1949 in film
The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.
April 26–June 21 – Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore! and Kind Hearts and Coronets are released in the UK, leading to 1949 being remembered as one of the peak years of the Ealing comedies.
Ealing comedies
November 15 – Following the prior year's decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., Paramount Pictures is split into two separate companies with the creation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for production-distribution and United Paramount Theaters for the theater operations.
Supreme Court
December 21 – 's Samson and Delilah, starring Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, and Henry Wilcoxon, receives its televised world premiere at the Paramount and Rivoli theatres in New York City.[5] The film opens in Los Angeles on January 13, 1950, and becomes a massive commercial success. At the 23rd Academy Awards, the film wins the awards for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.
Cecil B. DeMille
, directed by George Cukor, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, David Wayne, Tom Ewell, Judy Holliday
Adam's Rib
, directed by Robert Rossen, starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge
All the King's Men
(1949–1994)
Jan Wickman Shorts
Senegalese actress
Mbissine Thérèse Diop
George Buza
January 9 - , Belgian actor
Vincent Grass
January 12 – , Hong Kong-born director
Wayne Wang
January 14 – , American director and screenwriter
Lawrence Kasdan
January 16 – , English actress and model
Caroline Munro
January 17 – , American actor and comedian (died 1984)
Andy Kaufman
January 24 – , American actor and comedian (died 1982)
John Belushi
Deep Roy
January 27 – , Polish film and video cinematographer and director
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Jack McGee
February 8 – , American actress
Brooke Adams
February 9 - , American actress
Judith Light
February 16 - , French actor (died 1996)
Marc de Jonge
March 2 - , American actress
Gates McFadden
March 3 - , American actress and former model
Gloria Hendry
March 12 – , American director, producer and writer
Rob Cohen
Erik Estrada
March 22 – , French actress
Fanny Ardant
Josephine Chaplin
Ron Palillo
April 5 - , American actor (died 2007)
John Berg
John Madden
April 11 - , German producer, director and screenwriter (died 2011)
Bernd Eichinger
April 14 – , American actor
John Shea
Jessica Lange
April 21 - , American actress and singer
Patti LuPone
April 26 - , American director
Dominic Sena
Paul Guilfoyle
May 3 - , American actor
Ron Canada
May 7 - , American actress (died 2014)
Marilyn Burns
May 18 - , French actor
Hubert Saint-Macary
May 20 - , Canadian comedian, actor and television writer
Dave Thomas
May 21 - , American voice actor, singer and musician (died 2021)
Will Ryan
May 22 - , English actress
Cheryl Campbell
May 24 – , English actor
Jim Broadbent
May 25 - , American actor
Joe Unger
Pam Grier
May 28 - , German-born American actor
Sandy Helberg
May 29 - , American actor
Cotter Smith
May 31 – , American actor
Tom Berenger
June 5 - , Japanese actor and comedian
Guts Ishimatsu
June 10 - , American actor
Frankie Faison
June 12 - , American character actor
Roger Aaron Brown
June 14 - , British actor (died 2021)
Antony Sher
Simon Callow
June 22 – , American actress
Meryl Streep
June 29 - , American voice actor (died 2008)
Greg Burson
July 5 - , American actor
Ed O'Ross
July 7 – , American actress
Shelley Duvall
Diana Hardcastle
July 24 - , American actor, writer, producer and retired comedian
Michael Richards
Maury Chaykin
August 2 - , English actress
Madeline Smith
August 3 - , American actor
Philip Casnoff
August 8 – , American actor
Keith Carradine
August 11 - , Scottish actor (died 1990)
Ian Charleson
August 15 - , American actress
Phyllis Smith
August 17 – , English actor, writer, director and screenwriter
Julian Fellowes
August 20 - , American actor, director and screenwriter
Patrick Kilpatrick
August 21 – , American actress
Loretta Devine
August 23 – , American actress
Shelley Long
August 24 - , American actor and director
Joe Regalbuto
August 25 – , American actor
John Savage
Richard Gere
September 1 – , Romanian actress (died 2021)
Luminița Gheorghiu
September 4 – , Estonian actor and producer
Eero Spriit
September 13 - , German actor
Burghart Klaußner
September 16 – , American actor
Ed Begley, Jr.
September 18 - , American character actress
Beth Grant
September 19 - , American actor
Ernie Sabella
September 25 – , Spanish director
Pedro Almodóvar
October 2 - , Osage-American actor and stuntman (died 2021)
Larry Sellers
October 4 – , American actor
Armand Assante
October 8 – , American actress
Sigourney Weaver
October 10 – , American actress
Jessica Harper
October 15 – , American actress (died 2021)
Tanya Roberts
October 20 - , British actor
George Harris
October 21 - , American actress
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
October 30 - , American character actor
Leon Rippy
November 1 - , American actress and screenwriter
Jeannie Berlin
November 6 - , American actor (died 1991)
Brad Davis
Terry Camilleri
November 10 - , American actress and singer (died 2020)
Ann Reinking
November 17 - , American director, writer and producer
Jon Avnet
Gerrit Graham
Alexander Godunov
November 29 – , American stand-up comedian, actor, director, writer and producer (died 2016)
Garry Shandling
Margaret Whitton
December 3 - , Canadian-American actress (died 2017)
Heather Menzies
December 4 – , American actor
Jeff Bridges
December 5 - , American actress (died 2023)
Pamela Blair
December 7 - , American musician and actor
Tom Waits
December 8 - , American filmmaker
Nancy Meyers
December 10 - , American actor, writer, director and producer
Enrique Castillo
December 12 – , English actor
Bill Nighy
December 13 - , English actor
Robert Lindsay
December 15 – , American actor
Don Johnson
Marlene Clark
December 21 - , American actor
Michael Horse
December 22 - , American character actor
Graham Beckel
December 25 – , American actress
Sissy Spacek
December 28 - , Scottish actor
Hilton McRae
January 6 – , 59, American director and producer, The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Captains Courageous, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Victor Fleming
August 9 – , 83, American actor (born 1866), Gone with the Wind, The Ox-Bow Incident
Harry Davenport
September 4 – , 56, Swedish actor, stage manager (born 1892)
Olof Ås
September 10 – , 66, American playwright, actor, (born 1883), Lady in the Death House, A Sporting Chance
Robert Middlemass
September 14 – , 73, French actor (born 1876)
Romuald Joubé
October 14 – , 67, American actor (born 1882)
Fritz Leiber, Sr.
November 25 – , 72, American dancer and actor (born 1878), Stormy Weather, The Little Colonel
Bill Robinson
November 27 – , 66, English actor and director (born 1883), Stormy Weather, Lady in Danger
Tom Walls
December 16 – , 76, Canadian-born American film director (born 1873)
Sidney Olcott
December 31 – , 69, American actor, director, writer (born 1880), The Kansas Terrors, Gone with the Wind
Howard Hickman
– D.O.A.
Frank Gerstle
– My Friend Irma
Dean Martin
– Rendezvous in July
Pierre Mondy
– Rendezvous in July
Maurice Ronet
– Criss Cross
Vito Scotti
– Only a Mother