1968 in film

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Events

• October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter
  The Lion in Winter (1968 film)
  
  The Lion in Winter is a 1968 in film historical film costume drama made by Embassy Pictures, based on the Broadway theatre play by James Goldman....
  , starring Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Hepburn
  
  Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
  , debuts.
• November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system
  MPAA film rating system
  
  The Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system is used in the United States and its Territories of the United States to rate a film's thematic and content suitability for certain audiences....
   is introduced.

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....
: Oliver!

Oliver! (film)

Oliver! is a 1968 in film musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart....
- Romulus, Columbia

Best Director: Carol Reed

Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed was an England film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver! . He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter....
 - Oliver!

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....
: Cliff Robertson

Cliff Robertson

Clifford Parker "Cliff" Robertson III is an Academy Award - winning United States actor with a film and television career that spans half of a century....
 - Charly

Charly

Charly is a 1968 film which tells the fiction story of a mental retardation bakery worker who is the subject of an experiment to increase human intelligence....

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....
 (tie): Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
 - The Lion in Winter

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....
 (tie): Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
 - Funny Girl

Funny Girl (film)

Funny Girl is a musical film based on Funny Girl . The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of Broadway theatre and film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein....

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 ....
: War and Peace

War and Peace (1968 film)

War and Peace is a Soviet-produced film adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. Sergei Bondarchuk directed the film, co-wrote the screenplay and starred in the role of Pierre Bezukhov....
(????? ? ???), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk

Sergei Bondarchuk

Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk was a Soviet Union film director, screenwriter, and actor....
 (USSR)

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 Lion in Winter

The Lion in Winter (1968 film)

The Lion in Winter is a 1968 in film historical film costume drama made by Embassy Pictures, based on the Broadway theatre play by James Goldman....

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....
: Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole

Peter Seamus O'Toole is an Irish people actor of stage and screen who achieved instant stardom in 1962 playing T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia ....
 - The Lion in Winter

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....
: Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
 - Rachel, Rachel

Rachel, Rachel

Rachel, Rachel is a 1968 film which tells the story of a repressed school teacher, living with her overbearing mother, who suddenly gets a man in her life during her summer vacation....

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....
: Oliver!

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....
: Ron Moody

Ron Moody

Ronald Moodnick, known as Ron Moody is a United Kingdom actor....
 - Oliver!

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....
: Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl

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....
: Paul Newman

Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman was an United States actor, film director, entrepreneur, Humanitarianism, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations three Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a...
 - Rachel, Rachel

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos is a 1968 in film German film directed by Alexander Kluge. The film is made in a collage style, featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose owner, Leni , must decide whether her dream of a new kind of circus is too optimistic....
(Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed), directed by Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge is a noted film director and author....
, West Germany

Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die? ), directed by Jan Troell

Jan Troell

Jan Troell is an Academy Award-nomiated Sweden film director. Usually, Troell writes his own scripts and serves as his own director of photography....
, Sweden

Films released in 1968

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
  
  2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 in film science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous and of...
  , directed by Stanley Kubrick
  Stanley Kubrick
  
  Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
  
• Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner
• The Astro-Zombies
  The Astro-Zombies
  
  The Astro-Zombies, aka Space Zombies aka The Space Vampires, is a 1969 in film science fiction film horror film starring John Carradine, Wendell Corey and Tura Satana....
  
• Bandolero!
  Bandolero!
  
  Bandolero! is a 1968 in film western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Racquel Welch and George Kennedy....
  
• Barbarella
  Barbarella (film)
  
  Barbarella is a 1968 in film erotic film science fiction film directed by Roger Vadim and based on the French language Barbarella from Jean-Claude Forest....
  
• Berserk!
  Berserk!
  
  Berserk! is a feature film starring Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, and Judy Geeson in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a circus plagued with murders....
  
• Blackbeard's Ghost
  Blackbeard's Ghost
  
  Blackbeard's Ghost is a live-action 1968 Walt Disney Pictures starring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette, directed by Robert Stevenson ....
  
