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Overview of the events of 1969 in film
Overview of the events of 1969 in film
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.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1969 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1969
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
20th Century Fox
$29,200,000
[1]
2
The Love Bug
Buena Vista
$21,000,000
[1]
3
Midnight Cowboy
United Artists
$20,500,000
[2]
4
Easy Rider
Columbia
$16,900,000
[1]
5
Hello, Dolly!
20th Century Fox
$15,000,000
[1]
6
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Columbia
$14,600,000
[1]
7
Paint Your Wagon
Paramount
$14,500,000
[1]
8
True Grit
$14,300,000
[1]
9
Cactus Flower
Columbia
$11,900,000
[1]
10
Goodbye, Columbus
Paramount
$10,500,000
[1]
Events
Awards
Category/Organization
27th Golden Globe Awards February 2, 1970
23rd BAFTA Awards March 8, 1970
42nd Academy Awards April 7, 1970
Drama
Musical or Comedy
Best Film
Anne of the Thousand Days
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Midnight Cowboy
Best Director
Charles Jarrott
Anne of the Thousand Days
John Schlesinger
Midnight Cowboy
Best Actor
John Wayne
True Grit
Peter O'Toole
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Dustin Hoffman
John and Mary /
Midnight Cowboy
John Wayne
True Grit
Best Actress
Genevieve Bujold
Anne of the Thousand Days
Patty Duke
Me, Natalie
Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Best Supporting Actor
Gig Young
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Laurence Olivier
Oh! What a Lovely War
Gig Young
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Best Supporting Actress
Goldie Hawn
Cactus Flower
Celia Johnson
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Goldie Hawn
Cactus Flower
Best Screenplay, Adapted
Bridget Boland , John Hale and Richard Sokolove
Anne of the Thousand Days
Waldo Salt
Midnight Cowboy
Waldo Salt
Midnight Cowboy
Best Screenplay, Original
William Goldman
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Best Original Score
Burt Bacharach
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
N/A
Burt Bacharach
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Lennie Hayton and
Lionel Newman
Hello, Dolly!
Best Original Song
"
Jean "
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
N/A
"
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head "
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Best Foreign Language Film
Z
N/A
Z
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
If.... , directed by
Lindsay Anderson , United Kingdom
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Rani Radovi (Early Works ), directed by
Želimir Žilnik , Yugoslavia
Films released in 1969
By country/region
By genre/medium
Notable films released in 1969
Note: U.S. releases unless stated.
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A
Ådalen 31 , directed by
Bo Widerberg – (
Sweden )
Adelheid , directed by
František Vláčil – (
Czechoslovakia )
The Adjutant of His Excellency (Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva) – (
U.S.S.R. )
Age of Consent , directed by
Michael Powell , starring
James Mason and
Helen Mirren – (
Australia )
Alfred the Great , starring
David Hemmings – (
U.K. )
Alice's Restaurant , directed by
Arthur Penn , starring
Arlo Guthrie
All Monsters Attack (Gojira Minira Gabara Ōru Kaijū Daishingeki, also known as
Godzilla's Revenge ), directed by
Ishirō Honda – (
Japan )
All My Compatriots (Všichni dobří rodáci) – (
Czechoslovakia )
Angel in My Pocket , starring
Andy Griffith
Anne of the Thousand Days , starring
Richard Burton ,
Geneviève Bujold ,
John Colicos ,
Anthony Quayle – winner of 4
Golden Globes – (
U.K. )
The April Fools , starring
Jack Lemmon ,
Catherine Deneuve ,
Peter Lawford
Aradhana (Worship) – (
India )
Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres), directed by
Jean-Pierre Melville , starring
Lino Ventura and
Simone Signoret – (
France )
The Arrangement , directed by
Elia Kazan , starring
Kirk Douglas and
Deborah Kerr
Arthur? Arthur! , starring
Shelley Winters ,
Terry-Thomas ,
Tammy Grimes
The Assassination Bureau , directed by
Basil Dearden , starring
Oliver Reed ,
Diana Rigg ,
Telly Savalas – (
U.K. )
B
Ballad of Carl-Henning (Balladen om Carl-Henning) – (
Denmark )
Bambi Meets Godzilla , very short cult film by
Marv Newland
Battle of Britain , starring
Laurence Olivier ,
Trevor Howard ,
Michael Caine ,
Christopher Plummer – (
U.K. )
Battle of Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi), starring
Sergei Bondarchuk and
Yul Brynner – (
Yugoslavia )
The Bed-Sitting Room , directed by
Richard Lester , starring
Rita Tushingham ,
Ralph Richardson ,
Marty Feldman – (U.K.)
