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1960 in film

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The year 1960 in Porns f

Top-grossing films (U.S.)[edit]

The top ten 1960 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Top-grossing films by country[edit]

The highest-grossing 1960 films in countries outside of North America.

Events[edit]

• March 5 – For the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood to film G.I. Blues
• June 16 – Premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's landmark film, Psycho in the United States. Controversial since release, it sets new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and is a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre.
• August 10 – Filming of West Side Story begins.
• October 6 & December 16 – Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films Spartacus and Exodus, released in the United States on these dates.
• October 27 – Film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning released, first of the British social-realist wave.
• November 4 – Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, the last film for both (though Monroe will be working on another at the time of her death).

Awards[edit]

1960 film releases[edit]

United States unless stated

January–March[edit]

• January 1960
  • 5 January
    • When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Japan)
  • 12 January
    • Mrs. Warren's Profession (West Germany)
  • 20 January
    • The Immoral Mr. Teas
  • 21 January
    • Toby Tyler
  • 26 January
    • Two Way Stretch (U.K.)
  • 27 January
    • Cash McCall
    • Take Aim at the Police Van (Japan)
  • 28 January
    • The Lady with the Dog (U.S.S.R.)
• February 1960
  • 1 February
    • Hell Bent for Leather
  • 3 February
    • The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
  • 4 February
    • Visit to a Small Planet
  • 5 February
    • La Dolce Vita (Italy)
  • 11 February
    • Once More, with Feeling!
    • Sink the Bismarck! (U.K.)
  • 19 February
    • Devi (India)
    • The Last Voyage
  • 24 February
    • The Bramble Bush
    • Kidnapped
  • 25 February
    • The Battle of the Sexes (U.K.)
  • 27 February
    • Cleopatra's Daughter
    • The Hypnotic Eye
• March 1960
  • 1 March
    • Comanche Station
    • Heller in Pink Tights
  • 2 March
    • Eyes Without a Face (France)
  • 3 March
    • Home from the Hill
  • 4 March
    • Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (U.K.)
  • 5 March
    • The 3rd Voice
  • 9 March
    • Can-Can
  • 10 March
    • Purple Noon (France)
  • 12 March
    • Seven Thieves
  • 15 March
    • 5 Branded Women
    • The Angry Silence (U.K.)
  • 17 March
    • Breathless (France)
  • 18 March
    • The Hole (France)
  • 23 March
    • The Big Risk (France)
  • 31 March
    • Please Don't Eat the Daisies

April–June[edit]

• April 1960
  • 2 April
    • Twelve Hours to Kill
  • 5 April
    • The League of Gentlemen (U.K.)
  • 6 April
    • Tall Story
    • The Unforgiven
  • 10 April
    • The Secret of the Telegian (Japan)
    • Hell Is a City
  • 13 April
    • Obaltan (South Korea)
  • 14 April
    • The Fugitive Kind
  • 15 April
    • Who Was That Lady?
  • 21 April
    • The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia)
  • 24 April
    • Private Property
  • 27 April
    • The Demon of Mount Oe (Japan)
• May 1960
  • 16 May
    • Peeping Tom (U.K.)
  • 17 May
    • The Challenge (U.K.)
  • 19 May
    • Crack in the Mirror
    • Pollyanna
  • 25 May
    • Faust (West Germany)
  • 26 May
    • Wild River
• June 1960
  • 3 June
    • Cruel Story of Youth (Japan)
  • 7 June
    • Never Let Go (U.K.)
  • 9 June
    • Macario (Mexico)
  • 15 June
    • The Apartment
  • 16 June
    • Psycho
  • 17 June
    • The Story of Ruth
    • A Terrible Beauty
  • 22 June
    • The Gallant Hours
    • House of Usher
  • 23 June
    • Bells Are Ringing
    • The Party Is Over (Argentina)
    • Portrait in Black
  • 24 June
    • Dinosaurus!
  • 27 June
    • Letter Never Sent (Russia)
  • 28 June
    • Murder, Inc.
  • 29 June
    • L'Avventura (Italy)
    • Strangers When We Meet

