Dfyjkt

Years in film
1870s
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020s 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029
v t e

The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Events

• May 29 - Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.


• February 15 - first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, is released.

Top-grossing films

Academy Awards

• 
  Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  


• 
  Best Director: Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  


• 
  Best Actor: Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur
  


• 
  Best Actress: Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld
  


• 
  Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan – Come and Get It
  


• 
  Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse
  

Top Ten Money Making Stars

Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company's annual poll.^[4]

Top Western stars

A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.^[5]

1936 film releases

U.S.A. unless stated.

January–March

• January 1936
  
  • 16 January
    
    • Ceiling Zero
  
  
  • 17 January
    
    • 
      Augustus the Strong (Germany/Poland)
  
  
  • 20 January
    
    • The Invisible Ray
  
  
  • 22 January
    
    • Collegiate
  
  
  • 24 January
    
    • Anything Goes
  
  
  • 30 January
    
    • Next Time We Love
  
  


• February 1936
  
  • 1 February
    
    • Rose Marie
  
  
  • 5 February
    
    • Modern Times
  
  
  • 6 February
    
    • The Petrified Forest
  
  
  • 7 February
    
    • The Milky Way
  
  
  • 14 February
    
    • The Bohemian Girl
    
    
    • It Had to Happen
    
    
  
  
  • 15 February
    
    • The Lawless Nineties
  
  
  • 19 February
    
    • 
      Girl Friends (U.S.S.R.)
  
  
  • 20 February
    
    • Follow the Fleet
    
    
    • 
      Things to Come (GB)
    
    
  
  
  • 22 February
    
    • The Story of Louis Pasteur
  
  
  • 28 February
    
    • The Prisoner of Shark Island
    
    
    • Wife vs. Secretary
    
    
  
  
  • 29 February
    
    • 
      Mayerling (France)
    
    
    • The Walking Dead
    
    
  
  


• March 1936
  
  • 1 March
    
    • Sutter's Gold
  
  
  • 2 March
    
    • Man of the Frontier
  
  
  • 6 March
    
    • Little Lord Fauntleroy
    
    
    • Three Godfathers
    
    
  
  
  • 9 March
    
    • Love Before Breakfast
  
  
  • 13 March
    
    • The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
  
  
  • 18 March
    
    • These Three
  
  
  • 22 March
    
    • The Great Ziegfeld
  
  
  • 28 March
    
    • Road Gang
  
  
  • 30 March
    
    • Too Many Parents
  
  

April–June

• April 1936
  
  • 4 April
    
    • Till We Meet Again
  
  
  • 10 April
    
    • A Message to Garcia
    
    
    • The Moon's Our Home
    
    
    • Small Town Girl
    
    
  
  
  • 11 April
    
    • Desire
    
    
    • The Singing Kid
    
    
  
  
  • 16 April
    
    • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  
  
  • 20 April
    
    • 
      By the Bluest of Seas (U.S.S.R.)
  
  
  • 24 April
    
    • Captain January
  
  
  • 30 April
    
    • Thirteen Hours by Air
  
  


• May 1936
  
  • 6 May
    
    • 
      It's Love Again (GB)
  
  
  • 8 May
    
    • The Case Against Mrs. Ames
  
  
  • 11 May
    
    • Dracula's Daughter
  
  
  • 17 May
    
    • Show Boat
  
  
  • 19 May
    
    • 
      Love in Exile (GB)
  
  
  • 26 May
    
    • Hearts in Bondage
  
  
  • 28 May
    
    • 
      Osaka Elegy (Japan)
  
  
  • 29 May
    
    • Fury
  
  


• June 1936
  
  • 5 June
    
    • Private Number
  
  
  • 6 June
    
    • Bullets or Ballots
  
  
  • 15 June
    
    • 
      Secret Agent (GB)
  
  
  • 17 June
    
    • Poppy
  
  
  • 20 June
    
    • Hearts Divided
  
  
  • 26 June
    
    • San Francisco
  
  

