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• February 7 - Blazing Saddles
  Blazing Saddles
  
  Blazing Saddles is a satire Western #Western movies comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, it was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft....
   is released in USA
• May 1 - George Lucas
  George Lucas
  
  George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
   creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  
  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is an Cinema of the United States 1977 in film space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: Star Wars#Original trilogy continue the story, while a Star Wars#Prequel trilogy contributes backstory, primarily for the troubled charac...
  .
• August 7 - Peter Wolf
  Peter Wolf
  
  File:PeterWolfPerforming.jpgFor the Austrian-born composer, producer, songwriter and arranger, see Peter Wolf .Peter Wolf is an United States rock and roll musician, best known as the lead vocalist for the J....
  , lead singer of The J. Geils Band marries actress 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 ....
  
• November 1 - Technicolor
  Technicolor
  
  Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
   ceases its legendary dye-transfer printing process.
• Robert Redford
  Robert Redford
  
  Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
   has three films in the Top Ten at the North American box office, the first actor to do so since Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
   in 1946.
• Kevin Costner
  Kevin Costner
  
  Kevin Michael Costner is an United States actor, film producer, and Academy Award-winning film director. He has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards, won two Oscars and a Golden Globe Award....
   made his film debut in Sizzle Beach, USA, although the film was not released until 1986

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, Part II - Coppola Company, Paramount

Best Director: 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, Part II

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....
: Art Carney

Art Carney

Arthur William Matthew ?Art? Carney was an Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning United States actor in film, Stage , television and radio programming....
 - Harry and Tonto

Harry and Tonto

Harry and Tonto is a 1974 film directed by Paul Mazursky and starring Art Carney as Harry Coombes, an elderly widower who is forced from his condemned New York City apartment against his will....

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....
: Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn is an Academy Awards-winning American actress....
 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

.Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 in film which tells the story of a widow who moves with her young son to Tucson, Arizona to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a diner....

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....
: Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro

Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
 - The Godfather, Part II

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....
: Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
 - Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)

Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 in film UK mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet and based on the 1934 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie....

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 ....
: Amarcord

Amarcord

Amarcord , directed by Federico Fellini, is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman that combines poignancy with bawdy comedy. It tells the story of a wild cast of characters inhabiting the fictional Borgo based on Fellini?s hometown of Rimini in 1930s Fascist Italy....
, directed by Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

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

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....
: Chinatown

Chinatown (film)

Chinatown is a Cinema of the United States neo-noir film, directed by Roman Polanski. The film features many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part Mystery fiction and part psychology drama....

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....
: Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson

John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an United States actor, film director, film producer, and screenwriter, Movie star for his often dark-themed portrayals of Neurosis Fictional character....
 - Chinatown

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....
: Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands is an American award nominated actress....
 - A Woman Under the Influence

A Woman Under the Influence

A Woman Under the Influence is an Academy Award nominated film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a young wife and mother's uninhibited, erratic, psychotic behavior which leads her violent, confused husband to commit her for psychiatric treatment, leaving the family even more dysfunctional than before....

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 Longest Yard

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....
: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto

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....
: Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch is a Golden Globe winning, American actress....
 - The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (1973 film)

The Three Musketeers is a 1973 in film film based on the The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, p?re. Directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser ....

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....
: 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 ....
 - Chinatown

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....
: Scenes from a Marriage

Scenes from a Marriage

Scenes from a Marriage is a 1973 in film Swedish cinema film and mini-series written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The story follows the relationship between Marianne and Johan over the course of a number of years....
, Sweden

The Conversation

The Conversation

The Conversation is a mystery film Thriller about audio surveillance, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest, and featuring Harrison Ford, Teri Garr and an uncredited appearance from Robert Duvall....
, directed by 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....
, United States

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, directed by Ted Kotcheff

Ted Kotcheff

Ted Kotcheff The son of immigrants from Macedonia, after graduating in English Literature from the University of Toronto, Kotcheff began his television career at the age of twenty-four when he joined the staff of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with television still very much in its infancy in the country....
, Canada

Films released in 1974

• Abby
  Abby (film)
  
  Abby is a 1974 blaxploitation/horror film about a woman who is possessed by an African sex demon. The film starred William H. Marshall, best known for portraying the lead role in Blacula, Terry Carter, and Carol Speed as the title character, Abby....
  
