Events

• The Squaw Man, the first Hollywood feature film, is made.
• December 29, 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...
  
   signs a contract with 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"...
  
   to begin making films at 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...
  
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• 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...
  
   ends his series of Biograph shorts, begun in 1908, and leaves the Biograph Company
  American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
  The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1928. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over three thousand short...
  
   in 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...
  
   to make full length motion pictures.
• Georges Melies
  Georges Méliès
  Georges Méliès , full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects...
  
  ' career as a director comes to an end; Mitchell and Kenyon
  Mitchell and Kenyon
  The Mitchell & Kenyon film company was a pioneer of early commercial movies based in Blackburn in Lancashire, England at the start of the 20th century...
  
   shoot their last known films.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1913

• Addio giovinezza!
• The Adventures of Kathlyn
  The Adventures of Kathlyn
  The Adventures of Kathlyn is an American motion picture serial released on December 29, 1913 by the Selig Polyscope Company. An adventure serial filmed in Chicago, Illinois, its thirteen episodes were directed by Francis J. Grandon from a story by Harold MacGrath and Gilson Willets and starred...
  
  
• American Born
  American Born
  American Born is a 1913 American silent short film starring Sydney Ayres, Harry Van Meter, Charles Cummings, Jacques Jaccard, Louise Lester, Charles Morrison, Jack Richardson and Vivian Rich....
  
  
• Article 47, L'
  Article 47, L'
  Article 47, L' is a 1913 American silent short film starring William Garwood, Victory Bateman, Howard Davies, Ethel Jewett, and Ernest Joy....
  
  
• Antony and Cleopatra
  Antony and Cleopatra
  Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony...
  
  
• Arizona
• At Midnight
  At Midnight
  At Midnight is a 1913 American silent short film written by Gordon V. May starring Harry Van Meter, Violet Neitz, Louise Lester, Jack Richardson and Vivian Rich....
  
  
• Atlantis
  Atlantis (1913 film)
  Atlantis is a 1913 Danish silent film directed by August Blom, the head of production at the Nordisk Film company, and was based upon the 1912 novel by Gerhart Hauptmann. It starred an international cast headlined by Danish matinee actor Olaf Fønss and Austrian opera diva Ida Orloff. The film was...
  
  
• The Bangville Police
  The Bangville Police
  The Bangville Police is a 1913 comedy short starring Mabel Normand and the Keystone Kops . The film, notable for being regarded as the seminal Keystone Cops short, was directed by Henry Lehrman...
  
  
• The Student of Prague (1913 film)
  The Student of Prague (1913 film)
  The Student of Prague is a 1913 German silent horror film. The film was remade in 1926, 1935, and 2004 under the same title The Student of Prague.-Plot:...
  
  
• Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
  Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
  Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life is a silent comedy short, directed and produced by Mack Sennett and starring Sennett, Mabel Normand, and Barney Oldfield as himself...
  
  
• The Bartered Bride
• The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
  The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
  The Battle at Elderbush Gulch is a 1913 Western film directed by D. W. Griffith and featuring Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore.-Plot:...
  
  
• Beautiful Bismark
  Beautiful Bismark
  Beautiful Bismark is a 1913 American silent short drama film starring William Garwood....
  
  
• The Caged Bird
  The Caged Bird
  The Caged Bird is a 1913 American silent short drama film starring William Garwood and Marguerite Snow.-Cast:* William Garwood as The Prince* Marguerite Snow as The Princess* James Cruze as The King* William Russell as The Farmer...
  
  
• Calamity Anne's Beauty
  Calamity Anne's Beauty
  Calamity Anne's Beauty is a 1913 American silent short Western comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Louise Lester as Calamity Anne.-Other cast:* Charlotte Burton* J. Warren Kerrigan* Phyllis Gordon* Jack Richardson* Jessalyn Van Trump...
  
  
• Calamity Anne's Dream
  Calamity Anne's Dream
  Calamity Anne's Dream is a 1913 American silent short Western directed by Allan Dwan starring Louise Lester as Calamity Anne. The film also stars Harry von Meter, Dorothy Eliason Jacques Jaccard, Charles Morrison, Jack Richardson and Vivian Rich....
  
