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The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Events



  • Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980. From 1969 to 1979, the festival is non-competitive.
  • Al Pacino's film debut (Me, Natalie)
  • Elvis Presley's film career ends with the release of Change of Habit.
  • On August 9, Sharon Tate, the 26-year-old actress, model and Roman Polanski's wife, is murdered by Charles Manson's followers

Top grossing films (U.S.)



Awards



Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy - Hellman-Schlesinger, United Artists
Best Director: John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy
Best Actor: John Wayne - True Grit
Best Actress: Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Best Supporting Actor: Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Best Supporting Actress: Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower
Best Foreign Language Film: Z, directed by Costa-Gavras, Algeria

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:
Best Picture: Anne of the Thousand Days
Best Actor: John Wayne - True Grit
Best Actress: Geneviève Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Best Actor: Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Best Actress: Patty Duke - Me, Natalie
Other
Best Director: Charles Jarrott - Anne of the Thousand Days

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Not awarded

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Rani Radovi (Early Works), directed by Želimir Žilnik, Yugoslavia

Notable films released in 1969



U.S.A. unless stated

  • 100 Rifles, starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds
A
  • Ã…dalen 31, directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
  • Adelheid, directed by FrantiÅ¡ek Vláčil - (Czechoslovakia)
  • The Adjutant of His Excellency (Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva) - (U.S.S.R.)
  • Age of Consent, directed by Michael Powell, starring James Mason and Helen Mirren - (Australia)
  • Alfred the Great, starring David Hemmings - (U.K.)
  • Alice's Restaurant, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Arlo Guthrie
  • All Monsters Attack (Gojira Minira Gabara ÅŒru KaijÅ« Daishingeki, also known as Godzilla's Revenge), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
  • All My Compatriots (VÅ¡ichni dobří rodáci) - (Czechoslovakia)
  • Angel in My Pocket, starring Andy Griffith
  • Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, John Colicos, Anthony Quayle - winner of 4 Golden Globes - (U.K.)
  • The April Fools, starring Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford
  • Aradhana (Worship) - (India)
  • Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret - (France)
  • The Arrangement, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Kirk Douglas and Deborah Kerr
  • Arthur? Arthur!, starring Shelley Winters, Terry-Thomas, Tammy Grimes
  • The Assassination Bureau, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas - (U.K.)
B
  • Ballad of Carl-Henning (Balladen om Carl-Henning) - (Denmark)
  • Bambi Meets Godzilla, very short cult film by Marv Newland
  • Battle of Britain, starring Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer - (U.K.)
  • Battle of Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi), starring Sergei Bondarchuk and Yul Brynner - (Yugoslavia)
  • The Bed-Sitting Room, directed by Richard Lester, starring Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Marty Feldman - (U.K.)
  • Before Winter Comes, starring David Niven - (U.K.)
  • The Big Bounce, starring Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor-Young
  • Blue Movie, directed by Andy Warhol
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon
  • Boy (Shonen), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
  • A Boy Named Charlie Brown
  • The Brain (Le Cerveau), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven - (France/Italy)
  • The Bridge at Remagen, starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, Robert Vaughn
  • The Brothers Karamazov (Bratya Karamazovy) - (U.S.S.R.)
  • Burn! (Queimada), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Marlon Brando - (Italy)
  • The Bushbaby, directed by John Trent and starring Margaret Brooks and Lou Gossett
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
C
  • Cactus Flower, starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
  • Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, starring Anthony Newley and Joan Collins
  • Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, starring Robert Ryan and Chuck Connors
  • Carry On Camping, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor - (U.K.)
  • Castle Keep, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk
  • The Chairman, starring Gregory Peck
  • Change of Habit, starring Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner
  • Che!, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Omar Sharif and Jack Palance
  • The Color of Pomegranates (Nran guyne) - (U.S.S.R.)
  • Il Commissario Pepe (Police Chief pepe), starring Ugo Tognazzi - (Italy)
  • The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, starring Kurt Russell
  • The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol) - (Czechoslovakia)
D
  • The Damned (La caduta degli dei), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde and Ingrid Thulin - (Italy/West Germany)
  • Daughter of the Mind, starring Don Murray and Ray Milland
  • De Sade, starring Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, John Huston - (U.S./West Germany)
  • Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto), starring Michel Piccoli and Anita Pallenberg - (Italy)
  • Don't Drink the Water, directed by Howard Morris, written by Woody Allen, starring Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Michael Constantine
  • Do Raaste (Two Roads) - (India)
  • Doppelgänger, starring Roy Thinnes, Lynn Loring, Herbert Lom
  • Double Suicide (ShinjÅ«: Ten no amijima) - (Japan)
  • Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
  • The Dragon of Evil Against the Warrior Saint (O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro), directed by Glauber Rocha - (Brazil)
E
