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1971 in film

The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1971 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour.
 * April 23 - Melvin Van Peebles film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971.
 * May - The first permanent IMAX projection system begins showing at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto.
 * May 10 - Frank Yablans becomes President of Paramount Pictures.
 * Britain's National Film School begins operation at Beaconsfield Film Studios.

Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
 * The Go-Between, directed by Joseph Losey, United Kingdom

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
 * The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini), directed by Vittorio De Sica, Italy / W. Germany

1971 Wide-release movies
United States unless stated

Notable films released in 1971
United States unless stated

#

 * $ (a.k.a. Dollars, The Heist), starring Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn
 * 10 Rillington Place, starring Richard Attenborough and John Hurt - (U.K.)
 * 1870, Italian historical drama starring Anna Magnani and Marcello Mastroianni
 * 200 Motels, featuring Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
 * The 300 Year Weekend, starring Michael Tolan and William Devane

A

 * Aabhijathyam, Indian Malayalam, directed by A Vincent and produced by RS Prabhu, with stars Madhu, Sharada and Sukumari
 * Aana Valarthiya Vanampadiyude Makan, Indian Malayalam, directed and produced by P. Subramaniam, with stars Gemini Ganesan and Rajasree
 * Aap Aye Bahaar Ayee, Bollywood film produced, directed and written by Mohan Kumar, with stars Rajendra Kumar and Sadhana
 * The Abominable Dr. Phibes, starring Vincent Price and Joseph Cotten - (U.K.)
 * Achante Bharya, Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair, with stars Adoor Bhasi, K. P. Ummer and Ragini
 * Adrift on the Nile (Thartharah fawq al-Nil), directed by Hussein Kamal - (Egypt)
 * Adiós, Sabata (a.k.a. The Bounty Hunters), starring Yul Brynner - (Italy)
 * The Adversary (Pratidwandi), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
 * Agnimrigam, Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by M. Krishnan Nair, with stars Prem Nazir, Sathyan and Sheela
 * Amar Prem (Immortal Love), starring Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna - (India)
 * Anand, starring Rajesh Khanna - (India)
 * The Anderson Tapes, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Christopher Walken
 * And Now for Something Completely Different, a Monty Python film - (U.K.)
 * The Andromeda Strain, directed by Robert Wise, starring Arthur Hill, Kate Reid, David Wayne, James Olson
 * Animal Treasure Island (Dōbutsu Takarajima) - (Japan)

B

 * Bananas, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Louise Lasser and Howard Cosell
 * The Barefoot Executive, starring Kurt Russell
 * The Battle of Kerzhenets (Secha pri Kerzhentse) - (U.S.S.R.)
 * Bedknobs and Broomsticks, starring Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson
 * The Beguiled, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page
 * Benny's Bathtub (Bennys badekar) - (Denmark)
 * Between Miracles (Per grazia ricevuta), directed by and starring Nino Manfredi - (Italy)
 * Beware of a Holy Whore (Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
 * The Big Boss (Tang shan da xiong / a.k.a. Fists of Fury), starring Bruce Lee - (Hong Kong)
 * The Big Doll House, starring Pam Grier
 * Big Jake, starring John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara
 * Billy Jack, starring Tom Laughlin, re-released in 1973
 * Bleak Moments, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson - (U.K.)
 * Bless the Beasts and Children, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Bill Mumy
 * The Blood on Satan's Claw, starring Patrick Wymark and Linda Hayden- (U.K.)
 * The Boat on the Grass (Le Bateau sur l'herbe), starring Jean-Pierre Cassel - (France)
 * Born to Win, starring George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Héctor Elizondo, Karen Black, Robert De Niro
 * The Boy Friend, directed by Ken Russell, starring Twiggy - (U.K.)
 * Brian's Song, starring James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Shelley Fabares, Judy Pace, Jack Warden
 * Brother John, starring Sidney Poitier
 * Bunny O'Hare, starring Bette Davis

C

 * Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen
 * Carry On Henry, directed by Gerald Thomas, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims - (U.K.)
 * The Ceremony (Gashiki), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
 * Chandler, starring Warren Oates and Leslie Caron
 * Le Chat (The Cat), directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, starring Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret - (France)
 * A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Malcolm McDowell - (U.K.)
 * The Clowns (I clowns), a TV film directed by and starring Federico Fellini - (Italy)
 * Cold Turkey, directed by Norman Lear, starring Dick Van Dyke and Bob Newhart
 * Confessions of a Police Captain (Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica), starring Franco Nero - (Italy)
 * Countess Dracula, starring Ingrid Pitt - (U.K.)
 * Crucible of Terror, starring Mike Raven, James Bolam and Mary Maude- (U.K.)

D

 * Daughters of Darkness, directed by Harry Kümel, starring Delphine Seyrig - (Belgium)
 * Dauria - (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Deadly Duo (Shuang xia), directed by Chang Cheh - (Hong Kong)
 * The Deadly Trap, starring Faye Dunaway and Frank Langella
 * Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde and Silvana Mangano - (Italy/France)
 * The Decameron, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - (Italy)
 * The Deserter, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Bekim Fehmiu, John Huston, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors, Brandon deWilde
 * Desperate Characters, directed by Frank D. Gilroy, starring Shirley MacLaine and Kenneth Mars
 * The Devils, directed by Ken Russell, starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave - (U.K.)
 * The Devil Has Seven Faces, starring Stephen Boyd and Carroll Baker- (Italy)
 * Die Screaming, Marianne, starring Susan George and Barry Evans- (U.K.)
 * Diamonds Are Forever, starring Sean Connery (as James Bond), with Jill St. John, Jimmy Dean, Charles Gray - (U.K.)
 * Dirty Harry, directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Andy Robinson, John Vernon, Reni Santoni
 * Doc, starring Stacy Keach and Faye Dunaway
 * Drive, He Said, directed by Jack Nicholson, starring Karen Black and Bruce Dern
 * Duel, the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg, starring Dennis Weaver
 * Dulcima, starring John Mills and Carol White - (U.K.)

E

 * The Emigrants, directed by Jan Troell, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann - (Sweden)
 * Escape from the Planet of the Apes, starring Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, Ricardo Montalbán, Eric Braeden, William Windom, Sal Mineo
 * Evdokia, directed by Alexis Damianos - (Greece)
 * Evel Knievel, starring George Hamilton and Sue Lyon

F

 * Family Life (Życie rodzinne) - (Poland)
 * Family Life, directed by Ken Loach - (U.K.)
 * Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Chaim Topol
 * A Fistful of Dynamite (a.k.a. Duck You Sucker), directed by Sergio Leone, starring James Coburn and Rod Steiger - (Italy)
 * Fleeing the Trap, starring Behrouz Vossoughi and Davoud Rashidi (Iran)
 * Fools' Parade, starring James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell
 * Fortune and Men's Eyes - (Canada)
 * Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d'un rêveur), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
 * The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin, starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider - 5 Academy Awards including best film, director and actor
 * Fright, starring Susan George and Honor Blackman - (U.K.)
 * Fun and Games, British exploitation film directed by Ray Austin

G

 * The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, starring Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young, Robert De Niro
 * Gas-s-s-s, directed by Roger Corman
 * Gentlemen of Fortune (Dzhentlmeny udachi) - (U.S.S.R.)
 * Get Carter, directed by Mike Hodges, starring Michael Caine - (U.K.)
 * A Girl in Australia (Bello onesto emigrato Australia), starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy/Australia)
 * The Go-Between, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard - (U.K.)
 * Godzilla vs. Hedorah (Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster) - (Japan)
 * Grandads-Robbers (Stariki-razboyniki) - (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Grissom Gang, starring Kim Darby and Scott Wilson
 * Guddi, starring Dharmendra - (India)
 * Gumshoe, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Albert Finney and Billie Whitelaw - (U.K.)
 * A Gunfight, starring Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash

H

 * Hannie Caulder, starring Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Culp
 * Hare Rama Hare Krishna, directed by and starring Dev Anand - (India)
 * Harold and Maude, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort
 * The Hellstrom Chronicle, a documentary directed by Walon Green narrated by a dramatized title character portrayed by Lawrence Pressman
 * The Hired Hand, directed by and starring Peter Fonda, with Warren Oates, Verna Bloom
 * The Horsemen, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Omar Sharif and Jack Palance
 * The Hospital, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring George C. Scott and Diana Rigg
 * How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês) - (Brazil)
 * How to Frame a Figg, starring Don Knotts and Yvonne Craig
 * The Hunting Party, starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Oliver Reed

I

 * I, Monster, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
 * In Prison Awaiting Trial (Detenuto in attesa di giudizio), starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)

J

 * Joe Hill, directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden/United States)
 * Johnny Got His Gun, directed by Dalton Trumbo, starring Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland
 * Juste avant la nuit (a.k.a. Just Before Nightfall), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran - (France)
 * Jwala (Fire), directed by M. V. Raman and starring Madhubala in her last film appearance - (India)

K

 * King Lear, directed by Peter Brook, starring Paul Scofield - (U.K.)
 * King Lear, directed by Grigori Kozintsev - (U.S.S.R.)
 * Klute, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Jane Fonda (Oscar winner), Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
 * Kotch, directed by Jack Lemmon, starring Walter Matthau

L

 * Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
 * The Last Picture Show, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson
 * The Last Run, starring George C. Scott
 * Lawman, starring Burt Lancaster, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Ryan, Robert Duvall
 * Le Mans, starring Steve McQueen
 * Liberation (Osvobozhdenie / Befreiung), directed by Yuri Ozerov - (U.S.S.R./East Germany/Poland/Yugoslavia/Italy)
 * The Light at the Edge of the World
 * Little Murders, directed by Alan Arkin, starring Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Donald Sutherland
 * Love (Szerelem) - (Hungary)
 * The Love Machine, directed by Jack Haley, Jr., starring Dyan Cannon

M

 * Macbeth, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Jon Finch and Francesca Annis - (U.K./U.S.)
 * Made for Each Other, starring Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor
 * Malpertuis, starring Orson Welles and Susan Hampshire - (Belgium/France)
 * Man in the Wilderness, starring Richard Harris
 * The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, starring Richard Benjamin, Joanna Shimkus and Adam West
 * Mary, Queen of Scots, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson - (U.K.)
 * McCabe & Mrs. Miller, directed by Robert Altman, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie
 * Melody, starring Mark Lester and Jack Wild - (U.K.)
 * The Mephisto Waltz, starring Alan Alda and Jacqueline Bisset
 * Mere Apne - (India)
 * The Million Dollar Duck, starring Sandy Duncan
 * Minnie and Moskowitz, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel
 * Mira, directed by Fons Rademakers - (Netherlands/Belgium)
 * The Missing Clerk (Den forsvundne fuldmægtig) - (Denmark)
 * Mon oncle Antoine - considered by some critics the greatest Canadian film - (Canada)
 * Murmur of the Heart, directed by Louis Malle - (France/Italy/West Germany)
 * Murphy's War, starring Peter O'Toole

