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The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1969 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

• January 14 - Louis F. Polk Jr. becomes president and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• February 23 - Madhubala dies due to a congenital heart disease, at age 36.
• June 22 - American singer and actress Judy Garland dies at age 47 of an accidental barbiturate overdose in London.
• July 8 - Kinney National Services Inc. acquire substantially all of the assets of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
• July 13 - Al Pacino's film debut (Me, Natalie).
• Summer - Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980. From 1969 to 1979, the festival is non-competitive.
• August 8 - Kirk Kerkorian buys 24% of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, becoming the biggest shareholder.
• August 9 - Tate murders: Sharon Tate, the 26-year-old actress, model and Roman Polanski's wife, is murdered by Charles Manson's "Family" at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, California.
• September 20 - Injun Trouble was released, becoming the final entry of Merrie Melodies before Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation was shut down.
• November 10 - Elvis Presley's film career ends with the release of Change of Habit.
• Jack and Jill: A Postscript becomes the first feature film to receive an Australian Film Institute Award.

Awards

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, United Kingdom

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Rani Radovi (Early Works), directed by Želimir Žilnik, Yugoslavia

Films released in 1969

Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

January–March

• January 1969
  • January 15
    • More Dead Than Alive
    • Riot
  • January 23
    • Dillinger Is Dead (Italy)
    • Some Girls Do
  • January 24
    • Before Winter Comes
  • January 27
    • The Extraordinary Seaman
• February 1969
  • February 5
    • The Wrecking Crew
  • February 9
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • February 12
    • The Candy Man
  • February 19
    • The Night of the Following Day
  • February 26
    • Z
• March 1969
  • March 2
    • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • March 5
    • The Big Bounce
  • March 7
    • The Brain
  • March 10
    • The Assassination Bureau (U.K.)
    • Oh! What a Lovely War
  • March 11
    • 2000 Years Later
  • March 12
    • Where Eagles Dare
  • March 13
    • Charro!
    • The Love Bug
  • March 21
    • Gamera vs. Guiron (Japan)
  • March 26
    • 100 Rifles
    • The Illustrated Man
    • Support Your Local Sheriff!
  • March 27
    • Age of Consent

April–June

• April 1969
  • April 1
    • Model Shop
    • Sam Whiskey
    • Sweet Charity
  • April 2
    • Angel in My Pocket
  • April 3
    • Goodbye, Columbus
  • April 9
    • The Wedding Party
  • April 16
    • Hook, Line & Sinker
  • April 17
    • Salesman
  • April 24
    • If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
  • April 30
    • The Big Cube
    • Hard Contract
    • Midas Run
• May 1969
  • May 1
    • The Mad Room
  • May 6
    • Slaves
  • May 7
    • Sinful Davey
    • Where It's At
  • May 10
    • Mackenna's Gold
  • May 14
    • Krakatoa, East of Java
    • Nightmare in Wax
  • May 15
    • Midas Run
  • May 22
    • Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (U.K.)
    • Winning
  • May 25
    • Midnight Cowboy
  • May 27
    • Popi
  • May 28
    • The April Fools
    • Guns of the Magnificent Seven
  • May 29
    • Carry On Camping
    • Che!
• June 1969
  • June 5
    • The Italian Job
  • June 8
    • That Cold Day in the Park
  • June 11
    • The First Time
    • Rascal
  • June 12
    • Blue Movie
  • June 13
    • True Grit
  • June 18
    • Eye of the Cat
    • Mississippi Mermaid (France)
    • Ring of Bright Water
    • The Wild Bunch
  • June 19
    • The Bed Sitting Room
    • Last Summer
  • June 24
    • Chastity
  • June 25
    • The Bridge at Remagen
    • The Chairman
    • Hello Down There
    • My Side of the Mountain

July–September

• July 1969
  • July 2
    • Three Into Two Won't Go
  • July 7
    • How to Commit Marriage
  • July 10
    • Putney Swope
  • July 11
    • The Lost Man
  • July 13
    • Dance of Death
    • Me, Natalie
  • July 14
    • Alfred the Great
    • Easy Rider
    • The Haunted House of Horror
  • July 18
    • The Appointment
  • July 19
    • The Mighty Gorga
  • July 20
    • Guns in the Heather'
  • July 23
    • Castle Keep
  • July 26
    • Boy (Japan)
    • Latitude Zero (Japan)
• August 1969
  • August 6
    • The Learning Tree
  • August 9
    • The Love God?
    • More (France/West Germany)
  • August 18
    • Take the Money and Run
  • August 19
    • Alice's Restaurant
    • Venus in Furs
  • August 20
    • Staircase
    • What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
  • August 21
    • Number One
  • August 27
    • Medium Cool
    • The Rain People
  • August 28
    • The Gypsy Moths
• September 1969
  • September 3
    • The Trouble with Girls
    • The Valley of Gwangi
  • September 5
    • The Bushbaby
  • September 12
    • Army of Shadows (France)
  • September 15
    • Battle of Britain
  • September 17
    • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  • September 24
    • Asterix and Cleopatra
  • September 29
    • De Sade

