1965 in film

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The year 1965 in film involved several significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office and winning five Academy Awards.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1965 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1965
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	The Sound of Music	20th Century Fox	$72,000,000^[1]
2	Doctor Zhivago	MGM	$43,000,000^[1]
3	Thunderball	United Artists / Eon	$27,000,000^[1]
4	Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines	20th Century Fox	$14,000,000^[2]
5	The Great Race	Warner Bros.	$11,400,000^[3]
6	That Darn Cat!	Buena Vista	$9,500,000^[1]
7	Cat Ballou	Columbia	$9,300,000^[1]
8	What's New Pussycat?	United Artists	$8,469,000^[3]
9	Shenandoah	Universal	$7,771,000^[3]
10	Von Ryan's Express	20th Century Fox	$7,700,000^[3]

Events

February 15 –
New York City, New York. It was such a flop with critics and audiences that its failure discouraged production of religious epics for many years. It is considered notable in the 21st century for its astonishing landscapes, powerful and provocative cinematography, Max von Sydow's debut acting performance in an American film, and the final film performance of Claude Rains
.

March 2 – The
Twentieth Century-Fox from bankruptcy after it suffered from extremely high production costs of Cleopatra
two years prior.

July 1 – Blake Edwards's epic comedy The Great Race, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, and Keenan Wynn, premieres. Initially a flop with critics and audiences, some do admire Edwards' direction, the acting by its ensemble cast, Henry Mancini's music and its climactic pie fight.
August 10 - A
Culver City, California, destroys the only known copies of hundreds of archived silent films, including Lon Chaney's London After Midnight and Greta Garbo's The Divine Woman
.

December 22 – David Lean's film adaptation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness, premieres and, like The Sound of Music, quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. Its moral story and message of a love and human spirit that defied the communist Soviet Union have made the film a true classic with critics and audiences. It was included among top films by the American Film Institute. In a decade of very difficult times for its studio, Zhivago became the most successful and acclaimed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film since How the West Was Won; it was the greatest MGM film since Ben-Hur.

Awards

Academy Awards:

20th Century Fox

Best Director: Robert Wise – The Sound of Music

Best Actor: Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou

Best Actress: Julie Christie – Darling

Best Supporting Actor: Martin Balsam – A Thousand Clowns

Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters – A Patch of Blue

Best Foreign Language Film: The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze), directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos

, Czechoslovakia

BAFTA Film Awards:

Best Film from Any Source: My Fair Lady

Best British Film: The Ipcress File

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Doctor Zhivago

Best Actor: Omar Sharif – Doctor Zhivago

Best Actress: Samantha Eggar – The Collector

Comedy or Musical:

Best Picture: The Sound of Music

Best Actor: Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou

Best Actress: Julie Andrews – The Sound of Music

Other

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon – Inside Daisy Clover

Best Director: David Lean – Doctor Zhivago

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Knack ...and How to Get It, directed by Richard Lester, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (Sandra of a Thousand Delights), directed by Luchino Visconti

, Italy

Golden Bear

(Berlin Film Festival):

Alphaville, directed by Jean-Luc Godard

, France / Italy

1965 film releases

United States

unless stated

January–March

January 1965
- January 8
  - Dear Brigitte
- January 15
  - Baby the Rain Must Fall
- January 28
  - 36 Hours
February 1965
- February 10
  - Strange Bedfellows
  - Sylvia
- February 15
  - UK
    )

March 1965
March 2
The Sound of Music

March 5
Face of the Screaming Werewolf

The Rounders

March 6
Empire

Nightmare in the Sun

March 15
Major Dundee

March 21
Die! Die! My Darling!
(U.K.)

March 24
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

March 31
The Truth About Spring

April–June

April 1965
April 3
The Man from Button Willow

April 6
In Harm's Way

April 7
Bus Riley's Back in Town

Girl Happy

April 8
The World of Abbott and Costello

April 9
The Greatest Story Ever Told

April 14
Beach Blanket Bingo

The Satan Bug

May 1965
5 May
France
)

Brainstorm

7 May
Joy in the Morning

13 May
The Yellow Rolls-Royce

14 May
Harlow

26 May
Mirage

June 1965
June 2
What's New Pussycat?

