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Events [edit]

Top grossing films [edit]

Following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 1997; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for the calendar year. The top ten films of 1997 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK), and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

1997 Rank Title Studio Worldwide Gross U.S/Canada Gross U.K. Gross Mexico Gross Australia Gross Actor Director
1. Titanic Paramount/Fox $1,843,201,268 $600,788,188 £68,532,746 $65,768,915 $57,644,334 Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet James Cameron
2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park Universal $618,638,999 $229,086,679 £25,799,961 $20,071,203 Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore Steven Spielberg
3. Men in Black Columbia $589,390,539 $250,690,539 £35,820,921 $22,789,539 Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith Barry Sonnenfeld
4. Tomorrow Never Dies United Artists $333,011,068 $125,304,276 £19,584,504 $12,188,046 Pierce Brosnan Roger Spottiswoode
5. Air Force One Columbia $315,156,409 $172,956,409 Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman Wolfgang Petersen
6. As Good as It Gets TriStar $314,178,011 $148,478,011 Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt James L. Brooks
7. Liar Liar Universal $302,710,615 $181,410,615 £11,785,973 $21,117,778 Jim Carrey and Maura Tierney Tom Shadyac
8. Good Will Hunting Miramax $299,288,605 $127,120,029 Robin Williams and Matt Damon Gus Van Sant
9. The Fifth Element Columbia $263,900,000 $63,800,000 Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman Luc Besson
10. The Full Monty Fox Searchlight $257,850,122 $45,948,975 £51,992,765 $23,197,810 Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy Peter Cattaneo


As of November 7, 2008, forty-one films released in 1997 have grossed more than $100 million, reaching blockbuster status. Three films have grossed more than $400 million, reaching "international blockbuster" status. One film (Titanic) has grossed more than $1,800,000,000, making it the second highest grossing film in history. On Sunday, February 22, 1998, Titanic reached a $400 million domestic gross in a record time of 66 days. On Thursday, March 26, 1998 after 98 days in release, Titanic reached $500 million domestically, becoming the first film in history to cross the half-billion-dollar domestic milestone. On Thursday, August 27, 1998 Titanic reached $600 million domestically becoming the most successful box office film in history.

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For a complete list of 1997's top-grossing films, follow these links:

Events [edit]

Academy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Taste of Cherry (طعم گيلاس, Ta'm-e gilass), directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Iran / France
The Eel (うなぎ, Unagi), directed by Shōhei Imamura, Japan

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Hana-bi (Fireworks), directed by Takeshi Kitano, Japan

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The People vs. Larry Flynt, directed by Miloš Forman, Canada / United States

Awards [edit]

Category/Organization 55th Golden Globe Awards
January 18, 1998		 70th Academy Awards
March 23, 1998		 51st BAFTA Awards
April 18, 1998
Drama Musical or Comedy
Best Film Titanic As Good as It Gets Titanic The Full Monty
Best Director James Cameron
Titanic		 James Cameron
Titanic		 Baz Luhrmann
Romeo + Juliet
Best Actor Peter Fonda
Ulee's Gold		 Jack Nicholson
As Good as It Gets		 Jack Nicholson
As Good as It Gets		 Robert Carlyle
The Full Monty
Best Actress Judi Dench
Mrs. Brown		 Helen Hunt
As Good as It Gets		 Helen Hunt
As Good as It Gets		 Judi Dench
Mrs. Brown
Best Supporting Actor Burt Reynolds
Boogie Nights		 Robin Williams
Good Will Hunting		 Tom Wilkinson
The Full Monty
Best Supporting Actress Kim Basinger
L.A. Confidential		 Kim Basinger
L.A. Confidential		 Sigourney Weaver
The Ice Storm
Best Screenplay, Adapted Good Will Hunting
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon		 L.A. Confidential
Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson		 Romeo + Juliet
Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
Best Screenplay, Original Good Will Hunting
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon		 Nil by Mouth
Gary Oldman
Best Foreign Language Film My Life in Pink
(Ma vie en rose)		 Character
(Karakter)		 Ridicule
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Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 1 Joan Rice 66 UK Actress The Horror of Frankenstein • His Majesty O'Keefe • The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men • One Good Turn
4 Bill Lancaster 49 USA Screenwriter The Thing • The Bad News Bears
6 Catherine Scorsese 84 USA Actress Goodfellas • The Godfather: Part III • Casino • The King of Comedy • The Age of Innocence • Cape Fear • Mean Streets • Moonstruck • The Muppets Take Manhattan
8 Tom Bowman 76 UK Actor Village of the Damned • H.M.S. Defiant • Circus of Fear • Yangtse Incident • The Frightened City • Too Hot to Handle • Harry Black • The Trygon Factor • SOS Pacific • The Men of Sherwood Forest • Innocent Bystanders • C.O.D • The Steel Bayonet • Idol on Parade • Clash by Night
9 Jesse White 80 USA Actor Harvey • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • Gentleman's Agreement • The Bad Seed • Matinee • Kiss of Death • The Cat from Outer Space • Designing Woman • Monster in the Closet • The Reluctant Astronaut
9 Joan Blair 93 USA Actress Citizen Kane • The Shop Around the Corner • The Women • Earthquake • Sherlock Holmes Faces Death • Son of Dracula • The Street with No Name • Angel on My Shoulder • A Lady Takes a Chance • If You Could Only Cook • The Constant Nymph • Ring of Fire
10 Sheldon Leonard 89 USA Actor, Director, Second Unit Director It's a Wonderful Life • To Have and Have Not • Guys and Dolls • Another Thin Man • Pocketful of Miracles • Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man • The Brink's Job • Sinbad the Sailor • Somewhere in the Night • Hit the Ice
11 Jill Summers 86 UK Actress Agatha
18 Diana Lewis 77 UK Actress
19 Adriana Caselotti 80 USA Actress Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs • The Wizard of Oz • It's a Wonderful Life
19 James Dickey 73 USA Author, Screenwriter, Actor Deliverance
21 Polly Ann Young 88 USA Actress The Sheik • Murders in the Rue Morgue • Invisible Ghost • The Man from Utah • The Story of Alexander Graham Bell • Turnabout • Road Show • Lady with a Past
21 Ralph Reed 63 USA Actor North by Northwest • High Noon • How to Marry a Millionaire • The Enemy Below • The Long, Hot Summer • Somebody Up There Likes Me • Since You Went Away • Cimarron • Tea and Sympathy • Scandal Sheet • Not of This Earth • High School Confidential • Lone Star
21 John Glyn-Jones 87 Morocco Actor, Producer, Director I'm All Right Jack • Two-Way Stretch • Heavens Above! • Carlton-Browne of the F.O. • The Long Memory • Waltz of the Toreadors • Carrington V.C. • Dark Places
23 Bill Zuckert 81 USA Actor Ace Ventura: Pet Detective • Hang 'Em High • Seems Like Old Times • Ada
23 David Waller 76 UK Actor Lady Jane • The Secret Garden
26 Guy Raymond 85 USA Actor The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming • Gypsy
27 Richard X. Slattery 71 USA Actor The Boston Strangler • Herbie Rides Again • BUtterfield 8 • Walking Tall
27 Bill Kennedy 88 USA Actor Now, Voyager • Mr. Skeffington • Destination Tokyo • Air Force • Raw Deal
31 Eve Lister 83 UK Actress Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street • No Limit • The Girl in the Crowd
February 1 Marjorie Reynolds 79 USA Actress Gone with the Wind • Holiday Inn • Ministry of Fear • His Kind of Woman • The Time of Their Lives • Broadway Melody of 1938
4 Robert Clouse 68 USA Director Enter the Dragon • Ironheart • Game of Death • China O'Brien • Black Belt Jones
7 Bill Beavis 82 UK Art Director Superman • The Return of the Pink Panther • Moby Dick • Stage Fright • The Dam Busters • One Million Years B.C. • Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
8 Robert Ridgely 65 USA Actor Philadelphia • Boogie Nights • Robin Hood: Men in Tights • Fire Down Below • Beverly Hills Cop II • That Thing You Do! • The Ref
10 Francis E. Stahl 94 USA Sound Mixer Bonnie and Clyde • A Streetcar Named Desire • Cheyenne Autumn • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
11 Barry Evans 53 UK Actor Alfred the Great • Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush • Die Screaming, Marianne • Adventures of a Taxi Driver • The White Bus
