1966 in film

Top-grossing films

North America

Outside North America

Events

• October 19 - Gulf and Western Industries acquire Paramount Pictures.
• November - Seven Arts Productions reach agreement to acquire Warner Bros. for $32 million, later forming a new company Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
• December 15 - Entertainment pioneer Walt Disney, best known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, breakthroughs in the field of animation, filmmaking, theme park design and other achievements, dies at the age of 65. He died while he was producing The Jungle Book, The Happiest Millionaire, and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day; the last three films under his personal supervision.

  Awards

• Best Actor winner in Questa volta parliamo di uomini : Nino Manfredi
• *Nominee in The 10th Victim: Marcello Mastroianni
• *A third nominee was not determined.
• Best Actress winner in La fuga: Giovanna Ralli
• *Nominees in Juliet of the Spirits: Giulietta Masina and in The Mandrake: Rosanna Schiaffino
• Best Supporting Actor winner in I Knew Her Well: Ugo Tognazzi
• *Nominees in The Mandrake: Totò and Romolo Valli
• Best Supporting Actress winner in Juliet of the Spirits: Sandra Milo
• *Nominee in Made in Italy Anna Magnani
• *A third nominee was not determined.
• Best Director winner in I Knew Her Well: Antonio Pietrangeli
• *Nominees in Fists in the Pocket: Marco Bellocchio and in Juliet of the Spirits: Federico Fellini
• Best Foreign Director winner in The Servant: Joseph Losey
• *Nominees in Hamlet : Grigori Kozintsev and in King and Country: Joseph Losey
• Best Screenplay winner in I Knew Her Well: Ettore Scola, Antonio Pietrangeli and Ruggero Maccari
• *Nominees in Fists in the Pocket: Marco Bellocchio and in Sandra: Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
• Best Cinematography, B/W winner in Sandra: Armando Nannuzzi
• Best Cinematography, Color winner in Juliet of the Spirits: Gianni Di Venanzo. In memory of.
• Best Costume Design winner in Juliet of the Spirits: Piero Gherardi
• Best Score winner in Seven Golden Men: Armando Trovajoli
• Best Producer - Short Film winner in Con il cuore fermo Sicilia: Clodio Cinematografica
• Best Short Film winner in Antonio Ligabue, pittore: Raffaele Andreassi
• Best Original Story winner in Fists in the Pocket: Marco Bellocchio
• *Nominees in I Knew Her Well: Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola, Antonio Pietrangeli and in Seven Golden Men: Marco Vicario
• Best Producer winner in Seven Golden Men: Marco Vicario
• *Nominee in Fists in the Pocket: Enzo Doria
• *A third nominee was not determined.
• Best Production Design winner in Juliet of the Spirits: Piero Gherardi.

1966 film releases

January–March

• January 1966
• *5 January
• **7 Women
• *9 January
• **
• *16 January
• **Our Man Flint
• *20 January
• **The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
• February 1966
• *2 February
• **The Rare Breed
• *9 February
• **Made in Paris
• *18 February
• **The Silencers
• *19 February
• **The Chase
• *23 February
• **Harper
• March 1966
• *4 March
• **The Group
• **The Oscar
• *9 March
• **Johnny Reno
• *25 March
• **A Man Could Get Killed
• *30 March
• **Hold On!
• **The Trouble with Angels
• *31 March
• **Frankie and Johnny

  April–June

• April 1966
• *4 April
• **The Singing Nun
• *17 April
• **Gamera vs. Barugon
• May 1966
• *5 May
• **Arabesque
• **Our Man in Marrakesh
• *11 May
• ** The Fat Spy
• *25 May
• **The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
• *31 May
• **A Big Hand for the Little Lady
• June 1966
• *1 June
• **The Daydreamer
• *7 June
• **Fireball 500
• *8 June
• **Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
• *9 June
• **The Glass Bottom Boat
• **Paradise, Hawaiian Style
• *10 June
• **Nevada Smith
• *15 June
• **Assault on a Queen
• **Duel at Diablo
• **Munster, Go Home!
• **Stagecoach
• **The Endless Summer
• *22 June
• **Around the World Under the Sea
• **Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• *29 June
• **A Fine Madness
• **Walk, Don't Run

