1964 in film

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Events

• January 29 – 50-year-old actor Alan Ladd is found dead in bed at his home in Palm Springs, California. An autopsy confirms the cause of death as cerebral edema caused by an acute overdose of "alcohol and three other drugs" His death is ruled accidental. Ladd's final film, The Carpetbaggers, is released in April and, despite mostly negative reviews from critics, becomes a major commercial success.
• March 6 – Elvis Presley's 14th motion picture, Kissin' Cousins, is released to theaters.
• July 6 – A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premieres.
• August 27 – The film Mary Poppins is released. Not only is it a massive hit with both critics and audiences, but it also becomes Disney's highest-grossing film of all time. It goes on to win five Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Julie Andrews.
• October – In Photoplay magazine, Hedda Hopper announces that Sophia Loren and Paul Newman will star in the film version of Arthur Miller's play After the Fall, with Loren in the role that was written about Marilyn Monroe. The film is never made.

  Awards

1964 film releases

January–March

• January 1964
• *19 January
• **Strait-Jacket
• *22 January
• **The Comedy of Terrors
• **Zulu
• *29 January
• **
• **Man's Favorite Sport?
• *30 January
• **A Global Affair
• February 1964
• *5 February
• **Man in the Middle
• *12 February
• **Seven Days in May
• *19 February
• **Dead Ringer
• **Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
• *24 February
• **Crack in the World
• March 1964
• *6 March
• **Kissin' Cousins
• *8 March
• **The Last Man on Earth
• *11 March
• **Becket
• **Mail Order Bride
• *12 March
• **A Tiger Walks
• *18 March
• **7 Faces of Dr. Lao
• **The Flesh Eaters
• **The Pink Panther
• *19 March
• **The World of Henry Orient
• *25 March
• **Flight from Ashiya
• **The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
• *26 March
• **The Fall of the Roman Empire
• *28 March
• **The Incredible Mr. Limpet

  April–June

• April 1964
• *3 April
• **Dark Purpose
• *5 April
• **The Best Man
• *8 April
• **Paris When It Sizzles
• *9 April
• **The Carpetbaggers
• *29 April
• **Mothra vs. Godzilla
• May 1964
• *20 May
• **Black Like Me
• **The Brass Bottle
• **Rhino!
• **Viva Las Vegas
• June 1964
• *1 June
• **The New Interns
• *3 June
• **Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!
• **Honeymoon Hotel
• *10 June
• **Advance to the Rear
• **Bedtime Story
• *11 June
• **The Unsinkable Molly Brown
• *17 June
• **Robinson Crusoe on Mars
• *23 June
• **A Shot in the Dark
• *24 June
• ** Flipper's New Adventure
• **Robin and the 7 Hoods
• *25 June
• **Circus World

  July–September

• July 1964
• *2 July
• **The Moon-Spinners
• *6 July
• **A Hard Day's Night
• *7 July
• **The Killers
• *22 July
• **Bikini Beach
• **Good Neighbor Sam
• **Marnie
• *29 July
• **One Potato, Two Potato
• August 1964
• *5 August
• **Ride the Wild Surf
• *6 August
• **The Night of the Iguana
• *11 August
• **Dogora
• *12 August
• **A House Is Not a Home
• **The Patsy
• *26 August
• **I'd Rather Be Rich
• *27 August
• **Mary Poppins
• September 1964
• *2 September
• **The 7th Dawn
• **Topkapi
• *12 September
• **A Fistful of Dollars
• *16 September
• **The Secret Invasion
• *18 September
• **Goldfinger
• *27 September
• **Lilith

