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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Back to the Future
Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction film adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, co-written by Bob Gale and produced by Steven Spielberg....
 Universal $210,609,762
2.Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo: First Blood Part II

Rambo: First Blood Part II , released on May 22, 1985, is the second movie in the Rambo series, starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam war war veteran John Rambo....
 TriStar $150,415,432
3.Rocky IV
Rocky IV

Rocky IV is a 1985 boxing film, the fourth and most financially successful movie of the Rocky franchise. Rocky Balboa , plans to retire from boxing after regaining his title from Clubber Lang in Rocky III....
 United Artists $127,873,716
4. The Color Purple Warner Brothers $94,175,854
5. Out Of Africa Universal $87,071,205
6.Cocoon 20th Century Fox $76,113,124
7. The Jewel of the Nile
The Jewel of the Nile

The Jewel of the Nile is a sequel to the 1984 in film romantic adventure Romancing the Stone featuring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, the stars of the first film....
 20th Century Fox $75,973,200
8. Witness Paramount $68,706,993
9. The Goonies
The Goonies

The Goonies is a 1985 in film adventure film-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenwriter was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg....
 Warner Brothers $61,389,680
10. Spies Like Us
Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us is the name of a 1985 in film comedy film directed by John Landis, starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest , and Donna Dixon....
 Warner Brothers $60,088,980







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  • 3 December - Roger Moore
    Roger Moore

    Sir Roger George Moore Order of the British Empire is an English actor. He is perhaps best known for portraying two British action heroes, Simon Templar in the television series The Saint from 1962 to 1969, and James Bond in James Bond ....
     steps down from the role of James Bond
    James Bond

    James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
     after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton
    Timothy Dalton

    Timothy Peter Dalton is a Wales actor. He is best known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill and for his roles in William Shakespeare films and plays....
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Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Back to the Future
Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction film adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, co-written by Bob Gale and produced by Steven Spielberg....
 Universal $210,609,762
2.Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo: First Blood Part II

Rambo: First Blood Part II , released on May 22, 1985, is the second movie in the Rambo series, starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam war war veteran John Rambo....
 TriStar $150,415,432
3.Rocky IV
Rocky IV

Rocky IV is a 1985 boxing film, the fourth and most financially successful movie of the Rocky franchise. Rocky Balboa , plans to retire from boxing after regaining his title from Clubber Lang in Rocky III....
 United Artists $127,873,716
4. The Color Purple Warner Brothers $94,175,854
5. Out Of Africa Universal $87,071,205
6.Cocoon 20th Century Fox $76,113,124
7. The Jewel of the Nile
The Jewel of the Nile

The Jewel of the Nile is a sequel to the 1984 in film romantic adventure Romancing the Stone featuring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, the stars of the first film....
 20th Century Fox $75,973,200
8. Witness Paramount $68,706,993
9. The Goonies
The Goonies

The Goonies is a 1985 in film adventure film-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenwriter was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg....
 Warner Brothers $61,389,680
10. Spies Like Us
Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us is the name of a 1985 in film comedy film directed by John Landis, starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest , and Donna Dixon....
 Warner Brothers $60,088,980
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1985&p=.htm

Awards


Academy Awards
58th Academy Awards

The 58th Academy Awards, honoring the 1985 in film, were held on March 24 1986 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams....
:

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....
: Out of Africa - Universal
Best Director: Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack was an United States film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting....
 - Out of Africa
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....
: William Hurt
William Hurt

William M. Hurt is an United States actor. He won both the Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman ....
 - Kiss of the Spider Woman
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....
: Geraldine Page
Geraldine Page

Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
 - The Trip to Bountiful
The Trip to Bountiful

The Trip to Bountiful is a 1985 in film film starring Geraldine Page, John Heard , Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford and Rebecca De Mornay.The movie was adapted by Horton Foote from his play....
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....
: Don Ameche
Don Ameche

Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning United Statesn actor....
 - Cocoon
Cocoon (film)

Cocoon is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Ron Howard, about a group of elderly people who are rejuvenated by aliens. The movie starred Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, and Linda Harrison....
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....
: Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning United Statesn actor and former fashion model.Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Oscar for her performance in 1985 in film's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston....
 - Prizzi's Honor
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 Official Story
The Official Story

The Official Story is an Argentina drama film directed by Luis Puenzo and written by Puenzo and A?da Bortnik. It has also been released as The Official Version in the United Kingdom and elsewhere....
 (La historia oficial), directed by Luis Puenzo
Luis Puenzo

Luis Adalberto Puezo is a film director, Film producer and screenplay writer.He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has worked in the United States....
, Argentina
Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement James Stewart
James Stewart (actor)

James Maitland Stewart , popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an United States film and stage actor best known for his self-effacing persona....
Golden Globe Awards
43rd Golden Globe Awards

The 43rd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1985, were held on January 24, 1986....
:

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....
: Out of Africa
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....
: Jon Voight
Jon Voight

Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American Academy Award-winning, Emmy Award- and British Academy of Film and Television Arts-nominated film and television actor....
 - Runaway Train
Runaway Train (film)

Runaway Train is a 1985 in film, Academy Award-nominated film which tells the story of two escaped convicts and a female train worker who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska....
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....
: Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
 - The Color Purple
The Color Purple (film)

The Color Purple is a 1985 in film drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple by Alice Walker....


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....
: Prizzi's Honor
Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 in film black comedy film that tells the story of a Mafia hit man and hit woman who fall in love with each other, even though they have been hired to kill each other....
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 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....
 - Prizzi's Honor
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....
: Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner

Mary Kathleen Turner , better known as Kathleen Turner, is a Tony Award- and Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor....
 - Prizzi's Honor


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....
: John Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
 - Prizzi's Honor
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....
: The Official Story (La historia oficial), Argentina


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
When Father Was Away on Business
When Father Was Away on Business

When Father Was Away on Business is a 1985 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia film by Serbian film director Emir Kusturica. The screenplay was written by Abdulah Sidran....
 (Otac na službenom putu), directed by Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is a filmmaker, actor and musician of Bosnian ancestry living in Serbia. He has converted to the Serbian Orthodox Church faith and considers himself to be Serb....
, Yugoslavia


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

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

Vagabond is a film directed by Agn?s Varda, released in 1985, featuring Sandrine Bonnaire. The original French language title is Sans toit ni loi, which means "without roof or law"....
 (Sans toit ni loi), directed by Agnčs Varda
Agnčs Varda

Agn?s Varda is a French people film director. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary ? with a distinct experimental style....
, France / U.K.


Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Die Frau und der Fremde
Die Frau und der Fremde

Die Frau und der Fremde is a 1985 Cinema of Germany directed by Rainer Simon. It is based on Leonhard Frank's novella "Karl und Anna" and tells the story of two friends in a POW camp during the world war I....
 (The Woman And The Stranger), directed by Rainer Simon, East Germany
Wetherby
Wetherby (film)

Wetherby is a 1985 in film Great Britain drama film written and directed by David Hare , known as one of the leading British playwrights of his generation....
, directed by David Hare
David Hare (dramatist)

Sir David Hare is an English people playwright and Theatre director and film director....
, United Kingdom


Films released in 1985

  • The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf
    The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf

    The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf, also called The Adventures of a 2-Minute Werewolf is a 1985 in film television movie produced by American Broadcasting Company television as part of its ABC Weekend Special series ....
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain
    The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film)

    The Adventures of Mark Twain, released in the UK as Comet Quest, is a 1985 stop motion animation film directed by Will Vinton . It received a wider theatrical release, still limited to seven major cities, in January 1986....
  • After Hours
    After Hours (film)

    After Hours is an Cinema of the United States black comedy film 1985 in film, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Joseph Minion. It depicts a New York City, Paul Hackett , who experiences a series of adventures and perils in trying to make his way home from SoHo....
     - 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...
    ; starring Griffin Dunne
    Griffin Dunne

    Thomas Griffin Dunne is an United States actor and film director....
  • Agnes of God (film)
    Agnes of God (film)

    Agnes of God is a United States film starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly. It was adapted by John Pielmeier from his own Agnes of God, and directed by Norman Jewison....
     - directed by Norman Jewison
    Norman Jewison

    Norman Frederick Jewison, Order of Canada is a Canada film director, Film producer and actor....
    ; starring Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda

    Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
    , Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft

    Anne Bancroft was an United States actress associated with the Method acting school of acting....
     and Meg Tilly
    Meg Tilly

    Meg Tilly is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress, Broadway theatre dancer and ballerina....
  • Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
    Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

    Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend is an United States children-oriented film released in 1985 in film. The plot concerns an American couple who find a family of surviving Apatosaurus in Central Africa and their struggle to protect them from a greedy scientist and the military....
     with Sean Young
    Sean Young

    Sean Young is an United States of America actor, best known for her performance in films in the 1980s such as Blade Runner and No Way Out , but who has arguably become more famous because of her bizarre antics....
     and William Katt
    William Katt

    William Theodore Katt is an United States film and television actor, best known as the star of The Greatest American Hero....
  • Back to the Future
    Back to the Future

    Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction film adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, co-written by Bob Gale and produced by Steven Spielberg....
     - starring Michael J. Fox
    Michael J. Fox

    Michael J. Fox is a Canadian American actor. His roles include Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy trilogy ; Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties , for which he won four Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and Mike Flaherty from Spin City , for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awar...
     (as Marty McFly
    Marty McFly

    Martin Seamus "Marty" McFly is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the Back to the Future trilogy motion picture trilogy, played by actor Michael J....
    ) and Christopher Lloyd
    Christopher Lloyd

    Christopher Allen Lloyd is a three-time Emmy Award-winning United States actor known for his gruff eloquent voice. He is of Wales ancestry and is well known for his roles as Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, as well a...
     (as "Doc." Emmett L. Brown); the first of Back to the Future trilogy
    Back to the Future trilogy

    Back to the Future is a comedy science fiction film trilogy written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, directed by Zemeckis, and distributed by Universal Pictures....
  • Bad Medicine
    Bad Medicine (film)

    'Bad Medicine' is a 1985 in film comedy film starring Steve Guttenberg, Alan Arkin, and Julie Hagerty. The film was written and directed by Harvey Miller, and was based on the novel Calling Dr....
  • Better Off Dead - starring John Cusack
    John Cusack

    John Paul Cusack is an United States film actor and screenwriter. He won the 1990 Most Promising Actor CFCA Award for Say Anything..., the 1998 Favorite Supporting Actor Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Con Air, and the 2000 Commitment to Chicago Award....
  • The Black Cauldron
    The Black Cauldron (film)

    The Black Cauldron is the twenty-fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and originally released to theatres on July 24, 1985 by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution....
  • Brazil
    Brazil (film)

    Brazil is a 1985 dystopian feature film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce....
     - directed by Terry Gilliam
    Terry Gilliam

    Terrence Vance Gilliam is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films including Brazil , Twelve Monkeys , and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ....
    ; starring Jonathan Pryce
    Jonathan Pryce

    Jonathan Pryce is a Wales award-winning theatre and film actor/singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and marrying Irish actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s....
     and 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 Breakfast Club
    The Breakfast Club

    The Breakfast Club is a 1985 in film United States teen film written and directed by John Hughes . The storyline follows five teenagers as they spend a Saturday in Detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes....
     - starring Emilio Estevez
    Emilio Estevez

    'Emilio Est?vez' is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack , appearing in The Breakfast Club and St....
    , 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....
    , Judd Nelson
    Judd Nelson

    'Judd Asher Nelson' is an United States actor. He is arguably most known for his roles as John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Alec Newbary in St....
    , Ally Sheedy
    Ally Sheedy

    Alexandra Elizabeth "Ally" Sheedy is an United States Cinema of the United States and Theatre in the United States actor, as well as the author of two books....
    , 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....
    , Paul Gleason
    Paul Gleason

    Paul Xavier Gleason was an United States Cinema of the United States and Television in the United States actor....
     and John Kapelos
    John Kapelos

    John Kapelos is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the janitor Carl in The Breakfast Club.An alumnus of The Second City, Chicago, John Kapelos? theatrical work spans eight years from Second City?s Touring Company to six revues as a member of the famed Resident Company , and finally Second City?s critically acclaim...
  • Cat's Eye - starring Drew Barrymore
    Drew Barrymore

    Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actor and film producer. She is the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She began acting when she was eleven months old....
  • The Care Bears Movie
    The Care Bears Movie

    The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 in film animation feature film. It was the first film to feature the popular Care Bears toy characters, and one of the first to be based directly on a toy line....
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo
    The Purple Rose of Cairo

    The Purple Rose of Cairo is an award-winning 1985 in film film written and directed by Woody Allen. Inspired by Sherlock, Jr., Hellzapoppin and Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, it is the tale of a film character who leaves the film and enters the real world....
  • A Chorus Line
    A Chorus Line (film)

    A Chorus Line is a 1985 in film musical film directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Michael Douglas. The screenplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the Tony Award-winning Libretto of the A Chorus Line by James Kirkwood, Jr....
  • Clue
    Clue (film)

    Clue is a 1985 black comedy film based on the board game Cluedo. The film is a murder mystery set in a Gothic Revival architecture mansion. The style takes the idea in the direction of Murder by Death and other various murder/dinner parties of mystery....
  • The Coca-Cola Kid
    The Coca-Cola Kid

    The Coca Cola Kid is a romantic comedy film film, released in 1985 in film. It was directed by Du?an Makavejev and starred Eric Roberts and Greta Scacchi....
  • Cocoon
    Cocoon (film)

