1968 in film

The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.
• November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): canceled due to events of May 1968

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos (Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed), directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?), directed by Jan Troell, Sweden

Notable films released in 1968

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 5 Card Stud, starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens
• 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War (17e Parallele Le Vietnam en Guerre), a documentary directed by Joris Ivens - (France/Vietnam)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood - (U.S./U.K.)

A

• Aadmi, starring Dilip Kumar - (India)
• Aankhen (The Eyes) - (India)
• Ace High, starring Eli Wallach - (Italy)
• Adieu l'ami (Farewell Friend), starring Alain Delon and Charles Bronson - (France)
• All My Compatriots (VÅ¡ichni dobří rodáci) - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Amorous Ones (As Amorosas) - (Brazil)
• The Anniversary, starring Bette Davis - (U.K.)
• Anzio, starring Robert Mitchum, Earl Holliman, Peter Falk
• Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner - (West Germany)
• Asterix and Cleopatra - (France/Belgium)

B

• Baby Love, starring Linda Hayden and Keith Barron- (U.K.)
• Bandits in Milan (Banditi a Milano), starring Gian Maria Volonté - (Italy)
• Bandolero!, starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Will Geer
• Barbarella, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda - (France/Italy)
• Be Sick... It's Free (Il medico della mutua), starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)
• Berserk!, starring Joan Crawford and Diana Dors - (U.K.)
• Les Biches, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean-Louis Trintignant - (France)
• The Birthday Party, directed by William Friedkin - (U.K.)
• Black Jesus (Seduto alla sua destra), starring Woody Strode - (Italy)
• Blackbeard's Ghost, starring Dean Jones, Peter Ustinov, Suzanne Pleshette
• The Bofors Gun, starring Nicol Williamson and Ian Holm - (U.K.)
• Boom!, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton - (U.K.)
• The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda
• The Bride Wore Black (La Mariée était en noir), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Bouquet - (France)
• Brilliantovaya ruka (The Diamond Arm) - a hugely popular Russian comedy - (U.S.S.R.)
• Bullitt, directed by Peter Yates, starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn
• Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, starring Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas
• Bye Bye Braverman, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Joseph Wiseman

C

• Candy, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Ringo Starr - (France/Italy/U.S.)
• Capricious Summer (Rozmarné léto), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia)
• Carry On... Up the Khyber, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams - (U.K.)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave - (U.K.)
• Charly, starring Cliff Robertson
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, starring Dick Van Dyke - (U.K.)
• The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach - (West Germany)
• Colonel Wolodyjowski, directed by Jerzy Hoffman - (Poland)
• Coogan's Bluff, directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud
• Counterpoint, starring Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Leslie Nielsen
• Curse of the Crimson Altar (aka The Crimson Cult), starring Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff - (U.K.)

D

• Danger: Diabolik, starring John Phillip Law and Michel Piccoli - (Italy/U.S.)
• Dark of the Sun (aka The Mercenaries), starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux - (U.K./U.S.)
• Day of the Evil Gun, starring Glenn Ford
• Dead Season (Myortvyy sezon) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Deadfall, starring Michael Caine - (U.K.)
• Death by Hanging (Kōshikei), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
• Destroy All Monsters (KaijÅ« Sōshingeki), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• The Detective, starring Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom, Robert Duvall
• The Devil Rides Out, starring Christopher Lee and Charles Gray - (U.K.)
• The Devil's Brigade, starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
• The Doll (Lalka), directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has - (Poland)
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis
• Duniya (The World), starring Dev Anand and Vyjayanthimala - (India)

E

• L'Enfance Nue (Naked Children), directed by Maurice Pialat - (France)
• Eve, starring Robert Walker, Jr., Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom
• Even the Wind is Frightened (Hasta el viento tiene miedo) - (Mexico)

