1959



1958 <-- 1959 --> 1960

EVENTS


CINEMA


FILMS


Eire

Home Is the Hero

France

3 Murderesses
400 Blows
Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Archimede, le clochard
Babette Goes to War
Back to the Wall
Black Orpheus
Brigade des moeurs
Confident de ces dames
Dangerous Liaisons 1960
Deux hommes dans Manhattan
Forbidden Fruit
Giant of Marathon
Grand chef
Heures chaudes
Jument verte
Les Amants de Demain
Les cousins
Macbeth
Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre
Marie-Octobre
Nathalie, agent secret
Nuit des espions
Pecheur d'Islande
Quatre cents coups
Republic of Sin
Rue des Prairies
Simenon
Temoin dans la ville
Vache et le prisonnier
Voulez-vous danser avec moi?
Web of Passion
Woman Like Satan

Germany

Hassan and Nayima

India

World of Apu

Italy

Archimede, le clochard
Confident de ces dames
Dangerous Liaisons 1960
Giant of Marathon
Grand chef
Great War
Hannibal
Hercules
Jument verte
Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre
Nathalie, agent secret
Nuit des espions
Rue des Prairies
Sign of the Gladiator
Temoin dans la ville
Uncle Was a Vampire
Vache et le prisonnier

Japan

Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Mysterians
地球防衛軍

Spain

Tenemos 18 anos

Sweden

Virgin Spring
Wild Strawberries

UK

39 Steps
Angry Hills
Bad Girl
Bandit of Zhobe
Battle of the Sexes
Behemoth the Sea Monster
Bobbikins
Breakout
Bridal Path
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Carry On Teacher
Chance Meeting
Child and the Killer
Circle
Crash Drive
Danger Within
Desperate Man
Devil's Disciple
Doctor's Dilemma
Don't Panic Chaps
Elephant Gun
Expresso Bongo
Ferry to Hong Kong
First Man Into Space
Flesh and the Fiends
Floods of Fear
Follow a Star
Heart of a Man
Horrors of the Black Museum
Hound of the Baskervilles
I'm All Right Jack
Jack the Ripper
Jazz Boat
Jet Storm
Killers of Kilimanjaro
Lady is a Square
Left, Right and Center
Libel
Life in Emergency Ward 10
Man Accused
Man Who Could Cheat Death
Mistress of the World
Mouse That Roared
Mummy
Navy Lark
Night We Dropped a Clanger
North West Frontier
Operation Bullshine
Our Man in Havana
Please Turn Over
Room at the Top
Rough and the Smooth
Sapphire
Scapegoat
Season of Passion
Siege of Pinchgut
SOS Pacific
Sweet Beat
Ten Seconds to Hell
Third Man on the Mountain
Tiger Bay
Tommy the Toreador
Too Many Crooks
Touch of Larceny
Ugly Duckling
Upstairs and Downstairs
Web of Evidence
Whirlpool
Yesterday's Enemy

