1966 in film

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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....
: A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)

A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 in film film based on Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons about Sir Thomas More. Paul Scofield, who had played More in the West End theatre stage premiere, also took the role in the film....
- Highland, Columbia

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....
: Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons ....
 - A Man for All Seasons

Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Paul Scofield

Paul Scofield

David Paul Scofield, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an England award-winning actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 in film film A Man for All Seasons , a reprise of...
 - A Man for All Seasons

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....
: 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...
 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway theatre at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick....

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....
: Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

Walter John Matthau was an United States award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon....
 - The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie is a 1966 in film film starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their first on screen collaboration, and directed by Billy Wilder....

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....
: Sandy Dennis

Sandy Dennis

Sandra Dale ?Sandy? Dennis was an Academy Award- and Tony Award- winning United States theater and film actor.BiographyEarly life...
 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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 ....
: A Man and a Woman

A Man and a Woman

A Man and a Woman is a 1966 in film French film. The movie was written by Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, and directed by Lelouch. It is notable for its lush photography , which features frequent segues between full color, black-and-white, and Sepia tone shots, and for its memorable musical score by Francis Lai....
(Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch

Claude Lelouch

Claude Lelouch is a France film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor and film producer....
, France

Best Film from any Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway theatre at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick....

Best British film: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , by John le Carr? is a Cold War spy novel famous for its intricate plot and its portrait of the West's espionage methods as inconsistent with Western values....

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....
: A Man for All Seasons

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....
: Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons

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....
: Anouk Aimée

Anouk Aimée

Anouk Aim?e is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning France film actor.Aim?e was born Fran?oise Sorya Dreyfus in Paris, France, the daughter of another actress, Genevi?ve Sorya, and Henri Dreyfus....
 - A Man and a Woman

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....
: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming is a 1966 in film United States comedy film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchley Young adult literature novel, The Off-Islanders, it was adapted for the screen by William Rose ....

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....
: Alan Arkin

Alan Arkin

Alan Wolf Arkin is an American Academy Award-winning actor, Film director, and musician. He is best-known for starring in such films as: Catch-22 ; The In-Laws ; Edward Scissorhands; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; Glengarry Glen Ross ; and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award fo...
 - The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming

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....
: Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Rachel Redgrave Order of British Empire is an English actress.A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn Redgrave trained in London, before making her theatrical debut in 1962....
 - Georgy Girl

Georgy Girl

Georgy Girl is a 1966 in film British film based on a novel by Margaret Forster. The film was directed by Silvio Narizzano and starred Lynn Redgrave as Georgy, Alan Bates, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling and Bill Owen ....

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....
: Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons

A Man and a Woman

A Man and a Woman

A Man and a Woman is a 1966 in film French film. The movie was written by Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, and directed by Lelouch. It is notable for its lush photography , which features frequent segues between full color, black-and-white, and Sepia tone shots, and for its memorable musical score by Francis Lai....
(Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch

Claude Lelouch

Claude Lelouch is a France film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor and film producer....
, France

Signore & Signori

Signore & Signori

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians is a 1965 Italian film directed by Pietro Germi. Its original Italian language title is Signore & Signori, which means 'Ladies and Gentlemen'....
(The Birds, the Bees and the Italians), directed by Pietro Germi

Pietro Germi

Pietro Germi was an Italy actor, screenwriter, and Film director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting....
, Italy

The Battle of Algiers

The Battle of Algiers (film)

The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 in film black-and-white film by Gillo Pontecorvo based on events during the 1954-1962 Algerian War against French rule in Algeria....
(La Battaglia di Algeri), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian Cinema of Italy, best known for The Battle of Algiers although he directed several movies before its release in 1966, such as the drama Kap? , which takes place in a World War II concentration camp....
, Algeria / Italy

Cul-de-Sac, directed by Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
, United Kingdom

Films released in 1966

• Agent for H.A.R.M.
  Agent for H.A.R.M.
  
  Agent for H.A.R.M. is a 1966 science fiction Spy fiction directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Peter Mark Richman. It is one of a number of spy thrillers of the time which have conspicuous sci-fi elements....
  
• Alfie
• Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Rublev (film)
  
  Andrei Rublev , also known as The Passion According to Andrei, is a 1966 Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky from a screenplay written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky....
  
• The Appaloosa
  The Appaloosa (film)
  
  The Appaloosa is a American films of 1966 American western film from Universal Pictures starring Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer and John Saxon , who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a Mexican bandit....
  
• Around the World Under the Sea
  Around the World Under the Sea
  
  Around the World Under the Sea is a 1966 in film science fiction film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Lloyd Bridges. It follows the adventures of a crew of the deep-diving nuclear-powered civilian research submarine Hydronaut making a submerged circumnavigation of the world to plant monitoring sensors on the ocean floor that wi...
  
• Batman
  Batman (1966 film)
  
  Batman is a 1966 in film film spin-off of the popular Batman , and was the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character....
  
• The Battle of Algiers
  The Battle of Algiers (film)
  
  The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 in film black-and-white film by Gillo Pontecorvo based on events during the 1954-1962 Algerian War against French rule in Algeria....
  , Golden Lion winner
• Beregis Avtomobilya
  Beregis Avtomobilya
  
  Beware of the Car is a Soviet crime fiction comedy film film directed by Eldar Ryazanov based on a screenplay by Emil Braginsky. Produced by Mosfilm....
   (Beware of the Automobile)
• The Bible: In The Beginning
  The Bible: In The Beginning
  
  The Bible: In the Beginning is a 1966 in film Biblical epic film recounting the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis. It was a joint American/Italian production conceived by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston....
  
• The Big Gundown
  The Big Gundown
  
  The Big Gundown is a 1966 in film spaghetti western directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian.It falls in to the subgenre called Zapata Westerns which are spaghetti westerns with some political context usually concerning the Mexican revolution....
  
• A Big Hand for the Little Lady
  A Big Hand for the Little Lady
  
  A Big Hand for the Little Lady is a 1966 in film western film, made by Eden Productions Inc. and released by Warner Bros.. It was produced and directed by Fielder Cook from a screenplay by Sidney Carroll, adapted from their TV play Big Deal in Laredo which aired on the DuPont Show of the Week in 1962....
  
• Blood Bath
  Blood Bath
  
  Blood Bath is a 1966 in film horror film directed by Jack Hill and Stephanie Rothman. William Campbell stars as an artist with vampire tendencies who kills beautiful women and dumps their bodies into a vat of boiling wax in his studio....
  
• Blowup
  Blowup
  
  Blowup is a 1966 in film British-Italian art film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and was that director's first English language film. It tells the story of a photographer's involvement with a murder case....
  
• The Blue Max
  The Blue Max
  
  The Blue Max is a United Kingdom film about a German fighter pilot on the Western Front during World War I. It was directed by John Guillermin, stars George Peppard, James Mason and Ursula Andress, and features Karl Michael Vogler and Jeremy Kemp....
  
• Born Free
  Born Free
  
  Born Free is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy Adamson and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of Kenya....
  
• Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
  Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
  
  Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is a 1966 comedy film starring Bob Hope and Elke Sommer....
  
• Carry On Screaming!
• Chappaqua
  Chappaqua (film)
  
  Chappaqua is a 1966 cult film written, directed by and starring Conrad Rooks. It is based on Rooks' experiences with drug addiction. It includes cameo appearances by a host of famous names of the 1960s: author William S....
  
• Closely Watched Trains
  Closely Watched Trains
  
  Ostre sledovan? vlaky is a 1966 Czechoslovakian film directed by Jir? Menzel. It is released as Closely Watched Trains in North America and Closely Observed Trains in the UK....
   (Ostre sledované vlaky), Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1967)
• Cul-de-Sac, Golden Bear winner
• Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Don't Lose Your Head
  Don't Lose Your Head
  
  Don't Lose Your Head is the thirteenth Carry On films film . It was released in 1966 in film. Set in France and England in 1789 during the French revolution, it is a parody of Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel....
   (Carry On Don't Lose Your Head)
• Django
  Django (film)
  
  Django is a Italian films of 1966 Italy spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the title role. Popular in Europe, it became a cult film in the US....
  
• Fahrenheit 451
  Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)
  
  Fahrenheit 451 is a 1966 in film film directed by Fran?ois Truffaut, in his first color film and first and only English language film. It is based on the Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury....
  
• The Family Way
  The Family Way
  
  The Family Way is a 1966 in film United Kingdom comedy film based on Bill Naughton's play All in Good Time . It began life in 1961 as a television play entitled Honeymoon Postponed....
  
