1960 in film

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Top-grossing films by country

Events

• March 5 – For the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood to film G.I. Blues
• June 16 – Premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's landmark film, Psycho in the United States. Controversial since release, it sets new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and is a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre.
• August 10 – Filming of West Side Story begins.
• October 6 & December 16 – Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films Spartacus and Exodus, released in the United States on these dates.
• October 27 – Film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning released, first of the British social-realist wave.
• November 4 – Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, the last film for both.

  Awards

1960 film releases

January–March

• January 1960
• *5 January
• **When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
• *12 January
• **Mrs. Warren's Profession
• *21 January
• **Toby Tyler
• *26 January
• **Two Way Stretch
• *27 January
• **Cash McCall
• *28 January
• **The Lady with the Dog
• February 1960
• *1 February
• **Hell Bent for Leather
• *3 February
• **The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
• *4 February
• **Visit to a Small Planet
• *5 February
• **La Dolce Vita
• *11 February
• **Once More, with Feeling!
• **Sink the Bismarck!
• *16 February
• **Cimarron
• *19 February
• **Devi
• **The Last Voyage
• *24 February
• **The Bramble Bush
• **Kidnapped
• *27 February
• **Cleopatra's Daughter
• **The Hypnotic Eye
• March 1960
• *1 March
• **Comanche Station
• **Heller in Pink Tights
• *2 March
• **Eyes Without a Face
• *3 March
• **Home from the Hill
• *4 March
• **Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
• *5 March
• **The 3rd Voice
• *9 March
• **Can-Can
• *10 March
• **Purple Noon
• *12 March
• **Seven Thieves
• *15 March
• **5 Branded Women
• **The Angry Silence
• *17 March
• **Breathless
• *18 March
• **The Hole
• *23 March
• **The Big Risk
• *31 March
• **Please Don't Eat the Daisies

  April–June

• April 1960
• *2 April
• **Twelve Hours to Kill
• *5 April
• **The League of Gentlemen
• *6 April
• **Tall Story
• **The Unforgiven
• *10 April
• **Hell Is a City
• *13 April
• **Obaltan
• *15 April
• **Who Was That Lady?
• *21 April
• **The Ninth Circle
• May 1960
• *16 May
• **Peeping Tom
• *17 May
• **The Challenge
• *19 May
• **Crack in the Mirror
• **Pollyanna
• *25 May
• **Faust
• *26 May
• **Wild River
• June 1960
• *3 June
• **Cruel Story of Youth
• *7 June
• **Never Let Go
• *9 June
• **Macario
• *15 June
• **The Apartment
• *16 June
• **Psycho
• *17 June
• **The Story of Ruth
• **A Terrible Beauty
• *22 June
• **The Gallant Hours
• **House of Usher
• *23 June
• **Bells Are Ringing
• **The Party Is Over
• **Portrait in Black
• *28 June
• **Murder, Inc.
• *29 June
• **L'Avventura
• **Strangers When We Meet

  July–September

• July 1960
• *7 July
• **The Brides of Dracula
• **Elmer Gantry
• **Inherit the Wind
• *10 July
• **13 Ghosts
• **The Rat Race
• *13 July
• **The Lost World
• *15 July
• **From the Terrace
• **Knights of the Teutonic Order
• *20 July
• **The Bellboy
• *25 July
• **The Entertainer
• *30 July
• **Jigoku
• August 1960
• *5 August
• **Last Woman on Earth
• **Mughal-e-Azam
• **Parakh
• *7 August
• **It Started in Naples
• *9 August
• **Make Mine Mink
• *10 August
• **Jungle Cat
• **Ocean's 11
• *11 August
• **Black Sunday
• **Song Without End
• *14 August
• **Alakazam the Great
• *17 August
• **The Enchanting Shadow
• **The Time Machine
• *20 August
• **College Confidential
• September 1960
• *6 September
• **Rocco and His Brothers
• *8 September
• **Let's Make Love
• *9 September
• **September Storm
• *14 September
• **The Little Shop of Horrors
• *15 September
• **Under Ten Flags
• *16 September
• **High Time
• *19 September
• **The Bad Sleep Well
• *28 September
• **Sunrise at Campobello
• *29 September
• **Surprise Package
• *30 September
• **Hell to Eternity

