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• November 27 - The Mark of Zorro
  The Mark of Zorro (1920 film)
  The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro...
  
  , starring Douglas Fairbanks
  Douglas Fairbanks
  Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....
  
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Films released in 1920

• The $1,000,000 Reward
  The $1,000,000 Reward
  The $1,000,000 Reward was a 1920 drama film serial, directed by George Lessey, and produced by Harry Grossman. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Coit Albertson* Buck Connors* Louise Hotaling* George Lessey* Joe Smith Marba...
  
  
• Algol
  Algol (film)
  Algol: Tragedy of Power is a 1920 German science fiction film about an alien from the planet Algol.-Production background:The film was directed by Hans Werckmeister and stars Emil Jannings and John Gottowt. The story centers on a human who is given a machine by an alien spirit which if used would...
  
  , starring Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...
  
   - (Germany)
• Anna Boleyn
  Anna Boleyn (film)
  Anna Boleyn is a 1920 German historical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It starred Henny Porten as Anne Boleyn and Emil Jannings as King Henry VIII.-Cast:*Henny Porten as Anna Boleyn*Emil Jannings as Henry VIII*Paul Hartmann as Sir Henry Norris...
  
  , directed by Ernst Lubitsch
  Ernst Lubitsch
  Ernst Lubitsch was a German-born 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."In 1947 he received an Honorary Academy Award for his...
  
   - (Germany)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the most influential of German Expressionist films and is often considered one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era. This movie is cited as...
  
  , directed by Robert Wiene
  Robert Wiene
  Robert Wiene was an important film director of the German silent cinema.Robert Wiene was born in Breslau, as the elder son of the successful theatre actor Carl Wiene. His younger brother Conrad also became an actor, but Robert Wiene at first studied law at the University of Berlin. In 1908 he also...
  
  ; starring Werner Krauss
  Werner Krauss
  Werner Johannes Krauss was a German stage and film actor.-Early life:Krauss was born at the parsonage of Gestungshausen in Upper Franconia, where his grandfather was Protestant pastor. He spent his childhood in Breslau and from 1901 attended the teacher's college at Kreuzburg...
  
  , Conrad Veidt
  Conrad Veidt
  Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Man Who Laughs , The Thief of Bagdad and Casablanca...
  
   and Lil Dagover
  Lil Dagover
  Lil Dagover was a German stage, film and television actress whose career spanned nearly six decades.-Early life:...
  
   - (Germany)
• The Common Sin, starring Rod La Rocque
  Rod La Rocque
  -Biography:He was born Roderick La Rocque in Chicago, Illinois. 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. He then moved to New York City and worked on the stage until he was...
  
   and Nita Naldi
• The Copperhead
  The Copperhead (1920 film)
  The Copperhead is a 1920 silent film historical drama based on a novel by Frederick Landis and a play by Augustus Thomas. The star of this film is Lionel Barrymore who won acclaim in the play version on Broadway, and who appeared in the play and this movie with his first wife Doris Rankin...
  
  , starring Lionel Barrymore
  Lionel Barrymore
  Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...
  
   and Doris Rankin
  Doris Rankin
  Doris Rankin was an American film actress and the younger daughter of actor McKee Rankin and an unnamed actress though Rankin was married to actress Kitty Blanchard. She was married to actor Lionel Barrymore from 1904-1923. Her older sister, Gladys Rankin, was married to Lionel's uncle Sidney Drew...
  
  
• Convict 13
  Convict 13
  Convict 13 is a 1920 short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline.- Plot :Keaton goes from a golf game with his girlfriend to death-row in prison through a case of mistaken identity...
  
  , directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
  
• The Devil's Pass Key, directed by Erich von Stroheim
  Erich von Stroheim
  Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.-Background:...
  
  ; starring Mae Busch
  Mae Busch
  Mae Busch was an Australian film actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career, she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, where she frequently played Hardy's shrewish wife.-Early life and career:Born in Melbourne, Australia, Busch was...
  
   and Maude George
  Maude George
  Maude George was an American actress of the silent era. She is remembered primarily as a regular of director Eric von Stroheim's stock company of actors appearing in four of von Stroheim's lengthy films in the 1920s....
  
  
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film)
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 horror silent film, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount/Artcraft. The film is based upon Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and starring actor John Barrymore.The film was directed by John S....
  