• Follow Me, Boys!
  Follow Me, Boys!
  
  Follow Me, Boys! is a 1966 family movie released through Walt Disney Pictures, based on the book God and My Country by MacKinlay Kantor....
  
• The Fortune Cookie
  The Fortune Cookie
  
  The Fortune Cookie is a 1966 in film film starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their first on screen collaboration, and directed by Billy Wilder....
  
• Frankie and Johnny
  Frankie and Johnny (1966 film)
  
  Frankie and Johnny is a 1966 in film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a riverboat gambler. The role of "Frankie" was played by Donna Douglas, star of the hit television series, The Beverly Hillbillies....
  
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film)
  
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film, based on the A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart....
  
• Gamera vs. Barugon
  Gamera vs. Barugon
  
  is a 1966 Kaiju eiga featuring the popular Gamera character created by Daiei Motion Picture Company. The film is the second to feature Gamera and the first in which the daikaiju is portrayed in a positive light....
  
• Georgy Girl
  Georgy Girl
  
  Georgy Girl is a 1966 in film British film based on a novel by Margaret Forster. The film was directed by Silvio Narizzano and starred Lynn Redgrave as Georgy, Alan Bates, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling and Bill Owen ....
  
• The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
  The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
  
  The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is a Universal Pictures feature film starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs, a newspaper typesetter who spends a night in a haunted house....
  
• Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
  Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
  
  Godzilla versus the Sea Monster , released in Japan as , is a 1966 tokusatsu film directed by Jun Fukuda and written by Shinichi Sekizawa. It was the seventh film to be released in the Godzilla franchise....
  
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 in film Cinema of Italy epic Western spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles....
  
• The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
  The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
  
  The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a United Kingdom comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School, released in 1966 in film, three years after the historical Great train robbery had taken place....
  
• The Group
  The Group (film)
  
  The Group is a 1966 in film ensemble film directed by Sidney Lumet based on the novel of the The Group by Mary McCarthy about a group of female college graduates from a Vassar-like college during the early 1930s....
  
• Hawaii
  Hawaii (film)
  
  Hawaii is a 1966 in film United States motion picture based on the novel of the Hawaii by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student who, along with his new bride , becomes a Calvinism missionary in the Hawaiian Islands....
  
• How To Steal a Million
  How to Steal a Million
  
  How to Steal a Million is an Heist film, directed by William Wyler, starring Peter O'Toole as Simon Dermott, caught by Audrey Hepburn sneaking through her house clutching a painting....
  
• Is Paris Burning?
  Is Paris Burning?
  
  Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 in film France-USA film dealing with the 1944 liberation of Paris by rival branches of the French Resistance and the Free French Forces....
   (Paris brûle-t-il?)
• It Happened Here
  It Happened Here
  
  It Happened Here is a 1966 in film United Kingdom film, set in an Alternate history in which Nazi Germany successfully invades and occupies the United Kingdom during World War II....
  
• Judith
  Judith (film)
  
  Judith is a 1966 in film drama film made by Command Productions, Cumulus Productions and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Daniel Mann, produced by Kurt Unger from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the story by Lawrence Durrell....
  
• Johnny Reno
  Johnny Reno
  
  Johnny Reno is a 1966 in film American western film made by A.C. Lyles Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by R.G....
  
• Khartoum
  Khartoum (film)
  
  Khartoum is a 1966 in film film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden.The film stars Charlton Heston as Charles George Gordon, with Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi , and is based on Gordon's defence of the Sudanese city of Khartoum from the forces of the Mahdist army during the Battle of Khartoum....
  
• Kriminal
• Lt. Robinson Crusoe, USN
• Madame X
  Madame X (1966 film)
  
  Madame X is a 1966 in film drama film directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Lana Turner....
  
• A Man and a Woman
  A Man and a Woman
  
  A Man and a Woman is a 1966 in film French film. The movie was written by Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, and directed by Lelouch. It is notable for its lush photography , which features frequent segues between full color, black-and-white, and Sepia tone shots, and for its memorable musical score by Francis Lai....
   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....
   winner
• A Man for All Seasons
  A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)
  
  A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 in film film based on Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons about Sir Thomas More. Paul Scofield, who had played More in the West End theatre stage premiere, also took the role in the film....
  
