George Arliss Movies

Want to know the best George Arliss movies?  How about the worst George Arliss movies?  Curious about George Arliss box office grosses or which George Arliss movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which George Arliss 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.

George Arliss (1868-1946) was an English Oscar® winning actor.  Between 1921 and 1937 Arliss has 25 acting credits on his IMDb page.  Sadly were not able to find box office grosses on many of his silent movies in the 1921 and 1924.  We did find box office information on all of his movies from 1930 to 1937 which was 76% of his entire film career…. This page will rank 19 George Arliss movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  This page comes from a request by TCM’s Top Billed.  Top Billed has been working on a weekly January blog that looks at select classic performers.

George Arliss as Benjamin Disraeli

George Arliss Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

George Arliss 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 George Arliss movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort George Arliss movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort George Arliss movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort George Arliss 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 George Arliss movie received and how many Oscar® wins each  movie won.
  • Sort George Arliss 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.

Possibly Interesting Facts About George Arliss

1. Augustus George Andrews was born in London, England, in 1868. Arliss is a family name on his father’s side.

2. George Arliss was one of the most successful stage actors of the early 1900s.  His first monster hit was 1908’s The Devil.  In 1911 Arliss started playing Disraeli on stage.  The success of his plays brought to movies.  His first movie was 1921’s The Devil.

3. George Arliss played his roles in The Green Goddess and Disraeli on stage in the 1910s, in silent movies in the 1920s and in sound pictures in the 1930s.

4. George Arliss was the third ever actor to win a Best Actor Oscar®.  He won for Disraeli.

5. George Arliss was the first English actor to win a Best Actor Oscar®.  He is also the oldest born Best Actor Oscar® winner.

6. George Arliss is the earliest born movie star (born in 1868) to have an UltimateMovieRankings (UMR) page.  Lionel Barrymore born in 1878 no longer has that title.

7. George Arliss is credited with getting Bette Davis’ career started.  He cast her in two of his movies….and she never looked back.

8.  George Arliss was married one time.  He was married to actress, Florence Arliss from 1899 to her death in 1946.

Check out George Arliss‘ career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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17 thoughts on “George Arliss Movies

    1. Hey Dan. 10 movies with George Arliss is pretty impressive…especially since Arliss made so few movies. Thanks for sharing this information.

  1. Here we are again, as always…great information.
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    1. Hey BryRog57. Hmmmm…..yet another Dan comment points me in the direction of a comment you wrote that I did not notice until over a year ago….interesting. So you have not seen any George Arliss movies. Well…I will not hold that against you. He was a star 80 years before you were born. Heck I have only seen a handful of his movies….and that was after I reached my 40s….so you still have 9 more years to track down some of his movies. Stay safe!

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