USA

1001 Arabian Nights
-30-
30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
4D Man
Al Capone
Alias Jesse James
Alligator People
Anatomy of a Murder
Angry Hills
Angry Red Planet
Ask Any Girl
Atomic Submarine
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Bat
Battle Flame
Battle of the Coral Sea
Beat Generation
Behemoth the Sea Monster
Beloved Infidel
Ben-Hur
Best of Everything
Big Circus
Big Fisherman
Big Operator
Black Orchid
Blood and Steel
Blue Angel
Blue Denim
Born Reckless
Born to Be Loved
Bucket of Blood
But Not for Me
Career
City of Fear
Compulsion
Count Your Blessings
Crime & Punishment, USA
Cry Tough
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Day of the Outlaw
Diary of Anne Frank
Doll's House
Don't Give Up the Ship
Edge of Eternity
Escort West
Face of a Fugitive
Face of Fire
FBI Story
Five Pennies
For the First Time
Four Fast Guns
Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Frontier Rangers
Fugitive Kind
Gazebo
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow
Ghost of Zorro
Giant Gila Monster
Gidget
Girls Town
Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
Green Mansions
Hanging Tree
Hangman
Happy Anniversary
Hole in the Head
Holiday for Lovers
Horse Soldiers
Hound-Dog Man
Imitation of Life
Indian Tomb
Inside the Mafia
Invisible Invaders
Island of Lost Women
It Happened to Jane
It Started With a Kiss
Jayhawkers
Jet Over the Atlantic
John Paul Jones
Journey
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Juke Box Rhythm
King of the Wild Stallions
Kiss Her Goodbye
Last Mile
Last Train From Gun Hill
Legend of Tom Dooley
Li'l Abner
Lone Texan
Lonelyhearts
Man in the Net
Mating Game
Middle of the Night
Miracle
Miracle of the Hills
Moochie of the Little League
Naked Maja
Never So Few
Never Steal Anything Small
Night of the Ghouls
Night of the Quarter Moon
North by Northwest
Nun's Story
Odds Against Tomorrow
On the Beach
Operation Petticoat
Oregon Trail
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Plunderers of Painted Flats
Porgy and Bess
Pork Chop Hill
Private's Affair
Rabbit Trap
Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Restless Years
Return of the Fly
Ride Lonesome
Rio Bravo
Rookie
Savage Innocents
Say One for Me
Senior Prom
Shaggy Dog
Shake Hands With the Devil
Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Sleeping Beauty
Solomon and Sheba
Some Like It Hot
Sound and the Fury
Stranger in My Arms
Suddenly, Last Summer
Summer Place
Tarzan, the Ape Man
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Teenage Zombies
Ten Little Indians
They Came to Cordura
Third Man
Third Man on the Mountain
This Earth Is Mine
Timbuktu
Tingler
Trap
Up Periscope
Warlock
Wasp Woman
Westbound
Wild and the Innocent
Wonderful Country
World, the Flesh and the Devil
Wreck of the Mary Deare
Young Captives
Young Land
Young Philadelphians

