1977 in film
Events
Top Grossing Films of the Year
- North America
- Star Wars (now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
- Rocky
- Smokey and the Bandit
- A Star is Born
- King Kong
- The Deep
- Silver Streak
- The Enforcer
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind, starring Richard Dreyfuss
- In Search of Noah's Ark
Births
Deaths
- January 14 - Peter Finch, actor
- January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, French singer, actress
- January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian
- March 25 - Nunnally Johnson, director
- April 21 - Gummo Marx, actor/agent
- May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress
- June 2 - Stephen Boyd, actor
- June 3 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director
- June 19 - Geraldine Brooks, actress
- August 3 - Alfred Lunt, actor
- August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor
- August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian
- August 29 - Jean Hagen, actress
- October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
- November 9 - Gertrude Astor, actress
- December 4 - Leila Hyams, actress
- December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, star of silent film
- December 26 - Howard Hawks, director
- December 28 - Charlotte Greenwood, actress
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