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  Porky Pig
  
  Porky Pig is an animation fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his celebrity, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig....
   animated cartoon
• February 15 - first Republic
  Republic Pictures
  
  Republic Pictures is an in-name only independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B-film pictures, Western and movie Serial s....
   serial
  Serial (film)
  
  |}Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials or Film serials, were short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film that were related to pulp magazine Serial ....
  , Darkest Africa
  Darkest Africa
  
  Darkest Africa is a Republic Pictures movie serial. This was the first serial produced by Republic Pictures and was a loose sequel to a Mascot Pictures serial called The Lost Jungle, also starring Clyde Beatty....
  , released
• September 28 - The Marx Brothers' Harpo Marx
  Harpo Marx
  
  Arthur Marx , popularly known as Harpo Marx was one of the Marx Brothers, a group of Vaudeville and Broadway theatre entertainers who later achieved fame as comedians in the film industry....
   marries actress Susan Fleming
  Susan Fleming
  
  Susan Fleming was a Hollywood ingenue known as the "Girl with the Million Dollar Legs" for a role she played in the W.C. Fields film Million Dollar Legs ....
  

Top grossing films

North America

1. San Francisco
   San Francisco (film)
   
   San Francisco is a 1936 in film Drama film-adventure film directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy....
   
2. The Great Ziegfeld
   The Great Ziegfeld
   
   The Great Ziegfeld is a musical film produced by MGM. Although the film is a fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions....
   
3. One in a Million
4. Modern Times
   Modern Times (film)
   
   Modern Times is a 1936 in film comedy film by Charles Chaplin that has his iconic The Tramp character, in his final silent-film appearance, struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world....
   
5. Strike Me Pink
   Strike Me Pink
   
   Strike Me Pink was the second and final single from Deborah Harry's fourth solo album. It failed to chart in the US and peaked at a disappointing, but not unexpected, #46 in the UK....
   
6. Three Smart Girls
   Three Smart Girls
   
   Three Smart Girls is a Musical film comedy film. The Craig sisters, played by Barbara Read, Nan Grey and Deanna Durbin in her first feature film role, travel to New York City to prevent their father from remarrying....
   
7. Dodsworth
   Dodsworth (film)
   
   Dodsworth is a 1936 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his Dodsworth of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis....
   
8. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
   The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
   
   The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 in film romance film based on the novel of the The Trail of the Lonesome Pine . It was directed by Henry Hathaway....
   
9. Camille
   Camille (1936 film)
   
   Camille is an United States 1936 in film drama film directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoe Akins and Frances Marion....
    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...
   
10. Libeled Lady
    Libeled Lady
    
    Libeled Lady is a screwball comedy film starring Jean Harlow, William Powell , Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. The movie was written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway ....
    
11. The Milky Way
    The Milky Way (1936 film)
    
    The Milky Way is a 1936 in film comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. Directed by comedy veteran Leo McCarey, the film was written by Grover Jones, Frank Butler and Richard Connell based on a play of the same name by Lynn Root and Harry Clork which was presented on Broadway theatre in 1934....
    
12. Red River Valley
    Red River Valley (1936 film)
    
    See Also Red River Red River Valley is a 1941 in film western film about ranchers struggling to build a reservoir. It stars Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, and Gale Storm....
    
13. Rose Marie
14. Man of the Frontier
    Man of the Frontier
    
    Man of the Frontier is a 1936 in film movie about life in the early 20th century....
    
15. Come and Get It
    Come and Get It (film)
    
    Come and Get It is a 1936 in film film film director by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. It starred Edward Arnold , Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, Mady Christians, Mary Nash, Andrea Leeds, Frank Shields, Edwin Maxwell and Cecil Cunningham, and was based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber....
    
16. The Story of Louis Pasteur
    The Story of Louis Pasteur
    
    The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 in film biographical film. It starred Paul Muni as the Louis Pasteur. It was written by Toni Pollastre and Sheridan Gibney, and Edward Chodorov , and directed by William Dieterle....
    
17. Anthony Adverse
    Anthony Adverse
    
    Anthony Adverse is a 1936 United States drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney was based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen....
    