• Aina
  Aina (film)
  
  Aina, also known as The Mirror, is a 1977 Pakistani film directed by Nazr-ul-Islam. Singers are Nayyara Noor, Mehnaz and Alamgir . The film starred Shabnam and Nadeem in the lead roles and holds the distinction for being the longest running Pakistani film on record....
  
• Airport 1975
  Airport 1975
  
  Airport 1975 is a 1974 in film disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 in film hit Airport . The movie is one among many of a class of Disaster films that became a movie-going craze during the 1970s....
  
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  
  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a 1974 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem....
  
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  
  .Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 in film which tells the story of a widow who moves with her young son to Tucson, Arizona to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a diner....
  , 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...
  
• All Creatures Great and Small
  All Creatures Great and Small (film)
  
  All Creatures Great and Small is a feature film directed in 1974 by Claude Whatham.It was based on the book All Creatures Great and Small which was a compilation volume first published in 1972 comprising James Herriot's first two novels, If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet , which were considered too s...
  
• Alvin Rides Again (aka Alvin Purple Rides Again)
• Animals Are Beautiful People
  Animals Are Beautiful People
  
  Animals Are Beautiful People is a 1974 in film nature documentary about the wildlife in Southern Africa. It was filmed in the Namib Desert, the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango River and Okavango Delta....
  
• Flesh for Frankenstein
  Flesh for Frankenstein
  
  Andy Warhol's Frankenstein is a 1973 in film horror film directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol, Andrew Braunsberg, Louis Peraino, and Carlo Ponti....
   (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Golden Bear winner
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  
  The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines, whose narrator, an African American woman named Jane Pittman, tells about her life, leading up to her joining in the African-American Civil Rights Movement in 1962 at age 110....
   (Made for TV)
• Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own
  Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
  
  Barry McKenzie Holds His Own is the 1974 sequel to the 1972 Australian comedy film The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.Returning from the original film is Barry Crocker in the title role, as well as Barry Humphries in the role of Barry's aunt, Dame Edna Everage....
  
• The Bears and I
• The Beast Must Die
  The Beast Must Die (film)
  
  The Beast Must Die is a 1974 in film horror film directed by Paul Annett. The screenplay was written by Michael Winder, based on the short story "There Shall Be No Darkness" by James Blish....
  
• Benji
  Benji (film)
  
  Benji is the first film in a series of nine about the golden mixed breed dog named Benji. It was written and directed by Joe Camp and was released in 1974 in film....
  
• Black Christmas
• Blazing Saddles
  Blazing Saddles
  
  Blazing Saddles is a satire Western #Western movies comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, it was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft....
  
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
  Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
  
  Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a Thriller directed by Sam Peckinpah and featuring Warren Oates, made in Mexico on low budget after the commercial failure of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ....
  
• Caged Heat
  Caged Heat
  
  Caged Heat is a 1974 in film exploitation film in the women in prison film genre. It was written and directed by Jonathan Demme for Roger Corman's New World Pictures....
  , directorial debut of Jonathan Demme
  Jonathan Demme
  
  Robert Jonathan Demme is an Academy Award for Directing-winning United States film director, film producer and writer....
  
• California Split
  California Split
  
  California Split is a 1974 in film film directed by Robert Altman and starring Elliott Gould and George Segal as a pair of gamblers. It was the first non-Cinerama movie to use eight-track stereo sound....
  
• Carry On Dick
  Carry On Dick
  
  Carry On Dick was the 26th Carry On films. It was released in 1974 in film and marked the end of an era for the series. It featured the last appearances of Sid James, Barbara Windsor and Hattie Jacques....
  
• The Cars That Ate Paris
  The Cars that Ate Paris
  
  The cars that ate Paris is a 1974 in film Australian film. Directed by Peter Weir, it was his first feature film. Shot mostly in the rural town of Sofala, New South Wales, the film is set in the fictional town of Paris in which most of the inhabitants appear to be directly, or indirectly, involved in profiting from the results of car acc...
  
