Overview of the events of 1935 in film
The following is an overview of 1935 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The cinema releases of 1935 were highly representative of the early Golden Age period of Hollywood . This period was punctuated by performances from Clark Gable , Shirley Temple , Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers , and the first teaming of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy . A significant number of productions also originated in the UK film industry.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1935 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1935
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
Mutiny on the Bounty
MGM
$2,250,000[ 1] [ 2]
2
Top Hat
RKO
$1,782,000[ 3] [ 4]
3
China Seas
MGM
$1,710,000[ 1] [ 2]
4
Broadway Melody of 1936
$1,655,000[ 1] [ 2]
5
David Copperfield
$1,621,000[ 1] [ 2]
6
Steamboat Round the Bend
20th Century Fox
$1,528,000[ 5]
7
The Crusades
Paramount
$1,491,471[ 6]
8
Roberta
RKO
$1,467,000[ 3] [ 4]
9
In Old Kentucky
20th Century Fox
$1,438,000[ 5]
10
The Littlest Rebel
$1,431,000[ 5]
Events
February 22 – The Little Colonel premieres starring Shirley Temple , Lionel Barrymore and Bill Robinson , featuring a famous stair dance with Hollywood's first interracial dance couple
February 23 – Gene Autry stars as himself as the Singing Cowboy in the serial The Phantom Empire . He would later be voted the number one Western star from 1937 to 1942.
February 27 – Seven-year-old Shirley Temple wins the first special Academy Juvenile Award .
March – The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment is started in order to educate the Bantu peoples .[ 7]
May 31 – Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures merge to form 20th Century Fox .
June 13 – Following the merger of six smaller independent film companies including Monogram Pictures , Mascot Pictures , Liberty Pictures and Majestic Pictures , Herbert J. Yates completed the formation of Republic Pictures .
August 15 – Will Rogers who the previous year was voted the Top Money Making Star dies in a plane crash.
August 25 – William Boyd appears in his first of 66 films as Hopalong Cassidy in Hop-Along Cassidy .
September – Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
September 5 – Gene Autry appears in his first film for the newly formed Republic Pictures – Tumbling Tumbleweeds , named after his second million-selling record.
November 30 – The British -made film Scrooge , the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens ' novel A Christmas Carol , opens in the U.S. after its U.K. release on November 26. Seymour Hicks plays Ebenezer Scrooge , a role he has played onstage hundreds of times. The film is criticized by some for not showing all of the ghosts physically, and quickly fades into obscurity. Widespread interest does not surface until the film is shown on television in the 1980s, in very shabby-looking prints. It is eventually restored on DVD .
Academy Awards
The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California . They were hosted by Frank Capra . This was the first year in which the gold statuettes were called "Oscars".
Most nominations: Mutiny on the Bounty (MGM ) – 8
Major Awards
Most Awards: The Informer (RKO ) – 4 (Actor, Director, Adaptation , Scoring )
Top Ten Money Making Stars
Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company 's annual poll.[ 8]
1935 film releases
United States unless stated.
January–March
January 1935
11 January
18 January
23 January
25 January
27 January
31 January
February 1935
1 February
2 February
4 February
8 February
11 February
19 February
22 February
March 1935
8 March
16 March
22 March
25 March
28 March
30 March
April–June
April 1935
10 April
11 April
18 April
19 April
20 April
22 April
25 April
27 April
30 April
May 1935
9 May
11 May
13 May
16 May
18 May
26 May
31 May
June 1935
6 June
7 June
13 June
15 June
28 June
July–September
July 1935
6 July
8 July
12 July
15 July
18 July
19 July
20 July
26 July
31 July
August 1935
2 August
3 August
9 August
15 August
19 August
25 August
29 August
30 August
September 1935
5 September
6 September
7 September
8 September
9 September
14 September
19 September
20 September
24 September
25 September
October–December
October 1935
4 October
5 October
8 October
13 October
16 October
18 October
24 October
25 October
27 October
28 October
30 October
31 October
November 1935
2 November
4 November
8 November
14 November
15 November
21 November
22 November
26 November
30 November
December 1935
3 December
6 December
9 December
17 December
19 December
20 December
25 December
27 December
28 December
30 December
Notable films released in 1935
See also: United States unless stated.
