1962 in film

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Events

• May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
• August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose.
• September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace begins and will continue for another 5 years.
• October 5 – Dr. No launches the James Bond series, the second longest-running film franchise of all time, still running more than 50 years later. It also launches the career of Sean Connery.

  Awards

Notable films released in 1962

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• The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker

  A

• Abhijan, directed by Satyajit Ray –
• Advise & Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
• Alaverdoba, directed by Giorgi Shengelaia
• All Fall Down, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty
• All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough –
• All Souls' Day –
• The Amphibian Man –
• Asli-Naqli, starring Dev Anand –
• Atraco a las tres –
• An Autumn Afternoon, directed by Yasujirō Ozu –

  B

• Baat Ek Raat Ki, starring Dev Anand –
• Bachelor Flat, starring Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm
• Bees Saal Baad –
• Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung –
• Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp –
• Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day and Jimmy Durante
• Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas
• Boccaccio '70, directed by Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren –
• Bon Voyage!, starring Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman
• The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Richard Todd –
• Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner
• The Brain That Wouldn't Die, starring Virginia Leith
• The Bread of Those Early Years –

  C

• Os Cafajestes –
• Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
• Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
• Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams –
• Cartouche, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale –
• The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor, starring Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
• Chased by the Dogs –
• Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda –
• The Condemned of Altona, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell –
• Convicts 4, starring Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Vincent Price, Ray Walston, Sammy Davis, Jr.
• The Counterfeit Traitor, directed by George Seaton, starring William Holden
• Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie

  D

• David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
• The Day of the Triffids, starring Howard Keel –
• Days of Wine and Roses, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
• Le Doulos, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo –
• Dr. No, first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Ursula Andress –

  E

• The Easy Life, directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant –
• Eclipse, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti –
• Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas –
• Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
• Experiment in Terror, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin
• The Exterminating Angel, directed by Luis Buñuel –

  F

• Family Diary, starring Marcello Mastroianni –
• Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules
• Five Finger Exercise, starring Rosalind Russell
• Five Miles to Midnight, starring Sophia Loren
• Five Weeks in a Balloon
• Follow That Dream, starring Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Joanna Moore
• The Four Days of Naples –
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Yvette Mimieux
• , directed by John Huston, starring Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks

  G

• Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
• Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
• Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
• Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• The Grim Reaper, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci –
• Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood
• Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao –
• Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice –

  H

• H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde –
• Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala –
• Harakiri, directed by Masaki Kobayashi –
• Hatari!, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli
• Hell is for Heroes, starring Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin
• Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Paul Newman
• Hero's Island, starring James Mason and Rip Torn
• Hombre de la esquina rosada –
• The Horizontal Lieutenant, starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss
• House of Women, starring Shirley Knight and Constance Ford
• How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard and more
• Hussar Ballad –
• Hussar of the Dead, –

  I

• If a Man Answers, starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
• In Search of the Castaways, starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier
• In the Affirmative, directed by Claude Lelouch –
• In the French Style, starring Jean Seberg
• The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
• The Intruder, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner
• The Iron Maiden, starring Anne Helm and Jeff Donnell
• It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield –
• It's Only Money, directed by Frank Tashlin. starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien
• Ivan's Childhood, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky –

  J

• Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
• La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker –
• Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner –
• Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner –

  K

• Kanchanjangha, directed by Satyajit Ray –
• Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson
• A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates –
• King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• Knife in the Water, directed by Roman Polanski –

  L

• The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell –
• Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer –
• Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
• Lisa, starring Stephen Boyd –
• Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig –
• Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay –
• Lonely are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor
• Lonely Boy, a documentary about Paul Anka –
• Long Day's Journey into Night, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Katharine Hepburn
• The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and more
• Love at Twenty, a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls –
• Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot –
• Lulu, directed by Rolf Thiele, starring Nadja Tiller –

