The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.
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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1976 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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1 | (Rocky) | (United Artists) | $55,900,000 |
2 | (A Star Is Born) | Warner Bros. | $37,100,000 |
3 | (King Kong) | Paramount | $36,900,000 |
4 | (Silver Streak) | (20th Century Fox) | $30,018,000 |
5 | (All the President's Men) | Warner Bros. | $30,000,000 |
6 | (The Omen) | 20th Century Fox | $28,500,000 |
7 | (The Bad News Bears) | Paramount | $24,800,000 |
8 | (The Enforcer) | Warner Bros. | $24,000,000 |
9 | (In Search of Noah's Ark) | (Sunn Classic) | $23,800,000 |
10 | (Midway) | Universal | $21,610,435 |
Events
- January – Paramount Pictures sets up a separate motion picture division and names (David V. Picker) as president.
- March 22 – Filming begins on (George Lucas)' (Star Wars) science fiction film. In one of the most lucrative business decisions in film history, Lucas declines his directing fee of $500,000 in exchange for complete ownership of merchandising and sequel rights.
- April 1 – (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) is officially re-released as a (midnight movie) at the Waverly Theater (Now the (IFC Center)) in (Greenwich Village) in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there as of 2013[update] all around the world.
- April 9 – (Alfred Hitchcock)'s last film, (Family Plot), is released.
- August 11 – (John Wayne) appears in his final film, (The Shootist).
- August 26 – (Alan Ladd Jr.) is promoted from head of worldwide production to president of (20th Century Fox)'s film division.
- November 15 – (Michael Eisner) is brought in as president and CEO of Paramount Pictures.
- November 21 – (Rocky), the first in the film series opens. It becomes the highest-grossing film released in the year and goes on to win the (Academy Award for Best Picture).
- December 5 – (Bound for Glory) debuts and is the first motion picture in which inventor/operator (Garrett Brown) used his new (Steadicam) for filming moving scenes, although its use had already been seen in (Marathon Man) and Rocky which were filmed later but released earlier.
- December 17 - (King Kong) opens to the year's highest opening weekend gross and overall box office success.
Awards
Category/Organization | (34th Golden Globe Awards) January 29, 1977 | (30th BAFTA Awards) March 24, 1977 | (49th Academy Awards) March 28, 1977 | |
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Best Film | (Rocky) | (A Star Is Born) | (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) | (Rocky) |
Best Director | (Sidney Lumet) (Network) | (Miloš Forman) (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) | (John G. Avildsen) (Rocky) | |
Best Actor | (Peter Finch) (Network) | (Kris Kristofferson) (A Star Is Born) | (Jack Nicholson) (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) | (Peter Finch) (Network) |
Best Actress | (Faye Dunaway) (Network) | (Barbra Streisand) (A Star Is Born) | (Louise Fletcher) (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) | (Faye Dunaway) (Network) |
Best Supporting Actor | (Laurence Olivier) (Marathon Man) | (Brad Dourif) (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) | (Jason Robards) (All the President's Men) | |
Best Supporting Actress | (Katharine Ross) (Voyage of the Damned) | Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver) and (Bugsy Malone) | (Beatrice Straight) (Network) | |
Best Screenplay, Adapted | (Paddy Chayefsky) (Network) | (Alan Parker) (Bugsy Malone) | (William Goldman) (All the President's Men) | |
Best Screenplay, Original | (Paddy Chayefsky) (Network) | |||
Best Original Score | (Kenneth Ascher) and (Paul Williams) (A Star Is Born) | (Bernard Herrmann) (Taxi Driver) | (Jerry Goldsmith) (The Omen) (Leonard Rosenman) (Bound for Glory) | |
Best Original Song | "(Evergreen)" (A Star Is Born) | N/A | "(Evergreen)" (A Star Is Born) | |
Best Foreign Language Film | (Face to Face) | N/A | (Black and White in Color) |
(Palme d'Or) (Cannes Film Festival):
- (Taxi Driver), directed by (Martin Scorsese), United States
(Golden Bear) (Berlin Film Festival):
- (Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson), directed by Robert Altman, United States
1976 films
By country/region
- (List of American films of 1976)
- (List of Argentine films of 1976)
- (List of Australian films of 1976)
- (List of Bangladeshi films of 1976)
- (List of British films of 1976)
- (List of Canadian films of 1976)
- (List of French films of 1976)
- (List of Hong Kong films of 1976)
- List of Indian films of 1976
- (List of Hindi films of 1976)
