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1928 in film

The following is an overview of 1928 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Although some films released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent. This year is notable for the introduction of the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company, Mickey Mouse, in the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first film to include a soundtrack completely created in post production.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1928 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * January 6 – The long-awaited Charlie Chaplin comedy The Circus premieres at the Strand Theatre in New York City.
 * April 21 – The Passion of Joan of Arc is released.
 * July 6 – Lights of New York (starring Helene Costello) is released by Warner Bros. It is the first "100% Talkie" feature film, in that dialog is spoken throughout the film. Previous releases Don Juan and The Jazz Singer had used a synchronized soundtrack with sound effects and music, with The Jazz Singer having a few incidental lines spoken by Al Jolson.
 * September 19 – The Singing Fool, Warner Bros' follow-up to The Jazz Singer, is released. While still only a partial-talkie (sequences still feature intertitles), 66 minutes of the film's 105 minute running time feature dialogue or songs, making it the longest talking motion picture yet. (Lights of New York runs a total of 57 minutes.) It is the highest-grossing film of the year, becomes Warner Bros' highest-grossing film for the next 13 years, is the most financially successful film of Al Jolson's career and also remains the highest-grossing sound film until the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937.
 * October 23 – RKO Productions Inc. created
 * November 10 – At the beginning of White Shadows in the South Seas, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, giving voice to one of the most popular American film logos.
 * November 18 – Disney's Steamboat Willie premieres, marking the official introduction of Mickey Mouse. This animated short is the first film to include a soundtrack completely created in post production, including sound effects, music and dialogue.
 * December 25 – In Old Arizona, released by Fox Films, is the first sound-on-film feature-length talkie, utilizing the Movietone process. Previously, feature-length talkies used the less-reliable Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. It is also the first Western talkie, and the first sound film primarily shot outdoors.

Academy Awards
Note: Prior to 1933, awards were not based on calendar years, which is why there is no 'Best Picture' for a 1928 film.
 * Best Picture: Wings – Paramount Pictures
 * Best Unique and Artistic Picture: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – Fox Film Corporation
 * Best Director, Dramatic Picture: Frank Borzage –  7th Heaven
 * Best Director, Comedy Picture: Lewis Milestone – Two Arabian Knights
 * Best Actor: Emil Jannings – The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh
 * Best Actress: Janet Gaynor – 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Notable films released in 1928
United States unless stated

A

 * Accident (Polizeibericht Überfall), directed by Ernő Metzner – (Germany)
 * Across to Singapore, directed by William Nigh, starring Ramón Novarro, Joan Crawford and Ernest Torrence
 * The Actress (lost), directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Norma Shearer
 * Adam's Apple, directed by Tim Whelan, starring Monty Banks – (GB)
 * Alraune, written and directed by Henrik Galeen, starring Brigitte Helm and Paul Wegener – (Germany)
 * Ang Lumang Simbahan (The Old Church), directed by José Nepomuceno, starring Mary Walter – (Philippines)
 * The Ape (lost), directed by Beverly C. Rule, starring Gladys Walton
 * L'Argent (Money), directed by Marcel L'Herbier, starring Pierre Alcover and Brigitte Helm – (France)
 * The Awakening (lost), directed by Victor Fleming, starring Vilma Bánky and Louis Wolheim

B

 * Balaclava, directed by Maurice Elvey and Milton Rosmer, starring Cyril McLaglen and Benita Hume – (GB)
 * Beau Sabreur (lost), directed by John Waters, starring Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, Noah Beery Sr. and William Powell
 * Beggars of Life, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Wallace Beery, Richard Arlen and Louise Brooks
 * The Big City (lost), directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney, Betty Compson and Marceline Day
 * The Black Pearl (lost), directed by Scott Pembroke, starring Lila Lee, based on the novel by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
 * The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (Huo shao hong lian si) (lost), 16-part serial directed by Zhang Shichuan – (China)

C

 * The Cameraman, directed by Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton and Marceline Day
 * The Cardboard Lover, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Marion Davies, Jetta Goudal and Nils Asther
 * Champagne, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Betty Balfour – (GB)
 * The Circus, starring, a Charles Chaplin film
 * The Constant Nymph, directed by Adrian Brunel, starring Ivor Novello – (GB)
 * The Cossacks, directed by George Hill and Clarence Brown, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée and Ernest Torrence
 * The Crowd, directed by King Vidor, starring Eleanor Boardman

D

 * Dawn, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Sybil Thorndike – (GB)
 * The Devious Path (Abwege), directed by G.W. Pabst – (Germany)
 * The Divine Woman (lost), directed by Victor Sjöström, starring Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson
 * The Docks of New York, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson and Olga Baclanova

E

 * Easy Virtue, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Isabel Jeans – (GB)

F

 * The Fall of the House of Usher, directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe
 * The Fall of the House of Usher (La Chute de la maison Usher), directed by Jean Epstein, based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe – (France)
 * The Farmer's Wife, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Jameson Thomas and Lillian Hall-Davis – (GB)
 * Feel My Pulse, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen and William Powell
 * The First Born, directed by Miles Mander, starring Miles Mander and Madeleine Carroll – (GB)
 * Four Sons, directed by John Ford

G

 * The Gallant Hussar (lost), directed by Géza von Bolváry, starring Ivor Novello and Evelyn Holt – (GB/Germany)
 * Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (lost), directed by Mal St. Clair, starring Ruth Taylor and Alice White
 * A Girl in Every Port, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Victor McLaglen, Louise Brooks and Robert Armstrong
 * The Godless Girl, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost and Noah Beery Sr.
 * The Guns of Loos, directed by Sinclair Hill, starring Madeleine Carroll (GB)

H

 * Habeas Corpus, directed by Leo McCarey and James Parrott, starring Laurel and Hardy
 * Hangman's House, directed by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen
 * The Haunted House, directed by Benjamin Christensen, starring Thelma Todd, based on a 1926 stage play by Owen Davis
 * His House in Order (lost), directed by Randle Ayrton, starring Tallulah Bankhead – (GB)
 * Homecoming (Heimkehr), directed by Joe May, starring Lars Hanson – (Germany)
 * Honor Bound, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring George O'Brien, Estelle Taylor and Leila Hyams
 * The House of Terror (lost), a 10-chapter serial directed by Roland D. Reed
 * The House on Trubnaya (Dom na Trubnoy), directed by Boris Barnet – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Hungarian Rhapsody, directed by Hanns Schwarz, starring Lil Dagover, Willy Fritsch and Dita Parlo – (Germany)
 * Huntingtower, directed by George Pearson, starring Harry Lauder – (GB)

I

 * In Old Arizona, directed by Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings, starring Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter and Dorothy Burgess, based on a 1907 short story The Caballero's Way by O. Henry
 * Interference, directed by Lothar Mendes, starring Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook and William Powell
 * The Italian Straw Hat (Un chapeau de paille d'Italie), directed by René Clair – (France)

J

 * Jujiro (Crossroads), directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa – (Japan)

L

 * Ladies of the Mob (lost), directed by William A. Wellman, starring Clara Bow and Richard Arlen
 * The Last Command, directed by Joseph von Sternberg, starring Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent and William Powell
 * The Last Warning, directed by Paul Leni, starring Laura La Plante, based on the 1916 novel The House of Fear by Charles Wadsworth Camp
 * Laugh, Clown, Laugh, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young
 * The Leopard Lady (lost), directed by Rupert Julian, starring Jacqueline Logan, Alan Hale and Robert Armstrong, based on the play by Edward Childs Carpenter
 * Lights of New York, directed by Bryan Foy
 * Lilac Time, directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Colleen Moore and Gary Cooper
 * A Little Bit of Fluff, directed by Wheeler Dryden and Jess Robbins, starring Sydney Chaplin and Betty Balfour – (GB)
 * Lonesome, directed by Paul Fejos, starring Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent

M

 * The Man Who Laughs, directed by Paul Leni, starring Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt and Olga Baclanova, based on the 1869 novel L'Homme qui rit by Victor Hugo
 * Maria Marten, directed by Walter West, starring Trilby Clark and Warwick Ward – (GB)
 * The Matinee Idol, directed by Frank Capra, starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker
 * The Midnight Taxi, directed by John G. Adolfi, Starring Antonio Moreno, Helene Costello and Myrna Loy
 * Mother Machree (lost), directed by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen, Belle Bennett and Neil Hamilton
 * Moulin Rouge, directed by Ewald André Dupont – (GB)
 * My Man (lost), directed by Archie Mayo, starring Fanny Brice
 * The Mysterious Lady, directed by Fred Niblo, starring Greta Garbo and Conrad Nagel
 * The Mysterious Mirror (Der Geheimnisvolle Spiegel), directed by Carl Hoffmann and Richard Teschner – (Germany)

N

 * The New Version of the Ghost of Yotsuya (Shinpan Ōoka seidan), directed by Daisuke Itō, based on the 1825 play Yotsuya Kaidan by Tsuruya Nanboku IV – (Japan)
 * Noah's Ark, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Dolores Costello, George O'Brien and Noah Beery Sr.
 * The Noose, directed by John Francis Dillon, starring Richard Barthelmess and Thelma Todd
 * Number 17 (Haus Nummer 17), directed by Géza von Bolváry, starring Guy Newall and Lien Deyers – (GB/Germany)

O

 * October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir), directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov – (U.S.S.R.)
 * On Trial (lost), directed by Archie Mayo, starring Pauline Frederick, Bert Lytell and Lois Wilson
 * Our Dancing Daughters, directed by Harry Beaumont, starring Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown

P

 * The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti – (France)
 * The Patsy, directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies and Marie Dressler
 * The Phantom City, directed by Albert S. Rogell, starring Ken Maynard
 * The Power of the Press, directed by Frank Capra, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Jobyna Ralston

R

 * The Racket, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim and Marie Prevost
 * Ramona, directed by Edwin Carewe, starring Dolores del Río and Warner Baxter
 * Ransom (lost), directed by George B. Seitz, starring Lois Wilson
 * Rasputin, the Holy Sinner (Rasputins Liebesabenteuer), directed by Martin Berger – (Germany)
 * Rasputin, the Prince of Sinners (Dornenweg einer Fürstin), directed by Nikolai Larin and Boris Nevolin – (Germany/U.S.S.R.)
 * The Red Dance, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Dolores del Río and Charles Farrell
 * Red Hair (lost), directed by Clarence G. Badger, starring Clara Bow and Lane Chandler
 * The Ringer, directed by Arthur Maude – (GB)
 * The Road to Ruin, directed by Norton S. Parker, starring Helen Foster
 * Rose-Marie (lost), directed by Lucien Hubbard, starring Joan Crawford