11 Don Porter 84 USA Actor
12 James Cossins 63 UK Actor The Man with the Golden Gun • Gandhi • The First Great Train Robbery
19 Frank Delfino 86 USA Actor Planet of the Apes • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory • The Lord of the Rings • The Court Jester • Hello, Dolly • The Hunter • Please Don't Eat the Daisies
25 Scott Forbes 76 UK Actor The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel • Operation Pacific • What Price Glory? • Mirror, Mirror • Rocky Mountain • The Mind of Mr. Soames
26 David Doyle 67 USA Actor Capricorn One • The Adventures of Pinocchio • Coogan's Bluff
26 Wende Wagner 55 USA Actress Rosemary's Baby • Guns of the Magnificent Seven • Out of Sight • Rio Conchos
March 4 Carey Loftin 83 USA Stuntman, Actor The Deer Hunter • Patton • The Goonies • Days of Thunder • Fletch • The Rookie • Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo • The China Syndrome • Harry and the Hendersons
6 Brent Lon Hershman 35 USA Camera Operator, Miscellaneous Pleasantville • That Thing You Do! • Indecent Proposal • Congo • Grumpier Old Men • The Getaway • Devil in a Blue Dress • Eye for a Eye • A Thousand Acres • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country • Dick Tracy
8 Alexander Salkind 75 Poland Producer Superman • The Three Musketeers • Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
9 Terry Nation 66 UK Screenwriter Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. • Dr. Who and the Daleks • And Soon the Darkness
13 Ronald Fraser 66 UK Actor The Flight of the Phoenix • The Wild Geese • Trail of the Pink Panther • Scandal • Let Him Have It • The Sundowners • Too Late the Hero
14 Fred Zinnemann 89 Austria Director, Producer From Here to Eternity • High Noon • A Man for All Seasons • Oklahoma! • The Day of the Jackal • The Sundowners
15 Gail Davis 71 USA Actress
16 Leda Gloria 84 Italy Actress Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo • Le Retour de Don Camillo
26 Eddie Hanley 92 USA Actor Portrait of a Mobster
30 Carlos Yeaggy 43 USA Makeup Artist Jerry Maguire • Star Trek: The Motion Picture • American Me • Shadow of Doubt
April ?? Harvey Hall 65 UK Actor Zulu • The Masque of the Red Death • The Vampire Lovers • Twins of Evil • Gorgo • Lust for a Vampire • Triple Cross • The Mouse on the Moon • I'll Never Forget What's'isname
2 Anthony Bushell 92 UK Actor A Night to Remember • The Battle of the River Plate • The Scarlet Pimpernel • Disraeli • The Black Knight
2 Tomoyuki Tanaka 86 Japan film producer The Godzilla series • Kagemusha
4 Mike Raven 72 UK Actor Lust for a Vampire • I, Monster • Crucible of Terror • Disciple of Death
5 Allen Ginsberg 70 USA Poet, Actor Chappaqua • Renaldo and Clara
14 Michael Stroka 58 USA Actor King Rat • House of Dark Shadows • Harlem Nights • Island of Blood
15 David Dockendorf 73 USA Sound Engineer Chinatown • Planet of the Apes • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • Beneath the Planet of the Apes • The Muppet Movie • Play It Again, Sam • The Big Red One • How to Steal a Million • Down and Out in Beverly Hills • Fantastic Voyage • The Parallax View
16 John Benson 80 USA Stuntman, Actor Vertigo • Spartacus • Around the World in 80 Days • The Blob • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral • The Desperate Hours • The Rainmaker • Joan of Arc • The Buccaneer • Fear Strikes Out • The Five Pennies • The Slender Thread
20 Jean Louis 89 France Costume Designer The Caine Mutiny • A Star is Born • The Misfits • Gambit • Bus Riley's Back in Town
22 Marion Charles 51 USA Actress Soylent Green • Reckless
24 Pat Paulsen 69 Mexico Actor Night Patrol • Harper Valley PTA
25 John Lees 55 UK Stuntman, Actor For Your Eyes Only • Aliens • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace • Lifeforce • Rita, Sue and Bob Too • The Viking Sagas • The Three Musketeers • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves • Flash Gordon • Daylight • The Great Game
25 Brian May 62 Australia Composer Mad Max • Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare • Steel Dawn • Hurricane Smith • Cloak & Dagger • Patrick
25 John Beal 87 USA Actor The Firm • Amityville 3-D • Les Misérables