    Cocoon is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Ron Howard, about a group of elderly people who are rejuvenated by aliens. The movie starred Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, and Linda Harrison....
     - directed by Ron Howard
    Ron Howard

    Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an Academy Award-winning American film director and film producer as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show , and later in the 1970s as Howard Cunningham's son and Arthur Fonzarelli's best friend, Richie Cunningha...
    ; starring Don Ameche
    Don Ameche

    Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning United Statesn actor....
    , Wilford Brimley
    Wilford Brimley

    Allen Wilford Brimley , better known as Wilford Brimley, is an American actor. Active since 1968, he has appeared in such films as The China Syndrome and Cocoon ....
    , Hume Cronyn
    Hume Cronyn

    Hume Blake Cronyn, Order of Canada was a Canadian actor of Theatre and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside his second wife, Jessica Tandy....
    , Steve Guttenberg
    Steve Guttenberg

    Steven Robert "Steve" Guttenberg is an United States actor and comedian. He became known during the 1980s, after a series of starring roles in major Hollywood films, including Cocoon , Three Men and a Baby, Police Academy , and Short Circuit....
    , Barret Oliver
    Barret Oliver

    Barrett Spencer Oliver is an United States former child actor who later found work as a photographer. He became famous for such roles as the boy Bastian in the film adaptation of The NeverEnding Story and an android in D.A.R.Y.L....
    , Maureen Stapleton
    Maureen Stapleton

    Lois Maureen Stapleton was an United States Academy Awards-, Emmy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winning actor in film, theatre and television....
     and Jessica Tandy
    Jessica Tandy

    Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was a United Kingdom-United States stage and film actress....
  • Code of Silence
  • Code of Vengeance
    Code of Vengeance

    Code of Vengeance was a spin-off franchise to Knight Rider starring Charles Taylor as David Dalton. It was a back door Television pilot from the 1984 Knight Rider episode Mouth of the Snake: Part 1....
  • The Color Purple
    The Color Purple (film)

    The Color Purple is a 1985 in film drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple by Alice Walker....
     - directed by Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg

    Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
    ; starring Whoopi Goldberg
    Whoopi Goldberg

    Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
    , Danny Glover
    Danny Glover

    Danny Lebern Glover is an United States actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is possibly best known for his role as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film Media franchise....
    , Margaret Avery
    Margaret Avery

    Margaret Avery is an American actor and singing. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Shug in The Color Purple ....
    , Adolph Caesar
    Adolph Caesar

    Adolph Caesar was an United States actor....
    , Rae Dawn Chong
    Rae Dawn Chong

    Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian-born United States actress....
     and Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Gail Winfrey is an United Statesn television presenter, Media proprietor and philanthropist. Her television syndication talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television....
  • Come and See
    Come and See

    Come and See : "Go and look" ? directed by Elem Klimov, is a Soviet war movie and psychological horror drama about and occurring during the Nazi German occupation of Belarus, USSR, in 1943....
  • Commando (film)
    Commando (film)

    Commando is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film's use of humor in an action film context became a distinctive element in Schwarzenegger's later roles....
     - starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and Politics of the United States, currently serving as the List of Governors of California Governor of California of the state of California....
    , Rae Dawn Chong
    Rae Dawn Chong

    Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian-born United States actress....
     and Alyssa Milano
    Alyssa Milano

    Alyssa Jayne Milano is an United States actress and former singer. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and as Phoebe Halliwell on the supernatural series Charmed....
  • Dance with a Stranger
    Dance with a Stranger

    Dance with a Stranger is a 1985 UK drama film, directed by Mike Newell . Telling the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain in the fifties, this moving biographical British film won critical acclaim, and brought particular notice to the careers of both Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett....
     by Mike Newell
    Mike Newell (director)

    Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell is an England film director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television....
     with Rupert Everett
    Rupert Everett

    Rupert James Hector Everett is a two-time Golden Globe-nominated England actor and singer. He first came to public attention in the early 1980s, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country as an openly homosexual student at an English public school, set in the 1930s....
     and Miranda Richardson
    Miranda Richardson

    Miranda Jane Richardson is an England stage, film and television actor....
  • Day of the Dead
    Day of the Dead (film)

    Day of the Dead is a 1985 in film horror film by Film director George A. Romero, the third of Romero's Living Dead movies. It is preceded by Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead....
  • Death Wish 3
  • Desperately Seeking Susan
    Desperately Seeking Susan

    Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 in film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna ....
     - starring Rosanna Arquette
    Rosanna Arquette

    Rosanna Lauren Arquette is an American actress, film director, and film producer....
    , Madonna
    Madonna (entertainer)

    Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
     and Aidan Quinn
    Aidan Quinn

    Aidan Quinn is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actor....
  • The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
  • Enemy Mine
    Enemy Mine (film)

    Enemy Mine is a 1985 in film science fiction film based on the Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear. It was produced by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and starred Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr.....
     - directed by Wolfgang Petersen
    Wolfgang Petersen

    Wolfgang Petersen is a Germany film director. Petersen is known for his body of film work, which includes Outbreak , In the Line of Fire, Air Force One , The Perfect Storm , Troy and the 2006 film, Poseidon ....
    ; starring Dennis Quaid
    Dennis Quaid

    Dennis William Quaid is an United States acting. Raised in Texas, he became known during the 1980s after appearing in several successful films, and established a career as a Hollywood actor....
     and Louis Gossett, Jr.
    Louis Gossett, Jr.

    Louis Cameron Gossett, Jr. is an United States Emmy Award-, Golden Globe Awards-, and Academy Award-winning actor....
  • Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
    Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

    Ewoks: The Battle for Endor is a television movie set in the Star Wars Star Wars galaxy. A sequel to Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, it focuses on Cindel Towani, the little girl from the first film, who, after being orphaned, joins the Ewoks in protecting their village and defeating the evil marauders who have taken contro...
  • Explorers
    Explorers (film)

    Explorers is a 1985 science fiction film, fantasy film targeted at a family audience. It was the first feature film for both River Phoenix and Ethan Hawke....
     - starring Ethan Hawke
    Ethan Hawke

    Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and film director. He landed his first feature role in the movie Explorers in 1985 opposite River Phoenix....
     and River Phoenix
    River Phoenix

    River Jude Phoenix was an United States film actor. He was listed on John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 38 as one of twelve "promising new actors of 1986", and was hailed as highly talented by such critics as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel....
  • Fandango (1985 film)
    Fandango (1985 film)

    Fandango was originally a 30 minute black and white student film titled "Proof" by Kevin Reynolds while he was a student at USC Film. It was a parody of Greek life at his alma mater Baylor University, however due to his father's presidency at the school he did not wish to portray the Baptist institution in an unfavorable light and gave i...
    with 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....
  • Follow That Bird Feature Film based on Sesame Street
    Sesame Street

    Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
    - starring Big Bird
    Big Bird

