* The city in the 1976 film Logan's Run is entirely self-contained for all resources, except power, which is said to be supplied by water moved by the tides.

In 1976 he appeared in his first mainstream film role, in Martin Scorsese's landmark Taxi Driver ; Scorsese allowed Brooks to improvise much of his dialogue.

* Communion, a 1976 horror film ( also called Alice, Sweet Alice ) starring Brooke Shields

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

* Cyclops ( 1976 film ), a Bulgarian film

* 1890 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director ( d. 1976 )

* 1905 – Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor ( d. 1976 )

Born in Los Angeles, he entered the film industry in 1976, initially as an actor.

* 1906 – Carol Reed, English film director ( d. 1976 )

In 1976 he earned acclaim for his first major film role, portraying Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dying planet, in The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nic Roeg.

In the 2008 film August, directed by Austin Chick, he played a supporting role as Ogilvie, alongside Josh Hartnett and Rip Torn, with whom he had worked in 1976 for The Man Who Fell to Earth.

Devo gained some fame in 1976 when the short film The Truth About De-Evolution by Chuck Statler won a prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

" Secret Agent Man " had been recorded first in 1974 for Devo's first film and performed live as early as 1976.

In the fall of 1976, Herzog visited Plainfield again, this time to shoot part of his film Stroszek.

The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

The Toronto International Film Festival, begun in 1976, is regarded North America's most major and most prestigious film festival, and the most widely attended worldwide.

Nagisa Oshima directed In the Realm of the Senses ( 1976 ), a film detailing a crime of passion involving Sada Abe set in the 1930s.

* 1976 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor

More contemporary renditions include samples from such popular artists as Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers ( 1963 ), The Byrds ( 1970 ), Elvis Presley ( 1971 ), Skeeter Davis ( 1972 ), Mighty Clouds of Joy ( 1972 ), Amazing Rhythm Aces ( 1975 ), Willie Nelson ( 1976 ), and The Lemonheads ( 1992 ).

* 1976 – In New York, New York, David Berkowitz ( aka the " Son of Sam ") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.

* 1976 – Sam Riegel, American voice actor, writer and director

On 26 April 1976, while on a revival tour of The Mating Season, a 1969 farce by the Irish playwright Sam Cree, James suffered a heart attack on stage at the Sunderland Empire Theatre.

Yahoos were referenced in a letter sent by serial killer David Berkowitz to New York City police while committing the " Son of Sam " murders in 1976.

Public choice's application to government regulation was developed by George Stigler ( 1971 ) and Sam Peltzman ( 1976 ).

The song has been covered a number of other times, notably by Peter Gabriel in 1976 on the musical documentary All This and World War II, and by Ben Harper for the soundtrack of the film I Am Sam.

Actor Sam Worthington was born in Godalming in 1976, before moving to Australia at a young age.

* July 29, 1976 – David Berkowitz ( aka the " Son of Sam ") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.

In the 1976 film The Last Hard Men, actor Charlton Heston portrayed Captain Sam Burgade, a retired Captain of the Arizona Rangers who pursues the ruthless outlaw who has escaped from prison and kidnapped Burgade's daughter for revenge.

* 1976: Dave Holland / Sam Rivers ( Improvising Artists )

* 1976: Sam Rivers / Dave Holland Vol.

The television film Goodnight, My Love ( 1972 ) with Richard Boone and two short-lived TV series, Banyon ( 1972 – 73 ) and City of Angels ( 1976 ) were also set in the 1930s and pay tribute to the Sam Spade / Philip Marlowe model.

Over the years, it's also been done by ( among others ) Smiley Lewis ( 1954 ), the Rivileers ( 1954 ), Sam Cooke ( 1958 ), Jesse Belvin ( 1959 ), the Voices Five ( 1959 ), Donnie Elbert ( 1960 ), the Cleftones ( 1961 ), the Spaniels ( 1961 ), Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells ( 1964 ), Rufus Thomas ( 1971 ), James Brown ( 1976 ) and Rod Stewart ( 2004 ).

* Norman Blake / Tut Taylor / Sam Bush / Butch Robins / Vassar Clements / David Holland / Jethro Burns ( Flying Fish, 1976 )

In 1976 he travelled to America, and set up a 1, 000-kilo deal between Combs and ' Lebanese Sam ' – making himself £ 300, 000 in the process ; he continued to regularly set up deals between his various American and Far East connections.

The Last Tycoon is a 1976 American dramatic film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, based upon Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, sometimes known as The Love of the Last Tycoon.

In 1976 a remake of the Sam Cooke song " Cupid " became the group's last Top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100.

*" The Sam " Adamson Award, Best International Comic Strip Cartoonist, Swedish Academy of Comic Art, 1976,

He was elected to the Senate in 1976 as a Democrat, having defeated Republican Party ( GOP ) U. S. Representative Sam Steiger for the open seat left by retiring GOP Senator Paul Fannin.

* Sam Allred-weather anchor ( 1976 – 1983 )

* Sam Goodwin ( 1976 – 1981 )