Events

• The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City.
• February 2 - 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...
  
  's first film, Making a Living
  Making a Living
  Making a Living is the first film starring Charlie Chaplin. It premiered on February 2, 1914. Chaplin plays Edgar English, a lady-charming swindler who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops....
  
  is released.
• April 18 - Cabiria
  Cabiria
  Cabiria is a silent movie from the early years of Italy's movie industry, directed by Giovanni Pastrone . The movie is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War . It follows a melodramatic main plot about an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features...
  
  
• May 8 - Paramount Pictures
  Paramount Pictures
  Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
  
   is formed.
• Filteo Alberini introduces a new 70 mm format, Panoramico, with the film Il sacco di Roma
  Il Sacco di Roma
  The Pagans is a 1953 Italian film directed by Ferruccio Cerio...
  
  

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1914

• A Little Madonna
  A Little Madonna
  A Little Madonna is a 1914 silent drama film, directed by Ulysses Davis.-Cast:* William Desmond Taylor* Patricia Palmer * Charles Bennett * Jane Novak * Loyola O'Connor * Anne Schaefer...
  
  
• A Study in Scarlet
  A Study in Scarlet (1914 film)
  A Study in Scarlet is a 1914 silent drama film directed by George Pearson and starring James Bragington. It is based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel of the same name. It was the first film to feature Sherlock Holmes onscreen and is now considered to be lost.A film of the same name was released...
  
  dir; George Pearson
• A Bathing Beauty
• Brewster's Millions
  Brewster's Millions (1914 film)
  Brewster's Millions is a 1914 comedy film directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille. It's an adaptation of the novel written by George Barr McCutcheon. The novel had also been turned into a successful 1906 Broadway play that also starred Edward Abeles...
  
  
• By the Sun's Rays
  By the Sun's Rays
  By the Sun's Rays is a 1914 silent Western film featuring Lon Chaney, Sr. The film is now considered to be Chaney's earliest film that has survived.-Cast:* Murdock MacQuarrie - John Murdock* Lon Chaney, Sr. - Frank Lawler* Seymour Hastings - John Davis...
  
  
• Cabiria
  Cabiria
  Cabiria is a silent movie from the early years of Italy's movie industry, directed by Giovanni Pastrone . The movie is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War . It follows a melodramatic main plot about an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features...
  
  
• Child of the Big City
• Cinderella
  Cinderella (1914 film)
  Cinderella is a 1914 silent film starring Mary Pickford, directed by James Kirkwood, Sr., produced by Daniel Frohman, and released by Famous Players Film Company, later known as Paramount Pictures. The film is based upon the famous fairy tale with the same name...
  
  
• Gertie the Dinosaur
  Gertie the Dinosaur
  Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 American animated short film by Winsor McCay. Although not the first feature-length animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality...
  
  , animated
• His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, cast; Mildred Harris
• Il sacco di Roma
  Il Sacco di Roma
  The Pagans is a 1953 Italian film directed by Ferruccio Cerio...
  
  
• In the Land of the Head Hunters
  In the Land of the Head Hunters
  In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, written and directed by Edward S. Curtis and acted entirely by Kwakwaka'wakw natives...
  
  
• Judith of Bethulia
  Judith of Bethulia
  Judith of Bethulia is a film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall. The film was produced and directed by D. W. Griffith and was the first feature-length film made by pioneering film company Biograph, although the second that Biograph released....
  
  
• Kid Auto Races at Venice
  Kid Auto Races at Venice
  Kid Auto Races At Venice is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin in which his "Little Tramp" character makes his first appearance.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Mabel at the Wheel
  Mabel at the Wheel
  Mabel at the Wheel is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Mabel's Blunder
  Mabel's Blunder
  Mabel's Blunder is a silent comedy film directed by, written by, and starring Mabel Normand, the most successful of the early silent screen comediennes.-Plot:...
  
  
• Mabel's Strange Predicament
  Mabel's Strange Predicament
  Mabel's Strange Predicament is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin, notable for being the first film for which Chaplin donned the Tramp costume.-First "Tramp" appearance filmed:...
  
