1979 in film

The year 1979 in film involved many significant events.

Highest-grossing films

United States and Canada

The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows:

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

|+ Highest-grossing films of 1979 (United States and Canada)

! Rank!! Title !! Distributor !! Box-office gross

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

| Kramer vs. Kramer

| Columbia

| $106,260,000

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

| The Amityville Horror

| American International

| $86,432,520

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

| Rocky II

|rowspan="2"|United Artists

| $85,182,160

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

|Apocalypse Now

| $83,471,511

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

|Star Trek: The Motion Picture

| Paramount

| $82,258,456

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

| Alien

| 20th Century Fox

| $80,931,801

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

| The Muppet Movie

| Universal / Associated Film

| $76,657,000

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

| 10

| Warner Bros.

| $74,865,517

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

|The Jerk

| Universal

| $73,691,419

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

| Moonraker

| United Artists

| $70,308,099

International

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|+ Highest-grossing films of 1979 (international markets)

! rowspan="2" | International market

! rowspan="2" | Title

! rowspan="2" | Distributor

! rowspan="2" | Admissions

! colspan="2" | Gross revenue

! rowspan="2" | Production country

! Local currency

! US$

|China

|Gunshots in the CIB

|Changchun Film Studio

|600,000,000

|France

|West Germany

|The Jungle Book

|20th Century Fox

|9,103,582

| $12,310,000

| India

|Italy

|Superman

|Columbia-EMI-Warner

|904,000

|United States

| Japan

| Galaxy Express 999

| Toei

| 16,500,000,000

| $76,120,000

| Japan

| Soviet Union

| Sholay (Embers)

| R. K. Films

| 60,000,000

| 15,000,000Rbls

| $28,200,000

| India

|Spain

|Superman

|Warner Bros.

|4,795,628

|$9,763,080

| rowspan="2" | United States

| United Kingdom

| Superman

| Columbia-EMI-Warner

|10,190,000

| $24,455,309

Major events

March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, Take Down.
March 5 – Production begins on The Empire Strikes Back.
March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures.
May 25 – Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released.
May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a stroke.
May 31 – The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature-length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom.
June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer.
June 27 – 20th Century Fox Pictures president Alan Ladd Jr. and vice-presidents Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan agree to leave Fox.
June 29 – Moonraker, the 11th film in the James Bond franchise, is released in the United States and goes on to become the highest-grossing film of the year worldwide.
August 15 – Apocalypse Now is released to worldwide critical acclaim and box office success. Heralded as one of the greatest films ever made to this day.
September 19 – Don Bluth and a group of fellow animators resign from The Walt Disney Company's animation department to set up a rival studio, Don Bluth Productions.
October 1 – Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan who agreed to leave Fox earlier in the year formally announce the creation of The Ladd Company.
October 3 – producers Benjamin Melniker and Michael E. Uslan purchase the film rights of Batman from DC Comics. It would be another ten years, before a Batman feature film would be fully realized.
November 1 – Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
December 7 – Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuts in the United States to mixed reviews but blockbuster box office, launching a film franchise that leads to 9 sequels and 3 reboots over the next 37 years. It also leads to the creation of five spin-off television series based upon Gene Roddenberry's creation.
Allied Artists files for bankruptcy.

Awards

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! rowspan="2" style="width:20px;"| Category/Organization !! colspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 37th Golden Globe Awards January 26, 1980 !! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 33rd BAFTA Awards March 20, 1980 !! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 52nd Academy Awards April 14, 1980

! width=200| Drama !! style="width:200px;"| Musical or Comedy

| Best Film || Kramer vs. Kramer || Breaking Away || Manhattan || Kramer vs. Kramer

| Best Director || colspan="3" | Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now || Robert Benton Kramer vs. Kramer

| Best Actor || Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer || Peter Sellers Being There || Jack Lemmon The China Syndrome || Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer

| Best Actress || Sally Field Norma Rae || Bette Midler The Rose || Jane Fonda The China Syndrome || Sally Field Norma Rae

| Best Supporting Actor || colspan="2" | Melvyn Douglas Being There Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now || Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now || Melvyn Douglas Being There

| Best Supporting Actress || colspan="2" | Meryl Streep Kramer vs. Kramer || Rachel Roberts Yanks || Meryl Streep Kramer vs. Kramer

