List of biographical films of 1970s

The following is a list of biographical films released of the 1970s.

1970

Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
A Bullet for Pretty Boy [1]	Pretty Boy Floyd	Fabian
Chisum [2]	John Chisum	John Wayne
Cromwell [3]	Oliver Cromwell	Richard Harris
The Cross and the Switchblade [4]	David Wilkerson	Pat Boone
The Honeymoon Killers [5]	Martha Beck	Shirley Stoler
	Raymond Fernandez	Tony Lo Bianco
Julius Caesar [6]	Julius Caesar	Charlton Heston
Michael the Brave [7]	Michael the Brave	Amza Pellea
Ned Kelly [8]	Ned Kelly	Mick Jagger
Patton [9]	George S. Patton	George C. Scott
Song of Norway [10]	Edvard Grieg	Toralv Maurstad
	Rikard Nordraak	Frank Porretta
Szerelmi álmok – Liszt [11]	Franz Liszt	Imre Sinkovits
Tropic of Cancer [12]	Henry Miller	Rip Torn
The Wild Child [13]	Victor of Aveyron	Jean-Pierre Cargol

1971

Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
Brian's Song [14]	Brian Piccolo	James Caan
The Devils [15]	Urbain Grandier	Oliver Reed
Doc [16]	Doc Holliday	Stacy Keach
Evel Knievel [17]	Evel Knievel	George Hamilton
Macbeth [18]	Macbeth of Scotland	Jon Finch
Mary, Queen of Scots [19]	Mary, Queen of Scots	Vanessa Redgrave
	Elizabeth I of England	Glenda Jackson
The Music Lovers [20]	Pyotr Tchaikovsky	Richard Chamberlain
Nicholas and Alexandra [21]	Tsar Nicholas II	Michael Jayston
	Tsaritsa Alexandra of Russia	Janet Suzman
Rain for a Dusty Summer [22]	Miguel Pro	Humberto Almazán
10 Rillington Place [23]	John Reginald Christie	Richard Attenborough

1972

Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall	Spike Milligan	Jim Dale
The Assassination of Trotsky [24]	Leon Trotsky	Richard Burton
Aguirre, the Wrath of God [25]	Lope de Aguirre	Klaus Kinski
Antony and Cleopatra [26]	Mark Antony	Charlton Heston
	Cleopatra VII	Hildegarde Neil
Brother Sun, Sister Moon [27]	St. Francis of Assisi	Graham Faulkner
	St. Clare of Assisi	Judi Bowker
Dirty Little Billy [27]	Billy the Kid	Michael J. Pollard
The Great Waltz [27]	Johann Strauss II	Horst Buchholz
Henry VIII and His Six Wives [28]	Henry VIII	Keith Michell
	Anne Boleyn	Charlotte Rampling
Lady Caroline Lamb [29]	Lady Caroline Lamb	Sarah Miles
Lady Sings the Blues [30]	Billie Holiday	Diana Ross
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean [31]	Judge Roy Bean	Paul Newman
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci [32]	Leonardo da Vinci	Philippe Leroy
Living Free [33]	George Adamson	Nigel Davenport
	Joy Adamson	Susan Hampshire
Ludwig [34]	Ludwig II of Bavaria	Helmut Berger
Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King [35]	Ludwig II of Bavaria	Harry Baer
The Mattei Affair [36]	Enrico Mattei	Gian Maria Volonté
Pancho Villa [37]	Pancho Villa	Telly Savalas
Pope Joan [38]	Pope Joan	Liv Ullmann
Savage Messiah [39]	Henri Gaudier-Brzeska	Scott Antony
Tadas Blinda	Tadas Blinda	Vytautas Tomkus
The Valachi Papers	Joseph Valachi	Charles Bronson
Young Winston [40]	Winston Churchill	Simon Ward

1973

Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
Dillinger [41]	John Dillinger	Warren Oates
Giordano Bruno	Giuliano Montaldo	Gian Maria Volonté
Edvard Munch [42]	Edvard Munch	Geir Westby
Hitler: The Last Ten Days [43]	Adolf Hitler	Alec Guinness
Jesus Christ Superstar [44]	Jesus	Ted Neeley
The Last American Hero [45]	Junior Johnson	Jeff Bridges
Lucky Luciano [46]	Lucky Luciano	Gian Maria Volonté
Maurie [47]	Maurice Stokes	Bernie Casey
	Jack Twyman	Bo Svenson
Papillon [48]	Henri Charrière	Steve McQueen
	Louis Dega	Dustin Hoffman
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid	Pat Garrett	James Coburn
	Billy the Kid [48]	Kris Kristofferson
Serpico [49]	Frank Serpico	Al Pacino
Walking Tall [50]	Buford Pusser	Joe Don Baker

1974

Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
The Abdication [51]	Queen Christina of Sweden	Liv Ullmann
Conrack [52]	Pat Conroy	Jon Voight
The Education of Sonny Carson [53]	Robert "Sonny" Carson	Rony Clanton
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser [54]	Kaspar Hauser	Bruno S.
Karl May [35]	Karl May	Helmut Käutner
The Great McGonagall [55]	William McGonagall	Spike Milligan
Lenny [56]	Lenny Bruce	Dustin Hoffman
Mahler [57]	Gustav Mahler	Robert Powell
	Alma Mahler	Georgina Hale
Stavisky [58]	Alexandre Stavisky	Jean-Paul Belmondo
The Story of Jacob and Joseph [59]	Jacob	Keith Michell
	Joseph	Tony Lo Bianco
Visit to a Chief's Son [60]	Kevin Gorman	John Philip Hogdon

