1971 in film

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

Events

• February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour.
• April 23 - Melvin Van Peebles film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971.
• May - The first permanent IMAX projection system begins showing at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto.
• May 10 - Frank Yablans becomes President of Paramount Pictures.
• Britain's National Film School begins operation at Beaconsfield Film Studios.

  Awards

1971 film releases

January–March

• January 1971
• *1 January
• **Something Big
• *21 January
• **Zachariah
• *31 January
• **Countess Dracula
• February 1971
• *9 February
• **Little Murders
• March 1971
• *2 March
• **Yuma
• *11 March
• **Lawman
• **A New Leaf
• **THX 1138
• *12 March
• **The Andromeda Strain
• *13 March
• **Vanishing Point
• *17 March
• **The Barefoot Executive
• *21 March
• **Making It
• *24 March
• **Friends
• *25 March
• **The Deserter
• *31 March
• **B.S. I Love You
• **The Beguiled

  April–June

• April 1971
• *7 April
• **Shinbone Alley
• *9 April
• **Summer of '42
• **Valdez Is Coming
• *28 April
• **Pretty Maids All in a Row
• May 1971
• *1 May
• **Billy Jack
• *12 May
• **Plaza Suite
• *18 May
• **The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• *21 May
• **Escape from the Planet of the Apes
• *26 May
• **Big Jake
• **Support Your Local Gunfighter
• June 1971
• *1 June
• **One More Train to Rob
• *2 June
• **The Young Graduates
• *13 June
• **Unman, Wittering and Zigo
• *18 June
• **Willard
• **The Panic in Needle Park
• *22 June
• **Scandalous John
• *23 June
• **Le Mans
• **Man and Boy
• **Wild Rovers
• *24 June
• **McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• *25 June
• **Klute
• *27 June
• **A Town Called Hell
• *30 June
• **The Million Dollar Duck
• **Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• **Carnal Knowledge

  July–September

• July 1971
• *1 July
• **Murphy's War
• **Walkabout
• *2 July
• **Shaft
• *7 July
• **Pinocchio
• **Two-Lane Blacktop
• *16 July
• **The Devils
• **The Hunting Party
• *23 July
• **The Seven Minutes
• *24 July
• **Godzilla vs. Hedorah -
• August 1971
• *1 August
• **Doc
• **The Omega Man
• *9 August
• **The Mephisto Waltz
• *11 August
• **The Hired Hand
• *19 August
• **The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
• *25 August
• **A Gunfight
• *27 August
• **Let's Scare Jessica to Death
• September 1971
• *3 September
• **Return of Sabata
• *15 September
• **Red Sun
• **Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
• *17 September
• **Kotch
• *24 September
• **The Last Rebel
• *28 September
• **The Last Movie
• *30 September
• **The Skin Game

  October–December

• October 1971
• *1 October
• **Catlow
• *9 October
• **The French Connection
• *13 October
• **Shoot Out
• *20 October
• **T.R. Baskin
• *22 October
• **The Last Picture Show
• *27 October
• **Captain Apache
• *29 October
• **Duck, You Sucker!
• November 1971
• *3 November
• **Fiddler on the Roof
• **Play Misty for Me
• *8 November
• **Hannie Caulder
• *24 November
• **Black Beauty
• **Man in the Wilderness
• December 1971
• *13 December
• **Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• *17 December
• **Lady and the Tramp
• **Sometimes A Great Notion
• *19 December
• **A Clockwork Orange
• *20 December
• **Harold and Maude
• *21 December
• **Such Good Friends
• *22 December
• **Star Spangled Girl
• **The Last Picture Show
• *23 December
• **Bad Man's River
• **Dirty Harry
• *26 December
• **Tiki Tiki
• *29 December
• **Straw Dogs
• *30 December
• **Diamonds Are Forever

  Notable films released in 1971

• $, starring Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn
• 10 Rillington Place, starring Richard Attenborough and John Hurt -
• 1870, Italian historical drama starring Anna Magnani and Marcello Mastroianni
• 200 Motels, featuring Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
• The 300 Year Weekend, starring Michael Tolan and William Devane

  A

• Aabhijathyam, Indian Malayalam, directed by A Vincent and produced by RS Prabhu, with stars Madhu, Sharada and Sukumari
• Aana Valarthiya Vanampadiyude Makan, Indian Malayalam, directed and produced by P. Subramaniam, with stars Gemini Ganesan and Rajasree
• Aap Aye Bahaar Ayee, Bollywood film produced, directed and written by Mohan Kumar, with stars Rajendra Kumar and Sadhana
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes, starring Vincent Price and Joseph Cotten -
• Achante Bharya, Indian Malayalam film, directed by Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair, with stars Adoor Bhasi, K. P. Ummer and Ragini
• Adrift on the Nile, directed by Hussein Kamal -
• Adiós, Sabata, starring Yul Brynner -
• The Adversary, directed by Satyajit Ray -
• Agnimrigam, Indian Malayalam film, directed by M. Krishnan Nair, with stars Prem Nazir, Sathyan and Sheela
• Amar Prem, starring Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna -
• Anand, starring Rajesh Khanna -
• The Anderson Tapes, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Christopher Walken
• And Now for Something Completely Different, a Monty Python film -
• The Andromeda Strain, directed by Robert Wise, starring Arthur Hill, Kate Reid, David Wayne, James Olson
• Animal Treasure Island -

  B

• Bananas, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Louise Lasser and Howard Cosell
• The Barefoot Executive, starring Kurt Russell
• The Battle of Kerzhenets -
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks, starring Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson
• The Beguiled, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page
• Benny's Bathtub -
• Between Miracles, directed by and starring Nino Manfredi -
• Beware of a Holy Whore, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
• The Big Boss, starring Bruce Lee -
• The Big Doll House, starring Pam Grier
• Big Jake, starring John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara
• Billy Jack, starring Tom Laughlin, re-released in 1973
• Bleak Moments, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson -
• Bless the Beasts and Children, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Bill Mumy
• The Blood on Satan's Claw, starring Patrick Wymark and Linda Hayden-
• The Boat on the Grass, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel -
• Born to Win, starring George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Héctor Elizondo, Karen Black, Robert De Niro
• The Boy Friend, directed by Ken Russell, starring Twiggy -
• Brian's Song, starring James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Shelley Fabares, Judy Pace, Jack Warden
• Brother John, starring Sidney Poitier
• Bunny O'Hare, starring Bette Davis

  C

• Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen
• Carry On Henry, directed by Gerald Thomas, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims -
• The Ceremony, directed by Nagisa Oshima -
• Chandler, starring Warren Oates and Leslie Caron
• Le Chat, directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, starring Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret -
• A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Malcolm McDowell -
• The Clowns, a TV film directed by and starring Federico Fellini -
• Cold Turkey, directed by Norman Lear, starring Dick Van Dyke and Bob Newhart
• Confessions of a Police Captain, starring Franco Nero -
• Countess Dracula, starring Ingrid Pitt -
• Crucible of Terror, starring Mike Raven, James Bolam and Mary Maude-

  D

• Daughters of Darkness, directed by Harry Kümel, starring Delphine Seyrig -
• Dauria -
• The Deadly Duo, directed by Chang Cheh -
• The Deadly Trap, starring Faye Dunaway and Frank Langella
• Death in Venice, directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde and Silvana Mangano -
• The Decameron, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini -
• The Deserter, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Bekim Fehmiu, John Huston, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors, Brandon deWilde
• Desperate Characters, directed by Frank D. Gilroy, starring Shirley MacLaine and Kenneth Mars
• The Devils, directed by Ken Russell, starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave -
• The Devil Has Seven Faces, starring Stephen Boyd and Carroll Baker-
• Die Screaming, Marianne, starring Susan George and Barry Evans-
• Diamonds Are Forever, starring Sean Connery, with Jill St. John, Jimmy Dean, Charles Gray -
• Dirty Harry, directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Andy Robinson, John Vernon, Reni Santoni
• Doc, starring Stacy Keach and Faye Dunaway
• Drive, He Said, directed by Jack Nicholson, starring Karen Black and Bruce Dern
• Duel, the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg, starring Dennis Weaver
• Dulcima, starring John Mills and Carol White -

  E

• The Emigrants, directed by Jan Troell, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann -
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes, starring Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, Ricardo Montalbán, Eric Braeden, William Windom, Sal Mineo
• Evdokia, directed by Alexis Damianos -
• Evel Knievel, starring George Hamilton and Sue Lyon

  F

• Family Life -
• Family Life, directed by Ken Loach -
• Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Chaim Topol
• A Fistful of Dynamite, directed by Sergio Leone, starring James Coburn and Rod Steiger -
• Fleeing the Trap, starring Behrouz Vossoughi and Davoud Rashidi
• Fools' Parade, starring James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell
• Fortune and Men's Eyes -
• Four Nights of a Dreamer, directed by Robert Bresson -
• The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin, starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider - 5 Academy Awards including best film, director and actor
• Fright, starring Susan George and Honor Blackman -
• Fun and Games, British exploitation film directed by Ray Austin

  G

• The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, starring Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young, Robert De Niro
• Gas-s-s-s, directed by Roger Corman
• Gentlemen of Fortune -
• Get Carter, directed by Mike Hodges, starring Michael Caine -
• A Girl in Australia, starring Alberto Sordi -
• The Go-Between, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard -
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah -
• Grandads-Robbers -
• The Grissom Gang, starring Kim Darby and Scott Wilson
• Guddi, starring Dharmendra -
• Gumshoe, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Albert Finney and Billie Whitelaw -
• A Gunfight, starring Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash

  H

• Hannie Caulder, starring Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Culp
• Hare Rama Hare Krishna, directed by and starring Dev Anand -
• Harold and Maude, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort
• The Hellstrom Chronicle, a documentary directed by Walon Green narrated by a dramatized title character portrayed by Lawrence Pressman
• The Hired Hand, directed by and starring Peter Fonda, with Warren Oates, Verna Bloom
• The Horsemen, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Omar Sharif and Jack Palance
• The Hospital, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring George C. Scott and Diana Rigg
• How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman -
• How to Frame a Figg, starring Don Knotts and Yvonne Craig
• The Hunting Party, starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Oliver Reed

  I

• I, Monster, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing -
• In Prison Awaiting Trial, starring Alberto Sordi -

  J

• Joe Hill, directed by Bo Widerberg -
• Johnny Got His Gun, directed by Dalton Trumbo, starring Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland
• Juste avant la nuit, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran -

  K

• King Lear, directed by Peter Brook, starring Paul Scofield -
• King Lear, directed by Grigori Kozintsev -
• Klute, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
• Kotch, directed by Jack Lemmon, starring Walter Matthau

  L

• Land of Silence and Darkness, directed by Werner Herzog -
• The Last Picture Show, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson
• The Last Run, starring George C. Scott
• Lawman, starring Burt Lancaster, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Ryan, Robert Duvall
• Le Mans, starring Steve McQueen
• Liberation, directed by Yuri Ozerov -
• The Light at the Edge of the World
• Little Murders, directed by Alan Arkin, starring Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Donald Sutherland
• Love -
• The Love Machine, directed by Jack Haley, Jr., starring Dyan Cannon

  M

• Macbeth, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Jon Finch and Francesca Annis -
• Made for Each Other, starring Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor
• Malpertuis, starring Orson Welles and Susan Hampshire -
• Man in the Wilderness, starring Richard Harris
• The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, starring Richard Benjamin, Joanna Shimkus and Adam West
• Mary, Queen of Scots, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson -
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller, directed by Robert Altman, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie
• Melody, starring Mark Lester and Jack Wild -
• The Mephisto Waltz, starring Alan Alda and Jacqueline Bisset
• Mere Apne -
• The Million Dollar Duck, starring Sandy Duncan
• Minnie and Moskowitz, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel
• Mira, directed by Fons Rademakers -
• The Missing Clerk -
• Mon oncle Antoine - considered by some critics the greatest Canadian film -
• Murmur of the Heart, directed by Louis Malle -
• Murphy's War, starring Peter O'Toole

  N

• A New Leaf, directed by and starring Elaine May, co-starring Walter Matthau
• Nicholas and Alexandra, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Laurence Olivier, Jack Hawkins -
• Night of Dark Shadows, directed by Dan Curtis, starring David Selby and Grayson Hall
• The Night Digger, starring Patricia Neal -
• The Night God Screamed, low-budget psychological horror starring Jeanne Crain with Alex Nicol, Gary Morgan, James Sikking
• Nikah Halala, by Nosrat Karimi.

  O

• Octaman
• Officers -
• Oil Lamps -
• The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston and Anthony Zerbe
• On the Buses, starring Reg Varney -
• One Armed Boxer, starring Jimmy Wang Yu -
• One More Train to Rob, starring George Peppard and Diana Muldaur
• Out 1, directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud -

  P

• The Panic in Needle Park, starring Al Pacino
• The Pine Tree in the Mountain -
• Play Misty for Me, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Jessica Walter and Donna Mills
• Plaza Suite, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, Lee Grant
• Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles -
• Pretty Maids All in a Row, written and produced by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Rock Hudson and Angie Dickinson
• Punishment Park, directed by Peter Watkins
• The Pursuit of Happiness, starring Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Robert Klein

  R

• Raid on Rommel, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Richard Burton and John Colicos
• Raphael, or The Debauched One -
• Red Sky at Morning, starring Richard Thomas and Desi Arnaz, Jr.
• Red Sun, starring Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon -
• Rendezvous at Bray, starring Anna Karina -

  S

• Sacco e Vanzetti, starring Gian Maria Volonté -
• A Safe Place, starring Jack Nicholson and Tuesday Weld
• The Salamander, starring Bulle Ogier -
• See No Evil, starring Mia Farrow
• The Seven Minutes, starring Marianne McAndrew
• Shaft, directed by Gordon Parks, starring Richard Roundtree
• She Killed in Ecstasy -
• Shoot Out, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gregory Peck
• Silence -
• Skin Game, starring James Garner and Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Something Big, starring Dean Martin
• Sometimes a Great Notion, directed by and starring Paul Newman, with Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Sarrazin
• Soul to Soul, a concert documentary featuring Wilson Pickett, Ike & Tina Turner and more
• Star Spangled Girl, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Sandy Duncan and Tony Roberts
• Straw Dogs, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George -
• Such Good Friends, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Dyan Cannon and Burgess Meredith
• Summer of '42, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Jennifer O'Neill and Gary Grimes
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson -
• Support Your Local Gunfighter, starring James Garner and Suzanne Pleshette
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, directed by Melvin Van Peebles
• Sympathy for the Underdog -

  T

• THX 1138, the directorial debut of George Lucas, starring Robert Duvall
• T.R. Baskin, starring Candice Bergen
• Taking Off, directed by Miloš Forman, starring Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry
• The Tales of Beatrix Potter, a dance film featuring The Royal Ballet -
• They Might Be Giants, starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward
• Three Reservists, directed by Zako Heskiya, starring Georgi Partsalev and Kiril Gospodinov -
• A Touch of Zen -
• Trafic, directed by and starring Jacques Tati -
• The Trojan Women, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas -
• Twitch of the Death Nerve, starring Claudine Auger -
• Two English Girls, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud -
• Two-Lane Blacktop, starring James Taylor and Warren Oates

  U

• Unman, Wittering and Zigo, starring David Hemmings -
• Up Pompeii, starring Frankie Howerd and Michael Hordern -

  V

• Valdez Is Coming, starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher, Richard Jordan
• Vampyros Lesbos, directed by Jesus Franco
• Vanishing Point, starring Barry Newman and Cleavon Little
• Villain, starring Richard Burton and Ian McShane -
• Von Richthofen and Brown, directed by Roger Corman, starring John Phillip Law

  W

• -
• Wake in Fright, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Donald Pleasence -
• Walkabout, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Jenny Agutter and David Gulpilil -
• Le Wazzou polygame -
• What's the Matter with Helen?, starring Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters
• What the Peeper Saw, starring Britt Ekland, Mark Lester, Hardy Krüger
• When Eight Bells Toll, starring Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon, Jack Hawkins -
• Whity, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
• Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, starring Shelley Winters and Mark Lester
• Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, starring Dustin Hoffman
• Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name? a.k.a. Death of a Hooker, starring Red Buttons and Sylvia Miles
• Wild Rovers, directed by Blake Edwards, starring William Holden and Ryan O'Neal
• Willard, starring Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart, starring Gene Wilder and Jack Albertson
• The Working Class Goes to Heaven, starring Gian Maria Volonté, Palme d'Or winner -

  XYZ

• You Are a Widow, Sir -
• The Young Graduates, directed by Robert Anderson, starring Patrick Wymer, Steven Stewart, Gary Rist and Bruno Kirby
• Zeppelin, starring Elke Sommer and Michael York - (U.K.

  Short film series

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

  Births

• January 2 - Taye Diggs, American actor
• January 7 - Jeremy Renner, American actor
• January 11 - Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter and actress
• January 15 - Regina King, American actress
• January 24 - Stanislas Merhar, French actor
• January 27 - Karin Tammaru, Estonian actress
• February 1
• *Michael C. Hall, American actor
• *Jill Kelly, American pornographic actress
• February 11 - Damian Lewis, English actor
• February 15
• *Alex Borstein, American actress
• *Renee O'Connor, American actress
• February 17 - Denise Richards, American actress
• February 22 - Lea Salonga, Filipina voice actress/singer
• February 25 - Sean Astin, American actor
• March 2 - Method Man, American actor and musician
• March 5 - Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor
• March 7 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
• March 10 - Jon Hamm, American actor
• March 11 - Johnny Knoxville, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• March 13 - Annabeth Gish, American actress
• March 15 - Chris Patton, American voice actor
• March 16 - Alan Tudyk, American actor and voice actor
• March 27 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
• March 31 - Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
• April 12 - Shannen Doherty, American actress
• April 15 - Kate Harbour, English voice actress
• April 18 - David Tennant, Scottish actor
• April 19 - Wendy Powell, American voice actress
• April 28 - Bridget Moynahan, American actress
• May 14 - Sofia Coppola, American actress, writer, and director
• May 26 - Matt Stone, American actor, creator of South Park
• May 27
• *Paul Bettany, English actor
• *Lisa Lopes, American singer and actress
• May 30 - Idina Menzel, American actress, singer and songwriter
• June 4 - Noah Wyle, American actor
• June 5 - Mark Wahlberg, American actor and musician
• June 15
• *Jake Busey, American actor
• *Taavi Eelmaa, Estonian actor
• June 16
• *Eva Püssa, Estonian actress
• *Tupac Shakur, American actor and rapper
• July 1 - Missy Elliott, American musician and actress
• July 16 - Corey Feldman, American actor
• July 19 - Andres Puustusmaa, Estonian actor and director
• July 21 - Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress
• August 10 - Justin Theroux, American actor
• August 12 - Rebecca Gayheart, American actress
• August 29 - Carla Gugino, American actress
• August 31 - Chris Tucker, American actor
• September 8
• *David Arquette, American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter
• *Martin Freeman, English actor
• September 9 – Eric Stonestreet, American actor and comedian
• September 14 - Kimberly Williams-Paisley, American actresses
• September 15 - Colleen Villard, American voice actress
• September 16 - Amy Poehler, American actress
• September 18 - Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress
• September 21 - Luke Wilson, American actor
• October 5 – Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor and singer
• October 13 - Sacha Baron Cohen, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
• October 20 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper and actor
• October 29 - Winona Ryder, American actress
• November 3 - Piret Laurimaa, Estonian actress
• November 4 - Tabu, Indian actress
• November 10 - Walton Goggins, American actor
• November 20 - Joel McHale, American actor, comedian, writer, producer and television host
• November 25 - Christina Applegate, American actress
• December 1 - Emily Mortimer, English actress
• December 6 - Katariina Unt, Estonian actress
• December 7
• *DeObia Oparei, English actor
• December 23 - Corey Haim, Canadian actor
• December 25 - Ain Mäeots, Estonian actor, director and producer
• December 26 - Jared Leto, American actor and musician

  Notable deaths

Film debuts

• F. Murray Abraham - They Might Be Giants
• Brooke Adams - Murders in the Rue Morgue
• Kathy Bates - Taking Off
• Timothy Bottoms - Johnny Got His Gun
• Jim Broadbent - The Go-Between
• Keith Carradine - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Stockard Channing - The Hospital
• Dennis Christopher - Blood and Lace
• Brian Cox - Nicholas and Alexandra
• Rodney Dangerfield - The Projectionist
• Daniel Day-Lewis - Sunday Bloody Sunday
• Gérard Depardieu - Cry of the Cormoran
• Eric Idle - And Now for Something Completely Different
• Carol Kane - Carnal Knowledge
• Eugene Levy - Foxy Lady
• Andrea Martin - Foxy Lady
• Craig T. Nelson - The Return of Count Yorga
• Cassandra Peterson - Diamonds Are Forever
• Randy Quaid - The Last Picture Show
• John Ritter - The Barefoot Executive
• Cybill Shepherd - The Last Picture Show
• Bruce Spence - Stork
• David Ogden Stiers - THX 1138
• Susan Tyrrell - Shoot Out
• Jacki Weaver - Stork
• Cindy Williams - Gas-s-s-s