Cineliteracy: What You Need to Know about 1980 as Movie Year
My Oscar Book:
Top-Grossing Films of 1980
Rank Title Distributor Box-office gross
1 The Empire Strikes Back 20th Century Fox $209,398,025
2 9 to 5 $103,290,500
3 Stir Crazy Columbia $101,300,000
4 Airplane! Paramount $83,453,539
5 Any Which Way You Can Warner Bros. $70,687,344
6 Private Benjamin $69,847,348
7 Coal Miner’s Daughter Universal $67,182,787
8 Smokey and the Bandit II $66,132,626
9 The Blue Lagoon Columbia $58,853,106
10 The Blues Brothers Universal $57,229,890
Events
April 29 –
Hitchcock, known as “The Master of Suspense”, dies at his home in Bel Air, California, at age 80.
May 21 –
The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the year’s highest-grossing film (just as its predecessor, Star Wars, was 3 years prior).
June 9 –
Richard Pryor sets himself on fire while free-basing cocaine and drinking 151-proof rum. He ran down his street in Northridge, California, until subdued by police.
June 20 – The Blues Brothers is released, and in addition to becoming one of the year’s top-grossing films, it also became the first feature based on characters created on Saturday Night Live (SNL)
November 4 –
Former Screen Actors Guild president and actor Ronald Reagan wins the 1980 US presidential election in landslide victory.
November 7- Steve McQueen dies at the age of 50 after surgery to remove tumors in his neck after previously diagnosed with lung cancer.
November 19 – Heaven’s Gate, the biggest box office bombs of all-time, and its failure bankrupts United Artists, which is then sold to Lorimar Productions.
Comedy films and upbeat entertainment dominate theaters in 1980, a response to poor morale in a nation suffering through economic recession, which generally increased theatrical visits as audiences sought escapism and ignored romantic films and depictions of blue-collar life.
The financial success and low production cost of comedies like Blazing Saddles (1974) and Animal House (1978), leads to further demand for comedies; Airplane!, The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, and The Jerk, were all released that year. The average cost of making films had risen to $6 million which had reduced the number of films made for niche audiences. Some studios continued to release a variety of films, hoping that few significant successes would compensate for other failures.
A surge of interest in sci-fi following Star Wars’ release led to many low-budget entries in the genre, and big budget like Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Black Hole, both released in late 1979, months before The Empire Strikes Back.
My Oscar Book:
Awards
53rd Academy ()scar) Awards, March 31, 1981
Best Film: Ordinary People
Best Director: Robert Redford, Ordinary People
Best Actor: Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
Best Actress: Mary Tyler Moore,
Ordinary People Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner’s Daughter
Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People
Best Supporting Actress Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard
Best Screenplay, Adapted, Alvin Sargent, Ordinary People
Best Screenplay, Original Bo Goldman, Melvin and Howard
Best Original Score:
Best Original Song “Fame”
Fame N/A “Fame”
Fame
Best Foreign Language Film: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Palme d’Or (Cannes Film Fest): Tie; All That Jazz, Bob Fosse, US; Kagemusha, Kurosawa, Japan
Golden Lion (Venice Film Fest): Atlantic City, Louis Malle, US/France; Gloria, Cassavetes, US
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Fest): Heartland, Richard Pearce, US; Palermo or Wolfsburg (Palermo oder Wolfsburg), Schroeter, West Germany
Notable Films released in 1980
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9 to 5, Colin Higgins, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton
A
Airplane!, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves
Alligator, Lewis Teague, starring Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Gazzo
Altered States, Ken Russell, starring William Hurt, Blair Brown
American Gigolo, Paul Schrader, starring Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton
Any Which Way You Can, Buddy Van Horn, starring Clint Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, Barry Corbin, Ruth Gordon
Atlantic City (Released in U.S. in 1981), Louis Malle, starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon – (Canada/France) – Golden Lion winner
The Awakening, starring Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Stephanie Zimbalist (U.K.)
B
Babylon, starring Brinsley Forde – (U.K.)
A Bad Son (un mauvais fils), directed by Claude Sautet – (France)
Bad Timing, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Denholm Elliott, Harvey Keitel – (U.K.)
The Baltimore Bullet, starring James Coburn
Berlin Alexanderplatz, a TV mini-series directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Gunther Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa – (West Germany)
The Big Brawl, starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong/United States)
The Big Red One, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine
Bizalom (Confidence), directed by István Szabó – (Hungary)
The Black Marble, directed by Harold Becker, starring Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton
The Blood of Hussain, directed by Jamil Dehlavi – (Pakistan)
The Blue Lagoon, starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins
The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Henry Gibson
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!!)
