1968 in film

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Events

• November 1 – The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.

  Awards

Films released

January–March

• January 1968
• *January 8
• **Wild 90
• *January 12
• **Nobody's Perfect
• *January 17
• **The Biggest Bundle of Them All
• *January 24
• **
• **Firecreek
• February 1968
• *February 7
• **Sol Madrid
• *February 8
• **Blackbeard's Ghost
• *February 21
• **Bye Bye Braverman
• *February 29
• **The Secret War of Harry Frigg
• March 1968
• *March 1
• **Day of the Evil Gun
• *March 8
• **Stay Away, Joe
• *March 13
• **Counterpoint
• *March 18
• **The Producers
• *March 20
• **No Way to Treat a Lady
• *March 21
• **The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
• *March 29
• **Madigan

  April–June

• April 1968
• *April 2
• **The Scalphunters
• *April 3
• **
• **Planet of the Apes
• *April 4
• **The Party
• *April 10
• **Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
• **Will Penny
• *April 24
• **Yours, Mine and Ours
• May 1968
• *May 2
• **The Odd Couple
• *May 10
• **Blue
• *May 15
• **The Devil's Brigade
• **The Swimmer
• **Witchfinder General
• *May 23
• **Prudence and the Pill
• *May 28
• **The Detective
• *May 29
• **Villa Rides
• **Wild in the Streets
• June 1968
• *June 1
• **Bandolero!
• *June 5
• **For Singles Only
• **Jigsaw
• *June 10
• **Petulia
• *June 12
• **Rosemary's Baby
• **Speedway
• **The Sweet Ride
• *June 19
• **The Green Berets
• **The Thomas Crown Affair
• **The Lost Continent
• *June 25
• **The Secret Life of an American Wife
• *June 26
• **Never a Dull Moment

  July–September

• July 1968
• * July 3
• ** Dark of the Sun
• *July 12
• **Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
• **A Lovely Way to Die
• *July 17
• **For Love of Ivy
• *July 19
• **Inspector Clouseau
• *July 24
• **Anzio
• *July 31
• **5 Card Stud
• **Asterix the Gaul
• **The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• August 1968
• *August 1
• **Destroy All Monsters
• *August 3
• **Hang 'Em High
• *August 7
• **With Six You Get Eggroll
• *August 15
• **Targets
• *August 24
• **A Stranger in Town
• *August 26
• **Rachel, Rachel
• September 1968
• *September 18
• **Funny Girl
• **Pretty Poison
• *September 19
• **Hot Millions
• *September 22
• **Psych-Out
• *September 23
• **Charly
• *September 26
• **Oliver!

  October–December

• October 1968
• *October 1
• **Night of the Living Dead
• *October 2
• **Coogan's Bluff
• *October 7
• **I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
• *October 9
• **Finian's Rainbow
• *October 10
• **Barbarella
• *October 13
• **The Subject Was Roses
• *October 16
• **The Boston Strangler
• *October 17
• **Bullitt
• *October 22
• **Vixen!
• *October 23
• **Live a Little, Love a Little
• *October 24
• **Ice Station Zebra
• *October 30
• **The Lion in Winter
• November 1968
• *November 6
• **Head
• *November 13
• **Yellow Submarine
• *November 15
• **The Shoes of the Fisherman
• *November 16
• **The Legend of Lylah Clare
• *November 20
• **Lady in Cement
• *November 24
• **Faces
• *November 27
• **Hellfighters
• *November 30
• **The Shakiest Gun in the West
• December 1968
• *December 12
• **The Killing of Sister George
• *December 16
• **Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• *December 18
• **Hell in the Pacific
• **The Night They Raided Minsky's
• *December 19
• **Skidoo
• *December 20
• **The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
• **Three in the Attic
• *December 21
• **Once Upon a Time in the West
• *December 25
• **The Sergeant
• **The Stalking Moon

  Notable Films Released in 1968

#

• 5 Card Stud, starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens
• ', a documentary directed by Joris Ivens –
• ', directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood –

  A

• Aadmi, starring Dilip Kumar –
• Aankhen –
• Ace High, starring Eli Wallach –
• Adieu l'ami, starring Alain Delon and Charles Bronson –
• All My Compatriots –
• The Amorous Ones –
• The Anniversary, starring Bette Davis –
• Anzio, starring Robert Mitchum, Earl Holliman, Peter Falk
• Artists Under the Big Top, Golden Lion winner –
• Assignment to Kill, starring Patrick O'Neal and Joan Hackett
• Asterix and Cleopatra –

  B

• Baby Love, starring Linda Hayden and Keith Barron–
• Bandits in Milan, starring Gian Maria Volonté –
• Bandolero!, starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Will Geer
• Barbarella, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda –
• Be Sick... It's Free, starring Alberto Sordi –
• Berserk!, starring Joan Crawford and Diana Dors –
• Les Biches, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean-Louis Trintignant –
• The Biggest Bundle of Them All, starring Raquel Welch and Edward G. Robinson
• The Birthday Party, directed by William Friedkin, starring Robert Shaw –
• Black Jesus, starring Woody Strode –
• Blackbeard's Ghost, starring Dean Jones, Peter Ustinov, Suzanne Pleshette
• Blue, starring Terence Stamp, Joanna Pettet, Karl Malden, and Ricardo Montalbán
• The Bofors Gun, starring Nicol Williamson and Ian Holm –
• Boom!, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton –
• The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda
• The Bride Wore Black, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Bouquet –
• Brilliantovaya ruka – a hugely popular Russian comedy –
• The Brotherhood, starring Kirk Douglas
• Bullitt, directed by Peter Yates, starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn
• Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, starring Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas
• Bye Bye Braverman, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Joseph Wiseman

  C

• Candy, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Ringo Starr –
• Capricious Summer, directed by Jiří Menzel –
• Carry On... Up the Khyber, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams –
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave –
• Charly, starring Cliff Robertson
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, starring Dick Van Dyke –
• The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach –
• Colonel Wolodyjowski, directed by Jerzy Hoffman –
• Coogan's Bluff, directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud
• Counterpoint, starring Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Leslie Nielsen
• Curse of the Crimson Altar, starring Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff –

  D

• , starring John Phillip Law and Michel Piccoli –
• Dark of the Sun, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux –
• Day of the Evil Gun, starring Glenn Ford
• Dead Season –
• Deadfall, starring Michael Caine –
• Death by Hanging, directed by Nagisa Oshima –
• Destroy All Monsters, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• The Detective, starring Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom, Robert Duvall
• The Devil Rides Out, starring Christopher Lee and Charles Gray –
• The Devil's Brigade, starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
• The Doll, directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has –
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis
• Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, starring Christopher Lee –
• Duniya, starring Dev Anand and Vyjayanthimala –

  E

• L'Enfance Nue, directed by Maurice Pialat –
• Eve, starring Robert Walker Jr., Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom
• Even the Wind is Frightened –

  F

• Faces, directed by John Cassavetes
• Fando y Lis –
• Finian's Rainbow, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Al Freeman Jr.
• Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes, directed by Alexander Rou, starring Natalya Sedykh and Georgy Millyar –
• Firecreek, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gary Lockwood, Jack Elam, James Best, Inger Stevens
• The Fixer, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde –
• For Love of Ivy, starring Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Robert Duvall
• For Singles Only, starring John Saxon, Mary Ann Mobley, Milton Berle
• Funny Girl, directed by William Wyler, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif

  G

• Il giorno della civetta, starring Claudia Cardinale and Franco Nero –
• The Girl on a Motorcycle, starring Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull –
• The Girl with the Pistol, starring Monica Vitti and Stanley Baker –
• Great Catherine, starring Peter O'Toole and Jeanne Moreau
• The Great Silence, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski –
• The Green Berets, directed by and starring John Wayne, with Jim Hutton, David Janssen
• Greetings, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Robert De Niro
• Guns for San Sebastian, starring Anthony Quinn, Charles Bronson and Anjanette Comer

