Events

• Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company
  Motion Picture Patents Company
  The Motion Picture Patents Company , founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major American film companies , the leading film distributor and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak...
  
   to disband.
• 28 mm safety standard film, designed by Alexander Victor
  Alexander Victor
  Alexander Victor is an American Samoan association footballer who currently plays for domestic club PanSa East FC as well as the American Samoa national football team...
  
  , becomes one of the earliest film formats to use "safety film" bases
  Film base
  A film base is a transparent substrate which acts as a support medium for the photosensitive emulsion that lies atop it. Despite the numerous layers and coatings associated with the emulsion layer, the base generally accounts for the vast majority of the thickness of any given film stock...
  
   in order to safeguard the amateur market against nitrate fires.
• Warner Bros. Pictures is established.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1918

• Alraune
  Alraune (1918 film)
  Alraune is a 1918 science fiction horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and Edmund Fritz and starring Géza Erdélyi. Little is known about this film which is now believed to be lost...
  
  - (Hungary)
• Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne
  Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne
  Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne is a 1918 silent science fiction horror film directed by Eugen Illés and Joseph Klein and starring Max Auzinger in which a Doctor uses the sperm of a dead man to impregnate a prostitute...
  
  - (Germany)
• Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
  Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
  Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley is a 1918 silent film directed by Marshall Neilan, written by Frances Marion and based on a Belle K. Maniates novel.-Plot:...
  
  , directed by Marshall Neilan
  Marshall Neilan
  Marshall Ambrose Neilan was an American motion picture actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer.-Early life:...
  
  , starring Mary Pickford
  Mary Pickford
  Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
  
  
• L'ame du bronze - (France
  French films of 1918
  A list of films produced in France in 1918.-1918:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database*...
  
  )
• America's Answer
• Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific
• Arizona
• The Bell Boy
  The Bell Boy
  The Bell Boy is a short film produced and released in 1918 by the Comique film company.The film stars Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton as bellboys in Elk's Head Hotel. They cause trouble with each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse, a sham robbery turns into a real one,...
  
  , a 'Fatty' Arbuckle
  Fatty Arbuckle
  Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd...
  
   / Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
   short
• The Blue Bird
  The Blue Bird (1918 film)
  The Blue Bird is a 1918 film directed by Maurice Tourneur in the United States, under the auspices of producer Adolph Zukor. The story begins with two children, Tyltyl and Mytyl, whom are sent out by the fairy Bérylune into various lands to search for the bluebird of happiness. Returning home...
  
  
• The Bond
  The Bond
  The Bond is a propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee for theatrical release to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I....
  
  
• Bound In Morroco, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The City of Dim Faces, starring 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...
  
   and Marin Sais
  Marin Sais
  Marin Sais was an American motion picture actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s...
  
  
• The Cook
  The Cook
  The Cook is a silent film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. The movie is a slapstick comedy and focuses on goings-on at a high-end restaurant with Arbuckle as the Cook and Keaton as the Waiter....
  
  , a 'Fatty' Arbuckle
  Fatty Arbuckle
  Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd...
  
  /Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
   short
• A Dog's Life
  A Dog's Life
  A Dog's Life is a silent film written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films....
  
  , a Charlie Chaplin short
• The Embarrassment of Riches
• The Eyes of Julia Deep
  The Eyes of Julia Deep
  The Eyes of Julia Deep is a 1918 silent film starring Mary Miles Minter, directed by Lloyd Ingraham. The film is based on the short story by the same name, written by Kate L. McLaurin. It is one of the few films starring Minter which are known to have survived.-Plot:Julia Deep is a young woman...
  
  
• Father Sergius
  Father Sergius (film)
  Father Sergius is a 1917 Russian silent film directed by Yakov Protazanov based on the eponymous story by Leo Tolstoy....
  
  , directed by Yakov Protazanov
  Yakov Protazanov
  Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov was Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia....
  
  , starring Ivan Mozzukhin - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Ghost of Rosy Taylor
• The Ghost of Slumber Mountain
  The Ghost of Slumber Mountain
  The Ghost of Slumber Mountain was a 1918 film, written and directed by special effects pioneer Willis O'Brien, produced by Herbert M. Dawley, and starred both men; Dawley played Uncle Jack Holmes, while O'Brien played the ghost of Mad Dick the Hermit...
  
  
• The Goddess of Lost Lake
  The Goddess of Lost Lake
  The Goddess of Lost Lake is a 1918 silent era drama motion picture starring Louise Glaum, Lawson Butt, and Hayward Mack.Directed by Wallace Worsley and produced by Louise Glaum and Robert Bunton through her production company, the Louise Glaum Organization, in association with Robert Brunton...
  
  , starring 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....
  
  
• Headin' South
  Headin' South
  Headin' South is a comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Douglas Fairbanks. A lost film.-Cast:* Douglas Fairbanks - Headin' South* Frank Campeau - Spanish Joe* Katherine MacDonald - The Girl* Jim Mason - His Aide...
  
  , directed by Allan Dwan
  Allan Dwan
  Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:...
  
  , starring Douglas Fairbanks
  Douglas Fairbanks
  Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....
  
  
• The Heart of Humanity
  The Heart of Humanity
  -External links:* at IMDb* at AllMovie**...
  
  (starring Erich von Stroheim
  Erich von Stroheim
  Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.-Background:...
  
  )
• Hearts of the World
  Hearts of the World
  Hearts of the World is a silent film directed by D.W. Griffith, a wartime propaganda classic that was filmed on location in Britain and near the Western Front, made at the request of the British Government to change the neutral mindset of the American public.-Plot:Two families live next to one...
  
  , directed by D.W. Griffith, starring 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....
  
   and Dorothy Gish
  Dorothy Gish
  Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish.-Early life:...
  
  
• The House of Mirth
  The House of Mirth
  The House of Mirth , is a novel by Edith Wharton. First published in 1905, the novel is Wharton's first important work of fiction, sold 140,000 copies between October and the end of December, and added to Wharton's existing fortune....
  
  , directed by Albert Capellani
  Albert Capellani
  Albert Capellani was a French film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed 168 films between 1940 and 1922...
  
  , starring Katherine Corri Harris
  Katherine Corri Harris
  Katherine Corri Harris, also known as Katherine Harris Barrymore was a silent film actress who appeared only in three films. Katherine grew up in wealth and privilege and was a product of High Society. She was the first wife of the actor John Barrymore. They were married from 1910-1917...
  
  
• Huck and Tom
• Johanna Enlists
• The Lamb
• The Light of the Western Stars
• Masks and Faces
• Men Who Have Made Love to Me
  Men Who Have Made Love to Me
  Men Who Have Made Love to Me is a 1918 silent movie starring Mary MacLane and directed by Arthur Berthelet.The story of six affairs of the heart, drawn from controversial feminist author Mary MacLane's 1910 syndicated article by the same name...
  
  
• Mickey
  Mickey (1918 film)
  Mickey is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mabel Normand, directed by F. Richard Jones and James Young, and written by J.G. Hawks. The movie was produced by the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company.-Plot:...
  
  , directed by F. Richard Jones
  F. Richard Jones
  Frank Richard Jones was an American director and producer.-Early life and career:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dick Jones was sixteen years old when he became involved in the fledgling film industry in his hometown with the Atlas film company...
  
  , starring 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...
  
  
• Moonshine
  Moonshine (1918 film)
  Moonshine is a 1918 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.While the film is considered incomplete, there are different surviving prints of varying quality...
  
  , a 'Fatty' Arbuckle
  Fatty Arbuckle
  Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd...
  
  /Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
   short
• Nocturnal Tunes
• Out of the Inkwell
  Out of the Inkwell
  Out of the Inkwell was a major animated series of the silent era produced by Max Fleischer from 1918 to 1929.The series was the result of three short experimental films that Max Fleischer independently produced in the period of 1914-1916 to demonstrate his invention, the Rotoscope, which was a...
  
