1967 in film

Highest-grossing films

North America

Outside North America

Events

• The prototype for the IMAX large-format-film acquisition and screening system is exhibited at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• The MPAA adopts a new logo, which is still used today.
• July 15 — Seven Arts Productions acquire substantially all the assets and business of Warner Bros. creating Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
• August 13 — Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Gene Hackman, premieres. It broke many taboos of its time, such as the visual depiction of violence. It has been considered a landmark film in Hollywood filmmaking, with its groundbreaking and ingenious visual styles. The success of Bonnie and Clyde helped bring forth the New Hollywood era, a period of artistic and commercial renewal.
• October 18 — Walt Disney's production of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book premieres. It was the last animated feature film to be personally supervised by Disney before his death the previous year. It was also one of the last Disney films to be personally approved by him, along with The Happiest Millionaire and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. The story's moral message of friendship, love, and trust have been embraced by critics and audiences worldwide. The Jungle Book is notable for its realistic character animation and voice casting. The film's soundtrack, which includes the Academy Award-nominated "The Bare Necessities", '"I Wan'na Be Like You", "Trust in Me", and "My Own Home", also contributed to the film's enormous success. It would be the most successful animated film to be made by Disney until The Rescuers, ten years later.
• December 21 — The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, and Katharine Ross, premieres. It tells a story of an aimless young man, seduced and betrayed by an older woman, while falling in love with her daughter. The theme of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, misdirected, seduced and betrayed by a corrupt, decadent, and discredited older generation was well understood by film audiences and captured the spirit of the times, in light of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the increasing turbulence in American society in the mid-to-late 1960s. Like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate broke many well-established taboos in American cinema, and represents a new era in groundbreaking achievements in filmmaking.

  Awards

1967 film releases

January–March

• January 1967
• *18 January
• **Born Losers
• **Come Spy with Me
• **The Venetian Affair
• **Warning Shot
• *19 January
• **Hotel
• February 1967
• *1 February
• **The Ballad of Josie
• *7 February
• **Tobruk
• *9 February
• **Hurry Sundown
• March 1967
• *8 March
• **The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
• **Mad Monster Party?
• **The Taming of the Shrew
• *9 March
• **How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• *12 March
• **The Busy Body
• *14 March
• **Ulysses
• *15 March
• **Frankenstein Created Woman
• **In Like Flint
• *21 March
• **Hombre
• **Thoroughly Modern Millie
• *22 March
• **Easy Come, Easy Go

  April–June

• April 1967
• *5 April
• **Double Trouble
• *13 April
• **Casino Royale
• *14 April
• **It's a Bikini World
• *18 April
• **Caprice
• May 1967
• *1 May
• **40 Guns to Apache Pass
• **Welcome to Hard Times
• *12 May
• **Good Times
• *17 May
• **Dont Look Back
• *22 May
• **The Honey Pot
• *24 May
• **The Way West
• *25 May
• **Barefoot in the Park
• **A Guide for the Married Man
• **The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
• *27 May
• **The War Wagon
• June 1967
• *11 June
• **Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• *13 June
• **You Only Live Twice
• *15 June
• **The Dirty Dozen
• *16 June
• **The Reluctant Astronaut
• *21 June
• **Divorce American Style
• *23 June
• **The Happiest Millionaire
• *27 June
• **The Shuttered Room
• *28 June
• **Gunn
• *30 June
• **The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

  July–September

• July 1967
• *12 July
• **The Big Mouth
• *19 July
• **Up the Down Staircase
• *23 July
• **Chuka
• August 1967
• *1 August
• **Rough Night in Jericho
• *2 August
• **In the Heat of the Night
• *13 August
• **Bonnie and Clyde
• *22 August
• **The Flim-Flam Man
• *30 August
• **Point Blank
• September 1967
• *1 September
• **The Fastest Guitar Alive
• *17 September
• **Games
• *18 September
• **The Tiger Makes Out
• *26 September
• **Who's Minding the Mint?

