1964 in film

The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including two highly successful musical films, My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins.

Events

• 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.
• 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.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: My Fair Lady - Warner Bros.

Best Director: George Cukor - My Fair Lady

Best Actor: Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady

Best Actress: Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov - Topkapi

Best Supporting Actress: Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek

Best Foreign Language Film: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Ieri, oggi, domani), directed by Vittorio De Sica, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Becket

Best Actor: Peter O'Toole - Becket

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater

Best Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead - Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Best Supporting Actor: Edmund O'Brien - Seven Days in May

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: My Fair Lady

Best Actor: Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady

Best Actress: Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

Other

Best Director: George Cukor - My Fair Lady

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), directed by Jacques Demy, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer), directed by Ismail Metin, Turkey

Notable films released in 1964

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 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 - (U.K.)

A

• Advance to the Rear, directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas
• The Alive and the Dead (Zhivye i myortvye) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Americanization of Emily, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, James Coburn, Melvyn Douglas
• The Ape Woman (La donna scimmia), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Annie Girardot - (Italy/France)
• Assassination (Ansatu) - (Japan)
• At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma) - (Brazil)
• Atentát - (Czechoslovakia)
• Ayee Milan Ki Bela - (India)

B

• Band of Outsiders (Bande à part), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
• The Bargee, starring Harry H. Corbett and Eric Sykes - (U.K.)
• The Beauty Jungle, starring Ian Hendry - (U.K.)
• Becket, directed by Peter Glenville, starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton - (U.K./U.S.)
• Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones
• Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - (Italy)
• 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 (Deus e o Diabo na terra do sol) - (Brazil)
• Black Like Me, starring James Whitmore and Roscoe Lee Browne
• Black Peter (Cerný Petr), directed by MiloÅ¡ Forman - (Czechoslovakia)
• Blood and Black Lace, directed by Mario Bava - (Italy)
• 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 (in his final film role as Nevada Smith)
• Carry On Cleo, starring Sid James and Amanda Barrie - (U.K.)
• Carry On Spying, starring Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor - (U.K.)
• The Chairman (Predsedatel) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Chalk Garden, starring Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills - (U.K.)
• 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 - (U.K.)
• The Comedy of Terrors, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown and Orangey (aka Rhubarb the Cat)
• Crack in the World, starring Dana Andrews, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott
• Crooks in Cloisters, starring Ronald Fraser and Barbara Windsor - (U.K.)

D

• Daisies (film)
• Dead Ringer, starring Bette Davis
• 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 (Démanty noci), directed by Jan NÄ›mec - (Czechoslovakia)
• Diary of a Chambermaid (Le journal d'une femme de chambre), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli - (France)
• The Disorderly Orderly, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Jerry Lewis and Susan Oliver
• Dog Eat Dog (aka When Strangers Meet), starring Jayne Mansfield
• Dogora (aka UchÅ« DaikaijÅ« Dogora), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• Dosti (Friendship) - (India)
• Dr. Crippen, starring Donald Pleasence - (U.K.)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers (in three roles), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, James Earl Jones - (U.K.)
• Dry Summer (Susuz Yaz) - (Turkey)

E

• The Earth Dies Screaming, starring Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price- (U.K.)
• East of Sudan, starring Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms and Jenny Agutter - (U.K.)
• Ensign Pulver, a sequel to Mister Roberts, starring Robert Walker, Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Jack Nicholson
• El extraño viaje (The Strange Voyage) - (Spain)
• The Eyes of Annie Jones, starring Richard Conte and Francesca Annis - (U.K.)

F

• Face of the Screaming Werewolf, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. - (Mexico/U.S.A.)
• Fail-Safe, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Edward Binns, Frank Overton, Larry Hagman, Sorrell Booke, Dana Elcar, Dom DeLuise, Henry Fonda
• The Fall of the Roman Empire, starring Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, Christopher Plummer, James Mason
• Fantômas, starring Jean Marais - (France)
• 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 (A Paty Jezdec je Strach), directed by ZbynÄ›k Brynych - (Czechoslovakia)
• First Men in the Moon, starring Edward Judd and Lionel Jeffries, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen - (U.K.)
• A Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood - (Italy)
• 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 (Hana to dotō), directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)
• For Those Who Think Young, starring Pamela Tiffin, James Darren, Ellen Burstyn, Nancy Sinatra, Tina Louise, Bob Denver
• Forest of the Hanged (Pădurea spânzuraÅ£ilor) - (Romania)