  H

• Hammerhead, starring Vince Edwards and Diana Dors
• Hang 'Em High, directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood, Pat Hingle, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern
• Hatsukoi Jigokuhen –
• Head, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring The Monkees
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, starring Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke
• Hell in the Pacific, directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune
• Hellfighters, starring John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton
• High School, directed by Frederick Wiseman
• The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, starring Dean Jones
• Hot Millions, starring Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith
• Hour of the Wolf, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann –
• House of Cards, starring George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles
• How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, starring Dean Martin and Stella Stevens
• How Sweet It Is!, starring James Garner and Debbie Reynolds

  I

• I Am Curious –
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, starring Peter Sellers
• Ice Station Zebra, directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine
• If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell – Palme d'Or winner –
• The Immortal Story, directed by and starring Orson Welles –
• In Enemy Country, starring Anthony Franciosa
• Inspector Clouseau, starring Alan Arkin –
• Interlude, starring Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Donald Sutherland
• Isabel, starring Geneviève Bujold –
• Isadora, a.k.a. The Loves of Isadora, a biopic of Isadora Duncan, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, James Fox –
• It Rains in My Village, starring Annie Girardot –

  J

• Je t'aime, je t'aime, directed by Alain Resnais –
• Jigsaw, starring Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman and Hope Lange
• Joanna, starring Geneviève Waïte

  K

• Kill! –
• Killers Three, starring Dick Clark and Merle Haggard
• The Killing of Sister George, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Beryl Reid, Susannah York and Coral Browne
• King of Hearts – directed by Mohammad Ali Fardin
• Kona Coast, starring Vera Miles and Richard Boone
• Kuroneko'' –

  L

• Lady in Cement, starring Frank Sinatra, Dan Blocker, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan
• The Last of the Mohicans –
• The Legend of Lylah Clare, starring Kim Novak and Peter Finch
• El Libro de piedra –
• The Lion in Winter, starring Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn –
• The Little Golden Calf –
• Live a Little, Love a Little, starring Elvis Presley and Michele Carey
• The Love Bug, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Dean Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett
• A Lovely Way to Die, starring Kirk Douglas and Sylva Koscina
• Lucía –

  M

• Madigan, directed by Don Siegel, starring Richard Widmark, Inger Stevens, Henry Fonda, James Whitmore, Susan Clark
• The Magus, starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn and Candice Bergen –
• The Man Who Lies, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant –
• Mandabi, directed by Ousmane Sembène –
• Matthew's Days –
• Mayerling, starring Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve –
• Memories of Underdevelopment –
• Mera Naam Joker, directed by and starring Raj Kapoor –
• The Mercenary, also known as A Professional Gun, starring Franco Nero and Jack Palance –
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Hall, starring Derek Godfrey, Ian Holm, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren –
• A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die, starring Alex Cord, Arthur Kennedy, Robert Ryan –
• The Money Jungle, starring Lola Albright and Leslie Parrish
• Monterey Pop, a concert film by D. A. Pennebaker, featuring Simon & Garfunkel, The Mamas & the Papas, Jimi Hendrix and others
• More Dead Than Alive, starring Clint Walker and Anne Francis
• Murder a la Mod, directed by Brian De Palma

  N

• Neel Kamal –
• Negatives, starring Peter McEnery, Glenda Jackson and Diane Cilento–
• Never a Dull Moment, starring Dick Van Dyke, Dorothy Provine, Edward G. Robinson
• The Night of the Following Day, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno
• Night of the Living Dead, first in the zombie trilogy by George A. Romero
• The Night They Raided Minsky's, directed by William Friedkin, starring Jason Robards
• Nobody's Perfect, starring Doug McClure
• No Way to Treat a Lady, starring Rod Steiger, George Segal, Lee Remick
• Las Noches del Hombre Lobo –

  O

• The Odd Couple, directed by Gene Saks, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
• Ole dole doff, directed by Jan Troell – Golden Bear winner –
• Oliver!, directed by Carol Reed, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Mark Lester – winner of six Academy Awards –
• Once Upon a Time in the West, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards –
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, starring Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Kurt Russell, Wally Cox, Lesley Ann Warren
• One Plus One, a docudrama directed by Jean-Luc Godard, featuring The Rolling Stones –