  
• Making a Living
  Making a Living
  Making a Living is the first film starring Charlie Chaplin. It premiered on February 2, 1914. Chaplin plays Edgar English, a lady-charming swindler who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops....
  
  
• My Official Wife, starring Clara Kimball Young
  Clara Kimball Young
  Clara Kimball Young was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era.-Early life:...
  
  
• O Mimi San, cast; Sessue Hayakawa
  Sessue Hayakawa
  was a Japanese and American Issei actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors...
  
  , Tsuru Aoki
  Tsuru Aoki
  was a popular Japanese-American stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s. Aoki may have been the first Asian actress to garner top-billing in American motion pictures.-Life and career:...
  
   and Mildred Harris
• Rose of the Rancho
  Rose of the Rancho
  Rose of the Rancho is a 1914 Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film cost $16,988 to make, and grossed $87,028.-Plot:Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho...
  
  , cast; Bessie Barriscale
  Bessie Barriscale
  Bessie Barriscale was an American silent film and stage actress, and a major star for producer Thomas Ince in the late 1910s.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Salomy Jane
  Salomy Jane (1914 film)
  Salomy Jane is a Western feature film based on Bret Harte's 1898 novella of the same name. The film is the only known surviving complete work of Beatriz Michelena and the California Motion Picture Corporation.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Last Egyptian
  The Last Egyptian
  The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile is a novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. The book was published anonymously on 1 May 1908 by Edward Stern & Co. of Philadelphia, with eight color plate illustrations by Francis P. Wightman...
  
  
• The Avenging Conscience
  The Avenging Conscience
  The Avenging Conscience: or "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.The film is based on the Edgar Allan Poe short stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Annabel Lee".-Plot:...
  
  
• The Aztec Treasure
• The Exploits of Elaine
  The Exploits of Elaine
  The Exploits of Elaine is a film serial in the genre of The Perils of Pauline.The Exploits of Elaine tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only as "The Clutching Hand", who murdered her father. The Clutching Hand was the first...
  
  
• The Patchwork Girl of Oz
  The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914 film)
  The Patchwork Girl of Oz is a silent film made by L. Frank Baum's The Oz Film Manufacturing Company. It was based on the book The Patchwork Girl of Oz....
  
  
• The Perils of Pauline
  The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)
  The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring Pearl White as the title character. Pauline has often been cited as a famous example of a damsel in distress, although some analyses hold that her character was more resourceful and less helpless than the...
  
  , (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...
  
  ) cast; Pearl White
  Pearl White
  Pearl Fay White was an American film actress, the so-called "Stunt Queen" of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Squaw Man, cast; Dustin Farnum
  Dustin Farnum
  Dustin Lancy Farnum was an American singer, dancer and an actor in silent movies during the early days of motion pictures. After a great success in a number of stage roles, in 1914 he landed his first film role in the movie 'Soldiers of Fortune', and later in Cecil B. DeMille's The Squaw Man...
  
  
• The Million Dollar Mystery
  The Million Dollar Mystery
  The Million Dollar Mystery is a twenty three chapter film serial. It was directed by Howell Hansel, and starred Florence La Badie. It was produced by Thanhouser Film Corporation, and was their biggest success, largely due to the popularity of La Badie. During the filming, La Badie performed her...
  
  , (serial), cast; Florence La Badie
  Florence La Badie
  Florence La Badie was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era. Though little known today, she was a major star between 1911 and 1917, her career was at its height and climbing when she died unexpectedly due to injuries sustained during an automobile accident.-Early life:While...
  
  
• The Hazards of Helen
  The Hazards of Helen
  The Hazards of Helen is an American adventure film serial of 119 twelve minute episodes released over a span of slightly more than two years by the Kalem Company between November 7, 1914 and February 24, 1917....
  
  , (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...
  
