Cinema in the 1970s

Directs MASH

Stars as Hawkeye Pierce in MASH

Directs Patton

Stars as George S. Patton in Patton

Directs the documentary Woodstock

Directs the film adaptation of Catch-22

Stars as Bobby Dupea in Five Easy Pieces

Directs Five Easy Pieces

Directs The American Soldier.

Appears in Love Story in his first feature film role

Directs Love Story

Stars as Jenny Cavalleri in Love Story

Stars in Little Big Man

Directs Little Big Man

Sellers makes a small appearance in the drama A Day at the Beach.

Stars in, "Bartleby"

Awarded a CBE

Appears in "Cromwell"

Kurosawas Dodesukaden

Sellers takes the title role of Benjamin Hoffman in the dark comedy-drama Hoffman.

Portrays Mark Antony in the 1970 film version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Stars in Kellys Heroes, a Second World War caper film with an ensemble cast.

Plays Mary, Queen of Scots in Mary, Queen of Scots

Mick Jagger appears in the film, "Performance". Mick Jagger appears in the film, "Ned Kelly"

For his role as the village idiot in Ryans Daughter, Mills wins an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Appears in "Scrooge"

Starts in "Scrooge". Starts in "Cromwell"

Sellers appears in the short comedy Simon, Simon.

Stars in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Stars in Taste the Blood of Dracula

Sellers plays television cook and womaniser Robert Danvers in There's a Girl in My Soup.

Stars with Shirley MacLaine in Don Siegel's western Two Mules for Sister Sara.

Death of Harold Lloyd

Releases the film adaptation The Twelve Chairs.

Directs The Merchant of Four Seasons.

Appears in Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Screenwrites Bermondsey

Makes his feature-film directing debut with Bleak Moments, an intimate drama about loneliness and family responsibility.

Directs Carnal Knowledge

Directs Diamonds Are Forever

Stars as Inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry, creating one of his best-known screen characters.

Clint Eastwood stars in Dirty Harry, written by Harry and Rita Fink, centrs around a hard-edged New York City (later changed to San Francisco) police inspector named Harry Callahan who is determined to stop a psychotic killer by any means, Dirty Harry has been described as being arguably Eastwoods most memorable character, and the film has been credited with inventing the "loose-cannon cop" genre

Stars in Get Carter

Stars in, "King Lear"

Completion of the film, "MacBeth"

Marries Clarissa Kaye

Makes his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me and also stars in the thriller.

Walken makes his feature film debut with a small role opposite Sean Connery in Sidney Lumets The Anderson Tapes

Stars in Support Your Local Gunfighter!

Directs Support Your Local Gunfighter

Stars in The Beguiled, a dark Civil War drama directed by Don Siegel.

Appears in the controversial film The Devils, one of Reeds best acting roles

Directs The Morals of Ruth Halbfass.

Directs The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach.

Makes his feature directing debut with THX 1138, expanding his earlier student-film concept.

Portrays Willy Wonka in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"

Marc Bolan appears in Ringo Starrs film Born to Boogie, a documentary showing T. Rex at the height of T. Rextasy during a concert at Wembley Empire Pool on 18 March 1972

Marc Bolan appears in Ringo Starrs film Born to Boogie, a documentary showing T. Rex at the height of T. Rextasy during a concert at Wembley Empire Pool on 18 March 1972

Eight days of recording and filming starts in a Roman amphitheatre for "Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii"

Eight days of recording and filming starts in a Roman amphitheatre for "Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii"

Suicide note reads, "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.". Death of George Henry Sanders

Suicide note reads, "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck."

Maben's Pink Floyd concert film Live at Pompeii is released

Directs Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

Directs A Free Woman.

Sellers plays the King of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Stars in, "Avanti!"

Directs, Boxcar Bertha

Appears in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Returns to London locations for Frenzy, a dark serial-killer thriller made late in his directing career.

Stars in Joe Kidd, a western directed by John Sturges.

