1960 in film

The top ten 1960 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

The highest-grossing 1960 films in countries outside of North America.

• March 5 – For the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood to film G.I. Blues
• June 16 – Premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's landmark film, Psycho in the United States. Controversial since release, it sets new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and is a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre.
• August 10 – Filming of West Side Story begins.
• October 6 & December 16 – Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films Spartacus and Exodus, released in the United States on these dates.
• October 27 – Film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning released, first of the British social-realist wave.
• November 4 – Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, the last film for both (though Monroe will be working on another at the time of her death).

United States unless stated

United States unless stated

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
• Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

• January 9 – Terje Pennie, Estonian actress
• January 12 – Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
• January 13 – Kevin Anderson, American actor
• January 18 – Mark Rylance, English actor
• February 7 – James Spader, American actor
• February 14 – Meg Tilly, Canadian-American actress
• February 18 – Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
• February 20 – Wendee Lee, American voice actress
• February 28 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress (died 1980)
• March 31 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (died 2010)
• April 4 – Hugo Weaving, Australian-British actor
• April 14 – Brad Garrett, American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian and professional poker-player
• May 21 – Mohanlal, Indian actor
• May 24 – Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
• May 31 – Chris Elliott, American actor and comedian
• June 17 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor
• July 5 – Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stuntman
• July 11 – Jafar Panahi, Iranian director
• July 14 – Jane Lynch, American actress
• August 7
  • David Duchovny, American actor
  • Rosana Pastor, Spanish actress
• August 10 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• August 16 – Timothy Hutton, American actor
• August 17 – Sean Penn, American actor
• August 29 – Viire Valdma, Estonian actress
• September 9 – Hugh Grant, English actor
• September 10 – Colin Firth, English actor
• September 17 – Frédéric Pierrot, French actor
• October 9 – Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (died 2008)
• October 18 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
• November 5 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
• November 11 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
• December 3
  • Daryl Hannah, American actress
  • Julianne Moore, American actress
• December 10
  • Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and film director
  • Michael Schoeffling, American actor and model

• January 1 – Margaret Sullavan, 50, American actress, The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm
• January 3 – Victor Sjöström, 80, Swedish film actor and director, The Phantom Carriage, Wild Strawberries
• January 4 – Dudley Nichols, 64, American screenwriter, Bringing Up Baby, Stagecoach
• January 21 – Matt Moore, 72, Irish-American actor, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Coquette
• January 24 – John Miljan, 67, American actor, The Plainsman, Mississippi
• February 3
  • Fred Buscaglione, 38, Italian actor and singer
  • Pierre Watkin, 70, American actor, Pride of the Yankees, The Hunted
• March 19 – Sonya Levien, 71, Russian screenwriter, Oklahoma!, Quo Vadis, Interrupted Melody
• April 5 – Alma Kruger, 90, American actress, His Girl Friday, Saboteur
• April 25 – Hope Emerson, 62, American actress, Caged, Adam's Rib
• May 27 – George Zucco, 74, British actor, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, My Favorite Blonde
• July 15 – Lawrence Tibbett, 63, American singer and actor, The Rogue Song, Under Your Spell
• July 26 – Cedric Gibbons, 67, Irish production designer and art director, An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful
• July 29 – Leonora Corbett, 52, British actress, Love on Wheels, Living Dangerously
• August 10 – Frank Lloyd, 74, Scottish director, Mutiny on the Bounty, Cavalcade
• September 4 – Alfred E. Green, 71, American director, Baby Face, Top Banana
• September 5 – Aku Korhonen, 57, Finnish actor
• September 11 – Edwin Justus Mayer, 63, American screenwriter, To Be or Not to Be, A Royal Scandal
• October 11 – Richard Cromwell, 50, American actor, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Jezebel
• October 15 – Clara Kimball Young, 70, American actress, My Official Wife, Kept Husbands
• November 3 – Paul Willis, 59, American silent-film actor, The Fall of a Nation
• November 5
  • Mack Sennett, 80, Canadian-American producer and director, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tango Tangles
  • Ward Bond, 57, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, The Searchers, Rio Bravo
• November 16 – Clark Gable, 59, American actor, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind
• November 19 – Phyllis Haver, 61, American actress, Chicago, Sal of Singapore
• November 20 – Betty Lawford, 48, British actress, Criminal Lawyer, The Devil Thumbs a Ride
• December 14 – Gregory Ratoff, 67, Russian actor and director, All About Eve, Intermezzo

• Alan Bates – The Entertainer
• Karen Black – The Prime Time
• Dyan Cannon – The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
• Richard Chamberlain – The Secret of the Purple Reef
• Bruce Dern – Wild River
• Albert Finney – The Entertainer
• Jane Fonda – Tall Story
• Diane Ladd – Murder, Inc.
• Peter O'Toole – Kidnapped
• Robert Redford – Tall Story
• Gian Maria Volonté – Under Ten Flags
• Susannah York – Tunes of Glory