This is a list of significant films that were released in 1922.
Events
- June 11 â" United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
- November 26 â" The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Notable films released in 1922
U.S.A. unless stated
- Beyond the Rocks, directed by Sam Wood; starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
- A Bill of Divorcement directed by Denison Clift, starring Constance Binney, Fay Compton â" (Britain) >
- The Blacksmith, a Buster Keaton short
- A Blind Bargain, directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney
- Blood and Sand, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, and Lila Lee
- The Bohemian Girl, Starring Gladys Cooper and Ivor Novello â" (GB)
- The Burning Soil (Der brennende Acker) â" (Germany)
- The Card directed by A.V. Bramble â" (Britain)
- Clarence, directed by William C. deMille, starring Wallace Reid
- Cocaine, directed by Graham Cutts â" (GB)
- Cops, a Buster Keaton film
- Crainquebille (Coster Bill of Paris), directed by Jacques Feyder â" (France)
- Daydreams, a Buster Keaton short
- A Debt of Honour, starring Isobel Elsom and Clive Brook (Britain)
- Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler), directed by Fritz Lang; starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge â" (Germany)
- Dr. Jack, starring Harold Lloyd
- The Electric House, a Buster Keaton short
- Fair Lady, directed by Kenneth Webb
- La Femme de nulle part, directed by Louis Delluc â" (France)
- Flames of Passion, starring Mae Marsh and C. Aubrey Smith â" (GB)
- Flesh and Blood, starring Lon Chaney
- Foolish Wives, directed by & starring Erich von Stroheim
- The Frozen North, starring Buster Keaton
- The Ghost Breaker, directed by Alfred E. Green; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
- Grandma's Boy, starring Harold Lloyd
- The Grass Orphan directed by Frank Hall Crane; starring Margaret Bannerman, Reginald Owen â" (Britain)
- Häxan, directed by Benjamin Christensen â" (Sweden/Denmark)
- Laborer's Love (Laogong zhi aiqing) â" (China)
- Lorna Doone, directed by Maurice Tourneur
- The Loves of Pharaoh (Das Weib des Pharao), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Emil Jannings â" (Germany)
- Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Richard Oswald, starring Conrad Veidt and Liane Haid (Germany)
- Manslaughter, starring Thomas Meighan
- Marizza (aka Marizza, called the Smuggler Madonna), directed by F.W. Murnau â" (Germany)
- Moran of the Lady Letty, directed by George Melford, starring Dorothy Dalton & Rudolph Valentino
- More to Be Pitied Than Scorned, directed by Edward LeSaint
- Mud and Sand, a parody of Blood and Sand, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- My Wife's Relations, starring Buster Keaton
- Nanook of the North, a documentary directed by Robert J. Flaherty
- Nathan the Wise, directed by Manfred Noa (Germany)
- Nice People, directed by William C. deMille; starring Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels
- Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror), directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Max Schreck â" (Germany)
- Number 13, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; starring Ernest Thesiger â" (GB)
- Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan
- One Exciting Night, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Carol Dempster & Henry Hull
- The Paleface, Starring Buster Keaton
- Pay Day, a Charles Chaplin short
- Peg o' My Heart, directed by King Vidor
- Phantom, directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover and Lya De Putti â" (Germany)
- Polikushka â" (U.S.S.R.)
- The Primitive Lover, directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Constance Talmadge
- The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone
- Rent Free, directed by Howard Higgin; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
- Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan; starring Douglas Fairbanks
- Rob Roy, directed by W.P. Kellino (GB)
- Saturday Night, starring Leatrice Joy and Conrad Nagel
- The Scarlet Letter, starring Sybil Thorndike â" (GB)
- Shadows directed by Tom Forman; starring Lon Chaney and Marguerite De La Motte
- Sherlock Holmes, Starring John Barrymore and Roland Young
- Smilin' Through, starring Norma Talmadge
- Sodom and Gomorrah, directed by Michael Curtiz â" (Austria)
- La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet) â" (France)
- Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep directed by George Pearson; starring Betty Balfour â" (GB)
- The Suram Fortress (Suramis tsikhe) â" (U.S.S.R.)
- Tess of the Storm Country, starring Mary Pickford
- The Three Must-Get-Theres directed by and starring Max Linder
- The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong
- Vaskresenja ne biva bez smrti, (There's no resurrection without death), the first Montenegrin movie
- What's Wrong with the Women? directed by Roy William Neill; starring Constance Bennett & Hedda Hopper
- When Knighthood Was in Flower starring Marion Davies â" (film mentioned in article)
- Wildness of Youth, directed by Ivan Abramson
- The Young Rajah, starring Rudolph Valentino
Short film series
- Charlie Chaplin (1914â"1923)
- Buster Keaton (1917â"1941)
- Laurel and Hardy (1921â"1943)
- Our Gang (1922â"1944)
Animated short film series
- Felix the Cat (1919â"1936)
- Koko the Clown (1919â"1963)
- Aesop's Film Fables (1921â"1934)
Births
- January 10 â" Hannelore Schroth, actress (died 1987)
- January 13 â" Albert Lamorisse, director (died 1970)
- January 17 â" Betty White, actress
- January 19 â" Guy Madison, actor (died 1996)
- January 21
- Telly Savalas, actor (died 1994)
- Paul Scofield, actor (died 2008)
- January 31 â" Joanne Dru, actress (died 1996)
- February 6 â" Patrick Macnee, actor
- February 7 â" Hattie Jacques, actress (died 1980)
- February 9 â" Kathryn Grayson, singer, actress (died 2010)
- February 26 â" Margaret Leighton, actress (died 1976)
- March 5 â" Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director (died 1975)
- March 20 â" Carl Reiner, actor, director
- March 21 â" Russ Meyer, director, producer (died 2004)
- April 5 â" Gale Storm, singer, actress (died 2009)
- April 18 â" Barbara Hale, actress
- April 27 â" Jack Klugman, actor (died 2012)
- May 10 â" Nancy Walker, actress (died 1992)
- May 27 â" Christopher Lee, actor
- May 31 â" Denholm Elliott, actor (died 1992)
- June 1 â" Joan Caulfield, actress (died 1991)
- June 10 â" Judy Garland, singer, actress (died 1969)
- June 26 â" Eleanor Parker, actress (died 2013)
- July 6 â" William Schallert, actor
- July 26 â" Blake Edwards, director (died 2010)
- August 8 â" Rory Calhoun, actor (died 1999)
- September 1
- Vittorio Gassman, actor, director (died 2000)
- Yvonne De Carlo, actress (died 2007)
- September 8 â" Sid Caesar, actor (died 2014)
- September 14 â" Michel Auclair, actor (died 1988)
- September 15 â" Jackie Cooper, actor, director (died 2011)
- September 16
- Guy Hamilton, director
- Janis Paige, actress
- September 29 â" Lizabeth Scott, actress
- October 23 â" Coleen Gray, actress
- October 31 â" Barbara Bel Geddes, actress (died 2005)
- November 9 â" Dorothy Dandridge, actress, singer (died 1965)
- November 12 â" Kim Hunter, actress (died 2002)
- November 13 - Oskar Werner, actor (died 1984)
- November 14 â" Veronica Lake, actress (died 1973)
- December 2 â" Leo Gordon, actor and screenplay writer (died 2000)
- December 4 â" Gérard Philipe, actor (died 1959)
- December 22 â" Ruth Roman, actress (died 1999)
- December 24 â" Ava Gardner, actress (died 1990)
Deaths
- February 1 â" William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal.
- February 4 â" Florence Deshon, American actress
- March 4 - Bert Williams, American actor and singer
- May 21 â" Sidney Ainsworth, actor
- May 26 - Walter Jones, American actor (b.1874)
- June 6 â" Lillian Russell, stage and screen actress
- June 15 â" Howard Crampton, actor
- July 5 â" Bobby Connelly, child star
- September 23 â" W. Chrystie Miller, veteran stage & screen actor
- November 30 â" René Cresté, actor and director
Film debuts
- Clara Bow
- Walt Disney â" director, producer
- Louise Dresser
- Will Hay
- William Powell
- Darryl F. Zanuck â" director, producer
- Rin Tin Tin