1925 in film

... 1915
1916
1917
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1919
1920
1921 ...

... 1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935 ...

In television: 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928

Years in film

1870s
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

This is a list focusing on motion pictures that were released in the year 1925.

Events

November 5: The Big Parade holds its Grand Premiere
December 30: premiere of Ben-Hur the most expensive silent film ever made costing $4–6 million dollars (around $50-80 million when adjusted for inflation)
Hong Shen publishes the film script Mrs. Shentu in the Shanghai magazine Eastern Miscellany. It is never filmed, but is considered a milestone in film history for being the first published film script in China.^[1] Hong also directs his first film, Young Master Feng, at Mingxing (Star) Film Company in this year.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Actors
1.	The Big Parade	John Gilbert
2.	Ben-Hur	Ramón Novarro
3.	The Plastic Age	Clara Bow
4.	The Freshman	Harold Lloyd
5.	His People	Rudolph Schildkraut
6.	The Gold Rush	Charlie Chaplin
7.	The Merry Widow	Mae Murray
8.	Stella Dallas	Belle Bennett and Ronald Colman
9.	The Lost World	Bessie Love and Wallace Beery
10.	East Lynne	Alma Rubens and Edmund Lowe
11.	Little Annie Rooney	Mary Pickford and William Haines
12.	The Lucky Devil	Richard Dix
13.	The Unholy Three	Lon Chaney and Victor McLaglen
14.	The Everlasting Whisper	Tom Mix

Notable films released in 1925

U.S.A. unless stated

Are Parents People?, starring Florence Vidor
The Battleship Potemkin (Bronyenosyets Potyomkin), directed by Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R.)
Ben-Hur, directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramón Novarro, Francis X. Bushman and May McAvoy
The Big Parade, directed by King Vidor; starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
The Blackguard (Die Prinzessin und der Geiger), directed by Graham Cutts – (GB/Germany)
Braveheart, starring Rod La Rocque
Bride of Glomdal (Glomdalsbruden), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
Bulldog Drummond's Third Round, starring Jack Buchanan – (GB)
Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka) – (U.S.S.R.)
The Circle, directed by Frank Borzage; starring Eleanor Boardman
Cobra, starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi
Corazón Aymara, directed by Pedro Sambarino; first Bolivian fiction feature film
Curses!, starring Fatty Arbuckle
The Dark Angel, directed by George Fitzmaurice; starring Vilma Bánky and Ronald Colman
Don Q, Son of Zorro starring Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor and Donald Crisp
The Eagle, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky
Le fantome du Moulin-Rouge (The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge), directed by René Clair – (France)
The Farmer from Texas, directed by Joe May, starring Lillian Hall-Davis (Germany)
Feu Mathias Pascal (The Late Mathias Pascal), directed by Marcel L'Herbier – (France)
Fifty-Fifty, starring Hope Hampton, Lionel Barrymore and Louise Glaum
The Freshman, starring Harold Lloyd
Go West, starring Buster Keaton
The Gold Rush, a Charlie Chaplin film
The Goose Woman, directed by Clarence Brown; starring Louise Dresser
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
The Heart Breaker
His People, starring Rudolph Schildkraut
His Supreme Moment directed by Marshall Neilan; starring his wife Blanche Sweet with Ronald Colman
El Húsar de la muerte (Hussar of the Dead), starring and directed by Pedro Sienna – (Chile)
Isn't Life Terrible, directed by Leo McCarey
Jealousy, directed by Karl Grune (Germany)
Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse), directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Greta Garbo – (Germany)
The King on Main Street, directed by Monta Bell; starring Bessie Love & Adolphe Menjou
A Kiss For Cinderella, starring Esther Ralston and Dorothy Cumming
The Lady, starring Norma Talmadge
Lady Windermere's Fan, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Ronald Colman and May McAvoy
Little Annie Rooney, starring Mary Pickford
The Lost World, starring Bessie Love and Wallace Beery
The Lucky Horseshoe, starring Tom Mix and Billie Dove
Madame Behave, starring Julian Eltinge and Ann Pennington
Madame Sans-Gene, starring Gloria Swanson – (France)
Master of the House (Du skal ære din hustru) (aka Thou Shalt Honour Thy Wife), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
Men and Women, starring Richard Dix
The Merry Widow, directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert
Les Misérables – (France)
The Monster, starring Lon Chaney
The Mystic, directed by Tod Browning; starring Aileen Pringle
Old Clothes
Orochi – (Japan)
Paris Qui Dort, directed by René Clair – (France)
Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry
The Plastic Age – directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Clara Bow and Gilbert Roland; Clark Gable was also in this film
The Pleasure Garden, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli – (GB)
Prem Sanyas (Die Leuchte Asiens | The Light of Asia) – (Germany/India)
Pretty Ladies, directed by Monta Bell
Proud Flesh, directed by King Vidor
Quo Vadis, starring Emil Jannings – (Italy)
The Rag Man, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan
The Rat, starring Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans – (GB)
Red Heels (Das Spielzeug von Paris), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lili Damita – (Austria)
Sally, Irene and Mary directed by Edmund Goulding; starring Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford & Sally O'Neil
Sally of the Sawdust, directed by D.W. Griffith; starring Carol Dempster and W. C. Fields
Seven Chances, a Buster Keaton film
She, starring Betty Blythe – (GB/Germany)
Smouldering Fires directed by Clarence Brown; starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante
Stella Dallas, starring Ronald Colman and Belle Bennett
The Street of Forgotten Men
Strike (Stachka), directed by Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R.)
The Swan directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki; starring Frances Howard, Adolphe Menjou and Ricardo Cortez
The Tailor from Torzhok (Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka) – (U.S.S.R.)
Three Weeks in Paris, starring Matt Moore
Too Many Kisses, directed by Paul Sloane
Tumbleweeds, starring William S. Hart
Under the Crimson Sunset (Akai yuhi ni terasarete) – (Japan)
The Unholy Three, starring Lon Chaney
Visages d'enfants (Faces of Children), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
The Whirlpool of Fate (La Fille de l'eau), directed by Jean Renoir – (France)
The White Lily Laments (Shirayuri wa nageku) – (Japan)
Variety (Variete) (Jealousy), starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
Wizard of Oz, starring Dorothy Dwan
Wolf Blood
Womanhandled, starring Richard Dix and Esther Ralston
A Woman of the World, starring Pola Negri