  October–December

• October 1960
• *1 October
• **Autumn Has Already Started
• **Never on Sunday
• *6 October
• **Spartacus
• *8 October
• **A False Student
• *9 October
• **Night and Fog in Japan
• *12 October
• **The Magnificent Seven
• *13 October
• **Midnight Lace
• *17 October
• **The Devil's Eye
• *18 October
• **The Millionairess
• *24 October
• **The Alamo
• *27 October
• **Everybody Go Home
• *28 October
• **Zazie in the Metro
• *31 October
• **Man in the Moon
• November 1960
• *1 November
• **Her Brother
• **Ten Who Dared
• *3 November
• **El Cochecito
• **Five Cartridges
• **The Housemaid
• *4 November
• **BUtterfield 8
• **G.I. Blues
• *10 November
• **The World of Suzie Wong
• *13 November
• **Late Autumn
• **North to Alaska
• *14 November
• **The Facts of Life
• *16 November
• **Fortunat
• *22 November
• **Cinderfella
• *23 November
• **Go to Hell, Hoodlums!
• **The Naked Island
• December 1960
• *7 December
• **Village of the Damned
• *8 December
• **The Sundowners
• *11 December
• **The Human Vapor
• *12 December
• **The River of Love
• **The Yellow Gloves
• *14 December
• **Esther and the King
• *16 December
• **Exodus
• **The Three Worlds of Gulliver
• *20 December
• **Flaming Star
• **Pepe
• **Tunes of Glory
• **The Wackiest Ship in the Army
• *21 December
• **Swiss Family Robinson
• *23 December
• **The Grass Is Greener
• *28 December
• **Where the Boys Are
• *30 December
• **The Last Witness''

  Notable films released in 1960

#

• The 3rd Voice, directed by Hubert Cornfield, starring Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London
• 5 Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau
• 13 Ghosts, directed by William Castle

  A

• Adua and Friends, starring Simone Signoret –
• Alakazam the Great, an anime film –
• The Alamo, directed by and starring John Wayne, co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone
• Ali Baba Bujang Lapok –
• The Angry Silence, starring Richard Attenborough –
• Anuradha –
• The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edie Adams
• Autumn Has Already Started, directed by Mikio Naruse –
• L'Avventura, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni –

  B

• Bad Luck –
• The Bad Sleep Well, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune –
• Because They're Young, starring Dick Clark
• Beat Girl, starring David Farrar, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Christopher Lee –
• The Bellboy, starring Jerry Lewis
• Bells Are Ringing, starring Dean Martin and Judy Holliday
• Beyond the Time Barrier
• The Big Risk, starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo –
• Black Sunday –
• Les Bonnes Femmes, directed by Claude Chabrol –
• The Bramble Bush, starring Richard Burton and Angie Dickinson
• Breathless, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg –
• The Brides of Dracula, starring Peter Cushing –
• The Broken Pots –
• BUtterfield 8, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey

  C

• Can-Can, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse
• Carry On Constable, starring Sid James and Eric Barker –
• Cash McCall, starring James Garner and Natalie Wood
• The Challenge, a.k.a. It Takes A Thief, starring Jayne Mansfield –
• Cidade Ameaçada –
• Cimarron, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter
• Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti
• Circus of Horrors, starring Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence –
• Cleopatra's Daughter, starring Debra Paget
• The Cloud-Capped Star, directed by Ritwik Ghatak –
• El Cochecito, directed by Marco Ferreri –
• College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Comanche Station, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott
• Come Back, Africa, documentary film –
• Crack in the Mirror, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Juliette Gréco
• The Criminal, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker –
• Cruel Story of Youth, directed by Nagisa Oshima –

