1919 in film

The top three 1919 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• February 5 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• March – Oscar Micheaux premieres The Homesteader, the first feature-length race film, starring pioneering African American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African American to produce and direct a motion picture.
• May 13 – D. W. Griffith's first film to be released by United Artists, Broken Blossoms, has its premiere in New York City.
• August 29 – The Miracle Man displayed Lon Chaney's talent for make-up and made him famous as a character actor.
• September 1 – United Artists release their first film, His Majesty, the American starring Douglas Fairbanks.
• September 18 – Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin opens rebuilt as a permanent cinema with the première of Ernst Lubitsch's Madame Dubarry.[4][5]
• September 25 - Dalagang Bukid (The Country Maiden), the first Filipino feature-length film made in the Philippines, released.[6]
• October 24 - The Capitol Theatre in New York City becomes one of the largest cinemas in the world with 4,000 seats.
• November 16 – Constance Talmadge becomes a star with the release of A Virtuous Vamp.[7]
• Harold Lloyd begins holding test screenings of his films and modifying them based on audience feedback, a technique which continues in use.
• Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology is developed by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt (engineer), and Joseph Massole; however, the era of sound films is over 6 years away.

Only the films of the series released in 1919 are collected.

• January 1 – Carole Landis, actress (died 1948)
• January 13 – Robert Stack, actor (died 2003)
• January 21 – Jinx Falkenburg, model, actress (died 2003)
• January 23 – Ernie Kovacs, comedian, actor (died 1962)
• January 24 – Coleman Francis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1973)
• February 4 – Janet Waldo, actress (died 2016)
• February 5
  • Red Buttons, actor (died 2006)
  • Tim Holt, actor (died 1973)
• February 11 – Eva Gabor, actress (died 1995)
• February 18 – Jack Palance, actor (died 2006)
• March 2 – Jennifer Jones, actress (died 2009)
• March 25 – Jeanne Cagney, actress (died 1984)
• March 29 – Eileen Heckart, actress (died 2001)
• April 13 – Howard Keel, actor (died 2004)
• April 18 – Vondell Darr, child actress (died 2012)
• April 18 – Virginia O'Brien, American actress (died 2001)
• May 8 – Lex Barker, actor (died 1973)
• May 23 – Betty Garrett, actress (died 2011)
• June 12 – Uta Hagen, actress (died 2004)
• June 14 – Sam Wanamaker, director, actor (died 1993)
• June 19 – Pauline Kael, film critic (died 2001)
• June 24 – Al Molinaro, actor (died 2015)
• June 29 – Slim Pickens, actor (died 1983)
• July 7 – Jon Pertwee, actor (died 1996)
• July 26 – Virginia Gilmore, actress (died 1986)
• August 2 – Nehemiah Persoff, actor
• August 7 – Bertha Moss, Argentine-Mexican actress (died 2008)
• August 8 – Dino De Laurentiis, producer (died 2010)
• September 2 – Marge Champion, dancer, actress, choreographer (died 2020)
• September 18 – Diana Lewis, actress (died 1997)
• September 24 – Rick Vallin, Russian-born actor (died 1977)
• September 26 – Barbara Britton, actress (died 1980)
• October 5 – Donald Pleasence, actor (died 1995)
• November 4
  • Shirley Mitchell, actress (died 2013)
  • Martin Balsam, actor (died 1996)
• November 13
  • Mary Beth Hughes, actress (died 1995)
  • Amelia Bence, actress (died 2016)
• November 15 – Nova Pilbeam, actress (died 2015)
• November 19 – Alan Young, actor (died 2016)
• December 7 – Lis Løwert, Danish actress (d. 2009)
• December 21 – Ove Sprogøe, Danish actor (d. 2004)

• January 14 – Shelley Hull, 34, American stage & film actor, husband of Josephine Hull, brother of Henry Hull
• January 31 – Nat C. Goodwin, 59, veteran stage star & silent film actor
• February 3 – Mary Moore (actress), 29, Irish actress, sister of Joe, Matt, Owen and Tom Moore A Million a Minute
• February 17 – Vera Kholodnaya, 25, Russian silent film actress, A Corpse Living, The Woman Who Invented Love, Her Sister's Rival, Song of Triumphant Love
• April 9 – Sidney Drew, 55, American stage & film actor A Florida Enchantment
• May 3 – Daniel Gilfether, 70, American actor of stage & screen
• May 21 – Lamar Johnstone, 34, American silent film actor
• November 24 – William Stowell, 34, American silent film star

• Vilma Bánky – Im letzten Augenblick
• Shemp Howard – Spring Fever (short)
• Boris Karloff – The Lightning Raider
• Fritz Lang – Halbblut
• Norma Shearer – The Star Boarder (short) (uncredited)
• Otis Skinner – Tom's Little Star
• Claire Windsor – Eyes of Youth (uncredited)
• Anna May Wong – The Red Lantern (uncredited)

• List of American films of 1919