1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * February – Warner Bros. buy the film rights for My Fair Lady for the unprecedented sum of $5.5 million plus 47¼% of the gross over $20 million.
 * May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
 * June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca-Universal.
 * July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board.
 * 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 60 years later (No Time to Die, 2021). It also launches the career of Sean Connery.

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


 * Comedy or Musical:
 * Best Picture − Comedy: That Touch of Mink
 * Best Picture − Musical: The Music Man
 * Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni – Divorce Italian Style
 * Best Actress: Rosalind Russell – Gypsy


 * Other
 * Best Director: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
 * Best Supporting Actor: Omar Sharif – Lawrence of Arabia
 * Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury – The Manchurian Candidate

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

1962 film releases
All of these films are from the United States unless stated.

January–March

 * January 1962
 * 1 January
 * Heaven and Earth Magic
 * Sanjuro (Japan)
 * 9 January
 * The Nun and the Sergeant
 * 11 January
 * Only Two Can Play
 * 12 January
 * Bachelor Flat
 * 14 January
 * I Thank a Fool
 * 17 January
 * The Intruder
 * 18 January
 * My Geisha
 * 19 January
 * Tender Is the Night
 * A View from the Bridge
 * 26 January
 * The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
 * February 1962
 * 7 February
 * Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
 * Light in the Piazza
 * 10 February
 * Sergeants 3
 * 12 February
 * The Bellboy and the Playgirls
 * 15 February
 * Pontius Pilate
 * 21 February
 * The Couch
 * Walk on the Wild Side
 * 28 February
 * Too Late Blues
 * March 1962
 * 1 March
 * Posse from Hell
 * 5 March
 * Rome Adventure
 * 7 March
 * The Premature Burial
 * 9 March
 * State Fair
 * 10 March
 * Journey to the Seventh Planet
 * 14 March
 * The Road to Hong Kong
 * 21 March
 * Hitler
 * Sweet Bird of Youth
 * Gorath (Japan)
 * 23 March
 * Satan in High Heels
 * Satan Never Sleeps
 * 28 March
 * Hand of Death
 * The Manster (U.S./Japan)
 * Six Black Horses

April–June

 * April 1962
 * 2 April
 * The Broken Land
 * 5 April
 * Moon Pilot
 * 6 April
 * Ivan's Childhood (U.S.S.R)
 * 11 April
 * All Fall Down
 * Follow That Dream
 * House of Women
 * The Magic Sword
 * 12 April
 * Cape Fear
 * 13 April
 * Experiment in Terror
 * 17 April
 * The Counterfeit Traitor
 * 18 April
 * The Horizontal Lieutenant
 * 19 April
 * Five Finger Exercise
 * 22 April
 * Hands of a Stranger
 * The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
 * 23 April
 * Escape from Zahrain
 * 25 April
 * Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (Italy)
 * May 1962
 * 3 May
 * The Brain That Wouldn't Die
 * Invasion of the Star Creatures
 * 9 May
 * Jessica
 * War Hunt
 * 17 May
 * Bon Voyage!
 * 24 May
 * The Inspector
 * Lonely Are the Brave
 * 25 May
 * The Cabinet of Caligari
 * When the Girls Take Over
 * 29 May
 * Hatari!
 * June 1962
 * 6 June
 * 13 West Street
 * Big Red
 * Lad, A Dog
 * 9 June
 * Eegah
 * 13 June
 * It Happened in Athens
 * Lolita
 * Merrill's Marauders
 * 14 June
 * That Touch of Mink
 * 15 June
 * Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
 * 19 June
 * The Music Man
 * 20 June
 * Confessions of an Opium Eater
 * The Pigeon That Took Rome
 * Ride the High Country
 * 21 June
 * Boys' Night Out
 * 26 June
 * Hell Is for Heroes
 * 27 June
 * Safe at Home!
 * 29 June
 * Beauty and the Beast

