1941 in film

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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....
  : How Green Was My Valley
  How Green Was My Valley (film)
  
  How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by John Ford. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, written by Philip Dunne, and based on the Richard Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley....
  - 20th Century-Fox
• 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....
  : 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....
   - Sergeant York
  Sergeant York
  
  Sergeant York is a 1941 in film biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....
  
• 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....
  : Joan Fontaine
  Joan Fontaine
  
  Joan Fontaine is an Academy Awards-winning United Kingdom actress in American films. She became an American citizen in April 1943. She is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, also an Academy Award winner....
   - Suspicion
  Suspicion (film)
  
  Suspicion is a romance film psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple....
  

Films released in 1941

• Adam Had Four Sons
  Adam Had Four Sons
  
  Adam Had Four Sons is a 1941 drama and romance film, starring Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, and Susan Hayward.Warner Baxter portrays the wealthy, easy-going patriarch of a family that falls on hard times after the death of his wife and a stock market crash that wipes out his wealth....
  
• Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
  Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
  
  Andy Hardy's Private Secretary is a 1941 in film American family film comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Kathryn Grayson, Ann Rutherford and Fay Holden....
  , starring Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
  , Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  , Cecilia Parker
  Cecilia Parker
  
  Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
  , and Fay Holden
  Fay Holden
  
  Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  
• Ball of Fire
  Ball of Fire
  
  Ball of Fire is a 1941 in film comedy film about a group of professors laboring for years to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge....
  
• Blood and Sand
  Blood and Sand (1941 film)
  
  Blood and Sand is a Technicolor produced by 20th Century Fox, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, and Alla Nazimova....
  
• Blossoms in the Dust
  Blossoms in the Dust
  
  Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 film which tells the story of Edna Gladney who takes it upon herself to help orphaned children to find homes, despite the opposition of the "good" citizens who think that illegitimate children are beneath their interest....
  , starring Greer Garson
  Greer Garson
  
  'Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson', Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom-born actor who was very popular during the years of World War II. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress award for Mrs....
   and Walter Pidgeon
  Walter Pidgeon
  
  Walter Davis Pidgeon was an American actor of Canada birth, who lived most of his life in the United States, and eventually became a U.S. citizen....
  
• Broadway Limited, starring Victor McLaglen
  Victor McLaglen
  
  Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an Academy Award winning England actor, Boxing and World War I veteran....
  , Marjorie Woodworth, Dennis O'Keefe
  Dennis O'Keefe
  
  Dennis O'Keefe was an American actor.Born Edward Flanagan , he was the son of Ireland vaudeville working in the United States. As a small child he joined his parents' act and later wrote skits for the stage....
  , and Patsy Kelly
  Patsy Kelly
  
  Patsy Kelly was a Tony Award-winning United States stage and film comedic actress....
  
• Bowery Blitzkrieg
  Bowery Blitzkrieg
  
  Bowery Blitzkrieg is a 1941 film and the sixth installment of the East Side Kids series....
  
• Buck Privates
  Buck Privates
  
  Buck Privates is the 1941 in film comedy film/World War II film that turned Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into bonafide movie stars. It was the first service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940....
  , starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• Caught in the Draft
  Caught in the Draft
  
  Caught in the Draft is a 1941 comedy film/war film, directed by David Butler ....
  
• The Chocolate Soldier
• Citizen Kane
  Citizen Kane
  
  Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
  , directed by and starring Orson Welles
  Orson Welles
  
  George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
  
• The Corsican Brothers
  The Corsican Brothers (1941 film)
  
  The Corsican Brothers is a 1941 in film Swashbuckler films starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in a dual role as the title Conjoined twins, separated at birth and raised in completely different circumstances....
  
• The Devil and Daniel Webster
  The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941 film)
  
  All That Money Can Buy is a 1941 in film fantasy film, adapted from Stephen Vincent Ben?t's The Devil and Daniel Webster by Ben?t and Dan Totheroh....
   (often billed as All That Money Can Buy)
• The Devil and Miss Jones
  The Devil and Miss Jones
  
  The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 in film comedy film starring Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn. Directed by Sam Wood and scripted by Norman Krasna, the film was the product of an independent collaboration between Krasna and producer Frank Ross....
  
