1923 in film

The top ten films released in 1923 by U.S. gross are as follows:

• April 4 – Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. incorporated in the United States.
• April 15 – Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.
• Henry Roussel's Les Opprimés is released, introducing mattes (painted by W. Percy Day) to French cinema.

American films unless stated otherwise

• Charlie Chaplin (1914–23)
• Buster Keaton (1917–41)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–43)
• Our Gang (1922–44)

• Felix the Cat (1919–36)
• Koko the Clown (1919–34)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921–34)
• Alice Comedies
  • Alice's Wonderland
• The Red Head Comedies (1923).

• January 7 – Pinkas Braun, Swiss actor, director (died 2008)
• January 8 – Larry Storch, American actor
• January 19 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (died 2013)
• January 23 – Silvano Campeggi, Italian poster designer (died 2018)
• January 26 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress (died 2017)
• January 29 – Paddy Chayefsky American writer (died 1981)
• February 2 – Bonita Granville, American actress (died 1988)
• February 12 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director (died 2019)
• February 21 – Lola Flores, Spanish actress (died 1995)
• February 28 – Charles Durning, American actor (died 2012)
• March 10 – Dolores Fuller, American actress (died 2011)
• March 19 – Pamela Britton, American actress (died 1974)
• April 2 – Gloria Henry, American actress
• April 4 – Gene Reynolds, American actor, producer (died 2020)
• April 12 – Ann Miller, American dancer, singer, actress (died 2004)
• April 28 – Adele Mara, American actress (died 2010)
• May 4 – Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian (died 2012)
• May 7 – Anne Baxter, actress (died 1985)
• May 14 – Mrinal Sen, Bengali director (died 2018)
• May 26 – Roy Dotrice, British actor (died 2017)
• June 12 – Herta Elviste, Estonian actress (died 2015)
• July 6 – Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (died 1970)
• July 18 – Michael Medwin, English actor and producer (died 2020)
• July 22 – Mukesh, Indian singer (died 1976)
• August 3 – Jean Hagen, American actress (died 1977)
• August 10 – Rhonda Fleming, American actress (died 2020)
• August 14 – Alice Ghostley, American actress (died 2007)
• August 15 – Rose Marie, American actress, singer (died 2017)
• August 29 – Richard Attenborough, English actor and director (died 2014)
• September 7 – Peter Lawford, British-American actor (died 1984)
• September 27 - Mary McCarty, American actress (died 1980)
• October 4 – Charlton Heston, American actor (died 2008)
• October 5 – Glynis Johns, British actress
• October 16 – Linda Darnell, American actress (died 1965)
• November 13 – Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (died 2011)
• November 28
  • Gloria Grahame, American actress (died 1981)
  • James Karen, American actor (died 2018)
• December 10 – Harold Gould, American actor (died 2010)
• December 11 – Betsy Blair, American actress (died 2009)
• December 29 – Dina Merrill, American actress (died 2017)

• January 18 – Wallace Reid, American actor (born 1892)
• March 3 – Dante Testa, Italian actor and director (born 1861)
• March 26 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (born 1844)
• May 21 – Charles Kent, veteran actor and director (born 1852)
• June 11 – Porter Strong, American silent film actor
• June 17 – Macey Harlam, screen actor (born 1873)
• July 12 – Harry Lonsdale, stage and screen actor (born 1865)
• July 30 – Charles Hawtrey, veteran British actor (born 1858)
• August 29 – Bernard Durning, American actor and director, (born 1893)
• September 26 – Jerome Patrick, Broadway stage and silent film leading man (born 1883)
• October 28 – Joe Roberts, American actor (born 1871)
• November 20 – Allen Holubar, America actor and director (born 1888)
• November 30 – Martha Mansfield, American actress (born 1899)
• December 28 – Frank Hayes, American actor and comedian (born 1871)

• Jean Arthur
• Johnny Arthur
• Mary Carlisle
• Marlene Dietrich
• Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• Charles Farrell
• William Haines
• Ken Maynard
• Donald Meek
• Thomas Mitchell
• Jack Oakie
• Fay Wray