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Richard Gere (1949-) is an American actor who has been appearing in movies for over 40 years. His IMDb page shows over 60 acting credits since 1973. This page ranks Richard Gere movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, shorts, documentaries and movies not released in North America were not included in the rankings.
Drivel Part: So this page comes from a request from Chris and WoC. Pretty Woman is easily one of WoC’s (Wife of Cogerson) favorite movies of all-time….and I strongly suspect that Mr. Richard Gere has something to do with that fact! She has told me that if the Richard Gere of 1989 showed up at our front door….I could be in trouble. Hopefully if that ever happens….Elisabeth Shue is right behind Gere at the door…lol. Thankfully 1989 was more than a few years ago….as I fell I can defend my turf if the 2017 Gere shows up.
Richard Gere Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Richard Gere 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 Richard Gere movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Richard Gere movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Richard Gere movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Richard Gere movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Richard Gere movie received.
- Sort Richard Gere 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.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Richard Gere
1. Richard Tiffany Gere was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1949. “Tiffany” is his mother’s maiden name.
2. Richard Gere’s first major acting role was in the original London stage version of Grease in 1973.
3. Richard Gere’s first leading movie role was supposed to be in 1974’s The Lords of Flatbush. However, after getting cast in the role….he and Sylvester Stallone could not get along…and Gere was dropped from the cast. That might explain why Gere has not appeared in any of The Expendables movies.
4. Three of his earliest movie successes were all movies that John Travolta turned down: 1978’s Days of Heaven, 1980’s American Gigolo, and 1982’s An Officer and a Gentleman.
5. Later….John Travolta wanted the Edward role in 1989’s Pretty Woman…..but the part of course went to Richard Gere.
6. Richard Gere is an accomplished pianist and music writer; in fact, he composed and performed the piano solo featured in 1990’s Pretty Woman.
7. Richard Gere was People’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1989.
8. Richard Gere has been married 2 times and has 1 child.
9. Roles turned down or roles Richard Gere was seriously considered for: Bruce Willis role in Die Hard, Michael Douglas roles in Wall Street and Traffic, George Clooney role in Intolerable Cruelty, Brad Davis role in Midnight Express and Mandy Patinkin role in Yentl.
10. Check out Richard Gere ‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Steve Lensman’s Richard Gere You Tube Video
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Added Steve’s Gere You Tube Video to this page….our thoughts on that video.
“Nice new subject. Gere is one of the good actors that have not gotten an Oscar nomination….and now that he is pushing 70…not thinking he will. Movies 40 through 31…seen 6 of them…no favorites…even Caine’s Beyond The Limit. It has been so long since seeing #33 Power that I barely remember it. Movies 30 through 21. Seen 6 of these movies. #27 Nights in Rodanthe…filmed near my workplace in North Carolina. #22 Somersby….filmed near my work in Farmville Va…..my babysitter got a part in the movie. Movies 20 through 11. Seen 8….#19 filmed in Richmond Virginia…I was hanging around that film set location…Wow…that is three Gere movies that were filmed close to me….never connected those dots. So 30 movies…seen 20 of the movies…yet do not have one to say I really enjoyed. Maybe the Top 10 will be better. Seen the top 10….liked #8 Arbitage and #7 Hachi. Officer and Gentleman is a good movie….but have not seen it in years. #1 Days of Heaven bores me to tears….well never watch that one again. So…grand total of 30 Gere movies seen. Voted up and shared.”
Hi Bruce, three Gere movies were filmed close to you, not bad eh. But do you like those films? 😉 All the Star Wars movies were filmed just 20 miles from where I lived in London, how’s that for close? Indy and Bond too. 30 seen out of 40 is very good. I only managed 14, Flora 7.
Days of Thunder… sorry, Days of Heaven is no.1 on your chart too. Thanks as always for the comment, vote and share, it is appreciated.
HI STEVE
Some Bobby-dazzlers have managed to get Oscar noms- look at the awful Stallone for example.
However possibly with the arrival of Statham and his lack of Oscar nom/win success a bottom line has bee established or perhaps once again we have proof of Uncle Abe’s adage that”You can’t fool all of the people all of the time”!
Have almost completed my post on Gere Mark 2 so will catch up with you again later on.
Although Richard Gere has been in a few monster hits, overall his box office record has been modest as in the above table he has only 8 films that crashed the Cogerson $100 million barrier in adjusted domestic grosses. Also 22 films of his films [almost half of the 48 listed in the table] have earned less than $10 million in the domestic market when adjusted for inflation. It’s been almost 15 years since his last big worldwide hit.
Best POSTERS for me in entries 1-20 are Richard joining the Richard Statham and Matthew McConaughey club by baring his chest in American Gigolo, Yanks, the foreign language ones for The Hunting Party and Rhapsody in August, Unfaithful [quite raunchy poster and again Gere has remade a French film this time the 1969 La Femme Infidel] Brooklyn’s Finest, Arbitrage [excellent – in fact the most recent Gere film I’ve seen] Internal Affairs [with Richard playing an out and out heel for once], the foreign language one for Looking for Mr Goodbar, the 1st lovely one for Days of Heaven. and the first one for The Jackal.