• The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis
  Tony Curtis
  
  Tony Curtis is an United States film acting. He is best known for light comic roles, especially as a musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe....
  
• Brilliantovaya ruka (Diamond Arm) - a hugely popular Russian comedy
• Bullitt
  Bullitt
  
  Bullitt is a 1968 in film American thriller film starring Steve McQueen . It was Film director by Peter Yates and distributed by Warner Bros....
  , starring Steve McQueen
  Steve McQueen
  
  Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen was an American movie actor nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Counterculture of the 1960s, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s....
  
• Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
  Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
  
  Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell is a 1968 United States comedy film directed by Melvin Frank, who co-wrote the original screenplay with Denis Norden and Sheldon Keller....
  , starring Gina Lollobrigida
  Gina Lollobrigida
  
  Gina Lollobrigida , is a Golden Globe Award-winning Italy actress and photojournalist. She was one of Italy's most prominent actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s....
  , Shelley Winters
  Shelley Winters
  
  Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....
  , Phil Silvers
  Phil Silvers
  
  Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a United States Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko....
  , Peter Lawford
  Peter Lawford
  
  Peter Sydney Lawford was an English-born actor, member of the "Rat Pack," and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting....
  , Telly Savalas
  Telly Savalas
  
  Aristotelis ?Telly? Savalas was an American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the popular 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Awards for his supporting role in Birdman of Alcatraz ....
  
• Candy
  Candy (1968 film)
  
  Candy is a 1968 film directed by Christian Marquand. Based on the 1958 Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, it starred Ringo Starr, Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, John Huston, Walter Matthau, and Sugar Ray Robinson....
  
• Carry On... Up the Khyber
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
  The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968 film)
  
  The Charge of the Light Brigadeis a United Kingdom war film made in 1968 in film by Woodfall Film Productions and distributed by United Artists ....
  
• Charly
  Charly
  
  Charly is a 1968 film which tells the fiction story of a mental retardation bakery worker who is the subject of an experiment to increase human intelligence....
  
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film)
  
  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 in film feature film with a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, and songs by the Sherman Brothers, based on Ian Fleming's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang....
   - starring Dick Van Dyke
  Dick Van Dyke
  
  Richard Wayne ?Dick? Van Dyke is an United States actor, presenter and entertainer, with a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his starring roles in Mary Poppins , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder....
  
• Coogan's Bluff
  Coogan's Bluff (film)
  
  Coogan's Bluff is a 1968 in film Universal Studios film directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud, and Susan Clark....
  
• Danger: Diabolik
  Danger: Diabolik
  
  Danger: Diabolik is a 1968 in film feature film from Italian filmmaker Mario Bava based on the Italian comic character Diabolik....
  
• Destroy All Monsters
  Destroy All Monsters
  
  Destroy All Monsters, released in Japan as , is a 1968 in film Kaiju eiga . The ninth in Toho' Godzilla series, it was directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and Sadamasa Arikawa....
  
• The Detective
  The Detective (1968 film)
  
  The Detective is a 1968 film directed by Gordon Douglas , produced by Aaron Rosenberg and starring Frank Sinatra. Based on the 1966 The Detective by Roderick Thorp, The Detective marked a move towards - and was billed as - a more "adult" approach to depicting the life and work of a police detective whilst confronting, for one of the first...
   - starring Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• The Devil's Brigade
  The Devil's Brigade (film)
  
  The Devil's Brigade is a 1968 in film American war film based on the 1966 in literature book of the same name co-written by American novelist and historian Robert H....
   - starring William Holden
  William Holden
  
  William Holden was an Academy Award-winning United States film actor. One of the top stars of the 1950s, he was named one of the "Top 10 stars of the year" six times and appeared on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years......
  , Cliff Robertson
  Cliff Robertson
  
  Clifford Parker "Cliff" Robertson III is an Academy Award - winning United States actor with a film and television career that spans half of a century....
  , Vince Edwards
  Vince Edwards
  
  Vince Edwards was an United States actor, director, and singer, best known for the role of TV doctor "Ben Casey"....
  
