1936 in film - WikiHQ

The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The highest grossing international film of the year was San Francisco, earning more than $5 million worldwide.

Events

January 9 – Silent screen actor John Gilbert, perhaps best known for his appearances in films such as The Merry Widow and The Big Parade, dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Bel Air home, aged 38.
February 15 – The first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, is released.
May 29 – Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, Fury, starring Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, and Bruce Cabot, is released.
September 14 – Film producer Irving Thalberg, often referred by many as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood", dies from pneumonia at his home in Santa Monica, aged 37.

Academy Awards

Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Director: Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Best Actor: Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur
Best Actress: Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan – Come and Get It
Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;"

|+ Highest-grossing films of 1936

! Rank !! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals

! style="text-align:center;"| 1

| The Great Ziegfeld

| rowspan="2"|MGM

| $3,089,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 2

| San Francisco

| $2,868,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 3

| The Plainsman

|Paramount

| $2,278,533

! style="text-align:center;"| 4

| After the Thin Man

| MGM

| $1,992,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 6

| Anthony Adverse

| Warner Bros.

| $1,783,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 7

| Strike Me Pink

| United Artists

| $1,700,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 10

| Libeled Lady

| MGM

| $1,601,000

{|class="wikitable"

!Rank

!Actor/Actress

|1.

|Shirley Temple

|2.

|Clark Gable

|3.

|Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

|4.

|Robert Taylor

|5.

|Joe E. Brown

|6.

|Dick Powell

|7.

|Joan Crawford

|8.

|Claudette Colbert

|9.

|Jeanette MacDonald

|10.

|Gary Cooper

Top Western stars

A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.

{|class="wikitable"

!Rank

!Actor/Actress

|1.

|Buck Jones

|2.

|George O'Brien

|3.

|Gene Autry

|4.

|William Boyd

|5.

|Ken Maynard

|6.

|Dick Foran

|7.

|John Wayne

|8.

|Tim McCoy

|9.

|Hoot Gibson

|10.

|Buster Crabbe

Notable films

United States unless stated.

0–9

13 Hours by Air, directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett and ZaSu Pitts
15 Maiden Lane, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero

A

Accused, directed by Thornton Freeland, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Dolores del Río – (GB)
Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden), directed by Franz Osten, starring Ashok Kumar and Devika Rani – (India)
After the Thin Man, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart
Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch), directed by Fernando de Fuentes, starring Tito Guízar and Esther Fernández – (Mexico)
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, directed by Alfred Zeisler, starring Cary Grant and Mary Brian – (GB)
Anthony Adverse, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, and Gale Sondergaard
Anything Goes, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman and Ida Lupino
Augustus the Strong (August der Starke), directed by Paul Wegener, starring Michael Bohnen – (Germany/Poland)

B

Black Eyes (Cheshmhay-e Siah), directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta – (Iran)
Blood on Wolf Mountain (Láng shān dié xuě jì), directed by Fei Mu, starring Li Lili – (China)
The Bohemian Girl, directed by James W. Horne and Charley Rogers, starring Laurel and Hardy
The Bold Caballero, directed by Wells Root, starring Robert Livingston
Born to Dance, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Eleanor Powell, James Stewart and Una Merkel
Broken Blossoms, directed by John Brahm, starring Dolly Haas and Emlyn Williams – (GB)
Bullets or Ballots, directed by William Keighley, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart
By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya), directed by Boris Barnet – (USSR)

C

Cain and Mabel, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (Velbloud uchem jehly), directed by and starring Hugo Haas – (Czechoslovakia)
Camille, directed by George Cukor, starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor and Lionel Barrymore
Captain January, directed by David Butler, starring Shirley Temple
The Case Against Mrs. Ames, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Madeleine Carroll and George Brent
Ceiling Zero, directed by Howard Hawks, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
César, directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Raimu – (France)
The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
Charlie Chan at the Opera, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff
The Children of Captain Grant (Deti kapitana Granta), directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok – (USSR)
Circus (Tsirk), directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, starring Lyubov Orlova – (USSR)
Collegiate, directed by Ralph Murphy, starring Jack Oakie, Frances Langford and Betty Grable
Come and Get It, directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, and Walter Brennan
Craig's Wife, directed by Dorothy Arzner, starring Rosalind Russell and John Boles
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange), directed by Jean Renoir, starring René Lefèvre – (France)
Crime Over London, directed by Alfred Zeisler, starring Margot Grahame and Paul Cavanagh – (GB)