June 3
Shenandoah

June 9
international co-production

June 16
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

June 18
I'll Take Sweden

June 23
Genghis Khan (1965 film)

The Hallelujah Trail

Harlow

Von Ryan's Express

Willy McBean and his Magic Machine

June 24
Cat Ballou

June 30
Ski Party

Tickle Me

July–September

July 1965
July 1
The Family Jewels

The Great Race

The Sons of Katie Elder

July 3
UK
)

July 12
The Art of Love

July 14
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

July 21
I Saw What You Did

July 22
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

July 29
Ship of Fools

August 1965
August 1
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

August 3
UK
)

UK
)

August 8
Frankenstein Conquers the World (Japan
)

August 9
The Brigand of Kandahar

August 14
A Very Special Favor

August 18
UK
)

The Monkey's Uncle

Sergeant Deadhead

August 23
U.K.
)

August 25
Morituri

That Funny Feeling

Wild on the Beach

September 1965
September 1
Billie

September 3
UK
)

September 8
Operation C.I.A.

September 15
The Reward

September 20
How to Murder Your Wife

September 24
Marriage on the Rocks

September 27
Mickey One

October–December

October 1965
October 6
Who Killed Teddy Bear

October 7
The Agony and the Ecstasy

October 11
UK
)

October 13
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious

October 15
The Cincinnati Kid

October 17
Sting of Death

October 27
King Rat

November 1965
November 4
Never Too Late

November 6
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

November 10
The War Lord

November 15
UK
)

November 18
Italy
)

November 19
Return from the Ashes

November 24
Harum Scarum

November 25
Lady L

November 26
UK
)

November 27
Gamera, the Giant Monster (Japan)

December 1965
December 2
That Darn Cat!

December 8
Italy
)

December 10
A Patch of Blue

December 13
A Thousand Clowns

December 15
The Flight of the Phoenix

December 16
Battle of the Bulge

UK
)

December 19
Invasion of Astro-Monster

December 22
US
)

December 23
The Slender Thread

December 24
Bad Girls Go to Hell

December 29
US
)

Notable films released in 1965

United States
unless stated

#

France
)

36 Hours, starring James Garner, Rod Taylor and Eva Marie Saint

France
)

A

Japan
)

U.S.S.R.
)

The Adventures of the Smurfs (Les aventures des Schtroumpfs) – (Belgium)

The Agony and the Ecstasy, directed by Carol Reed, starring Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison

The Alphabet Murders, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Tony Randall and Anita Ekberg

France
)

Mexico
)

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, starring Kim Novak, Richard Johnson and Angela Lansbury

The Art of Love, directed by Norman Jewison, starring James Garner, Angie Dickinson, Elke Sommer and Dick Van Dyke

India
)

The Ashes (Popioły), directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)

B

Baby the Rain Must Fall, starring Steve McQueen and Lee Remick

Bad Girls Go to Hell, directed by Doris Wishman

Robert Shaw and Robert Ryan

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Maureen O'Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Olivia Hussey

Beach Blanket Bingo, directed by William Asher, starring Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Don Rickles

UK
)

Spain
)

Billie, directed by Don Weis and starring Patty Duke

Spain
)

Mexico
)

Boeing Boeing, starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis

La Bohème, directed by Franco Zeffirelli – (West Germany)

France
)

Brainstorm, directed by William Conrad, starring Anne Francis and Jeffrey Hunter

The Brigand of Kandahar, starring Oliver Reed and Yvonne Romain

U.K.
)

Bus Riley's Back in Town, starring Ann-Margret and Michael Parks

C

Italy
)

U.K.
)

Italy
)

Cat Ballou, starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin

U.K.
)

China!, a documentary written by Felix Greene

Argentina
)

The Cincinnati Kid, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld, Joan Blondell

City Under the Sea (a.k.a. War-Gods of the Deep), starring Vincent Price and Tab Hunter

Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion, starring Marshall Thompson and Betsy Drake

Italy
)

South Africa
)

U.K.
/U.S.)

