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The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.


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Rank Title Gross
1.Way Down East
Way Down East

Way Down East is one of several film adaptations of the play Way Down East, written by Lottie Blair Parker Cinema of the United States drama silent film and directed by D.W....
 - directed by D.W. Griffith
$5,000,000
2.Over the Hill to the Poorhouse - directed by Harry F. Millarde
Harry F. Millarde

Harry F. Millarde was a pioneer United States silent film actor and film director.Millarde was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and began his acting in film in 1913 with Kalem Studios in New York City....
 
3.Shipwrecked Among Cannibals 
4.Polyanna
Pollyanna (1920 film)

Pollyanna is a 1920 in film melodrama/comedy starring Mary Pickford, directed by Paul Powell , and based upon a Eleanor H. Porter Pollyanna....
 
5.The Mark of Zorro
The Mark of Zorro (1920 film)

The Mark of Zorro is a silent film film released in 1920 in film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure film was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro....
 
6.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 in film horror film silent film based upon Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and starring actor John Barrymore....
 
7.The Round-Up
The Round-Up

The Round-Up is a 1920 in film Western film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Wallace Beery. The movie was written by Edmund Day and Tom Forman, and directed by George Melford....
 
8.Double Speed 
9.Excuse My Dust 









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The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • November 27 - The Mark of Zorro
    The Mark of Zorro (1920 film)

    The Mark of Zorro is a silent film film released in 1920 in film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure film was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro....
    , starring Douglas Fairbanks
    Douglas Fairbanks

    Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was an United States actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer, who was best known for his Swashbuckler films roles in Silent film films such as The Thief of Bagdad , Robin Hood , and The Mark of Zorro ....
     opens.


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Gross
1.Way Down East
Way Down East

Way Down East is one of several film adaptations of the play Way Down East, written by Lottie Blair Parker Cinema of the United States drama silent film and directed by D.W....
 - directed by D.W. Griffith
$5,000,000
2.Over the Hill to the Poorhouse - directed by Harry F. Millarde
Harry F. Millarde

Harry F. Millarde was a pioneer United States silent film actor and film director.Millarde was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and began his acting in film in 1913 with Kalem Studios in New York City....
 
3.Shipwrecked Among Cannibals 
4.Polyanna
Pollyanna (1920 film)

Pollyanna is a 1920 in film melodrama/comedy starring Mary Pickford, directed by Paul Powell , and based upon a Eleanor H. Porter Pollyanna....
 
5.The Mark of Zorro
The Mark of Zorro (1920 film)

The Mark of Zorro is a silent film film released in 1920 in film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure film was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro....
 
6.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 in film horror film silent film based upon Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and starring actor John Barrymore....
 
7.The Round-Up
The Round-Up

The Round-Up is a 1920 in film Western film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Wallace Beery. The movie was written by Edmund Day and Tom Forman, and directed by George Melford....
 
8.Double Speed 
9.Excuse My Dust 


Films released in 1920

  • Algol
    Algol (film)

    Algol: Tragedy of Power is a 1920 in film silent film German language science fiction movie about an alien from the planet Algol. The film was directed by Hans Werckmeister and stars Emil Jannings and John Gottowt....
    , starring Emil Jannings
    Emil Jannings

    Emil Jannings was a Switzerland-born German people actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor....
  • Anna Boleyn
    Anna Boleyn (film)

    Anna Boleyn is a 1920 in film German historical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It starred Henny Porten as Anne Boleyn and Emil Jannings as Henry VIII of England....
    , directed by Ernst Lubitsch
    Ernst Lubitsch

    Ernst Lubitsch , was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"....
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 silent film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the earliest, most influential and most artistically acclaimed German Expressionism films....
    , starring Werner Krauss
    Werner Krauss

    Werner Johannes Krauss was a Germany stage and film actor.Krauss was born in Sonnefeld, Germany, the son of a clergyman. He ran away from home and joined a travelling theatre company....
    , Conrad Veidt
    Conrad Veidt

    Conrad Veidt was a Germany actor, well known for his roles in such films as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Thief of Bagdad , and Casablanca ....
     and Lil Dagover
    Lil Dagover

    Lil Dagover was a German people stage, film and television actress whose career spanned nearly six decades....
    .
  • Convict 13
    Convict 13

    Convict 13 is a 1920 in film short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline....
    , a Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
     short
  • The Common Sin, starring Rod La Rocque
    Rod La Rocque

