Editing 1915 in film

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The year '''1915 in film''' involved some significant events.

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==Events==
* February 1: [[Fox Film Corporation]] founded
* February 8: [[D.W Griffith]]'s ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks both box office and film length records (running at a total length of over three hours).
* February: [[Metro Pictures]], a forerunner of [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], is founded<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Metro Corporation|url=https://archive.org/stream/motography13elec#page/278/mode/1up|work=[[Motography]]|volume=XIII|issue=8|page=278|date=February 20, 1915|access-date=May 12, 2018}}</ref>
* February 22: The [[Allan Dwan]] directed film ''[[David Harum (1915 film)|David Harum]]'' is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors [[May Allison]] and [[Harold Lockwood]].
* March 15: [[Universal Studios Hollywood]] opens ([[1964]]).
* June 18: The [[Motion Picture Directors Association]] (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six [[film directors]] in [[Los Angeles, California]].
* July: [[Triangle Film Corporation]] is founded in [[Culver City, California]] and attracts filmmakers [[D. W. Griffith]], [[Thomas H. Ince]] and [[Mack Sennett]]
* September 11: A nitrate fire at [[Famous Players Film Company|Famous Players]] in New York destroys several completed but unreleased silent films which are later remade. Films lost include [[Mary Pickford]]'s ''[[Esmerelda (1915 film)|Esmerelda]]'' and ''[[The Foundling (1915 film)|The Foundling]]'' and [[John Barrymore]]'s ''[[The Red Widow]]''.
* October 1: A US court rules in ''[[United States v. Motion Picture Patents Co.]]'' that the [[Motion Picture Patents Company]] trust is monopolistic and orders it to be dissolved.
* November 18: Release of ''[[Inspiration (1915 film)|Inspiration]]'', the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress ([[Audrey Munson]]) appears [[Nudity in film|nude]].
* December 13: [[Sessue Hayakawa]] becomes the first Asian actor to become a star in the US after his performance in ''[[The Cheat (1915 film)|The Cheat]]''.
* The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early [[widescreen]] film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.
* [[Max Fleischer]] invents the [[rotoscoping]] [[animation]] process in the US.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS1hCSsmH1E|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/IS1hCSsmH1E|archive-date=2021-11-17|url-status=live|title=The trick that made animation realistic|last=Edwards|first=Phil|date=2019-12-03|website=Vox}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* The Kinematograph Renters’ Society of Great Britain and Ireland is formed to represent film distribution companies

==Top-grossing films (U.S.)==
The top ten 1915 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;"
|+Highest-grossing films of 1915
|-
! Rank!! Title !! Studio !! Gross
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 1
|''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''
| Epoch
| $10,000,000<ref name="Gross">{{cite book |editor-last=Rucker |editor-first=Walter C. |editor2-last=Upton |editor2-first=James N. |title=Encyclopedia of American race riots |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-313-33301-9 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=mQcrpqn0124C&pg=PA35 35] |quote=...earning more than $10 million at the box office in 1915. By 1949, it had earned $50 million}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 2
| ''[[Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film)|Carmen]]''
|rowspan="9"|[[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]
| $147,600<ref name="birchard">{{cite book|last=Birchard|first=Robert S.|date=2004|title=Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=9780813123240}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 3
|''[[The Cheat (1915 film)|The Cheat]]''
|$137,364<ref name="birchard"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 4
| ''[[Temptation (1915 film)|Temptation]]''
| $102,437<ref name="birchard"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 5
| ''[[The Girl of the Golden West (1915 film)|The Girl of the Golden West]]''
| $102,224<ref name="birchard"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 6
| ''[[The Warrens of Virginia (1915 film)|The Warrens of Virginia]]''
| $85,770<ref name="birchard"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 7
| ''[[The Golden Chance]]''
| $83,504<ref name="birchard"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 8
| ''[[Chimmie Fadden]]''
| $78,944<ref name="birchard"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 9
| ''[[Chimmie Fadden Out West]]''
| $72,036<ref name="birchard"/>
|- 
! style="text-align:center;"| 10
| ''[[The Arab (1915 film)|The Arab]]''
| $68,526<ref name="birchard"/>
|}

==Notable films released in 1915==
[[List of American films of 1915|United States]] unless stated

===A===
* ''Adachihara Ubagaike Yurei'' (Japanese), starring Matsunosuke Onoe, produced in Japan by Nikkatsu <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 143">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''Agony of Fear'', directed by Giles Warren<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 143"/>
* ''Alice in Wonderland'' by W.W. Young
* ''[[Are You a Mason? (1915 film)|Are You a Mason?]]'', directed by [[Thomas N. Heffron]], starring [[John Barrymore]]
* ''The Arrow Maiden'', directed by Francis Powers<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 143"/>
* ''[[Assunta Spina (1915 film)|Assunta Spina]]'', starring [[Francesca Bertini]] –  ([[Italian films of the 1910s|Italy]])
* ''The Avenging Hand'' (British) aka ''The Wraith of the Tomb'', directed by Charles Calvert, written by William J. Elliott<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 144">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>

===B===
* ''[[Barnaby Rudge (film)|Barnaby Rudge]]'', directed by [[Thomas Bentley (director)|Thomas Bentley]] ([[British films of 1915|Britain]])
* ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'', directed by [[D. W. Griffith]], starring [[Lillian Gish]]
* ''The Blood Seedling'', produced by William Selig, directed by (and starring) Tom Santschi <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 144"/>
* ''The Bribe'', short film directed by Lucius Henderson for Universal, starring Charles Ogle<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 144"/>

===C===
* ''Call From the Dead'', early zombie film directed by Clem Easton for Thanhouser Films<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 144"/>
* ''[[The Caprices of Kitty]]'', directed by [[Phillips Smalley]], starring [[Elsie Janis]]
* ''[[Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film)|Carmen]]'', directed by [[Cecil B. DeMille]], starring [[Geraldine Farrar]]
* ''[[Carmen (1915 Raoul Walsh film)|Carmen]]'', directed by [[Raoul Walsh]], starring [[Theda Bara]]
* ''The Case of Becky'', directed by Frank Reicher, starring Blanche Sweet<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 145">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''The Castle of Thornfield'' (Italian) adapted from the novel ''Jane Eyre'' by Charlotte Bronte<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 145"/>
* ''[[The Champion (1915 film)|The Champion]]'', starring [[Charles Chaplin]] and [[Edna Purviance]]
* ''[[The Cheat (1915 film)|The Cheat]]'', directed by [[Cecil B. DeMille]], starring [[Fannie Ward]] and [[Sessue Hayakawa]]
* ''The Cheval Mystery'', directed by (and starring) Harry Myers for Victor Films<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 145"/>
* ''The Chronicles of Bloom Center'', short comedy directed by Marshall Neilan <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 145"/>
* ''The Circular Staircase'', directed by Edward J. LeSaint for Selig Films, based on the novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, starring Eugenie Besserer and Stella Razeto<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 143"/>
* ''[[The Crazy Clock Maker]]'', comedy starring Oliver Hardy
* ''A Cry in the Night'' (British) a science fiction film about a winged gorilla created by a mad scientist, directed by Ernest G. Batley<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 146">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>

===D===
* ''Destiny's Skein'', directed and scripted by George Terwilliger, about a murderer with a split personality<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 146"/>
* ''The Devil'' (aka ''Satan's Pawn''), based on the play by Ferenc Molnar, this film was produced and co-directed by Thomas H. Ince, starring Arthur Maude and Bessie Barriscale <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 146"/>
* ''The Devil to Pay'' (British) short film directed by Edwin J. Collins, with a story similar to ''Faust''<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 147">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''The Devil's Profession'' (British) written and directed by F.C.S. Tudor, foreshadowing Val Lewton's ''Bedlam'' (1946)<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 147"/>
* ''[[Double Trouble (1915 film)|Double Trouble]]'', starring [[Douglas Fairbanks]]
* ''A Drama of the Castle, or Do the Dead Return?'' (French) 6-minute film written and directed by [[Abel Gance]]<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 148">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''The Dream Dance'', directed by Leon D. Kent for Lubin Films, starring Lee Shumway<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 148"/>
* ''The Duel in the Dark'', starring Arthur Bauer and Carey L. Hastings, features an evil hypnotist<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 148"/>
* ''The Dust of Egypt'', mummy film directed by George D. Baker, starring Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 148"/>

===E===
* ''The Eleventh Dimension'', science fiction film produced and written by Raymond L. Schrock, directed by Clem Easton<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 148"/>
* ''[[Enoch Arden (1915 film)|Enoch Arden]]'', starring [[Lillian Gish]]

===F===
* ''[[Fatty's Spooning Days]]'', starring [[Roscoe Arbuckle|Fatty Arbuckle]], [[Mabel Normand]], and [[Keystone Cops|The Keystone Cops]]
* ''Faust'', directed by Edward Sloman who also stars in the film<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 149">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[Filibus]]'' –  ([[Italian films of the 1910s|Italy]])
* ''[[A Fool There Was (1915 film)|A Fool There Was]]'', starring [[Theda Bara]]
* ''[[Four Feathers]]''
* ''The Fox Woman'', directed by Lloyd Ingraham, starring Seena Owen and Elmer Clifton<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 149"/>

===G===
* ''[[A Gentleman of Leisure (1915 film)|A Gentleman of Leisure]]'', directed by [[George Melford]], starring [[Wallace Eddinger]]
* ''The Ghost Fakirs'', a "Heinie and Louie" comedy short involving a haunted house
* ''The Ghost of Twisted Oaks'', voodoo film directed by Sidney Olcott for Lubin Films, starring Olcott's wife Valentine Grant<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[The Golden Chance]]'', directed by [[Cecil B. DeMille]], starring [[Cleo Ridgely]] and [[Wallace Reid]]
* ''[[The Golem (1915 film)|The Golem]]'', aka ''Der Golem und Wie auf de Welt Kam'' (German/ Deutsche-Bioscop), directed by [[Paul Wegener]] and [[Henrik Galeen]], starring [[Paul Wegener]] and Lyda Salmonova ([[List of German films of 1895–1918|Germany]])<ref>Kinnard, Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. Page 65. {{ISBN|0-7864-0036-6}}.</ref>
* ''The Gray Horror'', a haunted house film directed by Joseph W. Smiley, who also starred in it<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 151">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''The Greater Will'', directed by Harley Knowles, starring Montagu Love, Cyril Maude and Lois Meredith <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 151"/>

===H===
* ''The Hand of the Skeleton'', French special effects film directed by Danish director George Schneevoight<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 151"/>
* ''The Haunting of Silas P. Gould'' (British) directed by Elwin Neame, starring (his wife) Ivy Close<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 152">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''Haunting Winds'', directed by Carl M. Leviness for Universal, starring Frank MacQuarrie and Sydney Ayres<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 152"/>
* ''His Egyptian Affinity'', reincarnated mummy film directed by Al Christie for Nestor Films, starring Victoria Ford<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 153, ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''His Phantom Sweetheart'', short horror/comedy produced and directed by Ralph W. Ince; the writer Earle Williams was also the star<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 153">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''Horrible Hyde'', a 5-minute comedy version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", directed by and starring Howell Hansel, filmed in Florida<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 153"/>
* ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' Parts 3 and 4 (German film) directed by [[Richard Oswald]], starring [[Alwin Neuss]] as [[Sherlock Holmes]]; Part 3 was called "The Uncanny Room" and Part 4 was "Legend of the Hound"(see 1914 for first two parts)<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 153"/>
* ''The Hound of the Baskervilles: The Dark Castle'' (German) Vitascope made their own conclusion to their earlier 1914 two-parter with this entry, directed by Willy Zeyn, starring Eugen Burg as Sherlock Holmes<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 154">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''The House of a Thousand Candles'', haunted house film based on the novel by Meredith Nicholson, directed by Thomas N. Heffron, starring Harry Mestayer and Edgar Nelson <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 154"/>
* ''The House With Nobody In It'', a haunted house film based on the poem by Joyce Kilmer as well as a story by Clarence J. Harris; directed by Richard Garrick<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 154 ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>

===I===
* ''[[The Immigrant (1915 film)|The Immigrant]]''
* ''The Inner Brute'', starring Warren Waite, Warda Howard and John Lorenz<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 154"/>
* ''An Innocent Sinner'', directed by Kenean Buel, starring Katherine LaSalle and Guy Coombs<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 155">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[Inspiration (1915 film)|Inspiration]]''
* ''[[The Italian (1915 film)|The Italian]]''

===J===
* ''Jane Eyre'', based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte, directed by Travers Vale, starring Franklyn Ritchie, Louise Vale and Gretchen Hartman<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 155"/>
* ''The Japanese Mask'', an obscure French/U.S. co-production made by Pathe/Aetna Films<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 155"/>

===L===
* ''[[The Lamb (1915 film)|The Lamb]]'', starring [[Douglas Fairbanks]]
* ''Legend of the Lone Tree'', a "weird western" film directed by Ulysses Davis for Vitagraph, starring Myrtle Gnzalez and Alfred Vosburgh <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 156">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[Life Without Soul]]'', first full-length adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel ''Frankenstein'' (running 70 minutes); directed by Joseph W. Smiley, starring William A. Cohill as the scientist; the film was somewhat re-edited and re-released in 1916 also<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 156"/>
* ''The Live Mummy'' (British) a 13-minute comedy short
* ''London's Yellow Peril'' (British) directed by Maurice Elvey, written by Eliot Stannard; Elvey later went on to make a series of silent Fu Manchu movies<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 157">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''Lord John in New York'', first in a Universal Pictures series of five silent detective films, starring William Garwood as Lord John, directed by Edward LeSaint<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 157"/>

===M===
* ''[[Madame Butterfly (1915 film)|Madame Butterfly]]'', directed by [[Sidney Olcott]], starring [[Mary Pickford]]
* ''The Magic Skin'', directed by Richard Ridgely for Thomas Edison's film company; this was the third film adaptation of Honore de Balzac's novel ''Le Peau de Chagrin''<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 157"/>
* ''The Man Who Couldn't Beat God'', directed by Maurice Costello and Robert Gaillard, both of whom starred also
* ''[[The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915 film)|The Man Who Stayed at Home]]'' – ([[British films before 1920|GB]])
* ''[[Martyrs of the Alamo]]''
* ''The Mesmerist'' (British) directed by Percy Nash, starring Douglas Payne<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 158">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde'', directed by Charles L. Gaskill and starring Helen Gardner; strangely this was more of an adaptation of ''Faust'' than the novel ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 158"/>
* ''The Missing Mummy'', silent comedy directed by William Beaudine, starring Bud Duncan and Charles Inslee
* ''The Monkey's Paw'' (British) this first film adaptation of the 1902 novel seems to have been based more on the 1907 play instead of the novel; directed by Sidney Northcote, starring John Lawson (who also starred in the play)<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 158"/> 
* ''The Moonstone'', directed by Frank Hall Crane, starring Eugene O'Brien and Elaine Hammerstein, based on the 1868 novel by [[Wilkie Collins]]; this was the best known of the silent film versions<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 158"/>
* ''Mortmain'', directed by Theodore Marston for Vitagraph, starring Robert Edeson; this surgical horror film's plot eerily foreshadowed that of the later Conrad Veidt film ''The Hands of Orlac'' (1924).<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 159">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>

===P===
* ''Peer Gynt'', directed by Raoul Walsh and Oscar Apfel
* ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (Russian) - third film adaptation of the 1890 Oscar Wilde novel, wherein Dorian Gray is oddly played by a female actress (Varvara Yanova); directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold and Mikhail Doronin (both of whom also co-starred in the film)<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 159"/>
* ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', directed by Eugene Moore for Thanhouser Films (U.S.), starring Harris Gordon (as Dorian) and Helen Fulton; this was the fourth film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel
* ''The Portrait'' (Russian) 8-minute fantasy film written and directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz, who later went on to direct ''The Viy'' that same year<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda (1915 film)|The Prisoner of Zenda]]'', starring [[Henry Ainley]] and [[Gerald Ames]] ([[British films before 1920|GB]])

===R===
* ''[[The Raven (1915 film)|The Raven]]'', directed by Charles Brabin, starring Henry B. Walthall and Wanda Howard, this was the third biopic to cover the life story of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 161">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[Regeneration (1915 film)|Regeneration]]'', directed by [[Raoul Walsh]], starring [[Rockliffe Fellowes]] and [[Anna Q. Nilsson]]
* ''The Return of Maurice Donnelly'', directed by William Humphrey, starring Leo Delaney and Anders Randolph, conceived as a social fable against capital punishment<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 161"/>
* ''The Return of Richard Neal'', mesmerism film directed by Edward T. Lowe Jr., starring Francis X. Bushman, Neil Craig and Ernest Maupin<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 161"/>

===S===
* ''Sagebrush Tom'', starring [[Tom Mix]]
* ''Satanic Rhapsody'' (Italian) directed by Nino Oxilia (who died in WWI), starring Lyda Borelli and Ugo Bazzini as Mephistopheles; film featured some tinted and hand-stenciled color scenes  <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 161"/>
* ''The Scorpion's Sting'' (British) aka ''The Devil's Bondman'', directed by Percy Nash, starring George Bellamy
* ''The Secret Room'', directed by Tom Moore for Kalem Films (he also starred in the film)    
* ''[[The Senator (play)|The Senator]]'', directed by Joseph A. Golden
* ''Shunen no hebi'' (translation: ''The Vengeful Snake'') Japanese film directed by Uichiro Tamura
* ''The Silent Command'', directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Universal, starring Leonard and Ella Hall
* ''[[The Soul of Broadway]]''
* ''The Soul of Phyra'', directed by Charles Swickard, starring Enid Markey
* ''The Spectre of the Vault'' (Italian) haunted tomb film directed by Ubaldo Maria Del Colle
* ''The Strange Unknown'', directed by Wilbe Melville, starring Helen Eddy and Dorothy Barrett; plot was influenced by ''Jane Eyre'' and ''The Woman in White''<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 163">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>

===T===
* ''The Three Wishes'', (French) obscure 8-minute fantasy film similar to ''The Monkey's Paw''
* ''Togakushi-yama no kijo'' (Japanese) short ghost film directed by Shozo Makino for Nikkatsu Films, starring Matsunosuke Onoe<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 163"/>
* ''[[The Tramp (film)|The Tramp]]'', directed by and starring [[Charles Chaplin]]
* ''[[Le traquenard]]'', starring [[Irène Bordoni]] – ([[French films of the 1910s|France]])
* ''Trilby'', directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Clara Kimball Young as Trilby and Wilton Lackaye as Svengali; the film was slightly edited and re-released in 1917 and again in 1920<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[The Two Orphans (1915 film)|The Two Orphans]]'', starring [[Theda Bara]]

===U===
* ''The Unfaithful Wife'', directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starring Genevieve Hamper and Warner Oland in one of his earliest roles

===V===
* ''The Vivisectionist'', directed by James W. Horne, starring Marin Sais and William H. West

===W===
* ''The Warning'' (aka ''The Eternal Penalty''), directed by Edmund Lawrence starring Henry Kolker; this moral diatribe against alcohol abuse involves a dream trip to Hell
* ''[[The Wheels of Justice]]'', directed by [[Theodore Marston]]
* ''When the Spirits Moved'', directed by Al Christie for Universal Pictures, starring Lee Moran and Eddie Lyons
* ''Which is Witch?'' (British) 6-minute short directed by Edwin J. Collins
* ''A Witch of Salem Town'', directed by Lucius Henderson, starring Mary Fuller and Curtis Benton
* ''[[Work (1915 film)|Work]]'', directed by & starring [[Charles Chaplin]]
* ''The Wraith of Haddon Towers'', directed by Arthur Maude, starring Constance Crawley and Arthur Maude

===Y===
* ''Yurei Yashiki'' (Japanese) translation ''The Haunted House'', directed by Kyomatsu Hosomaya for Nikksatsu

==Short film series==
*''[[Broncho Billy Anderson]]'' (1910–1916)
*''[[Harold Lloyd]]'' (1913–1921)
*''[[Charlie Chaplin]]'' (1914–1923)

==Births==
*January 1 – [[Maxine Doyle]], actress (died [[1973 in film|1973]])
*January 9 
**[[Anita Louise]], actress (died [[1970 in film|1970]])
**[[Fernando Lamas]], actor (died [[1982 in film|1982]])
*January 11 – [[Veda Ann Borg]], actress (died [[1973 in film|1973]])
*January 18 – [[Catherine Craig]], actress (died [[2004 in film|2004]])
*January 26 – [[William Hopper]], actor; son of [[Hedda Hopper]] (died 1970)
*January 29 – [[Bill Peet]], Disney author and illustrator (died [[2002 in film|2002]])
*January 30 – [[Dorothy Dell]], actress (died [[1934 in film|1934]])
*February 7 – [[Eddie Bracken]], actor (died [[2002 in film|2002]])
*February 12 – [[Lorne Greene]], actor (died [[1987 in film|1987]])
*February 18 – [[Phyllis Calvert]], actress (died [[2002 in film|2002]])
*February 20 – [[Philip Friend]], actor (died [[1987 in film|1987]])
*February 21 – [[Ann Sheridan]], actress (died [[1967 in film|1967]])
*February 23 – [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]], actor (died [[1979 in film|1979]])
*February 28 – [[Zero Mostel]], actor (died [[1977 in film|1977]])
*March 2 – [[Lona Andre]], actress (died [[1992 in film|1992]])
*March 17 – [[Henry Bumstead]], art director (died [[2006 in film|2006]])
*March 19 – [[Patricia Morison]], actress (died [[2018 in film|2018]])
*April 10 – [[Harry Morgan]], American actor (died [[2011 in film|2011]])
*April 21 – [[Anthony Quinn]], actor (died [[2001 in film|2001]])
*May 5
**[[Alice Faye]], actress, (died [[1998 in film|1998]])
**[[Ben Wright (English actor)]], (died [[1989 in film|1989]])
*May 6 – [[Orson Welles]], actor, director (died [[1985 in film|1985]])
*May 8 – [[John Archer (actor)|John Archer]], American actor (died [[1999 in film|1999]])
*May 15 – [[Bill Williams (actor)|Bill Williams]], actor, (died [[1992 in film|1992]])
*May 19 – [[Renée Asherson]], actress, (died [[2014 in film|2014]])
*May 31 – [[Barbara Pepper]], actress, (died [[1969 in film|1969]])
*June 1 - [[John Randolph (actor)]], American actor (died [[2004 in film|2004]])
*June 12 – [[Priscilla Lane]], singer, actress (died [[1995 in film|1995]])
*June 16 - [[Anthony Sharp]], English actor (died [[1984 in film|1984]])
*June 20 - [[Terence Young (director)]], Irish director and screenwriter (died [[1994 in film|1994]])
*July 18 – [[Phyllis Brooks]], American actress, model (died [[1995 in film|1995]])
*August 2 – [[Gary Merrill]], actor (died 1990)
*August 11 – [[Jean Parker]], American actress (died [[2005 in film|2005]])
*August 15 – [[Signe Hasso]], Swedish actress (died 2002)
*August 29 – [[Ingrid Bergman]], Swedish-born actress (died 1982)
*September 5 – [[Jack Buetel]], actor (died [[1989 in film|1989]])
*September 10 – [[Edmond O'Brien]], actor (died 1985)
*September 14 – [[Douglas Kennedy (actor)|Douglas Kennedy]], actor (died [[1973 in film|1973]])
*September 25 – [[Betty Box]], English producer (died [[1999 in film|1999]])
*September 29
**[[Brenda Marshall]], American actress (died [[1992 in film|1992]])
**[[Anne Nagel]], American actress (died [[1966 in film|1966]])
*October 29 – [[Evi Rauer]], Estonian actress (died 2004) 
*October 31 - [[Lennard Pearce]], British actor (died 1984)
*December 7 – [[Eli Wallach]], American actor (died 2014)
*December 12 – [[Frank Sinatra]], American singer, actor (died 1998)
*December 13 – [[Curd Jürgens]], German actor (died 1982)
*December 14 – [[Dan Dailey]], American actor (died 1978)
*December 17 – [[Joan Woodbury]], American actress (died 1989)
*December 22 – [[Barbara Billingsley]], American actress (died [[2010 in film|2010]])
*December 29 – [[Jo Van Fleet]], American actress (died [[1996 in film|1996]])

==Deaths==
* January 10 – [[Marshall Pinckney Wilder]], 55, American diminutive stage and screen actor
* April 26 – [[John Bunny]], 51, American silent film comedian, ''A Strand of Blond Hair'', ''Bunny's Little Brother'', ''Bunny Backslides''
* June 5 – [[John C. Rice]], 58, stage and film actor, ''[[The Kiss (1896 film)|The Kiss]]''
* June 16 – [[Elmer Booth]], 32, American silent screen actor, brother of film editor [[Margaret Booth]], ''[[The Musketeers of Pig Alley]]'', ''[[The Narrow Road (1912 film)|The Narrow Road]]'', ''[[An Unseen Enemy]]''
* October 31 – [[Blanche Walsh]], 42, American stage actress appeared in [[Adolph Zukor|Zukor's]] 3 reel feature "Resurrection" 1912

==Film debuts==
* [[Mary Boland]] – [[The Edge of the Abyss]]
* [[Alice Brady]] – [[The Boss (1915 film)|The Boss]]
* [[Donald Brian]] – [[The Voice in the Fog]]
* [[Marie Cahill]] – Judy Forgot
* [[Yakima Canutt]] – Foreman of Bar Z Ranch (uncredited)
* [[Laura Hope Crews]] – [[The Fighting Hope]]
* [[Reginald Denny (actor)|Reginald Denny]] – [[Niobe (film)|Niobe]]
* [[Elliott Dexter]] – [[Heléne of the North]]
* [[Marie Doro]] – [[The Morals of Marcus (1915 film)|The Morals of Marcus]]
* [[Douglas Fairbanks]] – [[The Lamb (1915 film)|The Lamb]]
* [[Geraldine Farrar]] – [[Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film)|Carmen]]
* [[W. C. Fields]] – [[Pool Sharks]]
* [[Pauline Frederick]] – [[The Eternal City (1915 film)|The Eternal City]]
* [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]] – [[Aloha Oe (film)|Aloha Oe]] (uncredited)
* [[Charlotte Greenwood]] – [[Jane (1915 film)|Jane]]
* [[Otto Kruger]] – [[A Mother's Confession]]
* [[Edmund Lowe]] – [[The Wild Olive]]
* [[Victor Moore]] – [[Snobs (film)|Snobs]]
* [[Edna Purviance]] – [[A Night Out (1915 film)|A Night Out (short)]] (uncredited)
* [[Esther Ralston]] – [[The Deep Purple (1915 film)|The Deep Purple]] (uncredited)
* [[Valeska Suratt]] – [[The Soul of Broadway]]
* [[Erich Von Stroheim]] – actor, assistant director, [[The Birth of a Nation]] (uncredited); costume designer, wardrobe assistant, [[Ghosts (1915 film)|Ghosts]]
* [[Charlotte Walker (actress)|Charlotte Walker]] – [[Kindling (1915 film)|Kindling]] 
* [[Fannie Ward]] – [[The Marriage of Kitty]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,short&release_date=1915-01-01,1915-12-31&adult=include&sort=num_votes,desc List of 1915 films] at [[IMDb]]
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=1915-01-01,1915-12-31&adult=include List of 1915 deaths] at [[IMDb]]
* [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1915-01-01,1915-12-31&adult=include List of 1915 births] at [[IMDb]]

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