1969 in film

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Events

• January 14 - Louis F. Polk Jr. becomes president and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• June 22 - American singer and actress Judy Garland dies at age 47 of an accidental barbiturate overdose in London.
• July 8 - Kinney National Services Inc. acquire substantially all of the assets of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
• July 13 - Al Pacino's film debut.
• Summer - Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980. From 1969 to 1979, the festival is non-competitive.
• August 8 - Kirk Kerkorian buys 24% of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, becoming the biggest shareholder.
• August 9 - Tate murders: Sharon Tate, the 26-year-old actress, model and Roman Polanski's wife, is murdered by Charles Manson's "Family" at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, California.
• November 10 - Elvis Presley's film career ends with the release of Change of Habit.
• becomes the first feature film to receive an Australian Film Institute Award.

  Awards

Films released

January–March

• January 1969
• *January 15
• **More Dead Than Alive
• *January 23
• **Some Girls Do
• February 1969
• *February 5
• **The Wrecking Crew
• March 1969
• *March 5
• **The Big Bounce
• *March 10
• **The Assassination Bureau
• *March 12
• **Where Eagles Dare
• *March 13
• **Charro!
• **The Love Bug
• *March 26
• **100 Rifles
• **The Illustrated Man
• **Support Your Local Sheriff!

  April–June

• April 1969
• *April 1
• **Sam Whiskey
• **Sweet Charity
• *April 3
• **Goodbye, Columbus
• *April 16
• **Hook, Line & Sinker
• *April 24
• **If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
• May 1969
• *May 6
• **Slaves
• *May 7
• **Sinful Davey
• **Where It's At
• *May 10
• **Mackenna's Gold
• *May 14
• ** Nightmare in Wax
• *May 15
• **Midas Run
• *May 22
• **Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
• **Winning
• *May 25
• **Midnight Cowboy
• *May 27
• **Popi
• *May 28
• **The April Fools
• **Guns of the Magnificent Seven
• *May 29
• **Che!
• June 1969
• *June 11
• **Rascal
• *June 13
• **True Grit
• *June 18
• **The Wild Bunch
• *June 19
• **Last Summer
• *June 24
• **Chastity
• *June 25
• **The Bridge at Remagen
• **The Chairman
• **Hello Down There

  July–September

• July 1969
• *July 2
• **Three Into Two Won't Go
• *July 7
• **How to Commit Marriage
• *July 14
• **Easy Rider
• *July 23
• **Castle Keep
• August 1969
• *August 6
• **The Learning Tree
• *August 18
• **Take the Money and Run
• *August 19
• **Alice's Restaurant
• *August 20
• **What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
• *August 21
• **Number One
• *August 27
• **Medium Cool
• **The Rain People
• *August 28
• **The Gypsy Moths
• September 1969
• *September 3
• **The Trouble with Girls
• **The Valley of Gwangi
• *September 17
• **Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• *September 24
• **Asterix and Cleopatra

  October–December

• October 1969
• *October 4
• **Hail, Hero!
• *October 8
• **The Monitors
• *October 12
• **The Madwoman of Chaillot
• *October 15
• **Paint Your Wagon
• *October 22
• **Marlowe
• **The Sterile Cuckoo
• *October 24
• **Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• *October 29
• **The Secret of Santa Vittoria
• November 1969
• *November 6
• **Downhill Racer
• *November 10
• **Change of Habit
• **Marooned
• *November 15
• **Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• *November 18
• **The Arrangement
• *November 19
• **The Comic
• *November 27
• **The Undefeated
• December 1969
• *December 4
• **A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• *December 10
• **They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• *December 16
• **Cactus Flower
• **Gaily, Gaily
• **Hello, Dolly!
• *December 18
• **On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• **Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
• *December 19
• **Topaz
• *December 20
• **All Monsters Attack
• *December 24
• **The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
• *December 25
• **The Reivers

  Notable films released in 1969

#

• 100 Rifles, starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds

  A

• Ådalen 31, directed by Bo Widerberg –
• Adelheid, directed by František Vláčil –
• The Adjutant of His Excellency –
• Age of Consent, directed by Michael Powell, starring James Mason and Helen Mirren –
• Alfred the Great, starring David Hemmings –
• Alice's Restaurant, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Arlo Guthrie
• All Monsters Attack, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• All My Compatriots –
• Angel in My Pocket, starring Andy Griffith
• Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, John Colicos, Anthony Quayle – winner of 4 Golden Globes –
• The April Fools, starring Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford
• Aradhana –
• Army of Shadows, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret –
• The Arrangement, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Kirk Douglas and Deborah Kerr
• Arthur? Arthur!, starring Shelley Winters, Terry-Thomas, Tammy Grimes
• The Assassination Bureau, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas –

  B

• Ballad of Carl-Henning –
• Bambi Meets Godzilla, very short cult film by Marv Newland
• Battle of Britain, starring Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer –
• Battle of Neretva, starring Sergei Bondarchuk and Yul Brynner –
• The Bed-Sitting Room, directed by Richard Lester, starring Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Marty Feldman –
• Before Winter Comes, starring David Niven –
• The Big Bounce, starring Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor-Young
• Blue Movie, directed by Andy Warhol
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon
• Boy, directed by Nagisa Oshima –
• A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• The Brain, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven –
• The Bridge at Remagen, starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, Robert Vaughn
• The Brothers Karamazov –
• Burn!, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Marlon Brando –
• The Bushbaby, directed by John Trent and starring Margaret Brooks and Lou Gossett
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

  C

• Cactus Flower, starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
• Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, starring Anthony Newley and Joan Collins
• Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, starring Robert Ryan and Chuck Connors
• Carry On Camping, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor –
• Castle Keep, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk
• The Chairman, starring Gregory Peck
• Change of Habit, starring Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner
• Chastity, starring Cher
• Che!, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Omar Sharif and Jack Palance
• The Color of Pomegranates –
• The Comic, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Dick Van Dyke
• Il Commissario Pepe, starring Ugo Tognazzi –
• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, starring Kurt Russell
• The Cremator –

  D

• The Damned, directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde and Ingrid Thulin –
• Daughter of the Mind, starring Don Murray and Ray Milland
• De Sade, starring Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, John Huston –
• Dillinger Is Dead, starring Michel Piccoli and Anita Pallenberg –
• Don't Drink the Water, directed by Howard Morris, written by Woody Allen, starring Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Michael Constantine
• Do Raaste –
• Doppelgänger, starring Roy Thinnes, Lynn Loring, Herbert Lom
• Double Suicide –
• Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
• The Dragon of Evil Against the Warrior Saint, directed by Glauber Rocha –

  E

• Easy Rider, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson
• End of a Priest –
• Eros Plus Massacre –
• The Exquisite Cadaver, starring Capucine –
• The Extraordinary Seaman, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
• Eye of the Cat, starring Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker

  F

• Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini –
• Flashback, directed by Raffaele Andreassi –
• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing –
• Fraulein Doktor, starring Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Capucine
• Funeral Parade of Roses, by Toshio Matsumoto –

  G

• Gaily, Gaily, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, George Kennedy, Margot Kidder
• A Gentle Woman, directed by Robert Bresson, starring Dominique Sanda –
• Goodbye, Columbus, starring Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw and Jack Klugman
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark
• Goyokin, directed by Hideo Gosha –
• The Grasshopper, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jim Brown
• The Great Love –
• Guns of the Magnificent Seven, directed by Paul Wendkos, starring George Kennedy and James Whitmore
• The Gypsy Moths, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Bonnie Bedelia

  H

• Hail, Hero! directed by David Miller Starring Michael Douglas and Peter Strauss.
• Hamlet, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Anthony Hopkins –
• Handcuffs –
• Hannibal Brooks, starring Oliver Reed
• Hard Contract, starring James Coburn, Lee Remick, Burgess Meredith –, directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin –
• The Honeymoon Killers, starring Tony LoBianco and Shirley Stoler
• Hook, Line & Sinker, starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lawford
• How to Commit Marriage, starring Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Tina Louise, Maureen Arthur, Leslie Nielsen
• Heaven Is Never a Great Distance, starring Mohammad Ali Fardin – Iran

  I

• If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, starring Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Michael Constantine
• I'm an Elephant, Madame –
• The Italian Job, directed by Peter Collinson, starring Michael Caine and Noël Coward –
• The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom
• It's Tough Being a Man –
• Ittefaq, starring Rajesh Khanna –

  J

• Jackal of Nahueltoro –
• John and Mary, starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow

  K

• Katrina –
• Katzelmacher, directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Hanna Schygulla –
• Kes, directed by Ken Loach –
• Khamoshi –

  L

• L'Amour fou, directed by Jacques Rivette –
• The Land, directed by Youssef Chahine –
• Larks on a String, directed by Jiří Menzel – – banned until 1990
• Last Summer, starring Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns
• Laughter in the Dark, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson and Anna Karina –
• The Learning Tree, directed by Gordon Parks
• Lock Up Your Daughters, starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Glynis Johns
• Lost Flight, starring Anne Francis, Lloyd Bridges, Billy Dee Williams
• The Lost Man, starring Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus
• The Love God?, directed by Nat Hiken, starring Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Maureen Arthur
• Love Is Colder Than Death, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder –

  M

• Machine Gun McCain, starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk
• Mackenna's Gold, starring Gregory Peck, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, and Omar Sharif
• Macunaíma –
• The Madwoman of Chaillot, starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer, John Gavin, Danny Kaye
• The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Raquel Welch –
• Marlowe, directed by Paul Bogart, starring James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Carroll O'Connor, Bruce Lee
• Marooned, directed by John Sturges, starring Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman
• , starring Romina Power, Klaus Kinski, Jack Palance –
• Medea, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Maria Callas –
• Medium Cool, directed by Haskell Wexler, starring Robert Forster, Marianna Hill, Peter Bonerz
• Midas Run, starring Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire
• Midnight Cowboy, directed by John Schlesinger, screenplay by Waldo Salt, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman
• The Milky Way, directed by Luis Buñuel –
• Mississippi Mermaid, directed by François Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo –
• The Monitors, starring Guy Stockwell and Susan Oliver
• Mon oncle Benjamin –
• Monsieur Hawarden –
• Monte Carlo or Bust!, aka Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies, starring Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore –
• Mosquito Squadron, starring David McCallum –
• My Night at Maud's, directed by Éric Rohmer –

  N

• The Night of Counting the Years –
• Nightmare in Wax, starring Cameron Mitchell and Anne Helm
• Number One, starring Charlton Heston, Jessica Walter, Bruce Dern

  O

• The Oblong Box, starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee
• Oh! What a Lovely War, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Mills –
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby, with Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas –

  P

• Paint Your Wagon, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, with songs by Lerner and Loewe
• The Passion of Anna, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson –
• Pigsty, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini –
• La Piscine, starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider –
• Play Dirty, starring Michael Caine –
• Popi, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Alan Arkin and Rita Moreno
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Maggie Smith –
• The Promise, starring John Castle and Ian McKellen –
• Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey, Sr.

  Q

• A Quiet Place in the Country, starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave –

  R

• The Rain People, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Robert Duvall, Shirley Knight
• Rani Radovi – Golden Bear winner –
• Rascal, starring Bill Mumy and Steve Forrest
• The Red Tent –
• The Reivers, based on the novel by William Faulkner, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel, Will Geer, narrated by Burgess Meredith
• La residencia, starring Lilli Palmer –
• Rider on the Rain, directed by René Clément, starring Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert –
• Ring of Bright Water, starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna –
• Riot, starring Jim Brown and Gene Hackman
• The Royal Hunt of the Sun, starring Robert Shaw and Christopher Plummer –

  S

• Sabata, starring Lee Van Cleef –
• Salesman, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
• Sam Whiskey, starring Burt Reynolds and Angie Dickinson
• Satyakam, starring Dharmendra and Ashok Kumar –
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani – Golden Globe for best comedy film
• Shining Star starring Ahmad Ghadakchian and Forouzan.
• Shinsengumi, starring Toshiro Mifune –
• The Sicilian Clan, starring Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura –
• Sinful Davey, directed by John Huston, starring John Hurt
• Slaves
• Some Girls Do, starring Richard Johnson and Daliah Lavi
• Some Kind of a Nut, starring Dick Van Dyke, Rosemary Forsyth, Angie Dickinson
• The Southern Star, starring George Segal, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress
• Staircase, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton
• The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Liza Minnelli
• Stiletto, starring Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Joseph Wiseman, Patrick O'Neal
• Support Your Local Sheriff!, starring James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam
• Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Shirley MacLaine

  T

• Take the Money and Run, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Janet Margolin and Louise Lasser
• A Talent for Loving, directed by Richard Quine, starring Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Topol, Fran Jeffries
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Michael Sarrazin, Red Buttons
• Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, starring Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake
• The Great Bank Robbery
• This Man Must Die, directed by Claude Chabrol –
• Three Into Two Won't Go, starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Peggy Ashcroft
• Till Death Us Do Part, starring Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols –
• A Time for Dying, starring Audie Murphy and Anne Randall
• Topaz, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Frederick Stafford, John Forsythe, John Vernon, Roscoe Lee Browne
• The Trouble with Girls, directed by Peter Tewksbury, starring Elvis Presley, Vincent Price, Dabney Coleman, Sheree North, John Carradine, Susan Olsen
• True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeff Corey, Robert Duvall, Strother Martin, Dennis Hopper
• Twinky, starring Charles Bronson and Susan George –