October–December

• October 1969
  • October 4
    • Hail, Hero!
  • October 5
    • A Walk with Love and Death
  • October 6
    • The Royal Hunt of the Sun
  • October 8
    • The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
    • The Monitors
  • October 10
    • Psycho (re-issue)
  • October 12
    • The Madwoman of Chaillot
  • October 14
    • The Damned (Italy/West Germany)
  • October 15
    • Eros + Massacre (Japan)
    • Paint Your Wagon
    • The Virgin Soldiers
  • October 21
    • Lock Up Your Daughters
  • October 22
    • Marlowe
    • The Sterile Cuckoo
  • October 24
    • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • October 29
    • The Secret of Santa Vittoria
• November 1969
  • November 6
    • Downhill Racer
    • Trilogy
  • November 10
    • Change of Habit
    • Flareup
    • Marooned
    • The Passion of Anna (Sweden)
  • November 11
    • Don't Drink the Water
  • November 13
    • Women in Love
  • November 15
    • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    • Kes
  • November 18
    • The Arrangement
    • The Girl Who Knew Too Much
  • November 19
    • The Comic
  • November 26
    • Angel, Angel, Down We Go
  • November 27
    • The Undefeated
• December 1969
  • December 4
    • A Boy Named Charlie Brown
  • December 8
    • The Sicilian Clan (France)
  • December 10
    • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  • December 12
    • The Magic Christian
  • December 14
    • John and Mary
  • December 15
    • Generation
  • December 16
    • Cactus Flower
    • Gaily, Gaily
    • Hello, Dolly!
  • December 18
    • Anne of the Thousand Days
    • On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    • Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
  • December 19
    • Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
    • Topaz
  • December 20
    • All Monsters Attack (Japan)
  • December 21
    • Burn!
    • Hamlet
    • The Happy Ending
  • December 24
    • The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
  • December 25
    • The Reivers

Notable films released in 1969

Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

#

• 100 Rifles, starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds

A

• Ådalen 31, directed by Bo Widerberg – (Sweden)
• Adelheid, directed by František Vláčil – (Czechoslovakia)
• The Adjutant of His Excellency (Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Age of Consent, directed by Michael Powell, starring James Mason and Helen Mirren – (Australia)
• Alfred the Great, starring David Hemmings – (U.K.)
• Alice's Restaurant, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Arlo Guthrie
• All Monsters Attack (Gojira Minira Gabara Ōru Kaijū Daishingeki, also known as Godzilla's Revenge), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
• All My Compatriots (Všichni dobří rodáci) – (Czechoslovakia)
• Angel in My Pocket, starring Andy Griffith
• Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, John Colicos, Anthony Quayle – winner of 4 Golden Globes – (U.K.)
• The April Fools, starring Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford
• Aradhana (Worship) – (India)
• Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret – (France)
• The Arrangement, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Kirk Douglas and Deborah Kerr
• Arthur? Arthur!, starring Shelley Winters, Terry-Thomas, Tammy Grimes
• The Assassination Bureau, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas – (U.K.)

B

• Ballad of Carl-Henning (Balladen om Carl-Henning) – (Denmark)
• Bambi Meets Godzilla, very short cult film by Marv Newland
• Battle of Britain, starring Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer – (U.K.)
• Battle of Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi), starring Sergei Bondarchuk and Yul Brynner – (Yugoslavia)
• The Bed-Sitting Room, directed by Richard Lester, starring Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Marty Feldman – (U.K.)
• Before Winter Comes, starring David Niven – (U.K.)
• The Big Bounce, starring Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor-Young
• Blue Movie, directed by Andy Warhol
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon
• Boy (Shonen), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
• A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• The Brain (Le Cerveau), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven – (France/Italy)
• The Bridge at Remagen, starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, Robert Vaughn
• The Brothers Karamazov (Bratya Karamazovy) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Burn! (Queimada), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Marlon Brando – (Italy)
• The Bushbaby, directed by John Trent and starring Margaret Brooks and Lou Gossett
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