  , animated film, directed by Max Fleischer
  Max Fleischer
  Max Fleischer was an American animator. He was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios...
  
  
• Out West
  Out West (1918 film)
  Out West is a 1918 short comedy film, a satire on contemporary westerns, starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and Al St. John. It was the first of Arbuckle's "Comique" films to be filmed on the west coast, the previous five having been filmed in and around New York City...
  
  , a 'Fatty' Arbuckle
  Fatty Arbuckle
  Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd...
  
  /Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
   short
• The Outlaw and His Wife
  The Outlaw and His Wife
  The Outlaw and His Wife is a 1918 Swedish silent film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a play from 1911 by Jóhann Sigurjónsson. It tells the story of Eyvind of the Hills, an 18th century Icelandic outlaw....
  
  (Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru), directed by and starring 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...
  
   - (Sweden)
• The Richest Girl
• The Romance of Tarzan
  The Romance of Tarzan
  The Romance of Tarzan is a silent, black and white action adventure film directed by Wilfred Lucas starring Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, Thomas Jefferson and Cleo Madison. The movie was the second Tarzan movie ever made, and is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' original novel Tarzan of the Apes...
  
  
• Shoulder Arms
  Shoulder Arms
  Shoulder Arms is Charlie Chaplin's second film for First National Pictures. Released in 1918, it is a silent comedy set in France during World War I. The main part of the film occurs in a dream. It co-starred Edna Purviance and Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin's brother...
  
  , a Charlie Chaplin film
• The Sinking of the Lusitania
  The Sinking of the Lusitania
  The Sinking of the Lusitania is an animated short film by American artist Winsor McCay. It features a short 12-minute explanation of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania after it was struck by two torpedoes* fired from a German U-boat. The film was one of many animated silent films published to create...
  
  , a short animated propaganda film by Winsor McCay
  Winsor McCay
  Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator.A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades...
  
  
• Salomé
  Salomé (1918 film)
  Salomé is a silent film produced by William Fox and starring actress Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.Henri Langlois, a French film preservationist, said he had the opportunity to buy this film but dismissed it as Fox, Theda Bara, and American spectacle...
  
  , directed by J. Gordon Edwards
  J. Gordon Edwards
  J. Gordon Edwards was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda...
  
  , starring 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...
  
  
• Stella Maris
  Stella Maris (1918 film)
  Stella Maris is a 1918 silent film directed by Marshall Neilan, written by Frances Marion and based on William J. Locke's novel. The film was remade in 1925, with Mary Philbin in the title role.-Plot:...
  
  , directed by Marshall Neilan
  Marshall Neilan
  Marshall Ambrose Neilan was an American motion picture actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer.-Early life:...
  
  , starring Mary Pickford
  Mary Pickford
  Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
  
  
• Tarzan of the Apes
  Tarzan of the Apes (film)
  Tarzan of the Apes is a 1918 American action/adventure silent film directed by Scott Sidney starring Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, George B. French and Gordon Griffith. The movie was the first Tarzan movie ever made, and is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' original novel Tarzan of the Apes...
  
  , directed by Scott Sidney
  Scott Sidney
  Scott Sidney , was an American film director. He directed 117 films between 1913 and 1927.He died in London, England, United Kingdom.-External links:...
  
  , starring Elmo Lincoln
  Elmo Lincoln
  Elmo Lincoln was an American film actor.Born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt, the barrel-chested actor is best known in his silent movie role as the first Tarzan in 1918's Tarzan of the Apes as an adult --...
  
   and Enid Markey
  Enid Markey
  Enid Markey was an American actress of stage, film and television. She originated the role of Jane in films, playing the character twice - in 1918 .Her first film role was in The Fortunes of War...
  
