1925 in film
This is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
June 26: 's The Gold Rush premieres. It is voted the best film of the year by critics in The Film Daily annual poll[6]
Charlie Chaplin
November 5: MGM's war drama film is released. It is a massive commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing picture of the 1920s in the United States.
The Big Parade
December 30: MGM's biblical epic premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around $68 million when adjusted for inflation)[7]
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
publishes the film script Mrs. Shentu in the Shanghai magazine Eastern Miscellany. It is never filmed, but is considered a milestone in film history for being the first published film script in China.[8] Hong also directs his first film, Young Master Feng, at Mingxing (Star) Film Company in this year.
Hong Shen
(1914–1940)
Charlie Chaplin
(1913–1938)
Harold Lloyd
(1915–1939)
Lupino Lane
(1917–1944)
Buster Keaton
(1921–1943)
Laurel and Hardy
(1924–1936)
Harry Langdon
(1919–1936)
Felix the Cat
(1919–1963)
Koko the Clown
(1921–1934)
Aesop's Film Fables
Alice Comedies
Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
(1925–1940)
Krazy Kat
Un-Natural History (1925–1927)
January 6 – , Peruvian-born director and producer (died 1995)
Enrique Carreras
January 9 – , American actor (died 1989)
Lee Van Cleef
January 13 – , American actress and dancer (died 2000)
Gwen Verdon
January 15 - , Mexican actor (died 2023)
Ignacio López Tarso
January 21 – , American actor (died 1993)
Charles Aidman
January 24 – , American actress (died 2011)
Helen Stenborg
Joan Leslie
February 2 – , American actress (died 2014)
Elaine Stritch
Shelley Berman
February 8 – , American actor (died 2001)
Jack Lemmon
February 11 – , American actress (died 2001)
Kim Stanley
Ron Goodwin
February 18 – , American actor (died 2016)
George Kennedy
February 20 – , American director (died 2006)
Robert Altman
February 21 – , American director (died 1984)
Sam Peckinpah
February 25 – , Estonian singer and actress (died 1982)
Aino Seep
February 26 – , American actress (died 2023)
Selma Archerd
March 11 – , British director, editor and producer (died 2002)
Peter R. Hunt
March 13 – , Italian actor and voice actor (died 1989)
Corrado Gaipa
March 17 - , Italian actor (died 2015)
Gabriele Ferzetti
April 14 – , American actor (died 2002)
Rod Steiger
April 18 – , American actor (died 2014)
Bob Hastings
April 19 – , American actor (died 2016)
Hugh O'Brian
April 28 – , American character actor (died 2021)
Bruce Kirby
May 2 – , English-Canadian actor (died 2011)
John Neville
May 25 – , American actress (died 2003)
Jeanne Crain
May 26 – , English actor (died 2017)
Alec McCowen
June 3 – , American actor (died 2010)
Tony Curtis
June 5 - , Dutch actress (died 2022)
Henny Orri
June 7 – , American yachting cinematographer (died 2008)
John Biddle
June 8 – , American actor (died 2017)
Charles Tyner
June 10 - , Italian-born Argentine actress (died 2022)
Diana Maggi
June 16 – , Austrian experimental director (died 2013)
Otto Muehl
June 21 – , American actress (died 2006)
Maureen Stapleton
June Lockhart
John Fujioka
July 1 – , American actor (died 2011)
Farley Granger
July 6 – , Australian actress (died 2002)
Ruth Cracknell
July 10 – , American actress (died 2022)
Mildred Kornman
July 11 – , English actor
David Graham
July 13 – , Chinese actress and scriptwriter (died 2020)
Huang Zongying
July 14 – , South African radio comedian and actor (died 2003)
Pip Freedman
July 15 – , American documentary filmmaker (died 2019)
D. A. Pennebaker
July 23 – , American actress (died 2016)
Gloria DeHaven
