1922 in film

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Events

• June 11 - United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
• November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1922

U.S.A. unless stated

• The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• A Bill of Divorcement directed by Denison Clift, starring Constance Binney, Fay Compton - (Britain)
• A Blind Bargain, directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney
• Beyond the Rocks, directed by Sam Wood; starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
• Blood and Sand, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, and Lila Lee
• The Burning Soil (Der brennende Acker) - (Germany)
• The Card directed by A.V. Bramble - (Britain)
• Clarence, starring Wallace Reid and directed by William C. deMille
• Cocaine, directed by Graham Cutts - (Britain)
• Cops, a Buster Keaton film
• Crainquebille (Coster Bill of Paris), directed by Jacques Feyder - (France)
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler), directed by Fritz Lang; starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge - (Germany)
• Dr. Jack, starring Harold Lloyd
• Fair Lady, directed by Kenneth Webb
• La Femme de nulle part, directed by Louis Delluc - (France)
• Flesh and Blood, starring Lon Chaney
• Foolish Wives, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim
• The Ghost Breaker, starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee; directed by Alfred E. Green
• Grandma's Boy, starring Harold Lloyd
• The Grass Orphan directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Margaret Bannerman, Reginald Owen - (Britain)
• Häxan, directed by Benjamin Christensen - (Sweden)
• Lorna Doone
• Manslaughter, starring Thomas Meighan
• Miss Lulu Bett, directed by William C. deMille - (film mentioned in article)
• Moran of the Lady Letty, directed by George Melford, starring Dorothy Dalton & Rudolph Valentino
• More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
• Mud and Sand, a parody of Blood and Sand, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Nanook of the North (documentary)
• Nice People, starring Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels directed by William C. deMille
• Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror), directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Max Schreck - (Germany)
• Number 13, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; starring Ernest Thesiger - (Britain)
• Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan
• One Exciting Night, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Carol Dempster & Henry Hull
• Pay Day
• Peg o' My Heart, directed by King Vidor
• Phantom, directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover and Lya De Putti - (Germany)
• The Primitive Lover, directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Constance Talmadge
• The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone
• Rent Free, starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee; directed by Howard Higgin
• Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan; starring Douglas Fairbanks
• Saturday Night, starring Leatrice Joy and Conrad Nagel
• Shadows directed by Tom Forman; starring Lon Chaney and Marguerite De La Motte
• Sherlock Holmes, Starring John Barrymore
• Smilin' Through, starring Norma Talmadge
• Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep directed by George Pearson and starring Betty Balfour - (Britain)
• Tess of the Storm Country, starring Mary Pickford
• The Three Must-Get-Theres (L'étroit mousquetaire), directed by and starring Max Linder - (France)
• The Timber Queen
• The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong
• Vaskresenja ne biva bez smrti, (There's no resurrection without death), the first Montenegrin movie
• What's Wrong with the Women? directed by Roy William Neill; starring Constance Bennett & Hedda Hopper
• When Knighthood Was in Flower starring Marion Davies - (film mentioned in article)
• White Eagle
• Wildness of Youth, directed by Ivan Abramson
• The Young Rajah, starring Rudolph Valentino

Short film series

• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)

Births

• January 7 - Vincent Gardenia, actor (died 1992)
• January 10 - Hannelore Schroth, actress (died 1987)
• January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, director (died 1970)
• January 17 - Betty White, actress
• January 19 - Guy Madison, actor (died 1996)
• January 21 - Paul Scofield, actor (died 2008)
• January 31 - Joanne Dru, actress (died 1996)
• February 6 - Patrick Macnee, actor
• February 7 - Hattie Jacques, actress (died 1980)
• February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, singer, actress(died 2010)
• February 26 - Margaret Leighton, actress (died 1976)
• March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director (died 1975)
• March 20 - Carl Reiner, actor, director
• March 21 - Russ Meyer, director, producer (died 2004)
• April 5 - Gale Storm, singer, actress (died 2009)
• April 27 - Jack Klugman, actor
• May 10 - Nancy Walker, actress (died 1992)
• May 27 - Christopher Lee, actor
• May 31 - Denholm Elliott, actor (died 1992)
• June 1 - Joan Caulfield, actress (died 1991)
• June 10 - Judy Garland, singer, actress (died 1969)
• June 26 - Eleanor Parker, actress
• July 26 - Blake Edwards, director (died 2010)
• August 8 - Rory Calhoun, actor (died 1999)
• August 8 - Esther Williams, swimmer, actress
• September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, actor, director (died 2000)
• September 1 - Yvonne De Carlo, actress (died 2007)
• September 14 - Michel Auclair, actor (died 1988)
• September 15 - Jackie Cooper, actor, director (died 2011)
• September 29 - Lizabeth Scott, actress
• October 31 - Barbara Bel Geddes, actress (died 2005)
• November 12 - Kim Hunter, actress (died 2002)
• November 14 - Veronica Lake, actress (died 1973)
• December 2 - Leo Gordon, actor and screenplay writer (died 2000)
• December 4 - Gérard Philipe, actor (died 1959)
• December 22 - Ruth Roman, actress (died 1999)
• December 24 - Ava Gardner, actress (died 1990)

Deaths

• February 4 - Florence Deshon, American actress
• February 22 - William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal.
• May 21 - Sidney Ainsworth, actor
• June 15 - Howard Crampton, actor
• July 5 - Bobby Connelly, child star
• June 6 - Lillian Russell, stage and screen actress
• September 23 - W. Chrystie Miller, veteran stage & screen actor
• November 30 - René Cresté, actor and director

Film Debuts

• Clara Bow
• Walt Disney - director, producer
• Louise Dresser
• Will Hay
• William Powell
• Darryl F. Zanuck - director, producer
• Rin Tin Tin

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