1970 in film

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

Events

• January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, effectively ending his career.
• February 11 - The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, premieres in New York City. The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger's "Come and Get It", is released on Apple Records.
• March 12 - Film debut of Ornella Muti in La moglie più bella 3 days after her 15th birthday.
• March 17 - The controversial film The Boys in the Band, directed by William Friedkin and based on Mart Crowley's hit off-Broadway play, opens in theaters.
• October 24 - Joan Crawford's final film, the low-budget horror picture Trog, opens in theaters.
• December 14 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono film Up Your Legs Forever with 367 participants in New York City.
• The IMAX motion picture projection system premieres at the Fuji Pavilion, at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.
• In Culver City, California, MGM begins selling off its studio back lot property and movie props.

  Awards

Notable films released in 1970

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• 7 Plus Seven, a TV documentary directed by Michael Apted -

  A

• The Act of the Heart, starring Geneviève Bujold and Donald Sutherland -
• The Adventurers, starring Candice Bergen, Bekim Fehmiu, Olivia de Havilland, Ernest Borgnine
• The Adventures of Gerard, starring Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins
• Airport, directed by George Seaton, starring Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Van Heflin, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes
• Alex in Wonderland, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Donald Sutherland
• The American Soldier, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
• And Soon the Darkness, starring Pamela Franklin -
• Ann and Eve, starring Gio Petré, Marie Liljedahl and Francisco Rabal
• The Angel Levine, starring Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte
• The Aristocats - an animated Disney film. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, starring Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Gary Dubin, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway, Roddy Maude-Roxby, and Liz English
• Awakening of the Beast -

  B

• The Baby Maker, starring Barbara Hershey and Sam Groom
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Jason Robards and Stella Stevens
• Bartleby, starring Paul Scofield –
• The Bear and the Doll, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Pierre Cassel -
• Bed and Board, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud -
• Behold Homolka -
• The Beloved, starring Raquel Welch -
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes, starring James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, directed by Russ Meyer, starring Dolly Read
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, directed by Dario Argento -
• Black Brigade, starring Stephen Boyd and Richard Pryor
• Bloody Mama, directed by Roger Corman, starring Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud, Robert De Niro
• The Boatniks, starring Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers and Phil Silvers
• The Body, a documentary narrated by Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave -
• Borsalino, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon -
• El bosque del lobo -
• The Boys in the Band, directed by William Friedkin
• Brancaleone at the Crusades, starring Vittorio Gassman and Adolfo Celi -
• The Breach, directed by Claude Chabrol -
• Brewster McCloud, directed by Robert Altman, starring Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, Shelley Duvall
• The Brotherhood of the Bell, starring Glenn Ford, Rosemary Forsyth and Maurice Evans
• The Butcher, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne -

  C

• Cannon for Cordoba, starring George Peppard
• Carry On Up the Jungle, starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Frankie Howerd -
• Case for a Rookie Hangman
• Catch-22, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Richard Benjamin, Bob Newhart, Charles Grodin, Orson Welles, Art Garfunkel
• C.C. and Company, starring Joe Namath, Ann-Margret and William Smith
• Le Cercle Rouge , directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Alain Delon, Bourvil, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volonté -
• Chariots of the Gods, documentary -
• The Cheyenne Social Club, directed by Gene Kelly, starring James Stewart and Henry Fonda
• Chisum, starring John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Glenn Corbett
• Claire's Knee, directed by Éric Rohmer -
• Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County, starring Dan Blocker and Nanette Fabray
• , starring Eric Braeden and Susan Clark
• Compañeros, starring Franco Nero and Jack Palance -
• The Confession, directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret -
• The Conformist, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli -
• Connecting Rooms, starring Bette Davis and Michael Redgrave -
• Cotton Comes to Harlem, starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Redd Foxx
• Count Dracula, starring Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski and Herbert Lom-
• Country Dance, starring Peter O'Toole
• Crescendo, starring Stefanie Powers
• Crime and Punishment -
• Crimes of the Future, directed by David Cronenberg -
• Cromwell, directed by Ken Hughes, starring Richard Harris and Alec Guinness -
• ''The Cross and the Switchblade, starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada

  D

• Darker than Amber, starring Rod Taylor and Jane Russell
• Darling Lili, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson
• Days and Nights in the Forest, directed by Satyajit Ray -
• Deep End, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Jane Asher -
• The Delta Factor, starring Yvette Mimieux and Christopher George
• The Demise of Father Mouret, directed by Georges Franju -
• Diary of a Mad Housewife, directed by Frank Perry, starring Carrie Snodgress, Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella
• Dionysus in '69, directed by Brian De Palma
• Dirty Dingus Magee, starring Frank Sinatra
• Dodes'ka-den, directed by Akira Kurosawa -
• The Dunwich Horror, starring Dean Stockwell and Sandra Dee

  E

• Eden and After, directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet -
• El Condor, starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef
• El Topo -
• Elise, or Real Life -
• End of the Road, starring Stacy Keach, Harris Yulin, James Earl Jones
• Entertaining Mr Sloane, starring Beryl Reid and Harry Andrews -
• Equinox, starring Frank Bonner
• Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion, starring Marie Liljedahl, Maria Rohm and Christopher Lee -
• Even Dwarfs Started Small, directed by Werner Herzog -

  F

• Figures in a Landscape, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Robert Shaw -
• Five Easy Pieces, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jack Nicholson, Susan Anspach and Karen Black
• The Flight -
• Four Murders Are Enough, Darling -
• Fragment of Fear, starring David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt -
• Fruit of Paradise -

  G

• Gamera vs. Jiger -
• The Games, directed by Michael Winner, starring Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal, Charles Aznavour -
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, directed by Vittorio De Sica - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1971 and Golden Bear winner -
• Getting Straight, starring Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen
• Gimme Shelter, a documentary featuring The Rolling Stones
• Gods of the Plague, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
• Goodbye Gemini, starring Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, Michael Redgrave and Alexis Kanner-
• Goin' Down the Road -
• The Great White Hope , directed by Martin Ritt, starring James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander
• The Green Wall -

  H

• Halls of Anger , starring Calvin Lockhart and Jeff Bridges
• The Hawaiians, starring Charlton Heston
• Hello-Goodbye, starring Michael Crawford
• Hercules in New York, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Hi, Mom!, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Robert De Niro
• History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess, directed by Shohei Imamura -
• Hoffman, starring Peter Sellers and Sinéad Cusack -
• Hornets’ Nest, starring Rock Hudson
• The Horror of Frankenstein, starring Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara and Veronica Carlson-
• Horton Hears a Who!, TV animated film
• House of Dark Shadows, directed by Dan Curtis, starring Jonathan Frid and Grayson Hall
• How Do I Love Thee?, starring Jackie Gleason and Maureen O'Hara
• Husbands, directed by and starring John Cassavetes, with Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk

  I

• I Love My Wife, directed by Mel Stuart, starring Elliott Gould, Brenda Vaccaro, Angel Tompkins
• I Never Sang for My Father, directed by Gilbert Cates, starring Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Melvyn Douglas
• The Intruders, starring Don Murray, John Saxon and Anne Francis
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, directed by Elio Petri, starring Gian Maria Volonté - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1970 -
• The Invincible Six, directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Stuart Whitman and Elke Sommer
• I Walk the Line, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld

  J

• El jardín de las delicias, directed by Carlos Saura -
• Jenny, starring Marlo Thomas and Alan Alda
• Joe, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Peter Boyle and Susan Sarandon
• Julius Caesar, directed by Stuart Burge, starring Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud -

  K

• Kati Patang, starring Rajesh Khanna -
• Kazoku -
• Kelly's Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles
• Khilona -
• , a documentary on Martin Luther King, Jr. directed by Sidney Lumet
• The Kremlin Letter, directed by John Huston, starring Patrick O'Neal, Barbara Parkins, Bibi Andersson, Nigel Green, Orson Welles

  L

• The Landlord, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Landscape After the Battle, directed by Andrzej Wajda -
• The Last Grenade, directed by Gordon Flemyng, starring Stanley Baker, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough, Alex Cord
• Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, starring James Coburn
• The Last Warrior, aka Flap, starring Anthony Quinn, Shelley Winters, Tony Bill
• Leo the Last, directed by John Boorman, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Billie Whitelaw -
• Let It Be - documentary film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and featuring The Beatles -
• The Liberation of L.B. Jones, directed by William Wyler, starring Roscoe Lee Browne, Anthony Zerbe, Lee J. Cobb, Lola Falana, Barbara Hershey
• Little Big Man, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George
• Little Fauss and Big Halsy, starring Robert Redford and Michael J. Pollard
• The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir, a TV film -
• Loot, directed by Silvio Narizzano, starring Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Hywel Bennett -
• Lost in the Desert, directed by Jamie Uys -
• Love Story, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal - winner of 5 Golden Globes including best picture and best director
• Lovers and Other Strangers, starring Cloris Leachman, Beatrice Arthur, Richard Castellano, Diane Keaton
• Loving, starring George Segal and Eva Marie Saint

  M

• M*A*S*H, directed by Robert Altman, starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall, Michael Murphy, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann Pflug
• Macho Callahan, starring Jean Seberg, David Janssen, Lee J. Cobb
• Maidstone, written, directed by and starring Norman Mailer
• A Man Called Horse, starring Richard Harris
• The Man Who Haunted Himself, starring Roger Moore, Anton Rodgers and Hildegarde Neil -
• Metello -
• Michael the Brave -
• The Molly Maguires, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris
• Monte Walsh, starring Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Jeanne Moreau
• The Moonshine War, starring Alan Alda, Richard Widmark, Patrick McGoohan
• Move, starring Paula Prentiss and Elliott Gould
• The Music Lovers, directed by Ken Russell, starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson -
• Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, starring Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood and Vanessa Howard-
• Myra Breckinridge, starring Raquel Welch, Mae West, John Huston, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed

  N

• The Nameless Knight -
• Ned Kelly, starring Mick Jagger -
• Norwood, starring Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Joe Namath

  O

• o.k., directed by Michael Verhoeven -
• Of Gods and the Undead -
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Barbra Streisand and Yves Montand, songs by Alan Jay Lerner
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, starring Tom Courtenay -
• One More Time, directed by Jerry Lewis, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford
• One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away -
• On the Comet
• The Out-of-Towners, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis
• The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again, starring Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, Fred Astaire
• The Owl and the Pussycat, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal

  P

• The Palace of Angels -
• The Past-Master, directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Kiril Gospodinov and Yuriy Yakovlev -
• Patton, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring George C. Scott - winner of 7 Academy Awards for 1971 including best picture, director and actor
• Peace in the Fields -
• Peau d'Âne, directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais -
• The People Next Door, starring Eli Wallach and Julie Harris
• Perfect Friday, starring Ursula Andress and Stanley Baker
• Performance, directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, starring James Fox and Mick Jagger -
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• The Pizza Triangle, directed by Ettore Scola, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Monica Vitti -
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Robert Stephens, Geneviève Page, Colin Blakely -
• Pufnstuf starring Van Snowden and Jack Wild
• Purab Aur Paschim, starring Ashok Kumar -
• Puzzle of a Downfall Child, starring Faye Dunaway

  Q

• Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx, starring Gene Wilder and Margot Kidder -
• ¡Qué hacer! -

  R

• Rabbit, Run, directed by Jack Smight, starring James Caan
• The Railway Children, directed by Lionel Jeffries, starring Jenny Agutter -
• The Rebel Rousers, starring Jack Nicholson
• The Revolutionary, starring Jon Voight
• Rio Lobo, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Sherry Lansing
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, starring Peter Cook, Denholm Elliott, Arthur Lowe -
• R. P. M., directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn and Ann-Margret
• Reza Motorcyclist - directed by Masoud Kimiai
• Ryan's Daughter, directed by David Lean, starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, John Mills -

  S

• Salt of the Black Earth -
• Scars of Dracula, starring Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman and Jenny Hanley -
• Scream and Scream Again, starring Vincent Price, Alfred Marks and Christopher Lee-
• Scrooge, directed by Ronald Neame, with Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans -
• Skullduggery, starring Burt Reynolds and Susan Clark
• Soldier Blue, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Candice Bergen and Peter Strauss
• Something for Everyone, directed by Harold Prince, starring Angela Lansbury and Michael York
• Space Amoeba, directed by Ishirō Honda -
• The Spider's Stratagem, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci -
• Spring and Port Wine, starring James Mason and Susan George -
• Start the Revolution Without Me, directed by Bud Yorkin, starring Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith
• Strange Holiday
• The Strawberry Statement, starring Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort
• Street Scenes, directed by Martin Scorsese
• Strogoff
• Sunflower, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren -
• Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came, starring Brian Keith, Don Ameche, Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette
• A Swedish Love Story -

  T

• Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy -
• Taste the Blood of Dracula, starring Christopher Lee -
• Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Liza Minnelli
• There's a Girl in My Soup, starring Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn -
• There Was a Crooked Man..., starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda
• They Call Me Trinity, starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer -
• The Things of Life -
• Three Sisters, by Laurence Olivier, starring Joan Plowright and Olivier -
• ...tick...tick...tick..., starring Jim Brown and George Kennedy
• Too Late the Hero, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda -
• Tora! Tora! Tora!, co-directed by Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku, starring Martin Balsam and Takahiro Tamura -
• Trash, produced by Andy Warhol, directed by Paul Morrissey
• The Traveling Executioner, starring Stacy Keach, Bud Cort
• Tristana, directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero -
• The Twelve Chairs, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody, Dom DeLuise
• Two Mules for Sister Sara, directed by Don Siegel, starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood

  U

• Ucho -
• La última aventura del Zorro
• Up in the Cellar, starring Joan Collins and Larry Hagman

  V

• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders -
• The Vampire Lovers, starring Peter Cushing -
• Vengeance -

  W

• A Walk in the Spring Rain, starring Anthony Quinn and Ingrid Bergman
• The Wandering Swordsman, directed by Chang Cheh -
• Waterloo, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles -
• Weekend With the Babysitter starring George E Carey and Susan Romen
• Where's Poppa?, directed by Carl Reiner, starring George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman
• Which Way to the Front?, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
• White Sun of the Desert -
• Whale, directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Georgi Kaloyanchev, Dimitar Panov, Georgi Partsalev -
• The Window - starring Behrouz Vossoughi and Googoosh - Iran
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
• The Wild Child, directed by François Truffaut -
• Wood Pigeon - directed by Ali Hatami
• Woodstock, a musical documentary featuring Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Santana, Jefferson Airplane and others
• WUSA, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

  Z

• Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
• Zig Zag, starring George Kennedy, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson

  1970 film releases

January–March

• January 1970
• Scream and Scream Again
• *9 January
• **...tick...tick...tick...
• *14 January
• **Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
• **The Dunwich Horror
• *21 January
• **The Only Game in Town
• *25 January
• **MASH
• *28 January
• **The Molly Maguires
• February 1970
• *1 February
• **The Kremlin Letter
• *5 February
• **Patton
• *9 February
• **Zabriskie Point
• *10 February
• **The Party at Kitty and Stud's
• *11 February
• **King of the Grizzlies
• March 1970
• *4 March
• **Loving
• *5 March
• **Airport
• *6 March
• **Skullduggery
• *18 March
• **The Liberation of L.B. Jones
• *21 March
• **Gamera vs. Jiger
• *31 March
• **Waterloo

  April–June

• April 1970
• *8 April
• **
• **The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
• *9 April
• **Halls of Anger
• *27 April
• **Zig Zag
• *28 April
• **A Man Called Horse
• May 1970
• *6 May
• **'Equinox
• *7 May
• **Taste the Blood of Dracula
• *13 May
• **My Lover, My Son
• **Getting Straight
• *20 May
• **The Landlord
• **Too Late the Hero
• *26 May
• **The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
• **Beneath the Planet of the Apes
• **Pufnstuf
• *27 May
• **Watermelon Man
• June 1970
• *3 June
• **The Executioner
• *10 June
• **The Invincible Six
• *15 June
• **The Strawberry Statement
• *16 June
• **Two Mules for Sister Sara
• *17 June
• **Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
• **A Walk in the Spring Rain
• **The Hawaiians
• *23 June
• **Kelly's Heroes
• *24 June
• **Myra Breckinridge''

  July–September

• July 1970
• *1 July
• **The Boatniks
• *9 July
• **The Games
• *12 July
• **Hello-Goodbye
• *15 July
• **Joe
• **The Revolutionary
• *31 July
• **Move
• August 1970
• *1 August
• **Space Amoeba
• *10 August
• **Diary of a Mad Housewife
• *12 August
• **Lovers and Other Strangers
• **Soldier Blue
• *24 August
• **House of Dark Shadows
• September 1970
• *12 September
• **Five Easy Pieces
• *16 September
• **R. P. M.
• *23 September
• **Tora! Tora! Tora!

  October–December

• October 1970
• *1 October
• **Cover Me Babe
• **How Do I Love Thee?
• **The Traveling Executioner
• *4 October
• **The Vampire Lovers
• *11 October
• **The Great White Hope
• *12 October
• **The Mind of Mr. Soames
• *21 October
• **Little Fauss and Big Halsy
• *23 October
• **No Blade of Grass
• *24 October
• **Trog
• November 1970
• *5 November
• **Scrooge
• *7 November
• **The Phantom Tollbooth
• *8 November
• **Scars of Dracula
• *9 November
• **Ryan's Daughter
• *18 November
• **I Walk the Line
• December 1970
• *8 December
• **Husbands
• **The Horror of Frankenstein
• *11 December
• **The Aristocats
• *15 December
• **The Wild Country
• *16 December
• **Puzzle of a Downfall Child
• **Love Story
• *17 December
• **Rio Lobo
• *21 December
• **I Love My Wife
• *25 December
• **There Was a Crooked Man...

  Short film series

• The Ant and the Aardvark
• Roland and Rattfink
• Tijuana Toads
• Woody Woodpecker
• Chilly Willy
• The Beary Family

  Births

• January 24 – Matthew Lillard, American actor, voice actor, director and producer
• January 29 - Heather Graham, American actress
• January 31 - Minnie Driver, English actress
• February 3 - Warwick Davis, English actor
• February 14 - Simon Pegg, English actor
• March 4 - Sergio Basáñez, Mexican actor
• March 5 - Rimantė Valiukaitė, Lithuanian actress
• March 6 - Dan Põldroos, Estonian actor
• March 7 - Rachel Weisz, English actress
• March 18 - Queen Latifah, American actress and rapper
• March 20 - Linda Larkin, American actress and voice actress
• March 28 - Vince Vaughn, American actor, writer and producer
• April 13 - Ricky Schroder, American actor
• April 20 - Shemar Moore, American actor
• April 21
• *Nicole Sullivan, American actress, voice artist and comedian
• *Rob Riggle, American actor, comedian, and marine
• April 25 - Jason Lee, American actor, comedian, and professional skateboarder
• April 29 - Uma Thurman, American actress
• May 4 - Will Arnett, Canadian actor
• May 9 - Helen Hill, American animator
• May 12 - Samantha Mathis, American actress
• May 18 - Tina Fey, American actress and comedian
• May 22 - Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
• May 23 - Nanette Burstein, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• May 25 - Octavia Spencer, American actress
• May 26 - John Hamburg, American writer and director
• May 27 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
• May 28 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor
• June 24 - Andres Raag, Estonian actor
• June 15 - Leah Remini, American actress, author and activist
• June 26
• *Sean Hayes, American actor and comedian
• *Chris O'Donnell, American actor
• *Nick Offerman, American actor, writer, comedian, producer and woodworker
• July 14 - Mike McFarland, American voice actor
• July 16 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
• July 30 - Christopher Nolan, English-American film director, producer and writer
• August 6 - M. Night Shyamalan, American film director, writer, producer and actor
• August 15
• *Anthony Anderson, American actor
• *Maddie Corman, American actress
• August 16
• *Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor
• *Kaili Närep, Estonian actress
• August 18 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
• August 23
• *Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
• *River Phoenix, American actor
• August 24 - Jonathan Ward, American actor
• August 26 - Melissa McCarthy, American actress, comedian and film producer
• September 4 - Ione Skye, British-born American actress
• September 7 - Tom Everett Scott, American actor
• September 11 - Taraji P. Henson, American actress
• September 29 - Emily Lloyd, English actress
• September 30 - Tony Hale, American actor
• October 2
• *Kelly Ripa, American actress and television host
• *Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress
• October 8 - Matt Damon, American actor
• October 12 - Kirk Cameron, American actor
• October 19 - Chris Kattan, American actor and comedian
• October 24 - Raul Esparza, American actor
• October 30 - Nia Long, American actress
• November 1 - Merle Palmiste, Estonian actress
• November 6 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
• November 12 - Aitor Iturrioz, Mexican actor
• November 13 - José María Yazpik, Mexican actor
• November 16 - Martha Plimpton, American actress
• December 12
• *Jennifer Connelly, American actress
• *Regina Hall, American actress
• December 17 - Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor

  Deaths

• January 7 - Jack Natteford, 75, American screenwriter, 1,000 Dollars a Minute, Black Bart
• January 19 - Hal March, 49, American actor, Hear Me Good, Send Me No Flowers
• January 23 - Nell Shipman, 77, Canadian actress, writer, producer, Back to God's Country, The Grub-Stake
• January 25 - Eiji Tsuburaya, 68, Japanese film director and special effects designer, Godzilla, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
• January 27 - Rocco D'Assunta, 65, Italian actor, comedian and playwright
• February 6 - Roscoe Karns, 76, American actor, It Happened One Night, Alibi Ike
• February 19 - Jules Munshin, 54, American actor, On the Town, Take Me Out to the Ball Game
• February 24 - Conrad Nagel, 72, American actor, All That Heaven Allows, The Divorcee
• March 4 - Peter Godfrey, 70, British director, Christmas in Connecticut, The Two Mrs. Carrolls
• March 6 - William Hopper, 55, American actor, Rebel Without a Cause, Track of the Cat
• March 23 - Del Lord, 75, Canadian pioneer Hollywood director, A Plumbing We Will Go, All the World's a Stooge
• March 25 - Virginia Van Upp, 68, American producer and screenwriter, Gilda, Cover Girl
• March 26 - Patricia Ellis, 51, American actress, A Night at the Ritz, Rhythm in the Clouds
• April 9 - Cobina Wright, 82, American singer and actress, The Razor's Edge, Footlight Serenade
• April 11 - Cathy O'Donnell, 46, American actress, Ben-Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives
• April 18 - Glenn Tryon, 71, American actor and director, Lonesome, Miss Mink of 1949
• April 19 - George Blair, 64, American director, Duke of Chicago, Streets of San Francisco
• April 25 - Anita Louise, 55, American actress, The Little Princess, The Story of Louis Pasteur
• April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee, 59, American burlesque performer and actress, Screaming Mimi, Belle of the Yukon
• April 28 - Ed Begley, 69, American actor, 12 Angry Men, Patterns
• April 30 - Inger Stevens, 35, Swedish actress, Hang 'Em High, A Guide for the Married Man
• May 10 - Mari Blanchard, 43, American actress, Destry, She-Devil
• May 14 - Billie Burke, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Father's Little Dividend
• May 17 - Nigel Balchin, 61, British screenwriter, The Man Who Never Was, 23 Paces to Baker Street
• May 23 - Nydia Westman, 68, American actress, Ladies Should Listen, Dressed to Thrill
• June 4 - Sonny Tufts, 58, American actor, The Virginian, Government Girl
• June 14 - William Daniels, 68, American cinematographer, Camille, Ninotchka
• July 6 - Marjorie Rambeau, 80, American actress, A Man Called Peter, Tobacco Road
• July 9 - Sigrid Holmquist, 71, Swedish actress, Just Around the Corner, Meddling Women
• July 14 - Preston Foster, 69, American actor, The Informer, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
• July 22 - Fritz Kortner, 78, German director, Pandora's Box, The Razor's Edge
• July 24 - Frank Silvera, 55, Jamaican actor, Viva Zapata!, Hombre
• August 1 - Frances Farmer, 56, American actress, Come and Get It, The Toast of New York
• September 3 - Vasil Gendov, 78, Bulgarian film director, actor and screenwriter, Bulgaran is Gallant
• September 11 - Chester Morris, 69, American actor, Meet Boston Blackie, Five Came Back
• September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, 27, American musician, Almost Famous, Wayne's World
• September 29 - Edward Everett Horton, 84, American actor, Arsenic and Old Lace, Top Hat
• October 4 - Janis Joplin, 27, American singer, Watchmen, Three Kings
• October 10 - Grethe Weiser, 67, German actress, My Friend Barbara, Lemke's Widow
• October 17 - Vola Vale, 73, American actress, The Phantom of the Opera
• October 20 - Patrick Wymark, 44, British actor, Battle of Britain, Where Eagles Dare
• October 21 - Ernest Haller, 74, American cinematographer, Gone with the Wind, Mildred Pierce
• November 2 - Fernand Gravey, 64, French actor, The King and the Chorus Girl, The Great Waltz
• November 17 - Naunton Wayne, 69, British actor, Crook's Tour, Dead of Night
• November 25 - Louise Glaum, 82, American actress, Greater Than Love, Sex
• December 12
• *Carolyn Craig, 36, American actress, House on Haunted Hill, Portland Exposé
• *George Terwilliger, 88, American director and screenwriter, The Fatal Hour, Bride's Play
• December 23 - Charles Ruggles, 84, American actor, Bringing Up Baby, The Parent Trap
• December 30 - Lenore Ulric, 78, American actress, Notorious, Camille
• December 31 - Suzanne Dalbert, 43, French actress, Mark of the Gorilla, The 49th Man

  Film debuts

• Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope
• Linda Blair - The Way We Live Now
• Brian Blessed - Country Dance
• Danny DeVito - Dreams of Glass
• Robert Downey, Jr. - Pound
• Shelley Duvall - Brewster McCloud
• Pam Grier - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
• Dan Hedaya - Myra Breckinridge
• Don Johnson - The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
• Jeffrey Jones - The Revolutionary
• Tommy Lee Jones - Love Story
• Diane Keaton - Lovers and Other Strangers
• Frank Langella - Diary of a Mad Housewife
• Anne Meara - The Out-of-Towners
• Ornella Muti - The Most Beautiful Wife
• Stephen Rea - Cry of the Banshee
• Susan Sarandon - Joe
• Tom Selleck - Myra Breckinridge
• Paul Sorvino - Where's Poppa?
• Sissy Spacek - Trash
• Sylvester Stallone - The Party at Kitty and Stud's
• Burt Young - Carnival of Blood