1914 in film

The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.[1]

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Events

• February 2 – Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.
• February 7 – Release of Charlie Chaplin's second film, the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice, in which his character of The Tramp is introduced to audiences (although first filmed in Mabel's Strange Predicament, released two days later).[2][3][4]
• February 8 – Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur greatly advances filmed animation movement techniques.
• February 10 – Release of the film Hearts Adrift; the name of Mary Pickford, the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees.
• February – Lewis J. Selznick and Arthur Spiegel organize the World Film Corporation,[5][6] a distributor of independently produced films[7] located in Fort Lee, New Jersey,[8][9][10]
• March 8 – D. W. Griffith's first feature film, Judith of Bethulia, is released. It is his last production for the Biograph Company.
• March 20 – Tess of the Storm Country makes Mary Pickford an icon in the US and a celebrity around the world.
• March 31 – The serial The Perils of Pauline is an early example of the damsel in distress in film.
• April 12 – The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City.
• April 18 – Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone, is released in Italy, the first epic film,[11] featuring the first extensive use of a moving camera dolly in a feature film, and introducing the long-running character Maciste.
• May 8 – Paramount Pictures is formed as a film distributor by William Wadsworth Hodkinson.
• November 19 – William Fox's Box Office Attractions Company releases its first production, Life's Shop Window.
• December 3 – William S. Hart appears in his first feature film, The Bargain, which makes him a star.
• December 21 – Release of the first American made feature-length comedy film, Tillie's Punctured Romance, which also contains Marie Dressler and Charlie Chaplin's feature film debuts.
• December – Chaplin joins Essanay Studios for $1,250 per week.
• Filoteo Alberini introduces a new 70 mm format, Panoramico, with the film Il sacco di Roma
• The Neptune Film Company opens the first of the Elstree Studios, the first "dark stage" in England, at Borehamwood, north of London.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

Highest-grossing films of 1914

Rank	Title	Gross
1	The Million Dollar Mystery	$3,270,000
2	The Spoilers	$1,000,000[12]
3	The Squaw Man	$533,446
4	Dough and Dynamite	$130,000
5	Rose of the Rancho	$87,028
6	The Man from Home	$62,091
7	What's His Name	$61,560
8	The Call of the North	$52,284
9	The Ghost Breaker	$50,136