• The Man Called Flintstone
  The Man Called Flintstone
  
  The Man Called Flintstone is an United States animation musical film film produced by Hanna-Barbera and released in 1966 by Columbia Pictures....
  
• "Manos" The Hands of Fate
• Mission to Death
• Morgan!
  Morgan!
  
  Morgan! is a 1966 in film comedy film made by the British Lion Films. It was directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Leon Clore from a screenplay by David Mercer....
  
• The Naked Prey
  The Naked Prey
  
  The Naked Prey is a adventure film starring Cornel Wilde, who also directed and produced. It was released by Paramount Pictures.Set in the South African veldt, the film is a wilderness survival story loosely based on the experiences of an explorer, John Colter, who was pursued by Blackfoot warriors through frontier Wyoming in 1809....
  
• Our Man Flint
  Our Man Flint
  
  Our Man Flint is a 1966 action film which stars James Coburn as Derek Flint. Directed by Daniel Mann, the premise of the film is that a trio of mad scientists attempt to blackmail the world with a weather-control machine....
  
• Paradise, Hawaiian Style
  Paradise, Hawaiian Style
  
  Paradise, Hawaiian Style is a 1966 in film musical film comedy film starring Elvis Presley. It was the third and final motion picture that Presley filmed in Hawaii....
  
• Persona
  Persona (film)
  
  Persona is a movie by Sweden director Ingmar Bergman, released in 1966, and featuring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann.Bergman held this film to be one of his most important; in his book Images, he writes: "Today I feel that in Persona ? and later in Cries and Whispers ? I had gone as far as I could go....
  
• The Professionals
  The Professionals (film)
  
  The Professionals is a 1966 in film USA Western film directed by Richard Brooks. A kidnap-rescue adventure set in about 1917, it features a small group of experts heading into Mexico to free the Mexican-born wife of a wealthy Texan from several hundred bandits....
  
• The Rare Breed
  The Rare Breed
  
  The Rare Breed is a 1966 in film American western film starring James Stewart , Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills and Ben Johnson and directed by Andrew V....
  
• Return of the Seven
  Return of the Seven
  
  Return of the Seven , is the first sequel to the 1960 Western , The Magnificent Seven. Made in 1966, Yul Brynner is the sole returning cast member from the first film, portraying Chris Adams....
  
• Ride in the Whirlwind
  Ride in the Whirlwind
  
  Ride in the Whirlwind is a 1966 in film Western directed by Monte Hellman, starring Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins, and Harry Dean Stanton....
  
• Roman Candles
• Run, Appaloosa, Run
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
  The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
  
  The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming is a 1966 in film United States comedy film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchley Young adult literature novel, The Off-Islanders, it was adapted for the screen by William Rose ....
  
• The Sand Pebbles
  The Sand Pebbles (film)
  
  The Sand Pebbles, a 1966 in film film directed by Robert Wise, is a period war story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy Machinist Mate sailor aboard the USS San Pablo gunboat on "show the flag" river patrols in 1920s China....
  
• The Sandwich Man
  The Sandwich Man
  
  The Sandwich Man is a 1966 in film United Kingdom comedy film starring Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan, Harry H. Corbett, Bernard Cribbins, Diana Dors, Norman Wisdom, Terry-Thomas and Ian Hendry....
  
• Seconds
  Seconds (film)
  
  Seconds is a 1966 in film Cinema of the United States film starring Rock Hudson. Characterized sometimes as a science fiction Thriller , but with elements of Horror film, neo-noir, psychedelia, and drama, the film was directed by John Frankenheimer with a screenplay by Lewis John Carlino....
  
• The Shooting
  The Shooting
  
  The Shooting is a 1966 in film western directed by Monte Hellman, with a screenplay by Carole Eastman . It stars Warren Oates, Millie Perkins, Will Hutchins, and Jack Nicholson, and was produced by Nicholson and Hellman....
  
• The Shop on Main Street
  The Shop on Main Street
  
  The Shop on Main Street is a 1965 Czechoslovakia film about the Aryanization programme during World War II in the Slovak State.The film was written by Ladislav Grosman and directed by J?n Kad?r and Elmar Klos....
   (U.S. release)
• The Singing Nun
  The Singing Nun (film)
  
  The Singing Nun is a 1966 in film semi-biographical film about the life of The Singing Nun, a nun who recorded the chart-topping hit song "Dominique"....
  
