The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.

Highest-grossing films[edit]

North America[edit]

The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

International[edit]

The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America.

Worldwide gross[edit]

The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1975. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1975. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases.

Events[edit]

• March 26: The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London.


• May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.


• June 20: Jaws is released and becomes the highest-grossing movie of all-time and the highest-grossing movie of the year and the first movie to earn $100 million in US and Canadian theatrical rentals,^[44] setting the standard for future blockbusters.


• August 14: The cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show premieres in London.


• November 23: Sneak Previews, the first American film review show, premieres and launches the careers of critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. They will remain a team, and a staple among film critics, through various programs for the next twenty-four years.


• December: Warner Bros. reorganize following John Calley's decision to step down as president-COO. Frank Wells becomes president again and shares CEO duties with Ted Ashley who also returns as chairman.^[44]

Awards[edit]

Awards ceremonies[edit]

• Academy Awards


• BAFTA Awards


• Golden Globe Awards


• 
  Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise)


• 
  Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): Adoption (Örökbefogadás)

Notable awards[edit]

Films released 1975[edit]

Note: US releases unless stated.

January–March[edit]

• January 1975
  
  • January 1
    
    • Teenage Seductress


• February 1975
  
  • February 11
    
    • Shampoo
  
  
  • February 12
    
    • The Stepford Wives
  
  


• March 1975
  
  • March 1
    
    • At Long Last Love
  
  
  • March 7
    
    • 
      Deep Red (Italy)
  
  
  • March 13
    
    • The Great Waldo Pepper
  
  
  • March 14
    
    • The Prisoner of Second Avenue
    
    
    • Rancho Deluxe
    
    
  
  
  • March 15
    
    • Funny Lady
    
    
    • 
      Terror of Mechagodzilla (Japan)
    
    
  
  
  • March 21
    
    • Escape to Witch Mountain
  
  
  • March 26
    
    • Brannigan
  
  

April–June[edit]

• April 1975
  
  • April 6
    
    • Capone
  
  
  • April 9
    
    • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  
  
  • April 27
    
    • Death Race 2000
  
  


• May 1975
  
  • May 7
    
    • The Day of the Locust
  
  
  • May 8
    
    • The Happy Hooker
  
  
  • May 12
    
    • End of the Game
  
  
  • May 14
    
    • Moonrunners
  
  
  • May 17
    
    • The Man in the Glass Booth
    
    
    • Tale of The Man of Honor
    
    
  
  
  • May 20
    
    • The Fortune
  
  
  • May 21
    
    • Cornbread, Earl and Me
    
    
    • The Eiger Sanction
    
    
    • Escape to Witch Mountain
    
    
    • French Connection II
    
    
    • The Return of the Pink Panther
    
    
    • W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
    
    
  
  
  • May 22
    
    • Breakout
  
  


• June 1975
  
  • June 4
    
    • Posse
  
  
  • June 10
    
    • Love and Death
  
  
  • June 11
    
    • Nashville
    
    
    • Night Moves
    
    
  
  
  • June 17
    
    • Bug
  
  
  • June 20
    
    • The Devil's Rain
    
    
    • Jaws
    
    
    • Once Is Not Enough
    
    
  
  
  • June 25
    
    • Bite the Bullet
    
    
    • Cooley High
    
    
    • Rollerball
    
    
  
  
  • June 27
    
    • Race with the Devil
  
  

July–September[edit]

• July 1975
  
  • July 1
    
    • The Apple Dumpling Gang
  
  
  • July 2
    
    • Bucktown
    
    
    • Gone with the West
    
    
    • Walking Tall Part 2
    
    
  
  
  • July 9
    
    • One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
  
  
  • July 10
    
    • The Drowning Pool
  
  
  • July 11
    
    • Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
  
  
  • July 16
    
    • White Line Fever
  
  
  • July 26
    
    • Mandingo
  
  


• August 1975
  
  • August 2
    
    • 
      Dersu Uzala (USSR/Japan)
  
  
  • August 8
    
    • Farewell, My Lovely
    
    
    • 
      Journey into Fear (Canada)
    
    
  
  
  • August 14
    
    • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  
  
  • August 20
    
    • Coonskin
  
  
  • August 29
    
    • 92 in the Shade
  
  


• September 1975
  
  • September 10
    
    • Mitchell
  
  
  • September 18
    
    • Give 'em Hell, Harry!
  