  U

• –
• The Undefeated, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson
• The Unfaithful Wife, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran –

  V

• The Valley of Gwangi, starring James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, with visual effects by Ray Harryhausen completing work by Willis O'Brien
• Viimne reliikvia, directed by Grigori Kromanov
• Viva Max!, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, John Astin, Jonathan Winters

  W

• What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth
• What's Good for the Goose, starring Norman Wisdom and Sally Geeson –
• Where It's At, starring David Janssen and Rosemary Forsyth
• Where's Jack?, starring Stanley Baker and Tommy Steele –
• White Sun of the Desert –
• The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Jaime Sánchez, Bo Hopkins, Edmond O'Brien
• Winning, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Thomas, Robert Wagner
• The Witness –
• Women in Love, directed by Ken Russell, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson –
• The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots –
• The Wrecking Crew, starring Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise, Sharon Tate

  Y

• Young Billy Young, starring Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr.

  Z

• Z, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Irene Papas –

  Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes
• Merrie Melodies
• Cool Cat
• Merlin the Magic Mouse
• The Pink Panther
• The Inspector
• The Ant and the Aardvark
• Roland and Rattfink
• Tijuana Toads
• Woody Woodpecker
• Chilly Willy
• The Beary Family

  Actor's debuts

• Bob Balaban – Midnight Cowboy
• Bonnie Bedelia – The Gypsy Moths
• Ed Begley Jr. – The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
• David Bowie – The Virgin Soldiers
• Jill Clayburgh – The Wedding Party
• Bruce Davison – Last Summer
• Sam Elliott – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Farrah Fawcett – Love Is a Funny Thing
• Bridget Fonda – Easy Rider
• Melanie Griffith – Smith!
• George Lazenby – On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• Ian McKellen – A Touch of Love
• Ryan O'Neal – The Big Bounce
• Al Pacino – Me, Natalie
• John Savage – The Master Beater
• Arnold Schwarzenegger – Hercules in New York
• Sam Shepard – Me and My Brother
• Christopher Walken – Me and My Brother
• M. Emmet Walsh – Midnight Cowboy

  Births

• January 1
• *Mr. Lawrence, American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, animator and director
• *Verne Troyer, American actor
• January 14 – Jason Bateman, American actor
• January 17 – James Waterston, American actor
• January 27 – Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer.
• February 8
• * Brian Krause, American actor
• * Mary McCormack, American actress
• February 11 –
• *Jennifer Aniston, American actress
• *Lee Tockar, Canadian voice actor and visual artist
• March 1 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
• March 10 – Paget Brewster, American actress
• March 23 - Richard Cadell, Illusionist, puppeteer and screenwriter
• April 2 – Ajay Devgan, Indian actor
• April 3 – Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
• April 6 – Paul Rudd, American actor
• April 23 – Byron Thames, American actor
• April 25 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
• May 1 – Wes Anderson, American director
• May 14 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
• May 25 – Anne Heche, American actress
• June 1 – Teri Polo, American actress
• June 11 – Peter Dinklage, American actor
• June 15 – Ice Cube, American actor, rapper
• June 28 – Tichina Arnold, American actress
• July 7 - Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress, voice actress and singer
• July 17 – Jason Clarke, Australian actor
• July 21 – Godfrey, American actor, comedian
• July 22 – James Arnold Taylor, American actor, writer and producer
• July 24 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer
• August 4 – Vlad Ivanov, Romanian actor
• August 18
• * Edward Norton, American actor
• * Christian Slater, American actor
• August 19 – Matthew Perry, Canadian-American actor
• August 28 – Jack Black, American actor, comedian, musician
• September 14 – Bong Joon-ho, Korean director and screenwriter
• September 25 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
• September 29 – Erika Eleniak, American actress
• October 1 – Zach Galifianakis, American actor
• October 9 – Steve McQueen, English director
• October 15 – Dominic West, English actor
• October 17 - Nancy Sullivan, American actress, television presenter, and screenwriter
• October 19 – Trey Parker, American actor, creator of South Park
• November 4 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor
• November 13 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
• December 19 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
• December 21 – Julie Delpy, French actress

