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The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.
Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1973 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Studio | Domestic gross |
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1. | The Sting | Universal Pictures | $156,000,000[1] |
2. | The Exorcist | Warner Bros. | $128,000,000[2] |
3. | American Graffiti | Universal Pictures | $96,300,000[3] |
4. | Papillon | Allied Artists Pictures | $53,267,000[4] |
5. | The Way We Were | Columbia Pictures | $45,000,000[5] |
6. | Magnum Force | Warner Bros. | $39,768,000[6] |
7. | Last Tango in Paris | United Artists | $36,144,000[7] |
8. | Live and Let Die | United Artists | $35,377,836[8] |
9. | Robin Hood | Walt Disney Productions | $32,056,467[9] |
10. | Paper Moon | Paramount Pictures | $30,933,743[10] |
Events
- April 11 - Kim Jong-il publishes his film treatise On the Art of the Cinema.[11]
- May 1 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely; she will marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra in 1976.
- July 20 - Martial arts legend Bruce Lee dies before Enter the Dragon is released on July 26.
- November 21 - The sci-fi movie Westworld is the first feature film to use digital image processing.
- December 25 - The Sting is released and goes on to become one of the top grossing films of all time.
- December 26 - The Exorcist reawakens the horror film genre and becomes one of the most popular and controversial films ever released.
Awards
- Best Picture: The Sting - Bill/Phillips-Hill, Zanuck/Brown, Universal
- Best Director: George Roy Hill - The Sting
- Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger
- Best Actress: Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class
- Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman - The Paper Chase
- Best Supporting Actress: Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
- Best Foreign Language Film: Day for Night (La Nuit américaine), directed by François Truffaut, France
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Exorcist
- Best Actor: Al Pacino – Serpico
- Best Actress: Marsha Mason – Cinderella Liberty
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: American Graffiti
- Best Actor: George Segal – A Touch of Class
- Best Actress: Glenda Jackson – A Touch of Class
- Other
- Best Director: William Friedkin – The Exorcist
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Pedestrian (Der Fußgänger), W. Germany
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Hireling, directed by Alan Bridges, United Kingdom
- Scarecrow, directed by Jerry Schatzberg, United States
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), directed by Satyajit Ray, India
Notable films released in 1973
U.S.A. unless stated
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- The 14, directed by David Hemmings, starring Jack Wild - (U.K.)
A
- Abhimaan (Pride) - (India)
- Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies, starring Cliff Robertson and Pamela Franklin
- The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob) - (France)
- All Nudity Shall Be Punished (Toda Nudez Será Castigada) - (Brazil)
- The Alpha Caper, starring Henry Fonda and Leonard Nimoy
- Alvin Purple - (Australia)
- Amarcord, directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
- American Graffiti, directed by George Lucas, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Harrison Ford
- Ana and the Wolves (Ana y los lobos), starring Geraldine Chaplin - (Spain)
- And Now the Screaming Starts!, starring Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Herbert Lom
- Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), directed by Satyajit Ray - Golden Bear winner - (India)
B
- The Baby, starring Anjanette Comer and Ruth Roman
- Badlands, directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek
- Bang the Drum Slowly, starring Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty
- Bat Pussy, believed to have been made or released in 1973
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes, starring Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, John Huston
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity (ingi naki tatakai) - (Japan)
- Baxter!, starring Patricia Neal and Britt Ekland - (U.K.)
- Black Caesar, starring Fred Williamson
- Black Holiday (La Villeggiatura), starring Adolfo Celi - (Italy)
- Blood Brothers (Ci Ma), directed by Chang Cheh - (Hong Kong)
- Blood in the Streets, a.k.a. Revolver, starring Oliver Reed - (Italy/France/West Germany)
- Blood of the Dragon (Zhui ming qiang) - (Hong Kong)
- Blue Blood, starring Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis and Derek Jacobi- (U.K.)
