1922 in film

The top ten films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows:

• June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
• November 26 – The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

United States unless stated

• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)

• January 2 – Jason Evers, American actor (died 2005)
• January 3 – Bill Travers, British actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist (died 1994)
• January 10 – Hannelore Schroth, German actress (died 1987)
• January 13 – Albert Lamorisse, French filmmaker, film producer and writer (died 1970)
• January 16 – Irene Vernon, American actress (died 1998)
• January 17 – Betty White, American actress and comedian (died 2021)
• January 19 – Guy Madison, American actor (died 1996)
• January 20 – Ray Anthony, American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor
• January 21
  • Telly Savalas, Greek-American actor (died 1994)
  • Paul Scofield, English actor (died 2008)
• January 31
  • Joanne Dru, American actress (died 1996)
  • William Sylvester, American actor (died 1995)
• February 3 – Ulf Johanson, Swedish actor (died 1990)
• February 4
  • William Edward Phipps, American actor and producer (died 2018)
  • Qin Yi, Chinese actress (died 2022)
• February 6 – Patrick Macnee, British-American actor (died 2015)
• February 7 – Hattie Jacques, English actress (died 1980)
• February 8 – Audrey Meadows, American actress (died 1996)
• February 9 – Kathryn Grayson, American actress and coloratura soprano (died 2010)
• February 24 – Steven Hill, American actor (died 2016)
• February 26 – Margaret Leighton, English actress (died 1976)
• March 5
  • James Noble, American actor (died 2016)
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer, film director, actor and playwright (died 1975)
• March 8 – Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (died 2008)
• March 20 – Carl Reiner, American actor, author, comedian, director and screenwriter (died 2020)
• March 21 – Russ Meyer, American filmmaker (died 2004)
• March 23 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1990)
• March 31
  • Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (died 1999)
  • Patrick Magee, Irish actor (died 1982)
• April 3 – Doris Day, American actress and singer (died 2019)^[14]
• April 4
  • Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor (died 2004)
  • Alexandra MyÅ¡ková, Czech-born Norwegian actress, director and theatre teacher
• April 5 – Gale Storm, American actress and singer (died 2009)
• April 7 – Margia Dean, American beauty queen and actress (died 2023)
• April 15 – Michael Ansara, Syrian‐American actor (died 2013)
• April 18 – Barbara Hale, American actress (died 2017)^[15]
• April 24 – J. D. Cannon, American actor (died 2005)
• April 26 – Mike Kellin, American actor (died 1983)
• April 27 – Jack Klugman, American actor (died 2012)
• May 2 – Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor and director (died 2007)
• May 7
  • Rolands Kalniņš, Latvian film director, screenwriter and producer (died 2022)
  • Darren McGavin, American actor (died 2006)
• May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress (died 1992)
• May 12 - Murray Gershenz, American character actor and entrepreneur (died 2013)
• May 13 - Truus Dekker, Dutch actress (died 2022)
• May 14
  • Richard Deacon, American actor (died 1984)
  • Terence Longdon, English actor (died 2011)
• May 17 - Wei Wei, Chinese actress (died 2023)
• May 18 - Bill Macy, American actor (died 2019)
• May 25 - Syd Heylen, Australian character actor and comedian (died 1996)
• May 27 – Christopher Lee, English actor and singer (died 2015)^[16]
• May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (died 1992)
• June 1
  • Joan Caulfield, American actress and model (died 1991)
  • Joan Copeland, American actress (died 2022)
• June 9 – George Axelrod, American screenwriter and producer (died 2003)
• June 10
  • Judy Garland, American actress and singer (died 1969)^[17]
  • Bill Kerr, British-Australian actor, comedian and vaudevillian (died 2014)
• June 16 – Frances Rafferty, American actress, dancer, World War II pin-up girl and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player (died 2004)
• June 22 – Mona Lisa, Filipino actress (died 2019)
• June 26 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (died 2013)
• June 28 - Erik Bauersfeld, American radio dramatist and voice actor (died 2016)
• July 6 – William Schallert, American character actor (died 2016)
• July 9 - Manos Zacharias, Greek film director, cinematographer and actor
• July 11 – Gene Evans, American actor (died 1998)
• July 19 - Bess Meisler, American actress
• July 21 – Demeter Bitenc, Slovenian actor (died 2018)