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film)
  
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a horror film starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, and Lana Turner, is a remake of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the same title....
  , starring 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....
  , 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 Lana Turner
  Lana Turner
  
  Lana Turner was an Academy Awards-nominated American film and occasionally television actress. On-screen, she was well-known for the glamour and sensuality she brought to almost all her movie roles....
  
• Dumbo
  Dumbo
  
  Dumbo is a 1941 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth film in the Disney animated features canon, Dumbo is based upon a child's book of the same name by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Perl....
  
• Flying Wild
  Flying Wild
  
  Flying Wild is a 1941 film and the fifth installment of the East Side Kids series....
  
• Forty-Ninth Parallel
  Forty-Ninth Parallel
  
  49th Parallel is the third film made by the Cinema of the United Kingdom writer-director team of Powell and Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders....
  
• The Gang's All Here
  The Gang's All Here (1941 film)
  
  The Gang's All Here is an American black and white feature film starring Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland in a story about a truck drivers company targeted by saboteurs....
   starring Frankie Darro
  Frankie Darro
  
  Frankie Darro was an United States voice-over artist, character actor and, initially, a well-known child actor....
   and Mantan Moreland
  Mantan Moreland
  
  Mantan Moreland was an African-American comic and actor most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Some of his roles are now considered to be controversial, as he often played a superstitious, easily frightened manservant, ready to flee at the first sign of danger, somewhat similar to roles played by Stepin Fetchit....
  
• The Great Lie
  The Great Lie
  
  The Great Lie is a 1941 in film film with Mary Astor, Bette Davis and George Brent. It was directed by Edmund Goulding.Mary Astor won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her part in this film....
  
• Hatter's Castle
  Hatter's Castle (film)
  
  Hatter's Castle is a 1941 in film United Kingdom film adaptation of the 1931 novel by A. J. Cronin, which dramatizes the ruin that befalls a Scottish hatter set on recapturing his imagined lost nobility....
  
• Hellzapoppin'
  Hellzapoppin' (film)
  
  Hellzapoppin' is a 1941 in film Universal Pictures adapatation of the musical of the Hellzapoppin' directed by H.C. Potter. In the film, Ole and Chic are working for Miracle Pictures ....
  
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  
  Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a comedy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth....
  
• High Sierra
• Hit the Road
• Hold Back the Dawn
  Hold Back the Dawn
  
  Hold Back the Dawn is a 1941 romantic film in which a Romanian gigolo marries an United Statesn woman in Mexico in order to gain entry to the United States, but winds up falling in love with her....
  
• Hold That Ghost
  Hold That Ghost
  
  Hold That Ghost is a 1941 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.On August 1, 1941, Abbott and Costello performed a live version of the film for radio audiences on Louella Parsons' Hollywood Premiere....
  , starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• How Green Was My Valley
  How Green Was My Valley (film)
  
  How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by John Ford. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, written by Philip Dunne, and based on the Richard Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley....
  
• In the Navy
  In The Navy (film)
  
  In The Navy is a 1941 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello....
  , starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• Keep 'Em Flying
  Keep 'Em Flying
  
  Keep 'Em Flying is a 1941 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello....
  , starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• Kipps
  Kipps (1941 film)
  
  Kipps, also known as The Remarkable Mr. Kipps, is a 1941 in film comedy film adaptation of H. G. Wells' Kipps. Michael Redgrave stars as a draper's assistant who inherits a large fortune....
  
• Lady Be Good
  Lady Be Good (1941 film)
  
  Lady Be Good is the title of an MGM musical film which was released in 1941.The film starred dancer Eleanor Powell along with Ann Sothern, Robert Young , Lionel Barrymore, and Red Skelton....
  