Selected films with release dates released in 1914

• January – The House of Bondage a lost[13] 1914 silent film drama directed by Pierce Kingsley and starring Lottie Pickford.[14]
• January 3 – Engelein, German silent comedy film written and directed by Urban Gad
• January 12 – Fantomas Part Four: Fantômas Contre Fantômas (Parts 1 through 3 of this serial were released in 1913, while Parts 4 & 5 were released in 1914)[15]
• January 14 – Captive Souls (Hungarian: Rablélek) a Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz
• January 22 – Absinthe American silent drama film starring King Baggot and Leah Baird and directed by Herbert Brenon
• February 2 – Making a Living the first film starring Charlie Chaplin.[16]
• February 5 – O Mimi San, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Mildred Harris
• February 7 – Kid Auto Races at Venice, starring Charlie Chaplin
• February 8 – Gertie the Dinosaur, an animated film that incorporated many cinematic innovations
• February 9 – Mabel's Strange Predicament, starring Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
• February 12 – The Squaw Man, directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille, starring Dustin Farnum
• March 1 - How Moscha Came Back, silent film comedy short directed by Phillips Smalley
• March 8 – Judith of Bethulia, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
• March 24 – The Avenging Conscience, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall; loosely based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe[17]
• March 31 – The Perils of Pauline, (serial), starring Pearl White
• April 6 – The Old Curiosity Shop directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Alma Taylor
• April 15 – Brewster's Millions
• April 18 – Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone
• April 18 – Mabel at the Wheel, starring Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy, and Charlie Chaplin
• April 23 – A Little Madonna
• May ? - Fantomas Part Five: Le Faux Magistrat[18]
• May 11 – The Master Mind
• May – Mr. Barnes of New York
• June 8 – The Wrath of Gods, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Frank Borzage
• June 12 – Der Hund von Baskerville aka The Hound of the Baskervilles (Germany/ Vitascope), directed by Rudolf Meinert, written by Richard Oswald, starring Alwin Neuß and Hanni Weiss; originally released in two parts, later edited down into a feature version.[19]
• June 15 – The Only Son
• June 22 – The Million Dollar Mystery, (serial), starring Florence La Badie
• July 13 – My Official Wife, starring Clara Kimball Young
• July 13 – The Man on the Box
• July 17 – The Stain, starring Theda Bara
• July 22 – By the Sun's Rays
• August 10 – The Call of the North, starring Robert Edeson[20]
• September 7 – The Virginian, starring Dustin Farnum[21]
• September 22 – Ireland a Nation
• September 23 – The Aztec Treasure
• September 28 – The Patchwork Girl of Oz
• September 28 – The Magic Cloak of Oz, starring Mildred Harris
• October 14 – His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, starring Mildred Harris
• October 14 – Mabel's Blunder
• October 22 – What's His Name, starring Max Figman[22]
• November 2 – Salomy Jane
• November 7 – The Hazards of Helen, (serial), starring Helen Holmes
• November 7 – His Musical Career, starring Charlie Chaplin
• November 9 – The Man from Home
• November 9 – The Wishing Ring
• November 13 – Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı, directed by Fuat Uzkınay, considered to be the first Turkish movie – (Ottoman Empire)
• November 15 – Rose of the Rancho, starring Bessie Barriscale[23]
• November 19 – Life's Shop Window, first film produced by William Fox's Box Office Attractions Company, the forerunner to Fox Film
• December 7 – The Ghost Breaker (Paramount) directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel, starring H. B. Warner and Rita Stanwood; remade in 1922 and again in 1940.[24]
• December 7 – His Prehistoric Past, written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin
• December 7 – In the Land of the Head Hunters
• December 14 – The Last Egyptian, produced and written by L. Frank Baum, directed by Joseph Farrell MacDonald (who also starred), also starring Howard Davies and Jefferson Osborne.[25]
• December 21 – Tillie's Punctured Romance, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin. First comedy feature film.
• December 28 – A Study in Scarlet, directed by George Pearson; based on the Arthur Conan Doyle story[26]
• December 28 – Cinderella, starring Mary Pickford
• December 28 – The Exploits of Elaine, (serial), directed by Louis Gasnier and George B. Seitz, starring Pearl White and Sheldon Lewis[27]

