Events

• Mack Sennett
  Mack Sennett
  Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...
  
  , who had previously worked as an actor and comedy director with D. W. Griffith
  D. W. Griffith
  David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...
  
  , formed a new company with New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
   entrepreneur Adam Kessel called Keystone Studios
  Keystone Studios
  Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company...
  
  . It would play an important role in developing slapstick
  Slapstick
  Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated violence and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense.- Origins :The phrase comes from the batacchio or bataccio — called the 'slap stick' in English — a club-like object composed of two wooden slats used in Commedia dell'arte...
  
   comedy as the home to the Keystone Cops, English actor Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
  
  , and others.
• July 26 - Edison Studios
  Edison Studios
  Edison Studios was an American motion picture production company owned by the Edison Company of inventor Thomas Edison. The studio made close to 1,200 films as the Edison Manufacturing Company and Thomas A. Edison, Inc. until the studio's closing in 1918...
  
   releases What Happened to Mary, the first ever motion picture serial
  Serial (film)
  Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials, Film serials or Chapter plays, were short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film. They were related to pulp magazine serialized fiction...
  
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• October 31 - The Musketeers of Pig Alley
  The Musketeers of Pig Alley
  The Musketeers of Pig Alley is a 1912 American short drama film credited as the first gangster film in history. It is directed by D. W. Griffith and written by Griffith and Anita Loos. It is also credited for its early use of follow focus, a fundamental tool in cinematography.The film was released...
  
  , directed by D.W. Griffith, debuts as the first gangster film.
• Edison
  Thomas Edison
  Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...
  
   introduces the Home Kinetoscope, a home film-projector which uses a 22 mm print consisting of three rows of frames.
• Pathé
  Pathé
  Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.-History:...
  
   releases Pathe Kok, their first entry into the amateur market, with a gauge of 28 mm.
• Alexander F. Victor improves on the 17.5 mm format with his Duoscope, which uses two center perforations
  Film perforations
  Film perforations, also known as perfs, are the holes placed in the film stock during manufacturing and used for transporting and steadying the film. Films may have different types of perforations depending on film gauge, film format, and the intended usage...
  
   instead of the typical one.

Films released in 1912

• All for a Girl
  All for a Girl (1912 film)
  All for a Girl is a 1912 American short silent film romantic comedy, directed by Frederick A. Thomson and written by Wallace Reid.-Cast:*Dorothy Kelly .... Claire Taylor*Leah Baird .... Mrs. Gardner*Kate Price .... The Cook...
  
  
• At the Foot of the Ladder
  At the Foot of the Ladder
  At the Foot of the Ladder is a 1912 American silent short romantic comedy written by Lloyd Lonergan. The film starred Mignon Anderson, William Garwood, Carey L. Hastings, Harry Chamberlain, and Riley Chamberlain.-Cast:* Mignon Anderson as The Debutante...
  
  
• Aurora Floyd
  Aurora Floyd
  Aurora Floyd is a 1912 American silent short drama film directed by Theodore Marston based on a novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Starring William Garwood, Florence La Badie and Harry Benham...
  
  
• Baby Hands
  Baby Hands
  Baby Hands is a 1912 American silent short drama film starring James Cruze as the husband and Jean Darnell as the wife. Also starring Helen Badgley....
  
  
• The Bandit of Tropico
  The Bandit of Tropico
  The Bandit of Tropico is a 1912 American silent short adventure film starring Harry von Meter as "The Bandit" and Vivian Rich his daughter....
  
  
• A Battle of Wits
  A Battle of Wits (1912 film)
  A Battle of Wits is a silent drama motion picture short starring Tom Moore, Alice Joyce and Earle Foxe.Joyce and Foxe were working together for the fourth time on this picture.A Battle of Wits was re-released on August 27, 1915.-Cast:...
  
