1926 in film

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• August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone
  Vitaphone
  
  Vitaphone was a sound film process used on features and nearly 2,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930....
   film, Don Juan
  Don Juan (1926 film)
  
  Don Juan is a Warner Brothers film, directed by Alan Crosland. It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue....
  . The Vitaphone system used multiple 33? rpm disc records
  Gramophone record
  
  A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
   developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories
  Bell Labs
  
  Bell Laboratories is the research organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company .Bell Laboratories has had its headquarters at Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and it has research and development facilities throughout the world....
   and Western Electric
  Western Electric
  
  Western Electric Company was an United States electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of American Telephone & Telegraph from 1881 to 1995....
   to play back audio synchronized with film.
• Theodore W. Case and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation. The Fox-Case Corp. was formed in an effort to exploit the system, which was given the name Movietone
  Movietone sound system
  
  The Movietone sound system is a sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures which guarantees synchronisation between the sound and the picture....
  . Fox began to create Movietone News
  Movietone News
  
  Movietone News known in the U.S. as Fox Movietone News, produced cinema, sound newsreels from 1928-1963 in the U.S., from 1929-1979 in the UK , and from 1929-1975 in Australia....
   newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels was Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Lindbergh
  
  Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an United States aviator, author, inventor and explorer.On May 20?21, 1927, Lindbergh emerged instantaneously from virtual obscurity to world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in New York City to Paris - Le Bourget Airport in Paris in the s...
  's takeoff for Paris
  Paris
  
  Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
  .
• Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  
  Al Jolson , born in Lithuania, Russian Empire, was a highly acclaimed American singer, comedian, and actor, and, according to PBS, the "first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America." His career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950, during which time he was commonly dubbed "the world's greatest entertainer.? Numerous...
   films A Plantation Act
  A Plantation Act
  
  A Plantation Act was one of the first Vitaphone short films made in 1926 in film starring Al Jolson. This was the first film that Jolson starred in....
   one of the first unreleased talkies and a test film for The Jazz Singer
  The Jazz Singer (1927 film)
  
  The Jazz Singer is a American musical film. The first feature film motion picture with synchronization dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "sound film" and the decline of the silent film era....
  
• The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the Weimar Republic
  Weimar Republic
  
  The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
  , directed by Lotte Reiniger
  Lotte Reiniger
  
  Charlotte Reiniger was a Germany silhouette animation and film director....
  . It is called The Adventures of Prince Achmed
  The Adventures of Prince Achmed
  
  The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a 1926 in film feature-length animation by the German animator Lotte Reiniger. It is the oldest surviving animated feature film , and it featured a silhouette animation technique Reiniger had invented which involved manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under a camera....
  .

Top grossing films

Films released in 1926

• The Adventures of Prince Achmed
  The Adventures of Prince Achmed
  
  The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a 1926 in film feature-length animation by the German animator Lotte Reiniger. It is the oldest surviving animated feature film , and it featured a silhouette animation technique Reiniger had invented which involved manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under a camera....
  , directed by Lotte Reiniger
  Lotte Reiniger
  
  Charlotte Reiniger was a Germany silhouette animation and film director....
  .
• Aloma of the South Seas, starring Gilda Gray
  Gilda Gray
  
  Gilda Gray was a Polish born United States actress and dancer who became famous in the US for popularizing a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions....
  
• Battling Butler
  Battling Butler
  
  Battling Butler is a 1926 in film comedy silent film directed by and starring Buster Keaton....
  , directed by and 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" ....
  
• Beau Geste
  Beau Geste (1926 film)
  
  Beau Geste is a 1926 in film silent film, based on the Beau Geste by P. C. Wren. This version starred Ronald Colman as the title character....
  , directed by Herbert Brenon
  Herbert Brenon
  
  File:Herbert Brenon Mausoleum 12-2-2008.jpgHerbert Brenon was a film Film director during the era of silent movies through the 1930s. He was born in Dublin, Ireland....
  , starring Ronald Colman
  Ronald Colman
  
  Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
   and Alice Joyce
  Alice Joyce
  
  Alice Joyce was an actor born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States best known for her Hollywood film roles in the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps most famously "The Green Goddess"....
  