- Blume in Love, starring George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson
- Bobby, starring Rishi Kapoor - (India)
- Il Boss, starring Henry Silva and Richard Conte - (Italy)
- Breezy, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring William Holden and Kay Lenz
- A Brief Vacation (Una breve vacanza), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
- Brother of the Wind
C
- Cahill U.S. Marshal, starring John Wayne and George Kennedy
- Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?) - (France)
- The Candy Snatchers, starring Tiffany Bolling
- Charley and the Angel, starring Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Kurt Russell
- Charley Varrick, directed by Don Siegel, starring Walter Matthau, John Vernon, Joe Don Baker, Andy Robinson, Sheree North, Felicia Farr
- Charlotte's Web, an animated film directed by Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto, with the voices of Debbie Reynolds and Henry Gibson
- Chino, directed by John Sturges, starring Charles Bronson
- Cinderella Liberty, directed by Mark Rydell, starring James Caan and Marsha Mason
- Class of '44, starring Gary Grimes
- Cleopatra Jones, starring Tamara Dobson and Shelley Winters
- Coffy, starring Pam Grier
- Cops and Robbers, starring Joseph Bologna and Cliff Gorman
- The Crazies, directed by George A. Romero
- The Creeping Flesh, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
D
- Dark Places, starring Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Jane Birkin - (U.K.)
- Day for Night, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont - Academy Award and Bafta winner - (France)
- The Day of the Dolphin, directed by Mike Nichols, starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino
- The Day of the Jackal, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig - (U.K./France)
- The Death of a Lumberjack (La Mort d'un bûcheron) - (Canada)
- A Delicate Balance, starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Betsy Blair
- The Devil in Miss Jones, adult film, directed by Gerard Damiano
- Dillinger, starring Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Dreyfuss, Geoffrey Lewis
- A Doll's House, starring Claire Bloom and Anthony Hopkins - (U.K.)
- The Don Is Dead, starring Anthony Quinn, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Ina Balin
- Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, starring Kim Darby and Jim Hutton
- Don't Look Now, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland - (U.K./Italy)
E
- The Earth Is a Sinful Song (Maa on syntinen laulu) - (Finland)
- Electra Glide in Blue, starring Robert Blake
- Emperor of the North Pole, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine
- England Made Me, starring Peter Finch and Michael York - (U.K.)
- Enter the Dragon, starring Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly - (Hong Kong/U.S.A.)
- Executive Action, starring Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan
- The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin, starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow—winner of 5 Golden Globes and 2 Oscars
F
- Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage) - (France/Czechoslovakia)
- Fé, Esperanza y Caridad (Faith, Hope and Charity), starring Katy Jurado - (Mexico)
- The Final Programme, starring Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre and Graham Crowden - (U.K.)
- Five on the Black Hand Side, starring Godfrey Cambridge
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle, directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Mitchum, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Peter Boyle
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (a.k.a. The Hideaways), starring Ingrid Bergman
G
- Godspell, starring Victor Garber
- Godzilla vs. Megalon, directed by Jun Fukuda - (Japan)
- La Grande Bouffe (Blow-Out), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret - (France/Italy)
H
- The Hare Census (Prebroyavane na Divite Zaytsi), directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Itzhak Fintzi, Nikola Todev, Georgi Rusev - (Bulgaria)
- The Harrad Experiment, starring Don Johnson, Tippi Hedren, James Whitmore
- Heavy Traffic, an animated film by Ralph Bakshi
- Hell Up in Harlem, starring Fred Williamson
- High Plains Drifter, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Geoffrey Lewis
- The Hireling, directed by Alan Bridges, starring Robert Shaw and Sarah Miles - Palme d'Or winner - (U.K.)
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days, starring Alec Guinness - (U.K./Italy)
- The Holy Mountain (La Montaña Sagrada), directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky - (Mexico/U.S.)
