1962 in film

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The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1962
Rank	Title	Studio	Box-office gross rental
1	The Longest Day	20th Century Fox	$17,600,000^[1]
2	Lawrence of Arabia	Columbia Pictures	$16,700,000^[1]
3	The Music Man	Warner Bros.	$8,100,000^[2]
4	That Touch of Mink	Universal Pictures	$7,942,000^[2]
5	Mutiny on the Bounty	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$7,410,000^[2]
6	To Kill a Mockingbird	Universal Pictures	$7,112,000^[2]
7	Hatari!	Paramount Pictures	$7,000,000^[2]
8	Gypsy	Warner Bros.	$6,000,000^[2]
9	Bon Voyage! The Interns	Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution Columbia Pictures	$5,000,000^[2]
10	In Search of the Castaways	Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution	$4,900,000^[3]

Events

May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca-Universal.
July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board.
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.

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:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth

Comedy or Musical:

Best Picture − Comedy: That Touch of Mink

Best Picture − Musical: The Music Man

Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni – Divorce Italian Style

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell – Gypsy

Best Supporting Actor: Omar Sharif – Lawrence of Arabia

Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury – The Manchurian Candidate

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

1962 film releases

United States unless stated

Notable films released in 1962

United States unless stated

The Unscrupulous Ones (Os Cafajestes), directed by Ruy Guerra – (Brazil)

Zorro the Avenger^{[clarification needed]}
Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston

Short film series

Births

January 4 – Michael France, American screenwriter (d. 2013)
January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron, American actress
January 7 – Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
January 17 – C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor (d. 2016)
January 17 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
February 7 - Eddie Izzard, English stand-up comedian, actor, writer and political activist
February 13 – Michele Greene, American actress
February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
February 22 – Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, television personality, conservationist, actor (d. 2006)
February 27 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
March 10 – Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, dancer and director
March 12 – Chris Sanders, American actor, animator, director and voice actor
March 18 – Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
March 20 – Stephen Sommers, American director, screenwriter and producer
March 21
- Matthew Broderick, American actor
- Rosie O'Donnell, American actress and comedian
April 15 – Tom Kane, American actor and voice actor
April 27 – James LeGros, American actor
May 12 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
May 17 - Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American television host, comedian, author and actor
May 18 – Karel Roden, Czech actor
May 26 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor, comedian and director
June 5 - Jeff Garlin, American comedian and actor
June 13 – Ally Sheedy, American actress
June 19 – Paula Abdul, American singer
June 27 – Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor
July 3 – Tom Cruise, American actor
July 4 - Neil Morrissey, English actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and businessman
July 13 – Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian
July 19 – Anthony Edwards, American actor
July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor
July 31 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress
August 13 – John Slattery, American actor
August 16 – Steve Carell, American actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
August 24 – David Koechner, American actor and comedian
August 27 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
August 29 – Ian James Corlett, Canadian-American voice actor
August 31 – Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
September 8 – Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
September 11 – Kristy McNichol, American actress
September 15 – Scott McNeil, Australian-Canadian voice actor
September 17 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
September 19 - Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
September 21 - Mark Holden, Canadian actor, writer and producer
September 24 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress and producer
September 26 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
October 1 – Esai Morales, American actor
October 2 – Jeff Bennett, American actor and voice actor
October 11 – Joan Cusack, American actress
October 12 – Deborah Foreman, American actress
October 13 – Kelly Preston, American actress
October 22 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
October 26 – Cary Elwes, English actor
October 28 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
November 11 – Demi Moore, American actress
November 14 – Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and comedian
November 19 – Jodie Foster, American actress and director
November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor
December 9 – Felicity Huffman, American actress^[4]
December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress
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 13 – Jerry Wald, 50, American screenwriter and producer, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place
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 23 – Luis Alberni, 76, Spanish actor, Svengali, The Count of Monte Cristo
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

References

^ ^a ^b Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Top 20 Films of 1962 by Domestic Revenue
^ "All-time top film grossers", Variety 8 January 1964 p 37.
^ "Famous birthdays for Dec. 9: Judi Dench, John Malkovich". UPI.

[Finler-1] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[1962DomesticRevenue-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Top 20 Films of 1962 by Domestic Revenue

[3] "All-time top film grossers", Variety 8 January 1964 p 37.

[4] "Famous birthdays for Dec. 9: Judi Dench, John Malkovich". UPI.

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