July–September

 * July 1962
 * 3 July
 * Birdman of Alcatraz
 * The Creation of the Humanoids
 * Tarzan Goes to India
 * 4 July
 * Tales of Terror
 * The Three Stooges in Orbit
 * 5 July
 * Panic in Year Zero!
 * 7 July
 * Advise & Consent
 * 15 July
 * Kujira Gami aka The Whale God (Japan)
 * 16 July
 * Jack the Giant Killer
 * 17 July
 * Air Patrol
 * 21 July
 * Black Gold
 * 25 July
 * Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
 * 26 July
 * The Lion
 * The Notorious Landlady
 * 28 July
 * The Miracle Worker
 * August 1962
 * 1 August
 * Kid Galahad
 * 2 August
 * The Underwater City
 * 3 August
 * The Spiral Road
 * 7 August
 * The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
 * 8 August
 * The Interns
 * 11 August
 * King Kong vs. Godzilla (Japan)
 * 17 August
 * Two Weeks in Another Town
 * Guns of Darkness
 * 22 August
 * Five Weeks in a Balloon
 * 29 August
 * The 300 Spartans
 * September 1962
 * 15 September
 * Convicts 4
 * 16 September
 * Harakiri (Japan)
 * Billy Budd
 * 25 September
 * The Longest Day
 * 26 September
 * Carnival of Souls
 * 27 September
 * Gigot

October–December

 * October 1962
 * 1 October
 * A Kind of Loving
 * 3 October
 * Zotz!
 * 4 October
 * Sodom and Gomorrah
 * 5 October
 * The Chapman Report
 * Dr. No – (U.K.)
 * 10 October
 * If a Man Answers
 * Long Day's Journey into Night
 * 16 October
 * Requiem for a Heavyweight
 * 18 October
 * Phaedra
 * 22 October
 * Escape from East Berlin
 * 24 October
 * The Manchurian Candidate
 * Tower of London
 * 25 October
 * Tonight for Sure
 * The War Lover
 * 31 October
 * Period of Adjustment
 * What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
 * November 1962
 * 1 November
 * How the West Was Won
 * Gypsy
 * 2 November
 * The Reluctant Saint
 * 8 November
 * Mutiny on the Bounty
 * 14 November
 * In Search of the Castaways
 * 21 November
 * It's Only Money
 * Two for the Seesaw
 * Girls! Girls! Girls!
 * 27 November
 * The Main Attraction
 * December 1962
 * 2 December
 * Pressure Point
 * 6 December
 * Billy Rose's Jumbo
 * 10 December
 * Lawrence of Arabia
 * 12 December
 * Five Miles to Midnight
 * Freud: The Secret Passion
 * 17 December
 * Gay Purr-ee
 * 19 December
 * Taras Bulba
 * 22 December
 * The Trial
 * 25 December
 * To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Who's Got the Action?
 * 26 December
 * David and Lisa
 * Days of Wine and Roses
 * 31 December
 * 40 Pounds of Trouble

Notable films released in 1962
United States unless stated

#

 * The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker
 * 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, and Larry Storch

A

 * Abhijan (The Expedition), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
 * Advise & Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
 * Alaverdoba, directed by Giorgi Shengelaia – (Georgia)
 * All Fall Down, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty
 * All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)
 * All Souls' Day (Zaduszki) – (Poland)
 * The American Beauty (La belle américaine), directed by Robert Dhéry – (France)
 * The Amphibian Man (Chelovek-amfibiya) – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Appointment at the Tower, directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny – (Egypt)
 * Asli-Naqli (Real and Fake), starring Dev Anand – (India)
 * Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) – (Spain)
 * Attack of the Normans (I normanni), directed by Giuseppe Vari – (Italy)
 * An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
 * The Awful Dr. Orloff (Gritos en la noche), directed by Jesús Franco – (Spain)

B

 * Baat Ek Raat Ki (A Tale of One Night), starring Dev Anand – (India)
 * Bachelor Flat, starring Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm
 * Bees Saal Baad – (India)
 * The Bellboy and the Playgirls, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Fritz Umgelter
 * Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
 * Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp – (U.K.)
 * Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day and Jimmy Durante
 * Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas
 * Boccaccio '70, directed by Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren – (Italy)
 * Bon Voyage!, starring Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman
 * The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Richard Todd – (U.K.)
 * Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner
 * The Brain That Wouldn't Die, starring Virginia Leith
 * The Brainiac (El baron del terror), directed by Chano Urueta – (Mexico)
 * The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) – (West Germany)
 * The Broken Land, starring Kent Taylor, Diana Darrin and Jack Nicholson

