1977 in film

The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1977 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

• March 28 - At the 49th Academy Awards, Rocky picks up the Academy Award for Best Picture. Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight all win Oscars for their performances in Network for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress, while Jason Robards wins for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in All the President's Men. He would win again the following year, becoming the only person to win two consecutive Best Supporting Actor awards.
• March 11 - Walt Disney Productions releases The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, a compilation of three animated shorts.
• May 25 - Star Wars opens in theaters and became one of the highest grossing films to date. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production. It also popularizes the notion of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence. Lucas was told by the Screen Actors Guild that he must have an opening credits sequence, so he instead distributes the film independently, sans the opening credits.
• June 22 - Walt Disney Productions releases The Rescuers, which instantly brought back an interest in animation that had been lost to both film-goers and critics throughout the beginning of the '70s.
• The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25.

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Annie Hall - Rollins-Joffe, United Artists

Best Director: Woody Allen - Annie Hall

Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl

Best Actress: Diane Keaton - Annie Hall

Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards - Julia

Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave - Julia

Best Foreign Language Film: Madame Rosa (La Vie devant soi), directed by Moshé Mizrahi, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Turning Point

Best Actor: Richard Burton - Equus

Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Julia

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: The Goodbye Girl

Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl

Best Actress (tie): Diane Keaton - Annie Hall

Best Actress (tie): Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl

Other

Best Director: Herbert Ross - The Turning Point

Best Foreign Language Film: A Special Day, Italy

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Father and Master (Padre padrone), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larisa Shepitko, USSR

Notable films released in 1977

USA unless stated

#

• 3 Women, directed by Robert Altman, starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule
• 21 Up, a TV made documentary film - (U.K.)

A

• ABBA: The Movie - directed by Lasse Hallström - (Sweden/Australia)
• Airport '77, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Christopher Lee, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, James Stewart
• Alien Prey, directed by Norman J. Warren, starring Glory Annen - (U.K.)
• Allegro Non Troppo, a musical animated film - (Italy)
• Amar Akbar Anthony, starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)
• The American Friend (Der amerikanische Freund), directed by Wim Wenders, starring Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz - (West Germany)
• Andy Warhol's Bad, starring Carroll Baker and Perry King
• Annie Hall, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon
• Audrey Rose, directed by Robert Wise, starring Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck
• The Ascent, directed by Larisa Shepitko - (U.S.S.R.)
• An Average Little Man (Un borghese piccolo piccolo), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)

B

• Backroads, directed by Phillip Noyce - (Australia)
• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, starring Jackie Earle Haley and William Devane
• Black Joy, starring Norman Beaton - (U.K.)
• Black Sunday, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller
• A Bridge Too Far, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring James Caan, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• The Brothers Lionheart (Bröderna Lejonhjärta) - (Sweden)

C

• Candleshoe, starring David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster
• The Car, starring James Brolin
• Ceddo, directed by Ousmane Sembène - (Senegal)
• Charleston, starring Bud Spencer, James Coco, Herbert Lom
• The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• Chinatown Kid (Tang ren jie xiao zi), directed by Chang Cheh - (Hong Kong)
• The Choirboys, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Charles Durning, Louis Gossett, Jr., Perry King, Phyllis Davis, Barbara Rhoades
• Cinderella, starring Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith
• Circuit no ÅŒkami (The Circuit Wolf) - (Japan)
• Citizen's Band, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Paul Le Mat and Candy Clark
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr
• Cross of Iron, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason - (U.K./West Germany)
• Crossed Swords, starring Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston, George C. Scott

D

• Damnation Alley, directed by Jack Smight, starring George Peppard and Jan-Michael Vincent
• Death of a President (Åšmierć prezydenta) - (Poland)
• The Deep, directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Demon Seed, directed by Donald Cammell, starring Julie Christie
• Desperate Living, directed by John Waters
• The Devil Probably (Le diable probablement), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• Dharam Veer, starring Dharmendra - (India)
• Dinner for Adele (Adéla jeÅ¡tÄ› nevečeÅ™ela) - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Disappearance, starring Donald Sutherland and David Hemmings
• The Dog Who Loved Trains (Pas koji je voleo vozove) - (Yugoslavia)
• The Domino Principle, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Eli Wallach, Richard Widmark
• Dot and the Kangaroo - (Australia)
• Double Murder, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Peter Ustinov
• The Duellists, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel - (U.K.)

E-F

• Elisa, vida mía (Elisa, My Life), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin and Fernando Rey - (Spain)
• Equus, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Richard Burton and Peter Firth - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• Eraserhead, directed by David Lynch, starring Jack Nance
• Executioners from Shaolin (Hong Xi Guan) - (Hong Kong)
• Exorcist II: The Heretic, directed by John Boorman, starring Richard Burton, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher
• First Love, starring Susan Dey, William Katt, Beverly D'Angelo
• Full Circle, aka The Haunting of Julia, starring Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti
• Fun with Dick and Jane, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Jane Fonda and George Segal

G

• The Gauntlet, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke
• The Getting of Wisdom, directed by Bruce Beresford - (Australia)
• Golden Rendezvous, starring Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, David Janssen
• The Goodbye Girl, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason
• Grand Theft Auto, directed by and starring Ron Howard with Nancy Morgan
• The Grateful Dead Movie, directed by Jerry Garcia and Leon Gast
• The Greatest, starring Muhammad Ali as himself

H

• Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, starring Dean Jones and Don Knotts
• Heroes, starring Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford
• High Anxiety, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Howard Morris, Cloris Leachman
• The Hills Have Eyes, directed by Wes Craven
• Hitler: A Film from Germany, directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg - (West Germany)
• The Hobbit, an animated film
• House (Hausu) - (Japan)
• The Hunters (Oi kynigoi), directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos - (Greece)

I-J

• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, starring Kathleen Quinlan
• In the Name of the Pope King (In nome del papa re), starring Nino Manfredi - (Italy)
• Iphigenia, directed by Michael Cacoyannis - (Greece)
• The Iron Prefect (Il prefetto di ferro) - (Italy)
• The Iron-Fisted Monk (San De huo shang yu Chong Mi Liu), directed by and starring Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau, starring Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Barbara Carrera
• Islands in the Stream, starring George C. Scott
• J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) - (Canada)
• Jabberwocky, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Michael Palin - (U.K.)
• Joseph Andrews, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Ann-Margret
• Jubilee, by Derek Jarman, starring Adam Ant, Toyah Willcox, Little Nell - (U.K.)
• Julia, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards

K

• The Kentucky Fried Movie, directed by John Landis, starring Bill Bixby and George Lazenby
• Kingdom of the Spiders, starring William Shatner and Tiffany Bolling
• The King of the Street Cleaners (Çöpçüler Kralı) - (Turkey)
• Die Konsequenz (The Consequence), directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Jürgen Prochnow - (West Germany)

L

• La Soufrière, a documentary film directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
• The Lacemaker (La Dentellière), starring Isabelle Huppert - (France)
• The Last Remake of Beau Geste, directed by and starring Marty Feldman
• The Last Wave, directed by Peter Weir - (Australia)
• The Late Show, directed by Robert Benton, starring Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy
• A Little Night Music, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down, Diana Rigg
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere
• The Lorry (Le Camion), directed by and starring Marguerite Duras with Gérard Depardieu - (France)

M

• MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck
• Madame Rosa, starring Simone Signoret - Academy Award for Best Foreign Film - (France)
• The Magic Pony
• Ma-ma - (Romania/U.S.S.R./France)
• Mama, I'm Alive (Mama, ich lebe) - (East Germany)
• Man of Marble (CzÅ‚owiek z marmuru), directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)
• The Man Who Loved Women (L'Homme qui aimait les femmes), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Leslie Caron - (France)
• Manly Times, directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Grigor Vachkov, Mariana Dimitrova, Velko Kanev - (Bulgaria)
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• March or Die, directed by Dick Richards, starring Gene Hackman, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow
• Martin, directed by George A. Romero
• Meatcleaver Massacre
• Mimino - (U.S.S.R.)
• Mogliamante - (Wifemistress) - (Italy)
• Mr. Billion, starring Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason

N-O

• Nenè - (Italy)
• New York, New York, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro
• A Nice Plate of Spinach (Což takhle dát si Å¡penát) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Office Romance (Sluzhebnyy roman) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Oh, God!, directed by Carl Reiner, starring George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Paul Sorvino
• One on One, starring Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G. D. Spradlin
• One Sings, the Other Doesn't, directed by Agnès Varda
• Opening Night, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
• Orca, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Bo Derek
• The Other Side of Midnight, starring Marie-France Pisier, Susan Sarandon, John Beck, Clu Gulager, Raf Vallone
• Outlaw Blues, starring Peter Fonda and Susan Saint James

P-Q

• Padre Padrone (Father and Master), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani - (Italy) - Palme d'Or winner
• Pafnucio Santo - (Mexico)
• Pete's Dragon, directed by Don Chaffey, starring Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney
• Picture Show Man, starring Rod Taylor
• A Piece of the Action, directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and James Earl Jones
• Plae Kao (The Scar) - (Thailand)
• Portrait of a Hitman, starring Jack Palance and Rod Steiger
• Providence, directed by Alain Resnais, starring John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn - (France/Switzerland)
• Pumping Iron, a docudrama starring Arnold Schwarzenegger

R

• Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
• Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, an animated film with the voices of Didi Conn and Mark Baker
• Rembrandt 1669 - (Netherlands)
• The Report (Gozāresh), directed by Abbas Kiarostami - (Iran)
• The Rescuers, animated film with voices of Eva Gabor and Bob Newhart
• Rollercoaster, starring Timothy Bottoms, George Segal, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda
• Rolling Thunder, starring William Devane
• Roots, TV mini-series, starring LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Cicely Tyson, Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia Cole, Ben Vereen
• Roseland, starring Teresa Wright, Geraldine Chaplin, Lou Jacobi, Christopher Walken
• Ruby, starring Piper Laurie

S

• Saturday Night Fever, directed by John Badham, starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney
• Scott Joplin, starring Billy Dee Williams, Margaret Avery, Clifton Davis, Art Carney
• Semi-Tough, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Bert Convy
• The Sentinel, starring Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, José Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner
• September 30, 1955, directed by James Bridges, starring Richard Thomas, Susan Tyrrell, Dennis Quaid, Tom Hulce, Dennis Christopher
• The Serpent's Egg, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring David Carradine and Liv Ullmann - (U.S.A./West Germany)
• Short Eyes, directed by Robert M. Young, starring Bruce Davison and Jose Perez
• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, directed by Sam Wanamaker, starring Patrick Wayne and Jane Seymour - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• Slap Shot, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Strother Martin
• Smokey and the Bandit, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason
• Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje), directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Rutger Hauer - (Netherlands)
• Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider
• A Special Day (Una giornata particolare), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon - (Italy)
• Speedtrap, starring Joe Don Baker and Tyne Daly
• Spider-Man, starring Nicholas Hammond
• The Spy Who Loved Me, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond) with Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel - (U.K.)
• Starship Invasions, starring Christopher Lee, Robert Vaughn, Helen Shaver
• Star Wars, directed by George Lucas, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing
• Stroszek, directed by Werner Herzog, starring Bruno S. and Eva Mattes - (West Germany)
• Suspiria, directed by Dario Argento, starring Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Alida Valli - (Italy)
• Sweeney!, starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman - (U.K.)

T

• A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (HishÅ« monogatari) - (Japan)
• Telefon, directed by Don Siegel, starring Charles Bronson and Lee Remick
• Tenda dos Milagres (Tent of Miracles), directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos - (Brazil)
• Tentacles, starring John Huston, Shelley Winters, Henry Fonda
• That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina - (France/Spain)
• That's Carry On!, a compilation film featuring Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor - (U.K.)
• Thunder and Lightning, starring David Carradine and Kate Jackson
• Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Tongpan - (Thailand)
• The Turning Point, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Tom Skerritt, Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Twilight's Last Gleaming, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, Burt Young

U-V

• Unsichtbare Gegner directed by Valie Export - (Austria)
• Viva l'Italia! (I nuovi mostri), starring Vittorio Gassman and Ornella Muti - (Italy)
• Viva Knievel!, featuring Evel Knievel

W

• The War in Space (Wakusei Daisensō: Za uō in Supesu) - (Japan)
• Which Way Is Up?, directed by Michael Schultz, starring Richard Pryor, Margaret Avery, Lonette McKee
• White Bim Black Ear (Belyy Bim, Chyornoe ukho) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The White Buffalo, starring Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Slim Pickens, Kim Novak
• Wilma, starring Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington
• Wizards - animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi
• The World's Greatest Lover, directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise
• Wounded Game (Podranki) - (U.S.S.R.)

XYZ

• The Year of the Hare (Jäniksen vuosi) - (Finland)
• The Yellow Handkerchief (Shiawase no kiiroi hankachi) - (Japan)
• You Light Up My Life, starring Didi Conn

Births

• January 7 - Dustin Diamond, actor
• January 8 - Amber Benson, actress
• January 13 - Orlando Bloom, English actor
• January 19
  • Bart the Bear, bear actor
  • Taliesin Jaffe, actor/voice actor
• January 28 - Joey Fatone, singer and actor
• January 31 - Kerry Washington, actress
• February 16 - Paul Brittain, actor and comedian
• March 2 - Heather McComb, actress
• March 8 - James Van Der Beek, actor
• MArch 9 - Lydia Mackay, voice actress
• March 24 - Jessica Chastain, actress
• March 25 - Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor
• April 2 - Michael Fassbender, Irish-German actor
• April 10 - Stephanie Sheh, voice actress
• April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
• April 20 - Robert Wilfort, actor
• April 23 - Kal Penn, actor
• April 26 - Tom Welling, actor
• May 13 - Samantha Morton, English actress
• May 16
  • Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress
  • Emilíana Torrini, singer
• May 19 - Kelly Sheridan, voice actress
• June 1 - Danielle Harris, actress
• June 2 - Zachary Quinto, actor
• July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress
• July 6 - Craig Handley, writer
• July 8 - Milo Ventimiglia, actor
• July 13 - Kari Wahlgren, voice actress
• July 27 - Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
• July 30 - Jaime Pressly, actress
• August 2 - Edward Furlong, actor
• September 15 - Tom Hardy, English actor
• September 25 - Clea DuVall, actress
• October 8 - Jamie Marchi, voice actress
• October 11 - Matthew Bomer, actor
• October 26 - Jon Heder, actor
• November 10 - Brittany Murphy, actress (d. 2009)
• November 14 - Brian Dietzen, actor
• November 15 - Sean Murray, actor
• November 16 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, actress
• December 8 - Matthias Schoenaerts, Belgian actor
• December 10 - Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress

Deaths

• January 6 - Niall MacGinnis, 63, Irish actor, Martin Luther, Helen of Troy
• January 14 - Peter Finch, 60, British actor, Network, The Nun's Story
• January 18 - Yvonne Printemps, 82, French singer, actress
• February 18 - Andy Devine, 71, American actor, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Stagecoach
• February 27 - Allison Hayes, 46, American actress, Count Three and Pray, Gunslinger
• February 28 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, 71, American actor, Gone with the Wind, Jezebel
• March 25 - Nunnally Johnson, 79, American writer, director, The Grapes of Wrath, The Dirty Dozen
• April 21 - Gummo Marx, 84, American actor and agent
• April 28 - Ricardo Cortez, 76, American actor, The Maltese Falcon, The Case of the Black Cat
• May 10 - Joan Crawford, 71, American actress, Mildred Pierce, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• May 31 - William Castle, 63, American producer and director, Rosemary's Baby, House on Haunted Hill
• June 2 - Stephen Boyd, 45, Irish actor, Ben-Hur, Fantastic Voyage
• June 3 - Roberto Rossellini, 71, Italian director, Rome, Open City, Germany, Year Zero
• June 5 - Luis César Amadori, 74, Italian/Argentine director, April in Portugal
• June 13 - Matthew Garber, 21, British actor, Mary Poppins, The Gnome-Mobile
• June 14
  • Alan Reed, 69, American actor, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Viva Zapata!, voice of Fred Flintstone
  • Robert Middleton, 66, American actor, Friendly Persuasion, The Desperate Hours
• June 19 - Geraldine Brooks, 51, American actress, Possessed, The Reckless Moment
• July 22 - Erik Chitty, 70, English actor, Doctor Zhivago, Lola
• August 3 - Alfred Lunt, 84, American actor, Sally of the Sawdust, Second Youth
• August 16 - Elvis Presley, 42, American singer and actor, Love Me Tender, Blue Hawaii
• August 17 - Delmer Daves, 73, American writer and director, 3:10 to Yuma, Dark Passage
• August 19
  • Groucho Marx, 86, American comedian, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera
  • Peter Dyneley, 56, British actor, Thunderbirds Are Go, Thunderbird 6
• August 21 - Danny Lockin, 34, American actor, Hello, Dolly!
• August 22 - Sebastian Cabot, 59, British actor, The Family Jewels, The Time Machine
• August 29 - Jean Hagen, 54, American actress, Singin' in the Rain, The Asphalt Jungle
• September 2 - Stephen Dunne, 59, American actor, Ten Thousand Bedrooms, The Woman from Tangier
• September 8 - Zero Mostel, 62, American actor, The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• October 3 - Tay Garnett, 83, American director, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cheers for Miss Bishop
• October 14 - Bing Crosby, 74, American singer and actor, White Christmas, Robin and the 7 Hoods
• October 31 - Joan Tetzel, 56, American actress, The Paradine Case, The File on Thelma Jordon
• November 9 - Gertrude Astor, 90, American actress, The Strong Man, The Cat and the Canary
• November 25 - Richard Carlson, 65, American actor, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Helen Morgan Story
• November 30 - Olga Petrova, 90, British silent film and stage actress
• December 4 - Leila Hyams, 72, American actress, Freaks, Island of Lost Souls
• December 19 - Jacques Tourneur, French-American film director, Out of the Past, Cat People
• December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, 88, British actor, director, writer, The Great Dictator, Modern Times
• December 26 - Howard Hawks, 81, American director, The Big Sleep, His Girl Friday
• December 28 - Charlotte Greenwood, 87, American actress, Oklahoma!, Palmy Days

Film debuts

• Dan Aykroyd - Love at First Sight
• Brian Dennehy - Semi-Tough
• Mel Gibson - Summer City
• John Goodman - Jailbait Babysitter
• Steve Guttenberg - Rollercoaster
• Tom Hulce - September 30, 1955
• Helen Hunt - Rollercoaster
• Bruce McGill - Handle with Care
• Kevin McNally - The Spy Who Loved Me
• Sam Neill - Sleeping Dogs
• Pete Postlethwaite - The Duellists
• Meryl Streep - Julia
• Sigourney Weaver - Annie Hall

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