F

• Faces, directed by John Cassavetes
• Fando y Lis (Fando and Lis) - (Mexico)
• Finian's Rainbow, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Al Freeman, Jr.
• Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes, directed by Alexander Rou, starring Natalya Sedykh and Georgy Millyar - (USSR)
• Firecreek, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gary Lockwood, Jack Elam, James Best, Inger Stevens
• The Fixer, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde - (U.K.)
• For Love of Ivy, starring Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Robert Duvall
• For Singles Only, starring John Saxon, Mary Ann Mobley, Milton Berle
• Funny Girl, directed by William Wyler, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif

G

• Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl), starring Claudia Cardinale and Franco Nero - (Italy)
• The Girl on a Motorcycle, starring Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull - (U.K./France)
• The Girl with the Pistol (La ragazza con la pistola), starring Monica Vitti and Stanley Baker - (Italy)
• The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski - (Italy)
• The Green Berets, directed by and starring John Wayne, with Jim Hutton, David Janssen
• Guns for San Sebastian, starring Anthony Quinn, Charles Bronson and Anjanette Comer

H

• Hang 'Em High, directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood, Pat Hingle, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern
• Hatsukoi Jigokuhen (The Inferno of First Love) - (Japan)
• Head, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring The Monkees
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, starring Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke
• Hell in the Pacific, directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune
• Hellfighters, starring John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton
• The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, starring Dean Jones
• Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann - (Sweden)
• House of Cards, starring George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles
• How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, starring Dean Martin and Stella Stevens
• How Sweet It Is!, starring James Garner and Debbie Reynolds

I

• I Am Curious (Blue) (Jag är nyfiken â€" en film i blÃ¥tt) - (Sweden)
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, starring Peter Sellers
• Ice Station Zebra, directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine
• If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell - Palme d'Or winner - (U.K.)
• The Immortal Story, directed by and starring Orson Welles - (France)
• Inspector Clouseau, starring Alan Arkin - (U.K.)
• Interlude, starring Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Donald Sutherland
• Isabel, starring Geneviève Bujold - (Canada)
• Isadora, aka The Loves of Isadora, a biopic of Isadora Duncan, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, James Fox- (U.K.)
• It Rains in My Village (Biće skoro propast sveta), starring Annie Girardot - (Yugoslavia)

J

• Je t'aime, je t'aime, directed by Alain Resnais - (France)
• Jigsaw, starring Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman and Hope Lange
• Joanna, starring Geneviève Waïte

K

• Kill! (Kiru) - (Japan)
• The Killing of Sister George, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Beryl Reid, Susannah York and Coral Browne
• King of Hearts - directed by Mohammad Ali Fardin (Iran)
• Kona Coast, starring Vera Miles and Richard Boone
• Kuroneko (aka Yabu no Naka no Kuroneko) - (Japan)

L

• Lady in Cement, starring Frank Sinatra, Dan Blocker, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan
• The Last of the Mohicans (Ultimul Mohican) - (Romania)
• The Legend of Lylah Clare, starring Kim Novak and Peter Finch
• El Libro de piedra (The Book of Stone) - (Mexico)
• The Lion in Winter, starring Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn - (U.K.)
• The Little Golden Calf (Zolotoy telyonok) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Live a Little, Love a Little, starring Elvis Presley and Michele Carey
• The Love Bug, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Dean Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett
• A Lovely Way to Die, starring Kirk Douglas and Sylva Koscina
• Lucía - (Cuba)

M

• Madigan, directed by Don Siegel, starring Richard Widmark, Inger Stevens, Henry Fonda, James Whitmore, Susan Clark
• The Magus, starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn and Candice Bergen - (U.K.)
• The Man Who Lies, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant - (France/Czechoslovakia)
• Mandabi (The Money Order), directed by Ousmane Sembène - (Senegal)
• Matthew's Days (Å»ywot Mateusza) - (Poland)
• Mayerling, starring Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve - (U.K./France)
• Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) - (Cuba)
• Mera Naam Joker (My Name is Joker), directed by and starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
• The Mercenary, also known as A Professional Gun, starring Franco Nero and Jack Palance - (Italy)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Hall, starring Derek Godfrey, Ian Holm, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren - (U.K.)
• A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die, starring Alex Cord, Arthur Kennedy, Robert Ryan - (Italy)
• Monterey Pop, a concert film by D. A. Pennebaker, featuring Simon & Garfunkel, The Mamas & the Papas, Jimi Hendrix and others
• More Dead Than Alive, starring Clint Walker and Anne Francis

N

• Neel Kamal - (India)
• Negatives, starring Peter McEnery, Glenda Jackson and Diane Cilento- (U.K.)
• Never a Dull Moment, starring Dick Van Dyke, Dorothy Provine, Edward G. Robinson
• The Night of the Following Day, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno
• Night of the Living Dead, first in the zombie trilogy by George A. Romero
• The Night They Raided Minsky's, directed by William Friedkin, starring Jason Robards
• Nobody's Perfect, starring Doug McClure
• No Way to Treat a Lady, starring Rod Steiger, George Segal, Lee Remick
• Las Noches del Hombre Lobo (Nights of the Werewolf) - (Spain/France)

O

• The Odd Couple, directed by Gene Saks, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
• Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?), directed by Jan Troell - Golden Bear winner - (Sweden)
• Oliver!, directed by Carol Reed, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Mark Lester - winner of six Academy Awards - (U.K.)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West), directed by Sergio Leone, starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards - (Italy)
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, starring Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Kurt Russell, Wally Cox, Lesley Ann Warren
• One Plus One (aka Sympathy for the Devil), a docudrama directed by Jean-Luc Godard, featuring The Rolling Stones - (U.K.)

P

• Padosan (Neighbour), starring Sunil Dutt - (India)
• Palo y hueso (Stick and Bone) - (Argentina)
• The Party, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet
• Performance, directed by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell, starring Mick Jagger and James Fox - (U.K.)
• Petulia, starring Julie Christie and George C. Scott
• P.J., starring George Peppard, Gayle Hunnicutt, Raymond Burr, Susan Saint James
• A Place for Lovers (Amanti), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Faye Dunaway
• Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
• The Power, starring George Hamilton
• Pretty Poison, starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins
• The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, starring Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller
• The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
• The Prophet (Il Profeta), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Ann-Margret - (Italy)
• The Profound Desire of the Gods (Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubō), directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan)
• Prudence and the Pill, starring Deborah Kerr and David Niven - (U.K.)
• Psych-Out, directed by Richard Rush, starring Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson

R

• Rachel, Rachel, directed by Paul Newman and starring Joanne Woodward
• Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey - (U.K./Italy)
• Rosemary's Baby, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes

S

• Saathi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar and Simi Garewal - (India)
• Salt and Pepper, directed by Richard Donner, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford - (U.K.)
• The Scalphunters, starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Telly Savalas
• The Sea Gull, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Simone Signoret - (U.S./U.K./Greece)
• Sebastian, starring Dirk Bogarde and Susannah York - (U.K.)
• Secret Ceremony, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum
• The Secret Life of an American Wife, starring Walter Matthau
• The Secret War of Harry Frigg, starring Paul Newman
• The Sergeant, starring Rod Steiger and John Phillip Law
• Sergeant Ryker, starring Lee Marvin and Vera Miles
• The Shakiest Gun in the West, starring Don Knotts and Barbara Rhoades
• Shalako, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot - (U.K.)
• Shame (Skammen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow - (Sweden)*
• The Shoes of the Fisherman, starring Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Oskar Werner, Leo McKern, David Janssen, Barbara Jefford.