  Deaths

• January 1 – Barton MacLane, 66, American actor, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• January 3 – Howard McNear, 63, American actor, Anatomy of a Murder, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Blue Hawaii, Follow That Dream
• January 4 – Violet and Daisy Hilton, 60, English conjoined twins, actresses, appeared in film Freaks
• January 8 – Leslie Goodwins, 69, English director, The Mummy's Curse, Mexican Spitfire
• January 27 – Charles Winninger, 84, American actor, Destry Rides Again, The Sun Shines Bright
• February 2 – Boris Karloff, 81, English actor, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Raven
• February 5 – Thelma Ritter, 66, American actress, Rear Window, All About Eve
• February 9 – Gabby Hayes, 83, American actor, The Man from Utah, In Old Oklahoma
• February 11 – James Lanphier, 48, American actor, The Pink Panther, The Party
• February 19 - Madge Blake, 69, American actress, The Long, Long Trailer, Batman
• February 27 – John Boles, 73, American actor, Frankenstein, Stella Dallas
• March 18 – Barbara Bates, 43, American actress, The Caddy, All About Eve
• March 19 – Lola Braccini, 79, Italian actress, My Little One, What a Distinguished Family
• March 25 – Alan Mowbray, 72, British actor, Terror by Night, My Darling Clementine
• April 2 – Fortunio Bonanova, 74, Spanish actor, Citizen Kane, An Affair to Remember
• April 23 – Krzysztof Komeda, 37, Polish composer, Rosemary's Baby, The Fearless Vampire Killers
• May 3 – Karl Freund, 69, Czech-American cinematographer and director, Metropolis, The Mummy, Key Largo
• May 24 – Mitzi Green, 48, American actress, Lost in Alaska, Skippy
• May 27 – Jeffrey Hunter, 42, American actor, The Searchers, King of Kings
• June 2 – Leo Gorcey, 51, American actor, Ghost Chasers, Spook Busters
• June 8 – Robert Taylor, 57, American actor, Quo Vadis, Camille, Bataan, Ivanhoe
• June 10 – Frank Lawton, 64, English actor, A Night to Remember, The Devil-Doll
• June 13 – Martita Hunt, 70, Argentine-English actress, Becket, Great Expectations
• June 19 – Natalie Talmadge, 73, American silent screen actress, Our Hospitality, Intolerance
• June 20 – Rudolf Schwarzkogler, 29, Austrian experimental filmmaker, Satisfaction
• June 22 – Judy Garland, 47, American actress and singer, The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Star Is Born
• July 5 - Lambert Hillyer, 75, American director, Dracula's Daughter, Batman
• July 5 – Leo McCarey, 72, American director, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way
• July 7 - Erskine Sanford, 83, American actor, Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons
• July 8 – Gladys Swarthout, 68, American singer, Romance in the Dark, Give Us This Night
• July 13 - Bess Meredyth, 79, American screenwriter, The Unsuspected, Charlie Chan at the Opera
• July 15 - Peter van Eyck, 57, Polish actor, The Wages of Fear, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• July 18 - Barbara Pepper, 54, American actress, The Rogues Tavern, Kiss Me, Stupid
• July 26 – Raymond Walburn, 81, American actor, High, Wide, and Handsome, Third Finger, Left Hand
• August 1 – Donald Keith, 65, American actor, The Plastic Age, Parisian Love
• August 9 – Sharon Tate, 26, American actress, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Valley of the Dolls
• August 14 – Sigrid Gurie, 58, American actress, Algiers, The Adventures of Marco Polo
• August 15 – William Goetz, 66, American producer, studio executive, Sayonara, Les Misérables
• August 26 – Martin Miller, 69, Czech actor, 55 Days at Peking, The Pink Panther
• September 14 – James Anderson, 48, American actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, Take the Money and Run
• September 19 – Rex Ingram, 73, American actor, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Thief of Bagdad
• October 8 – Eduardo Ciannelli, 81, Italian actor, Gunga Din, Strange Cargo
• October 12 – Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian actress, former Olympic ice skater, Sun Valley Serenade, One in a Million
• October 15 – Rod La Rocque, 70, American actor, Meet John Doe, The Shadow Strikes
• October 28 – Constance Dowling, 49, American actress, Up in Arms, The Well-Groomed Bride
• November 5 – Lloyd Corrigan, 69, American actor, Son of Paleface, The Thin Man Goes Home
• November 8 – Dave O'Brien, 57, American actor, Captain Midnight, Brand of the Devil
• December 3 – Ruth White, 55, American actress, To Kill a Mockingbird, No Way to Treat a Lady
• December 7 – Eric Portman, 68, British actor, A Canterbury Tale, The Bedford Incident
• December 13 – Luigi Pavese, 72, Italian actor, Toto in Color, Il Mattatore
• December 22
• *Ilse Steppat, 52, German actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• *Josef von Sternberg, 73, Austrian director, The Blue Angel, Macao