Crack in the World, starring Dana Andrews, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott

Cup Fever, starring Bernard Cribbins – (U.K.)

Curse of the Fly, starring Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Carole Gray

U.K.
)

D

U.K.
)

Dear Brigitte, starring James Stewart, Bill Mumy, Glynis Johns, Ed Wynn, Brigitte Bardot

France
)

South Korea
)

Fanatic), starring Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers

Dingaka, starring Stanley Baker – (South Africa)

Do Not Disturb, starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor

U.K.
)

Italy
)

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, starring Vincent Price and Frankie Avalon

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – (U.K.)

U.K.
)

E

The Early Bird, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story, a documentary directed by Richard Kaplan

Eric Soya's "17" (Sytten), starring Ole Søltoft and Ghita Nørby – (Denmark)

F

U.K./West Germany
)

The Family Jewels, starring Jerry Lewis

France
)

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, directed by Russ Meyer

U.K.
)

Film, written by Samuel Beckett and directed by Alan Schneider

Italy
)

The Flight of the Phoenix, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Peter Finch

Italy
)

Japan
)

Australia
)

G

Italy/Argentina
)

Italy
/U.S.)
Genghis Khan, starring Omar Sharif, Stephen Boyd and James Mason

Girl Happy, starring Elvis Presley

William N. Witney, starring Noreen Corcoran and Martin West

The Glory Guys, directed by Arnold Laven, starring Tom Tryon and Harve Presnell

Goldstein, comedy ensemble film, with actors from The Second City, including Severn Darden

The Great Race, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Ross Martin

The Great Sioux Massacre, directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin and Philip Carey

The Greatest Story Ever Told, directed by George Stevens, starring Max von Sydow, Charlton Heston, Dorothy McGuire, David McCallum, Martin Landau, Telly Savalas

India
)

Gumnaam (Unknown), starring Manoj Kumar – (India)

H

The Hallelujah Trail, directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin

Spain
)

France
)

Harlow, starring Carroll Baker, Peter Lawford, Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Leslie Nielsen, Angela Lansbury

Barry Sullivan, Hurd Hatfield, Ginger Rogers

Harum Scarum, aka Harem Holiday, starring Elvis Presley, Mary Ann Mobley, Fran Jeffries

Harvey Middleman, Fireman, written and directed by Ernest Pintoff

Help!, directed by Richard Lester, starring the Beatles – (U.K.)

The Heroes of Telemark, starring Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris

U.K.
)

The Hill, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis – (U.K.)

Brazil
)

How to Murder Your Wife, starring Jack Lemmon and Virna Lisi

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, starring Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Buster Keaton, Beverly Adams, Mickey Rooney

I

I, a Woman (Jeg - en kvinde), directed by Mac Ahlberg – (Denmark/Sweden)

Italy
)

I'll Take Sweden, starring Bob Hope, Dina Merrill, Frankie Avalon, Tuesday Weld

Israel
)

In Harm's Way, directed by Otto Preminger, starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Paula Prentiss, Henry Fonda

Inside Daisy Clover, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Christopher Plummer

Hong Kong
)

Czechoslovakia
)

Japan
)

U.K.
)

I Saw What You Did, starring Joan Crawford

J

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!, starring Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Peter Ustinov

Joy in the Morning, starring Richard Chamberlain and Yvette Mimieux

France
)

K

King Rat, starring George Segal, Tom Courtenay and James Fox

U.K.
)

L

France/Romania
)

Lady L, directed by Peter Ustinov, starring Sophia Loren, Paul Newman and David Niven

Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's, a retrospective film directed by Robert Youngson

U.K.
)

U.K.
)

The Liquidator, directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Rod Taylor and Trevor Howard (U.K.)

