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• November 26 - The Toll of the Sea
  The Toll of the Sea
  
  The Toll of the Sea is a motion picture produced by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, and released by Metro Pictures Corporation in 1922 in film, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role....
  , starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan
  Kenneth Harlan
  
  Kenneth Harlan was an American leading man of the silent film era, playing mostly romantic leads or adventurer types....
  , debuts as the first general release film
  Film
  
  Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
   to use two-tone Technicolor
  Technicolor
  
  Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
   (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1922

• Vaskresenja ne biva bez smrti, (There's no resurrection without death), the first Montenegrin
  Montenegro
  
  Montenegro , Montenegrin language/Serbian language: ???? ????, Crna Gora , ) is a country located in Balkans. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south....
   movie
• Beyond the Rocks
  Beyond the Rocks
  
  Beyond the Rocks is a 1906 novel by Elinor Glyn. The novel was later adapted into a 1922 silent film in which Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino starred together for the only time....
  , directed by Sam Wood
  Sam Wood
  
  Samuel Grosvenor Wood was a prolific Hollywood director, he also did some production, writing, and to a lesser extent, acting work.Born in Philadelphia, Wood worked for Cecil B....
   and starring Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson
  
  Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
   and 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....
  
• Blood and Sand
  Blood and Sand
  
  Blood and Sand is a silent movie produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Fred Niblo and starring Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, and Nita Naldi....
  , directed by Fred Niblo
  Fred Niblo
  
  Fred Niblo was an United States pioneer film actor, Film director and Film producer.He was born Frederick Liedtke in York, Nebraska to a France mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg....
   and 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....
  , 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....
  , and Lila Lee
  Lila Lee
  
  Lila Lee was a prominent screen actress of the early silent film era....
  
• Cops
  Cops (film)
  
  Cops is a 1922 in film comedy short silent film about a young man who accidentally gets on the bad side of the entire Los Angeles Police Department during a parade, and is chased all over town....
   (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" ....
  )
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
  Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
  
  Dr. Mabuse the Gambler is the first film in the Mabuse series, about the character Doctor Mabuse from the novels of Norbert Jacques, by Fritz Lang from 1922 in film....
   directed by Fritz Lang
  Fritz Lang
  
  Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-Germany-United States filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer. One of the best known ?migr?s from Germany's school of German Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute....
  
• Foolish Wives
  Foolish Wives
  
  Foolish Wives is an Cinema of the United States drama silent film written and directed by Erich von Stroheim. Although not credited on the screen, the motion picture was produced by Irving Thalberg, who would go on to become one of the sharpest studio heads of all time at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
  , directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim
  Erich von Stroheim
  
  Erich von Stroheim was an Austria star of the silent film age, lauded for his directorial work in which he was a proto-auteur. As an actor, he is noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts which led him to be described as "not a character actor, but what a character!"....
  
• Grandma's Boy (1922 film)
  Grandma's Boy (1922 film)
  
  Grandma's Boy is a 1922 in film comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. The film was highly influential, helping to pioneer feature-length comedies which combined both gags with character development....
  , starring Harold Lloyd
• Häxan
  Häxan
  
  H?xan is a 1922 in film Sweden/Denmark silent film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century German guide for inquisitors, H?xan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of th...
  , directed by Benjamin Christensen
  Benjamin Christensen
  
  Benjamin Christensen , also known as Benjmain Christie and Richard Bee, was a Danish film and stage actor as well as a film director.As an actor, he is most known for his last film, Michael , in which he plays Claude Zoret, the jilted lover of the film's title character....
  
• Manslaughter
  Manslaughter (1922 film)
  
  Manslaughter is a 1922 in film drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. ...
  , starring 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....
  
