1972 in film

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## Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

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See also: List of 1972 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1972 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1972  Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals

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1  | The Godfather | Paramount | $86,300,000[1]
2  | The Poseidon Adventure | 20th Century Fox | $42,000,000[1]
3  | What's Up, Doc? | Warner Bros. | $28,000,000[1]
4  | Deliverance | $22,500,000[1]
5  | Jeremiah Johnson | $21,900,000[2]
6  | Cabaret | Allied Artists | $20,250,000[2]
7  | Deep Throat | Bryanston | $20,000,000[2]
8  | The Getaway | National General | $18,000,000[2]
9  | Brother of the Wind | Sun International | $12,000,000[3]
10  | Lady Sings the Blues | Paramount  | $9,666,000[2]

## Awards

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Category/Organization | 30th Golden Globe Awards
January 28, 1973 | 26th BAFTA Awards
February 28, 1973 | 45th Academy Awards
March 27, 1973

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Drama | Musical or Comedy
Best Film | The Godfather | Cabaret | The Godfather
Best Director | Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather | Bob Fosse
Cabaret
Best Actor | Marlon Brando
The Godfather | Jack Lemmon
Avanti! | Gene Hackman
The Poseidon Adventure
The French Connection | Marlon Brando
The Godfather
Best Actress | Liv Ullmann
The Emigrants | Liza Minnelli
Cabaret
Best Supporting Actor | Joel Grey
Cabaret | Ben Johnson
The Last Picture Show | Joel Grey
Cabaret
Best Supporting Actress | Shelley Winters
The Poseidon Adventure | Cloris Leachman
The Last Picture Show | Eileen Heckart
Butterflies Are Free
Best Screenplay, Adapted | Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
The Godfather | Paddy Chayefsky
The Hospital
Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry
The Last Picture Show | Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
The Godfather
Best Screenplay, Original | Jeremy Larner
The Candidate
Best Original Score | Nino Rota
The Godfather | Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell
Limelight
Ralph Burns
Cabaret
Best Original Song | "Ben"
Ben | N/A | "The Morning After"
The Poseidon Adventure
Best Foreign Language Film | The Emigrants
The New Land | N/A | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso), directed by Elio Petri, Italy
The Mattei Affair (Il Caso Mattei), directed by Francesco Rosi, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy / France

## 1972 films

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### By country/region

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* List of American films of 1972
* List of Argentine films of 1972
* List of Australian films of 1972
* List of Bangladeshi films of 1972
* List of British films of 1972
* List of Canadian films of 1972
* List of French films of 1972
* List of Hong Kong films of 1972
* List of Indian films of 1972
* List of Hindi films of 1972
* List of Kannada films of 1972
* List of Malayalam films of 1972
* List of Marathi films of 1972
* List of Tamil films of 1972
* List of Telugu films of 1972
* List of Italian films of 1972
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* List of Mexican films of 1972
* List of Pakistani films of 1972
* List of South Korean films of 1972
* List of Soviet films of 1972
* List of Spanish films of 1972

### By genre/medium

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* List of action films of 1972
* List of animated feature films of 1972
* List of avant-garde films of 1972
* List of comedy films of 1972
* List of drama films of 1972
* List of horror films of 1972
* List of science fiction films of 1972
* List of thriller films of 1972
* List of western films of 1972

## Births

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* January 5 - Luciana Pedraza, Argentine actress and director
* January 9 – Deon Cole, American actor
* January 11
* Marc Blucas, American actor
* Konstantin Khabensky, Russian actor and director
* Amanda Peet, American actress
* January 12 - Zabryna Guevara, American actress
* January 15 – Kobe Tai, Taiwanese-American actress
* January 16 - Richard T. Jones, American actor
* January 20 - Adrian Martinez, American actor and comedian
* January 22 - Romi Park, Japanese actress and singer
* January 23 -
* Léa Drucker, French actress
* Ewen Bremner, Scottish character actor
* January 26 - Cyia Batten, American dancer, model and actress
* January 28 - Peter McDonald, Irish actor and director
* February 1 - Tego Calderón, Puerto Rican rapper, singer and actor
* February 7 - Robyn Lively, American actress
* February 9 – Crispin Freeman, American voice actor
* February 16 - Sarah Clarke, American actress
* February 20 – Gareth Unwin, English producer[4]
* February 24 - James Bachman, English comedian, actor and writer
* February 26 – Keith Ferguson, American voice actor
* February 27 - Richard Coyle, English actor
* February 28 - Rory Cochrane, American actor
* March 4 – Garth Jennings, English film director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer
* March 8 - Matt Nable, Australian actor and writer
* March 9
* Jean Louisa Kelly, American actress and singer
* Kerr Smith, American actor
* March 13 – Common, American actor and singer
* March 16 - Nicolas Bro, Danish actor
* March 18 – Dane Cook, American comedian
* March 23 – Judith Godrèche, French actress
* March 24
* Charlie Creed-Miles, English actor and musician
* Tony Leondis, Greek-American animator, filmmaker and voice actor
* March 26 – Leslie Mann, American actress
* March 28
* Nick Frost, English actor, comedian, writer and producer
* David Vadim, Ukrainian-born American actor
* Ledisi, American singer-songwriter and actress
* March 29 - Sam Hazeldine, English actor
* March 31 – Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish director, writer and soundtrack composer
* April 3 - Catherine McCormack, English actress
* April 5 - Junko Takeuchi, Japanese actress and voice actress
* April 6 - Jason Hervey, American actor and producer
* April 8 - Sung Kang, American actor
* April 10 - Vincent Zhao, Chinese actor and martial artist
* April 15 - Lou Romano, American animator and voice actor
* April 17 – Jennifer Garner, American actress
* April 18 - Eli Roth, American director, screenwriter, producer and actor
* April 20 - Carmen Electra, American actress, singer and model
* April 26 - Bronagh Gallagher, Irish actress and singer
* April 28 - Gabriel Casseus, American actor and screenwriter
* April 29 – Derek Mears, American actor and stuntman
* May 2 – Dwayne Johnson, American actor
* May 4 - John Rawls, New Zealand actor
* May 7 - Jennifer Yuh Nelson, South Korean-born American story artist and director
* May 12
* Christian Campbell, Canadian actor
* Rhea Seehorn, American actress and director
* May 14 - Gabriel Mann, American actor and model
* May 16 - Khary Payton, American actor
* May 20 - Busta Rhymes, American rapper and actor
* May 22 - Max Brooks, American actor
* May 25 - Karan Johar, Indian director
* May 26 - Selenis Leyva, American actress
* May 28
* Kate Ashfield, English actress
* Chiara Mastroianni, French actress
* Roland Møller, Danish actor
* May 29 - Laverne Cox, American actress
* May 30 - Joachim Rønning, Norwegian director
* May 31 - Archie Panjabi, British actress
* June 2
* Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, producer and game show host
* Wentworth Miller, American-British actor and screenwriter
* June 7 – Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
* June 16 - John Cho, American actor
* June 19
* Jean Dujardin, French actor
* Robin Tunney, American actress
* June 23 – Selma Blair, American actress
* June 28
* Brendan Hunt, American actor and writer
* Alessandro Nivola, American actor
* July 3 - Matt Schulze, American actor and musician
* July 5 – Gilles Lellouche, French actor and director
* July 7 - Heather Kafka, American actress
* July 10
* Christoph Hochhäusler, German film director and screenwriter
* Peter Serafinowicz, English actor, comedian, director and screenwriter
* Sofia Vergara, Colombian American actress, television producer, presenter and model
* John Viener, American actor, voice actor, writer and comedian
* July 11 - Michael Rosenbaum, American actor, director, producer, singer and comedian
* July 12 – Nenad Jezdić, Serbian actor
* July 15 – Scott Foley, American actor, director and screenwriter
* July 23 - Marlon Wayans, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
* July 27 – Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian
* July 28
* Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
* Evan Farmer, American actor and musician
