1976 in film
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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
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The top ten 1976 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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1 | Rocky | United Artists | $55,900,000[1] |
2 | A Star Is Born | Warner Bros. | $37,100,000[1] |
3 | King Kong | Paramount Pictures | $36,900,000[1] |
4 | Silver Streak | 20th Century Fox | $30,018,000[2] |
5 | All the President's Men | Warner Bros. | $30,000,000[1] |
6 | The Omen | 20th Century Fox | $28,500,000[1] |
7 | The Bad News Bears | Paramount Pictures | $24,800,000[1] |
8 | The Enforcer | Warner Bros. | $24,000,000[1] |
9 | In Search of Noah's Ark | Sunn Classic Pictures | $23,800,000[1] |
10 | Midway | Universal Pictures | $21,610,435[2] |
Events
- January – Paramount Pictures sets up a separate motion picture division and names David V. Picker as president.[3]
- March 22 – Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film. In one of the most lucrative business decisions in film history, Lucas declines his directing fee of $500,000 in exchange for complete ownership of merchandising and sequel rights.
- April 1 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater (Now the IFC Center) in Greenwich Village in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there as of 2013[update] all around the world.[4]
- April 9 – Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot, is released.
- August 11 – John Wayne appears in his final film, The Shootist.
- August 26 – Alan Ladd Jr. is promoted from head of worldwide production to president of 20th Century Fox's film division.
- November 15 – Michael Eisner is brought in as president and CEO of Paramount Pictures.
- November 21 – Rocky, the first in the film series opens. It becomes the highest-grossing film released in the year and goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- December 5 – Bound for Glory debuts and is the first motion picture in which inventor/operator Garrett Brown used his new Steadicam for filming moving scenes,[5] although its use had already been seen in Marathon Man and Rocky which were filmed later but released earlier.
- December 17 - King Kong opens to the year's highest opening weekend gross and overall box office success.
Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, United States
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, directed by Robert Altman, United States
Notable films released in 1976
United States unless stated
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- 7-Man Army (Ba dao lou zi), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)
- 1900, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland – (Italy/France)
A
- A Queda (The Fall) – (Brazil)
- All the President's Men, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
- The Anchorite (El anacoreta) – (Spain)
- Any Day Now (Vandaag of morgen) – (Netherlands)
- The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) – (U.S.S.R.) – Golden Bear winner
- Assault on Precinct 13, directed by John Carpenter, starring Austin Stoker
- Astral Factor, starring Stefanie Powers
- At the Earth's Core, starring Peter Cushing and Doug McClure – (U.K.)
B
- Baby Blue Marine, starring Jan-Michael Vincent
- The Bad News Bears, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Jackie Earle Haley
- Barocco, directed by André Téchiné, starring Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier – (France); Winner of three César Awards for Best Actress, Best Cinematography, and Best Music.
- Beach Guard in Winter (Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu) – (Yugoslavia)
- The Best Way to Walk (La meilleure façon de marcher) – (France)
- The Big Bus, starring Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck
- The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, starring Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor
- Black and White in Color (La Victoire en chantant), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud – (France) – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film
- The Blank Generation, with Patti Smith Group, Television, Ramones and Talking Heads
- Blue Puppy (Goluboy shchenok) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, starring Marjoe Gortner and Lynda Carter
- Bound for Glory, a biopic of Woody Guthrie directed by Hal Ashby, starring David Carradine
- Breaking Point, starring Bo Svenson, Robert Culp, John Colicos
- The Bricklayers (Los albañiles) – (Mexico)
- Brother and Sister (Ani Imouto) – (Japan)
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, directed by Robert Altman, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Chaplin, Burt Lancaster – Golden Bear winner
- Bugsy Malone, directed by Alan Parker, starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster – (U.K.)
