The 1960 Hollywood film version of the story, Esther and the King, was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred Joan Collins and Richard Egan.

* Cone of Silence ( 1960 film ), a 1960 film about the investigation into a series of jetliner crashes

With the support of Otto Preminger, Trumbo was credited for his screenplay for the 1960 film Exodus, adapted from the novel by Leon Uris.

* 1960 – Rachel Portman, English film composer

* Latin American significance: The Cartagena Film Festival, founded by Victor Nieto in 1960, is the oldest film festival in Latin America.

* Animation: Founded in 1960, the Annecy International Animated Film Festival is the oldest international film festival dedicated exclusively to animation.

A scene from Jean-Luc Godard's Nouvelle Vague film Breathless ( 1960 film ) | Breathless ( 1960 )

Mikio Naruse directed the wide screen melodrama When a Woman Ascends the Stairs in 1960 ; his final film was 1967's Scattered Clouds.

* 1903 – André Berthomieu, French film director and screenwriter ( d. 1960 )

Exploiting La Dolce Vita ’ s success, financier Angelo Rizzoli set up Federiz in 1960, an independent film company, for Fellini and production manager Clemente Fracassi to discover and produce new talent.

In an October 1960 letter to his colleague Brunello Rondi, Fellini first outlined his film ideas about a man suffering creative block: " Well then-a guy ( a writer?

Kelly as Hornbeck in Inherit the Wind ( 1960 film ) | Inherit the Wind

Kelly continued to make some film appearances, such as Hornbeck in the 1960 Hollywood production of Inherit the Wind.

Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless ( 1960 ) was the first film to pay tribute to Bogart.

* 1960 – Erik Poppe, Norwegian film director

He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film Missing in 1982, and for his roles in Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), The Apartment ( 1960 ), Days of Wine and Roses ( 1962 ), The China Syndrome ( 1979 ), and Tribute ( 1980 ).

* 1909 – Buddy Adler, American film producer ( d. 1960 )

* 1880 – Mack Sennett, Canadian film director ( d. 1960 )

In 1960, David D. Thomas published Basic Vocabulary In some Mon-Khmer Languages ( AL 2, No. 3, pp. 7 - 11 ), which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( Af ) in place of original ( Af ), and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards Greater Accuracy ( IJAL 21::

* 1960 – David Miscavige, American leader of the Church of Scientology

* 1960 – David Yow, American singer-songwriter ( Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard, and Qui )

In 1960, David Berlo expanded on Shannon and Weaver's ( 1949 ) linear model of communication and created the SMCR Model of Communication.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

File: David Eisenhower in Camp David. jpg | David Eisenhower ( age 12 ), grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, poses with sign at presidential retreat named in his honor, 1960

" In 2004, the Manchester Evening News published a contradictory story that a young musician from Wilmslow called David Browning played the trumpet on both the original recording of the theme in 1960 and a re-recording in 1964, for a one-off payment of £ 36.

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

* 1960 – David Baerwald American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer ( David & David )

* 1960 – David Marciano, American actor

* 1960 – David James Elliott, Canadian actor

* 1960 – David Lowery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven )

* 1960 – David Steele, English bass player and songwriter ( The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals )

* In the 1960 Cold War novel Village of Stars by David Beaty ( writing as Paul Stanton ), an RAF V-bomber of the fictional Venger type is sent to drop a nuclear bomb on a rebel force in the Middle East.

He was a frequent interviewer with Bob Clark on the ABC Sunday news program, Issues and Answers, which began in 1960 but was revamped and renamed in 1981 as This Week with David Brinkley.

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

( The 1960 Italian film David and Goliath starring Orson Welles was not one of these, since that movie was a straightforward adaptation of the Biblical story ).

On February 1, 1960, four students Ezell A. Blair, Jr. ( now known as Jibreel Khazan ), David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin McCain from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College, an all-black college, sat down at the segregated lunch counter to protest Woolworth's policy of excluding African Americans.

The chess game between " Kronsteen " and " McAdams " in the early part of the James Bond movie From Russia With Love is based on a game in that opening played between Spassky and David Bronstein in 1960 in which Spassky (" Kronsteen ") was victorious.

* Goliath contro i giganti / Goliath Against the Giants ( 1960 ) starring Brad Harris

Goliath and the Dragon ( 1960 ) was originally an Italian Hercules movie called The Revenge of Hercules.

He appeared also in Stanley Kramer's Not as a Stranger ( 1955 ), " the worst film with the best cast "; and he even tried the European sword and sandal films in Vittorio Cotaffavi's La vendetta di Ercole ( 1960 ) also known in USA as Goliath and the Dragon.

* Goliath and the Dragon ( 1960 )

Italian filmmakers resurrected their 1920s Maciste character in a brand new 1960s sound film series ( 1960 – 1964 ), followed rapidly by Ursus, Samson, Goliath, Sandokan and various other mighty-muscled heroes.

* Goliath and the Dragon ( La Vendetta di Ercole / The Revenge of Hercules, 1960 ) ( this Hercules film had its title character changed to Goliath when it was distributed in the U. S .)

( The 1960 Italian peplum David and Goliath starring Orson Welles was not part of this series, since that movie was just a historical retelling of the Biblical story ).

* Goliath contro i giganti / Goliath Against the Giants ( 1960 ) starring Brad Harris

Goliath and the Dragon ( 1960 ) was originally an Italian Hercules movie called The Revenge of Hercules, but it was retitled to " Goliath and the Dragon " in the U. S. since at the time " Goliath and the Barbarians " was breaking box-office records, and at the time, the distributors may have believed the name " Hercules " was trademarked by distributor Joseph E. Levine.

* David and Goliath ( 1960 ) Orson Welles

* David and Goliath ( 1960 ) Orson Welles

He appeared in 15 films, including Captain Lightfoot ( 1955 ), David and Goliath ( 1960 ), Victim ( 1961 ) and Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ).

* David and Goliath ( 1960 )

He was the voice of the The Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland ( 1951 ), the narrator in Goliath II ( 1960 ), Kaa in The Jungle Book ( 1967 ), and Roquefort in The Aristocats ( 1970 ).

* Goliath II ( 1960 ) ( voice )

* Goliath II, a 1960 Disney cartoon about a tiny elephant

The Lutheran Church and Art Clokey teamed up to make the first Davey and Goliath episode in 1960 called " Lost In A Cave ".