S

 * Sadie Thompson, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore
 * The Seashell and the Clergyman (La Coquille et le Clergyman), directed by Germaine Dulac – (France)
 * Sex in Chains (Geschlecht in Fesseln), starring and directed by William Dieterle – (Germany)
 * Show People, directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies and William Haines
 * The Singing Fool, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Al Jolson
 * Sins of the Fathers, directed by Ludwig Berger, starring Emil Jannings and Ruth Chatterton
 * Skyscraper, directed by Howard Higgin, starring William Boyd and Alan Hale
 * The Smart Set, directed by Jack Conway, starring William Haines
 * Something Always Happens, directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Esther Ralston, Neil Hamilton and Sôjin Kamiyama
 * A South Sea Bubble, directed by T. Hayes Hunter, starring Ivor Novello and Benita Hume – (GB)
 * Speedy, directed by Ted Wilde, starring Harold Lloyd
 * Spione (Spies), directed by Fritz Lang, starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge – (Germany)
 * Steamboat Bill, Jr., directed by Charles Reisner, starring Buster Keaton and Ernest Torrence
 * Steamboat Willie, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, debut of Mickey and Minnie Mouse
 * Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingiskhana), directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, starring Valéry Inkijinoff – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Street Angel, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
 * Sweeney Todd, directed by Walter West, based on the 1847 stage play The String of Pearls, or The Fiend of Fleet Street by George Dibdin-Pitt) – (GB)

T

 * Take Me Home (lost), directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Bebe Daniels and Neil Hamilton
 * The Tell-Tale Heart, directed by Charles Klein and Leon Shamroy, based on the 1843 short story by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Tempest, directed by Sam Taylor, starring John Barrymore, Camilla Horn and Louis Wolheim
 * The Terrible People (lost), a 10-chapter serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennett, starring Allene Ray and Walter Miller, based on the 1926 novel by Edgar Wallace
 * The Terror, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda and Edward Everett Horton, based on the 1927 stage play by Edgar Wallace
 * Terror Mountain, directed by Louis King, starring Tom Tyler
 * Tesha, directed by Victor Saville and Edwin Greenwood, starring María Corda – (GB)
 * Thérèse Raquin (lost), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
 * A Thief in the Dark, directed by Albert Ray
 * Three Sinners, directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Pola Negri, Warner Baxter and Olga Baclanova
 * Tillie's Punctured Romance (lost), directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring W. C. Fields, Chester Conklin and Louise Fazenda
 * Tommy Atkins, directed by Norman Walker, starring Lillian Hall-Davis – GB)
 * Toni, directed by Arthur Maude, starring Jack Buchanan – (GB)
 * The Trail of '98, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Dolores del Río, Ralph Forbes and Karl Dane
 * The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, directed by T. Hayes Hunter, starring Matheson Lang – (GB)
 * Two Tars, directed by James Parrott, starring Laurel and Hardy

U

 * Underground, directed by Anthony Asquith – (GB)

V

 * The Viking, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Donald Crisp
 * Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast), directed by Hans Richter – (Germany)
 * The Vortex, directed by Adrian Brunel, starring Ivor Novello – (GB)

W

 * We Faw Down, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Laurel and Hardy
 * The Wedding March, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim with Fay Wray and ZaSu Pitts
 * West of Zanzibar, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Warner Baxter, based on the 1926 stage play Kongo by Chester De Vonde
 * What a Night! (lost), directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring Bebe Daniels and Neil Hamilton
 * While the City Sleeps, directed by Jack Conway, starring Lon Chaney, Anita Page and Mae Busch
 * White Shadows in the South Seas, directed by W. S. Van Dyke
 * The Wind, directed by Victor Sjöström, starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson
 * A Woman of Affairs, directed by Clarence Brown, starring John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Z

 * Zvenigora, directed by Alexander Dovzhenko – (U.S.S.R.)

Short film series

 * Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
 * Our Gang (1922–1944)
 * Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)

Animated short film series

 * Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
 * Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1933)
 * Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
 * Inkwell Imps (1927–1929)
 * Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
 * Harem Scarem
 * Neck 'n' Neck
 * The Ol' Swimmin' Hole
 * Africa Before Dark
 * Rival Romeos
 * Bright Lights
 * Oh, What a Knight
 * Sagebrush Sadie
 * Ride'em Plow Boy
 * Sky Scrappers
 * Ozzie of the Mounted
 * Hungry Hoboes
 * Poor Papa
 * The Fox Chase
 * Tall Timber
 * Sleigh Bells
 * Hot Dog
 * Newslaffs (1927–1928)
 * Mickey Mouse
 * Plane Crazy
 * The Gallopin' Gaucho
 * Steamboat Willie

Births

 * January 1 – Helen Westcott, American actress (died 1998)
 * January 2 – Ellen Kaarma, Estonian actress (died 1973)
 * January 5 – Denise Bryer, British actress (died 2021)
 * January 7 – William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter (died 2017)
 * January 15 – Joanne Linville, American actress (died 2021)
 * January 20 – Peter Donat, Canadian-American actor (died 2018)
 * January 23 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress, singer, screenwriter and director (died 2017)
 * January 26 – Roger Vadim, French director, screenwriter and actor (died 2000)
 * February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American film and television actor (died 2020)
 * February 4 – Vincent Wong, Jamaican-born British-Chinese actor (died 2015)
 * February 7 - Leonard Jackson, American actor (died 2013)
 * February 8 – Jack Larson, American actor (died 2015)
 * February 11 – Conrad Janis, American actor (died 2022)
 * February 16 – Eva Ingeborg Scholz, German actress (died 2022)
 * February 18 – Little Caesar, American singer and actor (died 1994)
 * February 22 – Paul Dooley, American actor, writer and comedian
 * February 24 – Al Lettieri, American actor (died 1975)
 * February 29
 * Joss Ackland, English actor (died 2023)
 * Tempest Storm, American burlesque performer and actress (died 2021)
 * March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French director (died 2016)
 * March 3 – Joe Conley, American actor (died 2013)
 * March 11 – Albert Salmi, American actor (died 1990)
 * March 13 – Douglas Rain, Canadian actor (died 2018)
 * March 16 – Victor Maddern, English actor (died 1993)
 * March 17 – Eunice Gayson, English actress (died 2018)
 * March 19
 * Marceline Loridan-Ivens, French actor (died 2018)
 * Patrick McGoohan, Irish actor (died 2009)
 * Jan Shepard, American actress
 * March 24 – Vanessa Brown American actress (died 1999)
 * March 27 – Reg Evans, British actor (died 2009)
 * March 29 – Philip Locke, English actor (died 2004)
 * March 30 – Lilia Prado, Mexican actress, dancer (died 2006)
 * March 31 – June Jago, Australian actress (died 2010)
 * April 1 – George Grizzard, American actor (died 2007)
 * April 2 – Piet Römer, Dutch actor (died 2012)
 * April 3 – Kevin Hagen, American actor (died 2005)
 * April 4
 * Estelle Harris, American actress and comedienne (died 2022)
 * Monty Norman, English composer of the "James Bond Theme" (died 2022)
 * April 7
 * James Garner, American actor (died 2014)
 * Valeria Sabel, Italian actress (died 2009)
 * April 11 – Henri Garcin, Belgian actor (died 2022)
 * April 12 – Hardy Krüger, German actor (died 2022)
 * April 23 – Shirley Temple, American actress (died 2014)
 * May 1 – Vitaly Melnikov, Russian director and screenwriter (died 2022)
 * May 3 – Jeanne Bal, American actress died (1996)
 * May 7 – Georgi Rusev, Bulgarian actor (died 2011)
 * May 12 – Burt Bacharach, American composer and songwriter (died 2023)
 * May 18
 * John Abineri, English actor (died 2000)
 * Sara Shane, American actress (died 2022)
 * May 21 – Alice Drummond, American actress (died 2016)
 * May 23 – Nigel Davenport, English actor (died 2013)
 * May 28 – Gina Cabrera, Cuban actress (died 2022)
 * May 30 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-born French director, producer and screenwriter (died 2019)
 * June 2 – Bob Amsberry, American actor (died 1957)
 * June 4 – Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex therapist, talk show host and actress
 * June 5 – Robert Lansing, American actor (died 1994)
 * June 7 – James Ivory, American director, producer and screenwriter
 * June 8 – Mimi Mariani, Indonesian actress, model, and singer (died 1971)
 * June 9 – Jackie Mason, American stand-up comedian and actor (died 2021)
 * June 12
 * Vic Damone, American singer, entertainer and actor (died 2018)
 * Tom Rosqui, American character actor (died 1991)
 * Richard M. Sherman, American film songwriter (died 2024)
 * June 13 – Nikola Todev, Bulgarian actor (died 1991)
 * June 16 – Ernst Stankovski, Austrian actor (died 2022)
 * June 19 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (died 2000)
 * June 20 – Martin Landau, American actor (died 2017)
 * June 21 – Margit Bara, Hungarian actress (died 2016)
 * June 22 – Ralph Waite, American actor (died 2014)
 * June 29 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (died 1999)
 * June 30 – Clifford David, American actor and singer (died 2017)
 * July 6 – Nestor de Villa, Filipino actor (died 2004)
 * July 7 – Pat Hitchcock, English actress and producer (died 2021)
 * July 12 – Peter Cellier, English actor
 * July 13
 * Bob Crane, American actor (died 1978)
 * Mace Neufeld, American film and television producer (died 2022)
 * July 14 – Nancy Olson, American actress
 * July 15 – Tom Troupe, American actor and writer
 * July 21 – Chuck Low, American actor (died 2017)
 * July 22 – Orson Bean, American actor (died 2020)
 * July 24 – Michael Currie, American actor (died 2009)
 * July 26 – Joe Jackson, American talent manager (died 2018)
 * July 26 - Stanley Kubrick, American director (died 1999)
 * August 1 – Nick LaTour, American actor (died 2011)
 * August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist and director (died 1987)
 * August 10 – Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian character actor (died 2010)
 * August 14
 * Joëlle Bernard, French actress (died 1977)
 * Jacques Rouffio, French director and screenwriter (died 2016)
 * Lina Wertmüller, Italian screenwriter and director (died 2021)
 * August 15
 * Nosher Powell, English actor and stuntman (died 2013)
 * Nicolas Roeg, English director (died 2018)
 * Simone Silva, Egyptian-born French actress (died 1957)
 * August 16 – Ann Blyth, American actress
 * August 18 – Norma Donaldson, American actress and singer (died 1994)
 * August 20 - Buddy Van Horn, American stunt coordinator and director (died 2021)
 * August 27 – Bernard Atha, English actor (died 2022)
 * August 28 – Charles Gray, English actor (died 2000)
 * August 31 – James Coburn, American actor (died 2002)
 * September 1
 * George Maharis, American actor (died 2023)
 * Allene Roberts, American actor (died 2019)
 * September 3 – Pilar Pallete, Peruvian actress
 * September 4 – Dick York, American actor (died 1992)
 * September 9 – Darrell Zwerling, American character actor (died 2014)
 * September 11 – Earl Holliman, American actor
 * September 17 – Roddy McDowall, British actor (died 1998)
 * September 19 – Adam West, American actor (died 2017)
 * September 22 – Eugene Roche, American actor (died 2004)
 * October 1
 * Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian British actor (died 1973)
 * George Peppard, American actor (died 1994)
 * Erica Yohn, American actress (died 2019)
 * October 2 – George McFarland, American actor (died 1993)
 * October 6 – Barbara Werle, American actress (died 2013)
 * October 17 – Don Collier, American actor (died 2021)
 * October 25
 * Jeanne Cooper, American actress (died 2013)
 * Marion Ross, American actress
 * November 1 – Emmaline Henry, American actress (died 1979)
 * November 3
 * Wanda Hendrix, American actress (died 1981)
 * Lew Palter, American actor (died 2023)
 * November 10
 * Ennio Morricone, Italian composer (died 2020)
 * Norma Crane, American actress (died 1973)
 * November 13
 * Helena Carroll, Scottish-American actress (died 2013)
 * Ralph Foody, American actor (died 1999)
 * November 14 – Kathleen Hughes, American actress
 * November 16 – Clu Gulager, American actor (died 2022)
 * November 20 – Franklin Cover, American actor (died 2006)
 * November 23 – Elmarie Wendel, American actress singer (died 2018)
 * November 25 – Rance Howard, American actor (died 2017)
 * December 1 – Malachi Throne, American actor (died 2013)
 * December 3 – Carlo Giuffrè, Italian actor (died 2018)
 * December 5 – Barbara Krafftówna, Polish actress (died 2022)
 * December 6 – Lance Fuller, American actor (died 2001)
 * December 9 – Dick Van Patten, American actor (died 2015)
 * December 10 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (died 1976)
 * December 12 – Lionel Blair, English actor and television presenter (died 2021)
 * December 13 – Nati Mistral, Spanish actress (died 2017)
 * December 16 – Terry Carter, American actor and filmmaker (died 2024)
 * December 17 – Leonid Bronevoy, Russian actor (died 2017)
 * December 21 – Ed Nelson, American actor (died 2014)
 * December 25 – Dick Miller, American actor (died 2019)
 * December 29
 * Bernard Cribbins, English actor and singer (died 2022)
 * June Preston, American child actress (died 2022)

