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• Dr. No
  Dr. No (film)
  
  Dr. No is the first James Bond , and the first to star Sean Connery as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
   launches the James Bond
  James Bond
  
  James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
   film series, the second longest-running motion picture franchise of all time (next to Godzilla
  Godzilla
  
  is a kaiju from the Godzilla series of science fiction films. He was first seen in the 1954 in film film Godzilla and has appeared in 28 films to date, all of which were produced by Toho As one of the most iconic characters in film history, Godzilla has also appeared in numerous Godzilla , Godzilla video games, novels and Godzilla in popula...
  ), running more than 40 years.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

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....
: Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia (film)

Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 in film UK epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel , from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson ....
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Best Director

Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
: David Lean

David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
 - Lawrence of Arabia

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....
: Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck was an American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s....
 - To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....

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....
: Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft was an United States actress associated with the Method acting school of acting....
 - The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker is a Literature cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life ....

Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting 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....
: Ed Begley

Ed Begley

Edward James Begley was an United States award winning actor....
 - Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 in literature play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town with a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis, hoping she can help him to break into the movies....

Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting 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....
: Patty Duke

Patty Duke

Anna Marie "Patty" Duke is an Academy Awards-, three-time Emmy Award- and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning United States actress of Theatre and film....
 - The Miracle Worker

Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: Sundays and Cybele

Sundays and Cybele

Sundays and Cybele is a 1962 French film directed by Serge Bourguignon. Its original French title is Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray , referring to the Ville-d'Avray suburb of Paris....
(Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon

Serge Bourguignon

Serge Bourguignon is a French people film director and screenwriter born in 1928. His film Sundays and Cybele won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 35th Academy Awards....
, France

Drama:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Geraldine Page

Geraldine Page

Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
 - Sweet Bird of Youth

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
 (tie): That Touch of Mink

That Touch of Mink

That Touch of Mink is a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. The film co-stars Gig Young, John Astin, Audrey Meadows, and Dick Sargent....

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
 (tie): The Music Man

The Music Man (1962 film)

The Music Man is a 1962 film musical starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 The Music Man of the same name by Meredith Willson....

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italians actor.During his career, Mastroianni had won or been nominated multiple times for awards such as Volpi Cup, Best Actor Award , BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, David di Donatello for Best Actor, Nastro d'Argento, Sant Jordi Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion...
 - Divorce, Italian Style

Divorce, Italian Style

Divorce, Italian Style is a 1961 Italy comedy film directed by Pietro Germi, written by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti and Agenore Incrocci, and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Lando Buzzanca and Leopoldo Trieste....

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
 - Gypsy

Gypsy (1962 film)

Gypsy is a 1962 in film Musical film made by Warner Bros., about the life of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. It was produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy....

Other

Best Director

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Keeper of Promises

Keeper of Promises

O Pagador de Promessas is a 1962 in film Brazilian drama film directed by Anselmo Duarte. Its title translates literally as The Payer of Promises, but the film has been known by several other names in the Anglosphere, such as Keeper of Promises, The Given Word and The Promise....
(O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte

Anselmo Duarte

Anselmo Duarte is a Brazilian people actor, screenwriter and film director. His film O Pagador de Promessas won the Golden Palm and the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....
, Brazil

Family Diary

Family Diary

Family Diary is a 1962 Italian film directed by Valerio Zurlini and based on the novel by Vasco Pratolini. It tells the story of two brothers who are brought up apart from each other at their mother's death, then brought together by difficult family circumstances....
(Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini

Valerio Zurlini

Valerio Zurlini was an Italy film director, stage director and screenwriter.During his law studies in Rome Zurlini started working in the theatre....
, France / Italy

My Name is Ivan

My Name is Ivan

Ivan's Childhood , sometimes released as My Name Is Ivan in the US, is a 1962 Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is based on the 1957 short story Ivan by Vladimir Bogomolov, with the screenplay written by Mikhail Papava and an uncredited Andrei Tarkovsky....
(Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russians filmmaker, writer and opera director.Tarkovksy is listed among the 100 most critically acclaimed film directors; director Ingmar Bergman was quoted as saying "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life...
, USSR

• The 300 Spartans
  The 300 Spartans
  
  The 300 Spartans is a 1962 in film film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese....
  
• A Symposium on Popular Songs
  A Symposium On Popular Songs
  
  A Symposium on Popular Songs is a special cartoon featurette made by the Walt Disney Company in 1962 in film. It features songs written by the Sherman Brothers with music arrangements by Tutti Camarata....
  
• Advise and Consent
  Advise and Consent (film)
  
  Advise and Consent is a United States film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Advise and Consent by Allen Drury, published in 1959 in literature....
  
• The Amphibian Man
• Billy Budd
  Billy Budd (film)
  
  Billy Budd is a 1962 in film film Film producer, film director, and co-written by Peter Ustinov. Adapted from the stage play version of Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd, it starred Terence Stamp as Billy Budd, Robert Ryan as John Claggart, and Peter Ustinov as Captain Vere....
  
• Billy Rose's Jumbo
  Billy Rose's Jumbo (film)
  
  Billy Rose's Jumbo is a musical film, produced by MGM and starring Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd. It featured Busby Berkeley's choreography....
  
• Birdman of Alcatraz
  Birdman of Alcatraz (film)
  
  Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictionalized version of the life of Robert Stroud, a federal prison inmate known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" because of his life with birds....
  
• Bon Voyage!
  Bon Voyage! (1962 film)
  
  Bon Voyage! is a family-oriented 1962 film from The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment. Following their practice of the time, it was also issued as a comic book....
  
• Boys' Night Out
  Boys' Night Out (film)
  
  Boys' Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962 in film, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon ....
  
• Cape Fear
  Cape Fear (1962 film)
  
  Cape Fear is a 1961 in film film about an attorney whose family is stalked by a criminal whom he helped to send to jail. It stars Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum as Max Cady, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas, Paul Comi and Barrie Chase....
  
• Carry On Cruising
  Carry On Cruising
  
  Carry On Cruising is the sixth Carry On films and was released in 1962 in film. It was the first in the Carry On... series to be filmed in colour....
  
• David and Lisa
  David and Lisa
  
  David and Lisa is a low-budget film film director by Frank Perry, often cited as one of his best works. Based on the novel by Theodore Isaac Rubin, the screenplay, written by Frank Perry's wife Eleanor Perry, tells the story of a bright young man suffering from a severe case of obsessive-compulsive disorder ....
  
• The Day of the Triffids
  The Day of the Triffids (1962 film)
  
  The Day of the Triffids is a 1962 in film British film adaptation of the science fiction novel The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.It was directed by Steve Sekely, and Howard Keel played the central character, Bill Masen....
  
• Days of Wine and Roses
  Days of Wine and Roses (film)
  
  Days of Wine and Roses is a drama film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own critically acclaimed 1958 in television teleplay for Playhouse 90 of the same name ....
  
• Divorce, Italian Style
  Divorce, Italian Style
  
  Divorce, Italian Style is a 1961 Italy comedy film directed by Pietro Germi, written by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti and Agenore Incrocci, and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Lando Buzzanca and Leopoldo Trieste....
  (Divorzio all'italiana)
• Le Doulos
  Le Doulos
  
  Le Doulos is a 1962 French crime film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It was released theatrically as The Finger Man in the English-speaking world, but all video and DVD releases have used the French title....
  (The Finger Man), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  
  Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the French New Wave of the 1960s....
  
• Dr. No
  Dr. No (film)
  
  Dr. No is the first James Bond , and the first to star Sean Connery as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
  (U.K.)
• L'Eclisse
  L'eclisse
  
  L'eclisse is a 1962 in film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is considered the last of a trilogy that also comprises L'avventura and La notte....
  
• Family Diary
  Family Diary
  
  Family Diary is a 1962 Italian film directed by Valerio Zurlini and based on the novel by Vasco Pratolini. It tells the story of two brothers who are brought up apart from each other at their mother's death, then brought together by difficult family circumstances....
  (Cronaca familiare)
• Freud
  Freud the Secret Passion
  
  Freud the Secret Passion, also known as Freud, is a United States biographical film drama based on the life Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, directed by John Huston....
  
• Follow That Dream
  Follow that Dream
  
  Follow That Dream is a 1962 in film musical film starring Elvis Presley. The movie was based on the novel Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard P....
  
• Gigot
• Girls! Girls! Girls!
  Girls! Girls! Girls!
  
  Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 in film Musical film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat....
  
• The Given Word
  Keeper of Promises
  
  O Pagador de Promessas is a 1962 in film Brazilian drama film directed by Anselmo Duarte. Its title translates literally as The Payer of Promises, but the film has been known by several other names in the Anglosphere, such as Keeper of Promises, The Given Word and The Promise....
   (O Pagador de Promessas)
• Gypsy
  Gypsy (1962 film)
  
  Gypsy is a 1962 in film Musical film made by Warner Bros., about the life of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. It was produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy....
  
• Hatari!
  Hatari!
  
  Hatari! is a 1962 United States film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne. The title means "danger" in Swahili, which was mentioned in the film as well....
  , 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....
  
• How the West Was Won
  How the West Was Won (film)
  
  How the West Was Won is a 1962 in film Epic Western Western which follows four generations of a family as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean....
  , starring 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....
  , Henry Fonda
  Henry Fonda
  
  Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
  , Eli Wallach
  Eli Wallach
  
  Eli Herschel Wallach is an United States film, TV and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination....
  , Agnes Moorehead
  Agnes Moorehead
  
  Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
  , 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....
  , Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds
  
  Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor, singer, and dancer....
  , Gregory Peck
  Gregory Peck
  
  Gregory Peck was an American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s....
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• Hussar of the Dead
  Hussar of the Dead
  
  El H?sar de la Muerte is a Chilean silent film movie of 1925. Directed and protagonized by Pedro Sienna, is the unique movie who can be see entire actually....
   (Restored)
• In Search of the Castaways
  In Search of the Castaways (film)
  
  In Search of the Castaways is a Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain....
  
• It's Only Money
  It's Only Money
  
  It's Only Money was filmed from October 9-December 17, 1961. It was released on November 21, 1962 by Paramount Pictures....
  , starring Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  
• Keeper of Promises
  Keeper of Promises
  
  O Pagador de Promessas is a 1962 in film Brazilian drama film directed by Anselmo Duarte. Its title translates literally as The Payer of Promises, but the film has been known by several other names in the Anglosphere, such as Keeper of Promises, The Given Word and The Promise....
  
• Kid Galahad
  Kid Galahad
  
  Kid Galahad is a 1962 in film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a boxing.The movie was filmed on location in Idyllwild, California and is noted for having a strong supporting cast....
  
• A Kind of Loving
  A Kind of Loving (film)
  
  A Kind of Loving is a 1962 United Kingdom film directed by John Schlesinger, based on the 1960 A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow. It stars Alan Bates and June Ritchie as two lovers in 1960s Lancashire....
  
• King Kong vs. Godzilla
  King Kong vs. Godzilla
  
  is a 1962 tokusatsu kaiju film directed by Ishiro Honda with visual effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It was the third installment in the Japanese series of monster films featuring the mutant dinosaur Godzilla....
  
• Knife in the Water
  Knife in the Water (film)
  
  Knife in the Water is a 1962 film directed by Roman Polanski. It features only three characters and deals with rivalry and sexual tension....
  
• Last Year at Marienbad
  Last Year at Marienbad
  
  L'ann?e derni?re ? Marienbad is a 1961 France film directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pito?ff. The screenplay is by Alain Robbe-Grillet....
  (U.S. release)
• Lawrence of Arabia
  Lawrence of Arabia (film)
  
  Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 in film UK epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel , from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson ....
  
• Lisa
• Lolita
  Lolita (1962 film)
  
  Lolita is an influential 1962 in film drama film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze and Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze with Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty....
  
• Lonely are the Brave
  Lonely are the Brave
  
  Lonely are the Brave is a film adaptation of the Edward Abbey novel The Brave Cowboy. It stars Kirk Douglas as modern cowboy Jack Burns, Gena Rowlands, and Walter Matthau as a sheriff who empathizes with Burns but must do his job and chase him down....
  