N

 * A New Leaf, directed by and starring Elaine May, co-starring Walter Matthau
 * Nicholas and Alexandra, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Laurence Olivier, Jack Hawkins - (U.K.)
 * Night of Dark Shadows, directed by Dan Curtis, starring David Selby and Grayson Hall
 * The Night Digger (a.k.a. The Road Builder), starring Patricia Neal - (U.K.)
 * The Night God Screamed, low-budget psychological horror starring Jeanne Crain with Alex Nicol, Gary Morgan, James Sikking
 * Nikah Halala, by Nosrat Karimi (Iran)

O

 * Octaman
 * Officers (ofitsery) - (U.S.S.R.)
 * Oil Lamps (Petrolejové lampy) - (Czechoslovakia)
 * The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston and Anthony Zerbe
 * On the Buses, starring Reg Varney - (U.K.)
 * One Armed Boxer (Du bei chuan wang), starring Jimmy Wang Yu - (Hong Kong)
 * One More Train to Rob, starring George Peppard and Diana Muldaur
 * Out 1 (a.k.a. Out 1, noli me tangere), directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud - (France)

P

 * The Panic in Needle Park, starring Al Pacino
 * The Pine Tree in the Mountain (U gori raste zelen bor) - (Yugoslavia)
 * Play Misty for Me, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Jessica Walter and Donna Mills
 * Plaza Suite, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, Lee Grant
 * Please Sir! (film), starring John Alderton, Peter Cleall, Carol Hawkins, Joan Sanderson
 * Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles (Taralezhite se razhdat bez bodli) - (Bulgaria)
 * Pretty Maids All in a Row, written and produced by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Rock Hudson and Angie Dickinson
 * Punishment Park, directed by Peter Watkins
 * The Pursuit of Happiness, starring Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Robert Klein

R

 * Raid on Rommel, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Richard Burton and John Colicos
 * Raphael, or The Debauched One (Raphaël ou le Débauché) - (France)
 * Red Sky at Morning, starring Richard Thomas and Desi Arnaz Jr.
 * Red Sun, starring Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon - (France/Italy/Spain)
 * Rendezvous at Bray, starring Anna Karina - (France/Belgium)

S

 * Sacco e Vanzetti, starring Gian Maria Volonté - (Italy)
 * A Safe Place, starring Jack Nicholson and Tuesday Weld
 * The Salamander (La Salamandre), starring Bulle Ogier - (Switzerland)
 * See No Evil, starring Mia Farrow
 * The Seven Minutes, starring Marianne McAndrew
 * Shaft, directed by Gordon Parks, starring Richard Roundtree
 * She Killed in Ecstasy (Sie tötete in Ekstase) - (West Germany/Spain)
 * Shoot Out, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gregory Peck
 * Silence (Chinmoku) - (Japan)
 * Skin Game, starring James Garner and Louis Gossett Jr.
 * Something Big, starring Dean Martin
 * Sometimes a Great Notion (Never Give an Inch), directed by and starring Paul Newman, with Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Sarrazin
 * Soul to Soul, a concert documentary featuring Wilson Pickett, Ike & Tina Turner and more
 * Star Spangled Girl, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Sandy Duncan and Tony Roberts
 * Straw Dogs, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George - (U.K./U.S.)
 * Such Good Friends, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Dyan Cannon and Burgess Meredith
 * Summer of '42, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Jennifer O'Neill and Gary Grimes
 * Sunday, Bloody Sunday, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson - (U.K.)
 * Support Your Local Gunfighter, starring James Garner and Suzanne Pleshette
 * Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, directed by Melvin Van Peebles
 * Sympathy for the Underdog (Bakuto gaijin butai) - (Japan)

T

 * The Ski Bum, starring Charlotte Rampling
 * THX 1138, the directorial debut of George Lucas, starring Robert Duvall
 * T.R. Baskin, starring Candice Bergen
 * Taking Off, directed by Miloš Forman, starring Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry
 * The Killers, directed by Ashraf Fahmy, starring Salah Zulfikar and Nahed Sherif - (Egypt)
 * The Tales of Beatrix Potter, a dance film featuring The Royal Ballet - (U.K.)
 * They Might Be Giants, starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward
 * Three Reservists (Trimata ot zapasa), directed by Zako Heskiya, starring Georgi Partsalev and Kiril Gospodinov - (Bulgaria)
 * A Touch of Zen (Xia nu) - (Taiwan)
 * Trafic, directed by and starring Jacques Tati - (France)
 * The Trojan Women, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas - (US/UK/Greece)
 * Twitch of the Death Nerve (Ecologia del delitto), starring Claudine Auger - (Italy)
 * Two English Girls (Les deux anglaises et le continent), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud - (France)
 * Two-Lane Blacktop, starring James Taylor and Warren Oates

U

 * Unman, Wittering and Zigo, starring David Hemmings - (U.K.)
 * Up Pompeii, starring Frankie Howerd and Michael Hordern - (U.K.)

V

 * Valdez Is Coming, starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher, Richard Jordan
 * Vampyros Lesbos, directed by Jesus Franco
 * Vanishing Point, starring Barry Newman and Cleavon Little
 * Villain, starring Richard Burton and Ian McShane - (U.K.)
 * Von Richthofen and Brown (a.k.a. The Red Baron), directed by Roger Corman, starring John Phillip Law

W

 * W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (W.R. - Misterije organizma) - (Yugoslavia/West Germany)
 * Wake in Fright, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Donald Pleasence - (Australia)
 * Walkabout, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Jenny Agutter and David Gulpilil - (Australia/U.K.)
 * Le Wazzou polygame (The Polygamist's Morale) - (Niger/France)
 * What's the Matter with Helen?, starring Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters
 * What the Peeper Saw, starring Britt Ekland, Mark Lester, Hardy Krüger
 * When Eight Bells Toll, starring Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon, Jack Hawkins - (U.K.)
 * Whity, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
 * Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, starring Shelley Winters and Mark Lester
 * Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, starring Dustin Hoffman
 * Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name? a.k.a. Death of a Hooker, starring Red Buttons and Sylvia Miles
 * Wild Rovers, directed by Blake Edwards, starring William Holden and Ryan O'Neal
 * Willard, starring Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine
 * Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart, starring Gene Wilder and Jack Albertson
 * Witch, directed by Henry Barakat, starring Salah Zulfikar and Faten Hamama, short film – (Egypt)
 * The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso), starring Gian Maria Volonté, Palme d'Or winner - (Italy)

Y

 * You Are a Widow, Sir (Pane, vy jste vdova!) - (Czechoslovakia)
 * The Young Graduates, directed by Robert Anderson, starring Patrick Wymer, Steven Stewart, Gary Rist and Bruno Kirby

Z

 * Zeppelin, starring Elke Sommer and Michael York - (U.K.)

Short film series

 * The Pink Panther (1964–69)(1971-72)(1974–77)(1978–80)
 * The Ant and the Aardvark (1969–1971)
 * Roland and Rattfink (1968–1971)
 * Tijuana Toads (1969–72)
 * Woody Woodpecker (1941–49, 1951–72)
 * Chilly Willy (1953–72)
 * The Beary Family (1962–72)

