1973 in film

The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.

United States and Canada
The top ten 1973 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows:

Outside North America
The highest-grossing 1973 films in countries outside of North America.

Worldwide gross revenue
The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1973. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1973. The worldwide revenue for The Sting, for example is not known. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases.

Events

 * March – Five Fingers of Death is released in the United States and is a surprise success starting a kung fu film craze in North America
 * April 11 – Kim Jong-il publishes his film treatise On the Art of the Cinema.
 * May 1 – The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely; she will marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra in 1976.
 * July 20 – Martial arts legend Bruce Lee dies before Enter the Dragon is released on July 26.
 * August 17 – The sci-fi movie Westworld is the first feature film to use digital image processing.
 * December 25 – The Sting is released and goes on to become one of the top-grossing films of all time.
 * December 26 – The Exorcist reawakens the horror film genre and becomes one of the most popular and controversial films ever released.

Awards
Academy Awards:
 * Best Picture: The Sting – Bill/Phillips-Hill, Zanuck/Brown, Universal
 * Best Director: George Roy Hill – The Sting
 * Best Actor: Jack Lemmon – Save the Tiger
 * Best Actress: Glenda Jackson – A Touch of Class
 * Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman – The Paper Chase
 * Best Supporting Actress: Tatum O'Neal – Paper Moon
 * Best Foreign Language Film: Day for Night (La Nuit américaine), directed by François Truffaut, France

Golden Globe Awards:


 * Drama:
 * Best Picture: The Exorcist
 * Best Actor: Al Pacino – Serpico
 * Best Actress: Marsha Mason – Cinderella Liberty


 * Comedy or Musical:
 * Best Picture: American Graffiti
 * Best Actor: George Segal – A Touch of Class
 * Best Actress: Glenda Jackson – A Touch of Class


 * Other
 * Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman – The Paper Chase
 * Best Supporting Actress: Linda Blair – The Exorcist
 * Best Director: William Friedkin – The Exorcist
 * Best Foreign Language Film: The Pedestrian (Der Fußgänger), W. Germany

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
 * The Hireling, directed by Alan Bridges, United Kingdom
 * Scarecrow, directed by Jerry Schatzberg, United States

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
 * Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), directed by Satyajit Ray, India

Notable films released in 1973
U.S.A. unless stated

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
 * The 14, directed by David Hemmings, starring Jack Wild – (U.K.)
 * Abhimaan (Pride) – (India)
 * Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies, starring Cliff Robertson and Pamela Franklin
 * The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob) – (France)
 * All Nudity Shall Be Punished (Toda Nudez Será Castigada) – (Brazil)
 * The Alpha Caper, starring Henry Fonda and Leonard Nimoy
 * Alvin Purple – (Australia)
 * Amarcord, directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy)
 * American Graffiti, directed by George Lucas, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Harrison Ford
 * Ana and the Wolves (Ana y los lobos), starring Geraldine Chaplin – (Spain)
 * And Now the Screaming Starts!, starring Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Herbert Lom
 * Arnold, starring Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester
 * Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), directed by Satyajit Ray – Golden Bear winner – (India)
 * The Baby, starring Anjanette Comer and Ruth Roman
 * Badlands, directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek
 * Bang the Drum Slowly, starring Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty
 * Bat Pussy, believed to have been made or released in 1973
 * Battle for the Planet of the Apes, starring Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, John Huston
 * Battles Without Honor and Humanity (ingi naki tatakai) – (Japan)
 * Baxter!, starring Patricia Neal and Britt Ekland – (U.K.)
 * Black Caesar, starring Fred Williamson
 * Black Holiday (La Villeggiatura), starring Adolfo Celi – (Italy)
 * Blood Brothers (Ci Ma), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)
 * Blood in the Streets, a.k.a. Revolver, starring Oliver Reed – (Italy/France/West Germany)
 * Blood of the Dragon (Zhui ming qiang) – (Hong Kong)
 * Blue Blood, starring Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis and Derek Jacobi- (U.K.)
 * Blume in Love, starring George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson
 * Bobby, starring Rishi Kapoor – (India)
 * Book of Numbers, directed, produced by and starring Raymond St. Jacques
 * Il Boss, starring Henry Silva and Richard Conte – (Italy)
 * Breezy, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring William Holden and Kay Lenz
 * A Brief Vacation (Una breve vacanza), directed by Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
 * Brother of the Wind
 * Cahill U.S. Marshal, starring John Wayne and George Kennedy
 * Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?) – (France)
 * The Candy Snatchers, starring Tiffany Bolling
 * Charley and the Angel, starring Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Kurt Russell
 * Charley Varrick, directed by Don Siegel, starring Walter Matthau, John Vernon, Joe Don Baker, Andy Robinson, Sheree North, Felicia Farr
 * Charlotte's Web, an animated film directed by Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto, with the voices of Debbie Reynolds and Henry Gibson
 * Chino, directed by John Sturges, starring Charles Bronson
 * Cinderella Liberty, directed by Mark Rydell, starring James Caan and Marsha Mason
 * Class of '44, starring Gary Grimes
 * Cleopatra Jones, starring Tamara Dobson and Shelley Winters
 * Coffy, starring Pam Grier
 * Cops and Robbers, starring Joseph Bologna and Cliff Gorman
 * The Crazies, directed by George A. Romero
 * The Creeping Flesh, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
 * Dark Places, starring Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Jane Birkin – (U.K.)
 * Day for Night, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont – Academy Award and Bafta winner – (France)
 * The Day of the Dolphin, directed by Mike Nichols, starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino
 * The Day of the Jackal, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig – (U.K./France)
 * The Death of a Lumberjack (La Mort d'un bûcheron) – (Canada)
 * A Delicate Balance, starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Betsy Blair
 * The Devil in Miss Jones, adult film, directed by Gerard Damiano
 * Dillinger, starring Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Dreyfuss, Geoffrey Lewis
 * A Doll's House, starring Claire Bloom and Anthony Hopkins – (U.K.)
 * The Don Is Dead, starring Anthony Quinn, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Ina Balin
 * Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, starring Kim Darby and Jim Hutton
 * Don't Look Now, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland – (U.K./Italy)
 * The Earth Is a Sinful Song (Maa on syntinen laulu) – (Finland)
 * Electra Glide in Blue, starring Robert Blake
 * Emperor of the North Pole, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine
 * England Made Me, starring Peter Finch and Michael York – (U.K.)
 * Enter the Dragon, starring Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly – (Hong Kong/U.S.A.)
 * Executive Action, starring Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan
 * The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin, starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow—winner of 5 Golden Globes and 2 Oscars
 * Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage) – (France/Czechoslovakia)
 * Fé, Esperanza y Caridad (Faith, Hope and Charity), starring Katy Jurado – (Mexico)
 * The Final Programme, starring Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre and Graham Crowden – (U.K.)
 * Five on the Black Hand Side, starring Godfrey Cambridge
 * The Friends of Eddie Coyle, directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Mitchum, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Peter Boyle
 * From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (a.k.a. The Hideaways), starring Ingrid Bergman
 * Godspell, starring Victor Garber
 * Godzilla vs. Megalon, directed by Jun Fukuda – (Japan)
 * La Grande Bouffe (Blow-Out), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret – (France/Italy)
 * The Hare Census (Prebroyavane na Divite Zaytsi), directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Itzhak Fintzi, Nikola Todev, Georgi Rusev – (Bulgaria)
 * The Harrad Experiment, starring Don Johnson, Tippi Hedren, James Whitmore
 * Heavy Traffic, an animated film by Ralph Bakshi
 * Hell Up in Harlem, starring Fred Williamson
 * High Plains Drifter, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Geoffrey Lewis
 * The Hireling, directed by Alan Bridges, starring Robert Shaw and Sarah Miles – Palme d'Or winner – (U.K.)
 * Hitler: The Last Ten Days, starring Alec Guinness – (U.K./Italy)
 * The Holy Mountain (La Montaña Sagrada), directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky – (Mexico/U.S.)
 * Home Sweet Home (La fête à Jules) – (Belgium)
 * The Homecoming, directed by Peter Hall, starring Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Vivien Merchant – (U.K.)
 * Hot Winds (Garm Hava), directed by M. S. Sathyu – (India)
 * The Hourglass Sanatorium (Sanatorium pod klepsydrą), directed by Wojciech Has – (Poland)
 * The House in Nightmare Park, directed by Peter Skyes, starring Frankie Howerd and Ray Milland – (U.K.)
 * The House on Chelouche Street (Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche) – (Israel)
 * Hugo the Hippo (Hugó, a víziló) – (Hungary)
 * The Iceman Cometh, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan
 * Idaho Transfer, directed by Peter Fonda
 * Indian Summer, directed by Milen Nikolov, starring Georgi Partsalev, Leda Taseva, Tatyana Lolova – (Bulgaria)
 * Interval, starring Merle Oberon
 * L' Invitation (The Invitation), directed by Claude Goretta – Academy Award for Best Foreign Film – (France/Switzerland)
 * Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Ivan Vasilyevich menyayet professiyu) – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Ted Neeley and Yvonne Elliman, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
 * Jeremy, starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor
 * Jonathan Livingston Seagull, featuring voices of James Franciscus and Juliet Mills
 * Kanashimi no Belladonna (Belladonna of Sadness), Anime feature film – (Japan)
 * Kid Blue, starring Dennis Hopper and Warren Oates
 * Lady Ice, starring Donald Sutherland and Jennifer O'Neill
 * Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime) – (Japan)
 * The Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges
 * The Last Detail, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young
 * The Last of Sheila, written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, starring Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon, James Mason, James Coburn, Richard Benjamin, Joan Hackett, Ian McShane
 * The Laughing Policeman, starring Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett, Jr., Joanna Cassidy, Cathy Lee Crosby
 * The Legend of Hell House, starring Pamela Franklin and Gayle Hunnicutt
 * The Legend of Paul and Paula (Die Legende von Paul und Paula) – (East Germany)
 * Le Magnifique, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset – (France)
 * Little Tiger of Canton (Guang dong xiao lao hu), starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong)
 * Live and Let Die, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond), with Jane Seymour and Yaphet Kotto – (U.K.)
 * Lolly-Madonna XXX, starring Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges
 * The Long Goodbye, directed by Robert Altman, starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, Jim Bouton
 * Lost Horizon, starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey
 * Love and Anarchy (d'amore e d'anarchia), directed by Lina Wertmüller – (Italy)
 * Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Timothy Bottoms and Maggie Smith
 * The Mackintosh Man, starring Paul Newman – (U.K./U.S.A.)
 * Magnum Force, directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich
 * Malizia (Malicious) – (Italy)
 * Manson, a documentary film about Charles Manson
 * Massacre in Rome (Rappresaglia), directed by George Pan Cosmatos, starring Richard Burton and Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
 * Maurie, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Bo Svenson and Bernie Casey
 * Mean Streets, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro
 * The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la Putain) – (France)
 * My Dear Brother starring Tarık Akan, Halit Akçatepe and Kahraman Kıral –  (Turkey)
 * My Name is Nobody (Il mio nome è Nessuno), starring Terence Hill and Henry Fonda – (Italy)
 * The Neptune Factor, starring Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine
 * The No Mercy Man, starring Sid Haig and Ron Thompson
 * Night Flight from Moscow, starring Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde – (France/Italy/Germany)
 * Night Watch, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey – (U.K.)
 * The Night Strangler, TV movie starring Darren McGavin
 * The Nutcracker (Schelkunchik) – (U.S.S.R.)
 * Oklahoma Crude, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Faye Dunaway and George C. Scott
 * O Lucky Man!, directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts – (U.K.)
 * The Olsen Gang Goes Crazy (Olsen-banden går amok) – (Denmark)
 * The Paper Chase, starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman
 * Paper Moon, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
 * Paperback Hero, starring Keir Dullea and Elizabeth Ashley – (Canada)
 * Papillon, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman
 * Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, with music by Dylan
 * The Pedestrian (Der Fußgänger), directed by Maximilian Schell, starring Peggy Ashcroft – Golden Globe for best foreign film – (West Germany/Switzerland/Israel)
 * Property Is No Longer a Theft (La proprietà non è più un furto), starring Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)
 * The Pyx, starring Christopher Plummer and Karen Black- (Canada)
 * El Retorno de Walpurgis (a.k.a. The Curse of the Devil) – (Spain/Mexico)
 * Robin Hood, animated film with voices of Roger Miller, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas
 * Save the Tiger, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Jack Lemmon
 * Scarecrow, directed by Jerry Schatzberg, starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino – Palme d'Or winner
 * Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson – (Sweden)
 * Scorpio, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, Gayle Hunnicutt
 * Scream Blacula Scream, starring William H. Marshall and Pam Grier
 * Serpico, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino
 * The Seven Madmen (Los siete locos), directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson – (Argentina)
 * The Seven-Ups, starring Roy Scheider
 * Shamus, starring Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John P. Ryan
 * Showdown, starring Dean Martin and Rock Hudson
 * Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad
 * Sisters, directed by Brian De Palma
 * Slaughter's Big Rip-Off, starring Jim Brown, Brock Peters, Ed McMahon
 * Sleeper, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton
 * Slither, starring James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Peter Boyle
 * The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du Spectacle) – (France)
 * Son of Zorro
 * Soul Hustler, directed by Bert Topper, starring Fabian Forte, Nai Bonet, Tony Russel, Casey Kasem
 * Soylent Green, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson
 * The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) – (Spain)
 * Stateline Motel, starring Eli Wallach, Ursula Andress, Fabio Testi, Eli Wallach – Canada/Italy
 * Steelyard Blues, starring Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda
 * Steptoe and Son Ride Again, starred Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett – (U.K.)
 * The Sting, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, Ray Walston – winner of 7 Academy Awards
 * The Stone Killer, starring Charles Bronson
 * Super Fly T.N.T., directed by and starring Ron O'Neal
 * Superdad, starring Bob Crane, Barbara Rush, Kurt Russell
 * Sweet Kill, starring Tab Hunter
 * The Tenderness of Wolves (Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe) – (West Germany)
 * That´ll Be the Day, starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach, Ringo Starr – (U.K.)
 * Theatre of Blood, starring Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Robert Morley
 * Themroc, starring Michel Piccoli – (France)
 * There's No Smoke Without Fire (Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu), starring Annie Girardot – (France)
 * The Thief Who Came to Dinner, starring Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates
 * The Three-Day Reign (Samil cheonha) – (South Korea)
 * The Three Musketeers, directed by Richard Lester, starring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Raquel Welch – (U.K./U.S.)
 * Three Nuts for Cinderella (Tři oříšky pro Popelku) – (Czechoslovakia/East Germany)
 * A Touch of Class, starring George Segal and Glenda Jackson – (U.K.)
 * Tom Sawyer, starring Johnny Whitaker and Jodie Foster
 * Touki Bouki (Journey of the Hyena) – (Senegal)
 * The Train Robbers, starring John Wayne and Ann-Margret
 * Tsugaru Folk Song (Tsugaru Jongarabushi) – (Japan)
 * Turkish Delight (Turks Fruit), directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Rutger Hauer – (Netherlands)
 * Two Men in Town (Deux hommes dans la ville), starring Jean Gabin and Alain Delon – (France)
 * Two People, directed by Robert Wise, starring Peter Fonda and Lindsay Wagner
 * Ultimul cartuş (The Last Bullet) – (Romania)
 * The Vault of Horror, starring Glynis Johns, Terry-Thomas, Curd Jürgens – (U.K.)
 * Voices, starring David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt – (U.K.)
 * Walking Tall, starring Joe Don Baker
 * The Way We Were, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford
 * We Want the Colonels (Vogliamo i colonnelli), starring Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)
 * Wedding in Blood (Les Noces rouges), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli – (France)
 * Westworld, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
 * White Lightning, starring Burt Reynolds
 * Wicked, Wicked, starring David Bailey, Edd Byrnes, Tiffany Bolling
 * The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy, starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento – (U.K.)
 * Willie Dynamite, directed by Gilbert Moses, starring Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala and Roger Robinson
 * The World's Greatest Athlete, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and John Amos
 * Zanjeer (Shackles) – (India)
 * Ziddi (Action)- (Pakistan)

1973 film releases
U.S.A. unless stated

January–March

 * January 1973
 * 31 January
 * Shamus
 * Steelyard Blues
 * February 1973
 * 7 February
 * Black Caesar
 * Last Tango in Paris
 * The Train Robbers
 * 14 February
 * The World's Greatest Athlete
 * 22 February
 * Walking Tall
 * March 1973
 * 1 March
 * Charlotte's Web
 * The Thief Who Came to Dinner
 * 7 March
 * Slither
 * The Long Goodbye
 * 16 March
 * The Crazies
 * 17 March
 * Godzilla vs. Megalon (Japan)
 * 21 March
 * Godspell
 * 23 March
 * Charley and the Angel
 * 27 March
 * Sisters

April–June

 * April 1973
 * 1 April
 * Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
 * 7 April
 * Night Flight from Moscow
 * 11 April
 * Scarecrow
 * 19 April
 * Scorpio
 * Soylent Green
 * May 1973
 * 1 May
 * Guns of a Stranger
 * 9 May
 * Paper Moon
 * 20 May
 * Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
 * 24 May
 * Emperor of the North Pole
 * June 1973
 * 14 June
 * The Last of Sheila
 * 15 June
 * Battle for the Planet of the Apes
 * The Legend of Hell House
 * 17 June
 * Coffy
 * 17 June
 * Blume in Love
 * 20 June
 * O Lucky Man!
 * One Little Indian
 * Showdown
 * 26 June
 * The Friends of Eddie Coyle
 * 27 June
 * Live and Let Die
 * 28 June
 * The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

July–September

 * July 1973
 * 2 July
 * Oklahoma Crude
 * 11 July
 * Cahill U.S. Marshal
 * 13 July
 * Lady Ice
 * 18 July
 * Sssssss
 * 20 July
 * Dillinger
 * 25 July
 * The Mackintosh Man
 * 27 July
 * The Last American Hero
 * August 1973
 * 3 August
 * The Neptune Factor
 * 8 August
 * The Stone Killer
 * White Lightning
 * 9 August
 * Gordon's War
 * 11 August
 * American Graffiti
 * 15 August
 * Jesus Christ Superstar
 * 17 August
 * Westworld
 * 19 August
 * Electra Glide in Blue
 * Enter the Dragon
 * 22 August
 * High Plains Drifter
 * 26 August
 * Bang the Drum Slowly
 * September 1973
 * 29 September
 * Kid Blue

October–December

 * October 1973
 * 2 October
 * Mean Streets
 * 15 October
 * Badlands
 * 16 October
 * Don't Look Now
 * The Paper Chase
 * 19 October
 * Charley Varrick
 * The Way We Were
 * November 1973
 * 8 November
 * Robin Hood
 * 14 November
 * The Don Is Dead
 * 18 November
 * Breezy
 * December 1973
 * 5 December
 * Serpico
 * 6 December
 * Fantastic Planet
 * The Wicker Man
 * 12 December
 * The Last Detail
 * 14 December
 * My Name is Nobody
 * Superdad
 * The Seven-Ups
 * 16 December
 * Hell Up in Harlem
 * Papillon
 * 17 December
 * Sleeper
 * 18 December
 * Cinderella Liberty
 * 19 December
 * Willie Dynamite
 * 20 December
 * The Laughing Policeman
 * 21 December
 * The Deadly Trackers
 * 25 December
 * The Sting
 * Magnum Force
 * 26 December
 * The Exorcist

Births

 * January 31 – Portia de Rossi, Australian-Canadian actress
 * February 12 – Tara Strong, Canadian-American voice actress
 * March 18 – Luci Christian, American voice actress
 * March 20 – Jane March, English actress and model
 * April 10 – Guillaume Canet, French actor
 * April 14 – Adrien Brody, American actor
 * April 22 – Christopher Sabat, American voice actor
 * April 30 – Antonino Isordia, Mexican director
 * May 5 – Tina Yothers, American actress
 * May 10 – Tora Sudiro, Indonesian actor
 * June 15 – Neil Patrick Harris, American actor
 * June 16 – Eddie Cibrian, American actor
 * June 21 – Juliette Lewis, American actress
 * July 26 – Kate Beckinsale, English actress
 * August 6 – Vera Farmiga, American actress
 * August 8 – Jessica Calvello, American voice actress
 * August 22 – Kristen Wiig, American actress and comedian
 * August 24 – Dave Chappelle, American actor
 * September 12 – Paul Walker, American actor and producer (d. 2013)
 * September 14 – Andrew Lincoln, English actor
 * September 18 – James Marsden, American actor
 * September 26 – Julienne Davis, American actress and model
 * October 3
 * Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
 * Richard Ian Cox, Welsh-Canadian voice actor
 * October 26 – Seth MacFarlane, American actor, voice actor, animator, screenwriter, comedian, television producer, director and singer
 * November 1 – Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
 * November 26 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
 * November 27 – Sharlto Copley, South African actor
 * December 14 – Jan Uuspõld, Estonian actor

Debuts

 * John Candy – Class of '44
 * Joanna Cassidy – The Outfit
 * Laura Dern – White Lightning
 * Anthony Edwards – Big Zapper
 * Emilio Estevez – Badlands
 * Victor Garber – Godspell
 * Rutger Hauer – Turkish Delight
 * Tatum O'Neal – Paper Moon
 * Bernadette Peters – Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
 * Kathleen Quinlan – American Graffiti
 * Stellan Skarsgård – Anita – ur en tonärsflickas dagbok
 * Carl Weathers – Magnum Force