Deaths

 * January 2 – Emily Stevens, American stage & film actress (born 1882)
 * January 3 – Claude France, German film actress (born 1893)
 * January 11 - Rapley Holmes, Canadian stage and screen actor (born 1868)
 * January 25 – Charles Gorman, American stage and screen actor (born 1865)
 * January 26 - Earl Metcalfe, American actor, (born 1889)
 * February 22 – Rudolph J. Bergquist American cinematographer
 * March 5 – Lidia Quaranta, Italian actress (born 1891)
 * March 13 – Elsie Mackay, British actress and heiress; lost at sea (born 1893)
 * April 22 – Frank Currier, American director, stage & silent film actor (born 1857)
 * June 22 – George Siegmann, American silent film actor (born 1882)
 * June 24 – Holbrook Blinn, American stage & silent film actor (born 1872)
 * July 20 – Scott Sidney, American film director (born 1872)
 * July 21
 * Ellen Terry, British stage actress of the Victorian and Edwardian times and later a silent film actress (born 1847)
 * Ward Crane, American film actor (born 1890)
 * August 10 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (born 1896)
 * August 17 – Frank Urson, American film director (born 1887)
 * August 26 – Colin Campbell, British-born film director (born 1859)
 * October 8 – Larry Semon, American film comedian (born 1889)
 * November 10 – Anita Berber, German film actress (born 1899)
 * November 19 – Jeanne Bérangère, French stage and film actress (born 1864)
 * December 14 – Theodore Roberts, American film actor (born 1861)
 * December 25 – Fred Thomson, American film actor (born 1890)

Film debuts

 * Mabel Albertson – Gang War
 * Mischa Auer – Something Always Happens
 * Joe E. Brown – Crooks Can't Win
 * Dorothy Burgess – In Old Arizona
 * Madeleine Carroll – The Guns of Loos
 * Hobart Cavanaugh – San Francisco Nights
 * G. Pat Collins – The Racket
 * Andy Devine – That's My Daddy
 * Lien Deyers – Spione
 * Stuart Erwin – Mother Knows Best
 * Anne Grey – The Constant Nymph
 * Jean Harlow – Honor Bound
 * Anna Magnani – Scampolo
 * Ray Milland – Moulin Rouge
 * Edward Nugent – The Man in Hobbles
 * Lynne Overman – The Perfect Crime
 * Randolph Scott – Sharp Shooters

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Musik, Musik, Musik
The Muppetts Theme Song is identical to Musik, Musik, Musik (Ich brauche keine Millionen) the movie theme of Hallo Janine (UFA, 1939), performed by Marika Rökk; composed by Peter Kreuder. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.194.216.168 (talk) 22:25, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
 * "Identical" is a big stretch. There are a few minor similarities from my perspective. Anyway, it's unclear what specific change you are requesting, but whatever it is, such an observation (and more importantly a proof of "identical") would have to be attributed to reliable published sources. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:33, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * And what about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXu4P6KpoLU ? --Hedron (talk) 14:02, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

 * Do you know what "attributed to reliable published sources" means? That isn't it. - BilCat (talk) 00:27, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Can the following be seen as "attributed to reliable published sources": https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Muppet_Show_Theme#Notes (second note) https://www.whosampled.com/sample/59943/The-Muppets-The-Muppet-Show-Theme-Marika-R%C3%B6kk-Ich-Brauche-Keine-Millionen/ https://cover.info/en/song/The-Muppets-The-Muppet-Show-Theme 2003:E4:BF10:FE2:84F3:991D:E9FD:FE88 (talk) 13:29, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

 * None of those are reliable published sources per WP:RS. BilCat (talk) 19:35, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 August 2016
Prestbury+2000 (talk) 20:21, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Please add Category:Television programmes produced by Associated Television (ATV)

Thank you.
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Topher385 (talk) 20:50, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

 * Hi, when you refer to categories in discussions, you have to put a colon before the category in the link like this:
 * : Category:Television programmes produced by Associated Television (ATV)
 * If you forget to do this, the category won't display in your request, and instead you'll be adding the talk page to that category. That's why couldn't fulfill the request--he saw a blank space after "please add". That said, ✅, I have added the category per your request in this edit. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:24, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Teeth's Talent Show
What is "Dr. Teeth's Talent Show"? It doesn't even exist! Jteka9870 (talk) 15:21, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

United States Broadcast History
The article goes into detail about its broadcast history here in the UK, but glosses over its broadcast history in the US. The Muppet Wiki suggests that it was picked up by local television in New York three months after broadcast in the UK, but was it popular in the United States? How popular? I've always assumed it was a massive hit, but was it? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 22:18, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It aired in broadcast syndication. And it was definitely a hit. oknazevad (talk) 04:29, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

 * If anyone does have any information with some sort of source for US broadcast IE which area picked up the series and when please do say. --Crazyseiko (talk) 12:57, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The Muppet Show aired in most television markets in the U.S. and began airing in September 1976. Since it was a syndicated program, it did not air on the same day of the week or the same time in all areas. I found an ad in Broadcasting magazine which listed over 60 stations that had already agreed to air the show, six months before the broadcast debut. See, pp. 32-33. You can see there that, like many syndicated shows of its era, the show aired on a mixture of CBS, ABC, and NBC stations. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:56, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Extra info
IF it's of any use there is a piece about the muppets which might give more history etc about the series here: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N5ZAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4713%2C3022703 Its form MAY 1977.

Major improvements for this page.
I'm currently trying to drag this page upwards to make it better overall. The page lacks basic history and seems to be over cluttered on minor points. I also hope to add in more ref about the series from the time the series start in the 70s which has to be better overall. The format changes which have just taken place should make the page flow better. More to come, YES episode will be sorted hopeful --Crazyseiko (talk) 12:59, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Just curious
Good overview of how the show came to be, but don't see anything here about why it ended - was it cancelled, did it lose funding, did Henson lose interest, etc. - was just curious. Will try to look for details. 2603:8001:2A00:7428:9D90:2F8:1268:81C6 (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Good question. My understanding is that Henson didn't want it to decline in quality and overstay its welcome, so he ended it while ahead. With the success of The Muppet Movie, he didn't feel the need to keep it as a home base for the characters, either. oknazevad (talk) 19:47, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Was The Muppet Show actually ended on 8th June 1981?
The end dates (except the original UK dates) are somewhat confusing, everyone stated that this show ended in the US by 23rd May but it stated in some sources that it actually ended with the Melissa Manchester episode on 8th June... was that relatable or some kind of a rumour that someone put 8th June there while it was actually a re-run? i hope someone could understand the whole thing, thanks! 86.22.223.111 (talk) 20:55, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * A re-run isn't the original release. So, the date of 23rd of May is correct by the infobox parameters. --SinoDevonian (talk) 21:01, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

I just don't understand.
They just didn't like how i add June 8th 1981 as the actual end date, the US dates of Melissa Manchester episode is actually accurate and was put in by HensonCo and they didn't need it, just May 23rd? you could understand that the whole US end date (May 23rd) isn't quite accurate to me, that was Marty Feldman... June 8th is actually the last for the US airings and that is actually Melissa Manchester, Toughpigs know about this, HensonCo know about this even the Muppet Wiki knows about this, if you were still thinking that May 23rd is always the end date of the US airings, then this page should be challenged, thank you folks. 86.22.223.111 (talk) 20:09, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

 * The dates in the article are not the US dates, they are the UK dates because the shows were shown in the UK before the US.  Dr Greg  talk 20:29, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Main image
There's a disagreement right now about the main image used at the top of the page. Since 2011, this was the page's image: original jpg image, which shows the "title card" of the show, with a stage background and Kermit the Frog appearing in the "O" of "Show".

BradfordNewton uploaded a new image for the top of the page: . This image just shows the logo against a white background.

I think that the original image is more informative and helpful for readers. It shows them what the actual opening of the show was like, and provides context for understanding the premise and tone.

