1955 in film
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Events
- November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.
Top-grossing films
- North America
- Cinerama Holiday
- Mister Roberts
- tie Battle Cry and 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
- Not as a Stranger
- The Country Girl
Other films released
- All That Heaven Allows
- Bad Day at Black Rock
- Blackboard Jungle
- Bob le flambeur
- The Colditz Story
- East of Eden
- Galapagos
- Kiss Me Deadly
- Lady and the Tramp
- The Ladykillers
- Land of the Pharaohs
- The Lost Continent
- Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
- Marty
- Oklahoma! (the first film shot in the widescreen process known as Todd-AO)
- Ordet
- Pather Panchali
- The Quatermass Xperiment, which probably qualifies as the first Hammer horror film
- Richard III, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier
- Du rififi chez les hommes
- The Seven Year Itch
- Summertime, directed by David Lean
- To Catch a Thief
- To Hell and Back starring Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, and David Janssen
- The Trouble with Harry - directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: Marty - Hecht-Lancaster, United Artists
- Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine - Marty
- Best Actress: Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
Short film series
Births
- January 6 - Rowan Atkinson, comedian, actor
- January 12 - Kirstie Alley, actress
- January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
- January 18 - Kevin Costner, actor
- March 16 - Isabelle Huppert, actress
- April 1 - Annette O'Toole, actress
- June 27 - Isabelle Adjani, actress
- August 4 - Billy Bob Thornton, US actor
- August 27 - Diana Scarwid, US actress
Deaths
- February 12 - Tom Moore actor
- April 7 - Theda Bara, actress
- August 5 - Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer, actress
- September 30 - James Dean, actor
- October 1 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood
- November 10 - Rene Rijff, Dutch actor
