1979 in film

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## Highest-grossing films

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### United States and Canada

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See also: List of 1979 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1979 (United States and Canada)  Rank | Title | Distributor | Box-office gross

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1  | Kramer vs. Kramer | Columbia | $106,260,000[1]
2  | The Amityville Horror | American International | $86,432,520[2]
3  | Rocky II | United Artists | $85,182,160[3]
4  | Apocalypse Now | $83,471,511[4]
5  | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Paramount | $82,258,456[5]
6  | Alien | 20th Century Fox | $80,931,801[6]
7  | The Muppet Movie | Associated Film | $76,657,000[7]
8  | 10 | Warner Bros. | $74,865,517[8]
9  | The Jerk | Universal | $73,691,419[9]
10  | Moonraker | United Artists | $70,308,099[10]

### International

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Highest-grossing films of 1979 (international markets)  International
market  | Title  | Distributor  | Admissions | Gross revenue  | Production
country

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Local currency  | US$
China | Gunshots in the CIB | Changchun Film Studio | 600,000,000[11] | CN¥180,000,000[11] | $116,000,000  | China
France | The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials | SNC  | 6,280,070[12] | Un­known  | Un­known  | France
West Germany | The Jungle Book | 20th Century Fox | 9,103,582[13] | €32,092,155[13] | $44,000,000  | United States
India | Suhaag | Sharma Cine Associates  | Un­known  | ₹100,000,000[14] | $12,310,000[15] | India
Italy | Superman | Columbia-EMI-Warner | 904,000[16] | Un­known  | Un­known  | United States
Japan | Galaxy Express 999 | Toei | Un­known  | ¥16,500,000,000[17] | $76,120,000[18] | Japan
Soviet Union | Sholay (Embers)  | R. K. Films | 60,000,000[19] | 15,000,000 Rbls[n 1] | $28,200,000[a] | India
Spain | Superman | Warner Bros. | 4,795,628[21] | ₧655,346,759[21] | $9,763,080[22] | United States
United Kingdom | Superman | Columbia-EMI-Warner | 10,190,000[23] | £11,547,308[23] | $24,455,309[24]

## Major events

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* March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, Take Down.
* March 5 – Production begins on The Empire Strikes Back.
* March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures.
* May 25 – Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released.
* May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a stroke.
* May 31 – The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature-length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom.
* June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer.
* June 27 – 20th Century Fox Pictures president Alan Ladd Jr. and vice-presidents Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan agree to leave Fox.
* June 29 – Moonraker, the 11th film in the James Bond franchise, is released in the United States and goes on to become the highest-grossing film of the year worldwide.
* August 15 – Apocalypse Now is released to worldwide critical acclaim and box office success. Heralded as one of the greatest films ever made to this day.
* September 19 – Don Bluth and a group of fellow animators resign from The Walt Disney Company's animation department to set up a rival studio, Don Bluth Productions.
* October 1 – Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan who agreed to leave Fox earlier in the year formally announce the creation of The Ladd Company.
* October 3 – producers Benjamin Melniker and Michael E. Uslan purchase the film rights of Batman from DC Comics. It would be another ten years, before a Batman feature film would be fully realized.
* November 1 – Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
* December 7 – Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuts in the United States to mixed reviews but blockbuster box office, launching a film franchise that leads to 9 sequels and 3 reboots over the next 37 years. It also leads to the creation of five spin-off television series based upon Gene Roddenberry's creation.
* Allied Artists files for bankruptcy.

## Awards

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Category/Organization | 37th Golden Globe Awards
January 26, 1980 | 33rd BAFTA Awards
March 20, 1980 | 52nd Academy Awards
April 14, 1980

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Drama | Musical or Comedy
Best Film | Kramer vs. Kramer | Breaking Away | Manhattan | Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Director | Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now | Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actor | Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer | Peter Sellers
Being There | Jack Lemmon
The China Syndrome | Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actress | Sally Field
Norma Rae | Bette Midler
The Rose | Jane Fonda
The China Syndrome | Sally Field
Norma Rae
Best Supporting Actor | Melvyn Douglas
Being There
Robert Duvall
Apocalypse Now | Robert Duvall
Apocalypse Now | Melvyn Douglas
Being There
Best Supporting Actress | Meryl Streep
Kramer vs. Kramer | Rachel Roberts
Yanks | Meryl Streep
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Screenplay, Adapted | Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Manhattan | Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Screenplay, Original | Steve Tesich
Breaking Away
Best Original Score | Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now | Ennio Morricone
Days of Heaven | Georges Delerue
A Little Romance
Ralph Burns
All That Jazz
Best Original Song | "The Rose"
The Rose | N/A | "It Goes Like It Goes"
Norma Rae
Best Foreign Language Film | La Cage aux Folles | N/A | The Tin Drum