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
  Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
  
  Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River was filmed from May 15 - June 30, 1967. It was released on July 12, 1968 by Columbia 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 ....
  
• Faces
  Faces (film)
  
  Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin, who both received Academy Award nominations for this film....
  
• Firecreek
  Firecreek
  
  Firecreek is a 1968 in film western movie directed by Vincent McEveety and starring James Stewart and Henry Fonda in his second role as an antagonist that year....
  
• Finian's Rainbow
  Finian's Rainbow (film)
  
  Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 in film United States film musical theatre directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy is based on their Finian's Rainbow....
  
• Funny Girl
  Funny Girl (film)
  
  Funny Girl is a musical film based on Funny Girl . The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of Broadway theatre and film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein....
  , starring Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  
  Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
   and Omar Sharif
  Omar Sharif
  
  Omar Sharif is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films. He has acted in List of Egyptian films, List of French films, and English language feature films....
  
• Gamera and Mothra: Earth Defense War ?? (17e Parallele Le Vietnam En Guerre)
• Gamera vs. Viras
  Gamera vs. Viras
  
  is the 4th entry in the Gamera film series. It is also known by the title Destroy All Planets....
  (also known as "Destroy All Planets")
• The Great Silence
  The Great Silence
  
  The Great Silence , or The Big Silence, is an Italy spaghetti western. It is widely considered by critics as the masterpiece of director Sergio Corbucci and is one of his better known movies, along with Django ....
  
• The Green Berets
  The Green Berets (film)
  
  The Green Berets is a 1968 in film featuring John Wayne, George Takei, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, and Aldo Ray, nominally based on the eponymous 1965 book by Robin Moore, but the screenplay has little relation to the book....
  
• Hang 'Em High
  Hang 'Em High
  
  Hang 'Em High is a 1968 in film Western directed by Ted Post starring Clint Eastwood. It is the story of an innocent man, Jed Cooper , who survives a lynching by nine men, and becomes a US Marshal to see that justice is done....
  
• Head
  Head (film)
  
  Head is a psychedelic motion picture 1968 in film, starring TV Musical ensemble The Monkees , and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was written and produced by Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson, and directed by Rafelson....
  
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (film)
  
  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a 1968 in film film adaptation of the novel of the The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. It was directed by Robert Ellis Miller....
  
• Hell in the Pacific
  Hell in the Pacific
  
  Hell in the Pacific is a 1968 World War II film starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. It was directed by John Boorman.Two men, one American and one Japanese, are marooned on an uninhabited Pacific island....
  
• Hellfighters
  Hellfighters (film)
  
  Hellfighters is a film released in 1968 in film starring John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Bruce Cabot, Jay C. Flippen, and Vera Miles....
  
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
  I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
  
  I Love You, Alice B. Toklas is a 1968 comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by Hy Averback and featuring music by Harpers Bizarre. The film is set in the counterculture of the 1960s....
  
• Ice Station Zebra
  Ice Station Zebra (film)
  
  Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 in film action film directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine and Jim Brown....
  
• If.... Palme d'Or winner
• Isadora
  Isadora
  
  Isadora is a 1968 in film biography film which tells the story of celebrated American dancer Isadora Duncan. It stars Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox and Jason Robards....
  
• The Lion in Winter
  The Lion in Winter (1968 film)
  
  The Lion in Winter is a 1968 in film historical film costume drama made by Embassy Pictures, based on the Broadway theatre play by James Goldman....
  
• Live a Little, Love a Little
  Live a Little, Love a Little
  
  Live A Little, Love A Little is a 1968 in film musical film and comedy film starring Elvis Presley. The film was directed by Norman Taurog, who had directed several previous Presley vehicles; this was his final film....
  
