1972 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....
: The Godfather

The Godfather

The Godfather is an Cinema of the United States crime film film based on the The Godfather by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne, who was not credited....
- Albert S. Ruddy, Paramount

Best Director : Bob Fosse

Bob Fosse

Robert Louis ?Bob? Fosse was an American musical theater choreographer and theatre director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction....
 - Cabaret

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....
: Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando, Jr. was an Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time, and was named the fourth AFI's 100 Years......
 - The Godfather (declined)

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....
: Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
 - Cabaret

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....
 ; Joel Grey

Joel Grey

Joel Grey is a Tony Award-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, & Academy Award-winning American stage and screen actor known best for his role as the Emcee in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret ....
 - Cabaret

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....
 : Eileen Heckart

Eileen Heckart

Eileen Heckart was an Academy Awards- and Tony Award-winning United States actress of stage, screen, and television....
 - Butterflies Are Free

Butterflies Are Free

Butterflies Are Free is a play by Leonard Gershe.Loosely based on the life of attorney Scarsdale, New York#Notable People, the plot revolves around a Manhattan blind man whose controlling mother disapproves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie....

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 ....
: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a 1972 surrealism film written and directed by Luis Bu?uel, the famous Spain filmmaker associated with the surrealism....
(Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie), directed by Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel

Luis Bu?uel Portol?s was a Spanish people-born filmmaker who worked mainly in France and Mexico, but also in his native Spain and in the United States....
, France

Drama:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

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

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....
: Marlon Brando - The Godfather

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....
: Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actor and was the muse of Swedish Academy Award winning director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for both the Palme d'Or and twice for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award....
 - The Emigrants

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....
: Cabaret

Cabaret (film)

Cabaret is a 1972 in film American musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, before the rise of the Nazism under Adolf Hitler....

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....
: Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon

'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
 - Avanti!

Avanti!

Avanti! is a 1972 in film comedy directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews and Gianfranco Barra....

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....
: Liza Minnelli - Cabaret

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....
: Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
 - The Godfather

Best Foreign Language Film

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
 (tie): The Emigrants (Utvandrarna), Sweden

Best Foreign Language Film

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
 (tie): The New Land

The New Land

Nybyggarna is a 1972 Cinema of Sweden written by Bengt Forslund and directed by Jan Troell. It stars Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann and Eddie Axberg....
(Nybyggarna), Sweden

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

The Working Class Goes to Heaven is a 1971 film directed by Elio Petri. It depicts a factory worker's realisation of his own condition as a simple "tool" in the process of production and, implicitly, his struggle with the trade unions....
(La classe operaia va in paradiso), directed by Elio Petri

Elio Petri

Elio Petri was an Italy political filmmaker....
, Italy

The Mattei Affair

The Mattei Affair

The Mattei Affair is a 1972 film directed by Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in the Eni, a state-owned oil company which ri...
(Il Caso Mattei), directed by Francesco Rosi

Francesco Rosi

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

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales (film)

The Canterbury Tales is a 1972 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and based on the medieval narrative poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer....
(I Racconti di Canterbury), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italy poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, Painting and political figure....
, Italy / France

Films released in 1972

• 1776
  1776 (musical)
  
  1776 is a Tony Award winning musical theatre with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone. It is based on the events leading to the writing and signing of the United States Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1776....
  
• The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
  The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
  
  The Adventures of Barry McKenzie is a 1972 Australian film starring Barry Crocker, telling the story of an Australian 'yobbo' on his travels to the United Kingdom....
  
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God is an independent film 1972 in film Cinema of Germany film written and directed by Werner Herzog. Klaus Kinski stars in the title role....
  
• Avanti!
  Avanti!
  
  Avanti! is a 1972 in film comedy directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews and Gianfranco Barra....
  
• Ben
• Blacula
  Blacula
  
  Blacula is a 1972 in film blaxploitation horror film produced for American International Pictures. It was directed by William Crain and stars William H....
  
• Butterflies Are Free
  Butterflies Are Free
  
  Butterflies Are Free is a play by Leonard Gershe.Loosely based on the life of attorney Scarsdale, New York#Notable People, the plot revolves around a Manhattan blind man whose controlling mother disapproves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie....
  