  October–December

• October 1964
• *3 October
• **Cheyenne Autumn
• *7 October
• **Fail-Safe
• *8 October
• **The Outrage
• *11 October
• **The System
• *14 October
• **Invitation to a Gunfighter
• **Send Me No Flowers
• *24 October
• **The Lively Set
• *27 October
• **The Americanization of Emily
• *28 October
• **Rio Conchos
• *29 October
• **The Naked Kiss
• **The Time Travelers
• November 1964
• *2 November
• ** Where Love Has Gone
• *4 November
• **Kitten with a Whip
• **Youngblood Hawke
• **Your Cheatin' Heart
• *8 November
• **Fate Is the Hunter
• *9 November
• **My Fair Lady
• *11 November
• **Pajama Party
• *18 November
• **Goodbye Charlie
• *25 November
• **Ensign Pulver
• *27 November
• **Looking for Love
• December 1964
• *3 December
• **Dear Heart
• *4 December
• **Kisses for My President
• *10 December
• **Father Goose
• *15 December
• **Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• *16 December
• **The Disorderly Orderly
• *18 December
• **Get Yourself a College Girl
• *20 December
• **Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
• *22 December
• **Kiss Me, Stupid
• *25 December
• **The Pleasure Seekers
• **Sex and the Single Girl

  Notable films released in 1964

#

• 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, starring Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, with special effects by George Pal
• The 7th Dawn, starring William Holden and Susannah York
• 633 Squadron, starring Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy –

  A

• Adobe and Mirror, directed by Ebrahim Golestan, starring Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Pari Saberi
• Advance to the Rear, directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas
• Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens
• The Alive and the Dead –
• The Americanization of Emily, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, James Coburn, Melvyn Douglas
• The Ape Woman, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Annie Girardot –
• Assassination –
• At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul –
• Atentát –
• A Trip to the Moon
• Ayee Milan Ki Bela'' –

  B

• Band of Outsiders, directed by Jean-Luc Godard –
• The Bargee, starring Harry H. Corbett and Eric Sykes –
• The Beauty Jungle, starring Ian Hendry –
• Becket, directed by Peter Glenville, starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton –
• Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones
• Before the Revolution, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci –
• Behold a Pale Horse, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif
• The Best Man, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, written by Gore Vidal, starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Ann Sothern, Shelley Berman, Lee Tracy
• Bikini Beach, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Don Rickles
• Black God, White Devil –
• Black Like Me, starring James Whitmore and Roscoe Lee Browne
• Black Peter, directed by Miloš Forman –
• Blood and Black Lace, directed by Mario Bava –
• The Brass Bottle, starring Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden
• Bullet for a Badman, starring Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin and Ruta Lee

  C

• A Carol for Another Christmas, starring Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland
• The Carpetbaggers, starring George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Elizabeth Ashley, Martha Hyer, Bob Cummings and Alan Ladd
• Carry On Cleo, starring Sid James and Amanda Barrie –
• Carry On Spying, starring Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor –
• The Chairman –
• The Chalk Garden, starring Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills –
• Charulata, directed by Satyajit Ray –
• Cheyenne Autumn, directed by John Ford, starring Carroll Baker, Richard Widmark, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden, featuring James Stewart and Arthur Kennedy as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, respectively
• Circus World, starring John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth
• The Comedy Man, starring Kenneth More and Cecil Parker –
• The Comedy of Terrors, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone
• Crack in the World, starring Dana Andrews, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott
• Crooks in Cloisters, starring Ronald Fraser and Barbara Windsor –

  D

• Dark Purpose, starring Shirley Jones
• Dead Ringer, starring Bette Davis, Peter Lawford
• Dear Heart, directed by Delbert Mann, starring Geraldine Page, Glenn Ford, Angela Lansbury
• The Devil-Ship Pirates, starring Christopher Lee and Andrew Keir
• Diamonds of the Night, directed by Jan Němec –
• Diary of a Chambermaid, directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli –
• The Disorderly Orderly, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Jerry Lewis and Susan Oliver
• Dog Eat Dog, starring Jayne Mansfield
• Dogora, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• Dosti –
• Dr. Crippen, starring Donald Pleasence –
• , directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, James Earl Jones –
• Dry Summer –

  E

• The Earth Dies Screaming, starring Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price-
• East of Sudan, starring Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms and Jenny Agutter –
• Empire, directed by Andy Warhol
• Ensign Pulver, a sequel to Mister Roberts, starring Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Jack Nicholson
• The Evil of Frankenstein, starring Peter Cushing –
• El extraño viaje –
• The Eyes of Annie Jones, starring Richard Conte and Francesca Annis –

  F

• Face of the Screaming Werewolf, starring Lon Chaney –
• Fail-Safe, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Edward Binns, Henry Fonda
• The Fall of the Roman Empire, starring Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, Christopher Plummer, James Mason
• Fantômas, starring Jean Marais –
• Fate Is the Hunter, starring Glenn Ford, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette
• Father Goose, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard
• The Fifth Horseman Is Fear, directed by Zbyněk Brynych –
• First Men in the Moon, starring Edward Judd and Lionel Jeffries, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen –
• A Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood –
• The Flesh Eaters, starring Martin Kosleck
• Flight from Ashiya, starring Yul Brynner and Richard Widmark
• Flipper's New Adventure, starring Luke Halpin and Pamela Franklin
• The Flower and the Angry Waves, directed by Seijun Suzuki –
• For Those Who Think Young, starring Pamela Tiffin, James Darren, Ellen Burstyn, Nancy Sinatra, Tina Louise, Bob Denver
• Forest of the Hanged –

  G

• Gate of Flesh, directed by Seijun Suzuki –
• Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez –
• Gertrud, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer –
• Get Yourself a College Girl, starring Mary Ann Mobley and Nancy Sinatra
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster –
• Girl with Green Eyes, starring Peter Finch and Rita Tushingham –
• A Global Affair, starring Bob Hope
• Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery, with Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton, Gert Fröbe –
• Goodbye Charlie, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Pat Boone
• Good Neighbor Sam, starring Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider
• The Gorgon, starring Peter Cushing, Barbara Shelley, Christopher Lee-
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini –
• Greed in the Sun, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo –
• The Guns –
• Guns at Batasi, starring Richard Attenborough and Jack Hawkins –

  H

• Hamlet
• Hamlet –
• Haqeeqat –
• A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles –
• Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, a Hanna-Barbera feature production
• Hide and Seek, starring Ian Carmichael and Curd Jürgens –
• Honeymoon Hotel, starring Robert Morse and Robert Goulet
• Hot Enough for June, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina –
• A House Is Not a Home, starring Shelley Winters and Robert Taylor
• Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte'', directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland

  I

• I Am Cuba –
• I'd Rather Be Rich, starring Sandra Dee, Robert Goulet, Andy Williams
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet, starring Don Knotts, Jack Weston, Andrew Duggan
• Intentions of Murder, directed by Shōhei Imamura –
• Invitation to a Gunfighter, starring Yul Brynner, George Segal, Janice Rule

  J

• Joy House, directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon and Jane Fonda –

  K

• The Killers, remake of 1946 film, directed by Don Siegel, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes and, in his final film, Ronald Reagan
• King & Country, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde and Tom Courtenay –
• Kiss Me Quick!, starring Althea Currier
• Kiss Me, Stupid, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Dean Martin and Kim Novak
• Kisses for My President, starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray
• Kissin' Cousins, starring Elvis Presley and Yvonne Craig
• Kitten with a Whip, starring Ann-Margret and John Forsythe
• Kwaidan, directed by Masaki Kobayashi –

  L

• Lady General Hua Mu-lan –
• Lady in a Cage, directed by Walter Grauman, starring Olivia de Havilland and James Caan
• The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price –
• The Last Steps, starring Michèle Morgan and Jean-Louis Trintignant –
• Leader, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala –
• The Leather Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Rita Tushingham –
• Lemonade Joe –
• Lilith, directed by Robert Rossen, starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg
• The Lively Set, starring James Darren, Pamela Tiffin and Doug McClure
• The Lonely Wife, directed by Satyajit Ray –
• Looking for Love, starring Connie Francis
• The Luck of Ginger Coffey, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Robert Shaw