  , directed by John S. Robertson
  John S. Robertson
  John Stuart Robertson was a Canadian born actor and later film director perhaps best known for his 1920 screen adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore. He broke into filmmaking in 1915 with Vitagraph, then with Famous Players-Lasky, making 57 features in his career...
  
  ; starring John Barrymore
  John Barrymore
  John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...
  
  
• Erotikon
  Erotikon
  Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It is based on the 1917 play A kék róka by Ferenc Herczeg...
  
  , directed by Mauritz Stiller
  Mauritz Stiller
  Mauritz Stiller was a Finnish-Swedish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...
  
   - (Sweden)
• The Girl in Number 29
  The Girl in Number 29
  The Girl in Number 29 is a 1920 drama film directed by John Ford. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Frank Mayo - Laurie Devon* Elinor Fair - Barbara Devon* Claire Anderson - Doris Williams* Robert Bolder - Jacob Epstein* Ruth Royce - Billie...
  
  , directed by John Ford
  John Ford
  John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 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 1920 silent 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. The script was adapted from the 1915 novel The Golem by Gustav Meyrink...
  
  (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), starring and directed by Paul Wegener
  Paul Wegener
  Paul Wegener was a German actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.-Stage and early film career:...
  
   - (Germany)
• Haunted Spooks
  Haunted Spooks
  Haunted Spooks is a 1920 silent comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis.- Plot :The action in Haunted Spooks is sparked by Harold's romantic problems. The opening sequence has him disappointed in love and trying, with notable lack of success, to commit suicide...
  
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  
• Herr och fru Stockholm, starring Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
  
   - (Sweden)
• High and Dizzy
  High and Dizzy
  High and Dizzy is a 1920 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. The plot revolves around a young woman who sleepwalks and the doctor who is attempting to treat her...
  
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  
• Huckleberry Finn, directed by William Desmond Taylor
  William Desmond Taylor
  William Desmond Taylor was an Irish-born American actor, successful film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s...
  
  ; starring Lewis Sargent
  Lewis Sargent
  Lewis Sargent was an American film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1917 and 1949.He was born and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* Huckleberry Finn * Oliver Twist...
  
  , Edythe Chapman
  Edythe Chapman
  Edythe Chapman , was an American stage and silent film actress from Rochester, New York. As early as 1898 she appeared in New York, New York in the Charity Ball. Edythe performed at the Shubert Theater in Brooklyn, New York in a production of The Light Eternal in 1907...
  
  , Martha Mattox
  Martha Mattox
  Martha Mattox was an American silent film actor most notable for her role of Mammy Pleasant in the 1927 film The Cat and the Canary. She also played a role in Torrent...
  
  
• If I Were King
  If I Were King (1920 film)
  If I Were King is a silent film produced by Fox Film Corporation, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, and starring William Farnum as Francois Villon with Fritz Leiber, Sr. and Betty Ross Clarke.-Cast:* William Farnum - Francois Villon...
  
  , directed by J. Gordon Edwards
  J. Gordon Edwards
  J. Gordon Edwards was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda...
  
  ; starring William Farnum
  William Farnum
  William Farnum was a major movie actor. One of three brothers, Farnum grew up in a family of actors. He made his acting debut at the age of ten in Richmond, Virginia in a production of Julius Caesar, with Edwin Booth playing the title character...
  
  , Betty Ross Clarke
  Betty Ross Clarke
  Betty Ross Clarke , was an American actress. She appeared in 33 films between 1920 and 1940. Her most noteworthy silent film was the 1920 Fox Film If I Were King with William Farnum...
  
   & Fritz Leiber, Sr.
  Fritz Leiber, Sr.
  Fritz Reuter Leiber Sr. , was an was a American actor . Highly respected as a Shakespearean actor on stage, he also had a successful career in film...
  
  
• The Jack-Knife Man
  The Jack-Knife Man
  The Jack-Knife Man is a 1920 silent drama film directed by King Vidor.-Cast:* F. A. Turner - Peter Lane * Harry Todd - 'Booge'* Bobby Kelso - 'Buddy'* Willis Marks - Rasmer Briggles* Lillian Leighton - Widow Potter...
  
  , directed by King Vidor
  King Vidor
  King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades...
  
