1969 in film
Events
Top Grossing Films of the Year
- North America
- The Love Bug
- Funny Girl
- Bullitt
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman
- Romeo and Juliet by director Franco Zeffirelli
- True Grit, starring John Wayne, Robert Duvall, and Dennis Hopper
- Midnight Cowboy, starring Jon Voigt and Dustin Hoffman
- tie Oliver! and Goodbye, Columbus
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Easy Rider
- I Am Curious (Yellow)
- Where Eagles Dare
- The Lion in Winter
Births
Deaths
- January 4 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins, actresses, appeared in film Freaks
- February 2 - Boris Karloff, actor
- February 4 - Thelma Ritter, actress
- February 11 - James Lanphier, actor
- February 27 - John Boles, actor
- May 24 - Mitzi Green, actress
- May 27 - Jeffrey Hunter, actor
- June 8 - Robert Taylor, actor
- June 10 - Frank Lawton, actor
- June 13 - Martita Hunt, actress
- June 19 - Natalie Talmadge, silent screen actress
- June 22 – Judy Garland, actress
- July 8 - Gladys Swarthout, actress
- August 9 - Sharon Tate, actress, murdered by Charles Manson Family, wife of director Roman Polanski
- August 14 - Sigrid Gurie, actress
- October 12 - Sonja Henie, actress, former Olympic ice skater
- October 15 - Rod La Roque, silent screen actor
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