USSR

Ballad of a Soldier

BIRTHS


Adrian Hall (January 1)
Albie Selznick (January 1)
Kim Coates (January 2)
Cristina (January 2)
Vanity (January 4)
Clancy Brown (January 5)
Kate Duchêne (January 5)
Jon Ted Wynne (January 7)
Jeff Kaake (January 10)
Ralf Moeller (January 12)
Ralph Moeller (January 12)
Sade (January 16)
Susanna Hoffs (January 17)
Gilbert Clayton (January 18)
Tom Woodruff Jr. (January 21)
Linda Blair (January 22)
Tyrone Power (January 22)
Felicity Dean (January 24)
Eugene Osment (January 25)
Patti Cohoon-Friedman (January 27)
Glenn Taranto (January 27)
Frank Darabont (January 28)
Dwier Brown (January 30)
Alex Hyde-White (January 30)
Anthony LaPaglia (January 31)
Kelly Lynch (January 31)
Barbara Auer (February 1)
Richard Steinmetz (February 1)
Thomas Calabro (February 3)
Fredric Lehne (February 3)
Pamelyn Ferdin (February 4)
Tyler Butterworth (February 6)
Eric Godon (February 7)
Craig Berenson (February 8)
Pamela Jean Bryant (February 8)
Tonga Fifita (February 10)
Sigrid Thornton (February 12)
Richard Eden (February 13)
Matthias Hues (February 14)
Russell Osman (February 14)
John McEnroe (February 16)
Patrick Hébrard (February 17)
Jayne Atkinson (February 18)
Rusty Weaver (February 19)
Susan Benjamin (February 22)
Kyle MacLachlan (February 22)
Steven Brown (February 23)
Beth Broderick (February 24)
James C. Burns (February 25)
Marcia Mitzman-Gaven (February 28)
Javier Bardem (March 1)
Taylor Nichols (March 3)
Olivier Rabourdin (March 3)
Patricia Heaton (March 4)
Talia Balsam (March 5)
David Fury (March 5)
Dario Grandinetti (March 5)
Tom Arnold (March 6)
Michael Carmine (March 6)
Barry Darsow (March 6)
Nick Searcy (March 7)
Barbara Eve Harris (March 8)
Stefanos Miltsakakis (March 8)
Aidan Quinn (March 8)
Christopher Fairbank (March 9)
Rodney A. Grant (March 9)
Kato Kaelin (March 9)
Lonny Price (March 9)
Ian Rawlings (March 9)
Shelley Thompson (March 9)
Pascal Légitimus (March 13)
Laila Robins (March 14)
Renny Harlin (March 15)
Lisa Langlois (March 15)
Gary Basaraba (March 16)
Flavor Flav (March 16)
Ludger Pistor (March 16)
Jens Stoltenberg (March 16)
Christian Clemenson (March 17)
Luc Besson (March 18)
Sarah Berger (March 19)
Steve McFadden (March 20)
Matthew Modine (March 22)
Catherine Keener (March 23)
Philippe Volter (March 23)
Deke Anderson (March 26)
Andrew Farriss (March 27)
Brian Tarantina (March 27)
Stephanie Dunnam (March 28)
Stephen Ure (March 28)
Craig Jue (March 29)
Marina Sirtis (March 29)
John F. Barmon Jr. (March 31)
Martin Lev (March 31)
Rob Bottin (April 1)
Ivan G'Vera (April 1)
Joanna Kanska (April 1)
Tomas Arana (April 3)
David Hyde Pierce (April 3)
Chloe Franks
Phil Morris (April 4)
Mark Strickson (April 6)
Fred Dekker (April 9)
Mimi Kinkade (April 9)
Douglas H. Arthurs (April 11)
Chrystelle Labaude (April 13)
Gary Cady (April 14)
Mark Pillow (April 14)
Emma Thompson (April 15)
Thomas F. Wilson (April 15)
Teri Austin (April 17)
Imogen Bain (April 17)
Sean Bean (April 17)
Patricia Charbonneau (April 19)
Clint Howard (April 20)
Clint Howard (April 20)
Yuji Okumoto (April 20)
Seth Isler (April 21)
Catherine Mary Stewart (April 22)
Tim Blaney (April 23)
Tonie Perensky (April 23)
Glenn Morshower (April 24)
Paula Yates (April 24)
Daniel Kash (April 25)
Jonathan Caplan (April 26)
Sheena Easton (April 27)
Neil Pearson (April 27)
Cassandra Gava (April 28)
Rebecca Toolan (April 29)
Arthur Mathews (April 30)
Naomi Oki (April 30)
Pamela Rabe (April 30)
Brian Tochi (May 2)
Ben Elton (May 3)
Anthony Calf (May 4)
Inger Nilsson (May 4)
Randy Travis (May 4)
Valérie De Villeneuve (May 5)
Gary Dubin (May 5)
Heather Ripley (May 6)
Michael E. Knight (May 7)
Victoria Rowell (May 10)
Martha Quinn (May 11)
Ving Rhames (May 12)
Patrick Bruel (May 14)
Dawn Merrick (May 14)
Wally Crowder (May 15)
Andrew Eldritch (May 15)
Steven Paul (May 16)
Mare Winningham (May 16)
Peter Berkrot (May 18)
Chris De Faria (May 20)
Bronson Pinchot (May 20)
Nick Cassavetes (May 21)
Lowell Cunningham (May 21)
Carol Barbee (May 22)
Linda Emond (May 22)
Graham Fellows (May 22)
Beverly Leech (May 23)
Nula Conwell (May 24)
Julian Clary (May 25)
Cathryn Harrison (May 25)
Tracey Ullman (May 25)
Hank Williams (May 26)
Antonia Bird (May 27)
Gerard Kelly (May 27)
Rupert Everett (May 29)
Jean Ollé-Laprune (May 29)
Adrian Paul (May 29)
Charlotte Brändström (May 30)
Elyssa Davalos (May 30)
Owen Roe (May 30)
Josie Lawrence (June 6)
Amanda Pays (June 6)
Tatyana Drubich (June 7)
Tane McClure (June 8)
Bernard White (June 8)
Maria Persson (June 9)
Timothy Van Patten (June 10)
Hugh Laurie (June 11)
Scott Thompson (June 12)
Lance Kinsey (June 13)
Eileen Davidson (June 15)
James Hellwig (June 16)
Sion Tudor Owen (June 16)
Willard E. Pugh (June 16)
Tom Reilly (June 18)
Viveca Sten (June 18)
Wayne Federman (June 22)
Duane Whitaker (June 23)
John Gilroy (June 24)
Paris Themmen (June 25)
Christopher Doohan (June 28)
Montgomery Doohan (June 28)
Kate Lynch (June 28)
Gary Rydstrom (June 29)
Vincent D'Onofrio (June 30)
Ben Scott (June 30)
Dale Midkiff (July 1)
Andreas Wisniewski (July 3)
Pablo Helman (July 5)
Didier Le Pêcheur (July 5)
Thomas Kügel (July 6)
Billy Campbell (July 7)
Stephen Garlick (July 7)
Jessica Hahn (July 7)
Lori Hallier (July 7)
Tom Egeland (July 8)
David Elliott (July 8)
Robert Knepper (July 8)
Pauline Quirke (July 8)
Kevin Nash (July 9)
Janet Julian (July 10)
Suzanne Vega (July 11)
Charles Q. Murphy (July 12)
Bogdan Untaru (July 13)
Adam Blackwood (July 14)
Anne Fontaine (July 15)
Vincent Lindon (July 15)
Keith-Lee Castle (July 16)
Kilian McKenna (July 21)
David Alan Graf (July 24)
Shawn Weatherly (July 24)
Kevin Spacey (July 26)
Roger Guenveur Smith (July 27)
Gary Springer (July 29)
Telsche Boorman (July 30)
Jim Doughan (August 2)
Victoria Jackson (August 2)
John C. McGinley (August 3)
Reece Dinsdale (August 6)
Robert Jacks (August 9)
Rosanna Arquette (August 10)
Danny Bonaduce (August 13)
Marcia Gay Harden (August 14)
Suzanne Marie Fava (August 17)
Mark Dightam (August 18)
Anne Hobbs (August 21)
Ralph Marrero (August 21)
Catherine Mouchet (August 21)
Al Pillay (August 22)
Tracey M. Lee (August 23)
Gennadi Vengerov (August 27)
Finbar Lynch (August 28)
John Allen Nelson (August 28)
Brian Thompson (August 28)
Odile Michel (August 31)
Dick Rude (September 1)
Merritt Butrick (September 3)
Eric Serra (September 9)
Brent Stait (September 9)
