1. Events

2. Top-grossing films (U.S.)

3. Films released in 1913

4. Short film series

5. Births

6. Deaths

7. Film debuts

8. References

1913 was a particularly fruitful year for film as an art form, and is often cited one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1917.

The year was one where filmmakers of several countries made great artistic advancements, producing notable pioneering masterpieces such as The Student of Prague (Stellan Rye), Suspense (Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber), Atlantis (August Blom), Raja Harischandra (D. G. Phalke), Juve contre Fantomas (Louis Feuillade), Quo Vadis? (Enrico Guazzoni), Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström), The Mothering Heart (D. W. Griffith), Ma l’amor mio non muore! (Mario Caserini), L’enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret), and Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Yevgenii Bauer).

Events

• January 1 - The British Board of Film Censors is established
• April 21 - The first full-length Indian (and Marathi) feature film Raja Harishchandra (silent)^[1][2] has its première (public release May 3).
• May - Mary Pickford signs a contract with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company for $500 per week, becoming the company's first superstar.^[3]
• Jesse L. Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel Goldwyn and Oscar Apfel found Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
• November 24 - Traffic in Souls is an early example of the narrative style of Hollywood film.
• December 29 - Charlie Chaplin signs a contract with Mack Sennett to begin making films at Keystone Studios.
• December 29 - release of The Adventures of Kathlyn, the second American serial film and the first to feature cliffhanger endings that became popular with later serials.
• December 29 - production starts on Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company's The Squaw Man, the first full-length Hollywood feature film.
• D. W. Griffith ends his series of Biograph shorts, begun in 1908, and leaves the Biograph Company in New York City to make full-length motion pictures.
• Georges Méliès' career as a director comes to an end.
• Cines-Palast in Berlin opens as a cinema with Quo Vadis.
• Mitchell and Kenyon shoot their last known films in England.
• Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle signs for Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios and his early films for them feature the first known instances of pie thrown on film.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1913

• Addio giovinezza!
• The Adventures of Kathlyn, (serial), starring Kathlyn Williams
• American Born
• Article 47, L'
• Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Enrico Guazzoni
• Arizona
• At Midnight
• Atlantis, directed by August Blom, a second assistant to the director Michael Curtiz; the first Danish feature film.
• The Bangville Police, starring Mabel Normand and The Keystone Cops
• Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life, starring Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, The Keystone Cops, and American race car driver Barney Oldfield.
• The Bartered Bride
• The Battle at Elderbush Gulch, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mae Marsh and Lillian Gish
• Beautiful Bismark
• Breaking into the Big League
• The Caged Bird
• Calamity Anne's Beauty
• Calamity Anne's Dream
• The Battle of Gettysburg
• Calamity Anne's Inheritance
• Calamity Anne's Vanity
• Calamity Anne, Heroine
• Caprice
• The Cub Reporter's Temptation
• David Copperfield
• David Garrick
• Death's Marathon, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet and Lionel Barrymore
• A Desperate Chance
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Eighty Million Women Want -?
• L'Enfant de Paris
• Evidence of the Film
• The Face at the Window
• Fantômas, a film serial (with parts four and five released in 1914):
• À l'ombre de la guillotine
• Juve contre Fantômas
• Le Mort qui tue
• The Fire Coward
• The Flirt and the Bandit
• For Her Boy's Sake
• For the Crown
• For the Flag
• For the Peace of Bear Valley
• A Forest Romance
• The Game Warden
• The Girl and the Greaser
• The Grasshopper and the Ant
• The Greater Love
• The Gusher, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Charles Inslee, and The Keystone Cops
• Hamlet
• The Haunted House
• The Heart of a Fool
• Her Big Story
• Her Gallant Knights
• Hinemoa
• His Neighbor's Wife
• His Wife's Child
• The House in the Tree
• The House of Darkness, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore
• The Idol of Bonanza Camp
• In the Bishop's Carriage
• In the Firelight
• In the Mountains of Virginia
• The Influence of a Child
• Ingeborg Holm, once described as the first "realistic" feature film
• Ivanhoe
• Justice of the Wild
• A Lady of Quality
• The Lady Killer
• The Last Days of Pompeii, directed by Mario Caserini and Eleuterio Rodolfi (One of the early blockbusters in cinema. One of the earliest feature films.)
• Mabel's Awful Mistakes, starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett
• Mabel's Dramatic Career, starring Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, and The Keystone Cops; contains early usage of film-within-a-film
• Mabel's New Hero, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, and The Keystone Cops
• The Mirror
• A Mix-Up in Pedigrees
• Moondyne
• The Mothering Heart, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish
• Mrs. Carter's Campaign
• The New Conductor
• The Night Before Christmas
• Nursery Favorites
• The Oath of Pierre
• The Other (Der Andere)
• The Oath of Tsuru San
• Our Wives
• Personal Magnetism
• The Proof of the Man
• The Pursuit of the Smugglers
• Quicksands
• Quo Vadis?, directed by Enrico Guazzoni (One of the earliest feature films.)
• Raja Harishchandra, often listed as the first Indian feature film
• The Reformers, or the Lost Art of Minding One's Own Business, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Rick's Redemption
• The Rose of San Juan
• Sapho
• A Sawmill Hazard
• Scrooge
• The Sea Wolf, based on the novel by Jack London
• The Scimitar of the Prophet
• The Shoemaker and the Doll
• The Shriner's Daughter
• Il sire di Vincigliata
• Some Fools There Were
• The Speed Kings, starring Mabel Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling and American race car drivers Teddy Tetzlaff, Earl Cooper and Barney Oldfield.
• The Speed Queen, starring Mabel Normand
• The Spender
• The Student of Prague, starring Paul Wegener
• Suspense, directed by Lois Weber; contains early usage of split-screen
• The Tale of the Ticker
• Through the Neighbor's Window
• Through the Sluice Gates
• Traffic in Souls, directed by George Loane Tucker (One of the earliest American feature film.)
• Transported
• Trapped in a Forest Fire
• Truth in the Wilderness
• Twilight of a Woman's Soul
• Unto the Third Generation
• The Unwelcome Guest
• Wamba A Child of the Jungle
• The Werewolf
• When Lincoln Paid
• While There's Life
• Woman's Honor
• Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the earliest feature film of Hong Kong cinema

Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson (1910–1916)
• Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)

Births

• January 2 - Anna Lee, actress (died 2004)
• January 6 - Loretta Young, actress (died 2000)
• January 15 - Lloyd Bridges, actor (died 1998)
• January 18 - Danny Kaye, actor (died 1987)
• January 29 - Victor Mature, actor (died 1999)
• February 8 - Betty Field, actress (died 1973)
• February 10 - Douglas Slocombe, cinematographer (died 2016)
• February 25
  • Jim Backus, actor (died 1989)
  • Gert Fröbe, actor (died 1988)
• March 3 - Charlotte Henry, actress (died 1980)
• March 4 - John Garfield, actor (died 1952)
• March 15 - MacDonald Carey, actor (died 1994)
• March 18 - René Clément, director (died 1996)
• April 16 - Les Tremayne, English-American actor (died 2003)
• May 6 - Stewart Granger, actor (died 1993)
• May 8 - Sid James, actor and comedian (died 1976)
• May 26 - Peter Cushing, actor (died 1994)
• May 27 - Linden Travers, actress (died 2001)
• July 10 - Joan Marsh, actress (died 2000)
• July 18
  • Marvin Miller, American actor (died 1985)
  • Red Skelton, actor, comedian (died 1997)
• July 29 - Gale Page, actress (died 1983)
• August 10 - Noah Beery Jr., actor (died 1994)
• August 13 - Rita Johnson, actress (died 1965)
• August 24 - Dorothy Comingore, actress (died 1971)
• September 3 - Alan Ladd, actor (died 1964)
• September 6 - Julie Gibson, actress
• September 7 - Anthony Quayle, actor (died 1989)
• September 19 - Frances Farmer, actress (died 1970)
• September 29
  • Trevor Howard, actor (died 1988)
  • Stanley Kramer, producer, director (died 2001)
• September 30 - Bill Walsh, producer, writer (died 1975)
• November 2 - Burt Lancaster, actor (died 1994)
• November 4 - Gig Young, actor (died 1978)
• November 5 - Vivien Leigh, actress (died 1967)
• November 13 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (died 1985)
• November 20 - Judy Canova, actress (died 1983)
• November 24
  • Howard Duff, actor (died 1990)
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress (died 2005)
• December 1 - Mary Martin, actress (died 1990)
• December 14 - Dan Dailey, actor (died 1978)
• December 18 - Lynn Bari, actress (died 1989)
• December 25 - Tony Martin, singer, actor (died 2012)

Deaths

• March 15 - John R. Cumpson, stage and film actor (b. 1866)
• June 2 - Eleanor Caines, silent film actress (b. 1880)
• August 3 - Joseph Graybill, actor with D.W. Griffith (b. 1887)

Film debuts

• Wallace Beery - His Athletic Wife (short)
• Gladys Brockwell - His Blind Power
• Lon Chaney - Poor Jake's Demise
• Minnie Maddern Fiske - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• Al St. John - A Noise from the Deep
• Lillie Langtry - His Neighbor's Wife
• Harold Lloyd - The Old Monk's Tale (short) (uncredited)
• Cissie Loftus - A Lady of Quality
• Eugene Pallette - The Fugitive (1913 short) (uncredited)
• Paul Wegener - Der Verfuhrte

References

• Sognsvatn (station)
• Sognu
• Sogny-aux-Moulins
• Sogny-en-l'Angle
• Sogod (disambiguation)
• Sogo (disambiguation)
• Sogodjankoli
• So Goes My Love
• So Goes the Nation
• Sogo (game)
• Sogo Hong Kong
• Sogo Ishii
• Sogo Kazumasa
• Sogolon
• Sogondu
• Sogong-dong
• So Good
• ... So Good Afternoon (album)
• So Good (Boyzone song)
• So Good (Day26 song)
• So Good (disambiguation)
• So Good (Electrik Red song)
• So Good (Eternal song)
• So Good, So Fine
• So Good (Television program)