- Home Sweet Home (La fête à Jules) - (Belgium)
- The Homecoming, directed by Peter Hall, starring Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Vivien Merchant - (U.K.)
- Hot Winds (Garm Hava), directed by M. S. Sathyu - (India)
- The Hourglass Sanatorium (Sanatorium pod klepsydrą), directed by Wojciech Has - (Poland)
- The House in Nightmare Park, directed by Peter Skyes, starring Frankie Howerd and Ray Milland - (U.K.)
- The House on Chelouche Street (Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche) - (Israel)
- Hugo the Hippo (Hugó, a víziló) - (Hungary)
I
- The Iceman Cometh, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan
- Idaho Transfer, directed by Peter Fonda
- Indian Summer, directed by Milen Nikolov, starring Georgi Partsalev, Leda Taseva, Tatyana Lolova - (Bulgaria)
- Interval, starring Merle Oberon
- L' Invitation (The Invitation), directed by Claude Goretta - Academy Award for Best Foreign Film - (France/Switzerland)
- Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Ivan Vasilyevich menyayet professiyu) - (U.S.S.R.)
J
- Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Ted Neeley and Yvonne Elliman, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Jeremy, starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull, featuring voices of James Franciscus and Juliet Mills
K
- Kanashimi no Belladonna (Belladonna of Sadness), Anime feature film - (Japan)
- Kid Blue, starring Dennis Hopper and Warren Oates
L
- Lady Ice, starring Donald Sutherland and Jennifer O'Neill
- Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime) - (Japan)
- The Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges
- The Last Detail, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young
- The Last of Sheila, written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, starring Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon, James Mason, James Coburn, Richard Benjamin, Joan Hackett, Ian McShane
- The Laughing Policeman, starring Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett, Jr., Joanna Cassidy, Cathy Lee Crosby
- The Legend of Hell House, starring Pamela Franklin and Gayle Hunnicutt
- The Legend of Paul and Paula (Die Legende von Paul und Paula) - (East Germany)
- Le Magnifique, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset - (France)
- Little Tiger of Canton (Guang dong xiao lao hu), starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong)
- Live and Let Die, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond), with Jane Seymour and Yaphet Kotto - (U.K.)
- Lolly-Madonna XXX, starring Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges
- The Long Goodbye, directed by Robert Altman, starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, Jim Bouton
- Lost Horizon, starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey
- Love and Anarchy (d'amore e d'anarchia), directed by Lina Wertmüller - (Italy)
- Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Timothy Bottoms and Maggie Smith
- Luther, a biopic of Martin Luther, starring Stacy Keach - (U.K./U.S.A./Canada)
M
- The Mackintosh Man, starring Paul Newman - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- Magnum Force, directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich
- Malizia (Malicious) - (Italy)
- Manson, a documentary film about Charles Manson
- Massacre in Rome (Rappresaglia), directed by George Pan Cosmatos, starring Richard Burton and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
- Maurie, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Bo Svenson and Bernie Casey
- Mean Streets, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro
- The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la Putain) - (France)
- My Dear Brother starring Tarık Akan, Halit Akçatepe and Kahraman Kıral - (Turkey)
- My Name is Nobody (Il mio nome è Nessuno), starring Terence Hill and Henry Fonda - (Italy)
N
- The Neptune Factor, starring Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine
- The No Mercy Man, starring Sid Haig and Ron Thompson
- Night Flight from Moscow, starring Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde - (France/Italy/Germany)
- Night Watch, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey - (U.K.)
- The Night Strangler, TV movie starring Darren McGavin
- The Nutcracker (Schelkunchik) - (U.S.S.R.)
O
- Oklahoma Crude, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Faye Dunaway and George C. Scott
- O Lucky Man!, directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts - (U.K.)