C

• Cactus Flower, starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
• Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, starring Anthony Newley and Joan Collins
• Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, starring Robert Ryan and Chuck Connors
• Carry On Camping, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor – (U.K.)
• Castle Keep, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk
• The Chairman, starring Gregory Peck
• Change of Habit, starring Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner
• Chastity, starring Cher
• Che!, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Omar Sharif and Jack Palance
• The Color of Pomegranates (Nran guyne) – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Comic, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Dick Van Dyke
• Il Commissario Pepe (Police Chief pepe), starring Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)
• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, starring Kurt Russell
• The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol) – (Czechoslovakia)

D

• The Damned (La caduta degli dei), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde and Ingrid Thulin – (Italy/West Germany)
• Daughter of the Mind, starring Don Murray and Ray Milland
• De Sade, starring Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, John Huston – (U.S./West Germany)
• Death of a Gunfighter, starring Richard Widmark and Lena Horne
• Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto), starring Michel Piccoli and Anita Pallenberg – (Italy)
• Don't Drink the Water, directed by Howard Morris, written by Woody Allen, starring Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Michael Constantine
• Do Raaste (Two Roads) – (India)
• Doppelgänger, starring Roy Thinnes, Lynn Loring, Herbert Lom
• Double Suicide (Shinjū: Ten no amijima) – (Japan)
• Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
• The Dragon of Evil Against the Warrior Saint (O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro), directed by Glauber Rocha – (Brazil)

E

• Easy Rider, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson
• End of a Priest (Farářův konec) – (Czechoslovakia)
• Eros Plus Massacre (Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) – (Japan)
• Everything for Sale (Wszystko na sprzedaż), written and directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
• The Exquisite Cadaver (Las crueles), starring Capucine – (Spain)
• The Extraordinary Seaman, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
• Eye of the Cat, starring Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker

F

• Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy)
• Flashback, directed by Raffaele Andreassi – (Italy)
• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
• Fraulein Doktor, starring Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Capucine
• Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Sōretsu), by Toshio Matsumoto – (Japan)

G

• Gaily, Gaily, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, George Kennedy, Margot Kidder
• A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce), directed by Robert Bresson, starring Dominique Sanda – (France)
• The Girl from Rio, starring Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler and George Sanders – (Spain/West Germany/U.S.)
• Goodbye, Columbus, starring Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw and Jack Klugman
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark
• Good Morning, My Dear Wife, starring Salah Zulfikar and Nelly – (Egypt)
• Goyokin, directed by Hideo Gosha – (Japan)
• The Grasshopper, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jim Brown
• The Great Love (Le grand amour) – (France)
• Guns of the Magnificent Seven, directed by Paul Wendkos, starring George Kennedy and James Whitmore
• The Gypsy Moths, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Bonnie Bedelia

H

• Hail, Hero! directed by David Miller Starring Michael Douglas and Peter Strauss.
• Hamlet, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Anthony Hopkins – (U.K.)
• Handcuffs (Lisice) – (Yugoslavia)
• Hannibal Brooks, starring Oliver Reed
• The Happy Ending, starring Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges and Teresa Wright
• Hard Contract, starring James Coburn, Lee Remick, Burgess Meredith – (U.K.)
• The Haunted House of Horror (a.k.a. Horror House or The Dark), starring Frankie Avalon and Jill Haworth – (U.K.)
• Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly, starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Tommy Tune, Louis Armstrong
• Hello Down There, starring Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Jim Backus, Charlotte Rae, Ken Berry, Roddy McDowall, Richard Dreyfuss
• Honeycomb (La madriguera), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin – (Spain)
• The Honeymoon Killers, starring Tony LoBianco and Shirley Stoler
• Hook, Line & Sinker, starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lawford
• How to Commit Marriage, starring Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Tina Louise, Maureen Arthur, Leslie Nielsen
• Heaven Is Never a Great Distance, starring Mohammad Ali Fardin – Iran

I

• If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, starring Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Michael Constantine
• I'm an Elephant, Madame (Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame) – (West Germany)
• The Italian Job, directed by Peter Collinson, starring Michael Caine and Noël Coward – (U.K.)
• The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom
• It's Tough Being a Man (Otoko wa tsurai yo) – (Japan)
• Ittefaq, starring Rajesh Khanna – (India)

J

• Jackal of Nahueltoro (El Chacal de Nahueltoro) – (Chile)
• John and Mary, starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow

K

• Katrina – (South Africa)
• Katzelmacher, directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Hanna Schygulla – (West Germany)
• Kes, directed by Ken Loach – (U.K.)
• Khamoshi (Silence) – (India)

L

• L'amour fou, directed by Jacques Rivette – (France)
• The Land (Al-ard), directed by Youssef Chahine – (Egypt)
• Larks on a String (Skřivánci na niti), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia) – banned until 1990
• Last Summer, starring Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns
• Laughter in the Dark (La Chambre obscure), directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson and Anna Karina – (France/U.K.)
• The Learning Tree, directed by Gordon Parks
• Lions Love, directed by Agnès Varda
• Lock Up Your Daughters, starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Glynis Johns
• Lost Flight, starring Anne Francis, Lloyd Bridges, Billy Dee Williams
• The Lost Man, starring Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus
• The Love God?, directed by Nat Hiken, starring Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Maureen Arthur
• Love Is Colder Than Death (Liebe ist kälter als der Tod), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)

M

• Machine Gun McCain, starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk
• Mackenna's Gold, starring Gregory Peck, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, and Omar Sharif
• Macunaíma, directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade – (Brazil)
• The Madwoman of Chaillot, starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer, John Gavin, Danny Kaye
• The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Raquel Welch – (U.K.)
• Marlowe, directed by Paul Bogart, starring James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Carroll O'Connor, Bruce Lee
• Marooned, directed by John Sturges, starring Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman
• Marquis de Sade: Justine, starring Romina Power, Klaus Kinski, Jack Palance – (Italy)
• Medea, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Maria Callas – (Italy/France/West Germany)
• Medium Cool, directed by Haskell Wexler, starring Robert Forster, Marianna Hill, Peter Bonerz
• Midas Run, starring Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire
• Midnight Cowboy, directed by John Schlesinger, screenplay by Waldo Salt, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman
• The Milky Way (La voie lactée), directed by Luis Buñuel – (France/Italy/West Germany)
• Mississippi Mermaid (La sirène du Mississipi), directed by François Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
• The Monitors, starring Guy Stockwell and Susan Oliver
• Mon oncle Benjamin (My Uncle Benjamin) – (France)
• Monsieur Hawarden – (Belgium/Netherlands)
• Monte Carlo or Bust!, aka Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies, starring Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore – (U.K./France/Italy)
• More, directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grünberg – (France/West Germany)
• More Dead Than Alive, starring Clint Walker and Anne Francis
• Mosquito Squadron, starring David McCallum – (U.K.)
• My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud), directed by Éric Rohmer – (France)

N

• The Night of Counting the Years (Al-Mummia) – (Egypt)
• Nightmare in Wax, starring Cameron Mitchell and Anne Helm
• Number One, starring Charlton Heston, Jessica Walter, Bruce Dern

O

• The Oblong Box, starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee
• Oh! What a Lovely War, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Mills – (U.K.)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby (as James Bond), with Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas – (U.K.)

P

• Paint Your Wagon, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, with songs by Lerner and Loewe
• The Passion of Anna, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson – (Sweden)
• Pigsty (Porcile), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini – (Italy)
• La Piscine (The Swimming Pool), starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider – (France)
• Play Dirty, starring Michael Caine – (U.K.)
• Popi, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Alan Arkin and Rita Moreno
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Maggie Smith (Academy Award winner) – (U.K.)
• The Promise, starring John Castle and Ian McKellen – (U.K.)
• Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey, Sr.

Q

• A Quiet Place in the Country (Un tranquillo posto di campagna), starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave – (Italy/France)

R

• The Rain People, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Robert Duvall, Shirley Knight
• Rani Radovi (Early Years) – Golden Bear winner – (Yugoslavia)
• Rascal, starring Bill Mumy and Steve Forrest
• The Red Tent (Krasnaya palatka) – (U.S.S.R./Italy/U.K.)
• The Reivers, based on the novel by William Faulkner, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel, Will Geer, narrated by Burgess Meredith
• La residencia (The Boarding School), starring Lilli Palmer – (Spain)
• Rider on the Rain (Le Passager de la pluie), directed by René Clément, starring Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert – (France)
• Ring of Bright Water, starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna – (U.K.)
• Riot, starring Jim Brown and Gene Hackman
• The Royal Hunt of the Sun, starring Robert Shaw and Christopher Plummer – (U.K./U.S.)

