1927 in film
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Events
Film Awards and honors
- Photoplay Award: The happiness in the attic of Frank Borzage
Birthdays
January to March
January
- 04 January: Barbara Rush, American actress
- January 15: Phyllis Coates, American actress
- JANUARY 28: Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director († 2001)
- JANUARY 28: Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor († 2010)
February
- February 03: Kenneth Anger, American underground filmmaker
- 04 February: Arthur Cohn, Swiss producer
- 08 February: Stanley Baker, British actor († 1976)
- FEBRUARY 11: Dieter Eppler, German actor († 2008)
- FEBRUARY 11: Gerhard Respondek, German screenwriter and director († 2001)
- FEBRUARY 20: Sidney Poitier, American actor
- FEBRUARY 24: Emmanuelle Riva, French actress
March
- March 01: Harry Belafonte, American singer and actor
- March 01: Claude Gensac, French actress
- 05 March: Maria Klejdysz, Polish actress († 2009)
- March 07: James Broderick, American actor († 1982)
- MARCH 11: Joachim Fuchs Berger, German actor
- March 14: Wolfgang Gröne tree, German actor and off-speakers († 1998)
- MARCH 16: Jean Rabier, French cinematographer († 1997)
- MARCH 20: Luis Barboo, Spanish actor († 2001)
- March 25: Herbert Fux, Austrian actor († 2007)
- March 30: Egon Günther, German director
- March 31: William Daniels, American actor
April-June
April
- April 01: Thomas Holtzmann, German actor († 2013)
- 02 April: Rita Gam, American actress
- 04 April: Monique Chaumette, French actress
- APRIL 12: Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter
- April 13: Maurice Ronet, French actor and director († 1983)
- April 13: Ursula Schmanger, German director and screenwriter
- APRIL 14: Victor J. Kemper, American Cinematographer
- APRIL 16: Edie Adams, American actress († 2008)
- APRIL 16: Rolf Schult, German actor and voice actor († 2013)
- April 25: Rosemarie Fendel, German actress and voice actress († 2013)
May
- May 01: Laura Betti, Italian actress († 2004)
- May 01: Morio Kita, Japanese novelist and screenwriter († 2011)
- May 07: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, British screenwriter († 2013)
- MAY 13: Herbert Ross, American film director († 2001)
- MAY 17: Luigi Scattini, Italian director († 2010)
- MAY 19: Ferdinando Baldi, Italian director († 2007)
- May 20: David Hedison, American actor
- MAY 22: Michael Constantine, American actor
- MAY 26: Antonio Prieto, Chilean singer and actor († 2011)
- MAY 29: Thanasis Vengos, Greek actor and director († 2011)
- May 30: Clint Walker, American actor
June
- June 02: Thomas Hill, American actor († 2009)
- 04 June: Ken Clark, American actor († 2009)
- June 06: Charles Jarrott, British- Canadian director († 2011)
- 09 June: Waltraud Haas, Austrian actress
- JUNE 16: Paul Hamm Erich, Danish writer († 1992)
- June 17: Martin Böttcher, German composer
- June 23: Bob Fosse, American film director († 1987)
- June 23: Utz Richter, German actor
- June 23: Rolf Alexander Wilhelm, German composer († 2013)
- JUNE 26: Jerry Schatzberg, American film director
July to September
July
- July 03: Ken Russell, British director († 2011)
- July 04: Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
- July 04: Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter
- July 06: Janet Leigh, American actress († 2004)
- July 10: William Smithers, American actor
- July 15: Joe Turkel, American actor
- JULY 18: Tadeusz Łomnicki, Polish actor († 1992)
- JULY 22: Pierre Granier - Deferre, French film director († 2007)
- July 23: Gérard Brach, French screenwriter († 2006)
- JULY 31: Tony Thomas, British- American film historian and producer ( † 1997)
August
- August 03: Elliot Silverstein, American film director and film producer
- 09 August: Robert Shaw, British actor († 1978)
- August 11: Stuart Rosenberg, American film director († 2007)
- August 18: Howard Dayton, American actor († 2009)
- August 19: LQ Jones, American actor
- AUGUST 21: Barry Foster, British actor († 2002)
- AUGUST 23: Walter Giller, German actor († 2011)
- AUGUST 28: Claudio Brook, Mexican actor († 1995)
September
October to December
October
- October 01: Tom Bosley, American actor († 2010)
- 02 October: Francis Matthews, British actor
- October 03: Luigi Kuveiller, Italian cameraman († 2013)
- October 14: Roger Moore, English actor
- October 18: George C. Scott, American actor († 1999)
- October 23: Tonino Ricci, Italian director and screenwriter († 2014)
November
- November 01: Marcel Ophüls, German director
- November 03: Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor († 1967)
- 08 November: Patti Page, American actress († 2013)
- NOVEMBER 17: Robert Butler, American producer
- November 18: Eldar Ryazanov, Russian director
- November 20: Estelle Parsons, American actress
- November 24: Günter Reisch, German film director, screenwriter and lecturer († 2014)
- NOVEMBER 26: Jean -Pierre Darras, French actor († 1999)
- November 30: Jean Badal, Hungarian cameraman
December
- December 06: Sergio Corbucci, Italian director († 1990)
- December 11: Frederick G. Beck House, German actor
- December 11: Mann Rubin, American screenwriter († 2013)
- DECEMBER 17: Richard Long, American actor († 1974)
- December 19: Remo Capitani, Italian stuntman and actor († 2014)
- December 19: Paul Guers, French actor
- DECEMBER 30: Robert Hossein, French actor
Deceased
- SEPTEMBER 15: Bruno Rahn, German director (* 1887)
- October 05: Sam Warner, American producer (* 1887)
- December 04: Sascha Kolowrat Krakowsky, Austrian film pioneer (* 1886)