The edit has been reverted back and forth a couple of times, so there is obviously disagreement about which picture is best for the article. I'm opening this discussion, to hear the opinions of other editors and try to find consensus on one or the other. What do you think? Toughpigs (talk) 20:40, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree with you. We should keep the original image, for the reasons you state.— Chowbok  ☠  03:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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1927 in film

The following is an overview of 1927 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1927 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * January 10 – Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany. The film receives its American premiere in New York City on March 6.
 * March 11 – World's largest movie theatre, the Roxy Theatre, opens in New York City.
 * April 7 – Abel Gance's Napoleon often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premieres (in a shortened version) at the Paris Opéra and demonstrates techniques and equipment that will not be revived for years to come, such as hand-held cameras, and what is often considered the first widescreen projection format Polyvision.
 * May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded in Los Angeles by Douglas Fairbanks. The 1st Academy Awards (Oscars) will be awarded to films which are released in 1927 or 1928.
 * August 12 – Paramount's dramatic film Wings, which will go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture, opens at the Criterion Theater in New York City, with an unheard-of roadshow admission price of $2.00 per ticket.
 * September 5 – Nicholas Schenck becomes president of Loews Inc. following the death of Marcus Loew.
 * September 7 – Oswald the Lucky Rabbit debuts in Trolley Troubles.
 * September 23 – Fox Films acquires the rights to the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology, which had been developed in 1919 by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole.
 * October 6 – The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer becomes the first box-office hit and popularizes sound motion pictures. It is the highest-grossing movie up to this time.
 * December 3 – The silent short Putting Pants on Philip, the first official billing of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, is released in the United States.
 * Ang Manananggal, the first Filipino horror film, is released in the Philippines.
 * Cinematograph Films Act sets a minimum quota for British films to be shown in British cinemas.
 * Italian Alberto Rabagliati wins a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest and moves to Hollywood to start his acting career.
 * The Three Tramps, the first Filipino comedy film featuring the Silos brothers, is released in the Philippines.

Academy Awards

 * Best Production: Wings
 * Best Artistic Quality: Sunrise
 * Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command
 * Best Actress: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel
 * Best Director: Frank Borzage for Seventh Heaven

Notable films released in 1927
For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1927

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 * 7th Heaven, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell

A

 * Ang Manananggal, directed by José Nepomuceno, starring Mary Walter – (Philippines)
 * Annie Laurie, directed by John S. Robertson, starring Lillian Gish and Norman Kerry

B

 * Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya), directed by Abram Room – (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Beloved Rogue, directed by Alan Crosland, starring John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt and Marceline Day
 * Belphégor, directed by Henri Desfontaines – (France)
 * Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt), directed by Walter Ruttmann – (Germany)
 * Bigamy (Bigamie), directed by Jaap Speyer, starring Heinrich George – (Germany)
 * Blighty, directed by Adrian Brunel, starring Ellaline Terriss and Lillian Hall-Davis – (GB)
 * The Bugle Call (lost), directed by Edward Sedgwick, starring Jackie Coogan

C

 * The Cat and the Canary, directed by Paul Leni, starring Laura La Plante and Creighton Hale, based on the 1922 stage play by John Willard
 * Chicago, directed by Frank Urson, starring Phyllis Haver
 * Children of Divorce, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Clara Bow, Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper
 * The Chinese Parrot (lost), directed by Paul Leni
 * The Club of the Big Deed (Soyuz velikogo dela), directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg – (U.S.S.R.)
 * College, directed by James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
 * Confetti, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Jack Buchanan and Annette Benson – (GB)

D

 * The Dove, directed by Roland West, starring Norma Talmadge, Noah Beery Sr. and Gilbert Roland
 * Downhill, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello and Isabel Jeans – (GB)
 * The Drop Kick, directed by Millard Webb, starring Richard Barthelmess

E

 * Easy Pickings, directed by George Archainbaud, starring Anna Q. Nilsson, based on the stage play by Paul A. Kruger and William A. Burton
 * Education of a Prince (Éducation de Prince), directed by Henri Diamant-Berger – (France)
 * The End of St. Petersburg (Konets Sankt-Peterburga), directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin – (U.S.S.R.)

F

 * The Fair Co-Ed, directed by Sam Wood; starring Marion Davies and Johnny Mack Brown
 * The Filipino Woman (La Mujer Filipina), directed by José Nepomuceno – (Philippines)
 * The First Auto, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Barney Oldfield and Patsy Ruth Miller
 * Flesh and the Devil, directed by Clarence Brown, starring John Gilbert, Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson
 * The Forty-First (Sorok pervyy), directed by Yakov Protazanov – (U.S.S.R.)

G

 * The Gaucho, directed by F. Richard Jones, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez
 * Ghost Train (Der Geisterzug), directed by Géza von Bolváry, starring Guy Newall – (GB/Germany)
 * The Gorilla (lost), directed by Alfred Santell, starring Charles Murray and Walter Pidgeon, based on the 1925 stage play by Ralph Spence

H

 * Her Wild Oat, directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Colleen Moore
 * His First Flame, directed by Harry Edwards, starring Harry Langdon
 * His Greatest Bluff (Sein größter Bluff), directed by Henrik Galeen and Harry Piel – (Germany)
 * The Honorable Mr. Buggs, directed by Fred Jackman, starring Matt Moore, Anna May Wong and Oliver Hardy
 * Hot Kisses, directed by José Nepomuceno – (Philippines)
 * Hula, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clara Bow
 * Husband Hunters, directed by John G. Adolfi, starring Mae Busch, Jean Arthur and Mildred Harris

I

 * It, directed by Clarence G. Badger, starring Clara Bow and Antonio Moreno

J

 * The Jazz Singer, directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson, May McAvoy and Warner Oland
 * Johann the Coffinmaker, directed by Robert Florey
 * Johnny Get Your Hair Cut, directed by B. Reeves Eason and Archie Mayo, starring Jackie Coogan and Harry Carey

K

 * The Kid Brother, directed by Ted Wilde, starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston
 * The King of Kings, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring H. B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming and Joseph Schildkraut

L

 * The Lady in Ermine (lost), directed by James Flood, starring Corinne Griffith
 * Laila, directed by Aziza Amir, starring Aziza Amir and Stephan Rosti – (Egypt)
 * The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello, based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes – (GB)
 * London After Midnight (lost), written and directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney, Marceline Day and Conrad Nagel
 * Long Pants, directed by Frank Capra, starring Harry Langdon
 * The Love of Jeanne Ney (Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney), directed by G.W. Pabst – (Germany)
 * The Love of Sunya, directed by Albert Parker, starring Gloria Swanson
 * The Loves of Carmen, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Dolores del Río and Victor McLaglen

M

 * Madame Pompadour, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Dorothy Gish and Antonio Moreno – (GB)
 * Man from the Restaurant (Chelovek iz restorana), directed by Yakov Protazanov – (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Manor House of Fear (Le Manoir de la Peur), directed by Alfred Machin and Henry Wulschleger, starring Romuald Joubé – (France)
 * Mata Hari, directed by Friedrich Feher, starring Magda Sonja – (Germany)
 * Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Alfred Abel – (Germany)
 * Mockery, directed by Benjamin Christensen, starring Lon Chaney and Ricardo Cortez
 * The Mountain Eagle (lost), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Nita Naldi – (GB/Germany)
 * My Best Girl, directed by Sam Taylor, starring Mary Pickford and Charles "Buddy" Rogers

N

 * Napoléon, directed by Abel Gance, starring Albert Dieudonné – (France)
 * Noidan kirot (The Curse of the Witch), directed by Teuvo Puro – (Finland)

O

 * The Only Way, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring John Martin Harvey and Madge Stuart – (GB)

P

 * The Patent Leather Kid, directed by Alfred Santell, starring Richard Barthelmess
 * Prelude, written and directed by Castleton Knight, based on the short story The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe – (GB)
 * The Private Life of Helen of Troy (lost), directed by Alexander Korda, starring María Corda, Lewis Stone and Ricardo Cortez

Q

 * Quality Street, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel
 * The Queen of Spades, directed by Aleksandr Razumny, based on the 1833 short story Pikovaya Dama by Alexander Pushkin – (Germany)
 * Quinneys, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring John Longden and Alma Taylor – (GB)

R

 * The Red Mill, directed by William Goodrich (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle), starring Marion Davies
 * The Ring, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Carl Brisson and Lillian Hall-Davis – (GB)
 * Robinson Crusoe, directed by M. A. Wetherell, based on the novel by Daniel Defoe – (GB)
 * Romance of the Western Chamber, directed by Hou Yao – (China)

S

 * The Scar of Shame, directed by Frank Peregini
 * Shooting Stars, directed by Anthony Asquith and A.V. Bramble – (GB)
 * The Show, directed by Tod Browning, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée and Lionel Barrymore, based on the 1910 novel The Day of Souls by Charles Tenney Jackson
 * Singed, directed by John Griffith Wray, starring Blanche Sweet and Warner Baxter
 * Slide, Kelly, Slide, directed by Edward Sedgwick, starring William Haines, Sally O'Neil and Harry Carey
 * Sorrell and Son, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring H. B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson – (GB)
 * Spring Fever, directed by Edward Sedgwick, starring William Haines, Joan Crawford and George K. Arthur
 * The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer
 * Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien
 * Svengali, directed by Gennaro Righelli, starring Paul Wegener, based on the 1894 novel Trilby by George du Maurier – (Germany)

T

 * The Three Tramps, directed by Manuel Silos – (Philippines)
 * Tillie the Toiler, directed by Hobart Henley, starring Marion Davies
 * Topsy and Eva, directed by Del Lord, starring Rosetta Duncan and Vivian Duncan
 * Twelve Miles Out, directed by Jack Conway, starring John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence and Joan Crawford

U

 * Uncle Tom's Cabin, directed by Harry A. Pollard
 * Underworld, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent and George Bancroft
 * The Unknown, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry and Joan Crawford

W

 * The Way of All Flesh (lost), directed by Victor Fleming, starring Emil Jannings
 * West Point, directed by Edward Sedgwick, starring William Haines and Joan Crawford
 * When a Man Loves, directed by Alan Crosland, starring John Barrymore, Dolores Costello and Warner Oland
 * Why Girls Love Sailors, directed by Fred Guiol, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
 * Wings, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen and Gary Cooper
 * The Wizard (lost), directed by Richard Rosson, starring Edmund Lowe and Leila Hyams, based on the 1911 novel Balaoo by Gaston Leroux

Comedy film series

 * Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
 * Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
 * Our Gang (1922–1944)
 * Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
 * Laurel and Hardy (1921–1945)

Animated short film series

 * Felix the Cat (1919–1962)
 * Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1933)
 * Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes (1924-1927)
 * Alice Comedies
 * Alice the Golf Bug
 * Alice Foils the Pirates
 * Alice at the Carnival
 * Alice at the Rodeo
 * Alice the Collegiate
 * Alice in the Alps
 * Alice's Auto Race
 * Alice's Circus Daze
 * Alice's Knaughty Knight
 * Alice's Three Bad Eggs
 * Alice's Picnic
 * Alice's Channel Swim
 * Alice in the Klondike
 * Alice's Medicine Show
 * Alice the Whaler
 * Alice the Beach Nut
 * Alice in the Big League
 * Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
 * Un-Natural History (1925-1927)
 * Pete the Pup (1926-1927)
 * Inkwell Imps (1927–1929)
 * Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
 * Trolley Troubles
 * Oh Teacher
 * The Mechanical Cow
 * Great Guns!
 * All Wet
 * The Ocean Hop
 * The Banker's Daughter
 * Empty Socks
 * Rickety Gin
 * Newslaffs (1927–1928)

Births

 * January 4 – Barbara Rush, American actress (died 2024)
 * January 10 – Lee Philips, American actor (died 1999)
 * January 15 – Phyllis Coates, American actress (died 2023)
 * January 17 – Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (died 2008)
 * January 22 – Walter Sparrow, English actor (died 2000)
 * January 28 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (died 2001)
 * January 29 – Peter Fernandez, American actor, voice director and writer (died 2010)
 * January 31 – Jean Speegle Howard, American actress (died 2000)
 * February 3 – Kenneth Anger, American underground experimental filmmaker and actor (died 2023)
 * February 7 – Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress (died 2020)
 * February 12
 * Eric Mason, British actor (died 2010)
 * H. M. Wynant, American actor
 * February 14 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (died 2007)
 * February 16 – June Brown, English actress (died 2022)
 * February 20 – Sidney Poitier, American actor (died 2022)
 * March 1 – Harry Belafonte, American singer and actor (died 2023)
 * March 4 - Thayer David, American actor (died 1978)
 * March 7 – James Broderick, American actor and director (died 1982)
 * March 18 - George Plimpton, American actor (died 2003)
 * March 20 – Cairbre (also known as Leo), Dublin Zoo-born Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion mascot
 * March 21 – Virginia Weidler, American actress (died 1968)
 * March 25 – Monique van Vooren, Belgian-American actress (died 2020)
 * March 31 – William Daniels, American actor
 * April 1 – Maria Eugénia, Portuguese actress (died 2016)
 * April 2
 * Rita Gam, American actress (died 2016)
 * Ken Sansom, American actor and voice actor (died 2012)
 * April 3 - Robert Hoy, American actor, stuntman and director (died 2010)
 * April 5 – Chao-Li Chi, Shanxi-born actor (died 2010)
 * April 13 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor, director and writer (died 1983)
 * April 16 – Peter Mark Richman, American actor (died 2021)
 * April 19 – Cora Sue Collins, American former child actress
 * April 30 – Ellen Alaküla, Estonian actress (died 2011)
 * May 5 – Pat Carroll, American actress (died 2022)
 * May 6 – Ettore Manni, Italian actor (died 1979)
 * May 11
 * Bernard Fox, Welsh actor (died 2016)
 * Mort Sahl, Canadian-born American comedian and actor (died 2021)
 * May 13 – Herbert Ross, American film director, producer and choreographer (died 2001)
 * May 20 – David Hedison, American actor (died 2019)
 * May 21 – Kay Kendall, English actress, comedienne (died 1959)
 * May 22 – Michael Constantine, Greek American actor (died 2021)
 * May 30 – Clint Walker, American actor (died 2018)
 * May 31 – Koreyoshi Kurahara, Malaysian-Japanese screenwriter, director (died 2002)
 * June 2 – Thomas Hill, Indian-born American character actor (died 2009)
 * June 8 – Jerry Stiller, American actor and comedian (died 2020)
 * June 15 – Ottó Foky, Hungarian animator (died 2012)
 * June 23 – Bob Fosse, American dancer, musical theatre choreographer, screenwriter and director (died 1987)
 * June 24 - Bette Ford, American retired actress
 * June 27 – Geoffrey Palmer, British actor (died 2020)
 * June 30
 * Mario Lanfranchi, Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor (died 2022)
 * Pat McCormick, American actor and writer (died 2005)
 * July 2 - Brock Peters, American actor and singer (died 2005)
 * July 3 - Tim O'Connor, American character actor (died 2018)
 * July 4
 * Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress (died 2023)
 * Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2018)
 * July 5 – Beverly Tyler, American actress, singer (died 2005)
 * July 6 – Janet Leigh, American actress (died 2004)
 * July 7 – Henry O, Chinese-American actor
 * July 9
 * Ed Ames, American singer and actor (died 2023)
 * Susan Cabot, American actress (died 1986)
 * July 15
 * Nan Martin, American actress (died 2010)
 * Joe Turkel, American character actor (died 2022)
 * July 30
 * Richard Johnson, British actor, writer and producer (died 2015)
 * Joan Vohs, American model, actress (died 2001)
 * August 9 – Robert Shaw, British actor and novelist (died 1978)
 * August 14 – Roger Carel (Bancharel), French voice actor (died 2020)
 * August 18 - Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States (died 2023)
 * August 19 – L. Q. Jones, American actor (died 2022)
 * August 20 - Yootha Joyce, English actress (died 1980)
 * August 21 – Tony Steedman, English character actor (died 2001)
 * August 30 – Bill Daily, American actor (died 2018)
 * September 9 – Penelope Houston, English critic (died 2015)
 * September 12
 * Freddie Jones, English actor (died 2019)
 * Franco Latini, Italian actor and voice actor (died 1991)
 * September 13 - Beverly Polcyn, American actress (died 2018)
 * September 16 – Peter Falk, American actor (died 2011)
 * September 19
 * Rosemary Harris, English actress
 * William Hickey, American actor (died 1997)
 * September 20 - Rachel Roberts, Welsh actress (died 1980)
 * September 21 - Joan Hotchkis, American actress and writer (died 2022)
 * September 24 – Arthur Malet, English actor (died 2013)
 * September 26 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (died 1994)
 * October 1 – Tom Bosley, American actor (died 2010)
 * October 7 - Al Martino, American singer and actor (died 2009)
 * October 14 – Roger Moore, English actor (died 2017)
 * October 15 – Jeannette Charles, British actress (died 2024)
 * October 16 – Eileen Ryan, American actress (died 2022)
 * October 18 – George C. Scott, American film and stage actor (died 1999)
 * October 21 - Howard Zieff, American director and producer (died 2009)
 * October 27 – Silvia Laidla, Estonian actress (died 2012)
 * November 1 – Marcel Ophuls, German documentary maker
 * November 3 - Florence Paterson, Canadian actress (died 1995)
 * November 12 – John Hollis, British screen actor (died 2005)
 * November 17
 * Fenella Fielding, English actress (died 2018)
 * Lynn Stalmaster, American casting director (died 2021)
 * November 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (died 1996)
 * November 20 – Estelle Parsons, American actress
 * November 23 – Sybil Jason, American actress (died 2011)
 * November 30 – Robert Guillaume, American actor and singer (died 2017)
 * December 26 - Chuck Hicks, American actor and stuntman (died 2021)
 * December 29 – Giorgio Capitani, Italian film director and screenwriter (died 2017)
 * December 30 – Bernard Barrow, American Actor (died 1993)

Deaths

 * January 13 – Arnold Daly, American actor, playwright and producer (born 1875)
 * March 17 – Charles Emmett Mack, American actor (born 1900)
 * April 25 – Earle Williams, American actor (born 1880)
 * May 7 – Bruce McRae, American stage and screen actor (born 1867)
 * May 16 – Sam Bernard, English stage and screen actor (born 1863)
 * May 20 – Oscar Stribolt, Danish actor (born 1873)
 * June 3 – Einar Hanson, Swedish stage and screen actor (born 1897)
 * June 4 – Robert McKim, American actor (born 1877)
 * July 26 – June Mathis, American screenwriter (born 1887)
 * September 5 – Marcus Loew, American theatre chain executive & founder of Loews Theatres (born 1870)
 * October 5 – Sam Warner, American co-founder of Warner Brothers studios (born 1887)
 * October 13 – Hughie Mack, American actor (born 1884)
 * November 4 – Valli Valli, German stage and film actress (born 1882)
 * December 6 – Kate Toncray, American actress (born 1867)
 * December 16 – Romaine Fielding, American actor and director (born 1868)
 * December 24 – Julia Bruns, American stage & film actress (born 1895)

Film debuts

 * Robert Armstrong – The Main Event
 * Hermione Baddeley – A Daughter in Revolt
 * Louise Beavers – Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * Johnny Mack Brown – The Bugle Call
 * Nancy Carroll – Ladies Must Dress
 * Claudette Colbert – For the Love of Mike
 * June Collyer – Broadway Nights
 * Ruth Donnelly – Rubber Heels
 * Virginia Grey – Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * Elsa Lanchester – One of the Best
 * Dickie Moore – The Beloved Rogue
 * Helen Parrish – Babe Comes Home
 * Mickey Rooney – Orchids and Ermine
 * Angelo Rossitto – The Beloved Rogue
 * Ann Sothern – Broadway Nights
 * Barbara Stanwyck – Broadway Nights
 * Frederick Valk – Out of the Mist
 * Lupe Vélez – The Gaucho

title: 1927 in film


text:
1926 in film

The following is an overview of 1926 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1926 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * February – The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the Weimar Republic, directed by Lotte Reiniger. It is called The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed).
 * August 5 – Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system uses multiple $33 1/3$ rpm gramophone records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back music and sound effects synchronized with film.
 * August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, whose film The Son of the Sheik was currently playing, dies at the age of 31 in New York. Riots occur at the funeral parlor as thousands of people try to see his body.
 * October 7 – Warner Brothers release the second Vitaphone film, The Better 'Ole, starring Sydney Chaplin.
 * December 5 – The 1925 Soviet film Battleship Potemkin premieres in the United States, at the Biltmore Theatre in Manhattan.
 * Theodore W. Case and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation. The Fox-Case Corp. is formed in an effort to exploit the system, which is given the name Movietone. Fox begin to create Movietone News newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels is of Charles Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris.
 * Al Jolson films A Plantation Act, one of the first unreleased talkies and a test film for The Jazz Singer
 * Ang Tatlong Hambog (The Three Humbugs), the first Filipino film to feature a kissing (make out) scene, is released in the Philippines.

Notable films released in 1926
For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1926

0-9

 * 3 Bad Men, directed by John Ford, starring George O'Brien

A

 * The Adventures of Prince Achmed, directed by Lotte Reiniger – (Germany)
 * Aloma of the South Seas (lost), directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Gilda Gray, Warner Baxter and William Powell
 * Ang Tatlong Hambog (The Three Humbugs), directed by José Nepomuceno, starring Dimples Cooper – (Philippines)

B

 * Bardelys the Magnificent, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman
 * The Bat, directed by Roland West, based on the 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
 * Battling Butler, a Buster Keaton film
 * Beau Geste, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Ronald Colman
 * The Bells, directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff
 * The Better 'Ole, directed by Charles Reisner, starring Syd Chaplin
 * Beverly of Graustark, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies and Antonio Moreno
 * The Black Pirate, directed by Albert Parker, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Billie Dove
 * La Bohème, directed by King Vidor, starring Lillian Gish, John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
 * Bride of Glomdal (Glomdalsbruden), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
 * Brown of Harvard, directed by Jack Conway, starring William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian
 * Brudeferden i Hardanger (The Bridal Procession in Hardanger), directed by Rasmus Breistein – (Norway)

C

 * Cab No. 13 (Einspanner Nr 13), directed by Michael Curtiz – (Germany)
 * Cruise of the Jasper B, directed by James W. Horne, starring Rod La Rocque and Mildred Harris

D

 * Dangerous Traffic, directed by Bennett Cohen, starring Ralph Bushman and Mildred Harris
 * The Devil's Circus, directed by Benjamin Christensen, starring Norma Shearer
 * The Devil's Wheel (Chyortovo koleso), directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Don Juan, directed by Alan Crosland, starring John Barrymore

F

 * Falešná kočička aneb Když si žena umíní (Fake Woman, or When He is a She), directed by Svatopluk Innemann – (Czechoslovakia)
 * Faust, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman and Emil Jannings – (Germany)
 * Fool's Luck, directed by William Goodrich (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbukle), starring Lupino Lane
 * For Heaven's Sake, directed by Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston

G

 * The General, directed by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
 * The Golden Butterfly (Der goldene Schmetterling), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lili Damita – (Germany)
 * The Great Gatsby (lost), directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson and William Powell
 * The Great K & A Train Robbery, directed by Lewis Seiler, starring Tom Mix

H

 * Hands Up!, directed by Clarence G. Badger, starring Raymond Griffith
 * The Holy Mountain (Der heilige Berg), directed by Arnold Fanck, starring Leni Riefenstahl – (Germany)

I

 * Irene, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Colleen Moore
 * It Must Be Love (lost), directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Colleen Moore

J

 * The Johnstown Flood, directed by Irving Cummings, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor

K

 * Kid Boots, directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow

L

 * The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei), directed by Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi – (Italy)
 * Loetoeng Kasaroeng (lost), directed by L. Heuveldorp – (Dutch East Indies)
 * Love's Berries (Yagodka lyubvi), directed by Alexander Dovzhenko – (U.S.S.R.)

M

 * Madame Mystery, directed by Richard Wallace and Stan Laurel, starring Theda Bara and Oliver Hardy
 * The Magician, directed by Rex Ingram, starring Alice Terry and Paul Wegener
 * Manon Lescaut, directed by Arthur Robison, starring Lya De Putti – (Germany)
 * Mare Nostrum, directed by Rex Ingram, starring Alice Terry and Antonio Moreno
 * Ménilmontant, directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff – (France)
 * Michel Strogoff, directed by Viktor Tourjansky, starring Ivan Mozzhukhin - (France)
 * Midnight Faces, directed by Bennett Cohen, starring Francis X. Bushman Jr.
 * Miss Mend, directed by Boris Barnet and Fedor Ozep – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Mother (Mat), directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin – (U.S.S.R.)
 * My Stars, directed by William Goodrich (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle)

N

 * Nana, directed by Jean Renoir – (France)
 * Nell Gwyn, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Dorothy Gish – (GB)
 * Nelson, directed by Walter Summers, starring Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
 * The Non-Stop Flight, directed by Emory Johnson

O

 * Old Ironsides, directed by James Cruze, starring Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery and George Bancroft
 * Orphan of Lowood (Die Waise von Lowood), directed by Curtis Bernhardt, based on the 1847 novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë – (Germany)
 * The Overcoat (Shinel), directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg – (U.S.S.R.)

P

 * A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ichipeiji), directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa – (Japan)

Q

 * The Quarterback, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, starring Richard Dix and Esther Ralston

R

 * Rien que les heures (Nothing but Time), directed by Alberto Cavalcanti – (France)

S

 * Scared Stiff, directed by James W. Horne
 * The Scarlet Letter, directed by Victor Sjöström, starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson
 * The Sea Beast, directed by Millard Webb, starring John Barrymore and Dolores Costello
 * Secrets of a Soul (Geheimnisse einer Seele), directed by G. W. Pabst, starring Werner Krauss – (Germany)
 * Shivering Spooks, directed by Robert F. McGowan, an Our Gang short
 * The Show-Off, directed by Mal St. Clair, starring Lois Wilson, Ford Sterling and Louise Brooks
 * The Son of the Sheik, directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky
 * So This is Paris, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Monte Blue
 * So's Your Old Man, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring W. C. Fields
 * The Sorrows of Satan, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Adolphe Menjou and Ricardo Cortez, based on the 1895 novel by Marie Corelli
 * Sparrows, directed by William Beaudine, starring Mary Pickford
 * The Strong Man, directed by Frank Capra, starring Harry Langdon
 * The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag), directed by Henrik Galeen, starring Conrad Veidt and Werner Krauss – (Germany)
 * Sweeney Todd, directed by George Dewhurst, based on the 1847 stage play The String of Pearls, or The Fiend of Fleet Street by George Dibdin-Pitt – (GB)

T

 * Tartuffe (Herr Tartüff), directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
 * Tell It to the Marines, directed by George W. Hill, starring Lon Chaney, Eleanor Boardman and William Haines
 * The Temptress, directed by Fred Niblo, starring Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno and Lionel Barrymore
 * The Three Million Trial (Процесс о трех миллионах), directed by Yakov Protazanov – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Torrent, directed by Monta Bell, starring Ricardo Cortez and Greta Garbo
 * Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, directed by Harry Edwards, starring Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford
 * A Trip to Chinatown (lost), directed by Robert P. Kerr, starring Margaret Livingston
 * The Triumph of the Rat, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Ivor Novello and Isabel Jeans – (GB)

U

 * Unknown Treasures (lost), directed by Archie Mayo, based on the short story The House Behind the Hedge by Mary Spain Vigus

V

 * The Volga Boatman, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring William Boyd

W

 * What Price Glory?, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Dolores del Río
 * While London Sleeps (lost), directed by Howard Bretherton, starring Rin Tin Tin
 * Whispering Wires, directed by Albert Ray, based on the novel by Henry Leverage
 * The Winning of Barbara Worth, directed by Henry King, starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky and Gary Cooper
 * A Woman of the Sea (unreleased), directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Edna Purviance

Y

 * Young April, directed by Donald Crisp, starring Joseph Schildkraut and Bessie Love

Comedy film series

 * Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
 * Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
 * Our Gang (1922–1944)
 * Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
 * Harry Langdon (1924–1936)

Animated short film series

 * Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
 * Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
 * Alice Comedies
 * Alice on the Farm
 * Alice's Balloon Race
 * Alice's Orphan
 * Alice's Little Parade
 * Alice's Mysterious Mystery
 * Alice Charms the Fish
 * Alice's Monkey Business
 * Alice in the Wooly West
 * Alice the Fire Fighter
 * Alice Cuts the Ice
 * Alice Helps the Romance
 * Alice's Spanish Guitar
 * Alice's Brown Derby
 * Alice the Lumber Jack
 * Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
 * Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
 * Un-Natural History (1925–1927)
 * Pete the Pup (1926–1927)

Births

 * January 1 – Zena Marshall, British actress (died 2009)
 * January 6 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor and 1955 Mr. Universe (died 2006)
 * January 14 – Tom Tryon, actor and novelist (died 1991)
 * January 15 – Maria Schell, actress (died 2005)
 * January 17 – Moira Shearer, actress and dancer (died 2006)
 * January 18 – Salah Zulfikar, actor (died 1993)
 * January 19 – Fritz Weaver, actor (died 2016)
 * January 20 – Patricia Neal, actress (died 2010)
 * January 25 – Ted White, American stuntman and actor (died 2022)
 * January 30 – Ramesh Deo, Indian actor (died 2022)
 * February 1 – Nancy Gates, actress (died 2019)
 * February 2 – Lia Laats, actress (died 2004)
 * February 11 – Leslie Nielsen, actor and comedian (died 2010)
 * February 16 – John Schlesinger, director (died 2003)
 * February 20 – Gillian Lynne, dancer, actress and choreographer (died 2018)
 * February 23 – Dorothy Steel, American actress (died 2021)
 * February 26 - Doris Belack, American character actress (died 2011)
 * March 1 – Robert Clary, French-American actor and singer (died 2022)
 * March 5 – Joan Shawlee, American actress (died 1987)
 * March 6 – Andrzej Wajda, director (died 2016)
 * March 13 - Lenny Montana, American actor (died 1992)
 * March 16 – Jerry Lewis, American actor (died 2017)
 * March 18 – Peter Graves, American actor (died 2010)
 * March 21 – André Delvaux, Belgian director (died 2002)
 * March 25 – Gene Shalit, American film critic
 * March 30 – Peter Marshall, American former game show host, television and radio personality, singer and actor
 * April 5 – Roger Corman, American director (died 2024)
 * April 7
 * Prem Nazir, Indian actor (died 1989)
 * Gloria Warren, American actress (died 2021)
 * April 8
 * Shecky Greene, American comedian (died 2023)
 * Shirley Mills, American actress (died 2010)
 * April 12 – Jane Withers, American actress (died 2021)
 * April 14 – Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (died 2018)
 * April 22 – Charlotte Rae, American actress (died 2018)
 * April 25 – Patricia Castell, Argentine actress (died 2013)
 * April 27 - Leo De Lyon, American actor (died 2021)
 * April 29 - Leonard Fenton, English actor and director (died 2022)
 * April 30 – Cloris Leachman, American actress (died 2021)
 * May 3 - Ann B. Davis, American actress (died 2014)
 * May 4
 * Enzo Garinei, Italian actor (died 2022)
 * Christine White, American actress (died 2013)
 * May 5 – Bing Russell, American actor, minor-league baseball club owner (died 2003)
 * May 7 – Val Bisoglio, American character actor (died 2021)
 * May 8
 * David Attenborough, English broadcaster
 * David Hurst, German actor (died 2019)
 * Don Rickles, American comedian and actor (died 2017)
 * May 10
 * Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter (died 2004)
 * Vladimir Tatosov, Russian actor (died 2021)
 * May 11
 * Yvonne Furneaux, French actress (died 2024)
 * Frank Thring, Australian actor (died 1994)
 * May 12 – Marilyn Knowlden, American former child actress
 * May 17 - Maria Duval, Argentine actress (died 2022)
 * May 19 - Michelle Marquais, French actress (died 2022)
 * May 25 – Claude Akins, American actor (died 1994)
 * May 30 – Nina Agapova, Russian actress (died 2021)
 * June 1
 * Andy Griffith, American actor (died 2012)
 * Marilyn Monroe, American actress (died 1962)
 * Aubrey Morris, British actor (died 2015)
 * June 5 – Lu Leonard, American actress (died 2004)
 * June 9
 * Mona Freeman, American actress, painter (died 2014)
 * Georgia Holt, American actress, model (died 2022)
 * June 10
 * June Haver, American actress, singer, dancer (died 2005)
 * Lionel Jeffries, English actor, director and screenwriter (died 2010)
 * June 13 – Paul Lynde, American comedian and actor (died 1982)
 * June 15 - Jesús Guzmán, Spanish actor (died 2023)
 * June 17 - Elio Pandolfi, Italian actor, radio personality and voice actor (died 2021)
 * June 28 – Mel Brooks, American actor, comedian and filmmaker
 * July 5 – Diana Lynn, American actress (died 1971)
 * July 10 – Carleton Carpenter, American actor, magician, author and songwriter (died 2022)
 * July 12 - Sandy Ward, American actor (died 2005)
 * July 14 – Harry Dean Stanton, American character actor (died 2017)
 * July 15 - Albert Popwell, American actor (died 1999)
 * July 20 – Diane Hart, English actress, inventor (died 2002)
 * July 21 – Norman Jewison, Canadian director (died 2024)
 * July 22 – Bryan Forbes, English director (died 2013)
 * July 23 - Rae Allen, American actress, director and singer (died 2022)
 * August 3 – Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (died 2013)
 * August 7 – Stan Freberg, American voice actor, author, radio personality and comedian (died 2015)
 * August 11 - Charles Cooper, American actor (died 2013)
 * August 14 - Margot Benacerraf, Venezuelan film director (died 2024)
 * August 29 – Betty Lynn, American actress (died 2021)
 * September 7 - Don Messick, American voice actor (died 1997)
 * September 19 – James Lipton, American actor, screenwriter and presenter (died 2020)
 * September 23 - Henry Silva, American actor (died 2022)
 * September 25 - Aldo Ray, actor (died 1991)
 * September 26 - Julie London, American singer, actress (died 2000)
 * September 28 - Ralph Ahn, American actor (died 2022)
 * October 15
 * Jeffrey Hayden, American director and producer (died 2016)
 * Jean Peters, American actress (died 2000)
 * October 17
 * Julie Adams, American actress (died 2019)
 * Beverly Garland, American actress (died 2008)
 * October 18 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (died 1991)
 * October 25 – Biff McGuire, American actor (died 2021)
 * November 1 – Betsy Palmer, American actress (died 2015)
 * November 13 - Don Gordon, American actor (died 2017)
 * November 17 - Robert Brown, American actor (died 2022)
 * November 25
 * Harry Landis, British actor and director (died 2022)
 * Terry Kilburn, English-American actor
 * November 26 - Ed Williams, American actor
 * November 30 – Richard Crenna, American actor (died 2003)
 * December 1
 * Allyn Ann McLerie, American actress (died 2018)
 * Robert Symonds, American actor (died 2007)
 * December 11 - Richard Devon, American actor (died 2010)
 * December 18 – Walter Lassally, German-born British-Greek cinematographer (died 2017)
 * December 27 – Jerome Courtland, American actor, director, producer (died 2012)

Deaths

 * January 30 – Barbara La Marr, actress (born 1896)
 * February 6 – Carrie Clark Ward, actress (born 1862)
 * April 20 – Billy Quirk, actor (born 1873)
 * March 2 – Victory Bateman, actress (born 1865)
 * May 7 - Lillian Lawrence, actress (born 1868)
 * July 22 – Willard Louis, actor (born 1882)
 * July 23 - Charles Avery
 * August 22 – Joe Moore, actor, brother of Mary Moore, Matt Moore, Owen Moore & Tom Moore
 * August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, actor (born 1895)
 * August 30 – Eddie Lyons, American actor (born 1886)
 * September 8 – Kisaburo Kurihara, Japanese actor (born 1885)
 * September 11 – Matsunosuke Onoe, actor (born 1875)
 * October 31 – Harry Houdini, magician & actor (born 1874)
 * November 7 – Tom Forman, silent film actor & director (born 1893)
 * November 8 – James K Hackett, stage & silent film actor (born 1869)
 * November 17 – Harold Vosburgh, silent film actor (born 1870)

Film debuts

 * Richard Alexander – Brown of Harvard
 * Margaret Bert – The Blackbird
 * Frank Darien – Old Ironsides
 * Josephine Dunn – Fascinating Youth
 * Jean Fenwick – Fascinating Youth
 * Dwight Frye – Exit Smiling
 * Doris Hill – Tom and His Pals
 * Marcia Mae Jones – Mannequin
 * Nancy Kelly – The Untamed Lady
 * Elissa Landi – London
 * Barton MacLane – The Quarterback
 * John Merton – The Quarterback
 * Nell O'Day – Twinkletoes
 * Kathleen O'Malley – My Old Dutch
 * Franklin Pangborn – Exit Smiling
 * Jack Pennick – The Blue Eagle
 * Nina Quartero – The Sorrows of Satan
 * Buddy Rogers – Fascinating Youth
 * Sylvia Sidney – The Sorrows of Satan
 * Charles Starrett – The Quarterback
 * Thelma Todd – Fascinating Youth
 * John Wayne – Brown of Harvard

title: 1926 in film


text:
1925 in film

This is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1925 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * June 26: Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush premieres. It is voted the best film of the year by critics in The Film Daily annual poll
 * September 25: Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens.
 * November 5: MGM's war drama film The Big Parade is released. It is a massive commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing picture of the 1920s in the United States.
 * December 30: MGM's biblical epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around $0 million when adjusted for inflation)
 * Hong Shen publishes the film script Mrs. Shentu in the Shanghai magazine Eastern Miscellany. It is never filmed, but is considered a milestone in film history for being the first published film script in China. Hong also directs his first film, Young Master Feng, at Mingxing (Star) Film Company in this year.

Notable films released in 1925
For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1925

A

 * Ang Pagtitipid, directed by José Nepomuceno – (Philippines)
 * Are Parents People?, directed by Malcolm St. Clair, starring Adolphe Menjou

B

 * The Battleship Potemkin (Bronyenosyets Potyomkin), directed by Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Bells (Le Juif Polonais), directed by and starring Harry Southwell
 * Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramón Novarro, May McAvoy and Francis X. Bushman
 * The Big Parade, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
 * The Blackguard (Die Prinzessin und der Geiger), directed by Graham Cutts – (GB/Germany)
 * Braveheart, directed by Alan Hale Sr., starring Rod La Rocque

C

 * Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka), directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Chronicles of the Gray House, directed by Arthur von Gerlach, starring Lil Dagover (Germany)
 * The Circle, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Eleanor Boardman
 * Cobra, directed by Joseph Henabery, starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi
 * Corazón Aymara (Aymara Heart) (lost), directed by Pedro Sambarino – (Bolivia)
 * Curses!, directed by William Goodrich (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle) and Grover Jones

D

 * The Dark Angel, directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Ronald Colman and Vilma Bánky
 * Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde, directed by Scott Pembroke and Joe Rock, starring Stan Laurel
 * Don Q, Son of Zorro, directed by Donald Crisp, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Astor

E

 * The Eagle, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky

F

 * The Farmer from Texas (Der Farmer aus Texas), directed by Joe May, starring Lillian Hall-Davis and Willy Fritsch – (Germany)
 * Feu Mathias Pascal (The Late Mathias Pascal), directed by Marcel L'Herbier, starring Ivan Mosjoukine – (France)
 * Fifty-Fifty (lost), directed by Henri Diamant-Berger, starring Hope Hampton, Lionel Barrymore and Louise Glaum
 * The Freshman, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd

G

 * Go West, starring and directed by Buster Keaton
 * The Gold Rush, a Charlie Chaplin film
 * The Goose Woman, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford and Constance Bennett
 * Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
 * The Green Archer, a 10-chapter (three chapters exist) serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, starring Allene Ray and Walter Miller, based on the 1923 novel by Edgar Wallace

H

 * The Haunted Honeymoon, directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, starring Glenn Tryon
 * The Heart Breaker, directed by Benjamin Stoloff
 * His People, directed by Edward Sloman, starring Rudolph Schildkraut
 * His Supreme Moment (lost), directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Blanche Sweet and Ronald Colman
 * El Húsar de la Muerte (The Hussar of Death), starring and directed by Pedro Sienna – (Chile)

I

 * Isn't Life Terrible?, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charley Chase and Oliver Hardy

J

 * Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse), directed by G. W. Pabst, starring Greta Garbo, Werner Krauss and Asta Nielsen – (Germany)

K

 * The King on Main Street, directed by Monta Bell, starring Adolphe Menjou and Bessie Love
 * A Kiss For Cinderella, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Esther Ralston

L

 * The Lady, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Norma Talmadge
 * Lady of the Night, directed by Monta Bell, starring Norma Shearer
 * Lazybones, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Madge Bellamy, Buck Jones and ZaSu Pitts
 * Lady Windermere's Fan, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Ronald Colman and May McAvoy
 * Lights of Old Broadway, directed by Monta Bell, starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel
 * Little Annie Rooney, directed by William Beaudine, starring Mary Pickford and William Haines
 * Living Buddhas (Lebende Buddhas) (lost), directed by Paul Wegener, starring Paul Wegener and Asta Nielsen
 * The Lost World, directed by Harry O. Hoyt, starring Bessie Love, Lewis Stone and Wallace Beery, based on the 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * Lovers in Quarantine, directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Bebe Daniels and Harrison Ford
 * The Lucky Horseshoe, directed by John G. Blystone, starring Tom Mix

M

 * Maciste in Hell (Maciste all'inferno), directed by Guido Brignone – (Italy)
 * Madame Behave (lost), directed by Scott Sidney, starring Julian Eltinge and Ann Pennington
 * Madame Sans-Gêne (lost), directed by Léonce Perret, starring Gloria Swanson
 * The Marriage of the Bear (Medvezhya Svadba), directed by Vladimir Gardin and Konstantin Eggert, based on the 1869 novella Lokis by Prosper Mérimée – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Master of the House (Du skal ære din hustru), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
 * Men and Women (lost), directed by William C. deMille, starring Richard Dix
 * The Merry Widow, directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert
 * Miracles of Love, directed by Vicente Salumbides, starring Dimples Cooper – (Philippines)
 * Les Misérables, directed by Henri Fescourt – (France)
 * The Monster, directed by Roland West, starring Lon Chaney and Johnny Arthur, based on the 1924 play by Crane Wilbur
 * The Mystic, directed by Tod Browning, starring Aileen Pringle and Conway Tearle

O

 * Old Clothes, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan and Joan Crawford
 * Orochi, directed by Buntarō Futagawa, starring Tsumasaburō Bandō – (Japan)

P

 * Pampered Youth (lost), directed by David Smith
 * The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge (Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge), written and directed by René Clair – (France)
 * The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Rupert Julian, starring Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin, based on the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux
 * The Plastic Age – directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Clara Bow and Gilbert Roland
 * The Pleasure Garden, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Virginia Valli and Carmelita Geraghty – (GB)
 * Prem Sanyas (Die Leuchte Asiens | The Light of Asia), directed by Franz Osten and Himanshu Rai – (Germany/India)
 * Pretty Ladies, directed by Monta Bell, starring ZaSu Pitts
 * Proud Flesh, directed by King Vidor, starring Eleanor Boardman and Harrison Ford

R

 * The Rag Man, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan
 * The Rat, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans – (GB)
 * The Red Head (Poil de Carotte), directed by Julien Duvivier – (France)
 * Red Heels (Das Spielzeug von Paris), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lili Damita – (Austria)
 * The Road to Yesterday, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Joseph Schildkraut and William Boyd

S

 * Sally, Irene and Mary directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, Sally O'Neil and William Haines
 * Sally of the Sawdust, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Carol Dempster and W. C. Fields
 * Seven Chances, a Buster Keaton film
 * Seven Keys to Baldpate (lost), directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, starring Douglas MacLean, based on the 1913 novel by Earl Derr Biggers
 * She, directed by Leander de Cordova and G. B. Samuelson, starring Betty Blythe – (GB/Germany)
 * Smouldering Fires, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante
 * Spook Ranch, directed by Edward Laemmle, starring Hoot Gibson
 * Stella Dallas, directed by Henry King, starring Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
 * The Street of Forgotten Men (lost), directed by Herbert Brenon
 * Strike (Stachka), directed by Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Swan, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, starring Frances Howard, Adolphe Menjou and Ricardo Cortez

T

 * The Tailor from Torzhok (Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka), directed by Yakov Protazanov – (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Third Round, directed by Sidney Morgan, starring Jack Buchanan – (GB)
 * Three Weeks in Paris (lost), directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Matt Moore
 * Too Many Kisses, directed by Paul Sloane, starring Richard Dix and William Powell
 * Tumbleweeds, directed by King Baggot, starring William S. Hart

U

 * The Unholy Three, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore and Victor McLaglen, based on the 1917 novel by Tod Robbins

V

 * Vampires of Warsaw (Wampiry Warszawy) (lost), written and directed by Wiktor Biegański – (Poland)
 * Variety (Varieté), directed by Ewald André Dupont, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
 * Visages d'enfants (Faces of Children), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)

W

 * The Whirlpool of Fate (La Fille de l'eau), directed by Jean Renoir – (France)
 * The White Lily Laments (Shirayuri wa nageku), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan)
 * The Wizard of Oz, directed by Larry Semon
 * Wolf Blood: A Tale of the Forest, directed by George Chesebro and Bruce M. Mitchell
 * Womanhandled, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Richard Dix and Esther Ralston
 * A Woman of the World, directed by Mal St. Clair, starring Pola Negri

Z

 * Zander the Great, directed by George W. Hill, starring Marion Davies and Harrison Ford

Comedy film series

 * Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
 * Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
 * Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
 * Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
 * Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
 * Our Gang (1922–1944)
 * Harry Langdon (1924–1936)

Animated short film series

 * Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
 * Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
 * Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)
 * Alice Comedies
 * Alice Cans the Cannibals
 * Alice the Toreador
 * Alice Gets Stung
 * Alice Solves the Puzzle
 * Alice's Egg Plant
 * Alice Loses Out
 * Alice is Stage Struck
 * Alice Wins the Derby
 * Alice Picks the Champ
 * Alice's Tin Pony
 * Alice Chops the Suey
 * Alice the Jail Bird
 * Alice Plays Cupid
 * Alice Rattled by Rats
 * Alice in the Jungle
 * Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
 * Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
 * Un-Natural History (1925–1927)

Births

 * January 1 - Matthew Beard, American actor (died 1981)
 * January 6 – Enrique Carreras, Peruvian-born director and producer (died 1995)
 * January 9 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (died 1989)
 * January 13 – Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (died 2000)
 * January 15 - Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor (died 2023)
 * January 21 – Charles Aidman, American actor (died 1993)
 * January 24 – Helen Stenborg, American actress (died 2011)
 * January 26
 * Joan Leslie, American actress (died 2015)
 * Paul Newman, American actor (died 2008)
 * February 2 – Elaine Stritch, American actress (died 2014)
 * February 3
 * Shelley Berman, American comedian, actor, and writer (died 2017)
 * John Fiedler, American actor and voice actor (died 2005)
 * February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (died 2001)
 * February 11 – Kim Stanley, American actress (died 2001)
 * February 17
 * Ron Goodwin, English film composer (died 2003)
 * Hal Holbrook, American actor (died 2021)
 * February 18 – George Kennedy, American actor (died 2016)
 * February 20 – Robert Altman, American director (died 2006)
 * February 21 – Sam Peckinpah, American director (died 1984)
 * February 25 – Aino Seep, Estonian singer and actress (died 1982)
 * February 26 – Selma Archerd, American actress (died 2023)
 * March 11 – Peter R. Hunt, British director, editor and producer (died 2002)
 * March 13 – Corrado Gaipa, Italian actor and voice actor (died 1989)
 * March 17 - Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (died 2015)
 * April 14 – Rod Steiger, American actor (died 2002)
 * April 18 – Bob Hastings, American actor (died 2014)
 * April 19 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (died 2016)
 * April 28 – Bruce Kirby, American character actor (died 2021)
 * May 2 – John Neville, English-Canadian actor (died 2011)
 * May 25 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (died 2003)
 * May 26 – Alec McCowen, English actor (died 2017)
 * May 28 – Martha Vickers, American model, actress (died 1971)
 * June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (died 2010)
 * June 5 - Henny Orri, Dutch actress (died 2022)
 * June 7 – John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer (died 2008)
 * June 8 – Charles Tyner, American actor (died 2017)
 * June 10 - Diana Maggi, Italian-born Argentine actress (died 2022)
 * June 13 – Kristine Miller, American actress (died 2015)
 * June 16 – Otto Muehl, Austrian experimental director (died 2013)
 * June 20 – Audie Murphy, American soldier, actor, songwriter, rancher (died 1971)
 * June 21 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (died 2006)
 * June 25
 * June Lockhart, American actress
 * Virginia Patton, American actress (died 2022)
 * June 29
 * John Fujioka, American actor of Japanese descent (died 2018)
 * Cara Williams, American actress (died 2021)
 * July 1 – Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011)
 * July 6 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (died 2002)
 * July 10 – Mildred Kornman, American actress (died 2022)
 * July 11 – David Graham, English actor
 * July 13 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and scriptwriter (died 2020)
 * July 14 – Pip Freedman, South African radio comedian and actor (died 2003)
 * July 15 – D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (died 2019)
 * July 23 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress (died 2016)
 * July 24 – Miiko Taka, American actress (died 2023)
 * July 25 – Jerry Paris, American actor and director (died 1986)
 * August 6 – Barbara Bates, American singer, actress (died 1969)
 * August 11 – Arlene Dahl, American actress (died 2021)
 * August 13
 * Carlos Balá, Argentine actor (died 2022)
 * Asao Sano, Japanese actor (died 2022)
 * August 15 – Mike Connors, American actor (died 2017)
 * August 22 – Honor Blackman, English actress (died 2020)
 * August 23 – Robert Mulligan, American director (died 2008)
 * August 27 - Susan Willis, American actress (died 2009)
 * August 29 - Dick Cusack, American actor and filmmaker (died 2003)
 * August 30 - Frank Ray Perilli, American actor and screenwriter (died 2018)
 * September 2 - Ronnie Stevens, English character actor and voice artist (died 2006)
 * September 3 - Anne Jackson, American actress (died 2016)
 * September 8 – Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (died 1980)
 * September 12
 * James Garbutt, British actor (died 2020)
 * Dickie Moore, American actor (died 2015)
 * September 21 – Noor Jehan, Indian actress (died 2000)
 * September 22 - Virginia Capers, American actress (died 2004)
 * September 29 - Steve Forrest, American actor (died 2013)
 * October 3 – Gore Vidal, American writer and actor (died 2012)
 * October 4 - Edmund Lyndeck, American actor (died 2015)
 * October 5 – Gail Davis, American actress (died 1997)
 * October 11 – Nancy Guild, American actress (died 1999)
 * October 16
 * Angela Lansbury, English-American actress (died 2022)
 * Lenka Peterson, American actress (died 2021)
 * October 29
 * Geraldine Brooks, American actress (died 1977)
 * Robert Hardy, English actor (died 2017)
 * October 31 – Lee Grant, American actress, documentarian, and director
 * November 4 – Doris Roberts, American actress (died 2016)
 * November 6 - Michel Bouquet, French actor (died 2022)
 * November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (died 1984)
 * November 11 - Jonathan Winters, American comedian, actor, author, television host and artist (died 2013)
 * November 17 – Rock Hudson, American actor (died 1985)
 * November 22 - Carla Balenda, American actress
 * November 25 – June Whitfield, English comic actress (died 2018)
 * December 2 – Julie Harris, American Broadway and film actress (died 2013)
 * December 3 – Kaljo Kiisk, Estonian actor and director (died 2007)
 * December 7 – Sydney Samuelson, English cinematographer (died 2022)
 * December 8 – Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician and actor (died 1990)
 * December 12 – Anne V. Coates, English film editor (died 2018)
 * December 13 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor
 * December 18 – Peggy Cummins, Welsh-born Irish actress (died 2017)
 * December 23 – Harry Guardino, American actor (died 1995)
 * December 28 – Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (died 2002)

Deaths

 * January 24 - Wilton Taylor, American actor (born 1869)
 * February 4 - William Haggar, British cinema pioneer (born 1851)
 * February 6 - James Kenyon, English businessman and cinema pioneer (born 1850)
 * February 7 – Edward Jobson, American actor (born 1860)
 * February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French director (born 1873)
 * March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (born 1910)
 * April 8 – Thecla Åhlander, Swedish actress (born 1855)
 * April 13 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor (born 1875)
 * April 16 – David Powell, Scottish actor (born 1883)
 * July 29 – Mark Fenton, American actor (born 1866)
 * September 28 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (born 1888)
 * October 21 – Orme Caldara, American stage and film actor (born 1875)
 * October 31 – Max Linder, French actor (born 1883)
 * November 1 – Lester Cuneo American actor (born 1888)
 * November 3 – Lucile McVey, American actress (born 1890)
 * December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress (born 1888)
 * December 9 – Harry Rattenberry, American actor (born 1857)
 * December 21 – Lottie Lyell, Australian director/producer (born 1890)
 * December 22 – Mary Thurman, American actress (born 1895)
 * December 24 - James O. Barrows, American stage and screen actor (born 1855)
 * December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards American director (born 1867)

Film debuts

 * Barbara Barondess – A Kiss for Cinderella
 * Walter Brennan – Webs of Steel
 * Iron Eyes Cody – The Road to Yesterday
 * Gary Cooper – Dick Turpin
 * Harry Cording – The Shock Punch
 * Joan Crawford – Lady of the Night
 * Dolores del Río – Joanna
 * Wild Bill Elliott – The Plastic Age
 * Stepin Fetchit – The Mysterious Stranger
 * Paul Fix – The Perfect Clown
 * Joyzelle Joyner – Ben-Hur
 * René Lefèvre – Knock
 * Myrna Loy – Pretty Ladies
 * Mona Maris – The Apache
 * Maximilienne – Le Double Amour
 * Tim McCoy – The Thundering Herd
 * Anita Page – A Kiss for Cinderella
 * Bodil Rosing – Pretty Ladies
 * Dorothy Sebastian – Sackcloth and Scarlet
 * Nicholas Soussanin – The Swan
 * Grady Sutton – The Mad Whirl
 * Michael Visaroff – The Swan
 * Fay Wray – The Coast Patrol

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