Mexico
)

US
)

Love and Kisses, starring Rick Nelson

The Love Goddesses, a documentary directed by Saul J. Turell

Love Has Many Faces, starring Lana Turner, Hugh O'Brian and Cliff Robertson

Italy
)

The Loved One, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Robert Morse and Jonathan Winters

Czechoslovakia
)

M

A Maiden for a Prince (Una vergine per il principe), starring Virna Lisi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)

Major Dundee, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Jim Hutton

The Man from Button Willow

Man Is Not a Bird (Čovek nije tica) – (Yugoslavia)

Marco the Magnificent (La fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo), directed by Denys de La Patellière and Noël Howard – (Multiple countries)

Marriage on the Rocks, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Deborah Kerr

Italy/West Germany
)

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

Mickey One, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Warren Beatty

Mirage, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Gregory Peck, Diane Baker and Walter Matthau

Mister Moses, directed by Ronald Neame and starring Robert Mitchum and Carroll Baker

The Moment of Truth (Il momento della verità), directed by Francesco Rosi – (Italy)

The Money Trap, starring Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, Ricardo Montalbán, Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer

The Monkey's Uncle, starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk

Morituri, starring Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner

U.K./West Germany
)

France
)

N

U.K.
)
U.S./South Africa
)

Never Too Late, starring Paul Ford, Maureen O'Sullivan, Connie Stevens, Jim Hutton

Italy
)

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Czechoslovakia
)

Tommy Sands

O

France
)

U.K.
)

Operation C.I.A., starring Burt Reynolds and Danielle Aubry

U.K.
)

U.S.S.R.
)

France
)

U.K.
)

P

Pandora and the Magic Box, directed by Joseph W. Sarno

Paris Secret, a documentary directed by Edouard Logereau

A Patch of Blue, starring Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, Shelley Winters

France
)

Pinocchio in Outer Space, produced and directed by Ray Goossens – (U.S./Belgium)

A Pistol for Ringo (Una pistola per Ringo), directed by Duccio Tessari

Spain
)

Italy
)

Promise Her Anything, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Warren Beatty and Leslie Caron

R

The Rabbit Is Me (Das Kaninchen bin ich) – (East Germany)

A Rage to Live, directed by Walter Grauman and starring Suzanne Pleshette

Italy
)

The Railrodder, a comedy short starring Buster Keaton in his last film – (Canada)

France
/U.S.)

Răscoala, directed by Mircea Mureșan – (Romania)

Japan
)

Red Line 7000, directed by Howard Hawks and starring James Caan

U.K.
)

Return from the Ashes, starring Maximilian Schell and Samantha Eggar

U.K.
)

The Return of Ringo (Il ritorno di Ringo), directed by Duccio Tessari

U.K.
)

The Rounders, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda

S

Japan
)

Italy
)

Brazil
)

The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie), starring Zbigniew Cybulski – (Poland)

The Sandpiper, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Eva Marie Saint

U.K.
)

The Satan Bug, starring George Maharis and Anne Francis

Japan
)

Sergeant Deadhead, starring Frankie Avalon and Deborah Walley

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Tini zabutykh predkiv) – (U.S.S.R.)

Shakespeare Wallah, directed by James Ivory, starring Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey

France
)

U.K.
)

Shenandoah, starring James Stewart, Doug McClure, Rosemary Forsyth, Katharine Ross

Ship of Fools, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, Michael Dunn, José Ferrer

Czechoslovakia
)

Mexico
)

Egypt
)

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious, starring Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford

Ski Party, starring Frankie Avalon and Yvonne Craig

U.K.
)

Italy
)

France
)

The Slender Thread, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas and Ed Asner

The Sons of Katie Elder, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne and Dean Martin

The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer

U.K.
)

William Grefe

Story of a Prostitute (Shunpuden), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)

Strange Bedfellows, starring Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida

U.K.
)

A Swingin' Summer, starring James Stacy and Raquel Welch

Japan
)

Sylvia, starring Carroll Baker and George Maharis

Synanon, directed by Richard Quine, starring Edmond O'Brien, Chuck Connors, Stella Stevens

T

Japan
)

U.K.
)

That Darn Cat! starring Dean Jones

That Funny Feeling, starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee

Spain
)

The Third Day, starring George Peppard and Elizabeth Ashley

U.S.S.R.
)

U.K.
)

A Thousand Clowns, starring Jason Robards, Barry Gordon, Martin Balsam, Barbara Harris

U.K.
)
Tickle Me, starring Elvis Presley

Japan
)

Town Tamer, directed by Lesley Selander and starring Dana Andrews

The Truth About Spring, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Hayley Mills and John Mills

Two on a Guillotine, directed by William Conrad and starring Connie Stevens

U

Spain
)

Up from the Beach, starring Cliff Robertson

France
)

V

A Very Special Favor, starring Rock Hudson and Leslie Caron

U.K.
)

France
)

Von Ryan's Express, directed by Mark Robson, starring Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Edward Mulhare, Adolfo Celi

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, starring Basil Rathbone

W

India
)

U.K.
)

The War Lord, starring Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth

What's New Pussycat?, directed by Clive Donner, starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Woody Allen, Romy Schneider, Paula Prentiss, Capucine

Who Killed Teddy Bear, starring Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse and Elaine Stritch

Wild on the Beach, starring Sherry Jackson, Frankie Randall, Sonny & Cher

Willy McBean and His Magic Machine, stop-motion film produced by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Videocraft International

Winter Kept Us Warm, directed by David Secter – (Canada)

The World of Abbott and Costello, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Y

France
)

U.K.
)

U.K.
)

Young Dillinger, starring Nick Adams and Mary Ann Mobley

Z

Japan
)

Japan
)

Short film series

Looney Tunes (1930–1969)

Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)

Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

Goofy (1965)

Births

January 1 - Dan Yeager, American actor, writer, producer and director

January 3 – Jens Albinus, Danish actor

January 4
Yvan Attal, French actor, scriptwriter and director

Julia Ormond, English actress

January 5 - Vinnie Jones, British actor, producer and singer

January 8 - Michelle Forbes, American actress

January 9 – Joely Richardson, English actress

January 10 – Butch Hartman, American animator, writer, producer and director

January 12 - Rob Zombie, American singer-songwriter, filmmaker and actor

January 15 – James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor

January 22
Diane Lane, American actress

Brian McCardie, Scottish actor and writer

January 24 - Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian animator, director, producer and voice actor

January 27 – Alan Cumming, Scottish actor

January 28 - Lynda Boyd, Canadian actress, singer, musician and writer

January 31 - Matt McColm, American actor and stuntman

February 1 – Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993)

February 3 – Maura Tierney, American actress

February 5 - Jordi Caballero, Spanish actor, writer and producer

February 7
Chris Rock, American actor and comedian

Jason Gedrick, American actor

February 9
Darren Dalton, American actor, screenwriter and producer

Keith Wickham, British voice actor, comedian and screenwriter

February 12 - Christine Elise, American actress

February 13
Andy Buckley, American actor

Stephen Manley, American actor

February 17 - Michael Bay, American director and producer

February 18 – Dr. Dre, American music producer

February 20 - Ron Eldard, American actor

February 23 – Kristin Davis, American actress

February 27 - Noah Emmerich, American actor and director

March 4 - Stacy Edwards, American actress

March 9
Mike Pollock, American voice actor and former radio personality

Coolie Ranx, British-Jamaican actor and singer

March 11 - Wallace Langham, American actor

March 13 - Steve Bacic, Canadian actor

March 14
Aamir Khan, Indian actor

Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter, director and producer

March 18 - Yul Vazquez, Cuban-American actor and musician

March 19 - Fred Stoller, American actor and stand-up comedian

March 23
Peter Jacobson, American actor

Wayne Péré, American character actor

March 25 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress

March 31 – Steve Bing, American businessman, philanthropist and film producer (d. 2020)

April 1 - José Zúñiga, Honduran-American actor

April 3 - Angela Featherstone, actress and writer

April 4 – Robert Downey Jr., American actor

April 9 - Mark Pellegrino, American actor

April 11 - Lynn Ferguson, Scottish writer and actress

April 16
Jon Cryer, American actor

Martin Lawrence, American actor and comedian

April 17
William Mapother, American actor

Catherine Russell, British actress

April 22 - Roman Coppola, American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer

April 25 - John Henson, American puppeteer (d. 2014)

April 26 – Kevin James, American actor and comedian

April 27 - Anna Chancellor, English actress

April 30 - Adrian Pasdar, American actor and voice artist

May 2 - Ari Lehman, American actor

May 3 - Rob Brydon, Welsh actor, comedian, presenter, singer and writer

May 10 - Kiyoyuki Yanada, Japanese voice actor (d. 2022)

May 12 - Anthony Brandon Wong, Australian actor

May 13 - Lari White, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2018)

May 16 - Vincent Regan, British actor

May 19 - Mikhail Gorevoy, Russian actor

May 23 – Liina Tennosaar, Estonian actress

May 24
John C. Reilly, American actor and comedian

Peter Tuiasosopo, American actor

May 27 – Zenobia Shroff, Indian-American actress and comedienne

May 31
Jeremy Hotz, Canadian-American actor and stand-up comedian

Brooke Shields, American actress and model

June 1 - Andrew Havill, English actor

June 8 - Frank Grillo, American actor

June 10 – Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress

June 18 – Kim Dickens, American actress

June 19 – Sean Marshall, American child actor and singer

June 22 - J. J. Cohen, American actor

June 24 - Richard Lumsden, English actor, writer, composer and musician

June 28 – Sonny Strait, American voice actor

July 1 - Tom Hodges, American actor and producer

July 3
Tommy Flanagan, Scottish actor

Connie Nielsen, Danish actress

July 4
Gérard Watkins, English-French actor, playwright, director and screenwriter

Tracy Letts, American actor, playwright and screenwriter

July 8
Corey Parker, American actor and acting coach

Lee Tergesen, American actor

July 9
K. Todd Freeman, American actor

David O'Hara, Scottish character actor

July 11
Liane Curtis, American actress and musician

Pamela Gidley, American actress and model (d. 2018)

July 14 - Bibo Bergeron, French animator and director

July 16 - Daryl Mitchell, American actor and rapper

July 17
Santiago Segura, Spanish filmmaker and actor

Alex Winter, British-born American director, writer and actor

July 23 - Allison Abbate, American producer and animator

July 24
Kadeem Hardison, American actor

Doug Liman, American director and producer

July 25 – Illeana Douglas, American actress

July 26 – Jeremy Piven, American actor

July 28 - James Biberi, Albanian-American actor

August 1 - Sam Mendes, British director, producer and screenwriter

August 4 - James Tupper, Canadian actor

August 5 - Scott William Winters, American actor

August 6
Jeremy Ratchford, Canadian actor

De'voreaux White, American actor

August 10 - Claudia Christian, American actress and singer

August 11
Embeth Davidtz, American-South African actress

Viola Davis, American actress

August 12 - Peter Krause, American actor, director and producer

August 16 - Brian McCann, American actor, comedian and writer

August 18 - Ikue Ōtani, Japanese actress, singer, voice actress and narrator

August 19
Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress, director and singer

Kevin Dillon, American actor

Kyra Sedgwick, American actress

August 22 - Courtney Gains, American actor

August 24 – Marlee Matlin, American actress

August 25 - Kim Kold, Danish actor

August 31
Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor, model and martial artist

Jaime P. Gomez, American actor

September 3 – Charlie Sheen, American actor

September 4 - Michael Bentt, British-born American actor

September 6 - John Polson, Australian actor and director

September 9 - Constance Marie, American actress

September 13 - Jeff Ross, American stand-up comedian and actor

September 15 - Joe Chrest, American academic and actor

September 17
Bryan Singer, American director, producer and screenwriter

Kyle Chandler, American actor

September 19 - Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian

September 21
Cheryl Hines, American actress, comedian and director

David Wenham, Australian actor

September 25 - Gordon Currie, Canadian-American actor

September 30 - Omid Djalili, British stand-up comedian, actor and writer of Iranian descent

October 1 - Cindy Margolis, American actress and model

October 8
Peter Greene, American actor

Burr Steers, American actor, screenwriter and director

October 10
Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)

Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress, singer and songwriter

October 11
Lennie James, English actor

Ivo Uukkivi, Estonian actor, singer and television producer

Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor, author and martial artist

October 14 – Steve Coogan, English actor

October 18 - Ralph Eggleston, American animator, art director, storyboard artist, writer, director and production designer (d. 2022)

October 19 – Merle Jääger, Estonian actress and poet

October 20 – William Zabka, American actor

October 22 - Valeria Golino, Italian actress and film director

October 25 – Mathieu Amalric, French actor and filmmaker

October 27 - Mohan Kapur, Indian actor and television host

October 28 - Jami Gertz, American actress

October 31 - Rob Rackstraw, British voice actor

November 2 – Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor

November 7 - Mike Henry, American actor, comedian, writer and producer

November 19 - Paul Weitz, American filmmaker and actor

November 21 – Alexander Siddig, Sudanese-English actor

November 22 - Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor

November 23 - Don Frye, American actor

November 24 – Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress

November 25 - Dougray Scott, Scottish actor

November 26 - Scott Adsit, American actor, comedian and writer

November 30
Ben Stiller, American actor

Andrew Tiernan, British actor and director

December 2 - Beatrice Macola, Italian actress (d. 2001)

December 3
Steve Harris, American actor

Andrew Stanton, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and voice actor

December 7 –
Jeffrey Wright
, American actor

December 9 - Margaret Riley, producer (d. 2024)

December 14 - Ted Raimi, American character actor, director, comedian and writer

December 15 - Anjul Nigam, Indian-born American actor, producer and writer

December 16 –
J.B. Smoove
, American actor and comedian

December 19 - Jessica Steen, Canadian actress

December 21 – Andy Dick, American comedian, actor, musician and television and film producer

December 22 - David S. Goyer, American filmmaker

December 27 – Salman Khan, Indian actor

December 31 – Gong Li, Chinese actress

Deaths

January 14 – Jeanette MacDonald, 61, American actress, singer, San Francisco, One Hour with You

February 5 – Irving Bacon, 71, American actor, Meet John Doe, Fort Ti

February 10 – Arnold Manoff, 50, American screenwriter, No Minor Vices, Casbah

February 15 – Nat King Cole, 45, American singer and actor, St. Louis Blues, Istanbul

February 23 – Stan Laurel, 74, British actor, The Flying Deuces, Sons of the Desert

March 1 –
Madame Du Barry, Zapata's Gang

March 6 – Margaret Dumont, 82, American actress, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera

March 8 – Esther Howard, 72, American actress, The Big Noise, Detour

March 23 – Mae Murray, 79, American actress, The Merry Widow, The Delicious Little Devil

March 28
Clemence Dane, 77, British screenwriter, Anna Karenina, Perfect Strangers

Jack Hoxie, 80, American Western actor, The Last Frontier, Gold

April 1 – Edna Tichenor, 64, American actress, London After Midnight, The Show

April 3 – Ray Enright, 69, American director, Alibi Ike, The Spoilers

April 8 – Lars Hanson, 78, Swedish actor, The Wind, Flesh and the Devil

April 10 –
My Darling Clementine, The Mark of Zorro

April 24 – Louise Dresser, 85, American actress, A Ship Comes In, The Scarlet Empress

April 30 – Helen Chandler, 59, American actress, Dracula, The Last Flight

5 May – John Waters, 71, screenwriter and director, The Big Country, The Desperate Hours

June 6 – Lech Owron, 71, Polish actor, Vampires of Warsaw, The Little Eagle

June 7 – Judy Holliday, 43, American actress, Born Yesterday, Bells Are Ringing

June 8 –
The Wizard of Oz, The Ice Follies of 1939

June 15 – Steve Cochran, 48, American actor, The Best Years of Our Lives, White Heat

