1968 in film

Events

 * November 1 – The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.

Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): canceled due to events of May 1968

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
 * Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos (Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed), directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
 * Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?), directed by Jan Troell, Sweden

Films released
US unless stated

January–March

 * January 1968
 * January 8
 * Wild 90
 * January 12
 * Nobody's Perfect
 * January 15
 * More Dead Than Alive
 * January 17
 * The Biggest Bundle of Them All
 * January 24
 * Danger: Diabolik (Italy/U.S.)
 * Firecreek
 * February 1968
 * February 7
 * Sol Madrid
 * February 8
 * Blackbeard's Ghost
 * February 21
 * Bye Bye Braverman
 * February 29
 * The Secret War of Harry Frigg
 * March 1968
 * March 1
 * Day of the Evil Gun
 * March 8
 * Stay Away, Joe
 * March 13
 * Counterpoint
 * March 18
 * The Producers
 * March 20
 * No Way to Treat a Lady
 * March 21
 * The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
 * March 29
 * Madigan

April–June

 * April 1968
 * April 2
 * The Scalphunters
 * April 3
 * 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * Planet of the Apes
 * April 4
 * The Party
 * April 10
 * Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
 * Will Penny
 * April 24
 * Yours, Mine and Ours
 * May 1968
 * May 2
 * The Odd Couple
 * May 15
 * The Devil's Brigade
 * The Swimmer
 * Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm}
 * May 23
 * Prudence and the Pill
 * May 28
 * The Detective
 * May 29
 * Villa Rides
 * Wild in the Streets
 * June 1968
 * June 1
 * Bandolero!
 * June 5
 * For Singles Only
 * Jigsaw
 * June 10
 * Petulia
 * June 12
 * Rosemary's Baby
 * Speedway
 * The Sweet Ride
 * June 19
 * The Green Berets
 * The Thomas Crown Affair
 * The Lost Continent
 * June 25
 * The Secret Life of an American Wife
 * June 26
 * Never a Dull Moment

July–September

 * July 1968
 * July 3
 * Dark of the Sun
 * July 12
 * Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
 * A Lovely Way to Die
 * July 17
 * For Love of Ivy
 * July 19
 * Inspector Clouseau
 * July 24
 * Anzio
 * July 31
 * 5 Card Stud
 * Asterix the Gaul
 * The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
 * August 1968
 * August 1
 * Destroy All Monsters (Japan)
 * August 3
 * Hang 'Em High
 * August 7
 * With Six You Get Eggroll
 * August 15
 * Targets
 * August 24
 * A Stranger in Town
 * August 26
 * Rachel, Rachel
 * September 1968
 * September 18
 * Funny Girl
 * Pretty Poison
 * September 19
 * Hot Millions
 * September 22
 * Psych-Out
 * September 23
 * Charly
 * September 26
 * Oliver! (UK)

October–December

 * October 1968
 * October 1
 * Night of the Living Dead
 * October 2
 * Coogan's Bluff
 * October 7
 * I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
 * October 9
 * Finian's Rainbow
 * October 10
 * Barbarella (US)
 * October 13
 * The Subject Was Roses
 * October 16
 * The Boston Strangler
 * October 17
 * Bullitt
 * October 22
 * Vixen!
 * October 23
 * Ice Station Zebra
 * Live a Little, Love a Little
 * October 30
 * The Lion in Winter
 * November 1968
 * November 6
 * Head
 * November 13
 * Yellow Submarine
 * November 15
 * The Shoes of the Fisherman
 * November 16
 * The Legend of Lylah Clare
 * November 20
 * Lady in Cement
 * November 24
 * Faces
 * November 27
 * Hellfighters
 * November 30
 * The Shakiest Gun in the West
 * December 1968
 * December 12
 * The Killing of Sister George
 * December 16
 * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK)
 * December 18
 * Hell in the Pacific
 * December 19
 * Skidoo
 * December 20
 * The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
 * Three in the Attic
 * December 21
 * Once Upon a Time in the West (Italy)
 * December 22
 * The Night They Raided Minsky's
 * December 24
 * The Love Bug
 * December 25
 * The Sergeant
 * The Stalking Moon

