The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.
§Events
- November 27 â€" The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.
§Top grossing films (U.S.)
§Notable films released in 1920
U.S.A. unless stated
- Algol, starring Emil Jannings â€" (Germany)
- Among Those Present, a Harold Lloyd short
- Anna Boleyn, directed by Ernst Lubitsch â€" (Germany)
- Barrabas, directed by Louis Feuillade â€" (France)
- Bleak House directed by Maurice Elvey â€" (Britain)
- Build Thy House, directed by Fred Goodwins, starring Henry Ainley â€" (Britain)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene; starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover â€" (Germany)li>
- Colonel Newcome directed by Fred Goodwins' starring Milton Rosmer, Joyce Carey â€" (Britain)
- Convict 13, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
- The Copperhead, starring Lionel Barrymore and Doris Rankin
- The Devil's Pass Key, directed by Erich von Stroheim; starring Mae Busch and Maude George
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, directed by John S. Robertson; starring John Barrymore
- An Eastern Westerner, starring Harold Lloyd
- Ernest Maltravers directed by Jack Denton; starring Lillian Hall-Davis â€" (Britain)
- Erotikon, directed by Mauritz Stiller â€" (Sweden)
- Evening â€" Night â€" Morning (Abend â€" Nacht â€" Morgen), directed by F.W. Murnau - (Germany)
- The Ever Open Door directed by Fred Goodwins; starring Hayford Hobbs - (Britain)
- The Fordington Twins directed by W.P. Kellino - (Britain)
- The Garage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
- General Post directed by Thomas Bentley; starring Douglas Munro, Lilian Braithwaite - (Britain)
- Get Out and Get Under, starring Harold Lloyd
- The Girl in Number 29, directed by John Ford
- The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), directed by & starring Paul Wegener - (Germany)
- Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd
- The Head of Janus (Der Januskopf), directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Conrad Veidt - (Germany)
- Herr och fru Stockholm (How Not to Dress), starring Greta Garbo - (Sweden)
- High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd
- Huckleberry Finn, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Lewis Sargent, Edythe Chapman, Martha Mattox
- The Hunchback and the Dancer (Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin), directed by F.W. Murnau - (Germany)
- If I Were King, directed by J. Gordon Edwards; starring William Farnum, Betty Ross Clarke and Fritz Leiber, Sr.
- The Jack-Knife Man, directed by King Vidor
- Judy of Rogue's Harbor, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Mary Miles Minter, Fritzi Ridgeway and Theodore Roberts
- Karin Daughter of Ingmar (Karin Ingmarsdotter), directed by & starring Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
- Kohlhiesels Töchter (Kohlhiesel's Daughter), directed by Ernst Lubitsch - (Germany)
- Lady Rose's Daughter directed by Hugh Ford; starring Elsie Ferguson
- The Last of the Mohicans, directed by Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown; starring Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe
- The Last of the Mohicans (Der Letzte der Mohikaner), starring Bela Lugosi - (Germany)
- The Lure of Crooning Water, directed by Arthur Rooke; starring Guy Newall and Ivy Duke - (Britain)
- The Mark of Zorro, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Douglas Fairbanks
- The Mollycoddle, directed by Victor Fleming; starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery
- The Monastery of Sendomir (Klostret i Sendomir), directed by Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
- Mr. Gilfil's Love Story directed by A.V. Bramble; starring Mary Odette - (Britain)
- Neighbors, directed by & starring Buster Keaton
- Nomads of the North, starring Lon Chaney and Lewis Stone
- Now or Never, a Harold Lloyd short
- Number, Please?, a Harold Lloyd short
- Old Lady 31, directed by John Ince & Sherry Harris; starring Emma Dunn, Carrie Clark Ward, Winifred Westover & Martha Mattox
- One Week, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
- Outside the Law, directed by Tod Browning
- Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
- The Parson's Widow (Prästänkan), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Sweden)
- The Penalty, directed by Wallace Worsley; starring Lon Chaney
- Pollyanna, starring Mary Pickford - (film only mentioned in article)
- The Prince and the Pauper directed by Alexander Korda - (Austria)
- Romance, starring Doris Keane & Norman Trevor (refilmed later as a 1930 Greta Garbo talkie)