  July–September

• July 1966
• *7 July
• **Three on a Couch
• *13 July
• **How to Steal a Million
• *14 July
• **Torn Curtain
• *20 July
• **The Wild Angels
• *29 July
• **Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
• *30 July
• **Batman
• *31 July
• **The War of the Gargantuas
• August 1966
• *3 August
• **The Man Called Flintstone
• **This Property Is Condemned
• *5 August
• **'
• *24 August
• **Fantastic Voyage
• *31 August
• **What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
• September 1966
• *1 September
• **Waco
• *15 September
• **Chelsea Girls
• *16 September
• **Fahrenheit 451
• *28 September
• **'

  October–December

• October 1966
• *5 October
• **Seconds
• *10 October
• **Hawaii
• *11 October
• **Mister Buddwing
• *12 October
• **Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
• *16 October
• **A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• *17 October
• **Spinout
• *19 October
• **The Fortune Cookie
• *21 October
• **Way...Way Out
• *23 October
• **Ride in the Whirlwind
• *27 October
• **Texas Across the River
• *28 October
• **An American Dream
• November 1966
• *2 November
• **The Professionals
• *5 November
• **Chappaqua
• *8 November
• **Madame X
• *10 November
• **Penelope
• *18 November
• **Let's Kill Uncle
• December 1966
• *1 December
• **Follow Me, Boys!
• *9 December
• **You're a Big Boy Now
• *12 December
• **Thunderbirds Are Go
• *15 December
• **The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• *17 December
• ** Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
• *20 December
• **Murderers' Row
• **The Sand Pebbles
• *21 December
• **Gambit
• **Grand Prix
• *30 December
• **One Million Years B.C.
• *December 1966
• **Andrei Rublev

  Notable films released in 1966

#

• 7 Women, the last film of John Ford, starring Anne Bancroft, Flora Robson, Margaret Leighton, Mildred Dunnock, Anna Lee

  A

• Aakhri Khat -
• After the Fox, starring Peter Sellers and Victor Mature
• Alfie, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin -
• Alice in Wonderland, a TV film starring John Gielgud, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers -
• Alvarez Kelly, starring William Holden
• An American Dream, starring Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker
• Amrapali, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt -
• Andrei Rublev, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky -
• The Appaloosa, starring Marlon Brando
• Arabesque, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck
• L'armata Brancaleone, directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio Gassman and Gian Maria Volonté -
• Around the World Under the Sea, starring Lloyd Bridges
• Assault on a Queen, starring Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa
• Au Hasard Balthazar, directed by Robert Bresson -
• Aybolit-66 -

  B

• Bariera, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski -
• Batman, starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Lee Meriwether, Frank Gorshin
• The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo - Golden Lion winner -
• Beregis Avtomobilya -
• , directed by John Huston, starring Stephen Boyd, Franco Nero, Ava Gardner, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole
• The Big Gundown, starring Lee Van Cleef -
• A Big Hand for the Little Lady, starring Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy
• The Birds, the Bees and the Italians, directed by Pietro Germi -
• Birds Do It, starring Soupy Sales
• Black Girl, directed by Ousmane Sembène -
• Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave—winner of Palme d'Or, 1967 Cannes Film Festival -
• The Blue Max, starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress -
• Borom Sarret -
• Born Free, starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers -
• Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, starring Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Elke Sommer
• A Bullet for the General, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Klaus Kinski -

  C

• Cairo 30 -
• Carry On Screaming!, starring Harry H. Corbett and Kenneth Williams -
• Chappaqua, featuring William S. Burroughs
• The Chase, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Robert Redford
• Chelsea Girls, directed by Andy Warhol, starring Nico
• Chimes at Midnight, directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Jeanne Moreau, John Gielgud -
• Circus of Fear, starring Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Klaus Kinski-
• Closely Watched Trains -
• Come Drink with Me -
• Cul-de-sac, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorléac - Golden Bear winner -
• Curse of the Swamp Creature, starring John Agar, Francine York
• Cyborg 2087, starring Michael Rennie and Wendell Corey

