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The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.


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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Cleopatra
Cleopatra (1963 film)

Cleopatra is a 1963 in film film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Joseph L....
20th Century Fox $26,000,000
2.How the West Was Won Cinerama/MGM $20,933,000
3.It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 in film American film comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 of stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers....
United Artists $20,850,000
4. Tom Jones UA/Goldwyn $18,500,900
5. Irma La Douce
Irma la Douce

Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
United Artists $11,922,000
6. The Sword in the Stone
The Sword in the Stone (film)

The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 in film animated feature film produced by Walt Disney originally released to theaters on December 25, 1963....
Disney $10,475,000
7. Son of Flubber
Son of Flubber

Son of Flubber is the 1963 in film sequel to the Walt Disney children's movie comedy The Absent Minded Professor , also starring Fred MacMurray as a scientist who has perfected a high-bouncing substance that can levitate an automobile and cause athletes to bounce into the sky....
Disney $10,450,000
8. From Russia with Love
From Russia with Love

From Russia with Love, published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and is considered one of the best in the series; the From Russia with Love has been cited by several film critics as the best of the movie franchise....
United Artists $6,435,000
9. Charade
Charade

Charade is a film written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. It also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin....
Universal $6,363,000
10. Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie (film)

The stage musical Bye Bye Birdie was first adapted to film in 1963 in film. The screenplay was written by Michael Stewart and Irving Brecher, with music by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams....
Columbia $6,200,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1963.shtml

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Golden Globe Awards
21st Golden Globe Awards

The 21st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963 in film films, were held on March 11, 1964....
:


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....
: The Cardinal
The Cardinal

The Cardinal is a 1963 in film film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....
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....
: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field is a 1962 book by William Edmund Barrett which was made into a 1963 film and adapted for the musical stage with the title Look to the Lilies....
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....
: Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a two-time Academy Award-nominated French film actress and dancer. She was one of the most famous Hollywood Musical film stars in the 1950s....
 -
The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room

The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 in film UK drama film, film director by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young France woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London apartment building, befriending a young man in the building....


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....
: Tom Jones
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....
: Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi

Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Italian orders of merit was an Italy actor, likely the most popular of the 20th Century. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films....
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The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • June 12 - Cleopatra
    Cleopatra (1963 film)

    Cleopatra is a 1963 in film film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Joseph L....
     starring Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor

    Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, Order of the British Empire , also known as Liz Taylor, is an England-born American actress.Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Cinema of the United States lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a la...
    , Rex Harrison
    Rex Harrison

    Sir Reginald ?Rex? Carey Harrison was an England actor of theatre and film, who won both an Academy Award and Tony Award....
     and Richard Burton
    Richard Burton

    Richard Burton, Order of the British Empire was a multi award-winning Wales actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood....
     premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City
    New York City

    The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
    .
  • November 7 - The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 in film American film comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 of stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers....
     premieres.


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Cleopatra
Cleopatra (1963 film)

Cleopatra is a 1963 in film film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Joseph L....
20th Century Fox $26,000,000
2.How the West Was Won Cinerama/MGM $20,933,000
3.It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 in film American film comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 of stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers....
United Artists $20,850,000
4. Tom Jones UA/Goldwyn $18,500,900
5. Irma La Douce
Irma la Douce

Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
United Artists $11,922,000
6. The Sword in the Stone
The Sword in the Stone (film)

The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 in film animated feature film produced by Walt Disney originally released to theaters on December 25, 1963....
Disney $10,475,000
7. Son of Flubber
Son of Flubber

Son of Flubber is the 1963 in film sequel to the Walt Disney children's movie comedy The Absent Minded Professor , also starring Fred MacMurray as a scientist who has perfected a high-bouncing substance that can levitate an automobile and cause athletes to bounce into the sky....
Disney $10,450,000
8. From Russia with Love
From Russia with Love

From Russia with Love, published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and is considered one of the best in the series; the From Russia with Love has been cited by several film critics as the best of the movie franchise....
United Artists $6,435,000
9. Charade
Charade

Charade is a film written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. It also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin....
Universal $6,363,000
10. Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie (film)

The stage musical Bye Bye Birdie was first adapted to film in 1963 in film. The screenplay was written by Michael Stewart and Irving Brecher, with music by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams....
Columbia $6,200,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1963.shtml

Awards


Academy Awards
36th Academy Awards

The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the 1963 in film, were held on April 13 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
:


