1944 in film

The top ten 1944 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• March 10 – MGM's A Guy Named Joe, starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne, is released nationally in the United States.
• May 3 – The film Going My Way, directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, premieres. The highest-grossing picture of the year, it goes on to win a total of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for McCary, Best Actor for Crosby and Best Original Song for "Swinging on a Star".
• May 13 – Dale Evans appears in her first film with future husband, Roy Rogers – Cowboy and the Senorita.
• July 20 – Since You Went Away is released.
• September 6 – Double Indemnity is released.
• November 22 – MGM's Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien premieres. Hugely popular with both audiences and critics, the film is nominated for four Academy Awards.

United States unless stated

• Black Arrow
• Captain America, starring Dick Purcell
• The Desert Hawk, starring Gilbert Roland and Charles Middleton
• The Great Alaskan Mystery
• Haunted Harbor, starring Kane Richmond
• Mystery of the River Boat
• Raiders of Ghost City
• The Tiger Woman, starring Linda Stirling
• Zorro's Black Whip, starring Linda Stirling

• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

• Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Scrappy (1931–1941)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Donald Duck (1934–1956)
• Goofy (1939–1955)
• Andy Panda (1939–1949)
• Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
• Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941–1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943–1949)
• Droopy (1943–1958)
• Screwball Squirrel (1944–1946)
• Sylvester the Cat (1944–1966)

• January 5 – Franco Ferrini, Italian screenwriter
• January 9 – Harun Farocki, German filmmaker (died 2014)
• January 20 – Margaret Avery, American actress
• January 23 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (died 2019)[6]
• February 3 – Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
• February 13 – Stockard Channing, American actress
• February 14 – Alan Parker, English director, producer and screenwriter (died 2020)
• February 22 – Jonathan Demme, American director, producer and screenwriter (died 2017)
• February 29 – Dennis Farina, American actor (died 2013)
• March 5 – Peter Weibel, Ukrainian-born Austrian experimental filmmaker
• March 24 - R. Lee Ermey, American film, television and voice actor (died 2018)
• March 26 – Diana Ross, American singer and actress
• April 4 - Craig T. Nelson, American actor
• April 6 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian-born actress and model (died 2017)
• April 13 – Charles Burnett, American director
• April 29 – Michael Angelis, English actor (died 2020)
• April 30 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (died 2010)
• May 4 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress (died 2019)
• May 5 – John Rhys-Davies, English actor
• May 10 – Jim Abrahams, American director, producer and screenwriter
• May 14 – George Lucas, American director, producer and screenwriter
• May 16 – Danny Trejo, American actor and voice actor
• May 19 – Peter Mayhew, English actor (died 2019)
• May 25 – Frank Oz, English director and puppeteer
• May 26 – Andre Stojka, American voice actor and singer
• May 28 – Sondra Locke, American actress (died 2018)
• June 23 – Ingrīda Andriņa, Latvian actress (died 2015)
• June 29 – Gary Busey, American actor
• July 1 – Wahid Hamed, Egyptian screenwriter (died 2021)
• July 2 – Viiu Härm, Estonian actress
• July 8 – Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
• July 30 – Yoon Jeong-hee, South Korean actress
• July 31 – Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
• August 7 – John Glover, American actor
• August 9 – Sam Elliott, American actor
• August 11 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
• August 21 – Peter Weir, Australian director, producer and screenwriter
• September 13 – Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
• September 25 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
• October 8 – Dale Dye, American actor, technical advisor, radio personality and writer
• October 10 – Lii Tedre, Estonian actress
• November 17 – Danny DeVito, American actor, comedian, producer and director
• November 21 – Harold Ramis, American actor, director and screenwriter (died 2014)
• December 5 – Jeroen Krabbe, Dutch actor and director
• December 17 – Bernard Hill, English actor

• March 14 – Merta Sterling, American actress (born 1883)
• July 14 – Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (born 1884)
• July 20 – Mildred Harris, American actress (born 1901)
• September 24 – Hugo Thimig, Austrian actor (born 1854)
• December 9 – Laird Cregar, American actor (born 1913)
• December 13 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (born 1908)
• December 15 – Glenn Miller, American musician, actor (born 1904)

• Lauren Bacall – To Have and Have Not
• Red Buttons – Winged Victory
• Stan Freberg – Swooner Crooner
• Gloria Grahame – Blonde Fever
• Judy Holiday – Greenwich Village
• Shashi Kapoor – Meena
• Angela Lansbury – Gaslight
• Janis Paige – Bathing Beauty
• Gregory Peck – Days of Glory
• Jane Powell – Song of the Open Road
• Zachary Scott – The Mask of Dimitrios
• Jean Simmons – Give Us the Moon