1920 in film

Events

• November 27 – The Mask of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.

Top grossing films

1. Way Down East – directed by D.W. Griffith
2. Over the Hill to the Poorhouse – directed by Harry F. Millarde

Movies released

Movies released in 1920 include:

• Convict 13, a Buster Keaton short.
• Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem, How he Came into the World), starring and directed by Paul Wegener
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore.
• Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd.
• High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd.
• The Last of the Mohicans, starring Wallace Beery.
• The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• Neighbors a Buster Keaton short.
• One Week, a Buster Keaton short.
• Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
• The Penalty, starring Lon Chaney.
• Pollyanna, srarring Mary Pickford.
• The Saphead, starring Buster Keaton
• The Scarecrow, a Buster Keaton short.
• Way Down East, starring Lillian Gish
• Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux.

Births

• January 20 – Federico Fellini, film director (d. 1993)
• January 20 – DeForest Kelley, actor (d. 1993)
• January 27 – John Box, production designer, four-time Oscar winner (d. 2005)
• February 11 – Billy Halop, actor (d. 1976)
• February 26 – Tony Randall, actor (d. 2004)
• March 16 – Leo McKern, actor (d. 2002)
• April 1 – Toshiro Mifune, actor (d. 1997)
• April 2 – Jack Webb, actor (d. 1982)
• May 11 – Denver Pyle, actor (d. 1997)
• May 16 – Martine Carol, actress (d. 1967)
• May 26 – Peggy Lee, singer, songwriter, actress (d. 2002)
• June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, producer, visual effects artist
• August 6 – Ella Raines, actress (d. 1988)
• August 17 – Maureen O'Hara, actress
• August 18 – Shelley Winters, actress
• August 22 – Ray Bradbury, writer
• September 18 – Jack Warden, actor
• September 23 – Mickey Rooney, actor
• September 27 – William Conrad, actor
• September 27 – Jayne Meadows, actress
• October 1 – Walter Matthau, actor (d. 2000)
• October 17 – Montgomery Clift, actor (d. 1966)
• October 18 – Melina Mercouri, actress (d. 1994)
• October 21 – Hy Averback, actor (d. 1997)
• October 22 – Mitzi Green, actress (d. 1969)
• October 27 – Nanette Fabray, actress
• November 2 – Ann Rutherford, actress
• November 10 – Jennifer Holt, actress (d. 1997)
• November 19 – Gene Tierney, actress (d. 1991)
• November 25 – Ricardo Montalban, actor
• November 30 – Virginia Mayo, actress
• December 29 – Viveca Lindfors, actress (d. 1995)
• December 30 – Jack Lord, actor (d. 1998)
• December 31 – Rex Allen, American cowboy actor, singer (d. 1999)

Deaths

• September 10 – Olive Thomas, actress