  M

• Madu Tiga, starring P. Ramlee –
• Mail Order Bride, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Buddy Ebsen and Lois Nettleton
• Man in the Middle, starring Robert Mitchum
• Man's Favorite Sport?, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss
• Marnie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery
• Marriage Italian Style, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni –
• A Married Woman, directed by Jean-Luc Godard –
• Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke—winner of 5 Academy Awards
• The Masque of the Red Death, starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court and Jane Asher –
• Men and Women –
• The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk
• The Moon-Spinners, starring Hayley Mills
• Mothra vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• Murder Ahoy!, starring Margaret Rutherford and Lionel Jeffries
• Murder Most Foul, starring Margaret Rutherford and Ron Moody
• My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison – winner of 8 Oscars, 3 Golden Globes and BAFTA for best film
• My Friend Lefterakis –

  N

• The Naked Kiss, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Constance Towers
• The New Interns, starring Dean Jones, Michael Callan, Stefanie Powers, Barbara Eden
• The Night of the Iguana, directed by John Huston, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon
• The Night Walker, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor
• Nobody Waved Good-bye –
• Nothing But a Man, starring Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Yaphet Kotto
• Nothing But the Best, starring Alan Bates and Millicent Martin –

  O

• Of Human Bondage, starring Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Siobhán McKenna –
• One Potato, Two Potato, starring Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton and Richard Mulligan
• Onibaba, directed by Kaneto Shindo –
• The Outrage, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, William Shatner

  P

• Pajama Party, starring Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Elsa Lanchester, Jesse White, Harvey Lembeck, Buster Keaton, Don Rickles
• Pale Flower –
• Panic Button, starring Jayne Mansfield and Maurice Chevalier
• Paris When It Sizzles, starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn with cameos by Tony Curtis and Marlene Dietrich
• The Patsy, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, with Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris, Keenan Wynn, John Carradine, Peter Lorre
• The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet, with a music score by Quincy Jones, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Brock Peters
• The Pleasure Seekers, starring Pamela Tiffin, Carol Lynley, Brian Keith, Tony Franciosa, Ann-Margret
• The Pumpkin Eater, starring Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch –

  Q

• Quick, Before It Melts, starring George Maharis, Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer, Yvonne Craig

  R

• Rattle of a Simple Man directed by Muriel Box, starring Diane Cilento and Harry H. Corbett –
• The Ravishing Idiot, starring Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins –
• Red Desert, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris –
• Rhino!, starring Robert Culp
• Ride the Wild Surf, starring Tab Hunter, Fabian Forte, Shelley Fabares and Barbara Eden
• Ring of Spies, starring Bernard Lee –
• Rio Conchos, starring Stuart Whitman, Tony Franciosa, Richard Boone, Wende Wagner
• Robin and the 7 Hoods, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bing Crosby, Barbara Rush, Peter Falk, Victor Buono, Edward G. Robinson
• Robinson Crusoe on Mars, directed by Byron Haskin, starring Paul Mantee, Vic Lundin and Adam West
• Roustabout, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Stanwyck
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – from Rankin/Bass Productions

  S

• Sallah Shabati, starring Chaim Topol –
• Sangam, starring Vyjayanthimala, Raj Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar –
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon, starring Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough –
• The Secret Invasion, starring Stewart Granger and Mickey Rooney
• Seduced and Abandoned, starring Stefania Sandrelli –
• Send Me No Flowers, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson
• Seven Days in May, directed by John Frankenheimer, written by Rod Serling, starring Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Martin Balsam, John Houseman
• Seven Up! – documentary –
• Sex and the Single Girl, starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall
• Shehar Aur Sapna –
• A Shot in the Dark, second Pink Panther film, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, with Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Burt Kwouk, Herbert Lom
• Sleep, by Andy Warhol
• Smokescreen, starring Yvonne Romain
• The Soft Skin, directed by François Truffaut, starring Françoise Dorléac –
• Strait-Jacket, produced and directed by William Castle, starring Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, George Kennedy, Lee Majors
• The System, starring Oliver Reed

