1922 in film

Events

• June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
• November 26 – The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor.

  Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Notable films released in 1922

• The Bachelor Daddy, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy
• Beauty's Worth, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
• Beyond the Rocks, directed by Sam Wood; starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
• A Bill of Divorcement, directed by Denison Clift, starring Constance Binney, Fay Compton –
• The Blacksmith, a Buster Keaton short
• A Blind Bargain, directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney
• Blood and Sand, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, and Lila Lee
• The Bohemian Girl, Starring Gladys Cooper and Ivor Novello –
• The Bride's Play, directed by George Terwilliger, starring Marion Davies and Carl Miller
• The Burning Soil –
• The Card, directed by A.V. Bramble –
• Clarence, directed by William C. deMille, starring Wallace Reid
• Cocaine, directed by Graham Cutts –
• Cops, a Buster Keaton film
• Crainquebille, directed by Jacques Feyder –
• Daydreams, a Buster Keaton short
• A Debt of Honour, starring Isobel Elsom and Clive Brook
• The Dictator, directed by Jim Cruze; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, directed by Fritz Lang; starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge –
• Dr. Jack, starring Harold Lloyd
• The Electric House, a Buster Keaton short
• Fair Lady, directed by Kenneth Webb
• La Femme de nulle part, directed by Louis Delluc –
• Flames of Passion, starring Mae Marsh and C. Aubrey Smith –
• Flesh and Blood, starring Lon Chaney
• Foolish Wives, directed by & starring Erich von Stroheim
• The Frozen North, starring Buster Keaton
• The Ghost Breaker, directed by Alfred E. Green; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
• A Gipsy Cavalier, directed by J. Stuart Blackton ; starring Georges Carpentier and Flora le Breton –
• Grandma's Boy, starring Harold Lloyd
• The Grass Orphan, directed by Frank Hall Crane; starring Margaret Bannerman, Reginald Owen –
• Häxan, directed by Benjamin Christensen –
• The Headless Horseman, starring Will Rogers
• In the Name of the Law, directed by Emory Johnson, starring Ralph Lewis and Claire McDowell
• Laborer's Love –
• Lorna Doone, directed by Maurice Tourneur
• The Loves of Pharaoh, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Emil Jannings –
• Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Richard Oswald, starring Conrad Veidt and Liane Haid
• Manslaughter, starring Thomas Meighan
• Marizza, directed by F.W. Murnau –
• Moran of the Lady Letty, directed by George Melford, starring Dorothy Dalton & Rudolph Valentino
• More to Be Pitied Than Scorned, directed by Edward LeSaint
• Mud and Sand, a parody of Blood and Sand, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• My Boy, starring Jackie Coogan
• My Wife's Relations, starring Buster Keaton
• Nanook of the North, a documentary directed by Robert J. Flaherty
• Nathan the Wise, directed by Manfred Noa
• Nice People, directed by William C. deMille; starring Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels
• Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Max Schreck –
• Number 13, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; starring Ernest Thesiger –
• Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan
• One Exciting Night, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Carol Dempster and Henry Hull
• One Glorious Day, directed by James Cruze; starring Will Rogers and Lila Lee
• The Paleface, starring Buster Keaton
• Pay Day, a Charles Chaplin short
• Peg o' My Heart, directed by King Vidor
• Phantom, directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover and Lya De Putti –
• Polikushka –
• The Primitive Lover, directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Constance Talmadge
• The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone
• Rent Free, directed by Howard Higgin; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
• Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan; starring Douglas Fairbanks
• Rob Roy, directed by W.P. Kellino
• Saturday Night, starring Leatrice Joy and Conrad Nagel
• The Scarlet Letter, starring Sybil Thorndike –
• Shadows, directed by Tom Forman; starring Lon Chaney and Marguerite De La Motte
• Sherlock Holmes, starring John Barrymore and Roland Young
• Smilin' Through, starring Norma Talmadge
• Sodom and Gomorrah, directed by Michael Curtiz –
• La Souriante Madame Beudet –
• Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep directed by George Pearson; starring Betty Balfour –
• The Suram Fortress –
• Tess of the Storm Country, starring Mary Pickford
• The Three Must-Get-Theres directed by and starring Max Linder
• The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong
• Vaskresenja ne biva bez smrti,, the first Montenegrin movie
• What's Wrong with the Women?, directed by Roy William Neill; starring Constance Bennett & Hedda Hopper
• When Knighthood Was in Flower, starring Marion Davies
• Wildness of Youth, directed by Ivan Abramson
• The Young Diana, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
• The Young Rajah, starring Rudolph Valentino

  Short film series

• Charlie Chaplin
• Buster Keaton
• Laurel and Hardy
• Our Gang

  Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat
• Koko the Clown
• Aesop's Film Fables

  Births

• January 10 – Hannelore Schroth, actress
• January 13 – Albert Lamorisse, director
• January 16 – Irene Vernon, actress
• January 17 – Betty White, actress
• January 19 – Guy Madison, actor
• January 21
• *Telly Savalas, actor
• *Paul Scofield, actor
• January 31 – Joanne Dru, actress
• February 6 – Patrick Macnee, actor
• February 7 – Hattie Jacques, actress
• February 9 – Kathryn Grayson, singer, actress
• February 26 – Margaret Leighton, actress
• March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
• March 8 – Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer
• March 20 – Carl Reiner, comic actor, director and screenwriter
• March 21 – Russ Meyer, director, producer
• April 3 – Doris Day, actress, singer
• April 5 – Gale Storm, singer, actress
• April 15 – Michael Ansara, American stage, screen, and voice actor
• April 18 – Barbara Hale, American actress
• April 27 – Jack Klugman, American actor
• May 2 - Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor and director
• May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress
• May 27 – Christopher Lee, English actor
• May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English-born actor
• June 1 – Joan Caulfield, American actress
• June 9 – George Axelrod, American scriptwriter and director
• June 10 – Judy Garland, American singer, actress
• June 16 – Frances Rafferty, American actress
• June 26 – Eleanor Parker, American actress
• July 6 – William Schallert, American actor,
• July 26 – Blake Edwards, American director
• August 8 – Rory Calhoun, American actor
• September 1
• *Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director
• *Yvonne De Carlo, American actress
• September 8 – Sid Caesar, American comedian, actor
• September 14 – Michel Auclair, European actor
• September 15 – Jackie Cooper, American actor, director
• September 16
• *Guy Hamilton, English director
• *Janis Paige, American actress
• September 23 – Louise Latham, American actress
• September 29 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress
• October 23 – Coleen Gray, American actress
• October 31 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress
• November 9 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer
• November 12 – Kim Hunter, actress
• November 13
• * Madeleine Sherwood, actress
• * Oskar Werner, actor
• November 14 – Veronica Lake, American actress
• November 15 – Francesco Rosi, film director
• December 2
• * Don Fellows, American actor
• * Leo Gordon, actor and screenplay writer
• December 4 – Gérard Philipe, actor
• December 11 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
• December 22
• * Stan Lee, American comic-book writer, producer and actor
• * Ruth Roman, actress
• December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress

  Deaths

• February 1 – William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal.
• February 4 – Florence Deshon, American actress
• March 4 – Bert Williams, American actor and singer
• May 21 – Sidney Ainsworth, actor
• May 26 – Walter Jones, American actor
• June 6 – Lillian Russell, stage and screen actress
• June 15 – Howard Crampton, actor
• July 5 – Bobby Connelly, child star
• September 23 – W. Chrystie Miller, veteran stage & screen actor
• November 30 – René Cresté, actor and director

  Film debuts

• Clara Bow
• Walt Disney – director, producer
• Louise Dresser
• William Haines
• Will Hay
• Edward Everett Horton
• Gene Lockhart
• Anita Louise
• George O'Brien
• William Powell
• Anne Shirley
• Darryl F. Zanuck – director, producer
• Rin Tin Tin