• The Lady Eve
  The Lady Eve
  
  The Lady Eve is a screwball comedy film about a mismatched couple who meet on a Ocean liner, written by Preston Sturges based on a story by Monckton Hoffe, and directed by Sturges, his third directorial effort, after The Great McGinty and Christmas in July....
  
• Life Begins for Andy Hardy starring Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
  , Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  , Cecilia Parker
  Cecilia Parker
  
  Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
  , and Fay Holden
  Fay Holden
  
  Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  
• The Little Foxes
  The Little Foxes (film)
  
  The Little Foxes is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her The Little Foxes....
  
• Louisiana Purchase
  Louisiana Purchase (film)
  
  Louisiana Purchase is a 1941 in film film adaptation of the musical theater play, Louisiana Purchase . A Paramount Pictures production, the film was directed by Irving Cummings with Robert Emmett Dolan serving as musical director as he had done for the play....
  
• Major Barbara
  Major Barbara (1941 film)
  
  Major Barbara is a 1941 in film United Kingdom film starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison. The film was Film producer and film director by Gabriel Pascal and edited by David Lean....
  
• The Maltese Falcon
  The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
  
  The Maltese Falcon is an Cinema of the United States 1941 in film Warner Bros. film based on the The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Written and directed by John Huston, the movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale client, Sydney Greenstreet in his film debut, and Peter Lorre....
  , starring 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....
  
• Man Hunt
  Man Hunt (1941 film)
  
  Man Hunt is a 1941 in film USA thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Bennett.It is based on the 1939 novel Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household and is set prior to the Second World War....
  
• Man Made Monster
  Man Made Monster
  
  Man-Made Monster is a science fiction horror film released by Universal Pictures. The film stars Lon Chaney Jr. in his horror debut. Chaney reprised this role in the remake The Indestructible Man ....
  , starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Lionel Atwill
  Lionel Atwill
  
  Lionel Atwill was an England stage and film actor born in Croydon, London, England.He began his stage career in 1905 in England, and had become a star in Broadway theatre by 1918, but was most famous for his horror films roles in the 1930s....
  
• Mob Town
• Mr. Bug Goes to Town
• One Foot in Heaven
  One Foot in Heaven
  
  One Foot in Heaven is a 1941 biographical film which follows the life of a minister and his family as they move from parish to parish. It stars Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart and Elisabeth Fraser....
  
• Penny Serenade
  Penny Serenade
  
  Penny Serenade is a film melodrama starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, and Edgar Buchanan. It was directed by George Stevens and written by Martha Cheavens and Morrie Ryskind....
  
• Pride of the Bowery
  Pride of the Bowery
  
  Pride of the Bowery is a black and white 1941 in film and the fourth installment in the East Side Kids series. It was directed by Joseph H....
  
• Princess Iron Fan
  Princess Iron Fan (1941 film)
  
  Princess Iron Fan , is the first Chinese animation feature film. It was directed in Shanghai under difficult conditions in the thick of World War II by Wan Guchan and Wan Laiming and was released on January 1, 1941....
  
• Rage in Heaven
  Rage in Heaven
  
  Rage in Heaven is a 1941 psychological thriller about the destructive power of jealousy. It was directed by W.S. Van Dyke and based on the novel by James Hilton....
  
• Red River Valley, directed by Joseph Kane
  Joseph Kane
  
  Jasper Joseph Inman Kane was a prolific United States film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter. He is best known for his extensive directorship and focus on western films....
  
• The Reluctant Dragon
  The Reluctant Dragon (film)
  
  The Reluctant Dragon is an animated film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Alfred Werker, and released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 20, 1941....
  
• Sergeant York
  Sergeant York
  
  Sergeant York is a 1941 in film biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....
  
• The Shanghai Gesture
  The Shanghai Gesture
  
  The Shanghai Gesture is a United Artists film noir film starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson.It was adapted for the screen by Josef von Sternberg, based on the stage play by John Colton, produced by Arnold Pressburger for United Artists, and directed by von Sternberg....
  
