1964 in film

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The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including three highly successful musical films, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1964 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1964
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	Mary Poppins	Buena Vista	$31,000,000^[1]
2	My Fair Lady	Warner Bros.	$30,000,000^[2]
3	Goldfinger	United Artists	$22,500,000^[1]
4	The Carpetbaggers	Paramount	$15,500,000^[1]
5	From Russia With Love	United Artists	$9,200,000^[1]
6	A Shot in the Dark	United Artists	$6,748,000^[3]
7	What a Way to Go!	20th Century Fox	$6,100,000^[4]
8	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	MGM	$6,040,000^[3]
9	The Pink Panther	United Artists	$5,935,000^[3]
10	A Hard Day's Night	United Artists	$5,800,000^[5]

Events

January 29 – 50-year-old actor Alan Ladd is found dead in bed at his home in Palm Springs, California. An autopsy confirms the cause of death as cerebral edema caused by an acute overdose of "alcohol and three other drugs" His death is ruled accidental. Ladd's final film, The Carpetbaggers, is released in April and, despite mostly negative reviews from critics, becomes a major commercial success.
March 6 – Elvis Presley's 14th motion picture, Kissin' Cousins, is released to theaters.
March 15 - Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton.
June 3 – The animated film Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! is released. Not only it is the first theatrical feature produced by Hanna-Barbera but also the first full-length theatrical animated film based on the animated television program.
July 6 – A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premieres.
August 27 – The film Mary Poppins is released. Not only is it a massive hit with both critics and audiences, but it also becomes Disney's highest-grossing film of all time. It goes on to win five Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Julie Andrews.
October – In Photoplay magazine, Hedda Hopper announces that Sophia Loren and Paul Newman will star in the film version of Arthur Miller's play After the Fall, with Loren in the role that was written about Marilyn Monroe. The film is never made.

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: My Fair Lady – Warner Bros.

Best Director: George Cukor – My Fair Lady

Best Actor: Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady

Best Actress: Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins

Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov – Topkapi

Best Supporting Actress: Lila Kedrova – Zorba the Greek

Best Foreign Language Film: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Ieri, oggi, domani), directed by Vittorio De Sica

, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Becket

Best Actor: Peter O'Toole – Becket

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft – The Pumpkin Eater

Comedy or Musical:

Best Picture: My Fair Lady

Best Actor: Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady

Best Actress: Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins

Other

Best Supporting Actor: Edmond O'Brien – Seven Days in May

Best Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead – Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Best Director: George Cukor – My Fair Lady

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), directed by Jacques Demy

, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

, Italy

Golden Bear

(Berlin Film Festival):

Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer), directed by Ismail Metin

, Turkey

1964 film releases

United States

unless stated

January–March

January 1964
- 19 January
  - Strait-Jacket
- 22 January
- 29 January
  - Dr. Strangelove
  - Man's Favorite Sport?
- 30 January
  - A Global Affair
  - Surf Party
February 1964
- 5 February
  - Man in the Middle
- 10 February
  - The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
- 12 February
  - Seven Days in May
- 19 February
  - Dead Ringer
  - Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
- 26 February
  - He Rides Tall
March 1964
- 6 March
  - Kissin' Cousins
- 8 March
  - Italy
    )

April–June

April 1964
1 April
The Curse of the Living Corpse

Gunfighters of Casa Grande

3 April
Dark Purpose

5 April
The Best Man

8 April
Paris When It Sizzles

The Strangler

9 April
The Carpetbaggers

14 April
The Quick Gun

21 April
The Chalk Garden

French Dressing

28 April
The Third Secret

Woman of Straw

29 April
Japan
)

May 1964
2 May
The Bargee

The Thin Red Line

6 May
The Visit

11 May
What a Way to Go!

13 May
The Eyes of Annie Jones

14 May
Girl with Green Eyes

19 May
Signpost to Murder

20 May
Black Like Me

The Brass Bottle

Rhino!

Viva Las Vegas

27 May
A Distant Trumpet

From Russia with Love

29 May
3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt

June 1964
1 June
The Horror of Party Beach

The New Interns

3 June
For Those Who Think Young

Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!