  D

• Daimajin -
• Daisies -
• ', starring Peter Cushing -
• The Daydreamer, a Rankin-Bass and Embassy Pictures stop motion and live action film
• Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, starring James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Robert Webber, Rose Marie
• The Deadly Affair, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring James Mason -
• Death of a Bureaucrat -
• Destination Inner Space, starring Gary Merrill and Sheree North
• Dimension 5, starring Jeffrey Hunter
• Django, starring Franco Nero -
• Don't Look Now, We're Being Shot At, starring Terry-Thomas and Bourvil -
• Le deuxieme souffle, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura -
• ', starring Christopher Lee -
• Drop Dead Darling, starring Tony Curtis
• Duel at Diablo, starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier
• Dutchman, starring Al Freeman, Jr. and Shirley Knight

  E

• El Dorado, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan
• The Elusive Avengers -
• Eye of the Devil, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Sharon Tate

  F

• The Face of Another -
• Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut, starring Julie Christie and Oskar Werner -
• The Family Way, a Boulting brothers film, starring Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett -
• Fantastic Voyage, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch
• The Fat Spy, starring Phyllis Diller, Jayne Mansfield, Brian Donlevy
• Fighting Elegy, directed by Seijun Suzuki -
• A Fine Madness, starring Sean Connery and Joanne Woodward
• Fireball 500, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Fabian Forte
• Follow Me, Boys!, directed by Norman Tokar, starring Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Kurt Russell
• The Fortune Cookie, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
• Frankie and Johnny, starring Elvis Presley and Donna Douglas
• Funeral in Berlin, starring Michael Caine -
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, directed by Richard Lester, starring Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers, Michael Crawford -

  G

• Gambit, starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine
• Gamera vs. Barugon -
• Georgy Girl, directed by Silvio Narizzano, starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates -
• The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, starring Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Nancy Sinatra
• The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, starring Don Knotts
• The Glass Bottom Boat, starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor
• Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster -
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef-
• Grand Prix, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring James Garner, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune, Eva Marie Saint, Jessica Walter
• The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, starring Frankie Howerd and Dora Bryan -
• The Group, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Candice Bergen, Shirley Knight, Joan Hackett, Joanna Pettet, Jessica Walter
• Gunpoint, starring Audie Murphy, Joan Staley, Warren Stevens

  H

• Harper, starring Paul Newman, Robert Wagner, Lauren Bacall, Pamela Tiffin, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh
• Hawaii, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris
• The Hawks and the Sparrows, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Totò -
• The Hellbenders, starring Joseph Cotten -
• Here Is Your Life -
• Hold On!, starring Peter Noone and Shelley Fabares
• How to Steal a Million, directed by William Wyler, starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
• Hunger -
• The Hunt, directed by Carlos Saura -

  I

• Incompreso, directed by Luigi Comencini -
• Is Paris Burning?, directed by René Clément, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron -
• Island of Terror, starring Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray
• It Happened Here, starring Sebastian Shaw -

  J

• Johnny Reno, starring Jane Russell
• Judith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Finch -

  K

• Kaleidoscope, directed by Jack Smight, starring Warren Beatty -
• Khartoum, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier -
• Kill, Baby, Kill, directed by Mario Bava-
• King of Hearts, directed by Philippe de Broca, starring Alan Bates -
• Kriminal -

  L

• Let's Kill Uncle, directed by William Castle
• Lord Love a Duck, starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld
• Lost Command, directed by Mark Robson, starring Anthony Quinn, George Segal, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
• Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., starring Dick Van Dyke and Nancy Kwan

  M

• Madame X, starring Lana Turner
• Made in Paris, starring Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Chad Everett, Edie Adams
• Made in U.S.A., directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Pierre Léaud -
• Mademoiselle, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Jeanne Moreau -
• Mamta, starring Ashok Kumar -
• A Man and a Woman, directed by Claude Lelouch, starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant -- Palme d'Or winner -
• The Man Called Flintstone, directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna
• A Man for All Seasons, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles - winner of 6 Academy Awards and 5 BAFTAs -
• A Man Could Get Killed, starring James Garner and Sandra Dee
• Masculine-Feminine by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud -
• Mera Saaya, starring Sunil Dutt and Sadhana -
• Mission to Death
• Mister Buddwing, directed by Delbert Mann, starring James Garner, Jean Simmons, Angela Lansbury, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross
• Modesty Blaise, starring Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp -
• Moment to Moment, starring Jean Seberg and Honor Blackman
• Morgan!, directed by Karel Reisz -
• Munster, Go Home!, starring Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis
• Murderers' Row, starring Dean Martin, with Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, Ann-Margret

  N

• Navajo Joe, starring Burt Reynolds -
• Nayak, directed by Satyajit Ray -
• Nevada Smith, starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Suzanne Pleshette, Arthur Kennedy
• Nobody Wanted to Die -
• Not with My Wife, You Don't!, starring Tony Curtis, George C. Scott, Virna Lisi
• The Nun, directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Anna Karina -

  O

• Once Before I Die, starring Ursula Andress and John Derek
• One Million Years B.C., starring Raquel Welch -
• Operazione San Gennaro, starring Nino Manfredi and Senta Berger -
• The Oscar, starring Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Jill St. John, Tony Bennett
• Our Man Flint, starring James Coburn
• Our Man in Marrakesh, a.k.a. Bang! Bang! You're Dead!, starring Tony Randall

  P

• Paradise, Hawaiian Style, starring Elvis Presley
• Penelope, starring Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Dick Shawn, Jonathan Winters, Ian Bannen, Arlene Golonka
• Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud -
• Persona, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann -
• Pharaoh -
• Phool Aur Patthar, starring Dharmendra -
• Picture Mommy Dead, starring Don Ameche and Zsa Zsa Gabor
• The Plague of the Zombies, starring André Morell -
• The Plainsman, starring Don Murray, Abby Dalton, Leslie Nielsen
• The Poppy Is Also a Flower, directed by Terence Young, starring Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Rita Hayworth, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson
• The Pornographers, directed by Shōhei Imamura -
• The Priest and the Girl -
• The Professionals, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
• The Projected Man, starring Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday and Ronald Allen-

  Q

• Queen of Blood, starring John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper
• The Quiller Memorandum, starring George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger -

  R

• Rage, starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens
• The Rare Breed, starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills
• A Report on the Party and the Guests, directed by Jan Němec -
• The Reptile, starring Noel Willman, Ray Barrett, Jennifer Daniel-
• Return of the Seven, starring Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Claude Akins, Warren Oates
• Ride in the Whirlwind, directed by Monte Hellman, starring Jack Nicholson and Millie Perkins
• Roman Candles, directed by John Waters
• Rondo -
• Run, Appaloosa, Run, starring Rex Allen
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Alan Arkin, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint

  S

• The Sand Pebbles, directed by Robert Wise, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, Richard Crenna
• The Sandwich Man, starring Michael Bentine and Dora Bryan -
• Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Rock Hudson
• The She Beast, starring Barbara Steele, John Karlsen, Ian Ogilvy
• Shiroi Kyotō -
• The Shooting, starring Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins
• Sri Krishna Pandaveeyam, directed by and starring N. T. Rama Rao -
• The Silencers, starring Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Kovack
• The Singing Nun, starring Debbie Reynolds and Greer Garson
• Sound of Horror, starring James Philbrook, Arturo Fernandez, Soledad Miranda
• Spinout, starring Elvis Presley
• Stagecoach, starring Ann-Margret, Bing Crosby, Red Buttons, Alex Cord, Mike Connors, Stefanie Powers
• Suraj, starring Vyjayanthimala and Rajendra Kumar -
• The Swinger, starring Ann-Margret, Tony Franciosa, Yvonne Romain
• The Sword of Doom -

