1979 in film

none 1979 film radio television music The year 1979 in film involved many significant events. Highest-grossing films United States and Canada 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: + Highest-grossing films of 1979 (United States and Canada) Rank Title Distributor Box-office gross 1 Kramer vs. Kramer Columbia $106,260,000https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=kramervskramer.htm Box Office Information for Kramer vs. Kramer Box Office Mojo June 11, 2010 2 The Amityville Horror American International $86,432,520https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=amityvillehorror.htm Box Office Information for The Amityville Horror Box Office Mojo January 27, 2012 3 Rocky IIUnited Artists $85,182,160https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rocky2.htm Box Office Information for Rocky II Box Office Mojo June 11, 2010 4Apocalypse Now $83,471,511https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=apocalypsenow.htm Box Office Information for Apocalypse Now Box Office Mojo June 11, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100724221601/https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=apocalypsenow.htm 24 July 2010 live 5Star Trek: The Motion Picture Paramount $82,258,456https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=startrek.htm Box Office Information for Star Trek: The Motion Picture Box Office Mojo June 11, 2010 6 Alien 20th Century Fox $80,931,801https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alien.htm Box Office Information for Alien Box Office Mojo June 11, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100621010410/https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alien.htm 21 June 2010 live 7 The Muppet Movie Universal / Associated Film $76,657,000Box Office Information for The Muppet Movie The Numbers. Retrieved March 31, 2025. 8 10 Warner Bros. $74,865,517https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=10.htm Box Office Information for 10 Box Office Mojo June 11, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100704005631/http://www2.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=10.htm 4 July 2010 live 9The Jerk Universal $73,691,419https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jerk.htm Box Office Information for The Jerk Box Office Mojo June 11, 2010 10 Moonraker United Artists $70,308,099https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=moonraker.htm Box Office Information for Moonraker Box Office Mojo June 11, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100531170836/https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=moonraker.htm 31 May 2010 live International + Highest-grossing films of 1979 (international markets) International market Title Distributor Admissions Gross revenue Production country Local currency US$ChinaGunshots in the CIBChangchun Film Studio600,000,000王伟杰 https://books.google.com/books?id=_IRAEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA299 冲突与引导：文化资源开发中的价值选择 January 2018 Social Sciences Literature Press 978-7-5201-2573-4 299 zh180,000,000 yes$180 CHN 1979 yes,000,000ChinaFranceThe Gendarme and the Extra-TerrestrialsSNC6,280,070Les Entrees en France (1979) Entries in France (1979) http://www.jpbox-office.com/charts_france.php?filtre=datefr&variable=1979 live 2022-04-02 JP's Box-Office fr https://web.archive.org/web/20170810152854/http://jpbox-office.com/charts_france.php?variable=1979&filtre=datefr 2017-08-10 FranceWest GermanyThe Jungle Book20th Century Fox9,103,582Top 100 Deutschland 1979 Top 100 Germany 1979 https://www.insidekino.com/DJahr/D1979.htm live 2022-04-02 Inside Kino de https://web.archive.org/web/20040531173545/http://www.insidekino.com:80/DJahr/D1979.htm 2004-05-31 32,092,155 yes$32.092155 EUR 1979 yes,000,000United States India Suhaag Sharma Cine Associates yes100,000,000http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=185&catName=MTk3OQ== Box Office 1979 Box Office India 20 October 