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, United States
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), directed by Volker Schlöndorff, W. Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

David, directed by Peter Lilienthal, West Germany

## 1979 films

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### By country/region

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* List of American films of 1979
* List of Argentine films of 1979
* List of Australian films of 1979
* List of Bangladeshi films of 1979
* List of British films of 1979
* List of Canadian films of 1979
* List of French films of 1979
* List of Hong Kong films of 1979
* List of Indian films of 1979
* List of Hindi films of 1979
* List of Kannada films of 1979
* List of Malayalam films of 1979
* List of Marathi films of 1979
* List of Tamil films of 1979
* List of Telugu films of 1979
* List of Japanese films of 1979
* List of Mexican films of 1979
* List of Pakistani films of 1979
* List of South Korean films of 1979
* List of Soviet films of 1979
* List of Spanish films of 1979

### By genre/medium

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* List of action films of 1979
* List of animated feature films of 1979
* List of avant-garde films of 1979
* List of comedy films of 1979
* List of drama films of 1979
* List of horror films of 1979
* List of science fiction films of 1979
* List of thriller films of 1979
* List of western films of 1979

## Births

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* January 1 – Vidya Balan, Indian actress
* January 6 – Cristela Alonzo, American comedian, actress, writer and producer
* January 8
* Ashraf Barhom, Israeli-Arab actor
* Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
* January 10 - Maximilian Brückner, German actor
* January 13 - Katy Brand, English actress, comedian and writer
* January 16 – Aaliyah, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
* January 24 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
* January 26 – Sara Rue, American actress
* January 28 - Angelique Cabral, American actress
* January 29 – Andrew Keegan, American actor
* February 1 – Rachelle Lefevre, Canadian actress
* February 2 – Shamita Shetty, Indian actress
* February 3 – Costa Ronin, Australian actor and cinematographer
* February 7 - Cerina Vincent, American actress
* February 8 - Josh Keaton, American actor and musician
* February 9 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and dancer
* February 11 – Brandy Norwood, American actress and singer
* February 12 - Angus Sampson, Australian actor and filmmaker
* February 13 – Mena Suvari, American actress
* February 19 - Andrew Buchan, English actor and writer
* February 21
* Tituss Burgess, American actor and singer
* Maryke Hendrikse, Bahamian-born Canadian voice actress
* Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
* Jordan Peele, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
* March 3 – Patrick Renna, American actor
* March 5 – Riki Lindhome, American actress, comedian and musician
* March 9 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
* March 10
* Edi Gathegi, Kenyan-American actor
* Danny Pudi, American actor
* March 12 - Rhys Coiro, American actor
* March 14 - Chris Klein, American actor
* March 17 – Stephen Kramer Glickman, Canadian actor, music producer and stand-up comedian
* March 18 – Adam Levine, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor
* March 19 - Abby Brammell, American actress
* March 20
* Freema Agyeman, British actress
* Bianca Lawson, American actress
* March 24 – Lake Bell, American actress, director and screenwriter
* March 25 – Lee Pace, American actor
* March 28 – Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personalities[25]
* March 29 – De'Angelo Wilson, American actor and rapper (d. 2008)
* March 30
* Jose Pablo Cantillo, American actor
* Pete Holmes, American comedian, actor, writer, producer and podcaster
* April 4
* Bunko Kanazawa, Japanese actress
* Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
* Natasha Lyonne, American actress
* April 5 – Josh Boone, American filmmaker
* April 7 - Nico Santos, Filipino-American actor
* April 9 - Edward Bennett, English actor
* April 11 – Josh Server, American actor
* April 12
* Claire Danes, American actress
* Jennifer Morrison, American actress, director and producer
* Paul Nicholls, English actor
* April 15
* Karen David, Canadian actress and singer-songwriter
* Luke Evans, Welsh actor and singer
* April 17
* Mylene Dinh-Robic, Canadian actress
* Ken Duken, German actor and director
* Tate Ellington, American actor
* April 19 – Kate Hudson, American actress
* April 21 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor[26]
* April 23 – Jaime King, American actress
* April 26 – Klára Issová, Czech actress
* April 27 - Tom Davis, English actor and comedian
* May 5 – Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
* May 6 - Kerry Ellis, English actress and singer
* May 7 – Yōsuke Kubozuka, Japanese actor
* May 9 – Rosario Dawson, American actress
* May 12 – Aaron Yoo, Korean-American actor
* May 19 – Bérénice Marlohe, French actress
* May 20 - Jana Pallaske, German actress and singer
* May 22 – Maggie Q, American actress
* May 23 – Josh Cooley, American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor
* May 24 - Panos Mouzourakis, Greek singer-songwriter and actor
* May 25 - Corbin Allred, American actor
* May 28
* Jesse Bradford, American actor
* Monica Keena, American actress
* May 30
* Jenny Mollen, American actress and writer
* Tadhg Murphy, Irish actor
* June 2 - Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
* June 7 – Anna Torv, Australian actress