• La Marca del Hombre Lobo
  La Marca del Hombre Lobo
  
  La Marca del Hombre-Lobo, also known as The Mark of the Wolfman, Hell's Creatures, The Wolfman of Count Dracula and Frankenstein's Bloody Terror , is a 1968 in film Spanish horror film that is the first in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy....
  
• Il marchio di Kriminal
• Mayerling
• The Mercenary
  The Mercenary (film)
  
  The Mercenary , also known as A Professional Gun, is a 1968 in film spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Corbucci. The film stars Franco Nero, Jack Palance, Tony Musante and Giovanna Ralli, and features a musical score by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai....
  , also known as A Professional Gun
• Monterey Pop
  Monterey Pop
  
  Monterey Pop is a 1968 in film concert film by D.A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 in music. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert and David Maysles....
  
• Never a Dull Moment
• Night of the Living Dead
  Night of the Living Dead
  
  Night of the Living Dead, directed by George Romero, is a 1968 in film independent film black-and-white horror film. Ben and Barbra are the protagonists of a story about the mysterious Corporeal reanimation of the recently dead, and their efforts, along with five other people, to survive the night while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania...
  
• Nobody's Perfect
  Nobody's Perfect (1968)
  
  Nobody's Perfect is a naval comedy about the USS Bustard and the antics of her crew. It is based on the novel The Crows of Edwina Hill by Allan R. Bosworth....
  
• Las Noches del Hombre Lobo
  Las Noches del Hombre Lobo
  
  Las Noches del Hombre-Lobo, also known as Nights of the Werewolf and Nights of the Wolfman, is a 1968 in film Spanish horror film film that is the second in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy....
  
• The Odd Couple
  The Odd Couple (film)
  
  The Odd Couple is a comedy film written by Neil Simon, based on his The Odd Couple, directed by Gene Saks, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau....
  
• Ole dole doff Golden Bear winner
• Oliver!
  Oliver! (film)
  
  Oliver! is a 1968 in film musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart....
  , starring Ron Moody
  Ron Moody
  
  Ronald Moodnick, known as Ron Moody is a United Kingdom actor....
  , Oliver Reed
  Oliver Reed
  
  Robert Oliver Reed was an England actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough-guy" roles. His films include Oliver! , Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers , Tommy , Castaway and Gladiator ....
  , Shani Wallis
  Shani Wallis
  
  Shani Wallis is an England actress and singer, who released several records in the 1950s.Making her first stage appearance at the age of four, she later studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on a scholarship, and went on to play many leading lady roles in the West End, but she is best known for the role of Nancy in Carol Reed's 19...
  , Jack Wild
  Jack Wild
  
  Jack Wild was an England actor who achieved fame for his roles in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! with Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed....
  , Mark Lester
  Mark Lester
  
  Mark Lester is an English people former child actor known for playing young male characters in British and European films of the 1960s and 70s....
  
• Once Upon a Time in the West
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  
  Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 in film epic Western spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. The film stars Henry Fonda cast against type as the villain Frank, Charles Bronson as his Wiktionary:nemesis "Harmonica", Jason Robards as the bandit Cheyenne and Claudia Cardinale as Jill, a newly-widowed homesteading with a pa...
  
• The Party
  The Party (film)
  
  The Party is a 1968 comedy film written and film director by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet. The film has a very loose structure, and essentially serves as a series of set pieces for the comic talents of Sellers....
  
• Performance
  Performance (film)
  
  Performance is a Cinema of the United Kingdom made in 1968 but not released until . It was directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and stars James Fox and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones in his film acting debut....
  , directed by Nicolas Roeg
  Nicolas Roeg
  
  'Nicolas Jack Roeg', British Society of Cinematographers is an England film director and cinematographer. Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death , and co-directing Performance , he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Walkabout , Don'...
  , starring Donald Cammell
  Donald Cammell
  
  Donald Seaton Cammell was a United Kingdom film film director who enjoys a cult reputation thanks to his debut film Performance , which he co-directed with Nicolas Roeg....
   and Mick Jagger
  Mick Jagger
  
  Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
  
• Petulia
  Petulia
  
  Petulia is a United Kingdom drama film directed by Richard Lester. The screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus is based on the novel Me and the Arch Kook Petulia by John Haase....
  