  
• Beautiful Leukanida
• The Belle of Bar-Z Ranch
  The Belle of Bar-Z Ranch
  The Belle of Bar-Z Ranch is a 1912 American silent short Western comedy film directed by Thomas Ricketts starring Harry Van Meter and Vivian Rich....
  
  
• A Business Buccaneer
  A Business Buccaneer
  A Business Buccaneer is a 1912 American short silent comedy film. It was the fifth time Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce had worked together that year.-Cast:* Tom Moore* Alice Joyce* Earle Foxe* Cleo Madison* Stuart Holmes...
  
  
• The Cameraman's Revenge
• Cleopatra
  Cleopatra (1912 film)
  Cleopatra is a silent film created in 1912 by Helen Gardner and the Helen Gardner Picture Players. The film, in which Gardner stars in the title role, was based on a play written by Victorien Sardou....
  
  
• Conductor 786
  Conductor 786
  Conductor 786 is a 1912 American silent short comedy film starring William Garwood, Riley Chamberlin, Jean Darnell.-Cast:* Riley Chamberlin as Conductor 786* William Garwood as The Conductor's Son* Jean Darnell as The Conductor's Son's Wife...
  
  
• The County Fair
  The County Fair
  The County Fair is a 1912 short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce who had acted together earlier in the year in The Street Singer. It was the second film of Earle Foxe, aged seventeen.-Cast:*Alice Joyce as Mary...
  
  
• Conquest of the Pole
  Conquest of the Pole
  Conquest of the Pole is a science fantasy film by Georges Méliès based on the novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne. It was released in 1912 and deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists....
  
  
• Custer's Last Fight
  Custer's Last Fight
  The silent film Custer's Last Fight is the first movie about George Armstrong Custer and his final stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It was shot in Inceville, Santa Ynez Canyon and Los Angeles, California.- Cast :...
  
  
• A Dash Through the Clouds
• The Deserter
  The Deserter (1912 film)
  The Deserter is a 1912 silent black-and-white two-reel film written and directed by Thomas H. Ince. It was released March 15, 1912 and starred Francis Ford and Ethel Grandin.-Plot:...
  
  
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912 film)
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1912 horror film based on both Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and on the play version of Thomas Russell Sullivan. Directed by Lucius Henderson, the film stars actor James Cruze as the dual role of Jekyll/Hyde.-Plot...
  
  
• For His Son
  For His Son
  For His Son is a 1912 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when Biograph Studios and other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century...
  
  
• Frankfurters and Quail
  Frankfurters and Quail
  Frankfurters and Quail is a 1912 American silent short drama starring William Garwood....
  
  
• From the Manger to the Cross
  From the Manger to the Cross
  From the Manger to the Cross or Jesus of Nazareth is a 1912 American motion picture filmed on location in Palestine which tells the story of Jesus' life. Directed by Sidney Olcott who also appeared in the film, actress and screenwriter Gene Gauntier wrote the script and portrayed the Virgin Mary...
  
  
• Geronimo's Last Raid
  Geronimo's Last Raid
  The 1912 film Geronimo's Last Raid is considered an important film of the pre-World War I era. -Plot:Set around the capture and escape of Geronimo, a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache, the film is a period drama involving a love affair between Lieutenant Parker and Pauline,...
  
  
• The Half-Breed's Way
  The Half-Breed's Way
  The Half-Breed's Way is a 1912 American silent short Western starring Harry von Meter, Vivian Rich and George Beech....
  
  
• The Honor of the Family
  The Honor of the Family
  The Honor of the Family is a silent drama film featuring Lon Chaney, Sr. in his first onscreen role. Michael F. Blake, in his book The Films of Lon Chaney claims Chaney did not appear in this film. The film is now considered to be a lost film with no prints known to exist today....
  
  
• How a Mosquito Operates
  How a Mosquito Operates
  How a Mosquito Operates is a 1912 animated short film, animated by Winsor McCay. An incomplete print of the film survives.A mosquito with a suitcase spots a man walking to his apartment . As the man enters, the mostuito slips through the top window over the door. The man lays down to rest while...
  
