1943 in film
The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry.
January 23 – The film is released nationally in the United States and becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943. It goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards.
Casablanca
February 20 – American film studio executives agree to allow the to censor films.[8]
United States Office of War Information
June 1 – Veteran English stage and screen actor dies at the age of 50 in the crash of BOAC Flight 777 off the coast of Galicia, Spain. While best remembered for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, Howard had roles in many other notable films and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Leslie Howard
Shadow of a Doubt
Air Force
Squadron Leader X
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
(1917–1944)
Buster Keaton
(1929–1946)
The Marx Brothers
January 1 – , American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer and comedian
Don Novello
January 13 – , American actor (died 2023)
Richard Moll
January 14 – , American actress
Holland Taylor
Paul Angelis
January 19 - , American director, producer and writer
Larry Clark
January 24 – , American actress and model (murdered 1969)
Sharon Tate
January 25 – , American director and screenwriter (died 2017)
Tobe Hooper
January 28 – , American actor
John Beck
January 31 – , Scottish-born American actor
Peter McRobbie
February 1 - , American actress
Linda Gaye Scott
February 3 – , American actress
Blythe Danner
February 5 - , American director, screenwriter and producer
Michael Mann
February 9 – , American actor
Joe Pesci
February 20 – , English director
Mike Leigh
February 25 – , English musician and songwriter (died 2001)
George Harrison
February 26 – , American actor and director
Bill Duke
March 8 – , English actress (died 2010)
Lynn Redgrave
March 15 – , Canadian director and screenwriter
David Cronenberg
March 25 – , American actor and director
Paul Michael Glaser
March 26 - , Italian actress
Giusi Merli
March 28 – , American actress (died 2020)
Conchata Ferrell
Eric Idle
March 31 – , American actor
Christopher Walken
April 8 – , American actor
Jack O'Halloran
April 10 - , American producer (died 2020)
Tom Pollock
April 20 – , American actress, socialite, model and heiress (died 1971)
Edie Sedgwick
April 26 – , Welsh-Canadian actor (died 2006)
Leon Pownall
May 5 – , English actor, comedian and musician
Michael Palin
May 7 - , Irish actor (died 1999)
Donal McCann
May 25 - , American actress and singer
Leslie Uggams
May 27 – , American actor
Raye Birk
June 2 – , American actor and film director
Charles Haid
June 4 - , American producer (died 2023)
Tom Luddy
June 7 – , English actor, director and writer
Michael Pennington
June 11 - , Russian-American actor, director and producer (died 2017)
Oleg Vidov
June 13 – , English actor
Malcolm McDowell
June 19 - , Danish actor and singer (died 2023)
Peter Belli
Judith Barker
June 23 – , French director
Patrick Bokanowski
June 24 – , American actor and director
Georg Stanford Brown
June 26 - , American actor (died 2023)
John Beasley
July 3 – , American actor
Kurtwood Smith
July 11 - , American screenwriter, actor and director
Tom Holland
Michael Caton
July 25 - , American actress (died 1993)
Janet Margolin
July 26 – , English singer, songwriter, actor, filmmaker, and dancer
Mick Jagger
July 28 – , American actress
Frances Lee McCain
July 29 - , Japanese-American character actor
Jim Ishida
August 6 - , American character actor
Ray Buktenica
August 15 – , German-American actress
Barbara Bouchet
August 17 – , American actor
Robert De Niro
August 18 – , American actor and comedian
Martin Mull
August 20 - , Scottish actor
Sylvester McCoy
Lino Capolicchio
August 27 – , actress
Tuesday Weld
August 28 - , American-British actor and singer (died 2024)
David Soul
August 30 - , Israeli actress
Miri Fabian
September 1 – , American actor and musician
Don Stroud
September 3 – , American actress and model
Valerie Perrine
September 5 - , Australian actor (died 2022)
Jack Charles
September 9 – , American character actor and acting coach (died 2021)
Art LaFleur
September 10 – , American actor
Daniel Truhitte
September 19 - , American character actress (died 2001)
Diana Bellamy
September 21 – , producer
Jerry Bruckheimer
September 23 - , American singer, actress and director
Toni Basil
September 24 – , Korean American stage, film and television actor
Randall Duk Kim
September 28 – , American character actor (died 1998)
J. T. Walsh
October 4 – , English actor and bodyguard (died 1993)
John Bindon
October 5 - , Australian actress
Jennifer Hagan
October 8 – , American actor and comedian
Chevy Chase
October 12 – , American actress
Lin Shaye
October 15 – , American television actress, film director and producer (died 2018)
Penny Marshall
October 20 – , American actor
George Wyner
Jan de Bont
October 24 – , New Zealand director
Martin Campbell
October 27 - , American actor (died 2019)
Carmen Argenziano
Christopher Cain
November 1 – , English actor and writer (died 2019)
John McEnery
November 5 – , American actor (died 2017)
Sam Shepard
November 7 – , British actor
Michael Byrne
November 10 - , English actor (died 2017)
William Hoyland
Valerie Leon
November 16 - , Hong Kong actress
Wai Ching Ho
November 20 – , former Japanese actress, radio and television presenter
Mie Hama
November 23 – , Australian actor and singer
Tony Bonner
George T. Miller
Gianni Russo
December 13 – , Mexican director
Arturo Ripstein
December 16 – , American voice artist, actress and comedian (died 2017)
Patti Deutsch
December 21 – , American actor (died 1996)
Jack Nance
December 23 – , American voice actor
Harry Shearer
December 25 - , American actor
David Darlow
Ben Kingsley
January 25 – , 67, American actor, The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine, The Postman Didn't Ring
Spencer Charters
April 3 – , 50, German actor, Casablanca, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Thief of Baghdad, The Spy in Black
Conrad Veidt
June 1 – , 50, Academy Award-nominated British actor, Gone with the Wind, Pygmalion, The Petrified Forest, Of Human Bondage
Leslie Howard
June 30 – , 57, Danish actor
Carlo Wieth
July 16 – , 71, American actor, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Gabriel Over the White House
Arthur Byron
– The Rock of Souls
María Félix
– Stage Door Canteen
Jack Lambert
– Shadow of a Doubt
Robert Quarry
– Stage Door Canteen