Honeymoon Hotel

4 June
633 Squadron

The Three Lives of Thomasina

10 June
Advance to the Rear

Bedtime Story

McHale's Navy

Wild and Wonderful

11 June
The Unsinkable Molly Brown

17 June
Robinson Crusoe on Mars

23 June
A Shot in the Dark

The Young Lovers

24 June
Flipper's New Adventure

The Masque of the Red Death

Robin and the 7 Hoods

25 June
Circus World

26 June
The Cavern

July–September

July 1964
2 July
The Moon-Spinners

The Pawnbroker

3 July
Island of the Blue Dolphins

6 July
A Hard Day's Night

7 July
The Killers

8 July
Lady in a Cage

22 July
Bikini Beach

Good Neighbor Sam

Marnie

Shock Treatment

29 July
Carry On Spying

One Potato, Two Potato

August 1964
5 August
Ride the Wild Surf

6 August
The Night of the Iguana

11 August
Crooks in Cloisters

Japan
)

12 August
A House Is Not a Home

The Patsy

14 August
Behold a Pale Horse

16 August
Diary of a Bachelor

26 August
The Beauty Jungle

I'd Rather Be Rich

27 August
Mary Poppins

September 1964
2 September
The 7th Dawn

Bullet for a Badman

The Comedy Man

Topkapi

4 September
Italy
)

11 September
Lorna

12 September
Italy
)

16 September
The Secret Invasion

18 September
Goldfinger

19 September
Nothing but a Man

25 September
Fanny Hill

27 September
Lilith

October–December

October 1964
3 October
Cheyenne Autumn

7 October
Fail-Safe

8 October
The Outrage

11 October
Blood on the Arrow

The System

14 October
Invitation to a Gunfighter

Send Me No Flowers

20 October
The Black Torment

24 October
The Lively Set

27 October
The Americanization of Emily

28 October
Rio Conchos

29 October
The Naked Kiss

The Time Travelers

The Train

November 1964
2 November
Where Love Has Gone

4 November
Kitten with a Whip

Youngblood Hawke

Your Cheatin' Heart

5 November
Flight to Fury

8 November
Fate Is the Hunter

9 November
My Fair Lady

10 November
Roustabout

Stage to Thunder Rock

11 November
Pajama Party

15 November
Back Door to Hell

18 November
Goodbye Charlie

21 November
Four Days in November

25 November
Ensign Pulver

26 November
Apache Rifles

27 November
Looking for Love

December 1964
3 December
Dear Heart

4 December
Kisses for My President

10 December
Carry On Cleo

Father Goose

The Golden Head

12 December
Raiders from Beneath the Sea

16 December
The Disorderly Orderly

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Zorba the Greek

18 December
Emil and the Detectives

Get Yourself a College Girl

20 December
Japan
)

22 December
Kiss Me, Stupid

25 December
The Pleasure Seekers

Sex and the Single Girl

28 December
Carol for Another Christmas

30 December
The Night Walker

Notable films released in 1964

United States
unless stated

#

3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt, starring Mamie Van Doren and Tommy Noonan

7 Faces of Dr. Lao, starring Tony Randall, Barbara Eden and Arthur O'Connell, with special effects by George Pal

The 7th Dawn, starring William Holden and Susannah York

U.K.
)

A

Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi and Pari Saberi
(Iran)

Advance to the Rear, directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens and Melvyn Douglas

Japan
)

Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens

U.S.S.R.
)

All These Women (För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor), directed by Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden)

The Americanization of Emily, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring James Garner and Julie Andrews

France
)

France
)

France
)

Japan
)

Brazil
)

Czechoslovakia
)

A Trip to the Moon

India
)

B

Back Door to Hell, starring Jimmie Rodgers and Jack Nicholson

France
)

Ballad in Blue, directed by Paul Henreid and starring Ray Charles

France
)

U.K.
)

The Beauty Jungle, starring Ian Hendry – (U.K.)

Becket, directed by Peter Glenville, starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton – (U.K./U.S.)

Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando, David Niven and Shirley Jones

Italy
)

Behold a Pale Horse, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif

Belarmino, a Cinema Novo docufiction – (Portugal)

The Best Man, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, written by Gore Vidal, starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson

Bikini Beach, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer and Don Rickles

Brazil
)

Black Like Me, starring James Whitmore and Roscoe Lee Browne

Czechoslovakia
)

U.K.
)

Italy
)

Blood on the Arrow, directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Dale Robertson and Martha Hyer

France
)

The Brass Bottle, starring Tony Randall, Burl Ives and Barbara Eden

Bullet for a Badman, starring Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin and Ruta Lee

C

A Carol for Another Christmas, starring Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland

The Carpetbaggers, starring George Peppard, Carroll Baker and Elizabeth Ashley

U.K.
)

Carry On Spying, starring Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor – (U.K.)