* June 12 - Wil Horneff, American former child actor
* June 17 – Young Maylay, American rapper, producer and voice actor
* June 20 - Sarah Stiles, American singer and actress
* June 21 – Chris Pratt, American actor
* June 24 – Mindy Kaling, American writer and actress
* June 25 - Busy Philipps, American actress
* June 27
* Martin Bourboulon, French film director and screenwriter[27]
* Benjamin Speed, Australian film composer
* June 30 - Rick Gonzalez, American actor and musician
* July 3 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
* July 5 – Eva Maria Daniels, Icelandic film producer (d. 2023)
* July 6
* Kevin Hart, American actor
* Abdul Salis, British actor
* July 7 - Benjamin Mitchell, New Zealand actor
* July 10 – Gong Yoo, South Korean actor
* July 12 – Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor
* July 14 – Scott Porter, American actor
* July 16
* Jayma Mays, American actress
* Gerard Monaco, British actor
* July 17 – Mike Vogel, American actor and former model
* July 19 – David Sakurai, Danish-Japanese actor, director and scriptwriter
* July 25 - Juan Pablo Di Pace, Argentine actor, director, singer and musician
* July 26 - Mageina Tovah, American actress
* July 30 - Lucas Babin, American actor
* July 31
* Dana Gourrier, American actress
* B. J. Novak, American writer and actor
* August 1 – Jason Momoa, American actor and filmmaker
* August 3 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress[28]
* August 6 – Dayahang Rai, Nepalese actor
* August 10 – JoAnna Garcia Swisher, American actress
* August 12 - Keith Powell, American actor, writer and director
* August 13 - Kasia Smutniak, Polish-Italian actress and model
* August 14 - Jamie Parker, English actor and singer
* August 21 - Kevin Janssens, Belgian actor
* August 22 – Brandon Adams, American actor
* August 23 – Claire Grant, American actress, model and producer
* August 24 – Fabienne Carat, French actress and singer
* August 25 – Şebnem Bozoklu, Turkish actress
* August 26 – Erik Valdez, American actor
* August 27 – Aaron Paul, American actor
* August 29 – Dan Harris, American screenwriter and director
* August 31 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film composer
* September 1 - Camille Chen, American actress
* September 4 - Max Greenfield, American actor
* September 8 – Pink, American singer and actress
* September 11
* Ariana Richards, American actress
* Cameron Richardson, American actress and producer
* Hu Ting-ting, English-born Taiwanese actress
* September 17
* Neill Blomkamp, South African and Canadian director and screenwriter
* Kat Coiro, American director
* Billy Miller, American actor (d. 2023)
* September 18 – Alison Lohman, American former actress
* September 19 – Noémie Lenoir, French model and actress
* September 20 – Chris Tardio, American actor
* September 22 – MyAnna Buring, Swedish-born British actress
* September 23 – Lisa Loven Kongsli, Norwegian actress
* September 25 - Stephen Rider, American actor
* September 26 - Mark Famiglietti, American actor, screenwriter and producer
* September 27 – Jad Saxton, American voice actress
* Alicyn Packard, American actress, singer, and writer
* September 30 – Jonathan Kasdan, American screenwriter, director, producer and actor
* October 1 – Marielle Heller, American film director
* October 4
* Caitríona Balfe, Irish actress
* Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
* October 6 – Sareh Bayat, Iranian actress
* October 7
* Tang Wei, Chinese actress
* Aaron Ashmore and Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actors
* October 8 – Kristanna Loken, American actress
* October 9
* Alex Greenwald, American musician and actor
* Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor and comedian
* Brandon Routh, American actor
* October 20 – John Krasinski, American actor and filmmaker
* October 22 - Tony Denman, American actor
* October 28 – Natina Reed, American singer-songwriter, rapper and actress (d. 2012)
* October 29 – Maya Karin, Malaysian actress
* October 30 - James A. Woods, Canadian actor
* October 31 – Erica Cerra, Canadian actress
* November 5 - Leonardo Nam, Australian actor
* November 8 – Dania Ramirez, Dominican actress
* November 9
* Cory Hardrict, American actor
* Matt McCarthy, American comedian, actor and writer
* November 13 – Riccardo Scamarcio, Italian actor and producer
* November 14 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French actress
* November 19 – Barry Jenkins, American film director
* November 20 - Jacob Pitts, American actor
* November 22
* Andrew Knott, British actor
* Leeanna Walsman, Australian actress
* November 23 – Jonathan Sadowski, American actor
* November 25
* Jerry Ferrara, American actor
* Joel Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor
* November 28 – Daniel Henney, American actor and model
* November 29 - Timo Vuorensola, Finnish director, singer and actor
* December 3 – Tiffany Haddish, American comedian and actress
* December 5 – Nick Stahl, American actor
* December 7
* Eric Bauza, Canadian-born American voice actor, stand-up comedian and animation artist
* Sara Bareilles, American actress and singer
* December 11 – Rider Strong, American actor
* December 15 – Adam Brody, American actor, writer, musician and producer
* December 17 - Lil Rel Howery, American actor and comedian
* December 20 - Ramón Rodríguez, Puerto Rican actor
* December 21 - Daniel Brocklebank, British actor
* December 23 – Summer Altice, American model and actress
* December 26 – Chris Daughtry, American actor and singer
* December 28
* André Holland, American actor
* Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress
* December 29 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director and producer

