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Films released in 1925

• El Húsar de la muerte
  Hussar of the Dead
  
  El H?sar de la Muerte is a Chilean silent film movie of 1925. Directed and protagonized by Pedro Sienna, is the unique movie who can be see entire actually....
  , starring and directed by Pedro Sienna
  Pedro Sienna
  
  Pedro Sienna was a Chilean playwright, poet, journalist, art critic and theatre and movie actor who is also remembered as one of his country's pioneering directors in the early years of silent film....
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• The Battleship Potemkin
  The Battleship Potemkin
  
  The Battleship Potemkin , sometimes rendered as The Battleship Potyomkin, is a silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm....
  
• Ben-Hur
  Ben-Hur (1925 film)
  
  Ben-Hur was a 1925 in film silent film directed by Fred Niblo. It was a blockbuster hit for newly merged Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This was the second film based on the novel Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace....
  , starring Ramon Novarro
  Ramón Novarro
  
  Ram?n Novarro was a Mexico actor who achieved fame as a "Latin lover" in silent films....
  .
• The Big Parade
  The Big Parade
  
  The Big Parade is a 1925 in film silent film which tells the story of an idle rich boy who joins the Army and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl....
  , directed by King Vidor
  King Vidor
  
  King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
   and starring John Gilbert
  John Gilbert (actor)
  
  John Gilbert was an American actor and a major star of the silent film era.Known as "the great lover", he rivaled even the great Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw....
   and Renée Adorée
  Renée Adorée
  
  Ren?e Ador?e was a French actress, who had appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s....
  .
• Braveheart, starring Rod La Rocque
  Rod La Rocque
  
  Rod La Rocque was an American actor.He was born Rodrique la Rocque de la Rour in Chicago, Illinois of French and Irish descent. He began appearing in stock theater at the age of seven and eventually ended up at the Essanay Studios in Chicago where he found steady work until the studios closed....
  .
• Don Q, Son of Zorro
  Don Q, Son of Zorro
  
  Don Q, Son of Zorro is the 1925 in film sequel to the 1920 silent film The Mark of Zorro . It was loosely based upon the 1909 novel Don Q.'s Love Story, written by the mother-and-son duo Kate and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard....
  
• The Eagle
  The Eagle (film)
  
  The Eagle is a 1925 in film silent film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Rudolph Valentino, Vilma B?nky, Louise Dresser and James A. Marcus....
  , 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....
  .
• East Lynne
  East Lynne
  
  East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood . East Lynne was a Victorian bestseller. It is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centering on infidelity and double identities....
  , staring Edmund Lowe
• The Everlasting Whisper, starring Tom Mix
  Tom Mix
  
  Thomas Edwin Mix was an United States film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 in film and 1935 in film, all but nine of which were silent features....
  
• The Freshman
  The Freshman (1925 film)
  
  The Freshman is a comedy film that tells the story of a college freshman trying to become popular by joining the school football team. It stars Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict and James Anderson ....
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an United States film actor and film producer, most famous for his silent film comedies.Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era....
  
• General Nogi and Kumasan (Nogi taisho to Kumasan)
• Go West
  Go West (1925 film)
  
  Go West is a silent movie starring Buster Keaton.Keaton portrays Friendless, who travels west to try to make his fortune. Once there, he tries his hand at bronco-busting, cattle wrangling, and dairy farming, eventually forming a bond with a cow named "Brown Eyes." Eventually he finds himself leading a herd of cattle through Los Angele...
  , starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
  .
• The Gold Rush
  The Gold Rush
  
  The Gold Rush is a silent film Comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his The Tramp role. The film also stars Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray , Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite....
  , a Charlie Chaplin film.
• The Heart Breaker
  The Heart Breaker
  
  The Heartbreaker was a 1925 in film short comedy film directed by Philadelphian Film director, Benjamin Stoloff....
  
• His People
  His People
  
  His People is a 1925 Silent film about a young, Jewish boxer growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan directed by Edward Sloman. According to film historian Lester Friedman, ?Sloman?s compelling vision of the painful depths and joyous heights of immigrant life endow the film with an exuberant vitality that captivates modern filmgoe...
  
• Isn't Life Terrible
• Joyless Street
• The Lady, 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....
  