Michael Earl Davis (September 10)
Jim Meskimen (September 10)
Stacey Nelkin (September 10)
Peter Nelson (September 10)
Tara Ward (September 10)
John Hawkes (September 11)
Russell Moss (September 12)
Alfonso Freeman (September 13)
Mary Crosby (September 14)
Haviland Morris (September 14)
Kevin Allen (September 15)
Peter Keleghan (September 16)
Sundown Spencer (September 17)
Richard Livingston (September 18)
Carolyn McCormick (September 19)
Dave Coulier (September 21)
Andre Hennicke (September 21)
Jason Alexander (September 23)
Steve Whitmire (September 24)
Stephen Caffrey (September 27)
Gillian McKeith (September 28)
Leslie Graves (September 29)
Michael Genevie (September 30)
Youssou N'Dour (October 1)
Brian Wimmer (October 1)
Gail Grate (October 2)
Greg Proops (October 3)
Jack Wagner (October 3)
Chris Lowe (October 4)
Dylan Baker (October 7)
Simon Cowell (October 7)
Cathy Munroe (October 7)
Brad Greenquist (October 8)
Kimberly Ross (October 8)
Julia Sweeney (October 10)
Bradley Whitford (October 10)
Marie Osmond (October 13)
Kellie Flanagan (October 15)
John Nord (October 18)
Christopher Bowen (October 20)
Niamh Cusack (October 20)
Tamara De Treaux (October 21)
Tony Ganios (October 21)
Ken Watanabe (October 21)
Todd Graff (October 22)
Frédéric Andréi (October 23)
Andrew Hill Newman (October 23)
Sam Raimi (October 23)
Sam Raimi (October 23)
'Weird Al' Yankovic (October 23)
Brad Johnson (October 24)
Nancy Cartwright (October 25)
Brian Bovell (October 26)
François Chau (October 26)
Dana Kimmell (October 26)
Richard LaGravenese (October 30)
Zabou (October 30)
Valeria Cavalli (November 1)
Hal Hartley (November 3)
Ken Kirzinger (November 4)
Eric Menyuk (November 5)
Jimmy Vee (November 5)
Uwe Janson (November 6)
Nobuo Tobita (November 6)
David Sherrill (November 8)
Tom Watson (November 8)
Mackenzie Phillips (November 10)
Donna Wilkes (November 11)
Caroline Goodall (November 13)
Tracy Scoggins (November 13)
Antoine Duléry (November 14)
Paul McGann (November 14)
Tab Baker (November 15)
Sara Mair-Thomas (November 15)
William R. Moses (November 17)
Kim Pawlik (November 17)
Sean Young (November 20)
Michalis Koutsogiannakis (November 22)
Lenore Zann (November 22)
Maxwell Caulfield (November 23)
Dominique Dunne (November 23)
Francesca Gonshaw (November 25)
Robert Doran (November 27)
Judd Nelson (November 28)
Lise Mayer (November 29)
Cherie Currie (November 30)
Gina Gallego (November 30)
Stuart Greer (December 2)
Alexander Kuznetsov (December 2)
Gwyneth Strong (December 2)
Tommy Billington (December 5)
Heidi Bohay (December 7)
Alison Hart (December 7)
Barbara Wilshere (December 7)
Mario Cantone (December 9)
Blair Tefkin (December 9)
Johnny Whitaker (December 13)
Boris Zhukov (December 13)
Debbie Lee Carrington (December 14)
Marina De Graaf (December 16)
Alison LaPlaca (December 16)
Larry Poindexter (December 16)
Hattie Hayridge (December 17)
Barry Chase (December 18)
Perry Lang (December 24)
Jesús Ochoa (December 24)
Stephen Cinabro (December 26)
Becca Lish (December 26)
Phil Abrams (December 28)
Marty Ryan (December 28)
Patricia Clarkson (December 29)
Paula Poundstone (December 29)
Val Kilmer (December 31)