• Miss Lulu Bett
  Miss Lulu Bett
  
  Miss Lulu Bett is a 1920 novel by American writer Zona Gale, and later adapted for the stage. Gale received the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her work....
  , directed by William C. de Mille -(film mentioned in article)
• More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
• Mud and Sand
  Mud and Sand
  
  Mud and Sand is a silent film made in 1922 in film starring Stan Laurel. Laurel plays a matador who makes a fool of a famous Spanish dancer....
  , a parody of Blood and Sand, starring Stan Laurel
  Stan Laurel
  
  Stan Laurel was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II....
   and Oliver Hardy
  Oliver Hardy
  
  Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted 31 years, 1926-1957 ....
  .
• Nanook of the North
  Nanook of the North
  
  Nanook of the North is a silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuit Nanook and his family in the Canada arctic....
  (documentary)
• Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
  Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
  
  is a German Expressionism vampire film horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922 in film, was in essence an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to t...
  (Nosferatu the Vampire), directed by F.W. Murnau
  Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
  
  Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, better known as F. W. Murnau , was one of the most influential Germany film directors of the silent film. A figure in the expressionism movement in German cinema during the 1920s, some of Murnau's films from the silent era have been Lost film, but most still survive....
   and starring Max Schreck
  Max Schreck
  
  Maximilian "Max" Schreck was a Germany actor. He is most often remembered today for his lead role in the film Nosferatu....
  
• Oliver Twist
  Oliver Twist (1922 film)
  
  Oliver Twist is a 1922 in film silent film adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist featuring Lon Chaney, Sr. as Fagin, and Jackie Coogan as Oliver....
  , starring Jackie Coogan
  Jackie Coogan
  
  John Leslie Coogan was an United States actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent film....
  
• Phantom
  Phantom (1922 film)
  
  Phantom is a silent film that was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau the same year Murnau directed Nosferatu. It is an example of German Expressionist film and has a surreal, dreamlike quality....
  , directed by F.W. Murnau
  Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
  
  Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, better known as F. W. Murnau , was one of the most influential Germany film directors of the silent film. A figure in the expressionism movement in German cinema during the 1920s, some of Murnau's films from the silent era have been Lost film, but most still survive....
   and starring Alfred Abel
  Alfred Abel
  
  Alfred Abel was a Germany film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in over 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. Abel is also known as the ?Lewis Stone of German films.? His most famous performance is his role as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 in film Metropolis ....
  , Lil Dagover
  Lil Dagover
  
  Lil Dagover was a German people stage, film and television actress whose career spanned nearly six decades....
   and Lya De Putti
  Lya De Putti
  
  Lya De Putti was a Hungarians film actress of the silent film, noted for her portrayal of vamp characters....
  
• The Prisoner of Zenda
  The Prisoner of Zenda (1922 film)
  
  The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1922 in film silent adventure film, one of the many adaptations of Anthony Hope's popular 1894 The Prisoner of Zenda and the subsequent 1896 play by Hope and Edward Rose....
  , starring Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, 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....
  
• Robin Hood
  Robin Hood (1922 film)
  
  Robin Hood was the first motion picture ever to have a Hollywood premiere, held at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922. The movie's full title, under which it was copyrighted, is Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood, as shown in the illustration at right....
  , directed by Allan Dwan
  Allan Dwan
  
  Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canada-born American film film director, producer and screenwriter....
   and 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 ....
  
• Saturday Night, starring Leatrice Joy
  Leatrice Joy
  
  Leatrice Joy was an American actress most prolific during the early silent film era....
   and Conrad Nagel
  Conrad Nagel
  
  Conrad Nagel was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a well known television actor and radio performer....
  .
• Shadows directed by Tom Forman
  Tom Forman
  
  Tom Forman was a motion picture actor, writer, and producer of the early 1920s....
  , 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....
   and Marguerite De La Motte
  Marguerite De La Motte
  
  Marguerite De La Motte was an United States film actress, most notably of the silent film era....
  
• Smilin' Through
  Smilin' Through
  
  Smilin' Through is a 1919 play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin, written under a pseudonym, Allan Langdon Martin. Cowl also starred in the play in a double role and co-directed it with Priestly Morrison....
  , starring Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge
  
  Norma Talmadge was an United States actress and film producer of the silent film era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen....
  
• The Toll of the Sea
  The Toll of the Sea
  
  The Toll of the Sea is a motion picture produced by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, and released by Metro Pictures Corporation in 1922 in film, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role....
  
• When Knighthood Was in Flower
  When Knighthood Was in Flower
  
  When Knighthood Was in Flower is the debut novel of United States author Charles Major written under the pseudonym, Edwin Caskoden. It was first published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1898 in literature and proved an enormous success....
  starring Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  
  Marion Davies was an United States film actress.Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst....
   -(film mentioned in article)
• A Night Out
  A Night Out
  
  A Night Out may refer to:* A Night Out , a film starring Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance* A Night Out , a play by Harold Pinter* A Night Out , a play by May Robson...
  starring Elvis Famous and Jason Famous

• 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....
  (1914-1923)
• 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)
• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  
  Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team of thin, British-born Stan Laurel and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy . They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe....
  (1921-1943)
• Our Gang
  Our Gang
  
  Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together....
  (1922-1944
  1944 in film
  
  The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
  )

• 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....
  (1919-1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables
  Aesop's Film Fables
  
  Aesop's Film Fables was a series of animated short subjects, created by United States cartoonist Paul Terry . Terry came upon the inspiration for the series by young actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook, who suggested making a series of cartoons based on Aesop's Fables....
   (1921-1934)

Births

• January 7 - Vincent Gardenia
  Vincent Gardenia
  
  Vincent Gardenia was an United States award-winning stage , film, and television actor....
  , actor (d. 1992
  1992 in film
  
  The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. ...
  )
• January 13 - Albert Lamorisse
  Albert Lamorisse
  
  Albert Lamorisse was a France award-winning filmmaker, film producer, and writer, who is best known for his award winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s, and also for inventing the famous strategic board game Risk in 1957....
  , director (d. 1970
  1970 in film
  
  The year 1970 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• January 17 - Betty White
  Betty White
  
  Betty Marion White is a film and television actress with a career spanning 60 years. White is perhaps best known for her close association with the shows The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as well as for her regular appearances on the game shows Password and Match Game....
  , actress
• January 19 - Guy Madison
  Guy Madison
  
  Guy Madison was an United States film and television actor....
  , actor (d. 1996
  1996 in film
  
  The year '1996 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo , Trainspotting , The English Patient , Independence Day , Twister , Scream, Jerry Maguire and Madonna 's Evita ....
  )
• January 21 - Paul Scofield
  Paul Scofield
  
  David Paul Scofield, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an England award-winning actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 in film film A Man for All Seasons , a reprise of...
  , actor (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...
  )
• January 31 - Joanne Dru
  Joanne Dru
  
  Joanne Dru was an United States film and television actor known for films such as Red River and All the King's Men. She was the elder sister of Peter Marshall , best known for hosting Hollywood Squares....
  , actress (d. 1996
  1996 in film
  
  The year '1996 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo , Trainspotting , The English Patient , Independence Day , Twister , Scream, Jerry Maguire and Madonna 's Evita ....
  )
• February 7 - Hattie Jacques
  Hattie Jacques
  
  Josephine Edwina Jaques was an English comedy actress, known by the stage name Hattie Jacques.Having started her career in the 1940s, Jacques first gained attention through her appearances with Tony Hancock in The Tony Hancock Show and Hancock's Half Hour....
  , actress (d. 1980
  1980 in film
  
  The year 1980 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• February 9 - Kathryn Grayson
  Kathryn Grayson
  
  Kathryn Grayson is an American actress and operatic soprano singer. Trained as an opera singer from the age of twelve, Grayson was contracted to MGM and established a career in films from the early 1940s....
  , singer, actress
• February 11 - Leslie Nielsen
  Leslie Nielsen
  
