Overview of the events of 1964 in film
The year1964 in film involved some significant events, including three highly successful musical films,Mary Poppins ,My Fair Lady ,The Umbrellas of Cherbourg .
[ edit ] The top ten 1964 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1964 Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals 1 Mary Poppins Buena Vista $31,000,000[ 1] 2 My Fair Lady Warner Bros. $30,000,000[ 2] 3 Goldfinger United Artists $22,500,000[ 1] 4 The Carpetbaggers Paramount $15,500,000[ 1] 5 From Russia With Love United Artists $9,200,000[ 1] 6 A Shot in the Dark $6,748,000[ 3] 7 What a Way to Go! 20th Century Fox $6,100,000[ 4] 8 The Unsinkable Molly Brown MGM $6,040,000[ 3] 9 The Pink Panther United Artists $5,935,000[ 3] 10 A Hard Day's Night $5,800,000[ 5]
January 29 – 50-year-old actorAlan Ladd is found dead in bed at his home inPalm Springs, California . An autopsy confirms the cause of death as cerebral edema caused by an acute overdose of "alcohol and three other drugs" His death is ruled accidental. Ladd's final film,The Carpetbaggers March 6 –Elvis Presley 's 14th motion picture,Kissin' Cousins March 15 -Elizabeth Taylor marriesRichard Burton . June 3 – The animated filmHey There, It's Yogi Bear! Hanna-Barbera but also the first full-length theatrical animated film based on theanimated television program . July 6 –A Hard Day's Night Beatles film, premieres. August 27 – The filmMary Poppins Disney 's highest-grossing film of all time. It goes on to win fiveAcademy Awards , includingBest Actress forJulie Andrews . October – InPhotoplay Hedda Hopper announces thatSophia Loren andPaul Newman will star in the film version ofArthur Miller 's playAfter the Fall , with Loren in the role that was written aboutMarilyn Monroe . The film is never made. Academy 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 byVittorio De Sica , ItalyGolden Globe Awards :
Drama: Best Picture :Becket Best Actor :Peter O'Toole Becket Best Actress :Anne Bancroft The Pumpkin Eater Comedy or Musical: Best Picture :My Fair Lady Best Actor :Rex Harrison My Fair Lady Best Actress :Julie Andrews Mary Poppins Other Best Supporting Actor :Edmond O'Brien Seven Days in May Best Supporting Actress :Agnes Moorehead Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte Best Director :George Cukor My Fair Lady Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ), directed byJacques Demy , FranceGolden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Il deserto rosso The Red Desert ), directed byMichelangelo Antonioni , ItalyGolden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Susuz Yaz Dry Summer ), directed byIsmail Metin , TurkeyUnited States unless stated
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Adobe and Mirror Ebrahim Golestan , starringMohammad Ali Keshavarz ,Jamshid Mashayekhi andPari Saberi (Iran)Advance to the Rear George Marshall , starringGlenn Ford ,Stella Stevens andMelvyn Douglas Adventures of Zatoichi Kimiyoshi Yasuda – (Japan )Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens The Alive and the Dead U.S.S.R. )All These Women Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden )The Americanization of Emily Arthur Hiller , starringJames Garner andJulie Andrews Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise André Cayatte – (France )Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc André Cayatte – (France )The Ape Woman Ugo Tognazzi andAnnie Girardot – (Italy /France )Assassination Japan )At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Brazil )Atentát Czechoslovakia )A Trip to