France
)

France
)

U.S.S.R.
)

The Chalk Garden, starring Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills – (U.K.)

Charulata, directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)

Cheyenne Autumn, directed by John Ford, starring Carroll Baker, Richard Widmark, Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden

France
)

Circus World, starring John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth

The Comedy Man, starring Kenneth More and Cecil Parker – (U.K.)

The Comedy of Terrors, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone

U.K.
)

The Curse of the Hidden Vault (Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß), directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb – (West Germany)

The Curse of the Living Corpse, produced, written and directed by Del Tenney

U.K.
)

D

Dark Purpose, starring Shirley Jones

Dead Ringer, starring Bette Davis, Peter Lawford

Dear Heart, directed by Delbert Mann, starring Geraldine Page, Glenn Ford and Angela Lansbury

Dear John (Käre John), directed by Lars-Magnus Lindgren – (Sweden)

U.K.
)

The Devil-Ship Pirates, starring Christopher Lee and Andrew Keir

Czechoslovakia
)

Diary of a Bachelor, directed by Sandy Howard, starring William Traylor, Joe Silver and Dagne Crane

France
)

The Disorderly Orderly, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Jerry Lewis and Susan Oliver

A Distant Trumpet, starring Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette and Diane McBain

Italy/Liechtenstein
)

Japan
)

India
)
Dr. Crippen, starring Donald Pleasence – (U.K.)

Dr. Sex, directed by Ted V. Mikels

U.K.
)

Turkey
)

E

U.K.
)

East of Sudan, starring Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms and Jenny Agutter – (U.K.)

Empire, directed by Andy Warhol

Ensign Pulver, a sequel to Mister Roberts, starring Robert Walker Jr. and Burl Ives

Spain
)

U.K.
)

Lee Man-hee – (South Korea
)

The Eyes of Annie Jones, starring Richard Conte and Francesca Annis – (U.K.)

F

Mexico
/U.S.)

Fail-Safe, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy and Walter Matthau

The Fall of the Roman Empire, starring Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd and Alec Guinness

Fanny Hill, directed by Russ Meyer – (West Germany/U.S.)

France
)

Fate Is the Hunter, starring Glenn Ford, Rod Taylor and Suzanne Pleshette

U.K.
)

Father Goose, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard

Father of a Soldier (Jariskats'is mama), directed by Revaz Chkheidze – (Georgia)

Czechoslovakia
)

Japan
)

U.K.
)

Italy
)

The Flesh Eaters, starring Martin Kosleck

Flight from Ashiya, starring Yul Brynner and Richard Widmark

Flipper's New Adventure, starring Luke Halpin and Pamela Franklin

Japan
)

For Men Only, directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar, starring Soad Hosny and Nadia Lutfi – (Egypt)

For Those Who Think Young, starring Pamela Tiffin and James Darren

Forest of the Hanged (Pădurea spânzuraţilor), directed by Liviu Ciulei – (Romania)

Four Days in November, a documentary directed by Mel Stuart

G

Japan
)

Denmark
)

Get Yourself a College Girl, starring Mary Ann Mobley and Nancy Sinatra

Japan
)

The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre, starring Martin Landau, Judith Anderson and Diane Baker

Girl with Green Eyes, starring Peter Finch and Rita Tushingham – (U.K.)

A Global Affair, starring Bob Hope

U.K.
)

Goodbye Charlie, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis and Pat Boone

Good Neighbor Sam, starring Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider

U.K.
)

Italy
)

France
)

Brazil/Argentina
)

Guns at Batasi, starring Richard Attenborough and Jack Hawkins – (U.K.)

The Guns of August, a documentary directed by Nathan Kroll and narrated by Fritz Weaver

H

Hamlet (a.k.a. Richard Burton's Hamlet), starring Richard Burton

U.S.S.R.
)

India
)

U.K.
)

Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, a Hanna-Barbera feature production

Hide and Seek, starring Ian Carmichael and Curd Jürgens – (U.K.)