- Burnt Offerings, starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis
C
- Caddie, starring Helen Morse – (Australia)
- Canoa (Canoe) – (Mexico)
- Car Wash, starring Franklyn Ajaye and Richard Pryor
- The Career of a Chambermaid (Telefoni bianchi), directed by Dino Risi – (Italy)
- Caro Michele, directed by Mario Monicelli – (Italy)
- Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
- The Cassandra Crossing, starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Lee Strasberg, Martin Sheen, O. J. Simpson – (U.K.)
- A Child in the Crowd (Un enfant dans la foule) – (France)
- Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)
- Chitchor (Heart Stealer) – (India)
- The Clown Murders
- Cop (Strømer) – (Denmark)
- Coup de Grâce (Der Fangschuß), directed by Volker Schlöndorff – (West Germany/France)
- A Cricket in the Ear (Shturets v uhoto), directed by Georgi K. Stoyanov, starring Pavel Popandov, Tatyana Lolova, Itzhak Fintzi – (Bulgaria)
D
- Deadly Hero, starring Don Murray and James Earl Jones
- The Desert of the Tartars (Il deserto dei Tartari), starring Vittorio Gassman – (Italy/France/West Germany)
- The Devil's Playground, directed by Fred Schepisi – (Australia)
- Diary of the Dead, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald and Héctor Elizondo
- The Divine Nymph (Divina creatura), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Terence Stamp – (Italy)
- Dixie Dynamite, starring Warren Oates
- Dogs, starring David McCallum, George Wyner and Linda Gray
- Don's Party, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Ray Barrett, John Hargreaves and Pat Bishop – (Australia)
- Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos), starring Sônia Braga – (Brazil)
- Les douze travaux d'Asterix (The Twelve Trials of Asterix) – (France)
- Drum , starring Warren Oates and Yaphet Kotto
E
- The Eagle Has Landed, starring Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland – (U.K./United States)
- Eat My Dust, starring Ron Howard and Christopher Norris
- Embryo, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Carrera
- The Enforcer, starring Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Tyne Daly
- Escape from the Dark, starring Alastair Sim – (U.K.)
F
- F comme Fairbanks (F Like Fairbanks), starring Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou – (France)
- Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson – (Sweden)
- Family Plot, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (his final film), starring Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane
- Farsighted for Two Diopters (Dva Dioptara Dalekogledstvo), directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Georgi Partsalev – (Bulgaria)
- Fellini's Casanova, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Donald Sutherland – (Italy)
- The Fifth Seal (Az ötödik pecsét), directed by Zoltán Fábri – (Hungary)
- The First Nudie Musical, directed by Bruce Kimmel, starring Cindy Williams, Stephen Nathan, Diana Canova
- The Food of the Gods, starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino
- Freaky Friday, directed by Gary Nelson, starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster
- From Noon till Three, starring Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland
- The Front, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Andrea Marcovicci, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy
- Fumō Chitai (Wasted Land) – (Japan)
- Futureworld, starring Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner
G
- Gable and Lombard, starring James Brolin and Jill Clayburgh
- Gator, starring Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed
- Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer) – (Israel)
- God Told Me To, starring Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis
- Griffin and Phoenix, starring Peter Falk and Jill Clayburgh
- Grizzly, starring Christopher George
- The Gumball Rally, starring Michael Sarrazin
- Gus, starring Don Knotts and Ed Asner
H
- Harlan County, USA – a documentary film
- Harry and Walter Go to New York, starring James Caan, Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Michael Caine
- Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas), directed by Werner Herzog – (West Germany)
- The House with Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono) – (Italy)
I
- Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti), directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Lino Ventura – (Italy)
- The Inheritance (L'eredità Ferramonti), starring Anthony Quinn and Dominique Sanda – (Italy)
- In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no Korīda), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
- L'innocente, directed by Luchino Visconti – (Italy)
- The Inugamis (Inugami-ke no ichizoku), directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan)
- I Will, I Will... for Now, directed by Norman Panama, starring Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Victoria Principal
J
- Jackson County Jail, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Yvette Mimieux
- J. D.'s Revenge, starring Glynn Turman and Louis Gossett Jr.
- Je t'aime moi non plus (I Love You...Me Neither), directed by Serge Gainsbourg, starring Jane Birkin and Joe Dallesandro – (France)
- Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000) – (Switzerland/France)
- The Judge and the Assassin (Le Juge et l'assassin), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert – (France)
K
- Kabhie Kabhie (Sometimes), starring Shashi Kapoor – (India)
- Kalicharan – (India)
- The Killer Inside Me, starring Stacy Keach
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel
- King Kong, directed by John Guillermin, starring Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin
- King Kung Fu, directed by and starring Lance D. Hayes
- Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit), directed by Wim Wenders – (West Germany)
L
- The Last Hard Men, starring Charlton Heston and James Coburn
- The Last Supper (La Última Cena) – (Cuba)
- The Last Tycoon, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Ray Milland, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson
- Leadbelly, a biopic directed by Gordon Parks
- Lipstick, starring Margaux Hemingway, Mariel Hemingway, Chris Sarandon
- The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen
- Logan's Run, directed by Michael Anderson, starring Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter
M
- Mako: The Jaws of Death, directed by William Grefe, starring Richard Jaeckel
- The Man on the Roof (Mannen på taket), directed by Bo Widerberg – (Sweden)
- The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark – (U.K.)
- Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (Marečku, podejte mi pero!) – (Czechoslovakia)
- Marathon Man, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, Marthe Keller, William Devane
- The Marquise of O, directed by Éric Rohmer – (West Germany/France)
- Massacre at Central High, directed by Rene Daalder
- Master of the Flying Guillotine (a.k.a. One-Armed Boxer 2), starring Jimmy Wang – (Taiwan/Hong Kong)
- A Matter of Time, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ingrid Bergman, Liza Minnelli, Charles Boyer, Isabella Rossellini – (U.S./Italy)
- Max Havelaar, directed by Fons Rademakers – (Netherlands)
- The Memory of Justice, a documentary film by Marcel Ophüls – (France/West Germany/U.K./U.S.)
- Midway, starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Toshiro Mifune, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook
- Mikey and Nicky, directed by Elaine May, starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk
- The Missouri Breaks, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson
- Mohammad, Messenger of God, directed by Moustapha Akkad, starring Anthony Quinn – (Morocco/Libya)
- Mother, Jugs & Speed, directed by Peter Yates, starring Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel
- Mr. Klein, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Alain Delon and Jeanne Moreau – (France)
- Murder by Death, starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester, James Coco, Truman Capote
- The Mysterious Monsters, starring Peter Graves and Peter Hurkos
N
- Network, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall
- The Next Man, starring Sean Connery
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village, starring Shelley Winters, Lenny Baker, Ellen Greene
- Nickelodeon, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal, John Ritter, Stella Stevens
- Nightmare in Badham County, starring Deborah Raffin and Chuck Connors
- No Deposit, No Return, starring David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Barbara Feldon, Kim Richards
O
- Obsession, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
- Ode to Billy Joe, directed by Max Baer Jr., starring Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, James Best
- The Omen, directed by Richard Donner, starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Leo McKern – (UK/US)
- One Summer Love, aka Dragonfly, directed by Gilbert Cates, starring Susan Sarandon and Beau Bridges
- The Outlaw Josey Wales, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Chief Dan George, Sam Bottoms, Sondra Locke, John Vernon
- Oz or 20th Century Oz, a Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie, starring Bruce Spence, Joy Dunstan – (Australia)
P
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down – (U.K.)
R
- Raise Ravens (Cria Cuervos), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin – (Spain)
- The Rat Savior (Izbavitelj) – (Yugoslavia)
- Rich Man, Poor Man, television mini-series, starring Nick Nolte and Peter Strauss
- The Ritz, directed by Richard Lester, starring Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, Jack Weston
- Robin and Marian, directed by Richard Lester, starring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw – (UK/US)
- Rocky, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire, Burt Young
S
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, starring Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles
- Salon Kitty, directed by Tinto Brass, starring Helmut Berger and Ingrid Thulin – (Italy/West Germany/France)
- The Scar (film), directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Sebastiane, directed by Derek Jarman – (U.K.)