- The Olsen Gang Goes Crazy (Olsen-banden går amok) - (Denmark)
P
- The Paper Chase, starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman
- Paper Moon, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
- Paperback Hero, starring Keir Dullea and Elizabeth Ashley - (Canada)
- Papillon, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, with music by Dylan
- The Pedestrian (Der Fußgänger), directed by Maximilian Schell, starring Peggy Ashcroft - Golden Globe for best foreign film - (West Germany/Switzerland/Israel)
- Property Is No Longer a Theft (La proprietà non è più un furto), starring Ugo Tognazzi - (Italy)
- The Pyx, starring Christopher Plummer and Karen Black- (Canada)
R
- El Retorno de Walpurgis (a.k.a. The Curse of the Devil) - (Spain/Mexico)
- Robin Hood, animated film with voices of Roger Miller, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas
S
- Save the Tiger, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Jack Lemmon
- Scarecrow, directed by Jerry Schatzberg, starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino - Palme d'Or winner
- Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson - (Sweden)
- Scorpio, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, Gayle Hunnicutt
- Scream Blacula Scream, starring William H. Marshall and Pam Grier
- Serpico, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino
- The Seven Madmen (Los siete locos), directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson - (Argentina)
- The Seven-Ups, starring Roy Scheider
- Shamus, starring Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John P. Ryan
- Showdown, starring Dean Martin and Rock Hudson
- Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad
- Sisters, directed by Brian De Palma
- Slaughter's Big Rip-Off, starring Jim Brown, Brock Peters, Ed McMahon
- Sleeper, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton
- Slither, starring James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Peter Boyle
- The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du Spectacle) - (France)
- Son of Zorro
- Soul Hustler, directed by Bert Topper, starring Fabian Forte, Nai Bonet, Tony Russel, Casey Kasem
- Soylent Green, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson
- The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) - (Spain)
- Stateline Motel, starring Eli Wallach, Ursula Andress, Fabio Testi, Eli Wallach - Canada/Italy
- Steelyard Blues, starring Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda
- Steptoe and Son Ride Again, starred Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett - (U.K.)
- The Sting, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, Ray Walston - winner of 7 Academy Awards
- The Stone Killer, starring Charles Bronson
- Superdad, starring Bob Crane, Barbara Rush, Kurt Russell
- Sweet Kill, starring Tab Hunter
T
- The Tenderness of Wolves (Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe) - (West Germany)
- Theatre of Blood, starring Vincent Price
- That´ll Be the Day, starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach, Ringo Starr - (U.K.)
- Themroc, starring Michel Piccoli - (France)
- There's No Smoke Without Fire (Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu), starring Annie Girardot - (France)
- The Thief Who Came to Dinner, starring Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates
- The Three-Day Reign (Samil cheonha) - (South Korea)
- The Three Musketeers, directed by Richard Lester, starring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Raquel Welch - (U.K./U.S.)
- Three Nuts for Cinderella (Tři oříšky pro Popelku) - (Czechoslovakia/East Germany)
- A Touch of Class, starring George Segal and Glenda Jackson - (U.K.)
- Tom Sawyer, starring Johnny Whitaker and Jodie Foster
- Touki Bouki (Journey of the Hyena) - (Senegal)
- The Train Robbers, starring John Wayne and Ann-Margret
- Tsugaru Folk Song (Tsugaru Jongarabushi) - (Japan)
- Turkish Delight (Turks Fruit), directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Rutger Hauer - (Netherlands)
- Two Men in Town (Deux hommes dans la ville), starring Jean Gabin and Alain Delon - (France)
- Two People, directed by Robert Wise, starring Peter Fonda and Lindsay Wagner
U
- Ultimul cartuş (The Last Bullet) - (Romania)
V
- The Vault of Horror, starring Glynis Johns, Terry-Thomas, Curd Jürgens - (U.K.)
- Voices, starring David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt - (U.K.)
