1945 in film
The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II, the many films released this year had themes of patriotism, sacrifices, and peace.[1] In the United States, there were more than eighteen thousand movie theatres operating in 1945, a figure that grew by a third from a decade earlier.[2]
January 26 – The film , starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp and Anne Revere, is released nationally in the United States. The film is an instant critical and commercial success, propelling 12-year-old Taylor to stardom and earning Revere the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
National Velvet
January 30 – Restricted release of , an historical epic which is one of the last Nazi Germany propaganda pieces, in war-torn Berlin. Given its cast of 187,000 (including serving military personnel), probably fewer people view it than appear in it.
Kolberg
April 20 – Release of , the 2nd Lassie film and the first film ever to be filmed using the Technicolor monopack method, where a single magazine of film is used to record all of the primary colors. Prior to this method, the most popular recording method was 3-Strip Technicolor, which simultaneously used 3 individual film magazines to record the primary colors.
Son of Lassie
September 27 – Release of 's Roma Città aperta marks the beginning of Italian neorealism in film.
Roberto Rossellini
October 5 – A strike between the set decorators' union and the studios boils over and becomes known as the .
Hollywood Black Friday
October 31 – , a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, premieres in New York City.
Spellbound
November 16 – releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, introducing a ghost named Casper.
Paramount Pictures
November 29 – At the a documentary on the Nazi concentration camps directed by John Ford is exhibited as evidence.
Nuremberg trials
Jungle Raiders
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
Who's Guilty?
Swing Symphonies (-1945)
1941
January 5 – , Canadian-British-American director, editor and writer
Roger Spottiswoode
January 9 - , American actor
John Doman
January 16 – , French actress
Élisabeth Margoni
Jophery Brown
January 25 – , American actress
Leigh Taylor-Young
January 28 – , Swiss actress
Marthe Keller
January 29 – , American actor
Tom Selleck
February 3 – , South African actor
Marius Weyers
February 4 – , English actor (died 2017)
Tony Haygarth
February 8 - , American actor
Louis Giambalvo
February 9 – , American actress
Mia Farrow
February 12 – , Swedish actress
Maud Adams
February 16 – , English actor (died 2020)
Jeremy Bulloch
Brenda Fricker
February 20 – , American actor (died 1999)
Brion James
February 24 – , American actor
Barry Bostwick
February 27 - , American singer and actor (died 2004)
Carl Anderson
February 28 – , American professional football player and actor (died 2011)
Bubba Smith
March 1 - , American actor
Dirk Benedict
George Miller
March 8 - , English-born Canadian actress (died 2016)
Janet Wright
March 13 – , American actor
Whitney Rydbeck
Curtis Hanson
March 28 – , Estonian actress (died 2020)
Raine Loo
April 2 – , American actress
Linda Hunt
April 3 – , Belgian-Italian actress and singer (died 2022)
Catherine Spaak
April 4 - , American actress (died 2010)
Caroline McWilliams
April 11 - , American actor
Michael Brandon
May 14 - , English actress
Francesca Annis
May 18 - , American character actress
Candice Azzara
May 24 – , American actress
Priscilla Presley
May 27 - , American actor (died 2019)
Kip Niven
May 30 - , Israeli-Arab actor
Makram Khoury
May 31 – , German director, producer and screenwriter (died 1982)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Jon Peters
June 3 - , Scottish actor
Bill Paterson
June 6 – , American actor (died 2000)
David Dukes
June 11 – , American actress
Adrienne Barbeau
June 12 – , American actor
Edwin Neal
July 3 – , American actor (died 2022)
Mickey Rooney Jr.
July 4 - , American actor
Bruce French
July 6 - , American actor
Burt Ward
July 19 - , American actor
George Dzundza
July 21 - , Mexican-born American actor (died 2023)
Sergio Calderón
July 23 – , American actress and voice actress
Edie McClurg
July 26 – , English actress
Helen Mirren
August 2 – , American actress
Joanna Cassidy
August 5 – , American actress
Loni Anderson
Steve Martin
Jill Haworth
August 21 – , American actress
Patty McCormack
August 23 – , English actor (died 1999)
Bob Peck
August 24 - , Argentine actor
Cástulo Guerra
August 28 - , American actress
Jeannie Linero
September 10 – , American actor (died 2013)
Dennis Burkley
September 11 - , American actor
Felton Perry
Roy Brocksmith
September 17 – , New Zealand actor
Bruce Spence
September 22 – , American actor
Paul Le Mat
October 7 – , American journalist and voice actor
Michael Wallis
October 17 - , American actor
Thomas Kopache
October 18 – , American actor, television personality, host, comedian (died 2013)
Huell Howser
October 19 – , American actor
John Lithgow
October 20 - , American actor
George Wyner
October 21 - , American actor
Everett McGill
October 23 - , English actor
Hugh Fraser
October 26 – , American actress
Jaclyn Smith
October 27 – , American actress (died 2004)
Carrie Snodgress
October 30 – , American actor
Henry Winkler
October 31 – , American actor and comedian
Brian Doyle-Murray
November 2 - , American singer-songwriter and actor
J. D. Souther
November 8 – , English actress (died 2011)
Angela Scoular
Terence Davies
November 15 – , American character actor
Bob Gunton
November 19 - , American producer (died 2024)
Paula Weinstein
November 21 – , American actress
Goldie Hawn
November 26 - , American actor
Daniel Davis
November 27 – , American actor (died 2013)
James Avery
November 28 – , Australian actor (died 1996)
John Hargreaves
November 30 – , American actor (died 2019)
Billy Drago
December 1 – , American actress, comedian and singer
Bette Midler
December 7 - , Scottish actor
Clive Russell
December 13 – , American actress (died 2017)
Heather North
December 17 – , American actor
Ernie Hudson
December 21 – , Estonian actress
Mari Lill
December 24 – , American screenwriter, director and producer
Nicholas Meyer
Rick Berman
December 30 - , American director, screenwriter, producer and actor
Lloyd Kaufman
Barbara Carrera
January 14 – , 73, German actor, Dr. Hart's Diary, Melody of a Great City, Die Entlassung, Rembrandt
Heinrich Schroth
February 23 – , 58, American director, Civilization, The Bargain, The Coward, The Moonstone
Reginald Barker
March 4 – , 72, American actress, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Abraham Lincoln, Orphans of the Storm, A Tale of Two Cities
Lucille La Verne
March 30 – , 60, Hungarian director
Béla Balogh
April 29 – , 52, American silent screen star, Lady of the Night, The Circle, The Whispering Shadow, The Ladybird
Malcolm McGregor
July 13 – , 66, Ukrainian-born stage and film actress, Blood and Sand, Salomé, Since You Went Away, Madame Peacock
Alla Nazimova
July 19 – , 80, American actor, No One Man, Evenings for Sale, The Cat's-Paw, The Magnificent Dope
George Barbier
November 21 – , 56, American writer and actor, Foreign Correspondent, You'll Never Get Rich, Road to Utopia
Robert Benchley
December 25 – , 37, American actor, Undercover Agent, The Covered Trailer, News Is Made at Night
Russell Gleason
– Pillow to Post
William Conrad
– Inconto con Laura
Vittorio Gassman
– Romulus and the Sabines
Laura Gore
– The House on 92nd Street