July–September

• July 1936
  
  • 10 July
    
    • The Devil-Doll
  
  
  • 16 July
    
    • Green Pastures
  
  
  • 22 July
    
    • Satan Met a Lady
  
  
  • 24 July
    
    • Poor Little Rich Girl
  
  
  • 28 July
    
    • 
      The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (GB)
  
  
  • 29 July
    
    • Anthony Adverse
  
  


• August 1936
  
  • 10 August
    
    • 
      Where There's a Will (GB)
  
  
  • 20 August
    
    • Romeo and Juliet
  
  
  • 26 August
    
    • 
      East Meets West (UK)
  
  
  • 28 August
    
    • The Gorgeous Hussy
    
    
    • 
      Militiaman Bruggler (Germany)
    
    
    • The Texas Rangers
    
    
  
  


• September 1936
  
  • 1 September
    
    • Tudor Rose
  
  
  • 2 September
    
    • The General Died at Dawn
  
  
  • 4 September
    
    • The Last of the Mohicans
    
    
    • The Road to Glory
    
    
    • Swing Time
    
    
  
  
  • 6 September
    
    • My Man Godfrey
  
  
  • 9 September
    
    • 
      Spy of Napoleon (GB)
  
  
  • 10 September
    
    • 
      Dusty Ermine (UK)
  
  
  • 11 September
    
    • 
      The Man Who Changed His Mind (GB)
  
  
  • 15 September
    
    • The Children of Captain Grant
  
  
  • 23 September
    
    • Dodsworth
  
  
  • 25 September
    
    • Craig's Wife
  
  
  • 26 September
    
    • Cain and Mabel
  
  
  • 30 September
    
    • 
      Yiddle with his Fiddle (Poland/U.S.A.)
  
  

October–December

• October 1936
  
  • 1 October
    
    • 
      Everything Is Thunder (UK)
  
  
  • 6 October
    
    • 
      Allá en el Rancho Grande (Mexico)
  
  
  • 9 October
    
    • Libeled Lady
  
  
  • 15 October
    
    • The Garden of Allah
    
    
    • 
      Sisters of the Gion (Japan)
    
    
  
  
  • 16 October
    
    • 15 Maiden Lane
    
    
    • Dimples
    
    
    • Hopalong Cassidy Returns
    
    
  
  
  • 20 October
    
    • The Charge of the Light Brigade
  
  
  • 22 October
    
    • 
      Crime Over London (GB)
  
  
  • 27 October
    
    • 
      César (France)
  
  
  • 30 October
    
    • Our Relations
  
  


• November 1936
  
  • 6 November
    
    • Come and Get It
    
    
    • 
      Rembrandt (GB)
    
    
    • Tarzan Escapes
    
    
    • A Woman Rebels
    
    
  
  
  • 12 November
    
    • Theodora Goes Wild
  
  
  • 13 November
    
    • Go West, Young Man
  
  
  • 16 November
    
    • 
      Intermezzo (Sweden)
    
    
    • 
      Laburnum Grove (GB)
    
    
    • The Plainsman
    
    
  
  
  • 20 November
    
    • Love on the Run
  
  
  • 25 November
    
    • Lloyd's of London
    
    
    • Pennies from Heaven
    
    
  
  
  • 26 November
    
    • 
      Men Are Not Gods (GB)
  
  
  • 27 November
    
    • Born to Dance
  
  


• December 1936
  
  • 1 December
    
    • The Bold Caballero
  
  
  • 2 December
    
    • 
      Sabotage (GB)
  
  
  • 11 December
    
    • General Spanky
    
    
    • 
      Les bas-fonds (France)
    
    
  
  
  • 12 December
    
    • Camille
  
  
  • 20 December
    
    • Empty Saddles
  
  
  • 21 December
    
    • 
      Forget Me Not (UK)
  
  
  • 24 December
    
    • The Jungle Princess
  
  
  • 25 December
    
    • After the Thin Man
    
    
    • Stowaway
    
    
  
  
  • 26 December
    
    • Gold Diggers of 1937
  
  
  • 31 December
    
    • 
      Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Mexico)
  
  

Notable films released in 1936

U.S.A. unless stated.

