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ough some movies released in 1928 had sound
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
, most were still silent
Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
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Although some movies released in 1928 had sound
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
, most were still silent
Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
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  • July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion
    Leo the Lion (MGM)

    Leo the Lion is the mascot for the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, featured in the studio's production logo.Since 1924 , there have been around five different lions used for the MGM logo, including Tanner, and Leo, the current lion....
     roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos.
  • November 18 - Disney's
    The Walt Disney Company

    The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
     Steamboat Willie
    Steamboat Willie

    Steamboat Willie is an animated cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse released on November 18, 1928. It was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released ....
     premieres. This animated short was the first film to include a soundtrack, completely created in post production, including sound effects, music, and dialogue.


Top grossing films

Rank Title Gross
1.The Singing Fool
The Singing Fool

The Singing Fool in a musical drama Part-Talkie film which was released in 1928 in film by Warner Brothers. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, The Jazz Singer ....
 
2.Lights of New York
Lights of New York (1928 film)

This article is for the 1928 film. For the 1916 film, see Lights of New York .The Lights of New York was the first all-talking feature film....
 
3.Street Angel 
4.West of Zanzibar
West of Zanzibar

West of Zanzibar is a 1928 in film film directed by Tod Browning about the vengefulness of a cuckolded magician paralyzed in a brawl with his rival ....
 
5.Four Sons
Four Sons

Four Sons is a silent film drama film directed and produced by John Ford and written for the screen by Philip Klein from a story by I. A. R....
 
6.Noah's Ark 
7.Red Dance 
8.The Terror 
9.While the City Sleeps
While the City Sleeps (1928 film)

While the City Sleeps, is a 1928 in film silent film, about a New York City police detective, played by Lon Chaney Sr., out to get a murderer....
 
10.Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Laugh, Clown, Laugh

Laugh, Clown, Laugh was a 1928 in film silent film starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Loretta Young. The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon and produced and released through MGM Studios....
 
11.The Road to Ruin 
12.The Big City
The Big City (1928 film)

The Big City is a 1928 in film crime film directed by Tod Browning. ...
 
13.Sadie Thompson
Sadie Thompson

Sadie Thompson is a silent film which tells the story of a "fallen" woman who comes to Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco, California....
 
14.A Woman of Affairs 
15.The Mysterious Lady 
16.The Divine Woman 


Academy Awards

  • Best Actor
    Academy Award for Best Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
    : Emil Jannings for The Last Command and the 1927 movie The Way of All Flesh
  • Best Actress
    Academy Award for Best Actress

    Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
    : Janet Gaynor for Street Angel and the 1927 movies Seventh Heaven and Sunrise
Note: Prior to 1933, awards were not based on calendar years, which is why there is no 'Best Picture' for a 1928 film.

Films released in 1928

  • Across to Singapore
    Across to Singapore

    Across to Singapore is a 1928 in film silent film by director William Nigh starring Ramon Novarro and Joan Crawford. The plot involves a love triangle between a woman and two brothers, set on board ship and in Singapore....
  • Alraune
    Alraune (1928 film)

    Alraune is a 1928 in film silent film science fiction Horror film film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Brigitte Helm in which a prostitute is artificially inseminated with the semen of a hanged man....
  • L'Argent
    L'Argent (1928 film)

    L'Argent is a French silent film directed in 1928 in film by Marcel L'Herbier. The film was adapted from the novel L'Argent by ?mile Zola, and it scathingly portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s....
  • Beggars of Life
    Beggars of Life

    Beggars of Life is an early sound film with talking sequences starring Wallace Beery as a rail-riding hobo and Louise Brooks as a girl on the run....
  • The Big City
    The Big City (1928 film)

    The Big City is a 1928 in film crime film directed by Tod Browning. ...
    , starring Lon Chaney
  • The Cameraman, a Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

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

    Champagne is a silent film comedy film film director by Alfred Hitchcock, based on an original story by England writer and critic Walter C....
    , 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....
    .
  • The Circus
    The Circus (silent film)

    The Circus is a 1928 in film silent film film which finds Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character being chased by a police officer at a circus....
    , starring, directed and written by Charles Chaplin.
  • The Crowd
    The Crowd

    The Crowd is an United States silent film released in 1928 in film and directed by King Vidor.The picture is an influential and acclaimed feature and was nominated for the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production....
    , 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....
    .
  • The Docks of New York
    The Docks of New York

    The Docks of New York is a silent film starring George Bancroft , Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook, and Mitchell Lewis, which tells the story of a prostitute who tries to rise above her life on the docks by finding love....
    , starring George Bancroft
    George Bancroft (actor)

    File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-08550, Filmstar George B. Bancrofft in Berlin.jpgGeorge Bancroft was an United States actor.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy, but left the Navy to become one of the top Hollywood stars of the 1920s....
    , Betty Compson
    Betty Compson

    Betty Compson was an Oscar nominated United States actress. Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in Beaver, Utah, she had an extensive filmography....
     and Olga Baclanova
    Olga Baclanova

    Olga Vladimirovna Baclanova was a Russian-born actor....
    .
  • Easy Virtue, 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....
    .
  • The Farmer's Wife
    The Farmer's Wife

    The Farmer?s Wife is a silent film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.It was based on a play of the same name by United Kingdom novelist, poet and playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon....
    , 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....
    .
  • Four Sons
    Four Sons

    Four Sons is a silent film drama film directed and produced by John Ford and written for the screen by Philip Klein from a story by I. A. R....
    , directed by John Ford
    John Ford

    John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (lost film)

    This silent version of the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and co-written by Anita Loos, was released in 1928 in film. No copies are known to exist; it is presumed lost....
    , starring Ruth Taylor
    Ruth Taylor (actress)

    Daughter of Norman and Ivah Taylor, Ruth Alice Taylor was a movie actress from Grand Rapids, Michigan.She was blonde, 5'2", 110 pounds, with blue eyes, and a creamy complexion....
     and Alice White
    Alice White

    Alice White was an United States film actor....
    , subtitle
    Subtitle (captioning)

    Subtitles are textual versions of the dialog in films and television programs, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. They can either be a form of written translation of a dialog in a foreign language, or a written rendering of the dialog in the same language, with or without added information to help viewers who are deaf and hard-o...
    s written by Anita Loos
    Anita Loos

    Anita Loos , was an acclaimed United States screenwriter, playwright and author. On pronouncing her name, "The family has always used the correct French pronunciation which is lohse....
  • A Girl in Every Port
    A Girl in Every Port (1928 film)

    A Girl in Every Port is a Silent film 1928 in film comedy film about two sailors. Renowned Striptease Sally Rand played one of their many girlfriends....
  • Hangman's House
    Hangman's House

    Hangman's House is a 1928 in film drama genre silent film set in Republic of Ireland, directed by John Ford with intertitles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan....
  • In Old Arizona
    In Old Arizona

    In Old Arizona is a 1929 in film Western film, directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture....
     12/25/28 First 'Outdoor/Western' full length talkie, apparent FIRST sound-on-film (Movietone; Not sep. discs) feature length talkie.
  • Ladies of the Mob
    Ladies of the Mob

    Ladies of the Mob was a silent film directed by William Wellman, produced by Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor for Famous Players Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures....
  • The Last Command
    The Last Command (film)

    The Last Command is a silent film, written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Bir?, and directed by Josef von Sternberg....
    , starring Emil Jannings
    Emil Jannings

    Emil Jannings was a Switzerland-born German people actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor....
    , Evelyn Brent
    Evelyn Brent

    Evelyn Brent, , was an United States film and stage actress....
     and William Powell
    William Powell

    William Horatio Powell was a three-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical roles. He was a major MGM film star and is most widely known for portraying the detective Nick and Nora Charles in six The Thin Man films....
    .
  • Laugh, Clown, Laugh
    Laugh, Clown, Laugh

    Laugh, Clown, Laugh was a 1928 in film silent film starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Loretta Young. The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon and produced and released through MGM Studios....
    , 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....
    .
  • Lights of New York
    Lights of New York (1928 film)

    This article is for the 1928 film. For the 1916 film, see Lights of New York .The Lights of New York was the first all-talking feature film....
    , 7/28/28 (First true 'talkie'; all sound for full length in feature film. Vitaphone sound, i.e. on separate discs)
  • The Man Who Laughs
    The Man Who Laughs (1928 film)

    The Man Who Laughs is an United States silent film directed by the German Expressionism filmmaker Paul Leni. The film is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel of the The Man Who Laughs and stars Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine and Mary Philbin as the Blindness Dea....
    , starring 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 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 ....
    .
  • The Matinee Idol, 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 Johnnie Walker; directed by Frank Capra
    Frank Capra

    'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
    .
  • Mother Machree
    Mother Machree

    Mother Machree was a 1928 in film silent film, directed by John Ford, based on a novel by Rida Johnson Young about a poor Irish immigrant in United States....
    , directed by John Ford
    John Ford

    John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
  • The Mysterious Lady, 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 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....
    .
  • Noah's Ark, starring George O'Brien
  • Our Dancing Daughters
    Our Dancing Daughters

    Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 MGM Silent film drama film about the "loosening of youth morals" that took place during the 1920s. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont, produced by Hunt Stromberg and stars Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown ....
    , starring Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
    .
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
    The Passion of Joan of Arc

    The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film produced in France in 1928 in film. It is based on the trial records of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Ren?e Jeanne Falconetti and Antonin Artaud....
    , 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....
    .
  • The Red Dance
  • Red Hair, 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....
  • Sadie Thompson
    Sadie Thompson

    Sadie Thompson is a silent film which tells the story of a "fallen" woman who comes to Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco, California....
    , 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 Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
    .
  • Sex in Chains
    Sex in Chains

    Sex in Chains , original German title Geschlecht in Fesseln, is a silent film directed by William Dieterle....
    , starring and directed by William Dieterle
    William Dieterle

    William Dieterle was a Germany actor and film director, who in 1937 attained United States citizenship....
    .
  • Show People
    Show People

    Show People is a comedy silent film directed by King Vidor. The movie was a starring vehicle for actress Marion Davies and actor William Haines and included notable cameo appearances by many of the great film stars of the day, including Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William S....
    , 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....
    .
  • The Singing Fool
    The Singing Fool

    The Singing Fool in a musical drama Part-Talkie film which was released in 1928 in film by Warner Brothers. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, The Jazz Singer ....
    , starring 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...
     and Betty Bronson
    Betty Bronson

    Betty Bronson born Elizabeth Ada Bronson to Frank and Nellie Smith Bronson. She was a famous actress in silent and sound films....
    .
  • Speedy
    Speedy (film)

    Speedy is a 1928 in film silent film that was one of the films to be nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy....
    , 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....
    .
  • Steamboat Bill Jr.
    Steamboat Bill Jr.

    Steamboat Bill Jr. is a feature-length comedy silent film featuring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the last product of Keaton's independent production team and set of gag writers....
    , a Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

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

    Steamboat Willie is an animated cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse released on November 18, 1928. It was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released ....
    , a 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....
     Mickey Mouse
    Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
     short.
  • Storm Over Asia
    Storm Over Asia

    'Storm Over Asia' is a 1928 in film Russian film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and starring Val?ry Inkijinoff. It forms part of Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy", alongside Mother and The End of St....
  • Street Angel, starring Janet Gaynor
    Janet Gaynor

    Janet Gaynor was an American actor.One of the most popular actresses of the silent films era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in the films: Sunrise , Seventh Heaven , and Street Angel ....
     and Charles Farrell
    Charles Farrell

    Charles Farrell was a notable United States film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including Seventh Heaven , Street Angel , and Lucky Star ....
    .
  • The Terror., starring May McAvoy, Edward Everett Horton
    Edward Everett Horton

    Edward Everett Horton was an United States character actor with a long career including film, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons....
    , and Louise Fazenda
    Louise Fazenda