G

• Gate of Flesh (Nikutai no mon), directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)
• Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (The Policeman of Saint-Tropez) - (France)
• Gertrud, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Denmark)
• Get Yourself a College Girl, starring Mary Ann Mobley and Nancy Sinatra
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (San DaikaijÅ«: ChikyÅ« Saidai no Kessen) - (Japan)
• Girl with Green Eyes, starring Peter Finch and Rita Tushingham - (U.K.)
• A Global Affair, starring Bob Hope
• Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery (as James Bond), with Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton, Gert Fröbe - (U.K.)
• 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- (U.K.)
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Il Vangelo secondo Matteo), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - (Italy)
• Greed in the Sun (Cent mille dollars au soleil), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
• The Guns (Os Fuzis) - (Brazil/Argentina)
• Guns at Batasi, starring Richard Attenborough and Jack Hawkins - (U.K.)

H

• Hamlet (aka Richard Burton's Hamlet)
• Hamlet - (U.S.S.R.)
• Haqeeqat (Reality) - (India)
• A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles - (U.K.)
• Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, a Hanna-Barbera feature production
• Hide and Seek, starring Ian Carmichael and Curd Jürgens - (U.K.)
• Hot Enough for June, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina - (U.K.)
• 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 (Soy Cuba) - (Cuba/U.S.S.R.)
• 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 (Akai satsui), directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan)
• Invitation to a Gunfighter, starring Yul Brynner, George Segal, Janice Rule

J 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 - (U.K.)
• 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 - (Japan)

L

• Lady General Hua Mu-lan (aka Hua Mu Lan) - (Hong Kong)
• The Last Man on Earth (L'ultimo uomo della Terra), starring Vincent Price - (U.S.A./Italy)
• The Last Steps (Les pas perdus), starring Michèle Morgan and Jean-Louis Trintignant - (France)
• Leader, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
• The Leather Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Rita Tushingham - (U.K.)
• Lemonade Joe (Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera) - (Czechoslovakia)
• 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 (Charulata), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• Looking for Love, starring Connie Francis
• The Luck of Ginger Coffey, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Robert Shaw

M

• Madu Tiga (Three Wives), starring P. Ramlee - (Malaysia)
• Mail Order Bride, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Buddy Ebsen and Lois Nettleton
• 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 (Matrimonio all'italiana), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• A Married Woman (Une femme mariée), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
• Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dykeâ€"winner of 5 Academy Awards
• The Masque of the Red Death, starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court and Jane Asher - (U.K.)
• Men and Women (Noite Vazia) - (Brazil)
• The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk
• The Moon-Spinners, starring Hayley Mills
• Mothra vs. Godzilla (Godzilla vs. The Thing), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• 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 (O filos mou o Lefterakis) - (Greece)

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 in her last film and Robert Taylor
• Nobody Waved Good-bye - (Canada)
• Nothing But a Man, starring Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Yaphet Kotto
• Nothing But the Best, starring Alan Bates and Millicent Martin - (U.K.)

O

• Of Human Bondage, starring Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Siobhan McKenna - (U.K.)
• One Potato, Two Potato, starring Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton and Richard Mulligan
• Onibaba (Demon Woman), directed by Kaneto Shindo - (Japan)
• 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 (Kawaita hana) - (Japan)
• 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 - (U.K.)

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 - (U.K.)
• The Ravishing Idiot (Une ravissante idiote), starring Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins - (France)
• Red Desert (Il deserto rosso), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris - (Italy)
• Ride the Wild Surf, starring Tab Hunter, Fabian Forte, Shelley Fabares and Barbara Eden
• Ring of Spies, starring Bernard Lee - (U.K.)
• 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 - (TV film) from Rankin/Bass Productions