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
  The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
  
  The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band is a 1968 in film musical film based on the novel Nebraska by Laura Bower Van Nuys, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Michael O'Herlihy....
  
• Planet of the Apes
  Planet of the Apes (1968 film)
  
  Planet of the Apes is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner loosely based on the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle....
  
• The Producers
  The Producers (1968 film)
  
  The Producers is a comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks, which tells the story of a theatrical producer and an accountant who attempt to cheat their investors by deliberately producing a flop show on Broadway theatre....
  , written and directed by Mel Brooks
  Mel Brooks
  
  Mel Brooks is an United States film director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and Film producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parody....
  , starring Zero Mostel
  Zero Mostel
  
  Samuel Joel ?Zero? Mostel was an United States actor of theatre and film, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in The Producers ....
  , Gene Wilder
  Gene Wilder
  
  Gene Wilder is an American Emmy Award-winning and twice Academy Award-nominated theatre and film actor, film director, screenwriter, and author....
   and Kenneth Mars
  Kenneth Mars
  
  Kenneth Mars is an American television, film and voice actor. Best known for his roles in several Mel Brooks films, the most memorable being the insane Nazi playwright of "Springtime for Hitler", Franz Liebkind, in 1968's The Producers and the relentless Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Fredrich Kemp in 1974's Young Frankenstein....
  
• Rachel, Rachel
  Rachel, Rachel
  
  Rachel, Rachel is a 1968 film which tells the story of a repressed school teacher, living with her overbearing mother, who suddenly gets a man in her life during her summer vacation....
  
• Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)
  
  Romeo and Juliet is a movie adaptation of the William Shakespeare Play Romeo and Juliet.The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey....
  
• Rosemary's Baby
  Rosemary's Baby (film)
  
  Rosemary's Baby is a United States Horror film/thriller film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling novel Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin....
  
• Satanik
• The Secret Life of an American Wife
  The Secret Life of an American Wife
  
  The Secret Life of an American Wife is a 1968 in film comedy film written and directed by George Axelrod. The film was released by 20th Century Fox in 1968 in film, and was considered a box-office failure....
  
• The Secret War of Harry Frigg
  The Secret War of Harry Frigg
  
  The Secret War of Harry Frigg is a 1968 comedy film, directed by Jack Smight and starring Paul Newman.Harry Frigg is a private in the U.S....
  
• Separation
  Separation
  
  Separation may refer to several different subjects:*Separation is a British feature film written by and starring Jane Arden and directed by Jack Bond...
  
• The Shakiest Gun in the West
  The Shakiest Gun in the West
  
  The Shakiest Gun in the West is a 1968 comedy Western film starring Don Knotts. The movie was film director by Alan Rafkin and screenplay by Jim Frtizell and Everett Greenbaum....
  
• The Shoes of the Fisherman
  The Shoes of the Fisherman
  
  'The Shoes of the Fisherman' is a 1963 novel by the Australian author Morris West, as well as a 1968 in film film based on the novel.The book reached #1 on the The New York Times bestseller list for adult fiction on June 30, 1963, and became the #1 bestselling novel in the United States for that year, according to Publishers Weekly'...
  , Anthony Quinn
  Anthony Quinn
  
  Anthony Quinn was a two-time Academy Awards-winning Mexican-American actor, as well as a Painting and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek , Lawrence of Arabia , and Federico Fellini's La strada....
  
• Shame
  Skammen
  
  Shame is a 1968 in film black-and-white film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow.Plot...
  (Skammen)
• Speedway
  Speedway (film)
  
  Speedway is a 1968 in film action film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a racecar driver. Parts of the film were shot at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina and features the guest appearances of several of the top NASCAR drivers of the day....
  