* July 29
* Ato Essandoh, American actor
* Wil Wheaton, American actor
* August 1
* Guri Weinberg, Israeli-American actor and writer
* Charles Malik Whitfield, American actor
* August 2 - Jacinda Barrett, Australian-American actress
* August 5
* Darren Shahlavi, English actor, martial artist and stuntman (d. 2015)
* Reika Kirishima, Japanese actress
* August 7
* Dan Payne, Canadian actor
* Greg Serano, American actor
* August 10 - Angie Harmon, American actress
* August 13 - Michael Sinterniklaas, French voice actor
* August 15 – Ben Affleck, American actor, director and writer
* August 24 - Ava DuVernay, American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
* August 25 - Joe Wright, English director
* August 30 – Cameron Diaz, American actress
* September 4
* Carlos Ponce, Puerto Rican actor, musician, model and television personality
* Françoise Yip, Canadian actress
* September 6
* Dylan Bruno, American actor
* Idris Elba, English actor
* Mait Malmsten, Estonian actor
* Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
* September 7 – Matthew Sleeth, Australian director
* September 8
* Giovanni Frezza, Italian child actor
* Tomokazu Seki, Japanese voice actor
* September 9 – Goran Visnjic, Croatian-American actor
* September 15 - John Schwab, American actor
* September 16
* Mike Doyle, American actor
* Alex Rice, Aboriginal-Canadian actress
* September 21
* Kevin Downes, American actor, writer, producer and director
* Erin Fitzgerald, Canadian voice actress
* September 24
* Kate Fleetwood, English actress
* Finty Williams, English actress
* September 27 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
* October 5 - Tom Hooper, British-Australian filmmaker
* October 8
* Enrique Arce, Spanish actor
* Tricia Vessey, American actress, writer and producer
* October 9 - Cocoa Brown, American actress, writer and comedian
* October 12 - Sönke Möhring, German actor
* October 15 - Matt Keeslar, American former actor
* October 17 – Eminem, American rapper and actor
* October 18 - Christopher Knights, English voice actor, editor and cinematographer
* October 20 - Thor Freudenthal, German director, screenwriter, animator and special effects artist
* October 21 - Masakazu Morita, Japanese actor, voice actor and singer
* October 22 – Saffron Burrows, English-American actress
* October 23 - Kate del Castillo, Mexican-American actress
* October 29 - Gabrielle Union, American actress, voice artist, activist and author
* October 30
* David Wilson Barnes, American actor
* Jessica Hynes, English actress, director and writer
* Steve Monroe, American actor and stand-up comedian
* October 31 - Assaf Cohen, American actor
* November 1
* Toni Collette, Australian actress, producer and singer-songwriter
* Jenny McCarthy, American actress
* November 2 - Steve Edge, English actor, writer and former comedian
* November 6
* Thandiwe Newton, English actress
* Rebecca Romijn, American actress
* November 7
* Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor and writer
* Jeremy and Jason London, American actors
* November 8
* Gretchen Mol, American actress
* Jason Matthew Smith, American actor
* November 9 - Eric Dane, American actor
* November 10 - Trevor Devall, Canadian voice actor and podcaster
* November 11
* Adam Beach, Canadian actor
* Tyler Christopher, American actor (d. 2023)
* November 13 - Takuya Kimura, Japanese actor, singer and radio personality
* November 14 – Josh Duhamel, American actor
* November 15 – Jonny Lee Miller, English actor
* November 16 - Michael Irby, American actor
* November 19
* Nicole Forester, American actress
* Sandrine Holt, British-born Canadian actress
* November 21 - Rain Phoenix, American actress, musician and singer
* November 26 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
* November 28 - Michael Blackson, Ghanian actor and comedian
* November 29 - Brian Baumgartner, American actor
* December 2 - Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Norwegian actor and director
* December 4 - Yūko Miyamura, Japanese actress and voice actress
* December 7 – Jennifer Syme, American entertainment industry employee (d. 2001)
* December 14
* Jason Barry, Irish actor
* Miranda Hart, English actress, comedian and writer
* December 15 – Stuart Townsend, Irish actor
* December 16 - Lisa Spoonauer, American former character actress (d. 2017)
* December 18 - Jason Mantzoukas, American character actor, comedian, writer and podcaster.
* December 19 – Alyssa Milano, American actress
* December 20 - Marc Silk, English voice actor
* December 23 – Christian Potenza, Canadian actor and voice actor
* December 24 – Carmen Moore, Canadian actress
* December 25 - Patrick Brennan, American actor
* December 26 – Shane Meadows, English independent film director
* December 27
* Brandon Auret, South African actor
* Thomas Wilson Brown, American actor
* December 29
* Jude Law, English actor
* Leonor Varela, Chilean actress