- (List of Kannada films of 1976)
- (List of Malayalam films of 1976)
- (List of Marathi films of 1976)
- (List of Tamil films of 1976)
- (List of Telugu films of 1976)
- (List of Japanese films of 1976)
- (List of Mexican films of 1976)
- (List of Pakistani films of 1976)
- (List of South Korean films of 1976)
- (List of Soviet films of 1976)
- (List of Spanish films of 1976)
By genre/medium
- (List of animated feature films of 1976)
- (List of avant-garde films of 1976)
- (List of horror films of 1976)
- (List of western films of 1976)
Births
- January 2 – (Paz Vega), Spanish actress
- January 4 - (August Diehl), German actor
- January 6
- (Johnny Yong Bosch), American actor, voice actor
- (Danny Pintauro), American actor
- January 7 - (Tyron Leitso), Canadian actor
- January 8 - (Jenny Lewis), American singer-songwriter, musician and actress
- January 13 – (Michael Peña), American actor
- January 15 - (Dorian Missick), American actor
- January 18 - (Derek Richardson), American actor
- January 20 - (Wayne Bastrup), American actor and musician
- January 21 – (Lars Eidinger), German film, television and stage actor
- January 27
- (Chris Gauthier), English-born Canadian actor (d. 2024)
- (Wojciech Klata), Polish actor
- January 28 – (Lee Ingleby), English film, television and stage actor
- January 31 - (Paul Scheer), American actor, comedian
- February 3
- (Isla Fisher), Australian actress
- (Tim Heidecker), American comedian, writer, director, actor and musician
- February 5
- (Abhishek Bachchan), Indian actor
- (Tony Jaa), Thai actor, martial artist, director and stuntman
- February 8 - (Sharon Duncan-Brewster), British actress
- February 9 – (Charlie Day), American actor, screenwriter, producer, comedian, director and musician
- February 10 - (Keeley Hawes), English actress
- February 11 – (Brice Beckham), American actor
- February 14 - (Erica Leerhsen), American actress
- February 23
- (Aaron Aziz), Singaporean actor, singer and film director
- (Kelly Macdonald), Scottish actress
- February 25 – (Rashida Jones), American actress, director, writer, and producer
- February 28 - (Ali Larter), American actress and model
- February 29 - (Ja Rule), American rapper and actor
- March 8 – (Freddie Prinze Jr.), American actor, voice actor, writer and producer
- March 13 – (Danny Masterson), American actor and DJ
- March 14
- (Daniel Gillies), New Zealand-Canadian actor, producer, director and screenwriter
- (Corey Stoll), American actor
- March 16 – (Paul Schneider), American actor
- March 21 – (Rachael MacFarlane), American voice actress, singer and writer
- March 22 – (Reese Witherspoon), American actress, producer, and entrepreneur
- March 23
- (Michelle Monaghan), American actress
- (Keri Russell), American actress
- March 25 - (Domenick Lombardozzi), American actor
- March 26 – (Amy Smart), American actress
- March 27 - (Craig Wayans), American writer, producer and actor
- April 1
- (Troy Baker), American voice actor
- (David Oyelowo), English actor, producer, director
- April 5 – (Sterling K. Brown), American actor
- April 6 - (Candace Cameron Bure), American actress, producer, author, and talk show panelist
- April 13
- (Jonathan Brandis), American actor (d. 2003)
- (Glenn Howerton), American actor and writer
- April 15 – (Susan Ward), American actress and model
- April 16 - Lukas Haas, American actor
- April 17 - (Maïwenn), French actress and filmmaker
- April 18 - (Kevin Rankin), American actor
- April 20 – (Joey Lawrence), American actor
- April 23 – (Gabriel Damon), American actor
- April 26
- (Elisabet Reinsalu), Estonian actress
- (Thurop Van Orman), American cartoonist, animator, voice actor, producer and director
- April 27 – (Sally Hawkins), English actress
- April 28 - (Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse), Native American actor
- May 1
- (Darius McCrary), American actor, rapper, singer and producer
- (Violante Placido), Italian actress and singer
- May 5
- (Dieter Brummer), Australian actor (d. 2021)
- (Sage Stallone), American actor (d. 2012)
- May 14 - (Martine McCutcheon), English actress and singer
- May 22 – (Külli Teetamm), Estonian actress
- May 25
- (Erinn Hayes), American actress and comedian
- Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
- (Ethan Suplee), American film and television actor
- (J. Michael Tatum), American voice actor
- May 26 - (Stephen Curry), Australian comedian and actor
- May 28 - (Liam O'Brien), American voice actor, writer and director
- May 29 – (Yûsuke Iseya), Japanese actor
- May 30 – (Omri Katz), American retired actor
- May 31 – (Colin Farrell), Irish actor
- June 4 - (Damion Poitier), American actor and stuntman
- June 6 - (Jonathan Nolan), British-American screenwriter, producer and director
- June 8 - (Eion Bailey), American actor
- June 10 - (Simon Fenton), English actor
- June 17 - Scott Adkins, British actor, producer and martial artist
- June 18
- (Alana de la Garza), American actress
- (Blake Shelton), American singer and actor
- June 19 - (Ryan Hurst), American actor
- June 21 - (Dan Scanlon), American animator, storyboard artist, director and screenwriter
- June 27
- (Joseph Sikora), American actor
- (Wagner Moura), Brazilian actor, director and filmmaker
- June 28 - (Lorraine Stanley), English actress
- June 29
- (Omar Doom), American actor, musician and artist
- (Bret McKenzie), New Zealand musician, comedian and actor
- July 1 - (Thomas Sadoski), American actor
- July 3 - (Andrea Barber), American actress and comedian
- July 5
- (Jamie Elman), Canadian-American actor
- (Liberty Phoenix), American former actress
- July 6 - (Bashir Salahuddin), American actor, writer and comedian
- July 7 - (Hamish Linklater), American actor
- July 9 – (Fred Savage), American actor
- July 15
- (Gabriel Iglesias), American stand-up comedian and actor
- (Diane Kruger), German actress
- July 17 - (Dagmara Dominczyk), Polish-American actress
- July 18 – (Elsa Pataky), Spanish-Australian actress
- July 19
- (Benedict Cumberbatch), English actor
- (Vinessa Shaw), American actress and model
- July 31 – (Mela Lee), American voice actress
- August 2 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor
- August 6
- (Andero Ermel), Estonian actor
- (Melissa George), Australian actress
- (Soleil Moon Frye), American actress and director
- August 9
- (Jessica Capshaw), American actress
- (Audrey Tautou), French actress
- August 16 - (Kinga Philipps), Polish-American actress
- August 23 - (Scott Caan), American actor, director and writer
- August 24 - (Alex O'Loughlin), Australian actor, director and writer
- August 25 – (Alexander Skarsgard), Swedish actor
- August 26 – (Mike Colter), American actor
- August 27 – (Sarah Chalke), Canadian actress, model and voice artist
- August 30 - (Lillo Brancato), American actor
- September 3 – (Vivek Oberoi), Indian actor
- September 5 – (Carice van Houten), Dutch actress and singer
- September 6
- (Domenica Cameron-Scorsese), American actress
- Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor
- (Naomie Harris), English actress
- September 7 - (Oliver Hudson), American actor
- September 9
- (Emma de Caunes), French actress
- (Lúcia Moniz), Portuguese singer and actress
- September 13 - (Colin Trevorrow), American filmmaker
- September 18 - (Denis Ménochet), French actor
- September 20
- Jon Bernthal, American actor
- (Enuka Okuma), Canadian actress
- September 22 - (Sala Baker), New Zealand actress and stuntman
- September 24 - (Matthew Gravelle), Welsh actor
- September 26 – (Kersti Heinloo), Estonian actress
- October 1 - (Danielle Bisutti), American actress and singer
- October 3 – (Seann William Scott), American actor, comedian and producer
- October 4 – (Alicia Silverstone), American actress
- October 6 - (Brett Gelman), American actor and comedian
- October 9
- (Sam Riegel), American voice actor, director and writer
- (Nick Swardson), American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and producer
- October 11 - Emily Deschanel, American actress
- October 14 - (Chang Chen), Taiwanese actor
- October 16 - (Gil Kenan), British-American filmmaker
- October 20 – (Dan Fogler), American actor, comedian and writer
- October 21 – (Andrew Scott), Irish actor
- October 23 – (Ryan Reynolds), Canadian actor and film producer
- October 26 - (Florence Kasumba), Ugandan-born German actress
- October 31 – (Piper Perabo), American actress
- November 1 - (Chad Lindberg), American actor
- November 5 - (Sebastian Arcelus), American actor
- November 7 - (Melyssa Ade), Canadian actress
- November 19 - (Happy Anderson), American actor
- November 24
- (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi), Japanese actor
- (Michael Roof), American actor and comedian (d. 2009)
- November 28 - (Ryan Kwanten), Australian actor and producer
- November 29
- Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (d. 2020)
- (Anna Faris), American actress, podcaster and writer
- December 1 - (Dean O'Gorman), New Zealand actor
- December 5 - (Amy Acker), American actress
- December 7 – (Mark Duplass), American filmmaker, actor, writer, and musician
- December 8 – Dominic Monaghan, English actor
- December 23 - (Kyle Kinane), American stand-up comedian and actor
- December 27 - (Aaron Stanford), American actor
- December 28 - (Joe Manganiello), American actor
- December 29
- (Dome Karukoski), Finnish director
- (Danny McBride), American actor, comedian and writer
- December 31 - (Chris Terrio), American screenwriter and director
Deaths
Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
January | 1 | (Walter Janssen) | 88 | Germany | Actor |
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12 | (Agatha Christie) | 85 | UK | Writer |
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13 | (Margaret Leighton) | 53 | UK | Actress |
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18 | (Sonia Dresdel) | 66 | UK | Actress |
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23 | (Paul Dupuis) | 62 | France | Actor |
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23 | Paul Robeson | 77 | US | Actor, Singer |
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29 | (Michael Gwynn) | 59 | UK | Actor |
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February | 4 | (Roger Livesey) | 69 | UK | Actor |
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11 | (Lee J. Cobb) | 64 | US | Actor |
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11 | (John Twist) | 77 | US | Screenwriter |
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12 | (Sal Mineo) | 37 | US | Actor |
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13 | (Lily Pons) | 77 | France | Singer, Actress |
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13 | (John Lounsbery) | 64 | US | Animator |
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15 | (Maria Corda) | 77 | Hungary | Actress |
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16 | (Campbell Singer) | 66 | UK | Actor |
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24 | (Peter Madden) | 71 | UK | Actor |
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26 | (Frieda Inescort) | 75 | UK | Actress |
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March | 3 | (Doris Hill) | 70 | US | Actress |
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5 | (Charles Lederer) | 69 | US | Screenwriter |
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14 | (Busby Berkeley) | 80 | US | Director, Choreographer |
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17 | (Luchino Visconti) | 69 | Italy | Director, Writer |
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20 | (Michael Goodliffe) | 61 | UK | Actor |
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28 | (Richard Arlen) | 76 | US | Actor |
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April | 2 | (Ray Teal) | 74 | US | Actor |
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4 | (George Pastell) | 53 | Cyprus | Actor |
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5 | (Howard Hughes) | 70 | US | Director, Producer |
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5 | (Robert Lord) | 75 | US | Screenwriter, Producer |
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11 | (Liam Dunn) | 59 | US | Actor |
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12 | Paul Ford | 74 | US | Actor |
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21 | (Léonide Moguy) | 75 | Russia | Director, Writer |
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25 | (Carol Reed) | 69 | UK | Director, Writer |
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26 | (Neil McCallum) | 46 | Canada | Actor |
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26 | (Sid James) | 62 | UK | Actor |
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29 | (Thelma Connell) | 63 | UK | Film Editor |
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May | 3 | (David Bruce) | 62 | US | Actor |
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7 | (Alan Baxter) | 67 | US | Actor |
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27 | (Hilde Hildebrand) | 78 | Germany | Actress |
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27 | (Ruth McDevitt) | 80 | US | Actress |
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June | 5 | (Violet Wilkey) | 73 | US | Actress |
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6 | (Victor Varconi) | 85 | Hungary | Actor |
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9 | (Sybil Thorndike) | 93 | UK | Actress |
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10 | (Adolph Zukor) | 103 | US | Producer, Studio Executive |
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25 | (Johnny Mercer) | 66 | US | Songwriter |
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28 | (Stanley Baker) | 48 | UK | Actor |
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July | 2 | (Frances Howard) | 73 | US | Actress |
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7 | (Norman Foster) | 72 | US | Actor, Director |
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12 | (James Wong Howe) | 76 | China | Cinematographer |
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17 | (Rina Morelli) | 67 | Italy | Actress |
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28 | (Lucie Mannheim) | 77 | Germany | Actress |
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August | 2 | (Fritz Lang) | 85 | Germany | Director, Writer |
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6 | (William Mervyn) | 64 | UK | Actor |
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10 | 74 | US | Actor |
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17 | (William Redfield) | 49 | US | Actor |
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17 | (Murvyn Vye) | 60 | US | Actor |
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18 | (Luigi Serventi) | 91 | Italy | Actor |
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28 | (Alastair Sim) | 75 | UK | Actor |
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September | 10 | (Dalton Trumbo) | 70 | US | Screenwriter |
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30 | (Paul Dehn) | 63 | UK | Screenwriter |
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October | 5 | (Barbara Nichols) | 47 | US | Actress |
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14 | (Edith Evans) | 88 | UK | Actress |
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November | 3 | (Ramsay Hill) | 86 | US | Actor, Technical Advisor |
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15 | (Jean Gabin) | 72 | France | Actor |
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22 | (Rupert Davies) | 60 | UK | Actor |
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28 | (Rosalind Russell) | 69 | US | Actress |
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29 | (Godfrey Cambridge) | 43 | US | Actor |
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December | 3 | (Mary Nash) | 92 | US | Actress |
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8 | (Cathy Downs) | 50 | US | Actress |
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12 | (Jack Cassidy) | 49 | US | Actor |
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20 | (Walter Fitzgerald) | 80 | UK | Actor |
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Film debuts
- (Victoria Abril) – (Robin and Marian)
- (Shohreh Aghdashloo) – (The Chess Game of the Wind)
- (Albert Brooks) – (Taxi Driver)
- (Dean Cain) – Elmer
- (Chow Yun-fat) – Tou tai ren
- (Cam Clarke) – (Baker's Hawk)
- (James Cromwell) – (Murder by Death)
- (Michael Dorn) – (Rocky)
- (Bill Duke) – (Car Wash)
- (Joe Flaherty) – (Tunnel Vision)
- (Dexter Fletcher) – (Bugsy Malone)
- (Paul Freeman) – Whose Child Am I?
- (Richard Griffiths) – (It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet)
- (Mariel Hemingway) – (Lipstick)
- (Ernie Hudson) – (Leadbelly)
- (Amy Irving) – (Carrie)
- (Michael Kamen) – (The Next Man)
- (Jessica Lange) – (King Kong)
- (Jennifer Jason Leigh) – The Spy Who Never Was
- (Delroy Lindo) – (Find the Lady)
- (Mark Margolis) – (The Opening of Misty Beethoven)
- (Marc McClure) – (Freaky Friday)
- (Edie McClurg) – Carrie
- (Sam McMurray) – (The Front)
- (Glenn Morshower) – (Drive-In)
- (Bill Murray) – (Next Stop, Greenwich Village)
- (Lena Olin) – (Face to Face)
- (Holmes Osborne) – The Student Body
- (Stuart Pankin) – Next Stop, Greenwich Village
- (Tim Pigott-Smith) – (Aces High)
- (Mary Kay Place) – (Bound for Glory)
- (Jonathan Pryce) – (Voyage of the Damned)
- (John Ratzenberger) – (The Ritz)
- (James Rebhorn) – The Yum Yum Girls
- (Isabella Rossellini) – (A Matter of Time)
- (Cecilia Roth) – (No toquen a la nena)
- (Deep Roy) – (The Pink Panther Strikes Again)
- (Mercedes Ruehl) – (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands)
- (Theresa Russell) – (The Last Tycoon)
- (Helen Shaver) – (Shoot)
- (Brooke Shields) – (Alice, Sweet Alice)
- (Ron Silver) – Tunnel Vision
- (P.J. Soles) – Carrie
- (Carol Sutton) – Sounder, Part 2
- (Holland Taylor) – (The Next Man)
- (Tim Thomerson) – Car Wash
- (Charlene Tilton) – Freaky Friday
- (Frank Vincent) – (The Death Collector)
- (John Waters) (actor) – (End Play)
- (Tom Wilkinson) – The Shadow Line
- (Debra Winger) – (Slumber Party '57)
- (Keone Young) – (Baby Blue Marine)
References
- Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 360–361. ISBN .
- "Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76". Daily Variety. October 26, 1976. p. 208.
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- . BFI. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- Stewart, William T. (1981). International Film Necrology. New York: Garland Publishing. p. 244. ISBN . See also:
- Seibel, George (September 24, 1935). "Saladin Gets the Vote as Richard Makes War and Love in 'Crusades'". Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph. p. 14.
- Blum, Daniel, ed. (1962, 1982). Daniel Blum's Screen World. Cheshire, CT: Biblio & Tannen. p. 21. ISBN .