1916 in film
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The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• October 17 - A Daughter of the Gods released - first US production with a million dollar budget also credited with first ever nude scene by a major star.
• November 19 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
• 11 mm, an amateur film gauge, appears on the market.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1916

• A Daughter of the Gods, starring Annette Kellerman
• The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring, directed by Francis Ford and Jacques Jaccard, starring Grace Cunard
• Alsace
• The Americano
• The Battle of the Somme
• Behind the Screen, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• La Bohème, by Albert Capellani (see disambiguation)
• Cenere
• Civilization, directed by Reginald Barker and Walter Edwards, starring Howard C. Hickman and Enid Markey
• The Curse of Quon Gwon
• The Count, directed by and starring, Charlie Chaplin
• Energetic Eva, starring Eva Tanguay
• Hell's Hinges, directed by Charles Swickard and William S. Hart, starring William S. Hart
• Hoodoo Ann, starring Mae Marsh and Robert Harron
• Hulda From Holland, starring Mary Pickford
• The Innocent Lie, starring Mary Pickford
• Intolerance, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Constance Talmadge
• Judex, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora
• A Life for a Life
• Lights of New York, directed by Van Dyke Brooke, starring Leah Baird and Walter McGrail
• Oliver Twist, starring Marie Doro
• One A.M., directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Seventeen
• Ultus and the Grey Lady by George Pearson
• Where Are My Children?, directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber, starring Tyrone Power, Sr. and Juan de la Cruz

Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson (1910–1916)
• Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)

Births

• January 3 - Betty Furness, actress, consumer activist (d. 1994)
• January 3 - Maxene Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters (d. 1995)
• January 4 - Lionel Newman, composer (d. 1989)
• February 14 - Masaki Kobayashi, director (d. 1996)
• February 26 - Jackie Gleason, actor (d. 1987)
• February 29 - Dinah Shore, singer, actress, television presenter (d. 1994)
• March 17 - Mercedes McCambridge, actress (d. 2004)
• March 26 - Sterling Hayden, actor (d. 1986)
• April 5 - Gregory Peck, actor (d 2003)
• May 1 -Glenn Ford, actor (d. 2006)
• May 16 - Adriana Caselotti, singer, voice actress (d. 1997)
• June 12 - Irwin Allen, director, producer (d. 1991)
• June 14 - Dorothy McGuire, actress (d. 2001)
• June 23 - Irene Worth, actress (d. 2002)
• July 27 - Keenan Wynn, actor (d. 1986)
• July 1 - Olivia de Havilland, actress
• August 25 - Van Johnson, actor
• August 27 - Martha Raye, actress (d. 1994)
• September 13 - Dick Haymes, actor (d. 1980)
• September 15 - Margaret Lockwood, actress (d. 1990)
• September 18 - Rossano Brazzi, actor (d. 1994)
• November 20 - Evelyn Keyes, actress (d. 2008)
• December 9 - Kirk Douglas, actor
• December 18 - Betty Grable, actress (d. 1973)
• December 28 - Peter Finch, actor (d. 1977)

Deaths

• January 17 - Arthur V. Johnson, screen actor
• September 17 - Arthur Hoops, stage & screen actor
• October 6 - Henry Woodruff, stage & screen actor