Silent Cinema, 1915–1929

Birth of Peggy Mount

Birth of George Orson Welles

Birth of Dennis Price

Birth of Margaret Lockwood

Directs Homunculus, a six-part science fiction serial.

Birth of Ernest Borgnine

Universum Film AG is founded, creating a major German studio structure.

Makes his first film appearance in Nuts in May

Directs The Eyes of the Mummy Ma, starring Pola Negri.

Directs Different from the Others, an early film addressing homosexuality.

Directs the silent comedy The Oyster Princess.

The first film pairing of Laurel & Hardy (albeit as separate performers) took place in The Lucky Dog, produced in 1919 by Sun-Lite Pictures and released in 1921

The first film pairing of Laurel & Hardy (albeit as separate performers) took place in The Lucky Dog, produced in 1919 by Sun-Lite Pictures and released in 1921

Directs the silent film Die Frau mit den Orchideen.

Directs Madame Dubarry, released internationally as Passion.

The first film pairing of Laurel & Hardy (albeit as separate performers) took place in The Lucky Dog, produced in 1919 by Sun-Lite Pictures and released in 1921

The first film pairing of Laurel & Hardy (albeit as separate performers) took place in The Lucky Dog, produced in 1919 by Sun-Lite Pictures and released in 1921

The first film pairing of Laurel & Hardy (albeit as separate performers) took place in The Lucky Dog, produced in 1919 by Sun-Lite Pictures and released in 1921

Birth of Frederico Fellini

Directs The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, a landmark of German Expressionist cinema.

Birth of Walter Matthau

Co-directs The Golem: How He Came into the World.

Co-directs and stars in The Golem: How He Came into the World.

Directs his 1st feature length film, "The Kid"

Directs Der Januskopf, an unauthorized adaptation of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Directs his 1st feature length film, "The Kid"

Helps make, "The Kid"

Directs Der mude Tod, released in English as Destiny.

Birth of Charles Bronson, one of 15 children born to a Lithuanian immigrant father of Lipka Tatar ancestry and a Lithuanian mother

The release of The Skeik makes Valentino a cult figure

Directs Scherben, an influential Kammerspielfilm.

Writes the screenplay for Das indische Grabmal, directed by Joe May.

Birth of David Paul Scofield.

Directs Nosferatu, one of the central works of German silent horror.

Premiere of Dr Mabuse, der Spieler in Berlin.

Birth of Christopher Lee

Birth of Judy Garland

Directs Phantom.

Birth of Ava Lavinia Gardner

Death of Wallace Reid

Death of Sarah Bernhardt

Birth of Bea Arthur, actress in the "Golden Girls"

Birth of Charlton Heston

Directs Sylvester, known in English as New Year's Eve.

Directs Schatten - Eine nachtliche Halluzination.

Birth of Sydney Lumet

Directs Michael for UFA in Germany.

Directs the expressionist anthology film Waxworks.

Directs Der letzte Mann, a landmark of moving-camera silent cinema.

Directs the two-part silent epic Die Nibelungen.

Birth of Paul Leonard Newman

Birth of John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon

Birth of Angela Brigid Lansbury

Directs Variete, released in English as Variety.

Directs Die freudlose Gasse, known in English as The Joyless Street.

Birth of Patricia Neal

Directs Secrets of a Soul, a film influenced by psychoanalysis.

Birth of Marilyn Monroe

Death of Rudolph Valentino

Directs Faust, one of the last major German silent fantasy films.

Laurel joins the Hal Roach studio, and begins directing films, including a 1926 production called Yes, Yes, Nanette

Makes his feature directing debut with The Pleasure Garden, a melodrama about two chorus girls.

Metropolis premieres in Berlin.

Directs Berlin: Symphony of a Great City.

Duck Soup is a 1927 short silent film made by Hal Roach Studios, the first occasion Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appeared together on screen at Hal Roach Studios. Do Detectives Think?

Duck Soup is a 1927 short silent film made by Hal Roach Studios, the first occasion Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appeared together on screen at Hal Roach Studios. Do Detectives Think?

is a short silent film made by the Hal Roach Studios featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made shortly before they were officially recognized as a double act

is a short silent film made by the Hal Roach Studios featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made shortly before they were officially recognized as a double act

Oliver Hardy, another member of the Hal Roach Studios Comedy All Star players, was injured in a kitchen mishap and Laurel was asked to return to acting, Laurel and Hardy begin sharing the screen in Slipping Wives, Duck Soup and With Love and Hisses

Laurel & Hardy become friends and their comic chemistry soon became obvious, Roach Studios supervising director Leo McCarey noticed the audience reaction to them and began teaming them, leading to the creation of the Laurel and Hardy series

Laurel & Hardy become friends and their comic chemistry soon became obvious, Roach Studios supervising director Leo McCarey noticed the audience reaction to them and began teaming them, leading to the creation of the Laurel and Hardy series

Their first "official" Oliver & Hardy film is Putting Pants on Philip, although their first appearance as the now familiar "Stan and Ollie" characters was The Second Hundred Years (June 1927), directed by Fred Guiol and supervised by Leo McCarey

Their first "official" Oliver & Hardy film is Putting Pants on Philip, although their first appearance as the now familiar "Stan and Ollie" characters was The Second Hundred Years (June 1927), directed by Fred Guiol and supervised by Leo McCarey

Their first "official" Oliver & Hardy film is Putting Pants on Philip, although their first appearance as the now familiar "Stan and Ollie" characters was The Second Hundred Years (June 1927), directed by Fred Guiol and supervised by Leo McCarey

Their first "official" Oliver and Hardy film is Putting Pants on Philip, although their first appearance as the now familiar "Stan and Ollie" characters was The Second Hundred Years (June 1927), directed by Fred Guiol and supervised by Leo McCarey.

Oliver Hardy, another member of the Hal Roach Studios Comedy All Star players, was injured in a kitchen mishap and Laurel was asked to return to acting, Laurel and Hardy begin sharing the screen in Slipping Wives, Duck Soup and With Love and Hisses.

Directs The Lodger, the suspense thriller widely regarded as the first film to display his mature cinematic style.

Directs Spione, released in English as Spies.

Birth of James Garner

Winner of the Academy Award for, "Two Arabian Nights"

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor

Writes & directs "Hells Angels", the most expensive movie of its time at a cost of $3.8 million

Directs Pandora's Box starring Louise Brooks.

Directs Asphalt, a late silent film of the Weimar period.

The cartoon of Popeye is created

Directs Diary of a Lost Girl starring Louise Brooks.

Directs Frau im Mond, an influential German science fiction film.

Birth of Grace Patricia Kelly

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor

Directs Blackmail in both silent and sound versions, helping establish the early British talking-picture thriller.

Stars in, Liberty. Stars in, Big Business. Laurel and Hardy successfully make the transition to talking films with the short Unaccustomed As We Are in 1929