  
• The Battle of Gettysburg
  The Battle of Gettysburg (1913 film)
  The Battle of Gettysburg is a 1913 silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and Thomas H. Ince. The film is now considered to be lost, although some battlefield footage was used by Mack Sennett in his comedy Cohen Saves the Flag, which was shot on location alongside this production. However...
  
  
• Calamity Anne's Inheritance
  Calamity Anne's Inheritance
  Calamity Anne's Inheritance is a 1913 American silent short romantic western directed by Allan Dwan starring Louise Lester, J. Warren Kerrigan, and Charlotte Burton.-Cast:* Louise Lester as Calamity Anne* J. Warren Kerrigan as The Agent...
  
  
• Calamity Anne's Vanity
  Calamity Anne's Vanity
  Calamity Anne's Vanity is a 1913 American silent short Western directed by Allan Dwan starring Charlotte Burton and Louise Lester as Calamity Anne.-Cast:*J. Warren Kerrigan*Robert Lane*Rose Lathan*Jack Richardson*Jessalyn Van Trump...
  
  
• Calamity Anne, Heroine
  Calamity Anne, Heroine
  Calamity Anne, Heroine is a 1913 American silent short Western directed by Allan Dwan starring Louise Lester as Calamity Anne. It is the fourth film in the Calamity Anne series.-Other cast:* Charlotte Burton* J. Warren Kerrigan* Jack Richardson...
  
  
• Caprice
  Caprice (1913 film)
  Caprice is a 1913 silent film feature produced by Daniel Frohman and Adolph Zukor and starring Mary Pickford. J. Searle Dawley directed. Though Zukor helped finance the film it was distributed on a 'State's Rights' arrangement primarily since no Paramount Pictures had yet to exist...
  
  
• The Cub Reporter's Temptation
  The Cub Reporter's Temptation
  The Cub Reporter's Temptation is a 1913 American short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce and Tom Moore in the lead roles.-Cast:*Tom Moore*Alice Joyce*Earle Foxe*Matt Snyder *Charles M. King...
  
  
• David Copperfield
  David Copperfield (1913 film)
  David Copperfield is a 1913 British black-and-white silent film based on the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. It is the second-oldest known film adaptation of the novel....
  
  
• David Garrick (1913 film)
  David Garrick (1913 film)
  David Garrick is a 1913 black-and-white silent film based on the life of British actor David Garrick. The film starred Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss and was based on the 1864 play David Garrick by T. W. Robertson, adapted by Max Pemberton...
  
  
• A Desperate Chance
  A Desperate Chance
  A Desperate Chance is a 1913 American short silent film drama directed by Kenean Buel. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Hollister in the lead roles. The film featured the same cast and director as the preceding film that year, A Sawmill Hazard....
  
  
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913 film)
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1913 horror film, directed by Herbert Brenon and Carl Laemmle, written by Brenon and produced by Laemmle. It is based on the Robert Louis Stevenson story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It stars King Baggot in the dual role of Jekyll and Hyde...
  
  
• L'Enfant de Paris
• Evidence of the Film
• The Face at the Window
  The Face at the Window (1913 film)
  The Face at the Window is a 1913 American short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe, Irene Boyle and Stuart Holmes in the lead roles....
  
  
• Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine
• The Fire Coward
  The Fire Coward
  The Fire Coward is a 1913 American short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe, Irene Boyle, Stuart Holmes, and James B. Ross in the lead roles....
  
  
• The Flirt and the Bandit
  The Flirt and the Bandit
  The Flirt and the Bandit is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Lorimer Johnston starring R.D. Armstrong, Charlotte Burton, Ed Coxen, George Field, James Harrison and Chester Withey....
  
  
• For Her Boy's Sake
  For Her Boy's Sake
  For Her Boy's Sake is a 1913 American silent short romantic drama directed by starring William Garwood, Victory Bateman, James Cruze, William Russell and Marguerite Snow....
  
  
• For the Crown
  For the Crown
  For the Crown is a 1913 American silent short film written and directed by Lorimer Johnston. The drama stars Charlotte Burton, Helen Armstrong, J. Warren Kerrigan, Louise Lester, George Periolat, Jack Richardson, and Vivian Rich....
  
  
• For the Flag
  For the Flag
  For the Flag is a 1913 American silent short drama film written and directed by Lorimer Johnson. The film features Charlotte Burton, George Periolat, J. Warren Kerrigan, Jack Richardson, and Vivian Rich....
  
