Editing 1972 in film

{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] -->
{{Year nav topic5|1972|film|radio|television|music}}
{{Yearsinfilm}} <!-- SIDEBAR NAV-BOX -->
The year '''1972 in film''' involved several significant events.
[[Universal Pictures]] and [[Paramount Pictures]] celebrated their 60th anniversaries and [[Motion Picture Association|Motion Picture Association of America]] clebrated their 50th anniversary.

==Highest-grossing films (U.S.)==
{{see also|List of 1972 box office number-one films in the United States}}
The top ten 1972 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
<!-- Note: We only link the studios ONCE and we only include ORIGINAL grosses, not lifetime grosses-->
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;"
|+ Highest-grossing films of 1972
|-
! Rank!! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 1
| ''[[The Godfather]]''
| [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]
| $86,300,000<ref name=Finler>{{cite book |last=Finler |first=Joel Waldo |year=2003 |title=The Hollywood Story |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-903364-66-6 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA358#v=twopage 358–359]}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 2
|''[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]''
| [[20th Century Fox]]
| $42,000,000<ref name=Finler/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 3
|''[[What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)|What's Up, Doc?]]''
| rowspan="3"| [[Warner Bros.]]
| $28,000,000<ref name=Finler/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 4
| ''[[Deliverance]]''
| $22,500,000<ref name=Finler/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 5
| ''[[Jeremiah Johnson (film)|Jeremiah Johnson]]''
| $21,900,000<ref name="1972DomesticRevenue">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080615024149/http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1972.shtml Top 20 Films of 1972 by Domestic Revenue]</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 6
|''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]''
| [[Monogram Pictures|Allied Artists]]
| $20,250,000<ref name="1972DomesticRevenue"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 7
| ''[[Deep Throat (film)|Deep Throat]]''
| [[Bryanston Distributing Company|Bryanston]]
| $20,000,000<ref name="1972DomesticRevenue"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 8
| ''[[The Getaway (1972 film)|The Getaway]]''
| [[National General Pictures|National General]]
| $18,000,000<ref name="1972DomesticRevenue"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 9
| ''[[Brother of the Wind]]''
| [[Sunn Classic Pictures|Sun International]]
| $12,000,000<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=All-Time Film Rental Champs|date=October 15, 1990|page=M148|first=Lawrence|last=Cohn}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 10
| ''[[Lady Sings the Blues (film)|Lady Sings the Blues]]''
| Paramount
| $9,666,000<ref name="1972DomesticRevenue"/>
|}

== Awards ==

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
|-
! rowspan="2" style="width:20px;"| Category/Organization !! colspan="2" style="width:250px;"| [[30th Golden Globe Awards]]<br>January 28, 1973 !! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| [[26th British Academy Film Awards|26th BAFTA Awards]]<br>February 28, 1973 !! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| [[45th Academy Awards]]<br>March 27, 1973
|-
! width=200| Drama !! style="width:200px;"| Musical or Comedy
|-
| Best Film || ''[[The Godfather]]'' || colspan="2" | ''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]'' || ''[[The Godfather]]''
|-
| Best Director || colspan="2" | [[Francis Ford Coppola]]<br>''[[The Godfather]]'' || colspan="2" | [[Bob Fosse]]<br>''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]''
|-
| Best Actor || [[Marlon Brando]]<br>''[[The Godfather]]'' || [[Jack Lemmon]]<br>''[[Avanti!]]'' || [[Gene Hackman]]<br>''[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]''<br>''[[The French Connection (film)|The French Connection]]'' || [[Marlon Brando]]<br>''[[The Godfather]]''
|-
| Best Actress || [[Liv Ullmann]]<br>''[[The Emigrants (film)|The Emigrants]]'' || colspan="3" | [[Liza Minnelli]]<br>''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]''
|-
| Best Supporting Actor || colspan="2" | [[Joel Grey]]<br>''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]'' || [[Ben Johnson (actor)|Ben Johnson]]<br>''[[The Last Picture Show]]'' || [[Joel Grey]]<br>''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]''
|-
| Best Supporting Actress || colspan="2" | [[Shelley Winters]]<br>''[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]'' || [[Cloris Leachman]]<br>''[[The Last Picture Show]]'' || [[Eileen Heckart]]<br>''[[Butterflies Are Free]]''
|-
| Best Screenplay, Adapted || colspan="2" rowspan="2" | [[Francis Ford Coppola]] and [[Mario Puzo]]<br>''[[The Godfather]]'' || rowspan="2" | [[Paddy Chayefsky]]<br>''[[The Hospital]]''<br>[[Peter Bogdanovich]] and [[Larry McMurtry]]<br>''[[The Last Picture Show]]'' || [[Francis Ford Coppola]] and [[Mario Puzo]]<br>''[[The Godfather]]''
|-
| Best Screenplay, Original || [[Jeremy Larner]]<br>''[[The Candidate (1972 film)|The Candidate]]''
|-
| Best Original Score || colspan="3" | [[Nino Rota]]<br>''[[The Godfather]]'' || [[Charlie Chaplin]], [[Raymond Rasch]] and Larry Russell<br>''[[Limelight (1952 film)|Limelight]]''<br>[[Ralph Burns]]<br>''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]''
|-