  
• In Nacht und Eis
  In Nacht und Eis
  In Nacht und Eis , also called Der Untergang der Titanic is a 1912 German film about the sinking of Titanic. The filming began during the summer of 1912 and the film premiered that winter. The film's special effects are primitive by modern standards, but were impressive for that time...
  
  
• The Independence of Romania The first Romanian feature film to run for two hours.
• The Invaders
• It Happened Thus
  It Happened Thus
  It Happened Thus is a 1912 American silent short romantic drama starring Charlotte Burton and Owen Moore.-Cast:* Charlotte Burton as The Older Daughter* Fritzi Brunette as The Younger Daughter* Owen Moore...
  
  
• Keystone Comedy
• The Land Beyond the Sunset
  Land Beyond the Sunset
  The Land Beyond the Sunset is a 1912 short, silent drama film which tells the story of a young boy, oppressed by his grandmother, who goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group. It stars Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin and Bigelow Cooper. The movie was written by...
  
  
• The Little Girl Next Door
  The Little Girl Next Door
  The Little Girl Next Door is a 1912 American silent short drama directed by Lucius Henderson and written by Philip Lonergan. The film starred William Garwood and Marguerite Snow in the lead roles.-Cast:* William Garwood as The Husband...
  
  
• Mabel's Lovers
  Mabel's Lovers
  Mabel's Lovers is a 1912 short film starring Mabel Normand and directed by Mack Sennett.-Cast:Mabel Normand ... Mabel Fred Mace Ford Sterling Alice Davenport -External links:* at the Internet Movie Database***...
  
  
• Maud Muller
  Maud Muller
  "Maud Muller" is a poem from 1856 written by John Greenleaf Whittier . It is about a beautiful maid named Maud Muller. One day, while harvesting hay, she meets a judge from the local town. Each is smitten with the other. The judge thinks that he would like to be a local farmer married to Maud,...
  
  
• Das Mirakel
• The Musketeers of Pig Alley
  The Musketeers of Pig Alley
  The Musketeers of Pig Alley is a 1912 American short drama film credited as the first gangster film in history. It is directed by D. W. Griffith and written by Griffith and Anita Loos. It is also credited for its early use of follow focus, a fundamental tool in cinematography.The film was released...
  
  
• A New Cure for Divorce
  A New Cure for Divorce
  A New Cure for Divorce is a 1912 American silent short drama film written by Lloyd Lonergan. The film stars William Garwood and Mignon Anderson....
  
  
• The New York Hat
  The New York Hat
  The New York Hat is a short silent film directed by D. W. Griffith from a screenplay by Anita Loos, and starring Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and Lillian Gish.-Production:...
  
  
• The Old Actor
• Oliver Twist
  Oliver Twist
  Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to...
  
  The first American feature film to run over an hour.
• Petticoat Camp
  Petticoat Camp
  Petticoat Camp is a 1912 American silent short comedy film starring William Garwood and Florence La Badie.-Plot:Only lasting 15 minutes, it is a light-hearted comedy about the battle between the sexes as several married couples go on a camp-out together...
  
  
• Pilgrim's Progress
• Please Help the Pore
  Please Help the Pore
  Please Help the Pore is a 1912 American silent short drama starring William Garwood, Riley Chamberlin, Mignon Anderson and Marie Eline....
  
  
• The Power of Melody
  The Power of Melody
  The Power of Melody is a 1912 American silent short drama film starring Harry Van Meter, Vivian Rich, and Eugenie Forde....
  
  
• A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization
  A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization
  A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization was a UK film released in 1912, directed and written by Cherry Kearton. Shot on 35mm film in silent black and white, it was distributed by WTC....
  
