1906 in film

Events

• December 26 – The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is released.
• Carl Laemmle opens one of the first movie theaters in Chicago.

  Films released in 1906

• Aladdin, of the Marvelous Lamp, directed by Ferdinand Zecca
• The Automobile Thieves, directed by J. Stuart Blackton
• The Cabby's Dream, directed by Charles Raymond
• The Convict Guardian's Nightmare
• Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, directed by Edwin S. Porter
• Esmeralda, directed by Alice Guy Blanche and Victorin Jasset, based on the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris
• The Gans-Nelson Contest
• The Hilarious Poster, directed by Georges Méliès
• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, directed by J. Stuart Blackton
• A Lively Quarter-Day, directed by J.H. Martin
• Magic Rose, directed by Segundo de Chomón
• Mephisto's Son, directed by Charles-Lucien Lepine, French
• The Merry Frolics of Satan, directed by Georges Méliès
• The Mysterious Retort, directed by Georges Méliès
• The '?' Motorist, directed by Walter R. Booth
• The Rajah's Casket
• San Francisco: Aftermath Of Earthquake, directed by Robert K. Bonine
• The Scheming Gambler's Paradise, directed by Georges Méliès
• A Spiritualistic Meeting, directed by George Melies
• The Story of the Kelly Gang, directed by Charles Tait. First feature film to tell a story in cinema.
• Three American Beauties, directed by Edwin S. Porter
• A Trip Down Market Street, directed by the Miles Brothers
• A Visit To Peek Frean and Co's Biscuit Works
• Whitsuntide Fair At Preston, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• A Winter Straw Ride, directed by Edwin S. Porter
• The Witch, directed by George Melies
• The Witch's Cave, directed by Segundo de Chomon
• Solser en Hesse, directed by M.H. Laddé

  Births

• January 14 – William Bendix, actor
• February 5 – John Carradine, actor
• February 7 – Colette Darfeuil, actress
• February 10 – Lon Chaney, Jr., actor
• February 17 – Mary Brian, actress
• February 21 – Jeanne Aubert, actress, singer
• February 26 – Madeleine Carroll, actress
• March 1 – Camilla Spira, actress
• March 6 – Lou Costello, comedian, actor
• March 19 – Roy Roberts, actor
• April 22 – Eddie Albert, actor
• April 26 – Renate Müller, actress
• May 1 – Josephine Dunn, actress
• May 3 – Mary Astor, actress
• May 8 – Roberto Rossellini, film director
• May 19 – Bruce Bennett, actor
• May 21 – Lola Lane, singer, actress
• May 30 – Lyda Roberti, actress
• June 4 – Vinton Hayworth, American actor, playwright and screenwriter
• June 22 – Billy Wilder, director, screenwriter
• June 26 – Alberto Rabagliati, singer, actor
• July 3 – George Sanders, actor
• August 5
• *Joan Hickson, actress
• *John Huston, director, actor
• August 9 – Dorothy Jordan, actress
• August 29 – Lurene Tuttle, actress
• August 30 – Joan Blondell, actress
• September 4 – Dita Parlo, actress
• September 15 – Jacques Becker, director
• October 6 – Janet Gaynor, actress
• November 2 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director
• November 14 – Louise Brooks, actress
• December 6 – Onest Conley, actor
• December 25 – Lew Grade, producer
• December 27 – Oscar Levant, composer, screenwriter, actor
• December 30 – Carol Reed, director

  Deaths

• May 23 – Henrik Ibsen, author
• July 18 – Gaynor Rowlands,

  Debuts

• Florence Lawrence – The Automobile Thieves
• Gabrielle Robinne – The Troubadour