0-9

• 
  15 Maiden Lane, starring Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero
  

A-C

• 
  Accused, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Dolores del Río (GB)


• 
  Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden), starring Ashok Kumar (India)


• 
  The Adventures of Pinocchio (Italy)


• 
  After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
  


• 
  Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch) (Mexico)


• 
  The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, starring Cary Grant (GB)


• 
  Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland
  


• 
  Anything Goes, starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman
  


• 
  Augustus the Strong (August der Starke), directed by Paul Wegener - (Germany/Poland)


• 
  Les bas-fonds, (Underworld), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet (France)


• 
  Black Eyes directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta (Iran)


• 
  Blood on Wolf Mountain (Lang shan die xue ji) - (China)


• 
  The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
  


• The Bold Caballero


• 
  Born to Dance, starring Eleanor Powell and James Stewart
  


• 
  Bullets or Ballots, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Blondell
  


• 
  By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya), directed by Boris Barnet (U.S.S.R.)


• 
  Cain and Mabel, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
  


• 
  Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (Velbloud uchem jehly) (Czechoslovakia)


• 
  Camille, starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
  


• 
  Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
  


• 
  The Case Against Mrs. Ames, starring Madeleine Carroll and George Brent
  


• 
  Ceiling Zero, directed by Howard Hawks, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
  


• 
  César, directed by Marcel Pagnol (France)


• 
  The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
  


• 
  Charlie Chan at the Opera, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff
  


• The Children of Captain Grant


• 
  Circus (Tsirk) (U.S.S.R.)


• 
  Collegiate, starring Frances Langford and Betty Grable
  


• 
  Come and Get It, starring Edward Arnold and Joel McCrea
  


• 
  Craig's Wife, starring Rosalind Russell
  


• 
  The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange), directed by Jean Renoir (France)


• 
  Crime Over London, directed by Alfred Zeisler (GB)

D-K

Play media

Kundal Lal Saigal and Jamuna in Devdas, Barua's 1936 Hindi version.

• 
  The Desert Island (Lang tao sha) (China)


• 
  Desire, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
  


• 
  Devdas (India)


• 
  The Devil-Doll, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan
  


• 
  Dimples, starring Shirley Temple
  


• 
  Dodsworth, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor
  


• 
  Dracula's Daughter, starring Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden
  


• 
  Dusty Ermine, directed by Bernard Vorhaus (UK)


• 
  East Meets West, starring George Arliss (UK)


• 
  Empty Saddles, starring Buck Jones and Louise Brooks
  


• 
  Everything Is Thunder, starring Constance Bennett (UK)


• 
  Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
  


• 
  Forget Me Not, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner (UK)


• 
  The Four Musketeers (Italy)


• 
  Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy
  


• 
  The Garden of Allah, starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer
  


• 
  The General Died at Dawn, starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll
  


• 
  General Spanky, starring Spanky McFarland
  


• 
  Girl Friends (Podrugi) (U.S.S.R.)


• 
  Go West, Young Man, starring Mae West, adapted by her from Lawrence Riley's 1934 stage play Personal Appearance
  


• 
  Gold Diggers of 1937, directed by Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
  


• 
  The Gorgeous Hussy, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor
  


• 
  The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
  


• 
  Green Pastures, adapted from the 1923 stage play, starring Rex Ingram and Eddie Anderson
  


• 
  Hearts Divided, starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell
  


• 
  Hearts in Bondage, starring David Manners and Mae Clarke
  


• 
  Hopalong Cassidy Returns, starring William Boyd
  


• 
  I'll Give a Million (Darò un milione), starring Vittorio De Sica (Italy)


• 
  Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gösta Ekman (Sweden)


• 
  The Invisible Ray, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
  


• 
  It Had to Happen, starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell
  


• 
  It's Love Again, starring Jessie Matthews and Robert Young (GB)