• Spinout
  Spinout
  
  Spinout is a 1966 in film musical film and comedy starring Elvis Presley as the lead singer of a band and part-time racecar driver. This has been known for many years as one of Presley's worst films, but recently it has been seen as a parody of the teen film genre and this reassessment has given the film newfound appreciation....
  
• Three On A Couch
  Three On A Couch
  
  Three on a Couch was filmed from September 13-December 1, 1965. It was released on July 7, 1966 by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, James Best, Mary Ann Mobley and Kathleen Freeman....
  , 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 ....
  
• Torn Curtain
  Torn Curtain
  
  Torn Curtain is a political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring his trademark characters and camera techniques....
  
• Triple Cross
  Triple Cross (1966)
  
  Triple Cross is a 1966 in film British film, directed by Terence Young and produced by Jacques Bertrand. Based loosely on a real-life story, it was released in France in December 1966 as La Fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman, but elsewhere in Europe and in the U.S....
  
• Trunk to Cairo
  Trunk to Cairo
  
  Trunk to Cairo is an Israeli/West German film produced by American International....
  
• Way...Way Out
  Way...Way Out
  
  Way...Way Out is a 1966 in film comedy starring Jerry Lewis and released by 20th Century Fox on October 21, 1966...
  , 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 ....
  
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)
  
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 film adaptation of the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. It was the first film directed by Mike Nichols, and starred Elizabeth Taylor as Martha and Richard Burton as George, with George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey....
  
• The Wild Angels
  The Wild Angels
  
  The Wild Angels is a Roger Corman film, made on location in Southern California. The Wild Angels was made three years before Easy Rider and was the first film to associate actor Peter Fonda with Harley-Davidson motorcycles and 1960s counterculture....
  
• Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
  Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
  
  Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is an animated featurette released by The Walt Disney Company on February 4, 1966. Based on the Winnie-the-Pooh by A....
   (short subject)
• The Wrong Box
  The Wrong Box
  
  The Wrong Box is a British comedy film made by Salamander Film Productions and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was produced and directed by Bryan Forbes from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, based on the The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne....
  

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....
  )
• 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....
  )
• Sylvester the Cat (1944
  1944 in film
  
  The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
  -1966
  1966 in film
  
  The year 1966 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 13 - Patrick Dempsey
  Patrick Dempsey
  
  Patrick Galen Dempsey is an actor.Who first became prominent in Hollywood during the late 1980s. He is also known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr....
  , actor
• February 11 - Stephen Gregory
  Stephen Gregory (actor)
  
  Stephen Gregory is an United States actor who grew up in Manhasset, New York, a Long Island suburb, 15 miles to the east of Manhattan.With a feathered mane of hair, he portrayed the character Chase Benson in the United States soap opera, The Young and the Restless , from 1988 to 1991, during which time he tried to seduce Nina Webster...
  , actor
• February 7 - Chris Rock
  Chris Rock
  
  Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III is an United States comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and Film director....
  , actor and comedian
• May 20 - Helena Bonham Carter
  Helena Bonham Carter
  
  Helena Bonham Carter is an Academy Award-nominated England actor. Bonham Carter made her screen debut in the K. M. Peyton film, A Pattern of Roses, before appearing in her first leading role in Lady Jane ....
  , actress
• July 11 - Debbe Dunning
  Debbe Dunning
  
  Debbe Dunning, sometimes credited as Debra Dunning, is an United States actress. A native of Burbank, California, she graduated from John Burroughs High School, the same school her parents graduated from exactly twenty years earlier....
  , actress
• July 15 - Irène Jacob
  Irène Jacob
  
  Ir?ne Marie Jacob is a French-born Swiss actress considered one of the preeminent French actresses of her generation. Jacob gained international recognition and acclaim through her work with Poles film director Krzysztof Kieslowski, who cast her in the lead role of The Double Life of V?ronique and Three Colors: Red....
  , actress
• July 29 - Martina McBride
  Martina McBride
  
  Martina Mariea Schiff is an American country music singer and songwriter who records as Martina McBride. She is best-known for her Inspirational music-styled ballads about women and children....
  , popular country singer
• August 14 - Halle Berry
  Halle Berry
  
  Halle Berry is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2009, only woman of African-American descent to have won the a...
  , actress
• September 2 - Salma Hayek
  Salma Hayek
  
