Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.
Events[]
- June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) was formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.
- The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood.
- The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early widescreen film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.
Top grossing films (U.S.)[]
| Rank | Title | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Awakening | |
| 2. | La Banda della cifre | |
| 3. | The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Sam De Grasse, Mae Marsh,
Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, and Blanche Sweet |
$1,000,000 |
| 4. | Burlesque on Carmen | |
| 5. | Carmen, starring Theda Bara | |
| 6. | The Cheat | |
| 7. | David Harum | |
| 8. | Der Golem, starring Paul Wegener | |
| 9. | The Eternal City | |
| 10. | Fatty's Tintype Tangle, starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle | |
| 11. | La Folie du Docteur Tube | |
| 12. | A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara | |
| 13. | His New Job | |
| 14. | Honeymoon for Three | |
| 15. | Inspiration | |
| 16. | The Italian | |
| 17. | Martyrs of the Alamo by D.W Griffith | |
| 18. | The Morals of Marcus, starring Marie Doro | |
| 19. | Regeneration | |
| 20. | The Tramp | |
| 21. | Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora and Édouard Mathé |
Films released in 1915[]
- Broken Hearts, starring Mary Pickford
- The Commanding Officer, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Marshall Neilan
- Fanchon, the Cricket, directed by James Kirkwood, starring Mary Pickford, Lottie Pickford and Jack Pickford
- Four Feathers, directed by J. Searle Dawley
- A Girl of Yesterday, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Mary Pickford and Jack Pickford
- The Lamb
- Little Pal
- The Love Route, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Harold Lockwood
- Madame Butterfly
- Mistress Nell
- The Pretty Sister of Jose, directed by Allan Dwan
- Rags
Short film series[]
- Broncho Billy Anderson (1910-1916)
- Harold Lloyd (1913-1921)
- Charlie Chaplin (1914-1923
Film debuts[]
- Edna Purviance
- W.C. Fields
- Fannie Ward
- Pauline Frederick
- Mary Boland
- Valeska Suratt
- Marie Doro
- Laura Hope Crews
- Donald Brian
- Geraldine Farrar
- Charlotte Walker
- Douglas Fairbanks
- Elliott Dexter
- Charlotte Greenwood
- Erich Von Stroheim
Deaths[]
- January 10 - Marshall P. Wilder, diminutive stage and screen actor, age 55.
- April 26 – John Bunny, silent film comedian
- June 16 - Elmer Booth, silent screen actor brother of film editor Margaret Booth.
- October 31 - Blanche Walsh, stage actress appeared in Zukor's 3 reel feature "Resurrection" 1912