1918 in film

• January 27 – Tarzan makes his film debut in Tarzan of the Apes.
• March 10 – Warner Bros. release their first produced picture, My Four Years in Germany.
• July – The animated The Sinking of the Lusitania is one of the first examples of animation being used for something other than comedy.
• Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the Motion Picture Patents Company disbands.
• Louis B. Mayer arrives in Los Angeles and forms Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation.
• 28 mm safety standard film, designed by Alexander Victor, becomes one of the earliest film formats to use "safety film" bases in order to safeguard the amateur market against nitrate fires.

The top six 1918 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Films produced in the United States unless stated otherwise

Only the films of the series released in 1918 are collected

Buster Keaton (1917–1944)

Main article: Buster Keaton filmography

Films starring Roscoe Arbuckle, featuring Buster Keaton released in 1918:

• January 20: Out West as Sheriff / Saloon owner.
• March 18: The Bell Boy as Bellboy.

Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)

Main article: Charlie Chaplin filmography

• 11 August: Triple Trouble; compilation assembled by Leo White with scenes from Police and an unfinished short, Life, along with new material shot by White. Chaplin includes this production in the filmography of his autobiography.
• May 1918: Chase Me Charlie; a seven-reel montage of Essanay films, edited by Langford Reed. Released in England.

Charlie Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, and starred in 9 films for his own production company between 1918 and 1923. These films were distributed by First National. Below the movies released in 1918:

• 14 April: A Dog's Life
• 29 September: The Bond
• 20 October: Shoulder Arms

Uncompleted and unreleased films

• How to Make Movies: Never assembled, although parts were used in The Chaplin Revue (see below)
  Reconstructed in 1981 by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill^[4]
• Untitled film: A charity film co-starring Harry Lauder.

Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)

Main article: Harold Lloyd filmography

Glasses character ("The Boy"):

• The Tip
• The Lamb
• Hit Him Again
• Beat It
• A Gasoline Wedding
• Look Pleasant, Please
• Here Come the Girls
• Let's Go
• On the Jump
• Follow the Crowd
• Pipe the Whiskers as Janitor
• It's a Wild Life
• Hey There!
• Kicked Out
• The Non-Stop Kid
• Two-Gun Gussie
• Fireman Save My Child
• The City Slicker
• Sic 'Em, Towser
• Somewhere in Turkey
• Are Crooks Dishonest? – sometimes wrongly titled as Doing, Doing, Done
• An Ozark Romance
• Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
• That's Him
• Bride and Gloom
• Two Scrambled
• Bees in His Bonnet
• Swing Your Partners
• Why Pick on Me?
• Nothing but Trouble
• Back to the Woods
• Hear 'Em Rave
• Take a Chance
• She Loves Me Not

• January 29 – John Forsythe, actor (died 2010)
• February 4 – Ida Lupino, actress, director (died 1995)
• February 15 - Allan Arbus, actor (died 2013)
• February 16 – Patty Andrews, singer, actress, member of The Andrews Sisters (died 2013)
• February 19 - Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (died 2019)
• March 1 – Roger Delgado, actor (died 1973)
• March 9
  • Marguerite Chapman, actress (died 1999)
  • Mickey Spillane, writer, actor (died 2006)
• March 14 –Dennis Patrick, actor (died 2002)
• April 14 – Mary Healy, actress, singer (died 2015)
• April 17
  • William Holden, actor (died 1981)
  • Anne Shirley, actress (died 1993)
• April 18 – Shinobu Hashimoto, screenwriter (died 2018)
• May 14 – June Duprez, actress (died 1984)
• May 15 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor (died 2009)
• May 20 - Patricia Ellis, American actress (died 1970)
• May 21 - Jeanne Bates, American actress (died 2008)
• May 26 – John Dall, actor (died 1971)
• June 8 – Robert Preston, actor, singer (died 1987)
• June 10 - Barry Morse, actor (died 2008)
• June 11 – Jane Bryan, actress (died 2009)
• June 13 - Ben Johnson, actor (died 1996)
• June 18 – Elisabeth Waldo, American musician and actress (died 2026)
• June 21 - Adriana Sivieri, Italian actress (died 1970)
• June 26 – Ellen Liiger, actress (died 1987)
• July 6 – Sebastian Cabot, actor (died 1977)
• July 8 – Craig Stevens, American actor (died 2000)
• July 14 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish actor, writer, director (died 2007)
• July 16 – William Bishop, actor (died 1959)
• July 18 – Jane Frazee, singer, actress (died 1985)
• July 25 - Nan Grey, actress (died 1993)
• July 26 – Marjorie Lord, actress (died 2015)
• August 1 – Cheryl Walker, model, actress (died 1971)
• August 9 – Robert Aldrich, director (died 1983)
• August 17 – Evelyn Ankers, actress (died 1985)
• August 25 – Richard Greene, actor (died 1985)
• September 10 – Rin Tin Tin, canine actor (died 1932)
• September 13 – Dick Haymes, Argentine actor, singer (died 1980)
• September 16 - Branka Veselinović, Serbian actress (died 2023)
• September 21 – Rand Brooks, American actor (died 2003)
• September 24 - Audra Lindley, American actress (died 1997)
• September 28 – Arnold Stang, American actor and comedian (died 2009)
• October 9 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (died 2000)
• October 13
  • Yvette Thuot, Canadian actress (died 2021)
  • Robert Walker, actor (died 1951)
• October 17 – Rita Hayworth, actress (died 1987)
• October 23 - Peggy Moran, actress (died 2002)
• October 25 - Milton Selzer, actor (died 2005)
• October 27 – Teresa Wright, actress (died 2005)
• October 29 – Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery ("Baby Peggy"), child silent film actress (died 2020)
• November 4
  • Art Carney, actor (died 2003)
  • Cameron Mitchell, actor (died 1994)
• November 27 - Stephen Elliott, actor (died 2005)
• November 30 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor (died 2014)
• December 10 – Anne Gwynne, actress, model (died 2003)
• December 15 – Jeff Chandler, actor (died 1961)
• December 23 - Kumar Pallana, Indian-American character actress (died 2013)

• January 8 – Johannes Pääsuke, 25, Estonian photographer and director (train crash)
• January 12 – Simeon Wiltsie, American actor
• February 1 – Joseph Kaufman, 36, American silent film actor & director, married to film star Ethel Clayton
• February 15 – Vernon Castle, 30, American dancer & writer
• March 13 – William Courtleigh, Jr., 26, American actor
• April 30 – "Mother" Mary Maurice, 73, American veteran stage & film actress
• May 19 – Sidney Rankin Drew, 26, American actor and director.
• June 29 – John van den Broek, 23, Dutch cinematographer
• July 4 – Walter Stradling, 43, British cinematographer
• August 12 – Anna Held, 46, Polish actress & singer
• September 21 – Hal August, 28, American actor;
• October 2 - Edwin Arden, American stage & film actor
• October 19 – Harold Lockwood, 31, American actor
• October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, 27, American actress
• October 22 – Julian L'Estrange, 38, English actor
• October 28 – Louise Vale, American actress
• November 6 – William Shea, 67, Scottish veteran film actor & director
• November 18 – Wayland Trask Jr., 31, American comedian
• December 6 – Charles Gunn, 35, American actor
• December 29 – Jode Mullally, 32, American actor