## Deaths

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

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January | 11 | Jack Soo | 61 | US | Actor |

* Flower Drum Song
* The Oscar

16 | Peter Butterworth | 63 | UK | Actor, writer |

* Oliver!
* The First Great Train Robbery

16 | Ted Cassidy | 46 | US | Actor |

* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Mackenna's Gold

18 | Cyril J. Mockridge | 82 | UK | Composer |

* Desk Set
* The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

25 | Dick Crockett | 63 | US | Stuntman, Actor |

* Dirty Harry
* Spartacus

February | 12 | Jean Renoir | 84 | US | Director, writer, actor |

* The Rules of the Game
* La Grande Illusion

16 | Louise Allbritton | 58 | US | Actress |

* Pittsburgh
* Sitting Pretty

17 | William Gargan | 73 | US | Actor |

* The Bells of St. Mary's
* Cheers for Miss Bishop

19 | Leigh Jason | 74 | US | Director |

* Out of the Blue
* The Mad Miss Manton

28 | Jane Hylton | 51 | UK | Actress |

* It Started in Paradise
* Circus of Horrors

March | 1 | Dolores Costello | 75 | US | Actress |

* The Magnificent Ambersons
* Little Lord Fauntleroy

2 | Edith Craig | 71 | US | Actress |

* After the Thin Man
* Broadway Bill

6 | John Robinson | 70 | UK | Actor |

* Lawrence of Arabia
* The Longest Day

9 | Barbara Mullen | 64 | UK | Actress |

* Jeannie
* Thunder Rock

19 | John Tate | 64 | UK | Actor | Invasion
21 | Bomba Tzur | 50 | Israel | Actor |

