1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia the year's top-grossing film as well as winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture.

§Events

• May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
• August 5 - Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose.
• September 7 - Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace begins and will continue for another 5 years.
• October 5 - Dr. No launches the James Bond series, the second longest-running film franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), running 50 years. It also launches the career of Sean Connery.

§Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

§Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker

Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth

Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker

Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture (tie): That Touch of Mink

Best Picture (tie): The Music Man

Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce Italian Style

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy

Other

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy

My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

§Notable films released in 1962

U.S.A. unless stated

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• The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker

A

• Abhijan (The Expedition), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• Advise & Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
• All Fall Down, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty
• All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
• All Souls' Day (Zaduszki) - (Poland)
• The Amphibian Man (Chelovek-amfibiya) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Asli-Naqli (Real and Fake), starring Dev Anand - (India)
• Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) - (Spain)
• An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)

B

• Baat Ek Raat Ki (A Tale of One Night), starring Dev Anand - (India)
• Bachelor Flat, starring Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm
• Bees Saal Baad - (India)
• Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
• Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp - (U.K.)
• Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day and Jimmy Durante
• Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas
• Boccaccio '70, directed by Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren - (Italy)
• Bon Voyage!, starring Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman
• The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Richard Todd - (U.K.)
• Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner
• The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) - (West Germany)

C

• Os Cafajestes (The Unscrupulous Ones) - (Brazil)
• Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
• Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
• Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams - (U.K.)
• Cartouche, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale - (France/Italy)
• The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor, starring Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
• Chased by the Dogs (El less wal kilab) - (Egypt)
• Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda - (France)
• The Condemned of Altona (I sequestrati di Altona), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell - (Italy)
• Convicts 4, starring Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Vincent Price, Ray Walston, Sammy Davis, Jr.
• The Counterfeit Traitor, directed by George Seaton, starring William Holden
• Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie

D

• David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
• The Day of the Triffids, starring Howard Keel - (U.K.)
• Days of Wine and Roses, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
• Le Doulos (The Finger Man), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
• Dr. No, first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Ursula Andress - (U.K.)

E

• The Easy Life (Il sorpasso), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant - (Italy)
• Eclipse (L'Eclisse), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti - (Italy/France)
• Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas - (Greece)
• Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
• Experiment in Terror, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin
• The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)

F

• Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• Five Finger Exercise, starring Rosalind Russell
• Follow That Dream, starring Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Joanna Moore
• The Four Days of Naples (Le Quattro giornate di Napoli) - (Italy)
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Yvette Mimieux
• Freud: The Secret Passion, directed by John Huston, starring Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks

G

• Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
• Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
• Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
• Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - (Italy)
• Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood
• Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao - (India)
• Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice - (U.K.)

H

• H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde - (U.K.)
• Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala - (India)
• Harakiri (Seppuku), directed by Masaki Kobayashi - (Japan)
• Hatari!, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli
• Hell is for Heroes, starring Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin
• Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Paul Newman
• Hombre de la esquina rosada (Man on Pink Corner) - (Argentina)
• The Horizontal Lieutenant, starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss
• House of Women, starring Shirley Knight and Constance Ford
• How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard and more
• Hussar Ballad (Gusarskaya ballada) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Hussar of the Dead (El Húsar de la Muerte), (Restored, originally released in 1925) - (Chile)

I

• If a Man Answers, starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
• In Search of the Castaways, starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier
• In the Affirmative (L'Amour avec des si), directed by Claude Lelouch - (France)
• The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
• The Intruder, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner
• The Iron Maiden, starring Anne Helm and Jeff Donnell
• It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield - (Greece/U.S.A.)
• It's Only Money, directed by Frank Tashlin. starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien
• Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)

J

• Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
• La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker - (France)
• Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner - (U.K.)
• Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner - (France)

K

• Kanchanjangha, directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson
• A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates - (U.K.)
• King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie), directed by Roman Polanski - (Poland)

L

• The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell - (U.K.)
• Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
• Lisa (aka The Inspector), starring Stephen Boyd - (U.S./U.K.)
• Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig - (U.K.)
• Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay - (U.K.)
• Lonely are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor
• Lonely Boy, a documentary about Paul Anka - (Canada)
• Long Day's Journey into Night, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Katharine Hepburn
• The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and more
• Love at Twenty, a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls - (International)
• Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
• Lulu, directed by Rolf Thiele, starring Nadja Tiller - (Austria)

M

• Madison Avenue, starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker
• Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)
• The Magnificent Concubine (Yang Kwei Fei) - (Hong Kong)
• Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)
• The Man of Gold (Az aranyember) - (Hungary)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode
• The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Angela Lansbury
• March on Rome (La marcia su Roma), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman - (Italy)
• Merrill's Marauders, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin
• The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, (on NBC-TV)
• Mix Me a Person, directed by Leslie Norman, starring Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden and Adam Faith - (U.K.)
• Mondo Cane
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
• Moon Pilot, starring Tom Tryon
• The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Ron Howard
• Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
• My Geisha, starring Shirley MacLaine
• My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina - (France)
• My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)

N

• Nine Days in One Year (9 dney odnogo goda) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Notorious Landlady, starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire

O

• On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom - (U.K.)