    Rod La Rocque was an American actor.He was born Rodrique la Rocque de la Rour in Chicago, Illinois of French and Irish descent. He began appearing in stock theater at the age of seven and eventually ended up at the Essanay Studios in Chicago where he found steady work until the studios closed....
     and Nita Naldi
    Nita Naldi

    Nita Naldi was an United States silent film actress. One of the most successful actresses in Hollywood during the "Roaring Twenties", she was often cast in the role of the "femme fatale"/"Vamp_", a Stock character first popularized by actress Theda Bara....
  • The Girl in Number 29
    The Girl in Number 29

    The Girl in Number 29 is a 1920 in film drama film directed by John Ford. The film is considered to be lost film. ...
    , directed by John Ford
    John Ford

    John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
  • The Golem: How He Came Into the World
    The Golem: How He Came Into the World

    The Golem: How He Came Into the World is a silent film horror film by Paul Wegener. It was directed by Carl Boese and Wegener, written by Wegener and Henrik Galeen, and starred Wegener as the golem....
     (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), starring and directed by Paul Wegener
    Paul Wegener

    Paul Wegener was a Germany actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema....
  • Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson
    Dora Gerson

    Dora Gerson was a Jewish people German people cabaret singer and motion picture actress of the silent film era who was killed with her family at Auschwitz concentration camp....
     and Bela Lugosi
    Béla Lugosi

    B?la Lugosi was a Hungarians-born United States actor of theatre and film, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Dracula and subsequent Dracula ....
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film)

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 in film horror film silent film based upon Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and starring actor John Barrymore....
    , starring John Barrymore
    John Barrymore

    John Sidney Blyth Barrymore , was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III ....
  • Haunted Spooks
    Haunted Spooks

    Haunted Spooks is a 1920 in film comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis....
    , starring Harold Lloyd
    Harold Lloyd

    Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an United States film actor and film producer, most famous for his silent film comedies.Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era....
  • Herr och fru Stockholm, starring Greta Garbo
    Greta Garbo

    Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actor during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age of Hollywood.Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances...
  • High and Dizzy
    High and Dizzy

    High and Dizzy is a 1920 in film short subject comedy film starring Harold Lloyd....
    , starring Harold Lloyd
    Harold Lloyd

    Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an United States film actor and film producer, most famous for his silent film comedies.Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era....
  • Huckleberry Finn
  • The Last of the Mohicans
    The Last of the Mohicans (1920 film)

    The Last of the Mohicans is a 1920 in film film version of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. It tells the story of two English girls, trying to reach the fort where their father is commander, suffering danger in the frontier of the American colonies....
    , starring Wallace Beery
    Wallace Beery

    Wallace Beery was an United States Academy Award-winning actor, arguably best known for his portrayal of Long John Silver in Treasure Island , who appeared in 200 movies over a 36-year span....
  • Love, Honor, and Behave, starring George O'Hara
    George O'Hara (actor)

    George O'Hara was an United States motion picture actor and screenwriter of the silent film era....
     and Marie Prevost
    Marie Prevost

    Marie Prevost was a Canada actor of the early days of film. During her twenty year career, she made 121 Silent film and Sound film....
  • The Mark of Zorro
    The Mark of Zorro (1920 film)

    The Mark of Zorro is a silent film film released in 1920 in film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure film was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro....
    , starring Douglas Fairbanks
    Douglas Fairbanks

    Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was an United States actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer, who was best known for his Swashbuckler films roles in Silent film films such as The Thief of Bagdad , Robin Hood , and The Mark of Zorro ....
  • The $1,000,000 Reward
    The $1,000,000 Reward

    The $1,000,000 Reward is a 1920 in film drama film film serial, directed by George Lessey, and produced by Harry Grossman. The film is considered to be lost film....
  • Neighbors
    Neighbors (1920 film)

    Neighbors is a 1920 in film short comedy film written, directed by and starring comedian Buster Keaton....
    a Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
     short
  • One Week, a Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
     short
  • Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
  • The Penalty
    The Penalty (film)

    The Penalty is an United States crime film, originally released in 1920. It was directed by Wallace Worsley, and written by Philip Lonergan and Charles Kenyon, based upon the pulp novel by Gouverneur Morris ....
    , starring Lon Chaney
    Lon Chaney, Sr.

    Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an United States actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema....
  • Pollyanna
    Pollyanna (1920 film)

    Pollyanna is a 1920 in film melodrama/comedy starring Mary Pickford, directed by Paul Powell , and based upon a Eleanor H. Porter Pollyanna....
    , starring Mary Pickford
    Mary Pickford

    Mary Pickford was an Academy Award-winning Canada film actor, as well as a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences....
     -(film only mentioned in article)
  • The Saphead
    The Saphead

    The Saphead is a 1920 in film comedy film featuring Buster Keaton. It was the actor's first starring role in a full-length feature and the film that launched his career....
    , starring Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
  • The Scarecrow
    The Scarecrow (1920 film)

    The Scarecrow is a 1920 in film short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline....
    , a Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
     short
  • Shipwrecked Among Cannibals documentary film
  • Stolen Moments
    Stolen Moments (1920 film)

    Stolen Moments is a silent movie starring Rudolph Valentino and Marguerite Namara. It was released in December 1920, just a few months before Valentino was elevated to stardom by his performance in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ....
    , starring Rudolph Valentino
    Rudolph Valentino

    Rudolph Valentino was an Italy actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover", he was one of the most popular stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars from the silent film....
  • Way Down East
    Way Down East

    Way Down East is one of several film adaptations of the play Way Down East, written by Lottie Blair Parker Cinema of the United States drama silent film and directed by D.W....
    , starring Lillian Gish
    Lillian Gish

    Lillian Diana Gish , was an United States stage, screen and television actor whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W....
  • Within Our Gates
    Within Our Gates

    Within Our Gates is a 1920 in film silent film race movie that dramatically depicts the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the "New Negro"....
    , directed by Oscar Micheaux
    Oscar Micheaux

    Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author and film director. Although predated by the short lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company that put out smaller films, he is regarded as the first African-American feature filmmaker, and the most prominent producer of race films....
    , starring Evelyn Preer
    Evelyn Preer

    Eveleyn Preer was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s....


Short film series

  • Harold Lloyd
    Harold Lloyd

    Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an United States film actor and film producer, most famous for his silent film comedies.Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era....
    (1913-1951)
  • Charlie Chaplin
    Charlie Chaplin

    Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
    (1914-1960s
    1960s

    The 1960s list of decades were the years from the start of 1960 to the end of 1969. The term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends in the west, particularly United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Italy, and Ger...
    )
  • Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
    (1917-1941)


Animated short film series

  • Felix the Cat
    Felix the Cat

    File:Felix for Judy.pngFelix the Cat is a animated cartoon fictional character created in the silent film era. His black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combined to make Felix one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in the world....
    (1919-1936)
  • Koko the Clown
    Koko the Clown

    Koko the Clown is an animation character created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer. The character originated when Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a device that allowed for animation to be more lifelike by tracing motion picture footage of human movement....
     (1919-1934)


Births

  • January 20 - Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini

    Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
    , film director (d. 1993
    1993 in film

    The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. ...
    )
  • January 20 - DeForest Kelley
    DeForest Kelley

    Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor known for his starring role as Dr. Leonard McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek: The Original Series and six of its subsequent movies, as well as an elderly Admiral Dr....
    , actor (d. 1999
    1999 in film

    The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Sixth Sense, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan , The Mummy , and the hig...
    )
  • January 27 - John Box
    John Box

    John Allan Hyatt Box Order of the British Empire, , was a United Kingdom film production designer and art director. During his career he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won its BAFTA equivalent three times, making him the most decorated member of his profession of all time....
    , production designer, four-time Oscar
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
     winner (d. 2005
    2005 in film

    The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,The Devil's Rejects, Saw II, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, ''The Ring Two, ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, ''xXx: State of the Union, ''Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous...
    )
  • January 30 - Delbert Mann
    Delbert Mann

    Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was an Academy Award-winning United States television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Directing for the film Marty....
    , director
  • February 11 - Billy Halop
    Billy Halop

    Billy Halop was an American actor born in New York City.Halop came from a theatrical family: his mother was a dancer, and his sister Florence Halop was a radio actress....
    , actor (d. 1976
    1976 in film

    The year 1976 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • February 26 - Tony Randall
    Tony Randall

    Tony Randall was an American comic and actor....
    , actor (d. 2004
    2004 in film

    The year '2004 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ,The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Shrek 2, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs....
    )
  • March 16 - Leo McKern
    Leo McKern

    Reginald "Leo" McKern Order of Australia was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British television programs and film, and more than 200 theater roles....
    , actor (d. 2002
    2002 in film

    The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
    )
  • April 1 - Toshiro Mifune
    Toshiro Mifune

    Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese people actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in films such as Rashomon , Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo ....
    , actor (d. 1997
    1997 in film