• Shining Victory
  Shining Victory
  
  Shining Victory is a 1941 in film film based on the play, Jupiter Laughs, by A. J. Cronin. It stars James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, and Barbara O'Neil, and it was the first film directed by Irving Rapper....
  , starring James Stephenson
  James Stephenson
  
  James Stephenson was an actor.British stage actor James Stephenson made his film debut in 1937 at the age of 48 with parts in four films. Warner Brothers signed him the following year, and he began playing urbane villains and disgraced gentlemen....
   and Geraldine Fitzgerald
  Geraldine Fitzgerald
  
  Geraldine Fitzgerald was an Academy Award-nominated Ireland-American actor and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame....
  
• Skylark
  Skylark (film)
  
  Skylark is a 1941 in film film directed by Mark Sandrich, and starring Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland and Brian Aherne.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound, Recording ....
  
• Spooks Run Wild
  Spooks Run Wild
  
  Spooks Run Wild is a 1941 in film and the seventh film in the East Side Kids series, starring Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Bobby Jordan....
  
• Sullivan's Travels
  Sullivan's Travels
  
  Sullivan's Travels is a United States comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. It is a satire about a movie director, played by Joel McCrea, who longs to make a socially relevant drama, but eventually learns that comedies are a more valuable contribution to society....
  
• Sun Valley Serenade
  Sun Valley Serenade
  
  Sun Valley Serenade is a musical film starring Sonja Henie, Lynn Bari, John Payne , and Milton Berle. It features The Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge....
  
• Suspicion
  Suspicion (film)
  
  Suspicion is a romance film psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple....
  
• Tank Patrol
• Target for Tonight
  Target for Tonight
  
  Target for Tonight is a 1941 in film documentary film billed as being filmed by and acted by the Royal Air Force, all while under fire. It was directed by Harry Watt....
  
• Tarzan's Secret Treasure
  Tarzan's Secret Treasure
  
  Tarzan's Secret Treasure is a Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is the fifth in the MGM Tarzan series to star Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan....
  
• They Died with Their Boots On
  They Died with Their Boots On
  
  They Died with Their Boots On is a 1941 in film Western film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Despite being rife with historical inaccuracies, the film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the last of eight Flynn-de Havilland collaborations....
  
• Tobacco Road
  Tobacco Road (film)
  
  Tobacco Road is a 1941 in film Comedy film directed by John Ford starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy and Dana Andrews....
  
• War Front
• Western Union
  Western Union (film)
  
  Western Union is a 1941 Western feature film directed by Fritz Lang. Filmed in Technicolor on location in Arizona and Utah, Western Union tells the story of a reformed outlaw named Vance Shaw who tries to make good by joining the team wiring the Great Plains for telegraph service in 1861....
  
• The Wolf Man
• You Belong to Me
  You Belong to Me (1941 film)
  
  You Belong to Me , released in the United Kingdom as Good Morning, Doctor, is a romantic comedy film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda....
  

Serials

• The Adventures of Captain Marvel, starring Tom Tyler
  Tom Tyler
  
  Tom Tyler was an United States actor in silent and sound motion pictures.He was born Vincent Markowski, into a Polish-American family.Tyler had a long career in film, stretching from the 1920s to the 1950s, and appeared in many films, most of them westerns such as John Ford's Stagecoach and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
   and John English
  John English (director)
  
  John English was a Film Director. He is most famous for the Movie Serials he co-directed with William Witney for Republic Pictures such as Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc
  Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc
  
  Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. is a Republic Pictures Movie serial based on the Dick Tracy comic strip. It was directed by the legendary serial team of William Witney and John W English with Ralph Byrd reprising his role from the earlier serials....
  , starring Ralph Byrd
  Ralph Byrd
  
  Ralph Byrd was an United States actor. He was most famous for playing the comic strip character Dick Tracy on screen, in Serial s, Film and Television program....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
   and John English
  John English (director)
  
  John English was a Film Director. He is most famous for the Movie Serials he co-directed with William Witney for Republic Pictures such as Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• The Green Hornet
  The Green Hornet (serial)
  