  T

• That Man from Rio, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac –
• The Thin Red Line, starring Keir Dullea and Jack Warden
• The Three Lives of Thomasina, starring Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber –
• The Third Secret, starring Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento –
• Three Outlaw Samurai –
• La Tía Tula –
• A Tiger Walks, starring Brian Keith and Vera Miles
• Time of Indifference, starring Claudia Cardinale, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters –
• The Time Travelers, starring Preston Foster and Merry Anders
• Tintin and the Blue Oranges
• The Tomb of Ligeia, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd
• Topkapi, starring Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, Akim Tamiroff
• The Train, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau –
• Troubled Waters, a.k.a. Man with Two Faces, starring Tab Hunter
• Two Stage Sisters –

  U

• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo – winner of Palme d'Or –
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley
• The Unvanquished, starring Alain Delon –

  V

• The Visit, directed by Bernhard Wicki –
• Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret

  W

• Weekend at Dunkirk, directed by Henri Verneuil –
• Welcome, or No Trespassing, starring Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev –
• What a Way to Go!, starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Bob Cummings, Dick Van Dyke
• Where Love Has Gone, starring Bette Davis, Susan Hayward, Mike Connors, DeForest Kelley
• Whirlwind, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki –
• Wild West Story starring Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Lena Granhagen and Gerald Mohr
• Witchcraft, starring Lon Chaney and Jack Hedley –
• Woh Kaun Thi? –
• The Woman in the Dunes –
• Woman of Straw, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery –
• Wonderful Life, starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows –
• The World of Henry Orient'', directed by George Roy Hill, starring Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley

  Y

• The Yellow Rolls-Royce, starring Ingrid Bergman, Alain Delon, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau, George C. Scott, Art Carney, Omar Sharif –
• Youngblood Hawke, starring James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor
• Your Cheatin' Heart, a biopic of Hank Williams, starring George Hamilton

  Z

• Zhavoronok –
• Zindagi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Prithviraj Kapoor -
• Zorba the Greek, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates –
• Zulu, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins –

  Short film series

• Looney Tunes
• Terrytoons
• Merrie Melodies
• Speedy Gonzales
• Bugs Bunny
• Woody Woodpecker
• Chilly Willy

  Births

• January 7 – Nicolas Cage, actor, producer and director
• January 13 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress
• January 18 – Jane Horrocks, actress
• January 23 - Mariska Hargitay, actress
• January 27 – Bridget Fonda, actress
• February 5 – Laura Linney, actress
• February 15 – Chris Farley, actor
• February 18 – Matt Dillon, actor
• February 24 – Todd Field, director and actor
• February 25 - Lee Evans, English stand-up comedian and actor
• March 7 – Wanda Sykes, American actress, comedian and writer
• March 9 – Juliette Binoche, actress
• March 17 – Rob Lowe, actor
• April 4 – David Cross, actor and comedian
• April 7 – Russell Crowe, actor
• April 20
• *Crispin Glover, actor
• * Andy Serkis, actor
• April 24
• *Djimon Hounsou, actor
• *Cedric the Entertainer, actor and comedian
• April 25 – Hank Azaria, actor, voice actor, comedian and producer
• May 12 – Pierre Morel, French film director
• May 13 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian, television host, and writer
• May 25 – Ray Stevenson, Irish actor
• June 9 – Gloria Reuben, actress/singer
• June 15 – Courteney Cox, actress
• July 3 – Yeardley Smith, actress, voice actress, writer, author, comedian and painter
• July 22
• *John Leguizamo, actor, voice actor, comedian and producer
• *David Spade, actor, comedian, writer
• July 26 – Sandra Bullock, actress
• July 28 — Lori Loughlin, actress
• July 30 – Vivica A. Fox, actress
• August 2 – Mary-Louise Parker, actress
• August 16 – William Salyers, actor and voice actor
• September 2 – Keanu Reeves, actor
• September 14 – Faith Ford, American actress
• September 16 - Molly Shannon, American actress and comedian
• October 3 – Clive Owen, actor
• October 25 – Kevin Michael Richardson, American actor and voice actor
• November 14– Patrick Warburton, American actor and voice artist
• November 29 – Don Cheadle, actor
• December 4 – Marisa Tomei, actress
• December 8 – Teri Hatcher, actress