    Louise Fazenda was an United States film actor, appearing chiefly in silent film comedy films....
  • The Wedding March, 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!"....
     and Fay Wray
    Fay Wray

    Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actor and the first ever scream queen, originating from her appearances in the 1932 film Doctor X and the 1933 film King Kong ....
    .
  • West of Zanzibar
    West of Zanzibar

    West of Zanzibar is a 1928 in film film directed by Tod Browning about the vengefulness of a cuckolded magician paralyzed in a brawl with his rival ....
    , 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 Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
    .
  • West Point
    West Point (1928 film)

    West Point is a silent film feature film starring William Haines and Joan Crawford in a story about an arrogant cadet who finds love and discipline just in time for the big Army-Navy game....
    , 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....
     and Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
    .
  • The Wind
    The Wind

    The Wind is an United States dramatic silent film directed by Victor Sj?str?m. The movie was adapted by Frances Marion from the novel The Wind written by Dorothy Scarborough....
    , 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....
    .
  • We Faw Down
    We Faw Down

    We Faw Down is a 1928 in film silent film starring Laurel and Hardy and directed by Leo McCarey.The plot line was later reworked into one of their most celebrated films, Sons of the Desert ....
    , starring 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....
    .
  • A Woman of Affairs, 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...
    .


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)
  • 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
    1922 in film

    Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
    -1944
    1944 in film

    The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • 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
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    )


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
    1919 in film

    The year 1919 in film involved some significant events....
    -1936
    1936 in film

    The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • 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
    1921 in film

    Events* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount Pictures....
    -1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    )
  • 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
    1925 in film

    Events...
    -1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Inkwell Imps
    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....
     (1927
    1927 in film

    Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
    -1929
    1929 in film

    EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
    )
  • Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
    Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

    Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an anthropomorphic rabbit animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Studios in the 1920s and 1930s....
     (1927
    1927 in film

    Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
    -1938
    1938 in film

    The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Newslaffs (1927
    1927 in film

    Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
    -1928)
  • Mickey Mouse
    Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
     (1928-1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
    )


Births

  • January 7 - William Peter Blatty
    William Peter Blatty

    William Peter Blatty is an United States writer and filmmaker. He wrote the novel The Exorcist and the The Exorcist for which he won an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay#1970s....
    , screenwriter
  • January 26 - Roger Vadim
    Roger Vadim

    Roger Vadim, born Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov was a French journalist, author, actor, screenwriter, film director, and film producer who launched Brigitte Bardot's career in the film And God Created Woman ....
    , director, screenwriter, actor
  • February 11 - Conrad Janis
    Conrad Janis

    Conrad Janis is an American Jazz musician and also a theatre, film, and television actor. In the fall of 1953, he played eldest son Edward in the Ezio Pinza situation comedy Bonino on National Broadcasting Company....
    , actor.
  • February 29 - Tempest Storm
    Tempest Storm

    Tempest Storm is an American stripper, burlesque star, and motion picture actress. Along with Lili St. Cyr and Blaze Starr, she was one of the best known burlesque performers of the 1950s and '60s....
    , burlesque
    Burlesque

    Burlesque is a humorous theatrical entertainment involving parody and sometimes grotesque exaggeration. Prior to Burlesque becoming associated with striptease, it was a form of Parody music in which an opera or piece of classical theatre is adapted in a broad, often risqu? style very different from that for which it was originally known....
     performer, actress
  • March 1 - Jacques Rivette
    Jacques Rivette

    Jacques Rivette is a French film director.With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is considered to be the most experimental of the French New Wave directors....
    , film director
  • March 24 - Vanessa Brown
    Vanessa Brown

    Vanessa Brown was an Austrian actor who was successful in United States radio, film, theater and television. Born Smylla Brynd in Vienna, Austria to Jewish parents, Brown and her family fled to Paris, France in 1937 to escape persecution with the rise of Nazism....
     (+ 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...
    )
  • April 23 - Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple

    Shirley Jane Temple is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic United States child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult....
    , actress
  • July 26 - Stanley Kubrick
    Stanley Kubrick

    Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
    , director
  • August 6 - Andy Warhol
    Andy Warhol

    Andrew Warhola , more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an United Statesn Painting, Printmaking, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the Art movement known as pop art....
    , artist, director
  • August 15 - Nicolas Roeg
    Nicolas Roeg

    'Nicolas Jack Roeg', British Society of Cinematographers is an England film director and cinematographer. Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death , and co-directing Performance , he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Walkabout , Don'...
    , director
  • August 16 - Ann Blyth
    Ann Blyth

    Ann Marie Blyth is an Academy Awards United States actor and singer, often cast in Musical theatre, but also successful in dramatic roles....
    , actress
  • August 31 - James Coburn
    James Coburn

    'James Harrison Coburn, Jr.' was an United States film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his charisma and natural charm. He had appeared in almost 70 films and made over 100 appearances on television in his 45-year career, and won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Affliction...
    , actor
  • September 17 - Roddy McDowall
    Roddy McDowall

    Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall was an English-born actor and photographer....
    , actor
  • September 19 - Adam West
    Adam West

    Adam West is an United States actor who played the role of Batman on the 1960s TV series Batman , which was also adapted to a Batman . He is currently known for his voice work on animated series such as Fairly Oddparents and Family Guy....
    , actor
  • October 1 - George Peppard
    George Peppard

    George Peppard, Jr. was an United States film and television actor.He secured a major role early in his career when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's , and he played the title role of the millionaire sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s television series Banacek, but he is probably best known to youn...
    , actor
  • October 2 - George 'Spanky' McFarland, actor
  • November 3 - Wanda Hendrix
    Wanda Hendrix

    Wanda Hendrix was an United States film and television actor....
    , actress (+1981
    1981 in film

    Events*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate , a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica Corporation to sell it....
    )


Film Debuts

  • Charles Laughton
    Charles Laughton

    Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....


Deaths

  • January 2 - Emily Stevens
    Emily Stevens (actor)

    Emily Stevens was a theatrical performer in Broadway theater plays in the first three decades of the 20th century....
    , stage & film actress, cousin of Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • January 26 - Earle Metcalfe, silent film actor (b 1889)
  • April 22 - Frank Currier
    Frank Currier

    Frank Currier , was an American actor and film director of the silent film. He appeared in 133 films between 1912 in film and 1928 in film. He also directed 19 films in 1916 in film....
    , veteran stage & silent screen actor.
  • June 22 - George Siegmann
    George Siegmann

    George Siegmann was an United States actor in the silent film era. His more notable roles include Silas Lynch in Griffith's Birth of A Nation, the guard in the 1927 film The Cat and the Canary , Porthos in The Three Musketeers , Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist , and Dr....
    , silent film actor
  • June 24 - Holbrook Blinn
    Holbrook Blinn

    Holbrook Blinn was an United States actor, born in San Francisco, California. He appeared on the legitimate stage as a child, and played throughout the United States and in London....
    , American stage & silent film actor.
  • August 10 - Rex Cherryman
    Rex Cherryman

    Rex Cherryman was an United States actor of the stage and screen whose career was most prolific during the 1920s.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, Cherryman began his film career at the age of 22, appearing in the 1919 comedic film In For Thirty Days opposite popular leading lady of the silent film era, May Allison....
    , American actor (b. 1897)
  • October 8 - Larry Semon
    Larry Semon

    Larry Semon was an United States actor, Film director, Film producer, and screenwriter during the silent film era. During that era, Semon was considered a "Comedy King", but is now mainly remembered for working with both Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they started working together....
    , Silent film comedian
  • December 14 - Theodore Roberts
    Theodore Roberts

    Theodore Roberts the actor is not to be confused with author Theodore Goodridge Roberts, 1877-1953, who wrote the "The Harbor Master". Please see Talk:Theodore Roberts....
    , Silent actor
  • December 25 - Fred Thomson
    Fred Thomson

    Frederick Clifton Thomson was an United States silent film cowboy. He was a natural actor who rivaled Tom Mix in popularity before dying at age 38 of tetanus....
    , silent film cowboy