  
• For the Peace of Bear Valley
  For the Peace of Bear Valley
  For the Peace of Bear Valley is a 1913 American silent short Western directed by Frank E. Montgomery. The film stars Harry Van Meter and Mona Darkfeather.-Cast:* Harry Van Meter as The Sheriff* Mona Darkfeather as Mona* Innez Fanjoy as Dell...
  
  
• A Forest Romance
  A Forest Romance
  A Forest Romance is a 1913 American silent short romantic western directed by Frank Montgomery starring Harry von Meter and Mona Darkfeather.-Cast:* Mona Darkfeather* Harry von Meter * James Davis* Arthur Ortego* Harry Schumm * Mrs. Messick...
  
  
• The Game Warden
  The Game Warden
  The Game Warden is a 1913 American short silent film romantic comedy. The film starred Earle Foxe,Irene Boyle, and Stuart Holmes....
  
  
• The Girl and the Greaser
  The Girl and the Greaser
  The Girl and the Greaser is a 1913 American silent short film directed by Allan Dwan starring Charlotte Burton, J. Warren Kerrigan, Louise Lester, George Periolat, Jack Richardson and Vivian Rich....
  
  
• The Grasshopper and the Ant
• The Greater Love
  The Greater Love
  The Greater Love is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Allan Dwan starring Charlotte Burton and Mabel Brown and Edward Coxen....
  
  
• Hamlet
  Hamlet (1913 film)
  Hamlet is a 1913 British silent drama film directed by Hay Plumb and starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot and Walter Ringham. It is an adaptation of the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare made by the Hepworth Company and based on the Drury Lane Theatre's 1913 staging of the...
  
  
• The Haunted House (1913 film)
  The Haunted House (1913 film)
  The Haunted House is a 1913 American silent short comedy-drama film starring Julius Frankenburg, Harry Van Meter, Vivian Rich, and Jack Richardson....
  
  
• The Heart of a Fool
  The Heart of a Fool
  The Heart of a Fool is a 1913 American silent short drama film starring William Garwood....
  
  
• Her Big Story
  Her Big Story
  Her Big Story is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Allan Dwan starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Charlotte Burton, George Periolat, and Jack Richardson....
  
  
• Her Gallant Knights
  Her Gallant Knights
  Her Gallant Knights is a 1913 American silent short romantic comedy film starring William Garwood, Riley Chamberlin, James Cruze, Florence La Badie and Frank Urson....
  
  
• Hinemoa
  Hinemoa (1913 film)
  Hinemoa was a silent film made in New Zealand by Gaston Méliès in 1913. It is probably the first feature film produced in New Zealand, although it is doubtful that it ever screened in the country.-Plot:...
  
  
• His Wife's Child
  His Wife's Child
  His Wife's Child is a 1913 American short silent film drama directed by Harry Solter. The film starred Earle Foxe, Florence Lawrence and Matt Moore in the lead roles.-Plot:A young girl survives a difficult childhood and grows up to right an old wrong....
  
  
• The House in the Tree
  The House in the Tree
  The House in the Tree is a 1913 American silent short film written by Lloyd Lonergan starring William Garwood and Billie Bennett.-Cast:*Josie Ashdown*Victory Bateman*Billie Bennett*Howard Davies*William Garwood*Dimitri Mitsoras*Muriel Ostriche...
  
  
• The Idol of Bonanza Camp
  The Idol of Bonanza Camp
  The Idol of Bonanza Camp is a 1913 American silent short comedy film starring Harry Van Meter, Alexander Gaden and Edna Maison....
  
  
• In the Bishop's Carriage
  In the Bishop's Carriage
  In the Bishop's Carriage is a 1913 silent film produced by Famous Players Film Company film company and starring Mary Pickford. It is based on a 1907 Broadway play In the Bishop's Carriage by Channing Pollock, the play itself based on the novel of the same name by Miriam Michelson. This film is lost...
  
  
• In the Firelight
  In the Firelight
  In the Firelight is a 1913 American silent short silent film directed by Thomas Ricketts and based on a poem written by Marc Edmund Jones. The film stars Charlotte Burton, William Bertram, Ed Coxen, and George Field. Most of the supporting cast were one-off actors including Mabel Marmer and William...
  