  
• The Tenth Symphony
  The Tenth Symphony
  The Tenth Symphony is a 1918 silent French drama film directed by Abel Gance. -Cast:* Séverin-Mars - Composer Enric Damor* Jean Toulout - Frederic 'Fred' Ryce* Emmy Lynn - Eve Dinant* Ariane Hugon - Dancer* André Lefaur - Marquis de Groix St-Blaise...
  
  (La Dixième Symphonie), directed by Abel Gance
  Abel Gance
  Abel Gance was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse , La Roue , and the monumental Napoléon .-Early life:...
  
  , starring Séverin-Mars and Jean Toulout
  Jean Toulout
  Jean Toulout was a French film actor. He appeared in over 100 films between 1911 and 1959.He was born and died in Paris, France.-Selected filmography:* La Fugue de Monsieur Perle...
  
   - (France)
• Tih Minh
  Tih Minh
  Tih Minh is a 1918 French film serial directed by Louis Feuillade.-Cast:* Mary Harald - Tih Minh* René Cresté - Jacques d'Athys* Georges Biscot - Placido* Édouard Mathé - Sir Francis Grey* Louis Leubas - Kistna* Gaston Michel - Dr. Gilson...
  
  , directed by Louis Feuillade
  Louis Feuillade
  Louis Feuillade was a prolific and prominent French film director from the silent era. Between 1906 and 1924 he directed over 630 films...
  
  , starring René Cresté
  René Cresté
  René Cresté was a French stage and film actor and director of the silent film era. Cresté is possibly best recalled as Judex, the title character in the Louis Feuillade-directed crime-adventure serial Judex, which ran in twelve installments in theaters from 1917 until 1918.-Early life and...
  
   - (France)
• Triple Trouble, a Charlie Chaplin short, starring Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance
  Edna Purviance
  Edna Purviance was an American actress during the silent movie era. She was the leading lady in many Charlie Chaplin movies. In a span of eight years, she appeared in over thirty films with Chaplin.-Early life:...
  
  
• Vendemiaire
  Vendémiaire
  Vendémiaire was the first month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the French word vendange .Vendémiaire was the first month of the autumn quarter . It started on the day of the autumnal equinox, which fell between 22 September and 24 September, inclusive. It thus ended...
  
  - (France)
• Under the Yoke
  Under the Yoke (film)
  Under the Yoke is a 1918 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Maria Valverda* G. Raymond Nye - Diablo Ramirez...
  
  , directed by J. Gordon Edwards
  J. Gordon Edwards
  J. Gordon Edwards was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda...
  
  , starring 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...
  
  
• Under the Greenwood Tree
  Under the Greenwood Tree (1918 film)
  Under the Greenwood Tree is a 1918 silent film feature directed by Emile Chautard and starring Elsie Ferguson. The movie was based on a play by Henry V. Esmond. An unrelated British film with this title based on a Thomas Hardy story was made in 1929. Film possibly has a scene where Ferguson swims...
  
  directed by Emile Chautard
  Emile Chautard
  Emile Chautard was a French film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed 107 films between 1910 and 1924...
  
   starring Elsie Ferguson
  Elsie Ferguson
  Elsie Louise Ferguson was an American stage and film actress.-Early life:Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Benson Ferguson, a successful attorney...
  
  

Comedy film series

• Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  (1913–1938)
• 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...
  
  (1914–1940)
• Lupino Lane
  Lupino Lane
  Lupino Lane was an English actor and theatre manager, and a member of the famous Lupino family. Lane started out as a child performer, known as 'Little Nipper', and went on to appear in a wide range of theatrical, music hall and film performances...
  
  (1915–1939)
• Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
  (1917–1944)

Births

• January 29 - John Forsythe
  John Forsythe
  John Forsythe was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the sitcom Bachelor Father ; as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the crime drama Charlie's...
  
  , actor (d. 2010
  2010 in film
  The year 2010 saw many new films released worldwide. 2010 saw a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking and film releases after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such as Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Jackass 3D, all animated films and...
  
  )
• February 4 - Ida Lupino
  Ida Lupino
  Ida Lupino was an English-born film actress and director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed seven others, mostly in the United States. She appeared in serial television programmes 58 times and directed 50 other episodes...
  
  , actress, director (d. 1995
  1995 in film
  -Top grossing films:-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.* March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation....
  
  )
• February 16 - Patty Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters
• March 1 - Roger Delgado
  Roger Delgado
  Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto was an English actor, best known for his role as the first Master in Doctor Who....
  
  , actor (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....
  
  )
• March 9 - Mickey Spillane
  Mickey Spillane
  Frank Morrison Spillane , better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally...
  
  , writer, actor (d. 2006
  2006 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 2006...
  
  )
• April 17 - Anne Shirley
  Dawn Evelyn Paris
  Dawn Evelyeen Paris , known as Anne Shirley, was an American film actress.Beginning her career as a child actress under the name Dawn O'Day, Shirley adopted the name of the character she played in Anne of Green Gables in 1934, and achieved a successful career in supporting roles...
  
  , actress (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:...
  
  )
• April 17 - William Holden
  William Holden
  William Holden was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974...
  
  , actor (d. 1981
  1981 in film
  -Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
  
  )
• May 14 - June Duprez
  June Duprez
  June Duprez was an English film actress.The daughter of American vaudeville performer Fred Duprez, she was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England, during an air raid in the final months of World War I....
  
  , 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....
  
  )
• May 26 - John Dall
  John Dall
  John Dall was an American actor.Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for two film roles; the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's film Rope, and the trigger-happy lead in the 1950 noir Gun Crazy.He first came to fame as the young prodigy who comes alive under the...
  
  , actor (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...
  
  )
• June 8 - Robert Preston
  Robert Preston (actor)
  -Early life:Preston was born Robert Preston Meservey in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Ruth L. and Frank Wesley Meservey, a garment worker and billing clerk for American Express. After attending Abraham Lincoln High School in Los Angeles, California, he studied acting at the Pasadena Community...
  
  , actor, singer (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 30 - Susan Hayward
  Susan Hayward
  Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone with the Wind . Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting...
  
  , actress (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....
  
  )
• July 6 - Sebastian Cabot
  Sebastian Cabot (actor)
  Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot was an English film and television actor, best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman, "Giles French," opposite Brian Keith's character, in the 1960s sitcom Family Affair. He was also known for playing Dr...
  
  , actor (d. 1977
  1977 in film
  The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....
  
  )
• July 14 - Ingmar Bergman
  Ingmar Bergman
  Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
  
  , actor, writer, 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...
  
  )
• July 18 - Jane Frazee
  Jane Frazee
  Mary Jane Frehse , known as Jane Frazee, was an American actress, singer, and dancer.-Professional life:...
  
  , singer, actress (d. 1985
  1985 in film
  -Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...
  
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• July 26 - Marjorie Lord
  Marjorie Lord
  Marjorie Lord is an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" Williams opposite Danny Thomas on Make Room for Daddy and later Make Room for Granddaddy.-Early life and career:...
  
  , actress
• August 9 - Robert Aldrich
  Robert Aldrich
  Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly , The Big Knife , What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte , The Flight of the Phoenix , The Dirty Dozen , and The Longest Yard .-Biography:Robert...
  
  , director (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...
  
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• August 17 - Evelyn Ankers
  Evelyn Ankers
  Evelyn Ankers was a British actress born in Chile. She often played variations on the role of the cultured young leading lady in many American horror films during the 1940s, most notably The Wolf Man at age 23 opposite Lon Chaney, Jr., a frequent screen partner...
  
  , actress (d. 1985
  1985 in film
  -Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...
  
  )
• September 5 - Rin Tin Tin
  Rin Tin Tin
  Rin Tin Tin was the name given to a dog adopted from a WWI battlefield that went on to star in twenty-three Hollywood films. The name was subsequently given to several related German Shepherd dogs featured in fictional stories on film, radio and television.-Origins:The first of the line Rin Tin...
  