  
• Judy of Rogue's Harbor
  Judy of Rogue's Harbor
  Judy of Rogue's Harbor is a 1920 silent film drama directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Mary Miles Minter. The film is taken from the novel Judy of Rogue's Harbor by Grace Miller White. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Realart and Paramount Pictures...
  
  , directed by William Desmond Taylor
  William Desmond Taylor
  William Desmond Taylor was an Irish-born American actor, successful film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s...
  
  ; starring Mary Miles Minter
  Mary Miles Minter
  Mary Miles Minter was an American film actress of the silent film era.-Early life and rise to stardom:Born Juliet Reilly in Shreveport, Louisiana, Minter was the daughter of Broadway actress Charlotte Shelby...
  
  , Fritzi Ridgeway
  Fritzi Ridgeway
  Fritzi Ridgeway was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1934...
  
   & Theodore Roberts
  Theodore Roberts
  Theodore Roberts the actor is not to be confused with author Theodore Goodridge Roberts, 1877–1953, who wrote "The Harbor Master". Please see discussion page....
  
  
• Karin Daughter of Ingmar
  Karin Daughter of Ingmar
  Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel...
  
  (Karin Ingmarsdotter), directed by and starring Victor Sjostrom
  Victor Sjöström
  Victor Sjöström was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director.- Biography:Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886...
  
   - (Sweden)
• Lady Rose's Daughter
  Lady Rose's Daughter
  Lady Rose's Daughter is a 1920 silent film drama starring Elsie Ferguson and David Powell with directing being from Hugh Ford. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures. The film was based on a stage play performed in 1903 on Broadway. Both the film and the...
  
  directed by Hugh Ford
  Hugh Ford
  Hugh Ford was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 31 films between 1913 and 1921. He also wrote for 19 films between 1913 and 1920.He was born in Washington, D.C..-Selected filmography:...
  
   starring Elsie Ferguson
  Elsie Ferguson
  Elsie Louise Ferguson was an American stage and film actress.-Early life:Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Benson Ferguson, a successful attorney...
  
  
• The Last of the Mohicans, directed by Maurice Tourneur
  Maurice Tourneur
  Maurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the...
  
   & Clarence Brown
  Clarence Brown
  Clarence Brown was an American film director.-Early life:Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was 11. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, both in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating from the university at the age of...
  
  ; starring Wallace Beery
  Wallace Beery
  Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
  
  , Barbara Bedford & Alan Roscoe
  Alan Roscoe
  Alan Roscoe was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 108 films between 1915 and 1933. His interment was located in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• Love, Honor, and Behave, starring George O'Hara
  George O'Hara (actor)
  George O'Hara was an American motion picture actor and screenwriter of the silent film era.- Biography :...
  
   and Marie Prevost
  Marie Prevost
  Marie Prevost was a Canadian-born actress of the early days of cinema. During her twenty year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Mark of Zorro
  The Mark of Zorro (1920 film)
  The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro...
  
  , directed by Fred Niblo
  Fred Niblo
  Fred Niblo was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.-Biography:He was born Frederick Liedtke in York, Nebraska, to a French mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg...
  
  ; starring Douglas Fairbanks
  Douglas Fairbanks
  Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....
  
  
• The Mollycoddle
  The Mollycoddle
  The Mollycoddle is a 1920 film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, and directed by Victor Fleming.- Cast :*Douglas Fairbanks ... Richard Marshall III, IV and V*Ruth Renick ... Virginia Hale...
  
  , directed by Victor Fleming
  Victor Fleming
  Victor Lonzo Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz , and Gone with the Wind , for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.-Life and career:Fleming was born in La Canada, California, the son of Elizabeth Evaleen ...
  
  ; charring Douglas Fairbanks
  Douglas Fairbanks
  Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....
  
   and Wallace Beery
  Wallace Beery
  Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
  
  
• The Monastery of Sendomir
  The Monastery of Sendomir
  The Monastery of Sendomir is a 1920 Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1828 short story by Franz Grillparzer. It has also been released in the UK as The Secret of the Monastery.-Plot:...
  
  (Klostret i Sendomir), directed by Victor Sjostrom
  Victor Sjöström
  Victor Sjöström was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director.- Biography:Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886...
  