  D

• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, starring Dorothy McGuire, Shirley Knight, Robert Preston
• Dentist in the Chair, starring Bob Monkhouse and Kenneth Connor –
• Desire in the Dust, starring Joan Bennett, Martha Hyer, Raymond Burr
• Devi, directed by Satyajit Ray –
• The Devil's Eye, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson –
• La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg –

  E

• Elmer Gantry, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones
• The Enchanting Shadow –
• The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Laurence Olivier –
• Esther and the King, starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan –
• Everybody Go Home, directed by Luigi Comencini –
• Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, John Derek
• Eyes Without a Face, starring Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli –

  F

• The Facts of Life, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
• A False Student –
• Faust –
• Five Cartridges –
• Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden
• Fortunat, starring Bourvil and Michèle Morgan –
• From the Terrace, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ina Balin, George Grizzard, Myrna Loy

  G

• G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse
• The Gallant Hours, a biopic of Admiral "Bull" Halsey starring James Cagney
• Girl of the Night, starring Anne Francis and John Kerr
• Go to Hell, Hoodlums! –
• Goliath and the Dragon
• Goliath II, a Disney animated short
• The Grass Is Greener, starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
• Guns of the Timberland, starring Alan Ladd

  H

• Hell Bent for Leather, starring Audie Murphy and Felicia Farr
• Hell Is a City, starring Stanley Baker –
• Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
• Hell to Eternity, starring Jeffrey Hunter and David Janssen
• Her Brother, directed by Kon Ichikawa –
• High Time, starring Bing Crosby
• Hobbi al-Wahid, starring Omar Sharif –
• The Hole , directed by Jacques Becker –
• Home from the Hill, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
• House of Usher, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price
• The Housemaid –
• The Human Vapor, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• The Hypnotic Eye, starring Jacques Bergerac

  I

• Il Mattatore, directed by Dino Risi –
• I Aim at the Stars, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Curd Jürgens, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala
• Ice Palace, starring Richard Burton, Robert Ryan and Carolyn Jones
• The Iceman Cometh, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Jason Robards, Jr., Myron McCormick, and Robert Redford –
• Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Dick York
• It Started in Naples, starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren

  J

• Jigoku –
• Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai, starring Raj Kapoor –

  K

• Kanoon, starring Ashok Kumar –
• Knights of the Teutonic Order, directed by Aleksander Ford –

  L

• The Lady with the Dog –
• The Last Voyage, starring Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone
• The Last Witness –
• Last Woman on Earth, directed by Roger Corman
• Late Autumn, directed by Yasujirō Ozu –
• The League of Gentlemen, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Jack Hawkins –
• Let's Make Love, starring Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand
• The Little Soldier, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina –
• The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman
• Linda, starring Carol White –
• The Lost World, starring Michael Rennie and Jill St. John
• Love in Simla, starring Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana –

  M

• Macario, directed by Roberto Gavaldón –
• Macumba Love –
• The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz
• Make Mine Mink, starring Terry-Thomas –
• Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas, directed by Fons Rademakers –
• Man in the Moon, starring Kenneth More –
• Manzil, starring Dev Anand –
• Midnight Lace, starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy
• The Millionairess, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers –
• The Mountain Road, starring James Stewart
• Mrs. Warren's Profession, starring Lilli Palmer
• Mughal-e-Azam, starring Dilip Kumar and Madhubala –
• Murder, Inc., starring Peter Falk, Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan

  N

• The Naked Island –
• Never Let Go, directed by John Guillermin, starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars and Adam Faith –
• Never on Sunday, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri –
• Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, starring Patrick Allen and Gwen Watford –
• Night and Fog in Japan, directed by Nagisa Oshima –
• The Ninth Circle –
• North to Alaska, starring John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Capucine, Fabian Forte

  O

• Obaltan –
• Ocean's 11, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson
• Once More, with Feeling!, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner
• Our Last Spring, directed by Michael Cacoyannis –

