1915 in film
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Events
- June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) was formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.
- The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood.
- The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early widescreen film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.
Top grossing films
Films released
- La Banda della cifre
- The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Sam De Grasse, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, and Blanche Sweet
- Burlesque on Carmen
- Carmen, starring Theda Bara
- The Cheat
- Der Golem, starring Paul Wegener
- The Eternal City
- Fatty's Tintype Tangle, starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle
- La Folie du Docteur Tube
- A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara
- His New Job
- The Italian
- The Morals of Marcus, starring Marie Doro
- Regeneration
- Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora and Edouard Mathé
Short film series
Births
- January 9 - Anita Louise, actress (d. 1970)
- January 9 - Fernando Lamas, actor (d. 1982)
- January 11 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (d. 1973)
- January 29 - Victor Mature, actor (d. 1999)
- January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress (d. 1934)
- February 7 - Eddie Bracken, actor (d. 2002)
- February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (d. 1987)
- February 21 - Ann Sheridan, actress (d. 1967)
- February 23 - Jon Hall, actor (d. 1979)
- February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (d. 1977)
- March 2 - Lona Andre, actress (d. 1992)
- March 17 - Henry Bumstead, art director (d. 2006)
- April 21 - Anthony Quinn, actor (d. 2001)
- May 5 - Alice Faye, actress (d. 1998)
- May 6 - Orson Welles, actor, director (d. 1985)
- June 12 - Priscilla Lane, singer, actress (d. 1995)
- July 7 - Yul Brynner, actor (d. 1985)
- August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (d. 1982)
- September 5 - Jack Buetel, actor (d. 1989)
- September 10 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (d. 1985)
- October 13 - Cornel Wilde, actor (d. 1989)
- December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor
- December 12 - Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (d. 1998)
- December 13 - Curd Jürgens, actor (d. 1982)
Deaths
- April 26 – John Bunny, silent film comedian
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