1959 in film

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with '' Ben-Hur'' winning a record 11 Academy Awards.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

* January 23 – Republic Pictures releases its last production, ''Plunderers of Painted Flats''.
*January 29 – Walt Disney's ''Sleeping Beauty'' premieres, their most expensive film to date and the first animated film to be shot in Super Technirama 70. It initially ends up losing money for the studio due to its high production costs. However, it would eventually gain a cult following and is now considered one of Disney's great classics.
*April 30 – François Truffaut's ''The 400 Blows'' opens the 1959 Cannes Film Festival bringing international attention to the French New Wave.
* June 4 – The Three Stooges release their 190th and last short film, ''Sappy Bull Fighters''.
* June 7 – A contract between Paramount and Jerry Lewis Productions is signed specifying a payment of $10 million plus 60% of the profits for 14 films over a seven-year period. This contract made Lewis the highest paid individual Hollywood talent to date and was unprecedented in that he had unlimited creative control, including final cut, and the return of film rights after 30 years.
* July 1 - Herbert J. Yates, founder of Republic Pictures, sells his controlling stake in the company.
* July – '' Les Cousins'', another film of the French New Wave, wins the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
* July 22 – Joseph E. Levine promotes the release of ''Hercules'' in the United States starring Steve Reeves which popularizes the sword and sandals genre.
* August 4 – '' The Big Fisherman'' is the first film released in Super Panavision 70.
* September 30 – The film of '' Mise Éire'', made by George Morrison for Gael Linn, is premiered to close the Cork Film Festival, the first feature-length Irish language film.
* October 7 – Rock Hudson, who is later voted top in the Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll for the year, appears in ''Pillow Talk'' alongside Doris Day for the first time.
* October 14 – Legendary Australian-born actor Errol Flynn dies of a heart attack in Vancouver, Canada at the age of 50.
* November 18 – William Wyler's '' Ben-Hur'', the most expensive film of all time with a budget of $15,175,000, premieres at Loew's State Theater in New York City. It went on to win a record 11 Academy Awards.
* December 2 – The battle of the smellies starts with the release of the documentary ''Behind the Great Wall'' in AromaRama, with scents pumped into the theater during the film.

Awards

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
:''Black Orpheus'' (''Orfeu Negro''), directed by Marcel Camus, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
:'' Il Generale della Rovere'' (''General della Rovere''), directed by Roberto Rossellini, Italy / France
:'' La grande guerra'' (''The Great War''), directed by Mario Monicelli, Italy / France

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
:'' Les Cousins'' (''The Cousins''), directed by Claude Chabrol, France

1959 film releases

United States unless stated

January–March

*January 1959
**2 January
***''Kaagaz Ke Phool'' (India)
**6 January
***''The Captain's Table''
**13 January
***'' Guns, Girls and Gangsters''
**16 January
***''Anari'' (India)
**22 January
***'' Room at the Top'' (Britain)
***'' The Tiger of Eschnapur'' (West Germany)
**25 January
***'' The Law'' (Italy)
**28 January
***'' The Trap''
**29 January
***''Sleeping Beauty''
*February 1959
**11 February
***'' The Hanging Tree''
**12 February
***'' The Black Orchid''
**15 February
***''No Name on the Bullet''
***''Ride Lonesome''
**17 February
***''House on Haunted Hill''
**19 February
***''The Journey''
**22 February
***''Model for Murder''
**24 February
***''Make Mine a Million'' (Britain)
**26 February
***'' City of Fear''
*March 1959
**3 March
***''The Giant Behemoth''
***'' A Stranger in My Arms''
**4 March
***''Up Periscope''
**5 March
***''Carry On Nurse'' (Britain)
**6 March
***'' Breakout''
**8 March
***''Too Many Crooks'' (Britain)
**10 March
***''Carlton-Browne of the F.O.'' (Britain)
**11 March
***'' Les Cousins'' (France)
**12 March
***'' The 39 Steps''
**18 March
***''The Diary of Anne Frank''
***''The Sad Horse''
**19 March
***''Green Mansions''
***'' The Shaggy Dog''
**20 March
***''Alias Jesse James''
**25 March
***''Al Capone''
***''Tiger Bay'' (Britain)
**29 March
***''Honeymoon'' (Britain/Spain)
***'' Some Like It Hot''

April–June

*April 1959
**1 April
***''Compulsion''
***''Warlock''
**4 April
***'' Rio Bravo''
**6 April
***''The Sound and the Fury''
**8 April
***''Thunder in the Sun''
**10 April
***''Gidget''
**14 April
***''The Fugitive Kind''
**16 April
***''Court Martial'' (West Germany)
**21 April
***''Sapphire'' (Britain)
**23 April
***'' Count Your Blessings''
***'' The World, the Flesh and the Devil''
**25 April
***''A Home for Tanya'' (USSR)
***'' Westbound''
**29 April
***'' The Mating Game''
**30 April
***'' Imitation of Life''
*May 1959
**1 May
***''The World of Apu'' (India)
**2 May
***'' The Sign of Leo'' (France)
**4 May
***''The 400 Blows'' (France)
***''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (Britain)
**8 May
***''These Thousand Hills''
**9 May
***''There Will Be No Leave Today'' (USSR)
**12 May
***''Face of a Fugitive''
***''Good Morning'' (Japan)
**14 May
***''Serious Charge'' (Britain)
**19 May
***''The Young Philadelphians''
**21 May
***'' Ask Any Girl''
***'' Shake Hands with the Devil'' (U.S./Ireland)
**23 May
***'' Little Greaser''
**27 May
***''The Wild and the Innocent''
***''Woman Obsessed''
**29 May
***''The Man in the Net''
***'' Pork Chop Hill''
*June 1959
**4 June
***''Nazarín'' (Mexico)
**10 June
***''Hiroshima Mon Amour'' (France/Japan)
**12 June
***''Black Orpheus'' (Brazil/France/Italy)
***''The Horse Soldiers''
**16 June
***'' Don't Give Up The Ship''
***''John Paul Jones''
***''Ten Seconds to Hell''
**17 June
***'' The Hangman''
***''Middle of the Night''
**18 June
***''The Five Pennies''
***''Say One for Me''
***''Teenagers from Outer Space''
***''This Happy Feeling''
**24 June
***''Porgy and Bess''
**25 June
***''The Giant Gila Monster''
***''The Killer Shrews''
**26 June
***''Darby O'Gill and the Little People'' (With ''Donald in Mathmagic Land'' released with it)
***'' This Earth Is Mine''
**27 June
***'' Letter Never Sent'' (USSR)

