Top-earning actor
Richard Burton
$1,200,000
Fee for Where Eagles DareDeal
About $11.1 million in 2025 dollars
Burton got $1.2 million; his co-star Clint Eastwood got $800,000.
The Million-Dollar Star · 1960s
1968
Top-earning actress
Julie Andrews
$1,000,000
Star!: $1M against 10% of grossDeal
About $9.3 million in 2025 dollars
Plus 35 cents for every soundtrack album sold.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1968
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
Funny Girl
$24.9 million
- 2
2001: A Space Odyssey
$21.5 million
- 3
The Odd Couple
$20 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.