   - (Sweden)
• Neighbors
  Neighbors (1920 film)
  Neighbors is a 1920 short comedy film written, directed by and starring comedian Buster Keaton.- Plot :Buster Keaton and Virginia Fox play young lovers who live in tenements, the rear of which face each other, with backyards separated by a wooden fence...
  
  , directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
  
• Nomads of the North
  Nomads of the North
  Nomads of the North is a 1920 American film. A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the woman he loves.-Cast:*Betty Blythe - Nanette Roland*Lon Chaney - Raoul Challoner*Lewis Stone - Corporal O'Connor...
  
  , starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...
  
   and Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, son of Bertrand Stone and Philena Heald Ball. Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer. He soon began acting...
  
  
• Nurse Marjorie
• Old Lady 31
  Old Lady 31
  Old Lady 31 is a 1920 silent film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures and directed by John Ince. It is based on a novel by Louise Forsslund turned into a play by Rachel Crothers. The film starred actress Emma Dunn reprising her 1916 stage success for the screen...
  
  , directed by John Ince
  John Ince (actor)
  thumb|John Ince in 1915John Ince, also known as John E. Ince, was an American stage and motion pictures actor, a film director, and the eldest brother of Thomas and Ralph Ince. A leading man from the early 1910s, he also directed and scripted several of his own vehicles...
  
   & Sherry Harris; starring Emma Dunn
  Emma Dunn
  Emma Dunn was an English-born American film actress. She appeared in 108 films between 1914 and 1948....
  
   w/ Henry Harmon, Carrie Clark Ward
  Carrie Clark Ward
  Carrie Clark Ward was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 62 films between 1911 and 1925.She was born in Virginia City, Nevada and died in Hollywood, California. She was married to J...
  
  , Winifred Westover
  Winifred Westover
  Winifred Westover was a Hollywood actress of the 1910s and 1920s.Winifred Westover was born in San Francisco, California. On screen, Westover was the typical blushing ingenue and was almost always cast opposite robust leading men.Her career in film started with a small part in D. W. Griffith's...
  
   & Martha Mattox
  Martha Mattox
  Martha Mattox was an American silent film actor most notable for her role of Mammy Pleasant in the 1927 film The Cat and the Canary. She also played a role in Torrent...
  
  
• One Week, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
  
• Outside the Law
  Outside the Law (1920 film)
  Outside the Law is a 1920 crime film directed by Tod Browning. Browning would remake the film in 1930.Outside the Law is considered to be one of the first psychologically driven films in the gangster genre. It was the second film on which Browning worked with Lon Chaney...
  
  , directed by Tod Browning
  Tod Browning
  Tod Browning was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras...
  
  
• Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
  Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
  Over the Hill to the Poorhouse also known as Over the Hill is a silent film about a woman who has a lot of children, and who never gets the chance to enjoy life. The film starred actress Mary Carr and almost all of her real-life children....
  
  
• The Parson's Widow
  The Parson's Widow
  The Parson's Widow is a 1920 comedy drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film is based on a story Prestekonen by Kristofer Janson.-Plot:...
  
  (Prästänkan), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
  Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema.-Life:Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark...
  
   - (Sweden)
• The Penalty
  The Penalty (film)
  The Penalty is an American 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. It starred Lon Chaney, Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, and Claire Adams.-Cast:*Charles...
  
  , directed by Wallace Worsley
  Wallace Worsley
  Wallace A. Worsley Sr. was an American stage actor who became a director in the silent film era. Worsley directed 29 films during the years 1918-1928 and acted in 7 films. He directed several films starring Lon Chaney Sr...
  
  ; starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American 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 American melodrama/comedy film starring Mary Pickford, directed by Paul Powell, and based upon an Eleanor H. Porter novel. It was Pickford's first motion picture for United Artists. It became a major success and would be regarded as one of Pickford's most defining pictures...
  
  , starring Mary Pickford
  Mary Pickford
  Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, 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)
• Romance
  Romance (1920 film)
  Romance is a 1920 American silent film directed by Chester Withey and released through United Artists. The film is based on the 1913 play Romance by Edward Sheldon and stars Doris Keane, the actress who created the role in the play. This was Miss Keane's only motion picture. D.W...
  
  , starring Doris Keane
  Doris Keane
  Doris Keane was an American actress.She was born in the USA but educated largely in Europe.Her first professional role was in Whitewashing Julia in 1903. This was a small role but she went on to play leading roles in The Happy Marriage in 1909 and The Lights o' London in 1911.In 1913, she played...
  
   & Norman Trevor(refilmed later as a 1930 Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
  
   talkie)
• The Saphead
  The Saphead
  The Saphead is a 1920 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....
  
  , directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
  
• Satan (Satanas), directed by F.W. Murnau - (Germany)
• The Scarecrow
  The Scarecrow (1920 film)
  The Scarecrow is a 1920 short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. The runtime is 19 minutes...
  
  , directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
  
• Sex
  Sex (film)
  Sex is a 1920 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, produced by J. Parker Read, and starring Louise Glaum. On its surface, the film was a morality story on the evils of marital infidelity. However, the film's producer, J. Parker Read, had made a series of...
  
  , directed by Fred Niblo
  Fred Niblo
  Fred Niblo was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.-Biography:He was born Frederick Liedtke in York, Nebraska, to a French mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg...
  
  
• Shipwrecked Among Cannibals
  Shipwrecked Among Cannibals
  Shipwrecked Among Cannibals is an American silent film travel documentary featuring episodes from Siam, Java and New Guinea plus an apparently fictitious encounter with cannibals on a small island in the South Pacific...
  
  documentary film
• Something to Think About
  Something to Think About
  -Cast:* Elliott Dexter - David Markely* Gloria Swanson - Ruth Anderson* Monte Blue - Jim Dirk* Theodore Roberts - Luke Anderson* Claire McDowell - Housekeeper* Michael D. Moore - Bobby * Julia Faye - Banker's Daughter...
  
  , directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...
  
  ; starring Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the...
  
   and Monte Blue
  Monte Blue
  Monte Blue was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles....
  
  
• The Son of Tarzan
  The Son of Tarzan (film)
  The Son of Tarzan is a 15 chapter film serial which focuses on the coming of age of Jack Clayton, also known as Korak, the son of Tarzan and Jane. The serial was produced by David P. Howells, written by Roy Somerville , and directed by Arthur J. Flaven and Harry Revier...
  
  
• The Soul of Youth
• 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 Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik...
  
  
• Suds
  Suds (film)
  Suds is a 1920 silent film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Mary Pickford. The film is based upon the stage production Op o' me Thumb.-Plot:Amanda Afflick is a poor laundry woman working in London springtime...
  
  , starring Mary Pickford
  Mary Pickford
  Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
  
  
• Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson
  Dora Gerson
  Dora Gerson was a Jewish German cabaret singer and motion picture actress of the silent film era who was murdered with her family at Auschwitz concentration camp.- Life and work :...
  
   and Bela Lugosi
  Béla Lugosi
  Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...
  
   - (Germany)
• Treasure Island
  Treasure Island (1920 film)
  Treasure Island is a 1920 silent film adaptation of the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, directed by Maurice Tourneur, and released by Paramount Pictures...
  
  , directed by Maurice Tourneur
  Maurice Tourneur
  Maurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the...
  
  ; starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...
  
   & Shirley Mason(as Jim)
• Way Down East
  Way Down East
  Way Down East is a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It is the best known of four film adaptations of the melodramatic 19th century play Way Down East by Lottie Blair Parker...
  
  , directed by D. W. Griffith
  D. W. Griffith
  David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...
  
  ; starring Lillian Gish
  Lillian Gish
  Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....
  
   and Richard Barthelmess
  Richard Barthelmess
  Richard Semler "Dick" Barthelmess was an Oscar-nominated silent film star.-Early life:Barthelmess was educated at Hudson River Military Academy at Nyack and Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut...
  
  
• Why Change Your Wife?
  Why Change Your Wife?
  -Plot:Frumpy wife Beth devotes herself to bettering her husband's mind and expanding his appreciation for the finer things in life, such as classical music. When he goes shopping at a lingerie store to buy some sexier clothes for her, he meets Sally, the shop girl. Rejected by his wife for a night...
  
  , directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...
  
  ; starring Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the...
  
  , Thomas Meighan
  Thomas Meighan
  Thomas Meighan was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading man roles opposite popular actresses of the day including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he commanded $10,000 a week....
  
   and Bebe Daniels
  Bebe Daniels
  Bebe Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent movie era as a child actress, became a star in musicals like 42nd Street, and later gained further fame on radio and television in Britain...
  
