1909 in film

Films released in 1909

• A Corner in Wheat
• A Drunkard's Reformation
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• A Trap for Santa Claus
• At the Altar
• Fools of Fate
• Mr. Flip
• Nerone
• Princess Nicotine
• Le Locataire diabolique
• Les Joyeux microbes
• The Country Doctor
• The Curtain Pole
• The Hessian Renegades
• The Lonely Villa
• The Red Man's View
• The Sealed Room
• Those Awful Hats

Births

• January 1 – Dana Andrews, actor (d. 1992)
• January 3 – Victor Borge, musician, actor (d. 2000)
• January 8 – José Ferrer, actor (d. 1992)
• January 8 – Willy Millowitsch, actor (d. 1999)
• January 15 – Gene Krupa, musician, actor (d. 1973)
• January 22 – Ann Sothern, actress (d. 2001)
• February 9 – Carmen Miranda, singer, actress (d. 1955)
• February 9 – Heather Angel, actress (d. 1986)
• February 11 – Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), boxer, actor (d. 1959)
• February 11 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, director, writer, producer (d. 1993)
• February 16 – Jeffrey Lynn, actor (d. 1995)
• March 19 – Louis Hayward, actor (d. 1995)
• March 26 – Chips Rafferty, actor (d. 1971)
• April 29 – Tom Ewell, actor (d. 1994)
• May 15 – James Mason, actor (d. 1984)
• May 30 – Benny Goodman, musician, actor (d. 1986)
• June 7 – Jessica Tandy, actress (d. 1994)
• June 14 – Burl Ives, actor (d 1995)
• June 20 – Errol Flynn, actor (d. 1959)
• July 1 – Madge Evans, actress (d. 1981)
• July 26 – Vivian Vance, actress (d. 1979)
• August 18 – Marcel Carné, French film director (d. 1996)
• August 25 – Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993)
• August 25 – Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971)
• September 7 – Elia Kazan, director (d. 2003)
• October 9 – Jacques Tati, actor, director, writer (d. 1982)
• November 11 – Robert Ryan, actor (d. 1973)
• November 26 – Frances Dee, actress (d. 2004)
• December 9 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor (d. 2000)
• December 12 – Karen Morley, actress (d. 2003)

Deaths