Events

• April 15 - Lee De Forest
  Lee De Forest
  Lee De Forest was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use...
  
   demonstrates the Phonofilm
  Phonofilm
  In 1919, Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patent on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines. These parallel lines photographically recorded electrical waveforms from a microphone, which were translated back...
  
   sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater
  Rivoli Theatre (South Fallsburg, New York)
  The Rivoli Theatre in South Fallsburg, New York, United States is located at the intersection of NY 42 and Laurel Avenue. It was built in 1923, renovated in the late 1930s and remains almost intact from that period....
  
   in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville
  Vaudeville
  Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
  
   performers.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1923

• Adam's Rib
  Adam's Rib (1923 film)
  Adam's Rib is a 1923 drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. This film is considered lost. The story has nothing to do with the 1948 George Cukor film starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.-Cast:* Milton Sills - Michael Ramsay...
  
  
• Ashes of Vengeance
  Ashes of Vengeance
  Ashes of Vengeance is a 1923 movie by Frank Lloyd, starring Norma Talmadge and Wallace Beery. This film survives at the Library of Congress and at the George Eastman House, Rochester New York.-Cast:*Norma Talmadge - Yolande de Breux...
  
  , starring Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.Her most famous film was Smilin’ Through , but she also...
  
  
• Black Oxen
  Black Oxen
  Black Oxen is an American silent film released in December 1923, starring Corinne Griffith, Conway Tearle and Clara Bow and based on the novel by Gertrude Atherton...
  
  
• Cameo Kirby
  Cameo Kirby
  Cameo Kirby is a 1923 silent drama film directed by John Ford and featured Jean Arthur in her onscreen debut. It was Ford's first film credited as John Ford instead of Jack Ford. It was based on a play by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. The story had been filmed as a silent before in 1915...
  
  , directed by John Ford
  John Ford
  John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...
  
  ; starring John Gilbert
  John Gilbert (actor)
  John Gilbert was an American actor and a major star of the silent film era.Known as "the great lover," he rivaled even Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw...
  
  
• The Covered Wagon
  The Covered Wagon
  The Covered Wagon is an American silent Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a novel by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon. J...
  
  
• The Daring Years
  The Daring Years
  The Daring Years is an independently released American silent film melodrama, directed by Kenneth Webb and produced by Daniel Carson Goodman. The film starred Mildred Harris, Clara Bow, Charles Emmett Mack, and Tyrone Power, Sr....
  
  , starring 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...
  
  , Charles Emmett Mack
  Charles Emmett Mack
  Charles Emmett Mack , was an American film actor during the silent film era. He appeared in 17 films between 1916 and 1927. Born Charles Emmett McNerney in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mack was a protégé of pioneering film director D. W...
  
   and Clara Bow
  Clara Bow
  Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex...
  
  
• Drakula halala - (Hungary)
• The Extra Girl
  The Extra Girl
  The Extra Girl is a 1923 American silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand. Produced by Mack Sennett, The Extra Girl followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about Hollywood, such as King Vidor’s Show People...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• The Gold Diggers
  The Gold Diggers (1923 film)
  The Gold Diggers is a Warner Bros. silent film directed by Harry Beaumont with screenplay by Grant Carpenter based on the play of the same name by Avery Hopwood which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920. Both the play and the film were produced by David Belasco...
  
  
• Homeward Bound
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1923 American film directed by Wallace Worsley and produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg. It stars Lon Chaney, Sr., Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Nigel de Brulier, Brandon Hurst. The film is the second most famous adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel,...
  
  , starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...
  
  
• Daddy starring 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...
  
  
• The Lights of London - (U.K.
  British films of the 1920s
  List of British films from the 1920s: The decade saw both the introduction of Sound films and the passing of the Cinematograph Films Act 1927 designed to support British filmmaking.-1920:-1921:-1922:-1923:-1924:-1925:-1926:-1927:...
  
  )
• Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske (The Man in the Iron Mask), directed by Max Glass - (Germany)
• Merry-Go-Round
  Merry-Go-Round (1923 film)
  Merry-Go-Round is a feature film by Erich von Stroheim and his replacement, Rupert Julian, starring Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin,and released by Universal Pictures.-Cast:*Norman Kerry - Count Franz Maxmilian Von Hohenegg...
  