- The Saphead, directed by & starring Buster Keaton
- Satan (Satanas), directed by F. W. Murnau - (Germany)
- The Scarecrow, directed by & starring Buster Keaton
- Sex, directed by Fred Niblo
- Shipwrecked Among Cannibals documentary film
- Something to Think About, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson and Monte Blue
- A Son of David, directed by Hay Plumb; starring Ronald Colman - (Britain)
- The Son of Tarzan, a 15 chapter film series
- Stolen Moments, starring Rudolph Valentino
- Suds, starring Mary Pickford
- Sumurun (One Arabian Night), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Paul Wegener - (Germany)
- Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson and Bela Lugosi - (Germany)
- Treasure Island, directed by Maurice Tourneur; starring Lon Chaney & Shirley Mason(as Jim)
- Trent's Last Case, directed by Richard Garrick; starring Gregory Scott, Pauline Peters and Clive Brook - (Britain)
- The Twelve Pound Look, directed by Jack Denton; starring Milton Rosmer - (Britain)
- Way Down East, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess
- Why Change Your Wife?, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan and Bebe Daniels
- Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer
§Short film series
- Harold Lloyd (1913â€"1951)
- Charlie Chaplin (1914â€"1960s)
- Buster Keaton (1917â€"1941)
§Animated short film series
- Felix the Cat (1919â€"1936)
- Koko the Clown (1919â€"1934)
§Births
- January 7 â€" Vincent Gardenia, actor (died 1992)
- January 20
- DeForest Kelley, actor (died 1999)
- Federico Fellini, film director (died 1993)
- January 27 - John Box, production designer, four-time Oscar winner (died 2005)
- January 30 - Delbert Mann, director (died 2007)
- February 4 - Janet Waldo, actress
- February 11 - Billy Halop, actor (died 1976)
- February 26 - Tony Randall, actor (died 2004)
- February 29 - Michèle Morgan, actress
- March 16 - Leo McKern, actor (died 2002)
- April 1 - Toshiro Mifune, actor (died 1997)
- April 2 - Jack Webb, actor (died 1982)
- May 11 - Denver Pyle, actor (died 1997)
- May 16 - Martine Carol, actress (died 1967)
- May 26 - Peggy Lee, singer, songwriter, actress (died 2002)
- June 18 - Ian Carmichael, English stage, film and television actor (died 2010)
- June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, producer, visual effects artist (died 2013)
- July 11 - Yul Brynner, actor (died 1985)
- July 28 - Andrew V. McLaglen, film & TV director, son of Victor McLaglen
- August 6 - Ella Raines, actress (died 1988)
- August 17 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
- August 18 - Shelley Winters, actress (died 2006)
- August 22 - Ray Bradbury, writer (died 2012)
- September 18 - Jack Warden, actor (died 2006)
- September 23 - Mickey Rooney, actor (died 2014)
- September 27 - William Conrad, actor (died 1994)
- October 1 - Walter Matthau, actor (died 2000)
- October 13 - Laraine Day, actress (died 2007)
- October 17 - Montgomery Clift, actor (died 1966)
- October 18 - Melina Mercouri, actress (died 1994)
- October 21 - Hy Averback, actor (died 1997)
- October 22 - Mitzi Green, actress (died 1969)
- October 27 - Nanette Fabray, actress
- November 10 - Jennifer Holt, actress (died 1997)
- November 19 - Gene Tierney, actress (died 1991)
- November 25
- Noel Neill, actress
- Ricardo Montalbán, actor (died 2009)
- November 30 - Virginia Mayo, actress (died 2005)
- December 29 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (died 1995)
- December 30 - Jack Lord, actor (died 1998)
- December 31 â€" Rex Allen, American cowboy actor, singer (died 1999)
§Deaths
- January 24 - Hazel Neason (1891â€"1920) actress
- February 4 - Leo Delaney, 35, silent film actor
- February 11 - Gaby Deslys 38, actress, dancer, singer
- February 17 - Thomas Commerford veteran character actor (born 1855)
- March 2 - Harry Solter, American actor
- April 12 - Walter Edwards, American director (born 1870)
- April 25 - Clarine Seymour, 21, American actress
- May 22 - Hal Reid, 59, American actor & director(father of Wallace)
- June 14 - Gabrielle Réjane, 64, stage and film actress
- August 1 - Eugene Gaudio, 33, Italian born cinematographer (brother of Tony Gaudio)
- August 2 - Ormer Locklear, 29, American stunt flier
- August 13 - Gladys Field (1889â€"1920), actress (died in childbirth)
- September 5 - Robert Harron, 27, American actor
- September 10 - Olive Thomas, 25, American actress
- November 19 - Will S. Davis, 38, American film director
- December 9 - Mollie McConnell, 55, American actress
§Film debuts
- Mary Astor
- Humphrey Bogart
- Charles Boyer
- Greta Garbo
- Nita Naldi
- Claude Rains
- Otis Skinner
- Cornelia Otis Skinner