  The Green Hornet is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the The Green Hornet#Radio series radio series by George W. Trendle....
  , starring Gordon Jones
• Holt of the Secret Service
  Holt of the Secret Service
  
  Holt of the Secret Service was the 16th Serial released by Columbia Pictures....
  , directed by James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  
  James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  
• The Iron Claw
  The Iron Claw (1941 serial)
  
  The Iron Claw was the 15th Serial released by Columbia Pictures ....
  , directed by James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  
  James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  
• Jungle Girl
  Jungle Girl (serial)
  
  Jungle Girl is a 15-Chapter Republic Pictures Serial starring Frances Gifford. It was directed by William Witney and John English based on the novel Jungle Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs....
  , starring Frances Gifford
  Frances Gifford
  
  Mary Frances Gifford was an United States actress who played leads and supporting roles in many 1930s and '40s movies....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
   and John English
  John English (director)
  
  John English was a Film Director. He is most famous for the Movie Serials he co-directed with William Witney for Republic Pictures such as Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• King of the Texas Rangers
  King of the Texas Rangers
  
  King of the Texas Rangers is a Republic Pictures Serial .King of the Texas Rangers is slightly anachronistic in that it features a mix of period western and modern elements, which was not unknown in the B-Western films also produced by Republic....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
   and John English
  John English (director)
  
  John English was a Film Director. He is most famous for the Movie Serials he co-directed with William Witney for Republic Pictures such as Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• Riders of Death Valley
  Riders of Death Valley
  
  Riders of Death Valley is a Universal Pictures Serial . It was a high budget serial with an all-star cast led by Dick Foran and Buck Jones....
  , directed by Ray Taylor
  Ray Taylor (director)
  
  Ray Taylor was a prolific United States film director. He directed 159 films between 1926 in film and 1949 in film. His List of directorial debuts was the 1926 film serial Fighting with Buffalo Bill....
   and Ford Beebe
  Ford Beebe
  
  Ford Beebe was a screenwriter and Film director of several movies. He is sometimes credited with an I. or L. as his middle initial....
  
• Sea Raiders
  Sea Raiders
  
  Sea Raiders is a Universal Pictures Serial film starring the Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys. This was the child stars' second of three serials, between Junior G-Men and Junior G-Men of the Air ....
  , directed by Ray Taylor
  Ray Taylor (director)
  
  Ray Taylor was a prolific United States film director. He directed 159 films between 1926 in film and 1949 in film. His List of directorial debuts was the 1926 film serial Fighting with Buffalo Bill....
   and Ford Beebe
  Ford Beebe
  
  Ford Beebe was a screenwriter and Film director of several movies. He is sometimes credited with an I. or L. as his middle initial....
  
• Sky Raiders
  Sky Raiders
  
  Sky Raiders is a Universal Pictures Serial film....
  , directed by Ray Taylor
  Ray Taylor (director)
  
  Ray Taylor was a prolific United States film director. He directed 159 films between 1926 in film and 1949 in film. His List of directorial debuts was the 1926 film serial Fighting with Buffalo Bill....
   and Ford Beebe
  Ford Beebe
  
  Ford Beebe was a screenwriter and Film director of several movies. He is sometimes credited with an I. or L. as his middle initial....
  
• The Spider Returns
  The Spider Returns
  
  The Spider Returns is a Columbia Pictures Serial based on the pulp magazine character The Spider. It was the fourteenth of the 57 serials released by Columbia and a sequel to its 1938 in film serial The Spider's Web....
  , starring 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....
  , directed by James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  
  James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  
• White Eagle
  White Eagle (1941 serial)
  
  White Eagle was the eighth serial released by Columbia Pictures....
  , directed by James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  
  James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  

Short film series

• Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
   (1917-1941)
• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  
  Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team of thin, British-born Stan Laurel and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy . They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe....
   (1921-1943)
• Our Gang
  Our Gang
  
  Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together....
   (1922
  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
  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...
  -1959
  1959 in film
  
