1971 in film

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Top Grossing Films of the Year
3 Academy Awards
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 Other Movies Released

Events

February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour
The first permanent IMAX projection system is installed at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto.

January 5 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer
January 15 - John Dall, actor
February 26 - Fernandel, actor
March 8 – Harold Lloyd, silent screen comedian
March 15 - Bebe Daniels, actor
May 1 - Glenda Farrell, actress
May 27 - Chips Rafferty, Australian actor
May 28 - Audie Murphy, World War II hero became film actor after the war
July 6 - Louis Armstrong, musician, actor
July 23 - Van Heflin, actor
August 15 - Paul Lukas, actor
September 7 - Spring Byington, actress
September 10 - Pier Angeli, actress
September 11 - Bella Darvi, actress
October 11 - Chester Conklin, actor
November 17 - Gladys Cooper, actress
December 13 - Dita Parlo, actress
December 18 - Diana Lynn, actress
December 28 - Max Steiner, film composer
December 30 - Dorothy Comingore, actress best known as Susan Kane in Citizen Kane
December 31 - Peter Deuel 31, actor (suicide)