Cinema 1964: You Must Remember This–Events, Movies, Stars, Oscars, Awards

Cineliteracy: What You Need to Know about 1964 as Movie Year

Research in progress, June 21, 2025

Missing: Best Actor and 2 supp. acting categories

My Oscar Book:

Highest-Grossing Films of 1964

Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals
1 Mary Poppins Buena Vista $31,000,000
2 My Fair Lady Warner Bros. $30,000,000
3 Goldfinger United Artists $22,500,000
4 The Carpetbaggers Paramount $15,500,000
5 From Russia With Love United Artists $9,200,000
6 A Shot in the Dark $6,748,000
7 What a Way to Go! 20th Century Fox $6,100,000
8 The Unsinkable Molly Brown MGM $6,040,000
9 The Pink Panther United Artists $5,935,000
10 A Hard Day’s Night $5,800,000

Events

January 29 –

Actor Alan Ladd, 50, is found dead in bed at his home in Palm Springs, California. A cerebral edema caused by an acute overdose of “alcohol and three other drugs” and his death is ruled accidental. Ladd’s final film, The Carpetbaggers, is released in April and, despite negative reviews becomes major commercial success.

March 6 –

Elvis Presley’s 14th picture, Kissin’ Cousins, is released to theaters.

March 15 –

Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton.

June 3 –

The animated Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear! is released. The first theatrical feature produced by Hanna-Barbera is also the first full-length theatrical animated film based on the animated TV program.

July 6 –

A Hard Day’s Night, the first Beatles film, premieres.

August 27 –

Mary Poppins is a massive hit with critics and audiences, Disney’s highest-grossing film of all time. It wins 5 Oscars, including Best Actress for Julie Andrews.

Academy (Oscar) 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, Italy
Golden Globe Awards:

Festival Awards

Palme d’Or (Cannes Film Fest): Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), directed by Jacques Demy, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

‘Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer), directed by Ismail Metin, Turkey

Film Releases in 1964

January

Jan 19

Strait-Jacket

Jan 22
The Comedy of Terrors
Zulu

Jan 29
Dr. Strangelove
Man’s Favorite Sport?

5 February
Man in the Middle
10 February
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
12 February
Seven Days in May
19 February
Dead Ringer
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
26 February
He Rides Tall

6 March

8 March
The Last Man on Earth (United States/Italy)
11 March
Becket
Mail Order Bride
12 March
A Tiger Walks
18 March
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
The Flesh Eaters
Law of the Lawless
The Pink Panther
19 March
Two Thousand Maniacs!
The World of Henry Orient
25 March
Flight from Ashiya
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
Muscle Beach Party
26 March
The Fall of the Roman Empire
28 March
The Incredible Mr. Limpet

April

April 5
The Best Man

April 8
Paris When It Sizzles
The Strangler
9 April
The Carpetbaggers

21 April
The Chalk Garden

28 April
The Third Secret
Woman of Straw

April 29
Mothra vs. Godzilla (Japan)

2 May
The Bargee
The Thin Red Line
6 May
The Visit
11 May
What a Way to Go!
13 May
The Eyes of Annie Jones
14 May
Girl with Green Eyes
19 May
Signpost to Murder
20 May
Black Like Me
The Brass Bottle
Rhino!
Viva Las Vegas
27 May
A Distant Trumpet
From Russia with Love
29 May
3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt

1 June
The Horror of Party Beach
The New Interns
3 June
For Those Who Think Young
Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
Honeymoon Hotel
4 June
633 Squadron
The Three Lives of Thomasina
10 June
Advance to the Rear
Bedtime Story
McHale’s Navy
Wild and Wonderful
11 June
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
17 June
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
23 June
A Shot in the Dark
The Young Lovers
24 June
Flipper’s New Adventure
The Masque of the Red Death
Robin and the 7 Hoods
25 June
Circus World
26 June
The Cavern