  , canine actor (d. 1932
  1932 in film
  -Events:*Cary Grant's film career begins*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*Disney released Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film.*Santa, first sound film made in Mexico released....
  
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• September 21 - Rand Brooks, actor (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,...
  
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• October 9 - Lila Kedrova
  Lila Kedrova
  Lila Kedrova was a Russian-born French actress.-Biography:Kedrova claimed to have been born in 1918, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her parents were Russian opera singers. Lila Kedrova's brother was Nikolay Kedrov, Jr...
  
  , 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 ....
  
  )
• October 13 - Robert Walker
  Robert Hudson Walker
  Robert Hudson Walker was an American actor. He is probably best known for his role as Bruno Anthony in Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller Strangers on a Train.-Early life:...
  
  , actor (d. 1951
  1951 in film
  The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Sweden - May Britt is scouted by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...
  
  )
• October 17 - Rita Hayworth
  Rita Hayworth
  Rita Hayworth was an American film actress and dancer who attained fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars...
  
  , actress (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....
  
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• October 27 - Teresa Wright
  Teresa Wright
  Teresa Wright was an American actress. She received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1942 for her performance in Mrs. Miniver. That same year, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance in Pride of the Yankees opposite Gary Cooper...
  
  , 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...
  
  )
• November 4 - Art Carney
  Art Carney
  Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. He is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners....
  
  , actor (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,...
  
  )
• November 4 - Cameron Mitchell
  Cameron Mitchell (actor)
  Cameron Mitchell was an American film, television and Broadway actor with close ties to one of Canada's most successful families, and considered, by Lee Strasberg, to be one of the founding members of The Actor's Studio in New York City.-Early life and career:Born Cameron MacDowell Mitzel in...
  
  , 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...
  
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• November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor
• December 20 - Audrey Totter
  Audrey Totter
  Audrey Mary Totter is an American actress and former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star of Austrian-Slovene and Swedish descent...
  
  , actress

Deaths

• January 12 - Simeon Wiltsie, actor The Wishing Ring, (b. 1853)
• February 1 - Joseph Kaufman
  Joseph Kaufman
  Joseph Kaufman was an American silent film actor and director prominent during the WW1 years. He was born in Washington, D.C. and died in New York City in the Influenza pandemic of 1918. His wife was silent film star Ethel Clayton. Kaufman started out as an actor appearing on Broadway in 1903 with...
  
  , silent film actor & director, married to film star Ethel Clayton
  Ethel Clayton
  Ethel Clayton was an American actress of the silent film era.-Career:Clayton's screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. She jockeyed her early film appearances with a burgeoning stage career. Her pretty blond looks were reminiscient of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana...
  
  
• February 15 - Vernon Castle, dancer (b. 1887)
• April 30 - "Mother" Mary Maurice
  Mary Maurice
  Mary Maurice was an American actress, who appeared 139 films between 1909 and 1918....
  
  , veteran stage & film actress (born 1844)
• June 29 - John Van Den Broek, Dutch cinematographer, worked on several Maurice Tourneur
  Maurice Tourneur
  Maurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the...
  
   films (drowned) while filming the movie Woman(1918)
• July 4 - Walter Stradling, cinematographer several films with Mary Pickford (b. 1875)
• August 12 - Anna Held
  Anna Held
  Helene Anna Held was a Polish-born stage performer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband. -Early life:...
  
  , actress & singer (b. 1873)
• September 21 - Hal August, actor; brother of Edwin August
  Edwin August
  Edwin August was an American actor, director and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in 152 films between 1909 and 1947. He also directed 52 films between 1912 and 1919....
  
   (b. 1890)
• October 19 - Harold Lockwood
  Harold Lockwood
  Harold A. Lockwood was an American silent film actor and one of the most popular matinee idols of the early film period during the 1910s.-Career:...
  
  , American actor (b.1887)
• October 28 - Louise Vale, American actress
• November 6 - William Shea, veteran film actor & director, b. 1862
• December 6 - Charles Gunn, American actor (b. 1883)