1947 in film

The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.

Events

February 23 – Ealing Studios release the film Hue and Cry, regarded as the first of the UK's famous Ealing Comedies.
April 19 – Monogram Pictures release their first film under their Allied Artists banner, It Happened on Fifth Avenue.
May 22 – Great Expectations is premiered in New York.
August 31 – The first Edinburgh International Film Festival opens at the Playhouse Cinema, presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild as part of the Edinburgh Festival of the Arts. Originally specialising in documentaries, it will become the world's oldest continually running film festival.
November 24 – The United States House of Representatives of the 80th Congress votes 346 to 17 to approve citations for contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten".
November 25 – The Waldorf Statement is released by the executives of the United States motion picture industry, marking the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist.

Awards

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| Best Film || colspan="2" | Gentleman's Agreement

| Best Director || colspan="2" | Elia Kazan Gentleman's Agreement

| Best Actor || colspan="2" | Ronald Colman A Double Life

| Best Actress || Rosalind Russell Mourning Becomes Electra || Loretta Young The Farmer's Daughter

| Best Supporting Actor || colspan="2" | Edmund Gwenn Miracle on 34th Street

| Best Supporting Actress || colspan="2" | Celeste Holm Gentleman's Agreement

| Best Screenplay, Adapted || rowspan="2" | George Seaton Miracle on 34th Street || George Seaton Miracle on 34th Street

| Best Screenplay, Original || Sidney Sheldon The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1947 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

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|+ Highest-grossing films of 1947

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

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

| Welcome Stranger

| Paramount

| $6,100,000

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

|The Egg and I

| Universal

| $5,500,000

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

|Forever Amber

| 20th Century Fox

| $5,000,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 8

|The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

| RKO

| $4,200,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 9

|Mother Wore Tights

| 20th Century Fox

| $4,100,000

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

| Cass Timberlane

| MGM

| $3,983,000

January 10 – Mario Ernesto Sánchez, Cuban-American actor (d. 2025)
January 11
William Caskey Swaim, American actor
Vinny Vella, American actor, talk show host and comedian (d. 2019)
January 15 – Andrea Martin, Canadian-American actress
January 17
Joanna David, English actress
Jane Elliot, American actress
Peter Werner, American director (d. 2023)
January 18 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese writer-director, actor, comedian, author and video game creator
January 23 – Joel Douglas, American producer
January 26 – Richard Portnow, American actor
January 27 – Peter Burroughs, British actor
January 29 – Ernie Lively, American actor and acting coach (d. 2021)
January 31
Jonathan Banks, American actor
Glynn Turman, American actor, writer, director and producer
February 2 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009)
February 3
Paul Auster, American novelist, screenwriter and director (d. 2024)
Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor
Tonea Stewart, American actress
February 5 – David Ladd, American producer, actor
February 7 – Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (d. 2009)
February 11 – Brian Capron, English actor
February 24 – Edward James Olmos, American actor
February 28 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress
March 1 – Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor (d. 2016)
March 4 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor (d. 2015)
March 6
Martin Kove, American actor and martial artist
Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, producer and director (d. 2025)
March 9 – Frank Grimes, Irish actor (d. 2025)
March 10 – Colin Stinton, Canadian actor
March 12 – Rupert Frazer, British actor
March 18
Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
Aleksander Krupa, Polish actor
Nicholas Le Prevost, English actor
March 19
Glenn Close, American actress
Dermot Crowley, Irish stage, film and television actor
March 20 – Anthony Peck, American actor (d. 1996)
March 22 – Tony Pope, American voice actor (d. 2004)
March 23
Terry Alexander, American actor
Kim Hee-ra, South Korean movie actor
March 25 – Elton John, English singer and songwriter
March 26 – John Morton, American movie actor, stuntman and writer
March 27 – Chick Vennera, American actor (d. 2021)
April 2
Sam Anderson, American actor
Ezra Dagan, Israeli actor
April 6 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
April 11
Peter Riegert, American actor, director and screenwriter
Meshach Taylor, American actor (d. 2014)
April 12 – Dan Lauria, American actor
April 15 – Lois Chiles, American actress
April 17 – Charles Frank, American actor
April 18
Cindy Pickett, American actress
James Woods, American actor
April 19 – Gillian Jones, Australian actress
April 25
Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
April 26 – Ron McLarty, American actor and playwright (d. 2020)
April 30 – Elizabeth Hawthorne, New Zealand actress
May 2 - Nirut Sirijanya, Thai actor
May 4 – Richard Jenkins, American actor
May 6 – Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
May 8
Jamie Donnelly, American actress
Katia Tchenko, French actress
May 9 – Anthony Higgins, English actor
May 13 – Charles Gordon, American producer (d. 2020)
May 14 – Hans Strydom, South African actor and writer
May 16 – Bill Smitrovich, American actor
May 18 – Hugh Keays-Byrne, British-Australian actor and director (d. 2020)
May 25 – Jacki Weaver, Australian actress
May 31 – Steven Kampmann, American actor, writer and director
June 1 – Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
June 6 – Robert Englund, American actor
June 10 – Fred Asparagus, American comedian and actor (d. 1998)
June 11 - Ken Bones, English actor
June 18 – Hanns Zischler, German actor
June 19 – Youn Yuh-jung, South-Korean actress
June 20 – Candy Clark, American actress
June 21
Michael Gross, American actor
Lex van Delden, Dutch actor and singer (d. 2010)
June 22 – David Lander, American character actor, comedian, musician and baseball scout (d. 2020)
June 23
Bryan Brown, Australian actor
Kerry Rossall, American stunt coordinator, stuntman, actor and producer
June 24 – Peter Weller, American actor
June 25 – Jimmie Walker, American actor and comedian
June 29 - Richard Lewis, American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (d. 2024)
June 30 – Tõnis Rätsep, Estonian actor
July 2
Larry David, American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer
Stephen Stucker, American actor (d. 1986)
July 6 – Richard Beckinsale, English actor (d. 1979)
July 9 – O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor (d. 2024)
July 19 - Rikiya Yasuoka, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
July 22
Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian and director
J. Kenneth Campbell, American actor
July 23 - Mohan Agashe, Indian actor
July 24 – Robert Hays, American actor
July 29 – Dennis Cleveland Stewart, American actor and dancer (d. 1994)
July 30
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and 38th Governor of California
William Atherton, American actor
July 31 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (d. 2013)
August 3 – John Wesley, American actor (d. 2019)
August 5 – Angry Anderson, Australian singer-songwriter, television personality and actor
August 6 - Oliver Tobias, English actor
August 8 - George Costigan, English actor
August 15 – Jenny Hanley, English actress
August 17 - Jennifer Rhodes, American actress
August 19 – Gerald McRaney, American actor
August 20 – Ray Wise, American actor
August 22 – Cindy Williams, American actress (d. 2023)
August 24 – Anne Archer, American actress
August 27 – Barbara Bach, American actress
August 28 - Alice Playten, American actress (d. 2011)
August 31 – Mona Marshall, American voice actress
September 4 - David St. James, American character actor and comedian
September 6
Jane Curtin, American actress and comedian
Keone Young, American actor and voice actor
September 7 – David McGillivray, British screenwriter
September 12 – Bjørn Floberg, Norwegian actor
September 14 – Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
September 15 – Sandra Prinsloo, South African actress
September 21 – Stephen King, American author
September 23
Caroline Lagerfelt, French-born American actress
Mary Kay Place, American actress
September 24 – R. H. Thomson, Canadian actor
September 27
Denis Lawson, Scottish actor and director
Meat Loaf, American singer and actor (d. 2022)
September 29 – Martin Ferrero, American actor
October 1
Stephen Collins, American actor
Richard E. Council, American actor
October 7 - Jill Larson, American actress
October 13 – Susan Blommaert, American actress
October 16 – David Zucker, American director, producer and screenwriter
October 17
Simi Garewal, Indian actress and talk show host
Rajendra Gupta, Indian actor and director
Michael McKean, American actor and comedian
October 18 – Joe Morton, American actor
October 23
Miles Anderson, British actor
Frank DiLeo, American actor (d. 2011)
October 24 – Kevin Kline, American actor
October 26 – Ene Järvis, Estonian actress (d. 2025)
October 27 - Angus MacInnes, Canadian actor (d. 2024)
October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
November 7 - Holmes Osborne, American character actor
November 9 - Robert David Hall, American actor
November 11 - Roberto Nobile, Italian actor (d. 2022)
November 13 – Joe Mantegna, American actor
November 17 - Steven E. de Souza, American screenwriter, producer and director
November 21 – Tiny Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2019)
November 24
Sasson Gabai, Israeli actor
Dwight Schultz, American actor and voice actor
November 25
Jonathan Kaplan, American producer and director (d. 2025)
John Larroquette, American actor
Tracey Walter, American character actor
November 30
Stuart Baird, English editor, producer and director
Jude Ciccolella, American actor and singer
David Mamet, American filmmaker and screenwriter
December 4 – Tõnu Kark, Estonian actor
December 5 – JoBe Cerny, American actor
December 8 – Bruce Kimmel, American actor, director, writer
December 10 – Kathy Lamkin, American actress (d. 2022)
December 12 – Wings Hauser, American actor, screenwriter, director and musician (d. 2025)
December 13 - Darlene Cates, American actress (d. 2017)
December 16 – Ben Cross, English actor (d. 2020)
December 17 – Wes Studi, Cherokee American actor and film producer
December 25
Twink Caplan, American actress, comedian and producer
Michael D. Roberts, American actor
December 26
Trina Parks, American actress
Peter Sattmann, German actor (d. 2025)
December 28 – Peter MacGregor-Scott, British producer (d. 2017)
December 29 – Ted Danson, American actor
December 31 – Tim Matheson, American actor, director and producer

Deaths

January 26 – Grace Moore, 48, American opera singer and actress, One Night of Love, The King Steps Out, When You're in Love
February 12 – Sidney Toler, 72, American actor, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, The Chinese Cat
March 8 – Victor Potel, 57, American actor and comedian, Sullivan's Travels, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Palm Beach Story, The Egg and I
May 18 – Lucile Gleason, 59, American actress, I Like It That Way, A Successful Failure, Should Husbands Work?, The Clock
May 31 – Adrienne Ames, 39, American actress, The Death Kiss, You're Telling Me!, Slander House, Gigolette
June 1 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, 79, Swedish director and actress
June 5 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, 63, Swedish actor and director
July 15 – Henry Kolker, 72, American actor and director, Baby Face, Holiday, The Great Swindle, The Parson of Panamint
July 28 – Robert Homans, 69, American actor, Suicide Squad, The Grapes of Wrath, Night Monster, The Scarlet Clue
August 30 – Gunnar Sommerfeldt, 56, Danish actor and director
September 21 – Harry Carey, 69, American actor, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Angel and the Badman, Red River, Beyond Tomorrow
October 1 – Olive Borden, 40, American actress, 3 Bad Men, Half Marriage, Leave It to Me
October 13 – LeRoy Mason, 44, American actor, The Painted Stallion, Silver Stallion
October 17 – John Halliday, 67, American actor, The Philadelphia Story, Intermezzo
October 18 – Harry C. Bradley, 78, American actor, Beyond the Law, Sing While You're Able
October 24 – Dudley Digges, 68, Irish actor, The Maltese Falcon, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Fight for Life
November 10 – Jack Rockwell, 57, American actor
November 26 – Ernie Adams, 62, American actor The Pride of the Yankees, Invisible Ghost
December 21 – Mark Hellinger, 47, American producer, High Sierra, They Drive By Night, The Two Mrs. Carrolls
December 26 – Urban Gad, 68, Danish director and screenwriter, The Abyss, Little Angel, The Island of the Lost

Events

Awards

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Deaths

Film debuts

References

Bibliography

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