July

July 2 The Pawnbroker

6 July 6:bA Hard Day’s Night
7 July
The Killers

8 July

22 July
Bikini Beach
Good Neighbor Sam
Marnie Hitchcock
Shock Treatment

July 29
Carry On Spying
One Potato, Two Potato

5 August
Ride the Wild Surf
6 August
The Night of the Iguana
11 August
Crooks in Cloisters
Dogora (Japan)
12 August
A House Is Not a Home
The Patsy
14 August
Behold a Pale Horse
16 August
Diary of a Bachelor
26 August
The Beauty Jungle
I’d Rather Be Rich
27 August
Mary Poppins
September 1964
2 September
The 7th Dawn
Bullet for a Badman
The Comedy Man
Topkapi
4 September
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italy)
11 September
Lorna
12 September
A Fistful of Dollars (Italy)
16 September
The Secret Invasion
18 September
Goldfinger
19 September
Nothing but a Man
25 September
Fanny Hill
27 September
Lilith

3 October
Cheyenne Autumn
7 October
Fail-Safe
8 October
The Outrage
11 October
Blood on the Arrow
The System
14 October
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Send Me No Flowers
20 October
The Black Torment
24 October
The Lively Set
27 October
The Americanization of Emily
28 October
Rio Conchos
29 October
The Naked Kiss
The Time Travelers
The Train

2 November
Where Love Has Gone
4 November
Kitten with a Whip
Youngblood Hawke
Your Cheatin’ Heart
5 November
Flight to Fury
8 November
Fate Is the Hunter
9 November
My Fair Lady
10 November
Roustabout
Stage to Thunder Rock
11 November
Pajama Party
15 November
Back Door to Hell
18 November
Goodbye Charlie
21 November
Four Days in November
25 November
Ensign Pulver
26 November
Apache Rifles
27 November
Looking for Love

3 December
Dear Heart
4 December
Kisses for My President
10 December
Carry On Cleo
Father Goose
The Golden Head
12 December
Raiders from Beneath the Sea
16 December
The Disorderly Orderly
Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Zorba the Greek
18 December
Emil and the Detectives
Get Yourself a College Girl
20 December
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (Japan)
22 December
Kiss Me, Stupid
25 December
The Pleasure Seekers
Sex and the Single Girl
28 December
Carol for Another Christmas
30 December
The Night Walker

Notable Films Released in 1964
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3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt, starring Mamie Van Doren and Tommy Noonan
7 Faces of Dr. Lao, starring Tony Randall, Barbara Eden and Arthur O’Connell, with special effects by George Pal
The 7th Dawn, starring William Holden and Susannah York

A
Adobe and Mirror, Ebrahim Golestan, starring Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi and Pari Saberi (Iran)
Advance to the Rear, directed by 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 (Zhivye i myortvye) – (U.S.S.R.)
All These Women (För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor), Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden)
The Americanization of Emily, Arthur Hiller, starring James Garner, Julie Andrews
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise, directed by André Cayatte – (France)
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc, directed by André Cayatte – (France)
The Ape Woman, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Annie Girardot – (Italy/France)
Assassination (Ansatu) – (Japan)
At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma) – (Brazil)
Atentát – (Czechoslovakia)
A Trip to the Moon
Ayee Milan Ki Bela – (India)

Back Door to Hell, starring Jimmie Rodgers and Jack Nicholson
Backfire (Échappement libre), Belmondo, Jean Seberg – (France)
Ballad in Blue, directed by Paul Henreid and starring Ray Charles
Band of Outsiders (Bande à part), directed by Jean-Luc Godard – (France)
The Bargee, starring Harry H. Corbett and Eric Sykes – (U.K.)
The Beauty Jungle, starring Ian Hendry – (U.K.)

Becket, Peter Glenville, starring Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton – (U.K./U.S.)

Bedtime Story, starring Brando, David Niven and Shirley Jones
Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy)
Behold a Pale Horse, Zinnemann, starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif
Belarmino, a Cinema Novo docufiction – (Portugal)
The Best Man, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, written by Gore Vidal, starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson
Bikini Beach, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer and Don Rickles
Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na terra do sol) – (Brazil)
Black Like Me, starring James Whitmore and Roscoe Lee Browne
Black Peter (Cerný Petr), directed by Miloš Forman – (Czechoslovakia)
The Black Torment, directed by Robert Hartford-Davis – (U.K.)
Blood and Black Lace (6 donne per l’assassino), Mario Bava – (Italy)
Blood on the Arrow, Sidney Salkow, starring Dale Robertson and Martha Hyer
La bonne soupe (a.k.a. Careless Love), Robert Thomas – (Italy/France)
The Brass Bottle, starring Tony Randall, Burl Ives and Barbara Eden
Bullet for a Badman, starring Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin and Ruta Lee

C
A Carol for Another Christmas, starring Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland
The Carpetbaggers, starring George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Elizabeth Ashley
Carry On Cleo, starring Sid James, Amanda Barrie – (U.K.)
Carry On Spying, starring Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor – (U.K.)
Castle of Blood (Danza macabra), directed by Antonio Margheriti and Sergio Corbucci – (Italy/France)
Castle of the Living Dead (Il castello dei morti vivi), directed by Warren Kiefer – (Italy/France)
The Chairman (Predsedatel) – (U.S.S.R.)
The Chalk Garden, starring Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills – (U.K.)
Charulata, directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
Cheyenne Autumn, directed by John Ford, starring Carroll Baker, Richard Widmark, Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden
Circle of Love (La ronde), directed by Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda – (France)
Circus World, starring John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth
The Comedy Man, starring Kenneth More and Cecil Parker – (U.K.)
The Comedy of Terrors, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone
Crooks in Cloisters, starring Ronald Fraser and Barbara Windsor – (U.K.)
The Curse of the Hidden Vault (Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß), directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb – (West Germany)
The Curse of the Living Corpse, produced, written and directed by Del Tenney
The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, directed by Michael Carreras – (U.K.)

Dead Ringer, starring Bette Davis, Peter Lawford
Dear Heart, Delbert Mann, starring Geraldine Page, Glenn Ford, Angela Lansbury
Dear John (Käre John), Lars-Magnus Lindgren – (Sweden)
Devil Doll, directed by Lindsay Shonteff – (U.K.)
The Devil-Ship Pirates, starring Christopher Lee and Andrew Keir
Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci), directed by Jan Němec – (Czechoslovakia)
Diary of a Bachelor, Sandy Howard, starring William Traylor, Joe Silver and Dagne Crane
Diary of a Chambermaid (Le journal d’une femme de chambre), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli – (France)
The Disorderly Orderly, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Jerry Lewis and Susan Oliver
A Distant Trumpet, starring Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain
Dog Eat Dog (Einer frisst den anderen), starring Jayne Mansfield – (West Germany/Italy/Liechtenstein)
Dogora (a.k.a. Uchū Daikaijū Dogora), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
Dosti (Friendship), directed by Satyen Bose – (India)
Dr. Crippen, starring Donald Pleasence – (U.K.)
Dr. Sex, directed by 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 (Susuz Yaz), directed by Metin Erksan – (Turkey)

The Earth Dies Screaming, Willard Parker, Virginia Field and Dennis Price (U.K.)
East of Sudan, starring Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Jenny Agutter (U.K.)
Empire, directed by Andy Warhol
Ensign Pulver, sequel to Mister Roberts, starring Robert Walker Jr. Burl Ives
The Evil of Frankenstein, Freddie Francis – (U.K.)

Face of the Screaming Werewolf, starring Lon Chaney – (Mexico/U.S.)
Fail-Safe, Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Dan O’Herlihy, Walter Matthau
Fall of the Roman Empire, starring Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd Alec Guinness
Fanny Hill, Russ Meyer – (West Germany/U.S.)
Fantômas, starring Jean Marais – (France)
Fate Is the Hunter, starring Glenn Ford, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette
Father Came Too!, starring James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter – (U.K.)
Father Goose, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard
Father of a Soldier (Jariskats’is mama), Chkheidze – (Georgia)

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight, directed by Kenji Misumi (Japan)
First Men in the Moon, starring Edward Judd and Lionel Jeffries, special effects by Ray Harryhausen – (U.K.)
A Fistful of Dollars, directed by Leone, starring Clint Eastwood (Italy)

Flight from Ashiya, starring Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark

Four Days in November, a documentary directed by Mel Stuart

Gertrud, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
Get Yourself a College Girl, starring Mary Ann Mobley and Nancy Sinatra
Ghost of Sierra de Cobre, starring Martin Landau, Judith Anderson and Diane Baker
Girl with Green Eyes, starring Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham – (U.K.)

Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery as James Bond), Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton and Gert Fröbe – (U.K.)

Goodbye Charlie, Minnelli, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Pat Boone
Good Neighbor Sam, starring Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider

Gospel According to St. Matthew, Pasolini – (Italy)
Greed in the Sun (Cent mille dollars au soleil), Belmondo – (France)
The Guns (Os Fuzis), directed by Ruy Guerra – (Brazil/Argentina)

The Guns of August, a documentary directed by Nathan Kroll and narrated by Fritz Weaver

H
Hamlet (aka Richard Burton’s Hamlet), starring Richard Burton
Hamlet – (U.S.S.R.)

A Hard Day’s Night, Richard Lester, starring the Beatles – (U.K.)
Hide and Seek, starring Ian Carmichael and Curd Jürgens – (U.K.)
High Infidelity (Alta infedeltà), starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
Honeymoon Hotel, starring Robert Morse, Robert Goulet
Horror of Party Beach, directed by Del Tenney
Hot Enough for June, starring Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina – (U.K.)
A House Is Not a Home, starring Shelley Winters and Robert Taylor

Hush.. Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland

I
I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba), directed by Mikhail Kalatozov – (Cuba/U.S.S.R.)

Invitation to a Gunfighter, starring Yul Brynner, George Segal, Janice Rule
It’s Not Just You, Murray!, a short film by Scorsese

Italiani brava gente, directed by Giuseppe De Santis – (Italy)

J
Joseph Kilian (Postava k podpírání), Pavel Juráček, Jan Schmidt (Czech)

Joy House (Les felins), René Clément, starring Alain Delon, Jane Fonda – (France)

K
The Killers, Don Siegel, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Cassavetes and Ronald Reagan in final film
King & Country, Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay – (U.K.)
Kiss Me Quick!, starring Althea Currier
Kiss Me, Stupid, Billy Wilder, starring Dean Martin, Kim Novak

Kissin’ Cousins, starring Elvis Presley and Yvonne Craig
Kitten with a Whip, starring Ann-Margret, John Forsythe

Kwaidan, directed by Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan)

L
Lady General Hua Mu-lan (a.k.a. Hua Mu Lan) – (Hong Kong)
Lady in a Cage, Walter Grauman, starring Olivia de Havilland, James Caan

The Last Gun (Jim il primo), directed by Sergio Bergonzelli – (Italy)
Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price – (United States/Italy)
The Last Steps (Les pas perdus), starring Michèle Morgan, Trintignant (France)
Leader, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
Leather Boys, Sidney J. Furie, starring Rita Tushingham – (U.K.)

Let’s Talk About Women (Se permettete parliamo di donne), Ettore Scola – (Italy)
Lilith, Robert Rossen, starring Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg
London in the Raw, documentary about London nightlife – (U.K.)
The Lonely Wife (Charulata), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
The Long Ships, starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier (U.K./Yugoslavia)
Looking for Love, starring Connie Francis
Lorna, directed by Russ Meyer

Loving Couples (Älskande par), directed by Mai Zetterling – (Sweden)
The Luck of Ginger Coffey, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Robert Shaw

M
Madu Tiga (Three Wives), starring P. Ramlee – (Malaysia)
The Magnificent Cuckold, directed by Antonio Pietrangeli – (Italy)
Mail Order Bride, Burt Kennedy, starring Buddy Ebsen, Lois Nettleton
Male Companion, Philippe de Broca – (France)
Male Hunt (La chasse à l’homme), Belmondo – (France/Italy)
Man in the Middle, starring Robert Mitchum
Man’s Favorite Sport? Hawks, starring Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss

Marnie, Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery
Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all’italiana), De Sica, Sophia Loren, Mastroianni – (Italy)

A Married Woman (Une femme mariée), Godard – (France)

Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke
Masque of Red Death, starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher (U.K.)
McHale’s Navy, based on TV sitcom, starring Ernest Borgnine

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, starring Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk
The Moon-Spinners, starring Hayley Mills
Mothra vs. Godzilla (Godzilla vs. The Thing), Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
Murder Ahoy!, starring Margaret Rutherford and Lionel Jeffries
Murder Most Foul, starring Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody

My Fair Lady, Cukor, starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison

N
The Naked Kiss, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Constance Towers
The New Interns, starring Dean Jones and Michael Callan
Night Must Fall, starring Albert Finney, Mona Washbourne and Susan Hampshire – (U.K.)
The Night of the Iguana, directed by John Huston, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon
Night Train to Paris, starring Leslie Nielsen, Aliza Gur and Dorinda Stevens – (U.S./U.K.)
The Night Walker, starring Barbara Stanwyck (her last film) and Robert Taylor
Nightmare, directed by Freddie Francis – (U.K.)
Nobody Waved Good-bye, directed by Don Owen – (Canada)
Nothing But a Man, starring Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln and Yaphet Kotto
Nothing But the Best, starring Alan Bates and Millicent Martin – (U.K.)
O
Of Human Bondage, starring Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey and Siobhán McKenna – (U.K.)
One Potato, Two Potato, starring Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton and Richard Mulligan
Onibaba (Demon Woman), directed by Kaneto Shindo – (Japan)
The Outrage, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom and Edward G. Robinson
P
Pajama Party, starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk
Pale Flower (Kawaita hana) – (Japan)
Panic Button, starring Jayne Mansfield and Maurice Chevalier
Paris When It Sizzles, starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn
The Patsy, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Brock Peters
The Pleasure Seekers, starring Pamela Tiffin, Carol Lynley, Brian Keith, Tony Franciosa and Ann-Margret
Point of Order!, a documentary directed by Emile de Antonio
Psyche 59, directed by Alexander Singer – (U.K.)
The Pumpkin Eater, starring Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch – (U.K.)

Quick, Before It Melts, starring George Maharis, Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer and Yvonne Craig
The Quick Gun, starring Audie Murphy

R
Raiders from Beneath the Sea, starring Ken Scott and Merry Anders
Rattle of a Simple Man directed by Muriel Box, starring Diane Cilento and Harry H. Corbett – (U.K.)
The Ravishing Idiot (Une ravissante idiote), starring Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins – (France)
Red Desert (Il deserto rosso), Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti, Richard Harris (Italy)
Rhino!, starring Robert Culp
Ride the Wild Surf, starring Tab Hunter, Fabian Forte, Shelley Fabares, Barbara Eden
Ring of Spies, starring Bernard Lee – (U.K.)
Rio Conchos, starring Stuart Whitman, Tony Franciosa, Richard Boone, Wende Wagner
Robin and the 7 Hoods, starring Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. Bing Crosby
Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Byron Haskin, starring Paul Mantee, Vic Lundin and Adam West

Roustabout, starring Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – TV film by Rankin/Bass Productions

S
Sallah Shabati, starring Topol – (Israel)

Séance on a Wet Afternoon, starring Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough (U.K.)
The Secret Invasion, starring Stewart Granger and Mickey Rooney

Send Me No Flowers, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson
Seven Days in May, Frankenheimer, starring Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Ava Gardner
Seven Up!, a documentary directed by Paul Almond – (U.K.)
Sex and the Single Girl, starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall

A Shot in the Dark, second Pink Panther film, Blake Edwards. starring Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer – (U.K./U.S.)
Sleep, by Andy Warhol

The Soft Skin (La peau douce), Truffaut, starring Françoise Dorléac – (France)

Strait-Jacket, William Castle, starring Crawford, Diane Baker

T
T.A.M.I. Show, concert film at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Man from Rio (L’Homme de Rio), starring Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac (France)
The Thin Red Line, starring Keir Dullea and Jack Warden
This Is My Street, directed by Sidney Hayers – (U.K.)

The Third Secret, starring Stephen Boyd and Pamela Franklin – (U.K.)
Those Calloways, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Norman Tokar
Three Outlaw Samurai (Sanbiki no samurai) – (Japan)

A Tiger Walks, starring Brian Keith and Vera Miles
Time of Indifference (Gli indifferenti), starring Claudia Cardinale, Rod Steiger and Shelley Winters – (Italy)
The Time Travelers, starring Preston Foster and Merry Anders
Tintin and the Blue Oranges, starring Jean-Pierre Talbot – (France)
To the Moon and Beyond, a film created for the 1964 New York World’s Fair
The Tomb of Ligeia, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd
Topkapi, starring Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov
The Train, Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau – (U.S./France/Italy)
The Troops of Saint-Tropez, Girault – (France)
Troubled Waters, (a.k.a. Man with Two Faces), starring Tab Hunter – (U.K.)
Two Stage Sisters (Wŭtái Jiěmèi), directed by Xie Jin – (China)
Two Thousand Maniacs!, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo – (France)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell
The Unvanquished (L’insoumis), starring Alain Delon – (France)

V
The Visit, directed by Bernhard Wicki – (West Germany/U.S./France/Italy)
Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret

W
Weekend at Dunkirk (Week-end à Zuydcoote), Henri Verneuil – (Italy/France)
Welcome, or No Trespassing (Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchyon), starring Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev – (U.S.S.R.)
What a Way to Go!, starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke

Where Love Has Gone, starring Bette Davis, Susan Hayward
Whirlwind, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki (Japan)
White Voices (Le voci bianche), directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa – (Italy)
Wild and Wonderful, starring Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufmann
Witchcraft, starring Lon Chaney and Jack Hedley – (U.K.)
Woh Kaun Thi? (Who Was She?) – (India)

Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna), Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan)
Woman of Straw, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery – (U.K.)
World Without Sun (Le monde sans soleil), directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau – (France)
The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers (Les plus belles escroqueries du monde), composed of five segments – (France)
Wonderful Life (U.S. title: Swingers’ Paradise[7]), starring Cliff Richard and the Shadows – (U.K.)
The World of Henry Orient, George Roy Hill, starring Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury

Y
Yearning (Midareru), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce, starring Rex Harrison and Jeanne Moreau – (U.K.)
The Young Lovers, starring Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny
Youngblood Hawke, starring James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette and Geneviève Page
Your Cheatin’ Heart, a biopic of Hank Williams, starring George Hamilton

Z
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (Zatōichi senryō-kubi), directed by Kazuo Ikehiro – (Japan)
Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword (Zatōichi abare dako), directed by Kazuo Ikehiro – (Japan)
Zhavoronok (Жаворонок), starring Gennadi Yukhtin – (U.S.S.R.)
Zindagi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar and Prithviraj Kapoor – (India)
Zogue fe Agaza, starring Salah Zulfikar and Laila Taher – (Egypt)

Zorba the Greek, Cacoyannis, starring Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates (Greece/U.K.)
Zulu, Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins (U.K.)

Short film series
Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Terrytoons (1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
Bugs Bunny (1940–1964)
Woody Woodpecker (1940–1972)
Chilly Willy (1953–1972)
Loopy De Loop (1959–1965)

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
Cedric Hardwicke, 71, British actor, Rope, Suspicion
Reed Howes, 64, American model and actor, The Dawn Rider, Paradise Canyon
August 12 – Ian Fleming, 56, British author of James Bond novels, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
August 27 – Gracie Allen, 69, US 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
Harpo Marx, 75, American comedy actor (The Marx Brothers), Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera
Nacio Herb Brown, 68, American songwriter and composer, The Broadway Melody, Glorifying the American Girl
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
Jenny Agutter – East of Sudan
René Auberjonois – Lilith
Erika Blanc – Il disco volante
Stanley Brock – Black Like Me
Jim Brown – Rio Conchos
Ellen Burstyn – For Those Who Think Young
David Carradine – Taggart
Cheng Pei-pei – The Last Woman of Shang
Matt Clark – Black Like Me
Tim Conway – McHale’s Navy
Kitty Courbois – Spuit Elf
Maria Cumani Quasimodo – Shivers in Summer
Dom DeLuise – Diary of a Bachelor
Judi Dench – The Third Secret
Paul Dooley – The Parisienne and the Prudes
Morgan Freeman – The Pawnbroker
Brenda Fricker – Of Human Bondage
George Furth – The Best Man
Elliott Gould – Quick, Let’s Get Married
Clu Gulager – The Killers
Moses Gunn – Nothing But a Man
Julius Harris – Nothing But a Man
James Earl Jones – Dr. Strangelove
Lee Majors – Strait-Jacket
Charlotte Rampling – A Hard Day’s Night
Roy Scheider – The Curse of the Living Corpse
Raquel Welch – A House Is Not a Home