  M

• Madison Avenue, starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker
• Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi –
• The Magnificent Concubine –
• The Main Attraction, starring Pat Boone
• Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani –
• The Man of Gold –
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode
• The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Angela Lansbury
• March on Rome, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman –
• Merrill's Marauders, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin
• The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol,
• Mix Me a Person, directed by Leslie Norman, starring Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden and Adam Faith –
• Mondo Cane
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
• Moon Pilot, starring Tom Tryon
• The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Ron Howard
• Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
• My Geisha, starring Shirley MacLaine
• My Life to Live, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina –

  N

• Night of the Eagle, starring Janet Blair
• Nine Days in One Year –
• The Notorious Landlady, starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire

  O

• On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom –
• Only Two Can Play, starring Peter Sellers

  P

• O Pagador de Promessas, directed by Anselmo Duarte –
• Panic in Year Zero!, starring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon
• Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, Lois Nettleton
• Phaedra, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins –
• The Phantom of the Opera, starring Herbert Lom –
• The Pigeon That Took Rome, starring Charlton Heston
• Pitfall –
• Pontius Pilate, starring Jean Marais, Jeanne Crain, Basil Rathbone
• Premature Burial, directed by Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Heather Angel
• Pressure Point, starring Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin
• Pretty Foe by Esmail Koushan
• Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor –

  R

• Redhead –
• Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
• Revenge of the Snakes –
• Ride the High Country, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott
• The Road to Hong Kong, directed by Norman Panama, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Joan Collins
• Roaring Years, starring Nino Manfredi –
• Rome Adventure, starring Angie Dickinson and Suzanne Pleshette
• Der rote Rausch, starring Klaus Kinski –

  S

• Safe at Home!, starring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris
• Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt –
• Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi –
• Sanjuru, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune –
• Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
• Shaheed, starring Musarrat Nazir, Talish, Allauddin, Ejaz, Saqi
• Something's Got to Give, starring Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin
• The Spiral Road, starring Rock Hudson and Gena Rowlands
• State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin
• The Suitor –
• Sundays and Cybele, starring Hardy Krüger and Nicole Courcel –
• Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
• A Symposium on Popular Songs, a Disney animation

  T

• The Tale of Zatoichi, directed by Kenji Misumi –
• The Tale of Zatoichi Continues, starring Shintaro Katsu –
• Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
• Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
• Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret –
• That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
• Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret –
• To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
• Tobacco –
• Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• The Trial, directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau –
• The Trial of Joan of Arc, directed by Robert Bresson –
• Tudor –
• Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
• Two Half Times in Hell, directed by Zoltán Fábri –
• Two Weeks in Another Town, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse

  V

• The Vanishing Corporal, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur –
• A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot –
• A View from the Bridge, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Raf Vallone –

  W

• Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
• The Waltz of the Toreadors, directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, Prunella Scales
• War of the Buttons –
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
• Who's Got the Action? starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom

  XYZ

• Zorro the Avenger
• Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston

  Short film series

• Looney Tunes
• Terrytoons
• Merrie Melodies
• Bugs Bunny
• Yosemite Sam
• Speedy Gonzales
• The Alvin Show

  Births

• January 4 – Michael France, American screenwriter
• January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron, American actress
• January 7 – Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
• January 17 – C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor
• January 17 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
• February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
• February 7 - Eddie Izzard, English stand-up comedian, actor, writer and political activist
• February 13 – Michele Greene, American actress
• February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
• February 22 – Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, television personality, conservationist, actor
• February 27 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
• March 10 – Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, dancer, and director
• March 12 – Chris Sanders, American actor, animator, director and voice actor
• March 18 – Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
• March 20 – Stephen Sommers, American director, screenwriter and producer
• March 21
• *Matthew Broderick, American actor
• *Rosie O'Donnell, American actress and comedian
• April 15 – Tom Kane, American actor and voice actor
• April 27 – James LeGros, American actor
• May 12 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
• May 18 – Karel Roden, Czech actor
• May 26 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor, comedian and director
• June 5 - Jeff Garlin, American comedian and actor
• June 13 – Ally Sheedy, American actress
• June 19 – Paula Abdul, American singer
• June 27 – Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor
• July 3 – Tom Cruise, American actor
• July 4 - Neil Morrissey, English actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and businessman
• July 13 – Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian
• July 19 – Anthony Edwards, American actor
• July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor
• July 31 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
• August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress
• August 13 – John Slattery, American actor
• August 16 – Steve Carell, American actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
• August 24 – David Koechner, American actor and comedian
• August 27 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
• August 29 – Ian James Corlett, Canadian-American voice actor
• August 31 – Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
• September 8 – Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
• September 11 – Kristy McNichol, American actress
• September 15 – Scott McNeil, Australian-Canadian voice actor
• September 17 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
• September 24 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress and producer
• September 26 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
• October 1 – Esai Morales, American actor
• October 2 – Jeff Bennett, American actor and voice actor
• October 11 – Joan Cusack, American actress
• October 12 – Deborah Foreman, American actress
• October 13 – Kelly Preston, American actress
• October 26 – Cary Elwes, English actor
• October 28 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
• November 11 – Demi Moore, American actress
• November 14 – Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and comedian
• November 19 – Jodie Foster, American actress and director
• November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor
• December 9 – Felicity Huffman, American actress
• December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress
• December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor

  Deaths

• January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
• January 28 – Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor, The Pearl Maker of Madrid
• February 1 – Carey Wilson, American screenwriter, Mutiny on the Bounty
• February 19 – James Barton, American actor, Here Comes the Groom, Yellow Sky
• February 20 – Halliwell Hobbes, 84, British actor, Gaslight, That Hamilton Woman
• February 28 – Chic Johnson, 70, American comedian, actor, Hellzapoppin'
• March 17 – Frank Orth, 82, American actor, Nancy Drew... Detective, Here Come the Girls
• April 10 – Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood
• April 15 – Clara Blandick, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer
• April 17 – Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Alice in Wonderland
• April 22
• *Angus MacPhail, 59, British screenwriter, Spellbound, The Wrong Man
• *Vera Reynolds, 62, American actress, The Night Club, Feet of Clay
• May 14 – Florence Auer, 82, American actress, The Bishop's Wife, State of the Union
• June 2 – Aeneas MacKenzie, 72, Scottish screenwriter, The Ten Commandments, Ivanhoe
• June 19 – Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
• June 24 – Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress, Waterloo Bridge, Made for Each Other
• July 2 – Valeska Suratt, 80, American stage and screen actress, The Immigrant
• July 4 – Rex Bell, 58, American actor, Broadway to Cheyenne, Law and Lead
• July 23 – Victor Moore, 86, American actor, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Louisiana Purchase
• July 30 – Myron McCormick, 54, American actor, The Hustler, No Time for Sergeants
• August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress, Hollywood icon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot
• August 23 – Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor, Action, The Horse Soldiers
• September 7 – Louis King, 64, American director, Typhoon, Green Grass of Wyoming
• October 2 – Frank Lovejoy, 50, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Goodbye, My Fancy
• October 6 – Tod Browning, 82, American director, Dracula, Freaks
• October 26 – Louise Beavers, 60, American actress, Holiday Inn, The Jackie Robinson Story
• November 15 – Irene, American costume designer, Shall We Dance, Midnight Lace
• December 15 – Charles Laughton, 63, British actor, Spartacus, Witness for the Prosecution
• December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, 70, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind
• December 28 – Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted
• December 29 – Hugh Sinclair, 59, British actor, The Saint's Vacation, Judgment Deferred

  Film debuts

• Bernardo Bertolucci – The Grim Reaper
• Jackie Chan – Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
• Julie Christie – Crooks Anonymous
• Tom Courtenay – Private Potter
• Robert Duvall – To Kill a Mockingbird
• Samantha Eggar – Dr. Crippen
• Sally Field – Moon Pilot
• John Hurt – The Wild and the Willing
• Ian McShane – The Wild and the Willing
• Sarah Miles – Term of Trial
• Sydney Pollack – War Hunt
• George A. Romero – Expostulations
• Tom Skerritt – War Hunt
• Terence Stamp – Term of Trial
• David Warner – We Joined the Navy