  Leslie William Nielsen Order of Canada is a Canadian American comedian and actor. Although Nielsen's acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and films, he has achieved his greatest film success in comedies, including Airplane! and The Naked Gun series of films....
  , actor
• February 26 - Margaret Leighton
  Margaret Leighton
  
  Margaret Leighton was an English actress....
  , actress (d. 1976
  1976 in film
  
  The year 1976 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  
  Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italy poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, Painting and political figure....
  , film director (d. 1975
  1975 in film
  
  The year 1975 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• March 20 - Carl Reiner
  Carl Reiner
  
  Carl Reiner is an United States actor, film director, television producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career....
  , actor, director
• March 21 - Russ Meyer
  Russ Meyer
  
  Russell Albion Meyer , was an United States film film director and photographer.Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured high camp humor, sly satire and large-breasted actresses....
  , director, producer (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....
  )
• April 5 - Gale Storm
  Gale Storm
  
  Josephine Owaissa Cottle , better known as Gale Storm, is an American actress and singer, who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show....
  , singer, actress
• April 27 - Jack Klugman
  Jack Klugman
  
  Jacob Joachim "Jack" Klugman is an American television and film actor, known primarily for his roles in sitcoms, movies and television. He is best-known for his role as Tony Randall's sloppy roommate, Oscar Madison, in The Odd Couple shown on American television during the 1970s, and for his starring role in Quincy, M.E., in the 197...
  , actor
• May 10 - Nancy Walker
  Nancy Walker
  
  Nancy Walker was an United States actress of stage, screen, and television....
  , actress (d. 1992
  1992 in film
  
  The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. ...
  )
• May 27 - Christopher Lee
  Christopher Lee
  
  Christopher Frank Carandini Lee Order of the British Empire, Venerable Order of Saint John is an award-winning England actor and singer. He initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Film Productions films....
  , actor
• May 31 - Denholm Elliott
  Denholm Elliott
  
  Denholm Mitchell Elliott, Order of the British Empire was a distinguished England actor of theatre and screen, with over 120 major film and TV credits....
  , actor (d. 1992
  1992 in film
  
  The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. ...
  )
• June 1 - Joan Caulfield
  Joan Caulfield
  
  Joan Caulfield was an United States actress and former fashion model. After being discovered by Broadway producers, she began a stage career in 1943 that eventually lead to signing as an actress with Paramount Pictures....
  , actress (d. 1991
  1991 in film
  
  The year 1991 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• June 10 - Judy Garland
  Judy Garland
  
  Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
  , singer, actress (d. 1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• June 26 - Eleanor Parker
  Eleanor Parker
  
  Eleanor Jean Parker is an American film and television actress....
  , actress
• July 26 - Blake Edwards
  Blake Edwards
  
  Blake Edwards is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, screenwriter, and film producer.Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director....
  , director
• August 8 - Rory Calhoun
  Rory Calhoun
  
  Rory Calhoun was an United States television and film actor, screenwriter, and producer best known for his roles in Western ....
  , 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...
  )
• August 8 - Esther Williams
  Esther Williams
  
  Esther Jane Williams is a retired United States competitive swimmer and legendary MGM feature film movie star, famous for her musical films that featured elaborate performances with swimming and diving....
  , swimmer, actress
• September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, actor, director (d. 2000
  2000 in film
  
  The year 2000 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• September 1 - Yvonne De Carlo
  Yvonne De Carlo
  
  Yvonne De Carlo was a Canada-born United States film and television actor, dancer and singer. In her six decades of television, Her most prolific appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s, and included her best known film roles, such as Salome Where She Danced and The Ten Commandments , opposite Charlton Heston....
  , actress (d. 2007
  2007 in film
  
  The year '2007 in film' saw major releases such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ,The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers , TMNT , Saw IV, and Live Free or Die Hard as well as releases of third installment films, such as: The Bourne Ultimatum , Pirates of the Caribbean:...
  )
• September 14 - Michel Auclair
  Michel Auclair
  