July–September[edit]

• July 1960
  • 7 July
    • The Brides of Dracula
    • Elmer Gantry
    • Inherit the Wind
  • 10 July
    • 13 Ghosts
    • The Rat Race
  • 13 July
    • The Lost World
  • 15 July
    • From the Terrace
    • Knights of the Teutonic Order (Poland)
  • 20 July
    • The Bellboy
  • 25 July
    • The Entertainer (U.K.)
  • 30 July
    • Jigoku (Japan)
• August 1960
  • 5 August
    • Last Woman on Earth
    • Mughal-e-Azam (India)
    • Parakh (India)
  • 7 August
    • It Started in Naples
  • 9 August
    • Make Mine Mink (U.K.)
  • 10 August
    • Jungle Cat
    • Ocean's 11
  • 11 August
    • Black Sunday (Italy)
    • Song Without End
  • 14 August
    • Alakazam the Great (Japan)
  • 17 August
    • The Enchanting Shadow (Hong Kong)
    • The Time Machine
  • 20 August
    • College Confidential
• September 1960
  • 6 September
    • Rocco and His Brothers (Italy/France)
  • 8 September
    • Let's Make Love
  • 9 September
    • September Storm
    • The City of the Dead (U.K.)
  • 14 September
    • The Little Shop of Horrors
  • 15 September
    • Under Ten Flags
  • 16 September
    • High Time
  • 19 September
    • The Bad Sleep Well (Japan)
  • 28 September
    • Sunrise at Campobello
  • 29 September
    • Kapo (Italy)
    • Surprise Package
  • 30 September
    • Hell to Eternity

October–December[edit]

• October 1960
  • 1 October
    • Autumn Has Already Started
    • Never on Sunday (Greece/United States)
  • 6 October
    • Spartacus
  • 8 October
    • A False Student (Japan)
    • Everything Goes Wrong (Japan)
  • 9 October
    • Night and Fog in Japan (Japan)
  • 12 October
    • The Magnificent Seven
  • 13 October
    • Midnight Lace
  • 17 October
    • The Devil's Eye (Sweden)
  • 18 October
    • The Millionairess (U.K.)
  • 24 October
    • The Alamo
  • 27 October
    • Everybody Go Home (Italy)
    • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (U.K.)
  • 28 October
    • Zazie in the Metro (France)
  • 31 October
    • Man in the Moon (U.K.)
• November 1960
  • 1 November
    • Her Brother (Japan)
    • Ten Who Dared
  • 3 November
    • El Cochecito (Spain)
    • Five Cartridges (East Germany)
    • The Housemaid (South Korea)
  • 4 November
    • BUtterfield 8
    • G.I. Blues
  • 10 November
    • The World of Suzie Wong (U.K./U.S.)
  • 13 November
    • Late Autumn (Japan)
    • North to Alaska
  • 14 November
    • The Facts of Life
  • 16 November
    • Fortunat (France/Italy)
  • 22 November
    • Cinderfella
  • 23 November
    • Go to Hell, Hoodlums!
    • The Naked Island (Japan)
  • 25 November
    • Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete Italy)
• December 1960
  • 1 December
    • Cimarron
  • 7 December
    • Village of the Damned (U.K.)
  • 8 December
    • The Sundowners
  • 9 December
    • Barsaat Ki Raat (India)
  • 11 December
    • The Human Vapor
  • 12 December
    • The River of Love (Egypt)
    • The Yellow Gloves (Greece)
  • 14 December
    • Esther and the King (U.S./Italy)
  • 16 December
    • Exodus
    • The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
  • 17 December
    • Innocent Sorcerers (Poland)
  • 20 December
    • Flaming Star
    • Pepe
    • Tunes of Glory (U.K.)
    • The Wackiest Ship in the Army
  • 21 December
    • Swiss Family Robinson
  • 23 December
    • The Grass Is Greener
  • 28 December
    • Where the Boys Are
  • 30 December
    • The Last Witness (West Germany)

Notable films released in 1960[edit]

United States unless stated

#[edit]

• The 3rd Voice, directed by Hubert Cornfield, starring Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London
• 5 Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau
• 13 Ghosts, directed by William Castle

A[edit]

• Adua and Friends (Adua e le compagne), starring Simone Signoret – (Italy)
• Alakazam the Great (Saiyu-ki), an anime film – (Japan)
• The Alamo, directed by and starring John Wayne, co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone
• Ali Baba Bujang Lapok – (Malaysia/Singapore)
• The Angry Silence, starring Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)
• Anuradha – (India)
• The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edie Adams
• Autumn Has Already Started (Aki tachinu), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan)
• L'Avventura (The Adventure), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni – (Italy)

B[edit]

• Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście) – (Poland)
• Barsaat Ki Raat, starring Madhubala and Bharat Bhushan – (India)
• The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
• Because They're Young, starring Dick Clark
• Beat Girl, starring David Farrar, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Christopher Lee – (U.K.)
• The Bellboy, starring Jerry Lewis
• Bells Are Ringing, starring Dean Martin and Judy Holliday
• Beyond the Time Barrier
• The Big Risk (Classe tous risques), starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
• Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) – (Italy)
• Les Bonnes Femmes (The Girls), directed by Claude Chabrol – (France)
• The Bramble Bush, starring Richard Burton and Angie Dickinson
• Breathless (À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg – (France)
• The Brides of Dracula, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
• The Broken Pots (Kırık Çanaklar) – (Turkey)
• BUtterfield 8, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey

C[edit]

• Can-Can, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse
• Carry On Constable, starring Sid James and Eric Barker – (U.K.)
• Cash McCall, starring James Garner and Natalie Wood
• The Challenge, a.k.a. It Takes A Thief, starring Jayne Mansfield – (U.K.)
• Cidade Ameaçada (a.k.a. Jerry the Gangster) – (Brazil)
• Cimarron, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter
• Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti
• Circus of Horrors, starring Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence – (U.K.)
• Cleopatra's Daughter, starring Debra Paget
• The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Daka Tara), directed by Ritwik Ghatak – (India)
• El Cochecito (The Little Coach), directed by Marco Ferreri – (Spain)
• College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Comanche Station, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott
• Come Back, Africa, documentary film – (South Africa)
• Crack in the Mirror, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Juliette Gréco
• The Criminal, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker – (U.K.)
• Cruel Story of Youth (Seishun Zankoku Monogatari), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)

D[edit]

• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, starring Dorothy McGuire, Shirley Knight, Robert Preston
• Dentist in the Chair, starring Bob Monkhouse and Kenneth Connor – (U.K.)
• Desire in the Dust, starring Joan Bennett, Martha Hyer, Raymond Burr
• Devi (a.k.a. The Goddess), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
• The Devil's Eye (Djävulens öga), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson – (Sweden)
• La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg – (Italy)

E[edit]

• Elmer Gantry, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones
• The Enchanting Shadow (Ching nu yu hun) – (Hong Kong)
• The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Laurence Olivier – (U.K.)
• Esther and the King, starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan – (U.S./Italy)
• Everybody Go Home (Tutti a casa), directed by Luigi Comencini – (Italy)
• Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, John Derek
• Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage), starring Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli – (France)

F[edit]

• The Facts of Life, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
• A False Student (Nise daigakusei) – (Japan)
• Faust – (West Germany)
• Five Cartridges (Fünf Patronenhülsen) – (East Germany)
• Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden
• Fortunat (Fortunate), starring Bourvil and Michèle Morgan – (France/Italy)
• From the Terrace, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ina Balin, George Grizzard, Myrna Loy

G[edit]