Notable Films Released in 1968

 * Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y
 * 5 Card Stud, starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens
 * 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War (17e Parallele Le Vietnam en Guerre), a documentary directed by Joris Ivens – (France/Vietnam)
 * 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood – (U.S./UK)
 * Aadmi, starring Dilip Kumar – (India)
 * Aankhen (The Eyes) – (India)
 * Ace High, starring Eli Wallach – (Italy)
 * Adieu l'ami (Farewell Friend), starring Alain Delon and Charles Bronson – (France)
 * All My Compatriots (Všichni dobří rodáci) – (Czechoslovakia)
 * The Amorous Ones (As Amorosas) – (Brazil)
 * The Anniversary, starring Bette Davis – (UK)
 * Anzio, starring Robert Mitchum, Earl Holliman, Peter Falk
 * Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner – (West Germany)
 * Assignment to Kill, starring Patrick O'Neal and Joan Hackett
 * Asterix and Cleopatra – (France/Belgium)
 * Baby Love, starring Linda Hayden and Keith Barron– (UK)
 * Bandits in Milan (Banditi a Milano), starring Gian Maria Volonté – (Italy)
 * Bandolero!, starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Will Geer
 * Barbarella, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda – (France/Italy)
 * Be Sick... It's Free (Il medico della mutua), starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
 * Berserk!, starring Joan Crawford and Diana Dors – (UK)
 * Les Biches, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (France)
 * The Biggest Bundle of Them All, starring Raquel Welch and Edward G. Robinson
 * The Birthday Party, directed by William Friedkin, starring Robert Shaw – (UK)
 * Black Jesus (Seduto alla sua destra), starring Woody Strode – (Italy)
 * Blackbeard's Ghost, starring Dean Jones, Peter Ustinov, Suzanne Pleshette
 * The Bofors Gun, starring Nicol Williamson and Ian Holm – (UK)
 * Boom!, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton – (UK)
 * The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda
 * The Bride Wore Black (La Mariée était en noir), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Bouquet – (France)
 * Brilliantovaya ruka (The Diamond Arm) – a hugely popular Russian comedy – (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Brotherhood, starring Kirk Douglas
 * Bullitt, directed by Peter Yates, starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn
 * Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, starring Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas
 * Bye Bye Braverman, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Joseph Wiseman
 * Candy, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Ringo Starr – (France/Italy/U.S.)
 * Capricious Summer (Rozmarné léto), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia)
 * Carry On... Up the Khyber, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (UK)
 * The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave – (UK)
 * Charly, starring Cliff Robertson
 * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, starring Dick Van Dyke – (UK)
 * The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach – (West Germany)
 * Colonel Wolodyjowski, directed by Jerzy Hoffman – (Poland)
 * Coogan's Bluff, directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud
 * Counterpoint, starring Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Leslie Nielsen
 * Curse of the Crimson Altar (a.k.a. The Crimson Cult), starring Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff – (UK)
 * Danger: Diabolik, starring John Phillip Law and Michel Piccoli – (Italy/U.S.)
 * Dark of the Sun (a.k.a. The Mercenaries), starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux – (UK/U.S.)
 * Day of the Evil Gun, starring Glenn Ford
 * Dead Season (Myortvyy sezon) – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Deadfall, starring Michael Caine – (UK)
 * Death by Hanging (Kōshikei), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
 * Destroy All Monsters (Kaijū Sōshingeki), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
 * The Detective, starring Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom, Robert Duvall
 * The Devil Rides Out, starring Christopher Lee and Charles Gray – (UK)
 * The Devil's Brigade, starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
 * The Doll (Lalka), directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has – (Poland)
 * Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis
 * Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, starring Christopher Lee – (U.K.)
 * Duniya (The World), starring Dev Anand and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
 * L'Enfance Nue (Naked Children), directed by Maurice Pialat – (France)
 * Eve, starring Robert Walker Jr., Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom
 * Even the Wind is Frightened (Hasta el viento tiene miedo) – (Mexico)
 * Faces, directed by John Cassavetes
 * Fando y Lis (Fando and Lis) – (Mexico)
 * Finian's Rainbow, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Al Freeman Jr.
 * Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes, directed by Alexander Rou, starring Natalya Sedykh and Georgy Millyar – (USSR)
 * Firecreek, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gary Lockwood, Jack Elam, James Best, Inger Stevens
 * The Fixer, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde – (UK)
 * For Love of Ivy, starring Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Robert Duvall
 * For Singles Only, starring John Saxon, Mary Ann Mobley, Milton Berle
 * Funny Girl, directed by William Wyler, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
 * Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl), starring Claudia Cardinale and Franco Nero – (Italy)
 * The Girl on a Motorcycle, starring Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull – (UK/France)
 * The Girl with the Pistol (La ragazza con la pistola), starring Monica Vitti and Stanley Baker – (Italy)
 * Great Catherine, starring Peter O'Toole and Jeanne Moreau
 * The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski – (Italy)
 * The Green Berets, directed by and starring John Wayne, with Jim Hutton, David Janssen
 * Greetings, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Robert De Niro
 * Guns for San Sebastian, starring Anthony Quinn, Charles Bronson and Anjanette Comer
 * Hammerhead, starring Vince Edwards and Diana Dors
 * Hang 'Em High, directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood, Pat Hingle, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern
 * Hatsukoi Jigokuhen (The Inferno of First Love) – (Japan)
 * Head, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring The Monkees
 * The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, starring Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke
 * Hell in the Pacific, directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune
 * Hellfighters, starring John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton
 * High School, directed by Frederick Wiseman
 * The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, starring Dean Jones
 * Hot Millions, starring Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith
 * Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann – (Sweden)
 * House of Cards, starring George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles
 * How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, starring Dean Martin and Stella Stevens
 * How Sweet It Is!, starring James Garner and Debbie Reynolds
 * I Am Curious (Blue) (Jag är nyfiken – en film i blått) – (Sweden)
 * I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, starring Peter Sellers
 * Ice Station Zebra, directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine
 * If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell – Palme d'Or winner – (UK)
 * The Immortal Story, directed by and starring Orson Welles – (France)
 * In Enemy Country, starring Anthony Franciosa
 * Inspector Clouseau, starring Alan Arkin – (UK)
 * Interlude, starring Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Donald Sutherland
 * Isabel, starring Geneviève Bujold – (Canada)
 * Isadora, a.k.a. The Loves of Isadora, a biopic of Isadora Duncan, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, James Fox – (UK)
 * It Rains in My Village (Biće skoro propast sveta), starring Annie Girardot – (Yugoslavia)
 * Je t'aime, je t'aime, directed by Alain Resnais – (France)
 * Jigsaw, starring Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman and Hope Lange
 * Joanna, starring Geneviève Waïte
 * Kill! (Kiru) – (Japan)
 * Killers Three, starring Dick Clark and Merle Haggard
 * The Killing of Sister George, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Beryl Reid, Susannah York and Coral Browne
 * King of Hearts – directed by Mohammad Ali Fardin (Iran)
 * Kona Coast, starring Vera Miles and Richard Boone
 * Kuroneko (a.k.a. Yabu no Naka no Kuroneko) – (Japan)
 * Lady in Cement, starring Frank Sinatra, Dan Blocker, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan
 * The Last of the Mohicans (Ultimul Mohican) – (Romania)
 * The Legend of Lylah Clare, starring Kim Novak and Peter Finch
 * El Libro de piedra (The Book of Stone) – (Mexico)
 * The Lion in Winter, starring Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn – (UK)
 * The Little Golden Calf (Zolotoy telyonok) – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Live a Little, Love a Little, starring Elvis Presley and Michele Carey
 * The Love Bug, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Dean Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett
 * A Lovely Way to Die, starring Kirk Douglas and Sylva Koscina
 * Lucía – (Cuba)
 * Madigan, directed by Don Siegel, starring Richard Widmark, Inger Stevens, Henry Fonda, James Whitmore, Susan Clark
 * The Magus, starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn and Candice Bergen – (UK)
 * The Man Who Lies, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant – (France/Czechoslovakia)
 * Mandabi (The Money Order), directed by Ousmane Sembène – (Senegal)
 * Matthew's Days (Żywot Mateusza) – (Poland)
 * Mayerling, starring Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve – (UK/France)
 * Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) – (Cuba)
 * Mera Naam Joker (My Name is Joker), directed by and starring Raj Kapoor – (India)
 * The Mercenary, also known as A Professional Gun, starring Franco Nero and Jack Palance – (Italy)
 * A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Hall, starring Derek Godfrey, Ian Holm, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren – (UK)
 * A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die, starring Alex Cord, Arthur Kennedy, Robert Ryan – (Italy)
 * The Money Jungle, starring Lola Albright and Leslie Parrish
 * Monterey Pop, a concert film by D. A. Pennebaker, featuring Simon & Garfunkel, The Mamas & the Papas, Jimi Hendrix and others
 * More Dead Than Alive, starring Clint Walker and Anne Francis
 * Murder a la Mod, directed by Brian De Palma
 * Neel Kamal – (India)
 * Negatives, starring Peter McEnery, Glenda Jackson and Diane Cilento– (UK)
 * Never a Dull Moment, starring Dick Van Dyke, Dorothy Provine, Edward G. Robinson
 * The Night of the Following Day, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno
 * Night of the Living Dead, first in the zombie trilogy by George A. Romero
 * The Night They Raided Minsky's, directed by William Friedkin, starring Jason Robards
 * Nobody's Perfect, starring Doug McClure
 * No Way to Treat a Lady, starring Rod Steiger, George Segal, Lee Remick
 * Las Noches del Hombre Lobo (Nights of the Werewolf) – (Spain/France)
 * The Odd Couple, directed by Gene Saks, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
 * Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?), directed by Jan Troell – Golden Bear winner – (Sweden)
 * Oliver!, directed by Carol Reed, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Mark Lester – winner of six Academy Awards – (UK)
 * Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West), directed by Sergio Leone, starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards – (Italy)
 * The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, starring Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Kurt Russell, Wally Cox, Lesley Ann Warren
 * One Plus One (a.k.a. Sympathy for the Devil), a docudrama directed by Jean-Luc Godard, featuring The Rolling Stones – (UK)
 * Padosan (Neighbour), starring Sunil Dutt – (India)
 * Palo y hueso (Stick and Bone) – (Argentina)
 * The Party, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet
 * Performance, directed by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell, starring Mick Jagger and James Fox – (UK)
 * Petulia, starring Julie Christie and George C. Scott
 * The Pink Jungle, starring James Garner
 * P.J., starring George Peppard, Gayle Hunnicutt, Raymond Burr, Susan Saint James
 * A Place for Lovers (Amanti), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Faye Dunaway
 * Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
 * The Power, starring George Hamilton
 * Pretty Poison, starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins
 * The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, starring Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller
 * The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
 * The Prophet (Il Profeta), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Ann-Margret – (Italy)
 * The Profound Desire of the Gods (Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubō), directed by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
 * Prudence and the Pill, starring Deborah Kerr and David Niven – (UK)
 * Psych-Out, directed by Richard Rush, starring Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson
 * Rachel, Rachel, directed by Paul Newman and starring Joanne Woodward
 * Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey – (UK/Italy)
 * Rosemary's Baby, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes
 * Saathi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar and Simi Garewal – (India)
 * Salt and Pepper, directed by Richard Donner, starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford – (UK)
 * The Scalphunters, starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Telly Savalas
 * The Sea Gull, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Simone Signoret – (U.S./UK/Greece)
 * Sebastian, starring Dirk Bogarde and Susannah York – (UK)
 * Secret Ceremony, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum
 * The Secret Life of an American Wife, starring Walter Matthau
 * The Secret War of Harry Frigg, starring Paul Newman
 * The Sergeant, starring Rod Steiger and John Phillip Law
 * Sergeant Ryker, starring Lee Marvin and Vera Miles
 * The Shakiest Gun in the West, starring Don Knotts and Barbara Rhoades
 * Shalako, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot – (UK)
 * Shame (Skammen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow – (Sweden)*
 * The Shoes of the Fisherman, starring Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Oskar Werner, Leo McKern, David Janssen, Barbara Jefford
 * Signs of Life (Lebenszeichen), directed by Werner Herzog – (West Germany)
 * Single Room Furnished, starring Jayne Mansfield in her final film
 * Skidoo, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing and, in his final film, Groucho Marx
 * Sol Madrid, starring David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn
 * Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell – (made for television) – (UK)
 * Speedway, starring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra
 * Spider Baby, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
 * Spirits of the Dead, directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda – (France/Italy)
 * The Split, starring Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Julie Harris
 * The Stalking Moon, starring Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint
 * Star!, starring Julie Andrews
 * Stay Away, Joe, starring Elvis Presley
 * Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Delphine Seyrig – (France)
 * The Strange Affair, starring Susan George – (UK)
 * The Subject was Roses, starring Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
 * Sunghursh, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
 * The Swedish Kings (Shvedskite krale), directed by Lyudmil Kirkov, starring Kiril Gospodinov – (Bulgaria)
 * The Sweet Ride, starring Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset
 * The Swimmer, starring Burt Lancaster
 * Targets, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Boris Karloff
 * Teorema, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Silvana Mangano and Terence Stamp – (Italy)
 * Tevye and His Seven Daughters (Tuvia Vesheva Benotav), directed by Menahem Golan – (Israel)
 * They Came to Rob Las Vegas, starring Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance
 * The Thomas Crown Affair, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway
 * Three in the Attic, starring Christopher Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett
 * A Twist of Sand, starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman – (UK)
 * Twisted Nerve, starring Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills – (UK)
 * The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran – (France)
 * Up the Junction, starring Dennis Waterman and Suzy Kendall – (UK)
 * Villa Rides, starring Yul Brynner and Robert Mitchum
 * Vixen!, directed by Russ Meyer
 * What's So Bad About Feeling Good?, starring George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore
 * Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, starring Rosalind Russell
 * Where Eagles Dare, directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood – (UK/US)
 * The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, starring Elke Sommer and Bob Crane
 * Wild 90, directed by and starring Norman Mailer
 * Wild in the Streets, starring Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook
 * Will Penny, starring Charlton Heston and Joan Hackett
 * Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (animation short)
 * Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price – (UK)
 * With Six You Get Eggroll, directed by Howard Morris, starring Doris Day, Brian Keith, Barbara Hershey
 * Yellow Submarine, an animated film with music by The Beatles – (UK)
 * Yours, Mine and Ours, starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda

Short film series

 * Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
 * Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
 * Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
 * Daffy Duck (1937–1968)
 * Cool Cat (1967–1969)
 * Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967–1969)

Actor's debuts

 * Gary Busey – Wild in the Streets
 * John Cleese – Interlude
 * Timothy Dalton – The Lion in Winter
 * Frederic Forrest – The Filthy Five
 * Goldie Hawn – The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
 * Barbara Hershey – With Six You Get Eggroll
 * Madeline Kahn – The Dove
 * Lainie Kazan – Dayton's Devils
 * Stacy Keach – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
 * Margot Kidder – The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar
 * Sally Kirkland – Blue
 * Sondra Locke – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
 * Ali MacGraw – A Lovely Way to Die
 * Marsha Mason – Beyond the Law
 * Malcolm McDowell – if...
 * Chuck Norris – The Wrecking Crew
 * Hanna Schygulla – The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp
 * Talia Shire – The Wild Racers
 * Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl
 * Jack Thompson – Personnel, or People?

Births

 * January 2 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor
 * January 6 – John Singleton, director and writer (d. 2019)
 * January 14 – LL Cool J, rapper, actor
 * January 29 – Edward Burns, actor and producer
 * February 1 – Pauly Shore, actor
 * February 12 – Josh Brolin, American actor
 * February 18 – Molly Ringwald, actress
 * March 2 – Daniel Craig, actor
 * March 4 – Patsy Kensit, actress
 * March 12 – Aaron Eckhart, actor
 * March 30 – Celine Dion, singer
 * April 8 – Patricia Arquette, actress
 * April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, actor
 * April 19 – Ashley Judd, actress
 * April 24 – Stacy Haiduk, actress
 * May 3 – Amy Ryan, American actress
 * May 12 – Tony Hawk, actor and professional skateboarder
 * May 20 – Timothy Olyphant, actor
 * July 8 – Billy Crudup, actor
 * July 18 – Grant Bowler, actor
 * July 26 – Olivia Williams, actress
 * August 9
 * Gillian Anderson, American-British actress
 * Eric Bana, Australian actor
 * August 11 – Sophie Okonedo, actress
 * August 28 – Billy Boyd, actor
 * September 9 – Julia Sawalha, actor
 * September 10 – Guy Ritchie, director, writer, husband of Madonna (2000–08)
 * September 15 – Danny Nucci, actor
 * September 15 – Shawn Doyle, actor
 * September 22 – Megan Hollingshead, voice actress
 * September 25 – Will Smith, actor
 * September 26 – Jim Caviezel, actor, The Passion of the Christ
 * September 28 – Naomi Watts, actress
 * October – Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Zambian director
 * October 11 – Tiffany Grant, voice actress
 * October 12 – Hugh Jackman, actor
 * October 13 – Tisha Campbell, actress
 * October 27 – Dileep, Indian actor
 * November 5 – Sam Rockwell, actor
 * November 6 – Kelly Rutherford, actresses
 * November 18 – Owen Wilson, actor
 * November 21 – Sean Schemmel, voice actor
 * December 2 – Lucy Liu, actress
 * December 3 – Brendan Fraser, actor
 * December 7 – Greg Ayres, voice actor

Deaths

 * January 7 - Hugo Butler, 53, Canadian screenwriter, Edison, the Man, Lassie Come Home
 * January 18 – John Ridgely, 58, American actor, The Big Sleep, God Is My Co-Pilot
 * January 25 - Virginia Maskell, 31, British actress, Only Two Can Play, Virgin Island
 * February 4 – Eddie Baker, 70, American actor, Oranges and Lemons, Giant
 * February 7 – Nick Adams, 36, American actor, Pillow Talk, Rebel Without a Cause
 * February 13 – Mae Marsh, 73, American actress, The Birth of a Nation, 3 Godfathers
 * February 20 – Anthony Asquith, 65, British director, The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy
 * March 10 – Helen Walker, 47, American actress, Impact, Call Northside 777
 * March 11 – Pearl Doles Bell, 84, American film scenarist, novelist and editor, Her Elephant Man
 * March 16 – June Collyer, 63, American actress, Hangman's House, A Face in the Fog
 * March 18 - Harry Kurnitz, 60, American screenwriter, Witness for the Prosecution, How to Steal a Million
 * March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, 79, Danish director, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Gertrud
 * March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Great Adventure
 * March 30 – Bobby Driscoll, 31, American actor, Peter Pan, Treasure Island
 * April 4 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 39, American minister and Civil Rights activist
 * April 5 – Lois Andrews, 44, American actress, Dixie Dugan, The Desert Hawk
 * April 6 – Keith Pyott, 66, English actor, Village of the Damned
 * April 16 – Fay Bainter, 74, American actress, Woman of the Year, The Children's Hour
 * April 24 – Tommy Noonan, 46, American actor, A Star is Born, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
 * May 5 – Albert Dekker, 62, American actor, The Wild Bunch, Kiss Me Deadly
 * May 9
 * Albert Lewin, 73, American director, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
 * Marion Lorne, 84, American actress, The Graduate, Strangers on a Train
 * May 10 – Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife, The Jolson Story
 * May 21 – Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress, Disraeli, Kind Lady
 * May 25 – Charles K. Feldman, 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seven Year Itch
 * May 26 - Joseph MacDonald, 62, Mexico-born American cinematographer, My Darling Clementine, The Young Lions
 * May 27 – Denise Legeay, 70, French actress, Happy Couple, Le signe de la mort
 * May 31 – Preben Uglebjerg, 37, Danish actor, Pigen og vandpytten
 * June 4 – Dorothy Gish, 70, American actress, The Cardinal, Orphans of the Storm
 * June 7 – Dan Duryea, 61, American actor, Winchester '73, Scarlet Street
 * June 8 - Patricia Jessel, 47, British actress, The City of the Dead, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
 * June 21 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, 72, Danish actress
 * June 24 – Tony Hancock, 44, British comedian, Call Me Genius, The Punch and Judy Man
 * June 29 – Hans Egede Budtz, 78, Danish actor, Nøddebo Præstegård
 * July 1 – Virginia Weidler, 41, American actress, The Philadelphia Story, The Women
 * July 12 – Antonio Pietrangeli, 49, Italian director, It Happened in Rome, The Magnificent Cuckold
 * July 27 – Lilian Harvey, 62, British actress and singer, Waltz of Love, Let's Live Tonight
 * July 30 – Alexander Hall, 74, American director, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Little Miss Marker
 * August 23 – Hunt Stromberg, 74, American producer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld
 * August 26 – Kay Francis, 63, American actress, Charley's Aunt, Little Men
 * August 30 – William Talman, 53, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Crashout
 * August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe, 60, American actor, T-Men, Raw Deal
 * September 3 – Isabel Withers, 72, American actress, Possessed, Lady of Burlesque
 * September 16 - Nedrick Young, 54, American screenwriter, Inherit the Wind, The Defiant Ones
 * September 18 – Franchot Tone, 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent
 * September 24 - Virginia Valli, 70, American actress, The Pleasure Garden, Evening Clothes
 * October 18 – Lee Tracy, 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight, The Best Man
 * October 29 – Pert Kelton, 61, American actress, The Music Man, Sing and Like It
 * October 30 – Ramon Novarro, 69, Mexican actor, Ben-Hur, Mata Hari
 * November 8 – Wendell Corey, 54, American actor, Rear Window, Harriet Craig
 * November 9 – Gerald Mohr, 54, American actor, Gilda, The Angry Red Planet
 * November 18 – Walter Wanger, 74, American producer, Cleopatra, I Want to Live!
 * November 25 – Upton Sinclair, 90, American author and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile
 * December 2 – Colin Kenny, 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
 * December 4 - Archie Mayo, 77, American director, The Petrified Forest, A Night in Casablanca
 * December 5 – Fred Clark, 54, American actor, White Heat, Auntie Mame
 * December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen, Die! Die! My Darling
 * December 15 – Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress, South Pacific, Red, Hot and Blue
 * December 20 - John Steinbeck, 66, American author and screenwriter, Viva Zapata!, The Red Pony