  Deaths

• January 21 - Joseph Schildkraut, 67, Austrian actor, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Life of Emile Zola, Viva Villa!
• January 22 – Lissy Arna, 63, German actress, Eva in Silk, The Dance Goes On
• January 27 – Norman Z. McLeod, 65, American director, The Paleface, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• January 29 – Alan Ladd, 50, American actor, Shane, The Blue Dahlia
• February 24 – Frank Conroy, 73, British actor, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Naked City
• February 27 – Orry-Kelly, 66, Australian costume designer, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon
• February 29 – Frank Albertson, 55, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Psycho
• March 10 – Arthur Hohl, 74, American actor, Cleopatra, Private Detective 62
• March 23 – Peter Lorre, 59, Hungarian actor, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon
• April 18 – Ben Hecht, 70, American playwright and screenwriter, Notorious, His Girl Friday
• May 10 – Carol Haney, 39, American dancer, actress, The Pajama Game, Invitation to the Dance
• May 13 – Diana Wynyard, 58, British actress, Cavalcade, Gaslight
• June 27 – Mona Barrie, 54, British actress, Mystery Woman, Ladies Love Danger
• July 15 – Myles Connolly, 66, American screenwriter, State of the Union, Hans Christian Andersen
• July 26 – William A. Seiter, 73, American film director, The Beautiful and Damned, Sons of the Desert, Roberta
• August 5 – Charles Quigley, 58, American actor, The Shadow, The Game That Kills
• August 6
• *Cedric Hardwicke, 71, British actor, Rope, Suspicion
• *Reed Howes, 64, American model and actor, The Dawn Rider, Paradise Canyon
• August 12 – Ian Fleming, 56, British author of James Bond novels, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• August 27 – Gracie Allen, 69, American comedy actress, A Damsel in Distress, The Big Broadcast of 1936
• September 23 – Fred M. Wilcox, 56, American director, Forbidden Planet, Lassie Come Home
• September 28
• *Harpo Marx, 75, American comedy actor, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera
• *Nacio Herb Brown, 68, American songwriter and composer, The Broadway Melody, Glorifying the American Girl
• October 10 – Eddie Cantor, 72, American actor, singer, comedian, Whoopee!, Kid Millions
• October 15 – Cole Porter, 73, American composer and songwriter, Night and Day, High Society
• October 19 – Russ Brown, American actor, Damn Yankees, Anatomy of a Murder
• October 22 – Whip Wilson, 53, American actor, Night Raiders
• October 23 – Jo Swerling, 71, American screenwriter, It's a Wonderful Life, Guys and Dolls
• October 27 – Rudolph Maté, 66, Hungarian cinematographer and director, D.O.A., When Worlds Collide
• November 10 – Sam Newfield, 64, American director, The Terror of Tiny Town, I Accuse My Parents
• December 11 – Percy Kilbride, 76, American actor, The Southerner, State Fair
• December 14 – William Bendix, 58, American actor, Lifeboat, Detective Story
• December 31 – Gertrude Michael, 53, American actress, Murder at the Vanities, Women in Bondage''

  Film debuts

• Jenny Agutter – East of Sudan
• The Beatles – A Hard Day's Night
• Ellen Burstyn – For Those Who Think Young
• David Carradine – Taggart
• Dom DeLuise – Diary of a Bachelor
• Judi Dench – The Third Secret
• Olympia Dukakis – Twice a Man
• Morgan Freeman – The Pawnbroker
• Elliott Gould – Quick, Let's Get Married
• James Earl Jones – Dr. Strangelove
• Charlotte Rampling – A Hard Day's Night
• Roy Scheider – The Curse of the Living Corpse
• Raquel Welch – A House Is Not a Home