• G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse
• The Gallant Hours, a biopicofAdmiral "Bull" Halsey starring James Cagney
• Girl of the Night, starring Anne Francis and John Kerr
• Go to Hell, Hoodlums! (Kutabare gurentai) – (Japan)
• Goliath and the Dragon
• Goliath II, a Disney animated short
• The Grass Is Greener, starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
• Guns of the Timberland, starring Alan Ladd

H[edit]

• Hell Bent for Leather, starring Audie Murphy and Felicia Farr
• Hell Is a City, starring Stanley Baker – (U.K.)
• Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
• Hell to Eternity, starring Jeffrey Hunter and David Janssen
• Her Brother (Otôto), directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan)
• High Time, starring Bing Crosby
• Hobbi al-Wahid (My Only Love), starring Omar Sharif – (Egypt)
• The Hole (Le Trou) (a.k.a. The Night Watch), directed by Jacques Becker – (France)
• Home from the Hill, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
• House of Usher, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price
• The Housemaid (Hanyeo) – (South Korea)
• The Human Vapor (Gasu Ningen dai Ichigo), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
• The Hypnotic Eye, starring Jacques Bergerac

I[edit]

• Il Mattatore, directed by Dino Risi – (Italy)
• I Aim at the Stars, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Curd Jürgens, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala
• Ice Palace, starring Richard Burton, Robert Ryan and Carolyn Jones
• The Iceman Cometh, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Jason Robards, Jr., Myron McCormick, and Robert Redford – (made for TV)
• Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Dick York
• Inni Attahim, directed by Hassan el-Imam, starring Zubaida Tharwat, Salah Zulfikar, Emad Hamdy – (Egypt)
• Innocent Sorcerers (Niewinni czarodzieje), directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
• It Started in Naples, starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren

J[edit]

• Jaali Note (Counterfeit Money), starring Madhubala and Dev Anand – (India)
• Jigoku (Hell) – (Japan)
• Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (The Land Where the Ganges Flows), starring Raj Kapoor – (India)

K[edit]

• Kanoon (The Law), starring Ashok Kumar – (India)
• Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyżacy), directed by Aleksander Ford – (Poland)

L[edit]

• The Lady with the Dog (Dama s sobachkoy) – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Last Voyage, starring Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone
• The Last Witness (Der Letzte Zeuge) – (West Germany)
• Last Woman on Earth, directed by Roger Corman
• Late Autumn (Akibiyori), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• The League of Gentlemen, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Jack Hawkins – (U.K.)
• Let's Make Love, starring Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand
• The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman
• Linda, starring Carol White – (U.K.)
• The Lost World, starring Michael Rennie and Jill St. John
• Love and Adoration, directed by Hassan el-Imam, starring Salah Zulfikar and Taheyya Kariokka – (Egypt)
• Love in Simla, starring Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana – (India)

M[edit]

• Macario, directed by Roberto Gavaldón – (Mexico)
• Macumba Love – (United States/Brazil)
• The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz
• Make Mine Mink, starring Terry-Thomas – (U.K.)
• Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas (a.k.a. That Joyous Eve), directed by Fons Rademakers – (Netherlands)
• Man in the Moon, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
• Manzil (Destination), starring Dev Anand – (India)
• Midnight Lace, starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy
• The Millionairess, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
• Money and Women, directed by Hassan el-Imam, starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny – (Egypt)
• The Mountain Road, starring James Stewart
• Mrs. Warren's Profession (Frau Warrens Gewerbe), starring Lilli Palmer (West Germany)
• Mughal-e-Azam (The Greatest of the Mughals), starring Madhubala and Dilip Kumar – (India)
• Murder, Inc., starring Peter Falk, Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan

N[edit]

• The Naked Island (Hadaka no shima) – (Japan)
• Never Let Go, directed by John Guillermin, starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars and Adam Faith – (U.K.)
• Never on Sunday, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri – (Greece/United States)
• Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, starring Patrick Allen and Gwen Watford – (U.K.)
• Night and Fog in Japan (Nihon no yoru to kiri), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
• The Ninth Circle (Deveti krug) – (Yugoslavia)
• North to Alaska, starring John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Capucine, Fabian Forte