• Star!
  Star! (film)
  
  Star! is a 1968 in film United States musical film biographical film directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by William Fairchild is a highly fictionalized account of the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence....
  
• Stay Away, Joe
  Stay Away, Joe
  
  Stay Away, Joe is a 1968 in film comedy-drama western film with musical interludes set in modern times and starring Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith and Joan Blondell....
  
• The Subject Was Roses
  The Subject Was Roses
  
  The Subject Was Roses is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning 1964 play written by Frank D. Gilroy, who also adapted the work in 1968 for film with the same title....
  
• Targets
  Targets
  
  Targets is a film screenplay, film producer and film director by Peter Bogdanovich....
  
• The Thomas Crown Affair
  The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)
  
  The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 in film movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. A The Thomas Crown Affair was released in 1999 in film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo....
  , starring Steve McQueen
  Steve McQueen
  
  Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen was an American movie actor nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Counterculture of the 1960s, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s....
  , Faye Dunaway
  Faye Dunaway
  
  Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
  
• Twisted Nerve
  Twisted Nerve
  
  Twisted Nerve is a 1968 Great Britain psychological thriller film.It is about a disturbed young man, Martin, who pretends, under the name of Georgie, to be mental retardation in order to be near Susan, a girl he has become infatuated with....
  
• War and Peace
  War and Peace (1968 film)
  
  War and Peace is a Soviet-produced film adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. Sergei Bondarchuk directed the film, co-wrote the screenplay and starred in the role of Pierre Bezukhov....
  
• Where Eagles Dare
  Where Eagles Dare
  
  Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 in film World War II spy film directed by Brian G. Hutton and featuring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Mary Ure....
  
• Will Penny
  Will Penny
  
  Will Penny is a 1968 in film Western directed by Tom Gries starring Charlton Heston and Donald Pleasence. It was based upon an episode of the 1960 in television Sam Peckinpah television series The Westerner called "Line Camp," which was also written and directed by Tom Gries....
  
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
  Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
  
  Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is an animated featurette based on the last two chapters of Winnie-the-Pooh and the second, eighth, and ninth chapters of The House at Pooh Corner, both by A....
  (short subject)
• Witchfinder General
  Witchfinder General (film)
  
  Witchfinder General is a 1968 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom horror film directed by Michael Reeves and starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, and Hilary Dwyer....
  , directed by Michael Reeves
  Michael Reeves
  
  Michael Reeves was an England film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the 1968 American International Pictures/Tigon British Film Productions motion picture Witchfinder General ....
  , 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....
  
• Yellow Submarine
  Yellow Submarine (film)
  
  Yellow Submarine is a 1968 in film animation feature film based on the music of The Beatles. It is also the title for the soundtrack album to the feature film, released as part of The Beatles' music catalogue....
  
• Yours, Mine and Ours
  Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)
  
  Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 in film film, directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda and Van Johnson. Before its release, it had three other working titles: The Beardsley Story, Full House, and His, Hers, and Theirs....
  

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....
  )
• 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)

Births

• January 2 - Cuba Gooding Jr., actor
• January 6 - John Singleton
  John Singleton
  
  John Daniel Singleton is an United States Academy Award-nominated film director, screenwriter, and Film producer. A native of South Los Angeles, many of his films consider the implications of inner-city violence like the critically acclaimed and popular Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning and Baby Boy , and even...
  , director and writer
• January 14 - LL Cool J
  LL Cool J
  
  James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J, is an American rapper and actor. LL Cool J stands for "Ladies love Cool James." He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love" and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "Headsprung", "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Mama Said Knock You O...
  , rapper, actor
• February 1 - Pauly Shore
  Pauly Shore
  
  Paul Montgomery "Pauly" Shore is an United States comedian and actor best known for starring in a series of comedy films in the 1990s and hosting a video show on MTV in the late 1980s and early '90s....
  , actor
• February 18 - Molly Ringwald
  Molly Ringwald
  