  
• Put Yourself in His Place
  Put Yourself in His Place
  Put Yourself in His Place is a 1912 American silent short drama based on an 1870 English novel. The film was adapted and directed by Theodore Marston, and stars William Garwood and Marguerite Snow in the lead roles...
  
  
• Quo Vadis ?
• Richard III
  Richard III (1912 film)
  Richard III is a 55-minute film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, starring Frederick Warde as the title character. The film, a French/U.S. coproduction, was produced by Film d'Art and released through the independent states rights film distribution system...
  
  
• Robin Hood
  Robin Hood (1912 film)
  Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century.The movie's costumes feature enormous versions of the familiar hats of Robin and his merry...
  
  
• Saved From the Titanic
  Saved From the Titanic
  Saved From the Titanic is a 1912 silent motion picture short starring Dorothy Gibson, an actual survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.The movie was shot in less than two weeks and in black and white, with color scenes...
  
  
• A Six Cylinder Elopement
  A Six Cylinder Elopement
  A Six Cylinder Elopement is a 1912 American silent short romantic comedy written by Lloyd Lonergan. The film starred William Garwood, Riley Chamberlain and Marguerite Snow.-Cast:* Riley Chamberlain as Ex-Congressman Gray, The Girl's Father...
  
  
• Standing Room Only
  Standing Room Only (1912 film)
  Standing Room Only is a 1912 American silent short romantic comedy film starring William Garwood, and Mignon Anderson....
  
  
• The Street Singer
  The Street Singer
  The Street Singer is a 1912 short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce. It was Foxe's first film, aged seventeen....
  
  
• The Tell-Tale Message
  The Tell-Tale Message
  The Tell-Tale Message is a 1912 American short silent film drama....
  
  
• The Thunderbolt
  The Thunderbolt
  The Thunderbolt is a 1912 American silent short drama starring William Garwood, James Cruze, David Thompson, Jean Darnell and Mignon Anderson.-Cast:* James Cruze as The Dishonest Broker* Mignon Anderson as The Broker's Daughter, as an Adult...
  
  
• An Unseen Enemy
  An Unseen Enemy
  An Unseen Enemy is a 1912 Biograph short silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, and was the first movie to be made starring the actresses Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. A critic of the time stated that "the Gish sisters gave charming performances in this one-reel film"...
  
  
• The Voice of Conscience
  The Voice of Conscience
  The Voice of Conscience is a 1912 American silent short drama starring Florence La Badie and Jean Darnell....
  
  
• What Happened to Mary?
  What Happened to Mary?
  What Happened to Mary is the first motion picture serial made in the United States...
  
  , starring Mary Fuller
  Mary Fuller
  Mary Claire Fuller was an American stage and silent film actress and screenwriter.-Early life:Born in Washington, D.C., to Nora Swing and attorney Miles Fuller, she spent her childhood on a farm. As a child, she was interested in music, writing and art...
  
  .
• When the Fire Bells Rang
• When the Heart Calls
  When the Heart Calls
  When the Heart Calls is a 1912 silent era short western/comedy motion picture starring Lee Moran, Russell Bassett, Louise Glaum, and Victoria Forde....
  
  starring Lee Moran
  Lee Moran
  Lee Moran was an American actor, director and writer. He transcended the silent era of motion pictures to the talkies. Moran appeared in 462 films, directed 109 and wrote for 92 between 1912 and 1935....
  
  , Russell Bassett
  Russell Bassett
  Russell Bassett was an American actor. He appeared in 76 silent era motion pictures between 1911 and 1918.He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died from a cerebral hemorrhage in New York City.-External links:...
  
   and Louise Glaum
  Louise Glaum
  Louise Glaum was an American actress. Best known for her role as a femme fatale in silent era motion picture dramas, she was credited with giving one of the best characterizations of a vamp in her early career....
  
  
• With Our King and Queen Through India
  With Our King and Queen Through India
  With Our King and Queen Through India is a British documentary. The film is silent and made in the Kinemacolor additive color process....
  