• Long Day's Journey into Night
  Long Day's Journey into Night (1962 film)
  
  Long Day's Journey Into Night is a 1962 film adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Ely Landau with Joseph E....
  
• The Longest Day
  The Longest Day (film)
  
  The Longest Day is a 3-hour-long Academy Award-winning war film with a very large cast, based on the 1959 in literature history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the Battle of Normandy on 6 June 1944, during World War II....
  
• Lycanthropus
  Lycanthropus
  
  Lycanthropus is a 1962 in film horror film film directed by Paolo Heusch....
  
• The Manchurian Candidate
  The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
  
  The Manchurian Candidate is a Cold War political Thriller adapted by George Axelrod from the The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon. It was directed by John Frankenheimer and stars Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury and features Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish and John McGiver....
  
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a classic Western movie made in 1962 in film, directed by John Ford and starring James Stewart and John Wayne....
  
• Merrill's Marauders
  Merrill's Marauders (film)
  
  Merrill's Marauders is a 1962 in film Cinemascope war film directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller based on the exploits of the jungle warfare unit of the same name in the Burma Campaign....
  
• The Miracle Worker
  The Miracle Worker
  
  The Miracle Worker is a Literature cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life ....
  
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
• The Music Man
  The Music Man (1962 film)
  
  The Music Man is a 1962 film musical starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 The Music Man of the same name by Meredith Willson....
  
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
  
  Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 in film film starring Marlon Brando, based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall....
  
• My Geisha
  My Geisha
  
  My Geisha is an United States film directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Yves Montand, Shirley MacLaine, and Edward G. Robinson, and released by Paramount Pictures....
  
• My Name is Ivan
  My Name is Ivan
  
  Ivan's Childhood , sometimes released as My Name Is Ivan in the US, is a 1962 Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is based on the 1957 short story Ivan by Vladimir Bogomolov, with the screenplay written by Mikhail Papava and an uncredited Andrei Tarkovsky....
  
• Panic in Year Zero!
  Panic in Year Zero!
  
  Panic in Year Zero!, sometimes known as End of the World, is a 1962 in film science fiction film directed by and starring Ray Milland....
  
• Phaedra
  Phaedra (film)
  
  Phaedra was a 1962 in film motion picture directed by Jules Dassin as a vehicle for his wife Melina Mercouri, after her world-wide hit Never on Sunday....
  
• The Phantom of the Opera
  The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film)
  
  The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 in film United Kingdom film based on the novel by Gaston Leroux. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions....
  
• Period of Adjustment
  Period of Adjustment (film)
  
  Period of Adjustment is a 1962 in film drama film directed by George Roy Hill and based on the play of the Period of Adjustment. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
  
• The Premature Burial
  The Premature Burial
  
  "The Premature Burial" is a Horror fiction short story on the theme of being premature burial, written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Fear of being buried alive was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public interest....
   (film mentioned in article)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight
  Requiem for a Heavyweight
  
  Requiem for a Heavyweight was originally a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956....
   (film mentioned in article)
• Ride the High Country
  Ride the High Country
  
  Ride the High Country is a noted 1962 in film western film. It stars Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr and Edgar Buchanan....
  
• State Fair
  State Fair (1962 film)
  
  State Fair is a 1962 in film directed by Jos? Ferrer. The film is a remake of the State Fair .It was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film....
  
• Sundays and Cybele
  Sundays and Cybele
  
  Sundays and Cybele is a 1962 French film directed by Serge Bourguignon. Its original French title is Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray , referring to the Ville-d'Avray suburb of Paris....
   (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray)
• Sweet Bird of Youth
  Sweet Bird of Youth
  
  Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 in literature play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town with a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis, hoping she can help him to break into the movies....
   (film mentioned in article)
• The Tale of Zatoichi
• Tender Is the Night
  Tender is the Night (1962 film)
  
  Tender Is the Night is a 1962 in film film directed by Henry King , based on the Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The soundtrack featured a song, also called "Tender Is the Night", by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster , which was nominated for the 1962 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Song....
  