• The Bells
  The Bells (1926 film)
  
  The Bells is a 1926 in film crime film directed by James Young , starring Lionel Barrymore and featuring Boris Karloff. It is a remake of a 1918 in film of the same name....
  , directed by James Young
  James Young (director)
  
  James Young , was an American film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent film. He directed 93 films between 1912 in film and 1928 in film....
  , starring Lionel Barrymore
  Lionel Barrymore
  
  Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
   and Boris Karloff
  Boris Karloff
  
  Boris Karloff was an Cinema of the United Kingdom who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein , 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and 1939 film Son of Frankenstein....
  
• La Bohème
  La Bohème (1926 film)
  
  La Boh?me is a 1926 in film silent film drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the opera La Boh?me by Giacomo Puccini....
  , 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....
  , starring Lillian Gish
  Lillian Gish
  
  Lillian Diana Gish , was an United States stage, screen and television actor whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W....
  , 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....
  
• The Black Pirate
  The Black Pirate
  
  The Black Pirate is a 1926 in film Adventure film silent film shot entirely in two-strip Technicolor about an adventurer and a "company" of pirates....
  , directed by Albert Parker
  Albert Parker (director)
  
  Albert Parker was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. He directed 36 films between 1917 in film and 1938 in film....
  , 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 ....
   and Billie Dove
  Billie Dove
  
  Billie Dove was an American actress....
  
• Brown of Harvard
  Brown of Harvard (1926 film)
  
  Brown of Harvard is a silent film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring William Haines. The film is the best known of the three Brown of Harvard films, having been film legend John Wayne's screen debut....
   starring William Haines
  William Haines
  
  Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. A star of the silent movies, Haines' career was cut short in the Thirties as a result of his refusal to deny his homosexuality....
  , Jack Pickford
  Jack Pickford
  
  Jack Pickford was a Canada-born United States actor. He was best known for his tabloid lifestyle, marriage to the top movie star of his day, and being of the famous Pickford acting family....
   and Mary Brian
  Mary Brian
  
  Mary Brian was an United States actress and movie star who made the transition from silent film to sound film....
  
• Cruise of the Jasper B
  Cruise of the Jasper B
  
  Cruise of the Jasper B is a 1926 in film United States silent film action/adventure comedy film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by James W....
  , 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....
  , Mildred Harris
  Mildred Harris
  
  Mildred Harris was an United States actress of the silent film era....
   and Snitz Edwards
  Snitz Edwards
  
  Snitz Edwards was a notable character actor of the early years of the silent film era into the 1930s....
  
• Don Juan
  Don Juan (1926 film)
  
  Don Juan is a Warner Brothers film, directed by Alan Crosland. It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue....
  , directed by Alan Crosland
  Alan Crosland
  
  Alan Crosland was an United States actor and film director.Born in New York City, New York to a well-to-do family, Alan Crosland attended from Dartmouth College....
  , starring John Barrymore
  John Barrymore
  
  John Sidney Blyth Barrymore , was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III ....
  
• Faust
  Faust (1926 film)
  
  Faust is a classic silent film produced in 1926 in film by Universum Film AG, directed by F.W. Murnau, starring G?sta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, William Dieterle as her brother and Yvette Guilbert as Marthe Schwerdtlein, her aunt....
  , directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman
  Gösta Ekman (senior)
  
  G?sta Ekman, Sr. , born Frans G?sta Viktor Ekman, was a Swedish people actor. Generally spoken of as Swedish theatre's most legendary stage actor, G?sta Ekman enjoyed a prolific stage career during his short life, becoming the first real star of Sweden theatre....
   and Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings
  
  Emil Jannings was a Switzerland-born German people actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor....
  