  October–December

• October 1967
• *3 October
• **Titicut Follies
• *13 October
• **Reflections in a Golden Eye
• *18 October
• **Clambake
• **The Jungle Book
• *25 October
• **Camelot
• *26 October
• **Wait Until Dark
• *31 October
• **The Comedians
• November 1967
• *1 November
• **Cool Hand Luke
• **Hour of the Gun
• *5 November
• **The Incident
• *9 November
• **Quatermass and the Pit
• *10 November
• **Tony Rome
• *15 November
• **Who's That Knocking at My Door
• *22 November
• **Rosie!
• December 1967
• *1 December
• **Hells Angels on Wheels
• *12 December
• **Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• *14 December
• **In Cold Blood
• *15 December
• **Valley of the Dolls
• *16 December
• **Son of Godzilla
• *18 December
• **I'll Never Forget What's'isname
• *19 December
• **Doctor Dolittle
• *20 December
• **Fitzwilly
• *21 December
• **The Graduate
• **The President's Analyst
• *29 December
• **Weekend''

  Notable films released in 1967

#

• 40 Guns to Apache Pass, starring Audie Murphy
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her, directed by Jean-Luc Godard -
• The 25th Hour, starring Anthony Quinn and Virna Lisi -

  A

• Accident, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker -
• The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, starring Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, and Karl Malden
• The Ambushers, starring Dean Martin
• The Andromeda Nebula -
• Anna Karenina -

  B

• The Ballad of Josie, starring Doris Day
• Banning, starring Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Susan Clark, Gene Hackman
• Barefoot in the Park, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda
• Battle Beneath the Earth, starring Kerwin Mathews and Peter Arne -
• Beach Red, starring Cornel Wilde and Rip Torn
• Bedazzled, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch -
• Belle de jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve - winner of Golden Lion -
• Bewitched Love -
• The Big Mouth, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
• Billion Dollar Brain, directed by Ken Russell, starring Michael Caine -
• The Bobo, starring Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Adolfo Celi, Rossano Brazzi, Al Lettieri -
• Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard
• Born Losers, directed by and starring Tom Laughlin
• Branded to Kill, directed by Seijun Suzuki -
• The Busy Body, starring Sid Caesar, Robert Ryan, Jan Murray, Arlene Golonka, Richard Pryor

  C

• Camelot, a musical directed by Joshua Logan, starring Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, with songs by Lerner and Loewe
• The Cape Town Affair, starring James Brolin and Jacqueline Bisset
• Caprice, starring Doris Day and Richard Harris
• Carry On Doctor, starring Frankie Howerd and Sid James -
• Case of the Naves Brothers -
• Casino Royale, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, Daliah Lavi, Barbara Bouchet -
• Catalina Caper, starring Tommy Kirk
• Cervantes, starring Horst Buchholz and Gina Lollobrigida -
• Charlie Bubbles, directed by and starring Albert Finney with Billie Whitelaw and Liza Minnelli -
• China is Near -
• La Chinoise, directed by Jean-Luc Godard -
• Chuka, starring Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills
• Clambake, starring Elvis Presley and Shelley Fabares
• La Collectionneuse, directed by Éric Rohmer -
• A Colt Is My Passport, starring Joe Shishido -
• Come Spy with Me, starring Troy Donahue
• The Comedians, starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness
• Commissar -
• Cool Hand Luke, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy
• Counterpoint, starring Charlton Heston
• A Countess from Hong Kong, directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren -
• Custer of the West, starring Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Robert Ryan

  D

• Day of Anger, starring Lee Van Cleef -
• A Degree of Murder, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Anita Pallenberg -
• Le départ, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud - winner of Golden Bear -
• Deadlier Than the Male, starring Richard Johnson and Elke Sommer -
• The Deadly Affair, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring James Mason and Simone Signoret -
• Death Rides a Horse, starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law -
• The Dirty Dozen, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Clint Walker, Donald Sutherland, Richard Jaeckel, Ralph Meeker, Trini Lopez
• Divorce American Style, starring Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons
• Doctor Dolittle, a musical directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley
• Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!, starring Sandra Dee and George Hamilton
• Dont Look Back, a documentary by D. A. Pennebaker, featuring Bob Dylan
• Don't Make Waves, starring Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Sharon Tate
• Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley
• Dragon Gate Inn , directed by King Hu -

  E

• Easy Come, Easy Go, starring Elvis Presley
• Eight on the Lam, starring Bob Hope, Jonathan Winters, Shirley Eaton, Jill St. John
• Elvira Madigan, directed by Bo Widerberg -
• Entranced Earth, directed by Glauber Rocha -
• An Evening in Paris'', starring Shammi Kapoor -