18. Go West, Young Man
    Go West, Young Man
    
    Go West, Young Man is a 1936 in film Paramount Pictures comedy starring Mae West. The supporting cast includes Warren William, Alice Brady, Elizabeth Patterson , and Lyle Talbot....
    
19. Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)
    
    ----Romeo and Juliet is a film adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings....
    

Academy Awards

• Best Picture
  Academy Award for Best Picture
  
  The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
  : The Great Ziegfeld
  The Great Ziegfeld
  
  The Great Ziegfeld is a musical film produced by MGM. Although the film is a fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions....
   - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• 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....
  : Paul Muni
  Paul Muni
  
  Paul Muni was an United States Academy Awards-winning and Tony Award-winning Stage and film actor.BiographyEarly life and career...
   - The Story of Louis Pasteur
  The Story of Louis Pasteur
  
  The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 in film biographical film. It starred Paul Muni as the Louis Pasteur. It was written by Toni Pollastre and Sheridan Gibney, and Edward Chodorov , and directed by William Dieterle....
  
• 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....
  : Luise Rainer
  Luise Rainer
  
  Luise Rainer is a two-time Academy Awards-winning Germany film actress. Of living Academy Awards winners, she holds the earliest-awarded Oscars....
   - The Great Ziegfeld
• Best Supporting Actor
  Best Supporting Actor
  
  Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is an praise given by a group of film or theatre professionals in recognition of the work of supporting actor and character actor actors....
  : Walter Brennan
  Walter Brennan
  
  Walter Brennan was a three-time Academy Award winning United States actor. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history....
   - Come and Get It
  Come and Get It (film)
  
  Come and Get It is a 1936 in film film film director by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. It starred Edward Arnold , Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, Mady Christians, Mary Nash, Andrea Leeds, Frank Shields, Edwin Maxwell and Cecil Cunningham, and was based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber....
  
• Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard
  Gale Sondergaard
  
  Gale Sondergaard was an American actress.Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse ....
   - Anthony Adverse
  Anthony Adverse
  
  Anthony Adverse is a 1936 United States drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney was based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen....
  

Films released in 1936

• After the Thin Man
  After the Thin Man
  
  After the Thin Man, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and James Stewart , is the 1936 in film sequel to the film The Thin Man . The movie presents Powell and Loy as Dashiell Hammett's characters Nick and Nora Charles....
  , starring 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....
   and Myrna Loy
  Myrna Loy
  
  Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
  
• Anthony Adverse
  Anthony Adverse
  
  Anthony Adverse is a 1936 United States drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney was based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen....
  , starring Fredric March
• The Big Noise, starring Guy Kibbee
  Guy Kibbee
  
  Guy Kibbee was an United States stage and film actor....
  , Alma Lloyd, Warren Hull
  Warren Hull
  
  John Warren Hull was an actor and TV personality, active from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was one of the most popular cliffhanger actors in the action-adventure field....
  , and Dick Foran
  Dick Foran
  
  John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran was a leading man best known in Western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.Foran was born in Flemington, New Jersey, the first of five sons to Arthur F....
  
• The Bohemian Girl
  The Bohemian Girl (1936 film)
  
  The Bohemian Girl is a 1936 in film feature film version of the opera The Bohemian Girl by Michael William Balfe. It was produced at the Hal Roach Studios, and stars Laurel and Hardy and Thelma Todd in her last role before her mysterious death....
  , starring Stan Laurel
  Stan Laurel
  
  Stan Laurel was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II....
   and Oliver Hardy
  Oliver Hardy
  
  Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted 31 years, 1926-1957 ....
  
• Cafe Mascot
  Cafe Mascot
  
  Cafe Mascot is a 1936 in film United Kingdom Black-and-white#Media comedy film produced by Gabriel Pascal, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald.A young man discovers 1,000 pounds in a taxi....
  , starring Geraldine Fitzgerald
  Geraldine Fitzgerald
  
  Geraldine Fitzgerald was an Academy Award-nominated Ireland-American actor and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame....
  
• Camille
  Camille (1936 film)
  
  Camille is an United States 1936 in film drama film directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoe Akins and Frances Marion....
  , 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...
  
• Captain January, starring 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....
  
• Ceiling Zero
  Ceiling Zero
  
  Ceiling Zero is a 1936 in film Adventure film/drama film directed by Howard Hawks. It stars James Cagney as daredevil womanizing pilot "Dizzy" Davis and Pat O'Brien as Jake Lee, his war veteran buddy and the operations manager of an airline company....
  , starring James Cagney
  James Cagney
  
  James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film star. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guy"s....
  
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
  The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)
  
  The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 in film historical film made by Warner Bros. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Samuel Bischoff, with Hal B....
  , starring Errol Flynn
  Errol Flynn
  
  Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
  
• Come and Get It
  Come and Get It (film)
  
  Come and Get It is a 1936 in film film film director by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. It starred Edward Arnold , Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, Mady Christians, Mary Nash, Andrea Leeds, Frank Shields, Edwin Maxwell and Cecil Cunningham, and was based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber....
  
• Dodsworth
  Dodsworth (film)
  
  Dodsworth is a 1936 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his Dodsworth of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis....
  , starring Walter Huston
  Walter Huston
  
  Walter Huston was an Academy Award-winning Canada-born American actor....
  
• Dracula's Daughter
  Dracula's Daughter
  
  Dracula's Daughter is a 1936 vampire film horror film produced by Universal Studios, a sequel to the 1931 film Dracula . Directed by Lambert Hillyer from a screenplay by Garrett Fort, the film stars Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill and, as the only cast member to return from the original, Edward Van Sloan....
  
• Follow the Fleet
  Follow the Fleet
  
  Follow the Fleet is a 1936 in film Hollywood Musical film comedy film with a nautical theme and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Nelson , and Betty Grable, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin....
  , starring Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  
  Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
   and Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
  
• Fury
  Fury (1936 film)
  
  Fury is a drama film which tells the story of an innocent man who narrowly escapes being Lynching and the revenge he seeks. Directed by Fritz Lang, the film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney and features Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan....
  , starring Sylvia Sidney
  Sylvia Sidney
  
  Sylvia Sidney was an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress....
   and Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Tracy
  
  Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
  
• Go West, Young Man
  Go West, Young Man
  
  Go West, Young Man is a 1936 in film Paramount Pictures comedy starring Mae West. The supporting cast includes Warren William, Alice Brady, Elizabeth Patterson , and Lyle Talbot....
  , starring Mae West
  Mae West
  
  Mae West was an United States actor, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the theatre in New York City before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the film industry....
  , adapted by her from Lawrence Riley
  Lawrence Riley
  
  Lawrence Riley was a successful United States playwright and screenwriter. He gained fame in 1934 in literature as the author of the Broadway theatre hit Personal Appearance, which was turned by Mae West into the classic film Go West, Young Man , starring herself....
  's 1934 stage play Personal Appearance
  Personal Appearance
  
  Personal Appearance is a stage comedy by the American playwright and screenwriter Lawrence Riley , which was a Broadway theatre smash and the basis for the classic Mae West film Go West, Young Man ....
  
• The Great Ziegfeld
  The Great Ziegfeld
  
  The Great Ziegfeld is a musical film produced by MGM. Although the film is a fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions....
  , starring 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....
  , Myrna Loy
  Myrna Loy
  
  Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
   and Luise Rainer
  Luise Rainer
  
  Luise Rainer is a two-time Academy Awards-winning Germany film actress. Of living Academy Awards winners, she holds the earliest-awarded Oscars....
  
• Green Pastures
  The Green Pastures (film)
  
  The Green Pastures is a 1936 in film depicting stories from the Bible as visualized by African American characters. It starred Rex Ingram , Oscar Polk, and Eddie Anderson ....
  , adapted from the 1923 stage play of the same name, starring Eddie Anderson
  Eddie Anderson (comedian)
  
  Edmund Lincoln Anderson , often known as Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, was an American comic actor who became famous playing "Rochester van Jones" , the valet to Jack Benny's eponymous title character on the long-running radio and television series The Jack Benny Program. Anderson also owned Burnt Cork, a Thoroughbred horse racing...
   -(film mentioned in article)
• Intermezzo
  Intermezzo (1936 film)
  
  Intermezzo is a 1936 Sweden drama film directed by Gustaf Molander about a concerto violin falling in love with his daughter's piano teacher....
  , starring Ingrid Bergman
  Ingrid Bergman
  
  was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
   and 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....
  
• The Lawless Nineties
  The Lawless Nineties
  
  The Lawless Nineties is a 1936 in film United States B western film directed by Joseph Kane. The 55 minute film starred John Wayne, and Lane Chandler as federal agents in Wyoming....
  , starring 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....
  
• Libeled Lady
  Libeled Lady
  
  Libeled Lady is a screwball comedy film starring Jean Harlow, William Powell , Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. The movie was written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway ....
  , starring 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....
  , Myrna Loy
  Myrna Loy
  
  Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
  , Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Tracy
  
  Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
   and Jean Harlow
  Jean Harlow
  
  Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" and the "Blonde Bombshell" due to her famous platinum blonde hair, and ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time AFI's 100 Years......
  
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles
  The Man Who Could Work Miracles
  
  The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a 1936 in film United Kingdom fantasy-comedy film. It is a greatly expanded version of H.G. Wells? The Man Who Could Work Miracles ....
  , starring Roland Young
  Roland Young
  
  Roland Young was an England actor....
   and Ralph Richardson
  Ralph Richardson
  
  Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films....
  
• Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak
  Anatole Litvak
  
  Anatole Litvak was a Ukraine-born international filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in a variety of countries and languages....
   starring Charles Boyer
  Charles Boyer
  
  Charles Boyer was a four-time Academy Award-nominated France-born actor. Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s, and continued to act in films, television and theatre over the next several decades....
   and Danielle Darrieux
  Danielle Darrieux
  
  Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux is a French actress and singer. Her career of eight decades is among the longest in film history....
  
• Modern Times
  Modern Times (film)
  
  Modern Times is a 1936 in film comedy film by Charles Chaplin that has his iconic The Tramp character, in his final silent-film appearance, struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world....
  , written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
• The Moon's Our Home
  The Moon's Our Home
  
  The Moon's Our Home is a 1936 in film directed by William A. Seiter....
  
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  
  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 in film comedy film directed by Frank Capra, based on the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland that appeared in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post....
  , starring Gary Cooper
  Gary Cooper
  
  Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Western movie he made....
   and Jean Arthur
  Jean Arthur
  
  Jean Arthur was an Cinema of the United States actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress....
  ; 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....
  
• My Man Godfrey
  My Man Godfrey
  
  My Man Godfrey is a screwball comedy film released in by Universal Pictures, directed by Gregory LaCava. It was adapted from Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue by Hatch himself and Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by LaCava....
  , starring 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....
   and Carole Lombard
  Carole Lombard
  
  Carole Lombard , born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated United States Actor. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey....
  
• Man of the Frontier
  Man of the Frontier
  
  Man of the Frontier is a 1936 in film movie about life in the early 20th century....
  , starring Gene Autry
  Gene Autry
  
  Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
  
• The Mongolian Boy (?????? ???), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian film
  Cinema of Mongolia
  
  The Cinema of Mongolia has been strongly influenced by the Cinema of Russia, which differentiates it from cinematic developments in the rest of Asia....
  
• The Petrified Forest
  The Petrified Forest
  
  The Petrified Forest is a predecessor to film noir, with an original screenplay by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon derived from the play by Robert E....
  , starring Leslie Howard
  Leslie Howard (actor)
  
  Leslie Howard was an English people Academy Award-nominated Stage and film actor, director, and Theatrical producer. He is best known by international audiences as Ashley Wilkes in the film Gone with the Wind ....
  , Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey Bogart
  
  Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an United_States_of_America actor and cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time....
   and Bette Davis
  Bette Davis
  
  Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
  
• Reefer Madness
  Reefer Madness
  
  Reefer Madness is a 1936 in film exploitation film revolving around the tragic events that ensue when high school students are lured by pushers to try "cannabis ": a Hit and run , manslaughter, suicide, rape, and descent into madness all ensue....
  , (also known as Tell Your Children)
• Road Gang
  Road Gang
  
  Road Gang is a film released in 1936 in film, showing economic and social injustice due to political corruption.It was directed by Louis King, written by Dalton Trumbo, produced by Bryan Foy, and stars Donald Woods and Kay Linaker....
  
• Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)
  
  ----Romeo and Juliet is a film adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings....
  , starring Norma Shearer
  Norma Shearer
  
  Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
  , Leslie Howard
  Leslie Howard (actor)
  
  Leslie Howard was an English people Academy Award-nominated Stage and film actor, director, and Theatrical producer. He is best known by international audiences as Ashley Wilkes in the film Gone with the Wind ....
  , 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 ....
   and Basil Rathbone
  Basil Rathbone
  
  Basil Rathbone, Military Cross , was a South African Republic England actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro , Captain Blood , and The Adventures of Robin Hood ....
  
• Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald
  Jeanette MacDonald
  
  Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy ....
   and Nelson Eddy
  Nelson Eddy
  
  Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and movie star who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs....
  
• Show Boat
  Show Boat (1936 film)
  
  Show Boat is a film based on the Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II , which the team adapted from the Show Boat by Edna Ferber....
  , starring Irene Dunne
  Irene Dunne
  
  Irene Dunne was an American film actor and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated for five-time Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama ....
  , Allan Jones, Charles Winninger
  Charles Winninger
  
  Charles Winninger was an United States stage and film actor, most often cast in comedies or musicals, but equally at home in drama....
  , Paul Robeson
  Paul Robeson
  
  Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson was an American actor of film and stage, All-American and professional sportsperson, writer, multi-lingual orator, lawyer, and basso profondo concert singer who was also noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism....
   and Helen Morgan
  Helen Morgan
  
  Helen Morgan was an U.S. singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s....
  
• Sabotage
  Sabotage (film)
  
  Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 in film United Kingdom thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was based on Joseph Conrad novel The Secret Agent....
  , an 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....
   thriller starring John Gielgud
  John Gielgud
  
  Sir Arthur John Gielgud, Order of Merit , Companion of Honour was an England actor and singer, particularly known for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk"....
  , Peter Lorre
  Peter Lorre
  
  Peter Lorre , born L?szl? L?wenstein, was a Hungarian people - Austrian - United States actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner....
   and Madeleine Carroll
  Madeleine Carroll
  
  Madeleine Carroll was a United Kingdom Actor, immensely popular in the 1930s and 1940s, who was renowned for her great beauty.Early life...
  
• San Francisco
  San Francisco (film)
  
  San Francisco is a 1936 in film Drama film-adventure film directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy....
  , starring 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......
   and Jeanette MacDonald
  Jeanette MacDonald
  
  Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy ....
  
• Secret Agent, an 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....
   thriller starring John Gielgud
  John Gielgud
  
  Sir Arthur John Gielgud, Order of Merit , Companion of Honour was an England actor and singer, particularly known for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk"....
  , Peter Lorre
  Peter Lorre
  
  Peter Lorre , born L?szl? L?wenstein, was a Hungarian people - Austrian - United States actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner....
   and Madeleine Carroll
  Madeleine Carroll
  
  Madeleine Carroll was a United Kingdom Actor, immensely popular in the 1930s and 1940s, who was renowned for her great beauty.Early life...
  
• Small Town Girl
  Small Town Girl (1936 film)
  
  Small Town Girl is a film starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor , and James Stewart . The romantic comedy was directed by William A. Wellman....
  , a William Wellman film 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 ....
  , Robert Taylor
  Robert Taylor (actor)
  
  Robert Taylor was an United States actor....
   and James Stewart
  James Stewart (actor)
  
  James Maitland Stewart , popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an United States film and stage actor best known for his self-effacing persona....
  
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
  
  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street is a 1936 in film British film produced and directed by George King ....
   film starring Tod Slaughter
• Swing Time
  Swing Time
  
  Swing Time is a 1936 in film Hollywood musical film comedy film set mainly in New York and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields....
  , starring Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  
  Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
   and Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
  
• Things to Come
  Things to Come
  
  Things to Come is a United Kingdom science fiction film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. The screenplay was written by H....
  , based on the story by H.G. Wells
• The Story of Louis Pasteur
  The Story of Louis Pasteur
  
  The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 in film biographical film. It starred Paul Muni as the Louis Pasteur. It was written by Toni Pollastre and Sheridan Gibney, and Edward Chodorov , and directed by William Dieterle....
  , starring Paul Muni
  Paul Muni
  
  Paul Muni was an United States Academy Awards-winning and Tony Award-winning Stage and film actor.BiographyEarly life and career...
  
