1922 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of 1922 3 Movies Released 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• November 26 - Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

• Beyond the Rocks directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler directed by Fritz Lang
• Foolish Wives, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim
• Miss Lulu Bett, directed by William C. de Mille
• More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
• Nanook of the North (documentary)
• Nosferatu (Nosferatu the Vampire), directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck
• Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan
• The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone
• Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan and starring Douglas Fairbanks

• January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (+ 1970)
• January 17 - Betty White, actress
• February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor.
• March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
• April 5 - Gale Storm, singer/actress
• April 21 - Alistair MacLean, actor
• May 31 - Denholm Elliott, actor
• September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, Italian actor and director
• September 15 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director

• February 22 - William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal.