1899 in film

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Events

• British director George Albert Smith, who is the school of Brighton belonging, turning the short film The Kiss in the Tunnel. The film, in which the technique of phantom Ride is applied for the first time, is also a tribute to the film The Kiss from the year 1896.
• The silent film by director Georges Méliès Cléopâtre is one of the first horror movies.
• The silent film King John by William KL Dickson is considered the first film with a Shakespearean motif.

Born

January to March

January

• January 03: Adolf Ziegler, German actor († 1985)
• January 10: Lya de Putti, Hungarian actress († 1931)
• January 10: John J. Mescall, American Cinematographer ( † 1962)
• JANUARY 13: Kay Francis, American actress († 1968)
• JANUARY 13: Lev Kuleshov, Russian director († 1970)

February

• 04 February: Fay Marbe, American actress († 1986)
• February 06: Franziska Liebing, German actress († 1993)
• FEBRUARY 11: Sepp Ketterer, German cameraman († 1991)
• FEBRUARY 12: Edward L. Cahn, American film director († 1963)
• FEBRUARY 15: Georges Auric, French composer († 1983)
• February 15: Gale Sondergaard, American actress († 1985)
• FEBRUARY 18: Mervyn Johns, British actor († 1992)
• FEBRUARY 16: Kurt Lieck, German actor and radio speaker († 1976)
• FEBRUARY 23: Erich Kästner, German writer and screenwriter († 1974)
• February 23: Norman Taurog, American film director († 1981)
• FEBRUARY 27: Ian Keith, American actor († 1960)

March

• 04 March: Blandine Ebinger, German actress († 1993)
• March 06: Jay C. Flippen, American actor († 1971)
• March 07: Werner Hochbaum, German director († 1946)
• March 07: Harry Hermann Spitz, German conductor and orchestra leader († 1961)
• March 15: George Brent, Irish actor († 1979)

April-June

April

• April 02: Franz Bi, German art director ( † 1968)
• April 15: Curtis Bernhardt, German director († 1981)
• April 22: Byron Haskin, American film director and producer ( † 1984)
• APRIL 30: Lucie Mannheim, German actress († 1976)

May

• May 03: Aline MacMahon, American actress († 1991)
• May 10: Fred Astaire, American actor († 1987)
• May 10: Karl Hartl, Austrian director († 1978)
• May 20: Paul Kemp, German actor († 1953)
• May 30: Irving Thalberg, U.S. producer ( † 1936)

June

• June 02: Lotte Reiniger, German animated film director († 1981)
• June 30: Madge Bellamy, American actress († 1990)

July to September

July

• 07 July: George Cukor, American film director († 1983)
• JULY 10: John Gilbert, American actor († 1936)
• JULY 17: James Cagney, American actor († 1986)
• JULY 21: Ernest Hemingway, American author and screenwriter († 1961)
• JULY 24: Alice Terry, American actress († 1986)

August

• 02 August: Charles Bennett, American writer († 1995)
• 13 August: Alfred Hitchcock, British director († 1980 )
• August 17: Luigi Giacosi, Italian actor, screenwriter and director († 1975)
• August 24: Giuseppe Amato, Italian director († 1964)
• AUGUST 28: Charles Boyer, French actor († 1978)
• AUGUST 28: James Wong Howe, American Cinematographer ( † 1976)
• AUGUST 29: George Macready, American actor († 1973)

September

• 09 September: Neil Hamilton, American actor († 1984)
• September 14: Hal B. Wallis, American producer ( † 1986)
• September 14: Sam Spewack, American playwright and screenwriter († 1971)
• September 18: Ida Kaminska, Polish actress († 1980)
• September 22: Veit Harlan, German director († 1964)

October to December

October

• OCTOBER 20: Evelyn Brent, American actress († 1975)
• October 25: Armand Thirard, French cinematographer († 1973)
• October 29: Akim Tamiroff, Georgian- American actor († 1972)

November

• 06 November: Francis Lederer, Czech actor († 2000)
• 09 November: Frank McDonald, American author, director, actor and cinematographer († 1980)
• Nov 11: Pat O'Brien, American actor († 1983)
• November 17: Douglas Shearer, American film and sound technology pioneer († 1971)

December

• December 09: Frank Wisbar, German director († 1967)
• December 12: Floyd Crosby, American Cinematographer ( † 1985)
• December 22: Gustaf, German actor and director († 1963)
• December 25: Humphrey Bogart, American actor († 1957)