Claude Rains Movies

Claude Rains in 1942's Casablanca

Claude Rains in 1942’s Casablanca

Want to know the best Claude Rains movies?  How about the worst Claude Rains movies?  Curious about Claude Rains box office grosses or which Claude Rains movie picked up the most Oscar nominations? Need to know which Claude Rains movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

If there was a Mount Rushmore of great movie character actors…joining Walter Brennan, Lionel Barrymore and Christopher Walken would be Claude Rains (1889-1967).  Raines was an English 4-time Oscar® nominated actor of stage and screen whose career spanned 46 years. Rains’ IMDb page shows 79 acting credits from 1920 – 1965. This page will take a statistical look at 52 Claude Rains movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  His cameo roles, his television appearances and movies not released in North America were not included in the table.

Drivel part:  So this weekend we (the family) were supposed to be in Philadelphia.  We went to bed Thursday night packed and ready to go first thing Friday morning.  All our carefully made plans went right out the window at 3:30 A.M….when our youngest child (Emily) showed up in our room saying she did not feel well and was burning up with fever.  Well…..18 hours later she is feeling better and our Philly trip is canceled. So with some unexpected free time, we figured we would finish and publish this Claude Rains page on Friday versus our plan of publishing on Monday.

Claude Rains in 1946's Notorious

Claude Rains in 1946’s Notorious

Claude Rains Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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

  • Sort Claude Rains movies by his co-star in the move
  • Sort Claude Rains movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Claude Rains movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Claude Rains movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Claude Rains movie received and
  • Sort by many Oscar® wins each Claude Rains movie won.
  • Sort Claude Rains movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • Use the search and sort button to make this page very interactive.
  • If there is a link in the co-star column….that link takes you to that performers’ UMR movie page

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Claude Rains Table

  1. Twenty-eight Claude Rains movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 52.83% of his movies listed. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was his biggest box office ht when looking at adjusted domestic box office gross.
  2. An average Claude Rains movie grosses $123.50 million in adjusted box office gross.
  3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  39 of Claude Rains’ movies are rated as good movies…or 75.00% of their movies. Casablanca (1942) is his highest rated movie while Anthony Adverse (1936) was his lowest rated movie.
  4. Eighteen Claude Rains movie received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 34.61% of his movies.
  5. Eight Claude Rains movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 15.38% of his movies.
  6. A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking  (UMR) Score is 60.00.  36 Claude Rains movies scored higher than that average….or 69.23% of his movies. Casablanca (1942) got the the highest UMR Score while The Paris Express (1952) got the lowest UMR Score.
Claude Rains in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood

Claude Rains in 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Hood

Possibly Interesting Facts About Claude Rains

  1. William Claude Rains was born in Camberwell, London in 1889.

2. Claude Rains served in the First World War in the London Scottish Regiment. He served alongside fellow actors Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman and Herbert Marshall. At one time, he was involved in a gas attack that left him nearly blind in one eye for the rest of his life.

3. Claude Rains was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before coming to Hollywood, whose students included John Gielgud.

4.  Claude Rains appeared in two Best Picture Oscar® winners: 1942’s Casablanca and 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia.

5.  Claude Rains was married 7 times in his life. He had one child, actress Jennifer Rains.  Rains screen name is Jennifer Rains and has 39 IMDb acting credits.

6.  Claude Rains was offered but turned down these roles:  Dr. Pretorius in 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein, Frollo or Qasimodo in 1939’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Professor Higgins in 1938’s Pygmalion, Mr. Doolittle in 1964’s My Fair Lady, Klaatu in 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still  and Henry Potter in 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life.

7.  Claude Rains was nominated for 4 Best Supporting Actor Oscars®1939’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1942’s Casablanca, 1944’s Mr. Skeffington and 1946’s Notorious.

8.  Claude Rains 52 movies listed here grossed $6.42 billion in adjusted domestic box office.  Earned 77 Oscar® nominations….winning 23 times.

9.  Check out Claude Rains’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.

10. There are two movies that did not make the page that we really wanted to:  1934’s The Man Who Reclaimed His Head and 1935’s The Last Outpost.  We could not find any box office information on those two movies…so they were not included.  Actually we have been looking for years now when it comes to The Last Outpost….maybe one day.

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Figured it might be interesting to see the process of what it takes to put these pages together.  How we put together our Alan Ladd page.

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