Borderline, directed by Jerrold Freedman, starring Charles Bronson, Wilford Brimley, Bruno Kirby, Ed Harris, Kenneth McMillan, John Ashton
Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Edward Woodward – (Australia)
Bronco Billy, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Sam Bottoms, Scatman Crothers
Brubaker, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Robert Redford, David Keith
C
Caboblanco, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda
Caddyshack, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O’Keefe, Cindy Morgan, Bill Murray
The Candidate (Der Kandidat), directed by Volker Schlöndorff – (West Germany)
Cannibal Holocaust, directed by Ruggero Deodato, starring Robert Kerman – (Italy)
Can’t Stop the Music, directed by Nancy Walker, starring Valerie Perrine, Caitlyn Jenner, Steve Guttenberg, Village People
Carny, starring Jodie Foster, Gary Busey and Robbie Robertson
Chann Pardesi, starring Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Om Puri – (India)
A Change of Seasons, starring Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek
The Changeling, starring George C. Scott – (Canada)
Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie
Children’s Island (Barnens ö) – (Sweden)
La Cicala (The Cicada), starring Anthony Franciosa and Virna Lisi – (Italy)
City of Women (La città delle donne), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
The Club, starring Jack Thompson – (Australia)
Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones
The Competition, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick, Sam Wanamaker
The Constant Factor (Constans) – (Poland)
The Crime of Cuenca (El crimen de Cuenca) – (Spain)
Cruising, directed by William Friedkin, starring Al Pacino
Cutting It Short (Postřižiny), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia)
D
Dadar Kirti (Deeds of My Elder Brother) – (India)
Death Watch (La Mort en direct), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Romy Schneider and Harvey Keitel – (France)
Delusion directed by Alan Beattie, starring Patricia Pearcy and Joseph Cotten
Die Laughing, starring Robby Benson and Bud Cort
Dinosaurs, directed by Will Vinton
The Dogs of War, starring Christopher Walken – (US/UK)
Dostana (Friendship), starring Amitabh Bachchan – (India)
Dressed to Kill, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Angie Dickinson
E
Elisita – (Spain)
The Elephant Man, directed by David Lynch, starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins – (US/UK)
The Empire Strikes Back, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Gui da gui), directed by and starring Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie)), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jacques Dutronc and Isabelle Huppert – (France)
The Exterminator, starring Robert Ginty and Samantha Eggar
F
Fade to Black, starring Dennis Christopher
The Falls, directed by Peter Greenaway – (U.K.)
Fame, directed by Alan Parker, starring Irene Cara
Fatso, directed by and starring Anne Bancroft, with Dom DeLuise
The Final Countdown, starring Kirk Douglas, Katharine Ross, Martin Sheen
The First Deadly Sin, starring Frank Sinatra, David Dukes, Martin Gabel, Brenda Vaccaro, Faye Dunaway
First Family, directed by Buck Henry, starring Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Gilda Radner
Flash Gordon, directed by Mike Hodges, starring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Chaim Topol – (US/UK)
The Fog, directed by John Carpenter, starring Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis
Foolin’ Around, starring Gary Busey, Annette O’Toole, Eddie Albert, Cloris Leachman
The Formula, starring George C. Scott and Marlon Brando
Foxes, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Scott Baio and Adam Faith
Friday the 13th, directed by Sean S. Cunningham, starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King and Harry Crosby
G
The Gamekeeper, directed by Ken Loach – (U.K.)
Gamera: Super Monster (Uchu Kaijū Gamera) – (Japan)
Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter), starring Eva Mattes – (West Germany)
Gilda Live, starring Gilda Radner, Father Guido Sarducci
Gloria, Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands – Golden Lion winner
The Gods Must Be Crazy, directed by Jamie Uys, starring N!xau, Sandra Prinsloo and Marius Weyers – (South Africa)
Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) – (Canada)
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, a mockumentary directed by Julien Temple, featuring The Sex Pistols and Malcolm McLaren – (U.K.)
H
Health, a.k.a. H.E.A.L.T.H., directed by Robert Altman, starring Carol Burnett, Lauren Bacall, Glenda Jackson, James Garner
Heart Beat, starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard
He Knows You’re Alone, starring Don Scardino and Caitlin O’Heaney
Heaven’s Gate, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Jeff Bridges
Herbie Goes Bananas, directed by Vincent McEveety, starring Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman and Charles Martin Smith
Hero at Large, starring John Ritter and Anne Archer
Hirak Rajar Deshe (Kingdom of Diamonds), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
The Hit (Trhák) – (Czechoslovakia)
Home Movies, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kirk Douglas, Vincent Gardenia, Gerrit Graham, Nancy Allen
Hopscotch, Ronald Neame, starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson
How to Beat the High Cost of Living, starring Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Jane Curtin, Dabney Coleman, Richard Benjamin
Humanoids from the Deep, starring Vic Morrow, Doug McClure, Ann Turkel
The Hunter, starring Steve McQueen (in his final film), Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, Eli Wallach
I
The Idolmaker, Taylor Hackford, starring Ray Sharkey and Peter Gallagher
Inferno, directed by Dario Argento – (Italy)
Inside Moves, directed by Richard Donner, starring John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid
The Island, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Michael Caine
It’s My Turn, directed by Claudia Weill, starring Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin
J
The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz, Laurence Olivier
Just Tell Me What You Want, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Ali MacGraw, Alan King, Peter Weller, Myrna Loy
K
Karz (In Debt), starring Rishi Kapoor – (India)
Kagemusha, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara – (Japan) – Palme d’Or winner
Khubsoorat, starring Ashok Kumar and Rekha – (India)
Klondike Fever, starring Jeff East, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson, Gordon Pinsent – (Canada)
L
Ladies’ Choice (Dami Kanyat), directed by Ivan Andonov, starring Stefan Danailov – (Bulgaria)
The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark, starring Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Ricky Schroder
The Last Married Couple in America, starring Natalie Wood, George Segal, Valerie Harper, Richard Benjamin
The Last Metro (Le dernier metro), Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu – (France)
The Lathe of Heaven, starring Bruce Davison
Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Tiān yún shān chuán qí) – (China)
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, a documentary film
Little Darlings, starring Tatum O’Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante and Matt Dillon
Little Miss Marker, starring Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis
The Long Good Friday, directed by John Mackenzie, starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren – (U.K.)
The Long Riders, directed by Walter Hill, starring the Keach brothers, Carradine brothers and Quaid brothers
Loulou, starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu – (France)
Loving Couples, directed by Jack Smight, starring Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Stephen Collins, Susan Sarandon
M
The Magician of Lublin, starring Alan Arkin, Valerie Perrine, Louise Fletcher
The Man with Bogart’s Face, starring Robert Sacchi, Misty Rowe, Victor Buono, Yvonne De Carlo, Herbert Lom
Manila by Night – (Philippines)
McVicar, directed by Tom Clegg, starring Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell – (U.K.)
Melvin and Howard, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen
Midnight Madness, directed by Michael Nankin and David Wechter, starring David Naughton, Debra Clinger, Stephen Furst, Eddie Deezen, Maggie Roswell, Brad Wilkin, Michael J. Fox, Alan Solomon
The Mirror Crack’d, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson – (U.K.)
Mon oncle d’Amérique, directed by Alain Resnais, starring Gérard Depardieu – (France) – Cannes Special Jury Prize
Motel Hell, starring Rory Calhoun
The Mountain Men, starring Charlton Heston and Brian Keith
My Bodyguard, directed by Tony Bill, starring Matt Dillon, Adam Baldwin, Chris Makepeace, Martin Mull
N
The Nest (El Nido) – (Spain)
Nightkill, starring Robert Mitchum
Nijinsky, starring George de la Peña and Alan Bates
The Ninth Configuration, directed by William Peter Blatty, starring Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller
O
O Megalexandros (Alexander the Great), directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos – (Greece)
Oh, God! Book II, starring George Burns
One Trick Pony, written by and starring Paul Simon, with Blair Brown, Joan Hackett, Rip Torn
The Orchestra Conductor (Dyrygent), directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring John Gielgud – (Poland)
Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford, starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern
Out of the Blue, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, with Linda Manz, Raymond Burr – (Canada)
P
Pepi, Luci, Bom, directed by Pedro Almodóvar – (Spain)
Palermo or Wolfsburg – (West Germany) – Golden Bear winner
Permanent Vacation, directed by Jim Jarmusch
The Pilot, directed by and starring Cliff Robertson, with Diane Baker and Gordon MacRae
Playing for Time, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander
Popeye, directed by Robert Altman, starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall
Pray TV, starring Dabney Coleman
Private Benjamin, directed by Howard Zieff, starring Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Harry Dean Stanton
The Private Eyes, starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts
Prom Night, starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis
Q
Qurbani (Sacrifice), directed by and starring Feroz Khan – (India)
R
Raging Bull, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty
Resurrection, starring Ellen Burstyn and Eva Le Gallienne
The Return of the King, animated film, voices of Orson Bean, John Huston, William Conrad
Return of the Secaucus 7, directed by John Sayles
El Retorno del Hombre Lobo (Return of the Werewolf) – (Spain)
Roadie, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Meat Loaf and Kaki Hunter
Le Roi et l’oiseau (The King and the Mocking Bird), animated film – (France)
Rockshow, concert film featuring Paul McCartney and Wings – (U.K.)
Rough Cut, directed by Don Siegel, starring Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven
Rude Boy, a rockumentary featuring The Clash – (U.K.)
S
Saturn 3, Stanley Donen, starring Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel
The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore – (UK/US/Switzerland)
See You in the Next War (enja u sledećem ratu) – (Yugoslavia)
Seems Like Old Times, starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase and Charles Grodin
Serial, starring Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Christopher Lee, Bill Macy, Sally Kellerman, Tom Smothers
The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Simon, starring Alan Arkin
A Small Circle of Friends, starring Brad Davis and Karen Allen
Smokey and the Bandit II, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed and Dom DeLuise
Solo Sunny – (East Germany)
Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour
Special Treatment (Poseban tretman) – (Yugoslavia)
Stardust Memories, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Charlotte Rampling and Jessica Harper
Stir Crazy, directed by Sidney Poitier, starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder
Stalker, Tarkovsky and released in 1979 but later released in 1980
The Stunt Man, Richard Rush, starring O’Toole, Barbara Hershey, Steve Railsback
Sunday Lovers, starring Gene Wilder, Roger Moore, Lino Ventura
Superman II, starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp
T
Terror Train, starring Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner
La terrazza (The Terrace), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)
That Sinking Feeling, Bill Forsyth, starring John Gordon Sinclair – (U.K.)
Those Lips, Those Eyes, starring Frank Langella, Glynnis O’Connor, Tom Hulce
Times Square, directed by Allen Moyle, starring Robin Johnson, Trini Alvarado, Tim Curry
To Love the Damned (Maledetti vi amerò) – (Italy)
Tom Horn, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Farnsworth, Linda Evans
Tribute, starring Jack Lemmon – (Canada)
Twelve Months (Sekai Meisaku Douwa Mori wa Ikiteiru / Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) – (Japan/U.S.S.R.)
U
The Unseen, starring Barbara Bach and Stephen Furst
Up the Academy, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
Urban Cowboy, James Bridges, starring John Travolta, Debra Winger
Used Cars, Robert Zemeckis, starring Kurt Russell, Jack Warden
V
Virus (Fukkatsu no hi), starring Sonny Chiba and Glenn Ford – (Japan)
Le Voyage en douce, starring Dominique Sanda and Geraldine Chaplin – (France)
W
Waiter, Scarper! (Vrchní, prchni!) – (Czechoslovakia)
The Watcher in the Woods, starring Bette Davis – (UK/US)
When Time Ran Out, starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Burgess Meredith, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons
Where the Buffalo Roam, directed by Art Linson, starring Bill Murray and Peter Boyle
Wholly Moses!, starring Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, Dom DeLuise
Who’s Singin’ Over There? (Ko to tamo peva) – (Yugoslavia)
Why Would I Lie?, starring Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Valerie Curtin
Willie & Phil, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Michael Ontkean
Windows, starring Talia Shire and Elizabeth Ashley
Witches’ Brew, starring Teri Garr and Richard Benjamin
X
Xanadu, starring Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, Gene Kelly
Y
The Young Master, directed by and starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong)
Yūgure made – (Japan)
Z
Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)
Deaths
Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 1 Adolph Deutsch 82 US Composer, Arranger
Oklahoma!The Apartment
3 Ivan Triesault 81 Estonia Actor
NotoriousThe Bad and the Beautiful
14 Robert Ardrey 71 US Screenwriter
The Three MusketeersKhartoum
17 Barbara Britton 59 US Actress
The VirginianCaptain Kidd
18 Cecil Beaton 76 UK Costume Designer, Production Designer
GigiMy Fair Lady
22 Iris Meredith 64 US Actress
The Green ArcherThe Spider’s Web
23 Leonard Strong 71 US Actor
ShaneThe Naked Jungle
24 Lil Dagover 92 Germany Actress
The Cabinet of Dr. CaligariDestiny
24 James Poe 58 US Screenwriter
Around the World in 80 DaysLilies of the Field
27 Peppino De Filippo 76 Italy Actor
Toto, Peppino, and the HussyBoccaccio ’70
28 Erle C. Kenton 83 US Director
House of FrankensteinWho Done It?