26 Joey Faye 87 USA Actor Once Upon a Time in America • The Front • That Touch of Mink • North to Alaska • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying • The Tender Trap • No Way to Treat a Lady
27 Paul Lambert 74 USA Actor Planet of the Apes • Spartacus • All the President's Men • Blue Thunder • Death Wish II • A Gunfight
28 Steve Conte 77 Italy Actor The Onion Field • The Wild World of Batwoman • Teenage Zombies
29 Hugh Attwooll 83 UK Producer, Production Manager, Second Unit Director The Watcher in the Woods • Condorman • Candleshoe • In Search of the Castaways • The Three Lives of Thomasina • The Moon-Spinners • One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
29 Jerry Smith 63 USA Camera Operator, Production Manager, Miscellaneous The Pagemaster • The Plague Dogs • Jetsons: The Movie • Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf
May 1 Bo Widerberg 66 Sweden Film Director, Screenwriter Raven's End • Elvira Madigan • Ådalen 31 • Joe Hill • Fimpen • The Man on the Roof • Victoria • The Man from Majorca • The Serpent's Way • All Things Fair
2 Fran Fullenwider 51 UK Actress The Rocky Horror Show • The Pink Panther Strikes Again • The House of the Spirits • The Monster Club • Eat the Rich • The Mutations
3 Hughie Green 77 UK Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous Hills of Home • Tom Brown's School Days • If Winter Comes • What's Up Superdoc! • Little Friend
4 Alvy Moore 75 USA Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous The War of the Worlds • Gentleman Prefer Blondes • A Boy and His Dog • The Wild One • Herbie Rides Again • There's No Business Like Show Business • Intruder • Move Over, Darling
5 Walter Gotell 73 UK Actor From Russia with Love • The Spy Who Loved Me • Octopussy • The African Queen • For Your Eyes Only • Moonraker • The Living Daylights • A View to a Kill • The Man Who Knew Too Much • The Guns of Navarone • The Boys from Brazil • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold • Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers • Black Sunday
6 Jorge Martínez de Hoyos 76 Mexico Actor, Screenwriter The Magnificent Seven • Cronos • The Professionals • La Bataille de San Sebastian • Death in the Garden
6 Angelo Novi 66 Italy Camera Operator, Actor Once Upon a Time in America • The Last Emperor • Last Tango in Paris • A Fistful of Dynamite • Stealing Beauty • 1900 • My Name is Nobody • Little Buddha • Django • The Sheltering Sky
9 Paul Zatupnevich 75 USA Costume Executive, Costume Designer The Poseidon Adventure • The Towering Inferno • The Swarm • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea • Alice in Wonderland • The Lost World
10 Steve Holland 72 USA Actor The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
10 John P. Austin 90 USA Set Decorator Touch of Evil • Diamonds Are Forever • 1941 • Westworld • Paper Moon • Exorcist II: The Heretic • What's Up, Doc? • Topaz • Coogan's Bluff • Seconds
11 Howard Morton 71 USA Actor The Mechanic • The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean • Scorpio
14 Thelma Carpenter 75 USA Actress The Wiz • The Cotton Club • New York Stories
15 Bridgette Andersen 21 USA Actress Nightmares • Savannah Smiles • Fever Pitch
16 Giuseppe De Santis 80 Italy Screenwriter Bitter Rice
22 Donald Curtis 82 USA Actor The Ten Commandments • Spellbound • Meet Me in St. Louis • All That Heaven Allows • They Were Expendable • Earth vs. the Flying Saucers • National Velvet • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
22 Lee Pulford 57  ?? Stuntman, Actress The Parallax View • Swashbuckler • They Only Kill Their Masters • The Black Godfather • Blade Runner • The Blues Brothers • Chained Heat • A Change of Seasons • Stunts
23 Frances E. Nealy 78 USA Actress Ghostbusters • WarGames • Blue Thunder • Colors • Alex in Wonderland
23 Joe Zomar 76 USA Special Effects 1941 • Used Cars
24 Edward Mulhare 74 Ireland Actor Out to Sea • Megaforce
28 Sydney Guilaroff 89 USA Makeup Artist, Actor, Costume Executive The Wizard of Oz • North by Northwest • Gone with the Wind • The Graduate • Rosemary's Baby • Singin' in the Rain • The Philadelphia Story • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? • Forbidden Planet • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
29 George Fenneman 77 USA Actor The Thing from Another World • Ocean Eleven
June 4 George E. Mather 77 USA Actor, Visual Effects, Producer Galaxina • Man of a Thousand Faces • Ring of Terror • Francis in the Navy • Not with My Wife, You Don't! • Mister Cory • The Atomic Kid
4 Dick Colean 65 Grenada Camera Operator, Actor One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • Blade Runner • Short Circuit • An Officer and a Gentleman • Grumpy Old Men • Dragnet • Brewster's Millions • 1941 • The Cannonball Run • The Great Outdoors
14 Richard Jaeckel 70 USA Actor The Dirty Dozen • Airplane II: The Sequel • Starman • 3:10 to Yuma • Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid • Sands of Iwo Jima • Chosen Survivors • The Green Slime • Walking Tall Part 2 • The Devil's Brigade
17 Maurice Rootes 80 UK Film Editor Jason and the Argonauts • First Men in the Moon • Krakatoa, East of Java • Custer of the West • Four Sided Triangle • Stolen Face
19 Olga Georges-Picot 57 France Actress The Day of the Jackal • Love and Death • Two for the Road • Adieu l'ami • The Man Who Haunted Himself • Goodbye Emmanuelle • Je t'aime, je t'aime • The Man Who Quit Smoking • Connecting Rooms
22 Don Henderson 65 UK Actor Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope • Brazil • FairyTale: A True Story • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
23 Rosina Lawrence 84 USA Actor, Soundtrack Way Out West • The Great Ziegfeld • Charlie Chan's Secret • Reckless • Pick a Star
24 Brian Keith 75 USA Actor The Parent Trap • Young Guns • The Wind and the Lion • Nickelodeon • Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen • Hooper
29 William Hickey 69 USA Actor The Nightmare Before Christmas • Prizzi's Honor • Pink Cadillac • The Name of the Rose • Little Big Man • MouseHunt • The Boston Strangler
July ? Rosamund Greenwood 90 UK Actress Village of the Damned • The Witches
1 Robert Mitchum 79 USA Actor Cape Fear • Story of G.I. Joe • Ryan's Daughter • Tombstone • The Night of the Hunter • Out of the Past • Dead Man • Scrooged • The Last Tycoon • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
2 James Stewart 89 USA Actor It's a Wonderful Life • Vertigo • Rear Window • The Flight of the Phoenix • Rope • How the West Was Won • The Spirit of St. Louis • Harvey • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington • The Cheyenne Social Club
7 Royston Tickner 74 Actor The Keep
12 Peter Cranwell 71  ?? Actor Goldfinger • The Fighting Prince of Donegal
16 William Reynolds 87 USA Film Editor The Godfather • The Sound of Music • The Sting • The Day the Earth Stood Still • The Sand Pebbles • Newsies • Ishtar • Our Man Flint
17 Gene Warren 80 USA Visual Effects Artist True Lies • Black Sunday • The Time Machine
18 David Fresco 87 USA Actor Liar Liar • Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult • MouseHunt • A Little Princess
24 Brian Glover 63 UK Actor Alien 3 • An American Werewolf in London • Kafka • Jabberwocky
24 Bill Shine 85 UK Actor The Red Shoes • Around the World in 80 Days • Young and Innocent • Under Capricorn
26 Peter Ashmore 81 UK Actor The Ipcress File • The Saint and the Fiction Makers • Jigsaw • The Beauty Jungle
27 Isabel Dean 79 UK Actor Oh! What a Lovely War • The Passionate Friends • A High Wind in Jamaica • Ransom • Light in the Piazza
28 Rosalie Crutchley 77 UK Actress, Soundtrack Four Weddings and a Funeral • The Haunting • Mohammad, Messenger of God • Quo Vadis • The Keep • The Nun's Story • Man of La Mancha • Blood from the Mummy's Tomb • Freud: The Secret Passion • And Now the Screaming Starts!
August 2 William S. Burroughs 83 USA Author, Actor Twister • Drugstore Cowboy
4 Dick Bush 65 UK Cinematographer, Camera Operator Tommy • Victor Victoria • The Philadelphia Experiment • Trail of the Pink Panther • Little Monsters • The Lair of the White Worm • Switch • Sorcerer • Crimes of Passion • Curse of the Pink Panther • The Journey of Natty Gann • Son of the Pink Panther • Phase IV • Dracula A.D. 1972 • Twins of Evil • Yanks • Blood on Satan's Claw
5 Don Steele 61 USA Actor Gremlins • Grand Theft Auto • Death Race 2000 • Rock 'n' Roll High School • Eating Raoul
8 Jeri Gray 72 USA Actor, Costume Executive Short Cuts • Sprung
15 Glenn Corbett 74 USA Actor Fixed Bayonets! • The Violent Years • The Fireball
16 Robin Wentworth 82 UK Actor The Blood Beast Terror
18 Don Knight 64 UK Actor Swamp Thing • The Apple Dumpling Gang • The Hawaiians
18 Jeep Swenson 40 USA Actor Batman & Robin • Bulletproof • The Bad Pack • No Holds Barred
19 Cathleen Cordell 82 USA Actress MASH • The Return of the Living Dead • Airport • Gaslight • The Unsinkable Molly Brown • Star! • Major Barbara • The Gong Show Movie • Oliver Twist
20 Bill Mitchell 62 UK Actor You Only Live Twice • Billion Dollar Brain • The Beast Must Die • The Bitch • The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It • Man in the Middle
24 Stanley Grover 71 USA Actor Ghostbusters • Network • Being There • Executive Decision • The Falcon and the Snowman • Fandango
26 Camilla Spira 81 Germany Actor Die Buntkarierten • Morgenrot • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
27 Sally Blane 87 USA Actress I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang • The Sheik • Charlie Chan at Treasure Island • The Story of Alexander Graham Bell • A Bullet for Joey • Ten Cents a Dance • The Star Witness
27 Brandon Tartikoff 48 USA Studio executive
31 Dodi Fayed 42 Egypt Producer Hook • Chariots of Fire • F/X
31 Will Hare 81 USA Actor Back to the Future • The Rose • The Electric Horseman • Heaven Can Wait • Enter the Ninja
September ?? Robert Cawdron 75 UK Actor Stage Fright • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning • Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. • A King in New York
?? Maurice Kaufmann 70 UK Actor A Shot in the Dark • The Abominable Dr. Phibes • The Quatermass Xperiment • The Vault of Horror • Gorgo • Fanatic • Behemoth, the Sea Monster • Beau Brummell
5 Eddie Little Sky 71 USA Actor A Man Called Horse • Paint Your Wagon • 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
7 Elisabeth Brooks 46 USA Actress The Howling • Family Plot
8 Helen Shaw 100 USA Actress Parenthood
9 Burgess Meredith 89 USA Actor Rocky • Batman • The Day of the Locust • Grumpy Old Men • Clash of the Titans • Joe Butterfly • The Sentinel
13 Georges Guétary 82 France Actor An American in Paris
13 Delos V. Smith Jr 91 USA Actor One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • Silver Streak • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band • Bound for Glory • Goodbye, Columbus • An Enemy of the People • Brave New World • The Pack
16 Terence Cooper 64 Australia Actor No Way Out • Casino Royale • Hot Pursuit • The Shrimp on the Barbie • Man in the Middle • Oh... Rosalinda!! • Beyond Reasonable Doubt • Infidelity • Heart of the Stag
16 Gerry Turpin 72 UK Cinematographer Peeping Tom • Scrooge • Dead of Night • Beat the Devil • Hobson's Choice • Night of the Eagle • The Naked Truth • Fire Down Below
17 Red Skelton 84 USA Actor, Comedian Ziegfeld Follies • Merton of the Movies • Whistling in Brooklyn • DuBarry Was a Lady
17 Jerry Gershwin 71 USA Producer Where Eagles Dare • Blood In Blood Out • Harper • Breakheart Pass
19 Jack May 75 UK Actor The Man Who Would Be King • The Bounty • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution • Goodbye, Mr Chips • How I Won the War • Trog • The Shooting Party • The Ring
21 Jennifer Holt 76 UK Actress Pardon My Sarong • Private Buckaroo
23 Richard Whiting 93 USA Actor Tootsie • The Hudsucker Proxy • Ordinary People • Zelig
26 Dorothy Kingsley 87 USA Screenwriter Angels in the Outfield • Valley of the Dolls • Pal Joey
26 Samuel W. Taylor 90 USA Writer Flubber • The Absent-Minded Professor • Son of Flubber
October ?? Peter Boita 73 UK Film Editor, Assistant Editor, Sound Editor The Jewel of the Nile • Swiss Family Robinson • Candleshoe • Ten Little Indians • The Little Prince • Carry on Emmannuelle • Carry On Sergeant • Aliens • Return to Oz
3 John Ashley 95 UK Actor, Producer Apocalypse Now • Hud • Frankenstein's Daughter • Suicide Battalion
5 Andrew Keir 71 UK Actor Cleopatra • Rob Roy • Mary, Queen of Scots • Quatermass and the Pit • Dracula: Prince of Darkness
6 Adrienne Hill 60 UK Actress
8 Roger Creed 82 USA Stuntman, Actor, Miscellaneous Batman Forever • Airplane! • Rosemary's Baby • Ghostbusters II • Young Frankenstein • The Ten Commandments • Weekend at Bernie's • The Towering Inferno • RoboCop 3 • The Amityville Horror • The Howling • King Kong • Marked for Death • Piranha
9 Arch Johnson 75 USA Actor The Sting • Niagara • The Buddy Holly Story • Easy Money • Somebody Up There Likes Me
10 Stella Bonheur 92 UK Actress The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone • Intent to Kill • High Tide at Noon
11 Paul Brandenburg 53 USA Actor Soldier of Orange
12 John Denver 53 USA Singer, Actor Oh, God! • Fire and Ice
13 Joyce Compton 90 USA Actress The Best Years of Our Lives • Mildred Pierce • The Awful Truth • Sorry, Wrong Number • They Drive by Night • Christmas in Connecticut
14 Hy Averback 76 USA Director, Producer, Actor I Love You, Alice B. Toklas • Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? • Where the Boys Are '84
15 John Hudkins 79 USA Stuntman, Actor Dirty Harry • The Quick and the Dead • The Searchers • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance • Dick Tracy • The Outlaw Josey Wales • Young Guns • Rio Bravo • High Plains Drifter • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • The Monster Squad • Fort Apache • The Great Race • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon • The Alamo • The Green Berets • Rio Grande • The Professionals
16 Audra Lindley 79 USA Actress When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? • The Relic • Spellbinder • Shoot the Moon
17 Ben Welden 96 USA Actor The Big Sleep • The Roaring Twenties • All Through the Night • Marked Woman
18 Marshall Green 78 USA Production Manager, Second Unit Director Spartacus • Night Passage • The Thing That Couldn't Die • Monster on the Campus
19 Arthur Ibbetson 75 UK Cinematographer Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory • Where Eagles Dare • Hopscotch • Anne of the Thousand Days • The Bounty • Poet's Pub
20 Ron Tarr 60 UK Actor Willow • A View to a Kill • Carry On Girls
21 Jay A Morley Jr. 79  ?? Costume Designer, Costume Executive The Incredible Shrinking Man • Love in the Afternoon • Written on the Wind • The Glenn Miller Story • Tarantula • The Far Country • Revenge of the Creature • The Mole People • The Deadly Mantis • Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops • There's Always Tomorrow • The Golden Blade • The Ungarded Moment • Interlude
24 Don Messick 71 USA Voice Actor, Actor, Voice of Scooby-Doo Jetsons: The Movie • The Transformers: The Movie • Tom and Jerry: The Movie • Pufnstuf
24 Michael Balfour 79 UK Actor Batman • Fahrenheit 451 • Macbeth • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes • I Was a Male War Bride • The Krays • Sink the Bismarck! • Moulin Rouge • The Canterbury Tales • Candleshoe • Fiend Without a Face • Look Back in Anger • Genevieve • Quatermass 2 • The Holcroft Covenant • The Oblong Box • The Belles of St Trinian's • Reach for the Sky
26 Ollie Nightingale 61 USA Actor The Firm
30 Samuel Fuller 85 USA Screenwriter The Big Red One • Shock Corridor • The Klansman • The Cape Town Affair
30 Chic Waterson 73 UK Camera Operator Raiders of the Lost Ark • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom • Close Encounters of the Third Kind • Superman II • Never Say Never Again • The Italian Job • The Lion in Winter • The Fearless Vampire Killers • The Ladykillers • Jesus Christ Superstar • Rollerball
November 2 Berine Hern 81 USA Actor When Harry Met Sally... • The Man with Two Brains • Fatal Beauty • Table for Five
5 Louise Campbell 86 USA Actress The Buccaneer • Bulldog Drummond Comes Back • Bulldog Drummond's Revenge • Anne of Windy Poplars • Men with Wings
6 William Watson 59 USA Actor In the Heat of the Night • Chato's Land • The Mack
8 Michael Ward 88 UK Actor Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell • Revenge of the Pink Panther • Carry On Cleo • The Rough and the Smooth
11 William Alland 81 USA Producer, Actor Citizen Kane • Creature from the Black Lagoon • The Deadly Mantis • The Mole People • This Island Earth
12 Sándor Szabó 82 Hungary Actor Topaz
15 Warren Douglas 86 USA Actor, Screenwriter, Miscellaneous Destination Tokyo • Northwest Passage • Action in the North Atlantic • Air Force • City for Conquest • Pride of the Marines • The Babe Ruth Story • Northern Pursuit • Mission to Moscow
15 David Toguri 64 Canada Miscellaneous, Actor Who Framed Roger Rabbit • The Rocky Horror Picture Show • Memphis Belle • Peter's Friends • The Devil Rides Out • Absolute Beginners • The Give My Regards to Broad Street • Mack the Knife
17 Peter James 73 UK Set Decorator, Art Director, Set Dresser Lolita • The Parent Trap • Straw Dogs • The Man Who Would Be King • The Lion in Winter • The Innocents • The Eagle Has Landed • Yellowbeard
17 Gar Stephen 34  ?? Stuntman, Actor Edward Scissorhands • Bad Boys • Point Break • The Specialist • Passenger 57 • Problem Child 2 • Holy Man • The Getaway • Fair Game • Cop and a Half • Fled • Narrow Margin • Heaven's Prisoners
21 Jack Purvis 60 UK Actor Star Wars • The Empire Strikes Back • Return of the Jedi • Brazil • Labyrinth • Willow • Time Bandits
24 Freddie Cooper 69 Wales Camera Operator, Special Effects Good Morning, Vietnam • Superman II • The Little Shop of Horrors • Out of Africa • Top Secret! • Superman III • Dolores Claiborne • Oliver! • Outland • Force 10 from Navarone • Supergirl • Omen III: The Final Conflict • Jesus of Nazareth • The NeverEnding Story III • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes • Mogambo
25 Charles Hallahan 54 USA Actor The Thing • Dante's Peak • Twilight Zone: The Movie • Dave • Pale Rider
27 Shelia Barnes  ?? USA Miscellaneous, Production Manager Ghost • Octopussy • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country • Fright Night (1985 film) • The Crow: City of Angels • The Way We Were • Crossroads
30 Glyn Dearman 57 UK Actor Scrooge • The Flesh and the Fiends • Four Sided Triangle • Tom Brown's Schooldays
December ?? Romo Gorrara 64  ?? Stuntman, Actor Raiders of the Lost Ark • Batman • GoldenEye • Tomorrow Never Dies • Superman • A Fish Called Wanda • Willow • An American Werewolf in London • Daylight • The Dirty Dozen • Where Eagles Dare • Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol • Police Academy 3: Back in Training • Mary Reilly • Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book • The Russia House
4 Richard Vernon 72 UK Actor Goldfinger • A Hard Day's Night • Gandhi • Evil Under the Sun
13 Gayle Kellogg 76 USA Actor Them! • To Hell and Back • Operation Pacific
14 Stubby Kaye 79 USA Actor Who Framed Roger Rabbit • Cat Ballou • Guys and Dolls • Sweet Charity • The Cool Mikado • Li'l Abner
15 Edward Walsh 69 USA Actor The Natural • Another 48 Hrs. • Crossroads
16 Richard Warwick 52 UK Actor Romeo and Juliet • Hamlet • if.... • Johnny Dangerously
16 Leon Eagles 65  ?? Actor Carry On Sergeant
18 Chris Farley 33 USA Actor, Comedian Tommy Boy • Beverly Hills Ninja • Wayne's World 2 • Black Sheep • Coneheads • Almost Heroes • Airheads
18 Joe Lombardi 74 UK Special Effects, Miscellaneous The Godfather • The Godfather: Part II • Apocalypse Now • Clear and Present Danger • Courage Under Fire • Mosquito Coast • Raw Deal • Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood • The Entity • Double Dragon • The Two Jakes • Mobsters • Uncommon Valor • Next of Kin • The Dogs of War • City of Industry • When Trumpets Fade • Obsession
19 Michael Alldredge 56 USA Actor Scarface • Iron Eagle • The Entity • Robot Jox
20 Dawn Steel 51 USA Producer City of Angels • Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit • Fallen • Cool Runnings • Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
23 Greig McRitchie 83 USA Composer, Orchestrator Aliens • Starship Troopers • Dances with Wolves • The Hunt for Red October • Ghostbusters II • Glory • Conan the Barbarian • The Last of the Mohicans • Kindergarten Cop • Commando • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids • Willow • Casper • Hot Shots! Part Deux • The Color Purple • Conan the Destroyer • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
24 Toshiro Mifune 77 Japan Actor, Producer Camera Operator Seven Samurai • Rashomon • Yojimbo • Throne of Blood • 1941 • The Hidden Fortress • Sanjuro
24 Max Slaten 73 USA Actor Battle of the Bulge • The Hunting Party
25 Denver Pyle 77 USA Actor Bonnie and Clyde • Maverick • Escape to Witch Mountain • The Great Race
28 Bill Anderson[disambiguation needed] 86 USA Production Manager Swiss Family Robinson • Old Yeller • The Apple Dumpling Gang • The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes • The Strongest Man in the World • The Shaggy D.A. • The Moon-Spinners • The Happiest Millionaire
31 Billie Dove 94 USA Actress The Black Pirate • Beyond the Rainbow • The Painted Angel
31 Ken Olfson 60 USA Actor Spaceballs • Mr. Mom • Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo • Micki + Maude • Angel

Film debuts [edit]

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