  
• In the Mountains of Virginia
  In the Mountains of Virginia
  In the Mountains of Virginia is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by G.P. Hamilton starring Harry Van Meter, Jacques Jaccard, Louise Lester, Charles Morrison, Jack Richardson, and Vivian Rich....
  
  
• The Influence of a Child
  The Influence of a Child (1913 film)
  The Influence of a Child is a 1913 film featuring Noah Beery, Marie Falls, David Galley, Adelaide Lawrence, and Stephen Purdee. This extremely early short drama is notable as the first screen appearance of Noah Beery....
  
  
• Ingeborg Holm
  Ingeborg Holm
  Ingeborg Holm is a 1913 Swedish social drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1906 play by Nils Krok. It has been called "the first realistic feature film". It caused great debate in Sweden about social security, which led to changes in the poorhouse laws...
  
  
• Ivanhoe
  Ivanhoe (1913 U.S. film)
  Ivanhoe is a 1913 silent adventure/drama motion picture starring King Baggot, Leah Baird, Herbert Brenon, Evelyn Hope, and Walter Craven.Directed by Herbert Brenon and produced by Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Pictures after IMP was absorbed into the newly founded Universal, which was the...
  
  
• Justice of the Wild
  Justice of the Wild
  Justice of the Wild is a 1913 American silent short adventure film directed by Frank E. Montgomery starring Harry Van Meter, Mona Darkfeather, and Jack Messick .-Cast:* Mona Darkfeather as Mona* Harry Van Meter as Joe* Jack Messick as Indian Chief...
  
  
• Juve contre Fantômas
• The Lady Killer
• The Last Days of Pompeii
• Mabel's Awful Mistakes
  Mabel's Awful Mistakes
  Mabel's Awful Mistakes is a 1913 film starring Mabel Normand and directed by Mack Sennett. The film also features Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.-External links:***...
  
  
• The Mirror
  The Mirror (1913 film)
  The Mirror is a 1913 silent film directed by Anthony O'Sullivan.-Cast:* Henry B. Walthall - The Station Agent* Claire McDowell - Daisy* Lionel Barrymore - Daisy's Father* Harry Carey - First Tramp* Charles West - Second Tramp...
  
  
• A Mix-Up in Pedigrees
  A Mix-Up in Pedigrees
  A Mix-Up in Pedigrees is a 1913 American silent short comedy film starring William Garwood and Francelia Billington....
  
  
• Moondyne
  Moondyne
  Moondyne is an 1879 novel by John Boyle O'Reilly, which was made into a film of the same name in 1913. It is very loosely based on the life of the Western Australian convict escapee and bushranger Moondyne Joe.-Background:...
  
  
• Le Mort qui tue
• The Mothering Heart
  The Mothering Heart
  The Mothering Heart is a 1913 short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art.-Plot:...
  
  
• Mrs. Carter's Campaign
  Mrs. Carter's Campaign
  Mrs. Carter's Campaign is a 1913 American silent short comedy film directed by William Desmond Taylor starring Charlotte Burton....
  
  
• The New Conductor
• The Night Before Christmas
  The Night Before Christmas (1913 film)
  The Night Before Christmas is a 1913 silent film made in the Russian Empire by Ladislas Starevich, based on the tale of the same name by Nikolai Gogol...
  
  
• Nursery Favorites
• The Oath of Pierre
  The Oath of Pierre
  The Oath of Pierre is a 1913 American silent short film directed by Sydney Ayres starring William Garwood and Charlotte Burton. The film was based on a story by M.H. McKinstry -Cast:*Charlotte Burton as Julia Naughton, of the border line...
  
  
• The Other (Der Andere)
• The Oath of Tsuru San
  The Oath of Tsuru San
  The Oath of Tsuru San is a 1913 American silent short drama film starring William Garwood and Japanese actress Tsuru Aoki....
  
  
• Our Wives
  Our Wives
  Our Wives is a 1913 comedy short silent film, written by Anthony E. Wills, and directed by James Lackaye.-Cast:* Harry T. Morey ... Rosweel Chandler* Louise Beaudet ... Mrs. Rosweel Chandler* Lillian Walker ... Belle* Wally Van ... Walter Blair...
  
  
• Personal Magnetism
  Personal Magnetism
  Personal Magnetism is a 1913 American silent short film starring Sydney Ayres, Julius Frankenberg, Harry Van Meter, Jacques Jaccard, Louise Lovely, Jack Richardson and Vivian Rich....
  
  
• The Proof of the Man
  The Proof of the Man
  The Proof of the Man is a 1913 American silent short drama film starring Alexander Gaden and Edna Maison.-Cast:* Alexander Gaden as Dick the Chosen Suitor* Edna Maison as Alma Field, Dick's Wife* Harry von Meter as Norman, a Lost Prospector...
  
  
• The Pursuit of the Smugglers
  The Pursuit of the Smugglers
  The Pursuit of the Smugglers is a 1913 American short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe, James Vincent, Irene Boyle, and Stuart Holmes in the lead roles....
  
  
• Quicksands
  Quicksands
  Quicksands is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Allan Dwan. The film stars J. Warren Kerrigan, Charlotte Burton, Vivian Rich, George Periolat, Jack Richardson, Louise Lester, and Charles Morrison...
  
  
• Raja Harishchandra
  Raja Harishchandra
  Raja Harishchandra , is a 1913 silent Indian film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke, and is the first full-length Indian feature film...
  
  
• Rick's Redemption
  Rick's Redemption
  Rick's Redemption is a 1913 American silent short film starring William Garwood and Muriel Ostriche....
  
  
• The Rose of San Juan
• A Sawmill Hazard
  A Sawmill Hazard
  A Sawmill Hazard is a 1913 American short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Hollister in the lead roles.-Cast:*Alice Hollister*Earle Foxe*Helen Lindroth*Robert G. Vignola*Miriam Cooper...
  
  
• Scrooge
  Scrooge (1913 film)
  Scrooge is a 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge. In the United States it was released in 1926 as Old Scrooge....
  
  
• The Sea Wolf, based on the novel by Jack London
  Jack London
  John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
  
  
• The Scimitar of the Prophet
  The Scimitar of the Prophet
  The Scimitar of the Prophet is a 1913 American short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe, and Alice Hollister....
  
  
• The Shoemaker and the Doll
  The Shoemaker and the Doll
  The Shoemaker and the Doll is a 1913 American silent short drama film starring William Garwood....
  
  
• The Shriner's Daughter
  The Shriner's Daughter
  The Shriner's Daughter is a 1913 American silent short film starring Charlotte Burton, Violet Neitz, Helen Armstrong, William Bertram, Edith Borella, Ed Coxen, Reaves Eason, George Field, Winifred Greenwood, Ida Lewis, Nina Richdale and William Tedmarsh....
  
  
• Il sire di Vincigliata
  Il sire di Vincigliata
  Il sire di Vincigliata is a 16 minute long 1913 Italian silent colour film, produced by Roberts Film of Florence/Série d'Art Pathé frères and directed by Alfredo Robert who also plays the title character.-Plot:...
  
  
• Some Fools There Were
  Some Fools There Were
  Some Fools There Were is a 1913 American silent short comedy film starring William Garwood, Riley Chamberlin, Jean Darnell, Florence La Badie, and William Russell.-Cast:* Florence La Badie as The Girl Reporter* Jean Darnell as The Aunt...
  
  
• The Speed Kings
  The Speed Kings
  The Speed Kings is a 1913 short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle.-Cast:* Ford Sterling - Papa* Mabel Normand - Mabel* Teddy Tetzlaff - Himself - a race car driver* Earl Cooper - Himself - a race car driver...
  
  
• The Speed Queen
• The Spender
  The Spender
  The Spender is a 1913 American short silent film romance directed by Harry Solter. The film starred Earle Foxe and Florence Lawrence and Matt Moore in the lead roles.-Cast:*Florence Lawrence*Matt Moore*Earle Foxe*Charles Craig*Jack Newton...
  
  
• The Tale of the Ticker
  The Tale of the Ticker
  The Tale of the Ticker is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Allan Dwan. The film stars J. Warren Kerrigan, Vivian Rich, George Periolat, and Charlotte Burton. Other cast members include James Harrison, Jack Richardson, and Charles Morrison....
  
  
• Through the Neighbor's Window
  Through the Neighbor's Window
  Through the Neighbor's Window is a 1913 American silent short comedy film directed by Lorimer Johnston starring Charlotte Burton, Edith Borella, Jean Durrell, Robert Grey and Billie West...
  
  
• Through the Sluice Gates
  Through the Sluice Gates
  Through the Sluice Gates is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by John G. Adolfi starring William Garwood and Belle Bennett....
  
  
• Traffic in Souls
  Traffic in Souls
  Traffic in Souls is a 1913 narrative feature film focusing on forced prostitution in the US and filmed around Ellis Island in New York City. Its subjects were working women and immigrants and it was released at a time when the country was undergoing a "moral panic" over the issue of prostitution...
  
  
• Transported
  Transported
  Transported is a 1913 Australian silent movie directed by W. J. Lincoln. It stars George Bryant, Godfrey Cass and Roy Redgrave. The movie was 28 minutes long....
  
  
• Trapped in a Forest Fire
  Trapped in a Forest Fire
  Trapped in a Forest Fire is a 1913 American silent short film directed by Gilbert P. Hamilton starring Charlotte Burton, Sydney Ayres, Jacques Jaccard, Violt Neitz, Louise Lester, Jack Richardson, Vivian Rich, and Harry von Meter....
  
  
• Truth in the Wilderness
  Truth in the Wilderness
  Truth in the Wilderness is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Lorimer Johnston starring Charlotte Burton and George Periolat, J. Warren Kerrigan and Jack Richardson. Also starring Lillian Leighton and Vivian Rich....
  
  
• Unto the Third Generation
  Unto the Third Generation
  Unto the Third Generation is a 1913 American short silent romantic drama directed by Harry Solter. The film starred Earle Foxe and Florence Lawrence and Matt Moore in the lead roles...
  
  
• The Unwelcome Guest
  The Unwelcome Guest
  The Unwelcome Guest is a 1913 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.-Cast:* Mary Pickford - The Slavey* W. Chrystie Miller - The Old Father* Charles Hill Mailes - The Son* Claire McDowell - The Wife* Jack Pickford - One of the Children...
  
  
• The Werewolf
  The Werewolf (1913 film)
  The Werewolf is a silent film short that is the first werewolf film, and was directed by Henry MacRae. It was produced by Bison Film Company, released by Universal Studios, and is now considered a lost film, all prints supposedly having been destroyed in a 1924 fire...
  
  
• When Lincoln Paid
  When Lincoln Paid
  When Lincoln Paid is a silent film, written by William Clifford, and directed by Francis Ford, who also appears in the film as Abraham Lincoln.-Plot:...
  
  
• While There's Life
  While There's Life
  While There's Life is a 1913 American silent short drama film starring Charlotte Burton, Jean Durrell, George Field, Robert Grey, and Billie West....
  
  
• Woman's Honor
  Woman's Honor
  Women's Honor is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Alan Dwan starring Charlotte Burton, Louise Lester, J. Warren Kerrigan, and Jack Richardson....
  
  
• Zhuangzi Tests His Wife
  Zhuangzi Tests His Wife
  Zhuangzi Tests His Wife is a 1913 Hong Kong drama film directed by Li Minwei. It is the first ever feature film in Hong Kong cinema...
  
  

Births

• January 2 - Anna Lee
  Anna Lee
  Anna Lee, MBE was an English actress.-Career:Lee studied at the Royal Albert Hall, then debuted with a bit part in the film His Lordship...
  
  , actress (d. 2004
  2004 in film
  The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...
  
  )
• January 6 - Loretta Young
  Loretta Young
  Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953...
  
  , actress (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 ....
  
  )
• January 15 - Lloyd Bridges
  Lloyd Bridges
  Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. Bridges is best known for his role of Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt, the most-popular syndicated American TV series in 1958...
  
  , 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:...
  
  )
• January 18 - Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...
  
  , actor (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....
  
  )
• February 8 - Betty Field
  Betty Field
  Betty Field was an American film and stage actress. Through her father, she was a direct descendant of the Pilgrims John Alden and Priscilla Mullins....
  
  , actress (d. 1973
  1973 in film
  The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....
  
  )
• February 25 - Jim Backus
  Jim Backus
  James Gilmore "Jim" Backus was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr...
  
  , 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...
  
  )
• February 25 - Gert Fröbe
  Gert Fröbe
  Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe was a German actor who starred in many films, including the James Bond film Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger, The Threepenny Opera as Peachum, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst, and in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz as Hotzenplotz.-Life:Born in...
  