* Blaumilch Canal
* Dalia and the Sailors

22 | Ben Lyon | 78 | US | Actor, writer |

* Hell's Angels
* Night Nurse

24 | Yvonne Mitchell | 63 | UK | Actress |

* Woman in a Dressing Gown
* Johnny Nobody

April | 4 | Edgar Buchanan | 76 | US | Actor |

* Shane
* Wichita

6 | Norman Tokar | 59 | US | Director |

* Follow Me, Boys!
* The Happiest Millionaire

10 | Nino Rota | 67 | Italy | Composer |

* The Godfather
* The Leopard

24 | John Carroll | 72 | US | Actor |

* Go West
* Flying Tigers

May | 6 | Rosemary La Planche | 55 | US | Actress |

* Angels' Alley
* Jack Armstrong

8 | Victor Saville | 83 | UK | Producer, director |

* Goodbye, Mr. Chips
* Kim

10 | Beatrice Campbell | 56 | UK | Actress |

* Last Holiday
* The Master of Ballantrae

11 | Joan Chandler | 55 | US | Actress |

* Humoresque
* Rope

26 | George Brent | 80 | US | Actor |

* Jezebel
* 42nd Street

29 | Mary Pickford | 87 | US | Actress, producer, writer |

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
* Coquette

June | 1 | Jack Mulhall | 91 | US | Actor |

* The Social Buccaneer
* The Three Musketeers

2 | Larisa Shepitko | 41 | Soviet Union | Director |

* Wings
* The Ascent

2 | Jim Hutton | 45 | US | Actor |

* Walk, Don't Run
* Who's Minding the Mint?

6 | Jack Haley | 80 | US | Actor |

* The Wizard of Oz
* Alexander's Ragtime Band

11 | John Wayne | 72 | US | Actor, producer, director |

* The Searchers
* Red River

12 | Henry Berman | 65 | US | Editor, Producer |

* Swing Time
* Grand Prix

14 | David Butler | 84 | US | Director |

* Road to Morocco
* Calamity Jane

16 | Nicholas Ray | 67 | US | Director, writer, actor |

* Rebel Without a Cause
* In a Lonely Place

19 | Nick Grinde | 86 | US | Director |

* Million Dollar Legs
* The Man They Could Not Hang

21 | Julian Orchard | 49 | UK | Actor, writer |

* Revenge of the Pink Panther
* The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

July | 2 | Larisa Shepitko | 41 | USSR | Director, writer, actress |

* The Ascent
* Farewell

8 | Michael Wilding | 66 | UK | Actor, producer |

* Stage Fright
* Waterloo

13 | Corinne Griffith | 84 | US | Actress |

* The Divine Lady
* Back Pay

22 | Kathleen Case | 45 | US | Actress |

* Human Desire
* Running Wild

25 | Eric Pohlmann | 66 | Germany | Actor |

* The Third Man
* From Russia with Love

26 | Virginia Brissac | 96 | US | Actress |

* Dressed to Kill
* Rebel Without a Cause

27 | Ettore Manni | 52 | Italy | Actor |

* City of Women
* Le Amiche

27 | Shirley Mason | 79 | US | Actress |

* Anne Against the World
* So This Is Love?

28 | George Seaton | 68 | US | Director |

* The Country Girl
* Airport

28 | Frederick Stafford | 51 | Czechoslovakia | Actor |

* Topaz
* Dirty Heroes

31 | Beatrix Lehmann | 76 | UK | Actress | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
August | ?? | Betty Henderson | 72 | UK | Actress |

* The 39 Steps
* The Maggie

6 | Kurt Kasznar | 65 | Austria | Actor |

* Kiss Me Kate
* Lili

7 | Vicente Salumbides | 85 | Philippines | Actor, Director |

* Ibong Adarna
* Florante at Laura

10 | Dick Foran | 69 | US | Actor |

* The Petrified Forest
* Ride 'Em Cowboy

17 | Vivian Vance | 70 | US | Actress |

* The Great Race

21 | Stuart Heisler | 82 | US | Director |

* Tulsa
* I Died a Thousand Times

30 | Jean Seberg | 40 | US | Actress |

* Breathless
* Airport

September | 1 | Doris Kenyon | 81 | US | Actress |

* Alexander Hamilton
* The Road to Singapore

2 | Felix Aylmer | 90 | UK | Actor |

* Becket
* Hamlet

12 | Les Clark | 71 | US | Animator |

* Fantasia
* One Hundred and One Dalmatians

12 | Jocelyne LaGarde | 54 | Tahiti | Actress | Hawaii
17 | Willis Goldbeck | 80 | US | Screenwriter |