  ) cast; Helen Holmes
  Helen Holmes
  Helen Holmes was an American silent film actress.-Early life:While there is no known official birthplace record, Helen Holmes stated in an interview that she was born in South Bend, Indiana, but grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She began working as a photographer's model but turned to acting,...
  
  
• The Magic Cloak of Oz
  The Magic Cloak of Oz
  The Magic Cloak of Oz is a 1914 film directed by J. Farrell MacDonald. It was written by L. Frank Baum and produced by Baum and composer Louis F. Gottschalk. The film is an adaptation of Baum's novel, Queen Zixi of Ix....
  
  , cast; 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...
  
  
• The Stain
  The Stain (film)
  The Stain is a 1914 silent drama film directed by Frank Powell and featuring Theda Bara in her onscreen debut. A print of the film was discovered in Australia in the 1990s.-Cast:* Edward José - Stevens * Thurlow Bergen - The young lawyer...
  
  , cast; Theda Bara
  Theda Bara
  Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman...
  
  
• The Man from Home
  The Man from Home (1914 film)
  The Man from Home is a 1914 drama film based on a novel by Booth Tarkington and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Year later the story was remade by George Fitzmaurice as The Man from Home.-Cast:* Charles Richman - Daniel Voorhees Pike...
  
  
• The Master Mind
  The Master Mind
  The Master Mind is a 1914 American black & white silent crime/drama film directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille. The plot revolves around a defense attorney who, unable to obtain the acquittal of an innocent young man, concocts a complicated and diabolical scheme to revenge himself upon the...
  
  
• The Only Son
  The Only Son (1914 film)
  The Only Son is a 1914 drama film directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille.-Cast:* Jim Blackwell - Thomas Brainerd, Sr. * A. MacMillan - Henry Thompson* Thomas W. Ross - Thomas Brainerd, Jr.* Jane Darwell - Mrs. Brainerd...
  
  
• The Man on the Box
  The Man on the Box
  The Man on the Box is a 1914 comedy-drama film directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille. It was based on the 1904 book by Harold MacGrath.-Cast:* Horace B. Carpenter - Russian ambassador* Jane Darwell - Mrs. Chadwick* William Elmer - Troop commander...
  
  
• The Call of the North
  The Call of the North
  The Call of the North is a 1914 silent adventure-drama film directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille.-Cast:* Robert Edeson - Ned & Graehme Stewart* Theodore Roberts - Galen Albert* Winifred Kingston - Virginia* Horace B...
  
  , cast; Robert Edeson
  Robert Edeson
  Robert Edeson was an American movie and stage actor of the silent era. Edeson got his first boost in movies in 1914 when he starred in the Cecil B...
  
  
• The Ghost Breaker
  The Ghost Breaker
  The Ghost Breaker is a 1914 drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel and based on the Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. It is considered widely to be the first film of a long line based on the genre of haunted house horror...
  
  
• The Virginian
  The Virginian (1914 film)
  The Virginian is a 1914 film based upon the novel by Owen Wister, and starring Dustin Farnum as the Virginian. The movie is the first of several versions, including a 1929 movie with Gary Cooper and Walter Huston and a 1960 television series. The 1914 film was directed by Cecil B....
  
  , cast; Dustin Farnum
  Dustin Farnum
  Dustin Lancy Farnum was an American singer, dancer and an actor in silent movies during the early days of motion pictures. After a great success in a number of stage roles, in 1914 he landed his first film role in the movie 'Soldiers of Fortune', and later in Cecil B. DeMille's The Squaw Man...
  
  
• The Wishing Ring
  The Wishing Ring
  The Wishing Ring is a 1914 silent film directed by Maurice Tourneur. It's full title is The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England. The film is based on a 1910 play by Owen Davis that starred Marguerite Clark. It was filmed at Fort Lee, New Jersey by the World Film Corporation. -Cast:*Vivian Martin...
  
  
• The Wrath of Gods, cast; Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and 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...
  
  
• Tillie's Punctured Romance
  Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914 film)
  Tillie's Punctured Romance is the first feature-length comedy film from Keystone Film Company and the Christie Film Company, produced in 1914. A silent film directed by Mack Sennett, the film stars Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, and the Keystone Cops...
  