  , actor (d. 1988
  1988 in film
  -Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...
  
  )
• March 3 - Charlotte Henry
  Charlotte Henry
  Charlotte Henry was an American actress who is best remembered for her roles in Alice in Wonderland and Babes in Toyland . She also starred in the Frank Buck serial Jungle Menace.-Early years:...
  
  , actress (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 ....
  
  )
• March 4 - John Garfield
  John Garfield
  John Garfield was an American actor adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. He grew up in poverty in Depression-era New York City and in the early 1930s became an important member of the Group Theater. In 1937 he moved to Hollywood, eventually becoming one of Warner...
  
  , actor (d. 1952
  1952 in film
  The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City....
  
  )
• March 15 - MacDonald Carey
  Macdonald Carey
  Edward Macdonald Carey was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives...
  
  , actor (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...
  
  )
• March 18 - René Clément, director (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:...
  
  )
• May 5 - Tyrone Power
  Tyrone Power
  Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. , usually credited as Tyrone Power and known sometimes as Ty Power, was an American film and stage actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads such as in The Mark of Zorro, Blood and Sand, The Black Swan,...
  
  , actor (d. 1958
  1958 in film
  The year 1958 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 16- "In the Money" by William Beaudine is released on this date. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began back in 1946....
  
  )
• May 6 - Stewart Granger
  Stewart Granger
  Stewart Granger was an English-American film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s rising to fame through his appearances in the Gainsborough melodramas.-Early life:He was born James Lablache Stewart in Old...
  
  , actor (d. 1993
  1993 in film
  The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...
  
  )
• May 8 - Sid James
  Sid James
  Sid James was an English-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona...
  
  , actor and comedian (d. 1976
  1976 in film
  The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...
  
  )
• May 26 - Peter Cushing
  Peter Cushing
  Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played the handsome but sinister scientist Baron Frankenstein and the vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally...
  
  , actor (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...
  
  )
• May 27 - Linden Travers
  Linden Travers
  -Life and career:Travers was born Florence Lindon-Travers in Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland, the daughter of Florence and William Halton Lindon-Travers. She was the elder sister of Bill Travers, and attended La Sagesse. She made her first stage appearance at the Newcastle Playhouse in 1933...
  
  , 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...
  
  )
• July 10 - Joan Marsh
  Joan Marsh
  Joan Marsh was an American film actress.Marsh was the daughter of Charles Rosher. She made her first film appearance as an infant in the Universal Pictures film Hearts Aflame , billed as Dorothy Rosher...
  
  , actress (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 ....
  
  )
• July 29 - Gale Page, actress (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...
  
  )
• July 18 - Red Skelton
  Red Skelton
  Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton was an American comedian who is best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, all while pursuing...
  
  , actor, comedian (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 10 - Noah Beery Jr., actor (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...
  
  )
• August 13 - Rita Johnson
  Rita Johnson
  Rita Johnson was an American actress.-Career:She was born Rita McSean in Worcester, Massachusetts and attended the New England Conservatory of Music. Johnson began acting on Broadway in 1935 and started her film career two years later. She played a murderess in Here Comes Mr...
  
  , actress (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:...
  
  )
• August 24 - Dorothy Comingore
  Dorothy Comingore
  Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress, best known for her portrayal of Susan Alexander in Orson Welles's critically acclaimed movie Citizen Kane...
  
  , actress (d. 1971
  1971 in film
  The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...
  
  )
• September 3 - Alan Ladd
  Alan Ladd
  -Early life:Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He was the only child of Ina Raleigh Ladd and Alan Ladd, Sr. He was of English ancestry. His father died when he was four, and his mother relocated to Oklahoma City where she married Jim Beavers, a housepainter...
  
  , actor (d. 1964
  1964 in film
  The year 1964 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released....
  
  )
• September 7 - Anthony Quayle
  Anthony Quayle
  Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE was an English actor and director.-Early life:Quayle was born in Ainsdale, Southport, in Lancashire to a Manx family....
  
  , 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...
  
  )
• September 19 - Frances Farmer
  Frances Farmer
  Frances Elena Farmer was an American actress of stage and screen. She is perhaps better known for sensationalized and fictional accounts of her life, and especially her involuntary commitment to a mental hospital...
  
  , actress (d. 1970
  1970 in film
  The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....
  