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....
: Tom Jones
Tom Jones (film)

Tom Jones is a 1963 in film British comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero....
— Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert (British)
Best Director: Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson

Tony Richardson was an England theatre and Academy Award-winning film film director and film producer.Richardson was born Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist....
 - Tom Jones
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....
: Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Grammy award-winning Bahamas-United States actor, film director, author, and diplomat....
 -
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field is a 1962 book by William Edmund Barrett which was made into a 1963 film and adapted for the musical stage with the title Look to the Lilies....
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....
: Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal

Patricia Neal is an Academy Award-, BAFTA-, Golden Globe- and Tony Award-winning United States actress of theatre and film....
 -
Hud
Hud (film)

Hud is a 1963 film which tells the story of a self-centered, modern-day cowboy. It stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde and Whit Bissell....
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....
: Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg , better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor. He won all three of the entertainment industry's highest awards, two Academy Awards, one Tony Award and an Emmy Award....
 -
Hud
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....
: Margaret Rutherford
Margaret Rutherford

Dame Margaret Rutherford Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-winning England character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest....
 -
The V.I.P.s
The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s, also known as Hotel International, is a 1963 in film MGM drama film. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, produced by Anatole de Grunwald and written by Terence Rattigan, with a music score by Mikl?s R?zsa....
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 ....
:

8? is a 1963 in film directed by Italy film director Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director....
(
Otto e mezzo), directed by Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
, Italy


Golden Globe Awards
21st Golden Globe Awards

The 21st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963 in film films, were held on March 11, 1964....
:


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....
: The Cardinal
The Cardinal

The Cardinal is a 1963 in film film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....
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....
: Sidney Poitier -
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field is a 1962 book by William Edmund Barrett which was made into a 1963 film and adapted for the musical stage with the title Look to the Lilies....
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....
: Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a two-time Academy Award-nominated French film actress and dancer. She was one of the most famous Hollywood Musical film stars in the 1950s....
 -
The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room

The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 in film UK drama film, film director by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young France woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London apartment building, befriending a young man in the building....


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....
: Tom Jones
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....
: Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi

Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Italian orders of merit was an Italy actor, likely the most popular of the 20th Century. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films....
 -
To Bed... or Not to Bed
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....
: Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
 -
Irma la Douce
Irma la Douce

Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....


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....
: Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
 -
America, America
America, America

America, America is a 1963 in film black-and-white United States dramatic film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan, from his own book....


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
The Leopard
The Leopard (film)

The Leopard is an award-winning 1963 in film film by Italy film director Luchino Visconti, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard....
(
Il Gattopardo), directed by Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti

Luchino House of Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre director and film director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard and Death in Venice ....
, Italy


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
 (Venice Film Festival):
Hands Over the City
Hands Over the City

Hands Over the City is a 1963 in film drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. It is a post World War II story of political corruption in Italy....
(
Le mani sulla cittŕ), directed by Francesco Rosi
Francesco Rosi

Francesco Rosi is an Italy film director. He is the father of the actress Carolina Rosi....
, Italy


Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Il Diavolo
Il diavolo

Il diavolo is a 1963 in film black-and-white Italian film directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro. It tells the story of an Italy merchant and his experiences during a visit to Sweden....
(
To Bed... or Not to Bed), directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro, Italy


Films released in 1963


  • 8? is a 1963 in film directed by Italy film director Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director....
  • 55 Days at Peking
    55 Days at Peking

    55 Days at Peking is a 1963 in film historical film epic film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and released by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation....
  • America, America
    America, America

    America, America is a 1963 in film black-and-white United States dramatic film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan, from his own book....
    by Elia Kazan
    Elia Kazan

    Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
  • An Actor's Revenge
    An Actor's Revenge

    An Actor's Revenge , also known as Revenge of a Kabuki Actor, is a 1963 film directed by Kon Ichikawa. The film was produced in Eastmancolor and widescreen for Daiei Studios....
  • Atragon
    Atragon

    Atragon, released in Japan as , is a 1963 in film Toho tokusatsu film based on a series of juvenile adventure novels under the banner Kaitei Gunkan by Shunro Oshikawa and the illustrated fiction Kaitei Okoku by illustrator Shigeru Komatsuzaki, serialized in a monthly magazine for boys....
  • La Baie des Anges
    La Baie des Anges

    La Baie des Anges is a 1963 French film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann. La Baie des Anges is Demy's second film and deals with the subject of gambling....
  • The Balcony
    The Balcony (film)

    The Balcony is a cinematic adaptation of Jean Genet's play The Balcony, directed by Joseph Strick and released in 1963. It starred Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant and Leonard Nimoy....
  • The Birds
    The Birds (film)

    The Birds is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the short story The Birds by Daphne du Maurier. The film's innovative special effects, soundtrack, and apocalyptic fiction theme influenced later "revenge of nature" disaster films....
    (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....
    ), starring Tippi Hedren
    Tippi Hedren

    Nathalie Kay 'Tippi' Hedren is an United States actress and former fashion model with a career spanning six decades. She is primarily known for her roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, The Birds and Marnie , and her extensive efforts in animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983....
     and Rod Taylor
    Rod Taylor (actor)

    Rodney Sturt Taylor is an Australian-born film and television actor....
  • Blood Feast
    Blood Feast

    Blood Feast is a 1963 United States horror film Film director by Herschell Gordon Lewis, often considered the first splatter film. It was produced by David F....
  • Bushido:Samurai Saga (Bushidô zankoku monogatari) Golden Bear winner
  • Bye Bye Birdie
    Bye Bye Birdie (film)

    The stage musical Bye Bye Birdie was first adapted to film in 1963 in film. The screenplay was written by Michael Stewart and Irving Brecher, with music by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams....
  • Captain Newman, M.D.
    Captain Newman, M.D.

    Captain Newman, M.D. is a 1963 in film film starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin....
  • The Cardinal
    The Cardinal

    The Cardinal is a 1963 in film film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....
  • The Caretakers
    The Caretakers

    The Caretakers is a United Artists feature film starring Joan Crawford and Robert Stack in a story about a mental hospital. The screenplay was adapted by Henry F....
  • Charade
    Charade

    Charade is a film written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. It also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin....
    , starring Cary Grant
    Cary Grant

    Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
     and Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn

    Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry.Born in Brussels, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in The Netherlands during her childhood and for the duration of the World War II....
  • Carry On Cabby
    Carry On Cabby

    Carry On Cabby is the seventh Carry On films released in 1963 in film and the first one written by series mainstay Talbot Rothwell. This was the first film in the series to feature Carry On regular Jim Dale, though it is notable for not including Kenneth Williams....
  • Carry On Jack
    Carry On Jack

    Carry on Jack is the eighth movie in the Carry On films series and was released in 1963 in film. Most of the usual Carry On team are missing from this movie; only Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey are in the majority of the movie....
  • Cleopatra
    Cleopatra (1963 film)

    Cleopatra is a 1963 in film film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Joseph L....
  • Come Blow Your Horn
    Come Blow Your Horn (film)

    Come Blow Your Horn is a 1963 in film comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin and based on the play of the Come Blow Your Horn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
  • Contempt
    Contempt (film)

    Contempt is a film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the Italian novel Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia. It stars Brigitte Bardot....
    (Le Mépris)
  • Critic's Choice
    Critic's Choice (1963 film)

    Critic's Choice is a 1963 in film directed by Don Weis.Based on the 1960 Critic's Choice by Ira Levin, the movie starred Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and included Rip Torn, Marilyn Maxwell, Jim Backus, Marie Windsor and Jerome Cowan in the cast....
    , starring Bob Hope
    Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
     and Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball

    Lucille Ball was an United States comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model , film industry, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy....
  • Dementia 13
    Dementia 13

    Dementia 13 is a 1963 in film horror film Thriller released by American International Pictures, starring William Campbell , Patrick Magee , and Luana Anders....
  • Il Diavolo
    Il diavolo

    Il diavolo is a 1963 in film black-and-white Italian film directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro. It tells the story of an Italy merchant and his experiences during a visit to Sweden....
    Golden Bear winner
  • Donovan's Reef
    Donovan's Reef

    Donovan's Reef is a 1963 in film United States motion picture from director John Ford. This film marked the last time Ford and John Wayne worked together....
  • 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.S. release)
  • Father Came Too!
    Father Came Too!

