1943 in film

The top ten 1943 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• January 3 – first missing persons telecast (NYC)[5]
• January 23 – The film Casablanca is released nationally in the United States and becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943. It goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards.
• February 20 – American film studio executives agree to allow the United States Office of War Information to censor films.[5]
• June 1 – Veteran English actor Leslie Howard, best known to many for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, dies at the age of 50 in the crash of BOAC Flight 777 off the coast of Galicia, Spain.
• November 23 – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation[5]
• December 31 – New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater[5]

United States

United States unless stated

• Adventures of the Flying Cadets
• The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
• Batman, starring Lewis Wilson
• Daredevils of the West, starring Allan Lane, directed by John English
• Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
• G-Men vs the Black Dragon, starring Rod Cameron, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
• The Masked Marvel, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
• The Phantom, starring Tom Tyler
• Secret Service in Darkest Africa, starring Rod Cameron, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet

• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1945)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

• Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Scrappy (1931–1941)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Donald Duck (1934–1956)
• Daffy Duck (1937 – 1966)
• Goofy (1939–1955)
• Andy Panda (1939–1949)
• Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941–1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943–1949)
• Chip 'n Dale (1943–1956)
• Droopy (1943–1958)

• January 13 – Richard Moll, actor
• January 24 – Sharon Tate, actress and model (died 1969)
• January 25 – Tobe Hooper, director and screenwriter (died 2017)
• January 28 – John Beck, actor
• February 3 – Blythe Danner, actress
• February 9 – Joe Pesci, actor
• February 20 – Mike Leigh, English director
• February 25 – George Harrison, English musician and songwriter (died 2001)
• March 8 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress (died 2010)
• March 15 – David Cronenberg, Canadian director and screenwriter
• March 31 – Christopher Walken, actor
• April 20 – Edie Sedgwick, actress, socialite, model and heiress (died 1971)
• June 7 – Michael Pennington, English actor, director and writer
• June 13 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor
• June 23 – Patrick Bokanowski, French director
• July 3 – Kurtwood Smith, actor
• July 21 – Edward Herrmann, actor (died 2014)
• August 15 – Barbara Bouchet, German-American actress
• August 17 – Robert De Niro, actor
• August 27 – Tuesday Weld, actress
• September 21 – Jerry Bruckheimer, producer
• September 28 – J. T. Walsh, actor (died 1998)
• October 4 – John Bindon, English actor and bodyguard
• October 8 – Chevy Chase, actor and comedian
• October 15 – Penny Marshall, American television actress, film director and producer (died 2018)
• October 22 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress
• November 5 – Sam Shepard, American actor (died 2017)
• November 12 – Wallace Shawn, American actor
• November 28 – Randy Newman, American singer, film composer
• December 13 – Arturo Ripstein, Mexican director
• December 21 – Jack Nance, actor (died 1996)
• December 23 – Harry Shearer, actor
• December 31 – Ben Kingsley, English actor

• February 14 – Dora Gerson, 43, German actress, Caravan of Death, On the Brink of Paradise
• February 19 – Lynne Overman, 58, American actress, Little Miss Marker, Union Pacific, Dixie
• February 20 – Donald Haines, 23, American child actor, Skippy, A Tale of Two Cities
• April 3 – Conrad Veidt, 50, German actor, Casablanca, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Thief of Baghdad, The Spy in Black
• June 1 – Leslie Howard, 50, Academy Award-nominated British actor, Gone with the Wind, Pygmalion, The Petrified Forest, Of Human Bondage
• June 30 – Carlo Wieth, 57, Danish actor
• July 16 – Arthur Byron, 71, American actor, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Gabriel Over the White House

• June Allyson – Best Foot Forward
• Jeanne Crain – The Gang's All Here
• Hume Cronyn – Shadow of a Doubt
• Rhonda Fleming – In Old Oklahoma
• Kim Hunter – The Seventh Victim
• Richard Jaeckel – Guadalcanal Diary
• Dorothy McGuire – Claudia
• Robert Mitchum – The Human Comedy
• Dorothy Malone – Gildersleeve on Broadway
• Ella Raines – Corvette K-225
• Jane Russell – The Outlaw
• Cliff Robertson – We've Never Been Licked
• Lawrence Tierney – Gildersleeve on Broadway
• Shelley Winters – There's Something About a Soldier
• Natalie Wood – The Moon Is Down

• Historical Events for Year 1943 (Part 5)