Sixty-Six Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967). Table Summary.


TABLE SUMMARY OF SIXTY-SIX QUEER FILMS MADE UNDER THE HAYS CODE.


DIRECTORS

who directed
gay characters
in one or more of
the
66
Queer Films mentioned.
If the director is/was gay,
their name is highlighted in red.

ACTORS
who played
gay
characters
in one or more of
the
66
Queer Films
mentioned.
If the
actor
is/was gay,
their name is highlighted in red.

ACTORS
(continued)
who played
gay
character(s)
in one or more of
the
66
Queer Films
mentioned.
If the
actor
is/was gay,
their name is highlighted in red.
Gay 
Screen
writers
and
Gay
Writers of
Source Material
for one or
more of
the
66
Queer Films
mentioned.
Gay Costume Designers
who worked
on one or more of the
66
Queer Films listed.
Alfred Hitchcock
(4)
Dirk Bogarde
(3)


Jack Lemmon
(1)
Tennessee Williams
(3) 
Edith Head
(4)
Peter Lorre
(1)
Orry-Kelly
(4)
George Cukor
(3)
 Mercedes McCambridge
(2)
Shirley Maclaine
(1)
Patricia Highsmith
(2)
Bill Thomas
(4)
Michael Curtiz
(3)
 Fred MacMurray (1)
Howard Hawks
(3)
Nick Adams
(1)
 
George Macready
(1)
 Patrick Dennis
(1) 
Gilbert Adrian
(3)
Judith Anderson
(1)
Peter McEnery
(1)
*
Leonard Gershe
(1)
William Travilla
(3)
Edward Dmytryk
(2)
Bibi Andersson
(1)
Audrey Meadows
(1)
William Inge
(1)
 
John Huston
(2)
Lauren Bacall
(1)
Murray Melvin
(1)
 
Carson McCullers
(1)
Charles Le Maire
(2)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(2)
*
Anne Baxter
(1)
Sal Mineo
(1)
 
Herman Melville
(1)
 
Moss Mabry
(2)
Delbert Mann
(2)
Candice Bergen
(1)
Agnes Moorhead
(1)
Gore Vidal
(1)
 
Anthony Mendelson
(2)
Otto Preminger
(2)
Humphrey Bogart
(1)
Don Murray
(1) 
Bernard Newman
(2)
Nicholas Ray
(2)
Claire Bloom
(1)
Florence Nash
(1)
Tony Richardson
(2)
Eric Blore
(1)
Paul Newman
(1)
 Bill Blass
(1)
Billy Wilder
(2)
*
Stephen Boyd
(1)
Laurence Olivier
(1)
 
Howard Greer
(1)
William Wyler
(2)
Marlon Brando
(1)
Anthony Perkins
(1)

*
 Harry Haynes
(1)
Coral Browne
(1)

*
Brock Peters
(1)
Jean Louis
(1)
Robert Aldrich
(1)
*
Victor Buono
(1)
Lidia Prochnicka
(1)
 Oliver Messel
(1)
Lewis Allen
(1)
Colin Campbell
(1)
Claude Rains
(1)
 Walter Plunkett
(1)
Ingmar Bergman
(1)
Capucine
(1)
Tony Randall
(1)
 Howard Shoup
(1)
Richard Brooks
(1)
Montgomery Clift
(1)
Edward G. Robinson
(1)
Edward Stevenson (1)
David Butler
(1)
Elisha Cook Jr
(1)
Gail Russell
(1)
 Rouben Ter-Arutnian
(1)
Rene Clement
(1)
Cicely Courtneidge
(1)
Robert Ryan
(1)
Arlington Valles
(1)
John Cromwell
(1)
Joan Crawford
(1)
George Saunders
(1)
Morton DaCosta
(1)
Hume Cronyn
(1
)
*
Cornelia Otis Skinner
(1)
 
Jules Dassin (1)John Dall
(1)
Robert Stack
(1)
Basil Dearden
(1)
Zorro David
(1)
Terence Stamp
(1)
 
Stanley Donen
(1)
*
Alexander Davion
(1) 
Barbara Stanwyck
(1)

Victor Fleming
(1)
Doris Day
(1)
Rod Steiger
(1)
*
 
Bryan Forbes
(1)
Alain Delon
(1)
James Stewart
(1)
 
Sidney J. Furie
(1)
Hilton Edwards
(1)
 
Dudley Sutton
(1)
 
Michael Gordon
(1)
Hope Emerson
(1) 
Ernest Thesiger
 (1)
Robert Hamer
(1)
Leif Erickson
(1)
Kay Thompson
(1)
Elia Kazan
(1)
Robert Eyer
(1)
Liv Ullmann
(1)
William Keighley
(1)
Glenn Ford
(1)
Peter Ustinov
(1)
 
Stanley Kubrick
(1)
*
James Fox
(1)
*
Lee Van Cleef
(1)
Mervin LeRoy
(1)
Betty Garde
(1)
Robert Walker
(1)
 
Joseph H. Lewis
(1)
Lowell Gilmore
(1)
Douglas Walton
(1)
Joseph Losey
(1)
Farley Granger
(1)
 
David Wayne
(1)
Sidney Lumet
(1)
*
Cary Grant
(1)
Clifton Webb
(1)
Vincente Minnelli
(1)
Sydney Greenstreet
(1)
Monty Wooley
(1)
Mark Robson
(1)
Alec Guinness
(1)
Gig Young
(1)  
Mark Sandrich
(1)
 Hurd Hartfield
(1)


Douglas Sirk (1)Katherine Hepburn
(1)
  

John Schlesinger
(1)

*
Charlton Heston
(1)
 
Peter Ustinov
(1)
Earl Holliman
(1)
 
Charles Vidor
(1)
Edward Everett Horton
(1)
Paul America
(1)

**
 
Andy Warhol
(1)
Rock Hudson
(1)
Joe Campbell
(1)

**
Chuck Wein
(1)
Ruth Hussey
(1) 
Richard Deacon
(1)

**
 
 
Orson Welles
(1)
John Ireland
(1)
Ed Hood
(1)

**
 
James Whale
(1)
John Kerr
(1)
Lynda Grey
(1)

**
Christopher Fry
(1) 
** 
Robert Wise
(1)
Bert Lahr
(1)
Katherine Kurasch
(1)
**
 
Gore Vidal
(1)
**
*Directors and actors who also appear in my follow-up article; Fifty-Two Post-Hays Code Queer Films Released in the Decade 1967-1976
**Uncredited.

Sixty-Six Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967). – TheBrownees

Fifty-Two Post-Hays Code Queer Films Released in the Decade 1967-1976. – TheBrownees

Fifty-Two Post-Hays Code Queer Films Released in the Decade 1967-1976. Table Summary. – TheBrownees

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