The first of the re-releases was The Chaplin Revue ( 1959 ), which included new versions of A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms and The Pilgrim, and How to Make Movies, a film he had made in 1918 to show his new studio and which had never before been released.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

Though DeMille completed the film, it proved to be his last, for he never fully recovered, and died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure.

In 1959 Marker made the animated film Les Astronautes with Walerian Borowczyk.

She found success opposite Jack Lemmon in It Happened to Jane, a comedy film released in 1959.

In 1959, Day entered her most successful phase as a film actress with a series of romantic comedies.

* 1959 – Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director

In 1959 Daphne Oram produced a novel method of synthesis, her " Oramics " technique, driven by drawings on a 35 mm film strip ; it was used for a number of years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

* 1959 – Owen Gleiberman, American film critic

* The FBI Story, 1959 film about the Federal Bureau of Investigation

It was eight years before he directed another theatrical film, A Hole in the Head ( 1959 ) with Frank Sinatra, which was his first feature film in color.

* Most Inane Technical Advance: Percepto, designed by William Castle for his 1959 film, The Tingler starring Vincent Price.

He adapted it for a Broadway production in 1959 and an Oscar-winning feature film in 1962, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.

In 1959, he directed a live action feature film, Ugler i Mosen, which also contained stop motion sequences.

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 ).

Hoover was a consultant to Warner Bros. for a 1959 theatrical film about the FBI, The FBI Story, and in 1965 on Warner Bros .' long-running spin-off television series, The F. B. I.

Also the 1959 film " Ben-Hur ", which starred Charlton Heston.

* Laurel Awards 1959: Golden Laurel for Best Leading Actress in a musical film for Gigi

* The Angry Red Planet ( or Invasion of Mars and Journey to Planet Four ), a 1959 science fiction film

* The Angry Red Planet ( 1959 ) – A low-budget horror / science fiction film.

The Bates Motel is an important part of Psycho, a 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho.

* 1959 – Hal Hartley, American film director and writer

* 1959 – Donald Markwell, Australian social scientist and educator

Donald Shell published the first version of this sort in 1959.

He acted at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1959 and was with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1962 Arts Theatre Experimental season ( Nil Carborundum and Afore Night Come ) 1964 ' Dirty Plays ' season Night Come, Victor and the premiere productions of The Marat Sade and the revival of Afore Night Come ), in 1965 at Stratford where he appeared in The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Jew of Malta, Love's Labour's Lost, and Peter Hall's outstanding production of The Government Inspector at the Aldwych Theatre with Paul Scofield, Eric Porter, Donald Burton, Stanley Lebor, Bruce Condell, John Corvin and Tim Wylton among others.

Marr was born on 31 July 1959 in Glasgow, Scotland to Donald and Valerie Marr, his father being an investment trust manager.

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Between 1956 and 1959 Sir Malcolm's son Donald Campbell set four successive records on the lake in Bluebird K7, a hydroplane.

In November 2008, Christie ’ s New York sold a 1959 white " Infinity Net " painting formerly owned by Donald Judd, No. 2, for $ 5. 1 million, then a record for a living female artist.

* Donald Stirling Palmer Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal ( 1891 – 1959 )

Grass Valley was founded as a tiny research and development company in 1959 by Dr. Donald Hare in the small town of Grass Valley, California, in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada range.

Speculation that Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald A. Quarles would succeed him ended with Quarles's death in May 1959.

* Donald MacDonald ( actor ) ( 1898 – 1959 ), American actor and film director

Shane Reflecting Telescope ( C. Donald Shane Telescope ) was built in 1959.

Cooke had entered the U. S. broadcasting industry in August 1959 by acquiring Pasadena, California radio station KRLA 1110 through his brother, Donald Cooke, a U. S. citizen.

The East Course, a Donald Ross design opened in 1918, has hosted several USGA championships since 1959, most recently the 2011 U. S. Women's Open, won by So Yeon Ryu.

" Woo Hoo " is a rockabilly song, credited to George Donald McGraw and originally released by The Rock-A-Teens in 1959.

Walter SickertWalter Richard Sickert ( 31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942 ) was a German-born artist of British and Danish ancestry, who was first mentioned as a possible Ripper suspect in Donald McCormick's 1959 book The Identity of Jack the Ripper.

He had been previously mentioned as a potential suspect in Donald McCormick's 1959 book The Identity of Jack the Ripper.

The first generation consisted of Sauer's own students: Fred Kniffen ( 1930 ), Peveril Meigs ( 1932 ), Donald Brand ( 1933 ), Henry Bruman ( 1940 ), Felix W. McBryde ( 1940 ), Robert Bowman ( 1941 ), Dan Stanislawski ( 1944 ), Robert C. West ( 1946 ), James J. Parsons ( 1948 ), Edwin Doran ( 1953 ), Philip Wagner ( 1953 ), Brigham Arnold ( 1954 ), Homer Aschmann ( 1954 ), B. LeRoy Gordon ( 1954 ), Gordon Merrill ( 1957 ), Donald Innis ( 1958 ), Carl Johannessen ( 1959 ), Clinton Edwards ( 1962 ), and Leonard Sawatzky ( 1967 ).

* Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland ( Honorary Secretary, 1959 – 60 )

The Time Machine stories of Donald Keith appearing in Boys ' Life between 1959 and 1989 were one memorable series.

The Scarf was a six-part serial starring Stephen Murray and Donald Pleasence and was aired by the BBC in February and March 1959.