  • Easy Rider, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson
  • End of a Priest (Farářův konec) - (Czechoslovakia)
  • Eros Plus Massacre (Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) - (Japan)
  • The Exquisite Cadaver (Las crueles), starring Capucine - (Spain)
  • The Extraordinary Seaman, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
  • Eye of the Cat, starring Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker
F
  • Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
  • Flashback, directed by Raffaele Andreassi - (Italy)
  • Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
  • Fraulein Doktor, starring Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Capucine
  • Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Sōretsu), by Toshio Matsumoto - (Japan)
G
  • Gaily, Gaily, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, George Kennedy, Margot Kidder
  • A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce), directed by Robert Bresson, starring Dominique Sanda - (France)
  • Goodbye, Columbus, starring Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw and Jack Klugman
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark
  • Goyokin, directed by Hideo Gosha - (Japan)
  • The Grasshopper, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jim Brown
  • The Great Love (Le grand amour) - (France)
  • The Gypsy Moths, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Bonnie Bedelia
H
  • Hamlet, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Anthony Hopkins - (U.K.)
  • Handcuffs (Lisice) - (Yugoslavia)
  • Hannibal Brooks, starring Oliver Reed
  • Hard Contract, starring James Coburn, Lee Remick, Burgess Meredith - (U.K.
  • Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly, starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Tommy Tune, Louis Armstrong
  • Hello Down There, starring Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Jim Backus, Charlotte Rae, Ken Berry, Roddy McDowall, Richard Dreyfuss
  • Honeycomb (La madriguera), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin - (Spain)
  • The Honeymoon Killers, starring Tony LoBianco and Shirley Stoler
  • Hook, Line & Sinker, starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lawford
  • How to Commit Marriage, starring Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Tina Louise, Maureen Arthur, Leslie Nielsen
I
  • If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, starring Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Michael Constantine
  • I'm an Elephant, Madame (Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame) - (West Germany)
  • The Italian Job, directed by Peter Collinson, starring Michael Caine and Noël Coward - (U.K.)
  • The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom
  • It's Tough Being a Man (Otoko wa tsurai yo) - (Japan)
  • Ittefaq, starring Rajesh Khanna - (India)
J
  • Jackal of Nahueltoro (El Chacal de Nahueltoro) - (Chile)
  • John and Mary, starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow
K
  • Katrina - (South Africa)
  • Katzelmacher, directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Hanna Schygulla - (West Germany)
  • Kes, directed by Ken Loach - (U.K.)
  • Khamoshi (Silence) - (India)
L
  • L'Amour fou, directed by Jacques Rivette - (France)
  • The Land (Al-ard), directed by Youssef Chahine - (Egypt)
  • Larks on a String (SkÅ™ivánci na niti), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia) - banned until 1990
  • Last Summer, starring Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns
  • Laughter in the Dark (La Chambre obscure), directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson and Anna Karina - (France/U.K.)
  • The Learning Tree, directed by Gordon Parks
  • Lock Up Your Daughters, starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Glynis Johns
  • Lost Flight, starring Anne Francis, Lloyd Bridges, Billy Dee Williams
  • The Lost Man, starring Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus
  • The Love God?, directed by Nat Hiken, starring Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Maureen Arthur
  • Love Is Colder Than Death (Liebe ist kälter als der Tod), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
M
  • Machine Gun McCain, starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk
  • MacKenna's Gold, starring Gregory Peck,Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, and Omar Sharif
  • Macunaíma - (Brazil)
  • The Madwoman of Chaillot, starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer, John Gavin, Danny Kaye
  • The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Raquel Welch - (U.K.)
  • Marlowe, directed by Paul Bogart, starring James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Carroll O'Connor, Bruce Lee
  • Marooned, directed by John Sturges, starring Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman
  • Marquis de Sade: Justine, starring Romina Power, Klaus Kinski, Jack Palance - (Italy)
  • Medea, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Maria Callas - (Italy/France/West Germany)
  • Medium Cool, directed by Haskell Wexler, starring Robert Forster, Marianna Hill, Peter Bonerz
  • Midas Run, starring Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire, Roddy McDowall
  • Midnight Cowboy, directed by John Schlesinger, screenplay by Waldo Salt, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman
  • The Milky Way (La Voie Lactée), directed by Luis Buñuel - (France/Italy/West Germany)
  • Mississippi Mermaid (La sirène du Mississipi), directed by François Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
  • The Monitors, starring Guy Stockwell and Susan Oliver
  • Mon oncle Benjamin (My Uncle Benjamin) - (France)
  • Monsieur Hawarden - (Belgium/Netherlands)
  • Monte Carlo or Bust!, aka Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies, starring Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore - (U.K./France/Italy)
  • Mosquito Squadron, starring David McCallum - (U.K.)
  • My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
N
  • The Night of Counting the Years (Al-Mummia) - (Egypt)
  • Nightmare in Wax, starring Cameron Mitchell and Anne Helm
  • Number One, starring Charlton Heston, Jessica Walter, Bruce Dern
O
  • The Oblong Box, starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee
  • Oh! What a Lovely War, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Mills - (U.K.)
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby (as James Bond), with Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas - (U.K.)
P
  • Paint Your Wagon, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, with songs by Lerner and Loewe
  • The Passion of Anna, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson - (Sweden)
  • Pigsty (Porcile), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - (Italy)
  • La Piscine (The Swimming Pool), starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider - (France)
  • Play Dirty, starring Michael Caine - (U.K.)
  • Popi, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Alan Arkin and Rita Moreno
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Maggie Smith (Academy Award winner) - (U.K.)
  • The Promise, starring John Castle and Ian McKellen - (U.K.)
  • Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey, Sr.
Q
  • A Quiet Place in the Country (Un tranquillo posto di campagna), starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave - (Italy/France)
R
  • The Rain People, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Robert Duvall, Shirley Knight
  • Rani Radovi (Early Years) - Golden Bear winner - (Yugoslavia)
  • Rascal, starring Bill Mumy and Steve Forrest
  • The Red Tent (Krasnaya palatka) - (U.S.S.R./Italy/U.K.)
  • The Reivers, based on the novel by William Faulkner, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel, Will Geer, narrated by Burgess Meredith
  • La residencia (The Boarding School), starring Lilli Palmer - (Spain)
  • Rider on the Rain (Le Passager de la pluie), directed by René Clément, starring Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert - (France)
  • Ring of Bright Water, starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna - (U.K.)
  • Riot, starring Jim Brown and Gene Hackman
  • The Royal Hunt of the Sun, starring Robert Shaw and Christopher Plummer - (U.K./U.S.)
S
  • Sabata, starring Lee Van Cleef - (Italy)
  • Sam Whiskey, starring Burt Reynolds and Angie Dickinson
  • Satyakam, starring Dharmendra and Ashok Kumar - (India)
  • The Secret of Santa Vittoria, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani - Golden Globe for best comedy film
  • Shining Star starring Ahmad Ghadakchian and Forouzan. (Iran)
  • The Sicilian Clan (Le Clan des Siciliens), starring Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura - (France)
  • Sinful Davey, directed by John Huston, starring John Hurt
  • Some Girls Do, starring Richard Johnson and Daliah Lavi
  • Some Kind of a Nut, starring Dick Van Dyke, Rosemary Forsyth, Angie Dickinson
  • The Southern Star, starring George Segal, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress
  • Staircase, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton
  • The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Liza Minnelli
  • Stiletto, starring Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Joseph Wiseman, Patrick O'Neal
  • Support Your Local Sheriff!, starring James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam
  • Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Shirley MacLaine
T
  • Take the Money and Run, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Janet Margolin and Louise Lasser
  • A Talent for Loving, directed by Richard Quine, starring Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Topol, Fran Jeffries
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Michael Sarrazin, Red Buttons
  • Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, starring Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake
  • This Man Must Die (Que la bête meure), directed by Claude Chabrol - (France/Italy)
  • Three Into Two Won't Go, starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Peggy Ashcroft
  • Till Death Us Do Part, starring Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols - (U.K.)
  • A Time for Dying, starring Audie Murphy and Anne Randall
  • Topaz, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Frederick Stafford, John Forsythe, John Vernon, Roscoe Lee Browne
  • The Trouble with Girls, directed by Peter Tewksbury, starring Elvis Presley, Vincent Price, Dabney Coleman, Sheree North, John Carradine, Susan Olsen
  • True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeff Corey, Robert Duvall, Strother Martin, Dennis Hopper
  • Twinky, starring Charles Bronson and Susan George - (U.K.)
U
  • Ultraman, Ultraseven: Great Violent Monster Fight - (Japan)
  • The Undefeated, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson
  • The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran - (France)
V
  • The Valley of Gwangi, starring James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, with visual effects by Ray Harryhausen completing work by Willis O'Brien
  • Viimne reliikvia, directed by Grigori Kromanov (Estonian SSR, U.S.S.R.)
  • Viva Max!, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, John Astin, Jonathan Winters
W
  • What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth
  • What's Good for the Goose, starring Norman Wisdom and Sally Geeson - (U.K.)
  • Where It's At, starring David Janssen and Rosemary Forsyth
  • Where's Jack?, starring Stanley Baker and Tommy Steele - (U.K.)
  • White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) - (U.S.S.R.)
  • The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Jaime Sánchez, Bo Hopkins, Edmond O'Brien
  • Winning, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Thomas, Robert Wagner
  • The Witness (A tanu) - (Hungary)
  • Women in Love, directed by Ken Russell, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson - (U.K.)
  • The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Nagagutsu o Haita Neko) - (Japan)
  • The Wrecking Crew, starring Dean Martin (as Matt Helm), Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise, Sharon Tate
Y
  • Young Billy Young, starring Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker, Jr.
Z
  • Z, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Irene Papas - (France/Algeria)

