1909 in film

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The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• Matsunosuke Onoe, who would become the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu.
• James Joyce opens the Volta, the first cinema in Dublin.

Films released in 1909

• The Adventures of Lieutenant Rose
• The Airship Destroyer (originally titled Der Luftkrieg Der Zukunft, also titled "The Aerial Torpedo", "The Battle of the Clouds" {UK} and "The Battle in the Clouds" {US})
• At the Altar
• A Corner in Wheat, directed by D. W. Griffith
• The Country Doctor, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• The Cowboy Millionaire
• The Curtain Pole
• The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period
• The Diabolical Tenant (Le Locataire diabolique), directed by Georges Melies
• The Doctor's Secret, directed by Georges Melies
• The Drive for a Life - Directed by D. W. Griffith
• A Drunkard's Reformation
• Entrevista de los Presidentes Díaz-Taft (Mexico), a documentary directed by the Alva Brothers
• The Fitzsimmons-Bill Lang Fight
• Fools of Fate
• The Golden Louis
• The Hessian Renegades
• Les Joyeux microbes
• Lady Helen's Escapade
• The Lonely Villa, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Macbeth
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Charles Kent and J. Stuart Blackton
• Les Misérables, directed by J. Stuart Blackton. A proto-feature film, or many short-films (in this case 4) that when combined together can be seen as one feature film.
• Mr. Flip
• Nero, Or The Fall Of Rome
• Nerone
• Oliver Twist, directed by J. Stuart Blackton
• Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy, directed by J. Stuart Blackton
• The Red Man's View, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Resurrection
• The Sealed Room, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Teddy Roosevelt in Africa
• Those Awful Hats, directed by D. W. Griffith
• A Trap for Santa Claus, directed by D. W. Griffith

Births

• January 1 - Dana Andrews, actor (died 1992)
• January 3 - Victor Borge, musician, actor (died 2000)
• January 8
  • José Ferrer, actor (died 1992)
  • Willy Millowitsch, actor (died 1999)
• January 15 - Gene Krupa, musician, actor (died 1973)
• January 22 - Ann Sothern, actress (died 2001)
• January 24 - Ann Todd, actress (died 1993)
• February 2 - Frank Albertson, actor (died 1964)
• February 9
  • Carmen Miranda, singer, actress (died 1955)
  • Heather Angel, actress (died 1986)
• February 11
  • Max Baer - boxer, actor (died 1959)
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz - director, screenwriter, producer (died 1993)
• February 16 - Jeffrey Lynn, actor (died 1995)
• March 19 - Louis Hayward, actor (died 1995)
• March 26 - Chips Rafferty, actor (died 1971)
• April 4 - Bobby Connelly, child actor (died 1922)
• April 29 - Tom Ewell, actor (died 1994)
• May 15 - James Mason, actor (died 1984)
• May 16 - Margaret Sullavan, actress (died 1960)
• May 30 - Benny Goodman, musician, actor (died 1986)
• June 7 - Jessica Tandy, actress (died 1994)
• June 8 - Robert Carson, actor (died 1979)
• June 14 - Burl Ives, actor (died 1995)
• June 20 - Errol Flynn, actor (died 1959)
• July 1 - Madge Evans, actress (died 1981)
• July 12 - Curly Joe DeRita, actor (died 1993)
• August 18 - Marcel Carné, director (died 1996)
• August 22 - Lucille Ricksen, actress (died 1925)
• August 25
  • Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (died 1993)
  • Michael Rennie, actor (died 1971)
• September 7 - Elia Kazan, director (died 2003)
• October 6 - Robert Carson, screenwriter (died 1983)
• October 20 - Carla Laemmle, actress (died 2014)
• November 11 - Robert Ryan, actor (died 1973)
• November 26 - Frances Dee, actress (died 2004)
• December 9 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor (died 2000)
• December 12 - Karen Morley, actress (died 2003)
• December 20 - Diane Ellis, actress (died 1930)

Deaths

• January 27 - Benoît-Constant Coquelin, actor, Cyrano de Bergerac
• September 4 - Clyde Fitch, author & playwright whose works have been adapted into films.

Film debuts

• Fatty Arbuckle - Ben's Kid (as Roscoe Arbuckle)
• Ethel Clayton - Justified (short)
• Dolores Costello (as a child) - A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Helene Costello (as a child) - Les Miserables (Part I) (short)
• Marie Dressler - Marie Dressler (short)
• Francis Ford - The Stolen Wireless
• Annette Kellerman - The Bride of Lammermoor: A Tragedy of Bonnie Scotland
• James Kirkwood - The Heart of an Outlaw
• Florence La Badie - The Politician's Love Story
• Tom Mix - The Cowboy Millionaire
• Mary Pickford - The Heart of an Outlaw
• Billy Quirk - The Heart of an Outlaw
• William A. Russell - Tag Day (short)
• William Stowell - The Cowboy Millionaire
• Blanche Sweet - A Man with Three Wives
• Rose Tapley - The Way of the Cross (short)
• Clara Kimball Young - Washington Under the American Flag (short)