  , dir; 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"...
  
  , cast; Marie Dressler
  Marie Dressler
  Marie Dressler was a Canadian-American actress and Depression-era film star. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930-31 in Min and Bill.-Early life and stage career:...
  
  , 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...
  
   and 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...
  
  
• What's His Name
  What's His Name
  What's His Name is a 1914 comedy/drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.-Cast:* Max Figman - Harvey* Lolita Robertson - Nellie* Sydney Deane - Uncle Peter* Richard L'Estrange - Best Man* Merta Carpenter - Friend Of Nellie's* Fred Montague - Fairfax...
  
  , cast; Max Figman

Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson
  Broncho Billy Anderson
  Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson was an American actor, writer, film director, and film producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre.-Early life:...
  
  (1910–1916)
• Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  (1913–1921)
• 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...
  
  (1914–1923)

Births

• January 5 - George Reeves
  George Reeves
  George Reeves was an American actor best known for his role as Superman in the 1950s television program Adventures of Superman....
  
  , actor (d. 1959
  1959 in film
  The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.-Events:* The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters....
  
  )
• January 6 - Danny Thomas
  Danny Thomas
  Danny Thomas was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy . He was also the founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...
  
  , singer, actor, comedian (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...
  
  )
• January 14 - Harold Russell
  Harold Russell
  Harold John Russell was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award for acting...
  
  , actor (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...
  
  )
• January 30 - John Ireland
  John Ireland (actor)
  John Benjamin Ireland was an actor and film director.-Biography:Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was raised in New York City from the age of 18. He started out in minor stage roles on Broadway...
  
  , actor (d. 1992
  1992 in film
  The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films:-Awards:Academy AwardsGolden Globe AwardsNational Film Awards...
  
  )
• February 24 - Zachary Scott
  Zachary Scott
  Zachary Scott was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and "mystery men".-Life and career:...
  
  , actor (d. 1965
  1965 in film
  The year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...
  
  )
• February 26 - Robert Alda
  Robert Alda
  Robert Alda was an American actor. He was the father of actors Alan Alda and Antony Alda.-Life and career:...
  
  , actor (d. 1986
  1986 in film
  -Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....
  
  )
• March 2 - Martin Ritt
  Martin Ritt
  Martin Ritt was an American director, actor, and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City.-Early career and influences:...
  
  , director (d. 1990
  1990 in film
  The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....
  
  )
• April 2 - Alec Guinness
  Alec Guinness
  Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai...
  
  , actor (d. 2000
  2000 in film
  The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....
  
  )
• April 4 - Rosemary Lane
  Lane Sisters
  The Lane Sisters refers to a group of sisters, three of whom achieved success in the 1920s and 1930s as a singing act, with their popularity onstage leading to a series of successful films. A fourth sister was not successful and left this milieu and a fifth avoided show business altogether...
  
  , singer, 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...
  
  )
• April 16 - John Hodiak
  John Hodiak
  John Hodiak was an American actor who worked in radio and film.-Early life:He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Walter Hodiak and Anna Pogorzelec . He was of Ukrainian and Polish descent...
  
  , actor (d. 1955
  1955 in film
  The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.* June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released....
  
  )
• May 24 - Lilli Palmer
  Lilli Palmer
  Lilli Palmer , born Lilli Marie Peiser, was a German actress. She won the Volpi Cup, the Deutscher Filmpreis three times, and was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award.-Life and career:...
  
  , actress (d. 1986
  1986 in film
  -Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....
  
  )
• June 7 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
  Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
  Khwaja Ahmad Abbas , popularly known as K. A. Abbas, was an Indian film director, novelist, screenwriter, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi and English languages...
  
  , director (d. 1987
  1987 in film
  -Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....
  
  )
• June 18 - E. G. Marshall
  E. G. Marshall
  E. G. Marshall was an American actor, best known for his television roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon David Craig on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the 1970s...
  
  , 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:...
  