• Boxcar Bertha
  Boxcar Bertha
  
  Boxcar Bertha , one of acclaimed director Martin Scorsese's earliest films, is a loose adaptation of Sister of the Road, the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Ben Reitman....
  , directed by Martin Scorsese
  Martin Scorsese
  
  Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
  
• Cabaret
  Cabaret (film)
  
  Cabaret is a 1972 in film American musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, before the rise of the Nazism under Adolf Hitler....
  
• The Candidate
  The Candidate (1972 film)
  
  The Candidate is an United States film released in 1972 in film, starring Robert Redford. Themes of the film include that of how the political machine corrupts, and the pointlessness of politics....
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  The Canterbury Tales (film)
  
  The Canterbury Tales is a 1972 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and based on the medieval narrative poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer....
  , by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  
  Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italy poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, Painting and political figure....
  , Golden Bear winner
• Carry On Abroad
  Carry On Abroad
  
  Carry On Abroad is the twenty fourth Carry On films, released in 1972 in film. It was the last Carry On film featuring Charles Hawtrey in the cast....
  
• Carry On Matron
  Carry On Matron
  
  Carry On Matron is the twenty-third Carry On films film. It was released in 1972 in film....
  
• Cheongchun gyosa
  The Young Teacher
  
  The Young Teacher is a 1972 in film South Korean family film drama film which is recognized as the first film released in the VHS format....
  
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
  Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
  
  Conquest of the Planet of the Apes , directed by J. Lee Thompson, is the fourth film of the Planet of the Apes series. It explores mankind's future history, as established in Escape from the Planet of the Apes , and is the most violent sequel in the series....
  
• The Cowboys
  The Cowboys
  
  The Cowboys is a 1972 Western film starring John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Slim Pickens, A Martinez and Bruce Dern. Robert Carradine makes his film debut....
  
• Cries and Whispers
  Cries and Whispers
  
  Cries and Whispers is a 1973 Sweden film about two sisters who watch over their third sister on her deathbed, torn between fearing she might die and hoping that she will....
  
• Deep Throat
  Deep Throat (film)
  
  Deep Throat is a 1972 in film United States pornographic film written and directed by Gerard Damiano and starring Linda Lovelace .One of the first pornographic films to feature a plot, character development and relatively high production standards, Deep Throat earned mainstream attention and launched the "porn chic" trend despite t...
  
• Deliverance
  Deliverance
  
  Deliverance is a 1972 in film drama film produced and directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Jon Voight, and Ned Beatty in his film debut....
  
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  
  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a 1972 surrealism film written and directed by Luis Bu?uel, the famous Spain filmmaker associated with the surrealism....
  
• Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo
  Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo
  
  Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo, also known as Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman and Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf, is a 1972 in film Spanish horror film film, the sixth in the series, about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy....
  
• Endless Night
  Endless Night
  
  Endless Night is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on October 30, 1967 in literature and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year....
   -(film mentioned in article)
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (film)
  
  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* is Woody Allen's fifth film, consisting of a series of short sequences loosely inspired by the Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex ....
  
• Un flic
  Un flic
  
  Un flic is a 1972 Cinema of France film, the last directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It stars Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, and Richard Crenna....
  (A Cop), starring Alain Delon
  Alain Delon
  
  Alain Delon is a C?sar Award-winning French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 he was garnering comparisons to famed French actors such as G?rard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean....
  , Catherine Deneuve
  Catherine Deneuve
  
  Catherine Deneuve is a two-time C?sar Award-winning, BAFTA Award-nominated and Academy Award-nominated French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of beautiful ice maidens for various directors, including Luis Bu?uel and Roman Polanski....
  
• The Final Comedown
  The Final Comedown
  
  The Final Comedown is a 1972 in film drama film written, produced and directed by Oscar Williams and starring Billy Dee Williams and D'Urville Martin....
  
• Frenzy
  Frenzy
  
  Frenzy is a Thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The film is based upon the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern, and was adapted for the screen by Anthony Shaffer....
  