• Chinatown
  Chinatown (film)
  
  Chinatown is a Cinema of the United States neo-noir film, directed by Roman Polanski. The film features many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part Mystery fiction and part psychology drama....
  
• Claudine
  Claudine (film)
  
  Claudine is a notable 1974 in film feature film produced by Third World Films and released to theatres by 20th Century Fox. Starring Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and King Coleman, Claudine was written by Lester Pine and Tina Pine, and directed by John Berry....
  
• The Clockmaker
  The Clockmaker
  
  The Clockmaker...
  
• The Conversation
  The Conversation
  
  The Conversation is a mystery film Thriller about audio surveillance, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest, and featuring Harrison Ford, Teri Garr and an uncredited appearance from Robert Duvall....
   by 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....
  , Palme d'Or winner
• Dark Star
  Dark Star (film)
  
  Dark Star is a 1974 sci-fi tongue-in-cheek comedy motion picture directed by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon. Dark Star was ranked #95 on Rotten Tomatoes' Journey Through Sci-Fi....
  , directed by John Carpenter
  John Carpenter
  
  John Howard Carpenter is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, composer and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, his name is most commonly associated with horror film and science fiction film....
  
• Day for Night
  Day for Night (film)
  
  La Nuit am?ricaine is a 1974 French language film directed by Fran?ois Truffaut. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre L?aud. In French, day for night is a technical process whereby sequences shot during the daytime are made to appear as if they are taking place at night....
  
• Death Wish
  Death Wish (film)
  
  Death Wish is a 1974 in film action film-crime film-drama film based on the Death Wish by Brian Garfield. The film was directed by Michael Winner and stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, a man who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter is sexually assaulted by muggers....
  
• Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
  Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
  
  Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry is a cult film 1974 in film car chase film starring Peter Fonda, Susan George , Adam Roarke, and Vic Morrow. The film was directed by John Hough....
  
• Dreams and Nightmares - (Abe Osheroff
  Abe Osheroff
  
  Abraham Osheroff was an American social activist, carpenter, war veteran, documentary filmmaker, and lecturer....
  )
• Earthquake
  Earthquake (film)
  
  Earthquake is a 1974 in film USA disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations....
  
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
  
  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is a Germany film written and directed by Werner Herzog about the legend of Kaspar Hauser. Its original German language title is Jeder f?r sich und Gott gegen alle, which means "Every man for himself and God against them all"....
   (aka Every Man For Himself and God Against All)
• F for Fake
  F for Fake
  
  F for Fake is the last major film completed by Orson Welles. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced, meandering investigation of the natures of authorship and authenticity, as well as the basis of the value of...
   (originally Vérités et Mensonges)
• The Front Page
  The Front Page (1974 film)
  
  The Front Page is a 1974 in film comedy film-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as a reporter and editor at a 1920s Chicago newspaper....
  
• Ginger in the Morning
  Ginger in the Morning
  
  Ginger in the Morning is a 1974 in film comedy film starring Fred Ward and Sissy Spacek. It was also the first American film appearance of a young Fred Ward....
  
• The Godfather Part II
  The Godfather Part II
  
  The Godfather Part II is an Cinema of the United States 1974 in film crime drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo....
  
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
  Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
  
  , originally known in the United States as Godzilla vs. the Bionic Monster and subsequently Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster, is a 1974 tokusatsu kaiju film....
  
• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
  The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
  
  The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a fantasy film released in 1974 in film and starring John Phillip Law as Sinbad. It includes a score by composer Mikl?s R?zsa and is noted for the stop-motion effects by Ray Harryhausen....
  
• Gone in 60 Seconds
  Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 film)
  
  Gone in 60 Seconds is a 1974 in film action film written, directed, produced by and starring H.B 'Toby' Halicki. It centers on a group of car thieves and the 48 cars they must steal in a matter of days....
  
• Great Expectations
  Great Expectations (1974 film)
  
  Great Expectations is a 1974 in film film made for television based on the Charles Dickens Great Expectations. It was directed by Joseph Hardy, with screenwriter Sherman Yellen and music by Maurice Jarre, starring Michael York as Pip and Sarah Miles as Estella....
  
• The Great Gatsby
  The Great Gatsby (1974 film)
  
  The Great Gatsby is a 1974 in film Academy Award winning Cinema of the United States romance film drama film distributed by Newdon Productions and Paramount Pictures....
  
• Harry and Tonto
  Harry and Tonto
  
  Harry and Tonto is a 1974 film directed by Paul Mazursky and starring Art Carney as Harry Coombes, an elderly widower who is forced from his condemned New York City apartment against his will....
  
• Herbie Rides Again
  Herbie Rides Again
  
  Herbie Rides Again is the second in a series of movies made by Walt Disney Productions starring Herbie the Love Bug, a white Volkswagen racing VW Beetle with a mind of its own....
  
• The Island at the Top of the World
• Jock Petersen
• The Klansman
  The Klansman
  
  The Klansman is a 1974 in film United States motion picture drama film based on the book of the same name by William Bradford Huie....
  
• Lacombe Lucien
  Lacombe Lucien
  
  Lacombe, Lucien is a Cinema of France that tells the story of a teenage boy during the German occupation of France in World War II. It is based in part on director Louis Malle's own experiences....
  
• Lenny
• The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (redirects to Grizzly Adams - character)
• The Longest Yard
• The Lords of Flatbush
  The Lords of Flatbush
  
  The Lords of Flatbush is a 1974 in film United States motion picture drama about a street gang in leather jackets from the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York....
  
• Lovin' Molly
  Lovin' Molly
  
  Lovin' Molly is a 1974 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges, Blythe Danner in the title role, Ed Binns, and Susan Sarandon....
  
• Mame
  Mame (film)
  
  Mame is a 1974 United States musical film based on the Mame, and starring Lucille Ball....
  
• The Man with the Golden Gun
  The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
  
  The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
  
• McQ
  McQ
  
  McQ is a 1974 in film crime film starring John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, and Colleen Dewhurst. The film made extensive use of actual Seattle, Washington locations....
  
• Murder on the Orient Express
  Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
  
  Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 in film UK mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet and based on the 1934 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie....
  
• The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
  The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
  
  The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat is a 1974 animated film directed by Robert Taylor. It is an adult animation featuring a series of drug-induced vignettes both related and unrelated to life in the 1970s....
  
• Parade
  Parade (film)
  
  Parade was the final film directed by Jacques Tati. It was made for television and featured Tati as a clown in a circus....
  
• The Parallax View
  The Parallax View
  
  The Parallax View is a 1974 in film film directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Warren Beatty , adapted by David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr and an uncredited Robert Towne from the 1970 novel by Loren Singer about a reporter's dangerous investigation into an obscure organization, the Parallax Corporation, whose primary enterprise is politic...
  
• Return of The Street Fighter
  Return of the Street Fighter
  
  is a 1974 martial arts film and the second in a series starting with The Street Fighter starring Sonny Chiba....
  
• Sister Street Fighter
  Sister Street Fighter
  
  is a spin off of The Street Fighter . The plot revolves around Li H?ng-L?ng , the female martial artist of the title. When her brother Li W?n-Qing is kidnapped by druglords, she seeks revenge....
  
• Sister Street Fighter Hanging by a Thread
• Son of Dracula
  Son of Dracula (1974 film)
  
  Son of Dracula is a musical comedy film released in 1974 by Apple Films, starring Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr. It is also the title of a Harry Nilsson album released in conjunction with the film....
  
• The Street Fighter
  The Street Fighter
  
  , literally Clash, Killer Fist!, is a Japanese martial arts film released in 1974 and produced by Toei Company Ltd. The copyright for the film failed to be renewed and it expired into public domain....
  
• The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
  The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
  
  is a 1974 martial arts film and the third in a series starting with The Street Fighter starring Sonny Chiba. The film is in public domain....
  
• The Sugarland Express
  The Sugarland Express
  
  The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American drama film starring Goldie Hawn and William Atherton. It is the first theatrical feature film directed by Steven Spielberg....
  
• Superdad
  Superdad
  
  Superdad is a live-action film by Walt Disney Productions starring Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Barbara Rush, Kathleen Cody and Joe Flynn ....
  
• Sweet Movie
  Sweet Movie
  
  Sweet Movie is a 1974 in film film by Du?an Makavejev, his next after W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism . The film follows two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen and one who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar....
  
• Symptoms
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 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....
  
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  
  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent film horror film written, directed and produced by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel. The film, the first in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , features Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Teri McMinn, William Vail, Edwin Neal and Paul A....
  
• That's Entertainment!
  That's Entertainment!
  
  That's Entertainment! is a 1974 compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It was followed by two sequels and a related film called That's Dancing!....
  
• Thieves Like Us
  Thieves Like Us (film)
  
  Thieves Like Us is a 1974 in film film directed by Robert Altman and starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. The film was based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson....
  
• The Three Musketeers
  The Three Musketeers (1973 film)
  
  The Three Musketeers is a 1973 in film film based on the The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, p?re. Directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser ....
  
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
  Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
  
  Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a 1974 crime film starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, and Geoffrey Lewis ....
  
• The Towering Inferno
  The Towering Inferno (film)
  
  The Towering Inferno is a 1974 in film disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman....
  , starring Steve McQueen, 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...
  , 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......
  , 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 ....
   and Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  
  Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
  
• The Trial of Billy Jack
  The Trial of Billy Jack
  
  The Trial of Billy Jack is a 1974 film starring Delores Taylor and Tom Laughlin . It is the sequel to the 1971 film Billy Jack and the third film overall in the series....
  
• UFO: Target Earth
• Vampyres
  Vampyres (film)
  
  Vampyres is an erotic and bloody lesbian vampire film directed by Spanish film director Jos? Ram?n Larraz on location in England.Alternative titles are:...
  
• A Woman Under the Influence
  A Woman Under the Influence
  
  A Woman Under the Influence is an Academy Award nominated film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a young wife and mother's uninhibited, erratic, psychotic behavior which leads her violent, confused husband to commit her for psychiatric treatment, leaving the family even more dysfunctional than before....
  
• Way of the Dragon
  Way of the Dragon
  
  Way of the Dragon is a Hong Kong films of 1972 Cinema of Hong Kong martial arts film-Hong Kong action cinema directed by Bruce Lee. It was the third major film of the martial arts legend....
  (U.S. release)
• Where the Lilies Bloom
  Where the Lilies Bloom
  
  Where the Lilies Bloom is a film adaptation of the novel by the same name, written by Bill Cleaver. The film was made by director William Graham in Watauga County and in Avery County , North Carolina....
  
• Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
  Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
  
  Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! is the third Winnie-the-Pooh short from The Walt Disney Company, released in theatres on December 20, 1974 accompanying The Island at the Top of the World....
  (short subject)
• Young Frankenstein
  Young Frankenstein
  
  Young Frankenstein is a 1974 in film comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder as the title character. Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Hackman also star....
  , 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 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....
  , Teri Garr
  Teri Garr
  
  Terry Ann "Teri" Garr is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian....
  , and Madeline Kahn
  Madeline Kahn
  
  Madeline Kahn was an American actor, known primarily for her comedic roles. Director Mel Brooks — who directed her in four films — said of her: "She is one of the most talented people that ever lived....
  
• Zardoz
  Zardoz
  
  Zardoz is a 1974 in film science fiction film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman. It stars Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, and Sara Kestelman....
  , starring Sean Connery
  Sean Connery
  
  Sir Thomas Sean Connery is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scotland actor and film producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films....
   and Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling
  
  Charlotte Rampling, Order of the British Empire is an acclaimed England actress. Her career spans four decades and delves into both France and Italy cinema....
  

• January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn
  Samuel Goldwyn
  
  Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios....
  , film producer
• February 7 - Arline Judge
  Arline Judge
  
  Arline Judge was an American actress who worked mostly in low-budget B movies, but gained some fame for marrying eight times and divorcing eight times....
  , actress
• February 11 - Anna Q. Nilsson
  Anna Q. Nilsson
  
  Anna Quirentia Nilsson was a Sweden born actress who achieved success in United States silent movies....
  , actress
• February 23 - Florence Rice
  Florence Rice
  
  Florence Rice was an American film actress.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Grantland Rice, Rice became an actress during the early 1930s and after several Broadway theater roles, eventually made her way to Hollywood....
  , actress
• February 28 - Carole Lesley, actress
• March 5 - Billy De Wolfe
  Billy De Wolfe
  
  Billy De Wolfe was an United States character actor. He was active in films from the mid-1940s until his death in 1974. He was a good friend of Doris Day from the time of their meeting during the filming of Tea for Two until his death....
  , actor
• March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati
  Alberto Rabagliati
  
  Alberto Rabagliati was an italy singer....
  , Italian singer and actor
• March 19 - Edward Platt
  Edward Platt
  
  Edward C. Platt was an American character actor best known for his portrayal of "The Chief " in the 1965-70 NBC/CBS television series Get Smart....
  , actor
• April 2 – Douglass Dumbrille
  Douglass Dumbrille
  
  Douglass Dumbrille was an actor and one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.Dumbrille was born in Hamilton, Ontario. As a young man, he worked as a bank clerk in his home town of Hamilton while at the same time pursuing an interest in acting....
  , actor
• April 10 - Patricia Collinge
  Patricia Collinge
  
  Patricia Collinge was an Academy Award-nominated Ireland actress. She was born in Dublin, Ireland....
  , actress
• April 24 - Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
  , actor, best known as straight man to Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• April 30 - Agnes Moorehead
  Agnes Moorehead
  
  Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
  , actress
• May 25 - Donald Crisp
  Donald Crisp
  
  Donald George Crisp was an Academy Award winning England film actor. He was also an early motion picture scriptwriter, film producer and film director....
  , actor
• August 20 - Ilona Massey
  Ilona Massey
  
  Ilona Massey was a film, stage and radio performer.She was born Ilona Hajm?ssy in Budapest, Austria-Hungary.Billed as "the new Marlene Dietrich", she starred in three films with Nelson Eddy, and with Lon Chaney, Jr....
  , actress
• September 6 - Olga Baclanova
  Olga Baclanova
  
  Olga Vladimirovna Baclanova was a Russian-born actor....
  , actress
• September 18 - Edna Best
  Edna Best
  
  Edna Best was a United Kingdom actor.Born in Hove, England, Best entered films in 1921. She is best remembered for her role as the mother in the original 1934 film version of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much ....
  , actress
• September 21 - Walter Brennan
  Walter Brennan
  
  Walter Brennan was a three-time Academy Award winning United States actor. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history....
  , actor
• September 21 - Jacqueline Susann
  Jacqueline Susann
  
  Jacqueline Susann was an American author known for her best selling novels. Her most notable work was Valley of the Dolls, a book that broke sales records and spawned a 1967 movie and a short lived TV series....
  , former actress, author of Valley of the Dolls
  Valley of the Dolls
  
  There was also a 1994 soap opera entitled Valley of the Dolls.Valley of the Dolls is the title of a best selling novel by Jacqueline Susann, published in 1966....
  
• October 13 - Ed Sullivan
  Ed Sullivan
  
  Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan was an United States entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of a popular TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s....
  , television host, actor
• November 13 - Vittorio De Sica
  Vittorio de Sica
  
  Vittorio De Sica was a critically acclaimed Italy Italian neorealism film director and actor....
  , Italian director
• November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown
  Johnny Mack Brown
  
  This article is for the college football player, for the head coach see Mack Brown.Johnny Mack Brown was an All-American college football player and film actor....
  , actor
• December 15 - Anatole Litvak
  Anatole Litvak
  
  Anatole Litvak was a Ukraine-born international filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in a variety of countries and languages....
  , director
• December 21 - Richard Long
  Richard Long (actor)
  
  Richard Long was an United States actor best known for his leading roles in several American Broadcasting Company television Television program, including The Big Valley and Nanny and the Professor ....
  , actor
• December 26 - Jack Benny
  Jack Benny
  
  Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudeville, and actor for radio programming, television, and film.Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "...
  , actor