S

• Sabata, starring Lee Van Cleef – (Italy)
• Salesman, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
• Sam Whiskey, starring Burt Reynolds and Angie Dickinson
• Satyakam, starring Dharmendra and Ashok Kumar – (India)
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani
• Shining Star, starring Ahmad Ghadakchian and Forouzan – (Iran)
• Shinsengumi, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
• The Sicilian Clan (Le clan des siciliens), starring Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Lino Ventura – (France)
• Sinful Davey, directed by John Huston, starring John Hurt
• Slaves, directed by Herbert Biberman, starring Dionne Warwick, Ossie Davis and Stephen Boyd
• Some Girls Do, starring Richard Johnson and Daliah Lavi
• Some Kind of a Nut, starring Dick Van Dyke, Rosemary Forsyth and Angie Dickinson
• The Southern Star, starring George Segal, Orson Welles and Ursula Andress
• Staircase, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton
• The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Liza Minnelli
• Stiletto, starring Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Joseph Wiseman and Patrick O'Neal
• Support Your Local Sheriff!, starring James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan and Jack Elam
• Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Shirley MacLaine

T

• Take the Money and Run, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Janet Margolin and Louise Lasser
• A Talent for Loving, directed by Richard Quine, starring Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Topol, Fran Jeffries
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Michael Sarrazin, Red Buttons
• Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, starring Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake
• The Great Bank Robbery
• This Man Must Die (Que la bête meure), directed by Claude Chabrol – (France/Italy)
• Three Into Two Won't Go, starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Peggy Ashcroft
• Till Death Us Do Part, starring Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols – (U.K.)
• A Time for Dying, starring Audie Murphy and Anne Randall
• Topaz, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Frederick Stafford, John Forsythe, John Vernon, Roscoe Lee Browne
• The Trouble with Girls, directed by Peter Tewksbury, starring Elvis Presley, Vincent Price, Dabney Coleman, Sheree North, John Carradine, Susan Olsen
• True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeff Corey, Robert Duvall, Strother Martin, Dennis Hopper
• Twinky, starring Charles Bronson and Susan George – (U.K.)

U

• Ultraman, Ultraseven: Great Violent Monster Fight – (Japan)
• The Undefeated, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson
• The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran – (France)

V

• The Valley of Gwangi, starring James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, with visual effects by Ray Harryhausen completing work by Willis O'Brien
• Viimne reliikvia, directed by Grigori Kromanov (Estonian SSR, U.S.S.R.)
• Viva Max!, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, John Astin, Jonathan Winters

W

• The Wedding Party, directed by Wilford Leach, Brian De Palma and Cynthia Monroe
• What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon and Rosemary Forsyth
• What's Good for the Goose, starring Norman Wisdom and Sally Geeson – (U.K.)
• Where It's At, starring David Janssen and Rosemary Forsyth
• Where's Jack?, starring Stanley Baker and Tommy Steele – (U.K.)
• White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni), directed by Vladimir Motyl – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates
• Winning, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Thomas, Robert Wagner
• The Witness (A tanu), directed by Péter Bacsó – (Hungary)
• Women in Love, directed by Ken Russell, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson – (U.K.)
• The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Nagagutsu o Haita Neko), directed by Kimio Yabuki – (Japan)
• The Wrecking Crew, starring Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise and Sharon Tate

Y

• Young Billy Young, starring Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr.

Z

• Z, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Irene Papas – (France/Algeria)

Short film series

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Cool Cat (1967—1969)
• Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967—1969)
• The Pink Panther (1963–1969, 1971–1977, 1978–1980)
• The Inspector (1965-1969)
• The Ant and the Aardvark (1969–1971)
• Roland and Rattfink (1968–1971)
• Tijuana Toads (1969–1972)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949, 1951–1972)
• Chilly Willy (1955–1972)
• The Beary Family (1962–1972)

Births

• January 1
  • Mr. Lawrence, American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, animator and director
  • Verne Troyer, American actor (died 2018)
• January 2 - Nicholas Gleaves, English actor
• January 5 - Shea Whigham, American actor
• January 8 - Ami Dolenz, American former actress
• January 14 – Jason Bateman, American actor
• January 17 – James Waterston, American actor
• January 18 – Dave Bautista, American actor and former professional wrestler
• January 20 - Reno Wilson, American actor
• January 21 - Matt Willig, American actor and former football player
• January 22 - Olivia d'Abo, British actress and singer
• January 27 – Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer
• February 3 - Shane Rangi, New Zealand actor
• February 4 - Brandy Ledford, American actress and model
• February 5
  • Bobby Brown, American singer-songwriter and actor
  • Michael Sheen, Welsh actor and producer
• February 6
  • April Haney, American former actress and singer
  • Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese actor and singer
  • David Hayter, Canadian actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
• February 8
  • Brian Krause, American actor
  • Mary McCormack, American actress
• February 11
  • Jennifer Aniston, American actress
  • Lee Tockar, Canadian voice actor and visual artist
• February 12 - Darren Aronofsky, American director, producer and screenwriter
• February 13 - Andrew Bryniarski, American actor
• February 22 - Thomas Jane, American actor
• February 28 - Robert Sean Leonard, American actor
• March 1 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
• March 8 - Don Hall (filmmaker), American director, voice actor and writer
• March 10
  • Paget Brewster, American actress
  • Dave Sheridan (actor), American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician
• March 11 – Terrence Howard, American actor
• March 15 - Kim Raver, American actress and producer
• March 16 - Judah Friedlander, American actor and comedian
• March 23 - Richard Cadell, Illusionist, puppeteer and screenwriter
• March 27 - Kevin Corrigan, American character actor
• March 28 - Brett Ratner, American director and producer
• April 2 – Ajay Devgan, Indian actor
• April 3 – Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
• April 6 – Paul Rudd, American actor
• April 21 – Toby Stephens, English actor
• April 23 – Byron Thames, American actor
• April 24 - Rory McCann, Scottish actor
• April 25 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
• May 1 – Wes Anderson, American director
• May 2 - Karel Dobrý, Czech actor
• May 10 - Lenny Venito, American actor
• May 14 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
• May 22 - Michael Kelly (actor), American actor
• May 24 – Carl Anthony Payne II, American actor
• May 25 – Anne Heche, American actress (died 2022)
• June 1 – Teri Polo, American actress
• June 4 - Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born American actor and comedian
• June 6 - Nina Sosanya, English actress and narrator
• June 7
  • Adam Buxton, English actor, comedian and writer
  • Kim Rhodes, American actress
  • Anthony Simcoe, Australian actor
• June 8 - J. P. Manoux, American actor, director and writer
• June 9 - Josh Hamilton (actor), American actor
• June 11 – Peter Dinklage, American actor
• June 15 – Ice Cube, American actor and rapper
• June 18 - Ella Kenion, English comedy actress
• June 23 - Martin Klebba, American character actor and stunt performer
• June 24 - Jensen Daggett, American actress
• June 28
  • Tichina Arnold, American actress
  • Angeline Ball, Irish actress
  • Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
• June 29 - Aleks Paunovic, Canadian actor
• July 5 - RZA, American rapper, actor and filmmaker
• July 6 - Brian Van Holt, American actor
• July 7 - Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress, voice actress and singer
• July 10 - Jamie Glover, English actor
• July 13 - Ken Jeong, American stand-up comedian, actor and producer
• July 17
  • Jason Clarke, Australian actor
  • Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor
• July 19 - Bodhi Elfman, American actor
• July 21 – Godfrey, American actor, comedian
• July 22 – James Arnold Taylor, American actor, writer and producer
• July 24
  • Rick Fox, Canadian-Bahamian former basketball player and actor
  • Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer
• July 25 - Dave B. Mitchell, American voice actor
• July 28
  • Alexis Arquette, American actress (died 2016)
  • Noma Dumezweni, British actress
• August 4 – Vlad Ivanov, Romanian actor
• August 5
  • Chuck Campbell, Canadian actor and comedian
  • Kim Mai Guest, American voice actress
• August 6 - Chris Edgerly, American voice actor, comedian and singer
• August 8 - Chris Beetem, American actor
• August 15 - Kimberley Kates, American actress and producer
• August 16 - Kate Higgins, American voice actress and singer
• August 17 - Donnie Wahlberg, American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and producer
• August 18
  • Edward Norton, American actor
  • Christian Slater, American actor
• August 19 – Matthew Perry, Canadian-American actor
• August 21 - Nathan Jones (wrestler), Australian actor and former professional wrestler
• August 24 - Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor and producer
• August 27 - Reece Shearsmith, English actor, writer and comedian
• August 28 – Jack Black, American actor, comedian, musician
• September 4 - Noah Taylor, Australian actor
• September 7 - Angie Everhart, American actress
• September 13 – Tyler Perry, American actor
• September 14
  • Bong Joon-ho, Korean director and screenwriter
  • Oscar Kightley, Samoan-born New Zealand actor, television presenter, writer, director and comedian
• September 22 - Sue Perkins, English actress, broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer
• September 23 - Crispin Bonham-Carter, English actor
• September 25 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
• September 26 - David Slade, British director and actor
• September 29 – Erika Eleniak, American actress
• September 30
  • Silas Weir Mitchell (actor), American character actor
  • Mark Smith (actor), British actor
• October 1 – Zach Galifianakis, American actor
• October 4 - Abraham Benrubi, American actor
• October 8
  • Jeremy Davies, American actor
  • Dylan Neal, Canadian-American actor
• October 9 – Steve McQueen, English director
• October 15 – Dominic West, English actor
• October 17
  • Wood Harris, American actor
  • Nancy Sullivan, American actress, television presenter, and screenwriter
• October 19
  • Roger Cross, Jamaican-born Canadian actor
  • Trey Parker, American actor, creator of South Park
• October 25 - Nika Futterman, American actress, voice actress and singer
• October 26 - Robert Maillet, Canadian actor and former professional wrestler
• November 4 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor
• November 10 - Jennifer Cody, American dancer and actress
• November 13 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor^[3]
• November 27 - Chin Han (actor, born 1969), Singaporean actor
• November 28 - Martin Cummins, Canadian actor
• November 30
  • Marc Forster, German-Swiss director, producer and screenwriter
  • Chris Weitz, American director, screenwriter and producer
• December 5 - Eric Etebari, Iranian-American actor
  • Catherine Tate, English actress, comedian and writer
• December 7 - Patrice O'Neal, American stand-up comedian, actor and radio personality (died 2011)
• December 9 - Allison Smith (actress), American actress, singer, writer and director
• December 10 - Stephen Billington, English actor
• December 11 - Max Martini, American actor, writer and director
• December 13 - Tony Curran, Scottish actor
• December 14 - Natascha McElhone, English actress
• December 15 - Ralph Ineson, English actor and narrator
• December 19 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
• December 21 – Julie Delpy, French actress
• December 27 - Sarah Vowell, American actress
• December 29 - Jennifer Ehle, American actress

