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1968 in film

The year 1968 in film involved some significant events, with the release of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as two highly successful musical films, Funny Girl and Oliver!, the former earning Barbra Streisand the Academy Award for Best Actress (an honour she shared with Katharine Hepburn for her role in The Lion in Winter) and the latter winning both the Best Picture and Best Director awards.

November 1 – The 's film rating system is introduced.

MPAA

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

The Anniversary

Day of the Evil Gun

, starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens

5 Card Stud

(17e Parallele Le Vietnam en Guerre), a documentary directed by Joris Ivens – (France/Vietnam)

17th Parallel: Vietnam in War

, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood – (U.S./ U.K.)

2001: A Space Odyssey

(19301969)

Looney Tunes

(19311969)

Merrie Melodies

(1953–1968)

Speedy Gonzales

(1937–1968)

Daffy Duck

(19671969)

Cool Cat

(19671969)

Merlin the Magic Mouse

January 1 - , American producer and screenwriter

Tom DeSanto

Cuba Gooding Jr.

January 5 - , American actress and singer

Carrie Ann Inaba

January 6 – , American director and writer (d. 2019)

John Singleton

January 9 – , American actress

Joey Lauren Adams

Farrah Forke

January 14 – , American rapper, actor

LL Cool J

Rosanne Sorrentino

January 18 - , American filmmaker

David Ayer

January 19 – , Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian

Matt Hill

January 20 - , American voice actor, animator, director, screenwriter and storyboard artist

Chris Miller

January 29 – , American actor and producer

Edward Burns

January 31 - , English actor, DJ and comedian

Matt King

February 1 – , American actor

Pauly Shore

February 8 - , American actor and comedian (d. 2010)

Gary Coleman

Josh Brolin

February 13 - , American actress, voice artist, former fashion model and beauty queen

Kelly Hu

Alicia Borrachero

February 18 – , American actress

Molly Ringwald

February 21 - , Canadian actor

Patrick Gallagher

February 24 - , American stand-up comedian (d. 2005)

Mitch Hedberg

March 2 – , British actor

Daniel Craig

March 4 – , English actress

Patsy Kensit

March 6 - , American actress

Moira Kelly

Aaron Eckhart

March 18 - , Spanish actor

Juan Carlos Vellido

Jaime Cardriche

March 21 - , English actor

Greg Ellis

March 26 - , American actor

Max Perlich

Sabrina Impacciatore

Donna D'Errico

April 3 - , English actress (d. 2001)

Charlotte Coleman

Patricia Arquette

April 12 - , American actress

Alicia Coppola

April 13 - , English actor

Andrew Pleavin

April 14 – , American actor

Anthony Michael Hall

April 17 - , American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian

Adam McKay

Mary Birdsong

April 19 – , American actress

Ashley Judd

April 22 - , American voice actress

Piera Coppola

Aidan Gillen

May 3 – , American actress

Amy Ryan

May 7 - , American actress and singer

Traci Lords

May 10 - , English actor

Adrian Scarborough

May 11 - , American actor

Jeffrey Donovan

May 12 - , American actor and professional skateboarder

Tony Hawk

May 16 - , English actor, comedian and presenter

Stephen Mangan

May 20 – , American actor

Timothy Olyphant

May 25 - , American actor, writer, producer and director

Kevin Heffernan

May 27 - , American actress, comedian and writer

Spencer Kayden

May 28 - , Australian actress and singer

Kylie Minogue

Navid Negahban

Joey Mazzarino

June 9 - , English actor

Eddie Marsan

June 10 - , American stand-up comedian, actor and writer

Bill Burr

June 12 - , retired British actress

Sarah Trigger

June 13 – , American voice actor

Fred Tatasciore

June 14 - , Cuban-born American actor and comedian

Faizon Love

June 16 - , American actor

James Patrick Stuart

June 19 - , American actress (d. 2001)

Kim Walker

June 20 - , American filmmaker and visual effects supervisor

Robert Rodriguez

June 26 - , American actor, writer, director and producer

Travis Fine

June 29 - , American actor and musician

Brian d'Arcy James

July 1 - , Spanish actor, writer and filmmaker

Jordi Mollà

July 5 - , American actor

Michael Stuhlbarg

Danny Jacobs

July 8 – , American actor

Billy Crudup

July 11 - , American voice actor, director, writer and storyboard artist

Conrad Vernon

Eddie Griffin

July 17 - , American actress and comedian

Beth Littleford

Grant Bowler

July 19 - , English actor

William Houston

July 21 - , Finnish actor and singer

Samuli Edelmann

July 23 - , Canadian director, producer and actor

Shawn Levy

Kristin Chenoweth

July 26 – , British actress

Olivia Williams

Cliff Curtis

July 30 - , American actor, comedian, activist, artist, bodybuilder and former professional football player