  
  • September 21
    
    • Dog Day Afternoon
  
  
  • September 24
    
    • Three Days of the Condor
  
  

October–December[edit]

• October 1975
  
  • October 3
    
    • The Master Gunfighter
  
  
  • October 8
    
    • Hard Times
    
    
    • Hearts of the West
    
    
    • Mahogany
    
    
  
  
  • October 10
    
    • 
      Shivers (Canada)
  
  
  • October 11
    
    • Let's Do It Again
  
  
  • October 17
    
    • Rooster Cogburn
  
  
  • October 19
    
    • Hester Street
  
  
  • October 22
    
    • Diamonds
  
  
  • October 24
    
    • The Giant Spider Invasion
  
  
  • October 29
    
    • Take a Hard Ride
  
  


• November 1975
  
  • November 5
    
    • Challenge to Be Free
  
  
  • November 6
    
    • The Sunshine Boys
  
  
  • November 14
    
    • A Boy and His Dog
  
  
  • November 19
    
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  
  


• December 1975
  
  • December 14
    
    • The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
  
  
  • December 18
    
    • Barry Lyndon
    
    
    • The Man Who Would Be King
    
    
  
  
  • December 19
    
    • The Adventures of the Wilderness Family
    
    
    • The Killer Elite
    
    
  
  
  • December 20
    
    • 
      Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-release)
  
  
  • December 25
    
    • Aaron Loves Angela
    
    
    • The Black Bird
    
    
    • Breakheart Pass
    
    
    • Friday Foster
    
    
    • The Hindenburg
    
    
    • Hustle
    
    
    • Lucky Lady
    
    
  
  

Notable films released in 1975[edit]

Note: US releases unless stated

#

• 
  92 in the Shade, starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Elizabeth Ashley, Margot Kidder
  

A

• 
  Aaron Loves Angela (December 25), directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., starring Moses Gunn
  


• 
  Adoption (Örökbefogadás), winner of Golden Bear (Hungary)


• 
  The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman (US/UK)


• 
  The Adventures of the Wilderness Family, starring Robert Logan
  


• 
  Afonya (USSR)


• 
  Africa Express, starring Ursula Andress and Jack Palance (Italy)


• 
  Aloha, Bobby and Rose (April 29), starring Paul Le Mat
  


• 
  Anno Domini 1573 (Yugoslavia)


• 
  Apoorva Raagangal (Rare Melodies) (India)


• 
  The Apple Dumpling Gang, starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway
  


• 
  At Long Last Love, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd
  


• 
  Attilas '74, documentary (Cyprus)


• 
  Autobiography of a Princess, directed by James Ivory, starring James Mason and Madhur Jaffrey (UK)

B

• 
  Barry Lyndon, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson (US/UK)


• 
  The Beehive, directed by Fereydun Gole. (Iran)


• 
  The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures, directed by James Algar (documentary)


• 
  Bim (Trinidad)


• 
  Bite the Bullet (June 20), directed by Richard Brooks, starring Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson
  


• 
  The Black Bird (December 25), starring George Segal
  


• 
  A Boy and His Dog, starring Don Johnson
  


• 
  Brannigan, starring John Wayne
  


• 
  Breakheart Pass, starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna
  


• 
  Breakout (May 22), starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall
  


• 
  Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, a documentary film about the Great Depression (UK)


• 
  Bucktown, starring Fred Williamson and Pam Grier
  


• Bugs Bunny: Superstar

C

• 
  Capone, starring Ben Gazzara
  


• 
  Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des Années de Braise) (Algeria)


• 
  Chupke Chupke (Hush Hush), starring Dharmendra (India)


• 
  The Claws of Light (Maynila... sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag) (Philippines)


• 
  Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, starring Tamara Dobson and Stella Stevens
  


• 
  Conduct Unbecoming, starring Stacy Keach, Michael York and Richard Attenborough (UK)