Other films released in 1914

• Absinthe (Imp/ Universal) written and directed by Herbert Brenon, starring King Baggot and Leah Baird; filmed in Paris, France; re-released in 1916.[28]
• Across the Pacific, written and directed by Edwin Carewe (based on the play by Charles E. Blaney), starring Dorothy Dalton and Sam Hines.[29]
• Alice in Wonderland (Maienthau Prods.) based on the novel by Lewis Carroll. A 16mm. reduction positive print still exists.[30]
• Alone With the Devil aka Ekspressens Mysterium (Denmark/ Nordisk) directed by Hjalmar Davidsen, starring Cristel Holch, Carl Lauritzen and Valdemar Psilander [31]
• Bancho Sarayashika (Japanese/ Nikkatsu) ghost story directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe, based on a 19th century Kabuki play by Segawa Joko III.[32]
• The Basilisk (British/ Hepworth) written and directed by Cecil B. Hepworth, starring William Felton and Alma Taylor; yet another adaptation of George Du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby; prints were tinted green for theatrical release.[33]
• Batty Bill and the Suicide Club (French/ Gaston Melies) one of ten "Batty Bill" short comedies released in 1914.[34]
• The Bells (British/ Gaumont) starring H. B. Irving, Frank Keenan and Joseph Dowling, based on the Erckmann-Chatrian novel Le Juif Polonaise; some sources claim this film was announced but never actually made.[35][36]
• The Bells (U.S./ Sawyer's Features) yet another (lost) adaptation of the Erckmann-Chatrian novel Le Juif Polonaise [37]
• Botan Doro/ translation: The Peony Lantern (Japanese/ Nikkatsu Kyoto) one of the earliest Japanese horror films, directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe; based on a 1892 Kabuki play called Kaidan Botan Doro.[38]
• By the Sun's Rays (Universal) starring Lon Chaney, Agnes Vernon and Murdock MacQuarrie; Chaney's earliest existing film.[39]
• A Christmas Carol (British) written and directed by Harold Shaw, starring Charles Rock and George Bellamy; based on the Charles Dickens novel.[40]
• The Chimes (British/ Hepworth) written and directed by Thomas Bentley, produced by Cecil Hepworth, starring Warwick Buckland and Stewart Rome, based on the story by Charles Dickens.[41]
• The Chimes (U.S. Amusement Corp.) another adaptation of the Charles Dickens story; written and directed by Herbert Blache, starring Tom Terriss and Faye Cusick.[42]
• The Crimson Moth (Biograph) directed by Travis Vale, starring Jack Drumier and Louise Vale (who died of the Spanish Flu in 1918).[43][44]
• The Crown of Richard III (French/Pathe) remade in U.S. in 1939 as Tower of London[45]
• Curse of the Scarabee Ruby (Gaumont/Eclipse/Urban) a French-British co-production inspired by both of the novels The Moonstone and Trilby, produced by Charles Urban.[46]
• A Deal with the Devil aka Den Mystiske Fremmede (Denmark/ Nordisk) directed by Holger-Madsen, starring Olaf Fonss, Ebba Thomsen and Alf Blutecher; storyline was based on Faust.[47]
• The Diamond of Disaster (Thanhouser Films) directed by Carroll Fleming, written by Fleming's brother Phil Lonergan, starring J. S. Murray and Ernest Warde[48][49]
• Discord and Harmony (Gold Seal/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Murdock MacQuarrie[50]
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Done to a Frazzle (Crystal-Superba/ Warners) satire of the Robert Louis Stevenson novella, starring Charles De Forrest[51][52]
• Doctor Polly (Vitagraph) A haunted house comedy directed by Wilfred North and Wally Van, starring Lillian Walker, Josie Sadler and Wally Van.[53]
• The Dream Woman (Blache Prods.) written and directed by Alice Guy-Blache, starring Fraunie Fraunholz and Claire Whitney; based on the 1859 Wilkie Collins novel, The Woman in White[54]
• The Embezzler (Gold Seal/ Universal) directed by Allan Dawan, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Murdock MacQuarrie[55]
• The End of the Feud (Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Murdock MacQuarrie. [56]
• The Fakir's Spell (British/ Dreadnought Films) directed by Frank Newman, starring Idleton Newman; features a killer ape; some plot elements from this film turned up later in The Reptile (1965) and The Oblong Box (1969).[57][58]
• The Forbidden Room, aka The Web of Circumstance (Bison/ Universal Pictures) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush and Lon Chaney; a lost film.[59][60]