P

• O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte - (Brazil)
• Panic in Year Zero!, starring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon
• Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, Lois Nettleton
• Phaedra, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins - (Greece)
• The Phantom of the Opera, starring Herbert Lom - (U.K.)
• The Pigeon That Took Rome, starring Charlton Heston
• Pitfall (Otoshiana) - (Japan)
• Pontius Pilate, starring Jean Marais, Jeanne Crain, Basil Rathbone
• Premature Burial, directed by Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Heather Angel
• Pressure Point, starring Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin
• Pretty Foe by Esmail Koushan (Iran)
• Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor - (India)

R

• Redhead (Die Rote or La rossa) - (West Germany/Italy)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
• Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) - (Turkey)
• Ride the High Country (a.k.a. Guns in the Afternoon), directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott
• The Road to Hong Kong, directed by Norman Panama, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Joan Collins
• Roaring Years (Anni ruggenti), starring Nino Manfredi - (Italy)
• Der rote Rausch (The Red Intoxication), starring Klaus Kinski - (Austria)

S

• Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (King, Queen and Slave), starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt - (India)
• Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi - (Italy)
• Sanjuru (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
• Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
• The Spiral Road, starring Rock Hudson and Gena Rowlands
• State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin
• The Suitor (Le Soupirant) - (France)
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), starring Hardy Krüger and Nicole Courcel - (France)
• Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
• A Symposium on Popular Songs, a Disney animation

T

• The Tale of Zatoichi (Zatōichi monogatari), directed by Kenji Misumi - (Japan)
• The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatōichi Monogatari), starring Shintaro Katsu - (Japan)
• Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
• Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
• Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret - (U.K.)
• That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
• Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret - (France)
• To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
• Tobacco (Tyutyun) - (Bulgaria)
• Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• The Trial (Le Procès), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau - (France/Italy/West Germany)
• The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• Tudor - (Romania)
• Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
• Two Half Times in Hell (Két félidÅ' a pokolban), directed by Zoltán Fábri - (Hungary)
• Two Weeks in Another Town, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse

V

• The Vanishing Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur - (France)
• A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)

W

• Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
• The Waltz of the Toreadors, directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, Prunella Scales
• War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) - (France)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
• Who's Got the Action? starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner
• Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom

XYZ

• Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston

§Short film series

• Looney Tunes (1930â€"1969)
• Terrytoons (1930â€"1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931â€"1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1964)
• Yosemite Sam (1945â€"1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953â€"1968)

§Births

• January 5 - Suzy Amis, actress
• January 17 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
• February 5 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
• February 17 - Lou Diamond Phillips, actor
• February 27 - Adam Baldwin, actor
• March 10 - Jasmine Guy, actress, singer, dancer, and director
• March 18 - Thomas Ian Griffith, actor
• March 20 - Stephen Sommers, director
• March 21 - Matthew Broderick, actor
• May 12 - Emilio Estevez, actor
• June 13 - Ally Sheedy, actress
• June 19 - Paula Abdul, singer
• June 27 - Tony Leung, actor
• July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
• July 13 â€" Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian
• July 19 - Anthony Edwards, actor
• July 20 - Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor
• July 31 - Wesley Snipes, actor
• August 13 - John Slattery, actor
• August 16 - Steve Carell, actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
• August 27 - Vic Mignogna, voice actor
• August 29 - Ian James Corlett, voice actor
• September 11 - Kristy McNichol, actress
• September 15 - Scott McNeil, voice actor
• September 17 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
• October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
• October 11 - Joan Cusack, actress, sister of actor John Cusack
• October 12 - Deborah Foreman, actress
• October 13 - Kelly Preston, actress
• October 26 - Cary Elwes, actor
• November 11 - Demi Moore, actress
• November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director
• December 22 - Ralph Fiennes, English actor

§Deaths

• January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
• January 28 - Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor
• April 10 - Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood
• April 17 - Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress, Hearts and Flowers, The Red Mill
• May 14 - Florence Auer, 82, American actress, The Bishop's Wife, Eradicating Aunty
• June 19 - Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
• June 24 - Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress, Waterloo Bridge, Made for Each Other
• July 2 - Valeska Suratt, 80, American stage and screen actress, The Immigrant
• July 30 - Myron McCormick, 54, American actor, The Hustler, No Time for Sergeants
• August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress, Hollywood icon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire
• August 23 - Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor, Action, The Horse Soldiers
• October 2 - Frank Lovejoy, 50, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Goodbye, My Fancy
• October 6 - Tod Browning, 82, American director, Dracula, Freaks
• October 26 - Louise Beavers, 60, American actress, Holiday Inn, The Jackie Robinson Story
• December 15 - Charles Laughton, 63, British actor, Spartacus, Witness for the Prosecution
• December 17 - Thomas Mitchell, 70, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind
• December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted

§Film debuts

• Bernardo Bertolucci(director) - The Grim Reaper
• Jackie Chan - Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
• Julie Christie - Crooks Anonymous
• Robert Duvall - To Kill a Mockingbird
• Sally Field - Moon Pilot
• John Hurt - Young and Willing
• Ian McShane - Young and Willing
• Sarah Miles - Term of Trial
• Sydney Pollack(actor) - War Hunt
• Robert Redford - War Hunt
• George A. Romero(director) - Expostulations
• Tom Skerritt - War Hunt
• Terence Stamp - Term of Trial
• Lesley Ann Warren - The Chapman Report

§References