O[edit]

• Obaltan (a.k.a. The Stray Bullet) – (South Korea)
• Ocean's 11, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson
• Once More, with Feeling!, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner
• Our Last Spring (a.k.a. Eroica), directed by Michael Cacoyannis – (Greece)

P[edit]

• Parakh, directed by Bimal Roy – (India)
• The Party Is Over (Fin de fiesta) – (Argentina)
• Le Passage du Rhin, starring Charles Aznavour – (France/Italy/West Germany)
• Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell, starring Karl Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer – (U.K.)
• Pepe, starring Cantinflas
• Please Don't Eat the Daisies, starring Doris Day and David Niven
• Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills
• Portrait in Black, starring Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee
• The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, starring Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren
• Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, John Gavin
• The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, starring Cecil Parker and Joyce Grenfell – (U.K.)
• Purple Noon (Plein Soleil), a.k.a. Blazing Sun, directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon – (France)

Q[edit]

• The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) – (U.S.S.R.)

R[edit]

• The Rat Race, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Don Rickles
• The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Ray Danton and Karen Steele
• The River of Love (Nahr el hub), starring Omar Sharif – (Egypt)
• Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Alain Delon – (Italy/France)
• Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julie a tma) – (Czechoslovakia)
• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers – (U.K.)

S[edit]

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts – (U.K.)
• The Savage Innocents, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Anthony Quinn
• Scent of Mystery, starring Denholm Elliott and Elizabeth Taylor
• School for Scoundrels, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas – (U.K.)
• September Storm, starring Joanne Dru
• Sergeant Rutledge, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode
• Seven Days... Seven Nights (Moderato cantabile), starring Jeanne Moreau – (France)
• Seven Thieves, starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins
• Shoot the Pianist (Tirez sur le pianiste), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour – (France)
• Sink the Bismarck!, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)
• The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (El Esqueleto de la señora Morales), starring Arturo de Córdova – (Mexico)
• Song Without End, starring Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Patricia Morison
• Sons and Lovers, directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard – (U.K.)
• Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis
• The Spider's Web, directed by Godfrey Grayson. Based on an Agatha Christie play (U.K.)
• The Story of Ruth, a Biblical drama starring Stuart Whitman and Peggy Wood
• Strangers When We Meet, starring Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs
• Struggle for Eagle Peak (Venner) – (Norway)
• The Subterraneans, starring George Peppard
• The Sundowners, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum – (US/UK/Australia)
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a.k.a. Season of Passion, starring Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills
• Sunrise at Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy (asFranklin D. Roosevelt) and Greer Garson
• Surprise Package, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward
• Swiss Family Robinson, starring John Mills and Dorothy McGuire

T[edit]

• Tall Story, starring Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Ray Walston
• Tarzan the Magnificent, starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine
• A Terrible Beauty, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Mitchum and Anne Heywood
• Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau – (France)
• There Was a Crooked Man, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)
• The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse), directed by Fritz Lang – (West Germany)
• The Three Worlds of Gulliver, starring Kerwin Mathews
• The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux
• Too Hot to Handle, starring Jayne Mansfield – (U.K.)
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde, starring Peter Finch – (U.K.)
• The Truth (La Vérité), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
• Tunes of Glory, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness – (U.K.)
• Twelve Hours to Kill, starring Nico Minardos and Barbara Eden
• Two-Way Stretch, starring Peter Sellers – (U.K.)
• Two Women, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren – (Italy)

U[edit]

• Under Ten Flags, starring Van Heflin and Charles Laughton
• The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn
• Universe – (Canada)

V[edit]

• Vice Raid, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley – (U.K.)
• The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow – (Sweden)
• Visit to a Small Planet, starring Jerry Lewis
• Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley

W[edit]

• The Wackiest Ship in the Army, starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson
• Watch Your Stern, starring Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips – (U.K.)
• When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan)
• Where the Boys Are, starring George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis
• The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rößl) – (West Germany/Austria)
• Who Was That Lady?, starring Dean Martin, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
• Wild River, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Montgomery Clift
• The World of Suzie Wong, starring Nancy Kwan and William Holden – (U.K./U.S.)