• July 23 - Sydney Lassick, American character actor (died 2003)
• July 26
  • Blake Edwards, American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010)
  • Jason Robards, American actor (died 2000)
• July 27
  • Adolfo Celi, Italian film actor and director (died 1986)
  • Norman Lear, American screenwriter and producer (died 2023)
• August 1
  • Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (died 2006)
  • Paul Lambert, American character actor (died 1997)
• August 8 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (died 1999)
• August 15 - Boris Sichkin, Soviet-American film actor, dancer, choreographer, composer and entertainer (died 2002)
• August 22 – Micheline Presle, French actress (died 2024)
• August 25 - Gloria Dea, American actress, dancer, artist, and magician (died 2023)
• September 1
  • Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2000)
  • Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress, dancer and singer (died 2007)
• September 6 – Elizabeth Lawrence, American actress (died 2000)
• September 8
  • Sid Caesar, American comic actor and comedian (died 2014)
  • Annabel Maule, British actress
• September 10 – Barbara Chilcott, Canadian actress (died 2022)
• September 14 – Michel Auclair, European actor (died 1988)
• September 15 – Jackie Cooper, American actor and director (died 2011)
• September 16
  • Guy Hamilton, English film director (died 2016)
  • Janis Paige, American actress and singer (died 2024)
• September 23 – Louise Latham, American actress (died 2018)
• September 24
  • Bert I. Gordon, American film director, producer, screenwriter, and visual effects artist (died 2023)
  • Theresa Merritt, American actress (died 1998)
• September 29 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress, singer, and model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency (died 2015)
• October 5 – Woodrow Parfrey, American actor (died 1984)
• October 7 – Martha Stewart, American actress (died 2021)
• October 8 – Eileen Essell, English actress (died 2015)
• October 9 - Fyvush Finkel, American actor and director (died 2016)
• October 20 – John Anderson, American character actor (died 1992)
• October 23 – Coleen Gray, American actress (died 2015)
• October 27 – Ruby Dee, American actress (died 2014)
• October 28 - Jack Murdock, American actor (died 2001)
• October 31 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress, artist and children's author (died 2005)
• November 3 - George Morrison, Irish director of documentary films (died 2025)
• November 9 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (died 1965)
• November 12 – Kim Hunter, American actress (died 2002)
• November 13
  • Madeleine Sherwood, Canadian actress (died 2016)
  • Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (died 1984)
• November 14 – Veronica Lake, American actress (died 1973)
• November 15 – Francesco Rosi, Italian film director and screenwriter (died 2015)
• November 16 – Royal Dano, American actor (died 1994)
• November 17 - Ted Beniades, American character actor (died 2014)
• November 22 – Lynne Roberts, American actress (died 1978)
• November 26 – Adam Williams, American actor (died 2006)
• November 27 - Jacqueline White, American former actress
• November 29 – Laurie Main, Australian actor (died 2012)
• December 2
  • Don Fellows, American actor (died 2007)
  • Leo Gordon, American actor and screenplay writer (died 2000)
• December 3 - Len Lesser, American character actor (died 2011)
• December 4 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (died 1959)
• December 9 – Redd Foxx, American stand-up comedian and actor (died 1991)
• December 11 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor and film producer (died 2021)
• December 21 – Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, humanitarian, and inventor (died 2005)
• December 22 – Ruth Roman, American actress (died 1999)
• December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress (died 1990)
• December 26 – Alfred Dennis, American actor (died 2016)
• December 28
  • Ivan Desny, French actor (died 2002)
  • Stan Lee, American comic-book, editor, publisher and producer (died 2018)

• February 1 – William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal. (born 1872)
• February 4 – Florence Deshon, American actress (born 1893)
• March 4 – Bert Williams, American actor and singer (born 1874)
• May 21 – Sidney Ainsworth, actor (born 1872)
• May 26 – Walter Jones, American actor (b.1874)
• June 6 – Lillian Russell, stage and screen actress (born 1860/61)
• June 15 – Howard Crampton, actor (born 1865)
• July 5 – Bobby Connelly, child star (born 1909)
• September 23 – W. Chrystie Miller, veteran stage & screen actor (born 1843)
• November 30 – René Cresté, actor and director (born 1881)