1961

The year 1961 was the 2nd year of the 1960's.

Theatrical releases

Feature films

• January 28 - A Fever in the Blood
• February 18 - Gold of the Seven Saints
• April 2 - The Sins of Rachel Cade
• April 19 - Portrait of a Mobster
• May 4 - Parrish
• June 28
  • Fanny
  • The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
• September 20
  • Bimbo the Great
  • Claudelle Inglish
• October 10 - Splendor in the Grass
• November 1 - The Mask
• November 8 - Susan Slade
• December 27 - A Majority of One
• December 28 - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Shorts

• January 7 - Cannery Woe
• January 21 - Zip 'n Snort
• January 28 - Bunny Hugged (re-issue)
• February 11 - Hoppy Daze
• February 18 - The Wearing of the Grin (re-issue)
• February 25 - The Mouse on 57th Street
• March 11 - Beep, Beep (re-issue)
• March 18 - Strangled Eggs
• April 1 - Birds of a Father
• April 8 - Rabbit Fire (re-issue)
• April 22 - D' Fightin' Ones
• April 29 - Feed the Kitty (re-issue)
• May 13 - The Lion's Busy (re-issue)
• May 20 - The Abominable Snow Rabbit
• June 3 - Lickety-Splat
• June 10 - Thumb Fun (re-issue)
• June 24 - A Scent of the Matterhorn
• July 1 - Corn Plastered (re-issue)
• July 15 - The Rebel Without Claws
• July 29 - Compressed Hare'
• August 5 - Kiddin' the Kitten (re-issue)
• August 19 - The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
• August 26 - Ballot Box Bunny (re-issue)
• September 2 - Prince Violent
• September 9 - A Hound for Trouble (re-issue)
• September 23 - Daffy's Inn Trouble
• September 30 - Strife with Father (re-issue)
• October 21 - What's My Lion?
• October 28 - The Grey Hounded Hare (re-issue)
• November 11 - Beep Prepared
• November 25 - Leghorn Swoggled (re-issue)
• December 2 - The Last Hungry Cat
• December 23 - A Peck o' Trouble (re-issue)
• December 30 - Nelly's Folly

Character debuts

• April - General Zod, Batgirl
• August - Sinestro
• October - The Atom
• December 30 - Nelly the Giraffe

People

Births

• February 11 - Carey Lowell (actress and former model)
• May 1 - Marilyn Milian (television personality, lecturer, retired Florida Circuit Court judge and court-show arbitrator)
• September 25 - Heather Locklear (actress and voice actress)
• October 10 - Jodi Benson (actress, voice actress and singer)

Deaths

• January 4 - Barry Fitzgerald (actor)
• January 14 - Ernest Thesiger (actor)
• January 19 - Margaret Hill-Talbot (voice actress)
• February 3 - Anna May Wong (actress)
• February 14 - Wallis Clark (actor)
• February 15 - Jack Whiting (actor, singer and dancer)
• February 16 - William Ricciardi (actor)
• February 18 - Cliff Nazarro (comedian)
• February 26 - Harry Bannister (actor, theater producer and director)
• March 7 - Ferris Taylor (actor and vaudeville performer)
• March 27 - Maureen Delany (actress)
• March 29 - Fritzi Ridgeway (actress, vaudeville performer and hotelier)
• April 21 - James Melton (singer and actor)
• April 24 - Lee Moran (actor, film director and screenwriter)
• April 27 - Roy Del Ruth (filmmaker)
• May 13 - Gary Cooper (actor)
• May 18
  • Ann Codee (actress)
  • Henry O'Neill (actor)
• May 19 - Ben Corbett (actor)
• May 22 - Edward F. Cline (screenwriter, actor, writer and director)
• May 30 - Elsa Bassermann (screenwriter and film actress)
• June 1 - Josephine Whittell (actress)
• June 9 - George B. French (actor)
• June 10 - Vivienne Osborne (actress)
• June 17 - Jeff Chandler (actor, producer and singer)
• June 26 - Arno Frey (actor)
• June 27 - Paul Guilfoyle (actor and director)
• June 29 - Fred Keating (magician and actor)
• June 30 - Gibb McLaughlin (actor)
• July 4 - Franklyn Farnum (actor and vaudevillian)
• July 23 - Esther Dale (actress and singer)
• July 28 - Harry Gribbon (actor, comedian and director)
• August 19 - Charles Gemora (makeup artist and actor)
• August 20
  • Gwen Lee (actress)
  • Dorothy Burgess (actress)
• August 23 - Libby Taylor (actress)
• August 30 - Charles Coburn (actor and theatrical producer)
• September 2 - Fred Kelsey (actor, film director and screenwriter)
• September 10 - Leo Carrillo (actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist and conservationist)
• September 11 - George Irving (actor and director)
• September 13 - Fay Roope (actor)
• September 22 - Marion Davies (actress, producer, screenwriter and philanthropist)
• September 23
  • John Eldredge (actor)
  • Billy House (actor and comedian)
• September 26 - Eily Malyon (actress)
• October 1
  • Donald Cook (actor)
  • William Rees (cinematographer)
• October 11 - Chico Marx (comedian, actor and pianist)
• November 7 - Kathleen Kirkham (actress)
• November 13 - Wally Brown (actor and comedian)
• November 15
  • Elsie Ferguson (actress)
  • Douglas Walton (actor)
• November 24
  • Harrington Reynolds (actor)
  • Ruth Chatterton (actress, aviator and novelist)
• December 22 - Dick Elliott (actor)
• December 27 - James Parnell (actor)

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