  Michel Auclair was an actor.Auclair was born Vladimir Vujovic to a Serbian father and a France mother in Koblenz. His father was Vojislav Vujovic, prominent Yugoslav Communist and secretary of the Communist Youth International....
  , actor (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...
  )
• September 15 - Jackie Cooper
  Jackie Cooper
  
  Jackie Cooper is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, Emmy Award-winning TV television director, and TV Television producer and executive....
  , actor, director
• September 29 - Lizabeth Scott
  Lizabeth Scott
  
  Lizabeth Scott is an United States actor who achieved much success within the film noir genre, as well as other mainstream films and music....
  , actress
• October 31 - Barbara Bel Geddes
  Barbara Bel Geddes
  
  Barbara Bel Geddes was an United States actress, artist and children's literature. Best known for her role on the CBS drama, Dallas , as matriarch Eleanor "Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Southworth Ewing Farlow" Ewing, Bel Geddes also created the role of "Maggie" in the original broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, and collaborated with A...
  , actress
• November 12 - Kim Hunter
  Kim Hunter
  
  Kim Hunter was an United States film, television, and stage actress....
  , 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...
  )
• November 14 - Veronica Lake
  Veronica Lake
  
  Veronica Lake was an United States film actor and Pin-up girl who enjoyed both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, as well as her peek-a-boo hairstyle....
  , actress (d. 1973
  1973 in film
  
  The year 1973 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• December 2 - Leo Gordon
  Leo Gordon
  
  Leo Vincent Gordon was an United States movie and television character actor as well as a screenplay writer. He specialized in playing brutish bad guys during more than forty years in film and television....
  , actor and screenplay writer (d. 2000
  2000 in film
  
  The year 2000 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• December 4 - Gérard Philipe
  Gérard Philipe
  
  G?rard Philipe was a prominent France actor....
  , actor (d. 1959
  1959 in film
  
  The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• December 22 - Ruth Roman
  Ruth Roman
  
  Ruth Roman was an American actress....
  , actress (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...
  )
• December 24 - Ava Gardner
  Ava Gardner
  
  Ava Lavinia Gardner was an Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years......
  , actress (d. 1990
  1990 in film
  
  The year 1990 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Film Debuts

• Darryl F. Zanuck
  Darryl F. Zanuck
  
  Darryl Francis Zanuck was an Academy Award-winning Film producer, writer, actor, Film director, and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors ....
   director, producer
• Rin Tin Tin
  Rin Tin Tin
  
  Rin Tin Tin was the name given to several related German Shepherd Dog featured in fictional stories on film, radio, and television....
  
• Clara Bow
  Clara Bow
  
  Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress and sex symbol who rose to fame in the silent film era of the 1920s. Bow was renowned for her sexual magnetism, vivaciousness and high-spirited personality, and became known around the world as "The It girl", where "It" was commonly understood to mean sex appeal....
  
• Walt Disney
  Walt Disney
  
  Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
  

Deaths

• February 22 - William Desmond Taylor
  William Desmond Taylor
  
  William Desmond Taylor was an actor, successful United States film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s....
  , film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal.
• May 21 - Sidney Ainsworth
  Sidney Ainsworth
  
  Sidney Ainsworth was a screen and stage actor who appeared in his first movie in 1909. He was born in Manchester, England and died in Madison, Wisconsin....
  , actor
• June 6 - Lillian Russell
  Lillian Russell
  
  Lillian Russell was an United States of America actor and singer.Born Helen Louise Leonard in Clinton, Iowa, Lillian Russell became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th century and early 20th century, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence....
  , stage and screen actress
• November 30 - René Cresté
  René Cresté
  
  Ren? Crest? was a French people stage and film actor and director of the silent film era. Crest? is possibly best recalled as the title character in the Louis Feuillade-directed crime-adventure serial Judex , which ran in twelve installments in theaters from 1917 until 1918....
  , actor and director