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131020102901/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=185&catName=MTk3OQ== 2013-10-20 2018-03-06 $12,310,000Pacific Exchange Rate Service (8.1258 INR per USD) http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3 UBC Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia 3 1979 21 November 2017 IndiaItalySupermanColumbia-EMI-Warner904,000Les Entrees en Italie: 1979 Entries in Italy: 1979 http://www.jpbox-office.com/v9_charts_total.php?filtre=dateitaly&variable=1979&view=32 live 2022-04-02 JP's Box-Office fr https://web.archive.org/web/20220402194845/http://www.jpbox-office.com/v9_charts_total.php?filtre=dateitaly&variable=1979&view=32 2022-04-02 United States Japan Galaxy Express 999 Toei yes16,500,000,000FEATURE: Japanese Anime Magazine Retrospective: "Animage" in August 1979 http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2012/03/18/feature-japanese-anime-magazine-retrospective-animage-in-august-1979 Crunchyroll March 19, 2012 en $76,120,000Currency converter in the past with official exchange rates from 1953 http://fxtop.com/en/currency-converter-past.php?A=16500&C1=JPY&C2=USD&DD=04&MM=08&YYYY=1979&B=1&P=&I=1 fxtop August 4, 1979 Japan Soviet Union Sholay (Embers) R. K. Films 60,000,000«Месть и закон» (Sholay, 1975) https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/40451/ 3 February 2019 KinoPoisk ru-RU 15,000,000Rbls60million tickets sold, average ticket price of 25kopecksMoscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011 n $28,200,000See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union Highest-grossing foreign films. IndiaSpainSupermanWarner Bros.4,795,628₧655,346,759https://www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/dam/jcr:f5fe582c-3748-4a41-bef1-19f2a01e2fef/boletin-1977-1978-1979.pdf#page=743 Spanish 741 Estadística por recaudacion de peliculas extranjeras durante 1979 Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport April 3, 2022$9,763,080Pacific Exchange Rate Service (0.47218 GBP per USD) http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=2 UBC Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia 2 1979 April 3, 2022 United States United Kingdom Superman Columbia-EMI-Warner10,190,000 £11,547,308The Ultimate Chart: 1–100 28 November 2004 British Film Institute http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/complete.php 14 November 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20120803005826/http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/complete.php 3 August 2012 dead $24,455,309Pacific Exchange Rate Service (0.47218 GBP per USD) http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3 UBC Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia 3 1979 21 November 2017 Major events March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, Take Down. March 5 – Production begins on The Empire Strikes Back. March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures. May 25 – Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released. May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a stroke. May 31 – The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature-length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom. June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer. June 27 – 20th Century Fox Pictures president Alan Ladd Jr. and vice-presidents Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan agree to leave Fox. June 29 – Moonraker, the 11th film in the James Bond franchise, is released in the United States and goes on to become the highest-grossing film of the year worldwide. August 15 – Apocalypse Now is released to worldwide critical acclaim and box office success. Heralded as one of the greatest films ever made to this day. September 19 – Don Bluth and a group of fellow animators resign from The Walt Disney Company's animation department to set up a rival studio, Don Bluth Productions. October 1 – Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan who agreed to leave Fox earlier in the year formally announce the creation of The Ladd Company. October 3 – producers Benjamin Melniker and Michael E. Uslan purchase the film rights of Batman from DC Comics. It would be another ten years, before a Batman feature film would be fully realized. November 1 – Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark. December 7 – Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuts in the United States to mixed reviews but blockbuster box office, launching a film franchise that leads to 9 sequels and 3 reboots over the next 37 years. It also leads to the creation of five spin-off television series based upon Gene Roddenberry's creation. Allied Artists files for bankruptcy. Awards Category/Organization 37th Golden Globe AwardsJanuary 26, 1980 33rd BAFTA AwardsMarch 20, 1980 52nd Academy AwardsApril 14, 1980 Drama Musical or Comedy Best Film Kramer vs. Kramer Breaking Away Manhattan Kramer vs. Kramer Best Director Francis Ford CoppolaApocalypse Now Robert BentonKramer vs. Kramer Best Actor Dustin HoffmanKramer vs. Kramer Peter SellersBeing There Jack LemmonThe China Syndrome Dustin HoffmanKramer vs. Kramer Best Actress Sally FieldNorma Rae Bette MidlerThe Rose Jane FondaThe China Syndrome Sally FieldNorma Rae Best Supporting Actor Melvyn DouglasBeing ThereRobert DuvallApocalypse Now Robert DuvallApocalypse Now Melvyn DouglasBeing There Best Supporting Actress Meryl StreepKramer vs. Kramer Rachel RobertsYanks Meryl StreepKramer vs. Kramer Best Screenplay, Adapted Robert BentonKramer vs. Kramer Woody Allen and Marshall BrickmanManhattan Robert BentonKramer vs. Kramer Best Screenplay, Original Steve TesichBreaking Away Best Original Score Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford CoppolaApocalypse Now Ennio MorriconeDays of Heaven Georges DelerueA Little RomanceRalph BurnsAll That Jazz Best Original Song "The Rose"The Rose N/A "It Goes Like It Goes"Norma Rae Best Foreign Language Film La Cage aux Folles N/A The Tin Drum 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 People's Choice Award (Toronto International Film Festival): Best Boy, directed by Ira Wohl, United States 1979 films By country/region List of American films of 1979 List of Argentine films of 1979 List of Australian films of 1979 List of Bangladeshi films of 1979 List of British films of 1979 List of Canadian films of 1979 List of French films of 1979 List of Hong Kong films of 1979 List of Indian films of 1979 List of Hindi films of 1979 List of Kannada films of 1979 List of Malayalam films of 1979 List of Marathi films of 1979 List of Tamil films of 1979 List of Telugu films of 1979 List of Japanese films of 1979 List of Mexican films of 1979 List of Pakistani films of 1979 List of South Korean films of 1979 List of Soviet films of 1979 List of Spanish films of 1979 By genre/medium List of action films of 1979 List of animated feature films of 1979 List of avant-garde films of 1979 List of comedy films of 1979 List of drama films of 1979 List of horror films of 1979 List of science fiction films of 1979 List of thriller films of 1979 List of western films of 1979 Births January 1 – Vidya Balan, Indian actress January 2 - Erica Hubbard, American actress January 6 – Cristela Alonzo, American comedian, actress, writer and producer January 8 Ashraf Barhom, Israeli-Arab actor Sarah Polley, Canadian actress January 10 - Maximilian Brückner, German actor January 13 - Katy Brand, English actress, comedian and writer January 16 – Aaliyah, American actress and singer (d. 2001) January 24 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer January 25 - Christine Lakin, American actress January 26 – Sara Rue, American actress January 27 – Rosamund Pike, English actress and producer January 28 Adam Bartley, American actor Angelique Cabral, American actress January 29 – Andrew Keegan, American actor January 31 - Emmett J. Scanlan, Irish actor February 1 – Rachelle Lefevre, Canadian actress February 2 – Shamita Shetty, Indian actress February 3 – Costa Ronin, Australian actor and cinematographer February 7 - Cerina Vincent, American actress February 8 - Josh Keaton, American actor and musician February 9 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and dancer February 11 – Brandy Norwood, American actress and singer February 12 - Angus Sampson, Australian actor and filmmaker February 13 – Mena Suvari, American actress February 19 - Andrew Buchan, English actor and writer February 21 Tituss Burgess, American actor and singer Maryke Hendrikse, Bahamian-born Canadian voice actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer Shakara Ledard, Bahamian actress Jordan Peele, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer March 3 Bonnie Mbuli, South African actress Patrick Renna, American actor March 5 – Riki Lindhome, American actress, comedian and musician March 7 – Arlindo Lopes, Brazilian actor March 9 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor March 10 Edi Gathegi, Kenyan-American actor Danny Pudi, American actor March 12 - Rhys Coiro, American actor March 14 - Chris Klein, American actor March 17 – Stephen Kramer Glickman, Canadian actor, music producer and stand-up comedian March 18 – Adam Levine, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor March 19 - Abby Brammell, American actress March 20 Freema Agyeman, British actress Bianca Lawson, American actress March 24 – Lake Bell, American actress, director and screenwriter March 25 – Lee Pace, American actor March 28 – Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personalitieshttps://www.daily-sun.com/post/298191/Happy-birthday-Shakib-Khan Happy birthday, Shakib Khan 27 March 2018 Daily Sun en 14 January 2020 11 May 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200511114125/https://www.daily-sun.com/post/298191/Happy-birthday-Shakib-Khan dead March 29 – De'Angelo Wilson, American actor and rapper (d. 2008) March 30 Jose Pablo Cantillo, American actor Pete Holmes, American comedian, actor, writer, producer and podcaster April 4 Bunko Kanazawa, Japanese actress Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008) Natasha Lyonne, American actress April 5 – Josh Boone, American filmmaker April 7 - Nico Santos, Filipino-American actor April 9 - Edward Bennett, English actor April 10 - Paul Fox, English actor April 11 – Josh Server, American actor April 12 Claire Danes, American actress Jennifer Morrison, American actress, director and producer Paul Nicholls, English actor April 15 Karen David, Canadian actress and singer-songwriter Luke Evans, Welsh actor and singer April 17 Mylene Dinh-Robic, Canadian actress Ken Duken, German actor and director Tate Ellington, American actor April 19 – Kate Hudson, American actress April 21 – James McAvoy, Scottish actorJames McAvoy · BIFA · British Independent Film Awards https://www.bifa.film/people/james-mcavoy/ BIFA · British Independent Film Awards 8 September 2022 12 October 2018 April 23 – Jaime King, American actress April 26 – Klára Issová, Czech actress April 27 - Tom Davis, English actor and comedian May 5 – Vincent Kartheiser, American actor May 6 - Kerry Ellis, English actress and singer May 7 – Yōsuke Kubozuka, Japanese actor May 9 – Rosario Dawson, American actress May 11 - Mary Elizabeth Ellis, American actress May 12 – Aaron Yoo, Korean-American actor May 17 - Lyne Renée, Belgian actress May 19 - Bérénice Marlohe, French actress May 20 - Jana Pallaske, German actress and singer May 21 - Lino Guanciale, Italian actor May 22 – Maggie Q, American actress May 23 – Josh Cooley, American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor May 24 - Panos Mouzourakis, Greek singer-songwriter and actor May 25 - Corbin Allred, American actor May 28 Jesse Bradford, American actor Monica Keena, American actress May 30 Jenny Mollen, American actress and writer Tadhg Murphy, Irish actor June 2 Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress James Ransone, American actor (d. 2025) June 7 – Anna Torv, Australian actress June 12 - Wil Horneff, American former child actor June 17 – Young Maylay, American rapper, producer and voice actor June 20 - Sarah Stiles, American singer and actress June 21 – Chris Pratt, American actor June 24 – Mindy Kaling, American writer and actress June 25 Hong Chau, American actress Busy Philipps, American actress June 27 Martin Bourboulon, French film director and screenwriterMartin Bourboulon https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=682356.html 17 December 2023 Allociné fr Benjamin Speed, Australian film composer June 28 - Elaine Tan, English actress June 30 - Rick Gonzalez, American actor and musician July 3 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress July 5 – Eva Maria Daniels, Icelandic film producer (d. 2023) July 6 Kevin Hart, American actor Abdul Salis, British actor July 7 - Benjamin Mitchell, New Zealand actor July 10 – Gong Yoo, South Korean actor July 12 – Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor July 14 – Scott Porter, American actor July 16 Jayma Mays, American actress Gerard Monaco, British actor July 17 – Mike Vogel, American actor and former model July 19 – David Sakurai, Danish-Japanese actor, director and scriptwriter July 24 - Rose Byrne, Australian actress July 25 - Juan Pablo Di Pace, Argentine actor, director, singer and musician July 26 - Mageina Tovah, American actress July 30 Lucas Babin, American actor Derek Waters, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director July 31 Dana Gourrier, American actress B. J. Novak, American writer and actor August 1 – Jason Momoa, American actor and filmmaker August 3 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actressEvangeline Lilly https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bd0fbf6ac https://web.archive.org/web/20190107145106/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bd0fbf6ac dead January 7, 2019 BFI 8 January 2022 en August 6 – Dayahang Rai, Nepalese actor August 10 – JoAnna Garcia Swisher, American actress August 12 - Keith Powell, American actor, writer and director August 13 - Kasia Smutniak, Polish-Italian actress and model August 14 - Jamie Parker, English actor and singer August 21 - Kevin Janssens, Belgian actor August 22 – Brandon Adams, American actor August 23 – Claire Grant, American actress, model and producer August 24 – Fabienne Carat, French actress and singer August 25 – Şebnem Bozoklu, Turkish actress August 26 – Erik Valdez, American actor August 27 – Aaron Paul, American actor August 28 - Melody Kay, American actress August 29 – Dan Harris, American screenwriter and director August 31 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film composer September 1 Camille Chen, American actress Justice Leak, American actor September 4 - Max Greenfield, American actor September 8 Miles Jupp, English actor and comedian Pink, American singer and actress September 11 Ariana Richards, American actress Cameron Richardson, American actress and producer Hu Ting-ting, English-born Taiwanese actress September 17 Neill Blomkamp, South African and Canadian director and screenwriter Kat Coiro, American director Billy Miller, American actor (d. 2023) September 18 – Alison Lohman, American former actress September 19 – Noémie Lenoir, French model and actress September 20 – Chris Tardio, American actor September 22 – MyAnna Buring, Swedish-born British actress September 23 – Lisa Loven Kongsli, Norwegian actress September 25 - Stephen Rider, American actor September 26 Mark Famiglietti, American actor, screenwriter and producer Susanne Wuest, Austrian actress September 27 – Jad Saxton, American voice actress Alicyn Packard, American actress, singer, and writer September 30 – Jonathan Kasdan, American screenwriter, director, producer and actor October 1 – Marielle Heller, American film director October 4 Caitríona Balfe, Irish actress Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress October 6 – Sareh Bayat, Iranian actress October 7 Tang Wei, Chinese actress Aaron Ashmore and Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actors October 8 – Kristanna Loken, American actress October 9 Alex Greenwald, American musician and actor Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor and comedian Brandon Routh, American actor Zachary Ty Bran, American actor October 20 Nargis Fakhri, American actress John Krasinski, American actor and filmmaker October 22 - Tony Denman, American actor October 28 – Natina Reed, American singer-songwriter, rapper and actress (d. 2012) October 29 – Maya Karin, Malaysian actress October 30 - James A. Woods, Canadian actor October 31 – Erica Cerra, Canadian actress November 2 - Jon M. Chu, American director, producer and screenwriter November 5 - Leonardo Nam, Australian actor November 8 – Dania Ramirez, Dominican actress November 9 Cory Hardrict, American actor Matt McCarthy, American comedian, actor and writer November 13 – Riccardo Scamarcio, Italian actor and producer November 14 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French actress November 19 – Barry Jenkins, American film director November 20 - Jacob Pitts, American actor November 22 Andrew Knott, British actor Leeanna Walsman, Australian actress November 23 – Jonathan Sadowski, American actor November 25 Jerry Ferrara, American actor Joel Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor November 28 – Daniel Henney, American actor and model November 29 - Timo Vuorensola, Finnish director, singer and actor November 30 Stephen Campbell Moore, British actor Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Irish actress December 3 – Tiffany Haddish, American comedian and actress December 5 – Nick Stahl, American actor December 7 Eric Bauza, Canadian-born American voice actor, stand-up comedian and animation artist Sara Bareilles, American actress and singer December 8 - Nick Thune, American actor, comedian and musician December 11 – Rider Strong, American actor December 15 – Adam Brody, American actor, writer, musician and producer December 17 - Lil Rel Howery, American actor and comedian December 19 - Tara Summers, English actress December 20 - Ramón Rodríguez, Puerto Rican actor December 21 - Daniel Brocklebank, British actor December 23 – Summer Altice, American model and actress December 24 - Natalie Walter, British actress and writer December 26 – Chris Daughtry, American actor and singer December 28 André Holland, American actor Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress December 29 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director and producer Deaths Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films January 11 Jack Soo 61 US Actor Flower Drum Song The Oscar 16 Peter Butterworth 63 UK Actor, writer Oliver! The First Great Train Robbery 16 Ted Cassidy 46 US Actor Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Mackenna's Gold 18 Cyril J. Mockridge 82 UK Composer Desk Set The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 25 Dick Crockett 63 US Stuntman, Actor Dirty Harry Spartacus February 12 Jean Renoir 84 US Director, writer, actor The Rules of the Game La Grande Illusion 16 Louise Allbritton 58 US Actress Pittsburgh Sitting Pretty 17 William Gargan 73 US Actor The Bells of St. Mary's Cheers for Miss Bishop 19 Leigh Jason 74 US Director Out of the Blue The Mad Miss Manton 28 Jane Hylton 51 UK Actress It Started in Paradise Circus of Horrors March 1 Dolores Costello 75 US Actress The Magnificent Ambersons Little Lord Fauntleroy 2 Edith Craig 71 US Actress After the Thin Man Broadway Bill 6 John Robinson 70 UK Actor Lawrence of Arabia The Longest Day 9 Barbara Mullen 64 UK Actress Jeannie Thunder Rock 19 John Tate 64 UK Actor Invasion 21 Bomba Tzur 50 Israel Actor Blaumilch Canal Dalia and the Sailors 22 Ben Lyon 78 US Actor, writer Hell's Angels Night Nurse 24 Yvonne Mitchell 63 UK Actress Woman in a Dressing Gown Johnny Nobody April 4 Edgar Buchanan 76 US Actor Shane Wichita 6 Norman Tokar 59 US Director Follow Me, Boys! The Happiest Millionaire 10 Nino Rota 67 Italy Composer The