• Fritz the Cat
  Fritz the Cat (film)
  
  Fritz the Cat is a 1972 in film animated film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi as his feature film debut. Based on the comic books by Robert Crumb, the film was the first animated feature film to receive an X-rated in the United States....
  — first animated movie to receive an X
  X-rated
  
  X-rated is a motion picture rating system indicating strong adult content, typically sexual content and nudity, but also including violence and profanity....
   rating.
• The Fury of the Wolfman
  The Fury of the Wolfman
  
  La Furia del Hombre Lobo, also known as The Fury of the Wolfman and The Wolfman Never Sleeps, is a 1972 in film Spanish horror film film that is the fifth in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy....
  
• The Getaway
  The Getaway (1972 film)
  
  The Getaway is a 1972 in film crime film and action film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw and Ben Johnson ....
  
• The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
  The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
  
  The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty is a 1972 in film German language drama film directed by Wim Wenders. It was adapted from a novella by Wenders' long-time collaborator Peter Handke....
  
• The Godfather
  The Godfather
  
  The Godfather is an Cinema of the United States crime film film based on the The Godfather by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne, who was not credited....
  
• Godzilla vs. Gigan
  Godzilla vs. Gigan
  
  Godzilla vs. Gigan, released in Japan as and also known as Godzilla on Monster Island when first released to U.S. theaters, is a 1972 tokusatsu film....
  
• The Heartbreak Kid
  The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)
  
  The Heartbreak Kid is a 1972 in film romantic comedy film directed by Elaine May, written by Neil Simon, and starring Charles Grodin, Jeannie Berlin, and Cybill Shepherd....
  
• The Hot Rock
  The Hot Rock (film)
  
  The Hot Rock is a comic caper movie directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Redford, George Segal and Moses Gunn. The film was based upon Donald E....
  
• Images
  Images (film)
  
  Images is a 1972 English language psychological thriller directed by Robert Altman....
  
• Jeremiah Johnson
  Jeremiah Johnson
  
  Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 in film Western , film director by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp....
  
• Lady Caroline Lamb
  Lady Caroline Lamb (film)
  
  Lady Caroline Lamb is a 1972 film based on the life of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron and wife of Prime Minister of the United KingdomWilliam Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne....
  
• Lady Sings the Blues
• The Last House on the Left
  The Last House on the Left
  
  The Last House on the Left is a horror film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Sean S. Cunningham. There is a The Last House on the Left scheduled for release on March 13, 2009....
  , Controversial film about the rape of two teenage girls.
• Last Tango in Paris
  Last Tango in Paris
  
  Last Tango in Paris is a 1973 film directed by italy Bernardo Bertolucci which tells of an United States widower drawn into a sexual relationship with a young, soon-to-be-married Parisian woman....
  (Ultimo tango a Parigi)
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
  The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
  
  The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean is a 1972 in film western film written by John Milius, directed by John Huston, and starring Paul Newman ....
  
• Man of La Mancha
  Man of La Mancha (film)
  
  Man of La Mancha is a 1972 in film film version of the Broadway theatre musical theatre Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion....
  
• Mary, Queen of Scots
  Mary, Queen of Scots (film)
  
  Mary, Queen of Scots is a Universal Pictures biographical feature film based on the life of Queen Mary I of Scotland. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave as the titular character and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I....
  
• The Mattei Affair
  The Mattei Affair
  
  The Mattei Affair is a 1972 film directed by Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in the Eni, a state-owned oil company which ri...
  , Palme d'Or winner
• My Name Is Shanghai Joe
  My Name Is Shanghai Joe
  
  My Name Is Shanghai Joe is a 1972 spaghetti western about a Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, who fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master....
  
• Napoleon and Samantha
  Napoleon and Samantha
  
  Napoleon and Samantha is a 1972 in film family/adventure/drama directed by Bernard McEveety and written by Stewart Raffill. It stars Michael Douglas, Jodie Foster, and Johnny Whitaker....
  
• The New Land
  The New Land
  
  Nybyggarna is a 1972 Cinema of Sweden written by Bengt Forslund and directed by Jan Troell. It stars Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann and Eddie Axberg....
  (Nybyggarna), Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film
• Now You See Him, Now You Don't
  Now You See Him, Now You Don't
  
  Now You See Him, Now You Don't is a Walt Disney film from 1972 in film, starring Kurt Russell, a student in the fictional Medfield College. It is the sequel to the 1969 film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes....
  
