1911 in film
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The year 1911 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- March 23: D. W. Griffith shows the first major close-up shot on film with the successful release of The Lonedale Operator proving his ever growing mastery of how to utilise film.
- October 27: David Horsley's Nestor Motion Picture Company opens the first motion picture studio in Hollywood.
- Defence of Sevastopol premiers at the palace of Tsar Nicholas II and becomes the first feature-length film made in the Russian Empire and one of the first in the world.
- The Kalem Company of New York pays the estate of author Lew Wallace $25,000 in legal settlement for having adapted Ben Hur (1907 film) from his novel without securing prior rights.
Films released in 1911
- Aerial Anarchists
- Alkali Ike's Auto
- Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen, directed by Georges Melies
- Baseball and Bloomers
- The Battle, directed by D. W. Griffith
- The Black Arrow
- Brown of Harvard
- The Buddhist Priestess
- Cally's Comet
- The Coffin Ship
- The Colonel and the King
- Courting Across the Court
- The Cowboy and the Lady
- David Copperfield
- Defence of Sevastopol
- The Diabolical Church Window, directed by Georges Melies
- The Dream, directed by Thomas H. Ince, starring Mary Pickford
- Enoch Arden, directed by D. W. Griffith
- The Fall Of Troy, directed by Giovanni Pastrone
- First Indy 500 (First year footage from the auto race. Filmed on May 30, 1911.)
- Flames and Fortune
- For Her Sake
- His Trust, directed by D. W. Griffith
- His Trust Fulfilled, directed by D. W. Griffith. The sequel to Griffith's earlier 1911 short film "His Trust"
- Her Crowning Glory
- The Inferno (L'Inferno), adapted from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. First blockbuster feature film in cinema. First feature-length horror film.
- Little Nemo
- The Higher Law
- The Lonedale Operator, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
- The Miser's Heart, directed by D. W. Griffith
- Der Müller und sein Kind
- The Pasha's Daughter
- Princess Clementina
- The Railroad Builder
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Smuggler
- Sweet Memories
- Swords and Hearts, directed by D. W. Griffith
- A Tale of Two Cities
- That's Happiness
- What Shall We Do with Our Old?
- Windsor McCay And His Animated Pictures
- Won by Wireless
Births
- January 5 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (died 2001)
- January 7 - Butterfly McQueen, actress (died 1995)
- January 22 - Mary Hayley Bell, actress, writer and dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (d 2005)
- February 6 - Ronald Reagan, actor, United States President (died 2004)
- February 9 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and burlesque dancer (died 1970)
- February 14 - Florence Rice, actress (died 1974)
- February 19 - Merle Oberon, actress (died 1979)
- February 28 - Ishiro Honda, director (died 1993)
- March 3 - Jean Harlow, actress (died 1937)
- March 18 - Smiley Burnette, actor, musician (died 1967)
- May 11 - Phil Silvers, actor (died 1985)
- May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (died 1998)
- May 18 - Sigrid Gurie, actress (died 1969)
- May 27 - Vincent Price, actor (died 1993)
- June 3 - Ellen Corby, actress (died 1999)
- June 20 - Gail Patrick (died 1980)
- June 29 - Bernard Hermann, composer (died 1975)
- July 6 - Laverne Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters (died 1967)
- July 14 - Terry-Thomas, actor (died 1990)
- July 16 - Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer (died 1995)
- July 18 - Hume Cronyn, actor (died 2003)
- August 5 - Robert Taylor, actor (died 1969)
- August 6 - Lucille Ball, actress (died 1989)
- August 7 - Nicholas Ray, director (died 1979)
- August 12 - Cantinflas, actor (died 1993)
- September 2 - Erwin Hillier, cinematographer (died 2005)
- October 13 - Ashok Kumar, actor, India (died 2001)
- October 20 - Will Rogers, Jr., actor (died 1993)
- October 27 - Leif Erickson, actor (died 1986)
- November 5 - Roy Rogers, singer, actor (died 1998)
- November 10 - Harry Andrews, actor (died 1989)
- December 8 - Lee J. Cobb, actor (died 1976)
- December 30 - Jeanette Nolan, actress (died 1998)
Deaths
- January 18 - Arthur Marvin, cinematographer, (born 1859)
- May 29 - W. S. Gilbert, producer of musicals, half of the team of Gilbert and Sullivan, (born 1836)
- July 18 - Genevieve Lantelme, actress, (born 1883)
- August 11 - Verner Clarges, actor, (born 1846)
- October 27 - Francis Boggs, director, (born 1870)
- November 2 - Kyrle Bellew, actor, (born 1855)
- December 22 - Wright Lorimer, stage actor, screenwriter, (born 1874)
- Unknown - Woodville Latham, producer and exhibitor whose desire to shoot an entire boxing match on a single reel of film led to the invention of the Latham loop (born 1837)
Debuts
- Francis X. Bushman - His Friend's Wife (short)
- Paul Kelly - Jimmie's Job (short)
- Ann Little - The Indian Maiden's Lesson (short)
- Harold Lockwood - The White Red Man (short)
- Anna Q. Nilsson - Molly Pitcher (short)
- Lillian Russell - La Tosca (short)
- Anita Stewart - A Tale of Two Cities as Anna Stewart
- Lenore Ulric - The First Man (1911 short)
- Lois Weber - director, actress, A Heroine of '76 (short); writer, On the Brink (short)
