1913 in film

Events

• The Squaw Man, the first Hollywood feature film, is made.
• The first Charlie Chaplin movies are made.
• D. W. Griffith completes his series of Biograph Shorts, begun in 1909, and leaves the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City to make full length motion pictures.
• Sidney Olcott directs From the Manger To the Cross.

Top grossing films

1. Traffic in Souls

Movies released

Films released in 1913 include:

• Bangville Police
• Der Student von Prag
• Fantômas – À l'ombre de la guillotine
• Gli Ultimi giorni di Pompeii
• Ingeborg Holm
• Juve contre Fantômas
• Le Mort qui tue
• Nursery Favorites
• The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
• The Mothering Heart
• The Sea Wolf, based on the novel by Jack London
• The Squaw Man
• Traffic in Souls

Births

• January 2 – Anna Lee, actress (d. 2004)
• January 6 – Loretta Young, actress (d. 2000)
• January 15 – Lloyd Bridges, actor (d. 1998)
• January 18 – Danny Kaye, actor (d. 1987)
• February 8 -Betty Field, actress (d. 1973)
• February 25 – Jim Backus, actor (d. 1989)
• March 3 – Charlotte Henry, actress (d. 1980)
• March 4 – John Garfield, actor (d. 1952)
• March 15 – MacDonald Carey, actor (d. 1994)
• March 18 – René Clément, director (d. 1996)
• May 5 – Tyrone Power, actor (d. 1958)
• May 6 – Stewart Granger, actor (d. 1993)
• May 26 – Peter Cushing, actor (d. 1994)
• May 27 – Linden Travers, actress (d. 2001)
• July 10 – Joan Marsh, actress (d. 2000)
• July 29 – Gale Page, actress (d. 1983)
• July 18 – Red Skelton, actor, comedian (d. 1997)
• August 10 – Noah Beery Jr., actor (d. 1994)
• August 13 – Rita Johnson, actress (d. 1965)
• August 24 – Dorothy Comingore, actress (d. 1971)
• September 3 – Alan Ladd, actor (d. 1964)
• September 7 – Anthony Quayle, actor (d. 1989)
• September 19 – Frances Farmer, actress (d. 1970)
• September 29 – Trevor Howard, actor (d. 1988)
• September 29 – Stanley Kramer, producer, director (d. 2001)
• September 30 – Bill Walsh, producer, writer (d. 1975)
• November 2 – Burt Lancaster, actor (d. 1994)
• November 4 – Gig Young, actor (d. 1978)
• November 5 – Vivien Leigh, actress (d. 1967)
• November 9 – Hedy Lamarr, actress (d. 2000)
• November 20 – Judy Canova, actress (d. 1983)
• November 24 – Howard Duff, actor (d. 1990)
• November 24 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress
• December 1 – Mary Martin, actress (d. 1990)
• December 14 – Dan Dailey, actor (d. 1978)
• December 18 – Lynn Bari, actress (d. 1989)

Deaths