• Taras Bulba
  Taras Bulba (film)
  
  Taras Bulba is a 1962 in film based on Nikolai Gogol's short novel, Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner in the title role, and Tony Curtis as his son, Andrei, leaders of a Cossack clan on the Ukraine steppes....
  
• Tender Is the Night
  Tender is the Night (1962 film)
  
  Tender Is the Night is a 1962 in film film directed by Henry King , based on the Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The soundtrack featured a song, also called "Tender Is the Night", by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster , which was nominated for the 1962 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Song....
  
• That Touch of Mink
  That Touch of Mink
  
  That Touch of Mink is a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. The film co-stars Gig Young, John Astin, Audrey Meadows, and Dick Sargent....
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird
  To Kill a Mockingbird (film)
  
  To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....
  
• Tower of London
  Tower of London (1962 film)
  
  Tower of London is a 1962 in film historical drama and horror film, starring Vincent Price and Michael Pate. The film is a remake of the Tower of London of the same name, starring Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff....
  , starring Vincent Price
  Vincent Price
  
  Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an United States film actor, remembered for his distinctive voice, his 6-foot 4-inch stature and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films done in the latter part of his career....
  
• The Trial
  The Trial (1962 film)
  
  The Trial is a 1962 in film film directed by Orson Welles, who also wrote the screenplay based on the The Trial by Franz Kafka....
  
• Procès de Jeanne d'Arc
  Procès de Jeanne d'Arc
  
  The Trial of Joan of Arc is a 1962 historical film by the France film director Robert Bresson. Joan of Arc is played by Florence Delay.As usual in Bresson's mature films, The Trial of Joan of Arc stars non-professional performers and is filmed in an extremely spare, restrained style....
   (The Trial of Joan of Arc)
• Tudor
• Two for the Seesaw
• War of the Buttons
  War of the Buttons (1962 film)
  
  La Guerre des boutons or War of the Buttons is a 1962 in film Cinema of France film directed by Yves Robert, about two rival kid gangs whose playful combats escalate into violence....
  
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)
  
  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 in film United States drama film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich. The screenplay by Lukas Heller is based on What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell....
  
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
  The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
  
  The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a Cinerama film directed by Henry Levin. George P?l was the producer and was also in charge of the stop motion animation....
  
• Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
  Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
  
  Big and Little Wong Tin Bar is a Hong Kong films of 1962 movie filmed in Hong Kong. The film is notable for being a young Jackie Chan's first film appearance ....
  

Short Film Series

• 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....
  )
• Bugs Bunny
  Bugs Bunny
  
  Bugs Bunny is a fictional rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animation films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros....
   (1940
  1940 in film
  
  The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
  -1962)
• Yosemite Sam
  Yosemite Sam
  
  Yosemite Sam is an animation fictional character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation....
   (1945
  1945 in film
  
  The year 1945 in film involved some significant events....
  -1963
  1963 in film
  
  The year 1963 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Speedy Gonzales
  Speedy Gonzales
  
  Speedy Gonz?les, "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico", is an animation mouse from the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons....
   (1953
  1953 in film
  
  The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
  -1968
  1968 in film
  
  The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Births

• January 1 - Nancy Mette, actress
• January 17 - Jim Carrey
  Jim Carrey
  
  James Eugene Carrey , best known as Jim Carrey, is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian-American actor and stand-up comedian. He is probably best known for his manic and slapstick performances in comedy films such as Dumb and Dumber, The Mask , Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty....
  , actor, comedian
• February 5 - Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  
  Jennifer Jason Leigh is a Golden Globe Awards-nominated and two-time New York Film Critics Circle Awards-winning United States actress.Her work has drawn high critical praise....
  , actress
• March 21 - Matthew Broderick
  Matthew Broderick
  
  Matthew Broderick is an United States award-winning film and stage actor who is best known for his roles as the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Nick in Godzilla and David Lightman in WarGames....
  , actor
• May 12 - Emilio Estevez
  Emilio Estevez
  
  'Emilio Est?vez' is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack , appearing in The Breakfast Club and St....
  , actor
• June 13 - Ally Sheedy
  Ally Sheedy
  
