1941 in film
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Citizen Kane.
This article is about films in the year 1941. For the Steven Spielberg film, see 1941 (film).– Gone with the Wind goes into general release in the United States after touring in a roadshow version during 1940. Becoming a cultural phenomenon, it sells an estimated 60 million tickets this year alone. Adjusted for inflation with numerous rereleases, it remains the highest grossing domestic film of all time with $1.8 billion.[8]
January 17
– Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the films considered the all-time best, is premiered at the Palace Theatre (New York City).
May 1
– Sergeant York, the film biopic of World War I hero Alvin C. York, starring Gary Cooper in the title role, premieres in New York City. It is the highest-grossing picture of the year and earns Cooper the first of two Academy Awards for Best Actor.
July 2
September – in the United States.
Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda
Princess Iron Fan
Back Street
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
(1929–1946)
Marx Brothers
Looney Tunes
Tom and Jerry
Swing Symphonies (1941–)
1945
Simón Andreu
January 3 - , Irish actor (died 2018)
Derrick O'Connor
January 4 - , American actor
John Bennett Perry
January 7 - , American actor (died 2021)
Harvey Evans
January 10 – , Italian actress (died 2017)
José Greci
January 12 - , English-Canadian singer, musician and voice actor (died 2005)
Long John Baldry
January 14 – , American actress
Faye Dunaway
January 15 - , British actor
Geoffrey Beevers
January 19 - , American jazz bassist and actor
Putter Smith
January 24 - , American actor and singer
Neil Diamond
January 27 - , American stuntwoman and actress (died 2024)
Jeannie Epper
January 31 – , American actress (died 2021)
Jessica Walter
February 5 - , American actor
David Selby
February 8 – , American actor and producer
Nick Nolte
February 10 – , English director, producer and screenwriter (died 2021)
Michael Apted
February 11 - , American actor and stunt performer (died 2017)
Sonny Landham
February 13 - , Swedish-American actor, director, screenwriter and producer
Bo Svenson
February 27 - , American actress
Charlotte Stewart
March 3 - , Italian actress
Rada Rassimov
John Aprea
March 6 - , American actor and professional stuntman (died 2023)
George P. Wilbur
March 14 – , German director, producer and screenwriter (died 2022)
Wolfgang Petersen
Bernardo Bertolucci
March 18 - , American actor (died 2021)
Frank McRae
March 20 - , American producer (died 2018)
Paul Junger Witt
March 24 - , Canadian actor (died 2021)
David Fox
April 3 - , German actor
Eric Braeden
Cornelia Frances
April 12 - , Spanish actor
Manuel de Blas
David Leland
April 26 - , French actress (died 2019)
Claudine Auger
April 28 – , Swedish-born American actress, dancer and singer
Ann-Margret
May 2 - , English actor (died 2019)
Paul Darrow
May 13 – , Austrian actress and producer
Senta Berger
May 17 - , American actress
Grace Zabriskie
May 18 - , British-Australian character actress
Miriam Margolyes
May 19 - , English actress and model (died 2019)
Tania Mallet
May 24 – , Dominican-Mexican actor
Andrés García
Nick McLean
Stacy Keach
June 5 – , American actor and screenwriter (died 2004)
Spalding Gray
June 8 - , American actor (died 2019)
Jessie Lawrence Ferguson
Mickey Jones
Stephen Frears
Joe Flaherty
June 22 – , American actor (died 2023)
Michael Lerner
June 25 – , Canadian director and screenwriter
Denys Arcand
June 27 – , Polish director (died 1996)
Krzysztof Kieślowski
July 1 - , Serbian-born American actor and stunt double (died 1966)
Milos Milos
July 10 - , American actor
Robert Pine
July 13 - , American actor (died 2019)
Robert Forster
July 17 - , American actress
Paula Shaw
July 21 - , American actor, director and writer (died 2014)
Edward Herrmann
July 26 - , American actress and singer
Darlene Love
July 28 – , Canadian voice actor
Peter Cullen
July 29 – , English actor (died 2022)
David Warner
Martin Jarvis
August 7 - , Italian bodybuilder, actor and producer (died 2019)
Franco Columbu
August 8 - , American actor (died 2023)
Earl Boen
August 12 - , American actress
Dana Ivey
August 15 - , American character actor (died 2009)
Lou Perryman
August 26 - , American retired actress
Joan Freeman
August 28 - , Australian actor (died 2022)
Tony Barry
Ellen Geer
September 18 - , American actor
Gerry Bamman
September 26 – , English actress and model
Martine Beswick
October 6 – , English actor
Billy Murray
October 9 - , American character actor
Michael Goodwin
October 10 – , American actor
Peter Coyote
October 19 – , English actor (died 2012)
Simon Ward
October 20 – , English-Italian screenwriter and director (died 2021)
Clare Peploe
October 23 – , American actor (died 2020)
Mel Winkler
October 24 – , Belgian actor (died 2018)
Frank Aendenboom
October 25 – , Aboriginal Canadian actor (died 2011)
Gordon Tootoosis
Mischa Hausserman
November 1 – , American actor
Robert Foxworth
November 18 – , English actor, director and producer (died 2003)
David Hemmings
November 22 – , Scottish actor
Tom Conti
November 23 – , Italian actor
Franco Nero
November 25 – , Estonian actor (died 2021)
Tiit Lilleorg
November 27 - , American stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor
Tom Morga
December 4 – , Estonian actress
Leila Säälik
Evald Hermaküla
December 8 – , American actress (died 2022)
Valora Noland
December 9 – , American actor
Beau Bridges
December 10 - , Irish actress
Fionnula Flanagan
December 15 - , Serbian actor (died 2022)
Vladan Živković
December 25 - , American character actor
John Capodice
December 27 - , Israeli-American actor (died 2016)
Aharon Ipalé
January 4 – , 81, French writer
Henri Bergson
January 10 – , 36, American comedian, actor, The Boys from Syracuse, Millionaire Playboy, The Day the Bookies Wept, Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Joe Penner
May 22 – , 89, American actress, Stella Maris, The Enchanted Cottage, Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, Esmerelda
Ida Waterman
June 28 – , 69, American actor, The Little Red Schoolhouse, Love Before Breakfast, Rhythm in the Clouds, She Asked for It
Richard Carle
August 13 – , 66, British-American film producer and director, co-founder of Vitagraph Studios, The Glorious Adventure
J. Stuart Blackton
September 18 – , 66, English actor, Behind the Mask, It Couldn't Have Happened – But It Did