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The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia the year's top-grossing film as well as winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Events

• May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.


• August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose.


• September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace begins and will continue for another 5 years.


• October 5 – Dr. No launches the James Bond series, the second longest-running film franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), still running more than 50 years later (Spectre, 2015). It also launches the career of Sean Connery.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia – Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker

Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley – Sweet Bird of Youth

Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker

Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture (tie): That Touch of Mink

Best Picture (tie): The Music Man

Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni – Divorce Italian Style

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell – Gypsy

Other

Best Director: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy

My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

Notable films released in 1962

U.S.A. unless stated

#

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  The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker
  

A

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  Abhijan (The Expedition), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)


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  Advise & Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
  


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  Alaverdoba, directed by Giorgi Shengelaia
  


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  All Fall Down, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty
  


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  All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)


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  All Souls' Day (Zaduszki) – (Poland)


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  The Amphibian Man (Chelovek-amfibiya) – (U.S.S.R.)


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  Asli-Naqli (Real and Fake), starring Dev Anand – (India)


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  Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) – (Spain)


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  An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)

B

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  Baat Ek Raat Ki (A Tale of One Night), starring Dev Anand – (India)


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  Bachelor Flat, starring Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm
  


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  Bees Saal Baad – (India)


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  Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)


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  Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp – (U.K.)


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  Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day and Jimmy Durante
  


• 
  Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas
  


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  Boccaccio '70, directed by Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren – (Italy)


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  Bon Voyage!, starring Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman
  


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  The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Richard Todd – (U.K.)


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  Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner
  


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  The Brain That Wouldn't Die, starring Virginia Leith
  


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  The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) – (West Germany)

C

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  Os Cafajestes (The Unscrupulous Ones) – (Brazil)


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  Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
  


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  Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
  


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  Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)


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  Cartouche, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale – (France/Italy)


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  The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor, starring Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
  


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  Chased by the Dogs (El less wal kilab) – (Egypt)


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  Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda – (France)


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  The Condemned of Altona (I sequestrati di Altona), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell – (Italy)


• 
  Convicts 4, starring Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Vincent Price, Ray Walston, Sammy Davis, Jr.
  


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  The Counterfeit Traitor, directed by George Seaton, starring William Holden
  


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  Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie
  

D

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  David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
  


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  The Day of the Triffids, starring Howard Keel – (U.K.)


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  Days of Wine and Roses, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
  


• 
  Le Doulos (The Finger Man), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)


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  Dr. No, first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Ursula Andress – (U.K.)

E

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  The Easy Life (Il sorpasso), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (Italy)


• 
  Eclipse (L'Eclisse), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti – (Italy/France)


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  Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas – (Greece)


• 
  Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
  


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  Experiment in Terror, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin
  


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  The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)

F

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  Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)


• Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules


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  Five Finger Exercise, starring Rosalind Russell
  


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  Five Miles to Midnight, starring Sophia Loren
  


• Five Weeks in a Balloon


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  Follow That Dream, starring Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Joanna Moore
  


• 
  The Four Days of Naples (Le Quattro giornate di Napoli) – (Italy)


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  Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Yvette Mimieux
  


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  Freud: The Secret Passion, directed by John Huston, starring Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
  

G

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  Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
  


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  Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
  


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  Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
  


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  Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)


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  The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy)


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  Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood
  


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  Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)


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  Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice – (U.K.)

H

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  H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K.)


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  Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala – (India)


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  Harakiri (Seppuku), directed by Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan)


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  Hatari!, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli
  


• 
  Hell is for Heroes, starring Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin
  


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  Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Paul Newman
  


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  Hero's Island, starring James Mason and Rip Torn
  


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  Hombre de la esquina rosada (Man on Pink Corner) – (Argentina)


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  The Horizontal Lieutenant, starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss
  


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  House of Women, starring Shirley Knight and Constance Ford
  


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  How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard and more


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  Hussar Ballad (Gusarskaya ballada) – (U.S.S.R.)


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  Hussar of the Dead (El Húsar de la Muerte), (Restored, originally released in 1925) – (Chile)

I

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  If a Man Answers, starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
  


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  In Search of the Castaways, starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier
  


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  In the Affirmative (L'Amour avec des si), directed by Claude Lelouch – (France)


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  In the French Style, starring Jean Seberg
  


• 
  The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
  


• 
  The Intruder, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner
  


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  The Iron Maiden, starring Anne Helm and Jeff Donnell
  


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  It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield – (Greece/U.S.A.)


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  It's Only Money, directed by Frank Tashlin. starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien
  


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  Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (U.S.S.R.)

J

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  Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
  


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  La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker – (France)


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  Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner – (U.K.)


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  Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner – (France)

K

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  Kanchanjangha, directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)


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  Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson
  


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  A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates – (U.K.)


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  King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)


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  Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie), directed by Roman Polanski – (Poland)

L

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  The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell – (U.K.)


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  Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer – (U.K./U.S.A.)


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  Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
  


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  Lisa (aka The Inspector), starring Stephen Boyd – (U.S./U.K.)


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  Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig – (U.K.)


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  Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
  


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  The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay – (U.K.)


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  Lonely are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor
  


• 
  Lonely Boy, a documentary about Paul Anka – (Canada)


• 
  Long Day's Journey into Night, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Katharine Hepburn
  


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  The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and more


• 
  Love at Twenty, a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls – (International)


• 
  Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)


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  Lulu, directed by Rolf Thiele, starring Nadja Tiller – (Austria)

M

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  Madison Avenue, starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker
  


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  Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)


• 
  The Magnificent Concubine (Yang Kwei Fei) – (Hong Kong)


• 
  The Main Attraction, starring Pat Boone
  


• 
  Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani – (Italy)


• 
  The Man of Gold (Az aranyember) – (Hungary)


• 
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode
  


• 
  The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Angela Lansbury
  


• 
  March on Rome (La marcia su Roma), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)


• 
  Merrill's Marauders, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin
  


• 
  The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
  


• 
  Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, (on NBC-TV)


• 
  Mix Me a Person, directed by Leslie Norman, starring Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden and Adam Faith – (U.K.)


• Mondo Cane


• 
  Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
  


• 
  Moon Pilot, starring Tom Tryon
  


• 
  The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Ron Howard
  


• 
  Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
  


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  My Geisha, starring Shirley MacLaine
  


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  My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina – (France)

N

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  Night of the Eagle, starring Janet Blair
  


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  Nine Days in One Year (9 dney odnogo goda) – (U.S.S.R.)


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  The Notorious Landlady, starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire
  

O

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  On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)


• 
  Only Two Can Play, starring Peter Sellers
  

P

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  O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte – (Brazil)


• 
  Panic in Year Zero!, starring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon
  


• 
  Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, Lois Nettleton
  


• 
  Phaedra, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins – (Greece)


• 
  The Phantom of the Opera, starring Herbert Lom – (U.K.)


• 
  The Pigeon That Took Rome, starring Charlton Heston
  


• 
  Pitfall (Otoshiana) – (Japan)


• 
  Pontius Pilate, starring Jean Marais, Jeanne Crain, Basil Rathbone
  


• 
  Premature Burial, directed by Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Heather Angel
  


• 
  Pressure Point, starring Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin
  


• 
  Pretty Foe by Esmail Koushan (Iran)


• 
  Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor – (India)

R

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  Redhead (Die Rote or La rossa) – (West Germany/Italy)


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  Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
  


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  Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) – (Turkey)


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  Ride the High Country (a.k.a. Guns in the Afternoon), directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott
  


• 
  The Road to Hong Kong, directed by Norman Panama, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Joan Collins
  


• 
  Roaring Years (Anni ruggenti), starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)


• 
  Rome Adventure, starring Angie Dickinson and Suzanne Pleshette
  


• 
  Der rote Rausch (The Red Intoxication), starring Klaus Kinski – (Austria)