• The Forces of Evil, aka The Dominant Will (Eclair/ Leading Players) based on the [[George Du Maurier novel Trilby.[61]
• Fune Yurei, translation Ghost Ship (Japanese/ Nikkatsu) directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe [62]
• The Ghost of the Mine (Eclair American) starring Robert Frazer and Edna Payne; filmed in Tucson, Arizona; an early horror-western hybrid.[63]
• Ghosts (British/ Close Prods.) produced by Elwin Neame and (his wife) Ivy Close (who starred in the film).[64]
• Guarding Britain's Secrets, aka The Fiends of Hell (British/ Walturdaw) directed by Charles Calvert, starring Douglas Payne and Dr. Nikola Hamilton (who also wrote the screenplay).[65][66]
• Hands Invisible (Powers Films) written and directed by Edwin August, who also starred in it; similar in plot to the later Hands of Orlac (1920).[67]
• Her Bounty (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush[68]
• Her Escape (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush; Chaney plays a blind man in this film.[69]
• Her Grave Mistake (Universal) starring Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie and Agnes Vernon [70]
• Her Life's Story (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush; based on a poem "The Cross" by Miriam Bade Rasmus.[71]
• Hidden Death, aka La Mort qui Frole (French/ Gaumont Films) directed by Jean Durand [72]
• The Higher Law (Universal) directed by Charles Giblyn, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush, a sequel to The Oubliette (1914).[73]
• The Honor of the Mounted (Gold Seal/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush[74]
• The Hopes of Blind Alley (Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush[75]
• The Hound of the Baskervilles aka La Chien des Baskerville (French/ Pathe) another adaptation of the famous novel by Arthur Conan Doyle[76]
• The House of Fear (U.S./ Lubin) directed by Siegmund Lubin, starring Rosetta Brice; based on a story by Emmett C. Hall.[77]
• The Hypnotic Violinist (Denmark/ Filmfabrikken) starring Emilie Sannom, Rasmus Ottesen and Soren Fjelstrup[78]
• The Imp Abroad (Victor Films) produced and directed by Harry Rivier, starring Rupert Julian and Elsie Jane Wilson.[79]
• The Invisible Power (Kalem) directed by George Melford, starring Paul Hurst and William H. West, yet another film adaptation of Trilby by George Du Maurier.[80]
• Jane Eyre (Imp/ Universal Pictures) directed by Frank Hall Crane, starring Ethel Grandin and Irving Cummings, based on the 1847 Charlotte Bronte novel.[81]
• Jane Eyre (Whitman) directed by Martin Faust, starring Lisbeth Blackstone, John Charles and Mary Fry Clements[82]
• Kaidan Asamagatake, aka The Ghost Story of Mount Asamagatake (Japanese/ Nikkatsu) directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe.[83]
• The Lamb, the Woman, the Wolf (Bison/ Universal) written and directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie and Pauline Bush[84]
• The Lie (Gold Seal/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney and Murdock MacQuarrie[85]
• Lights and Shadows (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush.[86]
• The Lion, the Lamb, the Man (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Millard K. Wilson[87]
• The Menace to Carlotta (Rex/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, written by Lon Chaney, starring Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie and Pauline Bush.[88]
• A Miner's Romance (Universal) starring Lon Chaney and Murdock MacQuarrie[89]
• The Miser's Conversion (Thanhouser) starring Sydney Bracy; features man-into-ape transformation.[90]
• Murders in the Rue Morgue (Rosenberg Films) based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe[91]
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood, co-directed by Herbert Blache and Tom Terriss, starring Tom Terriss and Rodney Hickok; based on the 1870 Charles Dickens novel; film was remade again in 1935 by Universal Pictures.[92]
• The Mystery of Grayson Hall (Eclair Films) starring Lindsay J. Hall and Fred Hearn[93]
• Naidra, the Dream Worker (Edison Prods.) features a cursed mummy's necklace.[94]
• The Necklace of Rameses (Thomas Edison Prods.) directed by Charles Brabin, starring William Bechtel and Gertrude Braun.[95]
• A Night of Thrills (Universal/ Rex) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush; a haunted house comedy.[96][97]