- Seclusion Near a Forest (Na samotě u lesa), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia)
- The Sell Out, starring Richard Widmark
- Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze), starring Fernando Rey – (Italy)
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Herbert Ross, starring Nicol Williamson as Holmes, Robert Duvall as Watson, Alan Arkin as Sigmund Freud, and Laurence Olivier as Moriarty – (UK/US)
- Shadow of Angels (Schatten der Engel), starring Ingrid Caven and Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (Switzerland)
- The Shaggy D.A., starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette
- Sherlock Holmes in New York, directed by Boris Sagal, starring Roger Moore as Sherlock Holmes and Patrick Macnee as Watson
- The Shootist, directed by Don Siegel, starring John Wayne (his final film), Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Richard Boone, Harry Morgan, James Stewart
- Shout at the Devil, starring Lee Marvin, Roger Moore – (U.K.)
- Silent Movie, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters
- Silver Streak, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty, Ray Walston, Patrick McGoohan
- Sister Street Fighter – Fifth Level Fist (Onna hissatsu godan ken) – (Japan)
- Sky Riders, starring James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp
- The Slipper and the Rose, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Gemma Craven and Richard Chamberlain – (U.K.)
- Small Change (L'Argent de poche), directed by François Truffaut – (France)
- The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (La Flûte à six schtroumpfs) – (Belgium)
- Snuff – (Argentina/U.S.)
- The Song Remains the Same, featuring Led Zeppelin – (UK/US)
- Soy un delincuente (I Am a Criminal) – (Venezuela)
- Sparkle, starring Irene Cara
- A Star Is Born, starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
- Stay Hungry, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger
- St. Ives, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson
- Storm Boy, starring David Gulpilil – (Australia)
- Swashbuckler, starring Robert Shaw
- The Swiss Conspiracy, starring David Janssen and Elke Sommer
- Sybil, starring Joanne Woodward and Sally Field
T
- Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster
- The Tenant (Le Locataire), directed by and starring Roman Polanski, with Isabelle Adjani and Melvyn Douglas – (France)
- That's Entertainment, Part II, documentary featuring Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly
- Tatlong taong walang Diyos (Three Godless Years) – (Philippines)
- To Fly!, a documentary film
- To the Devil a Daughter, starring Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski – (U.K.)
- Todo modo, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
- Tosun Paşa – (Turkey)
- The Town That Dreaded Sundown, starring Ben Johnson and Dawn Wells
- Trackdown, starring James Mitchum
- Tracks, directed by Henry Jaglom, starring Dennis Hopper
- Treasure of Matecumbe, starring Joan Hackett, Robert Foxworth, Peter Ustinov
- The Twist, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Bruce Dern, Stéphane Audran, Charles Aznavour, Ann-Margret – (France)
- Two-Minute Warning, starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, David Janssen, Jack Klugman, Gena Rowlands, Walter Pidgeon, Beau Bridges
U
- Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
- Up!, directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Raven De La Croix
V
- Vigilante Force, starring Kris Kristofferson and Victoria Principal
- Voyage of the Damned, starring Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Katharine Ross, Max von Sydow, Orson Welles, Oskar Werner – (U.K.)
W
- W.C. Fields and Me, starring Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, Jack Cassidy
- Wan Pipel (One People) – (Suriname/Netherlands)
- Welcome to L.A., directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Sally Kellerman, Harvey Keitel
- The White Ship (Belyy parokhod) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Who Can Kill a Child? (¿Quién puede matar a un niño?) – (Spain)
- Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, starring Madeline Kahn, Teri Garr, Bruce Dern, Art Carney
1976 Wide-release movies
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Births
- January 2 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
- January 6
- Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor, voice actor
- Danny Pintauro, American actor
- January 13 – Michael Peña, American actor
- January 15 - Dorian Missick, American actor
- January 18 - Derek Richardson (actor), American actor
- January 21 – Lars Eidinger, German film, television and stage actor
- January 27 - Chris Gauthier, English-born Canadian actor
- January 28 – Lee Ingleby, English film, television and stage actor
- February 3
- Isla Fisher, Australian actress
- Tim Heidecker, American comedian, writer, director, actor and musician
- February 5 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
- February 9 – Charlie Day, American actor, screenwriter, producer, comedian, director and musician
- February 11 – Brice Beckham, American actor
- February 14 - Erica Leerhsen, American actress
- February 23
- Aaron Aziz, Singaporean actor, singer and film director
- Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
- February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress, director, writer, and producer
- February 28 - Ali Larter, American actress and model
- February 29 - Ja Rule, American rapper and actor
- March 8 – Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor, voice actor, writer and producer
- March 13 – Danny Masterson, American actor and DJ
- March 14 – Corey Stoll, American actor
- March 16 – Paul Schneider, American actor
- March 21 – Rachael MacFarlane, American voice actress, singer and writer
- March 22 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress, producer, and entrepreneur
- March 23
- Michelle Monaghan, American actress
- Keri Russell, American actress
- March 26 – Amy Smart, American actress
- March 27 - Craig Wayans, American writer, producer and actor
- April 1
- Troy Baker, American voice actor
- David Oyelowo, English actor, producer, director
- April 5 – Sterling K. Brown, American actor
- April 6 - Candace Cameron Bure, American actress, producer, author, and talk show panelist
- April 13 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)
- April 15 – Susan Ward, American actress and model
- April 20 – Joey Lawrence, American actor
- April 23 – Gabriel Damon, American actor
- April 26 – Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
- April 27 – Sally Hawkins, English actress
- May 1 - Violante Placido, Italian actress and singer
- May 5
- Dieter Brummer, Australian actor (d. 2021)
- Sage Stallone, American actor (d. 2012)
- May 14 - Martine McCutcheon, English actress and singer
- May 22 – Külli Teetamm, Estonian actress
- May 25
- Erinn Hayes, American actress and comedian
- Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
- Ethan Suplee, American film and television actor
- J. Michael Tatum, American voice actor
- May 26 - Stephen Curry (comedian), Australian comedian and actor
- May 28 - Liam O'Brien, American voice actor, writer and director
- May 29 – Yûsuke Iseya, Japanese actor
- May 30 – Omri Katz, American retired actor
- May 31 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
- June 4 - Damion Poitier, American actor and stuntman
- June 8 - Eion Bailey, American actor
- June 10 - Simon Fenton, English actor
- June 18 - Blake Shelton, American actor and singer
- June 19 - Ryan Hurst, American actor
- June 21 - Dan Scanlon, American animator, storyboard artist, director and screenwriter
- June 28 - Lorraine Stanley, English actress
- June 29 - Omar Doom, American actor, musician and artist
- July 1 - Thomas Sadoski, American actor
- July 3 - Andrea Barber, American actress and comedian
- July 5
- Jamie Elman, Canadian-American actor
- Liberty Phoenix, American former actress
- July 6 - Bashir Salahuddin, American actor, writer and comedian
- July 7 - Hamish Linklater, American actor
- July 9 – Fred Savage, American actor
- July 15
- Gabriel Iglesias, American stand-up comedian and actor
- Diane Kruger, German actress
- July 18 – Elsa Pataky, Hungarian-Spanish actress
- July 19
- Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor[6]
- Vinessa Shaw, American actress and model
- July 31 – Mela Lee, American voice actress
- August 2 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor
- August 6
- Andero Ermel, Estonian actor
- Soleil Moon Frye, American actress and director
- August 9 – Audrey Tautou, French actress
- August 23 - Scott Caan, American actor, director and writer
- August 26 – Mike Colter, American actor
- August 27 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress, model and voice artist
- September 3 – Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
- September 5 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress and singer
- September 6
- Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, American actress
- Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor
- Naomie Harris, English actress
- September 9
- Emma de Caunes, French actress
- Lúcia Moniz, Portuguese singer and actress
- September 13 - Colin Trevorrow, American filmmaker
- September 20 – Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
- September 26 – Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress
- October 3 – Seann William Scott, American actor, comedian and producer
- October 4 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress
- October 9 - Nick Swardson, American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and producer
- October 11 - Emily Deschanel, American actress
- October 14 - Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor
- October 20 – Dan Fogler, American actor, comedian and writer
- October 21 – Andrew Scott, Irish actor
- October 23 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and film producer
- October 26 - Florence Kasumba, Ugandan-born German actress
- October 31 – Piper Perabo, American actress
- November 1 - Chad Lindberg, American actor
- November 7 - Melyssa Ade, Canadian actress
- November 24 - Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Japanese actor
- November 28 - Ryan Kwanten, Australian actor and producer
- November 29
- Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (d. 2020)
- Anna Faris, American actress, podcaster and writer
- December 7 – Mark Duplass, American filmmaker, actor, writer, and musician
- December 8 – Dominic Monaghan, English actor
- December 27 - Aaron Stanford, American actor
- December 28 - Joe Manganiello, American actor
- December 29 – Danny McBride, American actor, comedian and writer
- December 31 - Chris Terrio, American screenwriter and director
Deaths
Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
January | 1 | Walter Janssen | 88 | Germany | Actor | |
12 | Agatha Christie | 85 | UK | Writer | ||
13 | Margaret Leighton | 53 | UK | Actress | ||
18 | Sonia Dresdel | 66 | UK | Actress | ||
23 | Paul Dupuis | 62 | France | Actor | ||
23 | Paul Robeson | 77 | US | Actor, Singer | ||
29 | Michael Gwynn | 59 | UK | Actor | ||
February | 4 | Roger Livesey | 69 | UK | Actor | |
11 | Lee J. Cobb | 64 | US | Actor | ||
11 | John Twist | 77 | US | Screenwriter | ||
12 | Sal Mineo | 37 | US | Actor | ||
13 | Lily Pons | 77 | France | Singer, Actress | ||
13 | John Lounsbery | 64 | US | Animator | ||
15 | Maria Corda | 77 | Hungary | Actress | ||
16 | Campbell Singer | 66 | UK | Actor | ||
24 | Peter Madden | 71 | UK | Actor | ||
26 | Frieda Inescort | 75 | UK | Actress | ||
March | 3 | Doris Hill | 70 | US | Actress | |
5 | Charles Lederer | 69 | US | Screenwriter | ||
14 | Busby Berkeley | 80 | US | Director, Choreographer | ||
17 | Luchino Visconti | 69 | Italy | Director, Writer | ||
20 | Michael Goodliffe | 61 | UK | Actor | ||
28 | Richard Arlen | 76 | US | Actor | ||
April | 2 | Ray Teal | 74 | US | Actor | |
4 | George Pastell | 53 | Cyprus | Actor | ||
5 | Howard Hughes | 70 | US | Director, Producer | ||
5 | Robert Lord | 75 | US | Screenwriter, Producer | ||
11 | Liam Dunn | 59 | US | Actor | ||
12 | Paul Ford | 74 | US | Actor | ||
21 | Léonide Moguy | 75 | Russia | Director, Writer | ||
25 | Carol Reed | 69 | UK | Director, Writer | ||
26 | Neil McCallum | 46 | Canada | Actor | ||
26 | Sid James | 62 | UK | Actor | ||
29 | Thelma Connell | 63 | UK | Film Editor | ||
May | 3 | David Bruce | 62 | US | Actor | |
7 | Alan Baxter | 67 | US | Actor | ||
27 | Hilde Hildebrand | 78 | Germany | Actress | ||
27 | Ruth McDevitt | 80 | US | Actress | ||
June | 5 | Violet Wilkey | 73 | US | Actress | |
6 | Victor Varconi | 85 | Hungary | Actor | ||
9 | Sybil Thorndike | 93 | UK | Actress | ||
10 | Adolph Zukor | 103 | US | Producer, Studio Executive | ||
25 | Johnny Mercer | 66 | US | Songwriter | ||
28 | Stanley Baker | 48 | UK | Actor | ||
July | 2 | Frances Howard | 73 | US | Actress | |
7 | Norman Foster | 72 | US | Actor, Director | ||
12 | James Wong Howe | 76 | China | Cinematographer | ||
17 | Rina Morelli | 67 | Italy | Actress | ||
28 | Lucie Mannheim | 77 | Germany | Actress | ||
August | 2 | Fritz Lang | 85 | Germany | Director, Writer | |
6 | William Mervyn | 64 | UK | Actor | ||
10 | Ray Corrigan | 74 | US | Actor | ||
17 | William Redfield | 49 | US | Actor | ||
17 | Murvyn Vye | 60 | US | Actor | ||
18 | Luigi Serventi | 91 | Italy | Actor | ||
28 | Alastair Sim | 75 | UK | Actor | ||
September | 10 | Dalton Trumbo | 70 | US | Screenwriter | |
30 | Paul Dehn | 63 | UK | Screenwriter | ||
October | 5 | Barbara Nichols | 47 | US | Actress | |
14 | Edith Evans | 88 | UK | Actress | ||
November | 15 | Jean Gabin | 72 | France | Actor | |
22 | Rupert Davies | 60 | UK | Actor | ||
28 | Rosalind Russell | 69 | US | Actress | ||
29 | Godfrey Cambridge | 43 | US | Actor | ||
December | 3 | Mary Nash | 92 | US | Actress | |
8 | Cathy Downs | 50 | US | Actress | ||
12 | Jack Cassidy | 49 | US | Actor | ||
20 | Walter Fitzgerald | 80 | UK | Actor |
Film debuts
- Albert Brooks – Taxi Driver
- Dean Cain – Elmer
- Bruce Campbell – It's Murder!
- James Cromwell – Murder by Death
- Michael Dorn – Rocky
- Bill Duke – Car Wash
- Richard Griffiths – It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
- Mariel Hemingway – Lipstick
- Ernie Hudson – Leadbelly
- Amy Irving – Carrie
- Michael Kamen – The Next Man
- Jessica Lange – King Kong
- Delroy Lindo – Find the Lady
- Mark Margolis – The Opening of Misty Beethoven
- Lorenzo Music – Nickelodeon
- Edie McClurg – Carrie
- Sam McMurray – The Front
- Glenn Morshower – Drive-In
- Bill Murray – Next Stop, Greenwich Village
- Lena Olin – Face to Face
- Tim Pigott-Smith – Aces High
- Mary Kay Place – Bound for Glory
- Jonathan Pryce – Voyage of the Damned
- John Ratzenberger – The Ritz
- James Rebhorn – The Yum Yum Girls
- Isabella Rossellini – A Matter of Time
- Joe Piscopo – King Kong
- Mercedes Ruehl – Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
- Theresa Russell – The Last Tycoon
- Brooke Shields – Alice, Sweet Alice
- Ron Silver – Tunnel Vision
- P.J. Soles – Carrie
- Holland Taylor – The Next Man
- Charlene Tilton – Freaky Friday
- Frank Vincent – The Death Collector
- Debra Winger – Slumber Party '57
- Joe Flaherty – Tunnel Vision
- Chow Yun-fat – Tou tai ren
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Top 20 Films of 1976 by Domestic Revenue
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- ↑ rock Horror Picture Show film booking in Feb 2011 Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
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