    The year 1997 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • April 2 - Jack Webb
    Jack Webb

    John Randolph "Jack" Webb was an Emmy Award-nominated United States actor, television producer, film director and author, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant#Police 2 Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet ....
    , actor (d. 1982
    1982 in film

    for use in movie theaters.* Hugh Grant makes his film debut.*October 8th = Angelina Jolie makes her film debut as a child actress appearing with her father Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out....
    )
  • May 11 - Denver Pyle
    Denver Pyle

    Denver Dell Pyle was an American film and television actor....
    , actor (d. 1997
    1997 in film

    The year 1997 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • May 16 - Martine Carol
    Martine Carol

    Martine Carol was a French film actress....
    , actress (d. 1967
    1967 in film

    The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film....
    )
  • May 26 - Peggy Lee
    Peggy Lee

    Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
    , singer, songwriter, actress (d. 2002
    2002 in film

    The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
    )
  • June 18 - Ian Carmichael
    Ian Carmichael

    Ian Carmichael Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an England film, theatre, television and radio actor.Carmichael was born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire....
    , English stage, film and television actor
  • June 29 - Ray Harryhausen
    Ray Harryhausen

    Ray Harryhausen is an United States film producer and, most notably, a special effects creator most famous for his brand of stop-motion model animation....
    , producer, visual effects artist
  • August 6 - Ella Raines
    Ella Raines

    Ella Raines was an American actress....
    , actress (d. 1988
    1988 in film

    Events* Michael Jackson's first film was MoonwalkerTop grossing films source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm...
    )
  • August 17 - Maureen O'Hara
    Maureen O'Hara

    Maureen O'Hara is an Irish people film actor and singer.Born to Charles Stewart Parnell FitzSimons and Marguerita Lilburn in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland not long before partition, the famously red hair O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude....
    , actress
  • August 18 - Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters

    Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....
    , actress (d. 2006
    2006 in film

    The year '2006 in film' involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with Saw III, Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Casino Royale , Clerks II, X-Men: The Last Stand, Mission: Impossible III, Final Destination 3 and Scary Movie 4....
    )
  • August 22 - Ray Bradbury
    Ray Bradbury

    Ray Douglas Bradbury is an United States literature, fantasy, Horror fiction, science fiction, and mystery writer.Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury is widely considered one of the greatest and most popular American writers of speculative fiction of the twentieth century....
    , writer
  • September 18 - Jack Warden
    Jack Warden

    Jack Warden was an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Awards-nominated United States character actor....
    , actor (d. 2006
    2006 in film

    The year '2006 in film' involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with Saw III, Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Casino Royale , Clerks II, X-Men: The Last Stand, Mission: Impossible III, Final Destination 3 and Scary Movie 4....
    )
  • September 23 - Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
    , actor
  • September 27 - William Conrad
    William Conrad

    William Conrad was an American film director and television director and an actor and narrator in radio, film, and television known for his baritone voice, as well as his sizable girth....
    , actor (d. 1994
    1994 in film

    The year 1994 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • September 27 - Jayne Meadows
    Jayne Meadows

    Jayne Meadows is an American movie and stage actress and author....
    , actress
  • October 1 - Walter Matthau
    Walter Matthau

    Walter John Matthau was an United States award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon....
    , actor (d. 2000
    2000 in film

    The year 2000 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • October 13 - Laraine Day
    Laraine Day

    Laraine Day was an United States actor and an a former MGM contract star....
    , actress (d. 2008
    2008 in film

    The year '2008 in film' saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels such as Rambo , The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight , The X-Files: I...
    )
  • October 17 - Montgomery Clift
    Montgomery Clift

    Edward Montgomery Clift was an United Statesn film actor. He was known for his brooding, sensitive, working-class character roles, and received four Academy Award nominations during his career....
    , actor (d. 1966
    1966 in film

    The year 1966 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • October 18 - Melina Mercouri
    Melina Mercouri

    Melina Mercouri , born Maria Amalia Mercouri , was an Academy Award-nominated Greeks Actor, Singing and politician. She is considered one of the greatest female figures of modern era in Greece, being an actress of international fame and a politician who left her mark on Culture of Greece....
    , actress (d. 1994
    1994 in film

    The year 1994 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • October 21 - Hy Averback
    Hy Averback

    Hy Averback was a radio, TV and film actor who eventually became a producer and director....
    , actor (d. 1997
    1997 in film

    The year 1997 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • October 22 - Mitzi Green
    Mitzi Green

    Mitzi Green was an American child actress for Paramount Pictures and RKO, in the early talkie era....
    , actress (d. 1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • October 27 - Nanette Fabray
    Nanette Fabray

    Nanette Fabray is an United States actress....
    , actress
  • November 2 - Ann Rutherford
    Ann Rutherford

    Therese Ann Rutherford is a Canada-United States actress in film, radio, and television. She has had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict on the big screen of the 1930s and 1940s, and on The Bob Newhart Show as Newhart's character's mother-in-law....
    , actress
  • November 10 - Jennifer Holt
    Jennifer Holt

    Jennifer Holt was an United States actress....
    , actress (d. 1997
    1997 in film

    The year 1997 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • November 19 - Gene Tierney
    Gene Tierney

    Gene Tierney was an United States film and Theatre actor. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Academy Award for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven ....
    , actress (d. 1991
    1991 in film

    The year 1991 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • November 25 - Ricardo Montalban
    Ricardo Montalbán

    Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalb?n y Merino was a Mexico-born United States radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning seven decades and multiple notable roles....
    , actor (d. 2009
    2009 in film

    The year '2009 in film' has many new films to be released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels and remakes such as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , Friday the 13th , Terminator Salvation, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Saw VI, Transformers: Reven...
    )
  • November 30 - Virginia Mayo, actress (d. 2005
    2005 in film

    The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
    The Devil's Rejects, Saw II, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, ''The Ring Two, ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, ''xXx: State of the Union, ''Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous...
    )
  • December 29 - Viveca Lindfors
    Viveca Lindfors

    Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors , better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors, was a Sweden/United States stage and film actress....
    , actress (d. 1995
    1995 in film

    The year 1995 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • December 30 - Jack Lord
    Jack Lord

    John Joseph Patrick Ryan , best known by his stage name Jack Lord, was an American television, film, and Broadway theatre actor. He was best known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the United States television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980....
    , actor (d. 1998
    1998 in film

    The year 1998 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • December 31 – Rex Allen
    Rex Allen

    Rex Allen was an United States actor, singer, and songwriter who is particularly known as the narrator in many Walt Disney nature and Western productions....
    , American cowboy actor, singer (d. 1999)


Film Debuts

  • Humphrey Bogart
    Humphrey Bogart

    Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an United_States_of_America actor and cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time....
  • Claude Rains
    Claude Rains

    William Claude Rains was an England award-winning actor and film star whose career spanned 47 years. He later held Cinema of the United States citizenship and was best known for his many roles in Hollywood films....
  • Otis Skinner
    Otis Skinner

    Otis Skinner was an United States actor.He was the son of a Universalist minister; his brother, Charles Montgomery Skinner, was a noted journalist and critic in New York....
  • Cornelia Otis Skinner
    Cornelia Otis Skinner

    Cornelia Otis Skinner was an United States author and actor....


Notable deaths


  • February 4 Leo Delaney, 35, silent film actor


  • February 11 Gaby Deslys
    Gaby Deslys

    Gaby Deslys was a famous dancer and actress of the early 20th century from Marseilles, France. She selected her name for her stage career. It is an abbreviation of Gabrielle of the Lillies....
     38, actress


  • April 25 Clarine Seymour 21 American actress


  • May 22 Hal Reid 59 American actor & director(father of Wallace)


  • June 14 Gabrielle Rejane
    Gabrielle Réjane

    Gabrielle R?jane was the stage name of Gabrielle-Charlotte Reju, , a France actor.Born in Paris, the daughter of an actor, she became a pupil of R?gnier at the Paris Conservatoire, and took the second prize for comedy in 1874....
     64 stage & film actress


  • August 2 Ormer Locklear
    Ormer Locklear

    Ormer 'Lock' Locklear was a daredevil stunt flyer during and immediately after World War I.Born in Greenville, Texas, Locklear was brought up in Fort Worth, and trained as a carpenter....
     29 American stunt flier.


  • September 5 Robert Harron
    Robert Harron

    Robert "Bobby" Harron was an United States motion picture actor of the early silent film era. Although he acted in scores of films, he is possibly best remembered for his roles in the D.W....
      27 American actor


  • September 10 Olive Thomas
    Olive Thomas

    Olive Thomas was an United States silent film actress and socialite. She was a Ziegfeld girl and the original flapper. She is best remembered for her marriage to Jack Pickford and her untimely death....
      25 American actress