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The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.

The top ten 1933 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1933 Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals 1 Roman Scandals United Artists $2,443,000[1] 2 I'm No Angel Paramount $2,250,000[1] 3 Gold Diggers of 1933 Warner Bros. $2,202,000[2] 4 She Done Him Wrong Paramount $2,200,000[3] 5 The Bowery United Artists/Twentieth Century $2,000,000[4] 6 Tugboat Annie MGM $1,917,000[5] 7 Footlight Parade Warner Bros. $1,601,000[2] 8 Dancing Lady MGM $1,490,000[5] 9 42nd Street Warner Bros. $1,438,000[2] 10 Dinner at Eight MGM $1,398,000[5]

The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year in North America.[6]

Motion picture industry goes under National Recovery Administration code.

Receivers appointed for Paramount Publix, RKO and Fox Theatres.

Film industry takes eight week salary cut.

Sirovich bill for sweeping probe of film industry is defeated.

John D. Hertz withdraws as Paramount Publix finance chairman and Adolph Zukor appoints George J. Schaefer as general manager.

Sidney Kent effects financial reorganization of Fox Film Corp., averting receivership, and company shows first profit since 1930.

Ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware creates "open market" for sound equipment.

Nathan Nathanson regains control of Famous Players Canadian circuit.

Darryl F. Zanuck quits Warner Bros-First National and with Joseph M. Schenck forms Twentieth Century Pictures, turning out eight productions in the first four months, beginning with The Bowery.

Harold B. Franklin resigns as president of RKO Theaters.

Other notable events include:

January 11 – Radio City Music Hall in New York City starts showing films.[7]

January 20 – The film Ecstasy premieres in Czechoslovakia film; its foreign distribution presents difficulties as 18-year-old actress Hedy Lamarr is seen naked in it.

March – Director Fritz Lang is informed by Joseph Goebbels that release of Lang's crime-thriller The Testament of Dr. Mabuse in Germany will not be permitted by the newly formed Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. The German-language premiere takes place on April 21 in Budapest (Hungary). On April 20, Lang divorces his wife, the film's writer Thea von Harbou, and on July 31 leaves Germany permanently, initially settling in Paris.[8]

March 2 – King Kong premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City;[9] opening weekend takings are estimated at US$90,000.

March 9 – Punyal na Ginto (The Golden Dagger), the first Filipino-language film made in the Philippines, is released.[10]

March 11 – 42nd Street sparks a comeback for musical film.[7]

June 6 – Chemical company executive Richard Hollingshead opens a drive-in theater near Camden, New Jersey, according to his U.S patent granted May 16.[11][12]

September 6 – Daily Variety, a trade newspaper, is published for the first time in Hollywood.[13]

October 10 – John Wayne appears as Singin' Sandy Saunders in Riders of Destiny.

December 29 – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appear on screen together for the first time in Flying Down to Rio.

Ang Aswang, the first sound film made in the Philippines, is released.[14]

Makata At Paraluman (The Poet and the Maiden), the first talking film in vernacular made in the Philippines, is released.[15]

British Film Institute founded.[16]

GPO Film Unit established in the United Kingdom under John Grierson, taking over responsibility for documentary film making from the Empire Marketing Board.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) once again expresses interest in The Wizard of Oz books for a series of animated shorts, but once again fail to make a deal with the estate of creator L. Frank Baum.

The Private Life of Henry VIII becomes the first British film to win an American Academy Award. Featured actor Charles Laughton wins the 1933 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. The film is the first British production to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The book Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox is published, detailing what William Fox considers to be the conspiracy that forced him from control of Fox Film in 1930.

Main article: 6th Academy Awards

The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934, at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. They were hosted by Will Rogers and Rogers also presented all of the awards. This was the last time that the Oscars' eligibility period was spread over two different calendar years, creating the longest time frame for which films could be nominated: the seventeen months from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.

Most nominations: Cavalcade (Fox Film); A Farewell to Arms (Paramount Pictures) and Lady for a Day (Columbia Pictures) – 4

Major awards:

Best Picture: Cavalcade – Fox Film

Best Director: Frank Lloyd – Cavalcade

Best Actor: Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII

Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn – Morning Glory

Most Awards: Cavalcade – 3 (Outstanding Production; Best Director; Best Art Direction)

United States unless stated

January 1933

3 January

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

10 January

The Vampire Bat

12 January

Laughter in Hell

13 January

The Monkey's Paw

20 January

Ecstasy (Czechoslovakia)

21 January

Tonight Is Ours

27 January

She Done Him Wrong

28 January

Hard to Handle

Parachute Jumper

February 1933

3 February

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

4 February

Ladies They Talk About

10 February

State Fair

What! No Beer?

17 February

Men Must Fight

18 February

Mystery of the Wax Museum

22 February

The House of Dora Green (Germany)

23 February

Our Betters

24 February

Perfect Understanding (GB)

Topaze

28 February

The Good Companions

Oliver Twist

March 1933

2 March

King Kong

10 March

Fast Workers

King of the Jungle

Liebelei (Germany)

11 March

42nd Street

15 March

In the Wake of the Bounty (Australia)

21 March

The Flower of Hawaii (Die Blume von Hawaii)

24 March

Pick-Up

25 March

Okraina (The Outskirts) (U.S.S.R.)

31 March

Gabriel Over the White House

April 1933

7 April

Zero for Conduct (Zéro de conduite) (France)

14 April

Today We Live

15 April

Cavalcade

20 April

The Working Man

21 April

Supernatural

22 April

A Bedtime Story

27 April

Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no onna)

28 April

Looking Forward

May 1933

5 May

The Devil's Brother

6 May

The Eagle and the Hawk

Picture Snatcher

12 May

The Story of Temple Drake

14 May

A Study in Scarlet

15 May

Ex-Lady

19 May

Adorable

25 May

Don Quixote

26 May

Peg o' My Heart

27 May

Gold Diggers of 1933

International House

29 May

Ganga Bruta (Brazil)

June 1933

9 June

Professional Sweetheart

23 June

The Mayor of Hell

When Ladies Meet

28 June

Samarang

30 June

Hold Your Man

Midnight Mary

July 1933

1 July

Baby Face

3 July

Loyalties

8 July

It's Great to Be Alive

14 July

Bed of Roses

Storm at Daybreak

15 July

She Done Him Wrong

17 June

Heroes for Sale

20 July

Secret of the Blue Room

28 July

The Stranger's Return

29 July

Midnight Club

August 1933

1 August

Employees' Entrance

5 August

Voltaire

8 August

Three-Cornered Moon

13 August

Deluge

16 August

The Power and the Glory

17 August

The Private Life of Henry VIII

18 August

Morning Glory

Pilgrimage

25 August

This Day and Age

Turn Back the Clock

29 August

Dinner at Eight

30 August

S.O.S Iceberg (S.O.S. Eisberg) (Germany)

31 August

Bitter Sweet (GB)

September 1933

1 September

Beauty for Sale

One Sunday Afternoon

7 September

Passing Fancy (Dekigokoro) (Japan)

8 September

Penthouse

Torch Singer

13 September

Lady for a Day

15 September

Berkeley Square

16 September

Bureau of Missing Persons

22 September

Doctor Bull

23 September

I Loved a Woman

26 September

Ann Vickers

29 September

The Emperor Jones

October 1933

6 October

I'm No Angel

7 October

Wild Boys of the Road

13 October

Bombshell

The Bowery

Tillie and Gus

21 October

Footlight Parade

26 October

After Tonight

27 October

Man's Castle

28 October

Ever in My Heart

November 1933

1 November

Only Yesterday

10 November

The Prizefighter and the Lady

13 November

The Invisible Man

16 November

Little Women

17 November

Blood Money

Duck Soup

November 20

The Wandering Jew

24 November

Dancing Lady

25 November

The World Changes

December 1933

3 December

Lady Killer

11 December

Counsellor at Law

14 December

Convention City

18 December

By Candlelight

21 December

Flying Down to Rio

22 December

Alice in Wonderland

Going Hollywood

Mr. Skitch

The Son of Kong

23 December

The House on 56th Street

Viktor und Viktoria (Germany)

25 December

Roman Scandals

26 December

Queen Christina

29 December

Design for Living

Sons of the Desert

United States unless stated

42nd Street, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel and Dick Powell

Adorable, directed by William Dieterle, starring Janet Gaynor

After Tonight, directed by George Archainbaud, starring Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland

Alice in Wonderland, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper, W. C. Fields, Cary Grant and Jack Oakie

Ann Vickers, directed by John Cromwell, starring Irene Dunne and Walter Huston

Baby Face, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent

Beauty for Sale, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Madge Evans, Alice Brady and Una Merkel

Bed of Roses, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Constance Bennett and Joel McCrea

A Bedtime Story, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Maurice Chevalier and Helen Twelvetrees

Berkeley Square, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Leslie Howard

Bitter Sweet, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle – (GB)

The Bitter Tea of General Yen, directed by Frank Capra, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther

Blood Money, directed by Rowland Brown, starring George Bancroft

Bombshell, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien and Una Merkel

The Bowery, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper and Fay Wray

Bureau of Missing Persons, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O'Brien and Glenda Farrell

By Candlelight, directed by James Whale

Cash, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Robert Donat – (GB)

Cavalcade, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook

Convention City (lost), directed by Archie Mayo, starring Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell and Mary Astor

Counsellor at Law, directed by William Wyler, starring John Barrymore and Bebe Daniels

Dancing Lady, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone

Daybreak (Tiānmíng), directed by Sun Yu – (China)

Deluge, directed by Felix E. Feist, starring Sidney Blackmer

The Deserter (Dezertir), directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin – (U.S.S.R.)

Design for Living, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins

The Devil's Brother, directed by Hal Roach, starring Laurel and Hardy

Dick Turpin, directed by Victor Hanbury, starring Victor McLaglen – (GB)

Dinner at Eight, directed by George Cukor, starring Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy and Billie Burke

Doctor Bull, directed by John Ford, starring Will Rogers

Don Quixote, directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Feodor Chaliapin – (France/GB)

Dora's Dunking Doughnuts, directed by Harry Edwards, starring Shirley Temple

Dragnet Girl (Hijōsen no Onna), directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Kinuyo Tanaka – (Japan)

Duck Soup, directed by Leo McCarey, starring the Marx Brothers

The Eagle and the Hawk, directed by Stuart Walker, starring Fredric March, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Jack Oakie

Ecstasy (Extase), directed by Gustav Machatý, starring Hedy Lamarr – (Czechoslovakia)

The Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson

Employees' Entrance, starring Warren William and Loretta Young

Ever in My Heart, starring Barbara Stanwyck

Ex-Lady, starring Bette Davis

Fast Workers, starring John Gilbert and Mae Clarke

The Flower of Hawaii (Die Blume von Hawaii), directed by Richard Oswald – (Germany)

Flying Down to Rio, starring Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond. Also starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their first of 10 films together

Footlight Parade, starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler

Friday the Thirteenth, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews – (GB)

Gabriel Over the White House, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Walter Huston, Produced by William Randolph Hearst

Ganga Bruta, directed by Humberto Mauro, starring Durval Bellini and Déa Selva (Brazil)

The Ghoul, starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger – (GB)

The Ghost Camera, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring Ida Lupino, John Mills – (GB)

Going Hollywood, starring Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Patsy Kelly, Fifi D'Orsay and Sterling Holloway

Gold Diggers of 1933, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Warren William

The Good Companions, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn and John Gielgud – (GB)

Goodbye Again, starring Joan Blondell and Warren William

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, starring Al Jolson

Hard to Handle, starring James Cagney

Heroes for Sale, starring Loretta Young and Richard Barthelmess

Hold Your Man, starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable

The House on 56th Street, starring Kay Francis

The House of Dora Green, directed by Henrik Galeen, starring Mady Christians – (Germany)

The Hymn of Leuthen, directed by Carl Froelich – (Germany)

I Loved a Woman (1933), starring Edward G. Robinson and Kay Francis

I'm No Angel, starring Mae West and Cary Grant. West also wrote the story and screenplay.

In the Wake of the Bounty, starring Errol Flynn as Fletcher Christian – (Australia)

International House, starring W. C. Fields, George Burns, Gracie Allen

The Invisible Man, starring Claude Rains in the title role with Gloria Stuart

It's Great to Be Alive, directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Raul Roulien and Gloria Stuart

Każdemu wolno kochać (Anybody Can Love), by Mieczysław Krawicz – (Poland)

The Kennel Murder Case, starring William Powell and Mary Astor, directed by Michael Curtiz

The Keyhole, starring Kay Francis and George Brent, directed by Michael Curtiz

King Kong, starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong

King of the Jungle, starring Buster Crabbe

Ladies They Talk About, starring Barbara Stanwyck

Lady for a Day, directed by Frank Capra, starring Warren William and May Robson

Lady Killer, starring James Cagney

Liebelei, directed by Max Ophüls – (Germany)

Life Is a Dog (Život je pes), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)

Little Toys (Xiáo wǎnyì), directed by Sun Yu – (China)

Little Women, directed by George Cukor, starring Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett

Looking Forward, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Lionel Barrymore

Lot in Sodom, starring Friedrich Haak

Loyalties, starring Basil Rathbone – (GB)

Man's Castle, starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young

The Mayor of Hell, starring James Cagney

Men Must Fight, starring Diana Wynyard

Midnight Club, starring George Raft and Clive Brook

Midnight Mary, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Loretta Young

The Midnight Patrol, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

Money for Speed, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring John Loder and Ida Lupino – (GB)

The Monkey's Paw, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack

Morning Glory, starring Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Mr. Skitch, starring Will Rogers

Mystery of the Wax Museum, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray

Okraina (The Outskirts) – (U.S.S.R.)

Oliver Twist, starring Dickie Moore

One Sunday Afternoon, starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray

Only Yesterday, starring Margaret Sullavan

Our Betters, starring Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland and Anita Louise

Parachute Jumper, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis and Frank McHugh

Passing Fancy (Dekigokoro), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)

Peg o' My Heart, starring Marion Davies, Onslow Stevens and J. Farrell MacDonald

Penthouse, starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy

Perfect Understanding, starring Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier – (GB)

Pick-Up, starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft

Picture Snatcher, starring James Cagney

Pilgrimage, directed by John Ford

The Power and the Glory, starring Spencer Tracy

The Private Life of Henry VIII, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB)

The Prizefighter and the Lady, starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey

Professional Sweetheart, starring Ginger Rogers

Queen Christina, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert

Refugees – (Germany)

Roman Scandals, starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart

S.O.S Iceberg (S.O.S. Eisberg), starring Leni Riefenstahl – (Germany)

Secret of the Blue Room, starring Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart and Lionel Atwill

Secrets, starring Mary Pickford in her last film

She Done Him Wrong, starring Mae West and Cary Grant in his first notable film role

She Had to Say Yes, starring Loretta Young and Lyle Talbot, directed by Busby Berkeley and George Amy

The Son of Kong, starring Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack

Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

A Southern Maid, starring Bebe Daniels and Clifford Mollison – (GB)

Spring Silkworms (Chung Can) – (China)

State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres

Storm at Daybreak, starring Walter Huston and Kay Francis

The Story of Temple Drake, starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue

The Stranger's Return, starring Miriam Hopkins and Lionel Barrymore

A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes film written by Robert Florey, directed by Edwin Marin, starring Reginald Owen as Holmes and Warburton Gamble as Watson

Supernatural, starring Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne and Randolph Scott

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Otto Wernicke – (Germany)

This Day and Age, Cecil B. Demille's now cult-favorite, starring Richard Cromwell and featuring then-teenager: Baby Peggy.

This Is America, the first full-length documentary feature film ever made.[17]

This Week of Grace' directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Gracie Fields – (Britain)

Three-Cornered Moon, starring Claudette Colbert and Richard Arlen

Three Little Pigs, an animated short

Tillie and Gus, starring Alison Skipworth and W. C. Fields

Today We Live, starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper

Tonight Is Ours, starring Fredric March and Claudette Colbert

Topaze, starring John Barrymore and Myrna Loy

Torch Singer, starring Claudette Colbert

Tugboat Annie, starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery

Turn Back the Clock, starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke

The Vampire Bat, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray

Viktor und Viktoria – (Germany)

Voltaire, starring George Arliss

When Ladies Meet, starring Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy

The Wandering Jew, starring Conrad Veidt

What! No Beer?, starring Buster Keaton

The White Rose, directed by Mohammed Karim, starring Mohammed Abdel Wahab – (Egypt)

The World Changes, starring Mary Astor and Paul Muni

Wild Boys of the Road, starring Frankie Darro and Edwin Phillips

The Working Man, starring George Arliss and Bette Davis

You Made Me Love You starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd – (GB)

Zero for Conduct (Zéro de conduite), directed by Jean Vigo – (France)

Clancy of the Mounted

Fighting with Kit Carson

Gordon of Ghost City

The Mystery Squadron

The Perils of Pauline, starring Evalyn Knapp

The Phantom of the Air

The Return of Chandu

Tarzan the Fearless, starring Buster Crabbe

The Three Musketeers, starring Jack Mulhall and John Wayne

The Whispering Shadow, starring Bela Lugosi

The Wolf Dog, starring Rin Tin Tin, Jr.

Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)

Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)

Lupino Lane (1915–1939)

Buster Keaton (1917–1944)

Laurel and Hardy (1921–1945)

Dirty Work

Our Gang (1922–1944)

Harry Langdon (1924–1936)

Wheeler and Woolsey (1929–1937)

Marx Brothers (1929–1946)

Ted Healy and His Stooges (1933–1934)

Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)

Krazy Kat (1925–1940)

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)

Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)

Silly Symphonies

Birds in the Spring

Father Noah's Ark

Three Little Pigs

Old King Cole

Lullaby Land

The Pied Piper

The Night Before Christmas

Screen Songs (1929–1938)

Looney Tunes (1930–1969)

Flip the Frog (1930-1933)

Terrytoons (1930–1964)

Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)

Scrappy (1931–1941)

Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) (1931-1933)

Betty Boop (1932–1939)

Betty Boop's Ker-Choo

Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions

Is My Palm Read?

Betty Boop's Penthouse

Snow White

Betty Boop's Birthday Party

Betty Boop's May Party

Betty Boop's Big Boss

Mother Goose Land

Popeye the Sailor

The Old Man of the Mountain

I Heard

Morning, Noon and Night

Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

Popeye the Sailor (1933–1957)

Pooch the Pup (1932-1933)

Willie Whopper (1933–1934)

ComiColor Cartoons (1933–1936)

Cubby Bear (1933–1934)

The Little King (1933–1934)

January 6 – Mark Forest, American actor and bodybuilder (d. 2022)

January 8 – Jean-Marie Straub, French director (d. 2006)

January 9

Ken Barrie, English voice actor and singer (d. 2016)

Ann Firbank, actress

January 12 – Liliana Cavani, Italian director

January 18 – John Boorman, English director

January 23 – Chita Rivera, American actress, dancer and singer (d. 2024)

January 28 – Jack Hill, American director and screenwriter

February 2 – Tony Jay, English actor, voice actor and singer (d. 2006)

February 3 – Polde Bibič, Slovenian film and stage actor and memoir writer (d. 2012)

February 9 – Ronnie Claire Edwards, American actress (d. 2016)

February 12 – Costa-Gavras, Greek-French director, screenwriter and producer

February 13

Caroline Blakiston, English actress

Patrick Godfrey, English actor

Kim Novak, American actress

February 14 – Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)

February 16 – Ron Faber, American actor (d. 2023)

February 18

Yoko Ono, Japanese multimedia artist, singer and songwriter

Željko Senečić, Croatian film, television production designer (d. 2018)

Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975)

March 2 – Ziva Rodann, Israeli-American actress and mime artist

March 3

John Dair, Scottish actor (d. 2005)

Tomas Milian, Cuban actor and singer (d. 2017)

March 7 - Donald Douglas, Scottish actor

March 11 – Sandra Milo, Italian actress (d. 2024)

March 12 – Barbara Feldon, American actress

March 13 - Gloria McMillan, American actress (d. 2022)

March 14 – Michael Caine, English actor

March 19

Renée Taylor, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director

Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator (d. 2019)

March 22 – Richard Easton, Canadian actor (d. 2019)

March 23 – Laura Soveral, Portuguese actress (d. 2018)

March 24 - William Smith, American actor (d. 2021)

April 2 - Joseph Rigano, American character actor (d. 2014)

April 5 – Frank Gorshin, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)

April 9 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (d. 2021)

April 14 – Shani Wallis, British actress and singer

April 15 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)

April 16 – Ric Mancini, American actor (d. 2006)

April 19 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)

April 20 – George R. Robertson, Canadian actor (d. 2023)

April 22 – Mark Damon, American actor and producer (d. 2024)

April 26 – Carol Burnett, American actress, television host and comedian

April 29 – Willie Nelson, American musician and actor

May 10 – Francoise Fabian, French actress

May 14 - Siân Phillips, Welsh actress

May 20 – Constance Towers, American actress and singer

May 21 – Richard Libertini, American actor (d. 2016)

May 23 – Joan Collins, English actress

May 28 - Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (d. 2010)

June 1 - Antony Ponzini, American actor (d. 2002)

June 8 - Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, producer, writer and television host (d. 2014)

June 9 - Mario Donatone, Italian actor (d. 2020)

June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016)

June 20

Danny Aiello, American actor (d. 2019)

Brett Halsey, American actor

June 21 – Bernie Kopell, American character actor

July 6 - Sajjad Kishwar, Pakistani actor (d. 2022)

July 12 - Max Julien, American actor (d. 2022)

July 13 - Theresa Amayo, Brazilian actress (d. 2022)

July 24 – John Aniston, Greek-born American actor (d. 2022)

July 25 - Ken Swofford, American actor (d. 2018)

July 26

Kathryn Hays, American actress (d. 2022)

Chino 'Fats' Williams, American actor (d. 2000)

July 29

Lou Albano, Italian-born American professional wrestler and actor (d. 2009)

Robert Fuller, American retired actor

August 1 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (d. 2009)

August 2 – Tom Bell, English actor (d. 2006)

August 10 - Lynn Cohen, American actress (d. 2020)

August 13 - Vyjayanthimala, Indian former actress

August 16 – Julie Newmar, American actress, dancer and singer

August 18 – Roman Polanski, Polish director

August 19 – Debra Paget, American actress and entertainer

August 21 – Barry Norman, English critic (d. 2017)

August 25 – Tom Skerritt, American actor

August 28 – Philip French, English critic (d. 2015)

September 4 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (d. 1988)

September 14 - Zoe Caldwell, Australian-born actress (d. 2020)

September 15 - Henry Darrow, American character actor (d. 2021)

September 17 – Pat Crowley, American actress

September 18

Robert Blake, American actor (d. 2023)

Fred Willard, American actor (d. 2020)

September 19 – David McCallum, British-American actor and musician (d. 2023)

September 22 - Robert Banas, American actor and dancer (d. 2024)

September 27 - Kathleen Nolan, American actress

September 28 – Robert Hogan, American actor (d. 2021)

September 29

Franca Parisi, Italian actress

James Villiers, English character actor (d. 1998)

September 30

Ben Cooper, American actor (d. 2020)

Barbara Knox, English actress

October 24

J. J. Johnston, American actor and writer (d. 2022)

Enzo Robutti, Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, playwright and writer (d. 2022)

October 25 - Peter Dennis, English actor (d. 2009)

November 3 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)

November 9 - Louise Troy, American actress (d. 1994)

November 13 - Karl-Otto Alberty, German actor (d. 2015)

November 17 – Terry, American performing Cairn Terrier (d. 1945)

November 19 - Larry King, American television and radio host (d. 2021)

November 21 - J. Don Ferguson, American character actor (d. 2008)

November 25 – Kathryn Crosby, American actress

November 26 - Robert Goulet, American-Canadian actor and singer (d. 2007)

November 28 – Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)

November 30 – Warren Munson, American actor

December 3 - Rosalind Knight, English actress (d. 2020)

December 4 – Wink Martindale, American radio personality, game show host and producer

December 5 - Adolph Caesar, American actor (d. 1986)

December 8 - Ana Ofelia Murguía, Mexican actress (d. 2023)

December 10 - Mako, Japanese-American actor (d. 2006)

December 13 – Lou Adler, American producer

December 15 – Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)

December 22 - Elizabeth Hubbard, American actress (d. 2023)

December 26 - Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer (d. 2019)

December 31 - Edward Bunker, American actor (d. 2005)

January 3 – Jack Pickford, Canadian-born American actor and director (born 1896)

January 25 – Lewis J. Selznick, Ukrainian-born American producer (born 1870)

February 15 – Pat Sullivan, Australian-born American director/producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat (born 1885/87)

February 23 – David Horsley, English-born American film executive (born 1873)

February 26 – Spottiswoode Aitken, American actor (born 1868)

March 8 – Alan Roscoe, American actor (born 1886)

March 23 – Francine Mussey, French actress (born 1897)

May 15 – Ernest Torrence, Scottish actor (born 1878)

June 18 – Harry Sweet, American actor and director (born 1901)

June 29 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor (born 1887)

June 30 – Georg Blomstedt, Swedish actor (born 1872)

August 18 – James Williamson, Scottish film developer and film director (born 1855)

August 28 – Helen Dunbar, American actress (born 1863)

September 23 – Sime Silverman, 60, American newspaper publisher, founder of Variety

September 24 – Ferdinand Bonn, German actor (born 1861)

October 5 – Renée Adorée, French actress (born 1898)

October 30 – Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (born 1869)

December 19 – Jimmie Adams, American comedian (born 1888)