Terry Crews

August 4 - , South Korean-American actor and producer

Daniel Dae Kim

August 7 - , Australian actress

Sophie Lee

Gillian Anderson

August 10 - , Australian screenwriter, director and writer

Cate Shortland

Anna Gunn

Catherine Bell

August 15 - , American actress

Debra Messing

Andrew Koenig

August 21 - , Welsh actor

Julian Lewis Jones

August 25 - , American actor

David Alan Basche

August 27 - , American actress

Lisa Marie Newmyer

August 28 – , Scottish actor

Billy Boyd

Kristen Cloke

September 4 – , American actor and voice actor

John DiMaggio

September 5 - , American actor

Glenn Fleshler

September 6 - , Israeli actor

Mark Ivanir

September 7 - , Belgian-French actor

Camille Japy

Brian Huskey

Nathan Lee Graham

September 10 – , English director, screenwriter

Guy Ritchie

September 12 - , American comedian, actor and writer

Paul F. Tompkins

September 15 – , American actor

Danny Nucci

September 16 - , American singer-songwriter and actor

Marc Anthony

September 19 – , Canadian actor

Shawn Doyle

September 20 - , American stuntman and director

Chad Stahelski

September 22 – , American voice actress

Megan Hollingshead

September 25 – , American actor

Will Smith

September 26 – , American actor

Jim Caviezel

September 28 – , British actress

Naomi Watts

Massi Furlan

October – , Zambian director

Musola Cathrine Kaseketi

Lucy Cohu

Pete Docter

Tiffany Grant

Hugh Jackman

Tisha Campbell

October 17 - , Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician and actor

Ziggy Marley

October 19 - , Indonesian martial artist and actor

Yayan Ruhian

October 23 - , British voice actress

Maria Darling

October 24 - , American story artist and voice actor

Mark Walton

October 25 - , American actress

Melinda McGraw

October 27 – , Indian actor

Dileep

October 28 - , New Zealand actor

Stephen Hunter

October 29 - , American actor

Grayson McCouch

November 5 – , American actor

Sam Rockwell

November 6 – , American actress

Kelly Rutherford

Bruno Gunn

Tracy Morgan

November 16 - , American actor

James Parks

Romany Malco

November 19 - , Scottish actor

Mark Bonnar

Todd Farmer

November 23 - , American actor

Brennan Brown

November 26 - , American actor and comedian

Chris Coppola

November 27 - , French-American actor

Michael Vartan

Lucy Liu

December 3 – , American-Canadian actor

Brendan Fraser

December 5 - , American stand-up comedian, actress and musician

Margaret Cho

Oliver Masucci

December 7 – , American voice actor

Greg Ayres

December 13 - , American film producer

Scott Stuber

Craig Grant

Ken Marino

December 20 - , English comedian and filmmaker

Joe Cornish

December 22 - , American actress

Dina Meyer

December 23 - , American actress

Angela Jones

December 25 - , Panamanian-born Canadian actress

Klea Scott

December 26 - , American animator, director, producer and screenwriter

Byron Howard

January 7 - , 53, Canadian screenwriter, Edison, the Man, Lassie Come Home

Hugo Butler

January 18 – , 58, American actor, The Big Sleep, God Is My Co-Pilot

John Ridgely

January 25 - , 31, British actress, Only Two Can Play, Virgin Island

Virginia Maskell

February 4 – , 70, American actor, Oranges and Lemons, Giant

Eddie Baker

February 7 – , 36, American actor, Pillow Talk, Rebel Without a Cause

Nick Adams

February 13 – , 73, American actress, The Birth of a Nation, 3 Godfathers

Mae Marsh

February 20 – , 65, British director, The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy

Anthony Asquith

March 10 – , 47, American actress, Impact, Call Northside 777

Helen Walker

March 11 – , 84, American film scenarist, novelist and editor, Her Elephant Man

Pearl Doles Bell

March 16 – , 63, American actress, Hangman's House, A Face in the Fog

June Collyer

March 18 - , 60, American screenwriter, Witness for the Prosecution, How to Steal a Million

Harry Kurnitz

March 20 – , 79, Danish director, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Gertrud

Carl Theodor Dreyer

March 24 – , 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Great Adventure

Alice Guy-Blaché

March 30 – , 31, American actor, Peter Pan, Treasure Island

Bobby Driscoll

April 5 – , 44, American actress, Dixie Dugan, The Desert Hawk

Lois Andrews

April 6 – , 66, English actor, Village of the Damned

Keith Pyott

April 16 – , 74, American actress, Woman of the Year, The Children's Hour

Fay Bainter

April 24 – , 46, American actor, A Star is Born, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Tommy Noonan

May 5 – , 62, American actor, The Wild Bunch, Kiss Me Deadly

Albert Dekker

Albert Lewin

May 10 – , 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife, The Jolson Story

Scotty Beckett

May 21 – , 71, British actress, Disraeli, Kind Lady

Doris Lloyd

May 23 – , 81, American actor, Little Orphan Annie, The Timber Trail

James Burke

May 25 – , 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seven Year Itch

Charles K. Feldman

May 26 - , 62, Mexico-born American cinematographer, My Darling Clementine, The Young Lions