• Signs of Life (Lebenszeichen), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
• Single Room Furnished, starring Jayne Mansfield in her final film
• Skidoo, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing and, in his final film, Groucho Marx
• Sol Madrid, starring David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn
• Speedway, starring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra
• Spirits of the Dead, directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda - (France/Italy)
• The Stalking Moon, starring Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint
• Star!, starring Julie Andrews
• Stay Away, Joe, starring Elvis Presley
• Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Delphine Seyrig - (France)
• The Strange Affair, starring Susan George - (U.K.)
• The Subject was Roses, starring Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
• Sunghursh, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
• The Swedish Kings (Shvedskite krale), directed by Lyudmil Kirkov, starring Kiril Gospodinov - (Bulgaria)
• The Sweet Ride, starring Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset
• The Swimmer, starring Burt Lancaster

T

• Targets, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Boris Karloff
• Teorema, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Silvana Mangano and Terence Stamp - (Italy)
• Tevye and His Seven Daughters (Tuvia Vesheva Benotav), directed by Menahem Golan - (Israel)
• They Came to Rob Las Vegas, starring Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance
• The Thomas Crown Affair, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway
• Three in the Attic, starring Christopher Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett
• A Twist of Sand, starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman - (U.K.)
• Twisted Nerve, starring Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills - (U.K.)

U

• The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran - (France)
• Up the Junction, starring Dennis Waterman and Suzy Kendall - (U.K.)

V

• Vixen!, directed by Russ Meyer

W

• What's So Bad About Feeling Good?, starring George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore
• Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, starring Rosalind Russell
• Where Eagles Dare, directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood - (U.K./U.S.)
• The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, starring Elke Sommer and Bob Crane
• Wild 90, directed by and starring Norman Mailer
• Wild in the Streets, starring Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook
• Will Penny, starring Charlton Heston and Joan Hackett
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (animation short)
• Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price - (U.K.)
• With Six You Get Eggroll, directed by Howard Morris, starring Doris Day, Brian Keith, Barbara Hershey

Y

• Yellow Submarine, an animated film with music by The Beatles - (U.K.)
• Yours, Mine and Ours, starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda

Short film series

• Looney Tunes (1930â€"1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931â€"1969)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953â€"1968)
• Daffy Duck (1937-1968)

Births

• January 2 â€" Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor
• January 6 â€" John Singleton, director and writer
• January 14 â€" LL Cool J, rapper, actor
• January 29 â€" Edward Burns, actor and producer
• February 1 â€" Pauly Shore, actor
• February 12 - Josh Brolin, American actor
• February 18 â€" Molly Ringwald, actress
• March 2 â€" Daniel Craig, actor
• March 4 â€" Patsy Kensit, actress
• March 12 â€" Aaron Eckhart, actor
• March 30 â€" Celine Dion, singer
• April 8 â€" Patricia Arquette, actress
• April 14 â€" Anthony Michael Hall, actor
• April 19 â€" Ashley Judd, actress
• April 24 â€" Stacy Haiduk, actress
• May 3 - Amy Ryan, American actress
• May 12 - Tony Hawk, actor and professional skateboarder
• May 20 â€" Timothy Olyphant, actor
• July 26 â€" Olivia Williams, actress
• August 11 - Sophie Okonedo, actress
• August 28 - Billy Boyd, actor
• September 10 â€" Guy Ritchie, director, writer, husband of Madonna (2000â€"08)
• September 22 - Megan Hollingshead, voice actress
• September 25 â€" Will Smith, actor
• September 26 - Jim Caviezel, actor, The Passion of the Christ
• September 28 â€" Naomi Watts, actress
• October â€" Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Zambian director
• October 11 - Tiffany Grant, voice actress
• October 12 - Hugh Jackman, actor
• October 13 - Tisha Campbell, actress
• October 27 - Dileep, Indian actor
• November 6 - Kelly Rutherford, actresses
• November 18 - Owen Wilson, actor
• November 21 - Sean Schemmel, voice actor
• December 2 â€" Lucy Liu, actress
• December 3 â€" Brendan Fraser, actor
• December 7 - Greg Ayres, voice actor

