1926 in film

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Events

August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film.
Theodore W. Case and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation. The Fox-Case Corp. was formed in an effort to exploit the system, which was given the name Movietone. Fox began to create Movietone News newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels was Charles Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris.
Al Jolson films A Plantation Act one of the first unreleased talkies and a test film for The Jazz Singer
The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the Weimar Republic, directed by Lotte Reiniger. It is called The Adventures of Prince Achmed.

Top grossing films

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	Aloma of the South Seas
2.	What Price Glory?
3.	The Great K and A Train Robbery
4.	Beau Geste
5.	Flesh and the Devil
6.	Sparrows
7.	For Heaven's Sake
8.	My Yankee Senor
9.	Don Juan
10.	The Sea Beast
11.	La Bohème
12.	The Temptress
13.	Torrent

Films released in 1926

3 Bad Men, directed by John Ford
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, directed by Lotte Reiniger.
Aloma of the South Seas, starring Gilda Gray
Bardelys the Magnificent, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman
The Bat
Battling Butler, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
Beau Geste, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Ronald Colman and Alice Joyce
The Bells, directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff
Beverly of Graustark, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies and Antonio Moreno
The Black Pirate, directed by Albert Parker, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Billie Dove
La Bohème, directed by King Vidor, starring Lillian Gish, John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
Brown of Harvard directed by Jack Conway, starring William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian
Brudeferden i Hardanger (The bridal procession in Hardanger), a Norwegian drama
Cruise of the Jasper B, starring Rod La Rocque, Mildred Harris and Snitz Edwards
The Devil's Circus, starring Norma Shearer
Don Juan, directed by Alan Crosland, starring John Barrymore
Faust, directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman and Emil Jannings
Flesh and the Devil, directed by Clarence Brown, starring John Gilbert and Greta Garbo
Fool's Luck, directed by Fatty Arbukle, starring Lupino Lane and George Davis
For Heaven's Sake, directed by Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston
The Great Gatsby, directed by George Cukor, starring Warner Baxter and Lois Wilson
The Great K and A Train Robbery, starring Tom Mix
Hands Up!
Irene, starring Colleen Moore. In color sequence by Technicolor.
The Johnstown Flood, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor
Madame Mystery, directed by Richard Wallace and Stan Laurel, starring Theda Bara
The Magician
Mare Nostrum, directed by Rex Ingram, starring Antonio Moreno and Alice Terry
Miss Mend, directed by Fyodor Otsep, starring Boris Barnet
Mother, directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
My Yankee Senor, starring Tom Mix
Nana directed by Jean Renoir
Old Ironsides directed by James Cruze starring Esther Ralston
A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippēji)
The Scarlet Letter, starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson
The Sea Beast, starring John Barrymore, Dolores Costello and George O'Hara
The Son of the Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky
So's Your Old Man, starring W.C. Fields
The Sorrows of Satan, starring Adolphe Menjou
Sparrows, directed by William Beaudine, starring Mary Pickford
Storm of Passion (Aiyoku no arashi)
The Strong Man, starring Harry Langdon
The Student of Prague, starring Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Agnes Esterhazy and Fritz Alberti
The Temptress, starring Greta Garbo and Antonio Moreno.
Torrent, starring Ricardo Cortez and Greta Garbo
The Volga Boatman
What Price Glory?, starring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Dolores del Rio
The Winning of Barbara Worth, starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Banky and Gary Cooper

Short film series

Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
Our Gang (1922–1944)
Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)

Animated short film series

Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
Alice Comedies
- Alice on the Farm
- Alice's Balloon Race
- Alice's Orphan
- Alice's Little Parade
- Alice's Mysterious Mystery
- Alice Charms the Fish
- Alice's Monkey Business
- Alice in the Wooly West
- Alice the Fire Fighter
- Alice Cuts the Ice
- Alice Helps the Romance
- Alice's Spanish Guitar
- Alice's Brown Derby
- Alice the Lumber Jack
Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
Un-Natural History (1925–1927)
Pete the Pup (1926–1927)

Births

January 5 - Maria Schell, actress(d.2005)
January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist († 1991)
January 17 - Moira Shearer, actress, dancer (d. 2006)
January 19 - Fritz Weaver, actor
January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress
February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor, comedian
February 16 - John Schlesinger, director († 2003)
February 20 - Gillian Lynne, dancer, actress, choreographer
March 6 - Andrzej Wajda, director
March 16 - Jerry Lewis, actor
April 7 - Prem Nazir, Indian actor (d. 1989)
May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
June 1 - Andy Griffith, actor
June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress († 1962)
June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer
July 14 - Harry Dean Stanton, actor
July 21 - Norman Jewison, director
October 17 - Beverly Garland, actress
October 18 - Klaus Kinski, actor (d. 1991)
November 30 - Richard Crenna, actor (d. 2003)

Deaths

January 30 - Barbara La Marr, actress
February 6 - Carrie Clark Ward, actor
April 20 - Billy Quirk, actor
July 22 - Willard Louis, actor
August 22 - Joe Moore, actor, brother of Mary, Matt, Owen & Tom Moore
August 23 - Rudolph Valentino, actor
August 30 - Eddie Lyons, American actor
September 11 - Matsunosuke Onoe, actor
October 31 - Harry Houdini, magician & actor
November 1 - Lester Cuneo, actor
November 7 - Tom Forman, silent film actor & director
November 8 - James K Hackett, stage & silent film actor

Film debuts