• The Other
  The Other
  
  The Other is a 1972 thriller film film director by Robert Mulligan, screenwriter by Tom Tryon, from his bestselling novel. It stars Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, and Chris & Martin Udvarnoky....
  
• Pete 'n' Tillie
  Pete 'n' Tillie
  
  Pete 'n' Tillie was a film released in 1972 in film. It starred Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett in the title roles....
  , starring 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....
  
• Play It Again, Sam
• Pocket Money
  Pocket Money
  
  Pocket Money is a 1972 in film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, from a screenplay written by Terrence Malick and based on the novel Jim Kane by Joseph P....
  
• The Poseidon Adventure
  The Poseidon Adventure (film)
  
  The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film based on a The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico. It concerns the capsize of a luxurious ocean liner by a tidal wave and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to journey up to the bottom of the hull of the liner before it sinks....
  
• Prime Cut
  Prime Cut
  
  Prime Cut is a 1972 in film United States film produced by Joe Wizan and directed by Michael Ritchie , with a screenplay written by Robert Dillon....
  , starring Lee Marvin
  Lee Marvin
  
  Lee Marvin was an United States film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6'2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hard-boiled characters, but after winning a Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou, he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles....
   and Gene Hackman
  Gene Hackman
  
  Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. He came to fame during the 1970s, after his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection , and continued to appear in Hollywood films playing major roles, including Harry Caul in The Conversation, Norman Dale in Hoosiers, Agent Rupert Anderso...
  
• Shaft's Big Score
  Shaft's Big Score
  
  Shaft's Big Score, released in 1972 in film, is the second film in the trilogy in which actor Richard Roundtree starred as the private-eye, John Shaft....
  
• Skyjacked
• Slaughterhouse-Five
  Slaughterhouse-Five (film)
  
  Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill....
  
• Sleuth, with Laurence Olivier
  Laurence Olivier
  
  Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
   and Michael Caine
  Michael Caine
  
  Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
  
• Snoopy Come Home
• Solaris
  Solaris (1972 film)
  
  Solaris is a Cinema of Russia directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is based on the novel Solaris by Poland science fiction author Stanislaw Lem....
  , Soviet version, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Tarkovsky
  
  Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russians filmmaker, writer and opera director.Tarkovksy is listed among the 100 most critically acclaimed film directors; director Ingmar Bergman was quoted as saying "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life...
  
• Sounder
  Sounder (film)
  
  Sounder is a 1972 in film film starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal , and Eric Hooks. It was adapted by Lonne Elder III and directed by Martin Ritt from the 1970 Newbery Medal-winning novel Sounder by William H....
  , starring Cicely Tyson
  Cicely Tyson
  
  Cicely Tyson is an United States Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for appearances in the film Sounder and the television specials The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots ....
  
• Steptoe and Son
  Steptoe and Son
  
  Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Galton and Simpson about two rag and bone man living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London....
  , starred Wilfrid Brambell
  Wilfrid Brambell
  
  Wilfrid Brambell was an Ireland film and television actor, born in Dublin, best known for his role in the United Kingdom television series Steptoe and Son....
   and 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....
  
• Street Mobster
  Street Mobster
  
  Street Mobster is a 1972 in film yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Bunta Sugawara and Noboru Ando.The plot centres around a Yakuza troublemaker released from prison only to discover that the crime underworld in which he used to operate and...
  
• Super Fly
• The Other Side of the Underneath
  The Other Side of the Underneath
  
  The Other Side of the Underneath is a 1972 British feature film written and directed by Jane Arden and starring Elaine Donovan, Sheila Allen, Liz Danciger, Penny Slinger, Ann Lynn and Suzanka Fraey....
  
• Treasure Island
  Treasure Island (1972 film)
  
  Treasure Island is a 1972 film starring Orson Welles based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.It featured Walter Slezak as Trelawney, Rik Battaglia as Captain Smollett, and ?ngel del Pozo as Doctor Livesey....
  , starring Orson Welles
  Orson Welles
  
  George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
  
• Une belle fille comme moi, directed by François Truffaut
  François Truffaut
  
  Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
  
• The Valachi Papers
• What's Up, Doc?
  What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)
  
  What's Up, Doc? is a screwball comedy from 1972 in film, directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, and Madeline Kahn ....
  
• Young Winston
  Young Winston
  
  Young Winston is a 1972 in film British film based on the early years of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill.The film was based on the book My Early Life by Winston Churchill....
  

Births

• January 1- Catherine McCormack
  Catherine McCormack
  
  Catherine McCormack is an Olivier Award-nominated English actor, known for her stage acting as well as her big screen performances in films such as Braveheart, Spy Game, and Dangerous Beauty....
  , actress
• January 11- Amanda Peet
  Amanda Peet
  
  Amanda Peet is an American film and television actress.After studying with Uta Hagen, Peet began her career in television commercials, and progressed to small roles in television and indie movies....
  , actress
• January 15- Kobe Tai (also known as Carla Scott)
  Kobe Tai
  
  Kobe Tai is a pornographic actor of Taiwanese and Japanese people heritage. She entered the adult film industry at the age of around 24, and appeared in over 70 films between 1996 and 2003....
  , adult and mainstream actress
• March 23 - Judith Godrèche
  Judith Godrèche
  
  Judith Godr?che is a French actress and author, born in Paris....
  , actress
• March 31 - Alejandro Amenábar
  Alejandro Amenábar
  
  Alejandro Fernando Amen?bar Cantos is a Spain-Chile film film director. Amen?bar was born in Santiago de Chile, Chile in 1972, to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth....
  , Spanish director, writer and soundtrack composer
• April 17 - Jennifer Garner
  Jennifer Garner
  
  'Jennifer Anne Garner Affleck' is an United States actor. She is best known for her role as CIA agent Sydney Bristow on TV's Alias , as well as for her roles in the films Juno , Pearl Harbor , Dude, Where's My Car?, 13 Going on 30, Catch Me if You Can, Daredevil , Elektra , Catch and Release , and The King...
  , actress
• May 28 - Chiara Mastroianni
  Chiara Mastroianni
  
  Chiara-Charlotte Mastroianni is an Italy-French people actor....
  , actress
• June 12- Robin Tunney
  Robin Tunney
  
  Robin Tunney is an United States actress. She is best known for her lead role in The Craft ....
  , actress
• August 12- Rebecca Gayheart
  Rebecca Gayheart
  
  Rebecca Gayheart is an American television and film actress....
  ,actress
• August 15- Ben Affleck
  Ben Affleck
  
  Ben Affleck is an United Statesn actor, film director and screenwriter. He became known in the mid 1990s, after his involvement in the film Mallrats , and has since become an Academy Award winner for his screenplay in Good Will Hunting in 1997....
  , actor
• September 8 - Giovanni Frezza
  Giovanni Frezza
  
  Giovanni Frezza is an Italians former child actor who appeared in a number of horror films througout the 1980s.Giovanni Frezza was born in Potenza, Italy....
  , actor
• September 28 - Gwyneth Paltrow
  Gwyneth Paltrow
  
  Gwyneth Kate Paltrow born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe- and double Screen Actors Guild Award- winning United States actress....
  , actress
• October 17- Eminem (also known as Marshall Mathers)
  Eminem
  
  Marshall Bruce Mathers III , known by his primary stage name Eminem, or by his alter-ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor....
  , rapper and actor
• November 1 - Jenny McCarthy
  Jenny McCarthy
  
  Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy is an American model , comedian, actor, author, and activism. She began her career as a Playboy magazine model in 1993, before launching a television and film acting career ....
  ,actress
• November 7 - Jeremy
  Jeremy London
  
  Jeremy Michael London is an United States actor....
   and Jason London
  Jason London
  
  Jason Paul London is an United Statesn actor, best known for his role as Randall "Pink" Floyd in director Richard Linklater's film Dazed and Confused ....
  , actors
• December 7 - Jennifer Syme
  Jennifer Syme
  
  Jennifer Maria Syme was an American actor and production assistant. She is best known for her role in Lost Highway.Early Life and Career...
  , entertainment industry employee (d. 2001)
• December 29 - Jude Law
  Jude Law
  
  Jude Law is an England actor, film producer and film director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first TV role in 1989....
  , actor

Deaths

• January 1 - Maurice Chevalier
  Maurice Chevalier
  
  Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine"....
  , French actor/singer
• January 8 - Wesley Ruggles
  Wesley Ruggles
  
  Wesley Ruggles was an United States film director.He was born in Los Angeles, California, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin....
  , movie director, producer
• January 17 - Rochelle Hudson
  Rochelle Hudson
  
  Rochelle Hudson was an United States film actress from the 1930s through the 1960s....
  , actress
• February 2 - Jessie Royce Landis
  Jessie Royce Landis
  
  Jessie Royce Landis was an United States Actor.She was born Jessie Royce Medbury in Chicago, Illinois. Landis was a stage actress for much of her career....
  , actress
• February 7 - Walter Lang
  Walter Lang
  
  Walter Lang was an United states film director.Born in Memphis, Tennessee, as a young man he went to New York City where he found clerical work at a movie studio....
  , director
• March 20 - Marilyn Maxwell
  Marilyn Maxwell
  
  Marilyn Maxwell , born Marvel Marilyn Maxwell, was an American actress and entertainer.Noted for her blonde hair and sexy persona she appeared in several films and radio programs, and entertained the troops during World War II and the Korean War on United Service Organizations tours with Bob Hope....
  , actress
• April 5 - Isabel Jewell
  Isabel Jewell
  
  Isabel Jewell was an USA film actor....
  , actress
• April 5 - Brian Donlevy
  Brian Donlevy
  
  Brian Donlevy was an Irish-born American actor, noted for playing tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He mainly appeared in supporting roles....
  , actor
• April 25 - George Sanders
  George Sanders (actor)
  
  George Henry Sanders was an Academy Award-winning British people film and television actor....
  , British actor (b. 1906)
• April 30 - Gia Scala
  Gia Scala
  
  Gia Scala was an England United States actress of Italian-Irish descent....
  , actress
• May 3 - Bruce Cabot
  Bruce Cabot
  
  Bruce Cabot was an United States film actor. He is best known as Jack Driscoll in King Kong . He was married twice, to the actresses Adrienne Ames and Francesca De Scaffa....
  , actor
• May 15 - Nigel Green
  Nigel Green
  
  Nigel Green was a South African-born United Kingdom character actor. Because of his strapping build and commanding demeanour he would often be found playing military types and men of action in such classic sixties films as Jason and the Argonauts , Zulu and The Ipcress File ....
  , actor
• May 21 - 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....
  , actress
• July 6 - Brandon De Wilde
  Brandon De Wilde
  
  Andre Brandon De Wilde was an Academy Award-nominated United States actor born into a theatrical family in Brooklyn. His father, Frederick A. De Wilde, was a Broadway theatre production stage manager, and his mother, Eugenia De Wilde, was a part-time Broadway actor....
  , actor
• August 7 - Joi Lansing
  Joi Lansing
  
  Joi Lansing was a model, a film and television actress, and a nightclub singer....
  , actress
• October 9 - Miriam Hopkins
  Miriam Hopkins
  
  Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an Academy Award-nominated American actress....
  , actress
• October 16 - Leo G. Carroll
  Leo G. Carroll
  
  Leo Gratten Carroll was an England actor, best known for his roles in several Alfred Hitchcock films and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.....
  , actor (b. 1886
  1886 in film
  
  Events*Louis Le Prince is granted an American dual-patent on Louis Le Prince#LePrince Cine Camera-Projector types that combines a Movie camera with a Movie projector....
  )
• October 24 - Claire Windsor
  Claire Windsor
  
  Claire Windsor was a notable film actress of the early Silent film era....
  , actress (b. 1897)
• November 16 - Vera Karalli
  Vera Karalli
  
  Vera Alexeyevna Karalli was a notable Russian people ballet dancer, choreographer and actress during the early years of the twentieth century....
  , actress
• November 23 - Marie Wilson
  Marie Wilson (American actress)
  
  Katherine Elisabeth Wilson , better known by her stage name, Marie Wilson, was an Academy Award-nominated United States radio, film, and television actress....
  , actress
• December 9 - Louella Parsons
  Louella Parsons
  
  Louella Parsons was an United States movie gossip columnist....
  , Hollywood columnist
  Columnist
  
  A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating copy that can sometimes be strongly opinionated. Column appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs on the Internet....
  
• December 26 - Harry S. Truman
  Harry S. Truman
  
  Harry S. Truman was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . As the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, he succeeded Franklin D....
  , president/actor