1974 in film

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Top Grossing Films of the Year
3 Academy Awards
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 Other Movies Released

Events

May - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars.
August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band marries actress Faye Dunaway

January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
February 7 - Arline Judge, actress
February 11 - Anna Q Nilsson, actress
February 23 - Florence Rice, actress
February 28 - Carole Lesley, actress
March 5 - Billy De Wolfe, actress
March 19 - Edward Platt, actor
April 2 ÃÂ Douglass Dumbrille, actor
April 10 - Patricia Collinge, actress
April 24 - Bud Abbott, actor, best known as straight man to Lou Costello
April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, actress
May 25 - Donald Crisp, actor
August 20 - Ilona Massey, actress
September 6 - Olga Baclanova, actress
September 21 - Walter Brennan, actor
September 21 - Jacqueline Susann, former actress, author of Valley Of The Dolls
October 13 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor
November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown, actor
December 15 - Anatole Litvak, director
December 21 - Richard Long, actor
December 26 - Jack Benny, actor