• Little Annie Rooney
  Little Annie Rooney
  
  File:AnnieRoon360927.jpgLittle Annie Rooney was a comic strip about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero. Although it was an obvious knockoff of Little Orphan Annie, the approach was quite different, and it had a successful run from 1927 to 1966....
  , starring Mary Pickford.
• The Lost World
  The Lost World (1925 film)
  
  The Lost World is a 1925 in film silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World . The movie stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger....
  , starring Bessie Love
  Bessie Love
  
  Bessie Love was an United States motion picture actress who achieved fame largely in the silent and early talkie era. Petite and very pretty, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies....
   and Wallace Beery
  Wallace Beery
  
  Wallace Beery was an United States Academy Award-winning actor, arguably best known for his portrayal of Long John Silver in Treasure Island , who appeared in 200 movies over a 36-year span....
  .
• The Lucky Devil, starring Richard Dix
  Richard Dix
  
  Richard Dix was an United States motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent film and sound film. His standard on-screen image was that of the rugged and stalwart hero....
  
• Men and Women, starring Richard Dix
  Richard Dix
  
  Richard Dix was an United States motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent film and sound film. His standard on-screen image was that of the rugged and stalwart hero....
  
• The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow (1925 film)
  
  The Merry Widow is a 1925 in film United States MGM romantic drama film and black comedy directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. The film stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert and Roy D'Arcy....
  , starring Mae Murray
  Mae Murray
  
  Mae Murray was an United States actress and dancer, who became known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen"....
  ; directed by 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!"....
  .
• The Monster
  The Monster (1925 film)
  
  The Monster is a silent film comedy horror directed by Roland West, based on the play by Crane Wilbur. It stars Johnny Arthur and Lon Chaney, Sr., and is remembered as an antecedental Old Dark House movie, as well as a precedent to many subgenre of horror films....
  , 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....
  .
• Phantom of the Opera
  The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)
  
  The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 in film silent film directed by Rupert Julian adaptation of the Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera. The film featured Lon Chaney, Sr....
  , 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....
  , Mary Philbin
  Mary Philbin
  
  Mary Philbin was a notable film actress of the silent film era. Philbin is probably best remembered for playing the roles of Christine Daa? in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera opposite screen legend Lon Chaney, Sr....
  , and Norman Kerry
  Norman Kerry
  
  Norman Kerry was a United States actor whose career spanned over twenty-five years in the motion picture industry beginning in the silent era at the end of World War I....
  .
• The Plastic Age
  The Plastic Age (film)
  
  The Plastic Age is a black-and-white silent film starring Clara Bow and Gilbert Roland. The film survives today not only on 16 mm film, but also on video and DVD....
   - directed by Wesley Ruggles
  Wesley Ruggles
  
  Wesley Ruggles was an United States film director.He was born in Los Angeles, California, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin....
  , screen-written by Frederica Sagor Maas
  Frederica Sagor Maas
  
  Frederica Sagor Maas is an United States playwright, screenwriter, essayist and author, the youngest daughter of Russian immigration to the United States....
  , starring 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....
   (her debut) and Gilbert Roland
  Gilbert Roland
  
  Gilbert Roland was a Mexico-born naturalized United States citizen who starred in many films.He was born Luis Antonio Damaso de Alonso in Ciudad Ju?rez, Chihuahua , Mexico and originally intended to become a bullfighter like his father....
  ; Clark Gable
  Clark Gable
  
  Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
   was also in this film.
• The Pleasure Garden
  The Pleasure Garden (film)
  
  The Pleasure Garden is a silent film, and the debut feature of Alfred Hitchcock....
  , directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
  , starring 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 Virginia Valli
  Virginia Valli
  
  Virginia Valli was an United States stage and film actress whose motion picture career started in the silent film era and lasted until the beginning of the sound film era of the 1930s.....
  
• Stella Dallas
  Stella Dallas (1925 film)
  
  The 1925 in film version of Stella Dallas was adapted by Frances Marion and directed by Henry King . It stars Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Lois Moran, Alice Joyce, Jean Hersholt, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr....
  , starring Ronald Colman and Belle Bennett
• The Street of Forgotten Men
• Street Sketches (Gaijo no suketchi)
• Strike
  Strike (film)
  
  Strike is a silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein. It was Eisenstein's first full-length feature film, and he would go on to make The Battleship Potemkin later that year....
  
• Thou Shalt Honor Thy Wife, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
  Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Denmark born film director of Sweden descent. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema....
  