Godfather The Leopard 24 John Carroll 72 US Actor Go West Flying Tigers May 6 Rosemary La Planche 55 US Actress Angels' Alley Jack Armstrong 8 Victor Saville 83 UK Producer, director Goodbye, Mr. Chips Kim 10 Beatrice Campbell 56 UK Actress Last Holiday The Master of Ballantrae 11 Joan Chandler 55 US Actress Humoresque Rope 26 George Brent 80 US Actor Jezebel 42nd Street 29 Mary Pickford 87 US Actress, producer, writer Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Coquette June 1 Jack Mulhall 91 US Actor The Social Buccaneer The Three Musketeers 2 Larisa Shepitko 41 Soviet Union Director Wings The Ascent 2 Jim Hutton 45 US Actor Walk, Don't Run Who's Minding the Mint? 6 Jack Haley 80 US Actor The Wizard of Oz Alexander's Ragtime Band 11 John Wayne 72 US Actor, producer, director The Searchers Red River 12 Henry Berman 65 US Editor, Producer Swing Time Grand Prix 14 David Butler 84 US Director Road to Morocco Calamity Jane 16 Nicholas Ray 67 US Director, writer, actor Rebel Without a Cause In a Lonely Place 19 Nick Grinde 86 US Director Million Dollar Legs The Man They Could Not Hang 21 Julian Orchard 49 UK Actor, writer Revenge of the Pink Panther The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother July 2 Larisa Shepitko 41 USSR Director, writer, actress The Ascent Farewell 8 Michael Wilding 66 UK Actor, producer Stage Fright Waterloo 13 Corinne Griffith 84 US Actress The Divine Lady Back Pay 22 Kathleen Case 45 US Actress Human Desire Running Wild 25 Eric Pohlmann 66 Germany Actor The Third Man From Russia with Love 26 Virginia Brissac 96 US Actress Dressed to Kill Rebel Without a Cause 27 Ettore Manni 52 Italy Actor City of Women Le Amiche 27 Shirley Mason 79 US Actress Anne Against the World So This Is Love? 28 George Seaton 68 US Director The Country Girl Airport 28 Frederick Stafford 51 Czechoslovakia Actor Topaz Dirty Heroes 31 Beatrix Lehmann 76 UK Actress The Spy Who Came in from the Cold August ?? Betty Henderson 72 UK Actress The 39 Steps The Maggie 6 Kurt Kasznar 65 Austria Actor Kiss Me Kate Lili 7 Vicente Salumbides 85 Philippines Actor, Director Ibong Adarna Florante at Laura 10 Dick Foran 69 US Actor The Petrified Forest Ride 'Em Cowboy 17 Vivian Vance 70 US Actress The Great Race 21 Stuart Heisler 82 US Director Tulsa I Died a Thousand Times 30 Jean Seberg 40 US Actress Breathless Airport September 1 Doris Kenyon 81 US Actress Alexander Hamilton The Road to Singapore 2 Felix Aylmer 90 UK Actor Becket Hamlet 12 Les Clark 71 US Animator Fantasia One Hundred and One Dalmatians 12 Jocelyne LaGarde 54 Tahiti Actress Hawaii 17 Willis Goldbeck 80 US Screenwriter Young Dr. Kildare The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 22 Frederick Piper 76 UK Actor The 39 Steps The Man Who Knew Too Much 23 Catherine Lacey 75 UK Actress The Lady Vanishes The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 26 John Cromwell 91 US Director Of Human Bondage The Enchanted Cottage 26 Arthur Hunnicutt 69 US Actor The Tall T El Dorado 27 Gracie Fields 81 UK Actress, singer Sally in Our Alley Holy Matrimony October 1 Dorothy Arzner 82 US Director Craig's Wife Dance, Girl, Dance 3 Dorothy Peterson 81 US Actress That Hagen Girl Payment Deferred 12 Celia Lovsky 82 Austria Actress Foxfire I Mobster 17 John Stuart 81 UK Actor Superman Village of the Damned 25 Fernando Soler 83 Mexico Actor Papacito lindo El gran calavera 30 Graham Ashley 52 UK Actor Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Hennessy November 1 Saro Urzì 66 Italy Actor The Godfather Beat the Devil 5 Amedeo Nazzari 71 Italy Actor Il bandito The Jester's Supper 8 Sydney Tafler 63 UK Actor The Spy Who Loved Me Alfie 11 Dimitri Tiomkin 85 Russia Composer High Noon The High and the Mighty 20 Michael Darbyshire 62 UK Actor, writer Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Slipper and the Rose 21 Paul Wexler 50 US Actor The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze 22 George Froeschel 88 US Screenwriter Mrs. Miniver Scaramouche 23 Merle Oberon 68 India Actress, producer Wuthering Heights The Scarlet Pimpernel 30 Barbara von Annenkoff 79 Germany Actress Wood Love Derby 30 Joyce Grenfell 69 UK Actress The Americanization of Emily Blue Murder at St Trinian's 30 Zeppo Marx 78 US Actor, director Duck Soup Monkey Business December 5 Jesse Pearson 49 US Actor Bye Bye Birdie 5 Lesley Selander 70 US Director Blackmail Flight to Mars 9 James Neilson 70 US Director The Moon-Spinners Bon Voyage! 10 Ann Dvorak 68 US Actress Scarface Three on a Match 11 Claire Carleton 66 US Actress Girl from Havana Gildersleeve on Broadway 12 Jon Hall 64 US Actor, director The Hurricane Kit Carson 22 George Pollock 72 UK Director Murder, She Said Ten Little Indians 23 Ernest B. Schoedsack 86 US Director, cinematographer, producer King Kong The Most Dangerous Game 25 Michael Collins 57 Canada Actor Goldfinger The Battle of the River Plate 25 Lee Bowman 64 US Actor Love Affair Cover Girl 25 Joan Blondell 73 US Actress Grease The Public Enemy Film debuts Sam Anderson – The Swap Rosanna Arquette – More American Graffiti Jean-Pierre Bacri – The Medic G. W. Bailey – A Force of One Talia Balsam – Sunnyside Tobin Bell – Manhattan Lorraine Bracco – Duos sur canapé David Bradley – The Frisco Kid Patrick Bruel – Le coup de sirocco Grand L. Bush – Hair Yancy Butler – Savage Weekend Gordon Clapp – Running Frances Conroy – Manhattan Matt Craven – Meatballs Denise Crosby – 10 Ted Danson – The Onion Field Jean-Pierre Darroussin – Coup de tête Keith David – Disco Godfather David DeLuise – Hot Stuff Matt Dillon – Over the Edge Lisa Eichhorn – The Europeans Cary Elwes – Yesterday's Hero Giancarlo Esposito – Running Craig Fairbrass – Scum Christopher Fairbank – Agatha Jim Fitzpatrick – Glory Days Danny Glover – Escape from Alcatraz Erin Gray – Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Bruce Greenwood – Bear Island Linda Hamilton – Night Flowers Melora Hardin – The North Avenue Irregulars Dennis Haysbert – Scoring Stephen McKinley Henderson – A Pleasure Doing Business James Horner (film composer) – The Lady in Red Anna Maria Horsford – An Almost Perfect Affair Gary Hudson – Skatetown, U.S.A. Hawthorne James – Disco Godfather Lucinda Jenney – Impostors Michael Jeter – Hair Sam J. Jones – 10 David Keith – The Great Santini David Patrick Kelly – The Warriors Wayne Knight – The Wanderers Christine Lahti – ...And Justice for All Laurene Landon – Bitter Heritage Diane Lane – A Little Romance Fredric Lehne – Being There Eugene Lipinski – Hanover Street Carl Lumbly – Escape from Alcatraz Tzi Ma – Cocaine Cowboys Hayao Miyazaki (director) – The Castle of Cagliostro Bill Nighy – The Bitch Will Patton – Minus Zero David Paymer – The In-Laws Elizabeth Peña – El Super Chris Penn – Charlie and the Talking Buzzard Rhea Perlman – Swap Meet Clarke Peters – The Music Machine CCH Pounder – All That Jazz Mickey Rourke – 1941 Zelda Rubinstein – Americathon Jay O. Sanders – Starting Over Al Sapienza – Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula Raynor Scheine – Something Short of Paradise Wallace Shawn – Manhattan Martin Short – Lost and Found J. Smith-Cameron – Gal Young Un Timothy Spall – Quadrophenia Vincent Spano – Over the Edge Mike Starr – Squeeze Play! Daniel Stern – Breaking Away Ewan Stewart – That Summer! Emma Suárez – Memoirs of Leticia Valle Patrick Swayze – Skatetown, U.S.A. R. H. Thomson – Jigsaw Joey Travolta – Sunnyside Jean-Claude Van Damme – Woman Between Wolf and Dog Christoph Waltz – Breakthrough Timothy Webber – The Prize Fighter Peter Weller – Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Joanne Whalley – Birth of the Beatles JoBeth Williams – Kramer vs. Kramer Mykelti Williamson – Sunnyside Michael Wincott – Title Shot Ray Winstone – That Summer! Michael Wright – The Wanderers Daniel Zacapa – Boulevard Nights Notes n References 30em n External links List of 1979 films at IMDb 1979 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo List of 1979 deaths at IMDb List of 1979 births at IMDb Film Category:Film by year