  P

• Padosan, starring Sunil Dutt –
• Palo y hueso –
• The Party, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet
• Performance, directed by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell, starring Mick Jagger and James Fox –
• Petulia, starring Julie Christie and George C. Scott
• The Pink Jungle, starring James Garner
• P.J., starring George Peppard, Gayle Hunnicutt, Raymond Burr, Susan Saint James
• A Place for Lovers, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Faye Dunaway
• Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
• The Power, starring George Hamilton
• Pretty Poison, starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins
• The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, starring Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller
• The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
• The Prophet, directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Ann-Margret –
• The Profound Desire of the Gods, directed by Shohei Imamura –
• Prudence and the Pill, starring Deborah Kerr and David Niven –
• Psych-Out, directed by Richard Rush, starring Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson

  R

• Rachel, Rachel, directed by Paul Newman and starring Joanne Woodward
• Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey –
• Rosemary's Baby, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes

  S

• Saathi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar and Simi Garewal –
• Salt and Pepper, directed by Richard Donner, starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford –
• The Scalphunters, starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Telly Savalas
• The Sea Gull, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Simone Signoret –
• Sebastian, starring Dirk Bogarde and Susannah York –
• Secret Ceremony, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum
• The Secret Life of an American Wife, starring Walter Matthau
• The Secret War of Harry Frigg, starring Paul Newman
• The Sergeant, starring Rod Steiger and John Phillip Law
• Sergeant Ryker, starring Lee Marvin and Vera Miles
• The Shakiest Gun in the West, starring Don Knotts and Barbara Rhoades
• Shalako, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot –
• Shame, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow – *
• The Shoes of the Fisherman, starring Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Oskar Werner, Leo McKern, David Janssen, Barbara Jefford
• Signs of Life, directed by Werner Herzog –
• Single Room Furnished, starring Jayne Mansfield in her final film
• Skidoo, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing and, in his final film, Groucho Marx
• Sol Madrid, starring David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn
• Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell – –
• Speedway, starring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra
• Spider Baby, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• Spirits of the Dead, directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda –
• The Split, starring Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Julie Harris
• The Stalking Moon, starring Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint
• Star!, starring Julie Andrews
• Stay Away, Joe, starring Elvis Presley
• Stolen Kisses, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Delphine Seyrig –
• The Strange Affair, starring Susan George –
• The Subject was Roses, starring Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
• Sunghursh, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala –
• The Swedish Kings, directed by Lyudmil Kirkov, starring Kiril Gospodinov –
• The Sweet Ride, starring Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset
• The Swimmer, starring Burt Lancaster

  T

• Targets, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Boris Karloff
• Teorema, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Silvana Mangano and Terence Stamp –
• Tevye and His Seven Daughters, directed by Menahem Golan –
• They Came to Rob Las Vegas, starring Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance
• The Thomas Crown Affair, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway
• Three in the Attic, starring Christopher Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett
• A Twist of Sand, starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman –
• Twisted Nerve, starring Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills –

  U

• The Unfaithful Wife, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran –
• Up the Junction, starring Dennis Waterman and Suzy Kendall –

  V

• Villa Rides, starring Yul Brynner and Robert Mitchum
• Vixen!, directed by Russ Meyer

  W

• What's So Bad About Feeling Good?, starring George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore
• Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, starring Rosalind Russell
• Where Eagles Dare, directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood –
• The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, starring Elke Sommer and Bob Crane
• Wild 90, directed by and starring Norman Mailer
• Wild in the Streets, starring Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook
• Will Penny, starring Charlton Heston and Joan Hackett
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
• Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price –
• With Six You Get Eggroll, directed by Howard Morris, starring Doris Day, Brian Keith, Barbara Hershey

  Y

• Yellow Submarine, an animated film with music by The Beatles –
• Yours, Mine and Ours, starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda

  Short film series

• Looney Tunes
• Merrie Melodies
• Speedy Gonzales
• Daffy Duck
• Cool Cat
• Merlin the Magic Mouse

  Actor's debuts

• Gary Busey – Wild in the Streets
• John Cleese – Interlude
• Timothy Dalton – The Lion in Winter
• Frederic Forrest – The Filthy Five
• Goldie Hawn – The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
• Barbara Hershey – With Six You Get Eggroll
• Madeline Kahn – The Dove
• Lainie Kazan – Dayton's Devils
• Stacy Keach – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Margot Kidder – The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar
• Sally Kirkland – Blue
• Sondra Locke – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Ali MacGraw – A Lovely Way to Die
• Marsha Mason – Beyond the Law
• Malcolm McDowell – if...
• Chuck Norris – The Wrecking Crew
• Hanna Schygulla – The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp
• Talia Shire – The Wild Racers
• Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl
• Jack Thompson – Personnel, or People?

  Births

• January 2 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor
• January 6 – John Singleton, director and writer
• January 14 – LL Cool J, rapper, actor
• January 19 – Matt Hill, Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian
• January 29 – Edward Burns, actor and producer
• February 1 – Pauly Shore, actor
• February 12 – Josh Brolin, American actor
• February 18 – Molly Ringwald, actress
• March 2 – Daniel Craig, actor
• March 4 – Patsy Kensit, actress
• March 12 – Aaron Eckhart, actor
• March 30 – Celine Dion, singer
• April 8 – Patricia Arquette, actress
• April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, actor
• April 19 – Ashley Judd, actress
• April 24 – Stacy Haiduk, actress
• May 3 – Amy Ryan, American actress
• May 12 – Tony Hawk, actor and professional skateboarder
• May 20 – Timothy Olyphant, actor
• July 8 – Billy Crudup, actor
• July 18 – Grant Bowler, actor
• July 24 – Kristin Chenoweth, actress and singer
• July 26 – Olivia Williams, actress
• July 30 - Terry Crews, American actor, comedian, activist, artist, bodybuilder and former professional football player
• August 9
• *Gillian Anderson, American-British actress
• *Eric Bana, Australian actor
• August 11 – Sophie Okonedo, actress
• August 15 - Debra Messing, American actress
• August 28 – Billy Boyd, actor
• September 4 – John DiMaggio, American actor and voice actor.
• September 9 – Julia Sawalha, actor
• September 10 – Guy Ritchie, director, screenwriter
• September 15 – Danny Nucci, actor
• September 15 – Shawn Doyle, actor
• September 22 – Megan Hollingshead, voice actress
• September 25 – Will Smith, actor
• September 26 – Jim Caviezel, actor
• September 28 – Naomi Watts, actress
• October – Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Zambian director
• October 11 – Tiffany Grant, voice actress
• October 12 – Hugh Jackman, actor
• October 13 – Tisha Campbell, actress
• October 27 – Dileep, Indian actor
• November 5 – Sam Rockwell, actor
• November 6 – Kelly Rutherford, actresses
• November 10 – Tracy Morgan, American actor, voice actor and comedian
• November 18 – Owen Wilson, actor
• November 21 – Sean Schemmel, voice actor
• December 2 – Lucy Liu, actress
• December 3 – Brendan Fraser, actor
• December 7 – Greg Ayres, voice actor