  )
• September 29 - Trevor Howard
  Trevor Howard
  Trevor Howard , born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an English film, stage and television actor.-Early life:...
  
  , actor (d. 1988
  1988 in film
  -Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...
  
  )
• September 29 - Stanley Kramer
  Stanley Kramer
  Stanley Earl Kramer was an American film director and producer. Kramer was responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies...
  
  , producer, director (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 30 - Bill Walsh
  Bill Walsh (producer)
  Bill Walsh was a film producer and screenwriter who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions...
  
  , producer, writer (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....
  
  )
• November 2 - Burt Lancaster
  Burt Lancaster
  Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique and distinctive smile...
  
  , actor (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...
  
  )
• November 4 - Gig Young
  Gig Young
  Gig Young was an American film, stage, and television actor. Known mainly for second leads and supporting roles, Young won an Academy Award for his performance as a dance-marathon emcee in the 1969 film, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.-Early life and career:Born Byron Elsworth Barr in St...
  
  , actor (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....
  
  )
• November 5 - Vivien Leigh
  Vivien Leigh
  Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, alongside Clark...
  
  , actress (d. 1967
  1967 in film
  The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film.-Events:* December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television....
  
  )
• November 9 - Hedy Lamarr
  Hedy Lamarr
  Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress celebrated for her great beauty who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age".Lamarr also co-invented – with composer George Antheil – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary to wireless...
  
  , actress (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 ....
  
  )
• November 20 - Judy Canova
  Judy Canova
  Judy Canova , born Juliette Canova, was an American comedienne, actress, singer and radio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films...
  
  , actress (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...
  
  )
• November 23 - Michael Gough
  Michael Gough
  Michael Gough was an English character actor who appeared in over 150 films. He is perhaps best known to international audiences for his roles in the Hammer Horror films from 1958, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four movies of the Burton/Schumacher Batman franchise,...
  
  , actor (d. 2011
  2011 in film
  The year 2011 is notable for containing the release of the most film sequels in a single year, at 27 sequels. The following tables list films that are in production or have completed production and will be released in the United States and Canada at some point in 2011.- Highest-grossing films :...
  
  )
• November 24 - Howard Duff
  Howard Duff
  Howard Green Duff was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio.Duff was born in Charleston, Washington, now a part of Bremerton. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1932 where he began acting in school plays only after he was cut from the basketball team...
  
  , actor (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....
  
  )
• November 24 - Geraldine Fitzgerald
  Geraldine Fitzgerald
  Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.-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 1 - Mary Martin
  Mary Martin
  Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989...
  
  , actress (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....
  
  )
• December 14 - Dan Dailey
  Dan Dailey
  Daniel James Dailey Jr. was an American dancer and actor.-Early life and career:Born in New York City on December 14, 1915, to James J. and Helen Dailey, both born in New York City. He appeared in a minstrel show when very young, and appeared in vaudeville before his Broadway debut in 1937 in...
  
  , actor (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....
  
  )
• December 18 - Lynn Bari
  Lynn Bari
  Lynn Bari , born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, was a movie actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s.-Career:Bari was born in Roanoke, Virginia...
  
  , actress (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...
  
  )

Film Debuts

• Wallace Beery
  Wallace Beery
  Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
  
  
• Gladys Brockwell
  Gladys Brockwell
  Gladys Brockwell was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era.-Early life:Born Gladys Lindeman in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of a chorus girl who put her on stage at a very early age. By the time she reached her middle teens, she was already a veteran and...
  
  
• Minnie Maddern Fiske
  Mrs. Fiske
  Minnie Maddern Fiske , born as Marie Augusta Davey, but often billed simply as Mrs. Fiske, was one of the leading American actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She also spearheaded the fight against the Theatrical Syndicate for the sake of artistic freedom...
  
  
• Johnston Forbes-Robertson
  Johnston Forbes-Robertson
  Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was an English actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the nineteenth century and one of the finest actors of his time, despite his dislike of the job and his lifelong belief that he was temperamentally unsuited to acting.-Early life:Born in...
  
  
• Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  
• Paul Wegener
  Paul Wegener
  Paul Wegener was a German actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.-Stage and early film career:...
  
  

Deaths

• June 2 - Eleanor Caines, silent film actress born 1880 died after surgery.(*IMDb.com)