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A list of American films released in 1963.
Cleopatra - the highest grossing film of 1963.
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Title |
Director |
Cast
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Genre
|
Note
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4 for Texas |
Robert Aldrich |
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson |
Western comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
55 Days at Peking |
Nicholas Ray |
Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven |
Drama |
Allied Artists
|
Act One |
Dore Schary |
George Hamilton, Jason Robards, Jack Klugman, George Segal |
Biography |
Warner Bros.
|
All the Way Home |
Alex Segal |
Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle |
Drama |
Drama James Agee book
|
America, America |
Elia Kazan |
Frank Wolff, Stathis Giallelis, Lou Antonio, Joanna Frank |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Atom Age Vampire |
A.G. Majano |
Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, Sergio Fantoni |
Horror |
|
The Balcony |
Joseph Strick |
Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Leonard Nimoy, Ruby Dee |
Drama |
play by Jean Genet
|
Beach Party |
William Asher |
Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon |
Comedy |
AIP
|
The Birds |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright |
Suspense |
Universal
|
Black Zoo |
Robert Gordon |
Michael Gough, Jeanne Cooper, Rod Lauren |
Horror |
Allied Artists
|
Blonde Cobra |
Ken Jacobs |
Jack Smith |
Short |
|
Blood Feast |
H.G. Lewis |
William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Scott H. Hall |
Horror |
|
Bye Bye Birdie |
George Sidney |
Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Janet Leigh, Bobby Rydell, Maureen Stapleton, Paul Lynde, Jesse Pearson, Ed Sullivan |
Musical comedy |
Columbia. Based on the play
|
Cairo |
Wolf Rilla |
George Sanders, Richard Johnson |
Crime |
MGM
|
California |
Hamil Petroff |
Jock Mahoney, Faith Domergue |
Western |
AIP; Remake of 1947 film
|
Call Me Bwana |
Gordon Douglas |
Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
Captain Newman, M.D. |
David Miller |
Gregory Peck, Angie Dickinson, Tony Curtis, Eddie Albert, Robert Duvall, Larry Storch, Bobby Darin |
Drama |
Universal. 3 Oscar nominations
|
Captain Sindbad |
Byron Haskin |
Guy Williams, Heidi Brühl, Pedro Armendáriz |
Adventure |
MGM
|
The Cardinal |
Otto Preminger |
Tom Tryon, John Huston, Carol Lynley, Romy Schneider, Ossie Davis |
Drama |
Columbia. 6 Oscar nominations
|
The Caretakers |
Hall Bartlett |
Joan Crawford, Robert Stack, Polly Bergen |
Suspense |
U.A.
|
Cattle King |
Tay Garnett |
Robert Taylor, Joan Caulfield |
Western |
MGM
|
The Ceremony |
Laurence Harvey |
Laurence Harvey, Sarah Miles |
Crime drama |
United Artists
|
Charade |
Stanley Donen |
Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, Ned Glass, George Kennedy |
Suspense |
Universal
|
A Child Is Waiting |
John Cassavetes |
Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands |
Drama |
United Artists
|
Cleopatra |
Joseph Mankiewicz |
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Carroll O'Connor, Hume Cronyn |
Epic |
Fox; won 4 Oscars; Remake of 1934 film
|
Come Blow Your Horn |
Bud Yorkin |
Frank Sinatra, Tony Bill, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John |
Comedy |
Paramount. Script by Neil Simon
|
Come Fly with Me |
Henry Levin |
Dolores Hart, Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Hugh O'Brian |
Romance |
MGM
|
The Comedy of Terrors |
Jacques Tourneur |
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone |
Comedy horror |
American International
|
The Cool World |
Shirley Clarke |
Yolanda Rodríguez, Antonio Fargas, Carl Lee |
Drama |
|
The Courtship of Eddie's Father |
Vincente Minnelli |
Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Dina Merrill, Ron Howard, Jerry Van Dyke |
Comedy |
MGM. Inspired TV series
|
The Crawling Hand |
Herbert L. Strock |
Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Alan Hale Jr. |
Horror |
|
Critic's Choice |
Don Weis |
Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell, Rip Torn |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
Cry of Battle |
Irving Lerner |
Van Heflin, Rita Moreno |
War |
Allied Artists
|
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Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
The Day Mars Invaded Earth |
Maury Dexter |
Kent Taylor, Marie Windsor |
Sci-fi |
20th Century Fox
|
Dementia 13 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
William Campbell, Patrick Magee |
Thriller |
A.I.P.
|
Diamond Head |
Guy Green |
Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux |
Drama |
Columbia; based on Peter Gilman novel
|
Diary of a Madman |
Reginald Le Borg |
Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Lewis Martin |
Horror |
United Artists
|
Dime with a Halo |
Boris Sagal |
BarBara Luna, Roger Mobley |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Donovan's Reef |
John Ford |
John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Dorothy Lamour, Elizabeth Allen, Cesar Romero |
Comedy |
Paramount; final Ford-Wayne collaboration
|
Drums of Africa |
James B. Clark |
Frankie Avalon, Mariette Hartley |
Adventure |
MGM
|
Eat |
Andy Warhol |
Robert Indiana |
|
|
Face in the Rain |
Irvin Kershner |
Rory Calhoun, Marina Berti |
Drama |
Embassy
|
Five Minutes to Love |
John Hayes |
Rue McClanahan |
Drama |
|
Flaming Creatures |
Jack Smith |
Frances Francine, Mario Montez |
Experimental |
|
Flipper |
James B. Clark |
Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin |
Family |
MGM. Based on the TV series
|
Follow the Boys |
Richard Thorpe |
Connie Francis, Janis Paige, Paula Prentiss, Russ Tamblyn |
Comedy Romance |
MGM
|
For Love or Money |
Michael Gordon |
Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Thelma Ritter, Gig Young, Leslie Parrish, Julie Newmar |
Comedy Romance |
Universal; Remake of 1993 film
|
Free, White and 21 |
Larry Buchanan |
Frederick O'Neal, Annalena Lund |
Drama |
AIP
|
From Russia with Love |
Terence Young |
Sean Connery, Pedro Armendáriz, Daniela Bianchi |
Action |
United Artists
|
Fun in Acapulco |
Richard Thorpe |
Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Elsa Cárdenas |
Musical |
Paramount
|
A Gathering of Eagles |
Delbert Mann |
Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Barry Sullivan |
Drama |
Universal
|
Gidget Goes to Rome |
Paul Wendkos |
Cindy Carol, Don Porter |
Comedy |
Columbia. Gidget sequel
|
The Girl Hunters |
Roy Rowland |
Mickey Spillane, Shirley Eaton |
Mystery |
from Spillane's novel
|
Goldilocks and the Three Bares |
Herschell Gordon Lewis |
Alison Edwards, Rex Marlow, Thomas Sweetwood, Joey Maxim |
Erotic Comedy |
|
The Great Escape |
John Sturges |
Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, James Donald, Donald Pleasence, David McCallum |
War |
United Artists; based on book by Paul Brickhill
|
Gunfight at Comanche Creek |
Frank McDonald |
Audie Murphy, Colleen Miller |
Western |
Allied Artists
|
The Gun Hawk |
Edward Ludwig |
Rory Calhoun, Rod Cameron, Ruta Lee |
Western |
Allied Artists
|
H-M
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Harbor Lights |
Maury Dexter |
Kent Taylor, Míriam Colón, Jeff Morrow |
Action |
20th Century Fox
|
The Haunted Palace |
Roger Corman |
Vincent Price, Debra Paget |
Horror |
AIP. Paget's final film
|
The Haunting |
Robert Wise |
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn |
Horror |
MGM. From Shirley Jackson novel
|
The Hook |
George Seaton |
Kirk Douglas, Nick Adams |
War |
MGM
|
Hootenanny Hoot |
Gene Nelson |
Peter Breck, Ruta Lee, Johnny Cash |
Musical |
MGM
|
House of the Damned |
Maury Dexter |
Ron Foster, Merry Anders, Richard Crane |
Thriller |
20th Century Fox
|
Hud |
Martin Ritt |
Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde |
Drama |
Paramount. From Larry McMurtry novel; Oscars for Douglas, Neal
|
I Could Go On Singing |
Ronald Neame |
Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde |
Drama |
United Artists. Garland's final film
|
In the Cool of the Day |
Robert Stevens |
Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury |
Drama |
MGM
|
In the French Style |
Robert Parrish |
Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker, Philippe Forquet |
Romance |
Columbia
|
The Incredible Journey |
Fletcher Markle |
Émile Genest, John Drainie |
Family |
|
Irma la Douce |
Billy Wilder |
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine |
Comedy |
United Artists. 3 Oscar nominations and 1 win.
|
Island of Love |
Morton DaCosta |
Robert Preston, Tony Randall, Walter Matthau |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
It Happened at the World's Fair |
Norman Taurog |
Elvis Presley, Gary Lockwood |
Musical |
MGM
|
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
Stanley Kramer |
Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Terry-Thomas, Edie Adams, Jonathan Winters, Buddy Hackett, Dorothy Provine, Peter Falk |
Comedy |
United Artists. 6 Academy Award nominations with 1 win; top-grossing film of 1963
|
Jason and the Argonauts |
Don Chaffey |
Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman |
Fantasy |
Columbia
|
Johnny Cool |
William Asher |
Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jim Backus |
Crime |
United Artists
|
Kings of the Sun |
J. Lee Thompson |
Yul Brynner, George Chakiris |
Adventure |
United Artists
|
Ladybug Ladybug |
Frank Perry |
Jane Connell, William Daniels, Nancy Marchand |
Drama |
United Artists
|
Lancelot and Guinevere |
Cornel Wilde |
Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace |
Romance |
Universal
|
Law of the Lawless |
Wm. Claxton |
Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo |
Western |
Paramount
|
Lilies of the Field |
Ralph Nelson |
Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala |
Drama |
United Artists. Oscar for Poitier
|
The List of Adrian Messenger |
John Huston |
George C. Scott, Dana Wynter |
Mystery |
Universal. Many cameos
|
The Long Ships |
Jack Cardiff |
Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn |
Adventure |
Columbia
|
Love Is a Ball |
David Swift |
Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Telly Savalas |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
Love with the Proper Stranger |
Robert Mulligan |
Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams |
Drama |
Paramount. 5 Oscar nominations
|
The Man from the Diner's Club |
Frank Tashlin |
Danny Kaye, Martha Hyer, Telly Savalas |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
Maniac |
Michael Carreras |
Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston |
Horror |
|
Mary, Mary |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Debbie Reynolds, Barry Nelson, Michael Rennie |
Comedy |
Warner Bros. From Jean Kerr play
|
McLintock! |
Andrew V. McLaglen |
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Stefanie Powers, Yvonne De Carlo, Patrick Wayne, Jerry Van Dyke |
Western comedy |
United Artists
|
Miracle of the White Stallions |
Arthur Hiller |
Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens |
War drama |
Disney
|
Move Over, Darling |
Michael Gordon |
Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen |
Romantic comedy |
20th Century Fox. My Favorite Wife remake
|
My Six Loves |
Gower Champion |
Debbie Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, David Janssen |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
N-S
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
A New Kind of Love |
Melville Shavelson |
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Eva Gabor |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Nine Hours to Rama |
Mark Robson |
Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Diane Baker |
Drama |
20th Century Fox. From Stanley Wolpert book
|
The Nutty Professor |
Jerry Lewis |
Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens |
Comedy |
Paramount; Remake of 1996 film
|
Of Love and Desire |
Richard Rush |
Merle Oberon, Steve Cochran |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
The Old Dark House |
William Castle |
Tom Poston, Joyce Grenfell, Janette Scott |
Horror |
Columbia; remake of 1932 film
|
One Got Fat |
Dale Jennings |
|
Educational |
15 minutes
|
One Man's Way |
Denis Sanders |
Don Murray, Diana Hyland, Carol Ohmart, William Windom, Veronica Cartwright, Virginia Sale |
Biography |
story of Norman Vincent Peale
|
Operation Bikini |
Anthony Carras |
Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Jim Backus, Gary Crosby |
Comedy |
AIP
|
PT 109 |
Leslie H. Martinson |
Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Robert Blake |
Biography, War |
Warner Bros.; story of John F. Kennedy
|
Palm Springs Weekend |
Norman Taurog |
Troy Donahue, Stefanie Powers, Connie Stevens |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
Papa's Delicate Condition |
George Marshall |
Jackie Gleason, Glynis Johns, Charlie Ruggles |
Comedy |
Paramount. Oscar for Best Song
|
Pent-House Mouse |
Chuck Jones |
|
Animated |
|
The Pink Panther |
Blake Edwards |
David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale |
Crime comedy |
United Artists. First of a series
|
Police Nurse |
Maury Dexter |
Ken Scott, Merry Anders |
Crime |
20th Century Fox
|
The Prize |
Mark Robson |
Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Kevin McCarthy, Diane Baker |
Drama |
MGM. From Irving Wallace novel
|
Promises! Promises! |
King Donovan |
Jayne Mansfield, Tommy Noonan |
Comedy |
aka Promise Her Anything
|
The Quick and the Dead |
Robert Totten |
Victor French, Majel Barrett |
War |
Independent
|
The Raiders |
Herschel Daugherty |
Brian Keith, Robert Culp |
Western |
Universal; Remake of 1952 film
|
Rampage |
Phil Karlson |
Robert Mitchum, Jack Hawkins, Elsa Martinelli |
Adventure |
Seven Arts
|
The Raven |
Roger Corman |
Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre |
Horror |
AIP. Edgar Allan Poe story
|
The Sadist |
James Landis |
Arch Hall Jr. |
Sci-fi |
|
Savage Sam |
Norman Tokar |
Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk |
Drama |
Disney
|
Shock Corridor |
Samuel Fuller |
Peter Breck, Constance Towers |
Drama |
Allied Artists
|
Showdown |
R. G. Springsteen |
Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley |
Western |
Universal; Remake of 1973 film
|
The Skydivers |
Coleman Francis |
Anthony Cardoza, Jimmy Bryant |
Drama |
Crown International Pictures
|
The Slime People |
Robert Hutton |
Robert Hutton, Susan Hart |
Horror |
MST3K
|
Sodom and Gomorrah |
Robert Aldrich |
Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Soldier in the Rain |
Ralph Nelson |
Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld |
Comedy |
Allied Artists. From William Goldman novel
|
Son of Flubber |
Robert Stevenson |
Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Tommy Kirk |
Comedy |
Disney. The Absent-Minded Professor sequel
|
Spencer's Mountain |
Delmer Daves |
Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara |
Family |
Warner Bros. From Earl Hamner Jr. novel
|
Stolen Hours |
Daniel Petrie |
Susan Hayward, Diane Baker |
Drama |
United Artists. Dark Victory remake
|
The Stripper |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Summer Magic |
James Neilson |
Hayley Mills, Burl Ives |
Drama |
Disney
|
Sunday in New York |
Peter Tewksbury |
Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor, Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp |
Romantic comedy |
MGM; from Norman Krasna play
|
The Sword in the Stone |
Wolfgang Reitherman |
voices of Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson |
Animated |
Disney
|
T-Z
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Take Her, She's Mine |
Henry Koster |
James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows |
Comedy |
Fox; based on Phoebe and Henry Ephron play
|
Tammy and the Doctor |
Harry Keller |
Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda |
Romance |
Universal. Third of series
|
Tarzan's Three Challenges |
Robert Day |
Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode |
Adventure |
MGM. Edgar Rice Burroughs character
|
Terrified |
Lew Landers |
Rod Lauren, Barbara Luddy |
Horror |
Crown International Pictures
|
The Terror |
5 directors |
Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson |
Horror |
AIP
|
They Saved Hitler's Brain |
David Bradley |
Walter Stocker, Carlos Rivas |
Sci-fi |
|
13 Frightened Girls |
William Castle |
Murray Hamilton, Joyce Taylor |
Thriller |
Columbia
|
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze |
Norman Maurer |
The Three Stooges, Joan Freeman |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
The Thrill of It All |
Norman Jewison |
Doris Day, James Garner |
Comedy |
Universal. Script by Carl Reiner
|
Thunder Island |
Jack Leewood |
Gene Nelson, Fay Spain |
Drama |
20th Century Fox. Script co-written by Jack Nicholson
|
A Ticklish Affair |
George Sidney |
Shirley Jones, Gig Young, Red Buttons |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Toys in the Attic |
George Roy Hill |
Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Wendy Hiller, Gene Tierney |
Drama |
United Artists; based on Lillian Hellman play
|
Transylvania 6-5000 |
Chuck Jones |
voices of Mel Blanc, Ben Frommer, Julie Bennett |
Animated |
|
Twice-Told Tales |
Sidney Salkow |
Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland |
Horror |
United Artists
|
Twilight of Honor |
Boris Sagal |
Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Joey Heatherton, Joan Blackman, Claude Rains |
Drama |
MGM
|
The Ugly American |
George Englund |
Marlon Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Jocelyn Brando, Arthur Hill, Pat Hingle |
Drama |
Universal
|
Under the Yum Yum Tree |
David Swift |
Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca, Paul Lynde |
Romantic comedy |
Columbia
|
Violated Paradise |
Marion Gering |
Kazuko Mine |
Travel |
Italian film
|
The V.I.P.s |
Anthony Asquith |
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Louis Jourdan, Margaret Rutherford, Elsa Martinelli, Orson Welles |
Drama |
MGM; from Terence Rattigan play; Oscar for Rutherford
|
The Victors |
Carl Foreman |
George Peppard, George Hamilton, Vince Edwards, Romy Schneider, Elke Sommer, Jeanne Moreau |
War |
Columbia; from Alexander Baron story
|
Wall of Noise |
Richard Wilson |
Suzanne Pleshette, Dorothy Provine |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? |
Martin Scorsese |
|
Short subject |
9 minutes
|
The Wheeler Dealers |
Arthur Hiller |
James Garner, Lee Remick, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, Pat Crowley, Phil Harris, Louis Nye |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? |
Daniel Mann |
Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Carol Burnett, Richard Conte, Martin Balsam, Jill St. John |
Romantic comedy |
Paramount
|
Who's Minding the Store? |
Frank Tashlin |
Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Walston, Kathleen Freeman |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Wives and Lovers |
John Rich |
Janet Leigh, Van Johnson |
Romance |
Paramount
|
X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes |
Roger Corman |
Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Don Rickles |
Science fiction |
AIP; aka Man with the X-Ray Eyes
|
The Yellow Canary |
Buzz Kulik |
Pat Boone, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest |
Crime |
20th Century Fox. Script by Rod Serling
|
The Young and the Brave |
Francis D. Lyon |
Rory Calhoun, William Bendix |
War |
MGM
|
The Young Racers |
Roger Corman |
Mark Damon, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee |
Sports |
AIP
|
The Young Swingers |
Maury Dexter |
Molly Bee, Rod Lauren |
Musical |
20th Century Fox
|
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