Events

• October 27: David Horsley's, Nestor Motion Picture Company opens the first motion picture studio in Hollywood.

Films released in 1911

• The Adventures of Lieutenant Daring
• Aerial Anarchists
• Aida
• Alkali Ike's Auto
• Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen
• Baseball and Bloomers
• The Battle
• The Black Arrow
• Brown of Harvard
• The Buddhist Priestess
• Cally's Comet
• The Coffin Ship
• The Colonel and the King
• Courting Across the Court
• The Cowboy and the Lady
• Defence of Sevastopol
• Flames and Fortune
• For Her Sake
• Friday the 13th
• The Godfather
• His Trust
• His Trust Fulfilled
• Her Crowning Glory
• L'Inferno
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Life As It Is
• Little Nemo
• The Higher Law
• The Lonedale Operator
• Der Müller und sein Kind
• The Pasha's Daughter
• Princess Clementina
• The Railroad Builder
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Smuggler
• Sweet Memories
• A Tale of Two Cities
• That's Happiness
• What Shall We Do with Our Old?
• Won by Wireless

Births

• January 3 - John Sturges, director (d. 1992)
• January 5 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (d. 2001)
• January 7 - Butterfly McQueen, actress (d. 1995)
• January 22 - Mary Hayley Bell, actress, writer and dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (d 2005)
• February 6 - Ronald Reagan, actor, United States President (d. 2004)
• February 14 - Florence Rice, actress (d. 1974)
• February 19 - Merle Oberon, actress (d. 1979)
• March 3 - Jean Harlow, actress (d. 1937)
• March 18 - Smiley Burnette, actor, musician (d. 1967)
• May 11 - Phil Silvers, actor (d. 1985)
• May 16 - Margaret Sullavan, actress (d. 1960)
• May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (d. 1998)
• May 18 - Sigrid Gurie, actress (d. 1969)
• June 3 - Ellen Corby, actress (d. 1999)
• June 20 - Gail Patrick (d. 1980)
• June 29 - Bernard Hermann, composer (d. 1975)
• July 6 - Laverne Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters (d. 1967)
• July 14 - Terry-Thomas, actor (d. 1990)
• July 16 - Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer (d. 1995)
• July 18 - Hume Cronyn, actor (d. 2003)
• August 5 - Robert Taylor, actor (d. 1969)
• August 6 - Lucille Ball, actress (d. 1989)
• August 7 - Nicholas Ray, director(d. 1979)
• August 12 - Jane Wyatt, actress (d. 2006)
• August 12 - Cantinflas, actor (d. 1993)
• September 2 - Erwin Hillier, cinematographer (d. 2005)
• October 13 - Ashok Kumar, actor, India (d. 2001)
• October 20 - Will Rogers, Jr., actor (d. 1993)
• October 27 - Leif Erickson, actor (d. 1986)
• November 4 – Frederick W. Elvidge, actor (d. 1988)
• November 5 - Roy Rogers, singer, actor (d. 1998)
• November 10 - Harry Andrews, actor (d. 1989)
• December 8 - Lee J. Cobb, actor (d. 1976)
• December 30 - Jeanette Nolan, actress (d. 1998)

Deaths

• October 27 - Francis Boggs, film director
• November 2 - Harold Kyrle Bellew(1850-1911), actor
• December 22 - Wright Lorimer(1874-1911), stage actor, writer of The Shepherd King filmed in 1923.

Debuts

• Lionel Barrymore
• Sidney Drew
• Anna Q. Nilsson
• Harold Lockwood
• Lenore Ulric
• Ann Little
• Lois Weber(as an actress, writer & director)
• Francis X. Bushman
• Lillian Russell
• Anita Stewart