* Young Dr. Kildare
* The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

22 | Frederick Piper | 76 | UK | Actor |

* The 39 Steps
* The Man Who Knew Too Much

23 | Catherine Lacey | 75 | UK | Actress |

* The Lady Vanishes
* The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

26 | John Cromwell | 91 | US | Director |

* Of Human Bondage
* The Enchanted Cottage

26 | Arthur Hunnicutt | 69 | US | Actor |

* The Tall T
* El Dorado

27 | Gracie Fields | 81 | UK | Actress, singer |

* Sally in Our Alley
* Holy Matrimony

October | 1 | Dorothy Arzner | 82 | US | Director |

* Craig's Wife
* Dance, Girl, Dance

3 | Dorothy Peterson | 81 | US | Actress |

* That Hagen Girl
* Payment Deferred

12 | Celia Lovsky | 82 | Austria | Actress |

* Foxfire
* I Mobster

17 | John Stuart | 81 | UK | Actor |

* Superman
* Village of the Damned

25 | Fernando Soler | 83 | Mexico | Actor |

* Papacito lindo
* El gran calavera

30 | Graham Ashley | 52 | UK | Actor |

* Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
* Hennessy

November | 1 | Saro Urzì | 66 | Italy | Actor |

* The Godfather
* Beat the Devil

5 | Amedeo Nazzari | 71 | Italy | Actor |

* Il bandito
* The Jester's Supper

8 | Sydney Tafler | 63 | UK | Actor |

* The Spy Who Loved Me
* Alfie

11 | Dimitri Tiomkin | 85 | Russia | Composer |

* High Noon
* The High and the Mighty

20 | Michael Darbyshire | 62 | UK | Actor, writer |

* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
* The Slipper and the Rose

21 | Paul Wexler | 50 | US | Actor |

* The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
* Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze

22 | George Froeschel | 88 | US | Screenwriter |

* Mrs. Miniver
* Scaramouche

23 | Merle Oberon | 68 | India | Actress, producer |

* Wuthering Heights
* The Scarlet Pimpernel

30 | Barbara von Annenkoff | 79 | Germany | Actress |

* Wood Love
* Derby

30 | Joyce Grenfell | 69 | UK | Actress |

* The Americanization of Emily
* Blue Murder at St Trinian's

30 | Zeppo Marx | 78 | US | Actor, director |

* Duck Soup
* Monkey Business

December | 5 | Jesse Pearson | 49 | US | Actor | Bye Bye Birdie
5 | Lesley Selander | 70 | US | Director |

* Blackmail
* Flight to Mars

9 | James Neilson | 70 | US | Director |

* The Moon-Spinners
* Bon Voyage!

