1920 in film
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The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.
Contents
- 1 Events
- 2 Top grossing films
- 3 Films released in 1920
- 4 Short film series
- 5 Animated short film series
- 6 Births
- 7 Film Debuts
- 8 Notable deaths
Events
- November 27 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.
Top grossing films
- Way Down East - directed by D.W. Griffith
- Over the Hill to the Poorhouse - directed by Harry F. Millarde
- Shipwrecked Among Cannibals
- Polyanna
- The Mark of Zorro
- Double Speed
- Excuse My Dust
Films released in 1920
- Algol, starring Emil Jannings
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover.
- Convict 13, a Buster Keaton short
- The Common Sin, starring Rod La Rocque and Nita Naldi
- The Girl in Number 29, directed by John Ford
- The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), starring and directed by Paul Wegener
- Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson and Bela Lugosi
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore
- Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd
- Herr och fru Stockholm, starring Greta Garbo
- High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd
- Huckleberry Finn
- The Last of the Mohicans, starring Wallace Beery
- Love, Honor, and Behave, starring George O'Hara and Marie Prevost
- The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks
- The $1,000,000 Reward
- Neighbors a Buster Keaton short
- One Week, a Buster Keaton short
- Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
- The Penalty, starring Lon Chaney
- Pollyanna, starring Mary Pickford -(film only mentioned in article)
- The Saphead, starring Buster Keaton
- The Scarecrow, a Buster Keaton short
- Shipwrecked Among Cannibals documentary film
- Stolen Moments, starring Rudolph Valentino
- Way Down East, starring Lillian Gish
- Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer
Short film series
Animated short film series
Births
- January 20 - Federico Fellini, film director (d. 1993)
- January 20 - DeForest Kelley, actor (d. 1993)
- January 27 - John Box, production designer, four-time Oscar winner (d. 2005)
- January 30 - Delbert Mann, director
- February 11 - Billy Halop, actor (d. 1976)
- February 26 - Tony Randall, actor (d. 2004)
- March 16 - Leo McKern, actor (d. 2002)
- April 1 - Toshiro Mifune, actor (d. 1997)
- April 2 - Jack Webb, actor (d. 1982)
- May 11 - Denver Pyle, actor (d. 1997)
- May 16 - Martine Carol, actress (d. 1967)
- May 26 - Peggy Lee, singer, songwriter, actress (d. 2002)
- June 18 - Ian Carmichael, English stage, film and television actor
- June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, producer, visual effects artist
- August 6 - Ella Raines, actress (d. 1988)
- August 17 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
- August 18 - Shelley Winters, actress (d. 2006)
- August 22 - Ray Bradbury, writer
- September 18 - Jack Warden, actor (d. 2006)
- September 23 - Mickey Rooney, actor
- September 27 - William Conrad, actor (d. 1994)
- September 27 - Jayne Meadows, actress
- October 1 - Walter Matthau, actor (d. 2000)
- October 17 - Montgomery Clift, actor (d. 1966)
- October 18 - Melina Mercouri, actress (d. 1994)
- October 21 - Hy Averback, actor (d. 1997)
- October 22 - Mitzi Green, actress (d. 1969)
- October 27 - Nanette Fabray, actress
- November 2 - Ann Rutherford, actress
- November 10 - Jennifer Holt, actress (d. 1997)
- November 19 - Gene Tierney, actress (d. 1991)
- November 25 - Ricardo Montalban, actor
- November 30 - Virginia Mayo, actress (d. 2005)
- December 29 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (d. 1995)
- December 30 - Jack Lord, actor (d. 1998)
- December 31 – Rex Allen, American cowboy actor, singer (d. 1999)
Film Debuts
Notable deaths
- February 4 Leo Delaney, 35, silent film actor
- February 11 Gaby Deslys 38, actress
- April 25 Clarine Seymour 21 American actress
- May 22 Hal Reid 59 American actor & director(father of Wallace)
- June 14 Gabrielle Rejane 64 stage & film actress
- August 2 Ormer Locklear 29 American stunt flier.
- September 5 Robert Harron 27 American actor
- September 10 Olive Thomas 25 American actress
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