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1969 in film

The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1969 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * January 14 - Louis F. Polk Jr. becomes president and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 * February 23 - Madhubala dies due to a congenital heart disease, at age 36.
 * June 22 - American singer and actress Judy Garland dies at age 47 of an accidental barbiturate overdose in London.
 * July 8 - Kinney National Services Inc. acquire substantially all of the assets of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
 * July 13 - Al Pacino's film debut (Me, Natalie).
 * Summer - Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980. From 1969 to 1979, the festival is non-competitive.
 * August 8 - Kirk Kerkorian buys 24% of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, becoming the biggest shareholder.
 * August 9 - Tate murders: Sharon Tate, the 26-year-old pregnant actress, model and Roman Polanski's wife, is murdered by Charles Manson's "Family" at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, aside three friends and an unrelated man.
 * September 20 - Injun Trouble was released, becoming the final entry of Merrie Melodies before Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation was shut down.
 * November 10 - Elvis Presley's film career ends with the release of Change of Habit.
 * Jack and Jill: A Postscript becomes the first feature film to receive an Australian Film Institute Award.

Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
 * If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, United Kingdom

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
 * Rani Radovi (Early Works), directed by Želimir Žilnik, Yugoslavia

By country/region

 * List of American films of 1969
 * List of Argentine films of 1969
 * List of Australian films of 1969
 * List of Bangladeshi films of 1969
 * List of British films of 1969
 * List of Canadian films of 1969
 * List of French films of 1969
 * List of Hong Kong films of 1969
 * List of Indian films of 1969
 * List of Hindi films of 1969
 * List of Kannada films of 1969
 * List of Malayalam films of 1969
 * List of Marathi films of 1969
 * List of Tamil films of 1969
 * List of Telugu films of 1969
 * List of Japanese films of 1969
 * List of Mexican films of 1969
 * List of Pakistani films of 1969
 * List of South Korean films of 1969
 * List of Soviet films of 1969
 * List of Spanish films of 1969

By genre/medium

 * List of action films of 1969
 * List of animated feature films of 1969
 * List of avant-garde films of 1969
 * List of comedy films of 1969
 * List of drama films of 1969
 * List of horror films of 1969
 * List of science fiction films of 1969
 * List of thriller films of 1969
 * List of western films of 1969

Notable films released in 1969

 * Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

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

A

 * Ådalen 31, directed by Bo Widerberg – (Sweden)
 * Adelheid, directed by František Vláčil – (Czechoslovakia)
 * The Adjutant of His Excellency (Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva) – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Age of Consent, directed by Michael Powell, starring James Mason and Helen Mirren – (Australia)
 * Alfred the Great, starring David Hemmings – (U.K.)
 * Alice's Restaurant, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Arlo Guthrie
 * All Monsters Attack (Gojira Minira Gabara Ōru Kaijū Daishingeki, also known as Godzilla's Revenge), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
 * All My Compatriots (Všichni dobří rodáci) – (Czechoslovakia)
 * Angel in My Pocket, starring Andy Griffith
 * Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, John Colicos, Anthony Quayle – winner of 4 Golden Globes – (U.K.)
 * The April Fools, starring Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford
 * Aradhana (Worship) – (India)
 * Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret – (France)
 * The Arrangement, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Kirk Douglas and Deborah Kerr
 * Arthur? Arthur!, starring Shelley Winters, Terry-Thomas, Tammy Grimes
 * The Assassination Bureau, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas – (U.K.)

B

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

C

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

D

 * The Damned (La caduta degli dei), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde and Ingrid Thulin – (Italy/West Germany)
 * Daughter of the Mind, starring Don Murray and Ray Milland
 * De Sade, starring Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, John Huston – (U.S./West Germany)
 * Death of a Gunfighter, starring Richard Widmark and Lena Horne
 * Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto), starring Michel Piccoli and Anita Pallenberg – (Italy)
 * Don't Drink the Water, directed by Howard Morris, written by Woody Allen, starring Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Michael Constantine
 * Do Raaste (Two Roads) – (India)
 * Doppelgänger, starring Roy Thinnes, Lynn Loring, Herbert Lom
 * Double Suicide (Shinjū: Ten no amijima) – (Japan)
 * Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
 * The Dragon of Evil Against the Warrior Saint (O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro), directed by Glauber Rocha – (Brazil)

E

 * Easy Rider, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson
 * End of a Priest (Farářův konec) – (Czechoslovakia)
 * Eros Plus Massacre (Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) – (Japan)
 * Everything for Sale (Wszystko na sprzedaż), written and directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
 * The Exquisite Cadaver (Las crueles), starring Capucine – (Spain)
 * The Extraordinary Seaman, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
 * Eye of the Cat, starring Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker

F

 * Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy)
 * Flashback, directed by Raffaele Andreassi – (Italy)
 * Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
 * Fraulein Doktor, starring Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Capucine
 * Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Sōretsu), by Toshio Matsumoto – (Japan)

G

 * Gaily, Gaily, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, George Kennedy, Margot Kidder
 * A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce), directed by Robert Bresson, starring Dominique Sanda – (France)
 * The Girl from Rio, starring Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler and George Sanders – (Spain/West Germany/U.S.)
 * Goodbye, Columbus, starring Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw and Jack Klugman
 * Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark
 * Good Morning, My Dear Wife, starring Salah Zulfikar and Nelly – (Egypt)
 * Goyokin, directed by Hideo Gosha – (Japan)
 * The Grasshopper, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jim Brown
 * The Great Love (Le grand amour) – (France)
 * Guns of the Magnificent Seven, directed by Paul Wendkos, starring George Kennedy and James Whitmore
 * The Gypsy Moths, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Bonnie Bedelia

H

 * Hail, Hero! directed by David Miller Starring Michael Douglas and Peter Strauss.
 * Hamlet, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Anthony Hopkins – (U.K.)
 * Handcuffs (Lisice) – (Yugoslavia)
 * Hannibal Brooks, starring Oliver Reed
 * The Happy Ending, starring Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges and Teresa Wright
 * Hard Contract, starring James Coburn, Lee Remick, Burgess Meredith – (U.K.)
 * The Haunted House of Horror (a.k.a. Horror House or The Dark), starring Frankie Avalon and Jill Haworth – (U.K.)
 * Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly, starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Tommy Tune, Louis Armstrong
 * Hello Down There, starring Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Jim Backus, Charlotte Rae, Ken Berry, Roddy McDowall, Richard Dreyfuss
 * Honeycomb (La madriguera), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin – (Spain)
 * The Honeymoon Killers, starring Tony LoBianco and Shirley Stoler
 * Hook, Line & Sinker, starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lawford
 * How to Commit Marriage, starring Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Tina Louise, Maureen Arthur, Leslie Nielsen
 * Heaven Is Never a Great Distance, starring Mohammad Ali Fardin – Iran

I

 * If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, starring Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Michael Constantine
 * I'm an Elephant, Madame (Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame) – (West Germany)
 * The Italian Job, directed by Peter Collinson, starring Michael Caine and Noël Coward – (U.K.)
 * The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom
 * It's Tough Being a Man (Otoko wa tsurai yo) – (Japan)
 * Ittefaq, starring Rajesh Khanna – (India)

J

 * Jackal of Nahueltoro (El Chacal de Nahueltoro) – (Chile)
 * John and Mary, starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow

K

 * Katrina – (South Africa)
 * Katzelmacher, directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Hanna Schygulla – (West Germany)
 * Kes, directed by Ken Loach – (U.K.)
 * Khamoshi (Silence) – (India)

L

 * L'amour fou, directed by Jacques Rivette – (France)
 * The Land (Al-ard), directed by Youssef Chahine – (Egypt)
 * Larks on a String (Skřivánci na niti), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia) – banned until 1990
 * Last Summer, starring Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns
 * Laughter in the Dark (La Chambre obscure), directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson and Anna Karina – (France/U.K.)
 * Law and Order, directed by Frederick Wiseman (made for television)
 * The Learning Tree, directed by Gordon Parks
 * Lions Love, directed by Agnès Varda
 * Lock Up Your Daughters, starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Glynis Johns
 * Lost Flight, starring Anne Francis, Lloyd Bridges, Billy Dee Williams
 * The Lost Man, starring Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus
 * The Love God?, directed by Nat Hiken, starring Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Maureen Arthur
 * Love Is Colder Than Death (Liebe ist kälter als der Tod), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)