  The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Animated short film series

• 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....
  )
• 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)
• 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....
  )
• 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....
  )
• Donald Duck
  Donald Duck
  
  Donald Duck is a cartoon fictional character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphism duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet....
   (1937
  1937 in film
  
  The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
  -1956
  1956 in film
  
  The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938
  1938 in film
  
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
  -1942
  1942 in film
  
  The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the Films considered the greatest ever, Casablanca .....
  )
• Goofy
  Goofy
  
  Goofy is an animated cartoon character from the Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse universe. He is an anthropomorphic dog and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends....
   (1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  -1955
  1955 in film
  
  The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Andy Panda
  Andy Panda
  
  Andy Panda is a cartoon character who starred in List of Andy Panda theatrical cartoons of animated cartoon short subjects produced by Walter Lantz....
   (1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  -1949
  1949 in film
  
  The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Tom and Jerry (MGM)
  Tom and Jerry (MGM)
  
  Tom and Jerry is a series of animated theatrical short subject created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat and a mouse whose chases and battles often involved comic violence....
   (1940
  1940 in film
  
  The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
  -1958
  1958 in film
  
  The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Woody Woodpecker
  Woody Woodpecker
  
  Woody Woodpecker is an animation fictional character, an anthropomorphic woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Studio animation studio and distributed by Universal Studios....
   (1941-1949
  1949 in film
  
  The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Swing Symphonies (1941-1945
  1945 in film
  
  The year 1945 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• The Fox and the Crow
  The Fox and the Crow
  
  The Fox and the Crow are a pair of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Frank Tashlin for the Screen Gems studio. The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures, and were Scr...
   (1941-1950
  1950 in film
  
  The year 1950 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Superman
  Superman
  
  Superman is a Character , a comic book superhero widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, and sold to DC Comics in 1938, the character first appeared in Action Comics Action Comics 1 and subseque...
   (1941-1943
  1943 in film
  
  The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
  )

Births

• January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker
• January 8 - Graham Chapman
  Graham Chapman
  
  Graham Arthur Chapman was a UK comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the title character in Monty Python's Life of Brian....
  , comedian
• January 14 - Faye Dunaway
  Faye Dunaway
  
  Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
  , actress
• April 20 - Ryan O'Neal
  Ryan O'Neal
  
  Ryan O'Neal is an Academy Awards- and Golden Globe Awards-nominated United States actor....
  , actor
• June 25 - Denys Arcand
  Denys Arcand
  
  Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is an Academy Awards-winning Canadian film director, screenwriter and Film producer....
  , screenwriter, film director
• June 27 - Krzysztof Kieslowski
  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  
  Krzysztof Kieslowski , was an influential Academy Awards-nominated Poland film film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles The Decalogue and Three Colors....
  , film director
• October 4 - Anne Rice
  Anne Rice
  
  Anne Rice is a best-selling United States author of gothic fiction and religious-themed books. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002....
  , horror/fantasy writer
• November 5 - Art Garfunkel
  Art Garfunkel
  
  Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an United States singer, poet and actor, best known as half of the Grammy Award winning folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  , singer, occasional actor
• December 9 - Beau Bridges
  Beau Bridges
  
  Lloyd Vernet ?Beau? Bridges III is a U.S. three-time Emmy Award-winning actor....
  , actor

Deaths

• January 4 - Henri Bergson
  Henri Bergson
  
  Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosophy, influential in the first half of the 20th century....
  , writer
• January 10 - Joe Penner
  Joe Penner
  
  Joe Penner , was a Hungarian-born United States 1930s-era vaudeville, radio and film comedian. He was born Pint?r J?zsef in Zrenjanin, Hungary ....
  , comedian, actor
• May 12 - Ruth Stonehouse
  Ruth Stonehouse
  
  Ruth Stonehouse was a petite star of silent films from Denver, Colorado.At one time she was a reporter for a Chicago, Illinois newspaper. Stonehouse contributed short stories to magazines....
  , actress, film director