29 Jimmy Durante 86 US Actor, Singer
The Man Who Came to DinnerIt’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
February 1 Romolo Valli 54 Italy Actor
The Leopard1900
3 Ray Heindorf 71 US Composer
Yankee Doodle DandyThe Music Man
9 Renée Houston 77 UK Actress
RepulsionThe Horse’s Mouth
13 David Janssen 48 US Actor
The Green BeretsThe Shoes of the Fisherman
17 Jerry Fielding 57 US Composer
The Wild BunchThe Outlaw Josey Wales
17 Ed Graves 62 US Art Director
Doctor DolittleOur Man Flint
18 Gale Robbins 58 US Actress, Singer
Calamity JaneThree Little Words
26 Mario Mattoli 81 Italy Director, Screenwriter
Funniest Show on EarthImputato, alzatevi!
27 George Tobias 78 US Actor
The Glenn Miller StorySergeant York
March 5 Jay Silverheels 67 Canada Actor
The Lone RangerOne Little Indian
8 Frank McDonald 80 US Director
Isle of FuryIn Old Missouri
17 Farciot Edouart 85 US Special Effects Artist
Double IndemnityVertigo
27 Philip W. Anderson 64 US Film Editor
GiantThe Parent Trap
27 Steve Fisher 67 US Screenwriter
Dead ReckoningLady in the Lake
28 Dick Haymes 61 Argentina Actor, Singer
One Touch of VenusState Fair
30 David Sharpe 70 US Stuntman, Actor
Dick Tracy ReturnsTrail Riders
April 3 Mary McCarty 56 US Actress
The French LineAll That Jazz
6 John Collier 78 UK Screenwriter
DeceptionThe War Lord
9 Kathleen Burke 66 US Actress
Island of Lost SoulsThe Lives of a Bengal Lancer
10 Kay Medford 65 US Actress
Funny GirlA Face in the Crowd
11 Charlotte Henry 66 US Actress
Alice in WonderlandBabes in Toyland
14 Tom Fadden 85 US Actor
Invasion of the Body SnatchersFlareup
15 Raymond Bailey 75 US Actor
VertigoThe Gallant Hours
17 Alf Sjöberg 76 Sweden Director
Only a MotherWild Birds
19 Tony Beckley 50 UK Actor
The Italian JobGet Carter
25 Mario Bava 65 Italy Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer
Black SabbathThe Whip and the Body
26 Cicely Courtneidge 87 Australia Actress, Singer
Take My TipUnder Your Hat
29 William Clemens 74 US Director
The Case of the Stuttering BishopCalling Philo Vance
29 Alfred Hitchcock 80 UK Director
PsychoRear Window
May 1 Henry Levin 70 US Director
Murderers’ RowWhere the Boys Are
1 Gene Markey 84 US Screenwriter
On the AvenueLuxury Liner
2 George Pal 72 Hungary Producer, Director
War of the WorldsThe Time Machine
4 Kay Hammond 71 UK Actress
Blithe SpiritFive Golden Hours
12 Lillian Roth 69 US Actress
Animal CrackersLadies They Talk About
14 Hugh Griffith 67 UK Actor
Ben-HurTom Jones
15 Gordon E. Sawyer 74 US Sound Engineer
West Side StoryThe Alamo
16 José Calvo 64 Spain Actor
A Fistful of DollarsI Giorni dell’ira
19 Ray Rennahan 84 US Cinematographer
Blood and SandLady in the Dark
21 Ida Kamińska 80 Ukraine Actress
The Shop on Main StreetThe Angel Levine
26 Franz Bachelin 84 Germany Art Director
Journey to the Center of the EarthStalag 17
June 4 Gloria Saunders 52 US Actress
Captive WomenNorthwest Territory
12 Milburn Stone 75 US Actor
Captive Wild WomanThe Judge
18 Terence Fisher 76 UK Director
DraculaThe Curse of Frankenstein
22 Monang Carvajal 82 Philippines Actress
Anak DalitaThe Moises Padilla Story
23 John Laurie 83 UK Actor
The 39 StepsHobson’s Choice
23 Odile Versois 50 France Actress
To Paris with LoveThe Young Lovers
24 Boris Kaufman 73 Poland Cinematographer
On the Waterfront12 Angry Men
28 José Iturbi 84 Spain Conductor, Actor
Anchors AweighThree Daring Daughters
30 Thomas Browne Henry 72 US Actor
20 Million Miles to EarthJulius Caesar
July 6 Frank Cordell 62 UK Composer
CromwellKhartoum
6 Gail Patrick 69 US Actress
My Man GodfreyMy Favorite Wife
7 Reginald Gardiner 77 UK Actor
The Great DictatorThe Man Who Came to Dinner
7 Dore Schary 74 US Producer, Screenwriter, Executive
Boys TownSunrise at Campobello
11 Peggy Knudsen 57 US Actress
The Big SleepHalf Past Midnight
24 Peter Sellers 54, UK Actor, Dr. Strangelove, Being There
30 Charles McGraw 66 US Actor, The Narrow Margin, Spartacus
31 Bobby Van 51 US Actor, Dancer
Kiss Me KateLost Horizon
August 1 Strother Martin 61 US Actor
The Wild BunchButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2 Donald Ogden Stewart 85 US Screenwriter
The Philadelphia StoryHoliday
9 Elliot Nugent 83 US Director
My Favorite BrunetteUp in Arms
14 Dorothy Stratten 20 Canada Actress
GalaxinaThey All Laughed
17 Harold Adamson 73 US Lyricist
An Affair to RememberHigher and Higher
24 Yootha Joyce 53 UK Actress
A Man for All SeasonsGeorge and Mildred
25 Gower Champion 59 US Actor, Dancer, Director
Show BoatTill the Clouds Roll By
25 Lester Dorr 87 US Actor
Behind Prison GatesThe Shadow Returns
26 Tex Avery 72 US Animator, Director
DroopyScrewy Squirrel
27 Douglas Kenney 33 US Screenwriter
Animal HouseCaddyshack
September 3 Barbara O’Neil 70 US Actress
Gone with the WindAll This, and Heaven Too
4 Duncan Renaldo 76 Romania Actor
Lady LuckThe Cisco Kid Returns
5 Barbara Loden 48 US Actress, Director
Splendor in the GrassWanda
12 Lillian Randolph 81 US Actress
It’s a Wonderful LifeThe Onion Field
17 Michael Strong 62 US Actor
Point BlankThe Great Santini
19 Sol Lesser 90 US Producer
Tarzan the FearlessStage Door Canteen
25 Lewis Milestone 84, Director, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ocean’s 11
October 6 Hattie Jacques 58 UK Actress
Carry OnScrooge
10 Billie “Buckwheat” Thomas 49 US Actor
Our GangGeneral Spanky
28 Leon Janney 63 US Actor
CharlyPenrod and Sam
November 4 Noel Langley 68 South Africa Screenwriter
The Wizard of OzIvanhoe
7 Emilio Cigoli 70 Italy Actor
ShoeshineSunday in August
7 Steve McQueen 50 US Actor
The Great EscapePapillon
9 Carmel Myers 81 US Actress
All NightBen-Hur
9 Victor Sen Yung 65 US Actor
Across the PacificCharlie Chan in Honolulu
14 Nick Dennis 76 US Actor
A Streetcar Named DesireKiss Me Deadly
15 Bill Lee 64 US Actor, Singer
Mary PoppinsAlice in Wonderland
16 Imogen Hassall 38 UK Actress
When Dinosaurs Ruled the EarthToomorrow
22 Mae West 87 US Actress, Screenwriter
She Done Him WrongI’m No Angel
24 Nancy Hsueh 38 US Actress
TargetsHouse Calls
24 George Raft 79 US Actor, Some Like It Hot, They Drive by Night
26 Conrad A. Nervig 91 US Film Editor
A Tale of Two Cities, King Solomon’s Mines
26 Rachel Roberts 53 UK Actress, Picnic at Hanging Rock
28 Sarah Y. Mason 84 US Screenwriter, Little Women, Magnificent Obsession
29 Edith Evanson 84 US Actress
RopeThe Big Heat
December 8 John Lennon 40 UK Singer, Actor
A Hard Day’s NightHow I Won the War
12 Urie McCleary 75 US Art Director
Blossoms in the DustPatton
16 Peter Collinson 44 UK Director
The Italian JobAnd Then There Were None
