1962 in film

The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.
• August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose.
• September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace begins and will continue for another 5 years.
• October 5 – Dr. No launches the James Bond series, the second longest-running film franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), still running more than 50 years later (Spectre, 2015). It also launches the career of Sean Connery.

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia – Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker

Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley – Sweet Bird of Youth

Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker

Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth

Comedy or Musical:

Best Picture − Comedy: That Touch of Mink

Best Picture − Musical: The Music Man

Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni – Divorce Italian Style

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell – Gypsy

Other

Best Supporting Actor: Omar Sharif – Lawrence of Arabia

Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury – The Manchurian Candidate

Best Director: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy

My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

United States unless stated

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940–1964)
• Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
• The Alvin Show (1961-1962)

• January 4 – Michael France, American screenwriter (d. 2013)
• January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron, American actress
• January 7 – Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
• January 17 – C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor (d. 2016)
• January 17 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
• February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
• February 13 – Michele Greene, American actress
• February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
• February 22 – Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, television personality, conservationist, actor (d. 2006)
• February 27 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
• March 10 – Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, dancer, and director
• March 12 – Chris Sanders, American actor, animator, director and voice actor
• March 18 – Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
• March 20 – Stephen Sommers, American director, screenwriter and producer
• March 21
  • Matthew Broderick, American actor
  • Rosie O'Donnell, American actress and comedian
• April 15 – Tom Kane, American actor and voice actor
• April 27 – James LeGros, American actor
• May 12 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
• May 18 – Karel Roden, Czech actor
• May 26 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor, comedian and director
• June 13 – Ally Sheedy, American actress
• June 19 – Paula Abdul, American singer
• June 27 – Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor
• July 3 – Tom Cruise, American actor
• July 13 – Tom Kenny, American actor, voice actor, singer and comedian
• July 19 – Anthony Edwards, American actor
• July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, voice actor
• July 31 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
• August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress
• August 13 – John Slattery, American actor
• August 16 – Steve Carell, American actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, director
• August 27 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
• August 29 – Ian James Corlett, Canadian-American voice actor
• August 31 – Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
• September 11 – Kristy McNichol, American actress
• September 15 – Scott McNeil, Australian-Canadian voice actor
• September 17 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
• September 24 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress and producer
• September 26 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
• October 1 – Esai Morales, American actor
• October 2 – Jeff Bennett, American actor and voice actor
• October 11 – Joan Cusack, American actress
• October 12 – Deborah Foreman, American actress
• October 13 – Kelly Preston, American actress
• October 26 – Cary Elwes, English actor
• October 28 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
• November 11 – Demi Moore, American actress
• November 14 – Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and comedian
• November 19 – Jodie Foster, American actress and director
• November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor
• December 9 – Felicity Huffman, American actress[4]
• December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress
• December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor

• January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
• January 28 – Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor, The Pearl Maker of Madrid
• February 1 – Carey Wilson, American screenwriter, Mutiny on the Bounty
• February 19 – James Barton, American actor, Here Comes the Groom, Yellow Sky
• February 20 – Halliwell Hobbes, 84, British actor, Gaslight, That Hamilton Woman
• February 28 – Chic Johnson, 70, American comedian, actor, Hellzapoppin'
• March 17 – Frank Orth, 82, American actor, Nancy Drew... Detective, Here Come the Girls
• April 10 – Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood
• April 15 – Clara Blandick, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer
• April 17 – Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Alice in Wonderland
• April 22
  • Angus MacPhail, 59, British screenwriter, Spellbound, The Wrong Man
  • Vera Reynolds, 62, American actress, The Night Club, Feet of Clay
• May 14 – Florence Auer, 82, American actress, The Bishop's Wife, State of the Union
• June 2 – Aeneas MacKenzie, 72, Scottish screenwriter, The Ten Commandments, Ivanhoe
• June 19 – Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
• June 24 – Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress, Waterloo Bridge, Made for Each Other
• July 2 – Valeska Suratt, 80, American stage and screen actress, The Immigrant
• July 4 – Rex Bell, 58, American actor, Broadway to Cheyenne, Law and Lead
• July 23 – Victor Moore, 86, American actor, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Louisiana Purchase
• July 30 – Myron McCormick, 54, American actor, The Hustler, No Time for Sergeants
• August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress, Hollywood icon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot
• August 23 – Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor, Action, The Horse Soldiers
• September 7 – Louis King, 64, American director, Typhoon, Green Grass of Wyoming
• October 2 – Frank Lovejoy, 50, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Goodbye, My Fancy
• October 6 – Tod Browning, 82, American director, Dracula, Freaks
• October 26 – Louise Beavers, 60, American actress, Holiday Inn, The Jackie Robinson Story
• November 15 – Irene, American costume designer, Shall We Dance, Midnight Lace
• December 15 – Charles Laughton, 63, British actor, Spartacus, Witness for the Prosecution
• December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, 70, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind
• December 28 – Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted
• December 29 – Hugh Sinclair, 59, British actor, The Saint's Vacation, Judgment Deferred

• Bernardo Bertolucci (director) – The Grim Reaper
• Jackie Chan – Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
• Julie Christie – Crooks Anonymous
• Tom Courtenay – Private Potter
• Robert Duvall – To Kill a Mockingbird
• Samantha Eggar – Dr. Crippen
• Sally Field – Moon Pilot
• John Hurt – The Wild and the Willing
• Ian McShane – The Wild and the Willing
• Sarah Miles – Term of Trial
• Sydney Pollack (actor) – War Hunt
• George A. Romero (director) – Expostulations
• Tom Skerritt – War Hunt
• Terence Stamp – Term of Trial
• David Warner – We Joined the Navy