    Big Bird is a full-body Muppet, featured on the children's television show Sesame Street, which airs on Public Broadcasting Service. He is sometimes referred to as "Bird" by his friends....
    , Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty
    Joe Flaherty

    Joe Flaherty is an American-Canadian comedian. He is best known for his work on the Canadian sketch comedy Second City Television, from 1976 to 1984....
  • Fran
  • Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
    Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

    Friday the 13th: A New Beginning is a 1985 slasher film. It was released on March 22, 1985. It is the fifth film in the Friday the 13th . Despite the previous film claiming to be the "final chapter," this installment set out to live up to its title by being a "new beginning" for the franchise....
  • Fright Night
    Fright Night

    Fright Night is an American vampire comedy horror film starring William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Stephen Geoffreys and Roddy McDowall that was released in 1985 in film....
     - starring William Ragsdale
    William Ragsdale

    William Ragsdale , also known as Bill Ragsdale or Will Ragsdale, is an United States actor.After attending Hendrix College where he appeared in plays with Sling Blade actress and fellow Arkansan Natalie Canerday, he gained attention as the young hero of Fright Night and Fright Night II, a series of humorous vampire f...
    , Chris Sarandon
    Chris Sarandon

    'Christopher Sarandon' is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor. He is best known for his role as Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride , as the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and its spin-offs, and for his Oscar-nominated performance as Leon in Dog Day Afterno...
    , Roddy McDowall
    Roddy McDowall

    Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall was an English-born actor and photographer....
     and Amanda Bearse
    Amanda Bearse

    'Amanda Bearse' is an United States actress, television director and comedian. She is known for her role as neighbor Marcy D'Arcy on Married......
  • The Malibu Bikini Shop
  • Girls Just Want to Have Fun
    Girls Just Want to Have Fun (film)

    Girls Just Want to Have Fun is a dance movie in the style of Footloose and Flashdance....
  • The Goonies
    The Goonies

    The Goonies is a 1985 in film adventure film-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenwriter was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg....
     - starring Sean Astin
    Sean Astin

    Sean Astin is an American film actor, film director, and Academy Award-nominated film producer best known for his film roles as Mikey Walsh in The Goonies, the Daniel Ruettiger of Rudy , and Samwise Gamgee in the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy....
    , Josh Brolin
    Josh Brolin

    Josh J. Brolin is an American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles for over 23 years, and won acting awards for his roles in the films No Country for Old Men and Milk ....
    , Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman
    Corey Feldman

    Corey Scott Feldman is an United States film and television actor. He became known during the 1980s, with roles in the Hollywood films The Goonies and Stand by Me ....
    , Kerri Green
    Kerri Green

    Kerri Lee Green is an United States actor.Green was born in Fort Lee, New Jersey, New Jersey. Green attended Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, New Jersey....
    , Jonathan Ke Quan
    Jonathan Ke Quan

    Jonathan Ke Quan is an American actor and stunt coordinator.Quan was born in Saigon, South Vietnam, and was forced to leave his country when the Army of the Republic of Vietnam was defeated during the Fall of Saigon....
     and Martha Plimpton
    Martha Plimpton

    Martha Campbell Plimpton is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actress....
  • Heaven Help Us
    Heaven Help Us (film)

    Heaven Help Us is a 1985 comedy-drama film starring Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon , Donald Sutherland, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Geoffreys, John Heard , and Patrick Dempsey....
  • Here Come the Littles
    Here Come the Littles

    Here Come the Littles is a 1985 in film animated film from Atlantic Releasing. Produced in Luxembourg, and directed by Bernard Deyri?s, it was DiC Entertainment's first feature film....
  • Insignificance
    Insignificance (film)

    Insignificance is a 1985 in film motion picture drama/comedy directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jeremy Thomas and Alexander Stuart , and adapted by Terry Johnson from his play....
  • Into the Night - starring Jeff Goldblum
    Jeff Goldblum

    Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor. He often portrays quirky, intense or eccentric characters. He is also known for his distinctive appearance and staccato delivery of lines....
     and Michelle Pfeiffer
    Michelle Pfeiffer

    Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
  • Jagged Edge
    Jagged Edge (film)

    Jagged Edge is a 1985 in film film starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, and Peter Coyote. Robert Loggia received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in this film....
     - starring Glenn Close
    Glenn Close

    Glenn Close is an United States actress and singer of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ....
    , Jeff Bridges
    Jeff Bridges

    Jeffrey Leon Bridges is a four-time Academy Award-nominated American actor and musician. His most notable films include The Last Picture Show, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Tron , Starman , The Fisher King , The Big Lebowski, Seabiscuit , and Iron Man ....
    , Robert Loggia
    Robert Loggia

    Robert Loggia is an United States film and television actor who specializes in Character actor....
     and Peter Coyote
    Peter Coyote

    Peter Coyote is an United States actor, author, film director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics....
  • The Jewel of the Nile
    The Jewel of the Nile

    The Jewel of the Nile is a sequel to the 1984 in film romantic adventure Romancing the Stone featuring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, the stars of the first film....
     - starring Michael Douglas
    Michael Douglas

    Michael Kirk Douglas is an United States actor and film producer, primarily in movies and television. Douglas's first television exposure was that of Karl Malden's young college-educated partner, Insp....
    , Kathleen Turner
    Kathleen Turner

    Mary Kathleen Turner , better known as Kathleen Turner, is a Tony Award- and Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor....
     and Danny DeVito
    Danny DeVito

    Daniel Michael "Danny-Fanny" DeVito, Jr. is an United States actor, film director and film producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of "Louie De Palma" on the popular American Broadcasting Company and NBC television television program Taxi ....
  • Joshua Then and Now
    Joshua Then and Now (film)

    Joshua Then and Now is a 1985 in film film and a TV mini-series, adapted by Mordecai Richler from his semi-autobiographical novel Joshua Then and Now....
  • King David
    King David (film)

    King David is a film about the second king of Israel, David.It was filmed in 1985 in Matera and Craco, Italy. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and starred Richard Gere in the title role....
  • King Solomon's Mines
    King Solomon's Mines (1985 film)

    King Solomon's Mines was a 1985 in film comedy film-adventure film loosely based on the novel King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard....
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman - starring William Hurt
    William Hurt

    William M. Hurt is an United States actor. He won both the Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman ....
    , Raúl Juliá
    Raúl Juliá

    Ra?l Rafael Juli? y Arcelay , better known as Ra?l Juli?, was a Puerto Rican people actor whose career included dramatic, comic, and musical roles in theater, film, and television....
     and Sonia Braga
    Sônia Braga

    S?nia Maria Campos Braga is a three-time Golden Globe-nominated Brazilian actor....
  • Ladyhawke
    Ladyhawke

    Ladyhawke is a 1985 fantasy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer. It was novelized by Joan D....
     - starring Matthew Broderick
    Matthew Broderick

    Matthew Broderick is an United States award-winning film and stage actor who is best known for his roles as the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Nick in Godzilla and David Lightman in WarGames....
    , Michelle Pfeiffer
    Michelle Pfeiffer

    Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
     and Rutger Hauer
    Rutger Hauer

    Rutger Oelsen Hauer ; born 23 January 1944) is a Golden Globe-winning Netherlands film actor. He is well known for his roles in Blade Runner, The Hitcher , Ladyhawke, The Blood of Heroes and Batman Begins....
  • The Last Dragon
    The Last Dragon

    For the mockumentary of the same name, see The Last Dragon Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon is a 1985 in film martial arts film, produced by Rupert Hitzig for Berry Gordy and directed by Michael Schultz....
  • The Legend of Billie Jean
    The Legend of Billie Jean

    The Legend of Billie Jean is a 1985 drama film, directed by Matthew Robbins . It is a retelling of Michael Kohlhaas, with Kohlhaas' wounded horses replaced by a damaged motorcycle....
     - starring Helen Slater
    Helen Slater

    Helen Rachel Slater is an United States film actress and singer-songwriter....
  • Lost In America
    Lost in America

    Lost in America is a 1985 comedy film directed by Albert Brooks and was co-written by Brooks with Monica McGowan Johnson. Brooks stars alongside Julie Hagerty as David and Linda Howard, yuppies who are fed up with their lifestyle....
  • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
    Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

    Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a Golden Globe-nominated 1985 in film film, the third installment in the action movie Mad Max franchise. The film was directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie, and stars Mel Gibson and Tina Turner....
     - starring Mel Gibson
    Mel Gibson

    Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Officer of the Order of Australia is an Australian-American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....
     and Tina Turner
    Tina Turner

    Tina Turner is an United States singer and actress whose career has spanned over 50 years and who has won numerous awards. Her achievements in the Rock genre have led to her being referred to as "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll"....
  • Man Hunt
    Man Hunt (1985 film)

    Man Hunt is a 1985 in film Western film drama film directed by Fabrizio De Angelis and starring Ethan Wayne, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson, and Ernest Borgnine....
  • The Man with One Red Shoe
    The Man with One Red Shoe

    The Man With One Red Shoe is a 1985 in film comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti. It's a remake of a 1972 French filmThe Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe starring Pierre Richard and Mireille Darc....
  • Mask
    Mask (film)

    Mask is a 1985 in film drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Cher and Eric Stoltz. Sam Elliott and Laura Dern are featured in supporting roles....
     - starring Eric Stoltz
    Eric Stoltz

    Eric Hamilton Stoltz is a Golden Globe-nominated United States actor. He is known for playing either sensitive misfits or antisocial personality disorderic criminals ....
    , Cher
    Cher

    Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
     and Sam Elliott
    Sam Elliott

    Samuel Pack Elliott is an American actor. In films, he is often characterized by his rangy physique, thick horseshoe moustache and gruff speaking voice....
  • The Mean Season
    The Mean Season

    The Mean Season is a 1985 Thriller directed by Phillip Borsos. The film stars Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, and Andy Garcia....
  • Murphy's Romance
    Murphy's Romance

    Murphy's Romance is a 1985 in film romance/comedy film adapted by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch from a story by Max Schott and directed by Martin Ritt....
     - starring Sally Field
    Sally Field

    Sally Margaret Field is an United States two-time Academy Awards-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun....
    , James Garner
    James Garner

    James Garner is an United States film and television actor.He has starred in several television program spanning a career of more than five decades....
    , Brian Kerwin
    Brian Kerwin

    Brian Kerwin is an Emmy-nominated United States actor.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kerwin won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily....
     and Corey Haim
    Corey Haim

    Corey Ian Haim is a Canada actor, known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. He starred in a number of films such as Lucas , The Lost Boys, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream, and in particular, collaborated numerous times with Corey Feldman and the pair were dubbed "The Two Coreys." Haim and Feldman currently...
  • My Beautiful Laundrette
    My Beautiful Laundrette

    My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 in film film directed by Stephen Frears. The screenplay was written by Hanif Kureishi....
     with Daniel Day Lewis
  • My Life as a Dog
    My Life as a Dog

    My Life as a Dog is a 1985 in film cinema of Sweden based on a novel by Reidar J?nsson. It tells the story of Ingemar, a young boy sent to live with relatives....
     (Mitt liv som hund) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
  • My Science Project
    My Science Project

    My Science Project is a 1985 in film comedy/adventure/science fiction film. The film is directed by Jonathan R. Betuel.Tagline: The funniest sci-fi movie this summer....
  • National Lampoon's European Vacation
    National Lampoon's European Vacation

    National Lampoon's European Vacation is a 1985 in film comedy film. The second film in National Lampoon, Inc.'s National Lampoon's Vacation , it was directed by Amy Heckerling and stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo....
     - starring Chevy Chase
    Chevy Chase

    Cornelius Crane ?Chevy? Chase is an United States Emmy Award comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase quickly became a key cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live, where his Weekend Update skit quickly became a staple of the show....
     and Beverly D'Angelo
    Beverly D'Angelo

    Beverly D'Angelo is an United Statesn singer and actress....
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
    A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

    A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge is the second film in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of slasher films. It was released in 1985 by New Line Cinema....
  • The Official Story
    The Official Story

    The Official Story is an Argentina drama film directed by Luis Puenzo and written by Puenzo and A?da Bortnik. It has also been released as The Official Version in the United Kingdom and elsewhere....
     () - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
  • Once Bitten - starring Jim Carrey
    Jim Carrey

    James Eugene Carrey , best known as Jim Carrey, is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian-American actor and stand-up comedian. He is probably best known for his manic and slapstick performances in comedy films such as Dumb and Dumber, The Mask , Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty....
     in his first major role.
  • One Magic Christmas
    One Magic Christmas

    One Magic Christmas is a 1985 in film holiday film from Walt Disney Pictures, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Mary Steenburgen....
  • Out of Africa - directed by Sydney Pollack
    Sydney Pollack

    Sydney Irwin Pollack was an United States film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting....
    ; starring Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
    , 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....
     and Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Klaus Maria Brandauer

    Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrians actor, film director, and pedagogue....
    ; Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards
  • Pale Rider
    Pale Rider

    Pale Rider is a 1985 in film Western film produced and directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. This movie has plot similarities to the classic Western Shane , including a final scene that is very similar to the famous final scene of the earlier movie....
     - starring Clint Eastwood
    Clint Eastwood

    Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
  • Pee-wee's Big Adventure
    Pee-wee's Big Adventure

    Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 adventure film comedy film directed by Tim Burton in his full-length film debut. Paul Reubens, Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol wrote the script, starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton and Diane Salinger....
  • Phenomena
    Phenomena (film)

    Phenomena is a 1985 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento. An edited version of the film was released in the United States under the title Creepers....
  • Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
    Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

    Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment is a 1985 in film comedy film directed by Jerry Paris. It is the first of six sequels in the Police Academy series....
  • Porky's Revenge
    Porky's Revenge

    Porky's Revenge is the 1985 third and final installment to the Porky's movie trilogy. The movie was directed by James Komack....
  • Private Resort
    Private Resort

    Private Resort is a 1985 in film comedy film, film director George Bowers and written by Gordon Mitchell, Ken Segall, and Alan Wenkus. The film starred the then-unknown Rob Morrow , Johnny Depp and Andrew Dice Clay....
  • Prizzi's Honor
    Prizzi's Honor

    Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 in film black comedy film that tells the story of a Mafia hit man and hit woman who fall in love with each other, even though they have been hired to kill each other....
     - directed by John Huston
    John Huston

    John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
    ; starring 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....
    , Kathleen Turner
    Kathleen Turner

    Mary Kathleen Turner , better known as Kathleen Turner, is a Tony Award- and Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor....
    , Anjelica Huston
    Anjelica Huston

    Anjelica Huston is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning United Statesn actor and former fashion model.Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Oscar for her performance in 1985 in film's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston....
     and William Hickey
    William Hickey (actor)

    William Edward Hickey was an United States actor. He was known for his Oscar-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston 1985 film Prizzi's Honor....
    ; Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
  • Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
    Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

    Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer is an animated film released on November 15, 1985 by Warner Bros., and produced by DiC Entertainment and Hallmark Cards....
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II
    Rambo: First Blood Part II

    Rambo: First Blood Part II , released on May 22, 1985, is the second movie in the Rambo series, starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam war war veteran John Rambo....
     - starring Sylvester Stallone
    Sylvester Stallone

    Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an 48th Academy Awards-nominated American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....
  • Ran
    Ran (film)

    is a 1985 in film Screenwriter and Film director by Japanese people Film director Akira Kurosawa. It is a jidaigeki depicting the fall of Hidetora Ichimonji , an aging Sengoku Period-era warlord who decides to abdication as ruler in favor of his three sons....
  • Real Genius
    Real Genius

    Real Genius is a 1985 comedy film starring Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret. The movie is set on the campus of "Pacific Tech," a fictitious technical university in the US based on Caltech....
     - starring Val Kilmer
    Val Kilmer

    Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor and possible candidate for Governor of New Mexico. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a role in Top Gun ...
  • Red Sonja
    Red Sonja (film)

    Red Sonja is a 1985 in film sword and sorcery/action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger with Brigitte Nielsen as the title character. It was shot in Italy, on location in Celano and the rest of the Abruzzo region, and in the Stabilimenti Cinematagrafici Pontini studios near Rome....
  • Return of the Living Dead
    Return of the Living Dead

    The Return of the Living Dead is an American zombie comedy horror film that was released in 1985 and was followed by Return of the Living Dead ....
  • Return to Oz
    Return to Oz

    Return to Oz is a 1985 in film which is the semi-sequel to The Wizard of Oz . It was made by Walt Disney Pictures without the involvement of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that made the 1939 film....
  • Revolution
    Revolution (1985 film)

    Revolution is a 1985 in film film, directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Robert Dillon and starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright, Dave King, Annie Lennox, Steven Berkoff, Graham Greene , and Robbie Coltrane....
     - starring Al Pacino
    Al Pacino

    Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an United States film and theatre actor and Film director, widely considered to be one of the most notable and influential actors of his time....
  • Rocky IV
    Rocky IV

    Rocky IV is a 1985 boxing film, the fourth and most financially successful movie of the Rocky franchise. Rocky Balboa , plans to retire from boxing after regaining his title from Clubber Lang in Rocky III....
     - starring Sylvester Stallone
    Sylvester Stallone

    Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an 48th Academy Awards-nominated American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....
    , Talia Shire
    Talia Shire

    Talia Shire is a two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
    , Dolph Lundgren
    Dolph Lundgren

    Dolph Lundgren M.Eng. is a Swedish actor, film director, Model and karateka.Well known for his tall stature and level of fitness, Lundgren stood around 6 ft 5 in and over 240 pounds at his peak....
    , Carl Weathers
    Carl Weathers

    Carl Weathers is an United States acting, as well as former professional American football player in the American football and Canadian football....
     and Burt Young
    Burt Young

    Burt Young is an United States Academy Award-nominated actor, painting, and author. He is best-known for his role as Sylvester Stallone's brother-in-law and friend Paulie in the Rocky film series....
  • Runaway Train
    Runaway Train (film)

    Runaway Train is a 1985 in film, Academy Award-nominated film which tells the story of two escaped convicts and a female train worker who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska....
     - starring Jon Voight
    Jon Voight

    Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American Academy Award-winning, Emmy Award- and British Academy of Film and Television Arts-nominated film and television actor....
    , Eric Roberts
    Eric Roberts

    Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies , earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut....
     and Rebecca De Mornay
    Rebecca De Mornay

    Rebecca De Mornay is an United States film and television Actors/Female. Her breakout film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business....
  • Santa Claus: The Movie
    Santa Claus: The Movie

    Santa Claus: The Movie is a 1985 in film Christmas film starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow. It is the last major fantasy film movie producer by the Paris-based father-and-son production team of Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind....
  • The Secret of the Sword
    The Secret of the Sword

    The Secret of the Sword, also known as He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword or She-Ra Princess of Power: The Secret of the Sword, is a 1985 in film United States animated feature film produced by Filmation....
  • Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird
    Sesame Street presents Follow That Bird

    Sesame Street presents Follow That Bird is a film directed by Ken Kwapis, starring many Sesame Street characters . This was the first of two Sesame Street feature films, followed in 1999 by The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland....
  • Silver Bullet
    Silver Bullet (film)

    Silver Bullet is a 1985 film based on the Stephen King novella Cycle of the Werewolf. It stars Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Megan Follows, Corey Haim, Terry O'Quinn, Lawrence Tierney, Bill Smitrovich, Kent Broadhurst, David Hart , and James Gammon....
     - starring Gary Busey
    Gary Busey

    'William Gareth Jacob "Gary" Busey' is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in a number of films, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , The Buddy Holly Story, Big Wednesday, Lethal Weapon, Point Break, The Firm , Gingerdead Man, Black Sh...
    , Corey Haim
    Corey Haim

    Corey Ian Haim is a Canada actor, known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. He starred in a number of films such as Lucas , The Lost Boys, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream, and in particular, collaborated numerous times with Corey Feldman and the pair were dubbed "The Two Coreys." Haim and Feldman currently...
    , Megan Follows
    Megan Follows

    Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows is a Canada/American actress. She is most known to international audiences for her role as Anne Shirley in the acclaimed 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels....
     and Everett McGill
    Everett McGill

    Everett McGill is an United States actor....
  • Silverado
    Silverado

    Silverado is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States Western film, first released on July 10, 1985. It was film director by Lawrence Kasdan and screenwriter by Lawrence and Mark Kasdan....
  • The Slugger's Wife
  • Smooth Talk
    Smooth Talk

    Smooth Talk is a 1985 motion picture, loosely based on Joyce Carol Oates' 1966 short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", which was in turn inspired by the Tucson murders committed by Charles Schmid....
  • St. Elmo's Fire
    St. Elmo's Fire (film)

    St. Elmo's Fire is a 1985 in film coming-of-age film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film, starring Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Mare Winningham, is one of the defining film of the Brat Pack genre, and revolves around a group of friends that have just graduated from Georgetown Uni...
     - directed by Joel Schumacher
    Joel Schumacher

    Joel Schumacher , is an United States film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is best known for directing St. Elmo's Fire , The Lost Boys, Falling Down, Flatliners, The Client , Batman Forever, A Time to Kill , The Phantom of the Opera , Phone Booth , The Number 23 and Batman & Robin ....
    ; starring Emilio Estevez
    Emilio Estevez

    'Emilio Est?vez' is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack , appearing in The Breakfast Club and St....
    , Rob Lowe
    Rob Lowe

    Robert Hepler Lowe is an United States actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire , which included other members of the Brat Pack ....
    , Andrew McCarthy
    Andrew McCarthy

    Andrew McCarthy is an United States actor....
    , Demi Moore
    Demi Moore

    Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
    , Judd Nelson
    Judd Nelson

    'Judd Asher Nelson' is an United States actor. He is arguably most known for his roles as John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Alec Newbary in St....
    , Ally Sheedy
    Ally Sheedy

    Alexandra Elizabeth "Ally" Sheedy is an United States Cinema of the United States and Theatre in the United States actor, as well as the author of two books....
     and Mare Winningham
    Mare Winningham

    Mary Megan "Mare" Winningham is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States actress and singer....
  • Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
    Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

    Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a 1985 in film animated movie. It was written by animation writer Jeffrey Scott and was originally released in 3-D film by Atlantic Releasing....
  • Subway
    Subway (film)

    Subway is a French films of 1985 Cinema of France directed by Luc Besson, starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert and is part of the Cinema du look movement....
  • The Sure Thing
    The Sure Thing

    The Sure Thing is a 1985 romantic comedy directed by Rob Reiner and written by Stephen L. Bloom and Jonathan Roberts . It features John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards, Tim Robbins, Boyd Gaines, and Nicollette Sheridan....
  • Sweet Dreams - starring Jessica Lange
    Jessica Lange

    Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
     and Ed Harris
    Ed Harris

    'Edward Allen "Ed" Harris' is an United States actor, film writer and film director, known for his performances in Appaloosa , Radio , The Rock , The Right Stuff , Enemy at the Gates, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross , Apollo 13 , Pollock , A Beautiful Mind, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Th...
  • Target
    Target (1985 film)

    Target is a 1985 film directed by Arthur Penn. It stars Matt Dillon as Chris Lloyd, a young man attempting to make his way in the world, although his parents disapprove....
     with 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...
     and Matt Dillon
    Matt Dillon

    Matthew Raymond Dillon is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe Award-, and BAFTA Award-nominated United States actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as a mature actor in the decades following, culminating in an Academy Awards nomination for his performance in th...
  • Teen Wolf
    Teen Wolf

    Teen Wolf is an United States film released in August 23, 1985 by Atlantic Releasing starring Michael J. Fox as Scott Howard, a high school student who discovers that his family has an unusual heritage when he finds himself transforming into a werewolf....
     - starring Michael J. Fox
    Michael J. Fox

    Michael J. Fox is a Canadian American actor. His roles include Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy trilogy ; Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties , for which he won four Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and Mike Flaherty from Spin City , for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awar...
  • That Was Then... This Is Now
    That Was Then... This Is Now

    That Was Then... This Is Now is a 1985 in film film of an S.E. Hinton book. It starred Emilio Estevez, who also wrote the screenplay, and Craig Sheffer in the main roles....
  • That's Dancing!
    That's Dancing!

    'That's Dancing!' is a retrospective documentary produced by MGM that looked back at the history of dancing in film. Unlike the That's Entertainment! series, this film did not focus specifically on MGM films and included more recent performances by the likes of John Travolta and Michael Jackson and from the then-popular films Fame '...
  • To Live and Die in L.A. - starring William Petersen
    William Petersen

    William Louis Petersen is a Golden Globe and Emmy nominated American actor and producer, best known for playing Gil Grissom on the hit CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
     and Willem Dafoe
    Willem Dafoe

    William J. "Willem" Dafoe is a two-time Academy Award-nominated United States film and theatre actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group....
  • Transylvania 6-5000
    Transylvania 6-5000 (1985 film)

    Transylvania 6-5000 is a movie about two tabloid journalism reporters who travel to modern-day Transylvania to uncover the truth behind Frankenstein sightings....
  • The Trip to Bountiful
    The Trip to Bountiful

    The Trip to Bountiful is a 1985 in film film starring Geraldine Page, John Heard , Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford and Rebecca De Mornay.The movie was adapted by Horton Foote from his play....
     - starring Geraldine Page
    Geraldine Page

    Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
    , John Heard and Rebecca De Mornay
    Rebecca De Mornay

    Rebecca De Mornay is an United States film and television Actors/Female. Her breakout film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business....
  • Twice in a Lifetime
    Twice in a Lifetime (1985 film)

    Twice in a Lifetime is a 1985 in film starring Gene Hackman and directed by Bud Yorkin. The plot involves a steelworker and married man going through a mid-life crisis when he finds himself attracted to another woman, played by Ann-Margret....
     - starring 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...
    , Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn

    Ellen Burstyn is an Academy Awards-winning American actress....
    , Ann-Margret
    Ann-Margret

    Ann-Margret is a Sweden-born American actress, singer and dancer. She has won the Golden Globe Award five times, and has been nominated for the Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy....
     and Amy Madigan
    Amy Madigan

    Amy Madigan is an United States actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams and Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale....
  • 28 Up
  • Vagabond
    Vagabond (film)

    Vagabond is a film directed by Agn?s Varda, released in 1985, featuring Sandrine Bonnaire. The original French language title is Sans toit ni loi, which means "without roof or law"....
     (Sans toit ni loi) - Golden Lion award
  • Vampire Hunter D
    Vampire Hunter D (1985 film)

    One of the first anime films released outside of Japan, Vampire Hunter D remains a cult classic in the English-speaking world. Billed by the Japanese producers as a "dark future science-fiction romance", Vampire Hunter D is set in the year 12,090 A.D., in a post-nuclear holocaust world where a vampiric Nobility terrorizes human peasants...
  • A View to a Kill
    A View to a Kill

    A View to a Kill is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond James Bond , and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
  • Vision Quest
    Vision Quest