June 22 – David O. Selznick, 63, American producer, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca

June 23 – Mary Boland, 85, American stage and film actress, The Women, Ruggles of Red Gap

June 27 – Anthony Veiller, 62, American screenwriter, The Stranger, The Killers

July 11 – Ray Collins, 78, American actor, Citizen Kane, The Kid from Left Field

July 19 – Clyde Beatty, 62, American actor and animal trainer, Africa Screams, Ring of Fear

July 24 – Constance Bennett, 60, American actress, Topper, Merrily We Live

July 28 – Minor Watson, 75, American actor, Woman of the Year, The Jackie Robinson Story

August 6
Everett Sloane, 55, American actor, Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai

Nancy Carroll, 61, American actress, The Devil's Holiday, Hot Saturday

August 30 – Pauline Garon, 64, Canadian actress, The Heart of Broadway, The College Hero

September 2 – Felix E. Feist, 55, American director, This Woman Is Dangerous, The Big Trees

September 4 – Isabel Jeans, 93, British actress, Suspicion, Gigi

September 7
Catherine Dale Owen, 70, American actress, Such Men Are Dangerous, Born Reckless

Jean Peyrière, 79, French actor, Le roi de Paris, Fanfan la Tulipe

September 8 – Dorothy Dandridge, 42, American actress, singer, Carmen Jones, Porgy and Bess

September 27 – Clara Bow, 60, American actress, Wings, It

September 29 – Eddie Gribbon, 75, American film actor, brother of Harry Gribbon

October 3 – Zachary Scott, 51, American actor, Mildred Pierce, The Southerner

October 6 – Tom Kennedy, 80, American actor, Petticoat Larceny, Bringing Up Father

October 18 – Henry Travers, 91, British actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Shadow of a Doubt

October 21 – Marie McDonald, 42, American actress, The Geisha Boy, Living in a Big Way

October 23 – Janice Logan, 50, American actress, Dr. Cyclops, Opened by Mistake

October 31 – Rita Johnson, 52, American actress, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, The Major and the Minor

November 14 – Russell Collins, 68, American actor, Miss Sadie Thompson, Bad Day at Black Rock

November 26 – Wild Bill Elliott, 61, American actor, The San Antonio Kid, Sudden Danger

December 5 –
Joseph I. Breen
, 77, chief administrator of the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (Hays Code) from 1934 to 1954

December 22 –
Albert Ritz, 64, American entertainer of the Ritz Brothers, Sing, Baby, Sing, Life Begins in College

December 29 –
The Searchers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Film debuts

Ian Abercrombie – Von Ryan's Express

Woody Allen – What's New Pussycat

Paul Benedict – The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

Jane Birkin – The Knack ...and How to Get It

Jacqueline Bisset – The Knack ...and How to Get It

Dabney Coleman – The Slender Thread

Robert De Niro – Three Rooms in Manhattan

Agneta Ekmanner – Love 65

Michael Gambon – Othello

Giancarlo Giannini – Libido

Uschi Glas – The Sinister Monk

Olivia Hussey – The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

Timothy Hutton – Never Too Late

Derek Jacobi – Othello

James Karen – Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster

Philip Kaufman (director) – Goldstein

Stuart Lancaster – Mudhoney

El gángster

Alex Rocco – Motorpsycho

Katharine Ross – Shenandoah

Fran Ryan – Mickey One

José Sacristán – La familia y... uno más

Hiroyuki Sanada – Rokyoku komori-uta

Abe Vigoda – Three Rooms in Manhattan

José Wilker – A Falecida

Paul Williams – The Loved One

References

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^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 229

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Top 20 Films of 1965 by Domestic Revenue

External links

List of 1965 films at IMDb

List of 1965 deaths at IMDb

List of 1965 births at IMDb

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