## Deaths

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Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films

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January | 1 | Maurice Chevalier | 83 | France | Actor, Singer |

* Gigi
* Can-Can

8 | Wesley Ruggles | 82 | US | Director, Producer |

* I'm No Angel
* Arizona

17 | Rochelle Hudson | 55 | US | Actress |

* Rebel Without a Cause
* Les Miserables

18 | George Mitchell | 66 | US | Actor |

* The Andromeda Strain
* Kid Galahad

19 | Richard Fraser | 58 | Scotland | Actor |

* The Picture of Dorian Gray
* The Fatal Witness

22 | Alec Coppel | 64 | Australia | Screenwriter |

* The Captain's Paradise
* Vertigo

24 | Jerome Cowan | 74 | US | Actor |

* The Maltese Falcon
* Miracle on 34th Street

27 | Herbert Hübner | 82 | Germany | Actor |

* Storm in a Water Glass
* Robert and Bertram

29 | Hugh McDermott | 65 | Scotland | Actor |

* David Livingstone
* Devil Girl from Mars

February | 2 | Jessie Royce Landis | 75 | US | Actress |

* North by Northwest
* To Catch a Thief

7 | Walter Lang | 75 | US | Director |

* The King and I
* The Little Princess

19 | John Grierson | 73 | Scotland | Director, Producer |

* The Song of Ceylon
* The Brave Don't Cry

20 | Walter Winchell | 74 | US | Commentator |

* Wake Up and Live
* Love and Hisses

21 | Bronislava Nijinska | 64 | Poland | Choreographer |

* A Midsummer Night's Dream

March | 3 | Harold Young | 74 | US | Director, Editor |

* The Scarlet Pimpernel
* The Mummy's Tomb

19 | Albert Mannheimer | 59 | US | Screenwriter |

* Born Yesterday
* Bloodhounds of Broadway

20 | Marilyn Maxwell | 51 | US | Actress |

* Champion
* The Lemon Drop Kid

29 | J. Arthur Rank | 83 | England | Executive |

* So Well Remembered
* Quartet

29 | Hal Roach Jr. | 53 | US | Director, Producer |

* One Million B.C.

30 | Peter Whitney | 55 | US | Actor |

* The Big Heat
* In the Heat of the Night

April | 5 | Brian Donlevy | 71 | Ireland | Actor |

* Kiss of Death
* Wake Island

5 | Isabel Jewell | 64 | US | Actress |

* Gone with the Wind
* Lost Horizon

7 | Betty Blythe | 78 | US | Actress |

* The Queen of Sheba
* She

13 | Dorothy Dalton | 78 | US | Actress |

* Behind Masks
* The Woman Who Walked Alone

20 | Jorge Mistral | 51 | Spain | Actor |

* Andalusia Express
* The White Sister

25 | George Sanders | 65 | England | Actor |

* All About Eve
* Rebecca

25 | Alfred J. Goulding | 87 | Australia | Director |

* Step Lively
* A Chump at Oxford

27 | Bobby Howes | 76 | England | Producer, Director |

* Sweet Devil
* Yes, Madam?