Writes & directs, "Persuit"

Woody Allen stars in the film version of "Play It Again, Sam", which is directed by Herbert Ross. Directs Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Woody Allen stars in the film version of "Play It Again, Sam", which is directed by Herbert Ross

Stars in Sitting Target

Stars in Sleuth

Wins an Oscar nomination for Best Direction in 1972 for Sleuth starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine

Stars in, "The Godfather". Stars in, "Last Tango in Paris"

Directs The Godfather, adapting Mario Puzo's crime novel into a major American film.

Given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather

Stars in "The Mackintosh Man"

Stas in The Ruling Class

Appears in Travels with My Aunt

Completion of the film, "What?"

Sellers stars in the hospital satire Where Does It Hurt?

Stars in Young Winston

Stars in Young Winston

Stars in Young Winston

Appears in Young Winston

Stars in Young Winston

Stars in Young Winston

Death of Jack Hawkins

Death of Bruce Lee

Death of Anna Magnani

Death of Dennis Price

Directs American Graffiti, a coming-of-age film set around one summer night in California.

Directs Breezy, a romantic drama that does not feature him in the leading role.

Eastwood directs and stars in Breezy, a film about love blossoming between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl, during casting for the film Eastwood met Sondra Locke for the first time, an actress who would play major roles in six of his films over the next ten years and would become an important figure in his life

Directs and stars in High Plains Drifter, then directs Breezy and returns as Harry Callahan in Magnum Force.

Starts in "Hitler: The Last Ten Days"

Directs Live and Let Die

Returns as Harry Callahan in Magnum Force, the second Dirty Harry film.

Clint Eastwood stars in Magnum Force, a sequel to Dirty Harry, about a group of rogue young officers (among them David Soul, Robert Urich and Tim Matheson) in the San Francisco Police Department who systematically exterminate the citys worst criminals

Clint Eastwood stars in Magnum Force, a sequel to Dirty Harry, about a group of rogue young officers (among them David Soul, Robert Urich and Tim Matheson) in the San Francisco Police Department who systematically exterminate the citys worst criminals

Clint Eastwood stars in Magnum Force, a sequel to Dirty Harry, about a group of rogue young officers (among them David Soul, Robert Urich and Tim Matheson) in the San Francisco Police Department who systematically exterminate the citys worst criminals

Directs, Mean Streets

Co-stars in Scarecrow, with Gene Hackman, and wins the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival

Stars in, "Scorpio". Stars in, "A Delicate Balance"

Directs "Serpico"

Stars in Serpico, based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption of fellow officers. Co-stars in Scarecrow, with Gene Hackman, and wins the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival

Sellers portrays Adolf Hitler as one of several roles in Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers portrays the French President in Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers portrays General Latour in the wartime comedy Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers performs the Gestapo character Herr Schroeder in Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers plays British Major Robinson in Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers plays Prince Kyoto in the multi-role comedy Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Stars in, "Soylent Green"

Sellers portrays Bouquet in the wartime drama The Blockhouse.

Directs, "The Day of the Jackal"

Stars in The Mackintosh Man

Sellers plays ageing London busker Sam in The Optimists of Nine Elms.

Stars in "The Sting"

Stars in The Three Musketeers

Stars in The Wicker Man

Stars in The Wicker Man

Writes & directs, "Westworld". "Westworld" is the first feature film that uses 2D computer-generated imagery (CGI)

Directs The Wicker Man

Directs Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.

Directs Alice in the Cities.

Liz Taylors 5th divorce (Richard Burton)

Directs The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.

Bergman became one of the elite actresses to receive three Oscars when she won her third (and first for Best Supporting Actress) for her performance in Murder on the Orient Express

Directs, Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore

Wins the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Stars in Blazing Saddles

Stars in Callan

Last Carry on Film, Carry On Dick

Completion of the film, "Chinatown"

Stars in Earthquake

Stars in, "Earthquake"

Directs, "F for Fake"

Sellers plays pirate Dick Scratcher in Ghost in the Noonday Sun.

Directs The Man with the Golden Gun

Stars in the film adaptation of the Elmore Leonard hard-boiled gangster-meets-his-match in a farmer saga, "Mr. Majestyk". Stars in, "Death Wish"

Stars in Murder on the Orient Express

Appears in "Murder on the Orient Express"

Directs "Murder on the Orient Express"

Stars in The Castaway Cowboy

Directs The Conversation, a surveillance thriller centred on an increasingly troubled sound expert.