C

 * Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
 * Captain Clegg (released as Night Creatures in the U.S.), directed by Peter Graham Scott – (U.K.)
 * Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
 * Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
 * Carry On Jack, starring Kenneth Williams, Bernard Cribbins and Juliet Mills – (U.K.)
 * Cartouche, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale – (France/Italy)
 * The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor, starring Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
 * Chased by the Dogs (El less wal kilab) – (Egypt)
 * Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda – (France)
 * 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.
 * The Counterfeit Traitor, directed by George Seaton, starring William Holden
 * Crazy Paradise (Det tossede paradis), directed by Gabriel Axel and starring Dirch Passer – (Denmark)
 * Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie

D

 * Damon and Pythias (Il tiranno di Siracusa), directed by Curtis Bernhardt – (U.S./Italy)
 * David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
 * The Day of the Triffids, starring Howard Keel – (U.K.)
 * Days of Wine and Roses, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
 * Dead Man's Evidence, directed by Francis Searle – (U.K.)
 * The Devil's Agent (Im Namen des Teufels), directed by John Paddy Carstairs – (U.K./West Germany/Ireland)
 * Le Doulos (The Finger Man), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
 * Dr. No, first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Ursula Andress – (U.K.)
 * Dungeon of Harrow, directed by Pat Boyette

E

 * 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)
 * Eighteen in the Sun (Diciottenni al sole), directed by Camillo Mastrocinque – (Italy)
 * Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas – (Greece)
 * The Elusive Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur – (France)
 * Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
 * Escape from Zahrain, starring Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo and Jack Warden
 * Eva (released in the U.K. as Eve), starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi – (Italy/France)
 * Experiment in Terror, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin
 * The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)

F

 * The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Baron Prášil), directed by Karel Zeman – (Czechoslovakia)
 * Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
 * The Female: Seventy Times Seven (Setenta veces siete), starring Isabel Sarli – (Argentina)
 * Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules
 * Five Finger Exercise, starring Rosalind Russell
 * Five Miles to Midnight, starring Sophia Loren
 * Five Weeks in a Balloon
 * Follow That Dream, starring Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Joanna Moore
 * The Four Days of Naples (Le Quattro giornate di Napoli) – (Italy)
 * Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Yvette Mimieux
 * Freud: The Secret Passion, directed by John Huston, starring Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
 * The Fury of Hercules (La furia di Ercole), written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini – (Italy)

G

 * Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
 * Geronimo, starring Chuck Connors
 * Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
 * Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
 * Go to Blazes, directed by Michael Truman – (U.K.)
 * The Golden Arrow (L'arciere delle mille e una notte), directed by Antonio Margheriti – (Italy)
 * Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
 * The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy)
 * Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
 * Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice – (U.K.)
 * Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood

H

 * H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K.)
 * Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala – (India)
 * Hand of Death, starring John Agar
 * Hands of a Stranger, directed by Newt Arnold
 * Harakiri (Seppuku), directed by Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan)
 * Hatari!, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli
 * Hell Is for Heroes, starring Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin
 * Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Paul Newman
 * Hero's Island, starring James Mason and Rip Torn
 * Hombre de la esquina rosada (Man on Pink Corner) – (Argentina)
 * The Horizontal Lieutenant, starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss
 * The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy)
 * House of Women, starring Shirley Knight and Constance Ford
 * How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard and more
 * Hussar Ballad (Gusarskaya ballada) – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Hussar of the Dead (El Húsar de la Muerte), (Restored, originally released in 1925) – (Chile)

I

 * If a Man Answers, starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
 * In Search of the Castaways, starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier
 * In the Affirmative (L'Amour avec des si), directed by Claude Lelouch – (France)
 * In the French Style, starring Jean Seberg
 * The Inn on the River (Das Gasthaus an der Themse), directed by Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany)
 * The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
 * The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany)
 * The Intruder, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner
 * The Iron Maiden, starring Anne Helm and Jeff Donnell
 * It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield – (Greece/United States)
 * It's Only Money, directed by Frank Tashlin. starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien
 * Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (U.S.S.R.)

J

 * Jack the Giant Killer, starring Kerwin Mathews
 * Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
 * La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker – (France)
 * Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner – (U.K.)
 * Journey to the Seventh Planet, directed by Sid Pink – (Denmark)
 * Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner – (France)

K

 * Kanchanjangha, directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
 * Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson
 * A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates – (U.K.)
 * King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
 * Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie), directed by Roman Polanski – (Poland)

