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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.

Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures also celebrated their 50th anniversaries.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

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

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

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

|The Longest Day

| 20th Century Fox

| $15,250,000

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

| Lawrence of Arabia

| Columbia

| $15,000,000

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! style="text-align:center;"| 5

|Mutiny on the Bounty

| MGM

| $7,410,000

  • December 10 - Scott Capurro, American comedian, writer and actor
  • December 13 - Jim Fall, American director and producer
  • December 14 - Ginger Lynn, American pornographic actress
  • December 18
  • James Sie, American actor
  • Michel Vuillermoz, French actor and screenwriter
  • December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress
  • December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor
  • December 23 - Peter Ramsey, American storyboard artist, story artist, director, writer and producer

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 27 – Willie Best, 48, American actor, Nothing but the Truth, The Red Dragon
  • 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 6 – Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, 63, American actor, Nevada, Southwest Passage
  • June 19
  • Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
  • Will Wright, 68, American actor, Quantrill's Raiders, Alias Jesse James
  • 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 21 – Syd Saylor, 67, American actor, The Lost Jungle, The Three Mesquiteers
  • 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

  • List of 1962 films at IMDb
  • List of 1962 deaths at IMDb
  • List of 1962 births at IMDb