1922 in film

The top ten films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows:

• June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
• November 26 – The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

United States unless stated

• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)

Felix the Cat cartoon.

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)

• January 10 – Hannelore Schroth, actress (died 1987)
• January 13 – Albert Lamorisse, director (died 1970)
• January 16 – Irene Vernon, actress (died 1998)
• January 17 – Betty White, actress
• January 19 – Guy Madison, actor (died 1996)
• January 21
  • Telly Savalas, actor (died 1994)
  • Paul Scofield, actor (died 2008)
• January 31 – Joanne Dru, actress (died 1996)
• February 6 – Patrick Macnee, actor (died 2015)
• February 7 – Hattie Jacques, actress (died 1980)
• February 9 – Kathryn Grayson, singer, actress (died 2010)
• February 26 – Margaret Leighton, actress (died 1976)
• March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director (died 1975)
• March 8 – Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer (died 2008)
• March 20 – Carl Reiner, comic actor, director and screenwriter (died 2020)
• March 21 – Russ Meyer, director, producer (died 2004)
• April 3 – Doris Day, actress, singer (died 2019)[5]
• April 5 – Gale Storm, singer, actress (died 2009)
• April 15 – Michael Ansara, American stage, screen, and voice actor (died 2013)
• April 18 – Barbara Hale, American actress (died 2017)[6]
• April 27 – Jack Klugman, American actor (died 2012)
• May 2 - Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor and director (died 2007)

• May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress (died 1992)
• May 27 – Christopher Lee, English actor (died 2015)[7]
• May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English-born actor (died 1992)
• June 1
  • Joan Caulfield, American actress (died 1991)
  • Joan Copeland, American actress
• June 9 – George Axelrod, American scriptwriter and director (died 2003)
• June 10 – Judy Garland, American singer, actress (died 1969)[8]
• June 16 – Frances Rafferty, American actress (died 2004)
• June 26 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (died 2013)
• July 6 – William Schallert, American actor, (died 2016)
• July 26 – Blake Edwards, American director (died 2010)
• August 8 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (died 1999)
• September 1
  • Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director (died 2000)
  • Yvonne De Carlo, American actress (died 2007)
• September 8 – Sid Caesar, American comedian, actor (died 2014)
• September 14 – Michel Auclair, European actor (died 1988)
• September 15 – Jackie Cooper, American actor, director (died 2011)
• September 16
  • Guy Hamilton, English director (died 2016)
  • Janis Paige, American actress
• September 23 – Louise Latham, American actress (died 2018)
• September 29 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (died 2015)
• October 23 – Coleen Gray, American actress (died 2015)
• October 31 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (died 2005)
• November 9 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer (died 1965)
• November 12 – Kim Hunter, actress (died 2002)
• November 13
  • Madeleine Sherwood, actress (2016)
  • Oskar Werner, actor (died 1984)
• November 14 – Veronica Lake, American actress (died 1973)
• November 15 – Francesco Rosi, film director (died 2015)
• December 2
  • Don Fellows, American actor (died 2007)
  • Leo Gordon, actor and screenplay writer (died 2000)
• December 4 – Gérard Philipe, actor (died 1959)
• December 11 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
• December 21 – Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, voice artist, humanitarian and inventor (died 2005)
• December 22
  • Stan Lee, American comic-book writer, producer and actor (died 2018)
  • Ruth Roman, actress (died 1999)
• December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress (died 1990)

• February 1 – William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal. (born 1872)
• February 4 – Florence Deshon, American actress (born 1893)
• March 4 – Bert Williams, American actor and singer (born 1874)
• May 21 – Sidney Ainsworth, actor (born 1872)
• May 26 – Walter Jones, American actor (b.1874)
• June 6 – Lillian Russell, stage and screen actress (born 1860/61)
• June 15 – Howard Crampton, actor (born 1865)
• July 5 – Bobby Connelly, child star (born 1909)
• September 23 – W. Chrystie Miller, veteran stage & screen actor (born 1843)
• November 30 – René Cresté, actor and director (born 1881)

• Clara Bow
• Walt Disney – director, producer
• Louise Dresser
• William Haines
• Will Hay
• Edward Everett Horton
• Gene Lockhart
• Anita Louise
• George O'Brien
• William Powell
• Anne Shirley
• Darryl F. Zanuck – director, producer
• Rin Tin Tin

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