  
• Miss Suwanna of Siam
  Miss Suwanna of Siam
  Miss Suwanna of Siam, or Nang Sao Suwan, was a 1923 romance film written and directed by Henry MacRae, set in Thailand and starring Thai actors. It was one of first feature films to be made in Thailand, and was the first Hollywood co-production in Thailand...
  
  - The first international feature film set in Thailand it features an all Thai cast
• Our Hospitality
  Our Hospitality
  Our Hospitality is a silent comedy directed, produced, written by and starring Buster Keaton. Released in 1923 by Metro Pictures Corporation, the movie uses slapstick and situational comedy to tell the story of Willie McKay, a city slicker who gets caught in the middle of the infamous Canfield &...
  
  , directed by and starring 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...
  
  
• The Pilgrim, directed by and starring 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...
  
   with 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:...
  
   and Syd Chaplin
• The Purple Highway, starring Madge Kennedy
  Madge Kennedy
  Madge Kennedy was a movie and stage actress of the silent film era....
  
  , Monte Blue
  Monte Blue
  Monte Blue was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles....
  
  , Vincent Coleman
  Vincent Coleman
  This is for the actor. For the heroic train dispatcher, see Vince Coleman .Vincent Coleman was an American stage and film actor of the silent film era of the late 1910s and early 1920s....
  
   and Pedro de Córdoba
  Pedro de Cordoba
  Pedro de Cordoba , was an American actor.Pedro de Cordoba, who appeared in his first film, a 1915 version of Carmen, was actually a classically trained theatre actor who confessed he did not enjoy appearing in silent films nearly as much as he liked working on stage...
  
  
• Rosita
  Rosita (film)
  Rosita is a 1923 silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The film is based upon a 1872 opera Don César de Bazan.-Synopsis:The film takes place in Seville, in a period where the city has sunk into the depths of depravity and sin...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• La Roue
  La Roue
  La Roue is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse!. It was released in 1923. Originally 32 reels in length , the current reconstruction runs 20 reels...
  
  (The Wheel), 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:...
  
   - (France
  French films of 1923
  A list of films produced in France in 1923:-1923:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database**...
  
  )
• Safety Last!
  Safety Last!
  Safety Last! is a 1923 romantic comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic. The film was highly successful and critically...
  
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
   - This film has the famous scene where Lloyd is seen hanging from a clock.
• Salomé
  Salomé (1923 film)
  Salomé , a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name...
  
  , directed by Charles Bryant; starring Alla Nazimova
  Alla Nazimova
  Alla Nazimova , was a Russian American film and theatre actress, a screenwriter and film producer. She is perhaps best known as simply Nazimova, but also went under the name Alia Nasimoff.-Early life:...
  
  
• Scaramouche
  Scaramouche (1923 film)
  Scaramouche is a silent costume adventure based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, directed by Rex Ingram, released by Metro Pictures, and starring Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, and Lloyd Ingraham....
  
  Starring Ramón Novarro
  Ramón Novarro
  Ramón Novarro was a Mexican leading man actor in Hollywood in the early 20th century. He was the next male "Sex Symbol" after the death of Rudolph Valentino...
  
  , Alice Terry
  Alice Terry
  Alice Terry was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era, appearing in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933.-Career:...
  
  , Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, son of Bertrand Stone and Philena Heald Ball. Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer. He soon began acting...
  
  , Lloyd Ingraham
• Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination
  Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination
  Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination is a 1923 German silent film directed by Arthur Robison. It is considered part of German Expressionism.-Plot:...
  
  (aka Warning Shadows), directed by Arthur Robison
  Arthur Robison
  Arthur Robison was a German film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed 20 films between 1916 and 1935.-Selected filmography:* A Night of Horror...
  
   - (Germany)
• The Shock
  The Shock (1923 film)
  The Shock is a 1923 film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lon Chaney as a cripple named Wilse Dilling. The film was based on a story by William Dudley Pelley...
  
  , starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...
  
  
• Song of Love, starring Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.Her most famous film was Smilin’ Through , but she also...
  
  
• Souls for Sale
  Souls for Sale
  Souls for Sale is a silent film written, directed, and produced by Rupert Hughes from his novel of the same name. The film featured Eleanor Boardman in her first leading role, having won a contract with Goldwyn Studios through their "New Faces of 1921" contest just two years prior.The film is most...
  
  , starring Richard Dix
  Richard Dix
  Richard Dix was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film. His standard on-screen image was that of the rugged and stalwart hero.-Early life:...
  
   and Eleanor Boardman
  Eleanor Boardman
  Eleanor Boardman was an American film actress, popular during the era of silent movies.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Die Straße
  Die Straße
  Die Straße , also known as The Street, is a German film, directed by Karl Grune.-Cast:*Eugen Klöpfer ... Lower middle-class man*Lucie Höflich ... Wife of man*Anton Edthofer ... Pimp*Aud Egede-Nissen ... Harlot...
  
  (The Street), directed by Karl Grune
  Karl Grune
  Karl Grune was an Austrian film director and writer who made many silent films in the 1920s.Grune was born in Vienna, where he later attended drama school...
  
   - (Germany)
• The Ten Commandments
  The Ten Commandments (1923 film)
  The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American epic silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Theodore Roberts as Moses, Charles de Rochefort as Pharaoh Ramesses, Estelle Taylor as Miriam the sister of Moses, and James Neill as Aaron, the brother of Moses...
  
  , directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...
  
  ; starring Theodore Roberts
  Theodore Roberts
  Theodore Roberts the actor is not to be confused with author Theodore Goodridge Roberts, 1877–1953, who wrote "The Harbor Master". Please see discussion page....
  
  
• Three Ages, a 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...
  
   film
• Three Wise Fools, directed by King Vidor
  King Vidor
  King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades...
  
  
• Under the Red Robe
  Under the Red Robe (1923 film)
  Under the Red Robe is a 1923 silent historical drama directed by Alan Crosland based upon Stanley J. Weyman's novel Under the Red Robe. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera...
  
  starring Robert B. Mantell
  Robert B. Mantell
  Robert Bruce Mantell was a heralded Shakespearean stage actor who made several silent films. His mother was Elizabeth Bruce Mantell who objected to her son becoming an actor so he used the name 'Robert Hudson' early in his career. Mantell first came to the United States in 1874 and stayed two...
  
   directed by Alan Crosland
  Alan Crosland
  Alan Crosland was an American stage actor and film director.-Early life and career:Born in New York City, New York to a well-to-do family, Alan Crosland attended Dartmouth College. After graduation he took a job as a writer with the New York Globe magazine...
  
  
• The White Sister
  The White Sister (1923 film)
  The White Sister is a 1923 drama film starring Lillian Gish, directed by Henry King, and released by Metro Pictures about nine months before its merger into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was based on the 1909 novel by F. Marion Crawford...
  
  , 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 Ronald Colman
  Ronald Colman
  Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he...
  
  
• Why Worry?
  Why Worry?
  Why Worry? is a 1923 American comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It was made shortly after and within the same year as Lloyd's most well-known film today, Safety Last!.- Plot :...
  
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  
• Within the Law
  Within the Law (1923 film)
  Within the Law is a 1923 silent film drama directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Norma Talmadge. In 2009 the film was released on DVD along with Talmadge's 1926 film Kiki...
  
  , directed by Frank Lloyd
  Frank Lloyd
  Frank Lloyd was a film director, scriptwriter and producer...
  
  ; starring Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.Her most famous film was Smilin’ Through , but she also...
  
  
• A Woman of Paris
  A Woman of Paris
  A Woman of Paris is a feature-length silent film that debuted in 1923. The film, an atypical drama film for its creator, was written, directed, produced and later scored by Charlie Chaplin. It is also known as A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate....
  
  , directed by Charles Chaplin; starring 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:...
  
  
• The Woman Who Obeyed
  The Woman Who Obeyed (1923 film)
  The Woman Who Obeyed is a 1923 British silent film directed by Sidney Morgan.-Plot:Overbearing husband separates his wife from her children but is reconciled to her after he has accidentally killed their son. -Cast:*Hilda Bayley as Marion Dorchester...
  
  - (U.K.)

Short film series

• 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)
• 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...
  
  (1917–1941)
• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...
  
  (1921–1943)
• Our Gang
  Our Gang
  Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...
  
  (1922-1944
  1944 in film
  The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.-Events:*July 20 - Since You Went Away is released....
  
  )

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent film era. His black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combine to make Felix one of the most recognized cartoon characters in film history...
  
  (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown
  Koko the Clown
  Koko the Clown was an animated character created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer. The character originated when Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a device that allowed for animation to be more lifelike by tracing motion picture footage of human movement. To test out his new invention...
  
  (1919–1934)
• Aesop's Film Fables
  Aesop's Film Fables
  Aesop's Film Fables was a series of animated short subjects, created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. Terry came upon the inspiration for the series by young actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook, who suggested making a series of cartoons based on Aesop's Fables. Although Terry later claimed he...
  
  (1921–1934)
• Alice Comedies
  Alice Comedies
  The "Alice Comedies" are a series of animated cartoonscreated by Walt Disney in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated landscape....
  
  
  • Alice's Wonderland
• The Red Head Comedies (1923).

Births

• January 7 - Pinkas Braun
  Pinkas Braun
  Pinkas Braun was a Swiss film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1954 and 2002.He was born in Zürich, Switzerland and died in Munich, Germany.-Selected filmography:* The Puzzle of the Red Orchid...
  
  , actor, director
• January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan, actress (d. 1992
  1992 in film
  The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films:-Awards:Academy AwardsGolden Globe AwardsNational Film Awards...
  
  )
• January 19 - Jean Stapleton, actress
• January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky
  Paddy Chayefsky
  Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky , was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay....
  
   writer (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....
  
  )
• February 2 - Bonita Granville
  Bonita Granville
  Bonita Granville was an American film actress and television producer.-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Granville was the daughter of stage actors, and made her film debut at the age of nine in Westward Passage...
  
  , actress (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...
  
  )
• February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli
  Franco Zeffirelli
  Franco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....
  
  , director
• February 21 – Lola Flores
  Lola Flores
  María Dolores "Lola" Flores Ruiz was a Spanish singer, dancer, and actress.- Professional career :Flores was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz . Although thought to be only part gypsy, she strongly identified with the Spanish gypsy culture...
  
  , actress (d. 1995)
• February 28 - Charles Durning
  Charles Durning
  Charles Durning is an American actor. With appearances in over 100 films, Durning's memorable roles include police officers in the Oscar-winning The Sting and crime drama Dog Day Afternoon , along with the comedies Tootsie, To Be Or Not To Be and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the last two...
  
  , actor
• April 12 - Ann Miller
  Ann Miller
  Johnnie Lucille Collier, better known as Ann Miller was an American singer, dancer and actress.-Early life:...
  
  , dancer, 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...
  
  )
• May 7 - Anne Baxter
  Anne Baxter
  Anne Baxter was an American actress known for her performances in films such as The Magnificent Ambersons , The Razor's Edge , All About Eve and The Ten Commandments .-Early life:...
  
  , 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...
  
  )
• July 22 - Mukesh, singer (d. 1976)
• August 3 - Jean Hagen
  Jean Hagen
  -Early life:Hagen was born as Jean Shirley Verhagen in Chicago, Illinois, to Christian Verhagen , a Dutch immigrant, and his Chicago-born wife, Marie. The family moved to Elkhart, Indiana when she was 12 and she subsequently graduated from Elkhart High School...
  
  , actress (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....
  
  )
• August 10 - Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming , is an American film and television actress.She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most beautiful and glamorous actresses of her day...
  
  , actress
• August 29 - Richard Attenborough
  Richard Attenborough
  Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is a British actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. As director and producer he won two Academy Awards for the 1982 film Gandhi...
  
  , English actor and director
• September 7 - Peter Lawford
  Peter Lawford
  Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen , better known as Peter Lawford, was an English-American actor.He was a member of the "Rat Pack", and brother-in-law to US President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting...
  
  , 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 4 - Charlton Heston
  Charlton Heston
  Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes...
  
  , 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...
  
  )
• October 5 - Glynis Johns
  Glynis Johns
  Glynis Johns is a South African-born Welsh stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer . With a career spanning seven decades, Johns is often cited as the "complete actress", who happens to be a trained pianist and singer...
  
  , actress
• October 16 - Linda Darnell
  Linda Darnell
  Linda Darnell was an American film actress.Darnell was a model as a child, and progressed to theater and film acting as an adolescent. At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in big budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s...
  
  , 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:...
  
  )
• November 9 - Dorothy Dandridge
  Dorothy Dandridge
  Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and popular singer, and was the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress...
  
  , singer, 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:...
  
  )
• November 28 - Gloria Grahame
  Gloria Grahame
  Gloria Grahame was an American Academy Award–winning actress.Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life , MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios...
  
  , actress (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....
  
  )
• December 10 - Harold Gould
  Harold Gould
  Harold V. Goldstein , best known by his stage name Harold Gould, was an American actor best known for playing Martin Morgenstern in the 1970s sitcoms Rhoda and The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as Miles Webber in The Golden Girls...
  
  , actor (d. 2010)

Deaths

• January 18 – Wallace Reid
  Wallace Reid
  Wallace Reid was an actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".-Early life:Born William Wallace Reid in St...
  
   American actor
• March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt
  Sarah Bernhardt
  Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas...
  
  , French actress
• May 21 - Charles Kent
  Charles Kent (actor)
  Charles Kent was a British-born American silent film actor and director. He appeared in 141 films between 1908 and 1923...
  
  , veteran actor & director
• June 11 - Porter Strong, American silent film actor
• June 17 - Macey Harlan, screen actor
• July 12 - Harry Lonsdale, stage & screen actor (b. 1865)
• July 30 - Sir Charles Hawtrey
  Sir Charles Hawtrey
  Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey was a celebrated stage actor, comedian, director and producer/manager, knighted in 1922 by King George V.-Early life:...
  
  , veteran British actor
• August 29 - Bernard J. Durning
  Bernard Durning
  Bernard Joseph Durning was an American silent film director and star who worked primarily withLon Chaney, Dustin Farnum, and Buck Jones. He was married to silent movie star Shirley Mason, whose sister, Viola Dana,...
  
  , American actor and director,
• September 26 - Jerome Patrick
  Jerome Patrick
  Jerome Patrick , was New Zealand born American stage and film actor. He appeared in 10 films between 1919 and 1924.He was born in New Zealand and died in New York, New York.- Selected filmography :* Forever...
  
  , Broadway stage & silent film leading man
• November 20 - Allen Holubar
  Allen Holubar
  Allen Holubar was an American actor, film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in 38 films between 1913 and 1917. He also directed 33 films between 1916 and 1923....
  
  , silent film actor and director
• November 30 - Martha Mansfield
  Martha Mansfield
  Martha Mansfield was an American actress in silent films and vaudeville stage plays.-Early life and career:Born Martha Ehrlich in New York City to Maurice and Harriett Gibson Ehrlich...
  
  , American actress
• December 28 - Frank Hayes
  Frank Hayes (actor)
  Frank Hayes was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 73 films between 1913 and 1924. An actor with a unique hatchet face appearance he appeared mostly in comedies...
  
  , American actor & comedian

Film Debuts

• Jean Arthur
  Jean Arthur
  Jean Arthur was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur...
  
  
• Johnny Arthur
  Johnny Arthur
  Johnny Arthur was an American stage and motion picture actor.-Early years:Born John Lennox Arthur Williams in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Arthur was a veteran of twenty-five years on stage before he made his screen debut in 1923's The Unknown Purple...
  
  
• Gary Cooper
  Gary Cooper
  Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...
  
  
• Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
  
  
• William Haines
  William Haines
  Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality...
  
  
• Jack Oakie
  Jack Oakie
  Jack Oakie was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.-Early life:...
  
  
• Fay Wray
  Fay Wray
  Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong...