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1914 in film

The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.

Events

 * February 2 – Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living, is released.
 * February 7 – Release of Charlie Chaplin's second film, the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice, in which his character of The Tramp is introduced to audiences (although first filmed in Mabel's Strange Predicament, released two days later).
 * February 8 – Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur greatly advances filmed animation movement techniques.
 * February 10 – Release of the film Hearts Adrift; the name of Mary Pickford, the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees.
 * February – Lewis J. Selznick and Arthur Spiegel organize the World Film Corporation, a distributor of independently produced films located in Fort Lee, New Jersey,
 * March 8 – D. W. Griffith's first feature film, Judith of Bethulia, is released. It is his last production for the Biograph Company.
 * March 20 – Tess of the Storm Country makes Mary Pickford an icon in the US and a celebrity around the world.
 * March 31 – The serial The Perils of Pauline is an early example of the damsel in distress in film.
 * April 12 – The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City.
 * April 18 – Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone, is released in Italy, the first epic film, featuring the first extensive use of a moving camera dolly in a feature film, and introducing the long-running character Maciste.
 * May 8 – Paramount Pictures is formed as a film distributor by William Wadsworth Hodkinson.
 * September – The Neptune Film Company opens the Neptune Studios (the first "dark stage" in England) at Borehamwood, north of London.
 * November 19 – William Fox's Box Office Attractions Company releases its first production, Life's Shop Window.
 * December 3 – William S. Hart appears in his first feature film, The Bargain, which makes him a star.
 * December 21 – Release of the first American made feature-length comedy film, Tillie's Punctured Romance, which also contains Marie Dressler and Charlie Chaplin's feature film debuts.
 * December – Chaplin joins Essanay Studios for $1,250 per week.
 * Filoteo Alberini introduces a new 70 mm format, Panoramico, with the film Il sacco di Roma.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
The top eight 1914 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Selected films with 1914 release dates

 * January – The House of Bondage a lost 1914 silent film drama directed by Pierce Kingsley and starring Lottie Pickford.
 * January 3 – Engelein, German silent comedy film written and directed by Urban Gad
 * January 12 – Fantomas Part Four: Fantômas Contre Fantômas (Parts 1 through 3 of this serial were released in 1913, while Parts 4 & 5 were released in 1914)
 * January 14 – Captive Souls (Rablélek) a Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz
 * January 22 – Absinthe American silent drama film starring King Baggot and Leah Baird and directed by Herbert Brenon
 * February 2 – Making a Living the first film starring Charlie Chaplin.
 * February 5 – O Mimi San, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Mildred Harris
 * February 7 – Kid Auto Races at Venice, starring Charlie Chaplin
 * February 8 – Gertie the Dinosaur, an animated film that incorporated many cinematic innovations
 * February 9 – Mabel's Strange Predicament, starring Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
 * February 12 – The Squaw Man, directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille, starring Dustin Farnum
 * March 1 - How Moscha Came Back, silent film comedy short directed by Phillips Smalley
 * March 8 – Judith of Bethulia, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
 * March 24 – The Avenging Conscience, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall; loosely based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe
 * March 31 – The Perils of Pauline, (serial), starring Pearl White
 * April 6 – The Old Curiosity Shop directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Alma Taylor
 * April 15 – Brewster's Millions
 * April 18 – Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone
 * April 18 – Mabel at the Wheel, starring Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy, and Charlie Chaplin
 * April 23 – A Little Madonna
 * May ? - Fantomas Part Five: Le Faux Magistrat
 * May 11 – The Master Mind
 * May – Mr. Barnes of New York
 * June 8 – The Wrath of Gods, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Frank Borzage
 * June 12 – Der Hund von Baskerville aka The Hound of the Baskervilles (Germany/ Vitascope), directed by Rudolf Meinert, written by Richard Oswald, starring Alwin Neuß and Hanni Weiss; originally released in two parts, later edited down into a feature version.
 * June 15 – The Only Son
 * June 22 – The Million Dollar Mystery, (serial), starring Florence La Badie
 * July 13 – My Official Wife, starring Clara Kimball Young
 * July 13 – The Man on the Box
 * July 17 – The Stain, starring Theda Bara
 * July 22 – By the Sun's Rays
 * August 10 – The Call of the North, starring Robert Edeson
 * September 7 – The Virginian, starring Dustin Farnum
 * September 22 – Ireland a Nation
 * September 23 – The Aztec Treasure
 * September 28 – The Patchwork Girl of Oz
 * September 28 – The Magic Cloak of Oz, starring Mildred Harris
 * October 14 – His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, starring Mildred Harris
 * October 14 – Mabel's Blunder
 * October 22 – What's His Name, starring Max Figman
 * November 2 – Salomy Jane
 * November 7 – The Hazards of Helen (serial), starring Helen Holmes
 * November 7 – His Musical Career, starring Charlie Chaplin
 * November 9 – The Man from Home
 * November 9 – The Wishing Ring
 * November 13 – Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı, directed by Fuat Uzkınay, considered to be the first Turkish movie – (Ottoman Empire)
 * November 15 – Rose of the Rancho, starring Bessie Barriscale
 * November 19 – Life's Shop Window, first film produced by William Fox's Box Office Attractions Company, the forerunner to Fox Film
 * December 7 – The Ghost Breaker (Paramount) directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel, starring H. B. Warner and Rita Stanwood; remade in 1922 and again in 1940.
 * December 7 – His Prehistoric Past, written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin
 * December 7 – In the Land of the Head Hunters
 * December 14 – The Last Egyptian, produced and written by L. Frank Baum, directed by Joseph Farrell MacDonald (who also starred), also starring Howard Davies and Jefferson Osborne.
 * December 21 – Tillie's Punctured Romance, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin. First comedy feature film.
 * December 28 – A Study in Scarlet, directed by George Pearson; based on the Arthur Conan Doyle story
 * December 28 – Cinderella, starring Mary Pickford
 * December 28 – The Exploits of Elaine, (serial), directed by Louis Gasnier and George B. Seitz, starring Pearl White and Sheldon Lewis

Other films released in 1914

 * Absinthe (Imp/ Universal) written and directed by Herbert Brenon, starring King Baggot and Leah Baird; filmed in Paris, France; re-released in 1916.
 * Across the Pacific, written and directed by Edwin Carewe (based on the play by Charles E. Blaney), starring Dorothy Dalton and Sam Hines.
 * Alice in Wonderland (Maienthau Prods.) based on the novel by Lewis Carroll. A 16mm. reduction positive print still exists.
 * Alone With the Devil aka Ekspressens Mysterium (Denmark/ Nordisk) directed by Hjalmar Davidsen, starring Cristel Holch, Carl Lauritzen and Valdemar Psilander
 * Bancho Sarayashika (Japanese/ Nikkatsu) ghost story directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe, based on a 19th-century Kabuki play by Segawa Joko III.
 * The Basilisk (British/ Hepworth) written and directed by Cecil B. Hepworth, starring William Felton and Alma Taylor; yet another adaptation of George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby; prints were tinted green for theatrical release.
 * Batty Bill and the Suicide Club (French/ Gaston Melies) one of ten "Batty Bill" short comedies released in 1914.
 * The Bells (British/ Gaumont) starring H. B. Irving, Frank Keenan and Joseph Dowling, based on the Erckmann-Chatrian novel Le Juif Polonaise; some sources claim this film was announced but never actually made.
 * The Bells (U.S./ Sawyer's Features) yet another (lost) adaptation of the Erckmann-Chatrian novel Le Juif Polonaise
 * Botan Doro/ translation: The Peony Lantern (Japanese/ Nikkatsu Kyoto) one of the earliest Japanese horror films, directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe; based on a 1892 Kabuki play called Kaidan Botan Doro.
 * By the Sun's Rays (Universal) starring Lon Chaney, Agnes Vernon and Murdock MacQuarrie; Chaney's earliest existing film.
 * A Christmas Carol (British) written and directed by Harold Shaw, starring Charles Rock and George Bellamy; based on the Charles Dickens novel.
 * The Chimes (British/ Hepworth) written and directed by Thomas Bentley, produced by Cecil Hepworth, starring Warwick Buckland and Stewart Rome, based on the story by Charles Dickens.
 * The Chimes (U.S. Amusement Corp.) another adaptation of the Charles Dickens story; written and directed by Herbert Blache, starring Tom Terriss and Faye Cusick.
 * The Crimson Moth (Biograph) directed by Travis Vale, starring Jack Drumier and Louise Vale (who died of the Spanish Flu in 1918).
 * The Crown of Richard III (French/Pathe) remade in U.S. in 1939 as Tower of London
 * Curse of the Scarabee Ruby (Gaumont/Eclipse/Urban) a French-British co-production inspired by both of the novels The Moonstone and Trilby, produced by Charles Urban.
 * A Deal with the Devil aka Den Mystiske Fremmede (Denmark/ Nordisk) directed by Holger-Madsen, starring Olaf Fonss, Ebba Thomsen and Alf Blutecher; storyline was based on Faust.
 * The Diamond of Disaster (Thanhouser Films) directed by Carroll Fleming, written by Fleming's brother Phil Lonergan, starring J. S. Murray and Ernest Warde
 * Discord and Harmony (Gold Seal/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Murdock MacQuarrie
 * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Done to a Frazzle (Crystal-Superba/ Warners) satire of the Robert Louis Stevenson novella, starring Charles De Forrest
 * Doctor Polly (Vitagraph) A haunted house comedy directed by Wilfred North and Wally Van, starring Lillian Walker, Josie Sadler and Wally Van.
 * The Dream Woman (Blache Prods.) written and directed by Alice Guy-Blache, starring Fraunie Fraunholz and Claire Whitney; based on the 1859 Wilkie Collins novel, The Woman in White
 * The Embezzler (Gold Seal/ Universal) directed by Allan Dawan, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Murdock MacQuarrie
 * The End of the Feud (Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Murdock MacQuarrie.
 * The Fakir's Spell (British/ Dreadnought Films) directed by Frank Newman, starring Idleton Newman; features a killer ape; some plot elements from this film turned up later in The Reptile (1965) and The Oblong Box (1969).
 * The Forbidden Room, aka The Web of Circumstance (Bison/ Universal Pictures) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush and Lon Chaney; a lost film.
 * The Forces of Evil, aka The Dominant Will (Eclair/ Leading Players) based on the George du Maurier novel Trilby.
 * Fune Yurei, translation Ghost Ship (Japanese/ Nikkatsu) directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe
 * The Ghost of the Mine (Eclair American) starring Robert Frazer and Edna Payne; filmed in Tucson, Arizona; an early horror-western hybrid.
 * Ghosts (British/ Close Prods.) produced by Elwin Neame and (his wife) Ivy Close (who starred in the film).
 * Guarding Britain's Secrets, aka The Fiends of Hell (British/ Walturdaw) directed by Charles Calvert, starring Douglas Payne and Dr. Nikola Hamilton (who also wrote the screenplay).
 * Hands Invisible (Powers Films) written and directed by Edwin August, who also starred in it; similar in plot to the later Hands of Orlac (1920).
 * Her Bounty (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush
 * Her Escape (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush; Chaney plays a blind man in this film.
 * Her Grave Mistake (Universal) starring Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie and Agnes Vernon
 * Her Life's Story (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush; based on a poem "The Cross" by Miriam Bade Rasmus.
 * Hidden Death, aka La Mort qui Frole (French/ Gaumont Films) directed by Jean Durand
 * The Higher Law (Universal) directed by Charles Giblyn, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush, a sequel to The Oubliette (1914).
 * The Honor of the Mounted (Gold Seal/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush
 * The Hopes of Blind Alley (Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush
 * The Hound of the Baskervilles aka La Chien des Baskerville (French/ Pathe) another adaptation of the famous novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * The Hound of the Baskervilles Parts 1 and 2 (German film); Part One was called "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and Part Two was called "The Solitary House"; directed by Rudolf Meinert for Vitascope, written by Richard Oswald, starring Alwin Neuss as Sherlock Holmes; later edited down into a single feature version; two concluding parts came out in 1915 (see 1915 for Parts 3 and 4)
 * The House of Fear (U.S./ Lubin) directed by Siegmund Lubin, starring Rosetta Brice; based on a story by Emmett C. Hall.
 * The Hypnotic Violinist (Denmark/ Filmfabrikken) starring Emilie Sannom, Rasmus Ottesen and Soren Fjelstrup
 * The Imp Abroad (Victor Films) produced and directed by Harry Rivier, starring Rupert Julian and Elsie Jane Wilson.
 * The Invisible Power (Kalem) directed by George Melford, starring Paul Hurst and William H. West, yet another film adaptation of the George du Maurier novel Trilby.
 * Jane Eyre (Imp/ Universal Pictures) directed by Frank Hall Crane, starring Ethel Grandin and Irving Cummings, based on the 1847 Charlotte Bronte novel.
 * Jane Eyre (Whitman) directed by Martin Faust, starring Lisbeth Blackstone, John Charles and Mary Fry Clements
 * Kaidan Asamagatake, aka The Ghost Story of Mount Asamagatake (Japanese/ Nikkatsu) directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe.
 * The Lamb, the Woman, the Wolf (Bison/ Universal) written and directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie and Pauline Bush
 * The Lie (Gold Seal/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney and Murdock MacQuarrie
 * Lights and Shadows (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush.
 * The Lion, the Lamb, the Man (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Millard K. Wilson
 * The Menace to Carlotta (Rex/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, written by Lon Chaney, starring Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie and Pauline Bush.
 * A Miner's Romance (Universal) starring Lon Chaney and Murdock MacQuarrie
 * The Miser's Conversion (Thanhouser) starring Sydney Bracy; features man-into-ape transformation.
 * Murders in the Rue Morgue (Rosenberg Films) based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe
 * The Mystery of Edwin Drood, co-directed by Herbert Blache and Tom Terriss, starring Tom Terriss and Rodney Hickok; based on the 1870 Charles Dickens novel; film was remade again in 1935 by Universal Pictures.
 * The Mystery of Grayson Hall (Eclair Films) starring Lindsay J. Hall and Fred Hearn
 * Naidra, the Dream Worker (Edison Prods.) features a cursed mummy's necklace.
 * The Necklace of Rameses (Thomas Edison Prods.) directed by Charles Brabin, starring William Bechtel and Gertrude Braun.
 * A Night of Thrills (Universal/ Rex) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush; a haunted house comedy.
 * Okazaki no neko, translation: The Ghost-Cat of Okazaki (Nikkatsu) directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe; based on an 1827 kabuki play which in turn was based on an 1820s Japanese novel called Shank's Mare.
 * The Old Cobbler (Universal) directed by Murdock MacQuarrie (who also starred in the film), also starring Lon Chaney and Agnes Vernon
 * The Oubliette (Universal) medieval adventure film directed by Charles Giblyn, starring Lon Chaney and Murdock MacQuarrie; film still exists.
 * Out of the Far East (Imp/ Universal Pictures) directed by Frank H. Crane, starring Stuart Paton and Leah Baird; re-released in 1917 as Eyes in the Dark.
 * The Phantom Light (Bison Films) directed by Henry McRae, starring William Clifford and Marie Walcamp
 * The Phantom Violin (Universal Pictures) directed by Francis Ford (who also starred in the film), starring Grace Cunard (who also wrote the screenplay) and Harry Schumm.
 * The Quest for the Sacred Jewel (U.S.-French co-production/ Pathe) directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Charles Arling and Edna Mayo; another adaptation of the 1868 Wilkie Collins novel, The Moonstone.
 * A Ranch Romance (Nestor/ Universal) starring Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney and Agnes Vernon
 * Remember Mary Magdalen (Victor/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie and Pauline Bush
 * Richelieu (Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie and Pauline Bush.
 * Ruslan i Ljudmila (Russian) directed by Ladislav Starevich, starring Ivan Mosjoukine as Satan; based on the poem by Alexander Pushkin.
 * Ein Seltsamer Fall (translation: A Strange Case) (Germany/ Vitascope) directed by Max Mack, written by Richard Oswald, starring Alwin Neuss and Hanni Weiss; an unofficial film adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; existing prints run about 30 minutes instead of the original's 50-minute length.
 * A Small Town Girl (Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Rupert Julian; film was released in November, 1914, although some sources say 1915.
 * The Spiritist, aka The Spiritualist (Denmark/ Nordisk) directed by Holger Madsen, starring Marie Dinesen and Vibeke Kroyer
 * The Strange Case of Princess Khan, produced by William G. Selig, directed by Edward J. LeSaint, starring Stella Razeto
 * A Study in Scarlet (British) directed by George Pearson, based on the famous Arthur Conan Doyle novel, starring James Bragington as Sherlock Holmes
 * A Study in Scarlet (U.S.) directed by Francis Ford for Universal Pictures, based on the famous Arthur Conan Doyle novel, starring Francis Ford as Sherlock Holmes and Jack Francis as Watson
 * The Suicide Club (British/ Apex Films) produced by Maurice Elvey, starring Elizabeth Risdon and Montagu Love; based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was remade in 1936 as Trouble for Two.
 * Svengali (Austrian/ Wiener Kunstfilm) directed by Luise Kolm and Jakob Fleck, starring Ferdinand Bonn; based on the novel Trilby by George du Maurier.
 * The Temptations of Satan (U.S. Amusement) directed by Herbert Blache, starring Vinnie Burns, Fraunie Fraunholz and James O'Neill as Satan.
 * The Tragedy of Whispering Creek (Bison/ Universal) written and directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaneyand Pauline Bush
 * Trilby (British) produced by Harold Shaw, starring Herbert Tree and Viva Birkett; based on George du Maurier's novel of the same name.
 * The Unlawful Trade (Rex/Universal) written and directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Murdock MacQuarrie
 * The Vampire (Eclair Films) plot features a large vampire bat.
 * Vendetta (French/ Eclipse) directed by Louis Mereanton, starring Regina Badet; based on the novel of the same name by Marie Corelli.
 * The Vij (Russian) written and directed by Ladislas Starevitch, starring Ivan Mosjoukine and Olga Obolenskaya; based on the story by Gogol; remade later as Black Sunday (1960).
 * Virtue Is Its Own Reward, aka Virtue Its Own Reward (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush
 * The White Spectre (General Films)
 * The White Wolf (Nestor Films/ Universal) plot involves a werewolf transformation.
 * Woman of Mystery (Blache Prods.) written and directed by Alice Guy-Blache; starring Vinnie Burns, Claire Whitney and Fraunie Fraunholz; plot involves split personalities and spirit control.
 * Yoshiwara kaidan: Teburi bozu (Japanese/ Nikkatsu) directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe; another adaptation of the 1825 Japanese kabuki play, Yotsuya kaidan.

Short film series

 * Broncho Billy Anderson (1910–1916)
 * Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)
 * Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)

Births

 * January 5 – George Reeves, actor (died 1959)
 * January 6 – Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian (died 1991)
 * January 13 – Osa Massen, Danish actress (died 2006)
 * January 14 – Harold Russell, actor (died 2002)
 * January 15 – Dimples Cooper, Filipina actress (died 1960)
 * January 30 – John Ireland, actor (died 1992)
 * January 31 - Carey Loftin, American stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor (died 1997)
 * February 3 – Mary Carlisle, actress (died 2018)
 * February 6 – Thurl Ravenscroft, actor, singer (died 2005)
 * February 15 – Kevin McCarthy, actor (died 2010)
 * February 17 – Arthur Kennedy, actor (died 1990)
 * February 18 – Mahmoud Zulfikar, director (died 1970)
 * February 21 – Zachary Scott, actor (died 1965)
 * February 26 – Robert Alda, actor (died 1986)
 * March 2 – Martin Ritt, director (died 1990)
 * March 3 – Charlotte Henry, actress (died 1980)
 * March 27 – Richard Denning, actor (died 1998)
 * April 2 – Alec Guinness, actor (died 2000)
 * April 4 – Richard Coogan, actor (died 2014)
 * April 14 – John Hubbard, actor (died 1988)
 * April 16 – John Hodiak, actor (died 1955)
 * May 5 – Tyrone Power, actor (died 1958)
 * May 19 – Beverly Roberts, actress, singer (died 2009)
 * May 24 – Lilli Palmer, actress (died 1986)
 * May 31 – Hannes Schiel, Austrian actor (died 2017)
 * June 7 – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director (died 1987)
 * June 18 – E. G. Marshall, actor (died 1998)
 * June 21 – Wensley Pithey, character actor (died 1993)
 * July 2 - Ethelreda Leopold, American actress (died 1998)
 * July 20 - Masa Niemi, Finnish comic actor (died 1960)
 * July 23 - Julie Mitchum, actress (died 2003)
 * July 29 – Irwin Corey, comedian (died 2017)
 * July 31 – Louis de Funès, actor (died 1983)
 * August 2 – Beatrice Straight, actress (died 2001)
 * August 5 – Parley Baer, actor (died 2002)
 * August 14 – Andrea Leeds, actress (died 1984)
 * August 31 – Richard Basehart, actor (died 1984)
 * September 10 – Robert Wise, director (died 2005)
 * September 12 – Desmond Llewelyn, actor (died 1999)
 * September 20 – Kenneth More English actor (died 1982)
 * September 27 – Sophie Sooäär, Estonian actress and singer (d. 1996)
 * October 1 – Maciej Maciejewski, Polish screen and stage actor (died 2018)
 * October 9 - Edward Andrews, American actor (died 1985)
 * October 26 – Jackie Coogan, actor (died 1984)
 * October 28 - Dody Goodman, American character actress (died 2008)
 * October 30 – Anna Wing, actress (died 2013)
 * November 6 - Jonathan Harris, (died 2002)
 * November 8 – Norman Lloyd, actor (died 2021)
 * November 9
 * Alan Caillou, English actor and screenwriter (died 2006)
 * Hedy Lamarr, actress (died 2000)
 * November 10 – William Henry, actor (died 1982)
 * November 13
 * Amelia Bence, actress (died 2016)
 * Henri Langlois, film preservationist (died 1977)
 * Alberto Lattuada, director (died 2005)
 * November 23
 * Roger Avon, British film and television actor (died 1998)
 * Ellen Drew, American actress (died 2003)
 * December 10 – Dorothy Lamour, actress (died 1996)
 * December 13 – Larry Parks, actor (died 1975)
 * December 26 – Richard Widmark, actor (died 2008)
 * December 28 – Lee Bowman, actor (died 1979)

Deaths

 * January 9 – Gladys Rankin, American actress as Mrs. Sidney Drew; writer as George Cameron
 * January 11 – William A. Russell, 35, American actor
 * March 25 – Frédéric Mistral, 83, French writer, Mirèio
 * June 19 – Brandon Thomas, 65, British writer, Charley's Aunt
 * July 1
 * Grace McHugh, American actress died while filming the movie Across the Border
 * Owen Carter, American cinematographer died while trying to save Grace McHugh, Across the Border
 * August 21 – Charles J. Hite, 38, President and CEO of Thanhouser Film Corporation
 * August 22 – David Davie Shelby, 66, actor.
 * October 24 – Gustav Wied, 56, Danish playwright and novelist
 * November 14 – Stellan Rye, 34, Danish film director, Dur Verfuhrte, Evinrude, The Student of Prague

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1913 in film

1913 was a particularly fruitful year for film as an art form, and is often cited one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1917. The year was one where filmmakers of several countries made great artistic advancements, producing notable pioneering masterpieces such as The Student of Prague (Stellan Rye), Suspense (Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber), Atlantis (August Blom), Raja Harischandra (D. G. Phalke), Juve contre Fantomas (Louis Feuillade), Quo Vadis? (Enrico Guazzoni), Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström), The Mothering Heart (D. W. Griffith), Ma l’amor mio non muore! (Mario Caserini), L’enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret) and Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Yevgenii Bauer).

Events

 * January 1 – The British Board of Film Censors is established.
 * April 21 – The first full-length Indian (and Marathi) feature film Raja Harishchandra (silent) has its première (public release May 3).
 * May – Mary Pickford signs a contract with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company for $500 per week, becoming the company's first superstar.
 * Jesse L. Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel Goldwyn and Oscar Apfel founded Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.
 * November 24 - Traffic in Souls is an early example of the narrative style of Hollywood film.
 * December 29 – Charlie Chaplin signs a contract with Mack Sennett to begin making films at Keystone Studios.
 * December 29 – release of The Adventures of Kathlyn, the second American serial film and the first to feature cliffhanger endings that became popular with later serials.
 * December 29 – production starts on Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company's The Squaw Man, the first full-length Hollywood feature film.
 * D. W. Griffith ends his series of Biograph shorts, begun in 1908, and leaves the Biograph Company in New York City to make full-length motion pictures.
 * Georges Méliès' career as a director comes to an end.
 * Cines-Palast in Berlin opens as a cinema with Quo Vadis.
 * Mitchell and Kenyon shoot their last known films in England.
 * Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle signs for Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios and his early films for them feature the first known instances of pie thrown on film.

Films released in 1913

 * Addio giovinezza!
 * The Adventures of Kathlyn, (serial), starring Kathlyn Williams
 * The Adventures of Three Nights (Eiko Films)
 * After Death (Italy/ Kleine & Cines) aka Dopo la Morte
 * After the Welsh Rarebit, produced by Edison Films, directed by C. J. Williams, starring William Wadsworth and Ida Williams.
 * The Airman's Enemy (French/ Film de Paris)
 * The Alchemist (British/ Kimenatograph) produced by Charles Urban, shot in color
 * Almost an Actress (Universal) directed by Allan Curtis, starring Lon Chaney (playing a cameraman)
 * American Born
 * Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Enrico Guazzoni
 * Arizona
 * Article 47, L'
 * At Midnight
 * Atlantis (Danish-German co-production/ Nordisk) produced by Ole Olsen, directed by August Blom, written by Gerhardt Hauptmann, starring Olaf Fons, Ida Orloff and Ebba Thomsen; Michael Curtiz was assistant director; the first Danish full-length feature film.
 * Babes in the Woods (French/ Pathe Freres) based on the fairy tale
 * Back to Life (Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush
 * Balaoo the Demon Baboon aka Balaoo (French/Eclair), directed by Victorin-Hyppolite Jasset, starring Lucien Bataille and Camille Bardou, based on the novel by Gaston Leroux; this film was remade as The Wizard (1927 film) and again as Dr. Renault's Secret (1942).
 * The Bangville Police, starring Mabel Normand and The Keystone Cops
 * Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life, starring Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, The Keystone Cops, and American race car driver Barney Oldfield.
 * The Bartered Bride
 * The Battle at Elderbush Gulch, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mae Marsh and Lillian Gish
 * The Battle of Gettysburg
 * Beautiful Bismark
 * Beauty and the Beast (Universal) directed by H. C. Matthews, based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
 * The Bells, directed by Oscar Apfel, starring Edward P. Sullivan and Sue Balfour, based on the play The Polish Jew by Erckmann-Chatrian which was later adapted to English by Leopold Lewis retitled The Bells.
 * The Bells, directed by George Lessey, produced by Thomas Edison, starring May Abbey and Robert Brower; based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem of the same name
 * The Bewitched Matches (French/ Eclair) directed by Emile Cohl
 * The Black Opal, (Ramo Films) based on the novel The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
 * Bloodhounds of the North (Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush
 * The Blood Red Tape of Charity (Universal) directed by Edwin August, starring Lon Chaney
 * Brand of Evil (Essanay Films) directed by Harry McRae Webster, written by Edward T. Lowe, starring Thomas Commerford and Ruth Stonehouse, based on the novel The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
 * Breaking into the Big League
 * The Caged Bird
 * Calamity Anne's Beauty
 * Calamity Anne's Dream
 * Calamity Anne's Inheritance
 * Calamity Anne's Vanity
 * Calamity Anne, Heroine
 * Caprice
 * The Cave Dwellers' Romance (Bison Films)
 * The Clown Hero (Imp/ Universal) written by Richard Goodall
 * The Cub Reporter's Temptation
 * Dante's Purgatorio (Cinema Prods.)
 * David Copperfield
 * David Garrick
 * The Dead Man Who Killed (French/ Apex Films)
 * The Dead Secret (Monopol Films) directed by Stanner E. V. Taylor, starring Marion Leonard, based on the 1857 short story of the same name by Wilkie Collins
 * The Death Stone of India (Bison) directed by Milton J. Fahrney, starring William Clifford, Belle Bennett and Paul Machette, based on the 1868 Wilkie Collins novel The Moonstone.
 * Death's Marathon, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet and Lionel Barrymore
 * A Desperate Chance
 * The Devil and Tom Walker (Selig) directed by Hardee Kirkland, written by Edward McWade, starring Harry Lonsdale and William Stowell (as Satan); based on the story by Washington Irving.
 * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Imp/ Universal) produced by Carl Laemmle, written and directed by Herbert Brenon, starring King Baggott, Matt Snyder and Jane Gail.
 * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (British/ Kineto-Kimemacolor) produced by Charles Urban, filmed in color; this film was very sparsely distributed; one of the earliest horror films ever made in Great Britain.
 * Dr. Trimball's Verdict (British/ Hepworth Films) directed by Frank Wilson, produced by Cecil M. Hepworth, starring Alec Worcester
 * Don Juan's Compact (Milano Films)
 * The Egyptian Mummy (Kalem Films) horror-comedy starring Ruth Roland
 * Eighty Million Women Want -?
 * An Elephant on his Hands (Nestor/ Universal) short comedy directed by Al Christie, starring Lon Chaney.
 * L'Enfant de Paris
 * Evidence of the Film
 * The Evil Power (Rex Films) directed by Otis Turner, starring Margarita Fischer
 * Eyes of Satan (Solax Films)
 * The Face at the Window
 * Fantômas, a film serial (with parts four and five actually released in 1914):
 * À l'ombre de la guillotine
 * Juve contre Fantômas
 * Le Mort qui tue