Births

 * January 2
 * Taye Diggs, American actor
 * Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
 * January 7 - Jeremy Renner, American actor
 * January 11 - Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter and actress
 * January 14 - Jennifer Dundas, American actress
 * January 15 - Regina King, American actress
 * January 17 - Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress and singer
 * January 19 - Shawn Wayans, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
 * January 20 - Questlove, American musician, filmmaker and actor
 * January 21 - Dylan Kussman, American writer and actor
 * January 23 - Diana Barrows, American actor, singer and dancer
 * January 24 - Stanislas Merhar, French actor
 * January 27
 * Karin Tammaru, Estonian actress
 * Fann Wong, Singaporean actress, singer and model
 * January 31 - Darren Boyd, British actor
 * February 1
 * Michael C. Hall, American actor
 * Jill Kelly, American pornographic actress
 * Hynden Walch, American actress, voice actress, writer and singer
 * February 2 - Arly Jover, Spanish actress
 * February 3 - Elisa Donovan, American actress
 * February 4 - Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian
 * February 6 - Brian Stepanek, American actor
 * February 11 - Damian Lewis, English actor
 * February 12 - Scott Menville, American actor
 * February 14 - Noriko Sakai, Japanese actress and singer
 * February 15
 * Alex Borstein, American actress
 * Renee O'Connor, American actress
 * February 17 - Denise Richards, American actress
 * February 18 - Hiep Thi Le, Vietnamese-American actress (d. 2017)
 * February 21 - Andréa Burns, American actress and singer
 * February 22 - Lea Salonga, Filipina actress, singer, and columnist
 * February 25 - Sean Astin, American actor
 * February 28 - Tasha Smith, American actor, director and producer
 * March 1
 * Ma Dong-seok, South Korean-born American actor
 * Teresa Gallagher, American-born British actress, voice actress and singer
 * March 2
 * Stefano Accorsi, Italian actor
 * Method Man, American actor and musician
 * Amber Smith, American actress
 * March 4 - Shavar Ross, American actor, director, screenwriter, producer and editor
 * March 5
 * Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor
 * Scott Mosier, American producer, director and editor
 * March 7
 * Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
 * Matthew Vaughn, English filmmaker
 * March 10 - Jon Hamm, American actor
 * March 11 - Johnny Knoxville, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
 * March 13 - Annabeth Gish, American actress
 * March 15 - Chris Patton, American voice actor
 * March 16 - Alan Tudyk, American actor and voice actor
 * March 22
 * Keegan-Michael Key, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
 * Will Yun Lee, American actor and martial artist
 * March 24 - Megyn Price, American actress
 * March 25 - Peter Shinkoda, Canadian actor
 * March 26 - Francis Lawrence, Austrian-born American filmmaker and producer
 * March 27 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
 * March 29
 * Michael-Leon Wooley, American theatre, film, television and voice actor
 * Hidetoshi Nishijima, Japanese actor
 * March 31
 * Craig McCracken, American cartoonist, animator, director, writer and producer
 * Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
 * April 1 - Lachy Hulme, Australian actor and screenwriter
 * April 5 - Krista Allen, American actress, model and stand-up comedian
 * April 7 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American actress
 * April 12 - Shannen Doherty, American actress (d. 2024)
 * April 15
 * Andy Daly, American actor, comedian and writer
 * Kate Harbour, English voice actress
 * April 16 - Peter Billingsley, American actor, director and producer
 * April 18 - David Tennant, Scottish actor
 * April 19
 * Gad Elmaleh, Moroccan-Canadian stand-up comedian and actor
 * Desreta Jackson, Virgin Islander actress
 * Wendy Powell, American voice actress
 * April 28 - Bridget Moynahan, American actress
 * May 10
 * Adriano Giannini, Italian actor and voice actor
 * Leslie Stefanson, American actress
 * May 11 - Nicky Katt, American actor
 * May 14 - Sofia Coppola, American actress, writer, and director
 * May 17 - Randy Davison, American actor
 * May 22 - MC Eiht, American rapper and actor
 * May 25 - Justin Henry, American actor
 * May 26 - Matt Stone, American actor, creator of South Park
 * May 27
 * Paul Bettany, English actor
 * Lisa Lopes, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
 * May 30
 * Duncan Jones, British director, producer and screenwriter
 * Idina Menzel, American actress, singer and songwriter
 * John Ross Bowie, American actor and comedian
 * June 2 - Espen Sandberg, Norwegian director
 * June 4
 * James Callis, British actor
 * Noah Wyle, American actor
 * June 5
 * Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
 * Mark Wahlberg, American actor and musician
 * June 11 - Kenjiro Tsuda, Japanese actor
 * June 14 - Sophiya Haque, English actress and singer (d. 2013)
 * June 15
 * Jake Busey, American actor
 * Taavi Eelmaa, Estonian actor
 * June 16
 * Eva Püssa, Estonian actress
 * Tupac Shakur, American actor and rapper (d. 1996)
 * June 18 - Lisa Barbuscia, American model, singer and actress
 * June 20 - Josh Lucas, American actor
 * June 28
 * Benito Martinez, American actor
 * Aileen Quinn, American actress and singer
 * June 30
 * Tom Green, Canadian-American comedian, show host, actor and filmmaker
 * Monica Potter, American actress
 * July 1 - Missy Elliott, American musician and actress
 * July 7 - Christian Camargo, American actor, producer, writer and director
 * July 8 - Amanda Peterson, American actress (d. 2015)
 * July 9 - Scott Grimes, American actor and singer
 * July 15 - Jim Rash, American actor, comedian and filmmaker
 * July 16 - Corey Feldman, American actor
 * July 18 - Sarah McLeod, New Zealand actress
 * July 19 - Andres Puustusmaa, Estonian actor and director
 * July 20 - Sandra Oh, Canadian-American actress
 * July 21 - Charlotte Gainsbourg, French-British actress
 * July 24 - Patty Jenkins, American director, screenwriter and producer
 * July 25 - Miriam Shor, American actress
 * July 30 - Christine Taylor, American actress
 * July 31 - Eve Best, British actress
 * August 4 - Yo-Yo, American rapper and actress
 * August 9
 * Mark Povinelli, American actor
 * Nikki Ziering, American model and actress
 * August 10 - Justin Theroux, American actor
 * August 12
 * Rebecca Gayheart, American actress
 * Yvette Nicole Brown, American actress, comedian, writer and host
 * August 13
 * Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor and director
 * Heike Makatsch, German actress, voice actress and singer
 * August 14 - Scott Michael Campbell, American actor, writer, producer and director
 * August 18 - Jacob Vargas, Mexican-American actor
 * August 20
 * David Walliams, English comedian, actor, writer and television personality
 * Ke Huy Quan, American actor and stunt choreographer
 * August 21 - Kristi Angus, Canadian actress
 * August 22 - Richard Armitage, English actor and author
 * August 25 - Claire Rushbrook, English actress
 * August 29 - Carla Gugino, American actress
 * August 31 - Chris Tucker, American actor
 * September 1 - Maury Sterling, American actor
 * September 3 - Drena De Niro, American actress and filmmaker
 * September 8
 * David Arquette, American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter
 * Martin Freeman, English actor
 * September 9
 * Eric Stonestreet, American actor and comedian
 * Henry Thomas, American actor
 * September 14
 * Pat Healy, American actor
 * Kimberly Williams-Paisley, American actress
 * September 15
 * Josh Charles, American actor
 * Colleen O'Shaughnessey, American voice actress
 * September 16 - Amy Poehler, American actress
 * September 17
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Harold Larwood

Harold Larwood (14 November 1904 – 22 July 1995) was a professional cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team between 1924 and 1938. A right-arm fast bowler who combined extreme speeds with great accuracy, he was considered by many players and commentators to be the finest and the fastest fast bowler of his generation and one of the fastest bowlers of all time. He was the main exponent of the bowling style known as "bodyline", the use of which during the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) tour of Australia in 1932–33 caused a furore that brought about a premature and acrimonious end to his international career.

A coal miner's son who began working in the mines at the age of 14, Larwood was recommended to Nottinghamshire on the basis of his performances in club cricket, and rapidly acquired a place among the country's leading bowlers. He made his Test debut in 1926, in only his second season in first-class cricket, and was a member of the 1928–29 touring side that retained the Ashes in Australia. The advent of the Australian batsman Don Bradman ended a period of English cricket supremacy; Larwood and other bowlers were completely dominated by Bradman during Australia's victorious tour of 1930. Thereafter, under the guidance of England's combative captain Douglas Jardine, the fast leg theory or bodyline bowling attack was developed. With Larwood as its spearhead the tactic was used with considerable success in the 1932–33 Test series in Australia. The Australians' description of the method as "unsportsmanlike" soured cricketing and political relations between the two countries; during subsequent efforts to heal the breach, Larwood refused to apologise for his bowling, since he was carrying out his captain's instructions. He never played for England after the 1932–33 tour, but continued his county career with considerable success for several more seasons.

In 1949, after years out of the limelight, Larwood was elected to honorary membership of the MCC. The following year he and his family were encouraged by former opponent Jack Fingleton to emigrate and settle in Australia, where he was warmly welcomed, in contrast to the reception accorded him in his cricketing days. He worked for a soft drinks firm, and as an occasional reporter and commentator on Tests against visiting England sides. He paid several visits to England, and was honoured at his old county ground, Trent Bridge, where a stand was named after him. In 1993, at the age of 88, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in belated recognition of his services to cricket. He died two years later.

Early life
Harold Larwood was born on 14 November 1904 in the Nottinghamshire village of Nuncargate, near the coal mining town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. He was the fourth of five sons born to Robert Larwood, a miner, and his wife Mary, née Sharman. Robert was a man of rigid principles, a disciplinarian teetotaller who was treasurer of the local Methodist chapel. His chief pastime was playing cricket for the village team, which he captained. Harold Larwood's biographer Duncan Hamilton writes that for Robert, cricket represented, "along with his dedication to God ... the core of his life".

From the age of five, Harold attended Kirkby Woodhouse school. Over the years this small village school produced, besides Larwood, four other international cricketers who became his contemporaries in the Nottinghamshire county side: William "Dodger" Whysall, Sam Staples, Bill Voce and Joe Hardstaff junior. On leaving the school in 1917, when he was 13, Harold was employed at the local miners' cooperative store, before beginning work the following year at Annesley Colliery in charge of a team of pit ponies. He had shown an early talent for cricket, and began to play for Nuncargate's second team in 1918. Playing against experienced adults, in his first season he took 76 wickets at an average of 4.9. By 1920 he was in the first team, alongside his father, playing in plimsolls because the family could not afford to buy him proper cricket boots.

County recruit
Despite his short stature (at 18 he was only 5 feet 4 inches tall), Larwood had acquired considerable stamina and upper body strength from his long shifts at the mine and could bowl at a disconcertingly fast speed. Among those who watched his rising prowess as a fast bowler was Joe Hardstaff senior, the Nottinghamshire and England cricketer who lived in Nuncargate. Hardstaff, who had worked with Robert Larwood at the mine, suggested to the youthful bowler that he should attend a trial at the county ground. In April 1923 father and son made the journey to Trent Bridge. In the practice nets, the county players towered over Larwood; the veteran Test batsman George Gunn thought he looked more like a jockey than a cricketer. At first he bowled badly, and his efforts were unimpressive. As his confidence increased his bowling improved, and committee members began to revise their initial dismissive judgement; when the session ended, Larwood was offered a playing contract. He accepted instantly; the terms were 32 shillings (£1.60) per week—the same as his mining wages—and he was expected, when not playing, to carry out ground staff duties. Robert Larwood was angry that his son had not asked for more generous terms, but according to Hamilton, Harold would have agreed to anything to escape from the mine, even for a single summer.

In the 1923 season, under the eye of the county's coach, James Iremonger, Larwood concentrated on building his physique and on learning bowling skills. He grew a few inches in height, although he remained short for a fast bowler, and under Iremonger's regime of diet and exercise he gained weight. Besides his physical development, he learned by incessant practice various bowling arts, among them accuracy in line and length, variation of pace and grip, and deviating the ball in the air to produce swing. That year he played intermittently for the county's Second XI, and in a match against Lancashire Seconds took 8 wickets for 44 runs.

Larwood was first called for full county duty on 20 August 1924, against Northamptonshire, at Trent Bridge. He bowled 26 overs in all, conceded 71 runs and took the wicket of Vallance Jupp, an experienced Test all-rounder. His assessment of his performance was negative: "I wasn't ready". Iremonger was much more positive, assuring Larwood that his bowling required only fine tuning. Larwood had also gained the support of the county captain, Arthur Carr, a powerful personality who decided that the new recruit had the makings of a future Test match bowler. "The best way to deal with him", Carr said later, "was as if he was my own son". Carr played a major part in encouraging and developing the young bowler's talents, and acted as Larwood's guiding spirit throughout the latter's career.

Larwood had to wait until June 1925 for his next county match, which was against Yorkshire at Bramall Lane in Sheffield. Although Nottinghamshire lost the game, Larwood took three wickets, including that of Yorkshire's leading batsman Herbert Sutcliffe. From that point he became a regular member of the county side; he finished the season with 73 wickets at an average of 18.01, with best match figures of 11 for 41 against Worcestershire. From time to time he showed good form as a batsman, his best score being 70 against Northamptonshire.