the Moon Ayee Milan Ki Bela India )Back Door to Hell Jimmie Rodgers andJack Nicholson Backfire Jean-Paul Belmondo andJean Seberg – (France )Ballad in Blue Paul Henreid and starringRay Charles Band of Outsiders Jean-Luc Godard – (France )The Bargee Harry H. Corbett andEric Sykes – (U.K. )The Beauty Jungle Ian Hendry – (U.K.)Becket Peter Glenville , starringPeter O'Toole andRichard Burton – (U.K./U.S.)Bedtime Story Marlon Brando ,David Niven andShirley Jones Before the Revolution Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy )Behold a Pale Horse Fred Zinnemann , starringGregory Peck ,Anthony Quinn ,Omar Sharif Belarmino Cinema Novo docufiction – (Portugal )The Best Man Franklin J. Schaffner , written byGore Vidal , starringHenry Fonda andCliff Robertson Bikini Beach Frankie Avalon ,Annette Funicello ,Martha Hyer andDon Rickles Black God, White Devil Brazil )Black Like Me James Whitmore andRoscoe Lee Browne Black Peter Miloš Forman – (Czechoslovakia )The Black Torment Robert Hartford-Davis – (U.K. )Blood and Black Lace Mario Bava – (Italy )Blood on the Arrow Dale Robertson andMartha Hyer La bonne soupe Robert Thomas – (Italy /France )The Brass Bottle Tony Randall ,Burl Ives andBarbara Eden Bullet for a Badman Audie Murphy ,Darren McGavin andRuta Lee A Carol for Another Christmas Peter Sellers andBritt Ekland The Carpetbaggers George Peppard ,Carroll Baker andElizabeth Ashley Carry On Cleo Sid James andAmanda Barrie – (U.K. )Carry On Jack Kenneth Williams andBernard Cribbins – (U.K. )Carry On Spying Kenneth Williams andBarbara Windsor – (U.K.)Castle of Blood Antonio Margheriti andSergio Corbucci – (Italy /France )Castle of the Living Dead Warren Kiefer – (Italy /France )The Chairman U.S.S.R. )The Chalk Garden Deborah Kerr andHayley Mills – (U.K.)Charulata Satyajit Ray – (India )Cheyenne Autumn John Ford , starringCarroll Baker ,Richard Widmark ,Edward G. Robinson andKarl Malden Circle of Love Roger Vadim and starringJane Fonda – (France )Circus World John Wayne ,Claudia Cardinale andRita Hayworth The Comedy Man Kenneth More andCecil Parker – (U.K.)The Comedy of Terrors Vincent Price ,Peter Lorre ,Boris Karloff ,Basil Rathbone Crooks in Cloisters Ronald Fraser andBarbara Windsor – (U.K. )The Curse of the Hidden Vault Franz Josef Gottlieb – (West Germany )The Curse of the Living Corpse Del Tenney The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Michael Carreras – (U.K. )Dark Purpose Shirley Jones Dead Ringer Bette Davis ,Peter Lawford Dear Heart Delbert Mann , starringGeraldine Page ,Glenn Ford andAngela Lansbury Dear John Lars-Magnus Lindgren – (Sweden )Devil Doll Lindsay Shonteff – (U.K. )The Devil-Ship Pirates Christopher Lee andAndrew Keir Diamonds of the Night Jan Němec – (Czechoslovakia )Diary of a Bachelor Sandy Howard , starringWilliam Traylor ,Joe Silver and Dagne CraneDiary of a Chambermaid Luis Buñuel , starringJeanne Moreau andMichel Piccoli – (France )The Disorderly Orderly Frank Tashlin , starringJerry Lewis andSusan Oliver A Distant Trumpet Troy Donahue ,Suzanne Pleshette andDiane McBain Dog Eat Dog Jayne Mansfield – (West Germany /Italy /Liechtenstein )Dogora Ishirō Honda – (Japan )Dosti Satyen Bose – (India )Dr. Crippen Donald Pleasence – (U.K.)Dr. Sex Ted V. Mikels Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick , starringPeter Sellers (in three roles) andGeorge C. Scott – (U.K. )Dry Summer Metin Erksan – (Turkey )The Earth Dies Screaming Willard Parker ,Virginia Field andDennis Price – (U.K. )East of Sudan Anthony Quayle ,Sylvia Syms andJenny Agutter – (U.K.)Empire Andy Warhol Ensign Pulver Mister