Before Winter Comes , starring
David Niven – (
U.K. )
The Big Bounce , starring
Ryan O'Neal and
Leigh Taylor-Young
Blue Movie , directed by
Andy Warhol
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice , directed by
Paul Mazursky , starring
Natalie Wood ,
Robert Culp ,
Elliott Gould ,
Dyan Cannon
Boy (Shonen), directed by
Nagisa Oshima – (
Japan )
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
The Brain (Le Cerveau), starring
Jean-Paul Belmondo ,
Bourvil ,
David Niven – (
France /
Italy )
The Bridge at Remagen , starring
George Segal ,
Ben Gazzara ,
Bradford Dillman ,
Robert Vaughn
The Brothers Karamazov (Bratya Karamazovy) – (
U.S.S.R. )
Burn! (Queimada), directed by
Gillo Pontecorvo , starring
Marlon Brando – (
Italy )
The Bushbaby , directed by John Trent and starring Margaret Brooks and
Lou Gossett
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , directed by
George Roy Hill , starring
Paul Newman ,
Robert Redford ,
Katharine Ross
C
Cactus Flower , starring
Walter Matthau ,
Ingrid Bergman ,
Goldie Hawn
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? , starring
Anthony Newley and
Joan Collins
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City , starring
Robert Ryan and
Chuck Connors
Carry On Camping , starring
Sid James ,
Kenneth Williams ,
Barbara Windsor – (
U.K. )
Castle Keep , directed by
Sydney Pollack , starring
Burt Lancaster ,
Patrick O'Neal ,
Peter Falk
The Chairman , starring
Gregory Peck
Change of Habit , starring
Elvis Presley ,
Mary Tyler Moore ,
Edward Asner
Chastity , starring
Cher
Che! , directed by
Richard Fleischer , starring
Omar Sharif and
Jack Palance
The Color of Pomegranates (Nran guyne ) – (
U.S.S.R. )
The Comic , directed by
Carl Reiner , starring
Dick Van Dyke
Il Commissario Pepe (Police Chief pepe), starring
Ugo Tognazzi – (
Italy )
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes , starring
Kurt Russell
The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol) – (
Czechoslovakia )
D
The Damned (La caduta degli dei), directed by
Luchino Visconti , starring
Dirk Bogarde and
Ingrid Thulin – (
Italy /
West Germany )
Daughter of the Mind , starring
Don Murray and
Ray Milland
De Sade , starring
Keir Dullea ,
Senta Berger ,
John Huston – (U.S./West Germany)
Death of a Gunfighter , starring
Richard Widmark and
Lena Horne
Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto), starring
Michel Piccoli and
Anita Pallenberg – (
Italy )
Don't Drink the Water , directed by
Howard Morris , written by
Woody Allen , starring
Jackie Gleason ,
Estelle Parsons ,
Ted Bessell ,
Michael Constantine
Do Raaste (Two Roads) – (
India )
Doppelgänger , starring
Roy Thinnes ,
Lynn Loring ,
Herbert Lom
Double Suicide (Shinjū: Ten no amijima) – (
Japan )
Downhill Racer , starring
Robert Redford ,
Gene Hackman ,
Camilla Sparv
The Dragon of Evil Against the Warrior Saint (O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro), directed by
Glauber Rocha – (
Brazil )
E
Easy Rider , directed by and starring
Dennis Hopper , with
Peter Fonda and
Jack Nicholson
End of a Priest (Farářův konec) – (
Czechoslovakia )
Eros Plus Massacre (Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) – (
Japan )
Everything for Sale (Wszystko na sprzedaż), written and directed by
Andrzej Wajda – (
Poland )
The Exquisite Cadaver (Las crueles), starring
Capucine – (
Spain )
The Extraordinary Seaman , directed by
John Frankenheimer , starring
David Niven ,
Faye Dunaway ,
Alan Alda
Eye of the Cat , starring
Michael Sarrazin ,
Gayle Hunnicutt ,
Eleanor Parker
F
G
Gaily, Gaily , directed by
Norman Jewison , starring
Beau Bridges ,
Melina Mercouri ,
George Kennedy ,
Margot Kidder
A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce), directed by
Robert Bresson , starring
Dominique Sanda – (
France )
The Girl from Rio , starring
Shirley Eaton ,
Richard Wyler and
George Sanders – (
Spain /
West Germany /U.S.)
Goodbye, Columbus , starring
Richard Benjamin ,
Ali MacGraw and
Jack Klugman
Goodbye, Mr. Chips , directed by
Herbert Ross , starring
Peter O'Toole and
Petula Clark
Good Morning, My Dear Wife , starring
Salah Zulfikar and
Nelly – (
Egypt )
Goyokin , directed by
Hideo Gosha – (
Japan )
The Grasshopper , directed by
Jerry Paris , starring
Jacqueline Bisset and
Jim Brown
The Great Love (Le grand amour) – (
France )
Guns of the Magnificent Seven , directed by
Paul Wendkos , starring
George Kennedy and
James Whitmore
The Gypsy Moths , directed by
John Frankenheimer , starring
Burt Lancaster ,
Deborah Kerr ,
Gene Hackman ,
Bonnie Bedelia
H
Hail, Hero! directed by
David Miller Starring
Michael Douglas and
Peter Strauss .
Hamlet , directed by
Tony Richardson , starring
Nicol Williamson ,
Marianne Faithfull ,
Anthony Hopkins – (
U.K. )
Handcuffs (Lisice) – (
Yugoslavia )
Hannibal Brooks , starring
Oliver Reed
The Happy Ending , starring
Jean Simmons ,
John Forsythe ,
Shirley Jones ,
Lloyd Bridges and
Teresa Wright
Hard Contract , starring
James Coburn ,
Lee Remick ,
Burgess Meredith – (
U.K. )
The Haunted House of Horror (a.k.a. Horror House or The Dark ), starring
Frankie Avalon and
Jill Haworth – (
U.K. )
Hello, Dolly! , directed by
Gene Kelly , starring
Barbra Streisand ,
Walter Matthau ,
Michael Crawford ,
Tommy Tune ,
Louis Armstrong
Hello Down There , starring
Tony Randall ,
Janet Leigh ,
Jim Backus ,
Charlotte Rae ,
Ken Berry ,
Roddy McDowall ,
Richard Dreyfuss
Honeycomb (La madriguera), directed by
Carlos Saura , starring
Geraldine Chaplin – (
Spain )
The Honeymoon Killers , starring
Tony LoBianco and
Shirley Stoler
Hook, Line & Sinker , starring
Jerry Lewis and
Peter Lawford
How to Commit Marriage , starring
Bob Hope ,
Jackie Gleason ,
Jane Wyman ,
Tina Louise ,
Maureen Arthur ,
Leslie Nielsen
Heaven Is Never a Great Distance , starring
Mohammad Ali Fardin – Iran
I
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium , starring
Suzanne Pleshette ,
Ian McShane ,
Michael Constantine
I'm an Elephant, Madame (Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame) – (
West Germany )
The Italian Job , directed by
Peter Collinson , starring
Michael Caine and
Noël Coward – (
U.K. )
The Illustrated Man , starring
Rod Steiger and
Claire Bloom
It's Tough Being a Man (Otoko wa tsurai yo) – (
Japan )
Ittefaq , starring
Rajesh Khanna – (
India )
J
K
L
L'amour fou , directed by
Jacques Rivette – (
France )
The Land (Al-ard), directed by
Youssef Chahine – (
Egypt )
Larks on a String (Skřivánci na niti), directed by
Jiří Menzel – (
Czechoslovakia ) – banned until
1990
Last Summer , starring
Barbara Hershey ,
Richard Thomas ,
Bruce Davison ,
Catherine Burns
Laughter in the Dark (La Chambre obscure), directed by
Tony Richardson , starring
Nicol Williamson and
Anna Karina – (
France /
U.K. )
Law and Order , directed by
Frederick Wiseman (made for television)
The Learning Tree , directed by
Gordon Parks
Lions Love , directed by
Agnès Varda
Lock Up Your Daughters , starring
Christopher Plummer ,
Susannah York ,
Glynis Johns
Lost Flight , starring
Anne Francis ,
Lloyd Bridges ,
Billy Dee Williams
The Lost Man , starring
Sidney Poitier and
Joanna Shimkus
The Love God? , directed by
Nat Hiken , starring
Don Knotts ,
Anne Francis ,
Maureen Arthur
Love Is Colder Than Death (Liebe ist kälter als der Tod ), directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (
West Germany )
M
Machine Gun McCain , starring
John Cassavetes and
Peter Falk
Mackenna's Gold , starring
Gregory Peck ,
Telly Savalas ,
Camilla Sparv , and
Omar Sharif
Macunaíma , directed by
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade – (
Brazil )
The Madwoman of Chaillot , starring
Katharine Hepburn ,
Paul Henreid ,
Yul Brynner ,
Charles Boyer ,
John Gavin ,
Danny Kaye
The Magic Christian , starring
Peter Sellers ,
Ringo Starr ,
Raquel Welch – (
U.K. )
Marlowe , directed by
Paul Bogart , starring
James Garner ,
Gayle Hunnicutt ,
Rita Moreno ,
Carroll O'Connor ,
Bruce Lee
Marooned , directed by
John Sturges , starring
Gregory Peck ,
David Janssen ,
Richard Crenna ,
James Franciscus ,
Gene Hackman
Marquis de Sade: Justine , starring
Romina Power ,
Klaus Kinski ,
Jack Palance – (Italy)
Medea , directed by
Pier Paolo Pasolini , starring
Maria Callas – (Italy/France/
West Germany )
Medium Cool , directed by
Haskell Wexler , starring
Robert Forster ,
Marianna Hill ,
Peter Bonerz
Midas Run , starring
Richard Crenna ,
Anne Heywood ,
Fred Astaire
Midnight Cowboy , directed by
John Schlesinger , screenplay by
Waldo Salt , starring
Jon Voight and
Dustin Hoffman
The Milky Way (La voie lactée), directed by
Luis Buñuel – (France/
Italy /West Germany)
Mississippi Mermaid (La sirène du Mississipi), directed by
François Truffaut , starring
Catherine Deneuve and
Jean-Paul Belmondo – (
France )
The Monitors , starring
Guy Stockwell and
Susan Oliver
Mon oncle Benjamin (My Uncle Benjamin) – (
France )
Monsieur Hawarden – (
Belgium /
Netherlands )
Monte Carlo or Bust! , aka
Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies , starring
Tony Curtis ,
Peter Sellers ,
Dudley Moore – (U.K./France/Italy)
More , directed by
Barbet Schroeder , starring
Mimsy Farmer and
Klaus Grünberg – (
France /
West Germany )
More Dead Than Alive , starring
Clint Walker and
Anne Francis
Mosquito Squadron , starring
David McCallum – (
U.K. )
My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud), directed by
Éric Rohmer – (France)
N
O
P
Paint Your Wagon , directed by
Joshua Logan , starring
Lee Marvin ,
Clint Eastwood ,
Jean Seberg , with songs by
Lerner and Loewe
The Passion of Anna , directed by
Ingmar Bergman , starring
Max von Sydow ,
Liv Ullmann ,
Bibi Andersson – (
Sweden )
Phantom India , directed by
Louis Malle – (
France ; made for television)
Pigsty (Porcile), directed by
Pier Paolo Pasolini – (
Italy )
La Piscine (The Swimming Pool), starring
Alain Delon and
Romy Schneider – (
France )
Play Dirty , starring
Michael Caine – (
U.K. )
Popi , directed by
Arthur Hiller , starring
Alan Arkin and
Rita Moreno
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie , directed by
Ronald Neame , starring
Maggie Smith (
Academy Award winner) – (U.K.)
The Promise , starring
John Castle and
Ian McKellen – (U.K.)
Putney Swope , directed by
Robert Downey, Sr.
Q
R
The Rain People , directed by
Francis Ford Coppola , starring
James Caan ,
Robert Duvall ,
Shirley Knight
Rani Radovi (Early Years ) – Golden Bear winner – (
Yugoslavia )
Rascal , starring
Bill Mumy and
Steve Forrest
The Red Tent (Krasnaya palatka) – (
U.S.S.R. /
Italy /U.K.)
The Reivers , based on the novel by
William Faulkner , directed by
Mark Rydell , starring
Steve McQueen ,
Rupert Crosse ,
Sharon Farrell ,
Mitch Vogel ,
Will Geer , narrated by
Burgess Meredith
La residencia (The Boarding School), starring
Lilli Palmer – (
Spain )
Rider on the Rain (Le Passager de la pluie), directed by
René Clément , starring
Charles Bronson and
Marlène Jobert – (
France )
Ring of Bright Water , starring
Bill Travers and
Virginia McKenna – (
U.K. )
Riot , starring
Jim Brown and
Gene Hackman
The Royal Hunt of the Sun , starring
Robert Shaw and
Christopher Plummer – (U.K./U.S.)
S
Sabata , starring
Lee Van Cleef – (
Italy )
Salesman , directed by
Albert and David Maysles and
Charlotte Zwerin
Sam Whiskey , starring
Burt Reynolds and
Angie Dickinson
Satyakam , starring
Dharmendra and
Ashok Kumar – (
India )
The Secret of Santa Vittoria , directed by
Stanley Kramer , starring
Anthony Quinn and
Anna Magnani
Shining Star , starring
Ahmad Ghadakchian and
Forouzan – (Iran)
Shinsengumi , starring
Toshiro Mifune – (
Japan )
The Sicilian Clan (Le clan des siciliens), starring
Jean Gabin ,
Alain Delon and
Lino Ventura – (
France )
Sinful Davey , directed by
John Huston , starring
John Hurt
Slaves , directed by
Herbert Biberman , starring
Dionne Warwick ,
Ossie Davis and
Stephen Boyd
Some Girls Do , starring
Richard Johnson and
Daliah Lavi
Some Kind of a Nut , starring
Dick Van Dyke ,
Rosemary Forsyth and
Angie Dickinson
The Sorrow and the Pity , directed by
Marcel Ophuls – (
France )
The Southern Star , starring
George Segal ,
Orson Welles and
Ursula Andress
Staircase , directed by
Stanley Donen , starring
Rex Harrison and
Richard Burton
The Sterile Cuckoo , starring
Liza Minnelli
Stiletto , starring
Alex Cord ,
Britt Ekland ,
Joseph Wiseman and
Patrick O'Neal
Support Your Local Sheriff! , starring
James Garner ,
Joan Hackett ,
Walter Brennan ,
Harry Morgan and
Jack Elam
Sweet Charity , directed by
Bob Fosse , starring
Shirley MacLaine
T
Take the Money and Run , directed by and starring
Woody Allen , with
Janet Margolin and
Louise Lasser
A Talent for Loving , directed by
Richard Quine , starring
Richard Widmark ,
Cesar Romero ,
Topol ,
Fran Jeffries
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? , directed by
Sydney Pollack , starring
Jane Fonda ,
Gig Young ,
Michael Sarrazin ,
Red Buttons
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here , starring
Robert Redford ,
Katharine Ross ,
Robert Blake
The Great Bank Robbery
This Man Must Die (Que la bête meure), directed by
Claude Chabrol – (
France /
Italy )
Three Into Two Won't Go , starring
Rod Steiger ,
Claire Bloom ,
Peggy Ashcroft
Till Death Us Do Part , starring
Warren Mitchell and
Dandy Nichols – (
U.K. )
A Time for Dying , starring
Audie Murphy and
Anne Randall
Topaz , directed by
Alfred Hitchcock , starring
Frederick Stafford ,
John Forsythe ,
John Vernon ,
Roscoe Lee Browne
Troika , directed by
Fredric Hobbs , starring Hobbs, Richard Faun, Morgan Upton,
Nate Thurmond , and Gloria Rossi
The Trouble with Girls , directed by
Peter Tewksbury , starring
Elvis Presley ,
Vincent Price ,
Dabney Coleman ,
Sheree North ,
John Carradine ,
Susan Olsen
True Grit , directed by
Henry Hathaway , starring
John Wayne ,
Kim Darby ,
Glen Campbell ,
Jeff Corey ,
Robert Duvall ,
Strother Martin ,
Dennis Hopper
Twinky , starring
Charles Bronson and
Susan George – (
U.K. )
U
V
The Valley of Gwangi , starring
James Franciscus ,
Gila Golan ,
Richard Carlson , with visual effects by
Ray Harryhausen completing work by
Willis O'Brien
Viimne reliikvia , directed by
Grigori Kromanov (
Estonian SSR ,
U.S.S.R. )
Viva Max! , directed by
Jerry Paris , starring
Peter Ustinov ,
Pamela Tiffin ,
John Astin ,
Jonathan Winters
W
The Wedding Party , directed by
Wilford Leach ,
Brian De Palma and Cynthia Monroe
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? , starring
Geraldine Page ,
Ruth Gordon and
Rosemary Forsyth
What's Good for the Goose , starring
Norman Wisdom and
Sally Geeson – (
U.K. )
Where It's At , starring
David Janssen and
Rosemary Forsyth
Where's Jack? , starring
Stanley Baker and
Tommy Steele – (
U.K. )
White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni), directed by
Vladimir Motyl – (
U.S.S.R. )
The Wild Bunch , directed by
Sam Peckinpah , starring
William Holden ,
Robert Ryan ,
Ernest Borgnine ,
Edmond O'Brien ,
Ben Johnson and
Warren Oates
Winning , starring
Paul Newman ,
Joanne Woodward ,
Richard Thomas ,
Robert Wagner
The Witness (A tanu), directed by
Péter Bacsó – (
Hungary )
Women in Love , directed by
Ken Russell , starring
Alan Bates ,
Oliver Reed and
Glenda Jackson – (
U.K. )
The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Nagagutsu o Haita Neko), directed by
Kimio Yabuki – (
Japan )
The Wrecking Crew , starring
Dean Martin ,
Elke Sommer ,
Nancy Kwan ,
Tina Louise and
Sharon Tate
Y
Z
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January 3 -
John Ales , American actor
January 5 -
Shea Whigham , American actor
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Norman Reedus , American actor
January 8 -
Ami Dolenz , American former actress
January 14 –
Jason Bateman , American actor
January 17 –
James Waterston , American actor
January 18 –
Dave Bautista , American actor and former professional wrestler
January 20 -
Reno Wilson , American actor
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January 22 -
Olivia d'Abo , British actress and singer
January 27 –
Patton Oswalt , American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer
January 28 -
Kathryn Morris , American actress
February 3 -
Shane Rangi , New Zealand actor
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Brandy Ledford , American actress and model
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February 8
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February 12 -
Darren Aronofsky , American director, producer and screenwriter
February 13 -
Andrew Bryniarski , American actor
February 22 -
Thomas Jane , American actor
February 26 -
Steve Agee , American comedian, actor, writer and musician
February 28 -
Robert Sean Leonard , American actor
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Javier Bardem , Spanish actor
March 8 -
Don Hall , American director, voice actor and writer
March 10
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Terrence Howard , American actor
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Kim Raver , American actress and producer
March 16 -
Judah Friedlander , American actor and comedian
March 17 -
Patrick Van Horn , American actor
March 23 -
Richard Cadell , Illusionist, puppeteer and screenwriter
March 27 -
Kevin Corrigan , American character actor
March 28 -
Brett Ratner , American director and producer
April 2 –
Ajay Devgan , Indian actor
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Ben Mendelsohn , Australian actor
April 6 –
Paul Rudd , American actor
April 21 –
Toby Stephens , English actor
April 23 –
Byron Thames , American actor
April 24 -
Rory McCann , Scottish actor
April 25
April 29 -
Paul Adelstein , American actor
May 1 –
Wes Anderson , American director
May 2 -
Karel Dobrý , Czech actor
May 10 -
Lenny Venito , American actor
May 12 -
Kim Fields , American actress and director
May 14 –
Cate Blanchett , Australian actress
May 15 -
Kirk DeMicco , American filmmaker
May 22 -
Michael Kelly , American actor
May 24 –
Carl Anthony Payne II , American actor
May 25 –
Anne Heche , American actress (died
2022 )
May 27 -
Glenn Ficarra , American screenwriter, director and producer
June 1 –
Teri Polo , American actress
June 4
June 6 -
Nina Sosanya , English actress and narrator
June 7
June 8 -
J. P. Manoux , American actor, director and writer
June 9 -
Josh Hamilton , American actor
June 11 –
Peter Dinklage , American actor
June 15 –
Ice Cube , American actor and rapper
June 18 -
Ella Kenion , English comedy actress
June 19 -
Sean Anders , American director and screenwriter
June 21 -
Lloyd Avery II , American actor (died
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June 23 -
Martin Klebba , American character actor and stunt performer
June 24 -
Jensen Daggett , American actress
June 28
June 29 -
Aleks Paunovic , Canadian actor
July 3 -
Gedeon Burkhard , German actor
July 4 -
Charles Paraventi , American-born Brazilian actor
July 5 -
RZA , American rapper, actor and filmmaker
July 6 -
Brian Van Holt , American actor
July 7 -
Cree Summer , American-Canadian actress, voice actress and singer
July 10
July 13 -
Ken Jeong , American stand-up comedian, actor and producer
July 17
July 19 -
Bodhi Elfman , American actor
July 21 –
Godfrey , American actor, comedian
July 22 –
James Arnold Taylor , American actor, writer and producer
July 24
July 25 -
Dave B. Mitchell , American voice actor
July 28
July 30 -
Simon Baker , Australian actor
July 31 -
Loren Dean , American actor
August 4 –
Vlad Ivanov , Romanian actor
August 5
August 6 -
Chris Edgerly , American voice actor, comedian and singer
August 8 -
Chris Beetem , American actor
August 15 -
Kimberley Kates , American actress and producer
August 16 -
Kate Higgins , American voice actress and singer
August 17 -
Donnie Wahlberg , American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and producer
August 18
August 19
August 21 -
Nathan Jones , Australian actor and former professional wrestler
August 24 -
Pierfrancesco Favino , Italian actor and producer
August 27 -
Reece Shearsmith , English actor, writer and comedian
August 28 –
Jack Black , American actor, comedian, musician
September 3 -
Noah Baumbach , American director and screenwriter
September 4 -
Noah Taylor , Australian actor
September 7 -
Angie Everhart , American actress
September 13
September 14
Bong Joon-ho , Korean director and screenwriter
Oscar Kightley , Samoan-born New Zealand actor, television presenter, writer, director and comedian
September 22 -
Sue Perkins , English actress, broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer
September 23 -
Crispin Bonham-Carter , English actor
September 25 –
Catherine Zeta-Jones , Welsh actress
September 26 -
David Slade , British director and actor
September 29 –
Erika Eleniak , American actress
September 30
October 1 –
Zach Galifianakis , American actor
October 3 –
Gwen Stefani , American singer, songwriter and actress
October 4 -
Abraham Benrubi , American actor
October 8
October 9 –
Steve McQueen , English director
October 10
October 15 –
Dominic West , English actor
October 17
October 19
October 22 -
Spike Jonze , American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
October 25 -
Nika Futterman , American actress, voice actress and singer
October 26 -
Robert Maillet , Canadian actor and former professional wrestler
November 4 –
Matthew McConaughey , American actor
November 10
November 13 –
Gerard Butler , Scottish actor
[3]
November 19 -
Erika Alexander , American actress, writer and producer
November 20 -
Callie Thorne , American actress
November 21 -
John Ortiz , American actor
November 27
November 28
November 30
December 5 -
Eric Etebari , Iranian-American actor
December 7 -
Patrice O'Neal , American stand-up comedian, actor and radio personality (died
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 15
December 19 –
Kristy Swanson , American actress
December 21 –
Julie Delpy , French actress
December 27 -
Sarah Vowell , American actress
December 29
Deaths
January 1 –
Barton MacLane , 66, American actor,
The Maltese Falcon ,
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
[4]
January 3 –
Howard McNear , 63, American actor,
Anatomy of a Murder ,
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ,
Blue Hawaii ,
Follow That Dream
[5]
[6]
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
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 ,
Meet Me in St. Louis ,
A Star Is Born
[7]
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
[8]
July 26 –
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
[9]
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
Film debuts
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Top 20 Films of 1969 by Domestic Revenue
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"Gerard Butler" . BFI . Archived from
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"Movie Bad Guy, Barton MacLane, Dead At 66" . The Evening Independent . Associated Press. January 2, 1969. Retrieved 3 April 2017 .
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"Judy Garland | American singer and actress" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 13 May 2019 .
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