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1979 in film

1979 in film

Overview of the events of 1979 in film

The year 1979 in film involved many significant events.

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Highest-grossing films

United States and Canada

See also: List of 1979 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows:

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International

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Major events

Awards

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Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, United States
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), directed by Volker Schlöndorff, W. Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

David, directed by Peter Lilienthal, West Germany

1979 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 11Jack Soo61USActor
16Peter Butterworth63UKActor, writer
16Ted Cassidy46USActor
18Cyril J. Mockridge82UKComposer
25Dick Crockett63USStuntman, Actor
February 12Jean Renoir84USDirector, writer, actor
16Louise Allbritton58USActress
17William Gargan73USActor
19Leigh Jason74USDirector
28Jane Hylton51UKActress
March 1Dolores Costello75USActress
2Edith Craig71USActress
6John Robinson70UKActor
9Barbara Mullen64UKActress
19John Tate64UKActorInvasion
21Bomba Tzur50IsraelActor
22Ben Lyon78USActor, writer
24Yvonne Mitchell63UKActress
April 4Edgar Buchanan76USActor
6Norman Tokar59USDirector
10Nino Rota67ItalyComposer
24John Carroll72USActor
May 6Rosemary La Planche55USActress
8Victor Saville83UKProducer, director
10Beatrice Campbell56UKActress
11Joan Chandler55USActress
26George Brent80USActor
29Mary Pickford87USActress, producer, writer
June 1Jack Mulhall91USActor
2Larisa Shepitko41Soviet UnionDirector
2Jim Hutton45USActor
6Jack Haley80USActor
11John Wayne72USActor, producer, director
12Henry Berman65USEditor, Producer
14David Butler84USDirector
16Nicholas Ray67USDirector, writer, actor
19Nick Grinde86USDirector
21Julian Orchard49UKActor, writer
July 2Larisa Shepitko41USSRDirector, writer, actress
8Michael Wilding66UKActor, producer
13Corinne Griffith84USActress
22Kathleen Case45USActress
25Eric Pohlmann66GermanyActor
26Virginia Brissac96USActress
27Ettore Manni52ItalyActor
27Shirley Mason79USActress
28George Seaton68USDirector
28Frederick Stafford51CzechoslovakiaActor
31Beatrix Lehmann76UKActressThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold
August ??Betty Henderson72UKActress
6Kurt Kasznar65AustriaActor
7Vicente Salumbides85PhilippinesActor
10Dick Foran69USActor
17Vivian Vance70USActress
21Stuart Heisler82USDirector
30Jean Seberg40USActress
September 1Doris Kenyon81USActress
2Felix Aylmer90UKActor
12Les Clark71USAnimator
12Jocelyne LaGarde54TahitiActressHawaii
17Willis Goldbeck80USScreenwriter
22Frederick Piper76UKActor
23Catherine Lacey75UKActress
26John Cromwell91USDirector
26Arthur Hunnicutt69USActor
27Gracie Fields81UKActress, singer
October 1Dorothy Arzner82USDirector
3Dorothy Peterson81USActress
12Celia Lovsky82AustriaActress
17John Stuart81UKActor
25Fernando Soler83MexicoActor
30Graham Ashley52UKActor
November 2Saro Urzì66ItalyActor
5Amedeo Nazzari71ItalyActor
8Sydney Tafler63UKActor
11Dimitri Tiomkin85RussiaComposer
20Michael Darbyshire62UKActor, writer
21Paul Wexler50USActor
22George Froeschel88USScreenwriter
23Merle Oberon68IndiaActress, producer
30Joyce Grenfell69UKActress
30Zeppo Marx78USActor, director
December 5Jesse Pearson49USActorBye Bye Birdie
5Lesley Selander70USDirector
9James Neilson70USDirector
10Ann Dvorak68USActress
11Claire Carleton66USActress
12Jon Hall64USActor, director
22George Pollock72UKDirector
23Ernest B. Schoedsack86USDirector, cinematographer, producer
25Michael Collins57CanadaActor
25Lee Bowman79USActor
25Joan Blondell73USActress

Film debuts

Notes

  1. [n 1]
    60 million tickets sold,[19] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[20]
  1. See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union § Highest-grossing foreign films.

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