Overview of the events of 1964 in film
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including three highly successful musical films, Mary Poppins ,My Fair Lady ,The Umbrellas of Cherbourg .
The top ten 1964 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1964
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
Mary Poppins Buena Vista
$31,000,000[ 1]
2
My Fair Lady Warner Bros.
$30,000,000[ 2]
3
Goldfinger United Artists
$22,500,000[ 1]
4
The Carpetbaggers Paramount
$15,500,000[ 1]
5
From Russia With Love United Artists
$9,200,000[ 1]
6
A Shot in the Dark $6,748,000[ 3]
7
What a Way to Go! 20th Century Fox
$6,100,000[ 4]
8
The Unsinkable Molly Brown MGM
$6,040,000[ 3]
9
The Pink Panther United Artists
$5,935,000[ 3]
10
A Hard Day's Night $5,800,000[ 5]
Events
January 29 – 50-year-old actor Alan Ladd is found dead in bed at his home in Palm Springs, California . An autopsy confirms the cause of death as cerebral edema caused by an acute overdose of "alcohol and three other drugs" His death is ruled accidental. Ladd's final film, The Carpetbaggers
March 6 – Elvis Presley 's 14th motion picture, Kissin' Cousins
March 15 - Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton .
June 3 – The animated film Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! Hanna-Barbera but also the first full-length theatrical animated film based on the animated television program .
July 6 – A Hard Day's Night Beatles film, premieres.
August 27 – The film Mary Poppins Disney 's highest-grossing film of all time. It goes on to win five Academy Awards , including Best Actress for Julie Andrews .
October – In Photoplay Hedda Hopper announces that Sophia Loren and Paul Newman will star in the film version of Arthur Miller 's play After the Fall , with Loren in the role that was written about Marilyn Monroe . The film is never made.
Awards
Academy Awards :
Best Picture : My Fair Lady Warner Bros. Best Director : George Cukor My Fair Lady Best Actor : Rex Harrison My Fair Lady Best Actress : Julie Andrews Mary Poppins Best Supporting Actor : Peter Ustinov Topkapi Best Supporting Actress : Lila Kedrova Zorba the Greek Best Foreign Language Film : Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Ieri, oggi, domani ), directed by Vittorio De Sica , ItalyGolden Globe Awards :
Drama: Best Picture : Becket Best Actor : Peter O'Toole Becket Best Actress : Anne Bancroft The Pumpkin Eater Comedy or Musical: Best Picture : My Fair Lady Best Actor : Rex Harrison My Fair Lady Best Actress : Julie Andrews Mary Poppins Other Best Supporting Actor : Edmond O'Brien Seven Days in May Best Supporting Actress : Agnes Moorehead Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte Best Director : George Cukor My Fair Lady Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ), directed by Jacques Demy , FranceGolden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Il deserto rosso The Red Desert ), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni , ItalyGolden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Susuz Yaz Dry Summer ), directed by Ismail Metin , Turkey
1964 film releases
United States unless stated
January 1964
19 January
22 January
29 January
30 January
February 1964
5 February
10 February
12 February
19 February
26 February
March 1964
6 March
8 March
11 March
12 March
18 March
19 March
25 March
26 March
28 March
April 1964
1 April
3 April
5 April
8 April
9 April
14 April
21 April
28 April
29 April
May 1964
2 May
6 May
11 May
13 May
14 May
19 May
20 May
27 May
29 May
June 1964
1 June
3 June
4 June
10 June
11 June
17 June
23 June
24 June
25 June
26 June
July 1964
2 July
3 July
6 July
7 July
8 July
22 July
29 July
August 1964
5 August
6 August
11 August
12 August
14 August
16 August
26 August
27 August
September 1964
2 September
4 September
11 September
12 September
16 September
18 September
19 September
25 September
27 September
October 1964
3 October
7 October
8 October
11 October
14 October
20 October
24 October
27 October
28 October
29 October
November 1964
2 November
4 November
5 November
8 November
9 November
10 November
11 November
15 November
18 November
21 November
25 November
26 November
27 November
December 1964
3 December
4 December
10 December
12 December
16 December
18 December
20 December
22 December
25 December
28 December
30 December
Notable films released in 1964
United States unless stated
A
