1962 in film

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The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
• September 2 - Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace begins and will continue for another 6 years.
• October 5 - Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the second longest-running motion picture franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), running more than 40 years.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Lawrence of Arabia	Columbia	Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif	$37,495,385
2.	The Longest Day	20th Century Fox	John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum	$17,600,000
3.	In Search of the Castaways	Walt Disney Productions	Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier	$9,975,000
4.	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Warner Bros.	Bette Davis and Joan Crawford	$9,000,000
5.	The Music Man	Warner Bros.	Robert Preston and Shirley Jones	$8,100,000
6.	Dr. No	United Artists	Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman	$8,000,000
7.	That Touch of Mink	Universal	Cary Grant and Doris Day	$7,942,000
8.	Mutiny on the Bounty	MGM	Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard	$7,410,000
9.	To Kill a Mockingbird	Universal	Gregory Peck	$7,112,000
10.	Gypsy	Warner Bros.	Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood	$6,350,000
10.	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Paramount	John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles	$5,000,000
11.	How the West Was Won	MGM	Carroll Baker, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, Debbie Reynolds, John Wayne, George Peppard	$4,995,000
12.	Girls! Girls! Girls!	Paramount	Elvis Presley and Stella Stevens	$4,775,000

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker

Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth

Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker

Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture (tie): That Touch of Mink

Best Picture (tie): The Music Man

Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy

Other

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy

My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

Films released in 1962

U.S.A. unless stated

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• The 300 Spartans

A

• Advise and Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
• All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
• The Amphibian Man - (U.S.S.R.)
• Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) - (Spain)
• An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujiro Ozu - (Japan)

B

• Baat Ek Raat Ki, starring Dev Anand - (India)
• Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong)
• Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov with Terence Stamp - (U.K.)
• Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day
• Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster
• Boccaccio '70, directed by Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren - (Italy)
• Bon Voyage!
• The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie - (U.K.)
• Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner

C

• Os Cafajestes - (Brazil)
• Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
• Carnival of Souls
• Carry On Cruising - (U.K.)
• Cleo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda - (France)
• The Counterfeit Traitor, starring William Holden

D

• David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
• The Day of the Triffids - (U.K.)
• Days of Wine and Roses, starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick
• Le Doulos (The Finger Man), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
• Dr. No. The first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress - (U.K.)

E

• The Easy Life (Il sorpasso), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant - (Italy)
• Eclipse (L'Eclisse), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti - (Italy/France)
• Elektra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Pappas - (Greece)
• Experiment in Terror, starring Glenn Ford and Lee Remick
• The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)

F

• Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• Follow That Dream, starring Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell and Joanna Moore
• The Four Days of Naples (Le Quattro giornate di Napoli) - (Italy)
• Freud, starring Montgomery Clift

G

• Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
• Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
• Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
• Gorath - (Japan)
• The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - (Italy)
• Gypsy, starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood
• Guns of Darkness directed by Anthony Asquith (U.K.)

H

• Half Ticket - (India)
• Harakiri (Seppuku) - (Japan)
• Hatari!, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons and Elsa Martinelli
• Hell is for Heroes, starring Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin
• How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard and more
• Hussar of the Dead (El Húsar de la Muerte), (Restored, originally released in 1925) - (Chile)

I

• In Search of the Castaways
• The Intruder, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner
• It Happened In Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield
• It's Only Money, starring Jerry Lewis

J

• Jigsaw - (U.K.)
• Jules et Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner - (France)

K

• Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young and Charles Bronson
• A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates - (U.K.)
• King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie), directed by Roman Polanski - (Poland)

L

• The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell - (U.K.)
• Last Year at Marienbad (U.S. release)
• Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif - (U.K./U.S.)
• Lisa - (U.S./U.K.)
• Life for Ruth - (U.K.)
• Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay - (U.K.)
• Lonely are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas
• Long Day's Journey into Night, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Katharine Hepburn
• The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery and more
• Love at Twenty, a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophuls - (International)
• Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
• Lycanthropus - (Italy/Austria)

M

• Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)
• Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and James Stewart
• The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
• Merrill's Marauders, directed by Samuel Fuller
• The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, (on NBC-TV)
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
• The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Ron Howard
• Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
• My Geisha, starring Shirley MacLaine
• My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
• My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)

O

• On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom - (U.K.)

P

• O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte - (Brazil)
• Panic in Year Zero!
• Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, Lois Nettleton
• Phaedra - (Greece)
• The Phantom of the Opera - (U.K.)
• The Pigeon That Took Rome, starring Charlton Heston
• Pitfall (Otoshiana) - (Japan)
• Premature Burial, directed by Roger Corman
• Pressure Point, starring Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin
• Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor - (India)

R

• Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn and Jackie Gleason
• Ride the High Country (a.k.a. Guns in the Afternoon), directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott

S

• Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt - (India)
• Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi - (Italy)
• Sanjuru (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
• Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro - (Mexico)
• Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
• State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray) - (France)
• Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
• A Symposium on Popular Songs

T

• The Tale of Zatoichi, directed by Kenji Misumi - (Japan)
• Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
• Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
• Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret - (U.K.)
• That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
• To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• The Trial (Le Procès), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau - (France/Italy/West Germany)
• The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• Tudor - (Romania)
• Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
• Two Half Times in Hell (Két félidő a pokolban), directed by Zoltán Fábri - (Hungary)

V

• The Vanishing Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur - (France)
• A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
• Village of Daughters - (U.K.)

W

• Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
• War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) - (France)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
• Who's Got the Action? starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner
• Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Short film series

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

Births

• January 5 - Suzy Amis, actress
• January 17 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
• February 5 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
• February 17 - Lou Diamond Phillips, actor
• February 27 - Adam Baldwin, actor
• March 18 - Thomas Ian Griffith, actor
• March 20 - Stephen Sommers, director
• March 21 - Matthew Broderick, actor
• May 12 - Emilio Estevez, actor
• June 13 - Ally Sheedy, actress
• June 27 - Tony Leung, actor
• July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
• July 19 - Anthony Edwards, actor
• August 13 - John Slattery, actor
• August 16 - Steve Carell, actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
• September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
  • Kristy McNichol, actress
• September 17 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
• October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
• October 11 - Joan Cusack, actress, sister of actor John Cusack
• October 12 - Deborah Foreman, actress
• October 13 - Kelly Preston, actress
• October 26 - Cary Elwes, actor
• November 11 - Demi Moore, actress
• November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director
• December 22 - Ralph Fiennes, English actor

Deaths

• January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor
• April 10 - Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director
• April 17 - Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress
• May 14 - Florence Auer, 82, American actress
• June 19 - Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor
• June 24 - Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress
• July 2 - Valeska Suratt, 80, stage & silent screen actress
• August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress
• August 23 - Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor
• October 6 - Tod Browning, 82, American director
• October 26 - Louise Beavers, 60, American actress
• December 15 - Charles Laughton, 63, British actor
• December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress

Film debuts

• Nancy Allen
• Bernardo Bertolucci - director
• Jackie Chan
• Julie Christie
• Robert Duvall
• Sally Field
• John Hurt
• Ian McShane
• Sarah Miles
• Sydney Pollack
• John Schlesinger - director
• Tom Skerritt
• Terence Stamp