Events

• Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the second longest-running motion picture franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), running more than 40 years.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

Drama: Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth

Musical or comedy: Best Picture (tie): That Touch of Mink Best Picture (tie): The Music Man Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy

Other Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil

Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

Films released in 1962

• The 300 Spartans
• A Symposium on Popular Songs
• Advise and Consent, starring Henry Fonda
• The Amphibian Man
• Billy Budd
• Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day
• Birdman of Alcatraz, starring Burt Lancaster
• Bon Voyage!
• Boys' Night Out
• Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Polly Bergen
• Carry On Cruising
• David and Lisa
• The Day of the Triffids
• Days of Wine and Roses, starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick
• Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana), starring Marcello Mastroianni
• Le Doulos (The Finger Man), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
• Dr. No. The First James Bond film. Starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress
• L'Eclisse
• Family Diary (Cronaca familiare)
• Freud, starring Montgomery Clift
• Follow That Dream
• Gigot
• Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
• Gorath
• The Given Word (O Pagador de Promessas)
• Gypsy, starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood
• Hatari!, starring John Wayne
• How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, Agnes Moorehead, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard etc.
• Hussar of the Dead (Restored)
• In Search of the Castaways
• It Happened In Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield
• It's Only Money, starring Jerry Lewis
• Keeper of Promises
• Kid Galahad
• A Kind of Loving
• King Kong vs. Godzilla
• Knife in the Water
• Last Year at Marienbad (U.S. release)
• Lawrence of Arabia, starring Peter O'Toole
• Lisa
• Lolita, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers and Sue Lyon
• Lonely are the Brave
• Long Day's Journey into Night, starring Katharine Hepburn
• The Longest Day
• Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot
• Lycanthropus
• The Manchurian Candidate, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Merrill's Marauders
• The Miracle Worker, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
• The Music Man, starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones
• Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
• My Geisha
• My Name is Ivan
• Panic in Year Zero!
• Phaedra
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda
• The Premature Burial (film mentioned in article)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight (film mentioned in article)
• Ride the High Country
• State Fair
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray)
• Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page
• The Tale of Zatoichi
• Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
• Taras Bulba
• That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
• To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Gregory Peck
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• The Trial
• Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc)
• Tudor
• Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
• A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot
• War of the Buttons
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
• Big and Little Wong Tin Bar

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)

Births

• January 1 - Nancy Mette, actress
• January 17 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian
• February 5 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
• February 27 - Adam Baldwin, actor
• March 21 - Matthew Broderick, actor
• May 12 - Emilio Estevez, actor
• June 13 - Ally Sheedy, actress
• July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
• August 13 - John Slatter, actor
• September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
• September 11 - Kristy McNichol, actress
• September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson, actress
• October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
• October 11 - Joan Cusack, actress
• October 13 - Kelly Preston, actress
• November 11 - Demi Moore, US actress
• November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director

Deaths

• January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor
• April 10 - Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director
• April 17 - Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress
• May 14 - Florence Auer, 82, American actress
• June 19 - Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor
• June 24 - Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress
• July 2 - Valeska Suratt, 80, stage & silent screen actress
• August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress
• August 23 - Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor
• October 6 - Tod Browning, 82, American director
• October 26 - Louise Beavers, 60, American actress
• December 15 - Charles Laughton, 63, British actor
• December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress

Film Debuts

• Julie Christie
• Robert Duvall
• Robert Redford