1961

The following are events that took place in the year 1961.

Debuts

 * British actor Keith Barron makes his film debut.
 * British bodybuilder Reg Park makes his film debut as the lead in both Hercules and the Captive Women and Hercules in the Haunted World. He had thus joined the long list of international bodybuilders that were recruited by Italian film studios during the late 1950s and mid-1960s to star in sword-and-sandal epics during its peak during the almost 10-year course of that film genre craze.

Events

 * It was reported that the first James Bond film "Dr. No" was in production.