Italy
)

Honeymoon Hotel, starring Robert Morse and Robert Goulet

The Horror of Party Beach, directed by Del Tenney

U.K.
)

A House Is Not a Home, starring Shelley Winters and Robert Taylor

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland

I

I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba), directed by Mikhail Kalatozov – (Cuba/U.S.S.R.)iams

The Incredible Mr. Limpet, starring Don Knotts, Jack Weston and Andrew Duggan

Japan
)

Invitation to a Gunfighter, starring Yul Brynner, George Segal, Janice Rule

It's Not Just You, Murray!, a short film directed by Martin Scorsese

Italy
)

J

Czechoslovakia
)

France
)

K

The Killers, directed by Don Siegel, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes and, in his final film, Ronald Reagan

U.K.
)

Kiss Me Quick!, starring Althea Currier

Kiss Me, Stupid, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Dean Martin and Kim Novak

Kisses for My President, starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray

Kissin' Cousins, starring Elvis Presley and Yvonne Craig

Kitten with a Whip, starring Ann-Margret and John Forsythe

Japan
)

L

Hong Kong
)

Lady in a Cage, directed by Walter Grauman, starring Olivia de Havilland and James Caan

Brazil
)

Italy
)

Italy
)

France
)

India
)

U.K.
)

Czechoslovakia
)

Italy
)

Lilith, directed by Robert Rossen, starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg

The Lively Set, starring James Darren, Pamela Tiffin and Doug McClure

U.K.
)

India
)

Italy
)

U.K./Yugoslavia
)

Looking for Love, starring Connie Francis

Lorna, directed by Russ Meyer

Love in 4 Dimensions (Amore in 4 dimensioni), directed by
Italy
)

Loving Couples (Älskande par), directed by Mai Zetterling – (Sweden)

The Luck of Ginger Coffey, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Robert Shaw

M

Malaysia
)

Italy
)

Mail Order Bride, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Buddy Ebsen and Lois Nettleton

France
)

Italy
)

Man in the Middle, starring Robert Mitchum

Man's Favorite Sport?, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss

Marnie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery

Italy
)

France
)

Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke

U.K.
)

McHale's Navy, based on the television sitcom of the same name, starring Ernest Borgnine

Brazil
)

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk

The Moon-Spinners, starring Hayley Mills

Japan
)

Murder Ahoy!, starring Margaret Rutherford and Lionel Jeffries

Murder Most Foul, starring Margaret Rutherford and Ron Moody

My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison

Greece
)

N

The Naked Kiss, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Constance Towers

The New Interns, starring Dean Jones and Michael Callan

U.K.
)

The Night of the Iguana, directed by John Huston, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon

U.K.
)

The Night Walker, starring Barbara Stanwyck (her last film) and Robert Taylor

U.K.
)

Nobody Waved Good-bye, directed by Don Owen – (Canada)

Nothing But a Man, starring Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln and Yaphet Kotto

U.K.
)

O
Of Human Bondage, starring Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey and Siobhán McKenna – (U.K.)

One Potato, Two Potato, starring Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton and Richard Mulligan

Japan
)

The Outrage, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom and Edward G. Robinson

P

Pajama Party, starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk

Japan
)

Panic Button, starring Jayne Mansfield and Maurice Chevalier

Paris When It Sizzles, starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn

The Patsy, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis

The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Brock Peters

Tony Franciosa and Ann-Margret

Point of Order!, a documentary directed by Emile de Antonio

U.K.
)

U.K.
)

Q

Quick, Before It Melts, starring George Maharis, Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer and Yvonne Craig

The Quick Gun, starring Audie Murphy

R

Raiders from Beneath the Sea, starring Ken Scott and Merry Anders

U.K.
)

France
)

Italy
)

Rhino!, starring Robert Culp

Ride the Wild Surf, starring Tab Hunter, Fabian Forte, Shelley Fabares and Barbara Eden

U.K.
)

Tony Franciosa, Richard Boone and Wende Wagner

Sammy Davis, Jr. and Bing Crosby

Robinson Crusoe on Mars, directed by Byron Haskin, starring Paul Mantee, Vic Lundin and Adam West

France/West Germany
)

Roustabout, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Stanwyck

Rankin/Bass Productions

S

Israel
)

India
)

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, directed by Nicholas Webster

U.K.
)

The Secret Invasion, starring Stewart Granger and Mickey Rooney

Italy
)

Send Me No Flowers, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson

Seven Days in May, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March and Ava Gardner

U.K.
)

Sex and the Single Girl, starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall

India
)

U.K.
/U.S.)

