1888 in Film - Births

Births

• 3 January - George B. Seitz – American director, writer, actor and producer (died 1944)
• 3 January - James Bridie – Scottish writer (died 1951)
• 23 January - Franklin Pangborn – American actor (died 1958)
• 4 March - Rafaela Ottiano – Italian-born American actress (died 1942)
• 5 March - Jules Furthman – American writer, director and producer (died 1966)
• 10 March - Barry Fitzgerald – Irish actor (died 1961)
• 30 March - Anna Q. Nilsson – Swedish-born American actress (died 1974)
• 11 April - Donald Calthrop, English actor (d. 1940)
• 26 April - Anita Loos – American writer and producer (died 1981)
• 27 April - Florence La Badie – American actress (died 1917)
• 3 May - Beulah Bondi – American actress (died 1981)
• 25 May - Miles Malleson – English actor and writer (died 1969)
• 4 July - Henry Armetta – Italian-born American actor (died 1945)
• 16 July - Percy Kilbride – American actor (died 1964)
• 14 August - Robert Woolsey; Actor (died 1938)
• 17 August - Monty Woolley; Actor (died 1963)
• 12 September - Maurice Chevalier – French actor and singer (died 1972)
• 25 September - Hanna Ralph – German actress (died 1978)
• 26 September - Wally Patch – English actor and writer (died 1970)
• 1 October - John E. Blakeley – English producer, director and writer (died 1958)
• 9 October - Hank Patterson – American actor (died 1975)
• 25 October - Lester Cuneo – American actor and producer (died 1925)
• 18 November - Frances Marion – American writer, director, producer and actress (died 1973)
• 23 November - Harpo Marx – American actor and writer (died 1964)
• 24 November - Cathleen Nesbitt – English actress (died 1982)
• 26 November - Francisco Canaro – Uruguayan-born Argentine composer, producer and actor (died 1964)
• 6 December - Will Hay – English actor, writer and director (died 1949)
• 22 December - J. Arthur Rank – English producer and writer (died 1972)
• 27 December - Thea von Harbou – German actress, writer and director (died 1954)
• 28 December - F. W. Murnau – German director, writer and producer (died 1931)