* Ada ( film ), 1961 film by Daniel Mann

* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

The film won the Golden Bear for Best Documentary at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival.

In January 1961, Marker traveled to Cuba and shot the film ¡ Cuba Sí !.

The banned essay was included in Marker's first volume of collected film commentaries, Commentaires I, published in 1961.

In 1961 Dave Brubeck appeared in a few scenes of the British Jazz / Beat film All Night Long, which starred Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough.

It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).

* 1895 – Anita Stewart, American film actress ( d. 1961 )

Capra's final theatrical film was with Glenn Ford and Bette Davis, named Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), a remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day.

In 1961 the second Tintin film was made: Tintin and the Golden Fleece, starring Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin ( an earlier stop motion-animated film was made in 1947 called The Crab with the Golden Claws, but it was screened publicly only once ).

* 1961 – Todd Haynes, American film director

* 1961 – Yves P. Pelletier, Canadian comedian and film director

* 1961 – Dexter Scott King, American actor and film maker, son of Martin Luther King, Jr.

* 1961 – Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director

Frankenheimer returned to television during the late 1950s, moving to film permanently in 1961 with The Young Savages, in which he worked for the first time with Burt Lancaster in a story of a young boy murdered by a New York gang.

In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent supporting roles in such films as The Comancheros ( 1961 ), John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 1962 ), and Donovan's Reef ( 1963 ), all starring John Wayne, with Marvin's roles getting larger with each film.

* 1961 – Bob Yari, Iranian-American film producer

Brando directed and starred in the cult western film One-Eyed Jacks that was released in 1961, after which he delivered a series of box office failures beginning with the non-success of the 1962 film adaptation of Mutiny on the Bounty.

See also note 43 at p. 163, with references to Palanque ( 1933 ), Gaudemet ( 1972 ), Matthews ( 1975 ) and King ( 1961 )</ ref > Under Ambrose's influence, Theodosius issued the 391 " Theodosian decrees ," which with increasing intensity outlawed Pagan practises, and the Altar of Victory was removed by Gratian.

* King of the Roaring 20's-The Story of Arnold Rothstein ( 1961 )

* 1961 – Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.

( 1961 ) The Northerners: A Study in the Reign of King John.

Hassan II became King of Morocco on March 3, 1961.

* 1895 – King Zog I of Albania ( d. 1961 )

He is also among the seven Freedom Riders of 1961, and a friend of Martin Luther King, Jr.

* Brion Gysin used the King James translation of the Songs of Songs in the cut-up poem The Poem of Poems ( 1958 – 1961 )

** King Zog of Albania ( d. 1961 )

* Wyncie King, American illustrator ( d. 1961 )

He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), The African Queen ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Misfits ( 1961 ), and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ).

In response, Thai authors Seni and Kukrit Pramoj wrote their own account in 1948 and sent it to American politician and diplomat Abbot Low Moffat ( 1901 – 1996 ), who drew on it for his biography Mongkut, the King of Siam ( 1961 ).

* In 1961 the King was a laureate of the Nansen Refugee Award.

Martin Luther King Jr. visited King County for two days in November 1961.

* Beggar to a King ( recorded under his real name ),( later recorded by Hank Snow in 1961, it made it to # 5 on the country singles chart )

* Hurd Hatfield portrayed Pilate in Nicholas Ray's film King of Kings ( 1961 ).

After the incorporation of Lake Forest Park in 1961, the remainder of the Shoreline School District remained an unincorporated portion of King County.

* Philip King: See How They Run ( 1945 ) Big Bad Mouse ( 1957 ) Pools Paradise ( 1961 )

King of Diamonds was picked up for syndication in 1961, but ran for only one season before being cancelled.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

* Zog of Albania ( 1895 – 1961 ), King of Albania from 1928 to 1939

* 1961 Charles Brown Sings Christmas Songs ( King )