1974 is the 5th year of 1970's.
Theatrical releases[]
Feature films[]
- January 24 - Sacred Knives of Vengeance
- January 28 - Black Belt Jones
- February 6 - McQ
- February 7 - Blazing Saddles
- March 27 - Mame
- April 10 - Our Time
- May 13 - Welcome to Arrow Beach
- May 17 - Black Eye
- May 19 - Zandy's Bride
- June 7 - Craze
- June 19 - The Terminal Man
- July 10 - Oliver Twist
- July 26 - Uptown Saturday Night
- August 14 - Black Samson
- October 1 - It's Alive
- October 2 - Hangup
- October 3 - The Abdication
- November 19 - Animals Are Beautiful People
- December 9 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- December 14 - The Towering Inferno (20th Century Fox)
- December 20 - Black Christmas
- December 25 - Freebie and the Bean
Shorts[]
Television[]
Theme park happenings[]
Albums[]
People[]
Births[]
- February 11 - Isaiah Mustafa (actor)
- February 17 - Bryan White (singer-songwriter)
- September 30 - Ashley Hamilton (actor, comedian and singer-songwriter)
- October 6 - Jeremy Sisto (actor)
Deaths[]
- January 2 - Ralph Block (film producer and screenwriter)
- January 31 - Roger Pryor (actor)
- February 7 - John Didrik Johnsen (background artist and layout artist)
- February 12 - Brown Holmes (screenwriter)
- March 3 - Frank Wilcox (actor)
- March 8 - Martha Wentworth (actress)
- March 13 - Howard St. John (actor)
- March 19 - Edward Platt (actor)
- March 29 - Seton I. Miller (screenwriter and producer)
- April 2 - Douglass Dumbrille (actor)
- April 11 - Ernst Ziegler (actor)
- April 18 - Betty Compson (actress and producer)
- April 26 - Tim Spencer (singer, songwriter and actor)
- April 30 - Agnes Moorehead (actress)
- May 18 - Mary Maguire (actress)
- May 25 - Donald Crisp (actor, producer, director and screenwriter)
- May 28 - Gerald Oliver Smith (actor)
- June 2 - Elliott Sullivan (actor)
- June 27 - Cliff Friend (songwriter and pianist)
- June - Cal Dalton (animator)
- July 14 - Byron Sage (actor)
- July 19 - Joe Flynn (actor and voice actor)
- July 20 - Allen Jenkins (actor and singer)
- August 3 - Almira Sessions (actress)
- August 10 - Pedro Regas (actor)
- September 14 - Warren Hull (actor, singer and television personality)
- September 21 — Walter Brennan (actor and singer)
- October 10 - Werner Heyking (actor)
- October 31 - Chubby Johnson (actor and journalist)
- November 25 - Rosemary Lane (actress and singer)
- December 1 - Keith Darling (animator)
- December 11
- Walter Coy (actor)
- Reed Hadley (actor)
- December 26 - Jack Benny (entertainer)
Artists Joined[]
Character debuts[]
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