  Deaths

• January 7 - Hugo Butler, 53, Canadian screenwriter, Edison, the Man, Lassie Come Home
• January 18 – John Ridgely, 58, American actor, The Big Sleep, God Is My Co-Pilot
• January 25 - Virginia Maskell, 31, British actress, Only Two Can Play, Virgin Island
• February 4 – Eddie Baker, 70, American actor, Oranges and Lemons, Giant
• February 7 – Nick Adams, 36, American actor, Pillow Talk, Rebel Without a Cause
• February 13 – Mae Marsh, 73, American actress, The Birth of a Nation, 3 Godfathers
• February 20 – Anthony Asquith, 65, British director, The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy
• March 10 – Helen Walker, 47, American actress, Impact, Call Northside 777
• March 11 – Pearl Doles Bell, 84, American film scenarist, novelist and editor, Her Elephant Man
• March 16 – June Collyer, 63, American actress, Hangman's House, A Face in the Fog
• March 18 - Harry Kurnitz, 60, American screenwriter, Witness for the Prosecution, How to Steal a Million
• March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, 79, Danish director, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Gertrud
• March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Great Adventure
• March 30 – Bobby Driscoll, 31, American actor, Peter Pan, Treasure Island
• April 4 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 39, American minister and Civil Rights activist
• April 5 – Lois Andrews, 44, American actress, Dixie Dugan, The Desert Hawk
• April 6 – Keith Pyott, 66, English actor, Village of the Damned
• April 16 – Fay Bainter, 74, American actress, Woman of the Year, The Children's Hour
• April 24 – Tommy Noonan, 46, American actor, A Star is Born, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• May 5 – Albert Dekker, 62, American actor, The Wild Bunch, Kiss Me Deadly
• May 9
• *Albert Lewin, 73, American director, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• *Marion Lorne, 84, American actress, The Graduate, Strangers on a Train
• May 10 – Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife, The Jolson Story
• May 21 – Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress, Disraeli, Kind Lady
• May 25 – Charles K. Feldman, 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seven Year Itch
• May 26 - Joseph MacDonald, 62, Mexico-born American cinematographer, My Darling Clementine, The Young Lions
• May 27 – Denise Legeay, 70, French actress, Happy Couple, Le signe de la mort
• May 31 – Preben Uglebjerg, 37, Danish actor, Pigen og vandpytten
• June 4 – Dorothy Gish, 70, American actress, The Cardinal, Orphans of the Storm
• June 7 – Dan Duryea, 61, American actor, Winchester '73, Scarlet Street
• June 8 - Patricia Jessel, 47, British actress, The City of the Dead, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• June 21 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, 72, Danish actress
• June 24 – Tony Hancock, 44, British comedian, Call Me Genius, The Punch and Judy Man
• June 29 – Hans Egede Budtz, 78, Danish actor, Nøddebo Præstegård
• July 1 – Virginia Weidler, 41, American actress, The Philadelphia Story, The Women
• July 12 – Antonio Pietrangeli, 49, Italian director, It Happened in Rome, The Magnificent Cuckold
• July 27 – Lilian Harvey, 62, British actress and singer, Waltz of Love, Let's Live Tonight
• July 30 – Alexander Hall, 74, American director, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Little Miss Marker
• August 23 – Hunt Stromberg, 74, American producer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld
• August 26 – Kay Francis, 63, American actress, Charley's Aunt, Little Men
• August 30 – William Talman, 53, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Crashout
• August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe, 60, American actor, T-Men, Raw Deal
• September 3 – Isabel Withers, 72, American actress, Possessed, Lady of Burlesque
• September 16 - Nedrick Young, 54, American screenwriter, Inherit the Wind, The Defiant Ones
• September 18 – Franchot Tone, 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent
• September 24 - Virginia Valli, 70, American actress, The Pleasure Garden, Evening Clothes
• October 18 – Lee Tracy, 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight, The Best Man
• October 29 – Pert Kelton, 61, American actress, The Music Man, Sing and Like It
• October 30 – Ramon Novarro, 69, Mexican actor, Ben-Hur, Mata Hari
• November 8 – Wendell Corey, 54, American actor, Rear Window, Harriet Craig
• November 9 – Gerald Mohr, 54, American actor, Gilda, The Angry Red Planet
• November 18 – Walter Wanger, 74, American producer, Cleopatra, I Want to Live!
• November 25 – Upton Sinclair, 90, American author and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile
• December 2 – Colin Kenny, 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
• December 4 - Archie Mayo, 77, American director, The Petrified Forest, A Night in Casablanca
• December 5 – Fred Clark, 54, American actor, White Heat, Auntie Mame
• December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen, Die! Die! My Darling
• December 15 – Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress, South Pacific, Red, Hot and Blue
• December 20 - John Steinbeck, 66, American author and screenwriter, Viva Zapata!, The Red Pony