1936 in film

• January 9 – Silent screen actor John Gilbert, perhaps best known for his appearances in films such as The Merry Widow and The Big Parade, dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Bel Air home, aged 38. • February 15 – The first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, is released. • May 29 – Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, Fury, starring Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, and Bruce Cabot, is released. • September 14 – Film producer Irving Thalberg, often referred by many as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood", dies from pneumonia at his home in Santa Monica, aged 37. ==Academy Awards==

• Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • Best Director: Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town • Best Actor: Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur • Best Actress: Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld • Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan – Come and Get It • Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse ==Top-grossing films (U.S.)==

The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: ==Top Ten Money Making Stars==

Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company's annual poll. Top Western stars A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time. ==Notable films==

United States unless stated. 0–9 • 13 Hours by Air, directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett and ZaSu Pitts • 15 Maiden Lane, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero A • Accused, directed by Thornton Freeland, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Dolores del Río – (GB) • Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden), directed by Franz Osten, starring Ashok Kumar and Devika Rani – (India) • After the Thin Man, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart • Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch), directed by Fernando de Fuentes, starring Tito Guízar and Esther Fernández – (Mexico) • The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, directed by Alfred Zeisler, starring Cary Grant and Mary Brian – (GB) • Anthony Adverse, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, and Gale Sondergaard • Anything Goes, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman and Ida Lupino • Augustus the Strong (August der Starke), directed by Paul Wegener, starring Michael Bohnen – (Germany/Poland) B • Black Eyes (Cheshmhay-e Siah), directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta – (Iran) • Blood on Wolf Mountain (Láng shān dié xuě jì), directed by Fei Mu, starring Li Lili – (China) • The Bohemian Girl, directed by James W. Horne and Charley Rogers, starring Laurel and Hardy • The Bold Caballero, directed by Wells Root, starring Robert Livingston • Born to Dance, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Eleanor Powell, James Stewart and Una Merkel • Broken Blossoms, directed by John Brahm, starring Dolly Haas and Emlyn Williams – (GB) • Bullets or Ballots, directed by William Keighley, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart • By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya), directed by Boris Barnet – (USSR) C • Cain and Mabel, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable • Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (Velbloud uchem jehly), directed by and starring Hugo Haas – (Czechoslovakia) • Camille, directed by George Cukor, starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor and Lionel Barrymore • Captain January, directed by David Butler, starring Shirley Temple • The Case Against Mrs. Ames, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Madeleine Carroll and George Brent • Ceiling Zero, directed by Howard Hawks, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien • César, directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Raimu – (France) • The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland • Charlie Chan at the Opera, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff • The Children of Captain Grant (Deti kapitana Granta), directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok – (USSR) • Circus (Tsirk), directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, starring Lyubov Orlova – (USSR) • Collegiate, directed by Ralph Murphy, starring Jack Oakie, Frances Langford and Betty Grable • Come and Get It, directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, and Walter Brennan • ''Craig's Wife'', directed by Dorothy Arzner, starring Rosalind Russell and John Boles • The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange), directed by Jean Renoir, starring René Lefèvre – (France) • Crime Over London, directed by Alfred Zeisler, starring Margot Grahame and Paul Cavanagh – (GB) D • Daniel Boone, directed by David Howard, starring George O'Brien • The Desert Island (Lang tao sha), directed by Wu Yonggang – (China) • Desire, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper • Devdas, directed by Pramathesh Barua, starring K. L. Saigal – (India) • The Devil Doll, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan • Dimples, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Shirley Temple and Frank Morgan • Dodsworth, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor and David Niven • ''Dracula's Daughter'', directed by Lambert Hillyer, starring Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden • Dusty Ermine, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring Anthony Bushell and Jane Baxter – (GB) E • East Meets West, directed by Herbert Mason, starring George Arliss – (GB) • Empty Saddles, directed by Lesley Selander, starring Buck Jones and Louise Brooks • Everything Is Thunder, directed by Milton Rosmer, starring Constance Bennett – (GB) F • Follow the Fleet, directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Randolph Scott • Forget Me Not, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner – (GB) • The Four Musketeers (I quattro moschettieri), directed by Carlo Campogalliani – (Italy) • Fury, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, and Bruce Cabot G • The Garden of Allah, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer • The General Died at Dawn, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll • General Spanky, directed by Fred Newmeyer and Gordon Douglas, starring Spanky McFarland • Girl Friends (Podrugi), directed by Lev Arnshtam, starring Zoya Fyodorova – (USSR) • Go West, Young Man, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Mae West, Warren William and Randolph Scott • Gold Diggers of 1937, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell • The Gorgeous Hussy, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas and James Stewart • The Great Ziegfeld, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer and Frank Morgan • Green Pastures, directed by Marc Connelly and William Keighley, starring Rex Ingram and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson H • Hearts Divided, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell • Hearts in Bondage, directed by Lew Ayres, starring James Dunn, David Manners and Mae Clarke • Home Guardsman Bruggler (Standschütze Bruggler), directed by Werner Klingler – (Germany) • Hopalong Cassidy Returns, directed by Nate Watt, starring William Boyd I • Intermezzo, directed by Gustaf Molander, starring Gösta Ekman and Ingrid Bergman – (Sweden) • The Invisible Ray, directed by Lambert Hillyer, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi • It Had to Happen, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell • ''It's Love Again'', directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews and Robert Young – (GB) J • The Jungle Princess, directed by Wilhelm Thiele, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland K • Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California), directed by and starring Luis Trenker – (Germany) • Klondike Annie, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Mae West and Victor McLaglen L • Laburnum Grove, directed by Carol Reed, starring Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB) • The Last of the Mohicans, directed by George B. Seitz, starring Randolph Scott • The Last Outlaw, directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Harry Carey and Hoot Gibson • The Lawless Nineties, directed by Joseph Kane, starring John Wayne • Legion of Terror, directed by Charles C. Coleman, starring Bruce Cabot • ''Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa)'', directed by Fernando de Fuentes – (Mexico) • Libeled Lady, directed by Jack Conway, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy • Limelight, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle – (GB) • Little Lord Fauntleroy, directed by John Cromwell, starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello • ''Lloyd's of London'', directed by Henry King, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll and Tyrone Power • Love Before Breakfast, directed by Walter Lang, starring Carole Lombard, Preston Foster and Cesar Romero • Love in Exile, directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Clive Brook and Helen Vinson – (GB) • Love on the Run, directed by W. S. Van Dyke. starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone • The Lower Depths (Les Bas-fonds), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin – (France) M • The Man Who Changed His Mind, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Boris Karloff – (GB) • Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux – (France) • Men Are Not Gods, directed by Walter Reisch, starring Miriam Hopkins and Gertrude Lawrence – (GB) • A Message to Garcia, directed by George Marshall, starring Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck and John Boles • The Milky Way, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Harold Lloyd and Adolphe Menjou • Modern Times, a Charlie Chaplin film, with Paulette Goddard • ''The Moon's Our Home'', directed by William A. Seiter, starring Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda and Walter Brennan • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur • My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard N • Next Time We Love, directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Ray Milland • Night Mail, documentary directed by Harry Watt and Basil Wright – (GB) O • The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan) • Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejī), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, starring Isuzu Yamada – (Japan) • Our Relations, directed by Harry Lachman, starring Laurel and Hardy P • Palm Springs, directed by Aubrey Scotto, starring Frances Langford, Guy Standing and David Niven • Paradise Road (Ulička v ráji), directed by Martin Frič, starring Hugo Haas – (Czechoslovakia) • Pennies from Heaven, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Bing Crosby, Madge Evans and Louis Armstrong • The Petrified Forest, directed by Archie Mayo, starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart • Pigskin Parade, starring Stuart Erwin • The Plainsman, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur and Charles Bickford • Poor Little Rich Girl, directed by Irving Cummings, starring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye and Gloria Stuart • Poppy, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring W. C. Fields • The Prisoner of Shark Island, directed by John Ford, starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart • Private Number, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Loretta Young, Robert Taylor and Basil Rathbone R • Ramona, directed by Henry King, starring Loretta Young and Don Ameche • Rebellion, directed by Lynn Shores, starring Tom Keene and Rita Hayworth • Red River Valley, directed by B. Reeves Eason, starring Gene Autry • Redes, directed by Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico) • Reefer Madness, directed by Louis J. Gasnier • Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB) • Road Gang, directed by Louis King, starring Donald Woods • The Road to Glory, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore • Romeo and Juliet, directed by George Cukor, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone • Rose Marie, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy S • Sabotage, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka – (GB) • San Francisco, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy • Satan Met a Lady, directed by William Dieterle, starring Bette Davis and Warren William • Secret Agent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud and Robert Young – (GB) • Show Boat, directed by James Whale, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones and Paul Robeson • Silly Billies, directed by Fred Guiol, starring Wheeler & Woolsey • The Singing Kid, directed by William Keighley, starring Al Jolson • Sisters of the Gion (Gion no kyōdai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan) • Small Town Girl, directed by William Wellman, starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Lewis Stone and James Stewart • Son of Mongolia (Syn Mongolii), directed by Ilya Trauberg – (Mongolia) • Sportszerelem (Love of Sport), directed by László Kardos – (Hungary) • Spy of Napoleon, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas – (GB) • The Story of Louis Pasteur, directed by William Dieterle, starring Paul Muni • Stowaway, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young and Alice Faye • Strike Me Pink, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman • ''Sutter's Gold'', directed by James Cruze, starring Edward Arnold • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by George King, starring Tod Slaughter – (GB) • Swing Time, directed by George Stevens, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers T • Tarzan Escapes, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan • The Texas Rangers, directed by King Vidor, starring Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie and Jean Parker • Theodora Goes Wild, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas • These Three, directed by William Wyler, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea • Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB) • Three Godfathers, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone and Walter Brennan • Till We Meet Again, directed by Robert Florey, starring Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael • Too Many Parents, directed by Robert F. McGowan, starring Frances Farmer • The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda • Tudor Rose, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam and John Mills – (GB) V-W • Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, starring Gladys George • The Walking Dead, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez and Edmund Gwenn • ''Where There's a Will'', directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay and Graham Moffatt – (GB) • Whom the Gods Love, directed by Basil Dean, starring Stephen Haggard – (GB) • Wife vs. Secretary, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and James Stewart • Windbag the Sailor, directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt – (GB) • A Woman Rebels, directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Katharine Hepburn and Herbert Marshall Y • Yiddle with his Fiddle (Yidl Mitn Fidl), directed by Joseph Green, starring Molly Picon – (Poland) ==1936 film releases==

United States unless stated. January–March • January 1936 • 16 January • Ceiling Zero • Strike Me Pink • 17 January • Augustus the Strong (Germany/Poland) • 20 January • The Invisible Ray • 22 January • Collegiate • 24 January • Anything Goes • 28 January • Rose Marie • 30 January • Next Time We Love • February 1936 • 6 February • The Petrified Forest • 7 February • The Milky Way • 14 February • The Bohemian Girl • It Had to Happen • 15 February • The Lawless Nineties • 19 February • Girl Friends (U.S.S.R.) • 20 February • Follow the Fleet • Things to Come (GB) • 22 February • The Story of Louis Pasteur • 25 February • Modern Times • 28 February • The Prisoner of Shark Island • Wife vs. Secretary • 29 February • Mayerling (France) • The Walking Dead • March 1936 • 1 March • ''Sutter's Gold'' • 2 March • Man of the Frontier • 6 March • Little Lord Fauntleroy • Three Godfathers • 9 March • Love Before Breakfast • 13 March • The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • 18 March • These Three • 20 March • Silly Billies • 22 March • The Great Ziegfeld • 28 March • Road Gang • 30 March • Too Many Parents April–June • April 1936 • 4 April • Till We Meet Again • 10 April • A Message to Garcia • ''The Moon's Our Home'' • Small Town Girl • 11 April • Desire • The Singing Kid • 16 April • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town • 20 April • By the Bluest of Seas (U.S.S.R.) • 24 April • Captain January • 30 April • Thirteen Hours by Air • May 1936 • 6 May • ''It's Love Again'' (GB) • 8 May • The Case Against Mrs. Ames • 11 May • ''Dracula's Daughter'' • 17 May • Show Boat • 19 May • Love in Exile (GB) • 20 May • Broken Blossoms (GB) • 26 May • Hearts in Bondage • 28 May • Osaka Elegy (Japan) • 29 May • Fury • June 1936 • 5 June • Private Number • 6 June • Bullets or Ballots • 14 June • The Last Outlaw • 15 June • Secret Agent (GB) • 17 June • Poppy • 20 June • Hearts Divided • 26 June • San Francisco July–September • July 1936 • 10 July • The Devil-Doll • 16 July • Green Pastures • 22 July • Satan Met a Lady • 24 July • Poor Little Rich Girl • 28 July • The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (GB) • 29 July • Anthony Adverse • August 1936 • 10 August • ''Where There's a Will'' (GB) • 20 August • Romeo and Juliet • 26 August • East Meets West (UK) • 27 August • Swing Time • 28 August • The Gorgeous Hussy • Militiaman Bruggler (Germany) • The Texas Rangers • September 1936 • 1 September • Tudor Rose • 2 September • The General Died at Dawn • 4 September • The Last of the Mohicans • The Road to Glory • 6 September • My Man Godfrey • 9 September • Spy of Napoleon (GB) • 10 September • Dusty Ermine (UK) • 11 September • The Man Who Changed His Mind (GB) • 15 September • The Children of Captain Grant • 23 September • Dodsworth • 25 September • ''Craig's Wife'' • Ramona • 26 September • Cain and Mabel • 30 September • Yiddle with his Fiddle (Poland/U.S.) October–December • October 1936 • 1 October • Everything Is Thunder (UK) • 6 October • Allá en el Rancho Grande (Mexico) • 9 October • Libeled Lady • 15 October • The Garden of Allah • Sisters of the Gion (Japan) • 16 October • 15 Maiden Lane • Daniel Boone • Dimples • Hopalong Cassidy Returns • 20 October • The Charge of the Light Brigade • 22 October • Crime Over London (GB) • 27 October • César (France) • Rebellion • 30 October • Our Relations • November 1936 • 1 November • Legion of Terror • 6 November • Come and Get It • Rembrandt (GB) • Tarzan Escapes • A Woman Rebels • 12 November • Theodora Goes Wild • 13 November • Go West, Young Man • 16 November • Intermezzo (Sweden) • Laburnum Grove (GB) • The Plainsman • 20 November • Love on the Run • 25 November • ''Lloyd's of London'' • Pennies from Heaven • 26 November • Men Are Not Gods (GB) • 27 November • Born to Dance • December 1936 • 1 December • The Bold Caballero • 2 December • Sabotage (GB) • 11 December • General Spanky • Les bas-fonds (France) • 12 December • Camille • 20 December • Empty Saddles • 21 December • Forget Me Not (UK) • 24 December • The Jungle Princess • 25 December • After the Thin Man • Stowaway • 26 December • Gold Diggers of 1937 • 31 December • ''Let's Go With Pancho Villa'' (Mexico) ==Serials==

• Ace Drummond, starring John (Dusty) King • The Adventures of Frank Merriwell • '''' • The Clutching Hand • ''Custer's Last Stand'' • Darkest Africa, starring Clyde Beatty • Flash Gordon, starring Buster Crabbe • The Phantom Rider • Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, starring Ray Mala • Shadow of Chinatown • Undersea Kingdom, starring Ray Corrigan • The Vigilantes Are Coming ==Comedy film series==

• Harold Lloyd (1913–1938) • Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940) • Lupino Lane (1915–1939) • Buster Keaton (1917–1928) • Laurel and Hardy (1927–1940) • Our Gang (1922–1944) • Harry Langdon (1924–1936) • Wheeler & Woolsey (1929–1937) • The Marx Brothers (1929–1946) • The Three Stooges (1934–1959) ==Animated short film series==

• Felix the Cat (1919-1936) • Krazy Kat (1925–1940) • Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938) • Mickey Mouse (1928–1953) • Silly Symphonies • Elmer Elephant • Three Little Wolves • Toby Tortoise Returns • Three Blind Mousketeers • The Country Cousin • Mother Pluto • More Kittens • Screen Songs (1929–1938) • Looney Tunes (1930–1969) • Terrytoons (1930–1964) • Merrie Melodies (1931–1969) • Scrappy (1931–1941) • Betty Boop (1932–1939) • Popeye (1933–1957) • ComiColor Cartoons (1933-1936) • Happy Harmonies (1934–1938) • Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949) • Rainbow Parades (1935-1936) • Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936–1937) ==Births==

• January 9 – K Callan, American author and actress • January 18 – Tim Barlow, English actor (d. 2023) • January 22 – Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001) • January 27 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001) • January 28 – Alan Alda, American actor • February 3 – Jeanine Basinger, American film historian • February 4 – Gary Conway, American actor and screenwriter • February 11 – Burt Reynolds, American actor (d. 2018) • February 12 • Joe Don Baker, American actor (d. 2025) • Paul Shenar, American actor (d. 1989) • February 14 • Joan O'Brien, American actor, singer (d. 2025) • Andrew Prine, American actor (d. 2022) • February 17 – Jim Brown, American actor (d. 2023) • February 29 – Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015) • March 1 – Georgina Spelvin, born Shelley Graham, American pornographic film actress • March 5 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021) • March 8 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress • March 9 – Marty Ingels, American actor, comedian, comedy sketch writer and theatrical agent (d. 2015) • March 19 – Ursula Andress, Swiss actress • March 23 – Luisa Mattioli, Italian actress (d. 2021) • April 9 – Avery Schreiber, American actor and comedian (d. 2002) • April 12 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011) • April 19 – Andy Romano, American actor (d. 2022) • May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French director (d. 2006) • May 4 – Eleanor Coppola, American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer (d. 2024) • May 9 • Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019) • Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (d. 2023) • May 12 – Millie Perkins, American former actress • May 14 – Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, actor (d. 1973) • May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and performance artist (d. 2010) • May 20 – Anthony Zerbe, American actor • May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor (d. 2023) • May 27 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor (d. 2024) • May 28 – John Wilder, American producer, writer and former actor • May 30 – Keir Dullea, American actor • June 3 – Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021) • June 4 – Bruce Dern, American actor • June 8 – James Darren, American actor, director and singer (d. 2024) • June 19 - Takeshi Aono, Japanese voice actor and narrator (d. 2012) • June 22 – Kris Kristofferson, American actor, musician and songwriter (d. 2024) • June 24 • Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director (d. 2021) • Paul L. Smith, American-Israeli actor and director (d. 2012) • June 27 – Shirley Anne Field, English actress (d. 2023) • July 1 – Ron Masak, American actor (d. 2022) • July 5 – Shirley Knight, American actress (d. 2020) • July 8 - William Cort, American actor (d. 1993) • July 9 • Dick Richards, American director, producer and screenwriter • Richard Wilson, Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster • July 24 • Ruth Buzzi, American actress, comedian and singer (d. 2025) • Mark Goddard, American actor (d. 2023) • July 25 - August Schellenberg, Canadian actor (d. 2013) • August 5 - John Saxon, American actor (d. 2020) • August 15 - Pat Priest, American actress • August 16 - Anita Gillette, American actress • August 17 – Floyd Westerman, American musician, political activist and actor (d. 2007) • August 18 – Robert Redford, American actor and director (d. 2025) • August 20 • Míriam Colón, Puerto Rican actress (d. 2017) • Philip Voss, British actor (d. 2020) • August 25 – Hugh Hudson, English director (d. 2023) • September 7 – Bruce Gray, Canadian actor (d. 2017) • September 11 - Charles Dierkop, American actor (d. 2024) • September 14 - Walter Koenig, American actor and screenwriter • September 19 - Anna Karen, British-South African actress (d. 2022) • September 20 • Andrew Davies, Welsh writer • Pepper Martin, Canadian-American actor (d. 2022) • September 21 - Burr DeBenning, American actor (d. 2003) • September 24 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer, animator, actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990) • October 8 - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (d. 2022) • October 9 – Brian Blessed, English actor • October 16 • Peter Bowles, English actor (d. 2022) • Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004) • October 19 - Tony Lo Bianco, Italian-American actor (d. 2024) • October 23 - Philip Kaufman, American director and screenwriter • October 24 – David Nelson, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011) • October 26 - Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. 2019) • October 28 - Joe Spinell, American actor (d. 1989) • November 4 - Jan Tříska, Czech actor (d. 2017) • November 9 – Teddy Infuhr, American child actor (d. 2007) • November 19 - Dick Cavett, American television personality, comedian and former talk show host • November 25 - Matt Clark, American actor (d. 2026) • November 27 – Joel Barcellos, Brazilian actor (d. 2018) • December 1 - Melissa Jaffer, Australian actress • December 3 • Mary Alice, American actress (d. 2022) • Sir Horace Ové, Trinidadian-born British filmmaker (d. 2023) • December 5 - John Erwin, American voice actor (d. 2024) • December 6 - David Ossman, American writer and comedian • December 8 – David Carradine, American actor and martial artist (d. 2009) • December 10 – Howard Smith, American journalist, director and producer (d. 2014) • December 13 - Cliff Emmich, American actor (d. 2022) • December 18 - Gary Gray, American child actor (d. 2006) • December 22 – Hector Elizondo, American actor • December 23 • Frederic Forrest, American actor (d. 2023) • James Stacy, American actor (d. 2016) • December 25 – Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (d. 2005) • December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017) ==Deaths==

• January 9 • John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1897) • Frank Rice, American actor (b. 1892) • January 24 – Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873) • February 7 – O. P. Heggie, Australian actor (b. 1877) • February 17 – Alexander Pantages, Film producer and theater owner (b. 1867) • February 20 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879) • February 28 – Justus Hagman, Swedish actor (b. 1859) • April 6 • Edmund Breese, American actor (b. 1871) • Väinö Lehmus, Finnish actor (b. 1886) • April 7 – Marilyn Miller, American actress (b. 1898) • April 21 – Alexandra Carlisle, English actress (b. 1886) • April 26 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886) • May 17 – Sir Philip Ben Greet, British actor (b. 1857) • May 29 – Norman Chaney, American actor (b. 1914) • June 7 - Jobyna Howland, American actress (b. 1880) • June 17 – Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1878) • July 8 - Thomas Meighan, American actor (b. 1879) • July 11 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901) • July 16 - Alan Crosland, American actor and director (b. 1894) • July 17 - Stephen Roberts, American director (b. 1894) • August 15 - John B. O'Brien, American actor and director (b. 1884) • September 14 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899) • September 20 – Edward Salisbury Field, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1878) • October 5 – Bernard Granville, American actor (b. 1888) • October 10 - William H. Tooker, American actor (b. 1869) • October 17 – Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (b. 1889) • October 30 • Hugh Buckler, British actor (b. 1881) • John Buckler, British actor (b. 1906) • November 2 – Laird Doyle, American screenwriter (b. 1907) • November 7 – Sam Livesey, Welsh actor (b. 1873) • November 18 – Fay Webb, American actress (b. 1907) • November 27 – Chester A. Lyons, American cinematographer (b. 1885) • December 8 – David Freedman, American writer (b. 1898) • December 9 – Lottie Pickford, American actress (b. 1893) • December 24 – Irene Fenwick, American actress (b. 1887) ==Film debuts==