1958 in film

The top ten 1958 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• January 29 – Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is an early example of the French New Wave. Le Beau Serge is credited as the first French New Wave feature.
• February 16 – In the Money by William Beaudine is released. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began in 1946.
• February 27 – Harry Cohn, the remaining founder of Columbia Pictures and one of the last remaining Hollywood movie moguls, dies.
• The second installment of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible is officially released, having previously been shelved for political reasons. It would be the last of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible trilogy as the director died during production on Part III.
• April – Samuel J. Briskin leaves MGM and rejoins Columbia Pictures later becoming Vice President and General Manager of the studio.
• April 22 – Sol C. Siegel becomes head of studio operations at MGM.
• May 15 – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer releases Gigi, one of the last classic MGM musicals. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, produced by Arthur Freed, and written by Alan Jay Lerner, the film is released to considerable critical and commercial success and would become the highest-grossing musical ever made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, until That's Entertainment! in 1974.
• May 17 – Joseph E. Levine presents a picture on his own for the first time with 1954's Attila in an all-out exploitation saturation booking in the United States earning rentals of $2 million.
• August 31 – Carry on Sergeant, the first film in the popular British Carry On series, opens.
• October – Universal Pictures sells the Universal lot to Music Corporation of America for $11.25 million and leases it back for $1 million a year.
• November 15 – During production of Solomon and Sheba in Madrid, Spain, actor Tyrone Power dies of a massive heart attack. The production of the film was halted and was later finished in late 1959. Power, who was playing the role of King Solomon, was replaced in the film by Yul Brynner.
• December 16 – MCA Inc. acquires the Universal Pictures studio lot for $11 million. It would later acquire the studio.

United States unless stated

Carry On series (1958–1992)

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
• Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
• Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

Ending this year

• Droopy (1943-1958)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

• January 4 – Julian Sands, English actor
• January 26 – Ellen DeGeneres, American actress & comedian
• February 13 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress
• February 19 – Pierre-Loup Rajot, French actor & director
• March 3 – Miranda Richardson, English actress
• March 10 – Sharon Stone, American actress & producer
• March 20 – Holly Hunter, American actress
• March 21 – Gary Oldman, English actor & filmmaker
• March 29 – Anu Lamp, Estonian actress
• April 3
  • Alec Baldwin, American actor
  • Jaan Rekkor, Estonian actor
• April 14 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor, writer & director
• April 21 – Andie MacDowell, American actress
• April 29 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
• May 12 – Tony Oliver, Puerto Rican voice actor
• May 29 – Annette Bening, American actress
• June 20 – Paul Poom, Estonian actor
• June 22 – Bruce Campbell, American actor & director
• July 8 – Kevin Bacon, American actor
• July 27 - Vincenzo Nicoli, English-Italian actor
• August 3 – Lambert Wilson, French actor
• August 16
  • Angela Bassett, American actress
  • Madonna, American pop singer & actress
  • Toby Sedgwick, English actor and theatre director
• August 18 – Madeleine Stowe, American actress
• August 24 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor & comedian
• August 25 – Tim Burton, American director, producer & screenwriter
• August 29 – Michael Jackson, American pop singer & actor (died 2009)
• September 6 – Michael Winslow, American actor, beatboxer, and comedian
• September 10 – Chris Columbus, American director, producer & screenwriter
• September 16 – Jennifer Tilly, Canadian-American actress
• October 9 – Michael Paré, American actor
• October 16 – Tim Robbins, American actor, screenwriter, producer & director
• October 20 – Viggo Mortensen, Danish actor
• November 5 – Robert Patrick, American actor
• November 16 – Marg Helgenberger, American actress
• November 17 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress & singer
• November 22 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
• December 30 – Pedro Costa, Portuguese director
• December 31- Bebe Neuwirth, American Actress

• January 11 – Edna Purviance, 62, American actress, The Kid, A Woman of Paris
• January 13 – Jesse L. Lasky, 77, American producer, Wings, The Cocoanuts
• February 13 – Helen Twelvetrees, 49, American actress, A Bedtime Story, Now I'll Tell
• February 15 – William Berke, 54, American director, Dick Tracy, FBI Girl
• February 17 – Tala Birell, 50, Romanian actress, Women in the Night, Dangerous Millions
• February 27 – Harry Cohn, 66, American film executive, co-founder of CBC Sales Association (Columbia Pictures), Platinum Blonde, American Madness
• March 22
  • Mike Todd, 48, American producer, Around the World in 80 Days, This Is Cinerama
  • Art Cohn, 48, American screenwriter, The Set-Up, Ten Thousand Bedrooms
• April 9 – Sol M. Wurtzel, 67, American producer, Charlie Chan in Rio, Bright Eyes
• April 15 – Estelle Taylor, 63, American actress, Cimarron, The Ten Commandments
• May 2 – Henry Cornelius, 44, South African director, Genevieve, I Am a Camera
• May 19 – Ronald Colman, 67, British actor, Lost Horizon, Random Harvest
• June 6 – Virginia Pearson, 72, American actress, The Phantom of the Opera, The Wizard of Oz
• June 9 – Robert Donat, 53, British actor, The 39 Steps, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• July 11 – Evelyn Varden, 65, American actress, The Night of the Hunter, Ten Thousand Bedrooms
• July 20 – Franklin Pangborn, 69, American actor, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, The Bank Dick
• August 1 – Albert E. Smith, 83, English director and producer, co-founder of Vitagraph Studios
• August 8 – Barbara Bennett, 51, American actress, Black Jack, Syncopation
• August 18 – Bonar Colleano, 34, British actor, Eight Iron Men, Joe MacBeth
• August 21 – Kurt Neumann, 50, German director, The Fly, Mohawk
• August 27 – Priscilla Lawson, 44, American actress, Flash Gordon, Rose Bowl
• October 4 – Ida Wüst, 74, German actress, Chamber Music
• November 15 – Tyrone Power, 44, American actor, Witness for the Prosecution, The Mark of Zorro
• December 1 – Boots Mallory, 45, American actress, Sing Sing Nights, Here's Flash Casey
• December 20 – Elisabeth Risdon, 71, British actress, Florence Nightingale, Five Came Back
• December 21 – H. B. Warner, 83, British actor, Lost Horizon, It's a Wonderful Life

• Claudia Cardinale – Goha
• Veronica Cartwright – In Love and War
• Patty Duke – Country Music Holiday
• Peter Falk – Wind Across the Everglades
• Nigel Hawthorne – Carve Her Name with Pride
• Ian Holm – Girls at Sea
• Jack Nicholson – The Cry Baby Killer
• Suzanne Pleshette – The Geisha Boy
• Christopher Plummer – Stage Struck
• Vanessa Redgrave – Behind the Mask
• Oliver Reed – The Square Peg
• Don Rickles – Run Silent, Run Deep
• Gena Rowlands – The High Cost of Loving
• John Williams – Daddy-O