1918 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of 1918 3 Movies Released 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband.

• Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, starring Mary Pickford.
• The Bell Boy - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• The Cook - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
• A Dog's Life, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• Hearts of the World, directed by D.W. Griffith.
• Mickey, starring Mabel Normand
• Out West - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
• Shoulder Arms, a Charlie Chaplin film.
• The Sinking of the Lusitania - a short animated propaganda film by Winsor McCay.
• Salome, starring Theda Bara.
• Stella Maris, starring Mary Pickford.
• Tarzan of the Apes, starring Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey
• Triple Trouble, a Charlie Chaplin short.

• January 29 - John Forsythe, actor
• March 1 - Roger Delgado, actor
• March 9 - Mickey Spillane, writer, actor
• June 30 - Susan Hayward, actress
• July 6 - Sebastian Cabot, actor
• July 14 - Ingmar Bergman, actor, writer, director
• July 26 - Marjorie Lord, actress
• October 17 - Rita Hayworth, actress
• November 4 - Art Carney, actor
• November 4 - Cameron Mitchell, actor
• November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr, actor