  Molly Kathleen Ringwald is an United States actress, singer and dancer. She became popular with teenage audiences in the 1980s, as a result of her starring roles in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink....
  , actress
• March 2 - Daniel Craig
  Daniel Craig
  
  Daniel Wroughton Craig is an England actor. His early film roles included The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert....
  , actor
• March 30- Celine Dion
  Celine Dion
  
  C?line Marie Claudette Dion Order of Canada National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. Born to a large, impoverished family, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband Ren? Ang?lil mortgaged his home to finance her first record....
  , singer
• April 14 - Anthony Michael Hall
  Anthony Michael Hall
  
  Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and film director who starred in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s....
  , actor
• April 24 - Stacy Haiduk
  Stacy Haiduk
  
  Stacy Haiduk is an United States actress who has starred in numerous television shows such as Superboy , seaQuest DSV, The X-Files and more recently as a recurring character on Heroes and as a main character on the popular daytime soap opera All My Children....
  , actress
• April 19 - Ashley Judd
  Ashley Judd
  
  Ashley Judd is a Golden Globe-nominated United Statesn actress, well known for playing a number of strong women characters in films such as Kiss the Girls , Double Jeopardy and High Crimes....
  , actress
• September 10 - Guy Ritchie
  Guy Ritchie
  
  Guy Stuart Ritchie is an England screenwriter and filmmaker....
  , director, writer, married to Madonna
• September 28 - Naomi Watts
  Naomi Watts
  
  Naomi Ellen Watts is a English Australian actress. She is known for her roles in Mulholland Drive , the film remakes of The Ring , King Kong , Funny Games and her Academy Award-nominated role in the film 21 Grams....
  , actress
• September 30 - Monica Bellucci
  Monica Bellucci
  
  Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italy actress and fashion model....
  , actress
• December 2 - Lucy Liu
  Lucy Liu
  
  Lucy Alexis Liu is an Taiwanese American actress. She became known for her role in the television program#seasons/series Ally McBeal and has also appeared in several notable film roles, including Chicago , Kill Bill, and Charlie's Angels ....
  , actress
• December 3 - Brendan Fraser
  Brendan Fraser
  
  Brendan James Fraser is a Canadian-American actor of theatre and film. He has starred in many major Hollywood films, including The Mummy film series, Dudley Do-Right , Looney Tunes: Back in Action, George of the Jungle and Journey to the Center of the Earth ....
  , actor

Deaths

• February 7 - Nick Adams, 36, American actor
• February 13 - Mae Marsh
  Mae Marsh
  
  Mae Marsh was an United States film Actor with a career spanning over 50 years....
  , 73, American actress
• March 16 - June Collyer, 61, American actress
• March 30 - Bobby Driscoll
  Bobby Driscoll
  
  Bobby Driscoll was an Academy Award-winning United States child actor known for a large body of screen- and TV-work from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Company's most popular live-action pictures, such as Song of the South , So Dear to My Heart , and Treasure Island , and he was also the close-up model and t...
  , 31, American actor
• April 16 - Fay Bainter
  Fay Bainter
  
  Fay Okell Bainter was an Academy Award-winning United States actor. She is the aunt of actress Dorothy Burgess and sister-in-law to actress Grace Burgess....
  , 74, American actress
• April 24 - Tommy Noonan
  Tommy Noonan
  
  Tommy Noonan was a comedy genre film performer, screenwriter and producer. He acted in a number of 'A' and 'B' pictures from the 1940s through the 1960s, and he is fondly remembered as Danny McGuire in A Star Is Born , and as Gus Esmond, Marilyn Monroe's boyfriend, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ....
  , 45, American actor
• May 5 - Albert Dekker
  Albert Dekker
  
  Albert Dekker was an United States character actor and politician best known for his roles in Dr. Cyclops, The Killers and The Wild Bunch....
  , 62, American actor
• May 9 - Marion Lorne
  Marion Lorne
  