  
• Within Our Gates
  Within Our Gates
  Within Our Gates is a silent race film that dramatically expresses 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".-Production background:...
  
  , directed by Oscar Micheaux
  Oscar Micheaux
  Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films...
  
  , starring Evelyn Preer
  Evelyn Preer
  Evelyn Preer, born Evelyn Jarvis , was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Evelyn was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity...
  
  

Short film series

• Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  (1913–1951)
• Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
  
  (1914–1960s)
• Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
  (1917–1941)

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat is a cartoon 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, combine to make Felix one of the most recognized cartoon characters in film history...
  
  (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown
  Koko the Clown
  Koko the Clown was an animated 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. To test out his new invention...
  
  (1919–1934)

Births

• January 20 - Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered 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, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...
  
  )
• January 20 - DeForest Kelley
  DeForest Kelley
  Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor known for his iconic roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.-Early life:...
  
  , actor (d. 1999
  1999 in film
  The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...
  
  )
• January 27 - John Box
  John Box
  John Allan Hyatt Box OBE, , was a British 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 film designer of all time...
  
  , production designer, four-time Oscar
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American 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
  - Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...
  
  )
• January 30 - Delbert Mann
  Delbert Mann
  Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty...
  
  , director (d. 2007
  2007 in film
  This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...
  
  )
• February 11 - Billy Halop
  Billy Halop
  William "Billy" Halop was an American actor born in New York City.He came from a Jewish theatrical family: his mother was a dancer, and his sister Florence Halop was a child actress, who later worked on radio and in television...
  
  , actor (d. 1976
  1976 in film
  The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...
  
  )
• February 26 - Tony Randall
  Tony Randall
  Tony Randall was a U.S. actor, comic, producer and director.-Early years:Randall was born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia and Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer...
  
  , 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 Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...
  
  )
• March 16 - Leo McKern
  Leo McKern
  Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO was an Australian-born British actor who appeared in numerous British and Australian television programmes and movies, and more than 200 stage roles.-Early life:...
  
  , actor (d. 2002
  2002 in film
  The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...
  
  )
• April 1 - Toshirō Mifune
  Toshiro Mifune
  Toshirō Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo...
  
  , actor (d. 1997
  1997 in film
  -Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...
  
  )
• April 2 - Jack Webb
  Jack Webb
  John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet...
  
  , actor (d. 1982
  1982 in film
  -Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...
  
  )
• May 11 - Denver Pyle
  Denver Pyle
  Denver Dell Pyle was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing Uncle Jesse in The Dukes of Hazzard .-Early life:...
  
  , actor (d. 1997
  1997 in film
  -Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...
  
  )
• May 16 - Martine Carol
  Martine Carol
  -Biography:Born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, , she studied acting under René Simon , making her stage debut in 1940 and her first motion picture in 1943. One of the most beautiful women in film, she was frequently cast as an elegant blonde seductress...
  
  , 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.-Events:* December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television....
  
  )
• May 26 - Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and...
  
  , 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 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...
  
  )
• June 18 - Ian Carmichael
  Ian Carmichael
  Ian Gillett Carmichael, OBE was an English film, stage, television and radio actor.-Early life:Carmichael was born in Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The son of an optician, he was educated at Scarborough College and Bromsgrove School, before training as an actor at RADA...
  
  , English stage, film and television actor (d. 2010
  2010 in film
  The year 2010 saw many new films released worldwide. 2010 saw a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking and film releases after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such as Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Jackass 3D, all animated films and...
  
  )
• June 29 - Ray Harryhausen
  Ray Harryhausen
  Ray Harryhausen is an American film producer and special effects creator...
  
  , producer, visual effects artist
• August 6 - Ella Raines
  Ella Raines
  Ella Wallace Raines was an American film and television actress.-Life and career:Born Ella Wallace Raubes near Snoqualmie Falls, Washington, Raines studied drama at the University of Washington and was appearing in a play there when she was seen by Howard Hawks...
  
  , actress (d. 1988
  1988 in film
  -Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...
  
  )
• August 17 - Maureen O'Hara
  Maureen O'Hara
  Maureen O'Hara is an Irish film actress and singer. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne...
  