• Too Many Kisses
  Too Many Kisses
  
  Too Many Kisses is a 1925 in film comedy film film serial directed by Paul Sloane and based on John Monk Saunders's story. "A Maker of Gestures." It is notable for being the earliest surviving film to feature Harpo Marx....
  , directed by Paul Sloane
• Tumbleweeds
  Tumbleweeds (1925 film)
  
  Tumbleweeds is a 1925 in film Western film starring and produced by William S. Hart. It depicts the Cherokee Strip land run of 1893. The film is said to have influenced the Academy Awards-winning 1931 in film Western Cimarron , which also depicts the land rush....
  , starring William S. Hart
  William S. Hart
  
  William Surrey Hart was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, Film director and Film producer....
  .
• Under the Crimson Sunset (Akai yuhi ni terasarete)
• The Unholy Three
  The Unholy Three (1925 film)
  
  The Unholy Three is a 1925 in film melodrama silent film involving a crime spree, directed by Tod Browning. The film was remake in 1930 in film as a talkie....
  , 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....
  .
• The White Lily Laments (Shirayuri wa nageku)
• Wizard of Oz
  Wizard of Oz (1925 film)
  
  Wizard of Oz is a 1925 silent film directed by Larry Semon, who also appears in a lead role. The first major film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Wizard of Oz features a young Oliver Hardy as the Tin Man....
  , starring Dorothy Dwan
  Dorothy Dwan
  
  Dorothy Dwan was an United States film actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1922 and 1930.Born Dorothy Ilgenfritz in Sedalia, Missouri, she married three times and had a son, Paul with Paul Northcutt Boggs Jr....
  .
• Wolf Blood
  Wolf Blood
  
  Wolf Blood, also known as Wolfblood: A Tale of the Forest, is a silent film 1925 in film werewolf movie starring George Chesebro, who also directed it....
  

Short film series

• 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....
  )

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat
  
  File:Felix for Judy.pngFelix the Cat is a animated cartoon fictional character created in the silent film era. His black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combined to make Felix one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in the world....
   (1919-1936)
• Koko the Clown
  Koko the Clown
  
  Koko the Clown is an animation character created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer. The character originated when Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a device that allowed for animation to be more lifelike by tracing motion picture footage of human movement....
   (1919-1963)
• 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)
• Alice Comedies
  Alice Comedies
  
  The "Alice Comedies" are a series of animated cartoonscreated by Walt Disney in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated landscape....
   (1923-1927)
• Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924-1927)
• Krazy Kat
  Krazy Kat
  
  Krazy Kat is a comic strip created by George Herriman that appeared in U.S. newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It was first published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, and Hearst was a major booster for the strip throughout its run....
   (1925-1940)
• Un-Natural History (1925-1927)

Births

• January 6 - Enrique Carreras
  Enrique Carreras
  
  Enrique Carreras was a Peruvian-born Argentina film director, screenwriter and film producer, and was known as one of the most prolific film directors in the history of the Cinema of Argentina....
   , film director, producer (d. 1995)
• January 9 - Lee Van Cleef
  Lee Van Cleef
  
  Lee Van Cleef was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western movie and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes led to his casting as a villain in scores of films, though in later years he was often a film's protagonist, such as with his co-lead role as a bounty hunter in For a Few Dollars More....
  , actor (d. 1989)
• January 13 - Gwen Verdon
  Gwen Verdon
  
  Gwyneth Evelyn ?Gwen? Verdon was an United States dancer and actress....
  , actress, dancer (d. 2000)
• January 26 - Paul Newman
  Paul Newman
  
  Paul Leonard Newman was an United States actor, film director, entrepreneur, Humanitarianism, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations three Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a...
  , actor (d. 2008)
• January 30 - Dorothy Malone
  Dorothy Malone
  
  Dorothy Malone is an Academy Award-winning United States actor....
  , actress
• February 8 - Jack Lemmon
  Jack Lemmon
  
  'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
  , actor (d. 2001)
• February 11 - Kim Stanley
  Kim Stanley
  
  Kim Stanley was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning United States actor....
  , actress (d. 2001)
• February 17 - Hal Holbrook
  Hal Holbrook
  
  Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an United States actor. He is best known for his appearances in several TV series, such as Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt....
  , actor
• February 18 - George Kennedy, actor
• February 20 - Robert Altman
  Robert Altman
  
  Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
  , director (d. 2006)
• February 21 - Sam Peckinpah
  Sam Peckinpah
  
  David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an United States film director who achieved iconic status following the release of his 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch....
  , director (d. 1984)
• April 14 - Rod Steiger
  Rod Steiger
  
  Rod Steiger was an United States Academy Award-winning actor known for his intense performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night , Waterloo , On the Waterfront, and Doctor Zhivago ....
  , actor (d. 2002)
• April 19 - Hugh O'Brian
  Hugh O'Brian
  
  Hugh O'Brian is an United States actor best known for his starring role as Wyatt Earp in the American Broadcasting Company television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp ....
  , actor
• June 3 - Tony Curtis
  Tony Curtis
  
  Tony Curtis is an United States film acting. He is best known for light comic roles, especially as a musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe....
  , actor
• June 21 - Maureen Stapleton
  Maureen Stapleton
  
  Lois Maureen Stapleton was an United States Academy Awards-, Emmy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winning actor in film, theatre and television....
  , actress (d. 2006)
• July 1 - Farley Granger
  Farley Granger
  
  Farley Earle Granger II is an American actor. In a career that has spanned over several decades, Granger is perhaps most closely identified with his film work of the 1950s, particularly his performance in the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train ....
  , actor
• July 20 - Lola Albright
  Lola Albright
  
  Lois Jean "Lola" Albright is an American singer and actress.Albright, an Akron, Ohio native, worked as a model before heading to Hollywood where she made her motion picture debut with a bit part in 1948's The Pirate following which she had a secondary but important role in the acclaimed 1949 in film hit film, Champion ....
  , actress
• August 11 - Arlene Dahl
  Arlene Dahl
  
  Arlene Dahl is an United States movie actress and former MGM contract star, who achieved notability during the 1950s. She is the mother of actor Lorenzo Lamas....
  , actress
• August 23 - Robert Mulligan
  Robert Mulligan
  
  Robert Mulligan was an Academy Award-nominated United States film and television director....
  , director
• September 8 - Peter Sellers
  Peter Sellers
  
  'Richard Henry Sellers', Order of British Empire, commonly known as 'Peter Sellers' was a United Kingdom comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr....
  , comedian, actor (d. 1980)
• September 9 - Cliff Robertson
  Cliff Robertson
  
  Clifford Parker "Cliff" Robertson III is an Academy Award - winning United States actor with a film and television career that spans half of a century....
  , actor
• October 3 - Gore Vidal
  Gore Vidal
  
  Gore Vidal is an United States novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer and politician. Early in his career he wrote the ground-breaking The City and the Pillar , which outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality....
  , writer, actor
• October 5 - Gail Davis
  Gail Davis
  
  Gail Davis was an United States actor, best known for her role as Annie Oakley in a 1950s television Western television series.The daughter of a small town physician, she was born Betty Jeanne Grayson in a hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas....
  , actress (d. 1997)
• October 16 - Angela Lansbury
  Angela Lansbury
  
  Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
  , actress
• November 10 - Richard Burton
  Richard Burton
  
  Richard Burton, Order of the British Empire was a multi award-winning Wales actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood....
  , actor (d. 1984)
• November 17 - Rock Hudson
  Rock Hudson
  
  Rock Hudson was an United States film and television actor, recognised as a romantic leading man during the 1960s and 1970s. Hudson was voted 'Star of the Year', 'Favorite Leading Man', and similar titles by numerous movie magazines and was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time....
  , actor (d. 1985)
• December 8 - Sammy Davis Jr., singer, dancer, musician, actor (d. 1990)
• December 13 - Dick Van Dyke
  Dick Van Dyke
  
  Richard Wayne ?Dick? Van Dyke is an United States actor, presenter and entertainer, with a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his starring roles in Mary Poppins , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder....
  , actor
• December 28 - Hildegard Knef
  Hildegard Knef
  
  Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff....
  , actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)

Deaths

• March 13 – Lucille Ricksen
  Lucille Ricksen
  
  Lucille Ricksen was an American motion picture actress during the silent film era....
  , American actress
• April 16 – David Powell
  David Powell
  
  David Powell was a film actor of the silent film. He has a star on the List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
  , British actor born in Scotland
• October 31 – Max Linder
  Max Linder
  
  Max Linder was an influential French pioneer of silent film....
  , French comedic actor
• December 8 – Marguerite Marsh
  Marguerite Marsh
  
  Marguerite Marsh , was an American actress of the silent film. She appeared in 73 films between 1911 in film and 1923 in film.She was born in Lawrence, Kansas and died in New York, New York from pneumonia....
  , silent film actress, sister of Mae Marsh
  Mae Marsh
  
  Mae Marsh was an United States film Actor with a career spanning over 50 years....
  
• December 22 – Mary Thurman
  Mary Thurman
  
  Mary Thurman was an American actress of the silent film era.Born Mary Christiansen, she appeared in nearly 60 Hollywood films from 1915 up until her death in 1925, frequently in those made by Pathe Studios....
  , silent film actress