• 
  Cooley High, starring Glynn Turman
  


• 
  Coonskin, an animated film by Ralph Bakshi
  


• 
  Cornbread, Earl and Me, starring Laurence Fishburne
  


• 
  Crazy Mama, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Cloris Leachman, Ann Sothern, Linda Purl
  


• 
  The Cycle (Dayereh-ye Mina) (Iran)

D

• 
  The Day of the Locust, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Donald Sutherland, William Atherton, Karen Black
  


• 
  Death Race 2000, directed by Paul Bartel, starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone
  


• 
  Deep Red, directed by Dario Argento, starring David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi (Italy)


• 
  Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa (USSR/Japan)


• 
  Deewaar (The Wall), starring Shashi Kapoor (India)


• 
  The Devil's Rain, starring Ernest Borgnine
  


• 
  Dialogues of Exiles (Diálogos de exiliados) (Chile)


• 
  Diamonds, starring Robert Shaw, Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey
  


• 
  Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, starring Ron Ely
  


• 
  Dog Day Afternoon (September 21), directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, Charles Durning
  


• 
  The Drowning Pool, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Melanie Griffith
  

E

• 
  The Eiger Sanction, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with George Kennedy and Jack Cassidy
  


• 
  The Empress Dowager (Qing guo qing cheng), starring Lisa Lu (Hong Kong)


• 
  End of the Game, starring Maximilian Schell, Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw
  


• 
  Das Erdbeben in Chili, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms (West Germany)


• 
  Escape to Witch Mountain, starring Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence
  


• 
  Evrydiki BA 2O37 (Ευριδίκη ΒΑ 2Ο37), directed by Nikos Nikolaidis (Greece/West Germany)

F

• 
  Fantozzi (a.k.a. White Collar Blues) (Italy)


• 
  Farewell, My Lovely, directed by Dick Richards, starring Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvia Miles, John Ireland
  


• 
  Flame, starring Slade (UK)


• 
  The Flower in His Mouth (Gente di rispetto), starring Jennifer O'Neill and Franco Nero (Italy)


• 
  Fore Play, starring Zero Mostel and Estelle Parsons
  


• 
  The Fortune, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing
  


• 
  Fox (Faustrecht der Freiheit), directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder (West Germany)


• 
  Framed, directed by Phil Karlson, starring Joe Don Baker
  


• 
  French Connection II, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard
  


• 
  Friday Foster, starring Pam Grier
  


• 
  Funny Lady (March 15), directed by Herbert Ross, starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif
  


• 
  Furtivos (Poachers) (Spain)

G

• 
  Galileo, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Topol, Edward Fox, John Gielgud (UK)


• 
  The Giant Spider Invasion, starring Barbara Hale, Leslie Parrish, Alan Hale, Jr.
  


• 
  Give 'em Hell, Harry!, a biopic of Harry S. Truman starring James Whitmore
  


• 
  God's Gun, starring Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance (Italy/Israel)


• 
  Gone with the West, starring James Caan, Stefanie Powers and Aldo Ray
  


• Grandsons of Zorro


• 
  Graveyard of Honor (Jingi no hakaba) (Japan)


• 
  Great, animated short (UK)


• 
  The Great Waldo Pepper, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder, Susan Sarandon
  


• 
  Grey Gardens, a documentary film

H

• 
  Hababam Sınıfı (Outrageous Class) (Turkey)


• 
  Hagiga B'Snuker (Party at the Snooker) (Israel)


• 
  Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (Anderusen Dōwa Ningyo hime) (Japan)


• 
  The Happy Hooker, starring Lynn Redgrave and Jean-Pierre Aumont
  


• 
  Hard Times (October 8), directed by Walter Hill, starring Charles Bronson and James Coburn
  


• 
  Hearts of the West, starring Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, Andy Griffith
  


• 
  Hedda, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Peter Eyre and Glenda Jackson (UK)


• 
  Hedgehog in the Fog (Yozhik v tumane) (USSR)


• 
  Hello, I'm Your Aunt! (Zdravstvuyte, ya vasha tyotya!) (USSR)


• 
  Hennessy, starring Rod Steiger and Lee Remick
  


• 
  Hester Street, starring Carol Kane
  


• 
  The Hiding Place, starring Julie Harris
  


• 
  The Hindenburg, directed by Robert Wise, starring George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Gig Young
  


• 
  The 'Human' Factor, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring George Kennedy, John Mills, Rita Tushingham
  


• 
  Hustle, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson
  

I

• 
  In Celebration, directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Alan Bates and Brian Cox (UK)


• 
  Inserts, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins (UK)


• 
  The Irony of Fate (Ironiya sudby, ili S lyogkim parom!) (USSR)

J

• 
  Jacob the Liar (Jakob, der Lügner) (East Germany/Czechoslovakia)


• 
  Jaws (June 20), directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw
  


• 
  Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, starring Delphine Seyrig (France/Belgium)


• 
  Journey into Fear, starring Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux (Canada)

K

• 
  Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute, documentary by Shohei Imamura (Japan)


• 
  Kaddu Beykat (a.k.a. Letter from My Village) (Senegal)


• 
  Keetje Tippel (Katie Tippel), directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Monique van de Ven and Rutger Hauer (Netherlands)

L

• 
  L'important c'est d'aimer (That Most Important Thing: Love), starring Romy Schneider (France)


• 
  The Land That Time Forgot, starring Doug McClure (UK)


• 
  Legend of the Lawman (a.k.a. Walking Tall Part 2), starring Bo Svenson
  


• 
  Legend of the Werewolf, starring Peter Cushing (UK)


• 
  Lepke, starring Tony Curtis
  


• 
  Let Joy Reign Supreme (Que la Fete Commence), directed by Bertrand Tavernier (France)


• 
  Let's Do It Again, directed by and starring Sidney Poitier with Bill Cosby
  


• 
  Lies My Father Told Me, directed by Ján Kadár (Canada)


• 
  The Lion Roars Again, documentary short


• 
  Lisztomania, directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas (UK)


• 
  The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta (West Germany)


• 
  Love and Death, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton
  


• 
  Lucky Lady, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds
  

M

• 
  Mackintosh and T.J., starring Roy Rogers
  


• 
  The Magic Flute (Trollflöjten), a film version of the Mozart opera directed by Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)


• 
  Mahogany, directed by Berry Gordy, starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Jean-Pierre Aumont
  


• 
  La Maldicion de la Bestia (Horror of the Werewolf), starring Paul Naschy (Spain)


• 
  Man Friday, starring Peter O'Toole
  


• 
  The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Maximilian Schell and Lois Nettleton
  


• 
  The Man Who Would Be King, directed by John Huston, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey (UK/US)


• 
  Mandingo, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring James Mason, Susan George, Ken Norton, Perry King
  


• La marque de Zorro


• Milestones


• 
  The Mirror (Zerkalo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (USSR)


• 
  Mitchell, starring Joe Don Baker, Linda Evans, Martin Balsam, Merlin Olsen
  


• 
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail, directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Gilliam and Jones (UK)


• 
  Moonrunners, starring James Mitchum
  


• 
  Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (West Germany)


• 
  Mr. Ricco, starring Dean Martin
  


• 
  My Friends (Amici miei), directed by Mario Monicelli (Italy)

N

• 
  Nashville, directed by Robert Altman, starring Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black, Michael Murphy, Barbara Harris, Ned Beatty
  


• 
  Night Moves, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren
  


• 
  Nights and Days (Noce i dnie) (Poland)


• Nishant (India)


• 
  Numéro deux (aka Number Two) directed by Jean-Luc Godard (France)


• The Noah, starring Robert Strauss

O

• 
  The Old Gun (Le vieux fusil), starring Philippe Noiret and Romy Schneider (France)


• 
  Once Is Not Enough, starring Kirk Douglas, David Janssen, Brenda Vaccaro, Deborah Raffin, George Hamilton
  


• 
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (November 19), directed by Miloš Forman, starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Danny DeVito
  


• 
  One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, starring Peter Ustinov and Helen Hayes (US/UK)


• 
  Operation Daybreak, starring Timothy Bottoms, Anthony Andrews, Martin Shaw (US/Czechoslovakia)


• 
  Osadeni Dushi (Doomed Souls) (Bulgaria)


• 
  The Other Side of the Mountain, starring Marilyn Hassett and Beau Bridges
  


• 
  Out of Season, starring Vanessa Redgrave
  


• Overlord, directed by Stuart Cooper (UK)

P

• 
  The Passenger, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Steven Berkoff (Italy/France)


• 
  Peeper, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Michael Caine
  


• 
  Permission to Kill, starring Dirk Bogarde and Ava Gardner
  


• 
  Picnic at Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir, starring Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse (Australia)


• Pick-Up


• 
  The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (Flåklypa Grand Prix) (Norway)


• 
  Posse, directed by and starring Kirk Douglas
  


• 
  The Prisoner of Second Avenue, directed by Melvin Frank, starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft
  


• 
  The Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana), directed by Andrzej Wajda (Poland)

Q

• 
  Queen of the Gypsies (Tabor ukhodit v nebo) (USSR)


• 
  Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, starring Maureen Stapleton and Charles Durning
  

R

• 
  Race with the Devil, starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker
  


• 
  Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, starring Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips
  


• 
  Rancho Deluxe, starring Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, Harry Dean Stanton, Slim Pickens
  


• 
  The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill
  


• 
  The Return of the Pink Panther (May 21), directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom (UK)


• 
  The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (Kaette kita onna hissatsu ken) (Japan)


• 
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show (August 14), directed by Jim Sharman, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Richard O'Brien, Barry Bostwick (US/UK)


• 
  Rollerball, directed by Norman Jewison, starring James Caan, John Houseman, John Beck, Maud Adams
  


• 
  The Romantic Englishwoman, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger (UK)


• 
  Rooster Cogburn, starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn
  


• 
  Rosebud, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Peter O'Toole
  


• 
  Royal Flash, directed by Richard Lester, starring Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates (UK)


• 
  Russian Roulette, starring George Segal
  

S

• 
  Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (aka Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy/France)


• 
  Le Sauvage (a.k.a. Lovers Like Us), starring Catherine Deneuve and Yves Montand (France)


• 
  The Sensuous Nurse (L'Infermiera), starring Ursula Andress, Luciana Paluzzi, Jack Palance (Italy)


• 
  Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze), directed by Lina Wertmüller (Italy)


• 
  Shampoo (February 11), directed by Hal Ashby, starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher
  


• 
  Shivers (a.k.a. They Came from Within) (Canada)


• 
  Sholay, the highest grossing Bollywood film of all time (India)


• 
  Slashed Dreams, starring Peter Hooten and Robert Englund
  


• 
  Smile, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon
  


• 
  Special Section (Section spéciale), directed by Costa Gavras (France)


• 
  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, re-release


• 
  The Stepford Wives (February 12), directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Tina Louise
  


• 
  The Story of Adele H. (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.), directed by François Truffaut, starring Isabelle Adjani and Bruce Robinson (France)


• 
  The Strongest Man in the World, starring Kurt Russell
  


• 
  Sunday Too Far Away, starring Jack Thompson (Australia)


• 
  The Sunshine Boys, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
  


• 
  Supervixens, cult adult film directed by Russ Meyer
  


• 
  Switchblade Sisters (a.k.a. The Jezebels), directed by Jack Hill
  

T

• 
  Take a Hard Ride, starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef
  


• 
  Terror of Mechagodzilla (Mekagojira no gyakushu), directed by Ishirō Honda (Japan)


• 
  The Killer Elite, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Caan and Robert Duvall
  


• 
  They Fought for Their Country (Они сражались за Родину), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk (USSR)


• 
  Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
  


• 
  Tommy (March 19), directed by Ken Russell, starring Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Jack Nicholson, Roger Daltrey (UK)


• 
  The Travelling Players (Ο Θίασος; O Thiassos), directed by Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)

U

• 
  The Ultimate Warrior, starring Yul Brynner
  


• 
  Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms (West Germany)

V

• 
  Villa Zone (Vilna Zona), directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Itzhak Fintzi, Katya Paskaleva, Naum Shopov (Bulgaria)