Comedy film series

Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
Our Gang (1922–1944)
Harry Langdon (1924–1936)

Animated short film series

Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)
Alice Comedies
- Alice Cans the Cannibals
- Alice the Toreador
- Alice Gets Stung
- Alice Solves the Puzzle
- Alice's Egg Plant
- Alice Loses Out
- Alice is Stage Struck
- Alice Wins the Derby
- Alice Picks the Champ
- Alice's Tin Pony
- Alice Chops the Suey
- Alice the Jail Bird
- Alice Plays Cupid
- Alice Rattled by Rats
- Alice in the Jungle
Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
Un-Natural History (1925–1927)

Births

January 6 – Enrique Carreras, Peruvian-born director and producer (died 1995)
January 9 – Lee Van Cleef, actor (died 1989)
January 13 – Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (died 2000)
January 26
- Joan Leslie, actress
- Paul Newman, actor (died 2008)
January 30 – Dorothy Malone, actress
February 2 – Elaine Stritch, actress (died 2014)
February 8 – Jack Lemmon, actor (died 2001)
February 11 – Kim Stanley, actress (died 2001)
February 17 – Hal Holbrook, actor
February 18 – George Kennedy, actor (died 2016)
February 20 – Robert Altman, director (died 2006)
February 21 – Sam Peckinpah, director (died 1984)
April 14 – Rod Steiger, actor (died 2002)
April 19 – Hugh O'Brian, actor
June 3 – Tony Curtis, actor (died 2010)
June 7 – John Biddle, American sailor and cinematographer (died 2008)
June 8 – Charles Tyner, American actor
June 16 – Otto Muehl, Austrian experimental director (died 2013)
June 21 – Maureen Stapleton, actress (died 2006)
June 25 – June Lockhart, actress
June 29 – Cara Williams, actress
July 1 – Farley Granger, actor (died 2011)
July 20 – Lola Albright, actress
July 23 – Gloria DeHaven, actress
August 11 – Arlene Dahl, actress
August 15 – Mike Connors, actor
August 23 – Robert Mulligan, director (died 2008)
August 25 – Honor Blackman, actress
September 8 – Peter Sellers, comedian, actor (died 1980)
September 12 – Dickie Moore, actor
October 3 – Gore Vidal, writer, actor (died 2012)
October 5 – Gail Davis, actress (died 1997)
October 16 – Angela Lansbury, actress
November 4 – Doris Roberts, actress
November 10 – Richard Burton, actor (died 1984)
November 17 – Rock Hudson, actor (died 1985)
November 25 – June Whitfield, actress
December 2 – Julie Harris, Broadway and film actress (died 2013)
December 8 – Sammy Davis Jr., singer, dancer, musician, actor (died 1990)
December 12 – Anne V. Coates, British film editor
December 13 – Dick Van Dyke, actor
December 18 – Peggy Cummins, actress
December 28 – Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer (died 2002)

Deaths

February 7 - Edward Jobson, American actor (b.1860)
February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French director
March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress
April 8 – Thecla Åhlander, Swedish actress
April 13 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor
April 16 – David Powell, Scottish actor
July 29 – Mark Fenton, American actor
October 31 – Max Linder, French actor
November 1 – Lester Cuneo American actor
November 3 – Lucile McVey, American actress
December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress
December 21 – Lottie Lyell, Australian director/producer
December 22 – Mary Thurman, American actress
December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards American director

Film debuts

References

↑ Ye, Tan; Zhu, Yun (2012). Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8108-6779-6.

1925 films

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