1925 in film

The top ten 1925 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• June 26: Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush premieres. It is voted the best film of the year by critics in The Film Daily annual poll[5]
• September 25: Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens.
• November 5: MGM's war drama film The Big Parade is released. It is a massive commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing picture of the 1920s in the United States.
• December 30: MGM's biblical epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around $57 million when adjusted for inflation)[6]
• Hong Shen publishes the film script Mrs. Shentu in the Shanghai magazine Eastern Miscellany. It is never filmed, but is considered a milestone in film history for being the first published film script in China.[7] Hong also directs his first film, Young Master Feng, at Mingxing (Star) Film Company in this year.

United States unless stated

• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
• Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
• Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924–1936)

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)
• Alice Comedies
  • Alice Cans the Cannibals
  • Alice the Toreador
  • Alice Gets Stung
  • Alice Solves the Puzzle
  • Alice's Egg Plant
  • Alice Loses Out
  • Alice is Stage Struck
  • Alice Wins the Derby
  • Alice Picks the Champ
  • Alice's Tin Pony
  • Alice Chops the Suey
  • Alice the Jail Bird
  • Alice Plays Cupid
  • Alice Rattled by Rats
  • Alice in the Jungle
• Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
• Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
• Un-Natural History (1925–1927)

• January 6 – Enrique Carreras, Peruvian-born director and producer (died 1995)
• January 9 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (died 1989)
• January 13 – Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (died 2000)
• January 26
  • Joan Leslie, American actress (died 2015)
  • Paul Newman, American actor (died 2008)
• January 30 – Dorothy Malone, American actress (died 2018)
• February 2 – Elaine Stritch, American actress (died 2014)
• February 3 - John Fiedler, American actor and voice actor (died 2005)
• February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (died 2001)
• February 11 – Kim Stanley, American actress (died 2001)
• February 17
  • Ron Goodwin, English film composer (died 2003)
  • Hal Holbrook, American actor (died 2021)
• February 18 – George Kennedy, American actor (died 2016)
• February 20 – Robert Altman, American director (died 2006)
• February 21 – Sam Peckinpah, American director (died 1984)
• February 25 – Aino Seep, Estonian singer and actress (died 1982)
• April 14 – Rod Steiger, American actor (died 2002)
• April 18 – Bob Hastings, American actor (died 2014)
• April 19 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (died 2016)
• May 2 – John Neville, English-Canadian actor (died 2011)
• May 25 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (died 2003)
• May 26 – Alec McCowen, English actor (died 2017)
• June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (died 2010)
• June 7 – John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer (died 2008)
• June 8 – Charles Tyner, American actor (died 2017)
• June 16 – Otto Muehl, Austrian experimental director (died 2013)
• June 21 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (died 2006)
• June 25 – June Lockhart, American actress
• June 29 – Cara Williams, American actress
• July 1 – Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011)
• July 6 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (died 2002)
• July 13 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and scriptwriter
• July 15 – D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (died 2019)
• July 23 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress (died 2016)
• August 11 – Arlene Dahl, American actress
• August 15 – Mike Connors, American actor (died 2017)
• August 22 – Honor Blackman, English actress (died 2020)
• August 23 – Robert Mulligan, American director (died 2008)
• September 8 – Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (died 1980)
• September 12 – Dickie Moore, American actor (died 2015)
• September 21 – Noor Jehan, Indian actress (died 2000)
• October 3 – Gore Vidal, American writer and actor (died 2012)
• October 5 – Gail Davis, American actress (died 1997)
• October 11 – Nancy Guild, American actress (died 1999)
• October 16
  • Angela Lansbury, English-American actress
  • Lenka Peterson, American actress
• October 29 – Robert Hardy, English actor (died 2017)
• November 4 – Doris Roberts, American actress (died 2016)
• November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (died 1984)
• November 11 - Jonathan Winters, American comedian, actor, author, television host and artist (died 2013)
• November 17 – Rock Hudson, American actor (died 1985)
• November 25 – June Whitfield, English comic actress (died 2018)
• December 2 – Julie Harris, American Broadway and film actress (died 2013)
• December 3 – Kaljo Kiisk, Estonian actor and director (died 2007)
• December 8 – Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician and actor (died 1990)
• December 12 – Anne V. Coates, English film editor (died 2018)
• December 13 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor
• December 18 – Peggy Cummins, Welsh-born Irish actress (died 2017)
• December 28 – Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (died 2002)

• January 24 - Wilton Taylor, American actor, (born 1869)
• February 7 – Edward Jobson, American actor (born 1860)
• February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French director (born 1873)
• March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (born 1910)
• April 8 – Thecla Åhlander, Swedish actress (born 1855)
• April 13 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor (born 1875)
• April 16 – David Powell, Scottish actor (born 1883)
• July 29 – Mark Fenton, American actor (born 1866)
• September 28 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (born 1888)
• October 21 – Orme Caldara, American stage and film actor (born 1875)
• October 31 – Max Linder, French actor (born 1883)
• November 1 – Lester Cuneo American actor (born 1888)
• November 3 – Lucile McVey, American actress (born 1890)
• December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress (born 1888)
• December 9 – Harry Rattenberry, American actor (born 1857)
• December 21 – Lottie Lyell, Australian director/producer (born 1890)
• December 22 – Mary Thurman, American actress (born 1895)
• December 24 - James O. Barrows, American stage and screen actor, (born 1855)
• December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards American director (born 1867)

• Walter Brennan – Webs of Steel
• Gary Cooper – Dick Turpin
• Joan Crawford – Lady of the Night
• Stepin Fetchit – The Mysterious Stranger
• Phillips Holmes – Her Market Value
• Myrna Loy – What Price Beauty?
• Tim McCoy – The Thundering Herd
• Anita Page – A Kiss for Cinderella
• Dolores del Río – Joanna
• Gilbert Roland – The Plastic Age