  P

• Parakh, directed by Bimal Roy –
• The Party Is Over –
• Le Passage du Rhin, starring Charles Aznavour –
• Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell, starring Karl Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer –
• Pepe, starring Cantinflas
• Please Don't Eat the Daisies, starring Doris Day and David Niven
• Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills
• Portrait in Black, starring Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee
• The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, starring Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren
• Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, John Gavin
• The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, starring Cecil Parker and Joyce Grenfell –
• Purple Noon, a.k.a. Blazing Sun, directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon –

  Q

• The Queen of Spades –

  R

• The Rat Race, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Don Rickles
• The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Ray Danton and Karen Steele
• The River of Love, starring Omar Sharif –
• Rocco and His Brothers, directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Alain Delon –
• Romeo, Juliet and Darkness –
• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers –

  S

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts –
• The Savage Innocents, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Anthony Quinn
• Scent of Mystery, starring Denholm Elliott and Elizabeth Taylor
• School for Scoundrels, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas –
• September Storm, starring Joanne Dru
• Sergeant Rutledge, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode
• Seven Days... Seven Nights, starring Jeanne Moreau –
• Seven Thieves, starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins
• Shoot the Pianist, directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour –
• Sink the Bismarck!, starring Kenneth More –
• The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales, starring Arturo de Córdova –
• Song Without End, starring Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Patricia Morison
• Sons and Lovers, directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard –
• Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis
• The Spider's Web, directed by Godfrey Grayson. Based on an Agatha Christie play
• The Story of Ruth, a Biblical drama starring Stuart Whitman and Peggy Wood
• Strangers When We Meet, starring Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs
• Struggle for Eagle Peak –
• The Subterraneans, starring George Peppard
• The Sundowners, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum –
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a.k.a. Season of Passion, starring Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills
• Sunrise at Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson
• Surprise Package, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward
• Swiss Family Robinson, starring John Mills and Dorothy McGuire

  T

• Tall Story, starring Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Ray Walston
• Tarzan the Magnificent, starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine
• A Terrible Beauty, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Mitchum and Anne Heywood
• Testament of Orpheus, directed by Jean Cocteau –
• There Was a Crooked Man, starring Norman Wisdom –
• The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, directed by Fritz Lang –
• The Three Worlds of Gulliver, starring Kerwin Mathews
• The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux
• Too Hot to Handle, starring Jayne Mansfield –
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde, starring Peter Finch –
• The Truth, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Brigitte Bardot –
• Tunes of Glory, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness –
• Twelve Hours to Kill, starring Nico Minardos and Barbara Eden
• Two-Way Stretch, starring Peter Sellers –
• Two Women, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren –

  U

• Under Ten Flags, starring Van Heflin and Charles Laughton
• The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn
• Universe –

  V

• Vice Raid, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley –
• The Virgin Spring, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow –
• Visit to a Small Planet, starring Jerry Lewis

  W

• The Wackiest Ship in the Army, starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson
• Watch Your Stern, starring Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips –
• When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, directed by Mikio Naruse –
• Where the Boys Are, starring George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis
• The White Horse Inn –
• Who Was That Lady?, starring Dean Martin, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
• Wild River, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Montgomery Clift
• The World of Suzie Wong, starring Nancy Kwan and William Holden –

  Y

• The Yellow Gloves –
• The Young One, directed by Luis Buñuel –

  Z

• Zazie dans le Métro, directed by Louis Malle –

  Short film series

• Looney Tunes
• Terrytoons
• Merrie Melodies
• Bugs Bunny
• Yosemite Sam
• Speedy Gonzales