DEATHS


Lee Shumway (January 4, 74)
Paul Clérouc (January 5, 73)
Lillian Elliott (January 15, 84)
Lock Martin (January 19, 42)
Evelyn Beresford (January 21, 77)
Cecil B. DeMille (January 21, 77)
Carl Alfalfa Switzer (January 21, 31)
Tom Coleman (January 28, 62)
John Deering (January 28, 54)
Philip Tonge (January 28, 61)
Frank Shannon (February 1, 84)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan (February 1, 85)
Buddy Holly (February 3, 22)
Una O'Connor (February 4, 78)
Gwili Andre (February 5, 51)
Wyrley Birch (February 7, 75)
Yvonne Yma (February 11, 71)
Tobias Tally (February 12, 70)
Kathryn Adams (February 17, 65)
Noel Dainton (February 17, 64)
Nell Ballantyne (February 19, 60)
George Archainbaud (February 20, 68)
Ray McDonald (February 20, 38)
Helen Parrish (February 22, 35)
Arthur Young (February 24, 60)
Hugh Kelly (February 27, 41)
Eric Blore (March 2, 71)
Sally Corner (March 5, 67)
Fred Stone (March 6, 85)
Lou Costello (March 9, 53)
D.A. Clarke-Smith (March 12, 70)
Paul Oettly (March 17, 68)
John Sherwood
Les Clark (March 24, 53)
Chester Tallman (March 25, 63)
Charles Dow Clark (March 26, 89)
Grant Withers (March 27, 55)
Bill Dagwell (March 28, 74)
Rosalind Ivan (April 6, 78)
Anderson Lawler (April 6, 56)
Monte Montague (April 6, 67)
Bruce Cameron (April 10, 49)
Nikolai Grinko (April 10, 38)
James Gleason (April 12, 72)
Ralph Peters (April 12, 56)
Charles Halton (April 16, 83)
Adele St. Mauer (April 16, 78)
Cecil Cunningham (April 17, 70)
Émile Ronet (April 18, 74)
Ashley Dukes (May 4, 73)
Lalo Encinas (May 5, 72)
Hal McIntyre (May 5, 44)
Paul Irving (May 8, 81)
Jack Lomas (May 12, 48)
Joe Cook (May 16, 69)
Wolfgang Dohnberg (May 18, 60)
Henri Marchand (May 22, 60)
John Foster Dulles (May 24, 71)
Joe Gilbert (May 26, 56)
George Chesebro (May 28, 70)
Everley Gregg (June 9, 55)
Sonnie Hale (June 9, 57)
George Reeves (June 16, 45)
Ethel Barrymore (June 18, 79)
Nick De Ruiz
Giovanni Pastrone (June 27, 75)
Chester Gan (June 29, 50)
Franco Pastorino (July 13, 25)
Sam Hayes (July 28, 54)
Heinie Conklin (July 30, 79)
Jean Benoît-Lévy (August 2, 71)
Al Stewart (August 2, 73)
G. Pat Collins (August 5, 63)
Clarence Derwent (August 6, 75)
Preston Sturges (August 6, 60)
L.J. O'Connor (August 9, 80)
Lafe McKee (August 10, 87)
Gustav Püttjer (August 11, 73)
Grace Lem (August 12, 60)
Henri Garat (August 13, 57)
George Spaulding (August 23, 78)
John O'Malley (August 26, 42)
Frank Dae (August 29, 77)
Charles Delaney (August 31, 67)
André Roanne (September 4, 62)
Brick Sullivan (September 4, 60)
Edmund Gwenn (September 6, 83)
Kay Kendall (September 6, 33)
Gabrielle Fontan (September 8, 86)
Edwin Jerome (September 10, 73)
Paul Douglas (September 11, 52)
Wayne Morris (September 14, 45)
John Merton (September 19, 58)
Olin Howland (September 20, 73)
Jane Winton (September 22, 53)
Helen Broderick (September 25, 68)
Charles Dechamps (September 25, 77)
Helena Pickard (September 27, 58)
Harold Huber (September 29, 54)
Taylor Holmes (September 30, 87)
Emil Hegetschweiler (October 1, 71)
William Bishop (October 3, 41)
Mario Lanza (October 7, 38)
Peter Seal (October 11, 66)
Edward Keane (October 12, 75)
George De Warfaz (October 14, 69)
Errol Flynn (October 14, 50)
Pierre Magnier (October 15, 90)
Edgar Murray (October 16, 67)
Werner Krauss (October 20, 75)
Olive Blakeney (October 21, 56)
Jack Frost (October 21, 65)
Jean Wall (October 24, 58)
Annette Simmonds
Noel Francis (October 30, 53)
Maurice Brierre (November 4, 74)
Mrs. Lesovosky (November 6, 76)
Roger Vincent (November 6, 81)
Jim Mason (November 7, 70)
Victor McLaglen (November 7, 72)
Anna Demetrio (November 8, 67)
Lupino Lane (November 10, 67)
Hilda Trevelyan (November 10, 82)
Charles Chauvel (November 11, 62)
Albert Chevalier
Louis Mason (November 12, 71)
Thomas W. Ross (November 14, 84)
Campbell Gray (November 16, 58)
Irene Seidner (November 17, 78)
Arthur Q. Bryan (November 18, 60)
Manuel París (November 19, 65)
Sylvia Lopez (November 20, 26)
Max Baer (November 21, 50)
Frank O'Connor (November 22, 78)
Jean Grémillon (November 25, 61)
Gérard Philipe (November 25, 36)
Rosetta Duncan (December 4, 65)
Eugène Stuber (December 5, 72)
Yves Deniaud (December 7, 58)
Charlie Hall (December 7, 60)
Bob Bumpas
Elias Gamboa (December 9, 65)
Eliso Gamboa (December 9, 65)
Henri Vidal (December 10, 40)
Joe Dill (December 11, 65)
Dorothy Dewhurst (December 12, 73)
Russell Simpson (December 12, 79)
James Eagles (December 15, 52)
H.R. Hignett (December 17, 89)
Rufus Cruickshank
Edmund Goulding (December 24, 68)
Lorin Raker (December 25, 68)