Stars in The Four Musketeers

Stars in, "The Front Page"

Directs The Godfather Part II, continuing the Corleone saga across two generations.

Plays Michael Corleone in the sequel The Godfather Part II, acclaimed as being comparable to the original, the film became the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar, and Pacino was nominated for his third Oscar

Sellers portrays Queen Victoria in the comic biographical film The Great McGonagall.

Plays Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun

Stars in "The Towering Inferno"

Clint Eastwood teams up with Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy in the buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, a road movie about a veteran bank robber Thunderbolt (Eastwood) and a young con man drifter, Lightfoot (Bridges)

Directs Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Stars with Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy in the action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

Clint Eastwood teams up with Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy in the buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, a road movie about a veteran bank robber Thunderbolt (Eastwood) and a young con man drifter, Lightfoot (Bridges)

Stars in "Young Frankenstein"

Releases the film version of Tommy.

Stars as Tommy in Ken Russell's film.

Wins the Academy Award for Best Director for The Godfather Part II.

Awarded the Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Film for Dersu Uzala

Sellers and Blake Edwards revive Inspector Clouseau in The Return of the Pink Panther after an eleven-year gap.

Kurosawas Dersu Uzala

Pacino stars in Dog Day Afternoon, based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz, directed by Sidney Lumet

Pacino stars in Dog Day Afternoon, based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz, directed by Sidney Lumet

Golden Globe Award, wins Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Series for Police Woman

Directs and stars in The Eiger Sanction, an action thriller set partly on mountain climbs.

Co-directs The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum.

Co-directs The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum.

Stars in The Man Who Would Be King

Stars in The Man Who Would Be King

Sellers reprises Inspector Clouseau in The Return of the Pink Panther.

A movie version of Tommy is released, directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey in the title role and earning Pete Townshend an academy award nomination for Best Original Score

Daltrey plays the lead role of Tommy & is nominated for a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture"

A movie version of Tommy is released, directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey in the title role and earning Pete Townshend an academy award nomination for Best Original Score

A movie version of Tommy is released, directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey in the title role and earning Pete Townshend an academy award nomination for Best Original Score

Appears as The Preacher in Ken Russell's film Tommy.

Appears in Ken Russell's film Tommy.

Directs Kings of the Road.

Death of Sid James

Birth of Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch

Death of Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang.

Death of Alastair Sim

Death of Jean Gabin

His return as Clouseau earns Sellers a 1976 Golden Globe nomination in the musical-or-comedy actor category.

Plays an escaped convict hunted in Jackson County Jail

Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

Sellers plays detective Sidney Wang in Neil Simon's mystery spoof Murder by Death.

Appears in Murder by Death

Appears in Murder by Death

Directs "Network"

Directs, Taxi Driver

Nagisa Oshima directs the Realm of the Senses, a World War II period piece about Sada Abe

Stars in, "St. Ives". Stars in, "Raid On Entebbe"

Plays Iris, a teenage sex worker, in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.

Directs, Taxi Driver

Stars in The Cassandra Crossing

Stars in Bullet to The Eagle Has Landed

Returns as Harry Callahan in The Enforcer, the third Dirty Harry film.

Woody Allen stars in "The Front", directed by Martin Ritt, a humorous and poignant account of Hollywood blacklisting during the 1950s

Woody Allen stars in "The Front", directed by Martin Ritt, a humorous and poignant account of Hollywood blacklisting during the 1950s

Directs and stars in The Outlaw Josey Wales, one of his major westerns.

Has a supporting role in The Outlaw Josey Wales as Laura Lee, a pioneer from Kansas who falls in love with the eponymous character (Clint Eastwood)

Sellers continues as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

Raid on Entebbe is a 1977 TV movie directed by Irvin Kershner, based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Entebbe, Uganda on July 4, 1976. Directs, "The Return of a Man Called Horse"

Stars in, "The Shootist"

Completion of the film, "The Tenant"

Stars in To the Devil, A Daughter

Directs Stroszek.

Death of Peter Finch

Directs The American Friend.

Death of Groucho Marx

Death of Charlie Chaplin

Directs the large-scale war film A Bridge Too Far, depicting the failed Allied Operation Market Garden.

Stars in Bullet to A Bridge Too Far

Wins best screenplay for "Annie Hall". "Anniie Hall" wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, an unusual feat for a comedy, and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diane Keaton

Winner of the Oscar for best actress, "Network"

Wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Julia

Woody Allens 1977 film Annie Hall has Walken playing the suicidal brother of Annie Hall (Diane Keaton)

"Anniie Hall" wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, an unusual feat for a comedy, and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diane Keaton. "Annie Hall" marks a major turn to more sophisticated humor and thoughtful drama

"Anniie Hall" wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, an unusual feat for a comedy, and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diane Keaton

Pacino stars as a race-car driver in Bobby Deerfield, directed by Sydney Pollack, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actor

Pacino stars as a race-car driver in Bobby Deerfield, directed by Sydney Pollack, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actor

Directs Bolwieser.

Stars in Cross of Iron

Directs "Equus"

Makes his feature directing debut with Eraserhead, an independently produced surrealist film.

Wins the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in Julia

The Pink Panther Strikes Again brings Sellers another Golden Globe musical-or-comedy actor nomination in 1977.

Plays Julia in Julia. Plays Agatha Christie in Agatha Christie

Directs, New York, New York

Plays a Vietnam veteran in Rolling Thunder

Stars in "Slap Shot"

Stars in Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers

Writes and directs Star Wars, launching the space-fantasy film series that becomes a global franchise.

Starts in "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"

Makes his feature directing debut with The Duellists, a historical drama set during the Napoleonic era.

Directs and stars in The Gauntlet with Sondra Locke.

Stars alongside Eastwood in The Gauntlet

Stars in The Turning Point

Death of John Cazale

Directs Despair, adapted from Vladimir Nabokov.

Winner of the Oscar for best actress, "Annie Hall"

Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for California Suite

Awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the brittle actress Diana Barry in California Suite, acting opposite Michael Caine

Walken wins an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter

Writes & directs, "Coma"

Appears in Death on the Nile

Awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the brittle actress Diana Barry in California Suite, acting opposite Michael Caine. Appears in Death on the Nile

Directs The Deer Hunter, the picture becomes a massive critical and commercial success, and won a number of Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture

Stars in Every Which Way But Loose, one of his biggest commercial successes.

Stars in Every Which Way But Loose

Contributes to the omnibus film Germany in Autumn.

Directs Messer im Kopf, known in English as Knife in the Head.

Awarded the OBE

Sellers again portrays Inspector Clouseau in Revenge of the Pink Panther.

The Wickerman wins the 1978 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film

Stars in The Boys from Brazil

Walken wins an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter

Stars in The Four Feathers

Directs The Marriage of Maria Braun.

Stars in The Swarm. Stars in Bullet to The Silver Bears

Directs Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht.

Directs The Tin Drum, winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Death of John Wayne

Death of John Wayne, age 72

Directs the documentary The Kids Are Alright.

Directs the film adaptation of Quadrophenia.

Winner of the Oscar for best actress, "Coming Home"

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress in Kramer vs. Kramer

Directs Alien, combining science fiction and horror in a film that becomes a major genre landmark.

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky

Stars in, "All Quiet on the Western Front"

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky

Directs Apocalypse Now, relocating themes from Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War.

Has a prominent role in Apocalypse Now

Sellers plays Chance, the sheltered gardener at the centre of Being There.

Stars in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. Stars in Ashanti

Stars in Escape from Alcatraz, directed by Don Siegel.

"Manhattan", released in 1979, is a black-and-white film that can be viewed as an homage to New York City, which has been described as the true "main character" of the movie

Appears in, "Manhattan"

Completion of the film, "Tess"

Stars in, "The China Syndrome"

Writes & directs, "The First Great Train Robbery"

The Who release the documentary The Kids Are Alright.

Sellers plays the royal lookalikes Rudolf IV and Rudolf V in The Prisoner of Zenda.

Sellers also portrays Syd Frewin in The Prisoner of Zenda.

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky

Appears in Zulu Dawn

Stars in Zulu Dawn