D

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Daniel Boone, directed by David Howard, starring George O'Brien
The Desert Island (Lang tao sha), directed by Wu Yonggang – (China)
Desire, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
Devdas, directed by Pramathesh Barua, starring K. L. Saigal – (India)
The Devil Doll, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan
Dimples, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Shirley Temple and Frank Morgan
Dodsworth, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor and David Niven
Dracula's Daughter, directed by Lambert Hillyer, starring Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden
Dusty Ermine, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring Anthony Bushell and Jane Baxter – (GB)

E

East Meets West, directed by Herbert Mason, starring George Arliss – (GB)
Empty Saddles, directed by Lesley Selander, starring Buck Jones and Louise Brooks
Everything Is Thunder, directed by Milton Rosmer, starring Constance Bennett – (GB)

F

Follow the Fleet, directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Randolph Scott
Forget Me Not, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner – (GB)
The Four Musketeers (I quattro moschettieri), directed by Carlo Campogalliani – (Italy)
Fury, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, and Bruce Cabot

G

The Garden of Allah, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer
The General Died at Dawn, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll
General Spanky, directed by Fred Newmeyer and Gordon Douglas, starring Spanky McFarland
Girl Friends (Podrugi), directed by Lev Arnshtam, starring Zoya Fyodorova – (USSR)
Go West, Young Man, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Mae West, Warren William and Randolph Scott
Gold Diggers of 1937, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell
The Gorgeous Hussy, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas and James Stewart
The Great Ziegfeld, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer and Frank Morgan
Green Pastures, directed by Marc Connelly and William Keighley, starring Rex Ingram and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

H

Hearts Divided, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell
Hearts in Bondage, directed by Lew Ayres, starring James Dunn, David Manners and Mae Clarke
Home Guardsman Bruggler (Standschütze Bruggler), directed by Werner Klingler – (Germany)
Hopalong Cassidy Returns, directed by Nate Watt, starring William Boyd

I

Intermezzo, directed by Gustaf Molander, starring Gösta Ekman and Ingrid Bergman – (Sweden)
The Invisible Ray, directed by Lambert Hillyer, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
It Had to Happen, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell
It's Love Again, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews and Robert Young – (GB)

J

The Jungle Princess, directed by Wilhelm Thiele, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland

K

Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California), directed by and starring Luis Trenker – (Germany)
Klondike Annie, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Mae West and Victor McLaglen

L

Laburnum Grove, directed by Carol Reed, starring Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
The Last of the Mohicans, directed by George B. Seitz, starring Randolph Scott
The Last Outlaw, directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Harry Carey and Hoot Gibson
The Lawless Nineties, directed by Joseph Kane, starring John Wayne
Legion of Terror, directed by Charles C. Coleman, starring Bruce Cabot
Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa), directed by Fernando de Fuentes – (Mexico)
Libeled Lady, directed by Jack Conway, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy
Limelight, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle – (GB)
Little Lord Fauntleroy, directed by John Cromwell, starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello
Lloyd's of London, directed by Henry King, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll and Tyrone Power
Love Before Breakfast, directed by Walter Lang, starring Carole Lombard, Preston Foster and Cesar Romero
Love in Exile, directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Clive Brook and Helen Vinson – (GB)
Love on the Run, directed by W. S. Van Dyke. starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone
The Lower Depths (Les Bas-fonds), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin – (France)

M

The Man Who Changed His Mind, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Boris Karloff – (GB)
Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux – (France)
Men Are Not Gods, directed by Walter Reisch, starring Miriam Hopkins and Gertrude Lawrence – (GB)
A Message to Garcia, directed by George Marshall, starring Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck and John Boles
The Milky Way, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Harold Lloyd and Adolphe Menjou
Modern Times, a Charlie Chaplin film, with Paulette Goddard
The Moon's Our Home, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda and Walter Brennan
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard

N

Next Time We Love, directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Ray Milland
Night Mail, documentary directed by Harry Watt and Basil Wright – (GB)

O

The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejī), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, starring Isuzu Yamada – (Japan)
Our Relations, directed by Harry Lachman, starring Laurel and Hardy

P

Palm Springs, directed by Aubrey Scotto, starring Frances Langford, Guy Standing and David Niven
Paradise Road (Ulička v ráji), directed by Martin Frič, starring Hugo Haas – (Czechoslovakia)
Pennies from Heaven, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Bing Crosby, Madge Evans and Louis Armstrong
The Petrified Forest, directed by Archie Mayo, starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart
Pigskin Parade, starring Stuart Erwin
The Plainsman, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur and Charles Bickford
Poor Little Rich Girl, directed by Irving Cummings, starring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye and Gloria Stuart
Poppy, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring W. C. Fields
The Prisoner of Shark Island, directed by John Ford, starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart
Private Number, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Loretta Young, Robert Taylor and Basil Rathbone

R

Ramona, directed by Henry King, starring Loretta Young and Don Ameche
Rebellion, directed by Lynn Shores, starring Tom Keene and Rita Hayworth
Red River Valley, directed by B. Reeves Eason, starring Gene Autry
Redes, directed by Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico)
Reefer Madness, directed by Louis J. Gasnier
Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB)
Road Gang, directed by Louis King, starring Donald Woods
The Road to Glory, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore
Romeo and Juliet, directed by George Cukor, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone
Rose Marie, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

S

Sabotage, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka – (GB)
San Francisco, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy
Satan Met a Lady, directed by William Dieterle, starring Bette Davis and Warren William
Secret Agent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud and Robert Young – (GB)
Show Boat, directed by James Whale, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones and Paul Robeson
Silly Billies, directed by Fred Guiol, starring Wheeler & Woolsey
The Singing Kid, directed by William Keighley, starring Al Jolson
Sisters of the Gion (Gion no kyōdai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan)
Small Town Girl, directed by William Wellman, starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Lewis Stone and James Stewart
Son of Mongolia (Syn Mongolii), directed by Ilya Trauberg – (Mongolia)
Sportszerelem (Love of Sport), directed by László Kardos – (Hungary)
Spy of Napoleon, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas – (GB)
The Story of Louis Pasteur, directed by William Dieterle, starring Paul Muni
Stowaway, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young and Alice Faye
Strike Me Pink, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman
Sutter's Gold, directed by James Cruze, starring Edward Arnold
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by George King, starring Tod Slaughter – (GB)
Swing Time, directed by George Stevens, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

T

Tarzan Escapes, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan
The Texas Rangers, directed by King Vidor, starring Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie and Jean Parker
Theodora Goes Wild, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas
These Three, directed by William Wyler, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea
Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
Three Godfathers, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone and Walter Brennan
Till We Meet Again, directed by Robert Florey, starring Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael
Too Many Parents, directed by Robert F. McGowan, starring Frances Farmer
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda
Tudor Rose, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam and John Mills – (GB)

V-W

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, starring Gladys George
The Walking Dead, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez and Edmund Gwenn
Where There's a Will, directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay and Graham Moffatt – (GB)
Whom the Gods Love, directed by Basil Dean, starring Stephen Haggard – (GB)
Wife vs. Secretary, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and James Stewart
Windbag the Sailor, directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt – (GB)
A Woman Rebels, directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Katharine Hepburn and Herbert Marshall

Y

Yiddle with his Fiddle (Yidl Mitn Fidl), directed by Joseph Green, starring Molly Picon – (Poland)

1936 film releases

United States unless stated.

January–March

January 1936
16 January
Ceiling Zero
Strike Me Pink
17 January
Augustus the Strong (Germany/Poland)
20 January
The Invisible Ray
22 January
Collegiate
24 January
Anything Goes
28 January
Rose Marie
30 January
Next Time We Love
February 1936
6 February
The Petrified Forest
7 February
The Milky Way
14 February
The Bohemian Girl
It Had to Happen
15 February
The Lawless Nineties
19 February
Girl Friends (U.S.S.R.)
20 February
Follow the Fleet
Things to Come (GB)
22 February
The Story of Louis Pasteur
25 February
Modern Times
28 February
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Wife vs. Secretary
29 February
Mayerling (France)
The Walking Dead
March 1936
1 March
Sutter's Gold
2 March
Man of the Frontier
6 March
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Three Godfathers
9 March
Love Before Breakfast
13 March
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
18 March
These Three
20 March
Silly Billies
22 March
The Great Ziegfeld
28 March
Road Gang
30 March
Too Many Parents

April–June

April 1936
4 April
Till We Meet Again
10 April
A Message to Garcia
The Moon's Our Home
Small Town Girl
11 April
Desire
The Singing Kid
16 April
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
20 April
By the Bluest of Seas (U.S.S.R.)
24 April
Captain January
30 April
Thirteen Hours by Air
May 1936
6 May
It's Love Again (GB)
8 May
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
11 May
Dracula's Daughter
17 May
Show Boat
19 May
Love in Exile (GB)
20 May
Broken Blossoms (GB)
26 May
Hearts in Bondage
28 May
Osaka Elegy (Japan)
29 May
Fury
June 1936
5 June
Private Number
Fury
6 June
Bullets or Ballots
14 June
The Last Outlaw
15 June
Secret Agent (GB)
17 June
Poppy
20 June
Hearts Divided
26 June
San Francisco

July–September

July 1936
10 July
The Devil-Doll
16 July
Green Pastures
22 July
Satan Met a Lady
24 July
Poor Little Rich Girl
28 July
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (GB)
29 July
Anthony Adverse
August 1936
10 August
Where There's a Will (GB)
20 August
Romeo and Juliet
26 August
East Meets West (UK)
27 August
Swing Time
28 August
The Gorgeous Hussy
Militiaman Bruggler (Germany)
The Texas Rangers
September 1936
1 September
Tudor Rose
2 September
The General Died at Dawn
4 September
The Last of the Mohicans
The Road to Glory
6 September
My Man Godfrey
9 September
Spy of Napoleon (GB)
10 September
Dusty Ermine (UK)
11 September
The Man Who Changed His Mind (GB)
15 September
The Children of Captain Grant
23 September
Dodsworth
25 September
Craig's Wife
Ramona
26 September
Cain and Mabel
30 September
Yiddle with his Fiddle (Poland/U.S.)

October–December

October 1936
1 October
Everything Is Thunder (UK)
6 October
Allá en el Rancho Grande (Mexico)
9 October
Libeled Lady
15 October
The Garden of Allah
Sisters of the Gion (Japan)
16 October
15 Maiden Lane
Daniel Boone
Dimples
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
20 October
The Charge of the Light Brigade
22 October
Crime Over London (GB)
27 October
César (France)
Rebellion
30 October
Our Relations
November 1936
1 November
Legion of Terror
6 November
Come and Get It
Rembrandt (GB)
Tarzan Escapes
A Woman Rebels
12 November
Theodora Goes Wild
13 November
Go West, Young Man
16 November
Intermezzo (Sweden)
Laburnum Grove (GB)
The Plainsman
20 November
Love on the Run
25 November
Lloyd's of London
Pennies from Heaven
26 November
Men Are Not Gods (GB)
27 November
Born to Dance
December 1936
1 December
The Bold Caballero
2 December
Sabotage (GB)
11 December
General Spanky
Les bas-fonds (France)
12 December
Camille
20 December
Empty Saddles
21 December
Forget Me Not (UK)
24 December
The Jungle Princess
25 December
After the Thin Man
Stowaway
26 December
Gold Diggers of 1937
31 December
Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Mexico)

Serials

Ace Drummond, starring John (Dusty) King
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
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The Clutching Hand
Custer's Last Stand
Darkest Africa, starring Clyde Beatty
Flash Gordon, starring Buster Crabbe
The Phantom Rider
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, starring Ray Mala
Shadow of Chinatown
Undersea Kingdom, starring Ray Corrigan
The Vigilantes Are Coming

Comedy film series

Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
Buster Keaton (1917–1928)
Laurel and Hardy (1927–1940)
Our Gang (1922–1944)
Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
Wheeler & Woolsey (1929–1937)
The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Animated short film series

Felix the Cat (1919-1936)
Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
Silly Symphonies
Elmer Elephant
Three Little Wolves
Toby Tortoise Returns
Three Blind Mousketeers
The Country Cousin
Mother Pluto
More Kittens
Screen Songs (1929–1938)
Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Terrytoons (1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
Scrappy (1931–1941)
Betty Boop (1932–1939)
Popeye (1933–1957)
ComiColor Cartoons (1933-1936)
Happy Harmonies (1934–1938)
Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
Rainbow Parades (1935-1936)
Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936–1937)

Births

January 9 – K Callan, American author and actress
January 18 – Tim Barlow, English actor (d. 2023)
January 22 – Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001)
January 27 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
January 28 – Alan Alda, American actor
February 3 – Jeanine Basinger, American film historian
February 4 – Gary Conway, American actor and screenwriter
February 11 – Burt Reynolds, American actor (d. 2018)
February 12
Joe Don Baker, American actor (d. 2025)
Paul Shenar, American actor (d. 1989)
February 14
Joan O'Brien, American actor, singer (d. 2025)
Andrew Prine, American actor (d. 2022)
February 17 – Jim Brown, American actor (d. 2023)
February 29 – Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
March 1 – Georgina Spelvin, born Shelley Graham, American pornographic film actress
March 5 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)
March 8 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress
March 9 – Marty Ingels, American actor, comedian, comedy sketch writer and theatrical agent (d. 2015)
March 19 – Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
March 23 – Luisa Mattioli, Italian actress (d. 2021)
April 9 – Avery Schreiber, American actor and comedian (d. 2002)
April 12 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
April 19 – Andy Romano, American actor (d. 2022)
May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French director (d. 2006)
May 4 – Eleanor Coppola, American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer (d. 2024)
May 9
Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (d. 2023)
May 12 – Millie Perkins, American former actress
May 14 – Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, actor (d. 1973)
May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and performance artist (d. 2010)
May 20 – Anthony Zerbe, American actor
May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor (d. 2023)
May 27 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor (d. 2024)
May 28 – John Wilder, American producer, writer and former actor
May 30 – Keir Dullea, American actor
June 3 – Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021)
June 4 – Bruce Dern, American actor
June 8 – James Darren, American actor, director and singer (d. 2024)
June 19 - Takeshi Aono, Japanese voice actor and narrator (d. 2012)
June 22 – Kris Kristofferson, American actor, musician and songwriter (d. 2024)
June 24
Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director (d. 2021)
Paul L. Smith, American-Israeli actor and director (d. 2012)
June 27 – Shirley Anne Field, English actress (d. 2023)
July 1 – Ron Masak, American actor (d. 2022)
July 5 – Shirley Knight, American actress (d. 2020)
July 8 - William Cort, American actor (d. 1993)
July 9
Dick Richards, American director, producer and screenwriter
Richard Wilson, Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster
July 24
Ruth Buzzi, American actress, comedian and singer (d. 2025)
Mark Goddard, American actor (d. 2023)
July 25 - August Schellenberg, Canadian actor (d. 2013)
August 5 - John Saxon, American actor (d. 2020)
August 15 - Pat Priest, American actress
August 16 - Anita Gillette, American actress
August 17 – Floyd Westerman, American musician, political activist and actor (d. 2007)
August 18 – Robert Redford, American actor and director (d. 2025)
August 20
Míriam Colón, Puerto Rican actress (d. 2017)
Philip Voss, British actor (d. 2020)
August 25 – Hugh Hudson, English director (d. 2023)
September 7 – Bruce Gray, Canadian actor (d. 2017)
September 11 - Charles Dierkop, American actor (d. 2024)
September 14 - Walter Koenig, American actor and screenwriter
September 19 - Anna Karen, British-South African actress (d. 2022)
September 20
Andrew Davies, Welsh writer
Pepper Martin, Canadian-American actor (d. 2022)
September 21 - Burr DeBenning, American actor (d. 2003)
September 24 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer, animator, actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
October 8 - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (d. 2022)
October 9 – Brian Blessed, English actor
October 16
Peter Bowles, English actor (d. 2022)
Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)
October 19 - Tony Lo Bianco, Italian-American actor (d. 2024)
October 23 - Philip Kaufman, American director and screenwriter
October 24 – David Nelson, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011)
October 26 - Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. 2019)
October 28 - Joe Spinell, American actor (d. 1989)
November 4 - Jan Tříska, Czech actor (d. 2017)
November 9 – Teddy Infuhr, American child actor (d. 2007)
November 19 - Dick Cavett, American television personality, comedian and former talk show host
November 25 - Matt Clark, American actor (d. 2026)
November 27 – Joel Barcellos, Brazilian actor (d. 2018)
December 1 - Melissa Jaffer, Australian actress
December 3
Mary Alice, American actress (d. 2022)
Sir Horace Ové, Trinidadian-born British filmmaker (d. 2023)
December 5 - John Erwin, American voice actor (d. 2024)
December 6 - David Ossman, American writer and comedian
December 8 – David Carradine, American actor and martial artist (d. 2009)
December 10 – Howard Smith, American journalist, director and producer (d. 2014)
December 13 - Cliff Emmich, American actor (d. 2022)
December 18 - Gary Gray, American child actor (d. 2006)
December 22 – Hector Elizondo, American actor
December 23
Frederic Forrest, American actor (d. 2023)
James Stacy, American actor (d. 2016)
December 25 – Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017)

Deaths

January 9
John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1897)
Frank Rice, American actor (b. 1892)
January 24 – Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873)
February 7 – O. P. Heggie, Australian actor (b. 1877)
February 17 – Alexander Pantages, Film producer and theater owner (b. 1867)
February 20 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
February 28 – Justus Hagman, Swedish actor (b. 1859)
April 6
Edmund Breese, American actor (b. 1871)
Väinö Lehmus, Finnish actor (b. 1886)
April 7 – Marilyn Miller, American actress (b. 1898)
April 21 – Alexandra Carlisle, English actress (b. 1886)
April 26 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
May 17 – Sir Philip Ben Greet, British actor (b. 1857)
May 29 – Norman Chaney, American actor (b. 1914)
June 7 - Jobyna Howland, American actress (b. 1880)
June 17 – Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1878)
July 8 - Thomas Meighan, American actor (b. 1879)
July 11 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
July 16 - Alan Crosland, American actor and director (b. 1894)
July 17 - Stephen Roberts, American director (b. 1894)
August 15 - John B. O'Brien, American actor and director (b. 1884)
September 14 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
September 20 – Edward Salisbury Field, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1878)
October 5 – Bernard Granville, American actor (b. 1888)
October 10 - William H. Tooker, American actor (b. 1869)
October 17 – Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (b. 1889)
October 30
Hugh Buckler, British actor (b. 1881)
John Buckler, British actor (b. 1906)
November 2 – Laird Doyle, American screenwriter (b. 1907)
November 7 – Sam Livesey, Welsh actor (b. 1873)
November 18 – Fay Webb, American actress (b. 1907)
November 27 – Chester A. Lyons, American cinematographer (b. 1885)
December 8 – David Freedman, American writer (b. 1898)
December 9 – Lottie Pickford, American actress (b. 1893)
December 24 – Irene Fenwick, American actress (b. 1887)

Film debuts

Notes

External links

List of 1936 films at IMDb
List of 1936 deaths at IMDb
List of 1936 births at IMDb