• 
  The Jungle Princess, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland
  


• 
  Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California) - (Germany)

L-Q

• 
  Laburnum Grove, starring Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke (GB)


• 
  The Last of the Mohicans, starring Randolph Scott
  


• 
  The Lawless Nineties, starring John Wayne
  


• 
  Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa) (Mexico)


• 
  Libeled Lady, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
  


• 
  Limelight, starring Anna Neagle (GB)


• 
  Little Lord Fauntleroy, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello Barrymore, C. Aubrey Smith
  


• 
  Lloyd's of London, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Tyrone Power
  


• 
  Love Before Breakfast, starring Carole Lombard and Preston Foster
  


• 
  Love in Exile, starring Helen Vinson and Clive Brook (GB)


• 
  Love on the Run. starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
  


• 
  Man of the Frontier, starring Gene Autry
  


• 
  The Man Who Changed His Mind, starring Boris Karloff (GB)


• 
  The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson (GB)


• 
  Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux (France)


• 
  Men Are Not Gods, starring Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Rex Harrison (GB)


• 
  A Message to Garcia, directed by George Marshall, starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles and Wallace Beery
  


• 
  Militiaman Bruggler (Standschütze Bruggler) - (Germany)


• 
  The Milky Way, starring Harold Lloyd
  


• 
  Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin, with Paulette Goddard
  


• 
  The Mongolian Boy (Монгол хүү), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian film


• 
  The Moon's Our Home, starring Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan
  


• 
  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
  


• 
  My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
  


• 
  Next Time We Love, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland
  


• 
  Night Mail, documentary (GB)


• 
  The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)


• 
  Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)


• 
  Our Relations, starring Laurel and Hardy
  


• 
  Palm Springs, starring Frances Langford and David Niven
  


• 
  Paradise Road (Ulička v ráji) (Czechoslovakia)


• 
  Pennies from Heaven, starring Bing Crosby and Madge Evans
  


• 
  The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
  


• 
  Poppy, starring W.C. Fields
  


• 
  The Plainsman, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
  


• 
  Poor Little Rich Girl, starring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Jack Haley
  


• 
  The Prisoner of Shark Island, directed by John Ford, starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart
  


• 
  Private Number, starring Loretta Young and Robert Taylor
  

R-Z

• 
  Red River Valley, starring Gene Autry
  


• 
  Redes, directed by Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico)


• 
  Reefer Madness, (aka Tell Your Children), a cult exploitation film
  


• 
  Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB)


• 
  Road Gang, starring Donald Woods
  


• 
  The Road to Glory, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Lionel Barrymore and Fredric March
  


• 
  Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone
  


• 
  Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
  


• 
  Sabotage, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka – (GB)


• 
  San Francisco, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
  


• 
  Satan Met a Lady, starring Warren William and Bette Davis
  


• 
  Secret Agent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll (GB)


• 
  Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
  


• 
  The Singing Kid, starring Al Jolson
  


• 
  Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)


• 
  Small Town Girl, directed by William Wellman, starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, James Stewart
  


• 
  Sportszerelem (Hungary)


• 
  Spy of Napoleon, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas (GB)


• 
  The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
  


• 
  Stowaway, starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye
  


• Sutter's Gold, starring Edward Arnold


• 
  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Tod Slaughter (GB)


• 
  Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
  


• 
  Tarzan Escapes, starring Johnny Weissmuller
  


• 
  The Texas Rangers, directed by King Vidor, starring Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie
  


• 
  Theodora Goes Wild, starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas
  


• 
  These Three, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea (adapted from Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour)


• 
  Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke (GB)


• 
  Thirteen Hours by Air, starring Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett
  


• 
  Three Godfathers, starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
  


• 
  Till We Meet Again, starring Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael
  


• 
  Too Many Parents, debut film for Frances Farmer
  


• 
  The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, starring Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda
  


• 
  Tudor Rose, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills (GB)


• 
  The Walking Dead, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff
  


• 
  Where There's a Will, starring Will Hay - (GB)


• 
  Whom the Gods Love, directed by Basil Dean, starring Stephen Haggard, Victoria Hopper - (GB)


• 
  Wife vs. Secretary, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy
  


• 
  Windbag the Sailor, starring Will Hay (GB)


• 
  A Woman Rebels, starring Katharine Hepburn and Herbert Marshall
  


• 
  Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon (Poland/U.S.A.)