• Okazaki no neko, translation: The Ghost-Cat of Okazaki (Nikkatsu) directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe; based on an 1827 kabuki play which in turn was based on an 1820's Japanese novel called Shank's Mare. [98]
• The Old Cobbler (Universal) directed by Murdock MacQuarrie (who also starred in the film), also starring Lon Chaney and Agnes Vernon[99]
• The Oubliette (Universal) medieval adventure film directed by Charles Giblyn, starring Lon Chaney and Murdock MacQuarrie; film still exists.[100]
• Out of the Far East (Imp/ Universal Pictures) directed by Frank H. Crane, starring Stuart Paton and Leah Baird; re-released in 1917 as Eyes in the Dark.[101]
• The Phantom Light (Bison Films) directed by Henry McRae, starring William Clifford and Marie Walcamp[102]
• The Phantom Violin (Universal Pictures) directed by Francis Ford (who also starred in the film), starring Grace Cunard (who also wrote the screenplay) and Harry Schumm.[103]
• The Quest for the Sacred Jewel (U.S.-French co-production/ Pathe) directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Charles Arling and Edna Mayo; another adaptation of the 1868 Wilkie Collins novel, The Moonstone.[104]
• A Ranch Romance (Nestor/ Universal) starring Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney and Agnes Vernon
• Remember Mary Magdalen (Victor/ Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie and Pauline Bush[105]
• Richelieu (Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie and Pauline Bush.[106]
• Ruslan i Ljudmila (Russian) directed by Ladislav Starevich, starring Ivan Mosjoukine as Satan; based on the poem by Alexander Pushkin.[107]
• Ein Seltsamer Fall (translation: A Strange Case) (Germany/ Vitascope) directed by Max Mack, written by Richard Oswald, starring Alwin Neuss and Hanni Weiss; an unofficial film adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; existing prints run about 30 minutes instead of the original's 50-minute length.[108]
• A Small Town Girl (Universal) directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Rupert Julian; film was released in November, 1914, although some sources say 1915.[109]
• The Spiritist, aka The Spiritualist (Denmark/ Nordisk) directed by Holger Madsen, starring Marie Dinesen and Vibeke Kroyer[110]
• The Strange Case of Princess Khan, produced by William G. Selig, directed by Edward J. LeSaint, starring Stella Razeto[111]
• The Suicide Club (British/ Apex Films) produced by Maurice Elvey, starring Elizabeth Risdon and Montagu Love; based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was remade in 1936 as Trouble for Two.[112]
• Svengali (Austrian/ Wiener Kunstfilm) directed by Luise Kolm and Jakob Fleck, starring Ferdinand Bonn; based on the novel Trilby by George Du Maurier.[113]
• The Temptations of Satan (U.S. Amusement) directed by Herbert Blache, starring Vinnie Burns, Fraunie Fraunholz and James O'Neill as Satan.[114]
• The Tragedy of Whispering Creek (Bison/ Universal) written and directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaneyand Pauline Bush [115]
• Trilby (British) produced by Harold Shaw, starring Herbert Tree and Viva Birkett; based on the George Du Maurier novel.[116]
• The Unlawful Trade (Rex/Universal) written and directed by Allan Dwan, starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Murdock MacQuarrie [117]
• The Vampire (Eclair Films) plot features a large vampire bat.[118]
• Vendetta (French/ Eclipse) directed by Louis Mereanton, starring Regina Badet; based on the Marie Corelli novel.[119]
• The Vij (Russian) written and directed by Ladislas Starevitch, starring Ivan Mosjoukine and Olga Obolenskaya; based on the story by Gogol; remade later as Black Sunday (1960).[120]
• Virtue Is Its Own Reward, aka Virtue Its Own Reward (Universal) directed by Joseph De Grasse, starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush[121]
• The White Spectre (General Films)[122]
• The White Wolf (Nestor Films/ Universal) plot involves a werewolf transformation.[123]
• Woman of Mystery (Blache Prods.) written and directed by Alice Guy-Blache; starring Vinnie Burns, Claire Whitney and Fraunie Fraunholz; plot involves split personalities and spirit control.[124]
• Yoshiwara kaidan: Teburi bozu (Japanese/ Nikkatsu) directed by Shozo Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe; another adaptation of the 1825 Japanese kabuki play, Yotsuya kaidan.[125]

Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson (1910–1916)
• Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)

Births

• January 5 – George Reeves, actor (died 1959)
• January 6 – Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian (died 1991)
• January 14 – Harold Russell, actor (died 2002)
• January 15 – Dimples Cooper, actress (died 1960)
• January 30 – John Ireland, actor (died 1992)
• February 3 – Mary Carlisle, actress (died 2018)
• February 17 – Arthur Kennedy, actor (died 1990)
• February 21 – Zachary Scott, actor (died 1965)
• February 26 – Robert Alda, actor (died 1986)
• March 2 – Martin Ritt, director (died 1990)
• March 3 – Charlotte Henry, actress (died 1980)
• April 2 – Alec Guinness, actor (died 2000)
• April 4 – Richard Coogan, actor (died 2014)
• April 16 – John Hodiak, actor (died 1955)
• May 5 – Tyrone Power, actor (died 1958)
• May 24 – Lilli Palmer, actress (died 1986)
• June 7 – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director (died 1987)
• June 18 – E. G. Marshall, actor (died 1998)
• June 21 – Wensley Pithey, character actor (died 1993)
• July 23 - Julie Mitchum, actress (died 2003)
• July 29 – Irwin Corey, comedian (died 2017)
• July 31 – Louis de Funès, actor (died 1983)
• August 2 – Beatrice Straight, actress (died 2001)
• August 14 – Andrea Leeds, actress (died 1984)
• August 31 – Richard Basehart, actor (died 1984)
• September 10 – Robert Wise, director (died 2005)
• September 12 – Desmond Llewelyn, actor (died 1999)
• September 20 – Kenneth More English actor (died 1982)
• September 27 – Sophie Sooäär, Estonian actress and singer (d. 1996)
• October 26 – Jackie Coogan, actor (died 1984)
• October 30 – Anna Wing, actress (died 2013)
• November 8 – Norman Lloyd, actor
• November 9 – Hedy Lamarr, actress (died 2000)
• November 13
  • Amelia Bence, actress (died 2016)
  • Henri Langlois, film preservationist (died 1977)
  • Alberto Lattuada, director (died 2005)
• November 23 – Roger Avon, British film and television actor (died 1998)
• December 10 – Dorothy Lamour, actress (died 1996)
• December 13 – Larry Parks, actor (died 1975)
• December 26 – Richard Widmark, actor (died 2008)
• December 30 – Jo Van Fleet, actress (died 1996)

Deaths

• January 9 – Gladys Rankin, American actress as Mrs. Sidney Drew; writer as George Cameron
• January 11 – William A. Russell, 35, American actor
• March 25 – Frederic Mistral, 83, French writer, Mireille
• June 19 – Brandon Thomas, 65, British writer, Charley's Aunt
• July 1
  • Grace McHugh, American actress died while filming the movie Across the Border
  • Owen Carter, American cinematographer died while trying to save Grace McHugh, Across the Border
• August 21 – Charles J. Hite, 38, President and CEO of Thanhouser Film Corporation
• August 22 – David Davie Shelby, 66, actor.
• October 24 – Gustav Wied, 56, Danish playwright and novelist
• November 14 – Stellan Rye, 34, Danish film director, Dur Verfuhrte, Evinrude, The Student of Prague

Film debuts

• Theda Bara – The Stain (as Theodosia Goodman)
• Ethel Barrymore – The Nightingale
• John Barrymore – An American Citizen
• Milton Berle (at 6 years old) – Bunny's Little Brother (short, uncredited)
• Charlie Chaplin – writer, Kid Auto Races at Venice (short, uncredited); actor, Making a Living (short); director, Twenty Minutes of Love (short, unconfirmed)
• Marguerite Clark – Wildflower
• Henrietta Crosman – The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch
• Dorothy Dalton – Pierre of the Plains
• Hazel Dawn – One of Our Girls
• Cecil B. DeMille – director, The Squaw Man
• Sam De Grasse – Texas Bill's Last Ride (short)
• Gaby Deslys – La remplacante (short)
• Oliver Hardy – Outwitting Dad (short) (as O. N. Hardy)
• Sessue Hayakawa – O Mimi San (short)
• Emil Jannings – Passionels Tagebuch
• Thomas Meighan – Danny Donovan, the Gentleman Cracksman (short)
• Adolphe Menjou – The Acid Test (short, uncredited)
• Beatriz Michelena – Salomy Jane
• Musidora – Sainte-Odile (short)
• Pola Negri – Slave of Passion, Slave of Vice
• Tyrone Power, Sr. – Aristocracy (as Tyrone Power)
• Milton Sills – The Pit
• Gloria Swanson – The Song of the Soul (short, unconfirmed)
• Constance Talmadge – Buddy's First Call (short)
• Rudolph Valentino – The Battle of the Sexes (uncredited)
• H. B. Warner – The Lost Paradise

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