1956 in film

Events

Top Grossing Films of the Year

1. The Ten Commandments[?]
2. Seven Wonders of the World[?]
3. War and Peace[?]
4. Moby Dick[?]
5. Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring James Stewart
6. The Eddy Duchin Story[?]
7. The Conqueror[?]
8. Love Me Tender[?]
9. Rock Around the Clock[?]
10. Forbidden Planet

Births

• January 3 - Mel Gibson, actor and director
• January 7 - David Caruso[?], actor
• January 18 - Ray Dolby[?], inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system
• February 11 - Kathleen Beller[?], actress.
• July 9 - Tom Hanks, actor

Deaths

• December 12 - Ewald André Dupont, German director
• December 16 - Nina Hamnett, artist

Other Movies Released

• Around the World in Eighty Days
• The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• The King and I