Short Film Series



  • Looney Tunes (1930â€"1969)
  • Merrie Melodies (1931â€"1969)
  • The Pink Panther (1963â€"1969, 1971â€"1977, 1978â€"1980)
  • The Inspector (1965-1969)
  • The Ant and the Aardvark (1969â€"1971)
  • Roland and Rattfink (1968â€"1971)
  • Tijuana Toads (1969â€"1972)
  • Woody Woodpecker (1941â€"1949, 1951â€"1972)
  • Chilly Willy (1955â€"1972)
  • The Beary Family (1962â€"1972)

Births



  • January 1 â€" Mr. Lawrence, American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, animator and director
  • January 14 â€" Jason Bateman, American actor
  • February 8
    • Brian Krause, American actor
    • Mary McCormack, American actress
  • February 11 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress
  • March 1 - Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
  • April 2 - Ajay Devgan, Indian actor
  • April 23 - Byron Thames, American actor
  • April 25 - Renée Zellweger, American actress
  • May 14 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
  • May 25 - Anne Heche, American actress
  • June 28 - Tichina Arnold, American actress
  • July 21 - Godfrey, American actor, comedian
  • July 24 - Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer
  • August 4 - Vlad Ivanov, Romanian actor
  • August 18
    • Christian Slater, American actor
    • Edward Norton, American actor
  • August 28 - Jack Black, American actor, comedian, musician
  • September 25 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
  • September 29 - Erika Eleniak, American actress
  • October 19 - Trey Parker, American actor, creator of South Park
  • November 4 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor
  • December 21 - Julie Delpy, French actress

Deaths



  • January 1 - Barton MacLane, 66, American actor, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • January 3 - Howard McNear, 63, American actor, Anatomy of a Murder, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  • January 4 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, 60, English conjoined twins, actresses, appeared in film Freaks
  • January 8 - Leslie Goodwins, 69, English director, The Mummy's Curse, Mexican Spitfire
  • February 2 - Boris Karloff, 81, English actor, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Scarface
  • February 5 - Thelma Ritter, 66, American actress, Rear Window, All About Eve
  • February 9 - Gabby Hayes, 83, American actor, The Man from Utah, In Old Oklahoma
  • February 11 - James Lanphier, 48, American actor, The Pink Panther, The Party
  • February 27 - John Boles, 73, American actor, Frankenstein, Stella Dallas
  • March 18 - Barbara Bates, 43, American actress, The Caddy, All About Eve
  • May 24 - Mitzi Green, 48, American actress, Lost in Alaska, Skippy
  • March 25 - Alan Mowbray, 72, British actor, Terror by Night, My Darling Clementine
  • May 27 - Jeffrey Hunter, 42, American actor, The Searchers, King of Kings
  • June 2 - Leo Gorcey, 51, American actor, Ghost Chasers, Spook Busters
  • June 8 - Robert Taylor, 57, American actor, Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe
  • June 10 - Frank Lawton, 64, English actor, A Night to Remember, The Devil-Doll
  • June 13 - Martita Hunt, 70, English actress, Becket, Great Expectations
  • June 19 - Natalie Talmadge, 73, American silent screen actress, Our Hospitality, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
  • June 20 - Rudolf Schwarzkogler, 29, Austrian experimental filmmaker, Satisfaction
  • June 22 - Judy Garland, 47, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis
  • July 5 - Leo McCarey, 72, American director, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way
  • July 8 - Gladys Swarthout, 68, American actress, Romance in the Dark
  • August 1 - Donald Keith, 65, American actor, The Plastic Age, Parisian Love
  • August 9 - Sharon Tate, 26, American actress, murdered by Charles Manson Family, wife of director Roman Polanski, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Valley of the Dolls
  • August 14 - Sigrid Gurie, 58, American actress, Algiers, The Adventures of Marco Polo
  • August 15 - William Goetz, 66, American producer, studio executive, Sayonara, Les Misérables
  • August 26 - Martin Miller, 69, Czech actor, 55 Days at Peking, The Pink Panther
  • October 12 - Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian actress, former Olympic ice skater, Sun Valley Serenade, One in a Million
  • October 15 - Rod La Rocque, 70, American actor, Meet John Doe, The Shadow Strikes
  • November 5 - Lloyd Corrigan, 69, American actor, Son of Paleface, Ghost Chasers
  • December 16 - Luis Enrique Vergara, 47, Mexican filmmaker, House of Evil, Isle of the Snake People

Film debuts



  • Bob Balaban - Midnight Cowboy
  • Sam Elliott - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Farrah Fawcett - Love Is a Funny Thing
  • Melanie Griffith - Smith!
  • Ian McKellen - Thank You All Very Much
  • Al Pacino - Me, Natalie
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger - Hercules in New York
  • M. Emmet Walsh - Midnight Cowboy

References



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  4. ^ "Box Office Information for Hello, Dolly!". The Numbers. Retrieved February 25, 2012. 
  5. ^ "Box Office Information for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice". The Numbers. Retrieved February 25, 2012. 
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  10. ^ "Box Office Information for On Her Majesty's Secret Service". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 25, 2012. 
  11. ^ "Winning, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 26, 2012. 
  12. ^ "Box Office Information for Z". The Numbers. Retrieved February 25, 2012. 
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  27. ^ Box Office Information for Once Upon a Time in the West. The Numbers. Retrieved September 12, 2013.

Further reading



  • 1969: The Year Everything Changed by Rob Kirkpatrick. Skyhorse Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-60239-366-0.


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