20 Ben Sharpsteen 85 US Director, Producer
PinocchioDumbo
21 Marc Connelly 90 US Actor, Screenwriter
The Spirit of St. LouisTall Story
22 Lesser Samuels 86 US Screenwriter
No Way OutAce in the Hole
23 Memmo Carotenuto 72 Italy Actor
Big Deal on Madonna StreetBread, Love and Dreams
28 Sam Levene 75 US Actor,m Sweet Smell of Success, Brute Force
31 Raoul Walsh 93 US Director, Actor, White Heat, High Sierra
Film Debuts
Christopher Atkins – The Blue Lagoon
James Avery – The Stunt Man
Michael Badalucco – Raging Bull
Adam Baldwin – My Bodyguard
Adrienne Barbeau – The Fog
Drew Barrymore – Altered States
Jennifer Beals – My Bodyguard
Fabrizio Bentivoglio – The Blue-Eyed Bandit
Pierce Brosnan – The Long Good Friday
Julie Carmen – Night of the Juggler
Jim Carter – Flash Gordon
Rosalind Chao – The Big Brawl
François Cluzet – Cocktail Molotov
Robbie Coltrane – Death Watch
Barry Corbin – Urban Cowboy
Tony Cox – Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
Peter Coyote – Die Laughing
Joan Cusack – Cutting Loose
Willem Dafoe – Heaven’s Gate
John Diehl – Falling in Love Again
Billy Drago – Windwalker
Paul Eiding – Foolin’ Around
Frankie Faison – Permanent Vacation
Miriam Flynn – First Family
Michael J. Fox – Midnight Madness
Peter Gallagher – The Idolmaker
Richard Gant – Night of the Juggler
Serena Grandi – I’m Photogenic
Michael Gross – Just Tell Me What You Want
Julie Hagerty – Airplane!
Tom Hanks – He Knows You’re Alone
Robert Hays – Airplane!
Linda Hunt – Popeye
William Hurt – Altered States
Jeremy Irons – Nijinsky
Bill Irwin – Popeye
Gregory Itzin – Airplane!
O-Lan Jones – Die Laughing
Robert Joy – Atlantic City
Don Lake – Don’t Answer the Phone!
Adam LeFevre – Return of the Secaucus 7
Juliette Lewis – Bronco Billy
Ernie Lively – It’s My Turn
William H. Macy – Somewhere in Time
Ann Magnuson – The Long Island Four
Michael Maloney – Richard’s Things
Sophie Marceau – La Boum
Francis Xavier McCarthy – Altered States
Christopher McDonald – The Hearse
Elizabeth McGovern – Ordinary People
Micole Mercurio – Alligator
Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
David Morse – Inside Moves
Taylor Negron – The Gong Show Movie
Cynthia Nixon – Little Darlings
Richard Norton – The Octagon
Catherine O’Hara – Nothing Personal
Ed O’Neill – Cruising
Terry O’Quinn – Heaven’s Gate
Michelle Pfeiffer – The Hollywood Knights
Cindy Pickett – Night Games
Richard Portnow – Roadie
Harold Ramis – Caddyshack (director)
Judge Reinhold – Running Scared
Marco Rodríguez – The Baltimore Bullet
Robert Romanus – Foxes
John Rothman – Stardust Memories
Saul Rubinek – Death Ship
David Schofield – The Dogs of War
Armin Shimerman – Stardust Memories
Jean Smart – Hoodlums
Kurtwood Smith – Roadie
Catherine Mary Stewart – Powder Heads
Sharon Stone – Stardust Memories
David Strathairn – Return of the Secaucus 7
David Suchet – Schiele in Prison
John Turturro – Raging Bull
Gedde Watanabe – The Long Island Four
Hugo Weaving – …Maybe This Time
Dianne Wiest – It’s My Turn
Bruce Willis – The First Deadly Sin
Jeff Wincott – Happy Birthday, Gemini
Mare Winningham – One-Trick Pony
John Witherspoon – The Jazz Singer
Nicholas Woodeson – Heaven’s Gate
Sean Young – Jane Austen in Manhattan
Lenore Zann – Hounds of Notre Dame