| Best Original Song || colspan="2" | "[[Ben (song)|Ben]]"<br>''[[Ben (1972 film)|Ben]]'' || N/A || "[[The Morning After (Maureen McGovern song)|The Morning After]]"<br>''[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]''
|-
| Best Foreign Language Film || colspan="2" | ''[[The Emigrants (film)|The Emigrants]]''<br>''[[The New Land (1972 film)|The New Land]]'' || N/A || ''[[The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie]]''
|}

'''[[Palme d'Or]] (Cannes Film Festival):'''
:'''''[[The Working Class Goes to Heaven]]''''' (''La classe operaia va in paradiso''), directed by [[Elio Petri]], Italy
:'''''[[The Mattei Affair]]''''' (''Il Caso Mattei''), directed by [[Francesco Rosi]], Italy

'''[[Berlin Film Festival|Golden Bear]] (Berlin Film Festival):'''
:'''''[[The Canterbury Tales (film)|The Canterbury Tales]]''''' (''I Racconti di Canterbury''), directed by [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]], Italy / France

== 1972 films ==
=== By country/region ===
* [[List of American films of 1972]]
* [[List of Argentine films of 1972]]
* [[List of Australian films of 1972]]
* [[List of Bangladeshi films of 1972]]
* [[List of British films of 1972]]
* [[List of Canadian films of 1972]]
* [[List of French films of 1972]]
* [[List of Hong Kong films of 1972]]
* List of Indian films of 1972
** [[List of Hindi films of 1972]]
** [[List of Kannada films of 1972]]
** [[List of Malayalam films of 1972]]
** [[List of Marathi films of 1972]]
** [[List of Tamil films of 1972]]
** [[List of Telugu films of 1972]]
**
*
* [[List of Italian films of 1972]]
* [[List of Japanese films of 1972]]
* [[List of Mexican films of 1972]]
* [[List of Pakistani films of 1972]]
* [[List of South Korean films of 1972]]
* [[List of Soviet films of 1972]]
* [[List of Spanish films of 1972]]

===By genre/medium===
* [[List of action films of the 1970s#1972|List of action films of 1972]]
* [[List of animated feature films of 1972]]
* [[List of avant-garde films of the 1970s|List of avant-garde films of 1972]]
* [[List of comedy films of the 1970s#1972|List of comedy films of 1972]]
* [[List of drama films of the 1970s#1972|List of drama films of 1972]]
* [[List of horror films of 1972]]
* [[List of science fiction films of the 1970s#1972fc|List of science fiction films of 1972]]
* [[List of thriller films of the 1970s#1972|List of thriller films of 1972]]
* [[List of Western films of the 1970s|List of western films of 1972]]

==Births==
*January 5 - [[Luciana Pedraza]], Argentine actress and director
*January 9 – [[Deon Cole]], American actor
*January 11
**[[Marc Blucas]], American actor
**[[Konstantin Khabensky]], Russian actor and director
**[[Amanda Peet]], American actress
*January 12 - [[Zabryna Guevara]], American actress
*January 15 – [[Kobe Tai]], Taiwanese-American actress
*January 16 - [[Richard T. Jones]], American actor
*January 20 - [[Adrian Martinez (actor)|Adrian Martinez]], American actor and comedian
*January 22 - [[Romi Park]], Japanese actress and singer
*January 23 - 
** [[Léa Drucker]], French actress 
** [[Ewen Bremner]], Scottish character actor
*January 26 - [[Cyia Batten]], American dancer, model and actress
*January 28
**[[Peter McDonald (actor)|Peter McDonald]], Irish actor and director
**[[Gillian Vigman]], American actress, comedian and screenwriter
*February 1 - [[Tego Calderón]], Puerto Rican rapper, singer and actor
*February 7 - [[Robyn Lively]], American actress
*February 8 - [[Guillaume Gallienne]], French actor, screenwriter and director
*February 9 – [[Crispin Freeman]], American voice actor
*February 16 - [[Sarah Clarke]], American actress
*February 20 – [[Gareth Unwin]], English producer<ref>[http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.html 83rd Academy Awards Official Website.]</ref>
*February 24 - [[James Bachman]], English comedian, actor and writer
*February 26
**[[Keith Ferguson (voice actor)|Keith Ferguson]], American voice actor
**[[Maz Jobrani]], American comedian and actor
*February 27 - [[Richard Coyle]], English actor
*February 28 - [[Rory Cochrane]], American actor
*March 4 – [[Garth Jennings]], English film director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer
*March 8 - [[Matt Nable]], Australian actor and writer
*March 9
**[[Jean Louisa Kelly]], American actress and singer
**[[Kerr Smith]], American actor
*March 13 – [[Common (rapper)|Common]], American actor and singer
*March 16 - [[Nicolas Bro]], Danish actor
*March 18 – [[Dane Cook]], American comedian
*March 23 – [[Judith Godrèche]], French actress
*March 24
**[[Charlie Creed-Miles]], English actor and musician
**[[Tony Leondis]], Greek-American animator, filmmaker and voice actor
*March 26 – [[Leslie Mann]], American actress
*March 28
**[[Nick Frost]], English actor, comedian, writer and producer
**[[David Vadim]], Ukrainian-born American actor
**[[Ledisi]], American singer-songwriter and actress
*March 29 - [[Sam Hazeldine]], English actor
*March 31 – [[Alejandro Amenábar]], Spanish director, writer and soundtrack composer
*April 3 - [[Catherine McCormack]], English actress
*April 5 - [[Junko Takeuchi]], Japanese actress and voice actress
*April 6 - [[Jason Hervey]], American actor and producer
*April 8 - [[Sung Kang]], American actor
*April 10 - [[Vincent Zhao]], Chinese actor and martial artist
*April 15 - [[Lou Romano]], American animator and voice actor
*April 17 – [[Jennifer Garner]], American actress
*April 18 - [[Eli Roth]], American director, screenwriter, producer and actor
*April 20 - [[Carmen Electra]], American actress, singer and model
*April 26 - [[Bronagh Gallagher]], Irish actress and singer