10 | Ann Dvorak | 68 | US | Actress |

* Scarface
* Three on a Match

11 | Claire Carleton | 66 | US | Actress |

* Girl from Havana
* Gildersleeve on Broadway

12 | Jon Hall | 64 | US | Actor, director |

* The Hurricane
* Kit Carson

22 | George Pollock | 72 | UK | Director |

* Murder, She Said
* Ten Little Indians

23 | Ernest B. Schoedsack | 86 | US | Director, cinematographer, producer |

* King Kong
* The Most Dangerous Game

25 | Michael Collins | 57 | Canada | Actor |

* Goldfinger
* The Battle of the River Plate

25 | Lee Bowman | 64 | US | Actor |

* Love Affair
* Cover Girl

25 | Joan Blondell | 73 | US | Actress |

* Grease
* The Public Enemy

## Film debuts

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* Rosanna Arquette – More American Graffiti
* Jean-Pierre Bacri – The Medic
* G. W. Bailey – A Force of One
* Talia Balsam – Sunnyside
* Tobin Bell – Manhattan
* Lorraine Bracco – Duos sur canapé
* David Bradley – The Frisco Kid
* Patrick Bruel – Le coup de sirocco
* Grand L. Bush – Hair
* Yancy Butler – Savage Weekend
* Gordon Clapp – Running
* Frances Conroy – Manhattan
* Matt Craven – Meatballs
* Denise Crosby – 10
* Ted Danson – The Onion Field
* Keith David – Disco Godfather
* David DeLuise – Hot Stuff
* Matt Dillon – Over the Edge
* Lisa Eichhorn – The Europeans
* Cary Elwes – Yesterday's Hero
* Giancarlo Esposito – Running
* Christopher Fairbank – Agatha
* Danny Glover – Escape from Alcatraz
* Erin Gray – Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
* Bruce Greenwood – Bear Island
* Linda Hamilton – Night Flowers
* Melora Hardin – The North Avenue Irregulars
* Dennis Haysbert – Scoring
* Stephen McKinley Henderson – A Pleasure Doing Business
* James Horner (film composer) – The Lady in Red
* Anna Maria Horsford – An Almost Perfect Affair
* Hawthorne James – Disco Godfather
* Lucinda Jenney – Impostors
* Michael Jeter – Hair
* Sam J. Jones – 10
* David Keith – The Great Santini
* David Patrick Kelly – The Warriors
* Wayne Knight – The Wanderers
* Christine Lahti – ...And Justice for All
* Laurene Landon – Bitter Heritage
* Diane Lane – A Little Romance
* Fredric Lehne – Being There
* Eugene Lipinski – Hanover Street
* Carl Lumbly – Escape from Alcatraz
* Tzi Ma – Cocaine Cowboys
* Hayao Miyazaki (director) – The Castle of Cagliostro
* Bill Nighy – The Bitch
* Will Patton – Minus Zero
* David Paymer – The In-Laws
* Elizabeth Peña – El Super
* Chris Penn – Charlie and the Talking Buzzard
* Rhea Perlman – Swap Meet
* Clarke Peters – The Music Machine
* CCH Pounder – All That Jazz
* Mickey Rourke – 1941
* Zelda Rubinstein – Americathon
* Jay O. Sanders – Starting Over
* Raynor Scheine – Something Short of Paradise
* Wallace Shawn – Manhattan
* Martin Short – Lost and Found
* J. Smith-Cameron – Gal Young Un
* Timothy Spall – Quadrophenia
* Vincent Spano – Over the Edge
* Mike Starr – Squeeze Play!
* Daniel Stern – Breaking Away
* Emma Suárez – Memoirs of Leticia Valle
* Patrick Swayze – Skatetown, U.S.A.
* Joey Travolta – Sunnyside
* Jean-Claude Van Damme – Woman Between Wolf and Dog
* Christoph Waltz – Breakthrough
* Peter Weller – Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
* Joanne Whalley – Birth of the Beatles
* JoBeth Williams – Kramer vs. Kramer
* Mykelti Williamson – Sunnyside
* Michael Wincott – Title Shot
* Ray Winstone – That Summer!
* Michael Wright – The Wanderers
* Daniel Zacapa – Boulevard Nights

## Notes

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1. ^ 60 million tickets sold,[19] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[20]

1. ^ See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union § Highest-grossing foreign films.

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5. ^ "Box Office Information for Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
6. ^ "Box Office Information for Alien". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 21 June 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
7. ^ Box Office Information for The Muppet Movie The Numbers. Retrieved March 31, 2025.
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11. ^ a b 王伟杰 (January 2018). 冲突与引导：文化资源开发中的价值选择 (in Chinese). Social Sciences Literature Press. p. 299\. ISBN 978-7-5201-2573-4.
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17. ^ "FEATURE: Japanese Anime Magazine Retrospective: "Animage" in August 1979". Crunchyroll. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
18. ^ "Currency converter in the past with official exchange rates from 1953". fxtop. August 4, 1979.
19. ^ a b "«Месть и закон» (Sholay, 1975)". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 3 February 2019.
20. ^ Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
21. ^ a b "Estadística por recaudacion de peliculas extranjeras durante 1979" (PDF). Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport (in Spanish). p. 741. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
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25. ^ "Happy birthday, Shakib Khan". Daily Sun. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
26. ^ "James McAvoy · BIFA · British Independent Film Awards". BIFA · British Independent Film Awards. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
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28. ^ "Evangeline Lilly". BFI. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2022.

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