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The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
• September 2 - Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace begins and will continue for another 6 years.
• October 5 - Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the second longest-running motion picture franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), running more than 40 years.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker

Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth

Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker

Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture (tie): That Touch of Mink

Best Picture (tie): The Music Man

Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy

Other

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy

My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

Films released in 1962

U.S.A. unless stated

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• The 300 Spartans

A

• Advise and Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
• All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
• The Amphibian Man - (U.S.S.R.)
• Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) - (Spain)
• An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujiro Ozu - (Japan)

B

• Baat Ek Raat Ki, starring Dev Anand - (India)
• Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong)
• Billy Budd, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov with Terence Stamp - (U.K.)
• Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day
• Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster
• Boccaccio '70, directed by Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren - (Italy)
• Bon Voyage!
• The Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie - (U.K.)
• Boys' Night Out, starring Kim Novak and James Garner

C

• Os Cafajestes - (Brazil)
• Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
• Carnival of Souls
• Carry On Cruising - (U.K.)
• Cleo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnès Varda - (France)
• The Counterfeit Traitor, starring William Holden

D

• David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
• The Day of the Triffids - (U.K.)
• Days of Wine and Roses, starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick
• Le Doulos (The Finger Man), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
• Dr. No. The first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress - (U.K.)

E

• The Easy Life (Il sorpasso), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant - (Italy)
• Eclipse (L'Eclisse), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti - (Italy/France)
• Elektra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Pappas - (Greece)
• Experiment in Terror, starring Glenn Ford and Lee Remick
• The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)

F

• Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• Follow That Dream, starring Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell and Joanna Moore
• The Four Days of Naples (Le Quattro giornate di Napoli) - (Italy)
• Freud, starring Montgomery Clift

G

• Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
• Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
• Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
• Gorath - (Japan)
• The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - (Italy)
• Gypsy, starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood
• Guns of Darkness directed by Anthony Asquith (U.K.)

H

• Half Ticket - (India)
• Harakiri (Seppuku) - (Japan)
• Hatari!, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons and Elsa Martinelli
• Hell is for Heroes, starring Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin
• How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard and more
• Hussar of the Dead (El Húsar de la Muerte), (Restored, originally released in 1925) - (Chile)

I

• In Search of the Castaways
• The Intruder, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner
• It Happened In Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield
• It's Only Money, starring Jerry Lewis

J

• Jigsaw - (U.K.)
• Jules et Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner - (France)

K

• Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young and Charles Bronson
• A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates - (U.K.)
• King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie), directed by Roman Polanski - (Poland)

L

• The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell - (U.K.)
• Last Year at Marienbad (U.S. release)
• Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif - (U.K./U.S.)
• Lisa - (U.S./U.K.)
• Life for Ruth - (U.K.)
• Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay - (U.K.)
• Lonely are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas
• Long Day's Journey into Night, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Katharine Hepburn
• The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery and more
• Love at Twenty, a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophuls - (International)
• Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
• Lycanthropus - (Italy/Austria)

M

• Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)
• Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and James Stewart
• The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
• Merrill's Marauders, directed by Samuel Fuller
• The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, (on NBC-TV)
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
• The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Ron Howard
• Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
• My Geisha, starring Shirley MacLaine
• My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
• My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)

O

• On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom - (U.K.)

P

• O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte - (Brazil)
• Panic in Year Zero!
• Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, Lois Nettleton
• Phaedra - (Greece)
• The Phantom of the Opera - (U.K.)
• The Pigeon That Took Rome, starring Charlton Heston
• Pitfall (Otoshiana) - (Japan)
• Premature Burial, directed by Roger Corman
• Pressure Point, starring Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin
• Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor - (India)

R

• Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Anthony Quinn and Jackie Gleason
• Ride the High Country (a.k.a. Guns in the Afternoon), directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott

S

• Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt - (India)
• Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi - (Italy)
• Sanjuru (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
• Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro - (Mexico)
• Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
• State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Tom Ewell, Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray) - (France)
• Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
• A Symposium on Popular Songs

T

• The Tale of Zatoichi, directed by Kenji Misumi - (Japan)
• Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
• Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
• Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret - (U.K.)
• That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
• To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• The Trial (Le Procès), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau - (France/Italy/West Germany)
• The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• Tudor - (Romania)
• Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
• Two Half Times in Hell (Két félidő a pokolban), directed by Zoltán Fábri - (Hungary)

V

• The Vanishing Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur - (France)
• A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
• Village of Daughters - (U.K.)

W

• Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
• War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) - (France)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
• Who's Got the Action? starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner
• Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Short film series

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

Births

• January 5 - Suzy Amis, actress
• January 17 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
• February 5 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
• February 17 - Lou Diamond Phillips, actor
• February 27 - Adam Baldwin, actor
• March 18 - Thomas Ian Griffith, actor
• March 20 - Stephen Sommers, director
• March 21 - Matthew Broderick, actor
• May 12 - Emilio Estevez, actor
• June 13 - Ally Sheedy, actress
• June 27 - Tony Leung, actor
• July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
• July 19 - Anthony Edwards, actor
• August 13 - John Slattery, actor
• August 16 - Steve Carell, actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
• September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
  • Kristy McNichol, actress
• September 17 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
• October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
• October 11 - Joan Cusack, actress, sister of actor John Cusack
• October 12 - Deborah Foreman, actress
• October 13 - Kelly Preston, actress
• October 26 - Cary Elwes, actor
• November 11 - Demi Moore, actress
• November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director
• December 22 - Ralph Fiennes, English actor

Deaths

• January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor
• April 10 - Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director
• April 17 - Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress
• May 14 - Florence Auer, 82, American actress
• June 19 - Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor
• June 24 - Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress
• July 2 - Valeska Suratt, 80, stage & silent screen actress
• August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress
• August 23 - Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor
• October 6 - Tod Browning, 82, American director
• October 26 - Louise Beavers, 60, American actress
• December 15 - Charles Laughton, 63, British actor
• December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress

Film debuts

• Nancy Allen
• Bernardo Bertolucci - director
• Jackie Chan
• Julie Christie
• Robert Duvall
• Sally Field
• John Hurt
• Ian McShane
• Sarah Miles
• Sydney Pollack
• John Schlesinger - director
• Tom Skerritt
• Terence Stamp

References