  Salma Valgarma Hayek Jim?nez is a Mexico and United States actress, Television director, and television producer and film producer. Hayek has appeared in more than 30 films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in Mexico and Spain....
  , actress
• September 9 - Adam Sandler
  Adam Sandler
  
  Adam Richard Sandler is an United States comedian, actor, musician, screenwriter and film producer. After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, he went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed over US$100 million at the box office....
  , American actor
• November 17 - Sophie Marceau
  Sophie Marceau
  
  Sophie Marceau is a French actress. In addition to her French language films, she has appeared in international films such as Braveheart and as a Bond Girl in The World Is Not Enough ....
  , actress
• December 21 - Kiefer Sutherland
  Kiefer Sutherland
  
  Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland is a Canadian actor, well-known for his lead role of Jack Bauer on the FOX Broadcasting Company thriller drama series 24 ....
  , actor

Deaths

• January 14 - Barry Fitzgerald
  Barry Fitzgerald
  
  Barry Fitzgerald was an Academy Award winning Ireland stage, film and television actor....
  , 72, Irish actor
• January 22 - Herbert Marshall
  Herbert Marshall
  
  Herbert Marshall , born Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall, was a popular England cinema and theatre actor.His parents were Percy F. Marshall and Ethel May Turner....
  , 75, British actor
• January 31 - Elizabeth Patterson
  Elizabeth Patterson (actress)
  
  Elizabeth Patterson was an United States film and television Character actor remembered for her portrayal of elderly neighbor Matilda Trumbull on I Love Lucy....
  , 90, American actress
• February 1 - 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" ....
  , 70, American actor and film director
• February 1 - Hedda Hopper
  Hedda Hopper
  
  Hedda Hopper was an United States actor and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hopper's columns....
  , 80, American gossip columnist and former actress
• February 9 - Sophie Tucker
  Sophie Tucker
  
  Sophie Tucker was a singer and comedian, one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first two-thirds of the 20th century.She was born Sonia Kalish to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia....
  , 82, Russian-born American singer and actress
• June 5 - Natacha Rambova
  Natacha Rambova
  
  Natacha Rambova was an United States silent film costume designer and set designer, artistic director, screenwriter, Film producer and occasional Actor....
  , 69, American actress
• June 19 - Ed Wynn
  Ed Wynn
  
  Ed Wynn was a popular United States comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor....
  , 79, American actor
• July 23 - Montgomery Clift
  Montgomery Clift
  
  Edward Montgomery Clift was an United Statesn film actor. He was known for his brooding, sensitive, working-class character roles, and received four Academy Award nominations during his career....
  , 45, American actor
• July 23 - Douglass Montgomery
  Douglass Montgomery
  
  Douglass Montgomery was an American film actor....
  , 59, American actor
• August 15 - Jan Kiepura
  Jan Kiepura
  
  Jan Wiktor Kiepura was a Poland singer and actor. He was born of a Jewish mother and a Polish father.In 1926 he left Poland. History of Poland , he built a well-known hotel, "Patria", in Krynica-Zdr?j, which cost him about United States dollar3 million....
  , 64, Polish tenor and actor
• August 15 - Seena Owen
  Seena Owen
  
  Seena Owen was an American silent film actress. She was born in Spokane, Washington.Her first important film was A Yankee From the West under the name Signe Auen at the age of 21....
  , 71, American actress
• August 23 - Francis X. Bushman
  Francis X. Bushman
  
  Francis Xavier Bushman was an United States film actor. His matinee idol career started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife, but it did not survive the silent screen era....
  , 83, American actor
• October 13, Clifton Webb
  Clifton Webb
  
  Clifton Webb was an United States actor, dancer and singer....
  , 76, American actor
• October 16 - George O'Hara
  George O'Hara (actor)
  
  George O'Hara was an United States motion picture actor and screenwriter of the silent film era....
  , 67, American actor
• October 24 - Hans Dreier
  Hans Dreier
  
  Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
  , 81, German art director of European and American films
• December 14 - Richard Whorf
  Richard Whorf
  
  Richard Whorf was an American actor, author, director, and designer.Born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, Whorf began his acting career on the Boston, Massachusetts stage as a teenager then moving to Broadway theatre when he was 21....
  , 60, American actor and director
• December 15 - Walt Disney
  Walt Disney
  
  Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
  , 65, American producer and cartoonist