0–9
A
After Office Hours , directed by Robert Z. Leonard , starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett
Ah, Wilderness! , directed by Clarence Brown , starring Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore
Alice Adams , directed by George Stevens , starring Katharine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray
Amphitryon , directed by Reinhold Schünzel , starring Willy Fritsch – (Germany )
Anna Karenina , directed by Clarence Brown , starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March
Annie Oakley , directed by George Stevens , starring Barbara Stanwyck and Melvyn Douglas
The Arizonian , directed by Charles Vidor , starring Richard Dix
B
La Bandera , directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Annabella and Jean Gabin – (France )
Barbary Coast , directed by Howard Hawks , starring Miriam Hopkins , Edward G. Robinson and Joel McCrea
Becky Sharp , directed by Rouben Mamoulian , starring Miriam Hopkins , Cedric Hardwicke and Billie Burke
Black Fury , directed by Michael Curtiz , starring Paul Muni
The Black Room , directed by Roy William Neill , starring Boris Karloff
Bordertown , directed by Archie Mayo , starring Paul Muni and Bette Davis
Boys Will Be Boys , directed by William Beaudine , starring Will Hay – (GB )
Brewster's Millions , directed by Thornton Freeland , starring Jack Buchanan and Lili Damita – (GB )
The Bride Comes Home , directed by Wesley Ruggles , starring Claudette Colbert , Fred MacMurray and Robert Young
Bride of Frankenstein , directed by James Whale , starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester
Broadway Melody of 1936 , directed by Roy Del Ruth , starring Jack Benny , Eleanor Powell , Robert Taylor and Una Merkel
C
The Call of the Wild , directed by William A. Wellman , starring Clark Gable , Loretta Young and Jack Oakie
Captain Blood , directed by Michael Curtiz , starring Errol Flynn , Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone
Car of Dreams , directed by Graham Cutts and Austin Melford , starring Grete Mosheim and John Mills – (GB )
Carnival in Flanders (La Kermesse héroïque) , directed by Jacques Feyder , starring Françoise Rosay – (France )
Charlie Chan in Egypt , directed by Louis King , starring Warner Oland
Children of Troubled Times (Fēngyún Érnǚ) , directed by Xu Xingzhi, starring Yuan Muzhi and Wang Renmei – (China )
China Seas , directed by Tay Garnett , starring Clark Gable , Jean Harlow , Wallace Beery , Lewis Stone and Rosalind Russell
The Clairvoyant , directed by Maurice Elvey , starring Claude Rains and Fay Wray – (GB )
Coal Face , documentary directed by Alberto Cavalcanti – (GB )
Crime and Punishment , directed by Josef von Sternberg , starring Edward Arnold and Peter Lorre
The Crime of Dr. Crespi , directed by John H. Auer , starring Erich von Stroheim
The Crusades , directed by Cecil B. DeMille , starring Loretta Young and Henry Wilcoxon
Curly Top , directed by Irving Cummings , starring Shirley Temple and John Boles
D
Dandy Dick , directed by William Beaudine , starring Will Hay – (GB )
Dangerous , directed by Alfred E. Green , starring Bette Davis and Franchot Tone
Dante's Inferno , directed by Harry Lachman , starring Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor
The Dark Angel , directed by Sidney Franklin , starring Fredric March , Merle Oberon and Herbert Marshall
David Copperfield , directed by George Cukor , starring W. C. Fields , Lionel Barrymore , Maureen O'Sullivan , Lewis Stone and Freddie Bartholomew
Death Drives Through , directed by Edward L. Cahn – (GB )
Devdas , directed by and starring Pramathesh Barua – (India )
The Devil Is a Woman , directed by Josef von Sternberg , starring Marlene Dietrich and Cesar Romero
Dinky , directed by D. Ross Lederman and Howard Bretherton , starring Jackie Cooper and Mary Astor
Doubting Thomas , directed by David Butler , starring Will Rogers and Billie Burke
Drake of England , directed by Arthur B. Woods , starring Matheson Lang – (GB )
E-F
The Eleventh Commandment (Jedenácté přikázání) , directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia )
Escapade , directed by Robert Z. Leonard , starring William Powell and Luise Rainer
Escape Me Never , directed by Paul Czinner , starring Elisabeth Bergner – (GB)