• Flesh and the Devil
  Flesh and the Devil
  
  Flesh and the Devil is an MGM silent film starring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert , Lars Hanson, and Barbara Kent, directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the play The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann....
  , 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 Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  
  Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actor during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age of Hollywood.Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances...
  .
• For Heaven's Sake
  For Heaven's Sake (1926 film)
  
  For Heaven's Sake is a 1926 in film comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It was made just before one of Lloyd's most critically-praised films today, The Kid Brother....
  , directed by Sam Taylor
  Sam Taylor (director)
  
  Sam Taylor was a film director, screenwriter, and Film producer, most active in silent film era. Taylor is best known for his comedic directorial work with Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford....
  , 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....
   and Jobyna Ralston
  Jobyna Ralston
  
  Jobyna Ralston was an United States actress of the silent film era....
  
• Fool's Luck
  Fool's Luck
  
  Fool's Luck is a 1926 in film comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle....
  , directed by Fatty Arbukle, starring Lupino Lane
  Lupino Lane
  
  Henry William George Lupino or Lupino Lane was a British-born actor and theatre manager from the Lupino family. Lane appeared in a wide range of theatrical and film performances but he is best known for playing Bill Snibson in the play and film Me and My Girl which popularised the Lambeth walk....
   and George Davis
  George Davis (actor)
  
  George Davis , was a Dutch-born American actor. He appeared in 261 films between 1916 in film and 1963 in film.He was born in Amsterdam, and died in Los Angeles, California from cancer....
  
• The Great K and A Train Robbery, 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....
  
• Madame Mystery
  Madame Mystery
  
  Madame Mystery is a film starring Theda Bara, Oliver Hardy, and James Finlayson, directed and co-written by Stan Laurel, and produced by Hal Roach....
  , directed by Richard Wallace
  Richard Wallace (director)
  
  Richard Wallace was an American-born film director.He joined Mack Sennett studios in the early 1930, working in the editing department then later moving on to rival Hal Roach Studios where he began directing 2-reel films, sometimes collaborating with Stan Laurel....
   and 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....
  , starring Theda Bara
  Theda Bara
  
  Theda Bara , was an United States silent film actor. Bara was one of the most popular screen actresses of her era, and was one of cinema's earliest sex symbols....
  .
• Mare Nostrum
  Mare Nostrum (film)
  
  Mare Nostrum is a silent film set during World War I....
  , directed by Rex Ingram
  Rex Ingram (director)
  
  Rex Ingram was a film director, producer, writer and actor. Legendary director Erich von Stroheim once called him "the world's greatest director."...
  , starring Antonio Moreno
  Antonio Moreno
  
  Antonio "Tony" Moreno was a notable actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s....
   and Alice Terry
  Alice Terry
  
  Alice Terry was an United States actress.Born Alice Frances Taaffe in Vincennes, Indiana, she appeared in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933....
  
• Mother
  Mother (1926 film)
  
  Mother is a Gorky Film Studio production of Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1926 in film masterpiece depicting one woman's struggle against Tsarist rule during the Russian Revolution of 1905....
  , directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
  Vsevolod Pudovkin
  
  Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin was a Russia film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of Soviet montage theory....
  
• My Yankee Senor, 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 Scarlet Letter
  The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)
  
  The Scarlet Letter is a 1926 in film drama film directed by Victor Sj?str?m....
  , starring Lillian Gish
  Lillian Gish
  
  Lillian Diana Gish , was an United States stage, screen and television actor whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W....
   and Lars Hanson
  Lars Hanson
  
  Lars Hanson was a highly successful Swedish people film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era....
  
• The Sea Beast
  The Sea Beast
  
  The Sea Beast is a silent film adaptation of the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville, a story about a monomanical hunt for a great white whale....
  , starring John Barrymore
  John Barrymore
  
  John Sidney Blyth Barrymore , was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III ....
  , Dolores Costello
  Dolores Costello
  
  Dolores Costello was an United States film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She was nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen"....
   and George O'Hara
  George O'Hara (actor)
  
  George O'Hara was an United States motion picture actor and screenwriter of the silent film era....
  
• The Son of the Sheik
  Son of the Sheik (film)
  
  Son of the Sheik is a 1926 in film silent film produced by United Artists, directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma B?nky....
  , 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....
   and Vilma Bánky
  Vilma Bánky
  
  Vilma B?nky was a Hungarian people-born United States silent film actress, although the early part of her acting career began in Budapest, spreading to France, Austria, and Germany....
  