Deaths

• January 18 - John Ridgely, 58, American actor, The Big Sleep, God Is My Co-Pilot
• February 4 - Eddie Baker, 70, American actor, Oranges and Lemons, Giant
• February 7 â€" Nick Adams, 36, American actor, Pillow Talk, Rebel Without a Cause
• February 13 â€" Mae Marsh, 73, American actress, The Birth of a Nation, 3 Godfathers
• February 20 - Anthony Asquith, 65, British director, The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy
• March 10 - Helen Walker, 47, American actress, Impact, Call Northside 777
• March 16 â€" June Collyer, 63, American actress, Hangman's House, A Face in the Fog
• March 20 â€" Carl Th. Dreyer, 79, Danish director
• March 24 â€" Alice Guy-Blaché, 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker
• March 30 â€" Bobby Driscoll, 31, American actor, Peter Pan, Treasure Island
• April 5 - Lois Andrews, 44, American actress, Dixie Dugan
• April 6 - Keith Pyott, 66, English actor, Village of the Damned
• April 16 â€" Fay Bainter, 74, American actress, Woman of the Year, The Children's Hour
• April 24 â€" Tommy Noonan, 46, American actor, A Star is Born, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• May 5 â€" Albert Dekker, 62, American actor, The Wild Bunch, Kiss Me Deadly
• May 9
  • Albert Lewin, 73, American director, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Marion Lorne, 84, American actress, The Graduate, Strangers on a Train
• May 10 â€" Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife, The Jolson Story
• May 21 â€" Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress, The Sound of Music, Alice in Wonderland
• May 25 - Charles K. Feldman, 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seven Year Itch
• May 27 - Denise Legeay, 70, French actress, Le signe de la mort
• June 4 â€" Dorothy Gish, 70, American actress, The Cardinal, Orphans of the Storm
• June 7 â€" Dan Duryea, 61, American actor, Winchester '73, Scarlet Street
• June 21 - Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, 72, Danish actress
• June 24 â€" Tony Hancock, 44, British comedian, Call Me Genius, The Punch and Judy Man
• July 1 â€" Virginia Weidler, 41, American actress, The Philadelphia Story, The Women
• July 27 â€" Lilian Harvey, 62, British actress and singer, Inglourious Basterds, The Three from the Filling Station
• July 30 â€" Alexander Hall, 74, American director, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Little Miss Marker
• August 23 â€" Hunt Stromberg, 74, American producer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld
• August 26 â€" Kay Francis, 63, American actress, Charley's Aunt, Little Men
• August 30 - William Talman, 53, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Crashout
• August 31 - Dennis O'Keefe, 60, American actor, T-Men, Raw Deal
• September 3 â€" Isabel Withers, 72, American actress, Possessed, Lady of Burlesque
• September 18 â€" Franchot Tone, 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent
• October 18 â€" Lee Tracy, 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight, Bombshell
• October 29 â€" Pert Kelton, 61, American actress, The Music Man, Sing and Like It
• October 30 â€" Ramon Novarro, 69, Mexican actor, Ben-Hur, Mata Hari
• November 8 â€" Wendell Corey, 54, American actor, Rear Window, The Search
• November 9 - Gerald Mohr, 54, American actor, Gilda, The Angry Red Planet
• November 18 â€" Walter Wanger, 74, American producer, Cleopatra, I Want to Live!
• November 25 â€" Upton Sinclair, 90, American writer and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile
• December 2 - Colin Kenny, 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
• December 5 - Fred Clark, 54, American actor, White Heat, Auntie Mame
• December 12 â€" Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen
• December 15 â€" Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress, South Pacific, Red, Hot and Blue

Film debuts

• Gary Busey - Wild in the Streets
• John Cleese - Interlude
• Timothy Dalton - The Lion in Winter
• Goldie Hawn - The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
• Malcolm McDowell - if...
• Hanna Schygulla - The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp
• Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
• Jack Thompson - Personnel, or People?

References

External links

• "Filmmaking in West Germany, 1968" (Goethe-Institut)