Roberts Robert Walker Jr. andBurl Ives El extraño viaje Fernando Fernán Gómez – (Spain )The Evil of Frankenstein Freddie Francis – (U.K. )The Evil Stairs Lee Man-hee – (South Korea )The Eyes of Annie Jones Richard Conte andFrancesca Annis – (U.K.)Face of the Screaming Werewolf Lon Chaney – (Mexico /U.S.)Fail-Safe Sidney Lumet , starringHenry Fonda ,Dan O'Herlihy andWalter Matthau The Fall of the Roman Empire Sophia Loren ,Stephen Boyd andAlec Guinness Fanny Hill Russ Meyer – (West Germany /U.S.)Fantômas Jean Marais – (France )Fate Is the Hunter Glenn Ford ,Rod Taylor andSuzanne Pleshette Father Came Too! James Robertson Justice ,Leslie Phillips andStanley Baxter – (U.K. )Father Goose Cary Grant ,Leslie Caron andTrevor Howard Father of a Soldier Revaz Chkheidze – (Georgia )The Fifth Horseman Is Fear Zbyněk Brynych – (Czechoslovakia )Fight, Zatoichi, Fight Kenji Misumi – (Japan )First Men in the Moon Edward Judd andLionel Jeffries , with special effects byRay Harryhausen – (U.K. )A Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone , starringClint Eastwood – (Italy )The Flesh Eaters Martin Kosleck Flight from Ashiya Yul Brynner andRichard Widmark Flipper's New Adventure Luke Halpin andPamela Franklin The Flower and the Angry Waves Seijun Suzuki – (Japan )For Men Only Mahmoud Zulfikar , starringSoad Hosny andNadia Lutfi – (Egypt )For Those Who Think Young Pamela Tiffin andJames Darren Forest of the Hanged Liviu Ciulei – (Romania )Four Days in November Mel Stuart Gate of Flesh Seijun Suzuki – (Japan )Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark )Get Yourself a College Girl Mary Ann Mobley andNancy Sinatra Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster Japan )The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre Martin Landau ,Judith Anderson andDiane Baker Girl with Green Eyes Peter Finch andRita Tushingham – (U.K.)A Global Affair Bob Hope Goldfinger Sean Connery asJames Bond ), withHonor Blackman ,Shirley Eaton andGert Fröbe – (U.K. )Goodbye Charlie Debbie Reynolds ,Tony Curtis andPat Boone Good Neighbor Sam Jack Lemmon andRomy Schneider The Gorgon Peter Cushing ,Barbara Shelley andChristopher Lee – (U.K. )The Gospel According to St. Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini – (Italy )Greed in the Sun Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France )The Guns Ruy Guerra – (Brazil /Argentina )Guns at Batasi Richard Attenborough andJack Hawkins – (U.K.)The Guns of August Fritz Weaver Hamlet Richard Burton Hamlet U.S.S.R. )Haqeeqat India )A Hard Day's Night Richard Lester , starringthe Beatles – (U.K. )Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! Hanna-Barbera feature productionHide and Seek Ian Carmichael andCurd Jürgens – (U.K.)High Infidelity Nino Manfredi – (Italy )Honeymoon Hotel Robert Morse andRobert Goulet The Horror of Party Beach Del Tenney Hot Enough for June Dirk Bogarde andSylva Koscina – (U.K. )A House Is Not a Home Shelley Winters andRobert Taylor Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte Robert Aldrich , starringBette Davis andOlivia de Havilland I Am Cuba Mikhail Kalatozov – (Cuba /U.S.S.R.)The Incredible Mr. Limpet Don Knotts ,Jack Weston andAndrew Duggan Intentions of Murder Shōhei Imamura – (Japan )Invitation to a Gunfighter Yul Brynner ,George Segal ,Janice Rule It's Not Just You, Murray! short film directed byMartin Scorsese Italiani brava gente Giuseppe De Santis – (Italy )The Killers Don Siegel , starringLee Marvin ,Angie Dickinson ,John Cassavetes and, in his final film,Ronald Reagan King & Country Joseph Losey , starringDirk Bogarde andTom Courtenay – (U.K. )Kiss Me Quick! Althea Currier Kiss Me, Stupid Billy Wilder , starringDean Martin andKim Novak Kisses for My President Polly Bergen andFred MacMurray Kissin' Cousins Elvis Presley andYvonne Craig Kitten with a Whip Ann-Margret andJohn Forsythe Kwaidan Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan )Lady General Hua Mu-lan Hong Kong )Lady in a Cage Walter Grauman , starringOlivia de Havilland andJames Caan Lana, Queen of the Amazons Catherine Schell – (West Germany /Brazil )The Last Gun Sergio Bergonzelli – (Italy )The Last Man on Earth Vincent Price – (United States /Italy )The Last Steps Michèle Morgan andJean-Louis Trintignant – (France )Leader Dilip Kumar andVyjayanthimala – (India )The Leather Boys Sidney J. Furie , starringRita Tushingham – (U.K. )Lemonade Joe Oldřich Lipský – (Czechoslovakia )Let's Talk About Women Ettore Scola – (Italy )Lilith Robert Rossen , starringWarren Beatty andJean Seberg The Lively Set James Darren ,Pamela Tiffin andDoug McClure London in the Raw U.K. )The Lonely Wife Satyajit Ray – (India )The Long Hair of Death Antonio Margheriti – (Italy )The Long Ships Richard Widmark andSidney Poitier – (U.K. /Yugoslavia )Looking for Love Connie Francis Lorna Russ Meyer Love in 4 Dimensions (Amore in 4 dimensioni), directed byMino Guerrini – (Italy )Loving Couples Mai Zetterling – (Sweden )The Luck of Ginger Coffey Irvin Kershner , starringRobert Shaw Madu Tiga P. Ramlee – (Malaysia )The Magnificent Cuckold Italy )Mail Order Bride Burt Kennedy , starringBuddy Ebsen andLois Nettleton Male Companion Philippe de Broca – (France )Male Hunt Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France /Italy )Man in the Middle Robert Mitchum Man's Favorite Sport? Howard Hawks , starringRock Hudson andPaula Prentiss Marnie Alfred Hitchcock , starringTippi Hedren andSean Connery Marriage Italian Style Vittorio De Sica , starringSophia Loren andMarcello Mastroianni – (Italy )A Married Woman Jean-Luc Godard – (France )Mary Poppins Julie Andrews andDick Van Dyke The Masque of the Red Death Vincent Price ,Hazel Court andJane Asher – (U.K. )McHale's Navy Ernest Borgnine Men and Women Walter Hugo Khouri – (Brazil )The Misadventures of Merlin Jones Annette Funicello andTommy Kirk The Moon-Spinners Hayley Mills Mothra vs. Godzilla Ishirō Honda – (Japan )Murder Ahoy! Margaret Rutherford andLionel Jeffries Murder Most Foul Margaret Rutherford andRon Moody My Fair Lady George Cukor , starringAudrey Hepburn andRex Harrison My Friend Lefterakis Greece )The Naked Kiss Samuel Fuller , starringConstance Towers The New Interns Dean Jones andMichael Callan Night Must Fall Albert Finney ,Mona Washbourne andSusan Hampshire – (U.K. )The Night of the Iguana John Huston , starringRichard Burton ,Ava Gardner ,Deborah Kerr andSue Lyon Night Train to Paris Leslie Nielsen ,Aliza Gur andDorinda Stevens – (U.S./U.K. )The Night Walker Barbara Stanwyck (her last film) andRobert Taylor Nightmare Freddie Francis – (U.K. )Nobody Waved Good-bye Don Owen – (Canada )Nothing But a Man Ivan Dixon ,Abbey Lincoln andYaphet Kotto Nothing But the Best Alan Bates andMillicent Martin – (U.K. )Of Human Bondage Kim Novak ,Laurence Harvey andSiobhán McKenna – (U.K.)One Potato, Two Potato Barbara Barrie ,Bernie Hamilton andRichard Mulligan Onibaba Kaneto Shindo – (Japan )The Outrage Martin Ritt , starringPaul Newman ,Laurence Harvey ,Claire Bloom andEdward G. Robinson Pajama Party Annette Funicello andTommy Kirk Pale Flower Japan )Panic Button Jayne Mansfield andMaurice Chevalier Paris When It Sizzles William Holden andAudrey Hepburn The Patsy Jerry Lewis The Pawnbroker Sidney Lumet , starringRod Steiger ,Geraldine Fitzgerald andBrock Peters The Pleasure Seekers Pamela Tiffin ,Carol Lynley ,Brian Keith ,Tony Franciosa andAnn-Margret Point of Order! Emile de Antonio Psyche 59 Alexander Singer – (U.K. )The Pumpkin Eater Anne Bancroft andPeter Finch – (U.K. )Raiders from Beneath the Sea Ken Scott andMerry Anders Rattle of a Simple Man Muriel Box , starringDiane Cilento andHarry H. Corbett – (U.K. )The Ravishing Idiot Brigitte Bardot andAnthony Perkins – (France )Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni , starringMonica Vitti andRichard Harris – (Italy )Rhino! Robert Culp Ride the Wild Surf Tab Hunter ,Fabian Forte ,Shelley Fabares andBarbara Eden Ring of Spies Bernard Lee – (U.K. )Rio Conchos Stuart Whitman ,Tony Franciosa ,Richard Boone andWende Wagner Robin and the 7 Hoods Frank Sinatra ,Dean Martin ,Sammy Davis Jr. andBing Crosby Robinson Crusoe on Mars Byron Haskin , starringPaul Mantee ,Vic Lundin andAdam West Room 13 Harald Reinl – (Denmark /France /West Germany )Roustabout Elvis Presley andBarbara Stanwyck Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rankin/Bass Productions Sallah Shabati Chaim Topol – (Israel )Sangam Vyjayanthimala ,Raj Kapoor andRajendra Kumar – (India )Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Nicholas Webster Séance on a Wet Afternoon Kim Stanley andRichard Attenborough – (U.K. )The Secret Invasion Stewart Granger andMickey Rooney Seduced and Abandoned Stefania Sandrelli – (Italy )Send Me No Flowers Doris Day andRock Hudson Seven Days in May John Frankenheimer , starringKirk Douglas ,Burt Lancaster ,Fredric March andAva Gardner Seven Up! Paul Almond – (U.K. )Sex and the Single Girl Natalie Wood ,Tony Curtis ,Henry Fonda andLauren Bacall Shehar Aur Sapna Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – (India )A Shot in the Dark Pink Panther film, directed byBlake Edwards . starringPeter Sellers andElke Sommer – (U.K. /U.S.)Sleep Andy Warhol Smokescreen Yvonne Romain The Soft Skin François Truffaut , starringFrançoise Dorléac – (France )Strait-Jacket William Castle , starringJoan Crawford andDiane Baker Swedish Wedding Night Åke Falck – (Sweden )The System Oliver Reed T.A.M.I. Show , aconcert film filmed at theSanta Monica Civic Auditorium That Man from Rio Jean-Paul Belmondo andFrançoise Dorléac – (France )The Thin Red Line Keir Dullea andJack Warden This Is My Street Sidney Hayers – (U.K. )The Three Lives of Thomasina Patrick McGoohan andSusan Hampshire – (UK /US )The Third Secret Stephen Boyd andPamela Franklin – (U.K.)Those Calloways Walt Disney and directed byNorman Tokar [ 6] Three Outlaw Samurai Japan )La Tía Tula Spain )A Tiger Walks Brian Keith andVera Miles Time of Indifference Claudia Cardinale ,Rod Steiger andShelley Winters – (Italy )The Time Travelers Preston Foster andMerry Anders Tintin and the Blue Oranges Jean-Pierre Talbot – (France )To the Moon and Beyond 1964 New York World's Fair The Tomb of Ligeia Roger Corman , starringVincent Price andElizabeth Shepherd Topkapi Melina Mercouri ,Maximilian Schell andPeter Ustinov The Train John Frankenheimer , starringBurt Lancaster ,Paul Scofield andJeanne Moreau – (U.S./France/Italy )The Troops of Saint-Tropez Jean Girault – (France )Troubled Waters Tab Hunter – (U.K. )Two Stage Sisters Xie Jin – (China )Two Thousand Maniacs! Herschell Gordon Lewis Weekend at Dunkirk Henri Verneuil – (Italy /France )Welcome, or No Trespassing Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchyon Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev – (U.S.S.R. )What a Way to Go! Shirley MacLaine ,Paul Newman ,Robert Mitchum ,Dean Martin ,Gene Kelly ,Bob Cummings andDick Van Dyke Where Love Has Gone Bette Davis andSusan Hayward Whirlwind Hiroshi Inagaki – (Japan )White Voices Pasquale Festa Campanile andMassimo Franciosa – (Italy )Wild and Wonderful Tony Curtis andChristine Kaufmann Wild West Story Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt ,Lena Granhagen andGerald Mohr Witchcraft Lon Chaney andJack Hedley – (U.K. )Woh Kaun Thi? India )Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara – (Japan )Woman of Straw Gina Lollobrigida andSean Connery – (U.K. )World Without Sun Le monde sans soleil Jacques-Yves Cousteau – (France )The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers France )Wonderful Life [ 7] Cliff Richard andthe Shadows – (U.K. )The World of Henry Orient George Roy Hill , starringPeter Sellers ,Paula Prentiss andAngela Lansbury Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold Kazuo Ikehiro – (Japan )Zatoichi's Flashing Sword Kazuo Ikehiro – (Japan )Zhavoronok Gennadi Yukhtin – (U.S.S.R. )Zindagi Vyjayanthimala ,Rajendra Kumar ,Raaj Kumar andPrithviraj Kapoor – (India )Zogue fe Agaza Salah Zulfikar andLaila Taher – (Egypt )Zorba the Greek Michael Cacoyannis , starringAnthony Quinn andAlan Bates – (Greece /U.K. )Zulu Cy Endfield , starringStanley Baker ,Michael Caine andJack Hawkins – (U.K.)January 1 -Dedee Pfeiffer , American actress January 4 -David Bowe , American character actor January 6 January 7 –Nicolas Cage , American actor, producer and director January 11 –Patrícia Pillar , Brazilian actress January 13 –Penelope Ann Miller , American actress January 14 -Mark Addy , English actor January 15 –Craig Fairbrass , English actor, producer, and screenwriter January 18 January 19 -Ty Granderson Jones , Creole American actor, screenwriter and producer January 20 -Francesca Buller , English actress January 21 -Eric Matheny , American actor and screenwriter January 23 -Mariska Hargitay , American actress January 27 –Bridget Fonda , American actress February 1 -Linus Roache , British actor February 5 –Laura Linney , American actress February 10 -Francesca Neri , Italian actress February 15 –Chris Farley , American actor (d. 1997) February 16 –Christopher Eccleston , English actor February 17 -Angelica Page , American actress, director, producer and screenwriter February 18 –Matt Dillon , American actor February 20 February 21 -Adrian Schiller , English actor (d. 2024) February 22 -James Wlcek , American actor February 23 -Ronan Vibert , English actor (d. 2022) February 24 –Todd Field , American director and actor February 25 -Lee Evans , English stand-up comedian and actor February 26 -Mark Dacascos , American actor and martial artist February 27 -John Pyper-Ferguson , Canadian actor March 3 -Laura Harring , Mexican-American actress March 6 -Yvette Wilson , American actress and comedian (d. 2012) March 7 March 8 -Bob Bergen , American voice actor March 9 –Juliette Binoche , French actress March 11 March 16 -Gore Verbinski , American director, screenwriter, producer and musician March 17 –Rob Lowe , American actor March 23 March 25 -LisaGay Hamilton , American actress March 27 -Clive Rowe , British actor March 29 -Elle Macpherson , Australian actress and model March 30 -Ian Ziering , American actor April 4 –David Cross , American actor and comedian April 6 -Deborah Theaker , Canadian actress April 7 –Russell Crowe , New Zealand actor April 8 -Biz Markie , American rapper and actor (d. 2021) April 9 -Daniel Escobar , American actor (d. 2013) April 12 -Mark Camacho , Canadian actor and voice actor April 13 -Caroline Rhea , Canadian-American actress, voice artist and stand-up comedian April 14 -Gina McKee , English actress April 16 April 17 -Lela Rochon , American actress April 20 April 22 -Chris Makepeace , Canadian former actor April 24 April 25 –Hank Azaria , American actor, voice actor, comedian and producer May 1 -Scott Coffey , American actor, director, producer and screenwriter May 5 -Don Payne , American writer and producer (d. 2013) May 6 May 10 -Sam Pancake , American actor, writer and comedian May 11 -Tim Blake Nelson , American actor, writer and director May 12 May 13 May 16 -Rebecca Front , English actress, writer and comedian May 19 -Sean Whalen , American actor and writer May 20 -Paolo Seganti , Italian actor May 22 -Mark Christopher Lawrence , American character actor, stand-up comedian and voice-over artist May 25 –Ray Stevenson , Irish actor (d. 2023) May 26 -Lenny Kravitz , American singer, songwriter and actor May 27 -Adam Carolla , American radio personality, comedian, actor and podcaster May 28 -Christa Miller , American actress June 3 -James Purefoy , English actor June 7 June 9 –Gloria Reuben , Canadian-American actress, producer, and singer June 10 June 12 -Paula Marshall , American actress June 13 June 15 –Courteney Cox , American actress June 21 –David Morrissey , English actor and filmmaker June 22 June 23 -Joss Whedon , American filmmaker and composer June 26 -Ian Tracey , Canadian actor June 27 June 29 -Kathleen Wilhoite , American actress and musician June 30 July 1 -Peter Marquardt , American actor and video game producer (d. 2014) July 2 -Eric Michels , American actor (d. 2018) July 3 July 5 -Jillian Armenante , American actress July 7 -Tracy Reiner , American actress July 8 –Lam Suet , Hong Kong actor July 9 –Courtney Love , American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress July 11 July 15 -Shari Headley , American actress July 16 –Canti Lau , Hong Kong actor July 17 -Heather Langenkamp , American actress, writer, director and producer July 19 -Peter Dobson , American actor July 20 -Dean Winters , American actor July 22 July 26 July 28 —Lori Loughlin , American actress July 30 August 1 -Melanie Shatner , American actress August 2 –Mary-Louise Parker , American actress August 4 -Sebastian Roché , French-American actor August 6 -Lisa Boyle , American actress and model August 7 -Tom McGrath , American voice actor, animator, screenwriter and director August 11 -Lawrence Monoson , American retired actor August 13 -Debi Mazar , American actress and television personality August 14 -Andrew Kevin Walker , American screenwriter and actor August 15 -Michael Berresse , American actor and director August 16 –William Salyers , American actor and voice actor August 18 August 20 –Flaminia Cinque , English actress August 25 August 27 -Robert Bogue , American actor August 29 -Dina Spybey , American actress August 30 -Nelson Ascencio , Cuban-American actor and comedian August 31 -Mark Lewis Jones , Welsh actor September 1 - Welker White, American actress September 2 –Keanu Reeves , Canadian actor September 5 September 6 -Rosie Perez , American actress September 8 -Mitchell Whitfield , American actor September 10 -Raymond Cruz , American actor September 11 -Gary Lydon , British-Irish actor September 14 September 16 -Molly Shannon , American actress and comedian September 19 -Jennifer Cooke , American former actress September 20 -Maggie Cheung , Hong Kong actress September 24 -Adam Alexi-Malle , Italian actor and singer September 28 -Janeane Garofalo , American actress, voice artist, stand-up comedian and writer September 30 -Monica Bellucci , Italian actress and model October 3 –Clive Owen , English actor October 8 -Ian Hart , English actor October 9 -Guillermo del Toro , Mexican filmmaker October 10 October 12 -Allen Covert , American comedian, actor, writer and producer October 13 –Matt Walsh , American comedian and actor October 14 October 22 –Bill Camp , American actor October 23 -David Sobolov , Canadian voice actor and director October 25 –Kevin Michael Richardson , American actor and voice actor October 30 -Mark Steven Johnson , American filmmaker October 31 -Kirk Jones , English director and screenwriter November 2 November 5 -Famke Janssen , Dutch actress November 6 -Arkie Whiteley , Australian actress (d. 2001) November 7 -Garret T. Sato , American actor (d. 2020) November 11 November 14 –Patrick Warburton , American actor and voice artist November 16 November 17 -Ralph Garman , American actor, comedian, musician and radio host November 18 -Nadia Sawalha , British actress, television personality and YouTuber November 20 -Ned Vaughn , American actor November 21 -Liza Tarbuck , English actress, comedian and presenter November 23 -Boyd Kestner , American actor November 24 -Garret Dillahunt , American actor November 27 -Adam Shankman , American director, producer, writer, actor and choreographer November 29 –Don Cheadle , American actor November 30 -Richard Brake , Welsh-born American character actor December 3 -Lisanne Falk , American former actress and producer December 4 –Marisa Tomei , American actress December 8 December 10 -Edith González , Mexican actress and dancer (d. 2019) December 15 -Paul Kaye , English comedian and actor December 18 -Stone Cold Steve Austin , American retired professional wrestler and actor December 19 December 21 –Jack Noseworthy , American actor December 23 December 24 December 27 December 29 -Michael Cudlitz , American actor December 30 December 31 -Michael McDonald , American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter and director 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 August 12 –Ian Fleming , 56, British author ofJames Bond Chitty Chitty Bang Bang August 27 –Gracie Allen , 69, American 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 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 ^a b c d Finler, Joel Waldo (2003).The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359 .ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6 ^ Tzioumakis, Yannis; Krämer, Peter (2018).The Hollywood Renaissance: Revisiting American Cinema's Most Celebrated Era .ISBN 978-1-5013-3787-1 Indeed, by the time ofVariety My Fair Lady was at number six in the all-time chart (with domestic rentals (that is the share of ticket sales which the distributor receives in the United States of $30 million; all rental figures in this chapter relate only to the domestic market),Mary Poppins at number five ($31 million), andThe Sound of Music at number one, having overtakenGone With the Wind , a record sum to which,Variety predicted, millions would be added in 1967. ^a b c Top 20 Films of 1964 by Domestic Revenue ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1964",Variety , 6 January 1965 p 39. ^ Tzioumakis, Yannis;Romanowski, William D. (2017).Risky Business: Rock in Film .ISBN 978-1-3514-9284-3 By October 1964,A Hard Day's Night has grossed $5.8 million in U.S. rentals. ^ Whit (November 18, 1964). "Film review: Those Calloways".Variety 236 (13): 7, 22. ^ Overview forSwingers' Paradise (1965)" , Turner Classic Movies page