  Alexandra Elizabeth "Ally" Sheedy is an United States Cinema of the United States and Theatre in the United States actor, as well as the author of two books....
  , actress
• July 3 - Tom Cruise
  Tom Cruise
  
  Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his Stage name Tom Cruise, is an United States actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006....
  , actor
• September 11 - Elizabeth Daily
  Elizabeth Daily
  
  Elizabeth Ann Guttman , better known by her stage names of Elizabeth Daily and E.G. Daily, is an United States voice acting, actor, singing, songwriter, and musician....
  , actress
• September 11 - Kristy McNichol
  Kristy McNichol
  
  Christina Ann "Kristy" McNichol is a American actress who has since retired from the industry. She is best known for her roles as Leticia 'Buddy' Lawrence on the TV drama Family and as Barbara Weston on the sitcom Empty Nest ....
  , actress
• September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson
  Melissa Sue Anderson
  
  Melissa Sue Anderson is an American Daytime Emmy- winning actor best known for playing Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie , which aired from 1974 until 1983....
  , actress
• October 1 - Esai Morales
  Esai Morales
  
  Esai Manuel Morales is an American actor perhaps best known for his role as Bob Morales in the 1987 biopic La Bamba . He also appeared in the Public Broadcasting System drama American Family and in the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd. Most recently, he played Major Edward Beck in the CBS drama Jericho and is spokesperson f...
  , actor
• October 13 - Kelly Preston
  Kelly Preston
  
  Kelly Preston is an United States actor and former model married to John Travolta since 1991....
  , actress
• November 11 - Demi Moore
  Demi Moore
  
  Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
  , US actress
• November 19 - Jodie Foster
  Jodie Foster
  
  Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster , is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-award winning and Emmy-nominated United States actor, Film director and film producer....
  , actress and director

Deaths

• January 13 - Ernie Kovacs
  Ernie Kovacs
  
  Ernie Kovacs was an United States comedian whose uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his early death in an automobile accident....
  , American comedian, actor
• April 10 - Michael Curtiz
  Michael Curtiz
  
  Michael Curtiz was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the United States, among the best-known being The Adventures of Robin Hood , Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas ....
  , 75, Hungarian-born director
• April 17 - Louise Fazenda
  Louise Fazenda
  
  Louise Fazenda was an United States film actor, appearing chiefly in silent film comedy films....
  , 66, American actress
• May 14 - Florence Auer
  Florence Auer
  
  Florence Auer was an United States theater and motion picture actress whose career spanned more than five decades....
  , 82, American actress
• June 19 - Frank Borzage
  Frank Borzage
  
  Frank Borzage was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism.Borzage's father, Luigi, was born in Roncone, Austria-Hungary in 1859....
  , 69, American director, actor
• June 24 - Lucile Watson
  Lucile Watson
  
  Lucile Watson was an Academy Awards-nominated Canada actress. Watson was born in Quebec City.Watson began her career on the stage debuting on Broadway in the play Hearts Aflame in 1902....
  , 83, Canadian actress
• July 2 - Valeska Suratt, 80, stage & silent screen actress
• August 5 - Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
  , 36, American actress
• August 23 - Hoot Gibson
  Hoot Gibson
  
  Hoot Gibson was a rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, film director and Film producer....
  , 70, American actor
• October 6 - Tod Browning
  Tod Browning
  
  Tod Browning was an United States film actor, film director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent film and sound film eras. Best-known as the director of Dracula , the cult classic Freaks , and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Sr., Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres....
  , 82, American director
• October 26 - Louise Beavers
  Louise Beavers
  
  File:Imitation of Life --Louise Beavers&Claudette Colbert.JPGLouise Beavers was an African American film actress. Beavers appeared in dozens of films from the 1920s to the 1930s, most often in the role of a maid, servant , or slavery....
  , 60, American actress
• December 15 - Charles Laughton
  Charles Laughton
  
  Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....
  , 63, British actor
• December 28 - Kathleen Clifford
  Kathleen Clifford
  
  Kathleen Clifford was an United States vaudeville and Broadway theatre stage and film actress of the early twentieth century....
  , 75, American actress