  F

• Faccia a faccia, starring Gian Maria Volonté -
• Far from the Madding Crowd, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates -
• The Fastest Guitar Alive, starring Roy Orbison
• Fathom, starring Raquel Welch -
• The Fearless Vampire Killers, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Sharon Tate -
• Festival, a documentary about Newport Folk Festival
• The Firemen's Ball, directed by Miloš Forman -
• Fitzwilly, starring Dick Van Dyke and Barbara Feldon
• The Flim-Flam Man, starring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin
• Follow That Camel, starring Phil Silvers and Kenneth Williams -
• Fort Utah, starring John Ireland and Virginia Mayo
• The Fox, starring Sandy Dennis, Anne Heywood, Keir Dullea
• Frankenstein Created Woman, starring Peter Cushing -
• The Frozen Dead, starring Dana Andrews, Anna Palk

  G

• Games, starring Simone Signoret, Katharine Ross, James Caan
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach -
• Good Times, starring Sonny & Cher
• The Graduate, premiered in Los Angeles on December 8, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
• Grand Slam, starring Janet Leigh and Edward G. Robinson -
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton
• A Guide for the Married Man, directed by Gene Kelly, starring Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Robert Morse
• Gunn, starring Craig Stevens

  H

• Half a Sixpence, starring Tommy Steele -
• Hatey Bazarey, starring Ashok Kumar and Vyjayanthimala -
• Hamraaz, starring Sunil Dutt and Raaj Kumar -
• The Happening, starring Anthony Quinn, Michael Parks, Faye Dunaway
• The Happiest Millionaire, starring Fred MacMurray, Greer Garson, Tommy Steele, Lesley Ann Warren, John Davidson
• Die Heiden von Kummerow und ihre lustigen Streiche, the first co-production between East Germany and West Germany
• Hell on Wheels, starring Marty Robbins
• Hells Angels on Wheels, starring Jack Nicholson
• Hombre, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Fredric March, Diane Cilento, Richard Boone, Martin Balsam, Barbara Rush
• The Honey Pot, starring Rex Harrison, Cliff Robertson, Susan Hayward, Edie Adams
• Hotel, directed by Richard Quine, starring Rod Taylor, Melvyn Douglas, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Merle Oberon
• Hour of the Gun, directed by John Sturges, starring James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan
• How I Won The War, directed by Richard Lester, starring Michael Crawford, John Lennon Michael Hordern-
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallée, Maureen Arthur
• Hurry Sundown, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jane Fonda, Michael Caine, Diahann Carroll, Beah Richards, Faye Dunaway

  I

• I, a Man, directed by Andy Warhol
• I Am Curious -
• I Even Met Happy Gypsies -
• In Cold Blood, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, Paul Stewart, John Forsythe
• I'll Never Forget What's 'isname, directed by Michael Winner, starring Oliver Reed and Orson Welles -
• In Like Flint, starring James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale
• In the Heat of the Night, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger—winner of 5 Academy Awards including best picture
• The Incident, starring Martin Sheen and Beau Bridges
• It's a Bikini World, starring Deborah Walley and Tommy Kirk

  J

• Jewel Thief, starring Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala and Ashok Kumar -
• The Jokers, directed by Michael Winner, starring Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford -
• Journey to the Center of Time
• Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon -
• The Jungle Book, an animated musical film from Walt Disney Productions; one of the last three films made under Walt Disney's personal supervision prior to his death in 1966.

  K

• Kidnapping, Caucasian Style -
• King Kong Escapes -
• The King's Pirate, starring Doug McClure and Jill St. John
• Kinoautomat -
• Kyu-chan no Dekkai Yume -

  L

• A Long Journey -
• The Long Duel, starring Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling -
• Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator -

  M

• Mad Monster Party?, animated film featuring Boris Karloff
• Magical Mystery Tour - TV film with The Beatles -
• Maneater of Hydra
• A Man Vanishes, directed by Shohei Imamura -
• Marat/Sade, directed by Peter Brook -
• Marketa Lazarová -
• The Million Eyes of Sumuru, starring George Nader, Frankie Avalon and Shirley Eaton-
• The Mitten -
• Mouchette, directed by Robert Bresson -
• The Mummy's Shroud, starring André Morell and John Phillips -

  N

• The Naked Runner, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Frank Sinatra -
• The Night of the Generals, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay -

  O

• Oedipus Rex, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Silvana Mangano -
• Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, starring Rosalind Russell and Robert Morse
• One-Armed Swordsman, directed by Chang Cheh -
• Oscar, directed by Édouard Molinaro -
• Our Mother's House, starring Dirk Bogarde -

