Key Figures of Sixties Cinema
While this in no way is a comprehensive list of all important figures in 1960s cinema, this is a useful cheatsheet of some notable names across various professions in the industry. If you’re interested in the complete list of 1960s filmography, we have that too, listed alphabetically and chronologically.
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Actresses
Anouk Aimée
Bibi Andersson
Ursula Andress
Julie Andrews
Ann-Margret
Michiyo Aratama
Stéphane Audran
Carroll Baker
Diane Baker
Ina Balin
Anne Bancroft
Brigitte Bardot
Senta Berger
Ingrid Bergman
Jane Birkin
Claire Bloom
Geneviève Bujold
Claudia Cardinale
Leslie Caron
Julie Christie
Joan Crawford
Bette Davis
Doris Day
Ruby Dee
Mylène Demongeot
Catherine Deneuve
Angie Dickinson
Françoise Dorléac
Faye Dunaway
Samantha Eggar
Anita Ekberg
Mia Farrow
Jane Fonda
Annette Funicello
Ava Gardner
Ruth Gordon
Julie Harris
Tippi Hedren
Audrey Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Shima Iwashita
Shirley Jones
Anna Karina
Deborah Kerr
Nancy Kwan
Angela Lansbury
Daliah Lavi
Janet Leigh
Gunnel Lindblom
Virna Lisi
Gina Lollobrigida
Sophia Loren
Sue Lyon
Shirley MacLaine
Anna Magnani
Silvana Mangano
Elsa Martinelli
Michèle Mercier
Sarah Miles
Vera Miles
Hayley Mills
Sandra Milo
Yvette Mimieux
Marilyn Monroe
Jeanne Moreau
Rita Moreno
Patricia Neal
Maureen O'Hara
Geraldine Page
Luciana Paluzzi
Irene Papas
Millie Perkins
Suzanne Pleshette
Stefanie Powers
Vanessa Redgrave
Lee Remick
Thelma Ritter
Katharine Ross
Gena Rowlands
Janice Rule
Margaret Rutherford
Eva Marie Saint
Stefania Sandrelli
Romy Schneider
Janette Scott
Jean Seberg
Delphine Seyrig
Barbara Shelley
Simone Signoret
Jean Simmons
Elke Sommer
Catherine Spaak
Camilla Sparv
Jill St. John
Barbara Steele
Inger Stevens
Stella Stevens
Susan Strasberg
Sharon Tate
Elizabeth Taylor
Ingrid Thulin
Yôko Tsukasa
Rita Tushingham
Liv Ullmann
Monica Vitti
Raquel Welch
Shelley Winters
Natalie Wood
Joanne Woodward
Susannah York
Actors
Harry Andrews
Richard Attenborough
Frankie Avalon
Alan Bates
Warren Beatty
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Dirk Bogarde
Marlon Brando
Jean-Claude Brialy
Charles Bronson
Yul Brynner
Richard Burton
Sebastian Cabot
Michael Caine
James Coburn
Sean Connery
Tom Courtenay
Richard Crenna
Bernard Cribbins
Tony Curtis
Peter Cushing
Jim Dale
Sammy Davis Jr.
Louis de Funès
Alain Delon
Kirk Douglas
Clint Eastwood
Albert Finney
Henry Fonda
Glenn Ford
James Fox
James Garner
Vittorio Gassman
Cary Grant
Alec Guinness
Richard Harris
Rex Harrison
Laurence Harvey
Charles Hawtrey
Charlton Heston
William Holden
Trevor Howard
Rock Hudson
Jim Hutton
Sid James
Boris Karloff
Brian Keith
Hardy Krüger
Burt Lancaster
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Christopher Lee
Jack Lemmon
Jerry Lewis
Karl Malden
Dean Martin
Lee Marvin
James Mason
Marcello Mastroianni
Kerwin Mathews
Walter Matthau
Steve McQueen
Toshirô Mifune
Robert Mitchum
Yves Montand
Laurence Naismith
Tatsuya Nakadai
Franco Nero
Paul Newman
Jack Nicholson
David Niven
Arthur O'Connell
Laurence Olivier
Peter O'Toole
Gregory Peck
George Peppard
Michel Piccoli
Donald Pleasence
Sidney Poitier
Elvis Presley
Vincent Price
Anthony Quinn
Tony Randall
Salvo Randone
Robert Redford
Oliver Reed
Ralph Richardson
Jason Robards
Cliff Robertson
Robert Ryan
George Segal
Peter Sellers
Omar Sharif
Frank Sinatra
Terence Stamp
Rod Steiger
James Stewart
Tetsurô Tanba
Rod Taylor
Spencer Tracy
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Peter Ustinov
Lee Van Cleef
Lino Ventura
Gian Maria Volontè
Max von Sydow
Eli Wallach
John Wayne
Richard Widmark
Kenneth Williams
Frank Wolff
Directors
Robert Aldrich
Ken Annakin
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mario Bava
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Bresson
Richard Brooks
Luis Buñuel
William Castle
Claude Chabrol
René Clément
Francis Ford Coppola
Sergio Corbucci
Roger Corman
George Cukor
Philippe de Broca
Vittorio De Sica
Basil Dearden
Jacques Demy
Edward Dmytryk
Stanley Donen
Gordon Douglas
Blake Edwards
Federico Fellini
Terence Fisher
Richard Fleischer
Bryan Forbes
John Ford
Milos Forman
Freddie Francis
John Frankenheimer
Jun Fukuda
Samuel Fuller
Lewis Gilbert
Jean Girault
Jean-Luc Godard
Guy Hamilton
Henry Hathaway
Howard Hawks
George Roy Hill
Alfred Hitchcock
Ishirô Honda
André Hunebelle
John Huston
Norman Jewison
Elia Kazan
William Klein
Masaki Kobayashi
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Sergio Leone
Richard Lester
Henry Levin
Jerry Lewis
Joseph Losey
Sidney Lumet
Louis Malle
Anthony Mann
Daniel Mann
Andrew V. McLaglen
Jean-Pierre Melville
Vincente Minnelli
Mario Monicelli
Robert Mulligan
Ralph Nelson
Yasujirô Ozu
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sam Peckinpah
Arthur Penn
Frank Perry
Elio Petri
Antonio Pietrangeli
Roman Polanski
Sydney Pollack
George Pollock
Gillo Pontecorvo
Otto Preminger
Richard Quine
Satyajit Ray
Carol Reed
Harald Reinl
Alain Resnais
Tony Richardson
Dino Risi
Martin Ritt
Mark Robson
Éric Rohmer
Ken Russell
John Schlesinger
Don Siegel
Robert Stevenson
John Sturges
Seijun Suzuki
David Swift
Andrei Tarkovsky
Frank Tashlin
Norman Taurog
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Gerald Thomas
J. Lee Thompson
François Truffaut
Agnès Varda
Henri Verneuil
Luchino Visconti
Charles Walters
Billy Wilder
Robert Wise
William Wyler
Terence Young
Crew
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Néstor Almendros
Raoul Coutard
Tonino Delli Colli
Gianni Di Venanzo
William A. Fraker
Burnett Guffey
Conrad L. Hall
James Wong Howe
Robert Krasker
Joseph LaShelle
Philip H. Lathrop
Kazuo Miyagawa
Sven Nykvist
Nicolas Roeg
Giuseppe Rotunno
Robert Surtees
Geoffrey Unsworth
Haskell Wexler
Freddie Young
Vilmos Zsigmond
COMPOSERS
Burt Bacharach
John Barry
Les Baxter
Elmer Bernstein
Ernest Gold
Bernard Herrmann
Maurice Jarre
Quincy Jones
Krzysztof Komeda
Michel Legrand
Henry Mancini
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Ennio Morricone
Alex North
Piero Piccioni
Nelson Riddle
Nino Rota
Lalo Schifrin
Toru Takemitsu
Míkis Theodorakis
PRODUCERS/STUDIOS
American International Pictures
Columbia Pictures
Georges de Beauregard
Dino De Laurentiis
DEFA films
Alberto Grimaldi
Hammer Films
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Paramount Pictures
Carlo Ponti
The Rank Organisation
Shaw Brothers Studio
Toho
20th Century Fox
UFA films
United Artists
Universal Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Warner Brothers Pictures
Walter Mirisch
WRITERS
George Axelrod
Jean-Claude Carrière
I. A. L. Diamond
Horton Foote
William Goldman
Tonino Guerra
Evan Hunter
Burt Kennedy
Charles Lederer
Ernest Lehman
Eleanor Perry
Harold Pinter
Rod Serling
Stirling Silliphant
Franco Solinas
Terry Southern
Peter Stone
Dalton Trumbo
Nobuo Yamada
Cesare Zavattini
EDITORS
Dede Allen
Nino Baragli
Françoise Bonnot
Monique Bonnot
Anne V. Coates
Cécile Decugis
Anthony Harvey
Peter R. Hunt
John Jympson
Sam O’Steen
William Reynolds
Ulla Ryghe
Thomas Stanford
Akira Suzuki
George Tomasini
Cotton Warburton
Ferris Webster
COSTUMERS
Edith Head
Piero Tosi