W

• 
  W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Burt Reynolds and Art Carney
  


• 
  Walking Tall Part 2, starring Bo Svenson
  


• 
  White Line Fever, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Kay Lenz
  


• 
  The Wilby Conspiracy, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine (UK)


• 
  The Wild Party, directed by James Ivory, starring Raquel Welch, James Coco, Perry King
  


• 
  The Wind and the Lion (May 22), directed by John Milius, starring Sean Connery and Candice Bergen
  


• 
  A Woman's Decision (Bilans kwartalny) (Poland)


• 
  The Wrong Move, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Rüdiger Vogler and Hanna Schygulla (West Germany)

XYZ

• 
  Zaklęte rewiry (a.k.a. Hotel Pacific) (Poland)


• 
  Xala, directed by Ousmane Sembène (Senegal)


• 
  The Yakuza, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura (US/Japan)

Births[edit]

• January 1: Sonali Bendre, Indian actress


• January 2: Dax Shepard, American actor


• January 3
  
  • 
    Jason Marsden, American actor
  
  
  • 
    Danica McKellar, American actress
  
  


• January 5: Bradley Cooper, American actor and film director


• January 31: Preity Zinta, Indian actress


• February 14: Malik Zidi, French actor


• February 22: Drew Barrymore, American actress and director


• March 15: Will.i.am, American actor and singer/rapper


• March 22: Guillermo Diaz, American actor


• March 27: Stacy Ferguson, American actress and singer-songwriter


• April 2:
  
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    Deedee Magno, Filipino-American actress and singer
  
  
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    Adam Rodriguez, American actor
  
  


• May 3: Christina Hendricks, American actress


• May 22: Harriet Toompere, Estonian actress


• June 4: Angelina Jolie, American actress


• June 8: Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress


• June 25: Linda Cardellini, American actress


• June 27: Tobey Maguire, American actor


• July 6: 50 Cent, American actor and rapper


• July 11: Bridgette Andersen, American actress (d. 1997)


• July 17: Cécile de France, Belgian actress


• July 20: Judy Greer, American actress


• July 23: Suriya, Indian actor


• July 28: Ori Pfeffer, Israeli actor


• August 7: Charlize Theron, South African actress


• August 12: Casey Affleck, American actor


• August 29: Dante Basco, American actor


• September 22: Mireille Enos, American actress


• September 30
  
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    Asia Argento, Italian actress
  
  
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    Marion Cotillard, French actress
  
  


• October 5
  
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    Parminder Nagra, English actress
  
  
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    Monica Rial, American voice actress
  
  
  • 
    Scott Weinger, American actor
  
  
  • 
    Kate Winslet, English actress
  
  


• October 7: Kaspars Znotiņš, Latvian actor


• November 6: Sean Patrick Maclam, Scottish Grindhouse film director


• November 19: Sushmita Sen, Indian actress


• November 22: James Madio, American actor


• December 1: David Hornsby, American actor


• December 5: Paula Patton, American actress


• December 17
  
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    Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress
  
  
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    Hilje Murel, Estonian actress
  
  


• December 27: Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (d. 1988)

Deaths[edit]

Film debuts[edit]

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  Kim Cattrall – Rosebud
  


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  Tim Curry – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  


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  Brad Dourif – W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
  


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  Laurence Fishburne – Cornbread, Earl and Me
  


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  Carrie Fisher – Shampoo
  


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  Richard Gere – Report to the Commissioner
  


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  Bernard Hill – It Could Happen to You
  


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  Nastassja Kinski – The Wrong Move
  


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  Christopher Lloyd – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  


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  Mary Stuart Masterson – The Stepford Wives
  


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  Bill Murray – Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle
  


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  Kate Nelligan – The Romantic Englishwoman
  


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  Bill Paxton – Crazy Mama
  


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  Dennis Quaid – Crazy Mama
  


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  Rajinikanth – Apoorva Raagangal
  


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  Chris Sarandon – Dog Day Afternoon
  


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  Patrick Stewart – Hennessy
  


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  John Travolta – The Devil's Rain
  


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  Treat Williams – Deadly Hero (filmed in 1975, released in May 1976)

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