  )
• July 31 - Louis de Funès
  Louis de Funès
  Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...
  
  , actor (d. 1983
  1983 in film
  -Events:*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York*May 25 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the top grossing picture of...
  
  )
• August 2 - Beatrice Straight
  Beatrice Straight
  Beatrice Whitney Straight was an American theatre, film, and television actress. Hers remains the shortest acting performance in a film to win an Oscar. In her winning role in the 1976 film Network, she was on screen for five minutes and forty seconds, the shortest time ever for the winner of the...
  
  , 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...
  
  )
• August 14 - Andrea Leeds
  Andrea Leeds
  Andrea Leeds was an American film actress. A popular supporting player of the late 1930s, Leeds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Stage Door...
  
  , actress (d. 1984
  1984 in film
  -Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
  
  )
• August 31 - Richard Basehart
  Richard Basehart
  John Richard Basehart was an American actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson.-Career:...
  
   - actor (d. 1984
  1984 in film
  -Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
  
  )
• September 10 - Robert Wise
  Robert Wise
  Robert Earl Wise was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director...
  
  , director (d. 2005
  2005 in film
  - Highest-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 United States in 2005...
  
  )
• September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn
  Desmond Llewelyn
  Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was a Welsh actor, famous for playing Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.-Early life:...
  
  , actor (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...
  
  )
• September 20 - Kenneth More
  Kenneth More
  Kenneth Gilbert More CBE was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman.-Early life:Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the...
  
   English actor
• October 26 - Jackie Coogan
  Jackie Coogan
  John Leslie Coogan , known professionally as Jackie Coogan, was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Many years later, he became known as Uncle Fester on 1960s sitcom The Addams Family...
  
  , actor (d. 1984
  1984 in film
  -Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
  
  )
• October 30 - Ruth Hussey
  Ruth Hussey
  Ruth Carol Hussey was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.-Early life:...
  
  , actress (d. 2005
  2005 in film
  - Highest-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 United States in 2005...
  
  )
• December 10 - Dorothy Lamour
  Dorothy Lamour
  Dorothy Lamour was an American film actress. She is best remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope .-Early life:Lamour was born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Carmen Louise Dorothy...
  
  , actress (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:...
  
  )
• December 13 - Larry Parks
  Larry Parks
  Larry Parks was an American stage and movie actor. He was born Samuel Klausman Lawrence Parks. His career was virtually ended when he admitted to having once been a member of a Communist party cell, which led to his blacklisting by all Hollywood studios.-Background:Parks grew up in Joliet,...
  
  , actor (d. 1975
  1975 in film
  The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....
  
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• December 26 - Richard Widmark
  Richard Widmark
  Richard Weedt Widmark was an American film, stage and television actor.He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death...
  
  , actor (d. 2008
  2008 in film
  This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-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 2008...
  
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• December 30 - Jo Van Fleet
  Jo Van Fleet
  Jo Van Fleet was an American theatre and film actress.-Career:Van Fleet established herself as a notable dramatic actress on Broadway over several years, winning a Tony Award in 1954 for her skill in a difficult role, playing an unsympathetic, even abusive character, in Horton Foote's The Trip to...
  
  , actress (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:...
  
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Deaths

• January 9 - Gladys Rankin, Mrs. Sidney Drew, American stage & screen actress
• January 11 - William A. Russell, American actor Essanay
• March 25 - Frederic Mistral
  Frédéric Mistral
  Frédéric Mistral was a French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Félibrige and a member of l'Académie de Marseille...
  
  , French writer
• June 19 - Brandon Thomas
  Brandon Thomas
  Walter Brandon Thomas was an English actor, playwright and song writer, best known as the author of the farce Charley's Aunt....
  
  , British writer Charley's Aunt
  Charley's Aunt
  Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. It broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances....
  
  
• July 1 - Grace McHugh, American actress died while filming the movie Across The Border
• July 1 - Owen Carter, American cinematographer
• August 21 - Charles J. Hite
  Charles J. Hite
  Charles Jackson Hite was an American businessman and film producer of the early 20th century, most importantly the president and chief executive officer of the Thanhouser Film Corporation from 1912 to 1914....
  