Adobe and Mirror Ebrahim Golestan , starring Mohammad Ali Keshavarz , Jamshid Mashayekhi and Pari Saberi (Iran)Advance to the Rear George Marshall , starring Glenn Ford , Stella Stevens and Melvyn Douglas Adventures of Zatoichi Kimiyoshi Yasuda – (Japan )Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens The Alive and the Dead U.S.S.R. )All These Women Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden )The Americanization of Emily Arthur Hiller , starring James Garner and Julie Andrews Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise André Cayatte – (France )Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc André Cayatte – (France )The Ape Woman Ugo Tognazzi and Annie Girardot – (Italy /France )Assassination Japan )At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Brazil )Atentát Czechoslovakia )A Trip to the Moon Ayee Milan Ki Bela India )
B
Back Door to Hell Jimmie Rodgers and Jack Nicholson Backfire Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg – (France )Ballad in Blue Paul Henreid and starring Ray Charles Band of Outsiders Jean-Luc Godard – (France )The Bargee Harry H. Corbett and Eric Sykes – (U.K. )The Beauty Jungle Ian Hendry – (U.K.)Becket Peter Glenville , starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton – (U.K./U.S.)Bedtime Story Marlon Brando , David Niven and Shirley Jones Before the Revolution Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy )Behold a Pale Horse Fred Zinnemann , starring Gregory Peck , Anthony Quinn , Omar Sharif Belarmino Cinema Novo docufiction – (Portugal )The Best Man Franklin J. Schaffner , written by Gore Vidal , starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson Bikini Beach Frankie Avalon , Annette Funicello , Martha Hyer and Don Rickles Black God, White Devil Brazil )Black Like Me James Whitmore and Roscoe Lee Browne Black Peter Miloš Forman – (Czechoslovakia )The Black Torment Robert Hartford-Davis – (U.K. )Blood and Black Lace Mario Bava – (Italy )Blood on the Arrow Dale Robertson and Martha Hyer La bonne soupe Robert Thomas – (Italy /France )The Brass Bottle Tony Randall , Burl Ives and Barbara Eden Bullet for a Badman Audie Murphy , Darren McGavin and Ruta Lee
C
A Carol for Another Christmas Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland The Carpetbaggers George Peppard , Carroll Baker and Elizabeth Ashley Carry On Cleo Sid James and Amanda Barrie – (U.K. )Carry On Spying Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor – (U.K.)Castle of Blood Antonio Margheriti and Sergio Corbucci – (Italy /France )Castle of the Living Dead Warren Kiefer – (Italy /France )The Chairman U.S.S.R. )The Chalk Garden Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills – (U.K.)Charulata Satyajit Ray – (India )Cheyenne Autumn John Ford , starring Carroll Baker , Richard Widmark , Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden Circle of Love Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda – (France )Circus World John Wayne , Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth The Comedy Man Kenneth More and Cecil Parker – (U.K.)The Comedy of Terrors Vincent Price , Peter Lorre , Boris Karloff , Basil Rathbone Crooks in Cloisters Ronald Fraser and Barbara Windsor – (U.K. )The Curse of the Hidden Vault Franz Josef Gottlieb – (West Germany )The Curse of the Living Corpse Del Tenney The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Michael Carreras – (U.K. )
D
Dark Purpose Shirley Jones Dead Ringer Bette Davis , Peter Lawford Dear Heart Delbert Mann , starring Geraldine Page , Glenn Ford and Angela Lansbury Dear John Lars-Magnus Lindgren – (Sweden )Devil Doll Lindsay Shonteff – (U.K. )The Devil-Ship Pirates Christopher Lee and Andrew Keir Diamonds of the Night Jan Němec – (Czechoslovakia )Diary of a Bachelor Sandy Howard , starring William Traylor , Joe Silver and Dagne CraneDiary of a Chambermaid Luis Buñuel , starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli – (France )The Disorderly Orderly Frank Tashlin , starring Jerry Lewis and Susan Oliver A Distant Trumpet Troy Donahue , Suzanne Pleshette and Diane McBain Dog Eat Dog Jayne Mansfield – (West Germany /Italy /Liechtenstein )Dogora Ishirō Honda – (Japan )Dosti Satyen Bose – (India )Dr. Crippen Donald Pleasence – (U.K.)Dr. Sex Ted V. Mikels Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick , starring Peter Sellers (in three roles) and George C. Scott – (U.K. )Dry Summer Metin Erksan – (Turkey )
E
The Earth Dies Screaming Willard Parker , Virginia Field and Dennis Price – (U.K. ) East of Sudan , starring Anthony Quayle , Sylvia Syms and Jenny Agutter – (U.K.)Empire Andy Warhol Ensign Pulver Mister Roberts Robert Walker Jr. and Burl Ives El extraño viaje Fernando Fernán Gómez – (Spain )The Evil of Frankenstein Freddie Francis – (U.K. )The Evil Stairs Lee Man-hee – (South Korea )The Eyes of Annie Jones Richard Conte and Francesca Annis – (U.K.)
F
Face of the Screaming Werewolf Lon Chaney – (Mexico /U.S.)Fail-Safe Sidney Lumet , starring Henry Fonda , Dan O'Herlihy and Walter Matthau The Fall of the Roman Empire Sophia Loren , Stephen Boyd and Alec Guinness Fanny Hill Russ Meyer – (West Germany /U.S.)Fantômas Jean Marais – (France )Fate Is the Hunter Glenn Ford , Rod Taylor and Suzanne Pleshette Father Came Too! James Robertson Justice , Leslie Phillips and Stanley Baxter – (U.K. )Father Goose Cary Grant , Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard Father of a Soldier Revaz Chkheidze – (Georgia )The Fifth Horseman Is Fear Zbyněk Brynych – (Czechoslovakia )Fight, Zatoichi, Fight Kenji Misumi – (Japan )First Men in the Moon Edward Judd and Lionel Jeffries , with special effects by Ray Harryhausen – (U.K. )A Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone , starring Clint Eastwood – (Italy )The Flesh Eaters Martin Kosleck Flight from Ashiya Yul Brynner and Richard Widmark Flipper's New Adventure , starring Luke Halpin and Pamela Franklin The Flower and the Angry Waves Seijun Suzuki – (Japan )For Men Only Mahmoud Zulfikar , starring Soad Hosny and Nadia Lutfi – (Egypt )For Those Who Think Young Pamela Tiffin and James Darren Forest of the Hanged Liviu Ciulei – (Romania )Four Days in November Mel Stuart
G
Gate of Flesh Seijun Suzuki – (Japan )Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark )Get Yourself a College Girl Mary Ann Mobley and Nancy Sinatra Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster Japan )The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre Martin Landau , Judith Anderson and Diane Baker Girl with Green Eyes Peter Finch and Rita Tushingham – (U.K.)A Global Affair Bob Hope Goldfinger Sean Connery as James Bond ), with Honor Blackman , Shirley Eaton and Gert Fröbe – (U.K. )Goodbye Charlie Debbie Reynolds , Tony Curtis and Pat Boone Good Neighbor Sam Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider The Gorgon Peter Cushing , Barbara Shelley and Christopher Lee – (U.K. )The Gospel According to St. Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini – (Italy )Greed in the Sun Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France )The Guns Ruy Guerra – (Brazil /Argentina )Guns at Batasi Richard Attenborough and Jack Hawkins – (U.K.)The Guns of August Fritz Weaver
H
Hamlet Richard Burton Hamlet U.S.S.R. )Haqeeqat India )A Hard Day's Night Richard Lester , starring the Beatles – (U.K. )Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! Hanna-Barbera feature productionHide and Seek Ian Carmichael and Curd Jürgens – (U.K.)High Infidelity Nino Manfredi – (Italy )Honeymoon Hotel Robert Morse and Robert Goulet The Horror of Party Beach Del Tenney Hot Enough for June Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina – (U.K. )A House Is Not a Home Shelley Winters and Robert Taylor Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte Robert Aldrich , starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland
I
I Am Cuba Mikhail Kalatozov – (Cuba /U.S.S.R.)iams The Incredible Mr. Limpet Don Knotts , Jack Weston and Andrew Duggan Intentions of Murder Shōhei Imamura – (Japan )Invitation to a Gunfighter Yul Brynner , George Segal , Janice Rule It's Not Just You, Murray! short film directed by Martin Scorsese Italiani brava gente Giuseppe De Santis – (Italy )
J
K
The Killers Don Siegel , starring Lee Marvin , Angie Dickinson , John Cassavetes and, in his final film, Ronald Reagan King & Country Joseph Losey , starring Dirk Bogarde and Tom Courtenay – (U.K. )Kiss Me Quick! Althea Currier Kiss Me, Stupid Billy Wilder , starring Dean Martin and Kim Novak Kisses for My President Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray Kissin' Cousins Elvis Presley and Yvonne Craig Kitten with a Whip Ann-Margret and John Forsythe Kwaidan Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan )
L
Lady General Hua Mu-lan Hong Kong )Lady in a Cage Walter Grauman , starring Olivia de Havilland and James Caan Lana, Queen of the Amazons Catherine Schell – (West Germany /Brazil )The Last Gun Sergio Bergonzelli – (Italy )The Last Man on Earth Vincent Price – (United States /Italy )The Last Steps Michèle Morgan and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (France )Leader Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India )The Leather Boys Sidney J. Furie , starring Rita Tushingham – (U.K. )Lemonade Joe Oldřich Lipský – (Czechoslovakia )Let's Talk About Women Ettore Scola – (Italy )Lilith Robert Rossen , starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg The Lively Set James Darren , Pamela Tiffin and Doug McClure London in the Raw U.K. )The Lonely Wife Satyajit Ray – (India )The Long Hair of Death Antonio Margheriti – (Italy )The Long Ships Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier – (U.K. /Yugoslavia )Looking for Love Connie Francis Lorna Russ Meyer Love in 4 Dimensions (Amore in 4 dimensioni), directed by Mino Guerrini – (Italy )Loving Couples Mai Zetterling – (Sweden )The Luck of Ginger Coffey Irvin Kershner , starring Robert Shaw
M
Madu Tiga P. Ramlee – (Malaysia )The Magnificent Cuckold Italy )Mail Order Bride Burt Kennedy , starring Buddy Ebsen and Lois Nettleton Male Companion Philippe de Broca – (France )Male Hunt Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France /Italy )Man in the Middle Robert Mitchum Man's Favorite Sport? Howard Hawks , starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss Marnie Alfred Hitchcock , starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery Marriage Italian Style Vittorio De Sica , starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy )A Married Woman Jean-Luc Godard – (France )Mary Poppins Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke The Masque of the Red Death Vincent Price , Hazel Court and Jane Asher – (U.K. )McHale's Navy Ernest Borgnine Men and Women Walter Hugo Khouri – (Brazil )The Misadventures of Merlin Jones Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk The Moon-Spinners Hayley Mills Mothra vs. Godzilla Ishirō Honda – (Japan )Murder Ahoy! Margaret Rutherford and Lionel Jeffries Murder Most Foul Margaret Rutherford and Ron Moody My Fair Lady George Cukor , starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison My Friend Lefterakis Greece )
N
The Naked Kiss Samuel Fuller , starring Constance Towers The New Interns Dean Jones and Michael Callan Night Must Fall Albert Finney , Mona Washbourne and Susan Hampshire – (U.K. )The Night of the Iguana John Huston , starring Richard Burton , Ava Gardner , Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon Night Train to Paris Leslie Nielsen , Aliza Gur and Dorinda Stevens – (U.S./U.K. )The Night Walker Barbara Stanwyck (her last film) and Robert Taylor Nightmare Freddie Francis – (U.K. )Nobody Waved Good-bye Don Owen – (Canada )Nothing But a Man Ivan Dixon , Abbey Lincoln and Yaphet Kotto Nothing But the Best Alan Bates and Millicent Martin – (U.K. )
O
Of Human Bondage Kim Novak , Laurence Harvey and Siobhán McKenna – (U.K.)One Potato, Two Potato Barbara Barrie , Bernie Hamilton and Richard Mulligan Onibaba Kaneto Shindo – (Japan )The Outrage Martin Ritt , starring Paul Newman , Laurence Harvey , Claire Bloom and Edward G. Robinson
P
Pajama Party Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk Pale Flower Japan )Panic Button Jayne Mansfield and Maurice Chevalier Paris When It Sizzles William Holden and Audrey Hepburn The Patsy Jerry Lewis The Pawnbroker Sidney Lumet , starring Rod Steiger , Geraldine Fitzgerald and Brock Peters The Pleasure Seekers Pamela Tiffin , Carol Lynley , Brian Keith , Tony Franciosa and Ann-Margret Point of Order! Emile de Antonio Psyche 59 Alexander Singer – (U.K. )The Pumpkin Eater Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch – (U.K. )
Q
R
Raiders from Beneath the Sea Ken Scott and Merry Anders Rattle of a Simple Man Muriel Box , starring Diane Cilento and Harry H. Corbett – (U.K. )The Ravishing Idiot Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins – (France )Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni , starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris – (Italy )Rhino! Robert Culp Ride the Wild Surf Tab Hunter , Fabian Forte , Shelley Fabares and Barbara Eden Ring of Spies Bernard Lee – (U.K. )Rio Conchos Stuart Whitman , Tony Franciosa , Richard Boone and Wende Wagner Robin and the 7 Hoods Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Sammy Davis Jr. and Bing Crosby Robinson Crusoe on Mars Byron Haskin , starring Paul Mantee , Vic Lundin and Adam West Room 13 Harald Reinl – (Denmark /France /West Germany )Roustabout Elvis Presley and Barbara Stanwyck Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rankin/Bass Productions
S
Sallah Shabati Chaim Topol – (Israel )Sangam Vyjayanthimala , Raj Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar – (India )Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Nicholas Webster Séance on a Wet Afternoon Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough – (U.K. )The Secret Invasion Stewart Granger and Mickey Rooney Seduced and Abandoned Stefania Sandrelli – (Italy )Send Me No Flowers Doris Day and Rock Hudson Seven Days in May John Frankenheimer , starring Kirk Douglas , Burt Lancaster , Fredric March and Ava Gardner Seven Up! Paul Almond – (U.K. )Sex and the Single Girl Natalie Wood , Tony Curtis , Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall Shehar Aur Sapna Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – (India )A Shot in the Dark Pink Panther film, directed by Blake Edwards . starring Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer – (U.K. /U.S.)Sleep Andy Warhol Smokescreen Yvonne Romain The Soft Skin François Truffaut , starring Françoise Dorléac – (France )Strait-Jacket William Castle , starring Joan Crawford and Diane Baker Swedish Wedding Night Åke Falck – (Sweden )The System Oliver Reed
T
T.A.M.I. Show , a concert film filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium That Man from Rio Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac – (France )The Thin Red Line Keir Dullea and Jack Warden This Is My Street Sidney Hayers – (U.K. )The Three Lives of Thomasina Patrick McGoohan and Susan Hampshire – (UK /US )The Third Secret Stephen Boyd and Pamela Franklin – (U.K.)Those Calloways Walt Disney and directed by Norman Tokar [ 6] Three Outlaw Samurai Japan )La Tía Tula Spain )A Tiger Walks Brian Keith and Vera Miles Time of Indifference Claudia Cardinale , Rod Steiger and Shelley Winters – (Italy )The Time Travelers Preston Foster and Merry Anders Tintin and the Blue Oranges Jean-Pierre Talbot – (France )To the Moon and Beyond 1964 New York World's Fair The Tomb of Ligeia Roger Corman , starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd Topkapi Melina Mercouri , Maximilian Schell and Peter Ustinov The Train John Frankenheimer , starring Burt Lancaster , Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau – (U.S./France/Italy )The Troops of Saint-Tropez Jean Girault – (France )Troubled Waters Tab Hunter – (U.K. )Two Stage Sisters Xie Jin – (China )Two Thousand Maniacs! Herschell Gordon Lewis
U
V
W
Weekend at Dunkirk Henri Verneuil – (Italy /France )Welcome, or No Trespassing Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchyon Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev – (U.S.S.R. )What a Way to Go! Shirley MacLaine , Paul Newman , Robert Mitchum , Dean Martin , Gene Kelly , Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke Where Love Has Gone Bette Davis and Susan Hayward Whirlwind Hiroshi Inagaki – (Japan )White Voices Pasquale Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa – (Italy )Wild and Wonderful Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufmann Wild West Story Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt , Lena Granhagen and Gerald Mohr Witchcraft Lon Chaney and Jack Hedley – (U.K. )Woh Kaun Thi? India )Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara – (Japan )Woman of Straw Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery – (U.K. )World Without Sun Le monde sans soleil Jacques-Yves Cousteau – (France )The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers France )Wonderful Life [ 7] Cliff Richard and the Shadows – (U.K. )The World of Henry Orient George Roy Hill , starring Peter Sellers , Paula Prentiss and Angela Lansbury
Y
Z
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold Kazuo Ikehiro – (Japan )Zatoichi's Flashing Sword Kazuo Ikehiro – (Japan )Zhavoronok Gennadi Yukhtin – (U.S.S.R. )Zindagi Vyjayanthimala , Rajendra Kumar , Raaj Kumar and Prithviraj Kapoor – (India )Zogue fe Agaza Salah Zulfikar and Laila Taher – (Egypt )Zorba the Greek Michael Cacoyannis , starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates – (Greece /U.K. )Zulu Cy Endfield , starring Stanley Baker , Michael Caine and Jack Hawkins – (U.K.)
Short film series
Births
January 4 - David Bowe , American character actor
January 6
January 7 – Nicolas Cage , American actor, producer and director
January 11 – Patrícia Pillar , Brazilian actress
January 13 – Penelope Ann Miller , American actress
January 14 - Mark Addy , English actor
January 18
January 19 - Ty Granderson Jones , Creole American actor, screenwriter and producer
January 23 - Mariska Hargitay , American actress
January 27 – Bridget Fonda , American actress
February 1 - Linus Roache , British actor
February 5 – Laura Linney , American actress
February 10 - Francesca Neri , Italian actress
February 15 – Chris Farley , American actor (d. 1997)
February 16 – Christopher Eccleston , English actor
February 17 - Angelica Page , American actress, director, producer and screenwriter
February 18 – Matt Dillon , American actor
February 20
February 21 - Adrian Schiller , English actor (d. 2024)
February 22 - James Wlcek , American actor
February 23 - Ronan Vibert , English actor (d. 2022)
February 24 – Todd Field , American director and actor
February 25 - Lee Evans , English stand-up comedian and actor
February 26 - Mark Dacascos , American actor and martial artist
March 3 - Laura Harring , Mexican-American actress
March 6 - Yvette Wilson , American actress and comedian (d. 2012)
March 7 – Wanda Sykes , American actress, comedian and writer
March 8 - Bob Bergen , American voice actor
March 9 – Juliette Binoche , French actress
March 11
March 16 - Gore Verbinski , American director, screenwriter, producer and musician
March 17 – Rob Lowe , American actor
March 23 - Hope Davis , American actress
March 25 - LisaGay Hamilton , American actress
March 27 - Clive Rowe , British actor
March 29 - Elle Macpherson , Australian actress and model
March 30 - Ian Ziering , American actor
April 4 – David Cross , American actor and comedian
April 6 - Deborah Theaker , Canadian actress
April 7 – Russell Crowe , New Zealand actor
April 8 - Biz Markie , American rapper and actor (d. 2021)
April 12 - Mark Camacho , Canadian actor and voice actor
April 13 - Caroline Rhea , Canadian-American actress, voice artist and stand-up comedian
April 14 - Gina McKee , English actress
April 16 - Boyd Banks , Canadian stand-up comedian and actor
April 20
April 22 - Chris Makepeace , Canadian former actor
April 24
April 25 – Hank Azaria , American actor, voice actor, comedian and producer
May 1 - Scott Coffey , American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
May 5 - Don Payne , American writer and producer (d. 2013)
May 6
May 10 - Sam Pancake , American actor, writer and comedian
May 11 - Tim Blake Nelson , American actor, writer and director
May 12
May 13
May 16 - Rebecca Front , English actress, writer and comedian
May 19 - Sean Whalen , American actor and writer
May 20 - Paolo Seganti , Italian actor
May 22 - Mark Christopher Lawrence , American character actor, stand-up comedian and voice-over artist
May 25 – Ray Stevenson , Irish actor (d. 2023)
May 26 - Lenny Kravitz , American singer, songwriter and actor
May 27 - Adam Carolla , American radio personality, comedian, actor and podcaster
May 28 - Christa Miller , American actress
June 3 - James Purefoy , English actor
June 7
June 9 – Gloria Reuben , Canadian-American actress, producer, and singer
June 10 - Tony Martin , New Zealand comedian, writer and actor
June 12 - Paula Marshall , American actress
June 13
June 15 – Courteney Cox , American actress
June 21 – David Morrissey , English actor and filmmaker
June 22
June 23 - Joss Whedon , American filmmaker and composer
June 26 - Ian Tracey , Canadian actor
June 30
July 1 - Peter Marquardt , American actor and video game producer (d. 2014)
July 2 - Eric Michels , American actor (d. 2018)
July 3
July 5 - Jillian Armenante , American actress
July 7 - Tracy Reiner , American actress
July 8 – Lam Suet , Hong Kong actor
July 9 – Courtney Love , American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress
July 11
July 15 - Shari Headley , American actress
July 16 – Canti Lau , Hong Kong actor
July 17 - Heather Langenkamp , American actress, writer, director and producer
July 19 - Peter Dobson , American actor
July 20 - Dean Winters , American actor
July 22
July 26
July 28 — Lori Loughlin , American actress
July 30
August 1 - Melanie Shatner , American actress
August 2 – Mary-Louise Parker , American actress
August 4 - Sebastian Roché , French-American actor
August 6 - Lisa Boyle , American actress and model
August 7 - Tom McGrath , American voice actor, animator, screenwriter and director
August 11 - Lawrence Monoson , American retired actor
August 13 - Debi Mazar , American actress and television personality
August 14 - Andrew Kevin Walker , American screenwriter and actor
August 16 – William Salyers , American actor and voice actor
August 18 - Brian Stack , American actor, comedian and writer
August 20 – Flaminia Cinque , English actress
August 25 - Saverio Guerra , American actor
August 27 - Robert Bogue , American actor
August 29 - Dina Spybey , American actress
August 30 - Nelson Ascencio , Cuban-American actor and comedian
August 31 - Mark Lewis Jones , Welsh actor
September 1 - Welker White, American actress
September 2 – Keanu Reeves , Canadian actor
September 5
September 6 - Rosie Perez , American actress
September 10 - Raymond Cruz , American actor
September 11 - Gary Lydon , British-Irish actor
September 14
September 16 - Molly Shannon , American actress and comedian
September 19 - Jennifer Cooke , American former actress
September 20 - Maggie Cheung , Hong Kong actress
September 24 - Adam Alexi-Malle , Italian actor and singer
September 28 - Janeane Garofalo , American actress, voice artist, stand-up comedian and writer
September 30 - Monica Bellucci , Italian actress and model
October 3 – Clive Owen , English actor
October 8 - Ian Hart , English actor
October 9 - Guillermo del Toro , Mexican filmmaker
October 10
October 12 - Allen Covert , American comedian, actor, writer and producer
October 13 – Matt Walsh , American comedian and actor
October 14
October 23 - David Sobolov , Canadian voice actor and director
October 25 – Kevin Michael Richardson , American actor and voice actor
October 30 - Mark Steven Johnson , American filmmaker
October 31 - Kirk Jones , English director and screenwriter
November 2
November 5 - Famke Janssen , Dutch actress
November 6 - Arkie Whiteley , Australian actress (d. 2001)
November 7 - Garret T. Sato , American actor (d. 2020)
November 11 - Calista Flockhart , American actress
November 14 – Patrick Warburton , American actor and voice artist
November 16
November 17 - Ralph Garman , American actor, comedian, musician and radio host
November 18 - Nadia Sawalha , British actress, television personality and YouTuber
November 20 - Ned Vaughn , American actor
November 23 - Boyd Kestner , American actor
November 24 - Garret Dillahunt , American actor
November 29 – Don Cheadle , American actor
November 30 - Richard Brake , Welsh-born American character actor
December 3 - Lisanne Falk , American former actress and producer
December 4 – Marisa Tomei , American actress
December 8
December 10 - Edith González , Mexican actress and dancer (d. 2019)
December 18 - Stone Cold Steve Austin , American retired professional wrestler and actor
December 19
December 23
December 24
December 27
December 30 - George Newbern , American actor
December 31 - Michael McDonald , American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter and director
Deaths
January 21 - Joseph Schildkraut , 67, Austrian actor, The Diary of Anne Frank The Life of Emile Zola Viva Villa!
January 22 – Lissy Arna , 63, German actress, Eva in Silk The Dance Goes On
January 27 – Norman Z. McLeod , 65, American director, The Paleface The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
January 29 – Alan Ladd , 50, American actor, Shane The Blue Dahlia
February 19 – Edward Gargan , 62, American actor, Little Miss Broadway Adventures of Gallant Bess
February 24 – Frank Conroy , 73, British actor, The Ox-Bow Incident The Naked City
February 27 – Orry-Kelly , 66, Australian costume designer, Casablanca The Maltese Falcon
February 29 – Frank Albertson , 55, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life Psycho
March 1 – Dennis Moore , 56, American actor, The Lone Rider and the Bandit Overland Stagecoach
March 4 – Edwin August , 80, American actor, director and screenwriter
March 10 – Arthur Hohl , 74, American actor, Cleopatra Private Detective 62
March 23 – Peter Lorre , 59, Hungarian actor, Casablanca The Maltese Falcon
March 24 – Kitty McShane , 66, Irish actress, Old Mother Riley
April 18 – Ben Hecht , 70, American playwright and screenwriter, Notorious His Girl Friday
April 29 – J. M. Kerrigan , 79, Irish actor (Gone with the Wind
May 10 – Carol Haney , 39, American dancer, actress, The Pajama Game Invitation to the Dance
May 13 – Diana Wynyard , 58, British actress, Cavalcade Gaslight
June 20 - Edgar Barrier , 57, American actor, Phantom on the Opera Macbeth
June 27 – Mona Barrie , 54, British actress, Mystery Woman Ladies Love Danger
July 15 – Myles Connolly , 66, American screenwriter, State of the Union Hans Christian Andersen
July 26 – William A. Seiter , 73, American film director, The Beautiful and Damned Sons of the Desert Roberta
August 5 – Charles Quigley , 58, American actor, The Shadow The Game That Kills
August 6
August 12 – Ian Fleming , 56, British author of James Bond Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
August 27 – Gracie Allen , 69, American comedy actress, A Damsel in Distress The Big Broadcast of 1936
September 23 – Fred M. Wilcox , 56, American director, Forbidden Planet Lassie Come Home
September 28
October 10 – Eddie Cantor , 72, American actor, singer, comedian, Whoopee! Kid Millions
October 15 – Cole Porter , 73, American composer and songwriter, Night and Day High Society
October 19 – Russ Brown , American actor, Damn Yankees Anatomy of a Murder
October 22 – Whip Wilson , 53, American actor, Night Raiders
October 23 – Jo Swerling , 71, American screenwriter, It's a Wonderful Life Guys and Dolls
October 27 – Rudolph Maté , 66, Hungarian cinematographer and director, D.O.A. When Worlds Collide
November 10 – Sam Newfield , 64, American director, The Terror of Tiny Town I Accuse My Parents
November 22 – George Tomasini , 55, American film editor, Psycho Rear Window
December 11 – Percy Kilbride , 76, American actor, The Southerner State Fair
December 14 – William Bendix , 58, American actor, Lifeboat Detective Story
December 31 – Gertrude Michael , 53, American actress, Murder at the Vanities Women in Bondage
Film debuts
References
^ a b c d Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359 . ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6 ^ Tzioumakis, Yannis; Krämer, Peter (2018). The Hollywood Renaissance: Revisiting American Cinema's Most Celebrated Era . ISBN 978-1-5013-3787-1 Indeed, by the time of Variety My Fair Lady was at number six in the all-time chart (with domestic rentals (that is the share of ticket sales which the distributor receives in the United States of $30 million; all rental figures in this chapter relate only to the domestic market), Mary Poppins at number five ($31 million), and The Sound of Music at number one, having overtaken Gone With the Wind , a record sum to which, Variety predicted, millions would be added in 1967. ^ a b c Top 20 Films of 1964 by Domestic Revenue ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1964", Variety , 6 January 1965 p 39.
^ Tzioumakis, Yannis; Romanowski, William D. (2017). Risky Business: Rock in Film . ISBN 978-1-3514-9284-3 By October 1964, A Hard Day's Night has grossed $5.8 million in U.S. rentals. ^ Whit (November 18, 1964). "Film review: Those Calloways". Variety 236 (13): 7, 22. ^ Overview for Swingers' Paradise (1965)" , Turner Classic Movies page
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