Deaths

• January 1 – Barton MacLane, 66, American actor, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre^[4]
• January 3 – Howard McNear, 63, American actor, Anatomy of a Murder, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Blue Hawaii, Follow That Dream^[5][6]
• January 4 – Violet and Daisy Hilton, 60, English conjoined twins, actresses, appeared in film Freaks
• January 8 – Leslie Goodwins, 69, English director, The Mummy's Curse, Mexican Spitfire
• January 27 – Charles Winninger, 84, American actor, Destry Rides Again, The Sun Shines Bright
• February 2 – Boris Karloff, 81, English actor, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Raven
• February 5 – Thelma Ritter, 66, American actress, Rear Window, All About Eve
• February 9 – Gabby Hayes, 83, American actor, The Man from Utah, In Old Oklahoma
• February 11 – James Lanphier, 48, American actor, The Pink Panther, The Party
• February 19 - Madge Blake, 69, American actress, The Long, Long Trailer, Batman
• February 23 - Madhubala, 36, Indian actress, Mahal, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Mughal-E-Azam
• February 27 – John Boles, 73, American actor, Frankenstein, Stella Dallas
• March 18 – Barbara Bates, 43, American actress, The Caddy, All About Eve
• March 19 – Lola Braccini, 79, Italian actress, My Little One, What a Distinguished Family
• March 25 – Alan Mowbray, 72, British actor, Terror by Night, My Darling Clementine
• April 2 – Fortunio Bonanova, 74, Spanish actor, Citizen Kane, An Affair to Remember
• April 23 – Krzysztof Komeda, 37, Polish composer, Rosemary's Baby, The Fearless Vampire Killers
• May 3 – Karl Freund, 69, Czech-American cinematographer and director, Metropolis, The Mummy, Key Largo
• May 24
  • Paul Birch, 57, American actor, The Gun Runners, Gunmen from Laredo
  • Mitzi Green, 48, American actress, Lost in Alaska, Skippy
• May 27 – Jeffrey Hunter, 42, American actor, The Searchers, King of Kings
• June 2 – Leo Gorcey, 51, American actor, Ghost Chasers, Spook Busters
• June 8 – Robert Taylor, 57, American actor, Quo Vadis, Camille, Bataan, Ivanhoe
• June 10 – Frank Lawton, 64, English actor, A Night to Remember, The Devil-Doll
• June 13 – Martita Hunt, 70, Argentine-English actress, Becket, Great Expectations
• June 19 – Natalie Talmadge, 73, American silent screen actress, Our Hospitality, Intolerance
• June 20 – Rudolf Schwarzkogler, 29, Austrian experimental filmmaker, Satisfaction
• June 22 – Judy Garland, 47, American actress and singer, The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Star Is Born^[7]
• June 23 – Stanley Andrews, 77, American actor, West of Wyoming, Across the Badlands, Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
• July 5 - Lambert Hillyer, 75, American director, Dracula's Daughter, Batman
• July 5 – Leo McCarey, 72, American director, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way
• July 7 - Erskine Sanford, 83, American actor, Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons
• July 8 – Gladys Swarthout, 68, American singer, Romance in the Dark, Give Us This Night
• July 13 - Bess Meredyth, 79, American screenwriter, The Unsuspected, Charlie Chan at the Opera
• July 15 - Peter van Eyck, 57, Polish actor, The Wages of Fear, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• July 17 - Harry Benham, 85, American actor, Nicholas Nickleby
• July 18 - Barbara Pepper, 54, American actress, The Rogues Tavern, Kiss Me, Stupid^[8]
• July 26 – Raymond Walburn, 81, American actor, High, Wide, and Handsome, Third Finger, Left Hand
• August 1 – Donald Keith, 65, American actor, The Plastic Age, Parisian Love
• August 9 – Sharon Tate, 26, American actress, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Valley of the Dolls
• August 14 – Sigrid Gurie, 58, American actress, Algiers, The Adventures of Marco Polo
• August 15 – William Goetz, 66, American producer, studio executive, Sayonara, Les Misérables
• August 18 – Mildred Davis, 68, American actress, Safety Last!, Grandma’s Boy
• August 26 – Martin Miller, 69, Czech actor, 55 Days at Peking, The Pink Panther
• September 14 – James Anderson, 48, American actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, Take the Money and Run
• September 19 – Rex Ingram, 73, American actor, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Thief of Bagdad
• October 8 – Eduardo Ciannelli, 81, Italian actor, Gunga Din, Strange Cargo
• October 12 – Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian actress, former Olympic ice skater, Sun Valley Serenade, One in a Million
• October 15 – Rod La Rocque, 70, American actor, Meet John Doe, The Shadow Strikes^[9]
• October 28 – Constance Dowling, 49, American actress, Up in Arms, The Well-Groomed Bride
• November 5 – Lloyd Corrigan, 69, American actor, Son of Paleface, The Thin Man Goes Home
• November 8 – Dave O'Brien, 57, American actor, Captain Midnight, Brand of the Devil
• December 3 – Ruth White, 55, American actress, To Kill a Mockingbird, No Way to Treat a Lady
• December 7 – Eric Portman, 68, British actor, A Canterbury Tale, The Bedford Incident
• December 13 – Luigi Pavese, 72, Italian actor, Toto in Color, Il Mattatore
• December 22
  • Ilse Steppat, 52, German actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  • Josef von Sternberg, 73, Austrian director, The Blue Angel, Macao

Film debuts

• Amitabh Bachchan – Saat Hindustani
• Bob Balaban – Midnight Cowboy
• Bonnie Bedelia – The Gypsy Moths
• Ed Begley Jr. – The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
• David Bowie – The Virgin Soldiers
• Bernie Casey – Guns of the Magnificent Seven
• Graham Chapman – The Magic Christian
• Jill Clayburgh – The Wedding Party
• James Cosmo – Battle of Britain
• Bruce Davison – Last Summer
• Lesley-Anne Down – The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
• Sam Elliott – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Farrah Fawcett – Love Is a Funny Thing
• Bridget Fonda – Easy Rider
• Melanie Griffith – Smith!
• Anjelica Huston – A Walk with Love and Death
• Raul Julia – Stiletto
• K.P.A.C Lalitha – Kootu Kudumbam
• George Lazenby – On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• Joanna Lumley – Some Girls Do
• Miriam Margoyles – A Nice Girl Like Me
• Ian McKellen – A Touch of Love
• Ryan O'Neal – The Big Bounce
• Al Pacino – Me, Natalie
• Ron Rifkin – The Devil's 8
• Sydne Rome – Some Girls Do
• John Savage – The Master Beater
• Arnold Schwarzenegger – Hercules in New York
• Jane Seymour – Oh! What a Lovely War
• Sylvester Stallone – The Square Root
• Christopher Walken – Me and My Brother
• M. Emmet Walsh – Midnight Cowboy
• Ray Wise – Dare the Devil