1968 in film Events
June 12 – Roman Polanski 's controversial horror film Rosemary's Baby
October – Popular manga series Golgo 13
November 1 – The MPAA 's film rating system is introduced. The top ten 1968 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1968
Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals
1
Funny Girl Columbia $24,900,000
2
2001: A Space Odyssey MGM $21,500,000
3
The Odd Couple Paramount $20,000,000
4
Bullitt Warner Bros. $19,000,000
5
Oliver! Columbia
$16,800,000
6
Planet of the Apes 20th Century Fox $15,000,000
7
Rosemary's Baby Paramount
$15,000,000
8
Romeo and Juliet Paramount
$14,500,000
9
Yours, Mine and Ours United Artists $11,500,000
10
The Lion in Winter AVCO Embassy $10,006,000
Births
January 1 - Tom DeSanto , American producer and screenwriter
January 2
January 5 - Carrie Ann Inaba , American actress and singer
January 6 – John Singleton , American director and writer (d. 2019 )
January 9 – Joey Lauren Adams , American actress
January 12
January 14 – LL Cool J , American rapper, actor
January 15
January 17 - Louis Lombardi , American actor
January 18 - David Ayer , American filmmaker
January 19 – Matt Hill , Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian
January 20
Chris Miller , American voice actor, animator, director, screenwriter and storyboard artistMelissa Rivers , American television host and actress
January 29 – Edward Burns , American actor and producer
January 31 - Matt King , English actor, DJ and comedian
February 1 – Pauly Shore , American actor
February 8 - Gary Coleman , American actor and comedian (d. 2010 )
February 12
February 13 - Kelly Hu , American actress, voice artist, former fashion model and beauty queen
February 14
February 15 - Robert Schwentke , German director and screenwriter
February 18 – Molly Ringwald , American actress
February 21 - Patrick Gallagher , Canadian actor
February 24 - Mitch Hedberg , American stand-up comedian (d. 2005)
March 2 – Daniel Craig , British actor
March 4 – Patsy Kensit , English actress
March 6 - Moira Kelly , American actress
March 12
March 14 - James Frain , English actor
March 15 - Sean Bridgers , American actor, screenwriter and producer
March 18 - Juan Carlos Vellido , Spanish actor
March 20
March 21 - Greg Ellis , English actor
March 23 - Abigail Cruttenden , English actress
March 26 - Max Perlich , American actor
March 29
March 30
April 3 - Charlotte Coleman , English actress (d. 2001)
April 8
April 9 - Jay Chandrasekhar , American comedian, director, screenwriter, actor and editor
April 10 - Orlando Jones , American stand-up comedian and actor
April 11 - Dimitri Diatchenko , American actor (d. 2020)
April 12 - Alicia Coppola , American actress
April 13 - Andrew Pleavin , English actor
April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall , American actor
April 16 - John Gatins , American screenwriter, director and actor
April 17 - Adam McKay , American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian
April 18
April 19 – Ashley Judd , American actress
April 22 - Piera Coppola , American voice actress
April 23 – Chris Williams , Canadian-American animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor
April 24
May 3 – Amy Ryan , American actress
May 6 - Paul Bazely , English actor
May 7 - Traci Lords , American actress and singer
May 10 - Adrian Scarborough , English actor
May 11 - Jeffrey Donovan , American actor
May 12 - Tony Hawk , American actor and professional skateboarder
May 16 - Stephen Mangan , English actor, comedian and presenter
May 19 - Kyle Eastwood , American film composer
May 20 – Timothy Olyphant , American actor
May 21 - Tom Goodman-Hill , English actor
May 25
May 27 - Spencer Kayden , American actress, comedian and writer
May 28 - Kylie Minogue , Australian actress and singer
June 2
June 4
June 9 - Eddie Marsan , English actor
June 10 - Bill Burr , American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
June 12 - Sarah Trigger , retired British actress
June 14 - Faizon Love , Cuban-born American actor and comedian
June 15 - Fred Tatasciore , American voice actor
June 16 - James Patrick Stuart , American actor
June 17 - Mary Stein , American actress
June 18 - Jay Tavare , American actor
June 19 - Kim Walker , American actress (d. 2001)
June 20
June 26 - Travis Fine , American actor, writer, director and producer
June 27 - Paul Rae , American actor
June 29 - Brian d'Arcy James , American actor and musician
July 1 - Jordi Mollà , Spanish actor, writer and filmmaker
July 5 - Michael Stuhlbarg , American actor
July 7
July 8 – Billy Crudup , American actor
July 11 – Conrad Vernon , American voice actor, director, writer and storyboard artist
July 15
July 17 - Beth Littleford , American actress and comedian
July 18
July 19 - William Houston , English actor
July 21 - Samuli Edelmann , Finnish actor and singer
July 23 - Shawn Levy , Canadian director, producer and actor
July 24
July 26 – Olivia Williams , British actress
July 27
July 30 - Terry Crews , American actor, comedian, activist, artist, bodybuilder and former professional football player
August 4 - Daniel Dae Kim , South Korean-American actor and producer
August 6 - Lisa Boyle , American actress
August 7 - Sophie Lee , Australian actress
August 8 - Jimmy Jean-Louis , Haitian actor and producer
August 9
August 10
August 11
August 14
August 15 - Debra Messing , American actress
August 17
August 21 - Julian Lewis Jones , Welsh actor
August 22 - Casper Christensen , Danish comedian and actor
August 25
August 27 - Lisa Marie Newmyer , American actress
August 28 – Billy Boyd , Scottish actor
September 2
September 4 – John DiMaggio , American actor and voice actor
September 5 - Glenn Fleshler , American actor
September 6 - Mark Ivanir , Israeli actor
September 7 - Camille Japy , Belgian-French actor
September 8
Brian Huskey , American character actor, comedian and writerSimon J. Smith , British animator, director, visual effects artist and voice actor
September 9
September 10 – Guy Ritchie , English director, screenwriter
September 12 - Paul F. Tompkins , American comedian, actor and writer
September 15 – Danny Nucci , American actor
September 16
September 19 – Shawn Doyle , Canadian actor
September 20 - Chad Stahelski , American stuntman and director
September 22 – Megan Hollingshead , American voice actress
September 23 - Michelle Thomas , American actress (d. 1998)
September 25
September 26
September 27
September 28 – Naomi Watts , British actress
September 29
October – Musola Cathrine Kaseketi , Zambian director
October 1 - Jay Underwood , American actor
October 2
October 8 - Emily Procter , American actress
October 9
October 11
October 12
October 13
October 16
October 17 - Ziggy Marley , Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician and actor
October 19 - Yayan Ruhian , Indonesian martial artist and actor
October 22 - Jay Johnston , American actor and comedian
October 23 - Maria Darling , British voice actress
October 24 - Mark Walton , American story artist and voice actor
October 25
October 27 – Dileep , Indian actor
October 28 - Stephen Hunter , New Zealand actor
October 29
November 4 - Gary Stretch , British boxer, actor, producer and screenwriter
November 5
November 6 – Kelly Rutherford , American actress
November 8
November 9 - Erol Sander , Turkish-German actor
November 10
November 12 - Aya Hisakawa , Japanese voice actress and singer
November 16 - James Parks , American actor
November 18
November 19
Mark Bonnar , Scottish actorDerek Drymon , American animator, writer, storyboard artist, director, comedian and producer
November 21
November 23
November 25 - Jill Hennessy , Canadian actress and singer
November 26 - Chris Coppola , American actor and comedian
November 27 - Michael Vartan , French-American actor
December 2
December 3 – Brendan Fraser , American-Canadian actor
December 5 - Margaret Cho , American stand-up comedian, actress and musician
December 6
December 7 – Greg Ayres , American voice actor
December 13 - Scott Stuber , American film producer
December 16 - Peter Dante , American character actor, comedian and singer
December 18
December 19
December 20 - Joe Cornish , English comedian and filmmaker
December 22 - Dina Meyer , American actress
December 23 - Angela Jones , American actress
December 25 - Klea Scott , Panamanian-born Canadian actress
December 26 - Byron Howard , American animator, director, producer and screenwriter Deaths
January 7 - Hugo Butler , 53, Canadian screenwriter, Edison, the Man Lassie Come Home
January 18 – John Ridgely , 58, American actor, The Big Sleep God Is My Co-Pilot
January 25 - Virginia Maskell , 31, British actress, Only Two Can Play Virgin Island
February 4 – Eddie Baker , 70, American actor, Oranges and Lemons Giant
February 7 – Nick Adams , 36, American actor, Pillow Talk Rebel Without a Cause
February 13 – Mae Marsh , 73, American actress, The Birth of a Nation 3 Godfathers
February 20 – Anthony Asquith , 65, British director, The V.I.P.s The Winslow Boy
March 10 – Helen Walker , 47, American actress, Impact Call Northside 777
March 11 – Pearl Doles Bell , 84, American film scenarist, novelist and editor, Her Elephant Man
March 16 – June Collyer , 63, American actress, Hangman's House A Face in the Fog
March 18 - Harry Kurnitz , 60, American screenwriter, Witness for the Prosecution How to Steal a Million
March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer , 79, Danish director, The Passion of Joan of Arc Gertrud
March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché , 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker, The Pit and the Pendulum The Great Adventure
March 30 – Bobby Driscoll , 31, American actor, Peter Pan Treasure Island
April 5 – Lois Andrews , 44, American actress, Dixie Dugan The Desert Hawk
April 6 – Keith Pyott , 66, English actor, Village of the Damned
April 16 – Fay Bainter , 74, American actress, Woman of the Year The Children's Hour
April 24 – Tommy Noonan , 46, American actor, A Star is Born Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
May 5 – Albert Dekker , 62, American actor, The Wild Bunch Kiss Me Deadly
May 9
May 10 – Scotty Beckett , 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife The Jolson Story
May 21 – Doris Lloyd , 71, British actress, Disraeli Kind Lady
May 23 – James Burke , 81, American actor, Little Orphan Annie The Timber Trail
May 25 – Charles K. Feldman , 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire The Seven Year Itch
May 26 - Joseph MacDonald , 62, Mexico-born American cinematographer, My Darling Clementine The Young Lions
May 27 – Denise Legeay , 70, French actress, Happy Couple Zigano
May 31 – Preben Uglebjerg , 37, Danish actor, Pigen og vandpytten
June 4 – Dorothy Gish , 70, American actress, The Cardinal Orphans of the Storm
June 7 – Dan Duryea , 61, American actor, Winchester '73 Scarlet Street
June 8 - Patricia Jessel , 47, British actress, The City of the Dead A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
June 21 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt , 72, Danish actress
June 24 – Tony Hancock , 44, British comedian, Call Me Genius The Punch and Judy Man
June 29 – Hans Egede Budtz , 78, Danish actor, Nøddebo Præstegård
July 1 – Virginia Weidler , 41, American actress, The Philadelphia Story The Women
July 12 – Antonio Pietrangeli , 49, Italian director, It Happened in Rome The Magnificent Cuckold
July 27 – Lilian Harvey , 62, British actress and singer, Waltz of Love Let's Live Tonight
July 30 – Alexander Hall , 74, American director, Here Comes Mr. Jordan Little Miss Marker
August 23 – Hunt Stromberg , 74, American producer, The Thin Man The Great Ziegfeld
August 25 – John George , 70, Ottoman-born American actor, Charley's Aunt Don Juan
August 26 – Kay Francis , 63, American actress, Black Orchids Little Men
August 30 – William Talman , 53, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker Crashout
August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe , 60, American actor, T-Men Raw Deal
September 3 – Isabel Withers , 72, American actress, Possessed Lady of Burlesque
September 16 - Nedrick Young , 54, American screenwriter, Inherit the Wind The Defiant Ones
September 18 – Franchot Tone , 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty Advise & Consent
September 24 - Virginia Valli , 70, American actress, The Pleasure Garden Evening Clothes
October 18 – Lee Tracy , 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight The Best Man
October 29 – Pert Kelton , 61, American actress, The Music Man Sing and Like It
October 30 – Ramon Novarro , 69, Mexican actor, Ben-Hur Mata Hari
November 8 – Wendell Corey , 54, American actor, Rear Window Harriet Craig
November 9 – Gerald Mohr , 54, American actor, Gilda The Angry Red Planet
November 13 – Berthold Bartosch , 74, Bohemian filmmaker, The Idea
November 18 – Walter Wanger , 74, American producer, Cleopatra I Want to Live!
November 20 – Helen Gardner , 84 American actress, Cleopatra
November 25 – Upton Sinclair , 90, American author and producer, There Will Be Blood The Gnome-Mobile
December 2 – Colin Kenny , 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood Captain Blood
December 4 - Archie Mayo , 77, American director, The Petrified Forest A Night in Casablanca
December 5 – Fred Clark , 54, American actor, White Heat Auntie Mame
December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead , 66, American actress, Lifeboat Stage Door Canteen Die! Die! My Darling
December 14 – Jack Rice , 75, American actor, Lady, Let's Dance Beware of Blondie
December 15 – Dorothy Abbott , 47, American actress, South Pacific Red, Hot and Blue
December 20 - John Steinbeck , 66, American author and screenwriter, Viva Zapata! The Red Pony
December 28 - Harry Woods , 79, American actor, Days of Jesse James The Ghost Rider References
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