L

 * The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell – (U.K.)
 * Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer – (UK/US)
 * The Legend of Lobo, a Walt Disney production
 * Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig – (U.K.)
 * Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
 * The Lion, starring William Holden and Trevor Howard
 * Lisa (aka The Inspector), starring Stephen Boyd – (U.S./U.K.)
 * Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
 * The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay – (U.K.)
 * 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
 * The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and more
 * Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow (Koiya koi nasuna koi), directed by Tomu Uchida – (Japan)
 * 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)
 * Lulu, directed by Rolf Thiele, starring Nadja Tiller – (Austria)

M

 * Madison Avenue, starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker
 * Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
 * The Magic Sword, directed by Bert I. Gordon
 * 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
 * Mediterranean Holiday (Traumreise unter weissen Segeln), a documentary directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber – (West Germany)
 * The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women (열녀문 – Yeolnyeomun), directed by Shin Sang-ok – (South Korea)
 * 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, directed by Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti – (Italy)
 * A Monkey in Winter (Un singe en hiver), directed by Henri Verneuil – (France)
 * 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
 * My Geisha, starring Shirley MacLaine
 * My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina – (France)

N

 * Night of the Eagle (retitled Burn, Witch, Burn! in the U.S.), starring Janet Blair
 * Nine Days in One Year (9 dney odnogo goda) – (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Notorious Landlady, starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire

O

 * On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)
 * Only Two Can Play, starring Peter Sellers
 * Operation Snatch, directed by Robert Day and starring Terry-Thomas and George Sanders – (U.K.)
 * O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte – (Brazil)

P

 * 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
 * The Pirates of Blood River, directed by John Gilling – (U.K.)
 * Pitfall (Otoshiana) – (Japan)
 * Play It Cool, starring Billy Fury – (U.K.)
 * 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)
 * The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (Das Rätsel der Roten Orchidee), directed by Helmut Ashley – (West Germany)

R

 * Redhead (Die Rote or La rossa) – (West Germany/Italy)
 * Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
 * Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) – (Turkey)
 * 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

 * 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)
 * Samar, directed by and starring George Montgomery
 * Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
 * Satan in High Heels, starring Meg Myles and Grayson Hall
 * Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
 * Seven Seas to Calais (Il dominatore dei sette mari), directed by Rudolph Maté – (Italy)
 * Shaheed, starring Musarrat Nazir, Talish, Allauddin, Ejaz, Saqi (Pakistani film on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict)
 * She'll Have to Go (released in the United States as Maid for Murder), directed by Robert Asher – (U.K.)
 * She Knows Y'Know, directed by Montgomery Tully – (U.K.)
 * Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace/ Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes (German) a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Terence Fisher, written by Curt Siodmak, starring Christopher Lee as Holmes and Thorley Walters as Watson
 * Slaughter of the Vampires (La strage dei vampiri), directed by Roberto Mauri – (Italy)
 * Solo for Sparrow, directed by Gordon Flemyng – (U.K.)
 * Some People, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
 * 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
 * Swordsman of Siena (La congiura dei dieci/Le mercenaire), starring Stewart Granger – (Italy/France)
 * A Symposium on Popular Songs, a Disney animation

T

 * The Tale of Zatoichi (Zatōichi monogatari), directed by Kenji Misumi – (Japan)
 * The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatōichi Monogatari), starring Shintaro Katsu – (Japan)
 * Tales of Terror, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone
 * Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
 * Tarzan Goes to India, Jock Mahoney's first film as Tarzan
 * Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
 * Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret – (U.K.)
 * The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany)
 * That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
 * Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret – (France)
 * The Three Stooges In Orbit, starring the Three Stooges
 * Time to Remember, directed by Charles Jarrott – (U.K.)
 * To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
 * Tobacco (Tyutyun) – (Bulgaria)
 * Tonny, directed by Nils R. Müller and Per Gjersøe – (Norway)
 * Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
 * Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
 * Treasure of the Silver Lake, directed by Harald Reinl – (West Germany)
 * The Cursed Palace, starring Salah Zulfikar and Mariam Fakhr Eddine – (Egypt)
 * 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)
 * The Twelve Chairs (Las doce sillas), directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – (Cuba)
 * 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

U

 * The Unscrupulous Ones (Os Cafajestes), directed by Ruy Guerra – (Brazil)

V

 * 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)
 * Violent Life (Una vita violenta), directed by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi – (Italy)
 * Vive le Tour, documentary by Louis Malle – (France)

W

 * Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
 * Waltz of the Toreadors (a.k.a. The Amorous General), directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
 * War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) – (France)
 * We Joined the Navy, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
 * 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 Witch's Curse (Maciste all'inferno), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy)
 * The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom

Z

 * 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)

Births

 * January 4 – Michael France, American screenwriter (d. 2013)
 * January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron, American actress
 * January 7 – Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
 * January 9 - Conrad Goode, American actor, screenwriter, screenwriter, producer and musician
 * January 10 – C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor (d. 2016)
 * January 11 – Kim Coles, American actress, comedian and game show host
 * January 16 - Peter Lurie, American voice actor, sports anchor and television personality
 * January 17 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
 * January 20 - Sophie Thompson, British actress
 * January 21 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
 * January 22
 * Robert Mailhouse, American actor and musician
 * Piotr Polk, Polish actor and singer
 * January 23 - Richard Roxburgh, Australian actor, writer, producer and director
 * February 2 - Michael T. Weiss, American actor
 * February 4
 * Jim O'Heir, American actor and comedian
 * Michael Riley, Canadian actor
 * February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
 * February 7 - Eddie Izzard, English stand-up comedian, actor and writer
 * February 8 - Martin Wuttke, German actor and director
 * February 12 - Diane Franklin, American actress and producer
 * February 13 – Michele Greene, American actress
 * February 14
 * Sakina Jaffrey, American actress
 * Kirk Thatcher, American writer, producer and director
 * February 16 - Alexa Kenin, American actress (d. 1985)
 * February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
 * February 18 - Julie Strain, American actress and model (d. 2021)
 * February 22
 * Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, television personality, conservationist, actor (d. 2006)
 * Ethan Wayne, American actor
 * February 27 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
 * March 2 - Jon Bon Jovi, American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
 * March 8 – Cecilia Yip, Hong Kong actress
 * March 10 – Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, dancer and director
 * March 11 - Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
 * March 12
 * Julia Campbell, American actress
 * Chris Sanders, American actor, animator, director and voice actor
 * Titus Welliver, American actor
 * March 18
 * Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
 * Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
 * March 20 – Stephen Sommers, American director, screenwriter and producer
 * March 21
 * Matthew Broderick, American actor
 * Kathy Greenwood, Canadian actress and comedian
 * Rosie O'Donnell, American actress and comedian
 * March 23 - Jenny Wright, American actress
 * March 25 - Thom Bierdz, American actor
 * March 26 - Marita Geraghty, American actress
 * March 29 - Tyra Ferrell, American actress
 * April 2 – Clark Gregg, American actor, director and screenwriter
 * April 3 - Jennifer Rubin, American actress and model
 * April 5 - Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (d. 2003)
 * April 15 – Tom Kane, American actor and voice actor
 * April 18 - Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist, stand-up comedian and actor
 * April 23 - John Hannah, Scottish actor
 * April 24 - Jason Salkey, English actor
 * April 27 – James LeGros, American actor
 * May 5 - Manoj Sood, Indo-Canadian actor
 * May 9 - Sean McNamara, American director, producer, actor and screenwriter
 * May 12 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
 * May 14 - Danny Huston, American actor, director and writer
 * May 17 - Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American television host, comedian, author and actor
 * May 18
 * Nathaniel Parker, English actor
 * Karel Roden, Czech actor
 * May 26 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor, comedian and director
 * May 29 - John D. LeMay, American former actor
 * May 31 - Sebastian Koch, German actor
 * June 5
 * Jeff Garlin, American comedian and actor
 * Ken Hudson Campbell, American actor
 * June 6 - Todd Kimsey, American actor (d. 2016)
 * June 7 - Lance Reddick, American actor and musician (d. 2023)
 * June 10
 * Gina Gershon, American actress
 * Tzi Ma, Hong Kong-American actor
 * June 13 – Ally Sheedy, American actress
 * June 16 - Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
 * June 19 – Paula Abdul, American singer
 * June 22 - Nicholas Lea, Canadian actor
 * June 23 - Billy Wirth, American actor and producer
 * June 27
 * Emel Heinreich, Turkish-Austrian actress, author and film-director
 * Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor
 * June 30 - Predrag Bjelac, Serbian actor
 * July 1 - Andre Braugher, American actor (d. 2023)
 * July 2 - Doug Benson, American comedian, television host and actor
 * July 3
 * Tom Cruise, American actor
 * Thomas Gibson, American actor
 * July 4 - Neil Morrissey, English actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and businessman
 * July 8 - Oreste Baldini, Italian actor and voice actor
 * July 13
 * Michael Jace, American former character actor
 * Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian
 * July 15 – Martin Roach, Canadian actor
 * July 18 - Lee Arenberg, American actor
 * July 19 – Anthony Edwards, American actor
 * July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor
 * July 23 - Eriq La Salle, American actor, director, writer and producer
 * July 29
 * Kevin Chapman, American actor
 * Kevin Spirtas, American actor
 * July 31 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
 * August 1 - Jesse Borrego, American actor
 * August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress
 * August 12 - Miss Cleo, American television personality (d. 2016)
 * August 13 – John Slattery, American actor
 * August 14 - Steve Reevis, Native American actor (d. 2017)
 * August 15 - David Zayas, Puerto Rican actor
 * August 16 – Steve Carell, American actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
 * August 20
 * Geoffrey Blake, American actor
 * Ravil Isyanov, Russian actor (d. 2021)
 * August 21 - Cleo King, American actress
 * August 24 – David Koechner, American actor and comedian
 * August 25 - Rusty Schwimmer, American character actress and singer
 * August 27 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
 * August 28 - David Fincher, American filmmaker
 * August 29
 * Ian James Corlett, Canadian-American voice actor
 * Lycia Naff, American actress
 * August 31 – Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
 * September 1 - Michelle Meyrink, Canadian former actress
 * September 8 – Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
 * September 11 – Kristy McNichol, American actress
 * September 12 - Amy Yasbeck, American actress
 * September 15 – Scott McNeil, Australian-Canadian voice actor
 * September 16 - Jonathan Pienaar, South African actor, writer and comedian
 * September 17
 * Paul Feig, American actor, director, comedian and filmmaker
 * Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
 * September 21 - Mark Holden, Canadian actor, writer and producer
 * September 22 - Rob Morrow, American actor and director
 * September 24 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress and producer
 * September 26 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
 * September 29 - Roger Bart, American actor and singer
 * October 1
 * Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Nigerian-British actor and producer
 * Esai Morales, American actor
 * October 2 – Jeff Bennett, American actor and voice actor
 * October 5 - Ricky Harris, American producer, actor and comedian (d. 2016)
 * October 6 - Joaquín Cosío, Mexican actor
 * October 9 - Peter Hewitt, English director and writer
 * October 11 – Joan Cusack, American actress
 * October 12 – Deborah Foreman, American actress
 * October 13
 * T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, American actress and singer
 * Kelly Preston, American actress (d. 2020)
 * October 14 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (d. 2003)
 * October 15 - Simon Kunz, English actor
 * October 16 - Christian Stolte, American character actor
 * October 17 - Mike Judge, American actor, animator, filmmaker and musician
 * October 20 - David Mickey Evans, American director and screenwriter
 * October 22 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
 * October 26 – Cary Elwes, English actor
 * October 27 - Brontis Jodorowsky, Mexican-French actor
 * October 28
 * Jason Watkins, English actor
 * Daphne Zuniga, American actress
 * November 1 - Brenda Chapman, American writer, storyboard artist and director
 * November 7 - Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
 * November 9 - Rick Batalla, American actor
 * November 11
 * Gerard Horan, English actor
 * Demi Moore, American actress
 * November 14 – Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and comedian
 * November 18 - Tim Guinee, American actor
 * November 19 – Jodie Foster, American actress and director
 * November 28 – Jon Stewart, American actor and comedian
 * November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor
 * December 6 - Janine Turner, American actress
 * December 9 – Felicity Huffman, American actress
 * December 10 - Scott Capurro, American comedian, writer and actor
 * December 14 - Ginger Lynn, American pornographic actress
 * December 18 - James Sie, American actor
 * December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress
 * December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor
 * December 23 - Peter Ramsey, American storyboard artist, story artist, director, writer and producer

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 27 – Willie Best, 48, American actor, Nothing but the Truth, The Red Dragon
 * 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
 * Angus MacPhail, 59, British screenwriter, Spellbound, The Wrong Man
 * 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 6 – Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, 63, American actor, Nevada, Southwest Passage
 * June 19
 * Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
 * Will Wright, 68, American actor, Quantrill's Raiders, Alias Jesse James
 * 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 13 – Jerry Wald, 50, American screenwriter and producer, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place
 * 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 21 – Syd Saylor, 67, American actor, The Lost Jungle, The Three Mesquiteers
 * December 23 – Luis Alberni, 76, Spanish actor, Svengali, The Count of Monte Cristo
 * 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