Y[edit]

• The Yellow Gloves (Ta kitrina gantia) – (Greece)
• The Young One (La Joven), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico/United States)

Z[edit]

• Zazie dans le Métro, directed by Louis Malle – (France)

Short film series[edit]

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
• Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
• porns

(1953–1968)

Births[edit]

• January 4 – April Winchell, American actress, voice actress, writer, talk radio host and commentator
• January 9 – Terje Pennie, Estonian actress
• January 10 – Gurinder Chadha, British director
• January 12
  • Wanda Cannon, Canadian actress
  • Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
• January 13 – Kevin Anderson, American actor
• January 15 – Kelly Asbury, American director, writer and voice actor (died 2020)
• January 18 – Mark Rylance, English actor
• January 25 – Kerry Noonan, American actress
• February 4 – Jenette Goldstein, American actress
• February 7
  • Robert Smigel, American actor, comedian, writer, director, producer and puppeteer
  • James Spader, American actor
• February 8 - Suzanna Hamilton, English actress
• February 9 – David Bateson, British actor and comedian
• February 13 – Matt Salinger, American actor and producer
• February 14 – Meg Tilly, Canadian-American actress
• February 18
  • Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
  • Greta Scacchi, Italian-Australian actress
• February 20 – Wendee Lee, American voice actress
• February 21 – Joel McKinnon Miller, American actor
• February 22 - Brian Anthony Wilson, American actor
• February 25 – Douglas Hodge, English actor, director and musician
• February 28 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress (died 1980)
• March 12
  • Jason Beghe, American actor
  • Courtney B. Vance, American actor
• March 13 – Joe Ranft, American screenwriter, animator and voice actor (died 2005)
• March 17
  • Arye Gross, American actor
  • Vicki Lewis, American singer and actress
  • Cameron Thor, American actor, filmmaker and acting coach
• March 22 – Nicole Holofcener, American film director and screenwriter
• March 25 – Brenda Strong, American actress and director
• March 26 – Jennifer Grey, American actress
• March 29
  • Annabella Sciorra, American actress and producer
  • Hiromi Tsuru, Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator (died 2017)
• March 31 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (died 2010)
• April 1 – Jennifer Runyon, American actress
• April 4
  • Hugo Weaving, Australian actor
  • Lorraine Toussaint, Trinidadian-American actress
• April 7 – Elaine Miles, American actress
• April 14 – Brad Garrett, American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian and professional poker-player
• April 23
  • Craig Sheffer, American actor
  • Valerie Bertinelli, American actress
• April 29 - Steve Blum, American voice actor
• May 3 - Amy Steel, American actress
• May 9 - Lisa Henson, American actress and producer actress
• May 10 - Richard Graham, English actor
• May 15 - Rob Bowman, American director
• May 20 - Tony Goldwyn, American actor, singer, producer, director and political activist
• May 21 – Mohanlal, Indian actor
• May 24
  • Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
  • Doug Jones, American actor
• May 26 - Doug Hutchison, American character actor
• May 31
  • Chris Elliott, American actor and comedian
  • Don Harvey, American actor and voice actor
• June 5 - James Isaac, American director and visual effects supervisor (died 2012)
• June 8 - Gary Trousdale, American animator, director, screenwriter and storyboard artist
• June 16 - James M. Connor, American actor
• June 17 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor
• June 18 - Barbara Broccoli, American-British producer
• June 27 - Jeremy Swift, English actor
• July 5
  • Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stuntman
  • Pruitt Taylor Vince, American character actor
• July 10 – Jeff Bergman, American voice actor, comedian and impressionist
• July 11 – Jafar Panahi, Iranian director
• July 14 – Jane Lynch, American actress
• July 19 – Elizabeth Kaitan, Hungarian-American actress and model
• July 21 – Adrienne King, American actress and voice actress
• July 22 – John Leguizamo, American actor, comedian and producer
• July 23
  • Jon Landau, American film producer (died 2024)
  • Gabrielle Reidy, Irish actress (died 2014)
• July 30
  • Richard Linklater, American director, producer and screenwriter
  • Daniel McDonald, American actor (died 2007)
• August 5
  • Steve Bannos, American actor
  • John Mariano, American actor
• August 6 – Leland Orser, American actor
• August 7
  • David Duchovny, American actor
  • Rosana Pastor, Spanish actress
• August 10 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• August 16 – Timothy Hutton, American actor
• August 17 – Sean Penn, American actor
• August 18 – Richard McCabe, Scottish actor
• August 25 - Ashley Crow, American actress
• August 28 – Emma Samms, English actress
• August 29 – Viire Valdma, Estonian actress
• September 1 – Tahmineh Milani, Iranian filmmaker
• September 4 - Damon Wayans, American actor, comedian, producer and writer
• September 5 - Denis Forest, Canadian character actor (died 2002)
• September 9
  • Bonnie Aarons, American actress
  • Hugh Grant, English actor
• September 10
  • Nancy Bernstein, American producer (died 2015)
  • Colin Firth, English actor
• September 12
  • Robert John Burke, American actor
  • Felicity Montagu, English actress
• September 13 - Greg Baldwin, American actor and voice actor
• September 14
  • Melissa Leo, American actress
  • Callum Keith Rennie, British-born Canadian actor
• September 16 - Danny John-Jules, British actor and singer
• September 17
  • Kevin Clash, American puppeteer, director and producer
  • Frédéric Pierrot, French actor
• September 21 - Mary Mara, American actress (died 2022)
• September 27 – Debi Derryberry, American voice actress
• October 1 - Elizabeth Dennehy, American actress
• October 5 - Daniel Baldwin, American actor, director and producer
• October 9 – Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (died 2008)
• October 12 - Hiroyuki Sanada, Japanese actor
• October 13 - Richard Sammel, German actor
• October 15 - Lobo Chan, British actor
• October 17
  • Rob Marshall, American director and producer
  • Grant Shaud, American actor
• October 18 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
• October 24 - BD Wong, American actor
• October 25 – Hong Sang-soo, South Korean director
• October 26 - Patrick Breen, American actor, screenwriter and director
• November 4 - Kathy Griffin, American comedian and actress
• November 5
  • Tilda Swinton, English actress
  • Yolanda Vázquez, Spanish actress
• November 6
  • Lance Kerwin, American actor (died 2023)
  • Denzil Smith, Indian actor and producer
• November 8 – Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (died 2017)
• November 9 - Toni Hudson, American actress
• November 11 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
• November 13 – Neil Flynn, American actor and comedian
• November 17 - RuPaul, American drag queen, television personality, actor, singer, producer and writer
• November 18
  • Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
  • John Shepherd, American actor and producer
• November 20 - Amanda Wyss, American actress
• November 26 – Greg Berg, American voice actor
• November 29 – Cathy Moriarty, American actress and singer
• November 30 – Hiam Abbass, Palestinian actress and director
• December 3
  • Daryl Hannah, American actress
  • Julianne Moore, American actress
• December 9 – Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, American animator, writer, director, producer and voice actor
• December 10
  • Kenneth Branagh, British actor and film director
  • Michael Schoeffling, American actor and model
• December 22 - David Pasquesi, American actor and comedian
• December 26 – Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor
• December 27
  • Maryam d'Abo, British actress
  • Traci Wolfe, American actress and model

Deaths[edit]

• January 1 – Margaret Sullavan, 50, American actress, The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm
• January 3 – Victor Sjöström, 80, Swedish film actor and director, The Phantom Carriage, Wild Strawberries
• January 4 – Dudley Nichols, 64, American screenwriter, Bringing Up Baby, Stagecoach
• January 21 – Matt Moore, 72, Irish-American actor, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Coquette
• January 24 – John Miljan, 67, American actor, The Plainsman, Mississippi
• February 3
  • Fred Buscaglione, 38, Italian actor and singer
  • Pierre Watkin, 70, American actor, Pride of the Yankees, The Hunted
• March 19 – Sonya Levien, 71, Russian screenwriter, Oklahoma!, Quo Vadis, Interrupted Melody
• April 5 – Alma Kruger, 90, American actress, His Girl Friday, Saboteur
• April 25 – Hope Emerson, 62, American actress, Caged, Adam's Rib
• May 27 – George Zucco, 74, British actor, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, My Favorite Blonde
• June 4 – Lucien Littlefield, 64, American actor, The Cat and the Canary, Dirty Work
• June 29 – Dimples Cooper, 46, Filipina actress, Ang Tatlong Hambog, Miracles of Love
• July 2 – Gene Fowler, 70, American screenwriter, What Price Hollywood?, The Call of the Wild
• July 15 – Lawrence Tibbett, 63, American singer and actor, The Rogue Song, Under Your Spell
• July 26 – Cedric Gibbons, 67, Irish production designer and art director, An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful
• July 29 – Leonora Corbett, 52, British actress, Love on Wheels, Living Dangerously
• August 10 – Frank Lloyd, 74, Scottish director, Mutiny on the Bounty, Cavalcade
• September 4 – Alfred E. Green, 71, American director, Baby Face, Top Banana
• September 5 – Aku Korhonen, 57, Finnish actor
• September 11 – Edwin Justus Mayer, 63, American screenwriter, To Be or Not to Be, A Royal Scandal
• October 11 – Richard Cromwell, 50, American actor, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Jezebel
• October 15
  • Maude Eburne, 84, Canadian actress, The Border Legion, Almost Married
  • Clara Kimball Young, 70, American actress, My Official Wife, Kept Husbands
• November 3 – Paul Willis, 59, American silent-film actor, The Fall of a Nation
• November 5
  • Mack Sennett, 80, Canadian-American producer and director, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tango Tangles
  • Ward Bond, 57, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, The Searchers, Rio Bravo
• November 14 – Walter Catlett, 71, American actor, comedian, Slightly Scandalous, Henry, the Rainmaker, Here Comes the Groom
• November 16 – Clark Gable, 59, American actor, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind^[17]
• November 19 – Phyllis Haver, 61, American actress, Chicago, Sal of Singapore
• November 20 – Betty Lawford, 48, British actress, Criminal Lawyer, The Devil Thumbs a Ride
• December 14 – Gregory Ratoff, 67, Russian actor and director, All About Eve, Intermezzo

Film debuts[edit]

• Gila Almagor – Burning Sands
• John Astin – The Pusher
• Karen Black – The Prime Time
• Bruce Boa – Man in the Moon
• Dyan Cannon – The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
• Richard Chamberlain – The Secret of the Purple Reef
• Patrick Cranshaw – The Amazing Transparent Man
• Bruce Dern – Wild River
• Roy Dotrice – The Criminal
• Britt Ekland – G.I. Blues
• Albert Finney – The Entertainer
• Jane Fonda – Tall Story
• Derek Francis – The Criminal
• Sheila Hancock – Light Up the Sky!
• Diane Ladd – Murder, Inc.
• Murray Melvin – The Criminal
• Sylvia Miles – Murder, Inc.
• Peter O'Toole – Kidnapped
• Marisa Paredes – Police Calling 091
• Robert Redford – Tall Story
• Isela Vega – Verano violento
• Gian Maria Volonté – Under Ten Flags
• Susannah York – Tunes of Glory

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• List of 1960 filmsatIMDb
• List of 1960 deathsatIMDb
• List of 1960 birthsatIMDb