Every Night at Eight , directed by Raoul Walsh , starring George Raft and Alice Faye
The Farmer Takes a Wife , directed by Victor Fleming , starring Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda
Foreign Affaires , directed by and starring Tom Walls – (GB )
Four Hours to Kill! , directed by Mitchell Leisen , starring Richard Barthelmess
Frisco Kid , directed by Lloyd Bacon , starring James Cagney , Margaret Lindsay and Ricardo Cortez
Front Page Woman , directed by Michael Curtiz , starring Bette Davis and George Brent
G
G Men , directed by William Keighley , starring James Cagney , Ann Dvorak and Margaret Lindsay
The Ghost Goes West , directed by René Clair , starring Robert Donat , Jean Parker and Eugene Pallette – (GB )
The Gilded Lily , directed by Wesley Ruggles , starring Claudette Colbert , Fred MacMurray and Ray Milland
The Girl from 10th Avenue , directed by Alfred E. Green , starring Bette Davis
The Glass Key , directed by Frank Tuttle , starring George Raft and Edward Arnold
Go Into Your Dance , directed by Archie Mayo , starring Al Jolson , Ruby Keeler and Glenda Farrell
Goin' to Town , directed by Alexander Hall , starring Mae West
Gold Diggers of 1935 , directed by Busby Berkeley , starring Dick Powell , Adolphe Menjou , Gloria Stuart and Glenda Farrell
The Good Fairy , directed by William Wyler , starring Margaret Sullavan , Herbert Marshall and Frank Morgan
The Great Impersonation , directed by Alan Crosland , starring Edmund Lowe
H
Hands Across the Table , directed by Mitchell Leisen , starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
Harmony Lane , directed by Joseph Santley , starring Douglass Montgomery
Home on the Range , directed by Arthur Jacobson , starring Jackie Coogan and Randolph Scott
Hop-Along Cassidy , directed by Howard Bretherton , starring William Boyd
Hyde Park Corner , directed by Sinclair Hill , starring Gordon Harker – (GB )
I-J
I Live My Life , directed by W. S. Van Dyke , starring Joan Crawford and Frank Morgan
I'll Give a Million (Darò un milione) , directed by Mario Camerini , starring Vittorio De Sica – (Italy )
In Old Kentucky , directed by George Marshall , starring Will Rogers
The Informer , directed by John Ford , starring Victor McLaglen
An Inn in Tokyo (Tōkyō no yado) , directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan )
Jánošík , directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia )
L
The Last Days of Pompeii , directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack , starring Preston Foster and Basil Rathbone
Life Begins at 40 , directed by George Marshall , starring Will Rogers
Little Big Shot , directed by Michael Curtiz , starring Glenda Farrell
The Little Colonel , directed by David Butler , starring Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore
Little Mother (Kleine Mutti) , directed by Henry Koster , starring Franciska Gaal – (Austria /Hungary )
The Littlest Rebel , directed by David Butler , starring Shirley Temple
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer , directed by Henry Hathaway , starring Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone
Long Live with Dearly Departed (Ať žije nebožtík) , directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia )
Lucrezia Borgia (Lucrèce Borgia) , directed by Abel Gance , starring Edwige Feuillère – (France )
M
Mad Love (aka The Hands of Orlac ), directed by Karl Freund , starring Peter Lorre
Magnificent Obsession , directed by John M. Stahl , starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor
Man of the Moment , directed by Monty Banks , starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. – (GB )
Man on the Flying Trapeze , directed by Clyde Bruckman , starring W. C. Fields
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo , directed by Stephen Roberts , starring Ronald Colman and Joan Bennett
Men of Action , directed by Alan James , starring Frankie Darro
Midshipman Easy , directed by Carol Reed , starring Hughie Green and Margaret Lockwood – (GB )
A Midsummer Night's Dream , directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle , starring James Cagney , Joe E. Brown , Dick Powell and Olivia de Havilland
The Million Ryo Pot (Tange Sazen Yowa: Hyakuman Ryō no Tsubo) , directed by Sadao Yamanaka – (Japan )
Les Misérables , directed by Richard Boleslawski , starring Fredric March , Charles Laughton and Cedric Hardwicke
Mississippi , directed by A. Edward Sutherland , starring Bing Crosby , W. C. Fields and Joan Bennett
Moscow Nights , directed by Anthony Asquith , starring Laurence Olivier – (GB )
The Murder Man , directed by Tim Whelan , starring Spencer Tracy and Virginia Bruce
Music Hath Charms , directed by Thomas Bentley , starring Henry Hall – (GB )
Mutiny on the Bounty , directed by Frank Lloyd , starring Charles Laughton , Clark Gable and Franchot Tone
The Mystery of Edwin Drood , directed by Stuart Walker , starring Claude Rains
N
Naughty Marietta , directed by Robert Z. Leonard and W. S. Van Dyke , starring Jeanette MacDonald , Nelson Eddy and Frank Morgan
The New Gulliver (Novyy Gullivyer) , directed by Aleksandr Ptushko – (USSR )
New Women (Xīn nǚxìng) , directed by Cai Chusheng , starring Ruan Lingyu – (China )
A Night at the Opera , directed by Sam Wood , starring the Marx Brothers
The Night Is Young , directed by Dudley Murphy , starring Ramon Novarro and Evelyn Laye
No Limit , directed by Monty Banks , starring George Formby – (GB )
No More Ladies , directed by Edward H. Griffith , starring Joan Crawford , Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone
O-P
The Old and the Young King (Der alte und der junge König) , directed by Hans Steinhoff , starring Emil Jannings – (Germany )
Our Little Girl , directed by John S. Robertson , starring Shirley Temple , Joel McCrea and Lyle Talbot
Page Miss Glory , directed by Mervyn LeRoy , starring Marion Davies , Pat O'Brien , Dick Powell and Mary Astor
Party Wire , directed by Erle C. Kenton , starring Jean Arthur and Victor Jory
The Passing of the Third Floor Back , directed by Berthold Viertel , starring Conrad Veidt – (GB )
Peter Ibbetson , directed by Henry Hathaway , starring Gary Cooper , Ann Harding and Ida Lupino
Police Chief Antek (Antek policmajster) , directed by Michał Waszyński , starring Adolf Dymsza – (Poland )
Princess Tam Tam , directed by Edmond T. Gréville , starring Josephine Baker – (France )
Private Worlds , directed by Gregory La Cava , starring Claudette Colbert , Charles Boyer , Joan Bennett and Joel McCrea
Professional Soldier , directed by Tay Garnett , starring Victor McLaglen , Freddie Bartholomew and Gloria Stuart
Public Hero No. 1 , directed by J. Walter Ruben , starring Lionel Barrymore , Jean Arthur and Chester Morris
R
The Raven , directed by Lew Landers , starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi
Reckless , directed by Victor Fleming , starring Jean Harlow , William Powell and Franchot Tone
Red Passport (Passaporto rosso) , directed by Guido Brignone , starring Isa Miranda – (Italy )
Remember Last Night? , directed by James Whale , starring Edward Arnold , Constance Cummings and Robert Young
Rendezvous , directed by William K. Howard , starring William Powell , Rosalind Russell and Cesar Romero
Roberta , directed by William A. Seiter , starring Irene Dunne , Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers and Randolph Scott
Royal Cavalcade , directed by Thomas Bentley , Herbert Brenon , W. P. Kellino , Norman Lee , Walter Summers and Marcel Varnel – (GB )
Ruggles of Red Gap , directed by Leo McCarey , starring Charles Laughton and ZaSu Pitts
S
The Scoundrel , directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur , starring Noël Coward
Scrooge , directed by Henry Edwards , starring Seymour Hicks – (GB )
Shanghai , directed by James Flood , starring Loretta Young , Charles Boyer and Warner Oland
She , directed by Lansing C. Holden and Irving Pichel , starring Helen Gahagan , Randolph Scott and Nigel Bruce
She Couldn't Take It , directed by Tay Garnett , starring George Raft and Joan Bennett
She Married Her Boss , directed by Gregory La Cava , starring Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas
Sheela (Pind Di Kurhi) , directed by K.D. Mehra, starring Noor Jehan – (India )
The Silent Code , directed by Stuart Paton , starring Kane Richmond
So Red the Rose , directed by King Vidor , starring Margaret Sullavan and Randolph Scott
The Soul of the Accordion (El alma de bandoneón) , directed by Mario Soffici , starring Libertad Lamarque – (Argentina )
Special Agent , directed by William Keighley , starring Bette Davis , George Brent and Ricardo Cortez
