1920 in film

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The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• November 27 – The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Notable films released in 1920

U.S.A. unless stated

• Algol, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
• Among Those Present, a Harold Lloyd short
• Anna Boleyn, directed by Ernst Lubitsch – (Germany)
• Barrabas, directed by Louis Feuillade – (France)
• Bleak House directed by Maurice Elvey – (Britain)
• Build Thy House, directed by Fred Goodwins, starring Henry Ainley – (Britain)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene; starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover – (Germany)
• Colonel Newcome directed by Fred Goodwins' starring Milton Rosmer, Joyce Carey – (Britain)
• Convict 13, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• The Copperhead, starring Lionel Barrymore and Doris Rankin
• The Devil's Pass Key, directed by Erich von Stroheim; starring Mae Busch and Maude George
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, directed by John S. Robertson; starring John Barrymore
• An Eastern Westerner, starring Harold Lloyd
• Ernest Maltravers directed by Jack Denton; starring Lillian Hall-Davis – (Britain)
• Erotikon, directed by Mauritz Stiller – (Sweden)
• Evening – Night – Morning (Abend – Nacht – Morgen), directed by F.W. Murnau - (Germany)
• The Ever Open Door directed by Fred Goodwins; starring Hayford Hobbs - (Britain)
• The Flapper, starring Olive Thomas
• The Fordington Twins directed by W.P. Kellino - (Britain)
• The Garage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• General Post directed by Thomas Bentley; starring Douglas Munro, Lilian Braithwaite - (Britain)
• Genuine (german) starring Fern Andra
• Get Out and Get Under, starring Harold Lloyd
• The Girl in Number 29, directed by John Ford
• The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), directed by & starring Paul Wegener - (Germany)
• Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd
• The Head of Janus (Der Januskopf), directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Conrad Veidt - (Germany)
• Herr och fru Stockholm (How Not to Dress), starring Greta Garbo - (Sweden)
• High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd
• Huckleberry Finn, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Lewis Sargent, Edythe Chapman, Martha Mattox
• The Hunchback and the Dancer (Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin), directed by F.W. Murnau - (Germany)
• If I Were King, directed by J. Gordon Edwards; starring William Farnum, Betty Ross Clarke and Fritz Leiber, Sr.
• The Jack-Knife Man, directed by King Vidor
• Judy of Rogue's Harbor, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Mary Miles Minter, Fritzi Ridgeway and Theodore Roberts
• Karin Daughter of Ingmar (Karin Ingmarsdotter), directed by & starring Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
• Kohlhiesels Töchter (Kohlhiesel's Daughter), directed by Ernst Lubitsch - (Germany)
• Lady Rose's Daughter directed by Hugh Ford; starring Elsie Ferguson
• The Last of the Mohicans, directed by Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown; starring Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe
• The Last of the Mohicans (Der Letzte der Mohikaner), starring Bela Lugosi - (Germany)
• The Love Flower directed by D. W. Griffith starring Richard Barthelmess and Carol Dempster
• The Lure of Crooning Water, directed by Arthur Rooke; starring Guy Newall and Ivy Duke - (Britain)
• The Mark of Zorro, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The Mollycoddle, directed by Victor Fleming; starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery
• The Monastery of Sendomir (Klostret i Sendomir), directed by Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
• Mr. Gilfil's Love Story directed by A.V. Bramble; starring Mary Odette - (Britain)
• Neighbors, directed by & starring Buster Keaton
• Nomads of the North, starring Lon Chaney and Lewis Stone
• Now or Never, a Harold Lloyd short
• Number, Please?, a Harold Lloyd short
• Old Lady 31, directed by John Ince & Sherry Harris; starring Emma Dunn, Carrie Clark Ward, Winifred Westover & Martha Mattox
• One Week, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• Outside the Law, directed by Tod Browning
• Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
• The Parson's Widow (Prästänkan), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Sweden)
• The Penalty, directed by Wallace Worsley; starring Lon Chaney
• Pollyanna, starring Mary Pickford - (film only mentioned in article)
• The Prince and the Pauper directed by Alexander Korda - (Austria)
• Romance, starring Doris Keane and Norman Trevor (refilmed later as a 1930 Greta Garbo talkie)
• The Saphead, directed by & starring Buster Keaton
• Satan (Satanas), directed by F. W. Murnau - (Germany)
• The Scarecrow, directed by & starring Buster Keaton
• Sex, directed by Fred Niblo
• Shipwrecked Among Cannibals documentary film
• Something to Think About, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson and Monte Blue
• A Son of David, directed by Hay Plumb; starring Ronald Colman - (Britain)
• The Son of Tarzan, a 15-chapter film series
• Stolen Moments, starring Rudolph Valentino
• Suds, starring Mary Pickford
• Sumurun (One Arabian Night), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Paul Wegener - (Germany)
• Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson and Bela Lugosi - (Germany)
• Treasure Island, directed by Maurice Tourneur; starring Lon Chaney and Shirley Mason (as Jim)
• Trent's Last Case, directed by Richard Garrick; starring Gregory Scott, Pauline Peters and Clive Brook - (Britain)
• The Twelve Pound Look, directed by Jack Denton; starring Milton Rosmer - (Britain)
• Way Down East, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess
• Why Change Your Wife?, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan and Bebe Daniels
• Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer

Short film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913–1951)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1960s)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1941)

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1934)

Births

• January 7 – Vincent Gardenia, actor (died 1992)
• January 20
  • DeForest Kelley, actor (died 1999)
  • Federico Fellini, film director (died 1993)
• January 27 - John Box, production designer, four-time Oscar winner (died 2005)
• January 30 - Delbert Mann, director (died 2007)
• February 4 - Janet Waldo, actress
• February 11 - Billy Halop, actor (died 1976)
• February 26 - Tony Randall, actor (died 2004)
• February 29 - Michèle Morgan, actress
• March 16 - Leo McKern, actor (died 2002)
• April 1 - Toshiro Mifune, actor (died 1997)
• April 2 - Jack Webb, actor (died 1982)
• May 11 - Denver Pyle, actor (died 1997)
• May 16 - Martine Carol, actress (died 1967)
• May 26 - Peggy Lee, singer, songwriter, actress (died 2002)
• June 18 - Ian Carmichael, English stage, film and television actor (died 2010)
• June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, producer, visual effects artist (died 2013)
• July 11 - Yul Brynner, actor (died 1985)
• July 28 - Andrew V. McLaglen, film & TV director, son of Victor McLaglen
• August 6 - Ella Raines, actress (died 1988)
• August 17 - Maureen O'Hara, actress (died 2015)
• August 18 - Shelley Winters, actress (died 2006)
• August 22 - Ray Bradbury, writer (died 2012)
• September 18 - Jack Warden, actor (died 2006)
• September 23 - Mickey Rooney, actor (died 2014)
• September 27 - William Conrad, actor (died 1994)
• October 1 - Walter Matthau, actor (died 2000)
• October 13 - Laraine Day, actress (died 2007)
• October 17 - Montgomery Clift, actor (died 1966)
• October 18 - Melina Mercouri, actress (died 1994)
• October 21 - Hy Averback, actor (died 1997)
• October 22 - Mitzi Green, actress (died 1969)
• October 27 - Nanette Fabray, actress
• November 10 - Jennifer Holt, actress (died 1997)
• November 19 - Gene Tierney, actress (died 1991)
• November 25
  • Noel Neill, actress
  • Ricardo Montalbán, actor (died 2009)
• November 30 - Virginia Mayo, actress (died 2005)
• December 29 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (died 1995)
• December 30 - Jack Lord, actor (died 1998)
• December 31 – Rex Allen, American cowboy actor, singer (died 1999)

Deaths

• January 24 - Hazel Neason (1891–1920) actress
• February 4 - Leo Delaney, 35, silent film actor
• February 11 - Gaby Deslys 38, actress, dancer, singer
• February 17 - Thomas Commerford veteran character actor (born 1855)
• March 2 - Harry Solter, American actor
• April 12 - Walter Edwards, American director (born 1870)
• April 25 - Clarine Seymour, 21, American actress
• May 22 - Hal Reid, 59, American actor & director(father of Wallace)
• June 14 - Gabrielle Réjane, 64, stage and film actress
• August 1 - Eugene Gaudio, 33, Italian born cinematographer (brother of Tony Gaudio)
• August 2 - Ormer Locklear, 29, American stunt flier
• August 13 - Gladys Field (1889–1920), actress (died in childbirth)
• August 28 - Suzanne Grandais, 27, French actress
• September 5 - Robert Harron, 27, American actor
• September 10 - Olive Thomas, 25, American actress
• November 19 - Will S. Davis, 38, American film director
• December 9 - Mollie McConnell, 55, American actress

Film debuts

• Mary Astor
• Humphrey Bogart
• Charles Boyer
• Greta Garbo
• Nita Naldi
• Claude Rains
• Otis Skinner
• Cornelia Otis Skinner

See also

• List of American films of 1920

References