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The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia the year's top-grossing film as well as winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Events

• May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
• August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose.
• September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace begins and will continue for another 5 years.
• October 5 – Dr. No launches the James Bond series, the second longest-running film franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), still running more than 50 years later (Spectre, 2015). It also launches the career of Sean Connery.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	Lawrence of Arabia*	Columbia	$44,824,144
2.	The Longest Day	20th Century Fox	$39,100,000
3.	In Search of the Castaways	Disney	$21,745,500
4.	That Touch of Mink	Universal International	$17,648,927
5.	The Music Man	Warner Bros.	$14,953,846
6.	Mutiny on the Bounty	MGM	$13,680,000
7.	To Kill a Mockingbird	Universal International	$13,129,846
8.	Hatari!	Paramount	$12,923,077
9.	Gypsy	Warner Bros.	$11,076,923
10.	Bon Voyage!	Disney	$11,000,000
11.	The Manchurian Candidate*	United Artists	$10,474,179
12.	Lolita	MGM	$9,250,000
13.	The Interns	Columbia	$9,230,769
14.	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Warner Bros.	$9,000,000
15.	The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm	MGM	$8,920,615
16.	Days of Wine and Roses	Warner Bros.	$8,123,077
17.	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Paramount	$8,000,000
18.	State Fair	20th Century Fox	$7,000,000
19.	Taras Bulba	United Artists	$6,800,000
20.	The Miracle Worker	United Artists	$5,000,000
21.	Girls! Girls! Girls!	Paramount	$4,775,000
22.	David and Lisa	Continental	$4,600,000

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

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

Notable films released in 1962

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker

A

• Abhijan (The Expedition), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
• Advise & Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
• Alaverdoba, directed by Giorgi Shengelaia
• All Fall Down, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty
• All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)
• All Souls' Day (Zaduszki) – (Poland)
• The Amphibian Man (Chelovek-amfibiya) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Asli-Naqli (Real and Fake), starring Dev Anand – (India)
• Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) – (Spain)
• An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)

B

• Baat Ek Raat Ki (A Tale of One Night), starring Dev Anand – (India)
• Bachelor Flat, starring Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm
• Bees Saal Baad – (India)
• Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
• Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp – (U.K.)
• Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day and Jimmy Durante
• Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas
• Boccaccio '70, directed by Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren – (Italy)
• Bon Voyage!, starring Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman
• The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Richard Todd – (U.K.)
• Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner
• The Brain That Wouldn't Die, starring Virginia Leith
• The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) – (West Germany)

C

• Os Cafajestes (The Unscrupulous Ones) – (Brazil)
• Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
• Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
• Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
• Cartouche, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale – (France/Italy)
• The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor, starring Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
• Chased by the Dogs (El less wal kilab) – (Egypt)
• Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda – (France)
• The Condemned of Altona (I sequestrati di Altona), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell – (Italy)
• Convicts 4, starring Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Vincent Price, Ray Walston, Sammy Davis, Jr.
• The Counterfeit Traitor, directed by George Seaton, starring William Holden
• Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie

D

• David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
• The Day of the Triffids, starring Howard Keel – (U.K.)
• Days of Wine and Roses, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
• Le Doulos (The Finger Man), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
• Dr. No, first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, 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)
• Electra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas – (Greece)
• Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
• Experiment in Terror, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin
• The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)

F

• Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
• Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules
• Five Finger Exercise, starring Rosalind Russell
• Five Miles to Midnight, starring Sophia Loren
• Five Weeks in a Balloon
• Follow That Dream, starring Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Joanna Moore
• The Four Days of Naples (Le Quattro giornate di Napoli) – (Italy)
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Yvette Mimieux
• Freud: The Secret Passion, directed by John Huston, starring Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks

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, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
• The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy)
• Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood
• Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
• Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice – (U.K.)

H

• H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K.)
• Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala – (India)
• Harakiri (Seppuku), directed by Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan)
• Hatari!, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli
• Hell is for Heroes, starring Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin
• Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Paul Newman
• Hero's Island, starring James Mason and Rip Torn
• Hombre de la esquina rosada (Man on Pink Corner) – (Argentina)
• The Horizontal Lieutenant, starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss
• House of Women, starring Shirley Knight and Constance Ford
• 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 Ballad (Gusarskaya ballada) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Hussar of the Dead (El Húsar de la Muerte), (Restored, originally released in 1925) – (Chile)

I

• If a Man Answers, starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
• In Search of the Castaways, starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier
• In the Affirmative (L'Amour avec des si), directed by Claude Lelouch – (France)
• In the French Style, starring Jean Seberg
• The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
• The Intruder, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner
• The Iron Maiden, starring Anne Helm and Jeff Donnell
• It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield – (Greece/U.S.A.)
• It's Only Money, directed by Frank Tashlin. starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien
• Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (U.S.S.R.)

J

• Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
• La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker – (France)
• Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner – (U.K.)
• Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner – (France)

K

• Kanchanjangha, directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
• Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, 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.)
• Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
• Lisa (aka The Inspector), starring Stephen Boyd – (U.S./U.K.)
• Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig – (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, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor
• Lonely Boy, a documentary about Paul Anka – (Canada)
• 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, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and more
• Love at Twenty, a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls – (International)
• Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
• Lulu, directed by Rolf Thiele, starring Nadja Tiller – (Austria)

M

• Madison Avenue, starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker
• Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
• The Magnificent Concubine (Yang Kwei Fei) – (Hong Kong)
• The Main Attraction, starring Pat Boone
• Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani – (Italy)
• The Man of Gold (Az aranyember) – (Hungary)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode
• The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Angela Lansbury
• March on Rome (La marcia su Roma), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
• Merrill's Marauders, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin
• The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, (on NBC-TV)
• Mix Me a Person, directed by Leslie Norman, starring Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden and Adam Faith – (U.K.)
• Mondo Cane
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
• Moon Pilot, starring Tom Tryon
• 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, starring Anna Karina – (France)

N

• Night of the Eagle, starring Janet Blair
• Nine Days in One Year (9 dney odnogo goda) – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Notorious Landlady, starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire

O

• On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)
• Only Two Can Play, starring Peter Sellers

P

• O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte – (Brazil)
• Panic in Year Zero!, starring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon
• Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, Lois Nettleton
• Phaedra, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins – (Greece)
• The Phantom of the Opera, starring Herbert Lom – (U.K.)
• The Pigeon That Took Rome, starring Charlton Heston
• Pitfall (Otoshiana) – (Japan)
• Pontius Pilate, starring Jean Marais, Jeanne Crain, Basil Rathbone
• Premature Burial, directed by Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Heather Angel
• Pressure Point, starring Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin
• Pretty Foe by Esmail Koushan (Iran)
• Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor – (India)

R

• Redhead (Die Rote or La rossa) – (West Germany/Italy)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
• Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) – (Turkey)
• Ride the High Country (a.k.a. Guns in the Afternoon), directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott
• The Road to Hong Kong, directed by Norman Panama, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Joan Collins
• Roaring Years (Anni ruggenti), starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
• Rome Adventure, starring Angie Dickinson and Suzanne Pleshette
• Der rote Rausch (The Red Intoxication), starring Klaus Kinski – (Austria)

S

• Safe at Home!, starring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris
• Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (King, Queen and Slave), starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt – (India)
• Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi – (Italy)
• Sanjuru (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
• Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
• Shaheed, starring Musarrat Nazir, Talish, Allauddin, Ejaz, Saqi (Pakistani film on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict)
• Something's Got to Give, starring Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin (unfinished)
• The Spiral Road, starring Rock Hudson and Gena Rowlands
• State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin
• The Suitor (Le Soupirant) – (France)
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), starring Hardy Krüger and Nicole Courcel – (France)
• Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
• A Symposium on Popular Songs, a Disney animation

T

• The Tale of Zatoichi (Zatōichi monogatari), directed by Kenji Misumi – (Japan)
• The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatōichi Monogatari), starring Shintaro Katsu – (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
• Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret – (France)
• To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
• Tobacco (Tyutyun) – (Bulgaria)
• Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
• 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)
• Two Weeks in Another Town, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse

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)
• A View from the Bridge (Vu du Pont), directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Raf Vallone – (France/Italy)

W

• Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
• The Waltz of the Toreadors, directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, Prunella Scales
• 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, starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom

XYZ

• Zorro the Avenger
• Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston

Short film series

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

Births

• January 4 – Michael France, American screenwriter (d. 2013)
• January 5 – Suzy Amis, actress
• January 7 - Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
• January 17 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
• February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
• February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, actor
• February 22 – Steve Irwin, actor (d. 2006)
• February 27 – Adam Baldwin, actor
• March 10 – Jasmine Guy, actress, singer, dancer, and director
• March 18 – Thomas Ian Griffith, actor
• March 20 – Stephen Sommers, director
• March 21 – Matthew Broderick, actor
• May 12 – Emilio Estevez, actor
• May 18 – Karel Roden, Czech actor
• June 13 – Ally Sheedy, actress
• June 19 – Paula Abdul, singer
• June 27 – Tony Leung, actor
• July 3 – Tom Cruise, actor
• July 13 – Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian
• July 19 – Anthony Edwards, actor
• July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor
• July 31 – Wesley Snipes, actor
• August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, actress
• August 13 – John Slattery, actor
• August 16 – Steve Carell, actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
• August 27 – Vic Mignogna, voice actor
• August 29 – Ian James Corlett, voice actor
• August 31 - Dee Bradley Baker, voice actor
• September 11 – Kristy McNichol, actress
• September 15 – Scott McNeil, voice actor
• 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
• November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, actor
• December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor

Deaths

• January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
• January 28 – Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor, The Pearl Maker of Madrid
• February 1 - Carey Wilson, American screenwriter, Mutiny on the Bounty
• February 19 - James Barton, American actor, Here Comes the Groom, Yellow Sky
• February 20 - Halliwell Hobbes, 84, British actor, Gaslight, That Hamilton Woman
• February 28 - Chic Johnson, 70, American comedian, actor, Hellzapoppin'
• March 17 - Frank Orth, 82, American actor, Nancy Drew... Detective, Here Come the Girls
• April 10 – Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood
• April 15 - Clara Blandick, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer
• April 17 – Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Alice in Wonderland
• April 22
  • Angus MacPhail, 59, British screenwriter, Spellbound, The Wrong Man
  • Vera Reynolds, 62, American actress, The Night Club, Feet of Clay
• May 14 – Florence Auer, 82, American actress, The Bishop's Wife, State of the Union
• June 2 - Aeneas MacKenzie, 72, Scottish screenwriter, The Ten Commandments, Ivanhoe
• June 19 – Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
• June 24 – Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress, Waterloo Bridge, Made for Each Other
• July 2 – Valeska Suratt, 80, American stage and screen actress, The Immigrant
• July 4 - Rex Bell, 58, American actor, Broadway to Cheyenne, Law and Lead
• July 23 - Victor Moore, 86, American actor, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Louisiana Purchase
• July 30 – Myron McCormick, 54, American actor, The Hustler, No Time for Sergeants
• August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress, Hollywood icon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot
• August 23 – Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor, Action, The Horse Soldiers
• September 7 - Louis King, 64, American director, Typhoon, Green Grass of Wyoming
• October 2 – Frank Lovejoy, 50, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Goodbye, My Fancy
• October 6 – Tod Browning, 82, American director, Dracula, Freaks
• October 26 – Louise Beavers, 60, American actress, Holiday Inn, The Jackie Robinson Story
• November 15 - Irene, American costume designer, Shall We Dance, Midnight Lace
• December 15 – Charles Laughton, 63, British actor, Spartacus, Witness for the Prosecution
• December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, 70, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind
• December 28 – Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted
• December 29 - Hugh Sinclair, 59, British actor, The Saint's Vacation, Judgment Deferred

Film debuts

• Bernardo Bertolucci (director) – The Grim Reaper
• Jackie Chan – Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
• Julie Christie – Crooks Anonymous
• Tom Courtenay - Private Potter
• Robert Duvall – To Kill a Mockingbird
• Sally Field – Moon Pilot
• John Hurt – The Wild and the Willing
• Ian McShane – The Wild and the Willing
• Sarah Miles – Term of Trial
• Sydney Pollack (actor) – War Hunt
• George A. Romero (director) – Expostulations
• Tom Skerritt – War Hunt
• Terence Stamp – Term of Trial
• David Warner - We Joined the Navy