Classic Actors Ranked In 7 Categories

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We have movie pages on everybody in this picture except for Claudette Colbert…..and her page is coming soon.

Back in 2011 our movie pages used to live at HubPages.com.  One of our most popular pages was one that provided a statistical table that summarized all of the performers that we had written about.  Somehow we forgot to bring that page to our new website.  Well tonight we got an e-mail from somebody at TCM’s message boards requesting for that page to live again.  So we frantically updated some tables…put the information on an operating table……attached it to a machine with lots of blinking lights…..put the lightning rod on the roof…..and then when the lightning hit the rod….Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!

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This Table Can Be Sorted or Ranked in 7 Different Categories

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort by the actor’s amount of movies that we have in our database
  • Sort by the actor’s average adjusted domestic box office gross ….. using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort by the actor’s $100 million domestic box office hits
  • Sort by the actor’s average critic audience rating
  • Sort by the actor’s Oscar® nominations received (all categories for all of their movies)
  • Sort by the actor’s Oscar® wins (all categories for all of their movies)
  • Sort by the actor’s average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score
RankActor or ActressMovie CountAVG Adjusted Domestic Box Office$100 Million Box Office MoviesAVG Critic Audience RatingOscar Nominations All CategoriesOscar Wins All CategoriesAVG Ultimate Movie Rankings Score
Charles Chaplin12$ 116.3681.8 %7151.44
Grace Kelly11$ 157.7876.4 %28857.53
Montgomery Clift17$ 102.1673.3 %572148.09
Cary Grant56$ 107.92973.3 %71947.56
Walter Brennan41$ 110.11573.0 %571047.35
Marilyn Monroe23$ 91.6872.5 %30743.94
Ingrid Bergman32$ 112.61472.2 %661347.28
Judy Garland31$ 127.22072.1 %39650.98
Greta Garbo24$ 54.8271.9 %13138.33
Audrey Hepburn24$ 89.0771.8 %581544.49
William Powell36$ 91.3871.5 %31743.72
Vivien Leigh15$ 148.4471.5 %411543.07
Humphrey Bogart58$ 86.71971.3 %511042.89
James Stewart73$ 98.42271.0 %791443.81
Charles Laughton33$ 85.0971.0 %37743.26
Jean Harlow22$ 79.8670.8 %4039.65
Fred Astaire39$ 103.41370.2 %59744.82
Marlene Dietrich30$ 71.4870.0 %33339.99
Steve McQueen26$ 95.8769.7 %30541.70
Danny Kaye17$ 122.2869.6 %20147.03
Katharine Hepburn43$ 90.31569.3 %631444.68
Burt Lancaster67$ 75.81669.3 %882039.58
Spencer Tracy53$ 122.32669.2 %901748.42
John Garfield31$ 88.01068.8 %24542.82
Lauren Bacall36$ 62.4968.6 %18536.57
Jack Lemmon52$ 75.61368.2 %691540.14
Gary Cooper66$ 100.42368.1 %1011843.91
Marlon Brando37$ 121.21568.0 %902346.00
Irene Dunne31$ 87.1868.0 %42742.83
Shirley Temple37$ 85.8868.0 %13240.39
Marx Brothers18$ 58.8268.0 %1035.59
Clark Gable63$ 120.52167.9 %471744.58
Bing Crosby55$ 114.42067.8 %541443.78
Gregory Peck53$ 112.72167.7 %952245.08
Laurence Olivier48$ 55.1767.7 %731737.66
Lee Marvin46$ 68.8867.6 %34437.12
John Wayne83$ 95.72867.2 %661142.67
James Cagney61$ 74.51167.0 %46838.93
Myrna Loy59$ 92.51666.8 %411340.97
Edward G. Robinson67$ 73.81166.6 %33235.90
Vincent Price50$ 81.61166.3 %501235.82
Abbott & Costello36$ 71.71166.0 %0037.45
Sidney Poitier42$ 66.3865.8 %541237.16
Doris Day39$ 88.11065.4 %29441.24
Barbara Stanwyck72$ 66.71565.3 %29136.83
Orson Welles76$ 31.41165.3 %38929.70
Paul Newman56$ 103.21965.2 %982241.48
Ginger Rogers54$ 79.21565.2 %39339.55
James Mason74$ 53.71265.2 %54533.48
Bette Davis79$ 55.51564.9 %841436.08
Henry Fonda83$ 74.11664.8 %581336.80
Anthony Quinn81$ 67.21664.8 %591736.03
Gene Kelly40$ 94.91664.7 %521342.77
Olivia de Havilland 47$ 101.51464.7 %802540.80
Norma Shearer20$ 75.8264.3 %21242.18
William Holden66$ 80.31864.3 %882838.33
Glenn Ford58$ 71.7864.3 %27135.75
Anthony Perkins33$ 57.5664.3 %24133.50
Tyrone Power45$ 106.31964.2 %621044.77
Walter Matthau58$ 58.81264.1 %37935.10
Rita Hayworth35$ 72.01064.0 %35537.47
Maureen O'Hara53$ 80.41563.9 %351238.80
Kirk Douglas71$ 57.4663.9 %461533.96
Mickey Rooney61$ 93.02463.8 %521441.21
Frank Sinatra44$ 102.41963.7 %511142.92
Debbie Reynolds38$ 70.5863.7 %27336.03
Bob Hope53$ 91.32163.6 %19340.22
Errol Flynn50$ 77.61663.6 %32538.29
James Garner48$ 58.3963.6 %32833.39
Betty Grable32$ 103.31463.3 %15242.88
Rock Hudson50$ 71.11063.3 %31335.46
David Niven55$ 82.21262.7 %601337.50
James Coburn53$ 55.31262.7 %17332.55
Charlton Heston61$ 106.51662.4 %611637.49
Robert Mitchum85$ 62.61962.4 %37633.76
Natalie Wood43$ 80.61062.2 %511538.31
Richard Widmark61$ 57.91062.1 %46933.25
Randolph Scott52$ 64.4662.0 %12034.66
Susan Hayward54$ 78.81361.9 %45438.35
Shirley MacLaine49$ 76.21161.5 %751736.84
Jerry Lewis46$ 75.31860.7 %2036.34
Dean Martin51$ 95.82660.3 %27139.17
Mae West12$ 82.8360.3 %2037.32
Ava Gardner40$ 81.81160.3 %30337.04
Lana Turner50$ 86.71559.1 %29737.66
Joan Crawford74$ 59.01059.1 %32333.23
Sophia Loren34$ 46.9459.0 %19230.42
Elizabeth Taylor47$ 107.52058.5 %762341.15
Barbra Streisand19$ 159.71358.4 %44850.83
Charles Bronson59$ 48.4758.1 %9229.37
Elvis Presley33$ 51.9558.0 %0030.69

10 thoughts on “Classic Actors Ranked In 7 Categories

  1. I’ve always been fascinated with historical box office data for Classic Hollywood. There are just a handful of sources readily available, aside from the Warners, RKO, and MGM ledgers, which can be found via technical papers in libraries, there is basically no information available. So I guess I am saying your site is a wonderful find.

    1. Interesting that the top-rated AFI actor and actress (Bogart and K. Hepburn) are only 13th and 21st using these criteria.

      1. Yep, it is to be expected since Box Office Data weighs more in the formula, and generally top actors are not always necesarily top Box Office champions.

        1. Clark Gable

        2. John Wayne

        3. James Stewart

        4. Charlton Heston

        5. Spencer Tracy

        6. Gary Cooper

        7. Bing Crosby

        8. Cary Grant

        9. Gregory Peck

        10.Henry Fonda

        1. Hey Lady E. The top 10 is loaded with all-time greats…..highly unlikely that anybody is going to crack this top 10….at least when you are looking at the all-time classic greats.

      2. Hey Down Goes Frazier….when looking at their average UMR scores…Hepburn comes in 3rd of the classic actresses and Bogart comes in 19th when looking at the actors. When I did my movie tournament….I only looked at their Top 30 movie averages…and when you do that Bogart went to 5th of actors and Hepburn got the top spot. Either way they are both all-time greats. Thanks for checking out my classic actors page.

    2. Hey Lady E….glad you found my website. Hopefully you will find lots of classic movies WITH box office grosses here. I appreciate the kind words in your comment. Thanks for stopping by.

    1. Hey Flora….doing this page was actually pretty quick….doing all the pages that give these results has taken over 5 years……and oh so many to do. Juggling….Warren Oates, Film Noir (seems every movie between 1940 and 1959 fell into film noir….lol), Joan Fontaine, and Claudette Colbert…as who to do next. Thanks for stopping by.

        1. It still fascinates me that the classic movie pages have become the most popular pages on the website. And even more fascinating to me is that when my mother-in-law asked for a Clark Gable page…..I told her that “nobody wants to read about Clark Gable”….turns out she is pretty smart….lol.

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