Cinema in the 1960s

Directs Die tausend Augen des Dr Mabuse, his final film.

Death of Clark Gable

Winner of the best male actor for "Ben Hur"

Wins an Academy Award for BUtterfield 8

Sellers receives an Academy Award nomination as producer of The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film.

Sellers wins the BAFTA for Best British Actor for his performance in I'm All Right Jack.

When Adam Faith made his first film, Beat Girl, in 1960, Barry composed, arranged and conducted the score

When Adam Faith made his first film, Beat Girl, in 1960, Barry composed, arranged and conducted the score

Wins an Academy Award for BUtterfield 8. Taylor became the highest paid actress up to that time when she signed a one million dollar contract to play the title role in Twentieth Century Foxs lavish production of Cleopatra which is released in 1963

First Carry on Film, Carry On Constable

Appointed a CBE

Directs Cleopatra

Winner of an Emmy Award for Turn of the Screw

Stars in "Exodus"

Sellers takes the unusually menacing role of garage owner Lionel Meadows in Never Let Go.

Stars in Oceans Eleven

Stars in "Oscar Wilde"

Directs "Oscar Wilde"

Appears in "Oscar Wilde"

Directs, La Dolce Vita

In Pivates Progress plays the part of a young undergraduate Stanley Windrush who is conscripted into the British Army

Privates Progress is a British comedy film of 1956, based on the novel by Alan Hackney, directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting

Stas in School for Scoundrels

Bronson gained attention in 1960 with his role in John Sturges western The Magnificent Seven, where he played one of seven gunfighters taking up the cause of the defenseless, which was based on Akira Kurosawas Seven Samurai

Directs Spartacus, the historical epic starring Kirk Douglas as the rebel gladiator.

Co-stars with Kirk Douglas in the critically acclaimed Strangers When We Meet also featuring Walter Matthau and Ernie Kovacs

First notable role in Hammer films Sword of Sherwood Forest. Appears with Norman Wisdom in a classic comedy films, The Bulldog Breed, where Reed plays the leader of a gang of teddy boys

Kurosawas The Bad Sleep Well

Sellers plays the traditionalist Scottish clerk Mr Martin in The Battle of the Sexes.

Appears in "The Entertainer". Appears in "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"

Sellers plays Dr Ahmed el Kabir opposite Sophia Loren in The Millionairess.

The last film that Monroe completed was John Hustons The Misfits, which Miller had written to provide her with a role in a drama

Writer & Diector of The Pure Hell of St Trinians

Privates Progress is a British comedy film of 1956, based on the novel by Alan Hackney, directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting. , portrayed the dilemma faced by a group of gay men who were being blackmailed for their sexuality. Appears in The Pure Hell of St Trinians

Directs, "The Sundowners"

Redgrave has her first starring role in Robert Bolts The Tiger and the Horse, in which she co-starred with her father

Redgrave has her first starring role in Robert Bolts The Tiger and the Horse, in which she co-starred with her father

Stars in The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

Starts in "Tunes of Glory"

Appears in Tunes of Glory

Directs Tunes of Glory, based on the novel by James Kennaway

Sellers portrays career criminal Dodger Lane in the prison comedy Two Way Stretch.

Death of Frank James "Gary" Cooper

Death of Gary Cooper

Directs Das Brot der fruhen Jahre.

Masaki Kobayashi made two of the three films which would collectively become known as the Human Condition Trilogy: No Greater Love (1958), and The Road To Eternity (1959). The trilogy was completed in 1961, with A Soldiers Prayer

Winner of the best male actor for "Elmer Gantry"

Laurel is given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy

Stars in, "Breakfast at Tiffanys"

Starts a new career as a stand-up comedian, debuting in a Greenwich Village club called the Duplex

Stars in, "El Cid"

Sellers stars as the schoolteacher Topaze in the comedy-drama Mr Topaze.

Sellers directs Mr Topaze, his only officially credited feature film as director.

Directs, Viridiana

Directs, The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence)

Appears in School for Scoundrels

Kurosawas The Bodyguard

Stars in "The Hustler"

Young filmmakers issue the Oberhausen Manifesto declaring the old cinema dead.

Bith of Thomas Cruise Mapother IV

Directs Die Parallelstrasse, a key work linked to the Oberhausen generation.

Marilyn Monroes death was officially confirmed by Monroes physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, who arrived at the house at around 3:50 a.m. At 4:25 a.m., the Los Angeles Police Department is notified

Death of Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroes death was officially confirmed by Monroes physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, who arrived at the house at around 3:50 a.m. At 4:25 a.m., the Los Angeles Police Department is notified. Death of Marilyn Monroe, found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood home by her psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson

Death of Marilyn Monroe, found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood home by her psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson

It was estimated that she had died between 8:30 mins 10:30 p.m., and the toxicological analysis concluded that the cause of death was acute barbiturate poisoning.