  
• With the Mounted Police
  With the Mounted Police
  With the Mounted Police is a 1912 American silent short film written by Lloyd Lonergan. Starring William Garwood as a Mounted Police Officer and Mignon Anderson his sweetheart....
  
  
• The Young Millionaire
  The Young Millionaire
  The Young Millionaire is a 1912 short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce who were acting together in their third film that year, having already starred in The Street Singer and The County Fair. It was the third film of Earle Foxe, aged seventeen.-Cast:*Tom Moore *Alice...
  
  

Births

• February 3 - Mary Carlisle
  Mary Carlisle
  Mary Carlisle was an American actress and singer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was a star of Hollywood films in the 1930s, having been one of thirteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars" in 1932. The archetypal blonde, Mary Carlisle was brought to Hollywood at the age of four by her...
  
  , actress
• February 19 - Saul Chaplin
  Saul Chaplin
  Saul Chaplin was an American composer and musical director.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley...
  
  , film composer (d. 1997
  1997 in film
  -Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...
  
  )
• February 21 - Arline Judge
  Arline Judge
  Arline Judge was an American actress who worked mostly in low-budget B movies, but gained some fame for marrying and divorcing seven times.-Career:...
  
  , actress (d. 1974
  1974 in film
  The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...
  
  )
• February 26 - Dane Clark
  Dane Clark
  Dane Clark was an American film actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average".-Early life:...
  
  , actor (d. 1998
  1998 in film
  -Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...
  
  )
• March 22 - Karl Malden
  Karl Malden
  Karl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...
  
  , actor (d. 2009
  2009 in film
  The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...
  
  )
• April 8 - Sonja Henie
  Sonja Henie
  Sonja Henie was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic Champion in Ladies Singles, a ten-time World Champion and a six-time European Champion . Henie won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies figure skater...
  
  , Olympic
  Olympic Games
  The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
  
   ice-skater, actress (d. 1969
  1969 in film
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980...
  
  )
• April 18 - Wendy Barrie
  Wendy Barrie
  Wendy Barrie was a British actress who worked in British and American films.-Early life:Marguerite Wendy Jenkins was born in Hong Kong to British parents...
  
  , actress (d. 1978
  1978 in film
  The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....
  
  )
• May 9 - Pedro Armendáriz
  Pedro Armendáriz
  Pedro Armendáriz was a Mexican actor of the cinema of Mexico and Hollywood.-Early life:Born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico to Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and Adela Hastings . He was also the cousin of actress Gloria Marín...
  
  , actor (d. 1963
  1963 in film
  The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....
  
  )
• May 18 - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
  
  , singer, actor (d. 2001
  2001 in film
  The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
  
  )
• May 23 - Marius Goring
  Marius Goring
  Marius Goring CBE was an English stage and cinema actor. He is most often remembered for the four films he did with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death and as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes...
  
  , actor (d. 1998
  1998 in film
  -Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...
  
  )
• May 23 - John Payne (I), actor (d. 1989
  1989 in film
  -Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...
  
  )
• May 29 - Iris Adrian
  Iris Adrian
  Iris Adrian was an American film actress.-Life and career:Born in Los Angeles, California as Iris Hostetter, Adrian won a beauty pageant and worked with the Ziegfeld Follies, before she entered films at the end of the silent era in Chasing Husbands and appeared as an extra or chorus girl in early...
  
  , actress (d. 1994
  1994 in film
  1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...
  
  )
• June 26 - Jay Silverheels
  Jay Silverheels
  Jay Silverheels was a Canadian Mohawk First Nations actor. He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful American Indian companion of the Lone Ranger in a long-running American television series. -Early life:...
  
  , actor (Tonto) (d. 1980
  1980 in film
  - Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....
  
  )
• July 4 - Viviane Romance, actress (d. 1991
  1991 in film
  The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...
  