July–September

*July 1959
**1 July
***''North by Northwest''
**2 July
***''Anatomy of a Murder''
**3 July
***''The Beat Generation''
***''The Heart of a Man''
***''Return of the Fly''
**5 July
***''The Big Circus''
**8 July
***''Tarzan's Greatest Adventure''
**11 July
***''Yesterday's Enemy''
**14 July
***''The Legend of Tom Dooley''
**15 July
***''A Hole in the Head''
**16 July
***''The Alligator People''
**17 July
***''The Mouse That Roared'' (Britain)
**18 July
***'' The Nun's Story''
**20 July
***''Day of the Outlaw''
**22 July
***'' Plan 9 from Outer Space''
**24 July
***''Holiday for Lovers''
**29 July
***''The Angry Hills (film), The Angry Hills''
***''Last Train from Gun Hill''
***''The Tingler''
**30 July
***''Blue Denim''
*August 1959
**4 August
***'' The Big Fisherman''
**5 August
***''It Happened to Jane''
**6 August
***''The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock''
***''The Scapegoat (1959 film), The Scapegoat'' (Britain)
**9 August
***''The Bat (1959 film), The Bat''
**11 August
***''The Big Operator (1959 film), The Big Operator''
**13 August
***''I'm All Right Jack'' (Britain)
**19 August
***''But Not for Me (1959 film), But Not for Me''
***''It Started with a Kiss (film), It Started with a Kiss''
**20 August
***''The Devil's Disciple (1959 film), The Devil's Disciple'' (U.S./Britain)
**22 August
***''Fate of a Man'' (USSR)
**24 August
***''Sampo (film), Sampo'' (Soviet films of 1959, U.S.S.R./List of Finnish films of the 1950s, Finland)
*September 1959
**3 September
***''Carry On Teacher'' (Britain)
**4 September
***''The Blue Angel (1959 film), The Blue Angel''
**9 September
***''Les Liaisons Dangereuses (film), Les liaisons dangereuses'' (France)
**10 September
***''The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery''
**11 September
***''That Kind of Woman''
**12 September
***''Battle Beyond the Sun'' (USSR)
**15 September
***''Look Back in Anger (1959 film), Look Back in Anger'' (Britain)
**16 September
***''Jet Storm'' (Britain)
**18 September
***''Dil Deke Dekho'' (India)
**24 September
***''Killers of Kilimanjaro''
**25 September
***''The Great War (1959 film), The Great War'' (Italy)
***''The Mummy (1959 film), The Mummy'' (Britain)
**26 September
***''General Della Rovere'' (Italy)

October–December

*October 1959
**3 October
***''A Bucket of Blood''
***''Girls Town (1959 film), Girls Town''
**6 October
***''Pillow Talk''
**7 October
***''4D Man''
***''Career (1959 film), Career''
***''North West Frontier (film), North West Frontier''
**8 October
***''The Nightingale's Prayer'' (Egyptian films of the 1950s, Egypt)
**9 October
***''The Best of Everything (film), The Best of Everything''
**15 October
***''Odds Against Tomorrow''
***''The Roots of Heaven (film), The Roots of Heaven''
**16 October
***''Two Men in Manhattan'' (France)
**18 October
***''The Crimson Kimono''
**21 October
***''The FBI Story''
***''They Came to Cordura''
***''The Wonderful Country (film), The Wonderful Country''
**22 October
***''Die Brücke (film), The Bridge'' (West Germany)
***''The Last Angry Man''
**23 October
***''Libel (film), Libel'' (Britain)
**25 October
***''The Three Treasures'' (Japan)
**27 October
***''Solomon and Sheba''
**30 October
***''Paigham'' (India)
***''The Wasp Woman''
*November 1959
**2 November
***''Edge of Eternity (film), Edge of Eternity''
**3 November
***''Fires on the Plain (1959 film), Fires on the Plain'' (Japan)
**4 November
***''Jet Over the Atlantic''
**6 November
***''The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film), The Wreck of the Mary Deare'' (U.S./Britain)
**10 November
***''Happy Anniversary (1959 film), Happy Anniversary''
***''Third Man on the Mountain''
**11 November
***''The Facts of Murder (film), The Facts of Murder'' (Italy)
***''Shadows (1959 film), Shadows''
***''Yellowstone Kelly''
**12 November
***''The Miracle (1959 film), The Miracle''
***''The Soldiers of Pancho Villa'' (Mexico)
**13 November
***''Estate Violenta'' (Italy/France)
**14 November
***''Bad Girls Don't Cry'' (Italy)
***''Insan Jaag Utha'' (India)
**17 November
***''Beloved Infidel''
**18 November
***'' Ben-Hur''
***''A Summer Place (film), A Summer Place''
**22 November
***''Timbuktu (1959 film), Timbuktu''
**23 November
***''The Angry Red Planet''
**29 November
***''The Atomic Submarine''
**30 November
***''The Man Who Could Cheat Death'' (Britain)
*December 1959
**1 December
***''1001 Arabian Nights (1959 film), 1001 Arabian Nights''
***''Ballad of a Soldier'' (USSR)
***''The Rookie (1959 film), The Rookie''
**5 December
***''La Fièvre Monte à El Pao, Republic of Sin'' (France/Mexico)
***''Operation Petticoat''
**7 December
***''Never So Few''
**11 December
***''Expresso Bongo (film), Expresso Bongo'' (Britain)
***''Li'l Abner (1959 film), Li'l Abner''
***''SOS Pacific'' (Britain)
**12 December
***''Hannibal (1959 film), Hannibal'' (Italy)
***''Terror Is a Man'' (U.S./List of Philippine films, Philippines)
**15 December
***''Follow a Star'' (Britain)
**16 December
***''Blessings of the Land'' (Philippine films of the 1950s, Philippines)
***''The Gazebo''
***''Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film), Journey to the Center of the Earth''
***''Pickpocket (film), Pickpocket'' (France)
***''The Shakedown (1959 film), The Shakedown''
**17 December
***''On the Beach (1959 film), On the Beach''
**18 December
***''Vi er allesammen tossede, We are Altogether Crazy'' (Danish films of the 1950s, Denmark)
**20 December
***''A Dog's Best Friend''
***''Suddenly, Last Summer (film), Suddenly, Last Summer''
**21 December
***''Tommy the Toreador'' (Britain)
**25 December
***''Magic Boy (film), Magic Boy'' (Japan)
**26 December
***''Battle in Outer Space'' (Japan)
**28 December
***''Come Dance with Me (1959 film), Come Dance with Me'' (France/Italy)
**30 December
***''Our Man in Havana (film), Our Man in Havana'' (Britain)
**31 December
***''The Adventures of Buratino (1959 film), The Adventures of Buratino'' (USSR)