  , actress
• August 18 - Shelley Winters
  Shelley Winters
  Shelley Winters was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006...
  
  , actress (d. 2006
  2006 in film
  - Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...
  
  )
• August 22 - Ray Bradbury
  Ray Bradbury
  Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
  
  , writer
• September 18 - Jack Warden
  Jack Warden
  Jack Warden was an American character actor.-Early life:Warden was born John Warden Lebzelter in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Laura M. and John Warden Lebzelter, who was an engineer and technician. He was of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry...
  
  , actor (d. 2006
  2006 in film
  - Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...
  
  )
• September 23 - Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award...
  
  , actor
• September 27 - William Conrad
  William Conrad
  William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television....
  
  , actor (d. 1994
  1994 in film
  1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...
  
  )
• September 27 - Jayne Meadows
  Jayne Meadows
  -Early life:Jayne Meadows was born as Jayne Cotter in Wu-ch'ang, in Heilongjiang, China, to Episcopal missionary parents, the Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter and his wife, the former Ida Miller Taylor, who had married in 1915. Meadows is the older sister of the late actress Audrey Meadows. She...
  
  , actress
• October 1 - Walter Matthau
  Walter Matthau
  Walter Matthau was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears...
  
  , actor (d. 2000
  2000 in film
  The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....
  
  )
• October 13 - Laraine Day
  Laraine Day
  Laraine Day was an American actress and a former MGM contract star.-Career:Born La Raine Johnson in Roosevelt, Utah, to an affluent Mormon family, she later moved to California where she began her acting career with the Long Beach Players...
  
  , actress (d. 2007
  2007 in film
  This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...
  
  )
• October 17 - Montgomery Clift
  Montgomery Clift
  Edward Montgomery Clift was an American film and stage actor. The New York Times’ obituary noted his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men"....
  
  , actor (d. 1966
  1966 in film
  The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Animation legend Walter Disney, well known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, died in 15 December 1966 of acute circulatory collapse following a diagnosis of, and surgery for, lung cancer...
  
  )
• October 18 - Melina Mercouri
  Melina Mercouri
  Melina Mercouri , born as Maria Amalia Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer and politician.As an actress she made her film debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn...
  
  , actress (d. 1994
  1994 in film
  1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...
  
  )
• October 21 - Hy Averback
  Hy Averback
  Hyman J. Averback, known as Hy Averback , was a radio, television, and film actor who eventually became a producer and director.-Radio:...
  
  , actor (d. 1997
  1997 in film
  -Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...
  
  )
• October 22 - Mitzi Green
  Mitzi Green
  Mitzi Green was an American child actress for Paramount and RKO, in the early talkie era...
  
  , actress (d. 1969
  1969 in film
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980...
  
  )
• October 27 - Nanette Fabray
  Nanette Fabray
  Nanette Fabray is an American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, and activist. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and then became a musical theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life...
  
  , actress
• November 2 - Ann Rutherford
  Ann Rutherford
  Ann Rutherford is a Canadian-American 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 in the Andy Hardy series, and on The Bob Newhart Show as Newhart's character's...
  
  , actress
• November 10 - Jennifer Holt
  Jennifer Holt
  Jennifer Holt was an American actress.-Biography:Born Elizabeth Marshall Holt in Hollywood, California to actor Jack Holt and his wife, Margaret Woods...
  
  , actress (d. 1997
  1997 in film
  -Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...
  
  )
• November 19 - Gene Tierney
  Gene Tierney
  Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress. 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 Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven .Other notable roles include...
  
  , actress (d. 1991
  1991 in film
  The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...
  
  )
• November 25 - Ricardo Montalbán
  Ricardo Montalbán
  Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG was a Mexican radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning six decades and many notable roles...
  
  , actor (d. 2009
  2009 in film
  The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...
  
  )
• November 30 - Virginia Mayo
  Virginia Mayo
  Virginia Mayo was an American film actress.After a short career in vaudeville, Mayo progressed to films and during the 1940s established herself as a supporting player in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives and White Heat .Mayo remained an A-list actress into the mid-'50s, but then went...
  
  , actress (d. 2005
  2005 in film
  - Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...
  
  )
• December 29 - Viveca Lindfors
  Viveca Lindfors
  Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors , better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors, was a Swedish stage and film actress.-Life and career:...
  
