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The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• Matsunosuke Onoe, who would become the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu.
• James Joyce opens the Volta, the first cinema in Dublin.

Films released in 1909

• The Adventures of Lieutenant Rose
• At the Altar
• A Corner in Wheat
• The Country Doctor
• The Cowboy Millionaire
• The Curtain Pole
• The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period
• The Drive for a Life - Directed by D.W. Griffith
• A Drunkard's Reformation
• Fools of Fate
• The Golden Louis
• The Hessian Renegades
• Les Joyeux microbes
• Lady Helen's Escapade
• Le Locataire diabolique
• The Lonely Villa
• Macbeth
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Mr. Flip
• Nerone
• Oliver Twist
• Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy
• The Red Man's View
• Resurrection
• The Sealed Room
• Those Awful Hats
• A Trap for Santa Claus

Births

• January 1 - Dana Andrews, actor (d. 1992)
• January 3 - Victor Borge, musician, actor (d. 2000)
• January 8 - José Ferrer, actor (d. 1992)
• January 8 - Willy Millowitsch, actor (d. 1999)
• January 15 - Gene Krupa, musician, actor (d. 1973)
• January 22 - Ann Sothern, actress (d. 2001)
• February 9 - Carmen Miranda, singer, actress (d. 1955)
• February 9 - Heather Angel, actress (d. 1986)
• February 11 - Max Baer - boxer, actor (d. 1959)
• February 11 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - director, screenwriter, producer (d. 1993)
• February 16 - Jeffrey Lynn, actor (d. 1995)
• March 19 - Louis Hayward, actor (d. 1995)
• March 26 - Chips Rafferty, actor (d. 1971)
• April 29 - Tom Ewell, actor (d. 1994)
• May 15 - James Mason, actor (d. 1984)
• May 30 - Benny Goodman, musician, actor (d. 1986)
• June 7 - Jessica Tandy, actress (d. 1994)
• June 14 - Burl Ives, actor (d. 1995)
• June 20 - Errol Flynn, actor (d. 1959)
• July 1 - Madge Evans, actress (d. 1981)
• July 12 - Curly Joe DeRita, actor (d. 1993)
• August 18 - Marcel Carné, director (d. 1996)
• August 22 - Lucille Ricksen, actress (d. 1925)
• August 25 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993)
• August 25 - Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971)
• September 7 - Elia Kazan, director (d. 2003)
• October 9 - Jacques Tati, actor, director, screenwriter (d. 1982)
• November 11 - Robert Ryan, actor (d. 1973)
• November 26 - Frances Dee, actress (d. 2004)
• December 9 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor (d. 2000)
• December 12 - Karen Morley, actress (d. 2003)
• December 20 - Diane Ellis, actress (d. 1930)

Deaths

• (unknown)

Film Debuts

• Fatty Arbuckle
• Moe Howard