Joseph MacDonald

May 27 – , 70, French actress, Happy Couple, Zigano

Denise Legeay

May 31 – , 37, Danish actor, Pigen og vandpytten

Preben Uglebjerg

June 4 – , 70, American actress, The Cardinal, Orphans of the Storm

Dorothy Gish

June 7 – , 61, American actor, Winchester '73, Scarlet Street

Dan Duryea

June 8 - , 47, British actress, The City of the Dead, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Patricia Jessel

June 21 – , 72, Danish actress

Ingeborg Spangsfeldt

June 24 – , 44, British comedian, Call Me Genius, The Punch and Judy Man

Tony Hancock

June 29 – , 78, Danish actor, Nøddebo Præstegård

Hans Egede Budtz

July 1 – , 41, American actress, The Philadelphia Story, The Women

Virginia Weidler

July 12 – , 49, Italian director, It Happened in Rome, The Magnificent Cuckold

Antonio Pietrangeli

July 27 – , 62, British actress and singer, Waltz of Love, Let's Live Tonight

Lilian Harvey

July 30 – , 74, American director, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Little Miss Marker

Alexander Hall

August 23 – , 74, American producer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld

Hunt Stromberg

August 25 – , 70, Ottoman-born American actor, Charley's Aunt, Don Juan

John George

August 26 – , 63, American actress, Black Orchids, Little Men

Kay Francis

August 30 – , 53, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Crashout

William Talman

August 31 – , 60, American actor, T-Men, Raw Deal

Dennis O'Keefe

September 3 – , 72, American actress, Possessed, Lady of Burlesque

Isabel Withers

September 16 - , 54, American screenwriter, Inherit the Wind, The Defiant Ones

Nedrick Young

September 18 – , 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent

Franchot Tone

September 24 - , 70, American actress, The Pleasure Garden, Evening Clothes

Virginia Valli

October 18 – , 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight, The Best Man

Lee Tracy

October 29 – , 61, American actress, The Music Man, Sing and Like It

Pert Kelton

October 30 – , 69, Mexican actor, Ben-Hur, Mata Hari

Ramon Novarro

November 8 – , 54, American actor, Rear Window, Harriet Craig

Wendell Corey

November 9 – , 54, American actor, Gilda, The Angry Red Planet

Gerald Mohr

November 13 – , 74, Bohemian filmmaker, The Idea

Berthold Bartosch

November 18 – , 74, American producer, Cleopatra, I Want to Live!

Walter Wanger

November 20 – , 84 American actress, Cleopatra

Helen Gardner

November 25 – , 90, American author and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile

Upton Sinclair

December 2 – , 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood

Colin Kenny

December 4 - , 77, American director, The Petrified Forest, A Night in Casablanca

Archie Mayo

December 5 – , 54, American actor, White Heat, Auntie Mame

Fred Clark

December 12 – , 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen, Die! Die! My Darling

Tallulah Bankhead

December 14 – , 75, American actor, Lady, Let's Dance, Beware of Blondie

Jack Rice

December 15 – , 47, American actress, South Pacific, Red, Hot and Blue

Dorothy Abbott

December 20 - , 66, American author and screenwriter, Viva Zapata!, The Red Pony

John Steinbeck

December 28 - , 79, American actress, Days of Jesse James, The Ghost Rider

Harry Woods

Greetings

Rutanya Alda

Bullitt

John Aprea

Inadmissible Evidence

Eileen Atkins

The Detective

Tom Atkins

Candy

Florinda Bolkan

A Lovely Way to Die

Philip Bosco

The Red Light Bandit

Sônia Braga

Bullitt

Joanna Cassidy

Interlude

John Cleese

The Lion in Winter

Timothy Dalton

The Detective

Don Fellows

The Filthy Five

Frederic Forrest

Yours, Mine and Ours

Marla Gibbs

Greetings

Gerrit Graham

Will Penny

Jon Gries

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Don Henderson

With Six You Get Eggroll

Barbara Hershey

Petulia

Howard Hesseman

Dayton's Devils

Bo Hopkins

Majuba: Heuwel van Duiwe

Tony Jay

The Dove

Madeline Kahn

Dayton's Devils

Lainie Kazan

Shameless

Udo Kier

Blue

Sally Kirkland

Rachel, Rachel

Terry Kiser

Greetings

Peter Maloney

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Chuck McCann

if...

Malcolm McDowell

The Wrecking Crew

Chuck Norris

For Love of Ivy

Jennifer O'Neill

Petulia

Austin Pendleton

The Brotherhood

Barry Primus

The Boston Strangler

David Proval

The Brotherhood

Paul Reubens

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Joely Richardson

The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp

Hanna Schygulla

The Wild Racers

Talia Shire

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

Leigh Taylor-Young

(Goethe-Institut)

"Filmmaking in West Germany, 1968"

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List of 1968 films

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List of 1968 deaths

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List of 1968 births