Notable films released in 1959

United States unless stated

#

*''4D Man'', starring Robert Lansing (actor), Robert Lansing and Lee Meriwether
*''The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock'', starring Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine
*'' The 39 Steps'', starring Kenneth More – (Britain)
*''The 400 Blows'' (Les Quatre Cents Coups), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud – (France)Nights
*''1001 Arabian Nights (1959 film), 1001 Arabian Nights'', animated film directed by Jack Kinney.

A

*''The Adventures of Buratino (1959 film), The Adventures of Buratino'' (Priklyucheniya Buratino) – (USSR)
*''Al Capone'', starring Rod Steiger
*''Alias Jesse James'', starring Bob Hope
*''The Alligator People'', starring Beverly Garland
*''Anari'', starring Raj Kapoor – (India)
*''Anatomy of a Murder'', directed by Otto Preminger, starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, Arthur O'Connell, Kathryn Crosby, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott
*''The Angry Hills (film), The Angry Hills'', starring Robert Mitchum and Gia Scala
*''The Angry Red Planet'' (aka Invasion of Mars), starring Gerald Mohr
*''Argument About Basia'' (Awantura o Basię) – (List of Polish films of the 1950s, Poland)

B

*''Bad Girls Don't Cry'' (La notte brava), starring Rosanna Schiaffino – (Italy)
*''Ballad of a Soldier'' (Ballada o soldate), directed by Grigory Chukhray – (Soviet films of 1959, U.S.S.R.)
*''The Bat (1959 film), The Bat'', starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead
*''Battle Beyond the Sun'' () – (U.S.S.R.)
*''Battle in Outer Space'', directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
*''The Battle of the Sexes (1959 film), The Battle of the Sexes'', starring Peter Sellers – (Britain)
*''The Beat Generation'', starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren
*''Beloved Infidel'', starring Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr
*'' Ben-Hur'', directed by William Wyler, starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins – winner of 11 32nd Academy Awards, Academy Awards and 4 Golden Globes
*''The Best of Everything (film), The Best of Everything'', starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford
*''The Big Circus'', starring Victor Mature, Rhonda Fleming, Red Buttons, Gilbert Roland, Kathryn Crosby, Kathryn Grant
*'' The Big Fisherman'', starring Howard Keel
*''The Big Operator (1959 film), The Big Operator'', starring Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren
*''The Birth of Japan'' (Nippon Tanjō), starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
*''Black Orpheus'', directed by Marcel Camus – winner of Palme d'Or, Golden Globe, Oscar and Bafta – (Brazil/France/Italy)
*''Blessings of the Land'' (Biyaya ng lupa), starring Rosa Rosal – (Philippine films of the 1950s, Philippines)
*'' Breakout'', starring Hazel Court
*''The Bridge (1959 film), The Bridge'' (Die Brücke), directed by Bernhard Wicki – (West Germany)
*''A Bucket of Blood'', directed by Roger Corman
*''But Not for Me (1959 film), But Not for Me'', directed by Walter Lang, starring Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb

C

*''The Captain's Table'', starring John Gregson and Peggy Cummins – (Britain)
*''Career (1959 film), Career'', starring Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Franciosa
*''Carlton-Browne of the F.O.'', starring Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, John Le Mesurier – (Britain)
*''Carry On Nurse'', starring Shirley Eaton and Kenneth Connor – (Britain)
*''Carry On Teacher'', starring Kenneth Connor and Leslie Phillips – (Britain)
*''The Chasers (1959 film), The Chasers'' (Jakten) – (Norwegian films of the 1950s, Norway)
*'' City of Fear'', score by Jerry Goldsmith
*''Come Dance with Me (1959 film), Come Dance with Me'', starring Brigitte Bardot – (France/Italy)
*''Compulsion'', starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, E. G. Marshall
*''Court Martial'' (Kriegsgericht) – (West Germany)
*'' Les Cousins'', directed by Claude Chabrol – (France)
*''The Crimson Kimono'', directed by Samuel Fuller, starring James Shigeta

D

*''Danger Within'', starring Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Richard Attenborough – (Britain)
*''Darby O'Gill and the Little People'', starring Sean Connery
*''Date With Death'', starring Gerald Mohr
*''Day of the Outlaw'', starring Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Burl Ives
*''The Death Ship (1959 film), The Death Ship'' (Das Totenschiff), starring Horst Buchholz – (List of German films of 1945–59, West Germany)
*''Destiny of a Man'' (Sudba cheloveka), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk – (Soviet films of 1959, U.S.S.R.)
*''The Devil's Disciple (1959 film), The Devil's Disciple'', starring Laurence Olivier, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas – (U.S./Britain)
*''The Diary of Anne Frank'', directed by George Stevens, starring Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn
*''Dil Deke Dekho'', starring Shammi Kapoor – (India)
*''Donald in Mathmagic Land'' (short subject)
*'' Don't Give Up The Ship'', starring Jerry Lewis
*''Støv på hjernen (1959 film), Dust on the Brain'' (Støv på hjernen) – (Norwegian films of the 1950s, Norway)

E

*''Expresso Bongo (film), Expresso Bongo'', starring Laurence Harvey and Cliff Richard – (Britain)

F

*''The FBI Story'', starring James Stewart
*''Face of a Fugitive'', starring Fred MacMurray
*''Un maledetto imbroglio, The Facts of Murder'' (Un maledetto imbroglio), directed by and starring Pietro Germi with Claudia Cardinale – (Italy)
*''La fièvre monte à El Pao'' (Fever Mounts at El Pao), directed by Luis Buñuel – (France/Mexico)
*''Fires on the Plain (1959 film), Fires on the Plain'' (Nobi), directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan)
*''The Five Pennies'', starring Danny Kaye
*''Floating Weeds'' (Ukikusa), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
*''Follow a Star'', starring Norman Wisdom, Ron Moody, Hattie Jacques – (Britain)
*''Forbidden Women (1959 film), Forbidden Women'', directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar, starring Salah Zulfikar and Huda Sultan – (List of Egyptian films of 1959, Egypt)
*''The Fugitive Kind'', directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward

G

*''The Gazebo'', starring Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
*'' Il Generale della Rovere'', directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
*''The Giant Behemoth'', starring Gene Evans and André Morell
*''Gidget'', starring Sandra Dee
*''Girls Town (1959 film), Girls Town'', starring Mamie Van Doren
*''Good Morning'' (Ohayō), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
*''The Great War (1959 film), La grande guerra'' (The Great War), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
*''The Gunfight at Dodge City'', starring Joel McCrea
*'' Guns, Girls and Gangsters'', directed by Edward L. Cahn

H

*'' The Hanging Tree'', directed by Delmer Daves, starring Gary Cooper, Karl Malden, George C. Scott
*'' The Hangman'', starring Robert Taylor (American actor), Robert Taylor and Tina Louise
*''Hannibal (1959 film), Hannibal'', starring Victor Mature and Rita Gam
*''Happy Anniversary (1959 film), Happy Anniversary'', starring David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor
*''The Heart of a Man'', starring Frankie Vaughan and Anne Heywood – (Britain)
*''Hiroshima Mon Amour'', directed by Alain Resnais – (France/Japan)
*''A Hole in the Head'', starring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Carolyn Jones, Eddie Hodges
*''Holiday for Lovers'', starring Jane Wyman, Clifton Webb, Jill St. John
*''A Home for Tanya'' (Otchiy dom) – (USSR)
*''Honeymoon'' (Luna de miel), directed by Michael Powell – (Britain/Spain)
*''The Horse Soldiers'', starring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
*''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (British), a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Films, starring Peter Cushing as Holmes, Andre Morell as Watson and Christopher Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville – (Britain)
*''House on Haunted Hill'', starring Vincent Price

I

*''I'm All Right Jack'', directed by the Boulting Brothers, starring Peter Sellers and Ian Carmichael – (Britain)
*'' Imitation of Life'', directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Juanita Moore
*''The Immoral Mr. Teas'', directed by Russ Meyer
*''The Indian Tomb (1959 film), The Indian Tomb'', directed by Fritz Lang – (West Germany)
*''Insan Jaag Utha'', starring Madhubala – (India)
*''It Happened to Jane'', starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
*''It Started with a Kiss (film), It Started with a Kiss'', starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford

J

*''The Jazz Singer (1959 film), The Jazz Singer'', a television film starring Jerry Lewis
*''Jet Over the Atlantic'', starring Guy Madison and Virginia Mayo
*''Jet Storm'', starring Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Diane Cilento, Mai Zetterling – (Britain)
*''John Paul Jones'', starring Robert Stack
*''The Journey'', starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr
*''Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film), Journey to the Center of the Earth'', starring James Mason and Pat Boone

K

*''Kaagaz Ke Phool'' (Paper Flowers), directed by and starring Guru Dutt – (India)
*''Kapò'', directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Susan Strasberg – (Italy/France/List of Yugoslav films of the 1950s, Yugoslavia)
*''Killers of Kilimanjaro'', starring Robert Taylor (American actor), Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey

L

*''The Last Angry Man'', starring Paul Muni
*''Last Train from Gun Hill'', starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman
*'' The Law'' (La Legge), starring Gina Lollobrigida and Yves Montand – (Italy)
*''El Lazarillo de Tormes'', winner of Golden Bear – (Spain)
*''Le Signe du Lion, Le signe du lion, directed by Éric Rohmer – (France)''
*''The Legend of Tom Dooley'', starring Michael Landon
*''Les Liaisons Dangereuses (film), Les liaisons dangereuses'', directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jeanne Moreau – (France)
*'' Letter Never Sent'' (Neotpravlennoye pismo) – (USSR)
*''Little Greaser (film), Little Greaser''
*''Libel (film), Libel'', directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Dirk Bogarde and Olivia de Havilland – (Britain)
*''Li'l Abner (1959 film), Li'l Abner'', directed by Melvin Frank, starring Peter Palmer (actor), Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Stella Stevens, Julie Newmar, Stubby Kaye
*''Look Back in Anger (1959 film), Look Back in Anger'', directed by Tony Richardson, starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom – (Britain)

M

*''Magic Boy (film), Magic Boy'' (Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke) – Japanese animated film
*''Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre'', directed by Jean Delannoy, starring Jean Gabin – (France)
*''Make Mine a Million'', directed by Lance Comfort and starring Arthur Askey and Sid James – (Britain)
*''The Man in the Net'', directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Alan Ladd and Carolyn Jones
*''The Man Who Could Cheat Death'', starring Anton Diffring and Hazel Court
*''Model for Murder'', starring Keith Andes and Hazel Court
*''The Master and His Servants'' (Herren og hans tjenere) – (Norwegian films of the 1950s, Norway)
*''A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film), A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (Sen noci svatojánské), an animated puppet film by Jiří Trnka – (Czech films of the 1950s, Czechoslovakia)
*''The Miracle (1959 film), The Miracle'', starring Carroll Baker and Roger Moore
*''Mise Éire (film), Mise Éire'' – (Ireland)
*''The Mouse That Roared'', starring Peter Sellers and Jean Seberg – (Britain)
*''The Mummy (1959 film), The Mummy'', starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – (Britain)
*''My Second Brother'', directed by Shōhei Imamura – (Japan)

N

*''Nazarín'', directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)
*''Never So Few'', starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen
*''Night Train (1959 film), Night Train'' (Pociąg) – (List of Polish films of the 1950s, Poland)
*''The Nightingale's Prayer'' (Doaa al-Karawan) – (Egyptian films of the 1950s, Egypt)
*''No Name on the Bullet'', starring Audie Murphy
*''North by Northwest'', directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
*''North West Frontier (film), North West Frontier'', aka ''Flame Over India'', starring Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall – (Britain)
*'' The Nun's Story'', directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Audrey Hepburn

O

*''Odd Obsession'' (Kagi), directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan)
*''Odds Against Tomorrow'', starring Harry Belafonte and Robert Ryan
*''On the Beach (1959 film), On the Beach'', directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins
*''Operation Petticoat'', starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
*''Our Man in Havana (film), Our Man in Havana'', directed by Carol Reed, starring Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Noël Coward, Ernie Kovacs – (Britain)
*''The Overcoat (1959 film), The Overcoat'' (Shinel) – (USSR)

P

*''Paigham'', directed by S. S. Vasan, starring Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Raaj Kumar, B. Saroja Devi – (India)
*''Pickpocket (film), Pickpocket'', directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
*''Pillow Talk'', starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson
*''El Pisito'' (The Little Apartment), directed bt Marco Ferreri – (Spain)
*'' Plan 9 from Outer Space'', directed by Ed Wood, Edward D. Wood, Jr., starring Tor Johnson, Maila Nurmi, Vampira, Bela Lugosi
*''Porgy and Bess (1959 film), Porgy and Bess'', a musical directed by Otto Preminger, starring Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, music by George Gershwin, George and Ira Gershwin
*'' Pork Chop Hill'', starring Gregory Peck

R

*''The Rest Is Silence (1959 film), The Rest Is Silence'' (Der Rest ist Schweigen), starring Hardy Krüger – (List of German films of 1945–59, West Germany)
*''Return of the Fly'', starring Vincent Price
*''Ride Lonesome'', starring Randolph Scott
*''Rio Bravo (1959 film), Rio Bravo'', directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson
*''The Rookie (1959 film), The Rookie'', starring Julie Newmar, Tommy Noonan, Peter Marshall (entertainer), Peter Marshall
*'' Room at the Top'', directed by Jack Clayton, starring Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey – (Britain)
*''The Roots of Heaven (film), The Roots of Heaven'', directed by John Huston, starring Errol Flynn, Trevor Howard, Juliette Gréco, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles

S

*''Sampo (film), Sampo'' (The Day the Earth Froze) – (Soviet films of 1959, U.S.S.R./List of Finnish films of the 1950s, Finland)
*''Sapphire'', directed by Basil Dearden – (Britain)
*''Say One for Me'', starring Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds and Robert Wagner
*''The Scapegoat (1959 film), The Scapegoat'', starring Alec Guinness and Bette Davis – (Britain)
*''Serious Charge'', starring Anthony Quayle – (Britain)
*''Shadows (1959 film), Shadows'', directed by John Cassavetes
*'' The Shaggy Dog'', starring Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen and Tommy Kirk
*''The Shakedown (1959 film), The Shakedown'', starring Donald Pleasence and Hazel Court
*'' Shake Hands with the Devil'', starring James Cagney – (U.S./Ireland)
*''Sleeping Beauty'', animated film produced by Walt Disney
*''The Soldiers of Pancho Villa'' (La cucaracha), starring María Félix and Dolores del Río – (Mexico)
*''Solomon and Sheba'', starring Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida
*'' Some Like It Hot'', directed by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
*''SOS Pacific'', starring Richard Attenborough – (Britain)
*''The Sound and the Fury'', starring Yul Brynner and Joanne Woodward
*''Stars (film), Stars'' (Sterne), directed by Konrad Wolf – (List of East German films#1950s, East Germany/List of Bulgarian films#1950s, Bulgaria)
*'' A Stranger in My Arms'', starring Jeff Chandler (actor), Jeff Chandler, June Allyson, Mary Astor and Sandra Dee
*''Suddenly, Last Summer (film), Suddenly, Last Summer'', directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Katharine Hepburn
*''A Summer Place (film), A Summer Place'', starring Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee

T

*''Tarzan's Greatest Adventure'', directed by John Guillermin, starring Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sean Connery
*''Telegrame'' – (List of Romanian films#1950s, Romania)
*''Ten Seconds to Hell'', directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Jack Palance
*''Terror Is a Man'', starring Francis Lederer – (U.S./List of Philippine films, Philippines)
*''That Kind of Woman'', directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter
*''The Unknown Woman (1959 film), The Unknown Woman'', directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar, starring Shadia, Shoukry Sarhan and Kamal el-Shennawi, Kamal El-Shennawi – (List of Egyptian films of 1959, Egypt)
*''There Will Be No Leave Today'' (Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (USSR)
*''These Thousand Hills'', starring Richard Egan (actor), Richard Egan, Don Murray (actor), Don Murray, Lee Remick
*''They Came to Cordura'', starring Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Richard Conte, Dick York, Tab Hunter
*''Third Man on the Mountain'', starring Michael Rennie
*''Tiger Bay'', starring John Mills and Hayley Mills – (Britain)
*'' The Tiger of Eschnapur'', directed by Fritz Lang – (West Germany)
*''The Tingler'', starring Vincent Price
*''Tommy the Toreador'', starring Tommy Steele – (Britain)
*''Too Many Crooks'', starring Terry-Thomas and George Cole (actor), George Cole – (Britain)
*''Train Without a Timetable'' (Vlak bez voznog reda) – (List of Yugoslav films of the 1950s, Yugoslavia)
*'' The Trap'', starring Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Earl Holliman, Tina Louise
*''Two Men in Manhattan'' (Deux hommes dans Manhattan), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville – (France)

U

*''Up Periscope'', starring James Garner and Edmond O'Brien

V

*''Il vedovo'' (The Widower), directed by Dino Risi, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
*''La vida alrededor'' (Life Around Us) – (Spain)
*''Violent Summer'' (Estate violenta), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant – (Italy/France)

W

*''Warlock'', directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark and Anthony Quinn
*''The Wasp Woman'', starring Susan Cabot
*''Vi er allesammen tossede, We Are Altogether Crazy'' (Vi er allesammen tossede) – (Danish films of the 1950s, Denmark)
*'' Westbound'', starring Randolph Scott and Virginia Mayo
*''When the Woman Butts In'' (Kam čert nemůže) – (Czech films of the 1950s, Czechoslovakia)
*''The Wild and the Innocent'', starring Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Sandra Dee
*''Woman Obsessed'', starring Susan Hayward
*''The Wonderful Country'', starring Robert Mitchum and Julie London
*'' The World, the Flesh and the Devil'', starring Harry Belafonte and Inger Stevens
*''The World of Apu'' (Apur Sansar), directed by Satyajit Ray – (Bengali films of the 1950s, India)
*''The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film), The Wreck of the Mary Deare'', starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston – (Britain/U.S.)

Y

*''Yellowstone Kelly'', starring Clint Walker and Edd Byrnes
*''Yesterday's Enemy'', directed by Val Guest, starring Stanley Baker – (Britain)
*''The Young Philadelphians'', starring Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Brian Keith, Alexis Smith, Robert Vaughn

Z

*''Zorro, the Avenger'', feature film released outside of the U.S., compiled from six episodes of the Disney ''Zorro, the Avenger'' TV series, starring Guy Williams (actor), Guy Williams and Charles Korvin

Short film series

*''Looney Tunes'' (1930–1969)
*''Terrytoons'' (1930–1964)
*''Merrie Melodies'' (1931–1969)
*''Bugs Bunny'' (1940–1962)
*''Yosemite Sam'' (1945–1963)
*''Speedy Gonzales'' (1953–1968)
*''The Three Stooges'' (1934–1959)

Births

*January 1 - Adrian Hall (actor), English former actor and co-director
*January 4 - Vanity (singer), Canadian singer, songwriter, model and actress (died 2016)
*January 5 – Clancy Brown, American actor and voice actor
*January 12 - Ralf Moeller, German actor
*January 13 - Alan Taylor (director), American director
*January 17 – Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese former actress and singer
*January 22 – Linda Blair, American actress
*January 27 - Glenn Taranto, American actor and writer
*January 30 - Alex Hyde-White, American actor
*January 31 - Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor
*February 1 - Slink Johnson, American rapper, actor and comedian
*February 2 – Laine Mägi, Estonian actress and dancer
*February 4 – Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
*February 8 - Henry Czerny, Canadian actor
*February 12 - Sigrid Thornton, Australian actress
*February 18 - Jayne Atkinson, British-American actress
*February 22 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
*March 3
**Taylor Nichols, American actor
**Olivier Rabourdin, French actor
*March 5 – Darío Grandinetti, Argentinian actor
*March 6 – Tom Arnold (actor), Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
*March 7
**Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
**Nick Searcy, American character actor
*March 8 – Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor
*March 12 - Luenell, American comedian and actress
*March 14 - Laila Robins, American actress
*March 15 – Renny Harlin, Finnish director and producer
*March 16
**Gary Basaraba, Canadian actor
**Ludger Pistor, German actor
*March 18
**Luc Besson, French director and producer
**Irene Cara, American actress and singer (died 2022)
*March 22 – Matthew Modine, American actor
*March 23 – Catherine Keener, American actress
*March 27 - Brian Tarantina, American character actor (died 2019)
*April 3 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor
*April 4 - Phil Morris (actor), Phil Morris, American actor and voice actor
*April 13 - Jodie Markell, American actress and director
*April 15
**Emma Thompson, English actress
**Thomas F. Wilson, American actor, comedian and musician
*April 17 – Sean Bean, English actor
*April 20 – Clint Howard, American actor
*April 23 - Tim Blaney, American puppeteer and voice actor
*April 24 - Glenn Morshower, American character actor
*April 27 - Neil Pearson, British actor
*May 3 - Ben Elton, English comedian, actor and director
*May 10 - Victoria Rowell, American actress
*May 12 - Ving Rhames, American actor
*May 15 - Chris Meledandri, American producer and founder and CEO of Illumination (company)
*May 16 – Mare Winningham, American actress
*May 19 - Jim Ward (voice actor), Jim Ward, American voice actor, radio personality and camera operator
*May 20 - Bronson Pinchot, American actor
*May 21
**Nick Cassavetes, American actor, director and writer
**Dana Kimmell, American former actress and model
*May 26 - Kevin Gage (actor), American character actor
*May 29 – Rupert Everett, English actor
*June 6
**Neal H. Moritz, American producer
**Colin Quinn, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
*June 7 - Francis Magee, Irish actor
*June 11 – Hugh Laurie, English actor
*June 22 – Wayne Federman, American actor and comedian
*June 23 - Duane Whitaker, American character actor'
*June 29 - Charlotte Attenborough, British actress
*June 30 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
*July 2 - Jere Fields, American former actress
*July 3 - Andreas Wisniewski, German actor and former dancer
*July 8 - Robert Knepper, American actor
*July 9 - Kevin Nash, American actor and retired professional wrestler
*July 12 - Charlie Murphy (actor), Charlie Murphy, American actor, comedian and writer (died 2017)
*July 16 - Bob Joles, American voice actor and musician
*July 26 – Kevin Spacey, American actor
*July 29 – Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
*August 2 - Jim Doughan, American actor and writer
*August 3 - John C. McGinley, American actor
*August 10 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress
*August 14 – Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
*August 22 - Mark Williams (actor), English actor, presenter and screenwriter
*August 27 - Peter Mensah, Ghanaian-British actor
*August 28 - Brian Thompson, American actor
*August 29 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
*September 10
**Michael Earl (puppeteer), American puppeteer, actor, writer and singer (died 2015)
**Peter Nelson (actor), American actor, producer and writer
*September 14 – Haviland Morris, American actress
*September 23
**Jason Alexander, American actor
**Elizabeth Pena, American actress, writer, panelist and musician (died 2014)
*September 24 - Steve Whitmire, American puppeteer
*October 2 - Kevin Eldon, English actor and comedian
*October 3 – Greg Proops, American actor, stand-up comedian, voice artist and television host
*October 9 - Dylan Baker, American character actor
*October 10
**Julia Sweeney, American actress, comedian and author
**Bradley Whitford, American actor and producer
*October 17 - Norm Macdonald, Canadian stand-up comedian, writer and actor (died 2021)
*October 21
**Tony Ganios, American actor
**Melora Walters, American actress
**Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
*October 22 - Marc Lawrence (filmmaker), American director, screenwriter and producer
*October 23
**Sam Raimi, American filmmaker and producer
**Weird Al Yankovic, American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, satirist, actor, music video director, and author
*October 26 - François Chau, American actor
*October 31 - Michael DeLorenzo, American actor, director, writer, producer and musician
*November 2 - Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and filmmaker
*November 4 - Ken Kirzinger, Canadian actor and stuntman
*November 8 - Don McManus, American character actor
*November 10 - Mackenzie Phillips, American actress and singer
*November 14 – Paul McGann, English actor
*November 19 – Allison Janney, American actress
*November 20 – Sean Young, American actress
*November 28 – Judd Nelson, American actor
*December 13 – Johnny Whitaker, American actor
*December 14 - Debbie Lee Carrington, American actress and stuntwoman (died 2018)
*December 29 – Patricia Clarkson, American actress
*December 30 - Tracey Ullman, British-American actress, comedian, singer, writer, producer and director
*December 31 – Val Kilmer, American actor

Deaths

*January 21
** Cecil B. DeMille, 77, American director and producer, ''The Ten Commandments (1956 film), The Ten Commandments'', ''The Greatest Show on Earth (film), The Greatest Show on Earth''
** Carl Switzer, 31, American singer and actor, ''Our Gang''
*February 1 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan, 85, American actress, ''King of the Zombies'', ''In Old Chicago''
*February 4 – Una O'Connor (actress), Una O'Connor, 78, Irish actress, ''Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film), Witness for the Prosecution'', ''The Adventures of Robin Hood (film), The Adventures of Robin Hood''
*February 5 – Gwili Andre, 51, Danish actress, ''Secrets of the French Police'', ''No Other Woman (1933 film), No Other Woman''
*February 20 – George Archainbaud, 68, French director, ''Thirteen Women'', ''Girls of the Big House''
*February 22 – Helen Parrish, 34, American actress, ''Too Many Blondes'', ''X Marks the Spot (1942 film), X Marks the Spot''
*March 2 – Eric Blore, 71, British actor, ''Top Hat'', ''The Lady Eve'', ''The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad''
*March 3 – Lou Costello, 52, American comedian and actor, half of Abbott and Costello comedy team, ''Africa Screams'', ''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein''
*March 26 – Raymond Chandler, 70, American author and screenwriter, ''The Big Sleep (1946 film), The Big Sleep'', ''Double Indemnity''
*March 27 – Grant Withers, 54, American actor, ''My Darling Clementine'', ''Fort Apache (film), Fort Apache''
*April 12 – James Gleason, 76, American actor, ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan'', ''The Bishop's Wife''
*April 17 – Cecil Cunningham, 70, American actress, ''The Awful Truth'', ''Monkey Business (1931 film), Monkey Business''
*April 18 – Irving Cummings, 70, American director, ''Louisiana Purchase (film), Louisiana Purchase'', ''The Dolly Sisters (film), The Dolly Sisters''
*May 3 – Troy Sanders (composer), Troy Sanders, 57, American score arranger and composer, ''White Christmas (film), White Christmas'', ''Going My Way''
*June 2 – Lyda Borelli, 75, Italian actress, ''Malombra (1917 film), Malombra'', ''La falena (film), The Moth''
*June 4 – Charles Vidor, 58, Hungarian director, ''Gilda (film), Gilda'', ''Love Me or Leave Me (film), Love Me or Leave Me''
*June 16 – George Reeves, 45, American actor, ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'', ''So Proudly We Hail!''
*June 18 – Ethel Barrymore, 79, American actress, ''Portrait of Jennie'', ''The Spiral Staircase (1946 film), The Spiral Staircase''
*August 6 – Preston Sturges, 60, American writer, director, ''Sullivan's Travels'', ''The Lady Eve''
*September 6
** Edmund Gwenn, 81, British actor, ''Miracle on 34th Street'', ''Mister 880''
** Kay Kendall, 32, British actress, ''Genevieve (film), Genevieve'', ''Les Girls''
*September 11 – Paul Douglas (actor), Paul Douglas, 52, American actor, ''A Letter to Three Wives'', ''It Happens Every Spring''
*September 13 – Adrian (costume designer), Adrian, 56, American costume designer, ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), The Wizard of Oz'', ''The Women (1939 film), The Women''
*September 14 – Wayne Morris (American actor), Wayne Morris, 45, American actor, ''Kid Galahad (1937 film), Kid Galahad'', ''Paths of Glory''
*September 25 – Helen Broderick, 68, American actress, ''Top Hat'', ''Swing Time (1936 film), Swing Time''
*September 30 – Taylor Holmes, 81, American actor, ''Kiss of Death (1947 film), Kiss of Death'', ''Sleeping Beauty''
*October 3 – William Bishop (actor), William Bishop, 41, American actor, ''Harriet Craig'', ''Top Gun (1955 film), Top Gun''
*October 7 – Mario Lanza, 38, American singer and actor, ''The Great Caruso'', ''Winged Victory (film), Winged Victory''
*October 12 – Edward Keane (actor), Edward Keane, 75, American actor, ''Frontier Pony Express'', ''The Roaring Twenties''
*October 14 – Errol Flynn, 50, Australian actor, ''The Adventures of Robin Hood (film), The Adventures of Robin Hood'', ''Captain Blood (1935 film), Captain Blood''
*October 21 – Olive Blakeney, 60, American actress, ''Leave It to Blanche'', ''Don't Get Me Wrong (film), Don't Get Me Wrong''
*October 23 – Gerda Lundequist, 88, Swedish actress, ''Gosta Berlings saga (film), Gosta Berlings Saga''
*October 30 – Noel Francis, 53, American actress, ''Blonde Crazy'', ''I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang''
*November 7 – Victor McLaglen, 72, British actor, ''The Quiet Man'', ''Gunga Din (film), Gunga Din''
*November 20 – Sylvia Lopez, 26, French actress, ''Hercules Unchained'', ''Son of the Red Corsair''
*November 21 – Max Baer (boxer), Max Baer, 50, American boxer and actor, ''The Prizefighter and the Lady'', ''The Harder They Fall (1956 film), The Harder They Fall''
*November 25 – Gérard Philipe, 36, French actor, ''Fan-Fan the Tulip'', ''Beauties of the Night (1952 film), Beauties of the Night''
*December 1 – Jose Nepomuceno, 66, Filipino filmmaker and producer, ''Dalagang Bukid, Country Maiden'', ''Ang Tatlong Hambog, The Three Humbugs''
*December 22 – Gilda Gray, 58, American actress, ''Aloma of the South Seas (1926 film), Aloma of the South Seas'', ''Cabaret (1927 film), Cabaret''
*December 24 – Edmund Goulding, 68, American director, ''Grand Hotel (1932 film), Grand Hotel'', ''The Razor's Edge (1946 film), The Razor's Edge''

Film debuts

*Jack Betts – ''The Bloody Brood''
*Terry Burnham - '' Imitation of Life'' Dye, David (1988)
''Child and Youth Actors: Filmographies of Their Entire Careers, 1914–1985''
p. 29. .
*Seymour Cassel – ''Shadows (1959 film), Shadows''
*James Coburn – ''Ride Lonesome''
*Mia Farrow – ''John Paul Jones''
*Don Francks – ''Ivy League killers'' (The Fast Ones)
*Jerry Goldsmith (film composer) – ''Face of a Fugitive''
*George Hamilton (actor), George Hamilton – ''Crime and Punishment U.S.A.''
*Richard Harris – '' Shake Hands with the Devil''
*Shirley Knight – ''Five Gates to Hell''
*Martin Landau – '' Pork Chop Hill''
*Millie Perkins – ''The Diary of Anne Frank''
*Michael J. Pollard – ''It Happened to Jane''
*Bert Remsen – ''Pork Chop Hill''
*Jason Robards – ''The Journey''
*Martin Scorsese – ''Vesuvius VI''
*George C. Scott – '' The Hanging Tree''
*Steven Spielberg – ''The Last Gunfight''
*Stella Stevens – ''Say One for Me''
*Billy Dee Williams – ''The Last Angry Man''
*Clarence Williams III – ''Pork Chop Hill''

References

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