Test cricketer
Larwood began the 1926 county season in good form; during a drawn match against Surrey, he twice took the wicket of Jack Hobbs, England's premier batsman and an influential voice with the national selectors. The Australians were in England, to defend the Ashes in a five-match Test series, and Carr had been appointed to captain England. Hobbs was convinced that Larwood was good enough to play for his country; this recommendation may have prompted the young bowler's inclusion in a "Test Trial" match at Lord's, early in June. Larwood took five wickets in the match, but was not selected for the first Test, which in any event was ruined by rain after barely an hour's play. For the second Test, due to begin at Lord's on 26 June, the selectors took a gamble and selected the youthful Larwood. His reaction when told by Carr was to protest that he was not good enough; Carr assured him that he was. The Lord's Test was drawn, with neither side coming near to winning. Larwood took three high-profile wickets—Charlie Macartney, Jack Gregory and the Australian captain H. L. Collins—while conceding 136 runs. He thought his performance "wasn't great ... I wasted a lot of energy". He was not selected for the Third or Fourth Tests, both of which ended in draws; after the fourth match Carr, whose leadership had been criticised and whose batting form was poor, was replaced as England's captain by Percy Chapman for the series' decisive match at the Oval. Primarily at the urging of Hobbs, Larwood was recalled for this critical game. On a tumultuous final day the Australians, needing 415 to win, were bowled out for 125, the main bowling honours being shared between Larwood (3 wickets for 34) and the 49-year-old veteran Wilfred Rhodes (4 for 44), who had first appeared for England in 1899, five years before Larwood was born. The victory meant that England had secured the Ashes for the first time since 1912. Among many tributes recognising Larwood's performance was one from the former England captain Pelham Warner, who predicted a big future, but noted that "he must guard against bowling just short of a length".

In the 1926 season as a whole, Larwood took 137 wickets at 18.31; with the bat he scored 451 runs at 12.88. No Tests were played in 1927; Larwood's performances for Nottinghamshire, however, lifted him to the top of the national bowling averages—100 wickets at 16.95—and he was chosen as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year. His efforts could not quite secure the County Championship title for Nottinghamshire; they finished second after losing their final match to Glamorgan. The 1927 season saw the first appearance in the Nottinghamshire side of Bill Voce, a 17-year-old ex-miner who, after beginning as a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler, later became Larwood's principal fast bowling partner for county and country. At the season's end, Larwood was married, in a quiet and private ceremony, to Lois Bird, a miner's daughter whom he had first met in 1925.

Larwood did not join the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)'s weak team that toured South Africa in 1927–28 under the inexperienced R. T. Stanyforth. During 1928 Larwood appeared in two Tests against an emergent West Indies side that was playing its first series. He took six wickets in these matches, but his best performances that season were for Nottinghamshire. With 138 wickets at 14.51, Larwood once again headed the national bowling averages. As a batsman, his 626 runs at an average of 26.08 included his first century, 101 not out against Gloucestershire.

Around this time Larwood was mentioned in passing in H. R. Wakefield's ghost story Old Man's Beard (1929).

Australian tour, 1928–29
On the basis of his form, Larwood was an obvious choice for the MCC touring side that Chapman took to Australia in the English winter of 1928–29. In an early game against Victoria he took 7 for 51 in the state's first innings and scored 79 when MCC batted. One of his victims in the match was Bill Ponsford, the Australian Test opening batsman, who let slip his opinion that Larwood was "not really fast". According to the journalist and future Australian Test player Jack Fingleton, Ponsford was then targeted by Larwood. A month later at Brisbane, in the first Test of the series, Larwood dismissed him cheaply, twice; in the second Test, at Sydney, Ponsford scored 5 before a rapid delivery from Larwood broke a bone in his hand; Ponsford did not play again that summer.

England won the Brisbane Test by a record margin of 675 runs. Larwood took 6 for 32 in the Australian first innings, bowling at a speed that Wisden's S. J. Southerton described as "faster than I have ever seen him". According to Jardine's biographer Christopher Douglas, this bowling, which included a spell of 3 wickets in 5 overs for 9 runs, delivered a lasting blow to Australian morale and was a major factor in England's ultimate series victory. The match saw a low-key Test debut by Don Bradman, who scored 18 and 1 and was dropped for the second Test, before being rapidly reinstated for the third. England maintained their ascendancy during the second, third and fourth Tests, though with decreasing victory margins; Australia finally achieved success in the last match, giving England a 4–1 series victory. A combination of hard pitches, stifling heat, and long matches reduced Larwood's effectiveness as the tour progressed. He finished the Test series with 18 wickets at 40.22, behind George Geary (19 at 25.11) and Jack White (25 at 30.80). In all first-class matches on the tour, Larwood took 40 wickets at 31.35; as a batsman he scored 367 runs, averaging 26.21. Larwood's occasional tactic of bowling leg theory, that is, in the direction of the batsman's legs to a concentration of leg side fielders, had been noted by the Australian former bowler Arthur Mailey. In his report on the fourth Test, Mailey wrote, Larwood resorted to his "famous leg theory" after receiving severe punishment from the Australian batsman Archie Jackson, but the change brought no success: "All theories and all bowlers were alike to [Jackson]".

Southerton's tour report refers to the crowds' reactions to the England team, and in particular to the "barracking" of Larwood. This, he says, only once reached unacceptable proportions—during the game against Victoria that took place between the fourth and fifth Tests. This disturbance was apparently sparked by Chapman's decision to put Larwood on to bowl against Victoria's weakest batsman, Bert Ironmonger. In general, Southerton felt that crowd noise was no worse than that accorded to previous touring teams and that, "objectionable though it may appear to be to us in England, it has grown up with Australian cricket and is recognised by the public out there as part of their day's enjoyment". Larwood's view was that "it was a bit too thick at times ... I got called every name you can imagine, and every four-letter word you can think of was used against me". The Surrey amateur batsman Douglas Jardine, was likewise a target of the crowds, and as a result formed a cordial dislike for Australians—which was fully reciprocated.

Bradman in 1930
Back in England for the 1929 season, Larwood made three Test appearances against the visiting South Africans, for modest returns: a total of eight wickets at 23.25, and with the bat 50 runs at 12.50. He was injured during the third Test, and thus missed the last two games of the series and several county matches. His overall bowling figures for the 1929 season were less impressive than in the two previous years; with 117 wickets at 21.66 he fell to 25th place in the national averages. The 20-year-old Voce, whose fast-medium bowling style had now fully developed, was the county's most successful bowler. Together, Larwood and Voce helped Nottinghamshire to secure the County Championship that had narrowly evaded them two years earlier. Ahead of the Australians' visit to England in 1930 there was some confidence in English cricketing circles, since Chapman's victorious 1928–29 side was largely intact and on paper looked formidably strong, especially in batting. England duly won the first Test, at Trent Bridge, by 93 runs, despite a second-innings century from Bradman that for a time threatened to turn the match. Larwood's active participation was curtailed by an attack of gastritis; he took 2 wickets in the match for 21 runs.

His illness meant that Larwood missed the second Test, at Lord's, which saw Australia score a record 729 for 6 including a rapid 254 from Bradman, at the time the highest individual Test score in England. Australia won the game by seven wickets, to draw level 1–1 in the five-match series. Larwood returned to the England side for the third Test, at Headingley, Leeds. He later claimed that his first ball to Bradman, before the batsman had scored, was a bouncer that touched the edge of the bat and was caught by the wicket-keeper, George Duckworth: "You could hear the snick all over the ground". The umpire, however, gave Bradman not out. Bradman went on to compile 334, beating his record score of two weeks earlier. Larwood's one wicket in the Australian innings cost 139 runs; England were saved from probable defeat when the game was shortened by rain. The England selectors dropped Larwood from the team for the fourth Test, in which Bradman was limited to 14 runs, but the game was rained off after just over two days' play. Larwood was recalled for the final Test at the Oval that, as in 1926, would determine the series victor. In a game with no time limit, Australia replied to England's 405 with 695 (Bradman 232), then dismissed England for 251 to win by an innings and 39 runs. Larwood's single wicket—Bradman, for the first time in Tests—cost 132 runs. In the three Tests in which he played, Larwood took 4 wickets for 292; Bradman, he admitted, had "pasted me unmercifully". Commentators recognised the danger that Bradman presented to English hopes; the former England bowler Percy Fender, who was captain of Surrey and a respected cricket journalist, was convinced that "something new will have to be introduced to curb Bradman". Warner was explicit: "England must evolve a new type of bowler and develop fresh ideas and strange tactics to curb his almost uncanny skill".

Prelude to bodyline
Apart from his treatment by Bradman, Larwood was successful in 1930, rising to fourth place in the national bowling averages (99 wickets at 16.38). He also batted well on occasions, including a not-out century against Northamptonshire. He was not selected for the 1930–31 tour of South Africa, and for the next two years he concentrated mainly on domestic cricket. He made one Test appearance in 1931, against New Zealand, in a rain-ruined game in which he neither batted nor bowled. He headed the domestic bowling averages in 1931 and 1932, in the latter year with 162 wickets at 12.86, the best seasonal figures of his career. However, because of his poor Test record in 1930, Larwood thought his chances of selection for the 1932–33 tour to Australia were slim. The 1932 Test trial was limited to half a day's play, during which Larwood bowled 15 overs for a single wicket. Nevertheless, to his great relief he was selected for the tour, as was Voce, who had been England's most successful bowler during the South African tour of 1930–31.

In 1931, with the 1932–33 series in mind, the selectors had appointed Jardine as England's captain. In his efforts to build a strategy whereby he could threaten the Australian supremacy, the new captain consulted widely. Along with other observers, including Duckworth (who had kept wicket for England during the 1930 Oval Test) he thought that Bradman showed a dislike for fast, rising balls, and had been shaken when one such delivery from Larwood had hit him in the chest. This matter had been widely discussed among cricketers; a clip of film from the Oval match appeared to confirm that Bradman had flinched. This, to Jardine, suggested the basis of a plan: a sustained attack of fast leg theory that might unsettle not just Bradman but the Australian batsmen generally.

Leg theory bowling was not new; Larwood, Voce and others had employed it, generally for short periods, as had several Australians including Jack Scott, who in 1928–29 dismissed Jardine and Herbert Sutcliffe using this tactic. What Jardine planned was a sustained leg stump attack, used in conjunction with a semicircle of close leg-side fielders ready to pounce on any mistimed shot. He found a willing ally in Carr, who, though no longer playing Test cricket, still captained Nottinghamshire and had, according to Hamilton, "an almost carnivorous appetite for trying to humiliate the Australians and grinding them, and especially Bradman, into the dirt". At a private dinner at the Piccadilly Hotel, which Jardine and Carr arranged shortly after the announcement of the 1932–33 touring party, Larwood and Voce were quizzed about leg theory. Larwood later recalled the conversation thus: "Jardine asked me if I could bowl on the leg stump making the ball come up into the body all the time, so that Bradman had to play his shots to leg. 'Yes, I think that can be done', I said ... I had no doubt of its purpose: we thought Don was frightened of sharp rising balls, and we reasoned that if he got a lot of them he would be ... intimidated and eventually, having to direct his shots to leg all the time, would give a catch to one of the [leg-side] fieldsmen'."

In pursuit of his plans, Jardine took advice on fielding positions from Frank Foster, who had bowled a form of medium-fast leg theory during the 1911–12 series in Australia with much success, taking 32 wickets at 21.63. Larwood did not at the time consider Jardine's proposed tactics as either novel or controversial. His priority was to contain Bradman, so "any scheme that would keep him in check appealed to me a great deal". In county matches following the Piccadilly Hotel dinner, Larwood and Voce tried the tactics out, with mixed results. Two Essex batsmen sustained injuries as their side struggled with the unfamiliar bowling, at one stage losing 8 wickets for 52 runs. However, Glamorgan, reckoned to be a weak batting side, scored more than 500 against the experimental attack; spectators, including the future cricket writer and commentator John Arlott, were puzzled by the ineffectiveness of the bowling. Arlott later reasoned that what appeared weak bowling on English pitches would be a different proposition on the much faster Australian pitches. Hostile fast bowling was not confined to Larwood and Voce; in Yorkshire's match against Surrey at The Oval, Bill Bowes bowled a series of bouncers, bringing protests from Hobbs and press criticism from Warner.

Australian tour, 1932–33
The MCC party that sailed for Australia on 17 September 1932 contained four fast bowlers: Larwood, Voce,  Bowes and G.O. "Gubby" Allen, the Middlesex amateur. Warner was manager of the side; he had captained two tours to Australia prior to 1914 and was a popular figure there. The manager's role, as the tour's historian Laurence Le Quesne remarks, was at the time less influential than that of the captain, who had absolute authority on the field of play.

Prior to the Test series, the party played matches against State sides and selected Australian elevens. The intended fast leg theory attack was not revealed until the fifth of these games, against "An Australian XI" (including Bradman), which began at Melbourne on 18 November. Larwood dismissed Bradman for low scores in each of the Australian innings, writing later: "It was a refreshing sight to see [him] clumsily waving his bat in the air". Hobbs, who having retired from Test cricket was reporting the tour for London's The Star newspaper, thought that the bowling had shaken Bradman's confidence: "He was drawing away, sure proof that he didn't like the bumpers". The English tactics in the game offended the crowds and so upset H.V. Evatt (later leader of the Australian Labor Party, then a High Court judge) that he lost all desire to watch any of that year's Tests.

The first Test began at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 2 December 1932, and was played in a tense and heated atmosphere. Bradman, whose discomfort and poor form against the tourists' bowling in the preparatory games had become sources of anxiety, was prevented from playing by illness. England won the game by 10 wickets; Larwood's match figures were 10 for 124, with only limited use of fast leg theory. The match's most successful batsman was Australia's Stan McCabe, who scored 187 in his side's first innings, attacking both the orthodox and leg theory attacks in a "death or glory" approach. During the match Hugh Buggy, a reporter for the Melbourne Herald, used the word "bodyline" to describe the English leg theory bowling. The term was soon universally adopted in Australia, though English sources continued to refer to "leg theory". The second Test, at Melbourne beginning 30 December, was played on a much slower pitch that blunted the English pace attack. Larwood was further handicapped by pains from sore feet, caused by a new pair of boots. Bradman returned to the Australian side and scored a century, guiding his team to victory by 111 runs; his success led many commentators to suppose that fast leg theory would thenceforth prove ineffective. The series was tied 1–1 and, in the words of the writer-historian Ronald Blythe, "all was sweetness and light". The third Test, which began at Adelaide on 13 January 1933, has been characterised by Wisden as "probably the most unpleasant [Test match] ever played". Bill Woodfull, the Australian captain, was struck over the heart by a ball from Larwood and was incapacitated for several minutes. Larwood had been bowling to an orthodox field; on Woodfull's resumption, to the crowd's amazed hostility, Jardine switched to the leg theory attack. "What could be clearer", wrote Swanton, "than that at the root of these leg-theory tactics was the threat of physical injury?". Larwood then knocked Woodfull's bat from his hands, bringing further demonstrations from the crowd. Later in the innings a Larwood delivery struck Bert Oldfield on the head, causing his retirement from the match. The crowd's reaction was such that Larwood thought a full-scale invasion of the pitch might follow: "If one man jumps the fence the whole mob will go for us".

England eventually won by 338 runs; Larwood's total of seven wickets in the match was exceeded by Allen's eight, earned by orthodox style fast bowling. While the game was still in progress, the Australian Board of Control cabled the MCC, protesting the English tactics with a direct accusation of unsportsmanlike conduct. In reply, MCC rejected the Australian Board's charges and insisted that they withdraw the charge of bad sportsmanship. The row escalated into high diplomatic and political circles, and drew in the Australian prime minister, Joseph Lyons, the governor of South Australia, Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, and the British Dominions secretary, J.H. Thomas. Ultimately it was decided that the matter should be referred to the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC), with a view to a possible change in the rules relating to bowling. Jardine had stated that he would not lead his team in another Test unless the "unsportsmanlike" charge was withdrawn. On 8 February, two days before the fourth Test was due to begin at Brisbane, the Australian Board clarified that, while they continued to find bodyline objectionable, "we do not consider the sportsmanship of your team as being in question".

In the fourth Test, which England won to retain the Ashes, Larwood curtailed his use of bodyline on an unreceptive pitch. The match passed without untoward incident; on the final day came news of the death of Archie Jackson, who had been ill for months with tuberculosis. Two days earlier he had sent Larwood a telegram: "Congratulations magnificent bowling good luck in all matches"; Larwood kept this as a souvenir for the rest of his life. In the final Test, at Sydney, several Australian batsmen were hit, but their improving technique against this style of bowling enabled them to score 435, their highest innings total of the series. Larwood's main contribution to this game was as a batsman; sent in as a nightwatchman, he batted well into the following day to score 98. In the Australians' second innings Larwood suffered a serious injury to his left foot, the legacy of much bowling on hard, unyielding pitches. Although he could no longer bowl, Jardine would not let him leave the field while Bradman was still batting, believing that Larwood's continuing presence represented a psychological threat. When Bradman was out, he and Larwood left the field together, although no words were exchanged. England won the match to secure a 4–1 series victory.

The injury ended Larwood's tour at that point. While the rest of the team fulfilled the final Australian fixtures before embarking on a short tour of New Zealand, Larwood returned to England on board SS Otranto. In the Test matches he had been England's most successful bowler, with 33 wickets at 19.52. As a batsman he had scored 145 runs, averaging 24.16. In all first-class matches on the tour he took 64 wickets at 13.89 and scored 358 runs at 23.45.

Aftermath
On his return home, despite massive press and public interest Larwood was bound by his contract with the MCC to remain silent until the main party returned. On 7 May 1933, the day after their arrival, he gave in a Sunday Express article a strong defence of what he continued to call "leg theory". Woodfull, he said, was too slow, and Bradman too scared: "Richardson and McCabe played me all right, Woodfull and Bradman could not". He was highly critical of the Australian crowds who, he said, knew nothing of cricket—all they wanted was for Bradman to score runs. In mid-May, in a hastily prepared, ghost-written book entitled Bodyline? that was serialised in the Sunday Dispatch, Larwood elaborated on his themes of Australian batting failures and crowd hooliganism. By this time the 1933 cricket season was in full swing; bodyline bowling was being widely practised, by Bowes, Voce and by the fast bowlers in the visiting West Indies touring side, Learie Constantine and E.A. Martindale. Larwood's writings were inconvenient for the MCC committee which, now more aware of the intimidatory aspects of bodyline, was revising its position and was more inclined to appease Australian feelings.

The injury to Larwood's foot meant that he scarcely bowled for Nottinghamshire in 1933. However, such was his drawing power that the county continued to play him as a batsman until mid-July, when his unfitness prematurely ended his season. Meanwhile, on 28 April the Australian Board had unilaterally adopted a regulation that specifically outlawed bodyline bowling in Australia; MCC's initial response was to declare this law impractical, but as the events of the season unfolded they modified their stance. The ICC meeting on 31 July produced no immediate resolution, but did elicit a verbal promise from the MCC that bodyline would not be used in the projected 1934 tour by the Australians. In exchanges of telegrams with the Australian Board, the MCC still contrived to avoid a specific commitment, while emphasising that they had "always agreed that a form of bowling which is obviously a direct attack by the bowler upon the batsman would be an offence against the spirit of the game". On that basis, the Australian Board agreed to the 1934 tour.

By the beginning of the 1934 season Larwood was fit again, and it was anticipated that he would play in the Tests. Jardine had earlier issued an unequivocal statement that he would not play. By way of confirming their commitment not to use bodyline, the MCC committee decided that Larwood should apologise to the Australians for his bowling on the 1932–33 tour. No such apology had been requested from Jardine; Larwood refused to do so, insisting that he had bowled precisely as instructed by his captain. Shortly before the second Test, he wrote in the Sunday Dispatch that he was unrepentant about leg theory, adding: "I doubt if I shall ever play against [the Australians] again, at least in big cricket". Larwood's Test career thus ended. In its review of the 1934 season, Wisden commented: "No greater disservice was ever done to English cricket than when Larwood was induced to dash into print and become responsible for statements which put him beyond the pale of being selected for England".

Larwood continued to play for Nottinghamshire for several more seasons, with considerable success: 82 wickets at 17.25 in 1934, 102 at 22.70 in 1935 and in 1936, his benefit season, 119 at 12.97. The 18-year-old future Test batsman Denis Compton, in his second county match for Middlesex, faced Larwood in June 1936; he later recorded that Larwood and Voce were the most accurate fast bowlers he ever faced, and that Larwood was the fastest. The benefit season yielded the then county record sum of £2,098. In the English winter of 1936–37, while an MCC team led by Allen toured Australia, Larwood took a coaching job in India. The climate and the food disagreed with him, and he returned home early. His bowling achievements in 1937 were modest: 70 wickets at 24.57. Larwood's relations with Nottinghamshire had steadily deteriorated since Carr's dismissal from the captaincy in 1934; his foot problem returned, and was aggravated by a cartilage injury to his left knee. In 1938, after a few matches, he left the county by mutual agreement and retired from first-class cricket. In his first-class career he took 1,427 wickets at 17.51, and scored 7,290 runs at 19.91 including three centuries. In Tests he took 78 wickets at 28.35 and scored 485 runs at 19.40.

Obscurity in England
After playing League cricket for Blackpool in 1939, on the outbreak of war Larwood left the game altogether, to work away from the public eye as a market gardener. In 1946 he used his savings to buy a sweet shop in Blackpool. Although he generally kept away from organised cricket and avoided all personal publicity, he was persuaded to attend a farewell luncheon for Don Bradman at the end of the Australians' 1948 tour. He and Bradman exchanged polite courtesies, though he was warmly welcomed by other members of the Australian team, including their premier fast bowler Ray Lindwall. The following year Larwood became one of 26 former professional Test cricketers awarded honorary membership of the MCC. This recognition, he said, went some way to help heal the hurt he had felt over his treatment by the game's ruling body 15 years earlier.

