1925 in film

Events

Top grossing films

1. The Big Parade
2. Ben-Hur
3. The Freshman
4. Men and Women
5. His People
6. The Gold Rush
7. The Merry Widow
8. Stella Dallas (1925 film)
9. The Lost World (1925 film)
10. East Lynne
11. Little Annie Rooney
12. The Lucky Devil
13. The Unholy Three
14. The Everlasting Whisper

Films released in 1925

• El Húsar de la muerte, starring and directed by Pedro Sienna.
• The Battleship Potemkin
• Ben-Hur, starring Ramon Novarro.
• The Big Parade, directed by King Vidor and starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée.
• Braveheart, starring Rod La Rocque.
• Don Q, Son of Zorro
• The Eagle, starring Rudolph Valentino.
• East Lynne, staring Edmund Lowe
• The Everlasting Whisper, starring Tom Mix
• The Freshman, starring Harold Lloyd
• General Nogi and Kumasan (Nogi taisho to Kumasan)
• Go West, starring Buster Keaton.
• The Gold Rush, a Charlie Chaplin film.
• The Heart Breaker
• His People
• Isn't Life Terrible
• Joyless Street
• The Lady, starring Norma Talmadge
• Little Annie Rooney, starring Mary Pickford.
• The Lost World (1925 film), starring Bessie Love and Wallace Beery.
• The Lucky Devil, starring Richard Dix
• Men and Women, starring Richard Dix
• The Merry Widow, starring Mae Murray; directed by Erich von Stroheim.
• The Monster, starring Lon Chaney.
• Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, and Norman Kerry.
• The Plastic Age - directed by Wesley Ruggles, screen-written by Frederica Sagor Maas, starring Clara Bow (her debut) and Gilbert Roland; Clark Gable was also in this film.
• The Pleasure Garden, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli
• Stella Dallas (1925 film), starring Ronald Colman and Belle Bennett
• The Street of Forgotten Men
• Street Sketches (Gaijo no suketchi)
• Strike
• Thou Shalt Honor Thy Wife, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Tumbleweeds, starring William S. Hart.
• Under the Crimson Sunset (Akai yuhi ni terasarete)
• The Unholy Three, starring Lon Chaney.
• The White Lily Laments (Shirayuri wa nageku)
• Wizard of Oz, starring Dorothy Dwan.
• Wolf Blood

Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
• Koko the Clown (1919-1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1934)
• Alice Comedies (1923-1927)
• Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924-1927)
• Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
• Un-Natural History (1925-1927)

Births

• January 6 - Enrique Carreras , film director, producer (d. 1995)
• January 9 - Lee Van Cleef, actor (d. 1989)
• January 13 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (d. 2000)
• January 26 - Paul Newman, actor (d. 2008)
• January 30 - Dorothy Malone, actress
• February 8 - Jack Lemmon, actor (d. 2001)
• February 11 - Kim Stanley, actress (d. 2001)
• February 17 - Hal Holbrook, actor
• February 18 - George Kennedy, actor
• February 20 - Robert Altman, director (d. 2006)
• February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, director (d. 1984)
• April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor (d. 2002)
• April 19 - Hugh O'Brian, actor
• June 3 - Tony Curtis, actor
• June 21 - Maureen Stapleton, actress (d. 2006)
• July 1 - Farley Granger, actor
• July 20 - Lola Albright, actress
• August 11 - Arlene Dahl, actress
• August 23 - Robert Mulligan, director
• September 8 - Peter Sellers, comedian, actor (d. 1980)
• September 9 - Cliff Robertson, actor
• October 3 - Gore Vidal, writer, actor
• October 5 - Gail Davis, actress (d. 1997)
• October 16 - Angela Lansbury, actress
• November 10 - Richard Burton, actor (d. 1984)
• November 17 - Rock Hudson, actor (d. 1985)
• December 8 - Sammy Davis Jr., singer, dancer, musician, actor (d. 1990)
• December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, actor
• December 28 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)

Deaths

• March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress
• April 16 – David Powell, British actor born in Scotland
• October 31 – Max Linder, French comedic actor
• December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, silent film actress, sister of Mae Marsh
• December 22 – Mary Thurman, silent film actress