1975

Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
Babe	Babe Didrickson	Susan Clark
Capone [61]	Al Capone	Ben Gazzara
Dog Day Afternoon [62]	Sonny Wortzik	Al Pacino
Galileo [63]	Galileo Galilei	Chaim Topol
The Happy Hooker	Xaviera Hollander	Lynn Redgrave
The Hiding Place [64]	Corrie ten Boom	Julie Harris
Lepke [65]	Louis Buchalter	Tony Curtis
Lisztomania [66]	Franz Liszt	Roger Daltrey
Moses the Lawgiver [67]	Moses	Burt Lancaster
Murph the Surf [68]	Jack Roland Murphy	Don Stroud
The Naked Civil Servant [68]	Quentin Crisp	John Hurt
The Other Side of the Mountain [69]	Jill Kinmont	Marilyn Hassett
The Story of Adele H. [70]	Adèle Hugo	Isabelle Adjani
Un prete scomodo	Lorenzo Milani	Enrico Maria Salerno

1976

Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
Amelia Earhart [71]	Amelia Earhart	Susan Clark
Bound for Glory [72]	Woody Guthrie	David Carradine
Bruce Lee and I [73]	Bruce Lee	Danny Lee
	Betty Ting Pei	Betty Ting Pei
Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth [74]	Bruce Lee	Bruce Li
Buffalo Bill and the Indians [75]	Buffalo Bill	Paul Newman
The Disappearance of Aimee	Aimee Semple McPherson	Faye Dunaway
Eleanor and Franklin [76]	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Edward Herrmann
	Eleanor Roosevelt	Jane Alexander
Fellini's Casanova	Giacomo Casanova	Donald Sutherland
Gable and Lombard [77]	Clark Gable	James Brolin
	Carole Lombard	Jill Clayburgh
Helter Skelter	Vincent Bugliosi	George DiCenzo
	Charles Manson	Steve Railsback
James Dean [78]	James Dean	Stephen McHattie
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln	Mary Todd Lincoln	Julie Harris
Mad Dog Morgan [79]	Dan Morgan	Dennis Hopper [80]
The Message [81]	Muhammad	Anthony Quinn
The Story of David	King David	Timothy Bottoms
Sybil [82]	Shirley Ardell Mason	Sally Field
W.C. Fields and Me [83]	W. C. Fields	Rod Steiger

1977

Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
Chanakya Chandragupta [84]	Chanakya	Akkineni Nageswara Rao
	Chandragupta	N. T. Rama Rao
The Amazing Howard Hughes	Howard Hughes	Tommy Lee Jones
Greased Lightning [85]	Wendell Scott	Richard Pryor
The Greatest [86]	Muhammad Ali	Muhammad Ali
MacArthur [87]	Douglas MacArthur	Gregory Peck
Looking for Mr. Goodbar [88]	Roseann Quinn	Diane Keaton
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover [89]	J. Edgar Hoover	Broderick Crawford
The Trial of Ned Kelly	Ned Kelly	John Waters
Rembrandt fecit 1669	Rembrandt	Frans Stelling as (Rembrandt young)
		Ton de Koff as (Rembrandt old)
Scott Joplin	Scott Joplin	Billy Dee Williams
Valentino [90]	Rudolph Valentino	Rudolf Nureyev
Wilma	Wilma Rudolph	Shirley Jo Finney

1978

Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
American Hot Wax [91]	Alan Freed	Tim McIntire
Bud and Lou	Bud Abbott	Harvey Korman
	Lou Costello	Buddy Hackett
The Buddy Holly Story [92]	Buddy Holly	Gary Busey
Deadman's Curve [93]	Jan Berry	Richard Hatch
	Dean Torrence	Bruce Davison
Diary of Korean-Japanese War [94]	Yi Sun-sin	Kim Jin-kyu
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe [95]	Ishi	Eloy Casados
La Vida y Poesia de Julia de Burgos	Julia de Burgos	Ana Li Diaz
King [96]	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	Paul Winfield
The Lost Boys	J. M. Barrie	Ian Holm
Midnight Express [97]	Billy Hayes	Brad Davis
Pretty Baby [98]	Ernest J. Bellocq	Keith Carradine
Veera Puran Appu [99]	Puran Appu	Ravindra Randeniya
	Gongalegoda Banda	Joe Abeywickrama
The Defection of Simas Kudirka [100]	Simas Kudirka	Alan Arkin
The Roads of Exile	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	François Simon

1979

Film	Subject(s)	Lead actor or actress
Backstairs at the White House [101]	Maggie Rogers	Olivia Cole
	Lillian Rogers Parks	Leslie Uggams
Birth of The Beatles [102]	John Lennon	Stephen MacKenna
	Paul McCartney	Rod Culbertson
	George Harrison	John Altman
	Ringo Starr	Ray Ashcroft
A Glass Of Water [103]	Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham	Svetlana Smirnova [ citation needed ]
The Bronte Sisters [104]	Charlotte Brontë	Isabelle Adjani
	Emily Brontë	Marie-France Pisier
	Anne Brontë	Isabelle Huppert
Caligula [105]	Gaius Germanicus Caligula	Malcolm McDowell
Elvis [106]	Elvis Presley	Kurt Russell
Escape from Alcatraz [107]	Frank Morris	Clint Eastwood
Jesus [108]	Jesus	Brian Deacon
Les Égouts du paradis	Albert Spaggiari	Francis Huster
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery [109]		Ian McShane [ citation needed ]
Meetings with Remarkable Men [109]	George Gurdjieff	Dragan Maksimovic
The Onion Field [110]	Karl Francis Hettinger	John Savage
	Gregory Powell	James Woods
	Jimmy Lee Smith	Franklyn Seales
Vlad Tepes	Vlad the Impaler	Stefan Sileanu [111]

See also

• List of biographical films
• biographical films

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