July 24 – , American actress (died 2023)
Miiko Taka
August 11 – , American actress (died 2021)
Arlene Dahl
Carlos Balá
August 15 – , American actor (died 2017)
Mike Connors
August 22 – , English actress (died 2020)
Honor Blackman
August 23 – , American director (died 2008)
Robert Mulligan
August 27 - , American actress (died 2009)
Susan Willis
August 29 - , American actor and filmmaker (died 2003)
Dick Cusack
August 30 - , American actor and screenwriter (died 2018)
Frank Ray Perilli
September 2 - , English character actor and voice artist (died 2006)
Ronnie Stevens
September 3 - , American actress (died 2016)
Anne Jackson
September 8 – , English comedian and actor (died 1980)
Peter Sellers
James Garbutt
September 21 – , Indian actress (died 2000)
Noor Jehan
September 22 - , American actress (died 2004)
Virginia Capers
October 3 – , American writer and actor (died 2012)
Gore Vidal
October 4 - , American actor (died 2015)
Edmund Lyndeck
October 5 – , American actress (died 1997)
Gail Davis
October 11 – , American actress (died 1999)
Nancy Guild
Angela Lansbury
Geraldine Brooks
October 31 – , American actress, documentarian, and director
Lee Grant
November 4 – , American actress (died 2016)
Doris Roberts
November 6 - , French actor (died 2022)
Michel Bouquet
November 10 – , Welsh actor (died 1984)
Richard Burton
November 11 - , American comedian, actor, author, television host and artist (died 2013)
Jonathan Winters
November 17 – , American actor (died 1985)
Rock Hudson
November 20 – , American actor (died 2022)
Mark Miller
November 22 - , American actress
Carla Balenda
November 25 – , English comic actress (died 2018)
June Whitfield
December 2 – , American Broadway and film actress (died 2013)
Julie Harris
December 3 – , Estonian actor and director (died 2007)
Kaljo Kiisk
December 7 – , English cinematographer (died 2022)
Sydney Samuelson
December 8 – , American singer, dancer, musician and actor (died 1990)
Sammy Davis Jr.
December 12 – , English film editor (died 2018)
Anne V. Coates
December 13 – , American actor
Dick Van Dyke
December 18 – , Welsh-born Irish actress (died 2017)
Peggy Cummins
December 23 – , American actor (died 1995)
Harry Guardino
December 28 – , German actress, singer and writer (died 2002)
Hildegard Knef
January 24 - , American actor (born 1869)
Wilton Taylor
February 6 - , English businessman and cinema pioneer (born 1850)
James Kenyon
February 7 – , American actor (born 1860)
Edward Jobson
February 25 – , French director (born 1873)
Louis Feuillade
March 13 – , American actress (born 1910)
Lucille Ricksen
April 8 – , Swedish actress (born 1855)
Thecla Åhlander
April 13 – , Danish actor (born 1875)
Frederik Buch
April 16 – , Scottish actor (born 1883)
David Powell
July 29 – , American actor (born 1866)
Mark Fenton
September 28 – , French actor (born 1888)
Paul Vermoyal
October 21 – , American stage and film actor (born 1875)
Orme Caldara
October 31 – , French actor (born 1883)
Max Linder
November 1 – American actor (born 1888)
Lester Cuneo
November 3 – , American actress (born 1890)
Lucile McVey
December 8 – , American actress (born 1888)
Marguerite Marsh
December 9 – , American actor (born 1857)
Harry Rattenberry
December 21 – , Australian director/producer (born 1890)
Lottie Lyell
December 22 – , American actress (born 1895)
Mary Thurman
December 24 - , American stage and screen actor (born 1855)
James O. Barrows
December 31 – American director (born 1867)
J. Gordon Edwards
– Webs of Steel
Walter Brennan
– The Mysterious Stranger
Stepin Fetchit
– A Kiss for Cinderella
Anita Page
– Pretty Ladies
Bodil Rosing
– The Swan
Michael Visaroff
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