1962 in film

Events

• Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, one of the longest-running motion picture franchises of all time, running more than 40 years.

Top grossing North American films

1. West Side Story
2. Spartacus
3. El Cid
4. Lover Come Back
5. That Touch of Mink
6. tie King of Kings and The Music Man
7. Hatari!, starring John Wayne

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia – Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia
• Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
• Best Actress: Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker

Births

• January 1 – Nancy Mette,actress
• January 17 – Jim Carrey, actor, comedian
• July 3 – Tom Cruise, actor
• September 11 – Elizabeth Daily, actress
• September 26 – Melissa Sue Anderson, actress
• October 1 – Esai Morales, actor
• November 11 – Demi Moore,US actress
• November 19 – Jodie Foster, actress and director

Deaths

• January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, comedian, actor
• December 15 – Charles Laughton, stage and film actor

Other movies released

• Boys' Night Out
• The Longest Day
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Dr. No
• How the West Was Won
• Taras Bulba
• State Fair
• Girls! Girls! Girls!
• Kid Galahad
• The Premature Burial
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Lolita
• Cape Fear
• The Manchurian Candidate
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
• Ride the High Country
• My Name is Ivan
• Family Diary
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• The Miracle Worker
• The Given Word
• The Trial of Joan of Arc
• A Kind of Loving
• Divorce – Italian Style
• Sweet Bird of Youth
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Billy Budd
• Requiem for a Heavyweight