1925 IN FILM

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Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Films released in 1925

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Events

Top grossing films

# ''The Gold Rush''
# ''Ben-Hur''
# ''His People''
# ''The Unholy Three''
# ''The Freshman''

Films released in 1925

★ ''The Battleship Potemkin''

★ ''Ben-Hur'', starring Ramon Novarro.

★ ''The Big Parade'', directed by King Vidor and starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée.

★ ''Braveheart'', starring Rod La Rocque.

★ ''Don Q, Son of Zorro''

★ ''The Eagle'', starring Rudolph Valentino.

★ ''The Freshman'', starring Harold Lloyd

★ ''General Nogi and Kumasan'' (''Nogi taisho to Kumasan'')

★ ''Go West'', starring Buster Keaton.

★ ''The Gold Rush'', a Charlie Chaplin film.

★ ''The Heart Breaker''

★ ''His People''

★ ''Isn't Life Terrible''

★ ''Joyless Street''

★ ''The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle)'', starring Bessie Love and Wallace Beery. -(film mentioned in article)

★ ''The Merry Widow (films)'', starring Mae Murray; directed by Erich von Stroheim. -(film mentioned in article)

★ ''The Monster'', starring Lon Chaney.

★ ''Phantom of the Opera'', starring Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, and Norman Kerry.

★ ''The Plastic Age'' - directed by Wesley Ruggles, screen-written by Frederica Sagor Maas, starring Clara Bow (her debut) and Gilbert Roland; Clark Gable was also in this film.

★ ''The Pleasure Garden'', directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli

★ ''The Street of Forgotten Men''

★ ''Street Sketches'' (''Gaijo no suketchi'')

★ ''Strike''

★ ''Thou Shalt Honor Thy Wife'', directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

★ ''Tumbleweeds'', starring William S. Hart.

★ ''Under the Crimson Sunset'' (''Akai yuhi ni terasarete'')

★ ''The Unholy Three'', starring Lon Chaney.

★ ''The White Lily Laments'' (''Shirayuri wa nageku'')

★ ''The Wizard of Oz'', starring Dorothy Dwan.

★ ''Wolf Blood''

Short film series

★ ''Buster Keaton'' (1917-1941)

★ ''Laurel and Hardy'' (1921-1943)

★ ''Our Gang'' (1922-1944)

Animated short film series

★ ''Felix the Cat'' (1919-1930)

★ ''Koko the Clown'' (1919-1963)

★ ''Aesop's Film Fables'' (1921-1934)

★ ''Alice Comedies'' (1924-1927)

★ ''Koko's Song Car Tunes'' (1924-1927)

★ ''Krazy Kat'' ('1925'-1940)

★ ''Un-Natural History'' ('1925'-1927)

Births

★ January 6 - Enrique Carreras , film director, producer

★ January 9 - Lee Van Cleef, actor

★ January 13 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer († 2000)

★ January 26 - Paul Newman, actor

★ January 30 - Dorothy Malone, actress

★ February 8 - Jack Lemmon, actor

★ February 11 - Kim Stanley, actress.

★ February 17 - Hal Holbrook, actor

★ February 18 - George Kennedy, actor

★ February 20 - Robert Altman, director

★ February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, director

★ April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor

★ April 19 - Hugh O'Brian, actor

★ June 3 - Tony Curtis, actor

★ June 21 - Maureen Stapleton, actress

★ July 1 - Farley Granger, actor

★ July 20 - Lola Albright, actress

★ August 23 - Robert Mulligan, director

★ September 8 - Peter Sellers, comedian, actor

★ September 9 - Cliff Robertson, actor

★ October 3 - Gore Vidal, writer, actor

★ October 5 - Gail Davis, actress

★ October 16 - Angela Lansbury, actress

★ November 10 - Richard Burton, prolific stage and screen actor

★ November 17 - Rock Hudson, actor

★ December 8 - Sammy Davis Jr., singer, dancer, musician, actor

★ December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, actor

★ December 28 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer

Deaths

★ March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress

★ October 31 – Max Linder, French comedic actor