1922 in film

June 11 – United States première of 's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.

Robert J. Flaherty

November 26 – , 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).

The Toll of the Sea

(lost), directed by Lloyd Ingraham, based on the 1905 novel by Myrtle Reed^[5]

At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern

(1914–1923)

Charlie Chaplin

(1917–1941)

Buster Keaton

(1921–1943)

Laurel and Hardy

(1922–1944)

Our Gang

(1919–1936)

Felix the Cat

(1919–1963)

Koko the Clown

(1921–1934)

Aesop's Film Fables

January 2 – , actor (died 2005)

Jason Evers

January 3 – , British actor, screenwriter and director (died 1994)

Bill Travers

January 10 – , actress (died 1987)

Hannelore Schroth

January 13 – , director (died 1970)

Albert Lamorisse

January 16 – , actress (died 1998)

Irene Vernon

January 17 – , American actress (died 2021)

Betty White

January 19 – , actor (died 1996)

Guy Madison

January 20 – , bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor

Ray Anthony

Telly Savalas

January 31 – , actress (died 1996)

Joanne Dru

William Edward Phipps

February 6 – , actor (died 2015)

Patrick Macnee

February 7 – , actress (died 1980)

Hattie Jacques

February 8 – , actress (died 1996)

Audrey Meadows

February 9 – , singer, actress (died 2010)

Kathryn Grayson

February 24 – , actor (died 2016)

Steven Hill

February 26 – , actress (died 1976)

Margaret Leighton

March 5 – , Italian film director (died 1975)

Pier Paolo Pasolini

March 8 – , actress, dancer (died 2008)

Cyd Charisse

March 20 – , comic actor, director and screenwriter (died 2020)

Carl Reiner

March 21 – , director, producer (died 2004)

Russ Meyer

Richard Kiley

April 3 – , actress, singer (died 2019)^[18]

Doris Day

April 4 - , American composer and conductor (died 2004)

Elmer Bernstein

April 5 – , singer, actress (died 2009)

Gale Storm

April 7 – , American beauty queen and actress (died 2023)

Margia Dean

April 15 – , American stage, screen, and voice actor (died 2013)

Michael Ansara

April 18 – , American actress (died 2017)^[19]

Barbara Hale

April 24 – , American actor (died 2005)

J. D. Cannon

April 26 – , American actor (died 1983)

Mike Kellin

April 27 – , American actor (died 2012)

Jack Klugman

May 2 – , American actor and director (died 2007)

Roscoe Lee Browne

Rolands Kalniņš

May 10 – , American actress (died 1992)

Nancy Walker

May 13 - , Dutch actress (died 2022)

Truus Dekker

May 17 - , Chinese actress (died 2023)

Wei Wei

May 18 - , American actor (died 2019)

Bill Macy

May 25 - , Australian character actor and comedian (died 2007)

Syd Heylen

May 27 – , English actor (died 2015)^[20]

Christopher Lee

May 31 – , English actor (died 1992)

Denholm Elliott

Joan Caulfield

June 9 – , American scriptwriter and director (died 2003)

George Axelrod

Judy Garland

June 16 – , American actress (died 2004)

Frances Rafferty

June 22 – , Filipina actress (died 2019)

Mona Lisa

June 26 – , American actress (died 2013)

Eleanor Parker

June 28 - , American voice actor (died 2016)

Erik Bauersfeld

July 6 – , American actor (died 2016)

William Schallert

July 21 – , Slovenian actor (died 2018)

Demeter Bitenc

Blake Edwards

Adolfo Celi

Arthur Hill

August 8 – , American actor (died 1999)

Rory Calhoun

August 22 – , French actress (died 2024)

Micheline Presle

August 25 - , American actress and musician (died 2023)

Gloria Dea

Vittorio Gassman

September 6 – , American actress (died 2000)

Elizabeth Lawrence

Sid Caesar

September 10 – , Canadian actress (died 2022)

Barbara Chilcott

September 14 – , European actor (died 1988)

Michel Auclair

September 15 – , American actor, director (died 2011)

Jackie Cooper

Guy Hamilton

September 23 – , American actress (died 2018)

Louise Latham

September 24 – , American filmmaker and visual effects artist (died 2023)

Bert I. Gordon

September 29 – , American actress (died 2015)

Lizabeth Scott

October 5 – , American actor (died 1984)

Woodrow Parfrey

October 7 – , American actress (died 2021)

Martha Stewart

October 8 – , English actress (died 2015)

Eileen Essell

October 20 – , American actor (died 1992)

John Anderson

October 23 – , American actress (died 2015)

Coleen Gray

October 27 – , American actress (died 2014)

Ruby Dee

October 28 - , American actor (died 2001)

Jack Murdock

October 31 – , American actress (died 2005)

Barbara Bel Geddes

November 9 – , American actress, singer (died 1965)

Dorothy Dandridge

November 12 – , actress (died 2002)

Kim Hunter

Madeleine Sherwood

November 14 – , American actress (died 1973)

Veronica Lake

November 15 – , film director (died 2015)

Francesco Rosi

November 16 – , American actor (died 1994)

Royal Dano

November 22 – , American actress (died 1978)

Lynne Roberts

November 26 – , American actor (died 2005)

Adam Williams

November 27 - , American former actress

Jacqueline White

November 29 – , Australian actor (died 2012)

Laurie Main

Don Fellows

December 3 - , American character actor (died 2011)

Len Lesser

December 4 – , French actor (died 1959)

Gérard Philipe

December 9 – , American comedian and actor (died 1991)

Redd Foxx

December 11 – , Indian actor (died 2021)

Dilip Kumar

December 21 – , American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, voice artist, humanitarian and inventor (died 2005)

Paul Winchell

December 22 – , actress (died 1999)

Ruth Roman

December 24 – , American actress (died 1990)

Ava Gardner

December 26 – , American actor (died 2016)

Alfred Dennis

Ivan Desny

February 1 – , film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal. (born 1872)

William Desmond Taylor

February 4 – , American actress (born 1893)

Florence Deshon

March 4 – , American actor and singer (born 1874)

Bert Williams

May 21 – , actor (born 1872)

Sidney Ainsworth

May 26 – , American actor (b.1874)

Walter Jones

June 6 – , stage and screen actress (born 1860/61)

Lillian Russell

June 15 – , actor (born 1865)

Howard Crampton

July 5 – , child star (born 1909)

Bobby Connelly

September 23 – , veteran stage & screen actor (born 1843)

W. Chrystie Miller

November 30 – , actor and director (born 1881)

René Cresté

– Beyond the Rainbow

Clara Bow

– Anna Ascends

Betty Bronson

– The Trap

Lon Chaney Jr.

– Robin Hood

Ann Doran

– The Glory of Clementina

Louise Dresser

– Polly of the Follies

James Gleason

– Brothers Under the Skin

William Haines

– Too Much Business

Edward Everett Horton

– Penrod

Hazel Keener

– Sherlock Holmes

Walter Kingsford

– Smilin' Through

Gene Lockhart

– Down to the Sea in Ships

Anita Louise

– Triplepatte

Jeanne Loury

– Long Odds

Garry Marsh

– White Hands

George O'Brien

– Sherlock Holmes

William Powell

– Sherlock Holmes

David Sharpe

– The Hidden Woman

Anne Shirley

– The Town That Forgot God

Warren William

– Sherlock Holmes

Roland Young

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