  Marion Lorne MacDougall was an American Emmy Award-winning character actress....
  , 84, American actress
• May 10 - Scotty Beckett
  Scotty Beckett
  
  Scott Hastings Beckett , better known as Scotty Beckett was an United States child actor. He is best remembered for his parts in the Our Gang and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger television series....
  , 38, American actor
• May 21 - Doris Lloyd
  Doris Lloyd
  
  Hessy Doris Lloyd , was an England actress. She appeared in over 150 films between 1920 in film and 1967 in film, including the 1933 low-budget Monogram Pictures version of Oliver Twist, in which she played Nancy....
  , 71, British actress
• June 4 - Dorothy Gish
  Dorothy Gish
  
  Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an United States actress. Born in Dayton, Ohio, she was the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish.Early life...
  , 70, American actress
• June 7 - Dan Duryea
  Dan Duryea
  
  Dapper Dan redirects here. For the Prohibition gangster, see Danny Hogan. For the fictional pomade, see O Brother Where Art Thou?Dan Duryea was an American actor of film, stage and television....
  , 61, American actor
• July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché
  Alice Guy-Blaché
  
  Alice Guy-Blach? was a French pioneer filmmaker who was the first female director in the motion picture industry and is considered to be one of the first directors of a fiction film....
  , 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker
• July 1 - Virginia Weidler
  Virginia Weidler
  
  Virginia Weidler was an American child actor, popular in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s....
  , 42, American actress
• July 27 - Lilian Harvey
  Lilian Harvey
  
  Lilian Harvey was a British-born German actress and singer....
  , 62, British actress and singer
• August 23 - Hunt Stromberg
  Hunt Stromberg
  
  Hunt Stromberg was an United States film producer. He won an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 1936 film The Great Ziegfeld. He was also nominated for the Irving G....
  , 74, American producer
• August 26 - Kay Francis
  Kay Francis
  
  Kay Francis was an Cinema of the United States stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway theatre in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Bros....
  , 69, American actress
• September 3 - Isabel Withers
  Isabel Withers
  
  Isabel Withers was a stage, motion picture, and television actress from Frankton, Indiana....
  , 72, American actress
• September 18 - Franchot Tone
  Franchot Tone
  
  Franchot Tone was an United States actor....
  , 63, American actor
• October 18 - Lee Tracy
  Lee Tracy
  
  Lee Tracy was an Academy Award-nominated United States actor.Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia , he studied electrical engineering at Union College, and then he served as a 2nd lieutenant in World War I....
  , 70, American actor
• October 30 - Ramón Novarro
  Ramón Novarro
  
  Ram?n Novarro was a Mexico actor who achieved fame as a "Latin lover" in silent films....
  , 69, Mexican actor
• October 30 - Pert Kelton
  Pert Kelton
  
  Pert Kelton was an American vaudeville, movie, radio and television actress who portrayed the original Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason....
  , 61, American actress
• November 8 - Wendell Corey
  Wendell Corey
  
  Wendell Corey was an United States actor and politician.He was born Wendell Reid Corey in Dracut, Massachusetts, the son of Milton Rothwell Corey and Julia Etta McKenney ....
  , 54, American actor
• November 18 - Walter Wanger
  Walter Wanger
  
  Walter Wanger was an Academy Award-winning United States film producer. An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger's career started at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract produc...
  , 74, American producer
• November 25 - Upton Sinclair
  Upton Sinclair
  
  Upton Sinclair, Jr. , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning prolific United States author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating Socialism views....
  , 90, American writer and producer
• December 12 - Tallulah Bankhead
  Tallulah Bankhead
  
  Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an United States actress, talk-show host and wikt:bon vivant....
  , 66, American actress
• December 15 - Dorothy Abbott
  Dorothy Abbott
  
  Dorothy Abbott was an United States film actress....
  , 47, American actress

External links

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  Goethe-Institut
  
  The Goethe-Institut is a non-profit Germany culture institution operational worldwide, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations....
  )