  Births

• January 4 - April Winchell, American actress, voice actress, writer, talk radio host and commentator
• January 9 – Terje Pennie, Estonian actress
• January 12 – Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
• January 13 – Kevin Anderson, American actor
• January 18 – Mark Rylance, English actor
• February 7 – James Spader, American actor
• February 14 – Meg Tilly, Canadian-American actress
• February 18 – Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
• February 20 – Wendee Lee, American voice actress
• February 28 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress
• March 17 – Vicki Lewis, American singer and actress
• March 31 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer
• April 4 – Hugo Weaving, Australian-British actor
• April 14 – Brad Garrett, American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian and professional poker-player
• May 21 – Mohanlal, Indian actor
• May 24 – Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
• May 31 – Chris Elliott, American actor and comedian
• June 17 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor
• July 5 – Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stuntman
• July 11 – Jafar Panahi, Iranian director
• July 14 – Jane Lynch, American actress
• August 7
• *David Duchovny, American actor
• *Rosana Pastor, Spanish actress
• August 10 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• August 16 – Timothy Hutton, American actor
• August 17 – Sean Penn, American actor
• August 29 – Viire Valdma, Estonian actress
• September 9 – Hugh Grant, English actor
• September 10 – Colin Firth, English actor
• September 17 – Frédéric Pierrot, French actor
• October 9 – Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress
• October 18 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
• November 5 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
• November 11 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
• November 18 – Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
• December 3
• *Daryl Hannah, American actress
• *Julianne Moore, American actress
• December 10
• *Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and film director
• *Michael Schoeffling, American actor and model

  Deaths

• January 1 – Margaret Sullavan, 50, American actress, The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm
• January 3 – Victor Sjöström, 80, Swedish film actor and director, The Phantom Carriage, Wild Strawberries
• January 4 – Dudley Nichols, 64, American screenwriter, Bringing Up Baby, Stagecoach
• January 21 – Matt Moore, 72, Irish-American actor, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Coquette
• January 24 – John Miljan, 67, American actor, The Plainsman, Mississippi
• February 3
• *Fred Buscaglione, 38, Italian actor and singer
• *Pierre Watkin, 70, American actor, Pride of the Yankees, The Hunted
• March 19 – Sonya Levien, 71, Russian screenwriter, Oklahoma!, Quo Vadis, Interrupted Melody
• April 5 – Alma Kruger, 90, American actress, His Girl Friday, Saboteur
• April 25 – Hope Emerson, 62, American actress, Caged, Adam's Rib
• May 27 – George Zucco, 74, British actor, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, My Favorite Blonde
• July 15 – Lawrence Tibbett, 63, American singer and actor, The Rogue Song, Under Your Spell
• July 26 – Cedric Gibbons, 67, Irish production designer and art director, An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful
• July 29 – Leonora Corbett, 52, British actress, Love on Wheels, Living Dangerously
• August 10 – Frank Lloyd, 74, Scottish director, Mutiny on the Bounty, Cavalcade
• September 4 – Alfred E. Green, 71, American director, Baby Face, Top Banana
• September 5 – Aku Korhonen, 57, Finnish actor
• September 11 – Edwin Justus Mayer, 63, American screenwriter, To Be or Not to Be, A Royal Scandal
• October 11 – Richard Cromwell, 50, American actor, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Jezebel
• October 15 – Clara Kimball Young, 70, American actress, My Official Wife, Kept Husbands
• November 3 – Paul Willis, 59, American silent-film actor, The Fall of a Nation
• November 5
• *Mack Sennett, 80, Canadian-American producer and director, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tango Tangles
• *Ward Bond, 57, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, The Searchers, Rio Bravo
• November 16 – Clark Gable, 59, American actor, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind
• November 19 – Phyllis Haver, 61, American actress, Chicago, Sal of Singapore
• November 20 – Betty Lawford, 48, British actress, Criminal Lawyer, The Devil Thumbs a Ride
• December 14 – Gregory Ratoff, 67, Russian actor and director, All About Eve, Intermezzo

  Film debuts

• Alan Bates – The Entertainer
• Karen Black – The Prime Time
• Dyan Cannon – The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
• Richard Chamberlain – The Secret of the Purple Reef
• Bruce Dern – Wild River
• Albert Finney – The Entertainer
• Jane Fonda – Tall Story
• Diane Ladd – Murder, Inc.
• Peter O'Toole – Kidnapped
• Robert Redford – Tall Story
• Gian Maria Volonté – Under Ten Flags
• Susannah York – Tunes of Glory