28 | Harry Joe Brown | 81 | US | Producer, Director |

* Captain Blood
* Knickerbocker Holiday

30 | Gia Scala | 38 | England | Actor |

* The Guns of Navarone
* Don't Go Near the Water

May | 3 | Bruce Cabot | 68 | US | Actor |

* King Kong
* Diamonds Are Forever

4 | Elsa Ratassepp | 79 | Estonia | Actress | Libahunt |
5 | Frank Tashlin | 59 | US | Director |

* Son of Paleface
* Artists and Models

7 | Henri Diamant-Berger | 76 | France | Director, producer, screenwriter |

* Les Trois Mousquetaires
* Monsieur Fabre

12 | Steve Ihnat | 37 | Czechoslovakia | Actor |

* Madigan
* Zig Zag

13 | Dan Blocker | 43 | US | Actor |

* Lady in Cement
* Come Blow Your Horn

15 | Nigel Green | 47 | South Africa | Actor |

* The Ipcress File
* Zulu

18 | Sidney Franklin | 79 | US | Director, Producer |

* Duel in the Sun
* The Good Earth

22 | Margaret Rutherford | 80 | England | Actress |

* The V.I.P.s
* Murder, She Said

23 | Richard Day | 76 | Canada | Art director |

* How Green Was My Valley
* On the Waterfront

24 | Asta Nielsen | 90 | Denmark | Actress |

* Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance
* Impossible Love

25 | Charles C. Coleman | 70 | US | Director |

* Homicide Bureau
* The Shadow

June | 17 | Jean Brochard | 79 | France | Actor |

* The Law Is the Law
* Les Diaboliques

17 | Gale Henry | 79 | US | Actress |

* Two-Time Mama
* Darkened Rooms

20 | Sidney Lanfield | 74 | US | Director |

* The Hound of the Baskervilles
* The Lemon Drop Kid

22 | Paul Czinner | 82 | Hungary | Director, screenwriter |

* Dreaming Lips
* Ariane, jeune fille russe

25 | Nicholas Hannen | 74 | England | Director |

* The Dictator
* Richard III

27 | Thomy Bourdelle | 81 | France | Actor |

* The Return of Don Camillo
* The Call of Silence

July | 3 | Hal Walker | 76 | US | Director |

* Sailor Beware
* At War with the Army

6 | Brandon deWilde | 30 | US | Actor |

* Shane
* Hud

10 | Emrys Jones | 56 | England | Actor |

* One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
* Nicholas Nickleby

10 | Harmon Jones | 61 | Canada | Director |

* Pride of St. Louis
* The Kid from Left Field

19 | Sally Benson | 74 | US | Screenwriter |

* Shadow of a Doubt
* Viva Las Vegas

28 | Helen Traubel | 73 | US | Actress, Singer |

* Deep in My Heart
* The Ladies Man

August | 7 | Joi Lansing | 43 | US | Actress |

* Touch of Evil
* A Hole in the Head

7 | Tom Neal | 58 | US | Actor |

* Jungle Girl
* Detour

14 | Oscar Levant | 65 | US | Actor |

* An American in Paris
* The Band Wagon

16 | Pierre Brasseur | 66 | France | Actor |

* Les Enfants du Paradis
* Eyes Without a Face

19 | Roger Furse | 68 | England | Costume and production designer |

* Henry V
* Hamlet

24 | D. Ross Lederman | 77 | US | Director |

* Key Witness
* The Body Disappears

27 | Gaby André | 52 | France | Actress |

* Verdi, the King of Melody
* Highway 301

September | 11 | Max Fleischer | 89 | US | Animator, Director, Producer |

* Popeye the Sailor
* Betty Boop for President

12 | William Boyd | 77 | US | Actor |

* Hop-Along Cassidy
* The Volga Boatman

14 | Lane Chandler | 73 | US | Actor |

* Open Range
* The Cheyenne Cyclone

17 | Akim Tamiroff | 72 | Russia | Actor |

* Touch of Evil
* Ocean's 11

29 | Max Nosseck | 70 | Germany | Director |

* Black Beauty
* Dillinger

29 | Edward Sloman | 86 | US | Actor |

* Gun Smoke
* The Lost Zeppelin

30 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 68 | Austria | Director |