    Vision Quest is a 1985 in film coming of age drama film starring Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino and Ronny Cox. It is based on the Vision Quest by author Terry Davis ....
     - starring Matthew Modine
    Matthew Modine

    Matthew Avery Modine is an United States actor, perhaps most famous for playing Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick 1987 in film film Full Metal Jacket and high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest....
     and Linda Fiorentino
    Linda Fiorentino

    Linda Fiorentino is an Italian-American actress. She is known for her roles in films such as Dogma , Vision Quest, Men in Black , Jade , After Hours and The Last Seduction....
  • Water
    Water (1985 film)

    Water is a 1985 in film scripted by Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais, directed by Clement, and starring Michael Caine. This Handmade Films production was released in U.S....
  • Wetherby
    Wetherby (film)

    Wetherby is a 1985 in film Great Britain drama film written and directed by David Hare , known as one of the leading British playwrights of his generation....
     - Golden Bear award
  • Weird Science
    Weird Science (film)

    Weird Science is a teen film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith....
     - starring Kelly LeBrock
    Kelly LeBrock

    Kelly LeBrock is an American-born Canadian-Irish people actress and model , known for her acting debut in The Woman in Red and the following Weird Science ....
    , 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....
     and Ilan Mitchell-Smith
    Ilan Mitchell-Smith

    Ilan Mitchell-Smith is an United States assistant professor of English language at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, but he is best known as an actor and co-star of the movie Weird Science ....
  • Wild Geese II
    The Wild Geese

    The Wild Geese is a 1978 in film film about a group of mercenaries in Africa. It stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kr?ger....
     (Sir Laurence Olivier's final film role)
  • When Father Was Away on Business
    When Father Was Away on Business

    When Father Was Away on Business is a 1985 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia film by Serbian film director Emir Kusturica. The screenplay was written by Abdulah Sidran....
     (Otac na službenom putu) - Palme d'Or award
  • Witness
    Witness (1985 film)

    Witness is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States thriller film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis and Lukas Haas....
     - starring Harrison Ford
    Harrison Ford

    Harrison Ford is an United Statesn actor. Ford is best known for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy, and as the Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones franchise#Films film series....
    , Kelly McGillis
    Kelly McGillis

    Kelly Ann McGillis is an United States actress, whose notable movies include Witness , Top Gun , and The Accused .Biography...
     and Lukas Haas
    Lukas Haas

    Lukas Daniel Haas is an United States actor, known for roles both as a child and as an adult. His career has spanned more than twenty years during which time he has appeared in more than thirty-six feature films, as well as a number of television shows and theater productions....
  • The Woman And The Stranger (Die Frau und der Fremde) - Golden Bear award
  • Year of the Dragon (film)
    Year of the Dragon (film)

    Year of the Dragon is a 1985 in film directed by Michael Cimino, starring Mickey Rourke, Ariane Koizumi and John Lone. The screenplay was written by Cimino and Oliver Stone, and was adapted from the novel by Robert Daley....
     by Michael Cimino
    Michael Cimino

    Michael Cimino is an United States, Academy Award-winning film director. He is often cited as an example of meteoric rises and falls that were seen in Hollywood in the 1970s....
     with Mickey Rourke
    Mickey Rourke

    Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. is an United States actor who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and Thriller films....
  • Young Sherlock Holmes
    Young Sherlock Holmes

    Young Sherlock Holmes , directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus , depicts a young Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meeting and solving a mystery together at a boarding school....


Births

  • March 26 - Keira Knightley
    Keira Knightley

    Keira Christina Knightley is a Golden Globe Award-, British Academy of Film and Television Arts-, and Academy Award-nominated English film and television actress....
    , actress
  • April 16 - Rhiana Griffith
    Rhiana Griffith

    Rhiana Jade Griffith is an actor, artist and model. She began modeling as a child, doing runway work and catalogue ads, and progressed from there to television commercials....
    , actress
  • May 29 - Blake Foster
    Blake Foster

    Blake Anthony Foster is an United States actor.Foster was born in Northridge, California, the son of Patricia and John Foster. He has a younger sister named Callie, and is left handed....
    , actor
  • June 24 -Kyle Searles
    Kyle Searles

    Kyle Evan Searles is an United States of America actor best known for his recurring role on 7th Heaven, The George Lopez Show and Dawson's Creek....
    , actor
  • July 2 -Ashley Tisdale
    Ashley Tisdale

    Ashley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress, singer, and television producer. Tisdale's first major role started in 2005 with Disney's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Maddie Fitzpatrick and she next played Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical ....
     actress


Deaths

  • March 21 - Michael Redgrave
    Michael Redgrave

    Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave Order of the British Empire was a well-known English people stage and film actor, director, manager and author....
    , actor, father of actresses Vanessa Redgrave
    Vanessa Redgrave

    Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
     & Lynn Redgrave
    Lynn Redgrave

    Lynn Rachel Redgrave Order of British Empire is an English actress.A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn Redgrave trained in London, before making her theatrical debut in 1962....
  • April 23 - Kent Smith
    Kent Smith

    Kent Smith was an United States actor who had a lengthy career in film, theater and television.Born Frank Kent Smith in New York, New York, Smith made his acting debut on Broadway theatre in 1932 in ] and after spending a few years there, moved to Hollywood, California where he made his film debut in The Garden Murder Case....
    , actor
  • May 16 - Margaret Hamilton
    Margaret Hamilton

    Margaret Hamilton was an United States film actress best known for her portrayal of The Wicked Witch of the West in the film The Wizard of Oz ....
    , actress, Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz
  • August 8 - Louise Brooks
    Louise Brooks

    Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an Cinema of the United States dancer, model, showgirl, and silent film actress, famous for her fashionable bob cut haircut....
    , actress
  • August 13 - Gale Sondergaard
    Gale Sondergaard

    Gale Sondergaard was an American actress.Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse ....
    , actress
  • August 28 - Ruth Gordon
    Ruth Gordon

    Ruth Gordon Jones , better known as Ruth Gordon, was an United States actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude....
    , actress / writer
  • September 27 - Lloyd Nolan
    Lloyd Nolan

    Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American film and television actor....
    , actor
  • October 2 - Rock Hudson
    Rock Hudson

    Rock Hudson was an United States film and television actor, recognised as a romantic leading man during the 1960s and 1970s. Hudson was voted 'Star of the Year', 'Favorite Leading Man', and similar titles by numerous movie magazines and was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time....
    , actor
  • October 10 - Yul Brynner
    Yul Brynner

    Yul Brynner was a Russian-born actor of stage and screen, perhaps best known for his portrayal of the Thailandese king in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The King and I on both stage and screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B....
    , actor
  • October 10 - 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....
    , actor / director
  • December 12 - Anne Baxter
    Anne Baxter

    Anne Baxter was an Academy Award-winning United States actress....
    , actress