    Father Came Too! is a British comedy film first released in 1963 in film. It starred James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips, Sally Smith, Ronnie Barker and Kenneth Cope. It is a sequel to The Fast Lady....
  • Flaming Creatures
    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures is an American films experimental film by filmmaker Jack Smith . Due to its surreal, graphic depiction of sexuality, the film was seized by the police at its premiere, and was officially determined to be obscene by a New York Criminal Court....
  • The Four Days of Naples
    The Four Days of Naples

    The Four Days of Naples is a 1962 Italian film, directed by Nanni Loy and set during the Four days of Naples which gives its name. It stars Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffr?, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Franco Sportelli, Charles Belmont, Gian Maria Volont? and Frank Wolff ....
    (U.S. release)
  • From Russia with Love
    From Russia with Love (film)

    From Russia with Love is the second spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
  • Fun in Acapulco
    Fun in Acapulco

    Fun in Acapulco is a 1963 in film United States film starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress.Actress Teri Garr made her second film appearance and the first of five bit roles in Presley films....
  • A Gathering of Eagles
    A Gathering of Eagles

    A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 movie about the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote, with elements also mirroring Above and Beyond , a film written by his collaborator, Beirne Lay, Jr.....
  • Gidget Goes to Rome
    Gidget Goes to Rome

    Gidget Goes to Rome is a Columbia Pictures feature film starring Cindy Carol as the archetypal high school teen surfer girl originally created by Sandra Dee in the 1959 film Gidget....
  • The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen
  • Hands Over the City
    Hands Over the City

    Hands Over the City is a 1963 in film drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. It is a post World War II story of political corruption in Italy....
    Golden Lion winner
  • Hud
    Hud (film)

    Hud is a 1963 film which tells the story of a self-centered, modern-day cowboy. It stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde and Whit Bissell....
  • Irma la Douce
    Irma la Douce

    Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
    -(film mentioned in article)
  • It Happened at the World's Fair
    It Happened at the World's Fair

    It Happened at the World's Fair is a 1963 in film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a cropduster aviator.The motion picture was filmed in Seattle, Washington, site of the Century 21 Exposition, the 1962 World's Fair....
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 in film American film comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 of stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers....
  • Jason and the Argonauts
    Jason and the Argonauts (film)

    Jason and the Argonauts is a Columbia Pictures fantasy film feature film starring Todd Armstrong as the titular Jason in a story about his quest for the Golden Fleece....
  • Ladies Who Do
    Ladies Who Do

    Ladies Who Do 1963 in film British comedy film starring Harry H. Corbett, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount, Dandy Nichols, Miriam Karlin and Nigel Davenport....
    , starring Harry H. Corbett
    Harry H. Corbett

    Harry H. Corbett Order of the British Empire was an England actor.Corbett was best known for his starring role in the hugely popular and long-running BBC Television sitcom Steptoe and Son in the 1960s and 70s....
    , Robert Morley
    Robert Morley

    Robert Morley Commander of the Order of the British Empire was an Academy Award-nominated England actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment....
     and Peggy Mount
    Peggy Mount

    Peggy Mount Order of the British Empire, , born Margaret Rose Mount, was an English actress of stage and screen. She is perhaps best known for playing a battle-axe character, though her real personality was said to have been far removed from such a role....
  • Ladybug Ladybug
    Ladybug Ladybug (film)

    Ladybug Ladybug is a 1963 in film American motion picture, directed by Academy Awards-nominated filmmaker Frank Perry. The film is a commentary about the psychological effects of the Cold War, the title deriving from the classic Ladybug Ladybug....
  • The Leopard
    The Leopard (film)

    The Leopard is an award-winning 1963 in film film by Italy film director Luchino Visconti, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard....
    Palme d'Or winner
  • The L-Shaped Room
    The L-Shaped Room

    The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 in film UK drama film, film director by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young France woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London apartment building, befriending a young man in the building....
  • Lilies of the Field
    Lilies of the Field

    Lilies of the Field is a 1962 book by William Edmund Barrett which was made into a 1963 film and adapted for the musical stage with the title Look to the Lilies....
  • Love With the Proper Stranger
    Love with the Proper Stranger

    Love with the Proper Stranger is a romantic comedy drama film made by Alan Pakula-Robert Mulligan Productions and Boardwalk Productions and released by Paramount Pictures....
  • Matango
    Matango

    , also known as Matango, Fungus of Terror and Attack of the Mushroom People, is a 1963 in film tokusatsu eiga . It was directed by Ishiro Honda, written by Takeshi Kimura based on the story "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson , and had special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya....
  • McLintock!
    McLintock!