  )
• July 5 - Ilona Massey
  Ilona Massey
  Ilona Massey was a film, stage and radio performer.-Early life and career:...
  
  , actress (d. 1974
  1974 in film
  The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...
  
  )
• August 2 - Ann Dvorak
  Ann Dvorak
  Ann Dvorak was an American film actress.Asked how to pronounce her adopted surname, she told The Literary Digest: "My name is properly pronounced vor'shack. The D remains silent...
  
  , actress (d. 1979
  1979 in film
  The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....
  
  )
• August 12 - Samuel Fuller
  Samuel Fuller
  Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.-Personal life:...
  
  , director (d. 1997
  1997 in film
  -Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...
  
  )
• August 15 - Wendy Hiller
  Wendy Hiller
  Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. The writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took...
  
  , actress (d. 2003
  2003 in film
  The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
  
  )
• August 23 - Gene Kelly
  Gene Kelly
  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...
  
  , actor (d. 1996
  1996 in film
  Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...
  
  )
• August 29 - Barry Sullivan
  Barry Sullivan (actor)
  Barry Sullivan was an American movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.Born in New York City, Sullivan fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football...
  
  , actor (d. 1974
  1994 in film
  1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...
  
  )
• September 5 - Kristina Söderbaum
  Kristina Söderbaum
  Kristina Söderbaum was a Swedish-born German film actress, producer and photographer.Her father, Professor Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum , was the permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences....
  
  , actress (d. 2001
  2001 in film
  The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
  
  )
• September 21 - Chuck Jones
  Chuck Jones
  Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...
  
  , animator (d. 2002
  2002 in film
  The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...
  
  )
• September 23 - Martha Scott
  Martha Scott
  Martha Ellen Scott was an American actress best known for her roles as mother of the lead character in numerous films and television shows.-Early life:...
  
  , actress (d. 2003
  2003 in film
  The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
  
  )
• September 29 - Michelangelo Antonioni
  Michelangelo Antonioni
  Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...
  
  , director (d. 2007
  2007 in film
  This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...
  
  )
• October 11 - Betty Noyes
  Betty Noyes
  Elizabeth "Betty" Noyes Hand was a singer and actress best known for dubbing the singing voice of Debbie Reynolds in the film Singin' in the Rain. Today, this is a well known example of dubbing in a movie musical due to the irony of the fact that Debbie Reynolds' character in Singin' in the Rain...
  
   singer/dubber
• October 31 - Dale Evans
  Dale Evans
  Dale Evans, was an American writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.-Early life:...
  
  , actress (d. 2001
  2001 in film
  The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
  
  )
• November 21 - Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.-Early life:...
  
  , dancer, actress (d. 1982
  1982 in film
  -Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...
  
  )
• November 24 - Garson Kanin
  Garson Kanin
  Garson Kanin was a prolific American writer and director of plays and films.-Film and stage career:...
  
  , writer (d. 1999
  1999 in film
  The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...
  
  )
• December 11 - Carlo Ponti
  Carlo Ponti
  Carlo Ponti was an Italian film producer with over 140 production credits, and the husband of Italian movie star Sophia Loren.-Career:...
  
  , producer (d. 2007
  2007 in film
  This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...
  
  )

Film Debuts

• John Barrymore
  John Barrymore
  John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...
  
  (?based on four unconfirmed shorts with Jack Barrymore)
• Frank Borzage
  Frank Borzage
  Frank Borzage was an American film director and actor.-Biography:Frank Borzage's father, Luigi Borzaga, was born in Ronzone, in 1859. As a stonemason, he sometimes worked in Switzerland; he met his future wife, Maria Ruegg , where she worked in a silk factory...
  
   - director
• Charlotte Burton
  Charlotte Burton
  Charlotte Burton was an American silent film actress.-Career:Born in San Francisco, Burton was signed by the American Company in 1912 where she worked for several years. She joined Essanay Studio which she sued in 1919 for $25,000 for breach of contract...
  
  
• Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...
  