W
- Walking Tall, starring Joe Don Baker
- The Way We Were, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford
- We Want the Colonels (Vogliamo i colonnelli), starring Ugo Tognazzi - (Italy)
- Wedding in Blood (Les Noces rouges), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli - (France)
- Westworld, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
- White Lightning, starring Burt Reynolds
- Wicked, Wicked, starring David Bailey, Edd Byrnes, Tiffany Bolling
- The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy, starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento - (U.K.)
- The World's Greatest Athlete, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and John Amos
Z
1973 film releases
U.S.A. unless stated
January–March
- February 1973
- 7 February
- 14 February
- March 1973
- 1 March
- 16 March
- 17 March
- 23 March
April–June
- April 1973
- 19 April
- May 1973
- 9 May
- June 1973
- 20 June
- 27 June
July–September
- July 1973
- Sssssss
- August 1973
- 11 August
October–December
- October 1973
- The Wicker Man
- 16 October
- 19 October
- November 1973
- 8 November
- 21 November
- December 1973
- 14 December
- 16 December
- 25 December
- 26 December
Births
- January 31 - Portia de Rossi, Australian-Canadian actress
- February 12 - Tara Strong, Canadian-American voice actor
- March 18 - Luci Christian, American voice actress
- March 20 - Jane March, English actress and model
- April 10 - Guillaume Canet, French actor
- April 14 - Adrien Brody, American actor
- April 22 - Christopher Sabat, American voice actor
- April 30 - Antonino Isordia, Mexican director
- May 5 - Tina Yothers, American actress
- May 10 - Tora Sudiro, Indonesian actor
- June 15 - Neil Patrick Harris, American actor
- June 16 - Eddie Cibrian, American actor
- June 21 - Juliette Lewis, American actress
- July 26 - Kate Beckinsale, English actress
- August 6 - Vera Farmiga, American actress
- August 8 - Jessica Calvello, American voice actress
- August 24 - Dave Chappelle, American actor
- September 12 - Paul Walker, American actor and producer (died 2013)
- September 26 - Julienne Davis, American actress and model
- October 3
- Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
- Richard Ian Cox, Welsh-Canadian voice actor
- October 26 - Seth MacFarlane, American actor, voice actor, animator, screenwriter, comedian, television producer, director and singer
- November 1 - Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
- November 26 - Peter Facinelli, American actor
- November 27 - Sharlto Copley, South African actor
- December 14 - Jan Uuspõld, Estonian actor
Deaths
- January 19 - Max Adrian, 69, Northern Irish actor, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, The Terrornauts
- January 24 - J. Carrol Naish, 77, American actor, Sahara, A Medal for Benny
- January 26 - Edward G. Robinson, 79, Romanian actor, Double Indemnity, The Stranger
- February 13 - David Bauer, 55, American actor, Torture Garden, Patton
- February 15
- Tim Holt, 54, American actor, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Magnificent Ambersons
- Wally Cox, 48, American actor, Morituri, The Bedford Incident
- February 22 - Katina Paxinou, 72, Greek actress, Rocco and His Brothers, For Whom the Bell Tolls
- February 24 - Art Smith, 73, American actor, In a Lonely Place, Body and Soul
- February 28 - Cecil Kellaway, 82, South African actor, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Postman Always Rings Twice
- March 5 - Rupert Crosse, 45, American actor, The Reivers, Shadows
- March 10 - Robert Siodmak, 72, German director, The Killers, The Spiral Staircase
- March 16 - Carl Benton Reid, 79, The Little Foxes, The Trap
- March 23 - Ken Maynard, 77, American actor, Mystery Mountain, Tombstone Canyon
- March 26 - Noël Coward, 73, prolific English actor, playwright and songwriter, Easy Virtue, In Which We Serve
- April 11 - Ted de Corsia, 69, American actor, The Killing, The Enforcer
- May 11 - Lex Barker, 54, American actor, La Dolce Vita, Apache Gold
- May 29 - P. Ramlee, 44, Malaysian actor, playwright, director, composer and singer
- June 10 - William Inge, 60, American playwright and screenwriter, Splendor in the Grass, Picnic
- June 18 - Roger Delgado, 55, English actor, The Terror of the Tongs, Hot Enough for June
- June 23 - Fay Holden, 79, British actress, Love Finds Andy Hardy, Samson and Delilah
- June 25 - Lars Tvinde, 86, Norwegian actor
- July 2
- Betty Grable, 56, American actress, How to Marry a Millionaire, I Wake Up Screaming
- George Macready, 73, American actor, Gilda, Paths of Glory
- July 6 - Joe E. Brown, 80, American actor, Some Like It Hot, Show Boat
- July 7 - Veronica Lake, 50, American actress, Sullivan's Travels, This Gun for Hire
- July 11 - Robert Ryan, 63, American actor, The Wild Bunch, Bad Day at Black Rock
- July 12 - Lon Chaney, Jr., 67, American actor, High Noon, The Defiant Ones, The Wolf Man
- July 18 - Jack Hawkins, 62, British actor, Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia
- July 20 - Bruce Lee, 32, American actor, Enter the Dragon, Way of the Dragon
- July 30 - Guy Middleton, 66, British actor, Oh! What a Lovely War
- August 2 - Jean-Pierre Melville, 55, French director, Le Samouraï, Bob le flambeur
- August 10 - Douglas Kennedy, 57, American actor, Dark Passage, The Amazing Transparent Man
- August 11 - Peggie Castle, 45, American actress, 99 River Street, I, the Jury
- August 22 - Louise Huff, 77, American actress, Disraeli, Great Expectations
- August 31 - John Ford, 79, American director, Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath
- September 13 - Betty Field, 60, American actress, Picnic, Birdman of Alcatraz
- September 21 - Diana Sands, 39, American actress, A Raisin in the Sun, The Landlord
- September 26 - Anna Magnani, 65, Italian actress, Rome, Open City, Mamma Roma
- September 28 - Norma Crane, 44, All in a Night's Work, They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
- October 6 - Sidney Blackmer, 78, American actor, High Society, Rosemary's Baby
- October 16 - Gene Krupa, 64, American musician, actor, Raging Bull, Rounders
- October 25 - Cleo Moore, 48, American actress, One Girl's Confession, Over-Exposed
- November 23
- Claire Dodd, 64, American actress, Roberta, In the Navy
- Constance Talmadge, 75, American actress, The Duchess of Buffalo, Dulcy
- Sessue Hayakawa, 84, Japanese actor, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Swiss Family Robinson
- November 25 - Laurence Harvey, 45, Lithuanian actor, The Manchurian Candidate, The Alamo
- December 20 - Bobby Darin, 37, American actor, Captain Newman, M.D., If a Man Answers
- December 26 - William Haines, 73, American actor, Show People, West Point
Debuts
- John Candy - Class of '44
- Bernadette Peters - Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
- Victor Garber - Godspell
Notes
References
- ↑ "The Sting (1973)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
- ↑ Phillips, Kendall (2005). Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 102. ISBN 9780313017964.
The Exorcist grossed $128 million in its initial release, a figure that, when adjusted for inflation, would make it the most successful R-rated film in American history.
- ↑ Block, Alex Ben; Wilson, Lucy Autrey, eds. (2010). George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-By-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780061778896.
- The Sting: p.717. $156.0 million (Initial Release Domestic Box office)
- American Graffiti: p.421. $96.3 million (1973 Release Wave)
- ↑ "Papillon, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
- ↑ "The Way We Were (1973)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
- ↑ "Magnum Force (1973)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
- ↑ "Last Tango in Paris, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
- ↑ "Live and Let Die, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
- ↑ "Robin Hood, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
- ↑ "Paper Moon, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
- ↑ David-West, Alzo (January 2009). "The Literary Ideas of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il: An Introduction to North Korean Meta-Authorial Perspectives" (PDF). Cultural Logic. 12: 14. ISSN 1097-3087. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
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