  , actress (d. 1995
  1995 in film
  -Top grossing films:-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.* March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation....
  
  )
• 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 actor. He was known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980. Lord appeared in feature films earlier in his career,...
  
  , actor (d. 1998
  1998 in film
  -Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...
  
  )
• December 31 – Rex Allen
  Rex Allen
  Rex Elvie Allen was an American film actor, singer and songwriter, known as the Arizona Cowboy, particularly known as the narrator in many Disney nature and Western film productions. For contributions to the recording industry, Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.-Family...
  
  , American cowboy actor, singer (d. 1999)

Deaths

• February 4 Leo Delaney, 35, silent film actor
• February 11 Gaby Deslys
  Gaby Deslys
  Gaby Deslys was a dancer, singer, 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. During the 1910s she was exceedingly popular worldwide, making $4,000 a week in the United States alone...
  
   38, actress, dancer, singer
• February 17 Thomas Commerford veteran character actor (b. 1855)
• January 24, Hazel Neason(1891–1920) actress
• March 2 Harry Solter
  Harry Solter
  Henry Lewis "Harry" Solter was an American silent film actor, screenwriter and director.-Career:Solter began his career as an actor in 1908 with Biograph Studios. That same year he met actress Florence Lawrence while making the film Romeo and Juliet for Vitagraph Studios and married on August 30...
  
   American actor
• April 25 Clarine Seymour
  Clarine Seymour
  -Early life:Seymour was born to Albert V. and Florence Seymour in Brooklyn, New York where her father ran a prosperous ribbon manufacturing business.. Seymour's only sibling was her brother, Harry, who was born in 1916...
  
   21 American actress
• May 22 Hal Reid 59 American actor & director(father of Wallace)
• June 14 Gabrielle Rejane
  Gabrielle Réjane
  Gabrielle Réjane was the stage name of Gabrielle-Charlotte Reju, , a French actress.Born in Paris, the daughter of an actor, she became a pupil of Régnier at the Conservatoire, and took the second prize for comedy in 1874. Her debut was made the next year, during which she played attractively a...
  
   64 stage & film actress
• August 1 Eugene Gaudio
  Eugene Gaudio
  Eugene Gaudio, brother of future A.S.C. member Tony Gaudio, was born in Italy on December 31, 1886. He learned photography in his father’s portrait studio and developed an interest in movies around 1905. After coming to the United States, he served as lab superintendent for IMP and the Life Photo...
  
   33 Italian born cinematographer(brother of Tony Gaudio
  Tony Gaudio
  Tony Gaudio was an Italian American cinematographer and the first to create a montage sequence for a film....
  
  )
• August 2 Ormer Locklear
  Ormer Locklear
  Ormer Leslie "Lock" Locklear was an American daredevil stunt pilot and film actor during and immediately after World War I.-Early life and career:...
  
   29 American stunt flier.
• August 13 Gladys Field(1889–1920), actress (died in childbirth)
• September 5 Robert Harron
  Robert Harron
  Robert "Bobby" Harron was an American 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. Griffith directed films Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation...
  
    27 American actor
• September 10 Olive Thomas
  Olive Thomas
  Olive Thomas was an American silent film actress and model. She is best remembered for her marriage to Jack Pickford and her death.-Early life:...
  
    25 American actress

Film Debuts

• Mary Astor
  Mary Astor
  Mary Astor was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s.She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost...
  
  
• Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....
  
  
• Charles Boyer
  Charles Boyer
  Charles Boyer was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found success in movies during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised romantic dramas,...
  
  
• Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
  
  
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• Claude Rains
  Claude Rains
  Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 66 years. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man , a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington , Mr...
  
  
• Otis Skinner
  Otis Skinner
  Otis Skinner was an American actor.He was the son of a Universalist minister; his brother, Charles Montgomery Skinner, was a noted journalist and critic in New York. Skinner was educated in Hartford, Connecticut, with an eye towards a career in commerce. A visit to the theater left him stage-struck...
  
  
• Cornelia Otis Skinner
  Cornelia Otis Skinner
  Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American author and actress.-Biography:Skinner was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife Maud Skinner. After attending the all-girls' Baldwin School and Bryn Mawr College and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage...