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The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

United Artists would celebrate their 50th anniversary.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1969 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

| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

| 20th Century Fox

| $29,200,000

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

| The Love Bug

| Buena Vista

| $21,000,000

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

| Easy Rider

| Columbia

| $16,900,000

  • November 19 - Erika Alexander, American actress, writer and producer
  • November 20 - Callie Thorne, American actress
  • November 21 - John Ortiz, American actor
  • November 27
  • Elizabeth Marvel, American actress
  • Chin Han, Singaporean actor
  • November 28
  • Martin Cummins, Canadian actor
  • Colman Domingo, American actor, writer and director
  • November 30
  • Marc Forster, German-Swiss director, producer and screenwriter
  • Conan Stevens, Australian actor
  • Chris Weitz, American director, screenwriter and producer
  • December 5 - Eric Etebari, Iranian-American actor
  • Lynne Ramsay, Scottish film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer
  • Catherine Tate, English actress, comedian and writer
  • December 7 - Patrice O'Neal, American stand-up comedian, actor and radio personality (d. 2011)
  • December 9 - Allison Smith, American actress, singer, writer and director
  • December 10 - Stephen Billington, English actor
  • December 11 - Max Martini, American actor, writer and director
  • December 13 - Tony Curran, Scottish actor
  • December 14
  • Greg Hemphill, Scottish-Canadian comedian, actor, writer and director
  • Archie Kao, American actor and producer
  • December 15
  • Adriana Esteves, Brazilian actress
  • Ralph Ineson, English actor and narrator
  • December 19 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
  • December 20 - Brian O'Halloran, American actor, producer and podcaster
  • December 21 – Julie Delpy, French actress
  • December 24 - Sean Cameron Michael, South African actor, writer and singer
  • December 27 - Sarah Vowell, American actress
  • December 29
  • Jennifer Ehle, American actress
  • Patrick Fischler, American character actor
  • December 30 - Meredith Monroe, American actress

Deaths

  • January 1 – Barton MacLane, 66, American actor, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • January 3 – Howard McNear, 63, American actor, Anatomy of a Murder, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Blue Hawaii, Follow That Dream
  • January 4 – Violet and Daisy Hilton, 60, English conjoined twins, actresses, appeared in film Freaks
  • January 8 – Leslie Goodwins, 69, English director, The Mummy's Curse, Mexican Spitfire
  • January 27 – Charles Winninger, 84, American actor, Destry Rides Again, The Sun Shines Bright
  • February 2 – Boris Karloff, 81, English actor, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Raven
  • February 5 – Thelma Ritter, 66, American actress, Rear Window, All About Eve
  • February 9 – Gabby Hayes, 83, American actor, The Man from Utah, In Old Oklahoma
  • February 11 – James Lanphier, 48, American actor, The Pink Panther, The Party
  • February 19 - Madge Blake, 69, American actress, The Long, Long Trailer, Batman
  • February 23 - Madhubala, 36, Indian actress, Mahal, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Mughal-E-Azam
  • February 27 – John Boles, 73, American actor, Frankenstein, Stella Dallas
  • March 18 – Barbara Bates, 43, American actress, The Caddy, All About Eve
  • March 19 – Lola Braccini, 79, Italian actress, My Little One, What a Distinguished Family
  • March 25 – Alan Mowbray, 72, British actor, Terror by Night, My Darling Clementine
  • April 2 – Fortunio Bonanova, 74, Spanish actor, Citizen Kane, An Affair to Remember
  • April 23 – Krzysztof Komeda, 37, Polish composer, Rosemary's Baby, The Fearless Vampire Killers
  • May 3 – Karl Freund, 69, Czech-American cinematographer and director, Metropolis, The Mummy, Key Largo
  • May 24
  • Paul Birch, 57, American actor, The Gun Runners, Gunmen from Laredo
  • Mitzi Green, 48, American actress, Lost in Alaska, Skippy
  • May 27 – Jeffrey Hunter, 42, American actor, The Searchers, King of Kings
  • June 2 – Leo Gorcey, 51, American actor, Ghost Chasers, Spook Busters
  • June 8 – Robert Taylor, 57, American actor, Quo Vadis, Camille, Bataan, Ivanhoe
  • June 10 – Frank Lawton, 64, English actor, A Night to Remember, The Devil-Doll
  • June 13 – Martita Hunt, 70, Argentine-English actress, Becket, Great Expectations
  • June 19 – Natalie Talmadge, 73, American silent screen actress, Our Hospitality, Intolerance
  • June 20 – Rudolf Schwarzkogler, 29, Austrian experimental filmmaker, Satisfaction
  • June 22 – Judy Garland, 47, American actress and singer, The Wizard of Oz, Gay Purr-ee, A Star Is Born
  • June 23 – Stanley Andrews, 77, American actor, West of Wyoming, Across the Badlands, Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
  • July 5 - Lambert Hillyer, 75, American director, Dracula's Daughter, Batman
  • July 5 – Leo McCarey, 72, American director, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way
  • July 7 - Erskine Sanford, 83, American actor, Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons
  • July 8 – Gladys Swarthout, 68, American singer, Romance in the Dark, Give Us This Night
  • July 13 - Bess Meredyth, 79, American screenwriter, The Unsuspected, Charlie Chan at the Opera
  • July 15 - Peter van Eyck, 57, Polish actor, The Wages of Fear, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • July 17 - Harry Benham, 85, American actor, Nicholas Nickleby
  • July 18 - Barbara Pepper, 54, American actress, The Rogues Tavern, Kiss Me, Stupid
  • July 26
  • Andrés Soler, 70, Mexican actor, A Day with the Devil, The Great Madcap,
  • Raymond Walburn, 81, American actor, High, Wide, and Handsome, Third Finger, Left Hand
  • August 1 – Donald Keith, 65, American actor, The Plastic Age, Parisian Love
  • August 9 – Sharon Tate, 26, American actress, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Valley of the Dolls
  • August 14 – Sigrid Gurie, 58, American actress, Algiers, The Adventures of Marco Polo
  • August 15 – William Goetz, 66, American producer, studio executive, Sayonara, Les Misérables
  • August 18 – Mildred Davis, 68, American actress, Safety Last!, Grandma’s Boy
  • August 26 – Martin Miller, 69, Czech actor, 55 Days at Peking, The Pink Panther
  • September 14 – James Anderson, 48, American actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, Take the Money and Run
  • September 19 – Rex Ingram, 73, American actor, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Thief of Bagdad
  • October 8 – Eduardo Ciannelli, 81, Italian actor, Gunga Din, Strange Cargo
  • October 12 – Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian actress, former Olympic ice skater, Sun Valley Serenade, One in a Million
  • October 15 – Rod La Rocque, 70, American actor, Meet John Doe, The Shadow Strikes
  • October 28 – Constance Dowling, 49, American actress, Up in Arms, The Well-Groomed Bride
  • November 5 – Lloyd Corrigan, 69, American actor, Son of Paleface, The Thin Man Goes Home
  • November 8 – Dave O'Brien, 57, American actor, Captain Midnight, Brand of the Devil
  • December 3 – Ruth White, 55, American actress, To Kill a Mockingbird, No Way to Treat a Lady
  • December 7 – Eric Portman, 68, British actor, A Canterbury Tale, The Bedford Incident
  • December 13 – Luigi Pavese, 72, Italian actor, Toto in Color, Il Mattatore
  • December 22
  • Ilse Steppat, 52, German actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  • Josef von Sternberg, 73, Austrian director, The Blue Angel, Macao

Film debuts

References