1920 in film

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Years in film:	1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
Years in television:	1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Films released in 1920 4 Short film series 5 Animated short film series 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• November 27 - The Mask of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.

[edit] Top grossing films

1. Way Down East - directed by D.W. Griffith
2. Over the Hill to the Poorhouse - directed by Harry F. Millarde

[edit] Films released in 1920

• Algol, starring Emil Jannings
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt.
• Convict 13, a Buster Keaton short
• The Common Sin, starring Rod La Rocque and Nita Naldi
• The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), starring and directed by Paul Wegener
• Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson and Bela Lugosi
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore
• Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd
• High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd
• Huckleberry Finn
• The Last of the Mohicans, starring Wallace Beery
• Love, Honor, and Behave, starring George O'Hara and Marie Prevost
• The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The $1,000,000 Reward
• Neighbors a Buster Keaton short
• One Week, a Buster Keaton short
• Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
• The Penalty, starring Lon Chaney
• Pollyanna, starring Mary Pickford -(film only mentioned in article)
• The Saphead, starring Buster Keaton
• The Scarecrow, a Buster Keaton short
• Stolen Moments, starring Rudolph Valentino
• Way Down East, starring Lillian Gish
• Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer

[edit] Short film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913-1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914-1923
• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
• Koko the Clown (1919-1963)

[edit] Births

• January 20 - Federico Fellini, film director (d. 1993)
• January 20 - DeForest Kelley, actor (d. 1993)
• January 27 - John Box, production designer, four-time Oscar winner (d. 2005)
• February 11 - Billy Halop, actor (d. 1976)
• February 26 - Tony Randall, actor (d. 2004)
• March 16 - Leo McKern, actor (d. 2002)
• April 1 - Toshiro Mifune, actor (d. 1997)
• April 2 - Jack Webb, actor (d. 1982)
• May 11 - Denver Pyle, actor (d. 1997)
• May 16 - Martine Carol, actress (d. 1967)
• May 26 - Peggy Lee, singer, songwriter, actress (d. 2002)
• June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, producer, visual effects artist
• August 6 - Ella Raines, actress (d. 1988)
• August 17 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
• August 18 - Shelley Winters, actress
• August 22 - Ray Bradbury, writer
• September 18 - Jack Warden, actor
• September 23 - Mickey Rooney, actor
• September 27 - William Conrad, actor
• September 27 - Jayne Meadows, actress
• October 1 - Walter Matthau, actor (d. 2000)
• October 17 - Montgomery Clift, actor (d. 1966)
• October 18 - Melina Mercouri, actress (d. 1994)
• October 21 - Hy Averback, actor (d. 1997)
• October 22 - Mitzi Green, actress (d. 1969)
• October 27 - Nanette Fabray, actress
• November 2 - Ann Rutherford, actress
• November 10 - Jennifer Holt, actress (d. 1997)
• November 19 - Gene Tierney, actress (d. 1991)
• November 25 - Ricardo Montalban, actor
• November 30 - Virginia Mayo, actress
• December 29 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (d. 1995)
• December 30 - Jack Lord, actor (d. 1998)
• December 31 – Rex Allen, American cowboy actor, singer (d. 1999)

[edit] Deaths

• September 5 - Robert Harron, American actor
• September 10 - Olive Thomas, American actress