Emigration to Australia
In the economic austerity of post-war Britain, Larwood's business made little money. He was persuaded, largely by his erstwhile opponent Jack Fingleton, that he would find better prospects and a warm welcome in Australia, and he decided to emigrate there with his family, which by then included five daughters. On 1 April 1950 the Larwoods sailed on SS Orontes, the ship that had carried Jardine's party 18 years previously. On arrival in Australia the welcome was warm and immediate. During their initial weeks in a Sydney hotel, unbeknown to them half their bills were paid by the former prime minister Ben Chifley. Despite a housing shortage, the family was soon settled in a bungalow in the Sydney suburb of Kingsford, and Larwood found steady employment with a soft drinks firm. Fingleton later arranged a meeting between Larwood and Chifley; their respective broad Nottinghamshire and Australian accents meant that neither could understand the other, and Fingleton had to act as an interpreter.

From time to time Larwood supplemented his wages by commenting on cricket for newspapers and broadcasters. At first he was treated with some suspicion by English touring teams; in 1950–51 when he visited the English dressing room he received a cold reception from the England captain, F.R. Brown. Four years later, according to Larwood, he was kept out of the dressing room by Trevor Bailey, the 1954–55 team's vice captain—though Bailey denied that this ever happened. However, from the early 1960s onwards Larwood was often visited by members of England teams, and he became a regular and welcome guest in English dressing rooms. He sometimes went to cricket events where he would occasionally meet Don Bradman; relations between the two, though outwardly cordial, remained essentially cold.

In 1977 Larwood attended the Centenary Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, along with many survivors of old Ashes battles. As on similar past occasions he had to be persuaded to go; later he would describe it as "one of the best days of my life". His presence created considerable interest among generations of cricket followers to whom the bodyline series was distant history. Later that year he visited England, and watched England's cricketers play Australia at Trent Bridge, his old home ground; this was one of several trips he made to his home country, the last of which was in 1980. In 1982, the 50th anniversary of the bodyline series was commemorated with much publicity, some of which brought a revival of hate mail and hostility towards Larwood.

Final years and death
As he grew older, Larwood increasingly spoke out on current cricket issues. He was particularly critical of the proliferation of protective clothing in the 1970s, and considered Ian Botham, the England all-rounder, over-rated: his bowling "wouldn't burst a paper bag". He was unimpressed by the 1984 Australian television miniseries Bodyline which he considered inaccurate and at risk of reawakening ill-feelings he thought best forgotten. In 1985 he was given honorary life membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground and, in England, the Larwood and Voce Stand was opened at Trent Bridge. In June 1993, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, Larwood was appointed an MBE for services to cricket. Of this award, Today newspaper commented: "At last the ruling classes honour the man who carried the can for their savage arrogance".

In his final years, Larwood withdrew his claims that Bradman had been frightened of him, and acknowledged his Australian foe as the greatest batsman of all time. He was gradually losing his sight, although he retained his alertness, and on his 90th birthday was able to join in a game of garden cricket with his great-grandchildren. He died in hospital on 22 July 1995, following a brief illness, in his 91st year. He was cremated, and his ashes placed in a memorial wall at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Kingsford. A plaque with a simple inscription was placed on the wall by his daughters. His wife Lois died in 2001, and her ashes were placed alongside his.

Style and influence
Larwood has been widely acknowledged as the greatest fast bowler of his generation and, according to his Wisden obituary, was "one of the rare fast bowlers in the game's long history to spread terror in opposition ranks by the mere mention of his name". Timing technology was primitive in his day, but various tests indicated speeds of between 90 and 100 mph. Fingleton commented that Larwood was "about twice as fast as anyone out there", indicating a match in progress at Trent Bridge. However, one Australian from an earlier cricketing generation, Ernie Jones, dismissed Larwood: "He wouldn't knock a dint in a pound of butter on a hot day".

At around 5 feet 7 inches, Larwood was short for a fast bowler, although he had long arms in relation to his height. His lower bowling trajectory helped the ball to retain speed. His side-on bowling action, following a smooth and almost soundless approach, was described by the Manchester Guardian's cricket correspondent Neville Cardus as "absolutely classical, left side showing down the wicket before the arm swung over with a thrilling vehement rhythm". Facing Larwood at his fastest was, according to Hamilton, "akin to a public stoning". Hobbs, who batted against him many times in county matches, thought him not just the fastest but the most accurate bowler he had ever seen. Among later fast bowlers influenced by Larwood's style was Ray Lindwall, Australia's bowling star of the 1940s and 1950s, who watched the bodyline series as a schoolboy and modelled his own action on Larwood's.

Larwood said he did not intend to hit batsmen, though "I didn't shed any crocodile tears if a batsman was hit in the thigh". In a press interview in 1990 he admitted that he "might sometimes have bowled at a batsman's ribs, but never at his head". He did from time to time inflict serious injuries on his opponents: Reg Sinfield of Gloucestershire, Patsy Hendren of Middlesex and H. B. Cameron of South Africa were all carried unconscious from the field after being hit by high-speed deliveries. Many others suffered discomfort in the form of bruises and minor fractures. In Australia, in the wake of the bodyline series, a music hall song summed up many apprehensive batsmen's feelings: "With a prayer and a curse they prepare for the hearse, Undertakers look on with broad grins. Oh, they'd be a lot calmer in Ned Kelly's armour When Larwood the wrecker begins."

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The Adam and Joe Show

The Adam and Joe Show is a British television sketch comedy show that originally ran from 6 December 1996 to 28 May 1999 on Channel 4 for the first three series and then moved to E4 from 13 March to 17 April 2001 for the fourth and final series.

Origin and format
Adam and Joe first appeared on Channel 4 show Takeover TV in 1995, with Adam presenting alone at first and Joe joining him as the series progressed. Following this they created The Adam and Joe Show for the same channel. Unusually for a comedy programme, the show was commissioned by Channel 4's head of religious programming, Peter Grimsdale: according to Cornish, "The remit for religion at 4 was to do with personal belief and personal expression, and somehow we came under that banner: it was almost like pop culture was our religion".

The show took the form of short, condensed sketches interspersed with links filmed in what was purportedly Adam and Joe's bedsit, but was actually a shared "performance space" above a branch of The Body Shop in Brixton, South London. When in this room, Adam wore a plain black T-shirt with 'Ad' and Joe wore one with 'Joe' written on the front. Although the two comedians were involved in other projects before and after it was aired, The Adam and Joe Show remains their most popular and well-known creation, and it gained a cult following.

Opening narration
"WARNING: The Adam and Joe Show is a high-density programme, start taping now!"

Toymovies
Each week, Adam and Joe would re-create a popular current feature film using stuffed toys and elaborate cardboard sets. These "Toymovies" condensed the story, look and action of each film into a couple of minutes. The most memorable included spoofs of Titanic (Toytanic), Showgirls (Showtoys), The English Patient (The Toy Patient), Saving Private Ryan (Saving Private Lion), American Beauty (American Beautoy), Shine (Shiney), Shakespeare in Love (Shakesbeare in Love), Fight Club (Tufty Club) and Trainspotting (Toytrainspotting), as well as television shows including Friends (Furends), Ally McBeal (Ally McSqueal) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (Stuffed Trek: The Toy Generation). According to Cornish, the amount of work involved in creating these sketches led Adam and Joe to work on them individually to avoid arguments, resulting in a rivalry with each attempting to upstage the other with ever-more elaborate sketches, as Joe explained: "I remember doing The English Patient and going to massive lengths to make a plane and a desert with sand dunes shaped like teddy bears. Adam was jealous and went: 'Right, I'm going to do something even better'. It ended up with me making a Titanic the length of a room to try and completely crush him".

BaaadDad
In the first series of the show, Adam's father Nigel Buxton (aka ) reviewed music videos by contemporary groups that he knew nothing about. In later shows, he ventured out of his fireside armchair and into the field, going on a Club 18-30 holiday in Ibiza, going undercover at a public school ball, and smoking cannabis for the first time at the Tribal Gathering music festival. In a 2019 interview, Adam stated that the idea of getting his father to review contemporary music originally came from Louis Theroux.

Vinyl Justice
Dressed as policemen, Adam and Joe would raid rock stars' homes, then examine their record collections for embarrassing or surprising items. The star would then be forced to dance to the shameful discoveries. Victims included Frank Black, Gary Numan, Alexis Arquette, Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, Symposium, Dave Navarro, Cerys Matthews, Nick Heyward, Thomas Dolby, Ray Manzarek of The Doors and Mark E. Smith of The Fall. In 2009, Adam revealed on their BBC 6 Music show that some of the stars' 'homes' were not actually their own.

Songs
The Adam and Joe Show regularly included songs on random pop cultural themes, co-written with their school friend Zac Sandler. The most memorable included "The Footie Song" from 1998 the same year when France hosted the world cup, an ode to football sung and written by people who clearly neither cared or knew anything about it, "The Robert De Niro Calypso", a tribute to the famous actor from 1999, "My Name is Roscoe", a country and western song whose lyrics included the theory of relativity and "Song for Bob Hoskins".

Star Wars TV
In this segment, Adam and Joe used Star Wars action figures from the early 1980s to parody current British television shows. Targets included Gladiators, The Crystal Maze, You've Been Framed (Chew've Been Framed), Blind Date (Blind Data), TFI Friday, Big Brother (Big Jabba), Stars in Their Eyes (Star Wars in Their Eyes), This Morning, The Jerry Springer Show (Jedi Springer), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Who Wants to Be Killed on Air?) and The Royle Family (The Imperial Family). Throughout these sketches, Obi-Wan Kenobi was memorably portrayed as a drunk vagrant.

Ken Korda
Ken Korda, a character played by Adam Buxton, was an obnoxious but self-assured media entrepreneur who undertook absurd popular cultural projects in the real world. These schemes included the production of a short film about criminal junkies called Speeding on the Needlebliss, and the formation of a teen band called 1471. By the fourth series, the segment Omniken had become a parody of Omnibus, with Korda fronting overly serious profiles of minor television celebrities including Pat Sharp, Handy Andy and Jenny Powell. On 13 June 2010, Ken hosted the film-themed edition of "Adam Buxton's Big Mixtape" (titled "A Proper Mix Now!", a play on "Apocalypse Now") when Adam was unable to host the show due to having locked himself in his shed.

The 1980s House
This segment of the show was a parody of The 1900 House and The 1940s House, in which the Fatboy Slim family from the early 21st century travels back to the 1980s. The only 21st century object has allowed in the house was a webcam, using which the Fatboy Slim family recorded video diaries, recounting their experiences of 1980s living, such as riding the Sinclair C5, thoughts on the guy from the Ready Brek adverts, and watching the video nasty called Cannibal Holocaust on a new Betamax machine.

Media Chaos Collective
In series 4, Adam and Joe began a segment seeing them play West Country anti-authority media terrorists, who would 'interrupt' the regular programming and show their own clips harassing and playing pranks on targets they deemed suitable to cause chaos. Targets included an MP, the Millennium Dome, and banks, however the characters themselves were so inept that most of the time they end up looking foolish, an example being unfolding a mis-spelled banner on the stage of the Millennium Dome saying "The Dome is Carp". The characters came from an original prank the boys played on a hardware shop, acting suspicious when buying tools and materials to dispose of a corpse.

In some episodes, they parody other Channel 4 TV shows which were popular at the time of series 4's broadcast, such as Jam and Trigger Happy TV.

In 2003 their parody of Jam was put on the Jam DVD as an extra.

Pranks
Adam and Joe would regularly film each other performing camcorder pranks in the real world. In the first series, they ventured into a supermarket in Brixton and began helping themselves to the 'free' percentage from packages marked as including, for example, "20% free". In the second series, they ruined an unsuspecting man's front room while posing as designers from a home makeover show, then broke into a brewery to see how easy it would be to organise a piss-up. In the third series, they built a poor-quality, movie-themed animatronic wax museum from mannequins and charged tourists for entry, as well as competing as street mimes in Covent Garden Market.

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1970 in film

The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1970 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * January 9 – Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, effectively ending his career.
 * February 11 – The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, premieres in New York City. The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger's "Come and Get It" (written and produced by Paul McCartney), is released on Apple Records.
 * March 12 – Film debut of Ornella Muti in La moglie più bella (The Most Beautiful Wife) 3 days after her 15th birthday.
 * March 17 – The controversial film The Boys in the Band, directed by William Friedkin and based on Mart Crowley's hit off-Broadway play, opens in theaters.
 * July – Stanley R. Jaffe appointed as president of Paramount Pictures, succeeding Charles Bludhorn who remained chairman and CEO.
 * October 24 – Joan Crawford's final film, the low-budget horror picture Trog, opens in theaters.
 * December 1 – Yousuf Khan Sher Bano is the first Pashto film released.
 * December 14 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono film Up Your Legs Forever with 367 participants in New York City.
 * The IMAX motion picture projection system premieres at the Fuji Pavilion, at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.
 * In Culver City, California, MGM begins selling off its studio back lot property and movie props.

Awards
Cannes Film Festival (Palme d'Or):
 * M*A*S*H, directed by Robert Altman, United States

By country/region

 * List of American films of 1970
 * List of Argentine films of 1970
 * List of Australian films of 1970
 * List of Bangladeshi films of 1970
 * List of British films of 1970
 * List of Canadian films of 1970
 * List of French films of 1970
 * List of Hong Kong films of 1970
 * List of Indian films of 1970
 * List of Hindi films of 1970
 * List of Kannada films of 1970
 * List of Malayalam films of 1970
 * List of Marathi films of 1970
 * List of Tamil films of 1970
 * List of Telugu films of 1970
 * List of Japanese films of 1970
 * List of Mexican films of 1970
 * List of Pakistani films of 1970
 * List of South Korean films of 1970
 * List of Soviet films of 1970
 * List of Spanish films of 1970

By genre/medium

 * List of action films of 1970
 * List of animated feature films of 1970
 * List of avant-garde films of 1970
 * List of comedy films of 1970
 * List of drama films of 1970
 * List of horror films of 1970
 * List of science fiction films of 1970
 * List of thriller films of 1970
 * List of western films of 1970

Births

 * January 1 - Robert Barton, British actor
 * January 4 - Josh Stamberg, American actor
 * January 7 - Doug E. Doug, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director
 * January 17 - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-American animator, director, producer, screenwriter, voice actor and storyboard artist
 * January 19
 * Essie Davis, Australian actress and singer
 * Kipp Marcus, American actor, screenwriter and producer
 * January 20
 * Branka Katić, Serbian actress
 * Skeet Ulrich, American actor
 * January 21 - Ken Leung, American actor
 * January 22 - Dan Finnerty, American actor and singer
 * January 24 – Matthew Lillard, American actor, voice actor, director and producer
 * January 25 - Stephen Chbosky, American director, screenwriter and author
 * January 29 - Heather Graham, American actress
 * January 31 - Minnie Driver, English actress
 * February 3
 * Warwick Davis, English actor
 * Matt Winston, American actor
 * February 8 - Stephanie Courtney, American actress and comedian
 * February 14 - Simon Pegg, English actor
 * February 16 - Scott Yaphe, Canadian actor and comedian
 * February 17 - Dominic Purcell, Australian actor
 * February 18 - Susan Egan, American actress, voice actress, singer and dancer
 * February 23
 * Marie-Josée Croze, Canadian actress
 * Niecy Nash, American actress, comedian and television host
 * February 24
 * Monica Staggs, American stuntwoman and actress
 * Jonathan Ward, American retired actor
 * February 25 - Heather Simms, American actress
 * March 2 - Alexander Armstrong, English actor, comedian, television personality, television presenter and singer
 * March 3 - Julie Bowen, American actress
 * March 4
 * Sergio Basáñez, Mexican actor
 * Will Keen, English actor
 * Angela V. Shelton, American actress and comedian
 * March 5 - Rimantė Valiukaitė, Lithuanian actress
 * March 6 - Dan Põldroos, Estonian actor (d. 2007)
 * March 7 - Rachel Weisz, English actress
 * March 8
 * Meredith Scott Lynn, American actress, producer and director
 * Jed Rees, Canadian actor
 * March 13 - Tim Story, American filmmaker
 * March 18 - Queen Latifah, American actress and rapper
 * March 20
 * Linda Larkin, American actress and voice actress
 * Michael Rapaport, American actor and comedian
 * March 24
 * Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress and producer
 * Robbie Gee, British actor
 * Taizo Harada, Japanese actor and comedian
 * March 28 - Vince Vaughn, American actor, writer and producer
 * March 31 - Damon Herriman, Australian actor
 * April 4 - Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
 * April 7 - Ivelin Giro, Cuban-American actress
 * April 12 - Retta, American stand-up comedian and actress
 * April 13 - Ricky Schroder, American actor
 * April 20 - Shemar Moore, American actor
 * April 21
 * Rob Riggle, American actor, comedian, and marine
 * Nicole Sullivan, American actress, voice artist and comedian
 * April 22 - Mireille Soria, American producer
 * April 25
 * Jonathan Brugh, New Zealand comedian, actor and musician
 * Jason Lee, American actor, comedian, and professional skateboarder
 * April 29
 * Paweł Deląg, Polish actor
 * Uma Thurman, American actress
 * May 1 - Dave Willis, American actor, writer, animator, producer, and voice actor
 * May 2
 * Golda Rosheuvel, British actress and singer
 * Matt Gerald, American actor and screenwriter
 * May 3 - Bobby Cannavale, American actor
 * May 4 - Will Arnett, Canadian actor
 * May 6 - Tristán Ulloa, Spanish actor, writer and director
 * May 9 - Helen Hill, American animator (d. 2007)
 * May 10 - Dallas Roberts, American actor
 * May 12
 * Samantha Mathis, American actress
 * Larry Rickles, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)
 * May 18 - Tina Fey, American actress and comedian
 * May 19 - Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
 * May 20 - Sally Phillips, English actress, television presenter and comedian
 * May 22
 * Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
 * Ayberk Pekcan, Turkish actor (d. 2022)
 * May 23 - Nanette Burstein, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 * May 25
 * Jamie Kennedy, American actor, screenwriter, stand-up comedian and television producer
 * Octavia Spencer, American actress
 * May 26 - John Hamburg, American writer and director
 * May 27 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
 * May 28 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
 * June 1 - Paula Malcomson, North Irish actress
 * June 4 - Izabella Scorupco, Polish-Swedish actress and singer
 * June 8 - Seu Jorge, Brazilian musical artist, songwriter and actor
 * June 15
 * Justin Fletcher, English comedian, children's television presenter
 * Leah Remini, American actress, author and activist
 * June 16 - Clifton Collins Jr., American actor
 * June 17 - Will Forte, American actor and comedian
 * June 22 - Richard Yearwood, Canadian actor
 * June 24 - Andres Raag, Estonian actor
 * June 26
 * Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker
 * Sean Hayes, American actor and comedian
 * Chris O'Donnell, American actor
 * Nick Offerman, American actor, writer, comedian and producer
 * June 28 - Rio Hackford, American actor (d. 2022)
 * July 2 - Scott Aukerman, American writer, actor, comedian, director and producer
 * July 3
 * Audra McDonald, American actress and singer
 * Benedict Wong, British actor
 * July 4 - Lewis MacLeod, Scottish actor and voice actor
 * July 12 - Lee Byung-hun, South Korean actor
 * July 13 - Sharon Horgan, Irish actress, writer, director, producer and comedian
 * July 14
 * Mike McFarland, American voice actor
 * Nina Siemaszko, American actress
 * July 16 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
 * July 17 - Gary Gulman, American stand-up comedian and actor
 * July 23 - Charisma Carpenter, American actress
 * July 24 - Velibor Topić, Bosnian-British actor
 * July 27 - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Danish actor and producer
 * July 30 - Christopher Nolan, English-American film director, producer and writer
 * August 1 - Jennifer Gareis, American actress
 * August 2 - Kevin Smith, American filmmaker, actor and comedian
 * August 3 - Thierry Neuvic, French actor
 * August 4 - Ron Lester, American actor (d. 2016)
 * August 6 - M. Night Shyamalan, American film director, writer, producer and actor
 * August 9 - Thomas Lennon, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director
 * August 15
 * Anthony Anderson, American actor
 * Maddie Corman, American actress
 * August 16
 * Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor
 * Kaili Närep, Estonian actress
 * August 17 - Rupert Degas, British-Australian actor
 * August 18 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
 * August 21 - Marc Evan Jackson, American comedian and actor
 * August 23
 * Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
 * River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
 * August 25 - Claudia Schiffer, German model and actress
 * August 26 - Melissa McCarthy, American actress, comedian and film producer
 * August 29 - Alessandra Negrini, Brazilian actress
 * August 31 - Zack Ward, Canadian actor
 * September 2 - Jesse Burch, American actor
 * September 3 - Maria Bamford, American stand-up comedian, actress and voice actress
 * September 4 - Ione Skye, British-born American actress
 * September 5 - Johnny Vegas, English comedian, actor, writer and director
 * September 7
 * Tom Everett Scott, American actor
 * Monique Gabriela Curnen, American actress
 * N'Bushe Wright, American actress
 * September 10 - Tim Plester, British actor and filmmaker
 * September 11 - Taraji P. Henson, American actress
 * September 13 - Louise Lombard, English actress
 * September 16 - Knowl Johnson, American actor
 * September 18 - Gina Shay, American producer
 * September 22 - Rupert Penry-Jones, British actor
 * September 28 - David Wills, American voice actor
 * September 29 - Emily Lloyd, English actress
 * September 30
 * Tony Hale, American actor
 * Dragan Mićanović, Serbian actor
 * October 2
 * Catherine Kellner, American character actress
 * Kelly Ripa, American actress and television host
 * Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress
 * October 3 - Kirsten Nelson, American actress and director
 * October 7 - Nicole Ari Parker, American actress and model
 * October 8
 * Matt Damon, American actor
 * Anne-Marie Duff, English actress and narrator
 * October 12
 * Cody Cameron, American voice actor and director
 * Kirk Cameron, American actor
 * October 15 - Zak Orth, American actor
 * October 18 - Mike Mitchell, American director, writer, producer, actor and animator
 * October 19 - Chris Kattan, American actor and comedian
 * October 21 - Autumn de Wilde, American photographer and film director
 * October 22 - Amy Redford, American actress, director and producer
 * October 24 - Raul Esparza, American actor
 * October 25 - Adam Goldberg, American character actor, filmmaker and musician
 * October 26 - Lisa Ryder, Canadian actress
 * October 28 - Greg Eagles, American actor, producer and writer
 * October 30 - Nia Long, American actress
 * October 31
 * Rob Letterman, American director and screenwriter
 * Nolan North, American actor and voice actor
 * November 1 - Merle Palmiste, Estonian actress
 * November 6 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
 * November 7 - Morgan Spurlock, American filmmaker and screenwriter (d. 2024)
 * November 10 - Vince Vieluf, American actor
 * November 12
 * Aitor Iturrioz, Mexican actor
 * Michael Greco, British actor
 * Craig Parker, New Zealand actor
 * November 13 - José María Yazpik, Mexican actor
 * November 15 - Danny Sapani, British actor
 * November 16 - Martha Plimpton, American actress
 * November 18
 * Mike Epps, American stand-up comedian, producer and actor
 * Peta Wilson, Australian actress and model
 * November 20 - Melissa Disney, American voice actress and writer
 * November 22 - Joe Son, South Korean-born American former actor
 * November 23 - Danny Hoch, American actor, writer and director
 * November 24 - Madis Milling, Estonian actor and presenter (d. 2022)
 * December 1 - Sarah Silverman, American stand-up comedian, actress, singer and writer
 * December 2 - Joe Lo Truglio, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
 * December 4 - Kevin Sussman, American actor and comedian
 * December 5 - Adam Levy, British actor
 * December 12
 * Jennifer Connelly, American actress
 * Regina Hall, American actress
 * December 13 - Bart Johnson, American actor
 * December 17 - Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor
 * December 18
 * Gero Camilo, Brazilian actor and singer-songwriter
 * Victoria Pratt, Canadian actress and model
 * December 20
 * Nicole de Boer, Canadian actress
 * Todd Phillips, American director, producer and screenwriter
 * December 23 - Anatole Taubman, Swiss actor
 * December 24 - Amaury Nolasco, Puerto Rican actor and producer
 * December 28 - Elaine Hendrix, American actress