  P

• Paranoia -
• Pedro Páramo, starring John Gavin -
• Peppermint Frappé, directed by Carlos Saura -
• The Plank, directed by and starring Eric Sykes with Tommy Cooper -
• Playing Soldiers -
• Playtime, directed by and starring Jacques Tati -
• Point Blank, directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson
• Poor Cow, directed by Ken Loach, starring Terence Stamp and Carol White -
• The President's Analyst, starring James Coburn
• Privilege, directed by Peter Watkins, starring Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton -

  Q

• Quatermass and the Pit, starring James Donald -

  R

• Ram Aur Shyam, starring Dilip Kumar -
• The Rats Woke Up -
• The Red and the White, directed by Miklós Jancsó -
• Reflections in a Golden Eye, directed by John Huston, starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor
• The Reluctant Astronaut, starring Don Knotts
• Robbery, directed by Peter Yates, starring Stanley Baker -
• Rosie!, starring Rosalind Russell
• Rough Night in Jericho, starring Dean Martin and George Peppard

  S

• The Sailor from Gibraltar, starring Ian Bannen, Jeanne Moreau, Vanessa Redgrave, Orson Welles -
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, starring Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jean Hale
• Le Samouraï, starring Alain Delon -
• Samurai Rebellion, directed by Masaki Kobayashi, starring Toshiro Mifune -
• The Shooting, starring Warren Oates, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson
• The Shuttered Room, starring Gig Young, Carol Lynley and Oliver Reed -
• Slave Girls, starring Martine Beswick, Michael Latimer -
• Smashing Time, starring Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave and Michael York -
• Soleil O -
• The Sorcerers', directed by Michael Reeves, starring Boris Karloff and Ian Ogilvy-
• Son of Godzilla, directed by Jun Fukuda -
• Stimulantia -
• The Stolen Airship
• The Stranger'', directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Marcello Mastroianni -

  T

• The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor -
• Ten Thousand Days -
• The Thief of Paris, directed by Louis Malle and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Geneviève Bujold -
• This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse -
• Thoroughly Modern Millie, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing
• Thunder Alley, directed by Richard Rush, starring Annette Funicello
• The Tied Up Balloon, directed by Binka Zhelyazkova and starring Georgi Partsalev, Grigor Vachkov, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Konstantin Kotsev -
• The Tiger Makes Out, starring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson
• The Tiger and the Pussycat, starring Vittorio Gassman, Ann-Margret, Eleanor Parker -
• Titicut Follies
• To Sir, with Love, starring Sidney Poitier -
• Tobruk, starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard
• Tony Rome, directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Gena Rowlands, Richard Conte, Sue Lyon
• Torture Garden, starring Burgess Meredith, Michael Bryant, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Jack Palance -
• The Trip, directed by Roger Corman, starring Peter Fonda and Susan Strasberg
• Two for the Road, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney -
• The Two of Us, directed by Claude Berri -

  U

• Ultraman -
• Ulysses, starring Milo O'Shea -
• Up the Down Staircase, starring Sandy Dennis
• Upkar, directed by and starring Manoj Kumar -

  V

• Valley of the Dolls, directed by Mark Robson, starring Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate, Susan Hayward, Paul Burke
• The Venetian Affair, starring Elke Sommer, Robert Vaughn, Felicia Farr
• The Vengeance of Fu Manchu, starring Christopher Lee and Tony Ferrer -
• Violated Angels -
• Viy -
• The Vulture, starring Robert Hutton and Diane Clare -

  W

• Wait Until Dark, directed by Terence Young, starring Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Jack Weston, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
• War and Peace, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk -
• The War Wagon, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas
• Warning Shot, starring David Janssen, Stefanie Powers, Joan Collins, Eleanor Parker, Lillian Gish, George Sanders
• Waterhole No. 3, starring James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor and Margaret Blye
• The Way West, starring Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, Lola Albright, Sally Field
• We Still Kill the Old Way, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Irene Papas -
• Weekend, directed by Jean-Luc Godard -
• Welcome to Hard Times, starring Henry Fonda, Aldo Ray, Janice Rule, Warren Oates
• The Whisperers, starring Edith Evans and Nanette Newman -
• The White Bus, a short film by Lindsay Anderson -
• Who's Minding the Mint? starring Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine, Walter Brennan, Milton Berle
• Who's That Knocking at My Door, directed by Martin Scorsese

  Y

• You Only Live Twice, starring Sean Connery as James Bond -
• The Young Girls of Rochefort, directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac -

  Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes
• Merrie Melodies
• Speedy Gonzales
• Daffy Duck
• Cool Cat
• Merlin the Magic Mouse

  Births

• January 2 - Tia Carrere, American actress
• January 7 - Irrfan Khan, Indian actor
• January 14 - Emily Watson, English actress
• January 17 - Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor
• January 24 - Phil LaMarr, American actor, voice actor, comedian and writer
• February 10 - Laura Dern, American actress
• February 13 – Carolyn Lawrence, American actress and voice actress
• February 19 - Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
• March 1 - Rosyam Nor, Malaysian actor
• March 4 - Sam Taylor-Johnson, born Samantha Taylor-Wood, English-born director
• March 16 - Lauren Graham, American actress
• April 6 – Kathleen Barr, Canadian voice, stage and television actress
• April 17 - Kimberly Elise, American actress
• April 18 - Maria Bello, American actress
• April 22 - Sherri Shepherd, American actress, comedian, author and television personality
• May 1 - Scott Coffey, American actor/director
• May 15 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
• May 31 - Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
• June 5 - Ron Livingston, American actor
• June 6 - Paul Giamatti, American actor
• June 15 - Fred Tatasciore, American voice actor
• June 19 - Mia Sara, American actress
• June 20 - Nicole Kidman, Australian actress
• July 1 - Pamela Anderson, American actress
• July 9 - Indrek Taalmaa, Estonian actor
• July 16 - Will Ferrell, American actor
• July 18 - Vin Diesel, American actor
• July 22 – Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor and singer
• July 23 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
• July 25 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
• August 22 - Ty Burrell, American actor
• August 25 - Tom Hollander, English actor
• September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr., American actor and singer
• September 12 – Louis C.K., American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker
• September 28 - Mira Sorvino, American actress
• October 3 - Tiara Jacquelina, Malaysian actress
• October 4 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
• October 5 - Guy Pearce, Australian actor
• October 28 - Julia Roberts, American actress
• October 29 - Rufus Sewell, English thespian
• November 13
• * Juhi Chawla, Indian actress
• * Steve Zahn, American actor
• November 22 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
• November 28 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress
• December 11 - Mo'Nique, American actress
• December 13 - Jamie Foxx, American actor
• December 16 - Miranda Otto, Australian actress