 * Faust and the Lily (Biograph) a satirical take on Goethe's "Faust"
 * Feathertop (British/ Kinemacolor) produced by Charles Urban, filmed in Color; based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (remade in 1916)
 * The Fire Coward
 * The Flirt and the Bandit
 * For Her Boy's Sake
 * For the Crown
 * For the Flag
 * For the Peace of Bear Valley
 * The Foreman's Treachery (Edison Prods.) directed by Charles Brabin, starring Miriam Nesbitt and Marc MacDermott
 * A Forest Romance
 * From the Beyond (French/ U.S. co-production, Eclair Films/ American Standard) directed by Oscar A. C. Lund, starring Alec B. Francis and Barbara Tennant
 * Funnicus and the Ghost (Eclair Films)
 * The Game Warden
 * The Ghost (Victor Films) directed by (and starring) James Kirkwood
 * The Ghost of Seaview Manor (Dragon Prods.)
 * The Ghost of the Hacienda, a horror-western hybrid directed by Thomas Ricketts, starring Edward Coxen and Jean Durrell
 * The Ghost of the White Lady, aka The White Ghost (Denmark/ Great Northern & Nordisk) starring Rita Sacchetto
 * The Ghosts: or, Who's Afraid? (Vitagraph) directed by William J. Bauman, starring Myrtle Gonzalez and George Cooper
 * The Girl and the Greaser
 * The Grasshopper and the Ant
 * The Greater Love
 * The Great Ganton Mystery (Rex Films)
 * The Great Physician (Edison Prods.) directed by Richard Ridgely, starring Charles Ogle
 * The Green Eye of the Yellow God (Edison Prods.) directed by Richard Ridgely, starring Charles Ogle, based on the 1911 poem by J. Milton Hayes
 * The Gusher, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Charles Inslee, and The Keystone Cops
 * Hamlet
 * The Haunted Bedroom (Edison) starring Harry Beaumont, Jack Strong and Mabel Trunelle
 * The Haunted Chamber (Anderson Films) thought to be based on the 1873 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * The Haunted Cottage, aka Le cottage hantee (French/ Pathe) written and directed by Segundo de Chomon
 * The Haunted House, directed by Lorimer Johnston, starring Vivian Rich and Jack Richardson
 * The Haunted House (Kalem Films) thought to be directed by Edmund Lawrence, starring Edgar L. Davenport, Adelaide Lawrence and Olive Temple
 * The Haunted House (Patheplay) starring Charles E. Bunnell, Crane Wilbur and Julia Walcott
 * The Heart of a Fool
 * Her Big Story
 * Her Gallant Knights
 * Hinemoa
 * His Neighbor's Wife
 * His Wife's Child
 * The House in the Tree
 * The House of Darkness, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore
 * The Idol of Bonanza Camp
 * In the Bishop's Carriage
 * In the Firelight
 * In the Grip of a Charlatan (Kalem Film) starring Alice Joyce and Tom Moore
 * In the Grip of the Vampire (French/ Gaumont) directed by Leonce Perret; does not feature a supernatural vampire
 * In the Long Ago (Selig Polyscope) directed by Colin Campbell, starring Wheeler Oakman and Tom Santschi
 * In the Mountains of Virginia
 * In the Power of a Hypnotist (Warner) directed by Sidney Olcott and T. Hayes Hunter, starring Sydney Olcott and Gene Gauntier
 * In the Toils of the Devil (Italy/ Milano Film) story was based on Faust
 * The Influence of a Child
 * Ingeborg Holm, once described as the first "realistic" feature film
 * The Island of Bliss (German/ Brandon Films) directed by Arthur Kahane; based on a Max Reinhardt play
 * The Island of Terror (French/ Eclipse) directed by Joe Hamman (who also starred in it); an unauthorized film version of the 1896 H. G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, made without Wells' permission.
 * Isle of the Dead (Denmark/ Gluckstadt Films) directed by Wilhelm Gluckstadt
 * It Is Never Too Late to Mend (Thomas Edison) directed by Charles M. Seay, starring Walter Edwin, Mary Fuller, Wyatt Burns and Charles Ogle, based on the 1856 Charles Reade novel of the same name
 * Ivanhoe
 * Justice of the Wild
 * A Lady of Quality
 * The Lady Killer
 * The Last Days of Pompeii, directed by Mario Caserini and Eleuterio Rodolfi (One of the early blockbusters in cinema. One of the earliest feature films.)
 * Love From Out of the Grave (French/ Film d'Art) a lost film.
 * Mabel's Awful Mistakes, starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett
 * Mabel's Dramatic Career, starring Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, and The Keystone Cops; contains early usage of film-within-a-film
 * Mabel's New Hero, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, and The Keystone Cops
 * The Magic Skin (Victor Films) starring J. Warren Kerrigan, based on the story The Wild Ass's Skin by Balzac.
 * The Man in the White Cloak (Denmark/ Nordisk)
 * The Man of the Wax Figures (French), directed by Maurice Tourneur, aka L'Homme aux Figures de Cire
 * Maria Marten: or, The Murder in the Red Barn (British/ Motograph Films) written and directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Elizabeth Risdon, Nessie Blackford and Fred Groves; script incorporated ideas from several different stage play versions of the story; remade in 1928 and again in 1935.
 * The Medium's Nemesis (Thanhauser Films) starring Mrs. Lawrence Marston, Sidney Bracey and Marie Eline
 * The Mirror
 * A Mix-Up in Pedigrees
 * Moondyne
 * The Mothering Heart, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish
 * Mrs. Carter's Campaign
 * The Mysterious Stranger (Essanay Films) starring Bryant Washburn and E. H. Calvert.
 * Mystery of the Haunted Hotel (Thanhouser)
 * The Mystic Moonstone (British/ Lion's Head Films) directed by David Aylott
 * The New Conductor
 * The Newsboy's Christmas Dream (British/ C&M Films)
 * The Night Before Christmas
 * Notre Dame (Patheplay), based on the novel Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
 * Nursery Favorites
 * The Oath of Pierre
 * The Occult, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Sydney Ayres, Jacques Jaccard and Violet Knights.
 * The Other (Der Andere) aka Der Andere (German/ Vitascope), written and directed by Max Mack, starring Albert Basserman, Hanni Weisse and Emmerich Hanus; based on a stage play by Paul Lindau which in turn was inspired by the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
 * The Oath of Tsuru San
 * Our Wives
 * Owana, the Devil Woman (Nestor Films) produced by David Horseley
 * Personal Magnetism
 * The Phantom Signal (Thomas Edison Prods.) directed by George Lessey, starring Charles Ogle, Mary Abbey and Bessie Learn.
 * The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913 film), written by Lois Weber, directed by Phillips Smalley; starring Wallace Reid and Lois Weber; based on the famous novel by Oscar Wilde.
 * The Pied Piper of Hamlin (Edison Prods.) directed by George Lessey, starring Herbert Prior and Robert Brower.
 * The Pit and the Pendulum, aka Rivals (Solax Films) directed by Alice Guy-Blache, starring Darwin Karr; based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
 * Poisoned Waters (Nestor Films/ Universal) directed by Milton J. Fahrney, produced by David Horsley, starring Valleria Alison and Louis Fitzroy
 * Poor Jake's Demise (Imp/ Universal) directed by Allen Curtis, starring Lon Chaney (his first credited film appearance).
 * The Proof of the Man
 * The Pursuit of the Smugglers
 * The Queen of Spades (Italy/ Cines, Aquila) directed by Baldassare Negroni, starring Leda Gys, Hesperia and Ignazio Lupi; based on the story by Alexander Pushkin and its 1890 opera adaptation by Tchaikovsky.
 * The Queen of Spades (Fidelity Films) based on the story by Alexander Pushkin; a lost film.
 * Quicksands
 * Quo Vadis?, directed by Enrico Guazzoni (One of the earliest feature films.)
 * Raja Harishchandra, often listed as the first Indian feature film
 * Red Margaret, Moonshiner
 * The Reformers, or the Lost Art of Minding One's Own Business, directed by D. W. Griffith
 * The Reincarnation of a Soul (Universal) starring Edwin August
 * The Restless Spirit (Victor/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush
 * Rick's Redemption
 * The Roadside Inn (French/ Star Film)
 * The Rose of San Juan
 * Sapho
 * Satan's Castle (Italy/ Ambrosio) plot similar to "Faust"
 * A Sawmill Hazard
 * Scrooge (British/ Big Features) directed by Leedham Bantock, starring Sir Seymour Hicks (who also wrote the screenplay); based on the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol.
 * The Sea Urchin (1913 film) (Universal) directed by Edwin August, starring Lon Chaney and Jeanie MacPherson
 * The Sea Wolf, based on the novel by Jack London
 * The Scimitar of the Prophet
 * The Sheriff of Stone Gulch (Kalem) directed by Pat Hartigan, who appears in a starring role alongside Ruth Roland, Marshall Neilan and Vincente Howard.
 * Sherlock Holmes Solves the Sign of the Four (Thanhouser, U.S., 2 reels) starring Harry Benham as Holmes; film was released in U.K. as The Sign of Four
 * The Shoemaker and the Doll
 * Shon the Piper (Universal) starring Robert Z. Leonard and Lon Chaney (uncredited)
 * The Shriner's Daughter
 * Simple Simon and the Haunted House, aka Onesime et la maison hante (French/ Gaumont) directed by Jean Durand, starring Ernest Bourbon and Gaston Modot; one in a series of more than 60 French silent films featuring the character Onesime (which means Simple Simon in English).
 * Simple Simon and the Suicide Club (French/ Gaumont) directed by Jean Durand, starring Ernest Bourbon and Gaston Modot; a comic satire on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 novel, The Suicide Club.
 * Il sire di Vincigliata
 * Sleeping Beauty (Venus/ Warners) based on the Perrault fairy tale.
 * Snow White (Powers Films) based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
 * Some Fools There Were
 * The Spectre of Jago (Italy/ Savoia Films) directed by Alberto Carlo Lolli, starring Ubaldo Maria Del Colle; based on the novel by Charles Darlington.
 * The Speed Kings, starring Mabel Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling and American race car drivers Teddy Tetzlaff, Earl Cooper and Barney Oldfield.
 * The Speed Queen, starring Mabel Normand
 * The Spell (Power Picture Plays) plot was similar to "Svengali".
 * The Spender
 * The Star of India (Blache Films) directed by Herbert Blache and Alice Guy-Blache, starring Frannie Fraunholz and Claire Whitney; based on the 1868 novel The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
 * Strangers from Nowhere, aka Two Strangers from Nowhere (Blache Films) produced by Herbert Blache; plot was similar to "Faust".
 * The Student of Prague (Germany/Denmark) produced by Apex/ Deutsch-Bioscop, directed by Stellan Rye and Paul Wegener, written by Hanns Heinz Ewers, starring Paul Wegener, John Gottowt, Grete Berger and Lyda Salmonova; adapting the 1839 Edgar Allan Poe story William Wilson, the film explored the concept of the "doppelganger"; only inferior prints exist, edited down from 85 minutes to 41 minutes; the film was remade in 1926 and again in 1935.
 * The Suicide Club (German/ Eichberg Films) directed by Joseph Delmont, starring Fred Sauer and Ilse Bois; based on the 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson short story of the same name.
 * Suspense, directed by Lois Weber; contains early usage of split-screen
 * The Tale of the Ticker
 * The Tempter (British) filmed in Color; directed by F. Martin Thornton and R. H. Callum, produced by Charles Urban, starring Harry Agar Lyons and Alfred de Manby; an early anthology fantasy film that predated Dead of Night (1945).
 * The Tenderfoot's Ghost (produced by Frontier Films/ St. Louis Motion Picture Co.)
 * The Thief and the Porter's Head (Italy/ Milano Film)
 * Through the Neighbor's Window
 * Through the Sluice Gates
 * Traffic in Souls, directed by George Loane Tucker (One of the earliest American feature film.)
 * Transported
 * The Trap (Universal) directed by Edwin August, starring Lon Chaney and Cleo Madison
 * Trapped in a Forest Fire
 * The Treasure of Buddha (Gerrard Studios) lost film based on the 1868 Wilkie Collins novel, The Moonstone.
 * Trilby (Vitascope) yet another film based on the 1894 novel by George du Maurier.
 * Truth in the Wilderness
 * Twilight of a Woman's Soul
 * Unto the Third Generation
 * The Unwelcome Guest
 * The Vampire (British/ Searchlight Films) remade in 1915 as Heba, the Snake Woman.
 * The Vampire (U.S./ Kalem Films) directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Harry Millarde, Marguerite Cortot, Alice Eis and Bert French; print exists in a museum.
 * The Vampire of the Desert (Vitagraph) directed by Charles Gaskill, starring Helen Gardner and Teffi Johnson; a non-supernatural film based on a poem called The Vampire by Rudyard Kipling
 * Voodoo Fires (Tampa Films) directed by Frank Whitman, written by Joe Brandt; one of the earliest films to depict voodoo rituals, quite possibly an influence on the later Bela Lugosi film, White Zombie (1932).
 * Wamba, a Child of the Jungle
 * The Werewolf (U.S./ Bison Films, Universal) first known film to deal with the "werewolf" concept; filmed in Canada, directed by Henry McRae, written by Ruth Ann Baldwin, starring Clarence Barton, Marie Walcamp and Phyllis Gordon; based on an 1898 story called "The Werewolves" by Honore Beaugrand; the last known print was destroyed in a fire in 1924.
 * What the Gods Decree (French/ Eclair) directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, starring Charles Krauss and Josette Andriot (a statue of Kali comes to life).
 * When Lincoln Paid
 * When Spirits Walk (Frontier/ St. Louis) starring Lloyd Hamilton, Joseph Franz and Eva Thatcher
 * While John Bolt Slept (Edison Films) starring Charles Ogle
 * While There's Life
 * The Witch of Salem, directed by Raymond B. West, produced by Thomas H. Ince, starring Charles Ray and Clara Williams; plot is similar to D. W. Griffith's Rose O'Salem Town (1910).
 * Woman's Honor
 * Yoshiwara Kaidan: Kozakura Choji (Nikkatsu Kyoto Studios) Japanese ghost movie directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe
 * Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the earliest feature film of Hong Kong cinema

Short film series

 * Broncho Billy Anderson (1910–1916)
 * Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)

Births

 * January 2 – Anna Lee, actress (died 2004)
 * January 6 – Loretta Young, actress (died 2000)
 * January 15
 * Lloyd Bridges, actor (died 1998)
 * Patricia Farr, actress (died 1948)
 * January 28 - Maurice Gosfield, American stage, film, radio and television actor (died 1964)
 * January 29 – Victor Mature, actor (died 1999)
 * February 8 – Betty Field, actress (died 1973)
 * February 10 – Douglas Slocombe, cinematographer (died 2016)
 * February 25
 * Jim Backus, actor (died 1989)
 * Gert Fröbe, actor (died 1988)
 * March 2 – Marjorie Weaver, actress (died 1994)
 * March 3 - Harold J. Stone, actor died (died 2005)
 * March 4 – John Garfield, actor (died 1952)
 * March 15 – Macdonald Carey, actor (died 1994)
 * March 18 – René Clément, director (died 1996)
 * April 16 – Les Tremayne, English-American actor (died 2003)
 * May 6 – Stewart Granger, actor (died 1993)
 * May 8
 * Sid James, actor and comedian (died 1976)
 * Charles Scorsese, American actor (died 1993)
 * May 10 – Maria Dominiani, actress (died 1993)
 * May 18 – Mary Howard de Liagre, actress (died 2009)
 * May 25 - Benjamin Melniker, American producer (died 2018)
 * May 26 – Peter Cushing, actor (died 1994)
 * May 27
 * Willie Best, actor (died 1962)
 * Linden Travers, actress (died 2001)
 * July 4 – Barbara Weeks, actress (died 2003)
 * July 10 – Joan Marsh, actress (died 2000)
 * July 18
 * Marvin Miller, American actor (died 1985)
 * Red Skelton, actor, comedian (died 1997)
 * July 29 – Gale Page, actress (died 1983)
 * August 10 – Noah Beery Jr., actor (died 1994)
 * August 11 – Paul Dupuis, actor (died 1976)
 * August 13
 * Rita Johnson, actress (died 1965)
 * Felix Nelson, actor (died 1998)
 * August 24 – Dorothy Comingore, actress (died 1971)
 * September 3 – Alan Ladd, actor (died 1964)
 * September 5 - Kathleen Burke, actress (died 1980
 * September 6 – Julie Gibson, actress (died 2019)
 * September 7 – Anthony Quayle, actor (died 1989)
 * September 12 – Gerardo de Leon, Filipino director, actor, screenwriter, producer (died 1981)
 * September 19 – Frances Farmer, actress (died 1970)
 * September 29
 * Trevor Howard, actor (died 1988)
 * Stanley Kramer, producer, director (died 2001)
 * September 30 – Bill Walsh, producer, writer (died 1975)
 * October 7 – Evelyn Venable, actress (died 1993)
 * October 10 – Janis Carter, actress (died 1994)
 * October 17 – Robert Lowery, actor (died 1971)
 * November 2 – Burt Lancaster, actor (died 1994)
 * November 4 – Gig Young, actor (died 1978)
 * November 5
 * Guy Green, cinematographer (died 2005)
 * Vivien Leigh, actress (died 1967)
 * John McGiver, actor (died 1975)
 * November 13 – Alexander Scourby, American actor (died 1985)
 * November 16 - Ellen Albertini Dow, American character actress (died 2015)
 * November 20 – Judy Canova, actress (died 1983)
 * November 24
 * Howard Duff, actor (died 1990)
 * Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress (died 2005)
 * December 1 – Mary Martin, actress (died 1990)
 * December 25 – Tony Martin, singer, actor (died 2012)

Deaths

 * February - Florence Barker, film actress (b. 1891)
 * March 15 – John R. Cumpson, stage and film actor (b. 1866)
 * June 2 – Eleanor Caines, silent film actress (b. 1880)
 * August 3 – Joseph Graybill, actor with D.W. Griffith (b. 1887)

Film debuts

 * Luciano Albertini – Spartacus
 * Wallace Beery – The Right of Way
 * Gladys Brockwell – The Rattlesnake
 * Nell Craig – The Battle of Shiloh
 * Douglass Dumbrille – What 80 Million Women Want
 * Aud Egede-Nissen – Stage Children
 * Louise Fazenda – The Romance of the Utah Pioneers
 * John Gottowt – The Student of Prague
 * Gail Kane – Arizona
 * Lila Leslie – The Third Degree
 * Murdock MacQuarrie – The Count of Monte Cristo
 * Rosita Marstini – A Prisoner in the Harem
 * Nance O'Neil – The Count of Monte Cristo
 * Lyda Salmonova – Evinrude
 * Paul Wegener – The Student of Prague
 * Margaret Yarde – A Cigarette-Maker's Romance

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1912 in film

The year 1912 in film involved some significant events.

Events

 * February – Babelsberg Studio outside Berlin begins operation with the shooting of The Dance of the Dead (Der Totentanz) by Danish director Urban Gad, starring Asta Nielsen (released September 7).
 * April 15 – Sinking of the Titanic: British passenger liner Titanic sinks having struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States, killing more than 1,500. This is depicted in many works of popular culture, including films, beginning with the May 16 U.S. release Saved from the Titanic, starring and co-written by Dorothy Gibson, who is herself a survivor of the disaster.
 * April 30 – Universal Film Manufacturing Company is founded in New York, the oldest surviving film studio in the United States.
 * May 8 – Famous Players Film Company, the forerunner of Paramount Pictures, is founded by Adolph Zukor.
 * May 18 – Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, the first Indian film, is released.
 * June 8 – New York Motion Picture Company is merged with Universal, giving Universal a studio in Edendale, Los Angeles.
 * July 4 – Mack Sennett, who has previously worked as an actor and comedy director with D. W. Griffith, forms a new company with New York City entrepreneur Adam Kessel, Keystone Studios. It will play an important role in developing slapstick comedy as the home to the Keystone Cops, English actor Charlie Chaplin, and others.
 * July 12 – Queen Elizabeth is the first film released by Famous Players.
 * July 26 – Edison Studios releases What Happened to Mary, the first ever motion picture serial.
 * Edison introduces the Home Kinetoscope, a home film-projector which uses a 22 mm print consisting of three rows of frames.
 * Pathé releases Pathe Kok, their first entry into the amateur market, with a gauge of 28 mm.
 * Alexander F. Victor improves on the 17.5 mm format with his Duoscope, which uses two center perforations instead of the typical one.
 * Bell & Howell introduce the first all-metal camera, the 2709 35mm.

Films released in 1912

 * 1812, Russian film directed by Vasili Goncharov
 * All for a Girl, directed by Frederick A. Thompson
 * Andalusian Superstition (French/Pathe) written and directed by Segundo de Chomon; filmed in hand-tinted color
 * At the Foot of the Ladder, produced by the Thanhouser Company
 * At It Again, produced and directed by Mack Sennett
 * Aurora Floyd, directed by Theodore Marston
 * Baby Hands
 * The Bandit of Tropico
 * A Battle of Wits
 * The Beautiful Leukanida
 * Bebe and Spiritualism (French/ Gaumont) directed by Louis Feuillade, starring child star Rene Dary and Paul Manson; this was one of a series of 64 films that featured the popular Bebe ("Baby") film character
 * The Belle of Bar-Z Ranch, directed by Thomas Ricketts
 * Bertie's Book of Magic (British/ Hepworth) directed by Frank Wilson
 * Billy's Seance (Universal/ IMP) starring John R. Cumpson and Charles Arling; a spoof on "seance films".
 * The Brute (Champion Films) directed by Ulysses Davis, produced by Mark M. Dintenfass
 * A Business Buccaneer
 * The Cameraman's Revenge
 * The Charge of the Light Brigade
 * Cleopatra, directed by Charles L. Gaskill and starring Helen Gardner; one of the earliest American feature films
 * Conductor 786, produced by the Thanhouser Company
 * Conscience (Vitagraph), aka The Chamber of Horrors, produced by Albert E. Smith, directed by Maurice Costello, starring Rose Tapely and Robert Gaillard.
 * Convicted by Hypnotism (French/ Eclair) aka A Double Life, directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, starring Cecile Guyon and Charles Krauss
 * The County Fair
 * The Conquest of the Pole, aka A la conquete du Pole, directed by Georges Méliès (his last film).
 * Curse of the Hindoo Pearl (American Standard Films) based on the 1868 Wilkie Collins novel The Moonstone
 * Curse of the Lake (Vitagraph)
 * Custer's Last Fight, directed by Francis Ford
 * Dante and Beatrice (Italian/ Ambrosio Prods.)
 * A Dash Through the Clouds, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand and American aviation pioneer Philip Parmelee.
 * The Deserter, directed by Thomas H. Ince
 * The Diabolical Box (British/ Urbanora Films)
 * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Thanhouser) directed by Lucius Henderson, starring James Cruze and Marguerite Snow
 * A Drama of the Castle; or, Do the Dead Return? (French) written and directed by Abel Gance
 * El Fusilamiento de Jose Rizal, directed by Albert Yearsley
 * The Fatal Pact (French/ Pathe) features a magic genie
 * The Fatal Pearl (Italian/ Aquila)
 * Faust (British) produced by Charles Urban, filmed in Kinemacolor; (a lost film today).
 * Feathertop (French/ U.S. co-production) produced by Eclair/ American Standard; starring Muriel Ostriche and Julia Stuart; based on the 1852 short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
 * The Female of the Species, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
 * The Fickle Spaniard, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand
 * For His Son, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
 * For the Cause of the South, directed by Bannister Merwin, starring Laura Sawyer, Ben F. Wilson, Charles Ogle
 * Frankfurters and Quail
 * Friends, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore
 * From the Manger to the Cross, directed by Sidney Olcott (One of the earliest American feature film.)
 * From the Submerged, written and directed by Theodore Wharton
 * Gavroche and the Ghosts, aka Gavroche and the Spirits (French/ Eclair) directed by Romeo Bosetti, starring Paul Bertho; one of a series of 40 short French silent films all featuring the comic character "Gavroche"
 * Geronimo's Last Raid
 * The Ghost of Sulphur Mountain (Star Film) directed by Gaston Méliès and Robert Goodman, starring Francis Ford
 * Ghosts (Essanay Films) starred Norman MacDonald and Joseph Allen Sr.
 * Ghosts (British/ Hepworth) directed by Hay Plumb, starring Harry Buss and Ivy Close
 * The Girl and Her Trust, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Dorothy Bernard and Wilfred Lucas
 * The Half-Breed's Way
 * The Haunted House (French/ Pathe)
 * The Herncrake Witch (British/ Heron Films) written and directed by Mark Melford, starring Jakidawdra Melford and produced by Andrew Heron
 * The Hindoo Charm (Lubin Films) directed by Maurice Costello (also star), also starring Clara Kimball Young and James Young
 * The Honor of the Family
 * Hop o' My Thumb (French/ Gaumont) Based on the Perrault fairy tale
 * Hot Stuff, starring Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, and Dell Henderson
 * How a Mosquito Operates
 * An Indian Legend (Broncho/ Mutual Films) produced by Thomas H. Ince, directed by Francis Ford
 * Indian Romeo and Juliet
 * In Nacht und Eis
 * The Independence of Romania The first Romanian feature film to run for two hours.
 * In the Grip of the Vampire (French/ Gaumont Films) written by Leonce Perret
 * The Invaders
 * It Happened Thus
 * Jack and the Beanstalk (produced by Thomas Edison)
 * Keystone Comedy
 * The Knight of the Snows (French/ Pathe & Star Films) written and directed by George Melies
 * La Vida de Jose Rizal, directed by Edward M. Gross
 * La Vida y Muerte del Gran Martir Filipino, Dr. Jose Rizal, directed by Albert Yearsley
 * The Lady of Shallot (British/ Hepworth) written and directed by Elwin Neame, based on the Lord Tennyson poem; starring Ivy Close.
 * The Land Beyond the Sunset
 * The Legend of Cagliostro (Gaumont Films)
 * The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (French/ Eclair & American Standard Films) directed by Etienne Arnaud, starring Alec B. Francis and Muriel Ostriche, based on the story by Washington Irving
 * Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth (released in the US as Queen Elizabeth), first film released by Famous Players Film Company, starring Sarah Bernhardt
 * The Lesser Evil, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
 * The Lion Tonic (Italian/ Cines)
 * The Little Girl Next Door
 * The Live Man's Tomb (Italian/ Itala Films)
 * Lucrezia Borgia (Italian/ Film d'Arte Films) directed by Gerolamo Lo Savio, written by Ugo Falena, starring Vittorio Lepanto as Lucrezia and Achille Vitti as Cesare.
 * Mabel's Lovers, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand
 * Magical Matches (Urbanora Films)
 * A Magnetic Influence (British/ Urbanora Films) produced by Charles Urban; yet another adaptation of the novel Trilby
 * Making An American Citizen
 * Man's Genesis (Biograph) written and directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Robert Harron, Mae Marsh and Wilfred Lucas; this film was expanded in 1913 and re-released as The Primitive Man.
 * The Mask of Horror (French/ Film Francais) written and directed by Abel Gance, starring Edouard de Max, Charles de Rochefort and Mathilde Thizeau (Gance's wife)
 * The Massacre, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet and Lionel Barrymore
 * Maud Muller
 * The Mender Of Nets, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mabel Normand and Mary Pickford
 * Mephisto (British/ Charles Urban Prods.) filmed in Kinemacolor (a lost film today)
 * The Miracle, the first full-color, full-length feature film (5,500 feet)
 * Das Mirakel
 * The Mummy and the Cowpuncher (Kalem Films) a 5-minute Western-Comedy starring Ruth Roland and John E. Brennan
 * The Musketeers of Pig Alley, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish
 * The Mystery of Souls (Italian/ Itala Films) directed by Vincenzo Denizot, starring Alessandro Bernard and Lydia Quaranta; seems to have been inspired by the novel "Trilby".
 * Mystery of the Glass Coffin (Eclair/ Tyler Films)
 * The Mystical Maid of Jamasha Pass, directed by Allan Dwan (his first film), starring J. Warren Kerrigan and Jack Richardson.
 * Nan in Fairyland (British/ C&M Films)
 * A New Cure for Divorce
 * The New York Hat, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore
 * Nursie and Knight (Thanhouser) dream sequence involves a dragon.
 * The Old Actor
 * The Old Doctor's Humanity
 * Oliver Twist (British/ Hepworth) directed by Thomas Bentley; based on the novel by Charles Dickens
 * Onesime, Clock-maker, directed by Jean Durand
 * One Too Exciting Night (British/ Hepworth Films) produced by Cecil Hepworth
 * Paradise (Italian/ Psiche Film) based on the third act of Dante's Divine Comedy (sort of a sequel to Dante's Inferno)
 * Parsifal (Italian/ Ambrosio) based on the opera by Wagner
 * The Passer-By, directed by Oscar Apfel. Not the first moving camera shot or dolly shot, but notable for its use as dramatic emphasis.
 * Petticoat Camp
 * Pilgrim's Progress
 * The Plague-Stricken City (French/ Gaumont) the filmmakers tried to emulate the 1912 Italian silent film Masque of the Red Death herein, which in turn was based on the famous story by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Please Help the Pore
 * Polidor at the Death Club (Italian/ Pasquali Films) one of dozens of silent films featuring the "Polidor" character all starring Ferdinando Guillaume; this film was a spoof on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel The Suicide Club
 * The Power of Melody
 * A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization
 * Put Yourself in His Place
 * The Queen of Spades (French/ Eclipse) This film was actually an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 novel The Suicide Club, but the film also draws from the 1833 Alexander Pushkin novel Pikovaya dama as well.
 * The Raven (Eclair/ American Standard) a French-American co-production purporting to be the "true story" of Edgar Allan Poe's life, starring Guy Oliver and Muriel Ostriche; inspired by the poem by Edgar Allan Poe and incorporating images from eight of Poe's short stories (filmed in Fort Lee, Texas)
 * The Reincarnation of Karma (Vitagraph Films) directed by Van Dyke Brooke, starring Courtenay Foote and Rosemary Theby
 * Resurrection
 * Richard III (Second oldest American feature film. Currently the oldest completely intact American feature film.)
 * Robin Hood
 * St. George and the Dragon (Italian/ Milano Films) this film was hand-colored.
 * Satan, aka Satana, aka Satan, the Destroyer of Humanity (Italian/ Ambrosio Films) directed by Luigi Maggi, written by Guido Volante, starring Rina Alby, Antonio Grisanti and Mario Bonnard (as Satan); photography by Giovanni Vitrotti; inspired by John Milton's Paradise Lost
 * Saved From the Titanic
 * The Sea's Shadow/ Der Schatten des Meeres, aka In the Shadow of the Sea (German) directed by Curt A. Stark (also star), also starring Lizzy Krueger, Henry Porten and Fran Retzlag; produced by Otto Messter.
 * The Secrets of House Number Five (Russian-French co-production/ Pathe Films) said to be one of the first films to feature vampires
 * The Serpents (Vitagraph) starring Ralph Ince and Edith Storey
 * Sherlock Holmes Film Series (Eclair, British-French); a series of 8 Sherlock Holmes films directed by Georges Treville (who also played Holmes); includes "The Speckled Band", "Silver Blaze", "The Beryl Coronet", "The Musgrave Ritual", "The Reigate Squires", "The Stolen Papers", "The Boscombe Valley Muystery" and "The Copper Beeches"
 * The Silent Castle (French/ Gaumont) based on the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty
 * Simple Simon and the Devil, aka Onesime and the Devil (French/ Gaumont) directed by Jean Durand, starring Ernest Bourbon and Gaston Modot; one of a series of 60 "Onesime" films made in France (the character's name was changed to "Simple Simon" in the U.S.)
 * A Six Cylinder Elopement
 * The Skivvy's Ghost (French/ Lux Film)
 * Sleeping Beauty (British/ Hepworth Films) directed by Elwin Neame, starring Ivy Close; based on the Charles Perrault fairy tale
 * A Son-in-Law's Nightmare (French/ Pathe)
 * A Spanish Dilemma, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand
 * The Spectre of Jago (Italian/ Aquila Films) starring Alberto Carlo Lolli
 * The Speed Demon, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Fred Mace
 * The Spell of the Hypnotist (Italian/ Helios Film)
 * A Spider in the Brain (Italian/ Itala Films)
 * A Spiritualistic Convert (French/ Pathe)
 * Spooks (French/ Pathe) a horror-comedy
 * Standing Room Only
 * The Star of Bethlehem
 * The Street Singer
 * Supernatural Power (French/ Pathe) features a seance with spirits
 * The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether, aka The Lunatics (French/ Eclair) directed by Maurice Tourneur, written by Andre de Lord, starring Henri Gouget and Henri Roussell; based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story
 * The Tell-Tale Message
 * Les terreurs de Rigadin (French/Pathe) directed by George Monca, starring Charles Prince as "Rigadin"; this film was one in a series of over 100 "Rigadin" comedies made in France.
 * The Thief and the Porter's Head (Italian/ Milano Films)
 * The Thunderbolt
 * Tomboy Bessie, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand
 * Trilby (Austrian-Hungarian co-production) directed by Luise and Anton Kolm (with Jakob Fleck), starring Elsa Galafrés Hubermann and Paul Askonas, based on the 1894 novel by George du Maurier
 * Trilby (British/ Standard Films) based on the 1894 novel by George du Maurier
 * Undine (Thanhouser) directed by Lucius Henderson, starring Florence La Badie and Marguerite Snow; written by Lloyd Lonergan, based on the fairy tale “Undine” by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué; released 9/24/12; prints exist in museums.
 * An Unseen Enemy, directed by D. W. Griffith, debuts of Lillian and Dorothy Gish
 * The Vengeance of Edgar Poe (French/ Lux Film) directed by Gerard Bourgeois, written by Abel Gance and Bourgeois, starring Edouard de Max and Jean Worms; biopic that deals with Poe's real-life drug addiction.
 * The Vengeance of Egypt (French/ Gaumont)
 * The Voice of Conscience
 * The Water Nymph, starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett. First Keystone comedy.
 * What Happened to Mary?, starring Mary Fuller.
 * When Soul Meets Soul (Essanay Films) directed by Farrell MacDonald, starring Francis X. Bushman (features a reincarnated mummy)
 * When the Fire Bells Rang
 * When the Heart Calls, starring Lee Moran, Russell Bassett and Louise Glaum
 * Whiffle's Nightmare, aka Le cauchemar de Rigadin (French/ Pathe) directed by George Monca, starring Charles Prince as Rigadin.
 * With Our King and Queen Through India
 * With the Mounted Police
 * The Woman in White (Universal Pictures) starring Janet Salzberg, Charles Perley and Alexander F. Frank; based on the famous 1859 Wilkie Collins novel of the same name.
 * The Woman in White (Thanhouser Films) written by Lloyd Lonergan, starring Marguerite Snow and James Cruze; based on the famous 1859 Wilkie Collins novel of the same name.
 * Yotsuya Kaidan (translation: The Ghost of Yotsuya) (Japanese/ Nikkatsu Films) directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe; based on the famous 1825 kabuki play of the same name.
 * The Young Millionaire

Births

 * January 8 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor and director (died 1992)
 * January 13 – Paul Birch, American actor (died 1969)
 * February 4 – James Craig, American actor (died 1985)
 * February 5 – Willard Parker, American actor (died 1996)
 * February 19 – Saul Chaplin, American film composer (died 1997)
 * February 19 – Dorothy Janis, American actress (died 2010)
 * February 21 – Arline Judge, American actress (died 1974)
 * February 26 – Dane Clark, American actor (died 1998)
 * March 22 – Karl Malden, American actor (died 2009)
 * April 5 – Gordon Jones, American actor (died 1963)
 * April 8 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian Olympic ice-skater, actress (died 1969)
 * April 11 - John Larkin, American actor (died 1965)
 * April 12 - Walt Gorney, Austrian-American actor (died 2004)
 * April 16 – Catherine Scorsese, American actress (died 1997)
 * April 18 – Wendy Barrie, English actress (died 1978)
 * April 29 – Richard Carlson, American actor and director (died 1977)
 * May 9 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (died 1963)
 * May 18 – Perry Como, American singer, actor (died 2001)
 * May 23
 * Marius Goring, English actor (died 1998)
 * John Payne, American actor (died 1989)
 * May 29 – Iris Adrian, American actress (died 1994)
 * May 31 – Dave O'Brien, American actor, director, writer (died 1969)
 * June 1 – Doris Wishman, American filmmaker (died 2002)
 * June 26 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (Tonto) (died 1980)
 * July 4 – Viviane Romance, French actress (died 1991)
 * July 5 – Ilona Massey, Hungarian-born American actress (died 1974)
 * August 1 – Henry Jones, American actor (died 1999)
 * August 12 – Samuel Fuller, American director (died 1997)
 * August 15 – Wendy Hiller, English actress (died 2003)
 * August 23 – Gene Kelly, American actor (died 1996)
 * August 25 - Ted Key, writer (died 2008)
 * August 29 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (died 1974)
 * September 5
 * Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-born German actress (died 2001)
 * Frank Thomas, American animator (died 2004)
 * September 10 – Mary Walter, Filipina actress (died 1993)
 * September 21 – Chuck Jones, American animator (died 2002)
 * September 23 – Martha Scott, American actress (died 2003)
 * September 29 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director (died 2007)
 * October 10 - Rudy Bond, American actor (died 1982)
 * October 11 – Betty Noyes American singer/dubber (died 1987)
 * October 12 – Peer Guldbrandsen, Danish screenwriter, actor, film director and producer (died 1996)
 * October 13 – Cornel Wilde, Hungarian-born American actor (died 1989)
 * October 31 –
 * Dale Evans, American actress (died 2001)
 * Ollie Johnston, American animator (died 2008)
 * November 5 – Paul Dehn, English screenwriter and poet (died 1976)
 * November 8 – June Havoc, American actress (died 2010)
 * November 21 – Eleanor Powell, American dancer, actress (died 1982)
 * November 24 – Garson Kanin, American writer (died 1999)
 * December 11 – Carlo Ponti, Italian producer (died 2007)

Deaths

 * March 30 – Karl May, writer, Apache Gold (born 1842)
 * April 15 – Jacques Futrelle, writer, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, (perished in the Titanic) (born 1875)
 * April 20 – Bram Stoker, writer, Dracula (born 1847)
 * May 14 – August Strindberg, writer, Miss Julie (born 1849)
 * May 19 – Bolesław Prus, writer, Faraon (born 1847)
 * June 1 – Philip Orin Parmelee, actor (with Mabel Normand in A Dash Through the Clouds); pioneer aviator for the Wright brothers (born 1887)
 * July 1 – Harriet Quimby, writer (seven scenarios for D.W. Griffith); actress in one film; pioneer American aviator (born 1875)
 * December 14 – Harry Cashman, comedy producer and actor for the Chicago-based Essanay company.

Film debuts

 * John Barrymore – The Dream of a Moving Picture Director (as Jack Barrymore)(*debatable; debut occurred much earlier)
 * Frank Borzage – On Secret Service (short)
 * Charlotte Burton – The Would-Be Heir (short)
 * Lon Chaney – The Honor of the Family (short) (unconfirmed)
 * Dorothy Gish – An Unseen Enemy (short)
 * Lillian Gish – An Unseen Enemy (short)
 * Louise Glaum – Brave Heart's Hidden Love (short)
 * Mildred Harris – The Post Telegrapher (short)
 * Cleo Madison – A Business Buccaneer (short)
 * Mary Miles Minter – The Nurse (short) (as Juliet Shelby)
 * Antonio Moreno – Iola's Promise (short)
 * Warner Oland – Pilgrim's Progress
 * Olga Petrova – Departure of a Grand Old Man (short)
 * Victor Sjöström – director, A Ruined Life; actor, The Gardener
 * Frederick Warde – Richard III

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1911 in film

The year 1911 in film involved some significant events.

Events

 * February: The Motion Picture Story Magazine, the first American film fan magazine, is published. It is followed later in the year by Photoplay.
 * April 8: Winsor McCay releases his first film Little Nemo, one of the earliest animated films.
 * October 23 (October 10 OS): Svetozar Botorić's The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Karađorđe (Život i dela besmrtnog vožda Karađorđa, Живот и дела бесмртног вожда Карађорђа) premieres in Belgrade and becomes the first feature film made in Serbia and the Balkans.
 * October 26: Defence of Sevastopol («Оборона Севастополя») premieres at the Crimean palace of Tsar Nicholas II and becomes the first feature-length film made in the Russian Empire and one of the first in the world. It is also the first known film to use a multiple-camera setup (2 cameras)
 * October 27: David Horsley's Nestor Motion Picture Company opens the first motion picture studio in Hollywood.
 * November: The Kalem Company of New York pays the estate of author Lew Wallace $25,000 in legal settlement for having adapted Ben Hur (1907 film) from his novel without securing prior rights.

Films released in 1911

 * Aerial Anarchists
 * Alkali Ike's Auto, starring Bronco Billy Anderson
 * Les Aventures de Baron de Munchhausen (aka Baron Munchausen), directed by Georges Melies
 * The Baby's Ghost (French/ Lux Film)
 * Baseball and Bloomers
 * The Battle, directed by D. W. Griffith
 * Beneath the Tower Ruins (British-French co-production produced by Charles Urban)
 * The Bells, Australian film in 1911 written and directed by W. J. Lincoln, based on the 1871 play by Leopold Lewis
 * The Bewitched Window (French/ Pathe)
 * Bill Bumper's Bargain, starring Francis X. Bushman as Mephistopheles
 * Bill Taken for a Ghost (French/ Lux Film) aka Patouillard Fantome, directed by Romeo Bosetti; one of a series of 60 silent films made in France all featuring the comic character Patouillard (the character's name was changed to "Bill" in the US)
 * The Black Arrow, based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel The Black Arrow
 * Blood Vengeance, Italian film directed by Luigi Maggi, starring Antonietta Calderari, based on a story by Gabriele (Cabiria) D'Anunzio
 * Brown of Harvard
 * The Buddhist Priestess
 * By the House That Jack Built (Imp/ Universal) directed by Thomas H. Ince, starring Mary Pickford
 * Cally's Comet
 * The Coffin Ship
 * The Colonel and the King
 * Courting Across the Court
 * The Cowboy and the Lady
 * Curse of the Wandering Minstrel (Walturdaw Films)
 * Dandy Dick of Bishopgate, British film directed by Theo Frenkel, shot in the two-color Kinemacolor process
 * David Copperfield (Thanhouser) directed by George O. Nichols
 * Defence of Sevastopol, Russian film directed by Vasili Goncharov
 * The Demon (an Italian/Russian co-production) directed by Giovanni Vitrotti, starring Madame Cemesnova and Mikhail Tamarov, based on a poem by Mikhail Lermontov
 * The Devil as a Lawyer (German/ Messter Films, UFA)
 * The Devil's Sonata, Danish film based on a musical work by the 18th-century Italian composer Giuseppe Tarantini, plot is similar to the 1894 George du Maurier novel Trilby.
 * The Diabolical Church Window, directed by Georges Melies
 * Dr. Charlie is a Great Surgeon (Eclair Prods.)
 * The Dream, directed by Thomas H. Ince, starring Mary Pickford
 * Enoch Arden, directed by D. W. Griffith
 * An Evil Power (Selig-Polyscope) written and directed by Francis Boggs, starring Sydney Ayres and Frank Clark
 * The Fairy Jewel (Italian film directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro)
 * The Fall Of Troy, directed by Giovanni Pastrone
 * Faust (British/ Hepworth) directed by Cecil M. Hepworth, starring Hay Plumb and Jack Hulcup (as Mephistopheles).
 * Faust and Marguerite (French/ Gaumont) directed by Jean Durand, starring Gaston Modot
 * First Indy 500 (First year footage from the auto race. Filmed on May 30, 1911.)
 * The Fisherman's Nightmare (French/ Pathe)
 * Flames and Fortune
 * For Her Sake
 * From Death to Life (Rex Films/ Universal) featured a mad scientist
 * The Ghost's Warning (Edison Prods.) directed by Ashley Miller, starring Mary Fuller, Darwin Karr and Marc McDermott
 * The Golden Beetle (Italian/ Cines-Kleine) ran 60 minutes
 * The Haunted Cafe (German film/ Messter) aka The Bewitched Restaurant, produced by Oskar Messter, starring Henny Porten, featured trick photography effects a la Melies
 * The Haunted House (French/ Gaumont)
 * The Haunted House (Universal/ Imp) directed by William F. Haddock, starring King Baggot
 * His Trust, directed by D. W. Griffith
 * His Trust Fulfilled, directed by D. W. Griffith. The sequel to Griffith's earlier 1911 short film "His Trust"
 * Her Crowning Glory
 * The Higher Law
 * The Hunchback (British) directed by A. E. Coleby, starring Edwin J. Collins as the hunchback
 * Hypnotism (French/ Lux) starring James Mapelli, based on the 1894 George du Maurier novel Trilby
 * The Inferno (L'Inferno) (Italian) aka Dante's Inferno, a big budget spectacular adapted from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy; directed by Francesco Bertolini and Giuseppe De Liguoro, starring Salvatore Anzelmo Papa and Arturo Pirovano
 * The Inner Mind (Selig-Polyscope Co.)
 * It Is Never Too Late to Mend (Australian film) written and directed by W. J. Lincoln, based on the 1856 Charles Reade novel, later remade in 1937 starring Tod Slaughter
 * Jones' Nightmare; or, The Lobster Still Pursued Him (British/ Acme Films) directed by Fred Rains (Claude Rains' father) who also starred.
 * Kitty in Dreamland (British/ Klein-Urban)
 * The Legend of the Lake (Italian/ Cines Films) based on the Legend of the Undines
 * The Life of a Nun (Danish/ Nordisk) starring Edith Buemann Psilander, possibly the first ever "nunsploitation" film, said to have inspired comic book artist Bob Kane to create a 1940s "Batman" comic book villain called The Monk
 * Little Nemo, silent animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay
 * Little Red Riding Hood (British/ C&M Prods.)
 * Little Red Riding Hood (Essanay Films) starring Eva Prout
 * Little Red Riding Hood (Majestic) starring Mary Pickford
 * The Lobster Nightmare (British/ Walturdaw Films) not to be confused with Jones' Nightmare above.
 * The Lonedale Operator, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
 * The Love of a Siren, aka Amore di sirena (Italian/ Cines)
 * The Man-Monkey (British/ C&M)
 * The Masque of the Red Death (Italian/ Ambrosio) based on the famous 1842 story by Edgar Allan Poe; said to have influenced Charles Beaumont when he wrote the screenplay for the 1964 Roger Corman-produced remake.
 * The Miser's Heart, directed by D. W. Griffith
 * A Modern Yarn (French/ Pathe)
 * The Moonstone (British) produced by Charles Urban, based on the 1868 novel by Wilkie Collins
 * Der Müller und sein Kind (translation from Austrian: The Miller and His Child)
 * The Mummy (French/ Pathe)
 * The Mummy (Thanhouser)
 * The Mummy (British/ Charles Urban Films)
 * The Mysterious Stranger (French/ Eclipse)
 * Notre Dame de Paris (French/ Pathe) aka The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed by Albert Capellani, starring Henri Krauss as Quasimodo and Stacia Mapierkowska as Esmeralda, based on the Victor Hugo novel
 * The Odyssey (L'Odissea)
 * An Old Time Nightmare (Powers Films) features giant birds
 * The Pasha's Daughter
 * The Pied Piper of Hamlin (French/ Pathe)
 * The Pied Piper of Hamlin (Thanhouser Prods.)
 * Princess Clementina
 * Purgatory (Italian/ Helios Films) directed by Giuseppe Berardi (who also stars) and Arturo Busnego; a sequel to Helios' Inferno (1910).
 * Queen of Spades (Italian/ Cines) based on the 1834 story Pikovaya dama by Russian writer Alexander Pushkin; a lost film.
 * The Railroad Builder
 * Rosalie and Spiritisme (French/ Pathe-Lux)
 * Satan Defeated, aka Satan Vaincu (French/ Pathe); a lost film.
 * Satan on Mischief Bent (British) produced by Charles Urban
 * The Saving of Faust (French/ Pathe)
 * The Scarlet Letter
 * She (Thanhouser) written by Theodore Marston, directed by George Nichols, starring Marguerite Snow, James Cruze; based on the 1886 H. Rider Haggard novel
 * The Smuggler
 * A Spiritualistic Seance (French/ Pathe)
 * Sweet Memories
 * Swords and Hearts, directed by D. W. Griffith
 * A Tale of Two Cities
 * That's Happiness
 * Trilby and Svengali (British/ Kinematograph) produced by Charles Urban, directed by Theo Frankel (who also starred in it); filmed in color; based on the 1894 George du Maurier novel Trilby
 * What Shall We Do with Our Old?
 * Willy the Ghost (French/ Eclair Films) aka Willy Fantome, directed by Joseph Faivre, starring Willy Saunders (who starred in around 70 films all featuring the character "Willy".
 * Winsor McCay And His Animated Pictures
 * The Witch of Abruzzi (Belgian/ Le Lion Films) this Belgium film was partially shot in France.
 * The Witch of Seville (Italian/ Itala Films) aka La Strega de Siviglia
 * Won by Wireless

Births

 * January 5 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (died 2001)
 * January 7 – Butterfly McQueen, actress (died 1995)
 * January 22 – Mary Hayley Bell, actress, writer and dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (d 2005)
 * January 30 – Hugh Marlowe, actor (died 1982)
 * January 31 – Eddie Byrne, actor (died 1981)
 * February 6 – Ronald Reagan, actor, United States President (died 2004)
 * February 9 – Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and burlesque dancer (died 1970)
 * February 14 – Florence Rice, actress (died 1974)
 * February 19 – Merle Oberon, actress (died 1979)
 * February 20 – Margot Grahame, actress (died 1982)
 * March 3 – Jean Harlow, actress (died 1937)
 * March 10 – Edward Norris, actor, (died 2002)
 * March 18 – Smiley Burnette, actor, musician (died 1967)
 * April 23 – Ronald Neame, cinematographer, producer and director (died 2010)
 * May 7 – Ishirō Honda, director (died 1993)
 * May 11
 * Louise Campbell, actress (died 1997)
 * Phil Silvers, actor (died 1985)
 * May 17 – Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (died 1998)
 * May 18 – Sigrid Gurie, actress (died 1969)
 * May 27 – Vincent Price, actor (died 1993)
 * May 30 – Douglas Fowley, actor (died 1998)
 * June 1 – Gertrude Michael, actress (died 1964)
 * June 3 – Ellen Corby, actress (died 1999)
 * June 20 – Gail Patrick (died 1980)
 * June 29 – Bernard Hermann, composer (died 1975)
 * July 6 – Laverne Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters (died 1967)
 * July 14 – Terry-Thomas, actor (died 1990)
 * July 16 – Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer (died 1995)
 * July 18 – Hume Cronyn, actor (died 2003)
 * July 28 – Ann Doran, actress (died 2000)
 * August 2 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (died 1979)
 * August 3 – Alex McCrindle, British actor (died 1990)
 * August 5 – Robert Taylor, actor (died 1969)
 * August 6 – Lucille Ball, actress (died 1989)
 * August 7 – Nicholas Ray, director (died 1979)
 * August 12 – Cantinflas, actor (died 1993)
 * August 19 – Constance Worth, actress (died 1963)
 * September 2 – Erwin Hillier, cinematographer (died 2005)
 * September 10 – Renée Simonot, actress and voice artist (died 2021)
 * October 13 – Ashok Kumar, actor, India (died 2001)
 * October 20 – Will Rogers, Jr., actor (died 1993)
 * October 27 – Leif Erickson, actor (died 1986)
 * October 30 – Ruth Hussey, actress (died 2005)
 * October 31 – Sheila Bromley, actress, (died 2003)
 * November 5
 * Roy Rogers, singer, actor (died 1998)
 * Baby Marie Osborne, child actress (died 2010)
 * November 10 – Harry Andrews, actor (died 1989)
 * December 8 – Lee J. Cobb, actor (died 1976)
 * December 9 – Broderick Crawford, actor (died 1986)
 * December 23 – James Gregory, actor (died 2002)
 * December 29 – Claire Dodd, actress (died 1973)
 * December 30 – Jeanette Nolan, actress (died 1998)

Deaths

 * January 18 – Arthur Marvin, cinematographer, (born 1859)
 * May 29 – W. S. Gilbert, producer of musicals, half of the team of Gilbert and Sullivan, (born 1836)
 * July 18 – Genevieve Lantelme, actress, (born 1883)
 * August 11 – Verner Clarges, actor, (born 1846)
 * October 27 – Francis Boggs, director, (born 1870)
 * November 2 – Kyrle Bellew, actor, (born 1855)
 * December 22 – Wright Lorimer, stage actor, screenwriter, (born 1874)
 * Unknown – Woodville Latham, producer and exhibitor whose desire to shoot an entire boxing match on a single reel of film led to the invention of the Latham loop (born 1837)

Debuts

 * Lionel Barrymore – The Battle (*debatable; film debut much earlier)
 * Francis X. Bushman – His Friend's Wife (short)
 * Paul Kelly – Jimmie's Job (short)
 * Edgar Kennedy – Brown of Harvard
 * Ann Little – The Indian Maiden's Lesson (short)
 * Harold Lockwood – The White Red Man (short)
 * Anna Q. Nilsson – Molly Pitcher (short)
 * Anita Stewart – A Tale of Two Cities as Anna Stewart
 * Lenore Ulric – The First Man (1911 short)
 * Lois Weber – director, actress, A Heroine of '76 (short); writer, On the Brink (short)

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1910 in film

The year 1910 in film involved some significant events.

Events

 * March 12 – American actress Florence Lawrence becomes "the first true movie star" after movie mogul Carl Laemmle of Independent Moving Pictures (I.M.P.) names her in advertisements announcing that he has signed the leading lady who has hitherto only been billed as "The Biograph Girl" by Biograph Studios. Until now, studios had a policy of not releasing the names of their players, and prohibiting distributors from revealing the information. Lawrence's first I.M.P. release is The Broken Oath.
 * March 18 – The first cinematic version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is released in the United States by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features (unbilled) actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
 * May 6 – Newsreel footage of the funeral of Edward VII in London is shot in Kinemacolor, making it the first color newsreel.
 * July – The Johnson-Jeffries Fight footage causes race riots and is banned in the South of the US.
 * August 2 – A Danish melodrama, The White Slave Trade (Den Hvide Slavehandel), marks the first time film is used to study prostitution.
 * August – Kalem Studios director Sidney Olcott becomes the first American to make a motion picture outside of the United States, The Lad from Old Ireland (released November 23).
 * Pathé News is formed in London, producing newsreels and documentaries in the UK until 1970.
 * Marcus Loew partners with Adolph Zukor, Joseph Schenck and Nicholas Schenck renaming his theatre chain Loew's Consolidated Enterprises.

Films released in 1910
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1910 film) (Denmark/ Regia Kunstfilms) directed by Alex Strom, starring Valdemar Psilander, Adam Poulsen; 1st film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel
 * Abraham Lincoln's Clemency
 * The Abyss (Afgrunden), starring Asta Nielsen
 * Aeroplane Flight And Wreck
 * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * Der Alpenjager
 * Am Abend, one of the earliest works of hardcore pornography
 * The American Suicide Club (French-U.S. co-production/ Lux)
 * Another's Ghost (French/ Pathe) starring Mevisto, Henri Etievant, Henry Krauss
 * As It Is In Life, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
 * Back to Life After 2,000 Years (aka The Roman's Awakening) (French/ Pathe)
 * Bebe (series)
 * The Beechwood Ghost (Powers Films, which years later merged with Universal Pictures)
 * The Bewitched Messenger (British/ Bat-Brockliss)
 * The Blue Bird
 * Bride of the Haunted Castle (French film/ Artistic-Pathe) theatrically released in England and U.S.
 * The Buddha's Curse (French/ Lux)
 * Cagliostro (French film) directed by Camille de Morlhon and Gaston Velle, starring Helene du Montel, Jean Jacquinet, Stacia Napierkowska
 * The Castle Ghost (French/ Pathe)
 * The Cat That was Changed into a Woman (French/Pathe) directed by Michel Carre; this was the 2nd French film that adapted from the Aesop fable "Venus and the Cat" (see also 1909)
 * Chibusa no enoki (Japanese) starred Matsunosuke Onoe
 * The Children of Edward the Fourth (French/ Pathe-Film d'Art) directed by Henri Andreani, starring Rene Alexandre, Albert Bras, Jeanne Delvair
 * A Christmas Carol (Edison)
 * Countess Ankarstrom (German film/ Deutsche Bioscope) directed by Gebhard Schatzler-Perasini, starring Paul Bildt
 * The Curse of the Wandering Minstrel (aka The Singer's Curse) German/ Messter, based on a ballad written by Ludwig Uhland
 * A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner, produced by Charles Urban
 * Death (Danish/Regia Kunstfilms) directed by Holger Holm, starring Emilie Sannom and Robert Schmidt
 * The Defeat of Satan (French/ Pathe) directed by Georges Denola, starring Madeleine Celiat, Georges Laumonier and Jacques Vandenne
 * The Demon of Dunkirque (Italian/British co-production) early example of international financing
 * The Detachable Man (Pathe)
 * The Devil's Mother-in-Law (French/ Pathe)
 * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Denmark/ Nordisk) written and directed by August Blom, starring Alwin Neuss as Jekyll/Hyde, Viggo Larsen and Oda Alstrup; film is lost today
 * Dr. Mesner's Fatal Prescription (British/ Warwick Productions)
 * The Dream of Old Scrooge (based on the Charles Dickens novel "A Christmas Carol")
 * The Duality of Man (British/ Wrench Films) adapted The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; some sources credit Harry Brodribb Irving with directing this lost film
 * The Electric Vitalizer (British/ Kineto)
 * The Enchanted Wreath (British/ Warwick)
 * The Fairy Bookseller (Pathe)
 * The Family Doctor
 * Faust (Italy/ Cines) directed by Enrico Guazzoni, starring Fernanda Negri-Pouget, Ugo Bazzini, Alfredo Bracci; only existing print is missing a scene
 * Faust (French) produced by Eclair Films
 * Faust (French/ Pathe) directed by Henri Andreani for Pathe Films
 * The Fiendish Tenant (Gaumont)
 * The Forbidden Fruit (French/ Pathe) written & directed by Gaston Velle
 * Frankenstein, directed by J. Searle Dawley for Edison, starred Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips and Mary Fuller
 * The Freak of Ferndale Forest (British/ Warwick Productions)
 * The Fugitive, directed by D. W. Griffith
 * Funeral Of Edward VII
 * The Ghost in the Oven, produced by William Selig
 * The Ghost of Mudtown (French/ Pathe)
 * The Golden Beetle (French/British co-production/ Continental-Warwick) directed by (and starring) Henri Desfontaines, based on The Gold Bug, a story by Edgar Allan Poe
 * The Golden Supper (Biograph) features a premature burial
 * Haunted by Conscience (Kalem Films)
 * Hop-Frog, aka The Jester (French/British co-production/ Continental-Warwick) directed by Henri Desfontaines, starring Colanna Romano, based on the 1849 short story by Edgar Allan Poe (a lost film today)
 * The House of the Seven Gables, directed by J. Searle Dawley for Edison, starring Mary Fuller as Hepzibah Pyncheon, based on the 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne novel
 * The House with Closed Shutters, directed by D. W. Griffith
 * Hugo, the Hunchback, directed by William Selig, based on the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris
 * Den Hvide Slavehandel (translation: The White Slave Trade), directed by August Blom
 * Inferno (Italian/ Helios Films), based on the novel by Dante; it was followed by a sequel Purgatory in 1912.
 * In Old California, directed by D. W. Griffith. First Hollywood film in cinema.
 * In the Border States, directed by D. W. Griffith
 * Jane Eyre, (Thanhouser) written and directed by Theodore Marston for producer Edwin Thanhouser; starring Marie Eline, Gloria Gallop and Frank Hall Crane
 * Jane Eyre (The Mad Lady of Chester), directed by Mario Caserini (Italian/ Cines)
 * A Japanese Peach Boy, produced by Thomas Edison
 * The Jealous Professors (Lux Film)
 * The Johnson-Jeffries Fight
 * The Key of Life, produced by Thomas Edison Co.
 * King Philip the Fair and the Templars (French/ Eclair Film) directed by Victorin-Hyppolyte Jasset, starring Georges Saillard and Raoul d'Auchy; first film to deal with the topic of the Knights Templar
 * A Lad from Old Ireland, directed by Sidney Olcott
 * The Legend of the Undines (French film/ Pathe) based on the 1814 opera by E. T. A. Hoffmann (an "undine" is a female water sprite)
 * Little Snow White (French/ Pathe)
 * The Lobster Nightmare (British)
 * The Love of a Hunchback (British/ Empire Film) based on Victor Hugo's novel Notre Dame de Paris
 * Lucrezia Borgia (Italian film/ Cines) directed by Mario Caserini, starring Francesca Bertini and Maria Gasperini
 * Lured by a Phantom, aka The King of Thule (French) directed by Etienne Arnaud and Louis Feuillade, based on a poem written by Goethe
 * Making Christmas Crackers
 * The Man to Beat Jack Johnson
 * Max Hypnotized (French/ Pathe) directed by Lucien Nonguet, starring Max Linder
 * The Minotaur (aka Theseus and the Minotaur), written and directed by J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph
 * Museum Spooks, or Dreams in a Picture Gallery (British)
 * The Mystery of Temple Court (Vitagraph)
 * Necklace of the Dead (Denmark/ Nordisk) directed by August Blom, starring Ingeborg Middleboe Larsen, Thorkild Roose and Nicolai Neiiendam; said to be based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Oblong Box
 * New York of Today, produced by Edison Studios
 * Oh, You Skeleton (Selig Polyscope)
 * The Phantom (French/ Pathe-Le Film Russe) aka Le Fantome
 * Queen of Spades, aka Pikovaya dama (Russian film) directed by Pyotr Chardynin, based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin
 * Queen of Spades (German film/ Deutsche Bioscop) produced by Deutsche Bioscop, also based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin
 * Ramona, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
 * The Red Inn, aka L'Auberge Rouge (French/ Pathe) directed by Camille de Morlhon, written by Abel Gance, starring Jeanne Cheirel, Julien Clement, Jean Worms, and Abel Gance, based on the novel by Honore de Balzac
 * Robert, the Devil: or, Freed from Satan's Power (French/ Gaumont) directed by Etienne Arnaud, starring Leonce Perret and Maurice Vinot; based on a 1831 libretto written by Eugene Scribe and Casimir Delavigne
 * The Romance of the Mummy (French/ Pathe) based on the Theophile Gautier book
 * Rose O'Salem Town, directed by D. W. Griffith for American Mutoscope and Biograph, starring Dorothy West, Clara T. Bracy and Henry B. Walthall, set against the backdrop of the Salem Witch Trials
 * St. George and the Dragon (Edison Co.)
 * Satan's Rival (aka A Rival to Satan)(French) directed by Gerard Bourgeois
 * Secret of the Hand (French/ Lux) dealt with the subject of the Chinese Tong
 * The Skeleton (Vitagraph)
 * Slippery Jim, directed by Ferdinand Zecca
 * The Snake Man (French/ Lux)
 * Sorceress of the Strand (French/ Eclair) directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, starring Eugenie Nau, Emile Keppens, and Marie Barthe
 * The Spectre (French/ Pathe)
 * The Spirit of the Sword (French/ Pathe)
 * A Spiritualistic Seance (French/ Gaumont)
 * Teddy Roosevelt Returns From Africa
 * Testing a Soldier's Courage (French/ Gaumont)
 * Thunderbolt
 * A Trip to Davy Jones' Locker (French/ Pathe); a special effects film influenced by the work of George Melies
 * A Trip to Mars (Edison Co.)
 * Twelfth Night
 * The Unchanging Sea, directed by D. W. Griffith
 * Vengeance of the Dead (French/ Pathe); influenced by the Oscar Wilde novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray
 * Le Vitrail Diabolique, directed by Georges Melies
 * Im Wannseebad
 * Wanted – A Mummy (British/ Cricks & Martin) directed by A. E. Coleby
 * Wedded Beneath the Waves (French/ Gaumont)
 * What the Daisy Said, starring Mary Pickford
 * White Fawn's Devotion, directed by James Young Deer the first Native American Director
 * Wilful Peggy, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
 * The Witch of the Glen (British/ Warwick Productions)
 * The Witch of the Ruins (French/ Pathe)
 * The Witches' Spell (British/ Urban Films) produced by Charles Urban
 * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Debuts

 * Leah Baird – Jean and the Waif
 * Carlyle Blackwell – Uncle Tom's Cabin (short)
 * Eleanor Caines – The New Boss of Bar X Ranch (short)
 * Grace Cunard – The Duke's Plan (short)
 * Margarita Fischer – There, Little Girl, Don't Cry (short)
 * Helen Gardner – How She Won Him (short)
 * Hoot Gibson – Pride of the Range
 * Alice Joyce – The Deacon's Daughter (short)
 * J. Warren Kerrigan – A Voice from the Fireplace (short)
 * Mae Marsh – Ramona (short)
 * Asta Nielsen – The Woman Always Pays (short)
 * Mabel Normand – Indiscretions of Betty
 * Wallace Reid – The Phoenix (short)
 * Marin Sais – Twelfth Night (short)
 * Norma Talmadge – The Household Pest
 * Pearl White – The Missing Bridegroom (short)

title: 1910 in film