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.

Events

 * June 22 - American singer and actress Judy Garland dies at age 47 of an accidental barbiturate overdose in London.
 * July 8 - Kinney National Services Inc. acquire substantially all of the assets of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
 * July 13 - Al Pacino's film debut (Me, Natalie).
 * Summer - Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980. From 1969 to 1979, the festival is non-competitive.
 * August 8 - Kirk Kerkorian buys 24% of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, becoming the biggest shareholder.
 * August 9 - Tate murders: Sharon Tate, the 26-year-old actress, model and Roman Polanski's wife, is murdered by Charles Manson's "Family" at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, California.
 * November 10 - Elvis Presley's film career ends with the release of Change of Habit.
 * Jack and Jill: A Postscript becomes the first feature film to receive an Australian Film Institute Award.

Awards
Academy Awards:


 * Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy – Hellman-Schlesinger, United Artists
 * Best Director: John Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy
 * Best Actor: John Wayne – True Grit
 * Best Actress: Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
 * Best Supporting Actor: Gig Young − They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
 * Best Supporting Actress: Goldie Hawn − Cactus Flower
 * Best Foreign Language Film: Z − directed by Costa-Gavras, Algeria

Golden Globe Awards:


 * Drama:


 * Best Picture: Anne of the Thousand Days
 * Best Actor: John Wayne – True Grit
 * Best Actress: Geneviève Bujold – Anne of the Thousand Days


 * Comedy or Musical:


 * Best Picture: The Secret of Santa Vittoria
 * Best Actor: Peter O'Toole – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
 * Best Actress: Patty Duke – Me, Natalie


 * Other
 * Best Supporting Actor: Gig Young − They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
 * Best Supporting Actress: Goldie Hawn − Cactus Flower
 * Best Director: Charles Jarrott – Anne of the Thousand Days

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
 * If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Not awarded

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
 * Rani Radovi (Early Works), directed by Želimir Žilnik, Yugoslavia

Films released

 * Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

January–March

 * January 1969
 * January 23
 * Some Girls Do
 * February 1969
 * February 5
 * The Wrecking Crew
 * March 1969
 * March 5
 * The Big Bounce
 * March 10
 * The Assassination Bureau (U.K.)
 * March 12
 * Where Eagles Dare
 * March 13
 * Charro!
 * March 26
 * 100 Rifles
 * The Illustrated Man
 * Support Your Local Sheriff!

April–June

 * April 1969
 * April 1
 * Sam Whiskey
 * Sweet Charity
 * April 3
 * Goodbye, Columbus
 * April 16
 * Hook, Line & Sinker
 * April 24
 * If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
 * May 1969
 * May 6
 * Slaves
 * May 7
 * Sinful Davey
 * Where It's At
 * May 10
 * Mackenna's Gold
 * May 14
 *  Nightmare in Wax
 * May 15
 * Midas Run
 * May 22
 * Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (U.K.)
 * Winning
 * May 25
 * Midnight Cowboy
 * May 27
 * Popi
 * May 28
 * The April Fools
 * Guns of the Magnificent Seven
 * May 29
 * Che!
 * June 1969
 * June 11
 * Rascal
 * June 13
 * True Grit
 * June 18
 * The Wild Bunch
 * June 19
 * Last Summer
 * June 24
 * Chastity
 * June 25
 * The Bridge at Remagen
 * The Chairman
 * Hello Down There

July–September

 * July 1969
 * July 2
 * Three Into Two Won't Go
 * July 7
 * How to Commit Marriage
 * July 14
 * Easy Rider
 * July 23
 * Castle Keep
 * August 1969
 * August 6
 * The Learning Tree
 * August 18
 * Take the Money and Run
 * August 19
 * Alice's Restaurant
 * August 20
 * What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
 * August 21
 * Number One
 * August 27
 * Medium Cool
 * The Rain People
 * August 28
 * The Gypsy Moths
 * September 1969
 * September 3
 * The Trouble with Girls
 * The Valley of Gwangi
 * September 17
 * Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
 * September 24
 * Asterix and Cleopatra

October–December

 * October 1969
 * October 4
 * Hail, Hero!
 * October 8
 * The Monitors
 * October 12
 * The Madwoman of Chaillot
 * October 15
 * Paint Your Wagon
 * October 22
 * Marlowe
 * The Sterile Cuckoo
 * October 24
 * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
 * October 29
 * The Secret of Santa Vittoria
 * November 1969
 * November 10
 * Change of Habit
 * Marooned
 * November 15
 * Goodbye, Mr. Chips
 * November 18
 * The Arrangement
 * November 19
 * The Comic
 * November 27
 * The Undefeated
 * December 1969
 * December 4
 * A Boy Named Charlie Brown
 * December 10
 * They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
 * December 16
 * Cactus Flower
 * Hello, Dolly!
 * December 18
 * On Her Majesty's Secret Service
 * Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
 * December 19
 * Topaz
 * December 20
 * All Monsters Attack (Japan)
 * December 24
 * The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
 * December 25
 * The Reivers

Notable films released in 1969

 * Note: U.S. releases unless stated.


 * 100 Rifles, starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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
 * Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy)
 * Flashback, directed by Raffaele Andreassi – (Italy)
 * Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
 * Fraulein Doktor, starring Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Capucine
 * Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Sōretsu), by Toshio Matsumoto – (Japan)
 * 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)
 * Goodbye, Columbus, starring Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw and Jack Klugman
 * Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark
 * 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
 * Hard Contract, starring James Coburn, Lee Remick, Burgess Meredith – (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
 * Jackal of Nahueltoro (El Chacal de Nahueltoro) – (Chile)
 * John and Mary, starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow
 * K
 * Katrina – (South Africa)
 * Katzelmacher, directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Hanna Schygulla – (West Germany)
 * Kes, directed by Ken Loach – (U.K.)
 * Khamoshi (Silence) – (India)
 * 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.)
 * The Learning Tree, directed by Gordon Parks
 * 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 – (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 [sic]), 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)
 * Mosquito Squadron, starring David McCallum – (U.K.)
 * My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud), directed by Éric Rohmer – (France)
 * N
 * The Night of Counting the Years (Al-Mummia) – (Egypt)
 *  Nightmare in Wax, starring Cameron Mitchell and Anne Helm
 * Number One, starring Charlton Heston, Jessica Walter, Bruce Dern
 * O
 * The Oblong Box, starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee
 * Oh! What a Lovely War, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Mills – (U.K.)
 * On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby (as James Bond), with Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas – (U.K.)
 * 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)
 * 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
 * A Quiet Place in the Country (Un tranquillo posto di campagna), starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave – (Italy/France)
 * 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 – Golden Globe for best comedy film
 * 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, Lino Ventura – (France)
 * Sinful Davey, directed by John Huston, starring John Hurt
 * Slaves
 * Some Girls Do, starring Richard Johnson and Daliah Lavi
 * Some Kind of a Nut, starring Dick Van Dyke, Rosemary Forsyth, Angie Dickinson
 * The Southern Star, starring George Segal, Orson Welles, 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, Patrick O'Neal
 * Support Your Local Sheriff!, starring James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, 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
 * 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
 * Ultraman, Ultraseven: Great Violent Monster Fight – (Japan)
 * The Undefeated, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson
 * The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran – (France)
 * 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
 * What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, 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) – (U.S.S.R.)
 * The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Jaime Sánchez, Bo Hopkins, Edmond O'Brien
 * Winning, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Thomas, Robert Wagner
 * The Witness (A tanu) – (Hungary)
 * Women in Love, directed by Ken Russell, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson – (U.K.)
 * The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Nagagutsu o Haita Neko) – (Japan)
 * The Wrecking Crew, starring Dean Martin (as Matt Helm), Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise, Sharon Tate
 * Y
 * Young Billy Young, starring Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr.
 * Z
 * Z, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Irene Papas – (France/Algeria)
 * Z, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Irene Papas – (France/Algeria)

Short Film Series

 * Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
 * Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
 * Cool Cat (1967—1969)
 * Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967—1969)
 * The Pink Panther (1963–1969, 1971–1977, 1978–1980)
 * The Inspector (1965-1969)
 * The Ant and the Aardvark (1969–1971)
 * Roland and Rattfink (1968–1971)
 * Tijuana Toads (1969–1972)
 * Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949, 1951–1972)
 * Chilly Willy (1955–1972)
 * The Beary Family (1962–1972)

Actor's debuts

 * Bob Balaban – Midnight Cowboy
 * Bonnie Bedelia – The Gypsy Moths
 * Ed Begley Jr. – The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
 * David Bowie – The Virgin Soldiers
 * Jill Clayburgh – The Wedding Party
 * Bruce Davison – Last Summer
 * Sam Elliott – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
 * Farrah Fawcett – Love Is a Funny Thing
 * Bridget Fonda – Easy Rider
 * Melanie Griffith – Smith!
 * George Lazenby – On Her Majesty's Secret Service
 * Ian McKellen – A Touch of Love
 * Ryan O'Neal – The Big Bounce
 * Al Pacino – Me, Natalie
 * John Savage – The Master Beater
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger – Hercules in New York
 * Sam Shepard – Me and My Brother
 * Christopher Walken – Me and My Brother
 * M. Emmet Walsh – Midnight Cowboy

Births

 * January 1
 * Mr. Lawrence, American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, animator and director
 * Verne Troyer, American actor (died 2018)
 * January 14 – Jason Bateman, American actor
 * January 17 – James Waterston, American actor
 * February 8
 * Brian Krause, American actor
 * Mary McCormack, American actress
 * February 11 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress
 * March 1 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
 * March 10 – Paget Brewster, American actress
 * April 2 – Ajay Devgan, Indian actor
 * April 3 – Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
 * April 6 – Paul Rudd, American actor
 * April 23 – Byron Thames, American actor
 * April 25 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
 * May 1 – Wes Anderson, American director
 * May 14 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
 * May 25 – Anne Heche, American actress
 * June 1 – Teri Polo, American actress
 * June 11 – Peter Dinklage, American actor
 * June 15 – Ice Cube, American actor, rapper
 * June 28 – Tichina Arnold, American actress
 * July 17 – Jason Clarke, Australian actor
 * July 21 – Godfrey, American actor, comedian
 * July 24 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer
 * August 4 – Vlad Ivanov, Romanian actor
 * August 18
 * Christian Slater, American actor
 * Edward Norton, American actor
 * August 19 – Matthew Perry, Canadian-American actor
 * August 28 – Jack Black, American actor, comedian, musician
 * September 25 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
 * September 29 – Erika Eleniak, American actress
 * October 1 – Zach Galifianakis, American actor
 * October 9 – Steve McQueen, English director
 * October 15 – Dominic West, English actor
 * October 19 – Trey Parker, American actor, creator of South Park
 * November 4 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor
 * November 13 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
 * December 19 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
 * December 21 – Julie Delpy, French actress

Deaths

 * January 1 – Barton MacLane, 66, American actor, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
 * January 3 – Howard McNear, 63, American actor, Anatomy of a Murder, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Blue Hawaii, Follow That Dream
 * 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 27 – John Boles, 73, American actor, Frankenstein, Stella Dallas
 * March 18 – Barbara Bates, 43, American actress, The Caddy, All About Eve
 * 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 – Mitzi Green, 48, American actress, Lost in Alaska, Skippy
 * 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
 * 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 18 - Barbara Pepper, 54, American actress, The Rogues Tavern, Kiss Me, Stupid
 * 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 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
 * 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 22
 * Ilse Steppat, 52, German actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
 * Josef von Sternberg, 73, Austrian director, The Blue Angel, Macao