M

 * Machine Gun McCain, starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk
 * Mackenna's Gold, starring Gregory Peck, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, and Omar Sharif
 * Macunaíma, directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade – (Brazil)
 * The Madwoman of Chaillot, starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer, John Gavin, Danny Kaye
 * The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Raquel Welch – (U.K.)
 * Marlowe, directed by Paul Bogart, starring James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Carroll O'Connor, Bruce Lee
 * Marooned, directed by John Sturges, starring Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman
 * Marquis de Sade: Justine, starring Romina Power, Klaus Kinski, Jack Palance – (Italy)
 * Medea, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Maria Callas – (Italy/France/West Germany)
 * Medium Cool, directed by Haskell Wexler, starring Robert Forster, Marianna Hill, Peter Bonerz
 * Midas Run, starring Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire
 * Midnight Cowboy, directed by John Schlesinger, screenplay by Waldo Salt, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman
 * The Milky Way (La voie lactée), directed by Luis Buñuel – (France/Italy/West Germany)
 * Mississippi Mermaid (La sirène du Mississipi [sic]), directed by François Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
 * The Monitors, starring Guy Stockwell and Susan Oliver
 * Mon oncle Benjamin (My Uncle Benjamin) – (France)
 * Monsieur Hawarden – (Belgium/Netherlands)
 * Monte Carlo or Bust!, aka Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies, starring Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore – (U.K./France/Italy)
 * More, directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grünberg – (France/West Germany)
 * More Dead Than Alive, starring Clint Walker and Anne Francis
 * Mosquito Squadron, starring David McCallum – (U.K.)
 * My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud), directed by Éric Rohmer – (France)

N

 * The Night of Counting the Years (Al-Mummia) – (Egypt)
 *  Nightmare in Wax, starring Cameron Mitchell and Anne Helm
 * Number One, starring Charlton Heston, Jessica Walter, Bruce Dern

O

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

P

 * Paint Your Wagon, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, with songs by Lerner and Loewe
 * The Passion of Anna, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson – (Sweden)
 * Phantom India, directed by Louis Malle – (France; made for television)
 * Pigsty (Porcile), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini – (Italy)
 * La Piscine (The Swimming Pool), starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider – (France)
 * Play Dirty, starring Michael Caine – (U.K.)
 * Popi, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Alan Arkin and Rita Moreno
 * The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Maggie Smith (Academy Award winner) – (U.K.)
 * The Promise, starring John Castle and Ian McKellen – (U.K.)
 * Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey, Sr.

Q

 * A Quiet Place in the Country (Un tranquillo posto di campagna), starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave – (Italy/France)

R

 * The Rain People, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Robert Duvall, Shirley Knight
 * Rani Radovi (Early Years) – Golden Bear winner – (Yugoslavia)
 * Rascal, starring Bill Mumy and Steve Forrest
 * The Red Tent (Krasnaya palatka) – (U.S.S.R./Italy/U.K.)
 * The Reivers, based on the novel by William Faulkner, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel, Will Geer, narrated by Burgess Meredith
 * La residencia (The Boarding School), starring Lilli Palmer – (Spain)
 * Rider on the Rain (Le Passager de la pluie), directed by René Clément, starring Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert – (France)
 * Ring of Bright Water, starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna – (U.K.)
 * Riot, starring Jim Brown and Gene Hackman
 * The Royal Hunt of the Sun, starring Robert Shaw and Christopher Plummer – (U.K./U.S.)

S

 * Sabata, starring Lee Van Cleef – (Italy)
 * Salesman, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
 * Sam Whiskey, starring Burt Reynolds and Angie Dickinson
 * Satyakam, starring Dharmendra and Ashok Kumar – (India)
 * The Secret of Santa Vittoria, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani
 * Shining Star, starring Ahmad Ghadakchian and Forouzan – (Iran)
 * Shinsengumi, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
 * The Sicilian Clan (Le clan des siciliens), starring Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Lino Ventura – (France)
 * Sinful Davey, directed by John Huston, starring John Hurt
 * Slaves, directed by Herbert Biberman, starring Dionne Warwick, Ossie Davis and Stephen Boyd
 * Some Girls Do, starring Richard Johnson and Daliah Lavi
 * Some Kind of a Nut, starring Dick Van Dyke, Rosemary Forsyth and Angie Dickinson
 * The Sorrow and the Pity, directed by Marcel Ophuls – (France)
 * The Southern Star, starring George Segal, Orson Welles and Ursula Andress
 * Staircase, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton
 * The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Liza Minnelli
 * Stiletto, starring Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Joseph Wiseman and Patrick O'Neal
 * Support Your Local Sheriff!, starring James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan and Jack Elam
 * Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Shirley MacLaine

T

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

U

 * Ultraman, Ultraseven: Great Violent Monster Fight – (Japan)
 * The Undefeated, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson
 * The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran – (France)

V

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

W

 * The Wedding Party, directed by Wilford Leach, Brian De Palma and Cynthia Monroe
 * What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon and Rosemary Forsyth
 * What's Good for the Goose, starring Norman Wisdom and Sally Geeson – (U.K.)
 * Where It's At, starring David Janssen and Rosemary Forsyth
 * Where's Jack?, starring Stanley Baker and Tommy Steele – (U.K.)
 * White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni), directed by Vladimir Motyl – (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates
 * Winning, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Thomas, Robert Wagner
 * The Witness (A tanu), directed by Péter Bacsó – (Hungary)
 * Women in Love, directed by Ken Russell, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson – (U.K.)
 * The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Nagagutsu o Haita Neko), directed by Kimio Yabuki – (Japan)
 * The Wrecking Crew, starring Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise and Sharon Tate

Y

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

Z

 * Z, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Irene Papas – (France/Algeria)

Short film series

 * Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
 * Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
 * Cool Cat (1967—1969)
 * Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967—1969)
 * The Pink Panther (1963–1969, 1971–1977, 1978–1980)
 * The Inspector (1965-1969)
 * The Ant and the Aardvark (1969–1971)
 * Roland and Rattfink (1968–1971)
 * Tijuana Toads (1969–1972)
 * Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949, 1951–1972)
 * Chilly Willy (1955–1972)
 * The Beary Family (1962–1972)

Births

 * January 1
 * Morris Chestnut, American actor
 * Mr. Lawrence, American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, animator and director
 * Verne Troyer, American actor (died 2018)
 * January 2
 * Nicholas Gleaves, English actor
 * Tommy Morrison, American professional boxer, mixed martial artist and actor (died 2013)
 * January 3 - John Ales, American actor
 * January 5 - Shea Whigham, American actor
 * January 6 - Norman Reedus, American actor
 * January 8 - Ami Dolenz, American former actress
 * January 14 – Jason Bateman, American actor
 * January 15 - Meret Becker, German actress and singer
 * January 17 – James Waterston, American actor
 * January 18 – Dave Bautista, American actor and former professional wrestler
 * January 20 - Reno Wilson, American actor
 * January 21
 * Karina Lombard, Tahitan actress
 * Matt Willig, American actor and former football player
 * January 22 - Olivia d'Abo, British actress and singer
 * January 27 – Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer
 * January 28 - Kathryn Morris, American actress
 * February 3 - Shane Rangi, New Zealand actor
 * February 4 - Brandy Ledford, American actress and model
 * February 5
 * Bobby Brown, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * Michael Sheen, Welsh actor and producer
 * February 6
 * April Haney, American former actress and singer
 * Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese actor and singer
 * David Hayter, Canadian actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
 * February 8
 * Brian Krause, American actor
 * Mary McCormack, American actress
 * February 11
 * Jennifer Aniston, American actress
 * Lee Tockar, Canadian voice actor and visual artist
 * February 12 - Darren Aronofsky, American director, producer and screenwriter
 * February 13 - Andrew Bryniarski, American actor
 * February 15 - James Riordan, American actor
 * February 22 - Thomas Jane, American actor
 * February 26 - Steve Agee, American comedian, actor, writer and musician
 * February 28 - Robert Sean Leonard, American actor
 * March 1 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
 * March 8 - Don Hall, American director, voice actor and writer
 * March 10
 * Paget Brewster, American actress
 * Dave Sheridan, American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician
 * March 11 – Terrence Howard, American actor
 * March 15 - Kim Raver, American actress and producer
 * March 16 - Judah Friedlander, American actor and comedian
 * March 17 - Patrick Van Horn, American actor
 * March 19 - Connor Trinneer, American actor
 * March 23 - Richard Cadell, Illusionist, puppeteer and screenwriter
 * March 27 - Kevin Corrigan, American character actor
 * March 28 - Brett Ratner, American director and producer
 * April 2 – Ajay Devgan, Indian actor
 * April 3 – Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
 * April 6 – Paul Rudd, American actor
 * April 21
 * Toby Stephens, English actor
 * Joel de la Fuente, American actor
 * April 23 – Byron Thames, American actor
 * April 24 - Rory McCann, Scottish actor
 * April 25
 * Gina Torres, American actress
 * Renée Zellweger, American actress
 * April 29 - Paul Adelstein, American actor
 * May 1 – Wes Anderson, American director
 * May 2 - Karel Dobrý, Czech actor
 * May 10 - Lenny Venito, American actor
 * May 12 - Kim Fields, American actress and director
 * May 14 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
 * May 15 - Kirk DeMicco, American filmmaker
 * May 22 - Michael Kelly, American actor
 * May 24 – Carl Anthony Payne II, American actor
 * May 25 – Anne Heche, American actress (died 2022)
 * May 27 - Glenn Ficarra, American screenwriter, director and producer
 * June 1 – Teri Polo, American actress
 * June 4
 * Rob Huebel, American actor, comedian and writer
 * Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born American actor and comedian
 * June 6 - Nina Sosanya, English actress and narrator
 * June 7
 * Adam Buxton, English actor, comedian and writer
 * Kim Rhodes, American actress
 * Anthony Simcoe, Australian actor
 * June 8 - J. P. Manoux, American actor, director and writer
 * June 9 - Josh Hamilton, American actor
 * June 11 – Peter Dinklage, American actor
 * June 15 – Ice Cube, American actor and rapper
 * June 18 - Ella Kenion, English comedy actress
 * June 19 - Sean Anders, American director and screenwriter
 * June 21 - Lloyd Avery II, American actor (died 2006)
 * June 23 - Martin Klebba, American character actor and stunt performer
 * June 24 - Jensen Daggett, American actress
 * June 28
 * Tichina Arnold, American actress
 * Angeline Ball, Irish actress
 * Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
 * June 29 - Aleks Paunovic, Canadian actor
 * July 3 - Gedeon Burkhard, German actor
 * July 4 - Charles Paraventi, American-born Brazilian actor
 * July 5 - RZA, American rapper, actor and filmmaker
 * July 6 - Brian Van Holt, American actor
 * July 7 - Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress, voice actress and singer
 * July 10
 * Jamie Glover, English actor
 * Gale Harold, American Actor
 * July 13 - Ken Jeong, American stand-up comedian, actor and producer
 * July 17
 * Jason Clarke, Australian actor
 * Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor
 * July 19 - Bodhi Elfman, American actor
 * July 20 - Josh Holloway, American actor
 * July 21 – Godfrey, American actor, comedian
 * July 22 – James Arnold Taylor, American actor, writer and producer
 * July 24
 * Rick Fox, Canadian-Bahamian former basketball player and actor
 * Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer
 * July 25 - Dave B. Mitchell, American voice actor
 * July 28
 * Alexis Arquette, American actress (died 2016)
 * Noma Dumezweni, British actress
 * July 30 - Simon Baker, Australian actor
 * July 31 - Loren Dean, American actor
 * August 4 – Vlad Ivanov, Romanian actor
 * August 5
 * Chuck Campbell, Canadian actor and comedian
 * Kim Mai Guest, American voice actress
 * August 6 - Chris Edgerly, American voice actor, comedian and singer
 * August 8 - Chris Beetem, American actor
 * August 15 - Kimberley Kates, American actress and producer
 * August 16 - Kate Higgins, American voice actress and singer
 * August 17 - Donnie Wahlberg, American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and producer
 * August 18
 * Edward Norton, American actor
 * Christian Slater, American actor
 * August 19
 * Viveka Davis, American actress
 * Matthew Perry, Canadian-American actor (died 2023)
 * August 21 - Nathan Jones, Australian actor and former professional wrestler
 * August 24 - Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor and producer
 * August 27 - Reece Shearsmith, English actor, writer and comedian
 * August 28 – Jack Black, American actor, comedian, musician
 * September 3 - Noah Baumbach, American director and screenwriter
 * September 4 - Noah Taylor, Australian actor
 * September 7 - Angie Everhart, American actress
 * September 13
 * Ace Bhatti, British actor
 * Dominic Fumusa, American actor
 * Tyler Perry, American actor
 * September 14
 * Bong Joon-ho, Korean director and screenwriter
 * Oscar Kightley, Samoan-born New Zealand actor, television presenter, writer, director and comedian
 * September 21 - Ivan Shvedoff, Russian actor
 * September 22 - Sue Perkins, English actress, broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer
 * September 23
 * Crispin Bonham-Carter, English actor
 * Shaw Jones, American actor
 * September 25 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
 * September 26 - David Slade, British director and actor
 * September 29 – Erika Eleniak, American actress
 * September 30
 * Silas Weir Mitchell, American character actor
 * Mark Smith, British actor
 * October 1 – Zach Galifianakis, American actor
 * October 3 – Gwen Stefani, American singer, songwriter and actress
 * October 4 - Abraham Benrubi, American actor
 * October 7 - Bobbie Brown, American actress
 * October 8
 * Jeremy Davies, American actor
 * Dylan Neal, Canadian-American actor
 * October 9 – Steve McQueen, English director
 * October 10
 * Manu Bennett, New Zealand actor
 * Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress and comedian
 * October 15 – Dominic West, English actor
 * October 17
 * Wood Harris, American actor
 * Kevin Stea, American actor, singer and director
 * Nancy Sullivan, American actress, television presenter, and screenwriter
 * October 19
 * Roger Cross, Jamaican-born Canadian actor
 * Trey Parker, American actor, creator of South Park
 * October 22 - Spike Jonze, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
 * October 25 - Nika Futterman, American actress, voice actress and singer
 * October 26 - Robert Maillet, Canadian actor and former professional wrestler
 * November 4 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor
 * November 10
 * Jennifer Cody, American dancer and actress
 * Ellen Pompeo, American actress
 * November 13 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
 * November 19 - Erika Alexander, American actress, writer and producer
 * November 20 - Callie Thorne, American actress
 * November 21 - John Ortiz, American actor
 * November 27
 * Elizabeth Marvel, American actress
 * Chin Han, Singaporean actor
 * November 28
 * Martin Cummins, Canadian actor
 * Colman Domingo, American actor, writer and director
 * November 30
 * Marc Forster, German-Swiss director, producer and screenwriter
 * Conan Stevens, Australian actor
 * Chris Weitz, American director, screenwriter and producer
 * December 5 - Eric Etebari, Iranian-American actor
 * Catherine Tate, English actress, comedian and writer
 * December 7 - Patrice O'Neal, American stand-up comedian, actor and radio personality (died 2011)
 * December 9 - Allison Smith, American actress, singer, writer and director
 * December 10 - Stephen Billington, English actor
 * December 11 - Max Martini, American actor, writer and director
 * December 13 - Tony Curran, Scottish actor
 * December 15
 * Adriana Esteves, Brazilian actress
 * Ralph Ineson, English actor and narrator
 * December 19 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
 * December 21 – Julie Delpy, French actress
 * December 27 - Sarah Vowell, American actress
 * December 29
 * Jennifer Ehle, American actress
 * Patrick Fischler, American character actor

Deaths

 * January 1 – Barton MacLane, 66, American actor, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
 * January 3 – Howard McNear, 63, American actor, Anatomy of a Murder, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Blue Hawaii, Follow That Dream
 * January 4 – Violet and Daisy Hilton, 60, English conjoined twins, actresses, appeared in film Freaks
 * January 8 – Leslie Goodwins, 69, English director, The Mummy's Curse, Mexican Spitfire
 * January 27 – Charles Winninger, 84, American actor, Destry Rides Again, The Sun Shines Bright
 * February 2 – Boris Karloff, 81, English actor, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Raven
 * February 5 – Thelma Ritter, 66, American actress, Rear Window, All About Eve
 * February 9 – Gabby Hayes, 83, American actor, The Man from Utah, In Old Oklahoma
 * February 11 – James Lanphier, 48, American actor, The Pink Panther, The Party
 * February 19 - Madge Blake, 69, American actress, The Long, Long Trailer, Batman
 * February 23 - Madhubala, 36, Indian actress, Mahal, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Mughal-E-Azam
 * February 27 – John Boles, 73, American actor, Frankenstein, Stella Dallas
 * March 18 – Barbara Bates, 43, American actress, The Caddy, All About Eve
 * March 19 – Lola Braccini, 79, Italian actress, My Little One, What a Distinguished Family
 * March 25 – Alan Mowbray, 72, British actor, Terror by Night, My Darling Clementine
 * April 2 – Fortunio Bonanova, 74, Spanish actor, Citizen Kane, An Affair to Remember
 * April 23 – Krzysztof Komeda, 37, Polish composer, Rosemary's Baby, The Fearless Vampire Killers
 * May 3 – Karl Freund, 69, Czech-American cinematographer and director, Metropolis, The Mummy, Key Largo
 * May 24
 * Paul Birch, 57, American actor, The Gun Runners, Gunmen from Laredo
 * Mitzi Green, 48, American actress, Lost in Alaska, Skippy
 * May 27 – Jeffrey Hunter, 42, American actor, The Searchers, King of Kings
 * June 2 – Leo Gorcey, 51, American actor, Ghost Chasers, Spook Busters
 * June 8 – Robert Taylor, 57, American actor, Quo Vadis, Camille, Bataan, Ivanhoe
 * June 10 – Frank Lawton, 64, English actor, A Night to Remember, The Devil-Doll
 * June 13 – Martita Hunt, 70, Argentine-English actress, Becket, Great Expectations
 * June 19 – Natalie Talmadge, 73, American silent screen actress, Our Hospitality, Intolerance
 * June 20 – Rudolf Schwarzkogler, 29, Austrian experimental filmmaker, Satisfaction
 * June 22 – Judy Garland, 47, American actress and singer, The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Star Is Born
 * June 23 – Stanley Andrews, 77, American actor, West of Wyoming, Across the Badlands, Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
 * July 5 - Lambert Hillyer, 75, American director, Dracula's Daughter, Batman
 * July 5 – Leo McCarey, 72, American director, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way
 * July 7 - Erskine Sanford, 83, American actor, Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons
 * July 8 – Gladys Swarthout, 68, American singer, Romance in the Dark, Give Us This Night
 * July 13 - Bess Meredyth, 79, American screenwriter, The Unsuspected, Charlie Chan at the Opera
 * July 15 - Peter van Eyck, 57, Polish actor, The Wages of Fear, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
 * July 17 - Harry Benham, 85, American actor, Nicholas Nickleby
 * July 18 - Barbara Pepper, 54, American actress, The Rogues Tavern, Kiss Me, Stupid
 * July 26 – Raymond Walburn, 81, American actor, High, Wide, and Handsome, Third Finger, Left Hand
 * August 1 – Donald Keith, 65, American actor, The Plastic Age, Parisian Love
 * August 9 – Sharon Tate, 26, American actress, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Valley of the Dolls
 * August 14 – Sigrid Gurie, 58, American actress, Algiers, The Adventures of Marco Polo
 * August 15 – William Goetz, 66, American producer, studio executive, Sayonara, Les Misérables
 * August 18 – Mildred Davis, 68, American actress, Safety Last!, Grandma’s Boy
 * August 26 – Martin Miller, 69, Czech actor, 55 Days at Peking, The Pink Panther
 * September 14 – James Anderson, 48, American actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, Take the Money and Run
 * September 19 – Rex Ingram, 73, American actor, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Thief of Bagdad
 * October 8 – Eduardo Ciannelli, 81, Italian actor, Gunga Din, Strange Cargo
 * October 12 – Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian actress, former Olympic ice skater, Sun Valley Serenade, One in a Million
 * October 15 – Rod La Rocque, 70, American actor, Meet John Doe, The Shadow Strikes
 * October 28 – Constance Dowling, 49, American actress, Up in Arms, The Well-Groomed Bride
 * November 5 – Lloyd Corrigan, 69, American actor, Son of Paleface, The Thin Man Goes Home
 * November 8 – Dave O'Brien, 57, American actor, Captain Midnight, Brand of the Devil
 * December 3 – Ruth White, 55, American actress, To Kill a Mockingbird, No Way to Treat a Lady
 * December 7 – Eric Portman, 68, British actor, A Canterbury Tale, The Bedford Incident
 * December 13 – Luigi Pavese, 72, Italian actor, Toto in Color, Il Mattatore
 * December 22
 * Ilse Steppat, 52, German actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
 * Josef von Sternberg, 73, Austrian director, The Blue Angel, Macao

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1968 in film

The year 1968 in film involved some significant events, with the release of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as two highly successful musical films, Funny Girl and Oliver!, the former earning Barbra Streisand the Academy Award for Best Actress (an honour she shared with Katharine Hepburn for her role in The Lion in Winter) and the latter winning both the Best Picture and Best Director awards.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1968 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

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

Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): canceled due to events of May 1968

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
 * Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos (Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed), directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
 * Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?), directed by Jan Troell, Sweden

Films released
US unless stated

January–March

 * January 1968
 * January 3
 * The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
 * January 8
 * Wild 90
 * January 12
 * Nobody's Perfect
 * January 17
 * The Biggest Bundle of Them All
 * January 18
 * Spider Baby
 * January 24
 * Danger: Diabolik (Italy/U.S.)
 * Firecreek
 * Maryjane
 * Sebastian
 * January 25
 * Up the Junction
 * January 29
 * How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
 * February 1968
 * February 7
 * The Anniversary
 * Sol Madrid
 * February 8
 * Blackbeard's Ghost
 * Sweet November
 * February 11
 * Charlie Bubbles
 * February 18
 * The Money Jungle
 * February 21
 * Bye Bye Braverman
 * The Power
 * February 24
 * Kuroneko (Japan)
 * February 29
 * The Secret War of Harry Frigg
 * March 1968
 * March 1
 * Day of the Evil Gun
 * March 5
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * March 6
 * P.J.
 * Psych-Out
 * March 8
 * A Man Called Gannon
 * Stay Away, Joe
 * March 11
 * Otley
 * March 13
 * Counterpoint
 * March 18
 * The Producers
 * March 20
 * No Way to Treat a Lady
 * Gamera vs. Viras (Japan)
 * March 21
 * The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
 * March 27
 * Arizona Bushwhackers
 * March 29
 * Madigan

April–June

 * April 1968
 * April 2
 * A Dandy in Aspic
 * The Scalphunters
 * April 3
 * 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * Planet of the Apes
 * April 4
 * The Party
 * April 10
 * The Charge of the Light Brigade
 * Hammerhead
 * Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
 * Will Penny
 * April 14
 * The Bofors Gun
 * April 17
 * The Bride Wore Black (France)
 * The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
 * April 20
 * Baby Love
 * April 23
 * Blue
 * April 24
 * Yours, Mine and Ours
 * April 26
 * Je t'aime, je t'aime (France)
 * May 1968
 * May 1
 * Countdown
 * Don't Just Stand There!
 * The Mini-Skirt Mob
 * Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
 * May 2
 * The Odd Couple
 * May 10
 * Project X
 * May 15
 * The Devil's Brigade
 * The Swimmer
 * Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm)
 * May 17
 * Journey to Shiloh
 * May 23
 * Kona Coast
 * Prudence and the Pill
 * May 24
 * The Savage Seven
 * What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
 * May 28
 * Boom!
 * The Detective
 * May 29
 * Madigan's Millions
 * Villa Rides
 * Wild in the Streets
 * June 1968
 * June 1
 * Bandolero!
 * June 5
 * Angels from Hell
 * Chubasco
 * For Singles Only
 * Jigsaw
 * June 8
 * Kill! (Japan)
 * June 10
 * Petulia
 * June 12
 * Rosemary's Baby
 * Speedway
 * The Sweet Ride
 * June 19
 * The Green Berets
 * The Thomas Crown Affair
 * The Lost Continent
 * Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
 * June 21
 * Salt and Pepper
 * June 25
 * The Secret Life of an American Wife
 * June 26
 * Never a Dull Moment

July–September

 * July 1968
 * July 3
 * Dark of the Sun
 * Eve
 * July 12
 * Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
 * A Lovely Way to Die
 * July 14
 * Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?
 * July 15
 * Interlude
 * July 17
 * For Love of Ivy
 * July 19
 * Inspector Clouseau
 * July 20
 * The Devil Rides Out
 * July 23
 * Isabel
 * July 24
 * Anzio
 * The Strange Affair
 * July 29
 * In Enemy Country
 * July 31
 * 5 Card Stud
 * The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
 * August 1968
 * August 1
 * Destroy All Monsters (Japan)
 * August 3
 * Hang 'Em High
 * August 7
 * Farewell, Friend (France)
 * With Six You Get Eggroll
 * August 15
 * Targets
 * A Time to Sing
 * August 18
 * Stolen Kisses (France)
 * August 20
 * How Sweet It Is!
 * August 22
 * Nobody Runs Forever
 * August 24
 * A Stranger in Town
 * August 26
 * Rachel, Rachel
 * August 28
 * The Hell with Heroes
 * September 1968
 * September 2
 * Negatives
 * September 11
 * The Young Runaways
 * September 12
 * Spirits of the Dead (France/Italy)
 * September 15
 * Song of Summer (U.K.)
 * September 18
 * Funny Girl
 * Pretty Poison
 * September 19
 * Hot Millions
 * September 22
 * The Split
 * September 23
 * Charly
 * September 26
 * Oliver! (U.K.)

October–December

 * October 1968
 * October 1
 * Night of the Living Dead
 * October 2
 * Coogan's Bluff
 * October 7
 * I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
 * October 8
 * Deadfall
 * October 9
 * Finian's Rainbow
 * If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
 * October 10
 * Barbarella (U.S.)
 * October 13
 * The Subject Was Roses
 * October 14
 * Paper Lion
 * October 16
 * The Boston Strangler
 * The Girl on a Motorcycle
 * October 17
 * Bullitt
 * October 19
 * A Flea in Her Ear
 * October 22
 * Star!
 * Vixen!
 * Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
 * October 23
 * Live a Little, Love a Little
 * Secret Ceremony
 * October 24
 * Ice Station Zebra
 * October 30
 * The Lion in Winter
 * October 31
 * Ace High (Italy)
 * They Came to Rob Las Vegas
 * November 1968
 * November 6
 * Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
 * Head
 * November 13
 * Killers Three
 * Yellow Submarine
 * November 15
 * The Shoes of the Fisherman
 * November 16
 * The Legend of Lylah Clare
 * November 18
 * House of Cards
 * November 20
 * Lady in Cement
 * Woman in Chains (France)
 * November 24
 * Faces
 * Joanna
 * November 27
 * The Great Silence (Italy)
 * Hellfighters
 * November 28
 * Carry On Up the Khyber
 * November 30
 * The Shakiest Gun in the West
 * Sympathy for the Devil
 * December 1968
 * December 1
 * The Green Slime
 * December 4
 * Corruption
 * Where Eagles Dare
 * December 8
 * The Fixer
 * December 9
 * The Birthday Party
 * December 10
 * Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
 * The Magus
 * December 12
 * The Killing of Sister George
 * December 13
 * Shalako
 * December 15
 * Curse of the Crimson Altar
 * Greetings
 * December 17
 * Candy
 * December 18
 * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
 * Hell in the Pacific
 * Isadora
 * The Night They Raided Minsky's
 * Uptight
 * December 19
 * if....
 * Mayerling (U.K./France)
 * A Place for Lovers
 * Skidoo
 * December 20
 * The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
 * Three in the Attic
 * Twisted Nerve
 * December 21
 * Once Upon a Time in the West (Italy)
 * December 22
 * The Sea Gull
 * December 24
 * The Love Bug
 * December 25
 * Assignment to Kill
 * The Brotherhood
 * The Sergeant
 * The Stalking Moon
 * December 26
 * Monterey Pop
 * Krakatoa, East of Java (Sweden)

Notable films released in 1968

 * Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

#

 * 5 Card Stud, starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens
 * 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War (17e Parallele Le Vietnam en Guerre), a documentary directed by Joris Ivens – (France/Vietnam)
 * 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood – (U.S./ U.K.)

A

 * Aadmi, starring Dilip Kumar – (India)
 * Aankhen (The Eyes) – (India)
 * Ace High, starring Eli Wallach – (Italy)
 * Adieu l'ami (Farewell Friend), starring Alain Delon and Charles Bronson – (France)
 * All My Compatriots (Všichni dobří rodáci) – (Czechoslovakia)
 * The Amorous Ones (As Amorosas) – (Brazil)
 * The Anniversary, starring Bette Davis – (U.K.)
 * Anzio, starring Robert Mitchum, Earl Holliman, Peter Falk
 * Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner – (West Germany)
 * Assignment to Kill, starring Patrick O'Neal and Joan Hackett
 * Asterix and Cleopatra – (France/Belgium)

B

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

C

 * Candy, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Ringo Starr – (France/Italy/U.S.)
 * Capricious Summer (Rozmarné léto), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia)
 * Carry On... Up the Khyber, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
 * The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave – (U.K.)
 * Charly, starring Cliff Robertson
 * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, starring Dick Van Dyke – (U.K.)
 * The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach – (West Germany)
 * Colonel Wolodyjowski, directed by Jerzy Hoffman – (Poland)
 * Coogan's Bluff, directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud
 * Corruption, directed by Robert Hartford-Davis – (U.K.)
 * Countdown, directed by Robert Altman and starring James Caan and Robert Duvall
 * Counterpoint, starring Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Leslie Nielsen
 * Curse of the Crimson Altar (a.k.a. The Crimson Cult), starring Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff – (U.K.)

D

 * A Dandy in Aspic, starring Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, and Mia Farrow – (U.K.)
 * Danger: Diabolik, starring John Phillip Law and Michel Piccoli – (Italy/U.S.)
 * Dark of the Sun (a.k.a. The Mercenaries), starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux – (U.K./U.S.)
 * Day of the Evil Gun, starring Glenn Ford
 * The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta), starring Claudia Cardinale and Franco Nero – (Italy)
 * Dead Season (Myortvyy sezon) – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Deadfall, starring Michael Caine – (U.K.)
 * Death by Hanging (Kōshikei), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
 * Death Laid an Egg (La morte ha fatto l'uovo), directed by Giulio Questi – (Italy/France)
 * Destroy All Monsters (Kaijū Sōshingeki), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
 * The Detective, starring Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom, Robert Duvall
 * The Devil Rides Out, starring Christopher Lee and Charles Gray – (U.K.)
 * The Devil's Brigade, starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
 * Diamonds for Breakfast, directed by Christopher Morahan – (U.K.)
 * The Doll (Lalka), directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has – (Poland)
 * Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis
 * Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, starring Christopher Lee – (U.K.)
 * Duniya (The World), starring Dev Anand and Vyjayanthimala – (India)

E

 * Eve, starring Robert Walker Jr., Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom
 * Even the Wind is Frightened (Hasta el viento tiene miedo) – (Mexico)

F

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

G

 * The Girl on a Motorcycle, starring Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull – (U.K./France)
 * The Girl with the Pistol (La ragazza con la pistola), starring Monica Vitti and Stanley Baker – (Italy)
 * Great Catherine, starring Peter O'Toole and Jeanne Moreau
 * The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski – (Italy)
 * The Green Berets, directed by and starring John Wayne, with Jim Hutton, David Janssen
 * Greetings, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Robert De Niro
 * Guns for San Sebastian, starring Anthony Quinn, Charles Bronson and Anjanette Comer

H

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

I

 * I Am Curious (Blue) (Jag är nyfiken – en film i blått) – (Sweden)
 * I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, starring Peter Sellers
 * Ice Station Zebra, directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine
 * If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell – Palme d'Or winner – (U.K.)
 * The Immortal Story, directed by and starring Orson Welles – (France)
 * In Enemy Country, starring Anthony Franciosa
 * Inspector Clouseau, starring Alan Arkin – (U.K.)
 * Interlude, starring Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Donald Sutherland
 * Isabel, starring Geneviève Bujold – (Canada)
 * Isadora, a.k.a. The Loves of Isadora, a biopic of Isadora Duncan, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, James Fox – (U.K.)
 * It Rains in My Village (Biće skoro propast sveta), starring Annie Girardot – (Yugoslavia)

J

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

K

 * Kill! (Kiru) – (Japan)
 * Killers Three, starring Dick Clark and Merle Haggard
 * The Killing of Sister George, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Beryl Reid, Susannah York and Coral Browne
 * King of Hearts – directed by Mohammad Ali Fardin (Iran)
 * Kona Coast, starring Vera Miles and Richard Boone
 * Kuroneko (a.k.a. Yabu no Naka no Kuroneko) – (Japan)

L

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

M

 * Madigan, directed by Don Siegel, starring Richard Widmark, Inger Stevens, Henry Fonda, James Whitmore, Susan Clark
 * The Magus, starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn and Candice Bergen – (U.K.)
 * The Man Who Lies (L'homme qui ment / Muž, ktorý luže), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant – (France/Czechoslovakia)
 * The Man Who Lost His Shadow, directed by Kamal El Sheikh, starring Salah Zulfikar, Magda and Kamal El-Shennawi – (Egypt)
 * Mandabi (Le mendat), directed by Ousmane Sembène – (Senegal)
 * Matthew's Days (Żywot Mateusza) – (Poland)
 * Mayerling, starring Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve – (U.K./France)
 * Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) – (Cuba)
 * Mera Naam Joker (My Name is Joker), directed by and starring Raj Kapoor – (India)
 * The Mercenary, also known as A Professional Gun, starring Franco Nero and Jack Palance – (Italy)
 * A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Hall, starring Derek Godfrey, Ian Holm, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren – (U.K.)
 * A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die, starring Alex Cord, Arthur Kennedy, Robert Ryan – (Italy)
 * The Money Jungle, starring Lola Albright and Leslie Parrish
 * Monterey Pop, a concert film by D. A. Pennebaker, featuring Simon & Garfunkel, The Mamas & the Papas, Jimi Hendrix and others
 * Murder a la Mod, directed by Brian De Palma
 * My Wife's Goblin, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, starring Salah Zulfikar and Shadia – (Egypt)

N

 * Naked Children (L'enfance nue), directed by Maurice Pialat – (France)
 * Neel Kamal – (India)
 * Negatives, starring Peter McEnery, Glenda Jackson and Diane Cilento– (U.K.)
 * Never a Dull Moment, starring Dick Van Dyke, Dorothy Provine, Edward G. Robinson
 * The Night of the Following Day, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno
 * Night of the Living Dead, first in the zombie trilogy by George A. Romero
 * The Night They Raided Minsky's, directed by William Friedkin, starring Jason Robards
 * The Nile and the Life, directed by Youssef Chahine, starring Salah Zulfikar – (Egypt)
 * Nobody Runs Forever (a.k.a. The High Commissioner), directed by Ralph Thomas, starring Rod Taylor, Scobie Malone and Christopher Plummer – (U.K./U.S.)
 * Nobody's Perfect, starring Doug McClure
 * No Way to Treat a Lady, starring Rod Steiger, George Segal, Lee Remick
 * Las Noches del Hombre Lobo (Nights of the Werewolf) – (Spain/France)

O

 * The Odd Couple, directed by Gene Saks, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
 * Oliver!, directed by Carol Reed, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Mark Lester – winner of six Academy Awards – (U.K.)
 * Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West), directed by Sergio Leone, starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards – (Italy)
 * The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, starring Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Kurt Russell, Wally Cox, Lesley Ann Warren
 * One Plus One (a.k.a. Sympathy for the Devil), a docudrama directed by Jean-Luc Godard, featuring the Rolling Stones – (U.K.)
 * Otley, starring Tom Courtenay and Romy Schneider – (U.K.)

P

 * Padosan (Neighbour), starring Sunil Dutt – (India)
 * Palo y hueso (Stick and Bone) – (Argentina)
 * The Party, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet
 * Performance, directed by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell, starring Mick Jagger and James Fox – (U.K.)
 * Petulia, starring Julie Christie and George C. Scott
 * The Pink Jungle, starring James Garner
 * P.J., starring George Peppard, Gayle Hunnicutt, Raymond Burr, Susan Saint James
 * A Place for Lovers (Amanti), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Faye Dunaway
 * Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
 * The Power, starring George Hamilton
 * Pretty Poison, starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins
 * The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, starring Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller
 * The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
 * The Prophet (Il profeta), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Ann-Margret – (Italy)
 * The Profound Desire of the Gods (Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubō), directed by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
 * Project X, directed by William Castle
 * Prudence and the Pill, starring Deborah Kerr and David Niven – (U.K.)
 * Psych-Out, directed by Richard Rush, starring Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson

R

 * Rachel, Rachel, directed by Paul Newman and starring Joanne Woodward
 * Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey – (U.K./Italy)
 * Rosemary's Baby, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes

S

 * Saathi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar and Simi Garewal – (India)
 * Salt and Pepper, directed by Richard Donner, starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford – (U.K.)
 * The Scalphunters, starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Telly Savalas
 * The Sea Gull, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Simone Signoret – (U.S./ U.K./Greece)
 * Sebastian, starring Dirk Bogarde and Susannah York – (U.K.)
 * Secret Ceremony, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum
 * The Secret Life of an American Wife, starring Walter Matthau
 * The Secret War of Harry Frigg, starring Paul Newman
 * The Sergeant, starring Rod Steiger and John Phillip Law
 * Sergeant Ryker, starring Lee Marvin and Vera Miles
 * The Shakiest Gun in the West, starring Don Knotts and Barbara Rhoades
 * Shalako, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot – (U.K.)
 * Shame (Skammen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow – (Sweden)*
 * Sherlock Holmes (British) a series of 15 Sherlock Holmes films made for BBC-TV, starring Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson
 * The Shoes of the Fisherman, starring Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Oskar Werner, Leo McKern, David Janssen, Barbara Jefford
 * Signs of Life (Lebenszeichen), directed by Werner Herzog – (West Germany)
 * Single Room Furnished, starring Jayne Mansfield in her final film
 * Skidoo, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing and, in his final film, Groucho Marx
 * Sol Madrid, starring David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn
 * Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell – (made for television) – (U.K.)
 * Speedway, starring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra
 * Spider Baby, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
 * Spirits of the Dead, directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda – (France/Italy)
 * The Split, starring Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Julie Harris
 * The Stalking Moon, starring Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint
 * Star!, starring Julie Andrews
 * Stay Away, Joe, starring Elvis Presley
 * Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Delphine Seyrig – (France)
 * The Strange Affair, starring Susan George – (U.K.)
 * The Subject was Roses, starring Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
 * Sunghursh, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
 * The Swedish Kings (Shvedskite krale), directed by Lyudmil Kirkov, starring Kiril Gospodinov – (Bulgaria)
 * The Sweet Ride, starring Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset
 * The Swimmer, starring Burt Lancaster
 * Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, directed by William Greaves

T

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

U

 * The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran – (France)
 * Up the Junction, starring Dennis Waterman and Suzy Kendall – (U.K.)

V

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

W

 * What's So Bad About Feeling Good?, starring George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore
 * Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, starring Rosalind Russell
 * Where Eagles Dare, directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood – (U.K./U.S.)
 * Who Saw Him Die? (Ole dole doff), directed by Jan Troell – (Sweden)
 * The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, starring Elke Sommer and Bob Crane
 * Wild 90, directed by and starring Norman Mailer
 * Wild in the Streets, starring Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook
 * Will Penny, starring Charlton Heston and Joan Hackett
 * Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (animation short)
 * Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price – (U.K.)
 * With Six You Get Eggroll, directed by Howard Morris, starring Doris Day, Brian Keith, Barbara Hershey
 * Woman in Chains (La prisonnière), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot – (France)

Y

 * Yellow Submarine, an animated film with music by The Beatles – (U.K.)
 * Yours, Mine and Ours, starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda

Short film series

 * Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
 * Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
 * Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
 * Daffy Duck (1937–1968)
 * Cool Cat (1967–1969)
 * Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967–1969)

Births

 * January 1 - Tom DeSanto, American producer and screenwriter
 * January 2
 * Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
 * Evan Parke, Jamaican-born American actor
 * January 5 - Carrie Ann Inaba, American actress and singer
 * January 6 – John Singleton, American director and writer (d. 2019)
 * January 9 – Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
 * January 12
 * Farrah Forke, American actress (d. 2022)
 * Rachael Harris, American actor and comedian
 * January 14 – LL Cool J, American rapper, actor
 * January 15
 * Rosanne Sorrentino, American former child actress
 * Chad Lowe, American actor
 * January 18 - David Ayer, American filmmaker
 * January 19 – Matt Hill, Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian
 * January 20 - Chris Miller, American voice actor, animator, director, screenwriter and storyboard artist
 * January 29 – Edward Burns, American actor and producer
 * January 31 - Matt King, English actor, DJ and comedian
 * February 1 – Pauly Shore, American actor
 * February 8 - Gary Coleman, American actor and comedian (d. 2010)
 * February 12
 * Josh Brolin, American actor
 * Chynna Phillips, American singer and actress
 * February 13 - Kelly Hu, American actress, voice artist, former fashion model and beauty queen
 * February 14
 * Alicia Borrachero, Spanish actress
 * Phil Lewis, American actor, comedian and director
 * February 18 – Molly Ringwald, American actress
 * February 21 - Patrick Gallagher, Canadian actor
 * February 24 - Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (d. 2005)
 * March 2 – Daniel Craig, British actor
 * March 4 – Patsy Kensit, English actress
 * March 6 - Moira Kelly, American actress
 * March 12
 * Aaron Eckhart, American actor
 * Jason Lively, American actor
 * March 18 - Juan Carlos Vellido, Spanish actor
 * March 20
 * Jaime Cardriche, American actor (d. 2000)
 * Lawrence Makoare, New Zealand actor of Māori descent
 * March 21 - Greg Ellis, English actor
 * March 26 - Max Perlich, American actor
 * March 29
 * Sabrina Impacciatore, Italian actress
 * Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
 * March 30
 * Donna D'Errico, American actress
 * Celine Dion, Canadian singer
 * Roland Kickinger, Austrian actor and bodybuilder
 * April 3 - Charlotte Coleman, English actress (d. 2001)
 * April 8
 * Patricia Arquette, American actress
 * Shawn Fonteno, American actor and rapper
 * April 12 - Alicia Coppola, American actress
 * April 13 - Andrew Pleavin, English actor
 * April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
 * April 17 - Adam McKay, American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian
 * April 18
 * Mary Birdsong, American actress, comedian, writer and singer
 * David Hewlett, British-born Canadian actor, writer and director
 * April 19 – Ashley Judd, American actress
 * April 22 - Piera Coppola, American voice actress
 * April 24
 * Aidan Gillen, Irish actor
 * Stacy Haiduk, American actress
 * May 3 – Amy Ryan, American actress
 * May 7 - Traci Lords, American actress and singer
 * May 10 - Adrian Scarborough, English actor
 * May 11 - Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
 * May 12 - Tony Hawk, American actor and professional skateboarder
 * May 16 - Stephen Mangan, English actor, comedian and presenter
 * May 20 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor
 * May 25 - Kevin Heffernan, American actor, writer, producer and director
 * May 27 - Spencer Kayden, American actress, comedian and writer
 * May 28 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
 * June 2
 * Navid Negahban, Iranian-American actor
 * Nickolai Stoilov, Bulgarian-American actor and writer
 * June 4
 * Joey Mazzarino, American actor, puppeteer, writer and director
 * Scott Wolf, American actor
 * June 9 - Eddie Marsan, English actor
 * June 10 - Bill Burr, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
 * June 12 - Sarah Trigger, retired British actress
 * June 13 – Fred Tatasciore, American voice actor
 * June 14 - Faizon Love, Cuban-born American actor and comedian
 * June 16 - James Patrick Stuart, American actor
 * June 19 - Kim Walker, American actress (d. 2001)
 * June 20 - Robert Rodriguez, American filmmaker and visual effects supervisor
 * June 26 - Travis Fine, American actor, writer, director and producer
 * June 29 - Brian d'Arcy James, American actor and musician
 * July 1 - Jordi Mollà, Spanish actor, writer and filmmaker
 * July 5 - Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
 * July 7
 * Danny Jacobs, American actor and comedian
 * Allen Payne, American actor
 * July 8 – Billy Crudup, American actor
 * July 11 - Conrad Vernon, American voice actor, director, writer and storyboard artist
 * July 15
 * Eddie Griffin, American comedian and actor
 * Stan Kirsch, American actor (d. 2020)
 * July 17 - Beth Littleford, American actress and comedian
 * July 18
 * Grant Bowler, New-Zealand-Australian actor
 * Alex Désert, American actor and musician
 * July 19 - William Houston, English actor
 * July 21 - Samuli Edelmann, Finnish actor and singer
 * July 23 - Shawn Levy, Canadian director, producer and actor
 * July 24
 * Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer
 * Troy Kotsur, American actor
 * July 26 – Olivia Williams, British actress
 * July 27
 * Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
 * Julian McMahon, Australian-American actor
 * July 30 - Terry Crews, American actor, comedian, activist, artist, bodybuilder and former professional football player
 * August 4 - Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean-American actor and producer
 * August 7 - Sophie Lee, Australian actress
 * August 9
 * Gillian Anderson, American-British actress
 * Eric Bana, Australian actor
 * McG, American director and producer
 * August 10 - Cate Shortland, Australian screenwriter, director and writer
 * August 11
 * Anna Gunn, American actress
 * Sophie Okonedo, British actress
 * August 14
 * Catherine Bell, British actress and model
 * Terry Notary, American actor and stunt co-ordinator/double
 * August 15 - Debra Messing, American actress
 * August 17
 * Andrew Koenig, American character actor, director, editor and writer (d. 2010)
 * Helen McCrory, English actress (d. 2021)
 * August 21 - Julian Lewis Jones, Welsh actor
 * August 25 - David Alan Basche, American actor
 * August 27 - Lisa Marie Newmyer, American actress
 * August 28 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
 * September 2
 * Kristen Cloke, American actress
 * Jonathan Goldstein, American filmmaker
 * September 4 – John DiMaggio, American actor and voice actor
 * September 5 - Glenn Fleshler, American actor
 * September 6 - Mark Ivanir, Israeli actor
 * September 7 - Camille Japy, Belgian-French actor
 * September 8
 * Brian Huskey, American character actor, comedian and writer
 * Simon J. Smith, British animator, director, visual effects artist and voice actor
 * September 9
 * Nathan Lee Graham, American actor and singer
 * Julia Sawalha, English actress
 * September 10 – Guy Ritchie, English director, screenwriter
 * September 12 - Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor and writer
 * September 15 – Danny Nucci, American actor
 * September 16 - Marc Anthony, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * September 19 – Shawn Doyle, Canadian actor
 * September 20 - Chad Stahelski, American stuntman and director
 * September 22 – Megan Hollingshead, American voice actress
 * September 25 – Will Smith, American actor
 * September 26 – Jim Caviezel, American actor
 * September 28 – Naomi Watts, British actress
 * September 29
 * Massi Furlan, Italian-American actor and producer
 * Luke Goss, English actor
 * October – Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Zambian director
 * October 2
 * Lucy Cohu, English actress
 * Curtiss Cook, American character actor
 * Joey Slotnick, American actor
 * October 9
 * Pete Docter, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, voice actor and chief creative officer of Pixar
 * James Dreyfus, English actor
 * October 11
 * Tiffany Grant, American voice actress
 * Jane Krakowski, American actress and singer
 * October 12
 * Hugh Jackman, Australian actor
 * Adam Rich, American actor (d. 2023)
 * October 13
 * Tisha Campbell, American actress
 * Alex Ferns, Scottish actor and television personality
 * October 17 - Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician and actor
 * October 19 - Yayan Ruhian, Indonesian martial artist and actor
 * October 23 - Maria Darling, British voice actress
 * October 24 - Mark Walton, American story artist and voice actor
 * October 25 - Melinda McGraw, American actress
 * October 27 – Dileep, Indian actor
 * October 28 - Stephen Hunter, New Zealand actor
 * October 29 - Grayson McCouch, American actor
 * November 5 – Sam Rockwell, American actor
 * November 6 – Kelly Rutherford, American actress
 * November 8
 * Bruno Gunn, American actor
 * Parker Posey, American actress
 * November 10
 * Tracy Morgan, American actor, voice actor and comedian
 * Tom Papa, American actor and comedian
 * November 16 - James Parks, American actor
 * November 18
 * Romany Malco, American actor and rapper
 * Owen Wilson, American actor
 * November 19 - Mark Bonnar, Scottish actor
 * November 21
 * Todd Farmer, American screenwriter and actor
 * Sean Schemmel, American voice actor
 * November 23 - Brennan Brown, American actor
 * November 26 - Chris Coppola, American actor and comedian
 * November 27 - Michael Vartan, French-American actor
 * December 2
 * Lucy Liu, American actress
 * Suzy Nakamura, American actress
 * December 3 – Brendan Fraser, American-Canadian actor
 * December 5 - Margaret Cho, American stand-up comedian, actress and musician
 * December 6
 * Oliver Masucci, German actor
 * Donnell Rawlings, American comedian, actor and radio host
 * December 7 – Greg Ayres, American voice actor
 * December 13 - Scott Stuber, American film producer
 * December 18
 * Craig Grant, American poet and actor (d. 2021)
 * Daniel Oreskes, American actor
 * Nina Wadia, British actress and comedian
 * December 19
 * Ken Marino, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
 * Chris Williams, Canadian-American animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor
 * December 20 - Joe Cornish, English comedian and filmmaker
 * December 22 - Dina Meyer, American actress
 * December 23 - Angela Jones, American actress
 * December 25 - Klea Scott, Panamanian-born Canadian actress
 * December 26 - Byron Howard, American animator, director, producer and screenwriter

Deaths

 * January 7 - Hugo Butler, 53, Canadian screenwriter, Edison, the Man, Lassie Come Home
 * January 18 – John Ridgely, 58, American actor, The Big Sleep, God Is My Co-Pilot
 * January 25 - Virginia Maskell, 31, British actress, Only Two Can Play, Virgin Island
 * February 4 – Eddie Baker, 70, American actor, Oranges and Lemons, Giant
 * February 7 – Nick Adams, 36, American actor, Pillow Talk, Rebel Without a Cause
 * February 13 – Mae Marsh, 73, American actress, The Birth of a Nation, 3 Godfathers
 * February 20 – Anthony Asquith, 65, British director, The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy
 * March 10 – Helen Walker, 47, American actress, Impact, Call Northside 777
 * March 11 – Pearl Doles Bell, 84, American film scenarist, novelist and editor, Her Elephant Man
 * March 16 – June Collyer, 63, American actress, Hangman's House, A Face in the Fog
 * March 18 - Harry Kurnitz, 60, American screenwriter, Witness for the Prosecution, How to Steal a Million
 * March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, 79, Danish director, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Gertrud
 * March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Great Adventure
 * March 30 – Bobby Driscoll, 31, American actor, Peter Pan, Treasure Island
 * April 5 – Lois Andrews, 44, American actress, Dixie Dugan, The Desert Hawk
 * April 6 – Keith Pyott, 66, English actor, Village of the Damned
 * April 16 – Fay Bainter, 74, American actress, Woman of the Year, The Children's Hour
 * April 24 – Tommy Noonan, 46, American actor, A Star is Born, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
 * May 5 – Albert Dekker, 62, American actor, The Wild Bunch, Kiss Me Deadly
 * May 9
 * Albert Lewin, 73, American director, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
 * Marion Lorne, 84, American actress, The Graduate, Strangers on a Train
 * May 10 – Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife, The Jolson Story
 * May 21 – Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress, Disraeli, Kind Lady
 * May 23 – James Burke, 81, American actor, Little Orphan Annie, The Timber Trail
 * May 25 – Charles K. Feldman, 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seven Year Itch
 * May 26 - Joseph MacDonald, 62, Mexico-born American cinematographer, My Darling Clementine, The Young Lions
 * May 27 – Denise Legeay, 70, French actress, Happy Couple, Zigano
 * May 31 – Preben Uglebjerg, 37, Danish actor, Pigen og vandpytten
 * June 4 – Dorothy Gish, 70, American actress, The Cardinal, Orphans of the Storm
 * June 7 – Dan Duryea, 61, American actor, Winchester '73, Scarlet Street
 * June 8 - Patricia Jessel, 47, British actress, The City of the Dead, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
 * June 21 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, 72, Danish actress
 * June 24 – Tony Hancock, 44, British comedian, Call Me Genius, The Punch and Judy Man
 * June 29 – Hans Egede Budtz, 78, Danish actor, Nøddebo Præstegård
 * July 1 – Virginia Weidler, 41, American actress, The Philadelphia Story, The Women
 * July 12 – Antonio Pietrangeli, 49, Italian director, It Happened in Rome, The Magnificent Cuckold
 * July 27 – Lilian Harvey, 62, British actress and singer, Waltz of Love, Let's Live Tonight
 * July 30 – Alexander Hall, 74, American director, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Little Miss Marker
 * August 23 – Hunt Stromberg, 74, American producer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld
 * August 25 – John George, 70, Ottoman-born American actor, Charley's Aunt, Don Juan
 * August 26 – Kay Francis, 63, American actress, Black Orchids, Little Men
 * August 30 – William Talman, 53, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Crashout
 * August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe, 60, American actor, T-Men, Raw Deal
 * September 3 – Isabel Withers, 72, American actress, Possessed, Lady of Burlesque
 * September 16 - Nedrick Young, 54, American screenwriter, Inherit the Wind, The Defiant Ones
 * September 18 – Franchot Tone, 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent
 * September 24 - Virginia Valli, 70, American actress, The Pleasure Garden, Evening Clothes
 * October 18 – Lee Tracy, 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight, The Best Man
 * October 29 – Pert Kelton, 61, American actress, The Music Man, Sing and Like It
 * October 30 – Ramon Novarro, 69, Mexican actor, Ben-Hur, Mata Hari
 * November 8 – Wendell Corey, 54, American actor, Rear Window, Harriet Craig
 * November 9 – Gerald Mohr, 54, American actor, Gilda, The Angry Red Planet
 * November 13 – Berthold Bartosch, 74, Bohemian filmmaker, The Idea
 * November 18 – Walter Wanger, 74, American producer, Cleopatra, I Want to Live!
 * November 20 – Helen Gardner, 84 American actress, Cleopatra
 * November 25 – Upton Sinclair, 90, American author and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile
 * December 2 – Colin Kenny, 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
 * December 4 - Archie Mayo, 77, American director, The Petrified Forest, A Night in Casablanca
 * December 5 – Fred Clark, 54, American actor, White Heat, Auntie Mame
 * December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen, Die! Die! My Darling
 * December 14 – Jack Rice, 75, American actor, Lady, Let's Dance, Beware of Blondie
 * December 15 – Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress, South Pacific, Red, Hot and Blue
 * December 20 - John Steinbeck, 66, American author and screenwriter, Viva Zapata!, The Red Pony
 * December 28 - Harry Woods, 79, American actress, Days of Jesse James, The Ghost Rider

Film debuts

 * Rutanya Alda – Greetings
 * John Aprea – Bullitt
 * Eileen Atkins – Inadmissible Evidence
 * Tom Atkins – The Detective
 * Florinda Bolkan – Candy
 * Philip Bosco – A Lovely Way to Die
 * Sônia Braga – The Red Light Bandit
 * Joanna Cassidy – Bullitt
 * John Cleese – Interlude
 * Timothy Dalton – The Lion in Winter
 * Don Fellows – The Detective
 * Frederic Forrest – The Filthy Five
 * Marla Gibbs – Yours, Mine and Ours
 * Gerrit Graham – Greetings
 * Jon Gries – Will Penny
 * John Hallam – The Charge of the Light Brigade
 * Goldie Hawn – The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
 * Don Henderson – A Midsummer Night's Dream
 * Barbara Hershey – With Six You Get Eggroll
 * Howard Hesseman – Petulia
 * Bo Hopkins – Dayton's Devils
 * Tony Jay – Majuba: Heuwel van Duiwe
 * Madeline Kahn – The Dove
 * Lainie Kazan – Dayton's Devils
 * Stacy Keach – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
 * Margot Kidder – The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar
 * Udo Kier – Shameless
 * Sally Kirkland – Blue
 * Terry Kiser – Rachel, Rachel
 * Peter Maloney – Greetings
 * Chuck McCann – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
 * Malcolm McDowell – if...
 * Chuck Norris – The Wrecking Crew
 * Jennifer O'Neill – For Love of Ivy
 * Austin Pendleton – Petulia
 * Barry Primus – The Brotherhood
 * David Proval – The Boston Strangler
 * Paul Reubens – The Brotherhood
 * Joely Richardson – The Charge of the Light Brigade
 * Hanna Schygulla – The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp
 * Talia Shire – The Wild Racers
 * Leigh Taylor-Young – I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

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Sideburns

Sideburns, sideboards, or side whiskers are facial hair grown on the sides of the face, extending from the hairline to run parallel to or beyond the ears. The term sideburns is a 19th-century corruption of the original burnsides, named after American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside, a man known for his unusual facial hairstyle that connected thick sideburns by way of a moustache, but left the chin clean-shaven.

Variations
Sideburns can be worn and grown in combination with other styles of facial hair, such as the moustache or goatee, but once they extend from ear to ear via the chin they cease to be sideburns and become a beard, chinstrap beard, or chin curtain.

Indigenous men of Colombia and Mexico, including Aztecs, shaved their heads and wore their braided sideburns long, said to be wearing "balcarrotas", rarely seen in modern times, but prized in the 16th century as a mark of virile vanity and banned by the colonial authorities in New Spain, resulting in rioting in 1692.

History
Sideburns are present on statues and masks of Romans dating back to the 1st Century. Elagabalus is depicted with sideburns and a mustache.

Following the fashion in Europe young South American criollos adopted sideburns. Many of the independence heroes of South America, including José de San Martín, Manuel Belgrano, Antonio José de Sucre, Bernardo O'Higgins, José Miguel Carrera, and Antonio Nariño had sideburns and are as such depicted on numerous paintings, coins and banknotes.

Nineteenth-century sideburns were often far more extravagant than those seen today, similar to what are now called mutton chops, but considerably more extreme. In period literature, "side whiskers" usually refers to this style, in which the whiskers hang well below the jaw line. As with beards, sideburns went quickly out of fashion in the early twentieth century. In World War I, in order to secure a seal on a gas mask, men had to be clean-shaven; this did not affect mustaches.

In 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt briefly experimented with sideburns on a yachting cruise, provoking laughter from wife Eleanor. Sideburns made a comeback in the mid-1950s when Marlon Brando sported them as the title character in The Wild One (1953). Further spurred by Elvis Presley, sideburns were sported by "hoods", "greasers", and "rockers" seeking to highlight their rebellious post-pubescent manliness. Sideburns later gained popularity in the counterculture of the 1960s: the struggle of a New Jersey youth to wear sideburns to his public high school graduation made a newspaper article in 1967. Sideburns were associated with young mods and hippies, but in the '70s became prevalent in all walks of life. "Lambchop" sideburns also became a symbol of the gay club scenes of San Francisco and Sydney, as did the handlebar mustache. For the most part, sideburns have never gone out of fashion. They have continued to be popular among rock musicians, and even become a notable feature of such musicians like Stephen Stills, Neil Young, George Jones, and Lemmy.

Notable 21st century examples include Emmanuel Macron, Javier Milei, Cem Özdemir, Viktor Yushchenko, David Pountney, Adam Sandler, John Lithgow and David Tennant.

Because of sideburns' multifarious history, they may be seen as stuffily Victorian; an indicator of roughness, vice, or rebelliousness; a characteristic of rock 'n' roll; or merely a retro fashion revival.

title: Sideburns