The Los Angeles County Coroners Office was assisted in their investigation by experts from the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Team.

as she had 8 mg of chloral hydrate and 4.5 mg of pentobarbital (Nembutal) in her blood, and a further 13 mg of pentobarbital in her liver.

Marilyn Monroes funeral is held at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Academy Award for Best Actress in The Miracle Worker

Boys Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon

Boys Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon

Boys Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon

Boys Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon

Composes the "James Bond Theme" for Dr No

Stars in McHales Navy & wins an Emmy

Appears in The Manchurian Candidate, wins a Golden Globe for best supporting actress

Stars in "Irma la Douce". Stars in "Days of Wine and Roses"

Bronson in the role of Lew Nyack, a veteran boxing trainer who helped Walter Gulick (Elvis Presley) polish his skills for the big fight with Sugarboy Romero in the movie, Kid Galahad

Completion of the film, "Knife in the Water"

Starts in "Lawrence of Arabia"

Directs Lawrence of Arabia, expanding his reputation for large-scale historical and visual filmmaking.

Stars in North by Lolita

Sellers portrays Clare Quilty in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Lolita.

Directs "Long Days Journey Into Night"

Stars in "Long Days Journey Into Night"

Stars in McHales Navy & wins an Emmy

Sellers portrays Welsh librarian John Lewis in Only Two Can Play.

Kurosawas Sanjuro

Sellers plays barrister Wilfred Morgenhall in the film adaptation The Dock Brief.

Appears in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Stars in, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". Stars in, "How the West Was Won"

Appears in The Manchurian Candidate, wins a Golden Globe for best supporting actress

Sellers makes a cameo appearance in The Road to Hong Kong.

Directs, "The Trial"

Sellers plays General Leo Fitzjohn in Waltz of the Toreadors.

Stars in, "55 Days at Peking"

Plays middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud for which she wins the Academy Award for Best Actress

Richardson wins the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Long Days Journey Into Night

Sellers receives a BAFTA British Actor nomination for Only Two Can Play.

Directs Dementia 13, an early independent horror feature made before his major studio successes.

Sellers receives a Golden Globe supporting-actor nomination for Lolita.

Kurosawas Heaven and Hell

Sellers portrays the Reverend John Smallwood in the satire Heavens Above!

Stars in "Hud"

Stars in "Hud"

Directs "Hud"

Sellers first appears as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther.

Appears in Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Lt. Col. Algernon Hawthorne

Plays a film director in La Ricotta

Appears as Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett in the wartime prisoner-of-war drama The Great Escape.

Stars in The Great Escape

Sellers introduces Inspector Jacques Clouseau in Blake Edwards's The Pink Panther.

Sellers plays criminal mastermind Pearly Gates in The Wrong Arm of the Law.

Appears in "Tom Jones"

Stars in "Under the Yum Yum Tree"

Directs, "X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes"

Death of Peter Lorre

Directs The 3rd Secret

Stars as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars.

Sellers returns as Inspector Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark.

Stars in Becket

First Carry on Film, Carry On Spying

Directs Dr. Strangelove, a black comedy satirizing nuclear strategy and Cold War command structures.

Sellers performs the title character, the eccentric nuclear strategist Dr. Strangelove.

Sellers plays RAF officer Group Captain Lionel Mandrake in Dr. Strangelove.

Sellers portrays United States President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove.

Sellers is originally intended to play Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove, but the fourth role is reassigned to Slim Pickens.

Directs Goldfinger

Stars in, "How to Murder Your Wife"

Makes her feature-film breakthrough playing the title character in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins.

Stars in The Night of the Iguana

Stars in, "The Train"

Sellers plays concert pianist Henry Orient in The World of Henry Orient.

Hiroshi Teshigaharas Woman in the Dunes wins the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival

Zulu is directed by blacklisted American screenwriter Cy Endfield and produced by Stanley Baker

Composes the theme tune for Zulu

Caine enters the public eye as the upper class British Army officer Gonville Bromhead VC in the 1964 film Zulu

Zulu is directed by blacklisted American screenwriter Cy Endfield and produced by Stanley Baker

Death of Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel

John Lennon composes "Help!" the title song for the Beatles second film. He later confides that the lyrics are a cry for help and a clue to the confusion and despondency he feels

The Beatles film "A Hard Days Night"

The Beatles film "A Hard Days Night"

The Beatles film "A Hard Days Night"

The Beatles film "A Hard Days Night"

Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Mary Poppins.

The Academy nominates Sellers for Best Actor at the 1965 Oscars for his three-role performance in Dr. Strangelove.

BAFTA nominates Sellers for British Actor for Dr. Strangelove and The Pink Panther.

First cast in a Carry on Film, Carry on Cowboy

Directs, "Chimes at Midnight"

Starts in "Doctor Zhivago"

Stars as Dracula in Hammers Dracula: Prince of Darkness

Collaborates with director Ken Russell in a biopic of Claude Debussy

Stars in For a Few Dollars More, the second film in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy.

Makes an early feature-film appearance in Four in the Morning, directed by Anthony Simmons.

The Golden Globes place Sellers among the 1965 musical-or-comedy actor nominees for The Pink Panther.

Masaki Kobayashis Kwaidan picks up the Special Jury Prize at Cannes

Appears in "Life at the Top"

Kurosawas Red Beard

Completion of the film, "Repulsion"

Appointed President of the Screen Actors Guild

Stars in, "The Agony and the Ecstasy"

Stars in, "The Flight of the Phoenix". Stars in, "Shenandoah"

Stars as the spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File

The screenplay for the IPCRESS File is wrtten by by Bill Canaway and James Doran was based on Len Deightons 1962 novel, The IPCRESS File

The screenplay for the IPCRESS File is wrtten by by Bill Canaway and James Doran was based on Len Deightons 1962 novel, The IPCRESS File

Stars as Maria in The Sound of Music, one of the defining screen roles of her career.

Appears inThose Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines as Sir Percy Ware-Armitage

Sellers plays psychiatrist Dr Fritz Fassbender in What's New, Pussycat?

First movie production of "Whats New, Pussycat?", wrote the initial screenplay

Death of Buster Keaton

Death of Montgomery Clift

Directs Abschied von gestern, a major New German Cinema film.

Plays Anne Boleyn in A Man For All Seasons

Scofield receives an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons

Directs, "A Man For All Seasons"

Best Original Song for "Born Free" from Born Free. Best Original Music Score for Born Free

Winner of Best Actor for Cat Ballou

Scofield receives an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons

Second Academy Award, also for Best Actress in a Leading Role, was for her performance as Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Winner of Best Supporting Actress for A Patch Of Blue

Sellers plays master criminal Aldo Vanucci in Vittorio De Sica's After the Fox.

Scofield receives an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons

Completion of the film, "Cul-de-Sac"

Stars in Duel at Diablo

Stars in Funeral in Berlin. Stars in Alfie

Directs Funeral in Berlin

Stars in "Harper"

Stars in, "Khartoum"

Stars in "Khartoum"

Plays an RAF airman travelling through occupied France, nicknamed "Big Moustache", in the French film La Grande Vadrouille, which for over forty years remained the most successful film France

Stars in Rasputin, the Mad Monk

Stars in, "The Fortune Cookie"

Stars in The Good the Bad and the Ugly, completing the Dollars trilogy.

Writer & Diector of The Great St Trinians Train Robbery

Plays a mountain fur trapper, with co-star Rita Tushingham, in an action-adventure film The Trap

Meets Dino De Laurentiis and agrees to appear in the anthology film The Witches opposite Silvana Mangano.

Eastwood meets producer Dino De Laurentiis in New York City and agrees to star in a non-Western five-part anthology production named Le Streghe ("The Witches") opposite De Laurentiis wife, actress Silvana Mangano

Sellers portrays the eccentric physician Dr Pratt in The Wrong Box.

Allens first directorial effort is "Whats Up, Tiger Lily?"

Second Academy Award, also for Best Actress in a Leading Role, was for her performance as Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Directs a screen adaptation of Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

Directs Young Torless, an important New German Cinema debut.

Death of Toto Prince

Death of Spencer Tracey

Death of Spencer Tracy

Birth of Nicole Kidman

Death of Jayne Mansfield

Death of Vivien Leigh

George Harrison & John Lennon direct a scene in the, "Magical Mystery Tour" film

George Harrison & John Lennon direct a scene in the, "Magical Mystery Tour" film

The "Blue Jay Way" sequence for the "Magical Mystery Tour" is filmed at Ringos place in Weybridge

The Dollars trilogy reaches American cinemas and makes Eastwood a major star in the United States.

Directs, "A Countess From Hong Kong"

Directs A Degree of Murder.

Play s Guinevere in A Man For All Seasons

Stars in Billion Dollar Brain

Sellers portrays baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale.

Made a Commander (CBE) of the Order of the British Empire

Completion of the film, "Dance of the Vampires"

Directs The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross

Stars in "Hombre". Stars in "Cool Hand Luke"

Stars in Point Blank

In The Dirty Dozen Bronson plays an Army death row convict conscripted into a suicide mission

Sellers plays struggling Spanish performer Juan Bautista in The Bobo.

In The Dirty Dozen Bronson plays an Army death row convict conscripted into a suicide mission

Sanders voiced the malevolent Shere Khan in the Walt Disney production of The Jungle Book

Plays Millie Dillmount in the musical comedy Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Sellers appears as Jean in Vittorio De Sica's anthology comedy Woman Times Seven.

The world premiere of Harrisons film, "Wonderwall"

Beatles animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London

Beatles animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London

The Rolling Stones "Rock and Roll Circus", part concert, part circus-act film organized by the band, It goes unreleased for 25 years because Mick Jagger is unhappy with the bands performance compared to other bands in the film, such as Jethro Tull

Directs 2001: A Space Odyssey, combining science fiction with pioneering visual-effects techniques.

Best Original Music Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical) for The Lion in Winter

Academy Award for Best Director The Graduate

Directs Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed.

BAFTA Award for Best Director The Graduate

Stars as an Arizona deputy in Coogans Bluff, directed by Don Siegel.

Death of Albert Lewin

Directs, Funny Girl

Golden Globe Award for Best Director The Graduate

Clint Eastwood stars in the American revisionist western Hang Em High, featured alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur

Stars in the revisionist western Hang Em High with Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle and Dennis Hopper.

Clint Eastwood stars in the American revisionist western Hang Em High, featured alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur

Sellers portrays lawyer Harold Fine in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas.

Establishes Malpaso Productions to gain greater control over his American film projects.

Using money earned from the Dollars trilogy, accountant and Eastwood adviser Irving Leonard helps establish Eastwoods own production company, Malpaso Productions, named after Malpaso Creek on Eastwoods property in Monterey County, California

Plays Sylvia Pankhurst in Oh! What a Lovely War. Plays Isadora Duncan in Isadora

Stars in Oliver!

Stars as Harmonica in Once Upon a Time in the West, director, Sergio Leone, once called him "the greatest actor I ever worked with", and had wanted to cast Bronson for the lead in all three of his previous westerns, now known as the Dollars trilogy

Completion of the film, "Rosemarys Baby"

Directs Teach Me!

Stars in, "The Odd Couple"

Sellers plays accident-prone actor Hrundi V. Bakshi in Blake Edwards's The Party.

First major role as Leo Bloom in "The Producers"

Stars with Richard Burton in the Second World War action film Where Eagles Dare.

Directs, Whos That Knocking at My Door

Stars in, "Will Penny". Stars in, "Planet of the Apes"

Death of Boris Karloff

Death of Judy Garland

Pink Floyd release the soundtrack album More for Barbet Schroeder's film

Death of Sharon Tate

Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as an unorthodox Scottish schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Stars in Age of Consent

Battle of Britain is a 1969 Technicolor film directed by Guy Hamilton, and produced by Harry Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz

Stars in "Oh! What a Lovely War". Stars in "Battle of Britain"

Battle of Britain is a 1969 Technicolor film directed by Guy Hamilton, and produced by Harry Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz

Stars in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"

Bresslaws catchphrase, in his strong Cockney accent, was "I only arsked" (sic), first used in The Army Game, and revived in Carry On Camping

Most famous scene was in Carry On Camping during which she was doing outdoor aerobic exercises and her bikini top flew off to reveal her breasts

Best Instrumental Theme for Midnight Cowboy

Directs Katzelmacher.

Directs Love Is Colder Than Death.

Stars in Marlowe

Directs Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell.

Makes his feature directing debut with Oh! What a Lovely War, a satirical musical about the First World War.

Appears in Oh! What a Lovely War

Stars in the musical western Paint Your Wagon with Lee Marvin and Jean Seberg.

Stars in Sam Whiskey

Stars in Support Your Local Sheriff!

Stars in Bullet to The Italian Job. Stars in battle of Britain

The Italian Job is a 1969 British caper film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter Collinson

The Italian Job is a 1969 British caper film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter Collinson

The Italian Job is a 1969 British caper film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter Collinson

Sellers plays wealthy eccentric Sir Guy Grand in the satire The Magic Christian.

Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as an unorthodox Scottish schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Appears in the film Women in Love, in which he wrestles nude with Alan Bates in front of a log fire

Directs Young Billy Young. Directs Support Your Local Sheriff!