  , President and CEO of Thanhouser Film Corporation
  Thanhouser Company
  The Thanhouser Company was one of the first motion picture studios, founded in 1909 by Edwin Thanhouser.-See also:...
  
  
• October 24 - Gustav Wied
  Gustav Wied
  Gustav Johannes Wied was a Danish writer.The fifth of the eleven children of Carl August Wied and Catha Wied, Wied was born in Branderslev near Nakskov....
  
  , Danish Playwright and novelist
• November 14 - Stellan Rye
  Stellan Rye
  Stellan Rye was a Danish-born film director, active in the early 20th century. Rye was born in Randers.In 1913 he created the silent film Der Student von Prag .At the outbreak of World War I he joined the Reichsheer...
  
  , Danish film director

Film Debuts

• Theda Bara
  Theda Bara
  Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman...
  
  
• Ethel Barrymore
  Ethel Barrymore
  Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Milton Berle
  Milton Berle
  Milton Berlinger , better known as Milton Berle, was an American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , in 1948 he was the first major star of U.S. television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr...
  
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• 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...
  
  
• Marguerite Clark
  Marguerite Clark
  Marguerite Clark was an American stage and silent film actress.-Early life and theater:Born to a farming family in Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, Clark was educated at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Cincinnati...
  
  
• Hazel Dawn
  Hazel Dawn
  Hazel Dawn was a stage, film and television actress. She was born as Hazel Tout to a Mormon family.-Stage career:...
  
  
• Sam De Grasse
  Sam De Grasse
  Samuel Alfred De Grasse was a Canadian actor. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he trained to be a dentist....
  
  
• Gaby Deslys
  Gaby Deslys
  Gaby Deslys was a dancer, singer, and actress of the early 20th century from Marseilles, France. She selected her name for her stage career. It is an abbreviation of Gabrielle of the Lillies. During the 1910s she was exceedingly popular worldwide, making $4,000 a week in the United States alone...
  
  
• Oliver Hardy
  Oliver Hardy
  Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.-Early life:...
  
  
• William S. Hart
  William S. Hart
  William Surrey Hart was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He is remembered for having "imbued all of his characters with honor and integrity."-Biography:...
  
  
• Sessue Hayakawa
  Sessue Hayakawa
  was a Japanese and American Issei actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors...
  
  
• Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...
  
  
• Thomas Meighan
  Thomas Meighan
  Thomas Meighan was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading man roles opposite popular actresses of the day including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he commanded $10,000 a week....
  
  
• Beatriz Michelena
  Beatriz Michelena
  Beatriz Michelena was an American actress during the silent film era, known at the time for her operatic soprano voice and appearances in musical theatre. She was one of the few Latina stars visible on the silver screen in the United States in the 1910s...
  
  
• Musidora
  Musidora
  Musidora was the stage name of Jeanne Roques, a popular French silent film actress. She became famous for her vamp roles in such film serials as Les Vampires and Judex, in which she developed a persona comparable to that of Theda Bara...
  
  
• Pola Negri
  Pola Negri
  Pola Negri was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles from the 1910s through the 1940s during the Golden Era of Hollywood film. She was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood, and became a great American star. She...
  
  
• Tyrone Power, Sr.
  Tyrone Power, Sr.
  Frederick Tyrone Edmond Power was an English-born American stage and screen actor, who acted under the name Tyrone Power.-Early life:Power was born in London in 1869, the son of Harold Littledale Power and Ethel Lavenu...
  
  
• Milton Sills
  Milton Sills
  Milton Sills was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century....
  
  
• Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the...
  
  
• Constance Talmadge
  Constance Talmadge
  Constance Talmadge was a silent movie star born in Brooklyn, New York, USA, and was the sister of fellow actresses Norma Talmadge and Natalie Talmadge.-Early life:...
  
  
• Rudolph Valentino
  Rudolph Valentino
  Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik...