1915 in film

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The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• February 8 : D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks box office and film length records, running at a total length of 3 hrs 10 minutes.
• June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.
• September 11: A nitrate fire at Famous Players in New York destroys several completed but unreleased silent films which are later remade. Films lost include Mary Pickford's Esmerelda and The Foundling and John Barrymore's The Red Widow.
• November 18 : Release of Inspiration, the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude.
• The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood.
• The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early widescreen film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	The Awakening
2.	La Banda della cifre
3.	The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Sam De Grasse, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, and Blanche Sweet	$1,000,000
4.	Burlesque on Carmen
5.	Carmen, starring Theda Bara
6.	The Cheat	$137,364
7.	David Harum
8.	Der Golem, starring Paul Wegener
9.	The Eternal City
10.	Fatty's Tintype Tangle, starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle
11.	La Folie du Docteur Tube
12.	A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara
13.	His New Job
14.	Honeymoon for Three
15.	Inspiration
16.	The Italian
17.	Martyrs of the Alamo by D.W Griffith
18.	The Morals of Marcus, starring Marie Doro
19.	Regeneration
20.	The Tramp
21.	Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora and Édouard Mathé

Films released in 1915

U.S. unless stated

• Assunta Spina (Italy)
• The Champion
• Double Trouble
• Enoch Arden
• Four Feathers
• The Immigrant
• The Lamb
• Le traquenard (France), cast; Irène Bordoni
• Martyrs of the Alamo
• The Raven
• The Soul of Broadway
• The Two Orphans
• Work

Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson (1910–1916)
• Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923

Births

• January 9 - Anita Louise, actress (died 1970)
• January 9 - Fernando Lamas, actor (died 1982)
• January 11 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (died 1973)
• January 26 - William Hopper, actor; son of Hedda Hopper (died 1970)
• January 29 - Victor Mature, actor (died 1999)
• January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress (died 1934)
• February 7 - Eddie Bracken, actor (died 2002)
• February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (died 1987)
• February 21 - Ann Sheridan, actress (died 1967)
• February 23 - Jon Hall, actor (died 1979)
• February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (died 1977)
• March 2 - Lona Andre, actress (died 1992)
• March 17 - Henry Bumstead, art director (died 2006)
• April 10 - Harry Morgan, United States actor (died 2011)
• April 21 - Anthony Quinn, actor (died 2001)
• May 5 - Alice Faye, actress (died 1998)
• May 6 - Orson Welles, actor, director (died 1985)
• June 12 - Priscilla Lane, singer, actress (died 1995)
• July 7 - Yul Brynner, actor (died 1985)
• August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (died 1982)
• September 5 - Jack Buetel, actor (died 1989)
• September 10 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (died 1985)
• October 13 - Cornel Wilde, actor (died 1989)
• December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor
• December 12 - Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (died 1998)
• December 13 - Curd Jürgens, actor (died 1982)

Film debuts

• Mary Boland
• Donald Brian
• Laura Hope Crews
• Elliott Dexter
• Marie Doro
• Douglas Fairbanks
• Geraldine Farrar
• W.C. Fields
• Pauline Frederick
• Charlotte Greenwood
• Edna Purviance
• Valeska Suratt
• Erich Von Stroheim - actor and director
• Charlotte Walker
• Fannie Ward

Deaths

• January 10 - Marshall P. Wilder, diminutive stage and screen actor, age 55.
• April 26 – John Bunny, silent film comedian
• June 16 - Elmer Booth, silent screen actor brother of film editor Margaret Booth.
• October 31 - Blanche Walsh, stage actress appeared in Zukor's 3 reel feature "Resurrection" 1912