*April 28 - [[Gabriel Casseus]], American actor and screenwriter
*April 29 – [[Derek Mears]], American actor and stuntman
*May 2 – [[Dwayne Johnson]], American actor
*May 4 - [[John Rawls (actor)|John Rawls]], New Zealand actor
*May 7 - [[Jennifer Yuh Nelson]], South Korean-born American story artist and director
*May 10 - [[Cary Guffey]], American former child actor
*May 12
**[[Christian Campbell]], Canadian actor
**[[Rhea Seehorn]], American actress and director
*May 14 - [[Gabriel Mann]], American actor and model
*May 16 - [[Khary Payton]], American actor
*May 20 - [[Busta Rhymes]], American rapper and actor
*May 22 - [[Max Brooks]], American actor
*May 25 - [[Karan Johar]], Indian director
*May 26 - [[Selenis Leyva]], American actress
*May 28
**[[Kate Ashfield]], English actress
**[[Chiara Mastroianni]], French actress
**[[Roland Møller]], Danish actor
*May 29 - [[Laverne Cox]], American actress
*May 30 - [[Joachim Rønning]], Norwegian director
*May 31 - [[Archie Panjabi]], British actress
*June 2
**[[Wayne Brady]], American actor, comedian, producer and game show host
**[[Wentworth Miller]], American-British actor and screenwriter
*June 7 – [[Karl Urban]], New Zealand actor
*June 16 - [[John Cho]], American actor
*June 19 
**[[Jean Dujardin]], French actor
**[[Robin Tunney]], American actress
*June 23 – [[Selma Blair]], American actress
*June 28
**[[Brendan Hunt]], American actor and writer
**[[Alessandro Nivola]], American actor
*July 3 - [[Matt Schulze]], American actor and musician
*July 5 – [[Gilles Lellouche]], French actor and director
*July 7 - [[Heather Kafka]], American actress
*July 10
**[[Christoph Hochhäusler]], German film director and screenwriter
**[[Peter Serafinowicz]], English actor, comedian, director and screenwriter
**[[Sofia Vergara]], Colombian American actress, television producer, presenter and model
**[[John Viener]], American actor, voice actor, writer and comedian
*July 11 - [[Michael Rosenbaum]], American actor, director, producer, singer and comedian
*July 12 – [[Nenad Jezdić]], Serbian actor
*July 15 – [[Scott Foley]], American actor, director and screenwriter
*July 23 - [[Marlon Wayans]], American actor, comedian, writer and producer
*July 27 – [[Maya Rudolph]], American actress and comedian
*July 28
**[[Elizabeth Berkley]], American actress
**[[Evan Farmer]], American actor and musician
*July 29
**[[Ato Essandoh]], American actor
**[[Wil Wheaton]], American actor
*August 1
**[[Guri Weinberg]], Israeli-American actor and writer
**[[Charles Malik Whitfield]], American actor
*August 2 - [[Jacinda Barrett]], Australian-American actress
*August 5
**[[Darren Shahlavi]], English actor, martial artist and stuntman (d. 2015)
**[[Reika Kirishima]], Japanese actress
*August 7
**[[Dan Payne]], Canadian actor
**[[Greg Serano]], American actor
*August 10 - [[Angie Harmon]], American actress
*August 13 - [[Michael Sinterniklaas]], French voice actor
*August 15 – [[Ben Affleck]], American actor, director and writer
*August 24 - [[Ava DuVernay]], American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
*August 25 - [[Joe Wright]], English director
*August 30 – [[Cameron Diaz]], American actress
*September 4
**[[Carlos Ponce]], Puerto Rican actor, musician, model and television personality
**[[Françoise Yip]], Canadian actress
*September 6
**[[Dylan Bruno]], American actor
**[[Idris Elba]], English actor
**[[Mait Malmsten]], Estonian actor
**[[Anika Noni Rose]], American actress and singer
*September 7 – [[Matthew Sleeth (visual artist)|Matthew Sleeth]], Australian director
*September 8 
**[[Giovanni Frezza]], Italian child actor
**[[Tomokazu Seki]], Japanese voice actor
*September 9 – [[Goran Visnjic]], Croatian-American actor
*September 15 - [[John Schwab]], American actor
*September 16
**[[Mike Doyle (actor)|Mike Doyle]], American actor
**[[Alex Rice]], Aboriginal-Canadian actress
*September 21
**[[Kevin Downes]], American actor, writer, producer and director
**[[Erin Fitzgerald]], Canadian voice actress
*September 24
**[[Kate Fleetwood]], English actress
**[[Finty Williams]], English actress
*September 26 - [[Melanie Paxson]], American actress
*September 27 – [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], American actress
*October 5 - [[Tom Hooper]], British-Australian filmmaker
*October 8
**[[Enrique Arce]], Spanish actor
**[[Tricia Vessey]], American actress, writer and producer
*October 9 - [[Cocoa Brown]], American actress, writer and comedian
*October 11 - [[Claudia Black]], Australian actress
*October 12 - [[Sönke Möhring]], German actor
*October 15 - [[Matt Keeslar]], American former actor
*October 17 – [[Eminem]], American rapper and actor
*October 18 - [[Christopher Knights]], English voice actor, editor and cinematographer
*October 20 - [[Thor Freudenthal]], German director, screenwriter, animator and special effects artist
*October 21 - [[Masakazu Morita]], Japanese actor, voice actor and singer
*October 22 – [[Saffron Burrows]], English-American actress
*October 23 - [[Kate del Castillo]], Mexican-American actress
*October 29 - [[Gabrielle Union]], American actress, voice artist, activist and author
*October 30
**[[David Wilson Barnes]], American actor
**[[Jessica Hynes]], English actress, director and writer
**[[Steve Monroe]], American actor and stand-up comedian
*October 31 - [[Assaf Cohen]], American actor
*November 1
**[[Toni Collette]], Australian actress, producer and singer-songwriter
**[[Jenny McCarthy]], American actress
*November 2 - [[Steve Edge]], English actor, writer and former comedian
*November 6 
**[[Thandiwe Newton]], English actress
**[[Rebecca Romijn]], American actress
*November 7
**[[Christopher Daniel Barnes]], American actor and writer
**[[Jeremy London|Jeremy]] and [[Jason London]], American actors
*November 8
**[[Gretchen Mol]], American actress
**[[Jason Matthew Smith]], American actor
*November 9 - [[Eric Dane]], American actor
*November 10 - [[Trevor Devall]], Canadian voice actor and podcaster
*November 11
**[[Adam Beach]], Canadian actor
**[[Tyler Christopher (actor)|Tyler Christopher]], American actor (d. 2023)
*November 13 - [[Takuya Kimura]], Japanese actor, singer and radio personality
*November 14 – [[Josh Duhamel]], American actor
*November 15 – [[Jonny Lee Miller]], English actor
*November 16
**[[Mohammad Rasoulof]], Iranian independent filmmaker
**[[Michael Irby]], American actor
*November 19
**[[Nicole Forester]], American actress
**[[Sandrine Holt]], British-born Canadian actress
*November 21 - [[Rain Phoenix]], American actress, musician and singer
*November 26 – [[Arjun Rampal]], Indian actor
*November 28 - [[Michael Blackson]], Ghanian actor and comedian
*November 29 - [[Brian Baumgartner]], American actor
*December 2 - [[Trond Fausa Aurvåg]], Norwegian actor and director
*December 4 - [[Yūko Miyamura]], Japanese actress and voice actress
*December 7 – [[Jennifer Syme]], American entertainment industry employee (d. 2001)
*December 9 - [[Reiko Aylesworth]], American actress
*December 14
**[[Jason Barry]], Irish actor
**[[Miranda Hart]], English actress, comedian and writer
*December 15 – [[Stuart Townsend]], Irish actor
*December 16 - [[Lisa Spoonauer]], American former character actress (d. 2017)
*December 18 - [[Jason Mantzoukas]], American character actor, comedian, writer and podcaster.
*December 19 – [[Alyssa Milano]], American actress
*December 20 - [[Marc Silk]], English voice actor
*December 22 - [[Poorna Jagannathan]], American producer and actress
*December 23 – [[Christian Potenza]], Canadian actor and voice actor
*December 24 – [[Carmen Moore]], Canadian actress
*December 25 - [[Patrick Brennan (actor)|Patrick Brennan]], American actor
*December 26 – [[Shane Meadows]], English independent film director
*December 27
**[[Brandon Auret]], South African actor
**[[Thomas Wilson Brown]], American actor
*December 29
**[[Jude Law]], English actor
**[[Leonor Varela]], Chilean actress

==Deaths==
{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" border="0"
|- style="background:#dae3e7; text-align:center;"
| '''Month''' || '''Date''' || '''Name''' || '''Age''' || '''Country''' || '''Profession''' || '''Notable films'''
|- valign="top"
| rowspan=9 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''January'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Maurice Chevalier]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Singer || {{hlist|''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]''|''[[Can-Can (film)|Can-Can]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Wesley Ruggles]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Producer || {{hlist|''[[I'm No Angel]]''|''[[Arizona (1940 film)|Arizona]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Rochelle Hudson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 55 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''|''[[Les Miserables (1935 film)|Les Miserables]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[George Mitchell (actor)|George Mitchell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Andromeda Strain (film)|The Andromeda Strain]]''|''[[Kid Galahad]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Richard Fraser (actor)|Richard Fraser]] || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| Scotland || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film)|The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' || ''[[The Fatal Witness]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Alec Coppel]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| Australia || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Captain's Paradise]]''| ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Jerome Cowan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)|The Maltese Falcon]]''|''[[Miracle on 34th Street]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Herbert Hübner]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Storm in a Water Glass (1931 film)|Storm in a Water Glass]]''|''[[Robert and Bertram (1939 film)|Robert and Bertram]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Hugh McDermott (actor)|Hugh McDermott]] || style="text-align:center;"| 65 || style="text-align:center;"| Scotland || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[David Livingstone (film)|David Livingstone]]''|''[[Devil Girl from Mars]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''February'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Jessie Royce Landis]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[North by Northwest]]''|''[[To Catch a Thief]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Walter Lang]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[The King and I (1956 film)|The King and I]]''|''[[The Little Princess (1939 film)|The Little Princess]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[John Grierson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| Scotland || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Producer || {{hlist|''[[The Song of Ceylon]]''|''[[The Brave Don't Cry]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Walter Winchell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Commentator || {{hlist|''[[Wake Up and Live]]''| ''[[Love and Hisses]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Bronislava Nijinska]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| Poland || style="text-align:center;"| Choreographer || {{hlist|''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''March'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Harold Young (director)|Harold Young]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Editor || {{hlist|''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]''| ''[[The Mummy's Tomb]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Albert Mannheimer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Born Yesterday (1950 film)|Born Yesterday]]''|''[[Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952 film)|Bloodhounds of Broadway]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Marilyn Maxwell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Champion (1949 film)|Champion]]''|''[[The Lemon Drop Kid]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[J. Arthur Rank]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Executive || {{hlist|''[[So Well Remembered]]''|''[[Quartet (1948 film)|Quartet]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Hal Roach Jr.]] || style="text-align:center;"| 53 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Producer || {{hlist|''[[One Million B.C.]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Peter Whitney]] || style="text-align:center;"| 55 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Big Heat]]''|''[[In the Heat of the Night (film)|In the Heat of the Night]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=10 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''April'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Brian Donlevy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| Ireland || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Kiss of Death (1947 film)|Kiss of Death]]''|''[[Wake Island (film)|Wake Island]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Isabel Jewell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''|''[[Lost Horizon (1937 film)|Lost Horizon]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Betty Blythe]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Queen of Sheba (1921 film)|The Queen of Sheba]]''| ''[[She (1925 film)|She]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Dorothy Dalton]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Behind Masks]]''| ''[[The Woman Who Walked Alone]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Jorge Mistral]] || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| Spain || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Andalusia Express]]''|''[[The White Sister (1960 film)|The White Sister]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[George Sanders]] || style="text-align:center;"| 65 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[All About Eve]]''|''[[Rebecca (1940 film)|Rebecca]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Alfred J. Goulding]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| Australia || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Step Lively (1917 film)|Step Lively]]''|''[[A Chump at Oxford]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Bobby Howes]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Producer, Director || {{hlist|''[[Sweet Devil]]''| ''[[Yes, Madam?]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Harry Joe Brown]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer, Director || {{hlist|''[[Captain Blood (1935 film)|Captain Blood]]''| ''[[Knickerbocker Holiday (film)|Knickerbocker Holiday]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Gia Scala]] || style="text-align:center;"| 38 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]''|''[[Don't Go Near the Water (film)|Don't Go Near the Water]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=12 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''May'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Bruce Cabot]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[King Kong (1933 film)|King Kong]]''|''[[Diamonds Are Forever (film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 4 || [[Elsa Ratassepp]] ||  style="text-align:center;"|79 ||style="text-align:center;"| Estonia || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || ''[[Libahunt]]''||
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Frank Tashlin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Son of Paleface]]''|''[[Artists and Models]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Henri Diamant-Berger]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Director, producer, screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Les Trois Mousquetaires]]''|''[[Monsieur Fabre]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Steve Ihnat]] || style="text-align:center;"| 37 || style="tech-align:center;"| Czechoslovakia || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Madigan]]''| ''[[Zig Zag (1970 film)|Zig Zag]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Dan Blocker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 43 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Lady in Cement]]''|''[[Come Blow Your Horn (film)|Come Blow Your Horn]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Nigel Green]] || style="text-align:center;"| 47 || style="text-align:center;"| South Africa || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Ipcress File (film)|The Ipcress File]]''|''[[Zulu (1964 film)|Zulu]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Sidney Franklin (director)|Sidney Franklin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Producer || {{hlist|''[[Duel in the Sun (film)|Duel in the Sun]]''|''[[The Good Earth (film)|The Good Earth]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Margaret Rutherford]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The V.I.P.s (film)|The V.I.P.s]]''|''[[Murder, She Said]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Richard Day (art director)|Richard Day]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Art director || {{hlist|''[[How Green Was My Valley (film)|How Green Was My Valley]]''| ''[[On the Waterfront]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Asta Nielsen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"| Denmark || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance]]''| ''[[Impossible Love (film)|Impossible Love]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Charles C. Coleman (director)|Charles C. Coleman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Homicide Bureau]]''| ''[[The Shadow (1937 film)|The Shadow]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''June'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Jean Brochard]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Law Is the Law]]''|''[[Les Diaboliques (film)|Les Diaboliques]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Gale Henry]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Two-Time Mama]]''|''[[Darkened Rooms]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Sidney Lanfield]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]''| ''[[The Lemon Drop Kid]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Paul Czinner]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| Hungary || style="text-align:center;"| Director, screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Dreaming Lips (1932 film)|Dreaming Lips]]''| ''[[Ariane, jeune fille russe (film)|Ariane, jeune fille russe]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Nicholas Hannen (actor)|Nicholas Hannen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[The Dictator (1935 film)|The Dictator]]''| ''[[Richard III (1955 film)|Richard III]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Thomy Bourdelle]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Return of Don Camillo]]''|''[[The Call of Silence]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''July'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Hal Walker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Sailor Beware (1952 film)|Sailor Beware]]''|''[[At War with the Army]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Brandon deWilde]] || style="text-align:center;"| 30 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Shane (film)|Shane]]''|''[[Hud (1963 film)|Hud]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Emrys Jones (actor)|Emrys Jones]] || style="text-align:center;"| 56 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[One of Our Aircraft Is Missing]]''| ''[[The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947 film)|Nicholas Nickleby]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Harmon Jones]] || style="text-align:center;"| 61 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Pride of St. Louis]]''| ''[[The Kid from Left Field (1953 film)|The Kid from Left Field]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Sally Benson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Shadow of a Doubt]]''| ''[[Viva Las Vegas]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Helen Traubel]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, Singer || {{hlist|''[[Deep in My Heart (1954 film)|Deep in My Heart]]''|''[[The Ladies Man]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''August'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Joi Lansing]] || style="text-align:center;"| 43 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Touch of Evil]]''|''[[A Hole in the Head]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Tom Neal]] || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Jungle Girl (serial)|Jungle Girl]]''|''[[Detour (1945 film)|Detour]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Oscar Levant]] || style="text-align:center;"| 65 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[An American in Paris (film)|An American in Paris]]''|''[[The Band Wagon]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Pierre Brasseur]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Les Enfants du Paradis]]''|''[[Eyes Without a Face (film)|Eyes Without a Face]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Roger K. Furse|Roger Furse]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Costume and production designer || {{hlist|''[[Henry V (1944 film)|Henry V]]''|''[[Hamlet (1948 film)|Hamlet]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[D. Ross Lederman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Key Witness (1947 film)|Key Witness]]''| ''[[The Body Disappears]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Gaby André]] || style="text-align:center;"| 52 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Verdi, the King of Melody]]''| ''[[Highway 301 (film)|Highway 301]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''September'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Max Fleischer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Animator, Director, Producer || {{hlist|''[[Popeye the Sailor (film)|Popeye the Sailor]]''|''[[Betty Boop for President]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[William Boyd (actor)|William Boyd]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Hop-Along Cassidy]]''|''[[The Volga Boatman (1926 film)|The Volga Boatman]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Lane Chandler]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Open Range (1927 film)|Open Range]]''|''[[The Cheyenne Cyclone]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Akim Tamiroff]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| Russia || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Touch of Evil]]''|''[[Ocean's 11]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Max Nosseck]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Black Beauty (1946 film)|Black Beauty]]''| ''[[Dillinger (1945 film)|Dillinger]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Edward Sloman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Gun Smoke (1931 film)|Gun Smoke]]''|''[[The Lost Zeppelin]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Edgar G. Ulmer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| Austria || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[The Black Cat (1934 film)|The Black Cat]]''|''[[Detour (1945 film)|Detour]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''October'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Colin Gordon]] || style="text-align:center;"| 61 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Pink Panther (1963 film)|The Pink Panther]]''|''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Miriam Hopkins]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Trouble in Paradise (1932 film)|Trouble in Paradise]]''|''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)|Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Leo G. Carroll]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[North by Northwest]]''|''[[Strangers on a Train (film)|Strangers on a Train]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Jack Melford]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)|A Shot in the Dark]]''|''[[Lust for a Vampire]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Claire Windsor]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Blot]]''|''[[Captain Lash]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Mitchell Leisen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Midnight (1939 film)|Midnight]]''| ''[[Kitty (1945 film)|Kitty]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''November'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Reginald Owen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''|''[[A Christmas Carol (1938 film)|A Christmas Carol]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Tod Andrews]] || style="text-align:center;"| 57 || style="text-align:center;"| Russia || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[From Hell It Came]]''|''[[Beneath the Planet of the Apes]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Francis Chagrin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| Romania || style="text-align:center;"| Composer || {{hlist|''[[The Intruder (1953 film)|The Intruder]]''|''[[The Colditz Story]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Vera Karalli]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| Russia || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[A Woman's Revenge (1921 film)|A Woman's Revenge]]''|''[[The King of Paris (1917 film)|The King of Paris]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Marie Wilson (American actress)|Marie Wilson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 56 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation]]''|''[[My Friend Irma (film)|My Friend Irma]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Eve Southern]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Clothes Make the Woman]]''|''[[Morocco (film)]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[William P. S. Earle]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[The Way of a Maid]]''|''[[Love's Masquerade (1922 film)|Love's Masquerade]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''December'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Janet Munro]] || style="text-align:center;"| 38 || style="text-align:center;"| England || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)|Swiss Family Robinson]]''|''[[Darby O'Gill and the Little People]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[William Dieterle]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[The Life of Emile Zola]]''|''[[The Story of Louis Pasteur]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Louella Parsons]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Columnist, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Hollywood Hotel (film)|Hollywood Hotel]]''|''[[Starlift]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Edward Earle]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Law of the Yukon]]''| ''[[Spite Marriage]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Jacques Deval]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Women's Club (1956 film)|Women's Club]]''|''[[Tovaritch (film)|Tovaritch]]''}}
|-
|}

== Film debuts ==
{{Column list|
*[[Anne Archer]] – ''[[The Honkers]]''
*[[William Atherton]] – ''[[The New Centurions]]''
*[[Margaret Avery]] – ''[[Cool Breeze (film)|Cool Breeze]]''
*[[Elya Baskin]] – ''Telegramma''
*[[Emmanuelle Béart]] – ''[[And Hope to Die]]''
*[[Ned Beatty]] – ''[[Deliverance]]''
*[[Susan Blakely]] – ''[[Savages (1972 film)|Savages]]''
*[[Klaus Maria Brandauer]] – ''[[The Salzburg Connection]]'' 
*[[Jerry Bruckheimer]] (producer) – ''[[The Culpepper Cattle Co.]]''
*[[Robert Carradine]] – ''[[The Cowboys]]''
*[[Dominic Chianese]] – ''[[Fuzz (film)|Fuzz]]''
*[[Candy Clark]] – ''[[Fat City (film)|Fat City]]''
*[[Allan Corduner]] – ''[[Savage Messiah (1972 film)|Savage Messiah]]''
*[[Ronny Cox]] – ''Deliverance''
*[[Blythe Danner]] – ''To Kill a Clown''
*[[Brian Doyle-Murray]] – ''Fuzz''
*[[Art Evans (actor)|Art Evans]] – ''[[Sisters (1972 film)|Sisters]]''
*[[Peter Firth]] – ''[[Brother Sun, Sister Moon]]''
*[[Jodie Foster]] – ''[[Napoleon and Samantha]]''
*[[Jackie Earle Haley]] – ''[[The Outside Man]]''
*[[Bob Hoskins]] – ''[[Up the Front]]''
*[[Isabelle Huppert]] –  ''[[Faustine et le Bel Été]]''
*[[Samuel L. Jackson]] – ''[[Together for Days]]''
*[[Madeline Kahn]] – ''[[What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)|What's Up, Doc?]]''
*[[Patsy Kensit]] – ''[[For the Love of Ada (film)|For the Love of Ada]]''
*[[Ben Kingsley]] – ''[[Fear Is the Key (film)|Fear Is the Key]]''
*[[Ed Lauter]] – ''[[Dirty Little Billy]]''
*[[John Lithgow]] – ''[[Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (film)|Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues]]''
*[[David Margulies]] – ''Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers''
*[[Steve Martin]] – ''[[Another Nice Mess]]''
*[[Frank McRae]] – ''Cool Breeze''
*[[Nick Nolte]] – ''Dirty Little Billy''
*[[Michele Placido]] – ''[[Il caso Pisciotta]]''
*[[Jürgen Prochnow]] – ''Zoff''
*[[Kathleen Quinlan]] – ''[[One Is a Lonely Number]]''
*[[Steve Railsback]] – ''[[The Visitors (1972 film)|The Visitors]]''
*[[Alan Silvestri]] (film composer) – ''[[The Doberman Gang]]''
*[[Frank Sivero]] – ''[[The Godfather]]''
*[[Stellan Skarsgård]] – ''Strandhugg i somras''
*[[Charles Martin Smith]] – ''The Culpepper Cattle Co.''
*[[Kemal Sunal]] – ''Sweet Talker''
*[[Jeffrey Tambor]] – ''[[The Summertime Killer]]''
*[[Lily Tomlin]] – ''Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers''
*[[James Woods]] – ''The Visitors''
*[[George Wyner]] – ''[[Lady Sings the Blues (film)|Lady Sings the Blues]]''
}}

== See also ==
* [[List of Hong Kong films of 1972]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,short&release_date=1972-01-01,1972-12-31&adult=include&sort=num_votes,desc List of 1972 films] at [[IMDb]]
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=1972-01-01,1972-12-31&adult=include List of 1972 deaths] at [[IMDb]]
* [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1972-01-01,1972-12-31&adult=include List of 1972 births] at [[IMDb]]

{{1972 films}}
{{Portal bar|Film}}

[[Category:1972 in film| ]]
[[Category:Film by year]]