• Yiddle with his Fiddle
  Yidl Mitn Fidl
  
  Yidl Mitn Fidl is a 1936 in film musical film....
  , starring Molly Picon
  Molly Picon
  
  Molly Picon was an American actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a lyricist. She was first and foremost a star in Yiddish theatre and film, but as Yiddish theatre faded she began to perform in English-language productions....
  

Serials

• Ace Drummond, starring John (Dusty) King
• The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
  The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (serial)
  
  The Adventures of Frank Merriwell is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the Frank Merriwell books by Burt L. Standish....
  
• The Black Coin
• The Clutching Hand
• Custer's Last Stand
  Custer's Last Stand (serial)
  
  Custer's Last Stand is an independent Serial based on the historical Custer's Last Stand at the Little Bighorn River.It was produced by the Poverty Row studio Stage & Screen Productions, which went bust shortly afterwards as a victim of the Great Depression....
  
• Darkest Africa
  Darkest Africa
  
  Darkest Africa is a Republic Pictures movie serial. This was the first serial produced by Republic Pictures and was a loose sequel to a Mascot Pictures serial called The Lost Jungle, also starring Clyde Beatty....
  , starring Clyde Beatty
  Clyde Beatty
  
  Clyde Beatty joined the circus as a cage cleaner as a teen and became famous as a Lion taming and Animal training. He also was a circus impresario who owned his own show that later merged with the Cole Bros....
  
• Flash Gordon
  Flash Gordon (serial)
  
  Flash Gordon is a 1936 in film serial which tells the story of three people from Earth who travel to the planet Mongo to fight the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless....
  , starring Buster Crabbe
  Buster Crabbe
  
  Buster Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular Serial in the 1930s and 1940s....
  
• The Phantom Rider
  The Phantom Rider (Universal serial)
  
  The Phantom Rider is a Universal Pictures Serial ....
  
• Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
  Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
  
  Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island is a Republic Pictures Movie serial starring Ray Mala. It was the fourth of the sixty-six serials produced by Republic and the last to be released in 1936....
  , starring Ray Mala
  Ray Mala
  
  Ray Mala is the first Native American movie star and is the most prolific film star that the state of Alaska has thus far produced. He starred in MGM's Academy Award-winning Eskimo/Mala The Magnificent, produced by the legendary Irving Thalberg and directed by Woody Van Dyke....
  
• Shadow of Chinatown
• Undersea Kingdom
  Undersea Kingdom
  
  name = Undersea Kingdom| image = Underseakingdomserial.jpg| director = B. Reeves EasonJoseph Kane| producer = Nat Levine...
  , starring Ray Corrigan
• The Vigilantes Are Coming
  The Vigilantes Are Coming
  
  The Vigilantes Are Coming is a Republic Pictures Movie serial. It was the third of the sixty six serials made by Republic Pictures .This serial was filmed between 28 May and 17 June 1936 under the working title of The Vigilantes....
  

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
  1943 in film
  
  The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
  )
• 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....
  )
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

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)
• 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....
  )
• 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....
  )
• 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
  1928 in film
  
  EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
  -1953
  1953 in film
  
  The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Silly Symphonies
  Silly Symphonies
  
  Silly Symphonies is a series of animated short subjects, 75 in total, produced by The Walt Disney Company from 1929 to 1939, while the studio was still located at Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles....
  (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....
  -1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Screen Songs
  Screen Songs
  
  Screen Songs is the name of a series of animation produced by the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1938....
  (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....
  -1938
  1938 in film
  
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes
  
  Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
  (1930
  1930 in film
  
  Events...
  -1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Terrytoons
  Terrytoons
  
  Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
  (1930
  1930 in film
  
  Events...
  -1964
  1964 in film
  
  The year 1964 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Merrie Melodies
  Merrie Melodies
  
  Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
  (1931
  1931 in film
  
  Events...
  -1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Scrappy
  Scrappy
  
  Scrappy is a cartoon character created by Dick Huemer for Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat Studio. A cute little round-headed boy, Scrappy often found himself involved in off-beat neighborhood adventures....
  (1931
  1931 in film
  
  Events...
  -1941
  1941 in film
  
  The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Betty Boop
  Betty Boop
  
  Betty Boop is an animation cartoon fictional character designed by Grim Natwick, appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures....
  (1932
  1932 in film
  
  Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
  -1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Popeye
  Popeye
  
  File:Thimbletheat.jpgPopeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows....
  (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....
  -1957
  1957 in film
  
  The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• ComiColor Cartoons
  ComiColor Cartoons
  
  The ComiColor Cartoon series was a series of 29 animated short subjects produced by the Ub Iwerks studio from 1933 to 1936. The series was the last produced by the studio; after losing distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934, the Iwerks studio's senior company Celebrity Pictures had to distribute the films itself....
  (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....
  -1936)
• Happy Harmonies
  Happy Harmonies
  
  Happy Harmonies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and produced by Harman and Ising between 1934 and 1938....
  (1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  -1938
  1938 in film
  
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Color Rhapsodies
  Color Rhapsodies
  
  Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles B. Mintz for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies....
  (1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  -1949
  1949 in film
  
  The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Rainbow Parades (1935
  1935 in film
  
  Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
  -1936)
• Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936-1937
  1937 in film
  
  The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Births

• January 22 - Nyree Dawn Porter
  Nyree Dawn Porter
  
  Nyree Dawn Porter, Order of the British Empire, was an actor....
  , English actress (d. 2001
  2001 in film
  
  The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ...
  )
• January 27 - Troy Donahue
  Troy Donahue
  
  Troy Donahue was an United States actor and teen idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s....
  , American actor
• January 28 - Alan Alda
  Alan Alda
  
  Alan Alda is an Academy Award nominated, Emmy award-winning United States actor, television director and screenwriter. He is well known for his role as "Hawkeye Pierce" in the television series M*A*S*H ....
  , United States actor
• February 11 - Burt Reynolds
  Burt Reynolds
  
  Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds Jr. is an United States actor. Some of his memorable roles include Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Paul Crewe in The Longest Yard , Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, J.J....
  , United States actor
• March 1 - Georgina Spelvin
  Georgina Spelvin
  
  Georgina Spelvin, born Michelle Graham on March 1, 1936, is a former American pornographic actress who is best known for her appearance in the classic film The Devil in Miss Jones....
  , pornographic film actress
• May 9 - Glenda Jackson
  Glenda Jackson
  
  Glenda May Jackson, Order of the British Empire, is a two-times Academy Award winning United Kingdom actor and politician, currently Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden....
  , British actress and politician
• August 5 - John Saxon
  John Saxon (actor)
  
  John Saxon is an United States actor....
  
• August 18 - Robert Redford
  Robert Redford
  
  Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
  , actor, director
• August 25 - Hugh Hudson
  Hugh Hudson
  
  Hugh Hudson is an Academy Awards nominated film director....
  , director
• October 19 - Irina Demick
  Irina Demick
  
  Irina Demick , sometimes credited as Irina Demich was a France actress with a brief career in USA films.Born Irina Dziemiach, apparently of Russian ancestry, in Pommeuse, Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, she went to Paris and became a model....
  , French actress (d. 2004)
• December 25 - Ismail Merchant
  Ismail Merchant
  
  Ismail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included film director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala....
   Indian film producer

Deaths

• January 9 – 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....
  , American actor
• June 17 - Henry B. Walthall
  Henry B. Walthall
  
  Henry B. Walthall was an United States film actor....
  , actor
• October 17 - Suzanne Bianchetti
  Suzanne Bianchetti
  
  Suzanne Bianchetti , was a pioneer film actor.Suzanne Bianchetti appeared in her first film in the early 1900s and quickly became one of France's most loved and respected actresses....
  , French actress
• November 26 - Max Schreck
  Max Schreck
  
  Maximilian "Max" Schreck was a Germany actor. He is most often remembered today for his lead role in the film Nosferatu....
  , German actor