S

• Sallah Shabati, starring Chaim Topol - (Israel)
• Sangam, starring Vyjayanthimala, Raj Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar - (India)
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon, starring Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
• The Secret Invasion, starring Stewart Granger and Mickey Rooney
• Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata), starring Stefania Sandrelli - (Italy)
• 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, Ava Gardner, Martin Balsam, George Macready, Richard Anderson, Andrew Duggan, Hugh Marlowe, Whit Bissell, John Houseman
• Seven Up! - documentary - (U.K.)
• Sex and the Single Girl, starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall
• Shehar Aur Sapna (The City and the Dream) - (India)
• A Shot in the Dark, second entry in the Pink Panther series, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, with Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Burt Kwouk, Herbert Lom
• Smokescreen, starring Yvonne Romain
• The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce), directed by François Truffaut, starring Françoise Dorléac - (France)
• 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 (L'Homme de Rio), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac - (France)
• The Thin Red Line, starring Keir Dullea and Jack Warden
• The Three Lives of Thomasina, starring Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• The Third Secret, starring Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento - (U.K.)
• La Tía Tula (Aunt Tula) - (Spain)
• Time of Indifference (Gli indifferenti), starring Claudia Cardinale, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters - (Italy)
• The Time Travelers, starring Preston Foster and Merry Anders
• 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 - (U.S./France/Italy)
• Troubled Waters, aka Man with Two Faces, starring Tab Hunter
• Two Stage Sisters (WÅ­tái JiÄ›mèi) - (China)

U

• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg), directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo - winner of Palme d'Or - (France)
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley

V

• The Visit, directed by Bernhard Wicki - (West Germany/U.S./France/Italy)
• Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret

W

• Weekend at Dunkirk (Week-end à Zuydcoote), directed by Henri Verneuil - (Italy/France)
• Welcome, or No Trespassing (Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchyon), starring Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev - (U.S.S.R.)
• What a Way to Go!, starring Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Cummings
• Where Love Has Gone, starring Bette Davis, Susan Hayward, Mike Connors, DeForest Kelley
• Witchcraft, starring Lon Chaney and Jack Hedley - (U.K.)
• Woh Kaun Thi? (Who Was She?) - (India)
• The Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) - (Japan)
• Woman of Straw, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery - (U.K.)
• Wonderful Life, starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows (US title: Swingers' Paradise) - (U.K.)
• 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 - (U.K.)
• Youngblood Hawke, starring James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor
• Your Cheatin' Heart, a biopic of Hank Williams, starring George Hamilton

Z

• Zhavoronok - (U.S.S.R.)
• Zindagi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Prithviraj Kapoor -(India)
• Zorba the Greek, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates - (Greece/U.K.)
• Zulu, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins - (U.K.)

Short film series

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

Births

• January 7 - Nicolas Cage, actor/producer/director
• January 13 - Penelope Ann Miller, actress
• January 18 - Jane Horrocks, actress
• January 27 - Bridget Fonda, actress
• February 5 - Laura Linney, actress
• February 15 - Chris Farley, actor (d. 1997)
• February 18 - Matt Dillon, actor
• February 24 - Todd Field, director/actor
• March 9 - Juliette Binoche, actress
• March 17 - Rob Lowe, actor
• April 7 - Russell Crowe, actor
• April 20 - Crispin Glover, actor
• May 12 - Pierre Morel, French film director
• May 25 - Ray Stevenson, Irish actor
• June 9 - Gloria Reuben, actress/singer
• June 15 - Courteney Cox, actress
• July 26 - Sandra Bullock, actress
• August 2 - Mary-Louise Parker, actress
• August 16 - William Salyers, actor and voice actor
• September 2 - Keanu Reeves, actor
• December 4 - Marisa Tomei, actress
• December 8 - Teri Hatcher, actress

Deaths

• 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 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 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
• July 26 - William A. Seiter, 73, American film director, The Beautiful and Damned, Sons of the Desert, Roberta
• 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, Casino Royale
• August 28 - Gracie Allen, 69, American comedy actress, A Damsel in Distress, Lambchops
• September 28
  • Harpo Marx, 75, American comedy actor (The Marx Brothers), 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, Bonnie and Clyde, Cinderella Man
• October 15 - Cole Porter, 73, American composer and songwriter, Night and Day, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• 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
• December 9 - Edith Sitwell, 77, British actress
• December 11 - Percy Kilbride, 76, American actor, The Southerner, State Fair
• December 14 - William Bendix, 58, American actor, Lifeboat, Detective Story

Film debuts

• Jenny Agutter - East of Sudan
• The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
• Ellen Burstyn - For Those Who Think Young
• Judi Dench - The Third Secret
• Karen Dotrice - The Three Lives of Thomasina
• Olympia Dukakis - Twice a Man
• Morgan Freeman - The Pawnbroker
• James Earl Jones - Dr. Strangelove
• Raquel Welch - A House Is Not a Home

References