  
• Lillian Gish
  Lillian Gish
  Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....
  
  
• Dorothy Gish
  Dorothy Gish
  Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish.-Early life:...
  
  
• Louise Glaum
  Louise Glaum
  Louise Glaum was an American actress. Best known for her role as a femme fatale in silent era motion picture dramas, she was credited with giving one of the best characterizations of a vamp in her early career....
  
  
• Mildred Harris
  Mildred Harris
  Mildred Harris was an American film actress. Harris began her career in the film industry as a popular child actress at age eleven. At the age of fifteen, she was cast as a harem girl in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance . She appeared as a leading lady through the 1920s but her career slowed with...
  
  
• Cleo Madison
  Cleo Madison
  Cleo Madison was a theatrical and silent film actress from Bloomington, Illinois. Madison attended what is now Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. Her family moved to California after she left school....
  
  
• Mary Miles Minter
  Mary Miles Minter
  Mary Miles Minter was an American film actress of the silent film era.-Early life and rise to stardom:Born Juliet Reilly in Shreveport, Louisiana, Minter was the daughter of Broadway actress Charlotte Shelby...
  
  
• Antonio Moreno
  Antonio Moreno
  Antonio "Tony" Moreno was a notable Spanish-born American actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s.- Biography :...
  
  
• Warner Oland
  Warner Oland
  Warner Oland was a Swedish American actor most remembered for his screen role as the detective Charlie Chan.-Biography:He was born Johan Verner Ölund in the village of Nyby, Bjurholm Municipality,...
  
  
• Olga Petrova
  Olga Petrova
  Olga Petrova was an American actress, screenwriter and playwright. Born as Muriel Harding in England, she moved to the United States and became a star of vaudeville using the stage name Olga Petrova. Petrova starred in a number of films for Solax Studios and was Metro Pictures first diva, usually...
  
  
• Victor Sjöström
  Victor Sjöström
  Victor Sjöström was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director.- Biography:Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886...
  
   - director
• Frederick Warde
  Frederick Warde
  Frederick Barkham Warde was an English Shakesperian actor who relocated to the United States in the late 19th century.In the late 1870s he partnered with actor Maurice Barrymore and the two agreed to tour plays around the United States. Warde would have one section of the country while Barrymore...
  
  

Deaths

• April 15 – Jacques Futrelle
  Jacques Futrelle
  Jacques Heath Futrelle was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X...
  
  , writer, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, (perished in the Titanic)
• April 20 – Bram Stoker
  Bram Stoker
  Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula...
  
  , writer, Dracula
  Dracula
  Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...
  
  
• May 14 – August Strindberg
  August Strindberg
  Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
  
  , writer, Miss Julie
• March 30 – Karl May
  Karl May
  Karl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East . In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America...
  
  , writer, Apache Gold
• May 19 – Boleslaw Prus
  Boleslaw Prus
  Bolesław Prus , born Aleksander Głowacki, is one of the leading figures in the history of Polish literature and a distinctive voice in world literature....
  
  , writer, Faraon
• June 1 – Philip Parmalee, actor(with Mabel Normand
  Mabel Normand
  Mabel Normand was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors...
  
   in A Dash Through the Clouds); pioneer aviator for the Wright Brothers
  Wright brothers
  The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two Americans credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903...
  
  
• July 1 – Harriet Quimby
  Harriet Quimby
  Harriet Quimby was an early American aviator and a movie screenwriter. In 1911 she was awarded a U.S. pilot's certificate by the Aero Club of America, becoming the first woman to gain a pilot's license in the United States. In 1912 she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel...
  
  , writer(seven scenarios for D.W. Griffith); actress in one film; also she was a pioneer American aviatrix
• December 14 – Harry Cashman(b. June 20, 1870), comedy producer and actor for the Chicago based Essanay
  Essanay Studios
  The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture studio. It is best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies of 1915.-Founding:...
  
  company