammie Lam, 55, found dead in Hong Kong flat". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 3 November 2018.

^ "Del Giudice, Filippo (1892-1962)". Screen Online. Retrieved 31 May 2020.

External links

List of 1963 films at IMDb

List of 1963 deaths at IMDb

List of 1963 births at IMDb

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[Finler-1] 
ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6
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[HollywoodBoxOfficeHitsBook-2] Susan Sackett, The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits Billboard Books, 1996 p 160

[AllTime-3] Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M140-M196.

[1963DomesticRevenue-4] Top 20 Films of 1963 by Domestic Revenue

[tcmart-5] TCM.com

[6] 1963 in film at the Encyclopædia Britannica

[7] Leung, Rachel. "Former TVB actress Yammie Lam, 55, found dead in Hong Kong flat". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 3 November 2018.

[8] "Del Giudice, Filippo (1892-1962)". Screen Online. Retrieved 31 May 2020.

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