Serials

• 
  Ace Drummond, starring John (Dusty) King
  


• The Adventures of Frank Merriwell


• The Black Coin


• The Clutching Hand


• Custer's Last Stand


• 
  Darkest Africa, starring Clyde Beatty
  


• 
  Flash Gordon, starring Buster Crabbe
  


• The Phantom Rider


• 
  Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, starring Ray Mala
  


• Shadow of Chinatown


• 
  Undersea Kingdom, starring Ray Corrigan
  


• The Vigilantes Are Coming

Comedy film series

• 
  Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)


• 
  Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)


• 
  Lupino Lane (1915–1939)


• 
  Buster Keaton (1917–1928)


• 
  Laurel and Hardy (1927-1940)


• 
  Our Gang (1922–1944)


• 
  Harry Langdon (1924-1936)


• 
  Wheeler & Woolsey (1929–1937)


• 
  The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)


• 
  The Three Stooges (1933–1962)

Animated short film series

• 
  Felix the Cat (1919-1936)


• 
  Krazy Kat (1925–1940)


• 
  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)


• 
  Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)


• 
  Silly Symphonies
  
  • Elmer Elephant
  
  
  • Three Little Wolves
  
  
  • Toby Tortoise Returns
  
  
  • Three Blind Mousketeers
  
  
  • The Country Cousin
  
  
  • Mother Pluto
  
  
  • More Kittens
  
  


• 
  Screen Songs (1929–1938)


• 
  Looney Tunes (1930–1969)


• 
  Terrytoons (1930–1964)


• 
  Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)


• 
  Scrappy (1931–1941)


• 
  Betty Boop (1932–1939)


• 
  Popeye (1933–1957)


• 
  ComiColor Cartoons (1933-1936)


• 
  Happy Harmonies (1934–1938)


• 
  Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)


• 
  Rainbow Parades (1935-1936)


• 
  Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936-1937)

Births

• January 22 - Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001)


• January 27 - Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)


• January 28 - Alan Alda, American actor


• February 11 - Burt Reynolds, American actor (d. 2018)


• March 1 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress


• March 5 - Dean Stockwell, American actor


• March 19 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress


• May 1 - Danièle Huillet, French director (d. 2006)


• May 9 - Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician


• May 17 - Dennis Hopper, American actor and performance artist (d. 2010)


• June 4 - Bruce Dern, American actor


• July 5 - Shirley Knight, American actress


• August 13 - Vyjayanthimala, Indian actress, politician, dancer and singer


• August 18 - Robert Redford, American actor and director


• August 25 - Hugh Hudson, English director


• October 9 - Brian Blessed, English actor


• October 16 - Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)


• December 8 - David Carradine, American actor and martial artist (d. 2009)


• December 10 - Howard Smith, American journalist, director and producer (d. 2014)


• December 23 - Frederic Forrest, American actor


• December 25 - Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (d. 2005)


• December 29 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017)

Deaths

• January 9 – John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1897)


• January 24 - Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873)


• February 20 - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)


• February 28 - Justus Hagman, Swedish actor (b. 1859)


• April 6 - Väinö Lehmus, Finnish actor (b. 1886)


• June 17 - Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1897)


• September 14 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)


• October 17 - Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (b. 1889)

Debuts

• 
  Lloyd Bridges - Freshman Love
  


• 
  Gloria DeHaven - Modern Times
  


• 
  Van Heflin - A Woman Rebels
  


• 
  Tony Martin - Follow the Fleet
  


• 
  Anthony Quinn - The Milky Way
  


• 
  Margaret Rutherford - Dusty Ermine
  

Notes