  Deaths

• January 8 – Zbigniew Cybulski, 39, Polish actor, Ashes and Diamonds, The Saragossa Manuscript
• January 21 – Ann Sheridan, 51, American actress, Angels with Dirty Faces, Kings Row
• January 22 – Jobyna Ralston, 67, American actress, Wings, The Freshman
• January 28
• * Ruut Tarmo, 70, Estonian actor, Noored kotkad
• *Václav Wasserman, 68, Czech actor, screenwriter and director, The Undertaker, Saturday
• February 1 - Richard L. Breen, 48, American screenwriter, Captain Newman, M.D., Titanic
• February 6 – Martine Carol, 46, French actress, Lola Montes, Around the World in 80 Days
• February 10 - Ralph Murphy, 71, American director, I Want a Divorce, 70,000 Witnesses
• February 14 – Sig Ruman, 82, German actor, Stalag 17, Ninotchka
• February 15 – Antonio Moreno, 79, Spanish-American actor and director, The Searchers, Creature from the Black Lagoon
• February 16
• * Smiley Burnette, 55, American actor, King of the Cowboys, Ridin' on a Rainbow
• * Amund Rydland,, Norwegian actor
• February 17 - Louise Henry, 55, American actress, There Goes the Groom, 45 Fathers
• February 21 - Charles Beaumont, 38, American television and film writer, Brain Dead, The Intruder
• February 24 – Franz Waxman, 60, German film composer, Stalag 17, Mister Roberts
• March 5 – Mischa Auer, 61, Russian actor, You Can't Take It With You, Destry Rides Again
• March 6 – Nelson Eddy, 65, American singer and actor, Make Mine Music, The Chocolate Soldier
• March 11 – Geraldine Farrar, 85, American singer and actress, Carmen, Joan the Woman
• April 10 - Aage Winther-Jørgensen, 66, Danish actor, The Rector of Veilbye, Bussen
• April 15 – Totò, 69, Italian actor and writer, Big Deal on Madonna Street, The Hawks and the Sparrows
• April 22 - Tom Conway, 62, Russian-American actor, The Falcon's Brother, Cat People
• April 24
• * Fred C. Newmeyer, 78, American director, Safety Last!, They Never Come Back
• * Frank Overton, 49, American actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fail-Safe
• April 29 - Anthony Mann, 60, American director, El Cid, Winchester '73
• May 7 - Judith Evelyn, 58, American actress, Rear Window, Giant
• May 8
• * LaVerne Andrews, 55, American singer and actress, Road to Rio, Follow the Boys
• * Barbara Payton, 39, American actress, Bride of the Gorilla, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
• May 14 - James Tinling, 78, American director, Charlie Chan in Shanghai, 45 Fathers
• May 30 – Claude Rains, 77, British actor, Casablanca, Notorious, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Invisible Man
• June 7 - Dorothy Parker, 73, American writer, A Star Is Born, Saboteur
• June 10
• *Spencer Tracy, 67, American actor, Boys Town, Judgment at Nuremberg, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• *Frank Butler, 76, British-American screenwriter, Going My Way, Road to Morocco
• June 16 – Reginald Denny, 75, British actor, Rebecca, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
• June 26 – Françoise Dorléac, 25, French actress, The Soft Skin, Cul-de-sac
• June 29 – Jayne Mansfield, 34, American actress, The Wayward Bus, The Girl Can't Help It
• July 8 – Vivien Leigh, 53, British actress, Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire
• July 17 – Enzo Petito, 69, Italian actor, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• July 21
• * Basil Rathbone, 75, British actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• * David Weisbart, 52, American film editor and producer, Rebel Without a Cause, Them!
• August 9 – Anton Walbrook, 70, Austrian actor, La Ronde, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• August 13 – Jane Darwell, 87, American actress, The Grapes of Wrath, Gone with the Wind
• August 25 – Paul Muni, 71, Ukrainian-American actor, Scarface, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
• August 28 – Maurice Elvey, 79, English director and producer, The Life Story of David Lloyd George, The Hound of the Baskervilles
• September 1 - James Dunn, 65, American actor, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Bright Eyes
• October 12 - Nat Pendleton, 72, American actor, former Olympic swimmer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld
• October 29 - Julien Duvivier, 71, French director, Tales of Manhattan, Flesh and Fantasy
• October 30 - Charles Trowbridge, 85, American actor, Sergeant York, Strange Alibi
• November 1 - Benita Hume, 61, British actress, The Worst Woman in Paris?, The Private Life of Don Juan
• November 4 - June Thorburn, 36, British actress, The Scarlet Blade, The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
• November 9 - Charles Bickford, 76, American actor, Days of Wine and Roses, The Song of Bernadette
• November 21 - Florence Reed, 84, American actress, The Eternal Mother, Great Expectations
• November 29 - Theo Marcuse, 47, American actor, The Cincinnati Kid, Harum Scarum
• December 4
• * Bert Lahr, 72, American actor, The Wizard of Oz, Sing Your Worries Away
• * Sarah Padden, 86, American actress, Women Won't Tell, The Midnight Lady
• December 21 - Stuart Erwin, 64, American actor, Pigskin Parade, Going Hollywood
• December 23 - Kaaren Verne, 49, German actress, All Through the Night, Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
• December 29 - Paul Whiteman, 77, American bandleader, King of Jazz, Thanks a Million

  Film debuts

• Robby Benson - Wait Until Dark
• Eileen Brennan - Divorce American Style
• Richard Dreyfuss - Valley of the Dolls
• Faye Dunaway - Hurry Sundown
• Robert Forster - Reflections in a Golden Eye
• Dustin Hoffman - The Tiger Makes Out
• Anthony Hopkins - The White Bus
• Anjelica Huston - Casino Royale
• Harvey Keitel - Who's That Knocking at My Door
• Tim Matheson - Divorce American Style
• Pat Morita - Thoroughly Modern Millie
• Richard Pryor - The Busy Body
• Rob Reiner - Rob Reiner
• Martin Sheen - The Incident
• Jon Voight - Fearless Frank
• Lesley Ann Warren - The Happiest Millionaire
• Gene Wilder - Bonnie and Clyde
• Fred Willard - Teenage Mother
• Paul Winfield - The Perils of Pauline
• Michael York - The Taming of the Shrew