Sleep, by Andy Warhol

Smokescreen, starring Yvonne Romain

France
)

Strait-Jacket, directed by William Castle, starring Joan Crawford and Diane Baker

Swedish Wedding Night (Bröllopsbesvär), directed by Åke Falck – (Sweden)

The System, starring Oliver Reed

T

T.A.M.I. Show, a concert film filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

France
)

The Thin Red Line, starring Keir Dullea and Jack Warden

U.K.
)

US
)

The Third Secret, starring Stephen Boyd and Pamela Franklin – (U.K.)

Those Calloways, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Norman Tokar^[6]

Japan
)

Spain
)

A Tiger Walks, starring Brian Keith and Vera Miles

Italy
)

The Time Travelers, starring Preston Foster and Merry Anders

France
)

To the Moon and Beyond, a film created for the 1964 New York World's Fair

The Tomb of Ligeia, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd

Topkapi, starring Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell and Peter Ustinov

Italy
)

France
)

U.K.
)

China
)

Two Thousand Maniacs!, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

U

France
)

The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell and Ed Begley

France
)

V

Italy
)

Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret

W

France
)

U.S.S.R.
)

Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke

Where Love Has Gone, starring Bette Davis and Susan Hayward

Japan
)

Italy
)

Wild and Wonderful, starring Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufmann

Wild West Story starring Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Lena Granhagen and Gerald Mohr

U.K.
)

India
)

Japan
)

U.K.
)

France
)

France
)

U.K.
)

The World of Henry Orient, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss and Angela Lansbury

Y

Japan
)

U.K.
)

The Young Lovers, starring Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny

Youngblood Hawke, starring James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette and Geneviève Page

Your Cheatin' Heart, a biopic of Hank Williams, starring George Hamilton

Z

Japan
)

Japan
)

U.S.S.R.
)

India
)

Zogue fe Agaza, starring Salah Zulfikar and Laila Taher – (Egypt
)

U.K.
)
Zulu, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Michael Caine and Jack Hawkins – (U.K.)

Short film series

Looney Tunes (1930–1969)

Terrytoons (1930–1964)

Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)

Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

Bugs Bunny (1940–1964)

Woody Woodpecker (1940–1972)

Chilly Willy (1953–1972)

Loopy De Loop (1959–1965)

Births

January 4 - David Bowe, American character actor

January 6
Lorne Cardinal, Canadian actor

Cara Seymour, British actress

January 7 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, producer and director

January 11 – Patrícia Pillar, Brazilian actress

January 13 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress

January 14 - Mark Addy, English actor

January 18 – Jane Horrocks, English actress

January 19 - Ty Granderson Jones, Creole American actor, screenwriter and producer

January 23 - Mariska Hargitay, actress

January 27 – Bridget Fonda, actress

February 1 - Linus Roache, British actor

February 5 – Laura Linney, actress

February 10 - Francesca Neri, Italian actress

February 15 – Chris Farley, actor (d. 1997)

February 16 – Christopher Eccleston, English actor

February 17 - Angelica Page, American actress, director, producer and screenwriter

February 18 – Matt Dillon, actor

February 20
Willie Garson, American actor (d. 2021)

Rodney Rowland, American actor

French Stewart, American actor

February 21 - Adrian Schiller, English actor (d. 2024)

February 22 - James Wlcek, American actor

February 23 - Ronan Vibert, English actor (d. 2022)

February 24 – Todd Field, director and actor

February 25 - Lee Evans, English stand-up comedian and actor

February 26 - Mark Dacascos, American actor and martial artist

March 3 - Laura Harring, Mexican-American actress

March 6 - Yvette Wilson, American actress and comedian (d. 2012)

March 7 – Wanda Sykes, American actress, comedian and writer

March 8 - Bob Bergen, American voice actor

March 9 – Juliette Binoche, actress

March 11
Peter Berg, American director, producer, writer and actor

Emma Chambers, English actress (d. 2018)

Shane Richie, English actor, comedian, television presenter and singer

March 16 - Gore Verbinski, American director, screenwriter, producer and musician

March 17 – Rob Lowe, actor

March 23 - Hope Davis, American actress

March 25 - LisaGay Hamilton, American actress

March 27 - Clive Rowe, British actor

March 29 - Elle Macpherson, Australian actress and model

March 30 - Ian Ziering, American actor

April 4 – David Cross, actor and comedian

April 6 - Deborah Theaker, Canadian actress

April 7 – Russell Crowe, actor

April 8 - Biz Markie, American rapper and actor (d. 2021)

April 12 - Mark Camacho, Canadian actor and voice actor

April 13 - Caroline Rhea, Canadian-American actress, voice artist and stand-up comedian

April 14 - Gina McKee, English actress

April 16 - Boyd Banks, Canadian stand-up comedian and actor

April 20
Crispin Glover, actor

Andy Serkis, actor

April 22 - Chris Makepeace, Canadian former actor

April 24
Djimon Hounsou, actor

Cedric the Entertainer, actor and comedian

Gregory Sporleder, American actor and filmmaker

April 25 – Hank Azaria, actor, voice actor, comedian and producer

May 1 - Scott Coffey, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter

May 5 - Don Payne, American writer and producer (d. 2013)

May 6
Dana Hill, American actress (d. 1996)

Lars Mikkelsen, Danish actor

May 11 - Tim Blake Nelson, American actor, writer and director

May 12
Tiffany Helm, American actress

Pierre Morel, French film director

May 13
Stephen Colbert, American comedian, television host, and writer

Sakichi Sato, Japanese actor, director and screenwriter

Tom Verica, American actor, director and producer

May 16 - Rebecca Front, English actress, writer and comedian

May 19 - Sean Whalen, American actor and writer

May 20 - Paolo Seganti, Italian actor

May 22 - Mark Christopher Lawrence, American character actor, stand-up comedian and voice-over artist

May 25 – Ray Stevenson, Irish actor (d. 2023)

May 26 - Lenny Kravitz, American singer, songwriter and actor

May 27 - Adam Carolla, American radio personality, comedian, actor and podcaster

June 7
Judie Aronson, American actress

Gia Carides, Australian actress

June 9 – Gloria Reuben, actress/singer

June 10 - Tony Martin, New Zealand comedian, writer and actor

June 13
Kathy Burke, English actress, comedian, writer, producer, and director

Laura Kightlinger, American actress, comedian and writer

June 15 – Courteney Cox, actress

June 21 – David Morrissey, English actor and filmmaker

June 22
Hiroshi Abe, actor and model

Amy Brenneman, American actress and producer

June 23 - Joss Whedon, American filmmaker and composer

June 26 - Ian Tracey, Canadian actor

June 30
Ivan Trojan, Czech actor

Mark Waters, American screenwriter, director and producer

July 1 - Peter Marquardt, American actor and video game producer (d. 2014)

July 2 - Eric Michels, American actor (d. 2018)

July 3
Peyton Reed, American director

Yeardley Smith, actress, voice actress, writer, author, comedian and painter

July 5 - Jillian Armenante, American actress

July 7 - Tracy Reiner, American actress

July 8 – Lam Suet, Hong Kong actor

July 9 – Courtney Love, American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress

July 11
Laura Cayouette, American actress, writer, producer and director

Greg Mottola, American director and screenwriter

July 16 – Canti Lau, Hong Kong actor

July 17 - Heather Langenkamp, American actress, writer, director and producer

July 19 - Peter Dobson, American actor

July 20 – Dean Winters, American actor

July 22
Adam Godley, English actor

David Spade, American actor, comedian, writer

July 26
Sandra Bullock, American actress

Danny Woodburn, American actor and comedian

July 28 — Lori Loughlin, actress

July 30
Vivica A. Fox, American actress

Jim Wise, American actor, singer, writer and composer

August 1 - Melanie Shatner, American actress

August 2 – Mary-Louise Parker, actress

August 6 - Lisa Boyle, American actress and model

August 7 - Tom McGrath, American voice actor, animator, screenwriter and director

August 11 - Lawrence Monoson, American retired actor

August 13 - Debi Mazar, American actress and television personality

August 14 - Andrew Kevin Walker, American screenwriter and actor

August 16 – William Salyers, actor and voice actor

August 18 - Brian Stack, American actor, comedian and writer

August 20 – Flaminia Cinque, English actress

August 25 - Saverio Guerra, American actor

August 27 - Robert Bogue, American actor

August 29 - Dina Spybey, American actress

August 30 - Nelson Ascencio, Cuban-American actor and comedian

September 1 - Welker White, American actress

September 2 – Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor

September 5 - Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor and comedian (d. 2016)

September 6 - Rosie Perez, American actress

September 14
Stephen Dunham, American actor (d. 2012)

Faith Ford, American actress

September 16 - Molly Shannon, American actress and comedian

September 19 - Jennifer Cooke, American former actress

September 20 - Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress

September 24 - Adam Alexi-Malle, Italian actor and singer

September 28 - Janeane Garofalo, American actress, voice artist, stand-up comedian and writer

September 30 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and model

October 3 – Clive Owen, English actor

October 8 - Ian Hart, English actor

October 9 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican filmmaker

October 10
Quinton Flynn, American film, television and voice actor

Tim Miller, American filmmaker

October 12 - Allen Covert, American comedian, actor, writer and producer

October 13 - Matt Walsh, American comedian and actor

October 14
Adam Hollander, American actor (d. 1984)

David Kaye, Canadian-American voice actor

October 23 - David Sobolov, Canadian voice actor and director

October 25 – Kevin Michael Richardson, American actor and voice actor

October 26 - Danny Mastrogiorgio, American actor

October 31 - Kirk Jones, English director and screenwriter

November 2
Lauren Vélez, American actress

Lorraine Vélez, American singer and actress

November 5 - Famke Janssen, Dutch actress

November 6 - Arkie Whiteley, Australian actress (d. 2001)

November 7 - Garret T. Sato, American actor (d. 2020)

November 14 – Patrick Warburton, American actor and voice artist

November 16 - Harry Lennix, American actor

November 17 - Ralph Garman, American actor, comedian, musician and radio host

November 18 - Nadia Sawalha, British actress, television personality and YouTuber

November 20 - Ned Vaughn, American actor

November 23 - Boyd Kestner, American actor

November 24 - Garret Dillahunt, American actor

November 29 – Don Cheadle, American actor

November 30 - Richard Brake, Welsh-born American character actor

December 3 - Lisanne Falk, American former actress and producer

December 4 – Marisa Tomei, American actress

December 8
Teri Hatcher, American actress

John Refoua, American film editor (d. 2023)

December 10 - Edith González, Mexican actress and dancer (d. 2019)

December 19
Zhang Hanyu, Chinese actor

Ben Becker, German actor

December 23
Shelley Malil, American actor

Reg Rogers, American actor

December 24
Fabiana Udenio, Italian-Argentine actress

Mark Valley, American actor

December 27
Ian Gomez, American actor

Theresa Randle, American actress

December 31 - Michael McDonald, American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter and director

Deaths

January 21 - Joseph Schildkraut, 67, Austrian actor, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Life of Emile Zola, Viva Villa!

January 22 – Lissy Arna, 63, German actress, Eva in Silk, The Dance Goes On

January 27 – Norman Z. McLeod, 65, American director, The Paleface, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

January 29 – Alan Ladd, 50, American actor, Shane, The Blue Dahlia

February 19 – Edward Gargan, 62, American actor, Little Miss Broadway, Adventures of Gallant Bess

February 24 – Frank Conroy, 73, British actor, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Naked City

February 27 – Orry-Kelly, 66, Australian costume designer, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon

February 29 – Frank Albertson, 55, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Psycho

March 1 – Dennis Moore, 56, American actor, The Lone Rider and the Bandit, Overland Stagecoach

March 4 – Edwin August, 80, American actor, director and screenwriter

March 10 – Arthur Hohl, 74, American actor, Cleopatra, Private Detective 62

March 23 – Peter Lorre, 59, Hungarian actor, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon

April 18 – Ben Hecht, 70, American playwright and screenwriter, Notorious, His Girl Friday

April 29 – J. M. Kerrigan, 79, Irish actor (Gone with the Wind)

May 10 – Carol Haney, 39, American dancer, actress, The Pajama Game, Invitation to the Dance

May 13 – Diana Wynyard, 58, British actress, Cavalcade, Gaslight

June 27 – Mona Barrie, 54, British actress, Mystery Woman, Ladies Love Danger

July 15 – Myles Connolly, 66, American screenwriter, State of the Union, Hans Christian Andersen

July 26 – William A. Seiter, 73, American film director, The Beautiful and Damned, Sons of the Desert, Roberta

August 5 – Charles Quigley, 58, American actor, The Shadow, The Game That Kills

August 6
Cedric Hardwicke, 71, British actor, Rope, Suspicion

Reed Howes, 64, American model and actor, The Dawn Rider, Paradise Canyon

August 12 –
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

August 27 – Gracie Allen, 69, American comedy actress, A Damsel in Distress, The Big Broadcast of 1936

September 23 – Fred M. Wilcox, 56, American director, Forbidden Planet, Lassie Come Home

September 28
Harpo Marx, 75, American comedy actor (The Marx Brothers), Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera

Nacio Herb Brown, 68, American songwriter and composer, The Broadway Melody, Glorifying the American Girl

October 10 – Eddie Cantor, 72, American actor, singer, comedian, Whoopee!, Kid Millions

October 15 – Cole Porter, 73, American composer and songwriter, Night and Day, High Society

October 19 –
Damn Yankees, Anatomy of a Murder

October 22 – Whip Wilson, 53, American actor, Night Raiders

October 23 – Jo Swerling, 71, American screenwriter, It's a Wonderful Life, Guys and Dolls

October 27 – Rudolph Maté, 66, Hungarian cinematographer and director, D.O.A., When Worlds Collide

November 10 – Sam Newfield, 64, American director, The Terror of Tiny Town, I Accuse My Parents

November 22 – George Tomasini, 55, American film editor, Psycho, Rear Window

December 11 – Percy Kilbride, 76, American actor, The Southerner, State Fair

December 14 – William Bendix, 58, American actor, Lifeboat, Detective Story

December 31 – Gertrude Michael, 53, American actress, Murder at the Vanities, Women in Bondage

Film debuts

Jenny Agutter – East of Sudan

René Auberjonois – Lilith

Jim Brown – Rio Conchos

Ellen Burstyn – For Those Who Think Young

David Carradine – Taggart

Matt Clark – Black Like Me

Tim Conway – McHale's Navy

Dom DeLuise – Diary of a Bachelor

Judi Dench – The Third Secret

Paul Dooley – The Parisienne and the Prudes

Olympia Dukakis – Twice a Man

Morgan Freeman – The Pawnbroker

Brenda Fricker – Of Human Bondage

George Furth – The Best Man

Elliott Gould – Quick, Let's Get Married

Clu Gulager – The Killers

Nothing But a Man

James Earl Jones – Dr. Strangelove

Lee Majors – Strait-Jacket

Charlotte Rampling – A Hard Day's Night

Roy Scheider – The Curse of the Living Corpse

Raquel Welch – A House Is Not a Home

References

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ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6
.

ISBN 978-1-5013-3787-1. Indeed, by the time of Variety
's next annual review in January 1967, My Fair Lady was at number six in the all-time chart (with domestic rentals (that is the share of ticket sales which the distributor receives in the United States of $30 million; all rental figures in this chapter relate only to the domestic market), Mary Poppins at number five ($31 million), and The Sound of Music at number one, having overtaken Gone With the Wind, a record sum to which, Variety predicted, millions would be added in 1967.

^ ^a ^b ^c Top 20 Films of 1964 by Domestic Revenue

^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1964", Variety, 6 January 1965 p 39.

ISBN 978-1-3514-9284-3
. By October 1964, A Hard Day's Night has grossed $5.8 million in U.S. rentals.

^ Whit (November 18, 1964). "Film review: Those Calloways". Variety. 236 (13): 7, 22.

^ Overview for Swingers' Paradise (1965)", Turner Classic Movies page

External links

List of 1964 films at IMDb

List of 1964 deaths at IMDb

List of 1964 births at IMDb

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ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6
.

[HollywoodRenaissanceBook-2] ISBN 978-1-5013-3787-1. Indeed, by the time of Variety
's next annual review in January 1967, My Fair Lady was at number six in the all-time chart (with domestic rentals (that is the share of ticket sales which the distributor receives in the United States of $30 million; all rental figures in this chapter relate only to the domestic market), Mary Poppins at number five ($31 million), and The Sound of Music at number one, having overtaken Gone With the Wind, a record sum to which, Variety predicted, millions would be added in 1967.

[1964DomesticRevenue-3] Top 20 Films of 1964 by Domestic Revenue

[4] "Big Rental Pictures of 1964", Variety, 6 January 1965 p 39.

[RiskyBook-5] ISBN 978-1-3514-9284-3
. By October 1964, A Hard Day's Night has grossed $5.8 million in U.S. rentals.

[6] Whit (November 18, 1964). "Film review: Those Calloways". Variety. 236 (13): 7, 22.

[7] Overview for Swingers' Paradise (1965)", Turner Classic Movies page

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