Deaths

 * January 7 - Jack Natteford, 75, American screenwriter, 1,000 Dollars a Minute, Black Bart
 * January 19 - Hal March, 49, American actor, Hear Me Good, Send Me No Flowers
 * January 23 - Nell Shipman, 77, Canadian actress, writer, producer, Back to God's Country, The Grub-Stake
 * January 25 - Eiji Tsuburaya, 68, Japanese film director and special effects designer, Godzilla, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
 * January 27 - Rocco D'Assunta, 65, Italian actor, comedian and playwright
 * February 6 - Roscoe Karns, 76, American actor, It Happened One Night, Alibi Ike
 * February 19 - Jules Munshin, 54, American actor, On the Town, Take Me Out to the Ball Game
 * February 24 - Conrad Nagel, 72, American actor, All That Heaven Allows, The Divorcee
 * March 4 - Peter Godfrey, 70, British director, Christmas in Connecticut, The Two Mrs. Carrolls
 * March 6 - William Hopper, 55, American actor, Rebel Without a Cause, Track of the Cat
 * March 23 - Del Lord, 75, Canadian pioneer Hollywood director, A Plumbing We Will Go, All the World's a Stooge
 * March 25 - Virginia Van Upp, 68, American producer and screenwriter, Gilda, Cover Girl
 * March 26 - Patricia Ellis, 51, American actress, A Night at the Ritz, Rhythm in the Clouds
 * April 9 - Cobina Wright, 82, American singer and actress, The Razor's Edge, Footlight Serenade
 * April 11 - Cathy O'Donnell, 46, American actress, Ben-Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives
 * April 18
 * Gay Seabrook, 69, American actress, Bedtime Worries, Wild Poses
 * Glenn Tryon, 71, American actor and director, Lonesome, Miss Mink of 1949
 * April 19 - George Blair, 64, American director, Duke of Chicago, Streets of San Francisco
 * April 21 - Jose Corazon de Jesus Jr., 45, Filipino actor, Garrison 13, Higit Sa Lahat
 * April 25 - Anita Louise, 55, American actress, The Little Princess, The Story of Louis Pasteur
 * April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee, 59, American burlesque performer and actress, Screaming Mimi, Belle of the Yukon
 * April 28 - Ed Begley, 69, American actor, 12 Angry Men, Patterns
 * April 30 - Inger Stevens, 35, Swedish actress, Hang 'Em High, A Guide for the Married Man
 * May 10 - Mari Blanchard, 43, American actress, Destry, She-Devil
 * May 14 - Billie Burke, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Father's Little Dividend
 * May 17 - Nigel Balchin, 61, British screenwriter, The Man Who Never Was, 23 Paces to Baker Street
 * May 21 - Vinton Hayworth, 63, American actor, playwright, screenwriter, Danger on Wheels, Enemy Agent
 * May 22 - Mahmoud Zulfikar, 56, Egyptian director, screenwriter, Aghla Min Hayati, Soft Hands
 * May 23 - Nydia Westman, 68, American actress, Ladies Should Listen, Dressed to Thrill
 * June 4 - Sonny Tufts, 58, American actor, The Virginian, Government Girl
 * June 11 - Frank Silvera, 55, Jamaican actor, Viva Zapata!, Hombre
 * June 14 - William Daniels, 68, American cinematographer, Camille, Ninotchka
 * July 6 - Marjorie Rambeau, 80, American actress, A Man Called Peter, Tobacco Road
 * July 9 - Sigrid Holmquist, 71, Swedish actress, Just Around the Corner, Meddling Women
 * July 11 - Andreas Malandrinos, 81, Greek actor
 * July 14 - Preston Foster, 69, American actor, The Informer, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
 * July 22 - Fritz Kortner, 78, German director, Pandora's Box, The Razor's Edge
 * July 26 - Claud Allister, 81, English actor, Lady Luck, The Trial of Mary Dugan
 * August 1 - Frances Farmer, 56, American actress, Come and Get It, The Toast of New York
 * September 3 - Vasil Gendov, 78, Bulgarian film director, actor and screenwriter, Bulgaran is Gallant
 * September 11 - Chester Morris, 69, American actor, Meet Boston Blackie, Five Came Back
 * September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, 27, American musician, Almost Famous, Wayne's World
 * September 29 - Edward Everett Horton, 84, American actor, Arsenic and Old Lace, Top Hat
 * October 4 - Janis Joplin, 27, American singer, Watchmen, Three Kings
 * October 10 - Grethe Weiser, 67, German actress, My Friend Barbara, Lemke's Widow
 * October 17 - Vola Vale, 73, American actress, The Phantom of the Opera
 * October 20 - Patrick Wymark, 44, British actor, Battle of Britain, Where Eagles Dare
 * October 21 - Ernest Haller, 74, American cinematographer, Gone with the Wind, Mildred Pierce
 * November 2 - Fernand Gravey, 64, French actor, The King and the Chorus Girl, The Great Waltz
 * November 17 - Naunton Wayne, 69, British actor, Crook's Tour, Dead of Night
 * November 25 - Louise Glaum, 82, American actress, Greater Than Love, Sex
 * December 2 - Pat Flaherty, 73, American actor, Convict's Code, The Cobra Strikes
 * December 12
 * Carolyn Craig, 36, American actress, House on Haunted Hill, Portland Exposé
 * George Terwilliger, 88, American director and screenwriter, The Fatal Hour, Bride's Play
 * December 23 - Charles Ruggles, 84, American actor, Bringing Up Baby, The Parent Trap
 * December 30 - Lenore Ulric, 78, American actress, Notorious, Camille
 * December 31 - Suzanne Dalbert, 43, French actress, Mark of the Gorilla, The 49th Man

Film debuts

 * Isabelle Adjani - Le Petit bougnat
 * Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope
 * Carmen Argenziano - Cover Me Babe
 * Linda Blair - The Way We Live Now
 * Sean S. Cunningham - The Art of Marriage
 * Frances de la Tour - Every Home Should Have One
 * Danny DeVito - Dreams of Glass
 * George DiCenzo - House of Dark Shadows
 * Robert Downey Jr. - Pound
 * Alice Drummond - Where's Poppa?
 * Shelley Duvall - Brewster McCloud
 * Jayne Eastwood - Goin' Down the Road
 * Erik Estrada - The Cross and the Switchblade
 * George Buck Flower - Norma
 * Scott Glenn - The Baby Maker
 * Pam Grier - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
 * Philip Baker Hall - Cowards
 * Dan Hedaya - Myra Breckinridge
 * Ken Howard - Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
 * Peter Jason - Rio Lobo
 * Don Johnson - The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
 * Jeffrey Jones - The Revolutionary
 * Tommy Lee Jones - Love Story
 * Diane Keaton - Lovers and Other Strangers
 * Frank Langella - Diary of a Mad Housewife
 * Darrell Larson - The Student Nurses
 * Michael Lerner - Alex in Wonderland
 * Stephen McHattie - The People Next Door
 * Anne Meara - The Out-of-Towners
 * Garrett Morris - Where's Poppa?
 * Ornella Muti - The Most Beautiful Wife
 * Stephen Rea - Cry of the Banshee
 * Susan Sarandon - Joe
 * John Schuck - M*A*S*H
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger - Hercules in New York
 * Tom Selleck - Myra Breckinridge
 * Pepe Serna - The Student Nurses
 * Sam Shepard - Brand X
 * Paul Sorvino - Where's Poppa?
 * Sissy Spacek - Trash
 * Jerry Stiller - Lovers and Other Strangers
 * Steve Vinovich - Weekend with the Babysitter
 * Robert Walden - Bloody Mama
 * Fred Williamson - M*A*S*H
 * Burt Young - Carnival of Blood
 * Harris Yulin - End of the Road

title: 1970 in film