S

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  Safe at Home!, starring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris
  


• 
  Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (King, Queen and Slave), starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt – (India)


• 
  Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi – (Italy)


• 
  Sanjuru (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)


• 
  Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
  


• 
  Shaheed, starring Musarrat Nazir, Talish, Allauddin, Ejaz, Saqi (Pakistani film on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict)


• 
  Something's Got to Give, starring Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin (unfinished)


• 
  The Spiral Road, starring Rock Hudson and Gena Rowlands
  


• 
  State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin
  


• 
  The Suitor (Le Soupirant) – (France)


• 
  Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), starring Hardy Krüger and Nicole Courcel – (France)


• 
  Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
  


• 
  A Symposium on Popular Songs, a Disney animation

T

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  The Tale of Zatoichi (Zatōichi monogatari), directed by Kenji Misumi – (Japan)


• 
  The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatōichi Monogatari), starring Shintaro Katsu – (Japan)


• 
  Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
  


• 
  Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
  


• 
  Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret – (U.K.)


• 
  That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
  


• 
  Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret – (France)


• 
  To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
  


• 
  Tobacco (Tyutyun) – (Bulgaria)


• 
  Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
  


• 
  Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
  


• 
  The Trial (Le Procès), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau – (France/Italy/West Germany)


• 
  The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Robert Bresson – (France)


• 
  Tudor – (Romania)


• 
  Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
  


• 
  Two Half Times in Hell (Két félidő a pokolban), directed by Zoltán Fábri – (Hungary)


• 
  Two Weeks in Another Town, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse
  

V

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  The Vanishing Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur – (France)


• 
  A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)


• 
  A View from the Bridge (Vu du Pont), directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Raf Vallone – (France/Italy)

W

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  Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
  


• 
  The Waltz of the Toreadors, directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, Prunella Scales
  


• 
  War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) – (France)


• 
  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
  


• 
  Who's Got the Action? starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner
  


• 
  The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom
  

XYZ

• Zorro the Avenger


• 
  Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston
  

Short film series

• 
  Looney Tunes (1930–1969)


• 
  Terrytoons (1930–1964)


• 
  Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)


• 
  Bugs Bunny (1940–1964)


• 
  Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)


• 
  Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)


• 
  The Alvin Show (1961-1962)

Births

• January 4 – Michael France, American screenwriter (d. 2013)


• January 5 – Suzy Amis, actress


• January 7 - Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress


• January 17 – C. Martin Croker, animator and voice actor (d. 2016)


• January 17 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian


• February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress


• February 13 – Michele Greene, actress


• February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, actor


• February 22 – Steve Irwin, actor (d. 2006)


• February 27 – Adam Baldwin, actor


• March 10 – Jasmine Guy, actress, singer, dancer, and director


• March 12 – Chris Sanders, actor, animator and voice actor


• March 18 – Thomas Ian Griffith, actor


• March 20 – Stephen Sommers, director


• March 21 – Matthew Broderick, actor


• April 15 – Tom Kane, actor and voice actor


• May 12 – Emilio Estevez, actor


• May 18 – Karel Roden, Czech actor


• May 26 – Bobcat Goldthwait, actor, comedian and director


• June 13 – Ally Sheedy, actress


• June 19 – Paula Abdul, singer


• June 27 – Tony Leung, actor


• July 3 – Tom Cruise, actor


• July 13 – Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian


• July 19 – Anthony Edwards, actor


• July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor


• July 31 – Wesley Snipes, actor


• August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, actress


• August 13 – John Slattery, actor


• August 16 – Steve Carell, actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director