• Sparrows
  Sparrows (film)
  
  Sparrows is a silent film about a young woman who rescues a baby from kidnappers. The film, , starred, and was produced by, Mary Pickford....
  , directed by William Beaudine
  William Beaudine
  
  William Beaudine was an USA film actor and film director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres....
  , starring Mary Pickford
  Mary Pickford
  
  Mary Pickford was an Academy Award-winning Canada film actor, as well as a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences....
  
• Storm of Passion (Aiyoku no arashi)
• The Student of Prague
  The Student of Prague (1926 film)
  
  The Student of Prague is a 1926 in film silent film by Czech actor and filmmaker Henrik Galeen. It is a remake of the The Student of Prague by the same title, directed by Stellan Rye....
  , starring Fritz Alberti, Agnes Esterhazy
  Agnes Esterhazy
  
  Agnes Esterhazy was an Hungarians in Romania film actress, who worked mainly in Austria. She appeared in 30 films between 1923 in film and 1943 in film....
  , Conrad Veidt
  Conrad Veidt
  
  Conrad Veidt was a Germany actor, well known for his roles in such films as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Thief of Bagdad , and Casablanca ....
   and Werner Krauss
  Werner Krauss
  
  Werner Johannes Krauss was a Germany stage and film actor.Krauss was born in Sonnefeld, Germany, the son of a clergyman. He ran away from home and joined a travelling theatre company....
  
• The Temptress
  The Temptress
  
  The Temptress is a 1926 in film United States silent film romantic drama film directed by Fred Niblo. Starring Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Lionel Barrymore and Roy D'Arcy it premiered on October 10 1926....
  , starring Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  
  Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actor during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age of Hollywood.Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances...
   and Antonio Moreno
  Antonio Moreno
  
  Antonio "Tony" Moreno was a notable actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s....
  .
• Torrent
  Torrent (1926 film)
  
  Torrent is a 1926 in film silent film Cinema of the United States directed by an uncredited Monta Bell based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez....
  , starring Ricardo Cortez
  Ricardo Cortez
  
  Ricardo Cortez was a film actor who began his career during the silent film era.Born Jacob Krantz in New York City into a Jewish family, he worked on Wall Street before his looks got him into the film business....
   and Greta Garbo
• What Price Glory?, starring Edmund Lowe
  Edmund Lowe
  
  Edmund Dantes Lowe was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. He was born in San Jose, California....
  , Victor McLaglen
  Victor McLaglen
  
  Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an Academy Award winning England actor, Boxing and World War I veteran....
   and Dolores del Rio
  Dolores del Río
  
  Dolores del R?o was a Mexico film actor. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood. She became an important actress in Cinema of Mexico later in her life....
  

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

• Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat
  
  File:Felix for Judy.pngFelix the Cat is a animated cartoon fictional character created in the silent film era. His black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combined to make Felix one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in the world....
  (1919-1936)
• Koko the Clown
  Koko the Clown
  
  Koko the Clown is an animation character created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer. The character originated when Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a device that allowed for animation to be more lifelike by tracing motion picture footage of human movement....
  (1919-1934)
• 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)
• Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  
  'Pete the Pup' was a famous dog Fictional character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s. Otherwise known as "Pete, the Dog With the Ring Around His Eye", or simply "Petey", he was famous for having a circled eye that was added on by Hollywood make-up artist Max Factor and credited as an oddity in Ripley's Believ...
   (1926-1927)

Births

• January 5 - Maria Schell
  Maria Schell
  
  Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was an Austrian actress.The daughter of a Switzerland author and an Austrian actress, she was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell, and lesser-known actors Carl Schell, and Immy Schell....
  , actress(d.2005)
• January 14 - Tom Tryon
  Tom Tryon
  
  Tom Tryon was an American film and television actor famous as the Walt Disney television character Texas John Slaughter , as well as author of several science fiction, horror fiction, and Mystery fiction novels....
  , actor, novelist († 1991)
• January 17 - Moira Shearer
  Moira Shearer
  
  Moira Shearer, Lady Kennedy , was an internationally famous Scotland ballet and actor.She was born Moira Shearer King in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the daughter of actor Harold V....
  , actress, dancer (d. 2006)
• January 19 - Fritz Weaver
  Fritz Weaver
  
  Fritz William Weaver is a United States Tony Award-winning actor and voice actor.Weaver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Elsa W....
  , actor
• January 20 - Patricia Neal
  Patricia Neal
  
  Patricia Neal is an Academy Award-, BAFTA-, Golden Globe- and Tony Award-winning United States actress of theatre and film....
  , 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, comedian
• February 16 - John Schlesinger
  John Schlesinger
  
  John Richard Schlesinger, Order of the British Empire was an England film director....
  , director († 2003)
• March 6 - Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda
  
  Andrzej Wajda is a Poland film director. Recipient of an honorary Academy Awards, he is one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School....
  , director
• March 16 - Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  , actor
• May 8 - Don Rickles
  Don Rickles
  
  Donald Jay "Don" Rickles is an United States comedian and actor. A frequent guest on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Rickles has acted in comedic and dramatic roles, but is best known as an insult comic....
  , comedian and actor
• June 1 - Andy Griffith
  Andy Griffith
  
  'Andy Samuel Griffith' is an United States actor, television producer, writer, television director and southern gospel singer. He gained prominence in the starring role of Elia Kazan's epic film A Face in the Crowd before he was better known for his television roles, playing the title characters in the 1960s sitcom, The Andy Griffith Sh...
  , actor
• June 1 - Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
  , actress († 1962)
• June 28 - Mel Brooks
  Mel Brooks
  
  Mel Brooks is an United States film director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and Film producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parody....
  , entertainer
• July 14 - Harry Dean Stanton
  Harry Dean Stanton
  
  Harry Dean Stanton is an United States actor of film and television....
  , actor
• July 21 - Norman Jewison
  Norman Jewison
  
  Norman Frederick Jewison, Order of Canada is a Canada film director, Film producer and actor....
  , director
• October 17 - Beverly Garland
  Beverly Garland
  
  Beverly Garland was an American film and television actress, businesswoman and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas," in the long-running 1960s sitcom, My Three Sons ....
  , actress
• October 18 - Klaus Kinski
  Klaus Kinski
  
  Klaus Kinski was a German actor, famous for his ability to project onscreen intensity, and for his explosive temperament. He acted in over 130 films....
  , actor (d. 1991)
• November 30 - Richard Crenna
  Richard Crenna
  
  Richard Donald Heracles Crenna was an United States film, television and radio actor. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles , Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, Rambo , Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid....
  , actor (d. 2003)

Deaths

• January 30 - Barbara La Marr
  Barbara La Marr
  
  Barbara La Marr was an American stage and motion picture actress, cabaret artist and writer....
  , actress
• February 6 - Carrie Clark Ward
  Carrie Clark Ward
  
  Carrie Clark Ward , was an American actress of the silent film. She appeared in 62 films between 1911 in film and 1925 in film.She was born in Virginia City, Nevada and died in Hollywood, California....
  , actor
• April 20 - Billy Quirk
  Billy Quirk
  
  Billy Quirk , was an American silent film actor. He appeared in 182 films between 1909 in film and 1924 in film.He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and died in Los Angeles, California....
  , actor
• July 22 - Willard Louis
  Willard Louis
  
  Willard Louis was an American film actor of the silent film. He appeared in 81 films between 1911 in film and 1926 in film.He was born in San Francisco, California, and died in Glendale, California, aged 44....
  , actor
• August 23 - 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....
  , actor
• September 11 - Matsunosuke Onoe
  Matsunosuke Onoe
  
  , sometimes known as Medama no Matchan , was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura. He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsurusaburo Onoe....
  , actor
• November 1 - Lester Cuneo
  Lester Cuneo
  
  BiographyLester H. Cuneo was an United States theatre and silent film actor.Born in Chicago, Illinois, he began acting in live theatre while still in his teens....
  , actor
• November 2 - James K Hackett, stage & silent film actor
• November 7 - Tom Forman
  Tom Forman
  
  Tom Forman was a motion picture actor, writer, and producer of the early 1920s....
  , silent film actor & director

Film debuts

• John Wayne
  John Wayne
  
  John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....