Splendor , directed by Elliott Nugent , starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
Squibs , directed by Henry Edwards , starring Betty Balfour , Gordon Harker and Stanley Holloway – (GB )
Star of Midnight , directed by Stephen Roberts (director) , starring William Powell and Ginger Rogers
Steamboat Round the Bend , directed by John Ford , starring Will Rogers
T
A Tale of Two Cities , directed by Jack Conway , starring Ronald Colman and Elizabeth Allan
Thanks a Million , directed by Roy Del Ruth , starring Dick Powell and Ann Dvorak
Toni , directed by Jean Renoir – (France )
Top Hat , directed by Mark Sandrich , starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Transatlantic Tunnel , directed by Maurice Elvey , starring Richard Dix and Leslie Banks – (GB )
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes , directed by Leslie S. Hiscott , starring Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming – (GB )
Triumph of the Will , Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl – (Germany )
Tumbling Tumbleweeds , directed by Joseph Kane , starring Gene Autry
Turn of the Tide , directed by Norman Walker , starring John Garrick and Geraldine Fitzgerald – (GB )
V-Y
Villa for Sale (Ez a villa eladó) , directed by Géza von Cziffra – (Hungary )
The Village Squire , directed by Reginald Denham , starring David Horne and Vivien Leigh – (GB )
Waterfront Lady , directed by Joseph Santley , starring Ann Rutherford
The Wedding Night , directed by King Vidor , starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten
Werewolf of London , directed by Stuart Walker , starring Henry Hull and Warner Oland
Westward Ho , directed by Robert N. Bradbury , starring John Wayne
The Whole Town's Talking , directed by John Ford , starring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur
Way Down East , directed by Henry King , starring Rochelle Hudson and Henry Fonda
The Youth of Maxim (Yunost Maksima) , directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg , starring Boris Chirkov – (USSR )
Serials
Comedy film series
Animated short film series
Births
January 2 – John Considine , American writer and actor
January 5 – Gerald R. Molen , American producer and actor
January 6 - Nino Tempo , American musician, singer and actor
January 8 – Elvis Presley , American rock singer and actor (died 1977)
January 9 – Bob Denver , American comic actor (died 2005)
January 22 – Seymour Cassel , American actor (died 2019)
January 28 – Nicholas Pryor , American actor (died 2024)
January 30 – Elsa Martinelli , Italian actress (died 2017)
February 3 - Jeremy Kemp , English actor (died 2019)
February 17 – Christina Pickles , British-American actress
February 25 – Sally Jessy Raphael , American former tabloid talk show host
February 26
March 1 - Robert Conrad , American actor, singer and stuntman (died 2020)
March 11 – Nancy Kovack , American retired actress
March 15 – Judd Hirsch , American actor
March 18
March 19 - Burt Metcalfe , Canadian-American actor (died 2022)
March 22 – M. Emmet Walsh , American character actor and comedian (died 2024)
March 24 - Mary Berry , English television presenter
March 27 – Julian Glover , English actor
April 4 – Kenneth Mars , American actor and voice actor (died 2011 )[ 9]
April 5 – Enrique Álvarez Félix , Mexican actor (died 1996)
April 9
April 10 – Álvaro de Luna , Spanish actor (died 2018)
April 16
April 19 – Dudley Moore , English-born comic actor and musician (died 2002 )[ 10]
April 20 – Mario Camus , Spanish director (died 2021)[ 11]
April 21 – Charles Grodin , American actor (died 2021)[ 12]
April 22 - Mario Machado , Chinese-American actor and broadcaster (died 2013)
April 23 - Franco Citti , Italian actor (died 2016)
April 27
April 29 - Lennie Weinrib , American actor, comedian and writer (died 2006 )
May 2
May 11 – Doug McClure , American actor (died 1995)
May 19 - David Hartman , American television personality and media host
May 25 - George Roubicek , Austrian actor
May 26 – Sheila Steafel , British actress (died 2019)
May 27
May 28 - Anne Reid , English actress
May 30 – Ruta Lee , Canadian-American actress and dancer
June 2 - Roger Brierley , English actor (died 2005)
June 3 - Irma P. Hall , American actress
June 16 – James Bolam , English actor
June 21 - Monte Markham , American actor
June 26 - Edwin Hodgeman , Australian actor
June 27 – Ramon Zamora , Filipino martial arts actor (died 2007)
June 29 - Keith Walker , American writer, producer and actor (died 1996)
July 1 – David Prowse , English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor (died 2020 )[ 15]
July 5 – Christian Doermer , German actor (died 2022)
July 8 - Steve Lawrence , American singer and actor (died 2024)
July 9 - Michael Williams , British actor (died 2001)
July 13 – Gregorio Casal , Mexican actor (died 2018)
July 15
Gianni Garko , Croatian-born Italian actor
Alex Karras , American football player, professional wrestler and actor (died 2012)
July 17
July 22 - Stanley Ralph Ross , American writer and actor (died 2000)
July 25 - Barbara Harris , American actress (died 2018)
July 31 - Geoffrey Lewis , American actor (died 2015)
August 2 – Amidou , Moroccan-French actor (died 2013)
August 3 – Omero Antonutti , Italian actor and voice actor (died 2019 )[ 16]
August 4 - Carol Arthur , American actress (died 2020)
August 5
August 7 – Yoná Magalhães , Brazilian actress (died 2015)
August 8 - Donald P. Bellisario , American television producer and screenwriter
August 12 – John Cazale , American actor (died 1978 )[ 17]
August 15 – Jim Dale , English actor, director and singer
August 16 – Janet Henfrey , British actress
August 23 – Ronald Falk , Australian actor (died 2016 )
August 24 – Lando Buzzanca , Italian actor (died 2022 )
August 28 – Sonny Shroyer , American actor and singer
August 29 – William Friedkin , American director, producer and screenwriter (died 2023 )
August 31 – Rosenda Monteros , Mexican actress (died 2018 )
September 2 – Kenneth Tsang , Hong Kong actor (died 2022 )
September 9
September 21 - Henry Gibson , American actor, singer and songwriter (died 2009)
September 24 – Sean McCann , Canadian actor (died 2019)
September 28 - Ronald Lacey , English actor (died 1991)
September 29 - Mylène Demongeot , French actress (died 2022)
October 1 – Julie Andrews , English-born singer and actress
October 3 – Armen Dzhigarkhanyan , Soviet Russian-Armenian actor (died 2020 )[ 18]
October 4 - Eddie Applegate , American actor (died 2016)
October 18 – Peter Boyle , American actor (died 2006)
October 20 – Jerry Orbach , American actor and singer (died 2004)
October 24 – Rosamaria Murtinho , Brazilian actress
October 27 - Frank Adonis , American actor (died 2018)
November 7
November 8 - Alain Delon , French actor (died 2024)
November 13 - Tom Atkins , American actor
November 21 – Michael Chapman , American cinematographer (died 2020)
November 22 - Michael Callan , American actor (died 2022)
November 24 – Salim Khan , Indian Bollywood screenwriter
November 29
November 30 – Woody Allen , American comedian, director and actor[ 20]
December 2 - Hy Pyke , American character actor (died 2006)
December 5 – Basabi Nandi , Indian actress (died 2018 )
December 8
December 10 – Jaromil Jireš , Czechoslovak director (died 2001 )
December 14
December 18 - Rosemary Leach , British actress (died 2017)
December 21
December 24 - Tommy Dysart , Scottish-born Australian actor (died 2022)
December 28 - William Bassett , American actor
December 30 - Jack Riley , American actor, comedian and writer (died 2016 )
Deaths
January 19 – Lloyd Hamilton , American comedy actor (born 1891 )[ 22]
February 7 – Frederick Warde , English Shakespearean actor (born 1851)
March 8 – Ruan Lingyu , Chinese silent film actress, committed suicide (born 1910)
March 20 - William "Stage" Boyd , American actor, (born 1886)
March 21 - William Conklin , American silent film actor, (born 1872)
March 23 – Florence Moore , American singer and silent film actress (born 1886)
May 4 – Junior Durkin , American actor, in a road accident (born 1915 )[ 23]
May 13 – Clarence Geldart , Canadian-American actor (born 1867 )
August 14 – Léonce Perret , French actor, director and producer (born 1880 )[ 24]
August 15 – Will Rogers , American humorist and actor (born 1879 )[ 25]
August 25 – Mack Swain , American actor (born 1876 )[ 26]
September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson , British film pioneer, cancer (born 1860)
December 16 – Thelma Todd , American actress, carbon monoxide poisoning (born 1906)
Film debuts
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