• August 27 – Vic Mignogna, voice actor


• August 29 – Ian James Corlett, voice actor


• August 31 - Dee Bradley Baker, voice actor


• September 11 – Kristy McNichol, actress


• September 15 – Scott McNeil, voice actor


• September 17 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director


• September 24 – Nia Vardalos, actress and producer


• September 26 – Melissa Sue Anderson, actress


• October 1 – Esai Morales, actor


• October 2 – Jeff Bennett, actor and voice actor


• October 11 – Joan Cusack, actress, sister of actor John Cusack
  


• October 12 – Deborah Foreman, actress


• October 13 – Kelly Preston, actress


• October 26 – Cary Elwes, actor


• October 28 - Daphne Zuniga, actress


• November 11 – Demi Moore, actress


• November 14 – Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and comedian


• November 19 – Jodie Foster, actress and director


• November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, actor


• December 19 – Jill Talley, actress


• December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor

Deaths

• January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
  


• January 28 – Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor, The Pearl Maker of Madrid
  


• February 1 - Carey Wilson, American screenwriter, Mutiny on the Bounty
  


• February 19 - James Barton, American actor, Here Comes the Groom, Yellow Sky
  


• February 20 - Halliwell Hobbes, 84, British actor, Gaslight, That Hamilton Woman
  


• February 28 - Chic Johnson, 70, American comedian, actor, Hellzapoppin'
  


• March 17 - Frank Orth, 82, American actor, Nancy Drew... Detective, Here Come the Girls
  


• April 10 – Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood
  


• April 15 - Clara Blandick, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer
  


• April 17 – Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Alice in Wonderland
  


• April 22
  
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    Angus MacPhail, 59, British screenwriter, Spellbound, The Wrong Man
    
  
  
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    Vera Reynolds, 62, American actress, The Night Club, Feet of Clay
    
  
  


• May 14 – Florence Auer, 82, American actress, The Bishop's Wife, State of the Union
  


• June 2 - Aeneas MacKenzie, 72, Scottish screenwriter, The Ten Commandments, Ivanhoe
  


• June 19 – Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
  


• June 24 – Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress, Waterloo Bridge, Made for Each Other
  


• July 2 – Valeska Suratt, 80, American stage and screen actress, The Immigrant
  


• July 4 - Rex Bell, 58, American actor, Broadway to Cheyenne, Law and Lead
  


• July 23 - Victor Moore, 86, American actor, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Louisiana Purchase
  


• July 30 – Myron McCormick, 54, American actor, The Hustler, No Time for Sergeants
  


• August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress, Hollywood icon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot
  


• August 23 – Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor, Action, The Horse Soldiers
  


• September 7 - Louis King, 64, American director, Typhoon, Green Grass of Wyoming
  


• October 2 – Frank Lovejoy, 50, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Goodbye, My Fancy
  


• October 6 – Tod Browning, 82, American director, Dracula, Freaks
  


• October 26 – Louise Beavers, 60, American actress, Holiday Inn, The Jackie Robinson Story
  


• November 15 - Irene, American costume designer, Shall We Dance, Midnight Lace
  


• December 15 – Charles Laughton, 63, British actor, Spartacus, Witness for the Prosecution
  


• December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, 70, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind
  


• December 28 – Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted
  


• December 29 - Hugh Sinclair, 59, British actor, The Saint's Vacation, Judgment Deferred
  

Film debuts

• 
  Bernardo Bertolucci (director) – The Grim Reaper
  


• 
  Jackie Chan – Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
  


• 
  Julie Christie – Crooks Anonymous
  


• 
  Tom Courtenay – Private Potter
  


• 
  Robert Duvall – To Kill a Mockingbird
  


• 
  Samantha Eggar – Dr. Crippen
  


• 
  Sally Field – Moon Pilot
  


• 
  John Hurt – The Wild and the Willing
  


• 
  Ian McShane – The Wild and the Willing
  


• 
  Sarah Miles – Term of Trial
  


• 
  Sydney Pollack (actor) – War Hunt
  


• 
  George A. Romero (director) – Expostulations
  


• 
  Tom Skerritt – War Hunt
  


• 
  Terence Stamp – Term of Trial
  


• 
  David Warner – We Joined the Navy
  

References