* The Black Cat
* Detour

October | 4 | Colin Gordon | 61 | England | Actor |

* The Pink Panther
* Casino Royale

9 | Miriam Hopkins | 69 | US | Actress |

* Trouble in Paradise
* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

16 | Leo G. Carroll | 85 | England | Actor |

* North by Northwest
* Strangers on a Train

22 | Jack Melford | 73 | England | Actor |

* A Shot in the Dark
* Lust for a Vampire

24 | Claire Windsor | 80 | US | Actor |

* The Blot
* Captain Lash

28 | Mitchell Leisen | 74 | US | Director |

* Midnight
* Kitty

November | 5 | Reginald Owen | 85 | England | Actor |

* Mary Poppins
* A Christmas Carol

7 | Tod Andrews | 57 | Russia | Actor |

* From Hell It Came
* Beneath the Planet of the Apes

10 | Francis Chagrin | 66 | Romania | Composer |

* The Intruder
* The Colditz Story

16 | Vera Karalli | 83 | Russia | Actress |

* A Woman's Revenge
* The King of Paris

23 | Marie Wilson | 56 | US | Actress |

* Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
* My Friend Irma

29 | Eve Southern | 72 | US | Actress |

* Clothes Make the Woman
* Morocco (film)

30 | William P. S. Earle | 89 | US | Director |

* The Way of a Maid
* Love's Masquerade

December | 6 | Janet Munro | 38 | England | Actress |

* Swiss Family Robinson
* Darby O'Gill and the Little People

9 | William Dieterle | 79 | Germany | Director |

* The Life of Emile Zola
* The Story of Louis Pasteur

9 | Louella Parsons | 91 | US | Columnist, Screenwriter |

* Hollywood Hotel
* Starlift

15 | Edward Earle | 90 | Canada | Actor |

* The Law of the Yukon
* Spite Marriage

19 | Jacques Deval | 77 | France | Director, Screenwriter |

* Women's Club
* Tovaritch

## Film debuts

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* Anne Archer – The Honkers
* William Atherton – The New Centurions
* Margaret Avery – Cool Breeze
* Elya Baskin – Telegramma
* Emmanuelle Béart – And Hope to Die
* Ned Beatty – Deliverance
* Susan Blakely – Savages
* Klaus Maria Brandauer – The Salzburg Connection
* Jerry Bruckheimer (producer) – The Culpepper Cattle Co.
* Robert Carradine – The Cowboys
* Dominic Chianese – Fuzz
* Candy Clark – Fat City
* Ronny Cox – Deliverance
* Blythe Danner – To Kill a Clown
* Brian Doyle-Murray – Fuzz
* Peter Firth – Brother Sun, Sister Moon
* Jodie Foster – Napoleon and Samantha
* Jackie Earle Haley – The Outside Man
* Bob Hoskins – Up the Front
* Isabelle Huppert – Faustine et le Bel Été
* Samuel L. Jackson – Together for Days
* Madeline Kahn – What's Up, Doc?
* Patsy Kensit – For the Love of Ada
* Ben Kingsley – Fear Is the Key
* Ed Lauter – Dirty Little Billy
* John Lithgow – Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
* David Margulies – Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
* Steve Martin – Another Nice Mess
* Frank McRae – Cool Breeze
* Nick Nolte – Dirty Little Billy
* Jürgen Prochnow – Zoff
* Kathleen Quinlan – One Is a Lonely Number
* Steve Railsback – The Visitors
* Alan Silvestri (film composer) – The Doberman Gang
* Frank Sivero – The Godfather
* Stellan Skarsgård – Strandhugg i somras
* Charles Martin Smith – The Culpepper Cattle Co.
* Jeffrey Tambor – The Summertime Killer
* Lily Tomlin – Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
* James Woods – The Visitors
* George Wyner – Lady Sings the Blues

## See also

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* List of Hong Kong films of 1972

## References

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1. ^ a b c d Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
2. ^ a b c d e Top 20 Films of 1972 by Domestic Revenue
3. ^ Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M148.
4. ^ 83rd Academy Awards Official Website.

## External links

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* List of 1972 films at IMDb
* List of 1972 deaths at IMDb
* List of 1972 births at IMDb

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