    McLintock! is a 1963 comedy Western movie starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew....
  • Move Over, Darling
    Move Over, Darling

    Move Over, Darling is a 1963 in film remake of the 1940 in film screwball comedy My Favorite Wife that starred Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott....
  • A New Kind of Love
    A New Kind of Love

    A New Kind of Love is a 1963 in film romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor, George Tobias, and Maurice Chevalier....
  • The Nutty Professor
    The Nutty Professor

    The Nutty Professor is a Paramount Pictures feature film produced, directed, co-written and starring Jerry Lewis. The original music score was composed by Walter Scharf....
    , 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 ....
  • One Got Fat
    One Got Fat

    One Got Fat is a 1963 in film bicycle safety film. It is narrated by F-Troop and Fractured Fairy Tales star, Edward Everett Horton....
  • Promises! Promises!
    Promises! Promises!

    Promises! Promises! is a 1963 in film unrated sex comedy film, released before the MPAA film rating system became effective, produced by Tommy Noonan ....
    , starring Jayne Mansfield
    Jayne Mansfield

    Jayne Mansfield was an United States actor working both on Broadway theatre and in Hollywood. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s, Mansfield, like Marilyn Monroe, was a Playboy Playmate, and appeared in the magazine several more times over the years....
  • PT 109
    PT 109 (film)

    PT 109 is a 1963 biography movie which shows the events of John F. Kennedy's actions in command of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 as an officer of the United States Navy during World War II....
  • 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
    7 Faces of Dr. Lao

    7 Faces of Dr. Lao is a 1963 in film film adaptation of the 1935 fantasy novel The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney. It details the visit of a magical circus to a small town in the southwest United States, and the effects that visit has on the people of the town....
  • Sleep
    Sleep (film)

    Sleep is a 1963 in film film by Andy Warhol which consists of long take footage of John Giorno, his lover at the time, sleeping for over five hours....
    , by Andy Warhol
    Andy Warhol

    Andrew Warhola , more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an United Statesn Painting, Printmaking, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the Art movement known as pop art....
  • Son of Flubber
    Son of Flubber

    Son of Flubber is the 1963 in film sequel to the Walt Disney children's movie comedy The Absent Minded Professor , also starring Fred MacMurray as a scientist who has perfected a high-bouncing substance that can levitate an automobile and cause athletes to bounce into the sky....
  • 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....
  • Sunshine in a Net
  • The Sword in the Stone
    The Sword in the Stone (film)

    The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 in film animated feature film produced by Walt Disney originally released to theaters on December 25, 1963....
  • This Sporting Life
    This Sporting Life

    This Sporting Life is a 1963 Cinema of the United Kingdom based on a novel of the same name by David Storey which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award....
  • To Bed or Not to Bed
  • Tom Jones
    Tom Jones (film)

    Tom Jones is a 1963 in film British comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero....
  • Toys in the Attic
    Toys in the Attic (film)

    Toys in the Attic is a 1963 in film film starring Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Gene Tierney and Wendy Hiller. The film was directed by George Roy Hill and is based on a Tony Award-winning Play by Lillian Hellman....
  • Twilight of Honor
    Twilight of Honor

    Twilight of Honor is a 1963 in film film starring Richard Chamberlain , Nick Adams , Claude Rains, and featuring Joey Heatherton and Linda Evans in their film debuts....
  • The V.I.P.s
    The V.I.P.s

    The V.I.P.s, also known as Hotel International, is a 1963 in film MGM drama film. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, produced by Anatole de Grunwald and written by Terence Rattigan, with a music score by Mikl?s R?zsa....
  • The Wheeler Dealers
    The Wheeler Dealers

    The Wheeler Dealers is a 1963 in film comedy film starring James Garner and Lee Remick and featuring Chill Wills and Jim Backus. The film was written by George Goodman and Ira Wallach , based on Goodman's novel, and directed by Arthur Hiller....
  • Who's Minding the Store?
    Who's Minding the Store?

    Who's Minding the Store? is a comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Jerry Lewis. It was released on November 28, 1963 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 ....
  • The Wrong Arm of the Law
    The Wrong Arm of the Law

    The Wrong Arm of the Law is a 1963 in film UK comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by Cliff Owen and written in part by Galton and Simpson....
  • Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke starring Sunil Dutt
    Sunil Dutt

    Sunil Dutt , born as Balraj Dutt was an Indian Hindi movie actor, producer, director and politician. He was the cabinet minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government ....
  • Zuo ye meng hun zhong


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....
    )
  • 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)
  • 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 14 — Steven Soderbergh
    Steven Soderbergh

    Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editing, and an Academy Award-winning film director....
    , director
  • March 18 — Vanessa L. Williams
    Vanessa L. Williams

    Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Williams made history on September 17, 1983 when she became the first woman of African descent to be crowned Miss America....
    , actress, singer and former beauty queen
  • March 27 — Quentin Tarantino
    Quentin Tarantino

    Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, Film producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent film filmmaker whose films used nonlinear and aestheticization of violence....
    , director
  • June 9 — Johnny Depp
    Johnny Depp

    Johnny Depp is an American actor known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and Edward Scissorhands....
    , US actor
  • June 10 — Jeanne Tripplehorn
    Jeanne Tripplehorn

    Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn is an United States film actor....
    , US actress
  • June 15 — Helen Hunt
    Helen Hunt

    Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress, film director and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good As It Gets, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress....
    , US actress
  • October 6 — Elisabeth Shue
    Elisabeth Shue

    Elisabeth Judson Shue is an Academy Award-nominated United States film actor....
    , US actress
  • November 5 — Tatum O'Neal
    Tatum O'Neal

    Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an Academy Awards and Golden Globe-winning United States actor best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s....
    , US actress
  • December 15 — Helen Slater
    Helen Slater

    Helen Rachel Slater is an United States film actress and singer-songwriter....
    , US actress
  • December 18 — Brad Pitt
    Brad Pitt

    William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has been cited as one of the world's most attractive men and his off-screen life is widely reported....
    , actor


Deaths

  • January 2 - Jack Carson
    Jack Carson

    John Elmer "Jack" Carson was a Canadian-born U.S.-based film actor.Jack Carson was one of the most popular character actors during the golden age of Hollywood, with a film career which spanned the 1930s, '40s and '50s....
    , 52, Canadian actor
  • January 2 - Dick Powell
    Dick Powell

    Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
    , 58, American actor, director
  • January 6 - Frank Tuttle
    Frank Tuttle

    Frank Tuttle was a Hollywood film director and writer who directed films from 1922 to 1959 .His output also includes the all-star revue Paramount on Parade , the comedy This Is the Night with Cary Grant, and Roman Scandals ....
    , 70, American director
  • January 28 - John Farrow
    John Farrow

    John Farrow was an award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter.Born John Villiers Farrow in Sydney, Australia, John Farrow began writing while working as a sailor in the 1920s....
    , 58, Australian director
  • February 18 - Monte Blue
    Monte Blue

    Monte Blue One of five children, Blue's father died in a car crash when he was eight and his mother could not raise five children alone. Along with another brother, they both admitted to the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home....
    , 76, American actor
  • April 4 - Jason Robards Sr., 70, American actor
  • May 6 - Monty Woolley
    Monty Woolley

    Monty Woolley was an United States actor....
    , 74, American actor
  • June 7 - Zasu Pitts
    ZaSu Pitts

    ZaSu Pitts was an United States film actress who starred in many silent film drama film, although later, her career digressed to comedy film sound films....
    , 69, American actress
  • July 25 - Leota Lane
    Lane Sisters

    The Lane Sisters refers to a group of sisters, three of whom achieved success in the 1920s and 1930s as a singing act, with their popularity onstage leading to a series of successful films....
    , 59, American singer, actress
  • August 17 - Richard Barthelmess
    Richard Barthelmess

    Richard "Dick" Semler Barthelmess was an Academy Award for Best Actor silent film star.The son of an actress, Barthelmess began acting in college, doing amateur productions....
    , 68, American actor
  • October 29 - Adolphe Menjou
    Adolphe Menjou

    Adolphe Jean Menjou was an United States actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies acting in such important films as The Sheik , A Woman of Paris, Morocco , and A Star Is Born ....
    , 73, American actor
  • November 1 - Elsa Maxwell
    Elsa Maxwell

    Elsa Maxwell was an United States gossip columnist and author, songwriter, and professional hostess. Her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day earned her the nickname "the hostess with the mostest"....
    , 82, American gossip columnist
  • December 2 - Sabu
    Sabu Dastagir

    Sabu Dastagir was a film actor of Indian origin?although he later took United States nationality law. He was normally credited only by his first name, Sabu, and is primarily known for his work in 1940s in film....
    , 39, Indian actor
  • December 5 - Tom London
    Tom London

    Tom London was an United States actor who, according to "The Guinness Book of Movie Records," is credited with appearing in the most movies in the history of Hollywood....
    , 74, American actor