  T

• Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, starring Mike Henry and Nancy Kovack
• Teesri Kasam, starring Raj Kapoor -
• Texas Across the River, starring Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth, Peter Graves, Joey Bishop
• They're a Weird Mob, directed by Powell and Pressburger -
• This Property Is Condemned, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid
• Three on a Couch, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, with Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Mary Ann Mobley
• Thunderbirds Are Go, produced by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson, voices of Peter Dyneley, Shane Rimmer, Matt Zimmerman, David Graham, Christine Finn, Sylvia Anderson, Jeremy Wilkin, Ray Barrett
• Tokyo Drifter, directed by Seijun Suzuki -
• Torn Curtain, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews
• Trace of Stones -
• The Trap, starring Rita Tushingham and Oliver Reed -
• Triple Cross, starring Christopher Plummer, Claudine Auger, Gert Fröbe -
• The Trouble with Angels, directed by Ida Lupino, starring Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills
• Trunk to Cairo, directed by Menahem Golan, starring Audie Murphy -

  U

• The Ugly Dachshund
• Ukamau -

  W

• Waco, starring Jane Russell and Howard Keel
• Walk, Don't Run, starring Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton
• The War Is Over, directed by Alain Resnais, starring Yves Montand and Ingrid Thulin -
• The War of the Gargantuas -
• Way...Way Out, starring Jerry Lewis and Connie Stevens
• What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, directed by Blake Edwards, starring James Coburn and Dick Shawn
• Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? -
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Elizabeth Taylor,, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
• The Wild Angels, starring Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra
• Wings, directed by Larisa Shepitko -
• Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
• The Witches, starring Joan Fontaine
• The Wrong Box, starring John Mills, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Nanette Newman -

  Y

• Yesterday Girl, directed by Alexander Kluge -
• Young Törless, directed by Volker Schlöndorff -
• You're a Big Boy Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Peter Kastner, Elizabeth Hartman, Karen Black, Julie Harris

  Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes
• Merrie Melodies
• Sylvester the Cat
• Speedy Gonzales
• Daffy Duck

  Births

• January 13 - Patrick Dempsey, American actor
• January 20 – Rainn Wilson, American actor, comedian, writer, director, businessman and producer
• February 4 - Piret Kalda, Estonian actress
• February 24 - Billy Zane, American actor
• February 25 - Téa Leoni, American actress
• March 26 - Michael Imperioli, American actor
• April 8 - Robin Wright, American actress
• April 9 - Cynthia Nixon, American actress
• May 10 - Ilian Djevelekov, Bulgarian film director and producer
• May 12 - Stephen Baldwin, American actor
• May 26 - Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
• June 22 - Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
• June 28
• * John Cusack, American actor, brother of actress Joan Cusack
• * Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
• July 7 - Jim Gaffigan, American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer
• July 9 - Pamela Adlon, American actress, voice actress, screenwriter, producer and director
• July 10 - A. O. Scott, American film critic of The New York Times
• July 11 - Debbe Dunning, American actress
• July 15 - Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
• August 14 - Halle Berry, American actress
• September 2 - Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
• September 7 - Toby Jones, English actor
• September 9 - Adam Sandler, American actor
• October 16 - Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress
• October 19 - Jon Favreau, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
• October 28 – Andy Richter, American actor, voice actor, writer, comedian and late night talk show announcer
• November 2 – David Schwimmer, American actor, director and producer
• November 6 - Peter DeLuise, American actor
• November 17 - Sophie Marceau, French actress and director
• November 22 - Michael Kenneth Williams, American actor
• November 23 - Vincent Cassel, French actor
• December 6 - Fred Armisen, American actor and comedian
• December 7 - C. Thomas Howell, American actor
• December 12 - Lydia Zimmermann, Spanish filmmaker
• December 21 - Kiefer Sutherland, American actor
• December 24 - Diedrich Bader, American actor and voice actor

  Deaths

• January 3 - Rex Lease, 62, American actor, Rough Riding Ranger, Borrowed Wives
• January 17 - Vincent J. Donehue, 50, American director, Lonelyhearts, Sunrise at Campobello
• January 22 - Herbert Marshall, 75, British actor, The Letter, The Little Foxes
• January 31 - Elizabeth Patterson, 90, American actress, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Remember the Night
• February 1
• *Buster Keaton, 70, American actor and director, The General, Sherlock Jr.
• * Hedda Hopper, 80, American gossip columnist and actress, Sunset Boulevard, Topper
• February 9 - Sophie Tucker, 82, Russian-born American singer and actress, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry, Broadway Melody of 1938
• February 18 - Robert Rossen, 57, American writer and director, The Hustler, All the King's Men
• February 19 - James Edward Grant, 60, American writer and director, Angel and the Badman, The Alamo
• February 26 - Mientje Kling, 71, Dutch actress, The Devil in Amsterdam
• March 3
• * William Frawley, 79, American actor, Miracle on 34th Street, The Lemon Drop Kid
• * Alice Pearce, 48, American actress, On the Town, The Disorderly Orderly
• March 12 - Estelita Rodriguez, 34, Cuban actress, Tropical Heat Wave, Rio Bravo
• March 26 - Cyril Hume, 66, American screenwriter, The Great Gatsby, Forbidden Planet
• April 6
• * Julia Faye, 73, American actress, Chicago, The Ten Commandments
• * Edna Flugrath, 73, American silent-film actress, The Derby Winner, The Pursuit of Pamela
• April 16 - Marjie Millar, 34, American actress, Money from Home, About Mrs. Leslie
• June 5 - Natacha Rambova, 69, American actress, Salome, Monsieur Beaucaire
• June 11 - Wallace Ford, 68, British-born American actor, Another Face, 3 Ring Circus
• June 19 - Ed Wynn, 79, American actor, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins
• July 5 - John P. Fulton, 63, American special effects supervisor, The Ten Commandments
• July 6 - Anne Nagel, 50, American actress, Under the Big Top, My Little Chickadee
• July 23
• * Douglass Montgomery, 59, American actor, Little Women, Waterloo Bridge
• * Montgomery Clift, 45, American actor, From Here to Eternity, A Place in the Sun
• August 3 - Lenny Bruce, 40, American satirist
• August 15
• *Jan Kiepura, 64, Polish tenor and actor, My Song for You
• *Seena Owen, 71, American actress, Queen Kelly, Victory
• August 23 - Francis X. Bushman, 83, American actor, Ben-Hur, The Phantom Planet
• August 25 - Lance Comfort, 58, British director, Penn of Pennsylvania, Eight O'Clock Walk
• August 26 - Art Baker, 68, American actor, Cover Up, The Farmer's Daughter
• September 14 - Nikolai Cherkasov, 63, Soviet actor, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan The Terrible, Part II
• September 22 - Jules Furthman, 78, American screenwriter, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not
• October 13 - Clifton Webb, 76, American actor, Laura, The Man Who Never Was
• October 16 - George O'Hara, 67, American actor and writer, Side Street, The Grapes of Wrath
• October 23
• *Eugenio Bava, 80, Italian cinematographer, Cabiria, Quo Vadis
• *Claire McDowell, 88, American actress, The Mark of Zorro, Ben-Hur
• October 24 - Hans Dreier, 81, German art director of European and American films, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity
• November 3 - Byron Barr, 49, American actor, Double Indemnity, Pitfall
• November 9 - James V. Kern, 57, American screenwriter and director, Never Say Goodbye, Two Tickets to Broadway
• December 14
• *Emma Dunn, 91, British actress, Mother, Life with Father
• *Verna Felton, 76, American actress and voice actress, Picnic, Cinderella
• *Richard Whorf, 60, American actor and director, Christmas Holiday, Yankee Doodle Dandy
• December 15 - Walt Disney, 65, American producer, cartoonist and studio executive, Steamboat Willie, Cinderella, Fantasia
• December 19 - Betty Kuuskemaa, 87, Estonian actress, Elu tsitadellis, Pöördel
• December 22
• *Harry Beaumont, 78, American director, The Broadway Melody, Enchanted April
• *Robert Keith, 68, American actor, The Lineup, Written on the Wind

  Debuts

• Candice Bergen - The Group
• Michael Douglas - Cast a Giant Shadow
• Harrison Ford - Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
• Bette Midler - Hawaii
• Helen Mirren - Press for Time
• Johnny Whitaker - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming