1924 in film

The top ten 1924 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• January 10 – CBC Distributions corp. is renamed and incorporated as Columbia Pictures.
• D. W. Griffith, co-founder of United Artists, leaves the company.
• April 17 – Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gains control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• November 15 – In Los Angeles, silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") meets publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst to work out a deal. When Ince dies a few days later, reportedly of a heart attack, rumors soon surface that he was murdered by Hearst.[6]
• Loews Theatres acquires the 4,000 seat Capitol Theatre in New York City becoming the flagship of the theatre chain and site of many future MGM premieres.
• Joseph Schenck becomes president of United Artists.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. MGM and the estate of L. Frank Baum failed to come to an agreement so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures.

For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1924

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

• Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Alice Comedies (1923–1927)
  • Alice's Day at Sea
  • Alice's Spooky Adventure
  • Alice's Wild West Show
  • Alice's Fishy Story
  • Alice and the Dog-Catcher
  • Alice the Peacemaker
  • Alice Gets in Dutch
  • Alice Hunting in Africa
  • Alice and the Three Bears
  • Alice the Piper

• January 7 – Anne Vernon, French actress
• January 9 – Sergei Parajanov, Soviet director (died 1990)
• January 14 – Carole Cook, American actress
• January 16 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (died 2002)
• January 26 – Armand Gatti, French filmmaker (died 2017)
• February 12 – Louis Zorich, American actor (died 2018)
• February 19 – Lee Marvin, American actor (died 1987)
• March 12 – Helen Parrish, American actress (died 1959)
• March 25 – Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (died 2019)
• April 3 – Marlon Brando, American actor (died 2004)
• April 7 – Astrid Lepa, Estonian actress and director (died 2015)
• April 13 – Stanley Donen, American director and choreographer (died 2019)
• April 18 – Leida Rammo, Estonian actress
• April 20
  • Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (died 2008)
  • Leslie Phillips, English comic actor
• April 24 – Eric Pleskow, Austrian film producer (died 2019)
• April 29 – Heikki Haravee, Estonian actor (died 2003)
• May 1 – Dodo Abashidze, Soviet Georgian director (died 1990)
• May 2 – Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor (died 2015)
• June 21 – Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (died 2018)
• June 25 – Sidney Lumet, American director (died 2011)
• July 1 - Florence Stanley, American actress (died 2003)
• July 3 - Amalia Aguilar, Cuban-born Mexican actress
• July 4 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress
• July 6 – Draga Ahačič, Slovene actress and director
• July 20 – Lola Albright, American actress (died 2017)
• July 21 – Don Knotts, American actor (died 2006)
• August 1 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (died 2007)
• August 10 – Martha Hyer, American actress (died 2014)
• August 14 – Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (died 2019)
• August 29 – Tanis Chandler, French-born American actress
• September 2 – Knud Leif Thomsen, Danish director and screenwriter (died 2003)
• September 6 – Riccardo Cucciolla, Italian actor and voice actor (died 1999)
• September 8 – Denise Darcel, French actress (died 2011)
• September 9 – Jane Greer, American actress (died 2001)
• September 16 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (died 2014)
• September 21 – Gail Russell, American actress (died 1961)
• September 28 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (died 1996)
• September 30 – Truman Capote, American author (died 1984)
• October 25 – Billy Barty, American actor (died 2000)
• November 22 – Geraldine Page, American actress (died 1987)
• December 2 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish director (died 2006)
• December 14 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director and producer (died 1988)
• December 19 – Cicely Tyson, American actress (died 2021)
• December 25 – Rod Serling, American screenwriter (died 1975)

• April 16 – Amleto Novelli, Italian stage and screen actor (born in 1885)
• April 21 – Eleonora Duse, Italian veteran and stage actress who made one film in 1916 (born in 1858)
• August 9 – L. Rogers Lytton, American stage and screen actor (born in 1867)
• September 23 – Ben Deeley, film actor married to Barbara La Marr (born in 1878)
• October 12 – Kate Lester, English veteran stage and film actress (born in 1857)
• November 19 – Thomas Ince, American actor and pioneer film producer (born in 1882)

• Clark Gable – White Man and Forbidden Paradise
• Janet Gaynor – Cupid's Rustler
• John Gielgud – Who Is the Man?
• Johannes Heesters – Cirque hollandais