| Best Screenplay, Adapted || colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Robert Benton Kramer vs. Kramer || rowspan="2" | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Manhattan || Robert Benton Kramer vs. Kramer

| Best Screenplay, Original || Steve Tesich Breaking Away

| Best Original Score || colspan="2" | Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now || Ennio Morricone Days of Heaven || Georges Delerue A Little Romance Ralph Burns All That Jazz

| Best Original Song || colspan="2" | "The Rose" The Rose || N/A || "It Goes Like It Goes" Norma Rae

| Best Foreign Language Film || colspan="2" | La Cage aux Folles || N/A || The Tin Drum

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

:Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, United States

:The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), directed by Volker Schlöndorff, W. Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

:David, directed by Peter Lilienthal, West Germany

1979 films

By country/region

List of American films of 1979
List of Argentine films of 1979
List of Australian films of 1979
List of Bangladeshi films of 1979
List of British films of 1979
List of Canadian films of 1979
List of French films of 1979
List of Hong Kong films of 1979
List of Indian films of 1979
List of Hindi films of 1979
List of Kannada films of 1979
List of Malayalam films of 1979
List of Marathi films of 1979
List of Tamil films of 1979
List of Telugu films of 1979
List of Japanese films of 1979
List of Mexican films of 1979
List of Pakistani films of 1979
List of South Korean films of 1979
List of Soviet films of 1979
List of Spanish films of 1979

By genre/medium

List of action films of 1979
List of animated feature films of 1979
List of avant-garde films of 1979
List of comedy films of 1979
List of drama films of 1979
List of horror films of 1979
List of science fiction films of 1979
List of thriller films of 1979
List of western films of 1979

Births

January 1 – Vidya Balan, Indian actress
January 2 - Erica Hubbard, American actress
January 6 – Cristela Alonzo, American comedian, actress, writer and producer
January 8
Ashraf Barhom, Israeli-Arab actor
Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
January 10 - Maximilian Brückner, German actor
January 13 - Katy Brand, English actress, comedian and writer
January 16 – Aaliyah, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
January 24 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
January 25 - Christine Lakin, American actress
January 26 – Sara Rue, American actress
January 27 – Rosamund Pike, English actress and producer
January 28
Adam Bartley, American actor
Angelique Cabral, American actress
January 29 – Andrew Keegan, American actor
January 31 - Emmett J. Scanlan, Irish actor
February 1 – Rachelle Lefevre, Canadian actress
February 2 – Shamita Shetty, Indian actress
February 3 – Costa Ronin, Australian actor and cinematographer
February 7 - Cerina Vincent, American actress
February 8 - Josh Keaton, American actor and musician
February 9 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and dancer
February 11 – Brandy Norwood, American actress and singer
February 12 - Angus Sampson, Australian actor and filmmaker
February 13 – Mena Suvari, American actress
February 19 - Andrew Buchan, English actor and writer
February 21
Tituss Burgess, American actor and singer
Maryke Hendrikse, Bahamian-born Canadian voice actress
Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
Jordan Peele, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
March 3
Bonnie Mbuli, South African actress
Patrick Renna, American actor
March 5 – Riki Lindhome, American actress, comedian and musician
March 9 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
March 10
Edi Gathegi, Kenyan-American actor
Danny Pudi, American actor
March 12 - Rhys Coiro, American actor
March 14 - Chris Klein, American actor
March 17 – Stephen Kramer Glickman, Canadian actor, music producer and stand-up comedian
March 18 – Adam Levine, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor
March 19 - Abby Brammell, American actress
March 20
Freema Agyeman, British actress
Bianca Lawson, American actress
March 24 – Lake Bell, American actress, director and screenwriter
March 25 – Lee Pace, American actor
March 28 – Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personalities
March 29 – De'Angelo Wilson, American actor and rapper (d. 2008)
March 30
Jose Pablo Cantillo, American actor
Pete Holmes, American comedian, actor, writer, producer and podcaster
April 4
Bunko Kanazawa, Japanese actress
Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
Natasha Lyonne, American actress
April 5 – Josh Boone, American filmmaker
April 7 - Nico Santos, Filipino-American actor
April 9 - Edward Bennett, English actor
April 10 - Paul Fox, English actor
April 11 – Josh Server, American actor
April 12
Claire Danes, American actress
Jennifer Morrison, American actress, director and producer
Paul Nicholls, English actor
April 15
Karen David, Canadian actress and singer-songwriter
Luke Evans, Welsh actor and singer
April 17
Mylene Dinh-Robic, Canadian actress
Ken Duken, German actor and director
Tate Ellington, American actor
April 19 – Kate Hudson, American actress
April 21 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
April 23 – Jaime King, American actress
April 26 – Klára Issová, Czech actress
April 27 - Tom Davis, English actor and comedian
May 5 – Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
May 6 - Kerry Ellis, English actress and singer
May 7 – Yōsuke Kubozuka, Japanese actor
May 9 – Rosario Dawson, American actress
May 11 - Mary Elizabeth Ellis, American actress
May 12 – Aaron Yoo, Korean-American actor
May 17 - Lyne Renée, Belgian actress
May 19 - Bérénice Marlohe, French actress
May 20 - Jana Pallaske, German actress and singer
May 21 - Lino Guanciale, Italian actor
May 22 – Maggie Q, American actress
May 23 – Josh Cooley, American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor
May 24 - Panos Mouzourakis, Greek singer-songwriter and actor
May 25 - Corbin Allred, American actor
May 28
Jesse Bradford, American actor
Monica Keena, American actress
May 30
Jenny Mollen, American actress and writer
Tadhg Murphy, Irish actor
June 2
Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
James Ransone, American actor (d. 2025)
June 7 – Anna Torv, Australian actress
June 12 - Wil Horneff, American former child actor
June 17 – Young Maylay, American rapper, producer and voice actor
June 20 - Sarah Stiles, American singer and actress
June 21 – Chris Pratt, American actor
June 24 – Mindy Kaling, American writer and actress
June 25
Hong Chau, American actress
Busy Philipps, American actress
June 27
Martin Bourboulon, French film director and screenwriter
Benjamin Speed, Australian film composer
June 28 - Elaine Tan, English actress
June 30 - Rick Gonzalez, American actor and musician
July 3 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
July 5 – Eva Maria Daniels, Icelandic film producer (d. 2023)
July 6
Kevin Hart, American actor
Abdul Salis, British actor
July 7 - Benjamin Mitchell, New Zealand actor
July 10 – Gong Yoo, South Korean actor
July 12 – Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor
July 14 – Scott Porter, American actor
July 16
Jayma Mays, American actress
Gerard Monaco, British actor
July 17 – Mike Vogel, American actor and former model
July 19 – David Sakurai, Danish-Japanese actor, director and scriptwriter
July 24 - Rose Byrne, Australian actress
July 25 - Juan Pablo Di Pace, Argentine actor, director, singer and musician
July 26 - Mageina Tovah, American actress
July 30 - Lucas Babin, American actor
July 31
Dana Gourrier, American actress
B. J. Novak, American writer and actor
August 1 – Jason Momoa, American actor and filmmaker
August 3 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress
August 6 – Dayahang Rai, Nepalese actor
August 10 – JoAnna Garcia Swisher, American actress
August 12 - Keith Powell, American actor, writer and director
August 13 - Kasia Smutniak, Polish-Italian actress and model
August 14 - Jamie Parker, English actor and singer
August 21 - Kevin Janssens, Belgian actor
August 22 – Brandon Adams, American actor
August 23 – Claire Grant, American actress, model and producer
August 24 – Fabienne Carat, French actress and singer
August 25 – Şebnem Bozoklu, Turkish actress
August 26 – Erik Valdez, American actor
August 27 – Aaron Paul, American actor
August 28 - Melody Kay, American actress
August 29 – Dan Harris, American screenwriter and director
August 31 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film composer
September 1 - Camille Chen, American actress
September 4 - Max Greenfield, American actor
September 8 – Pink, American singer and actress
September 11
Ariana Richards, American actress
Cameron Richardson, American actress and producer
Hu Ting-ting, English-born Taiwanese actress
September 17
Neill Blomkamp, South African and Canadian director and screenwriter
Kat Coiro, American director
Billy Miller, American actor (d. 2023)
September 18 – Alison Lohman, American former actress
September 19 – Noémie Lenoir, French model and actress
September 20 – Chris Tardio, American actor
September 22 – MyAnna Buring, Swedish-born British actress
September 23 – Lisa Loven Kongsli, Norwegian actress
September 25 - Stephen Rider, American actor
September 26
Mark Famiglietti, American actor, screenwriter and producer
Susanne Wuest, Austrian actress
September 27 – Jad Saxton, American voice actress
Alicyn Packard, American actress, singer, and writer
September 30 – Jonathan Kasdan, American screenwriter, director, producer and actor
October 1 – Marielle Heller, American film director
October 4
Caitríona Balfe, Irish actress
Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
October 6 – Sareh Bayat, Iranian actress
October 7
Tang Wei, Chinese actress
Aaron Ashmore and Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actors
October 8 – Kristanna Loken, American actress
October 9
Alex Greenwald, American musician and actor
Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor and comedian
Brandon Routh, American actor
Zachary Ty Bran, American actor
October 20
Nargis Fakhri, American actress
John Krasinski, American actor and filmmaker
October 22 - Tony Denman, American actor
October 28 – Natina Reed, American singer-songwriter, rapper and actress (d. 2012)
October 29 – Maya Karin, Malaysian actress
October 30 - James A. Woods, Canadian actor
October 31 – Erica Cerra, Canadian actress
November 2 - Jon M. Chu, American director, producer and screenwriter
November 5 - Leonardo Nam, Australian actor
November 8 – Dania Ramirez, Dominican actress
November 9
Cory Hardrict, American actor
Matt McCarthy, American comedian, actor and writer
November 13 – Riccardo Scamarcio, Italian actor and producer
November 14 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French actress
November 19 – Barry Jenkins, American film director
November 20 - Jacob Pitts, American actor
November 22
Andrew Knott, British actor
Leeanna Walsman, Australian actress
November 23 – Jonathan Sadowski, American actor
November 25
Jerry Ferrara, American actor
Joel Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor
November 28 – Daniel Henney, American actor and model
November 29 - Timo Vuorensola, Finnish director, singer and actor
November 30 - Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Irish actress
December 3 – Tiffany Haddish, American comedian and actress
December 5 – Nick Stahl, American actor
December 7
Eric Bauza, Canadian-born American voice actor, stand-up comedian and animation artist
Sara Bareilles, American actress and singer
December 11 – Rider Strong, American actor
December 15 – Adam Brody, American actor, writer, musician and producer
December 17 - Lil Rel Howery, American actor and comedian
December 19 - Tara Summers, English actress
December 20 - Ramón Rodríguez, Puerto Rican actor
December 21 - Daniel Brocklebank, British actor
December 23 – Summer Altice, American model and actress
December 24 - Natalie Walter, British actress and writer
December 26 – Chris Daughtry, American actor and singer
December 28
André Holland, American actor
Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress
December 29 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director and producer

Deaths

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|- style="background:#dae3e7; text-align:center;"

| Month || Date || Name || Age || Country || Profession || Notable films

|- valign="top"

| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| January

| style="text-align:center;"| 11 || Jack Soo || style="text-align:center;"| 61 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 16 || Peter Butterworth || style="text-align:center;"| 63|| style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, writer ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 16 || Ted Cassidy || style="text-align:center;"| 46 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 18 || Cyril J. Mockridge || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Composer ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 25 || Dick Crockett || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Stuntman, Actor ||

| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| February

| style="text-align:center;"| 12 || Jean Renoir || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, writer, actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 16 || Louise Allbritton || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 17 || William Gargan || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 19 || Leigh Jason || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 28 || Jane Hylton || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| rowspan=8 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| March

| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || Dolores Costello || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 2 || Edith Craig || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || John Robinson || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 9 || Barbara Mullen || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 19 || John Tate || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || Invasion

| style="text-align:center;"| 21 || Bomba Tzur || style="text-align:center;"| 50 || style="text-align:center;"| Israel || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 22 || Ben Lyon || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, writer ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 24 || Yvonne Mitchell || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| April

| style="text-align:center;"| 4 || Edgar Buchanan || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || Norman Tokar || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 10 || Nino Rota || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Composer ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 24 || John Carroll || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| May

| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || Rosemary La Planche || style="text-align:center;"| 55 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 8 || Victor Saville || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Producer, director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 10 || Beatrice Campbell || style="text-align:center;"| 56 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 11 || Joan Chandler || style="text-align:center;"| 55 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 26 || George Brent || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 29 || Mary Pickford || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, producer, writer ||

| rowspan=10 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| June

| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || Jack Mulhall || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 2 || Larisa Shepitko || style="text-align:center;"| 41 || style="text-align:center;"| Soviet Union || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 2 || Jim Hutton || style="text-align:center;"| 45 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || Jack Haley || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 11 || John Wayne || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, producer, director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 12 || Henry Berman || style="text-align:center;"| 65 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Editor, Producer ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 14 || David Butler || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 16 || Nicholas Ray || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, writer, actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 19 || Nick Grinde || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 21 || Julian Orchard || style="text-align:center;"| 49 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, writer ||

| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| July

| style="text-align:center;"| 2 || Larisa Shepitko || style="text-align:center;"| 41 || style="text-align:center;"| USSR || style="text-align:center;"| Director, writer, actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 8 || Michael Wilding || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, producer ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 13 || Corinne Griffith || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 22 || Kathleen Case || style="text-align:center;"| 45 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 25 || Eric Pohlmann || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 26 || Virginia Brissac || style="text-align:center;"| 96 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 27 || Ettore Manni || style="text-align:center;"| 52 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 27 || Shirley Mason || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 28 || George Seaton || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 28 || Frederick Stafford || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| Czechoslovakia || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 31 || Beatrix Lehmann || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| August

| style="text-align:center;"| ?? || Betty Henderson || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || Kurt Kasznar || style="text-align:center;"| 65 || style="text-align:center;"| Austria || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 7 || Vicente Salumbides || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| Philippines || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 10 || Dick Foran || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 17 || Vivian Vance || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 21 || Stuart Heisler || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 30 || Jean Seberg || style="text-align:center;"| 40 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| rowspan=10 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| September

| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || Doris Kenyon || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 2 || Felix Aylmer || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 12 || Les Clark || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Animator ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 12 || Jocelyne LaGarde || style="text-align:center;"| 54 || style="text-align:center;"| Tahiti || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || Hawaii

| style="text-align:center;"| 17 || Willis Goldbeck || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 22 || Frederick Piper || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 23 || Catherine Lacey || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 26 || John Cromwell || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 26 || Arthur Hunnicutt || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 27 || Gracie Fields || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, singer ||

| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| October

| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || Dorothy Arzner || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 3 || Dorothy Peterson || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 12 || Celia Lovsky || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;" | Austria || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 17 || John Stuart || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 25 || Fernando Soler || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| Mexico || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 30 || Graham Ashley || style="text-align:center;"| 52 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| November

| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || Saro Urzì || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 5 || Amedeo Nazzari || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 8 || Sydney Tafler || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 11 || Dimitri Tiomkin || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| Russia || style="text-align:center;"| Composer ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 20 || Michael Darbyshire || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, writer ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 21 || Paul Wexler || style="text-align:center;"| 50 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 22 || George Froeschel || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 23 || Merle Oberon || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| India || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, producer ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 30 || Barbara von Annenkoff || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany|| style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 30 || Joyce Grenfell || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 30 || Zeppo Marx || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;" | US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, director ||

| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| December

| style="text-align:center;"| 5 || Jesse Pearson || style="text-align:center;"| 49 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || Bye Bye Birdie

| style="text-align:center;"| 5 || Lesley Selander || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 9 || James Neilson || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 10 || Ann Dvorak || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 11 || Claire Carleton || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 12 || Jon Hall || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 22 || George Pollock || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Director ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 23 || Ernest B. Schoedsack || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, cinematographer, producer ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 25 || Michael Collins || style="text-align:center;"| 57 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 25 || Lee Bowman || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor ||

| style="text-align:center;"| 25 || Joan Blondell || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress ||