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Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.

Events[]

Top grossing films (U.S.)[]

Rank Title Gross
1. Way Down East - directed by D.W. Griffith $5,000,000
2. Over the Hill to the Poorhouse - directed by Harry F. Millarde
3. Shipwrecked Among Cannibals
4. Pollyanna
5. The Mark of Zorro
6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
7. The Round-Up
8. Double Speed
9. Excuse My Dust

Films released in 1920[]

  • Algol, starring Emil Jannings
  • Anna Boleyn, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover.
  • Convict 13, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  • The Common Sin, starring Rod La Rocque and Nita Naldi
  • The Girl in Number 29, directed by John Ford
  • The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), starring and directed by Paul Wegener
  • Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson and Bela Lugosi
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore
  • Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd
  • Herr och fru Stockholm, starring Greta Garbo
  • High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd
  • Huckleberry Finn
  • The Last of the Mohicans, starring Wallace Beery
  • Love, Honor, and Behave, starring George O'Hara and Marie Prevost
  • The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks
  • The $1,000,000 Reward
  • Neighbors, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  • One Week, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  • Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
  • The Penalty, starring Lon Chaney
  • Pollyanna, starring Mary Pickford -(film only mentioned in article)
  • The Saphead, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  • The Scarecrow, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  • Shipwrecked Among Cannibals documentary film
  • Stolen Moments, starring Rudolph Valentino
  • Way Down East, starring Lillian Gish
  • Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer

Short film series[]

Animated short film series[]

  • Felix the Cat (1919-1936)
  • Koko the Clown (1919-1934)

Film Debuts[]

  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Claude Rains
  • Otis Skinner
  • Cornelia Otis Skinner

Notable deaths[]

  • February 4 - Leo Delaney
  • February 11 - Gaby Deslys
  • April 25 - Clarine Seymour
  • May 22 - Hal Reid
  • June 14 - Gabrielle Rejane
  • August 2 - Ormer Locklear
  • September 5 - Robert Harron
  • September 10 - Olive Thomas