STILLS that most pleased me [ALL entries] are Gere with Stone, lobby card for Power, in bed with Jodie, all 3 with my Julia, The Cotton Club, being a “Gentleman” by carrying Debra, First Knight, with 2 very sexy ladies in Chicago, solo of the handsome young Richard in Days of Heaven and with Edward Norton in Primal Fear, which alongside Pretty Woman and Arbitrage ranks as one of my very fave Gere movies.
Overall a fine 97.5% rated video in my book. You and Bruce agree on of just 3 of Richard’s top 6 best reviewed movies, Days of Heaven, Chicago and Officer and gentleman. I do agree with him including Arbitrage in his top 6 which you exclude from yours [perceptive guy at times, our Work Horse!] but I disagree with him leaving Primal Fear out of the 6 and was pleased you ranked it No 3.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing and rating my Richard Gere video, appreciate the box office info, trivia and comparison.
Happy you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
There was an even naughtier foreign poster for Beyond the Limit which I didn’t use, couldn’t take the risk youtube might slap an ‘adults only’ label on my channel.
Unlike other actors in his category Gere has managed to stay first billed on nearly all of his films, 2nd Marigold Hotel was a recent notable exception.
According to IMDB he was considered for John McClane in Die Hard and turned it down, crikey how many actors were considered for that role? Was Bruce last on the list?
There are no 10 out of 10s from my sources in Gere’s filmography but there is one 9 out of 10 and that is Days of Heaven.
I count 11 films scoring 8 out of 10 including – Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, Internal Affairs and Chicago.
Hachi – A Dog’s Tale tops the charts at IMDB and Days of Heaven is no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes. The latter is also no.1 on my chart and Bruce’s critics chart too.
“Pretty Woman is something I never would have done. Neither is An Officer and a Gentleman. I had no interest in these scripts whatsoever. It was the same person knocking my door down on both of them, Jeffrey Katzenberg, first at Paramount, then at Disney, who was one of my first friends out here and still is. I had been kind of out of things for a while and I fu**ed up my career to the point where people weren’t saying, “Well, let’s get Gere to do that”. I had to crawl a bit to get scripts. Doing Internal Affairs (1990), for instance, was a very difficult decision for me to make because, potentially, that could have been such a piece of sh*t. It turns out to be one of my favorite movies and best experiences, too.”
“I’m still this guy who washed his dad’s car. I don’t feel like I’m some sort of rarefied species of creature.”
Thanks for some very interesting feedback on my Gere posts. Perceptive observation by you about Richard’s excellent billing record which had never actually occurred to me before. On that subject, your posters clearly illustrate that whereas in 1990,s Pretty Woman Richard was billed first, in the 1999 Runaway Bride my Julia by then a box office mega star got top billing. Roberts is of course a greater fave of mine than Gere but nevertheless I greatly like Richard and for old times sake I would have preferred that the billing had been kept consistent with the that of first time round – Richard Gere/Julia Roberts.
I agree that Internal Affairs was one of Richard’s best roles and among his more interesting movies. It was racy and generally strong stuff though an not for audiences who prefer fee-good movies.
Strange though Richard bad-mouthed Pretty Woman and Officer and Gentleman because they are Gere’s highest grossing movies in US. I have seen no worldwide figures for Officer/ Gentleman but, Pretty Woman has an adjusted worldwide gross of over $1 billion. Without those two movies the overall adjusted domestic gross indicated in Bruce’s table above of around $3 billion would have been just over $2 billion.
Also whilst Bruce doesn’t rate Pretty Woman highly, and he ranks it only 19th for Review with a rating of just 62%, you put it in your Top 6 and both you and WH have Officer and Gentleman in your Top 6. Richard got Golden Globe noms for BOTH films.
On Brit TV’s Strictly Come Dancing last week 2 contestants danced to the hit song from An Officer and a Gentleman “The Lift goes up where We Belong.” You know it’s funny but nowadays when I hear that song I think of the Work Horse and Joel singing it as a duet!
Richard Gere is well known as a supporter of humanitarian and philanthropic causes and for example is highly active in organisations that seek to protect the rights and lands of tribal peoples across the world. He was banned from being an Academy Awards presenter because when reading out a list of Oscar nominees he openly denounced the Chinese government for alleged civil rights abuses.
Best POSTERS for my money in your Gere EP [40-21 entries] are foreign language ones for Autumn in New York and King David, The Double,the couple of Intersection and Breathless [which art house fans will know are remakes of, respectively, the French movies Les Choses De La Vie (1970) and A Bout de Soufflé (1960) the then European continental New Wave classic starring the great French star Jean Paul Belmondo] Amelia, No Mercy and Final Analysis [both of which co-star Richard with Kim Basinger with whom he had an affair while making the first one] The Mothman Prophecies, Shall We Dance and Beyond the Limit.
Shall we Dance in 2004 was just a modest hit in the US [an inflation-adjusted $83 million in Bruce’s chart above] but was a far bigger hit globally so that its overall adjusted worldwide gross was $260 million against a 66 million production budget in 2018 dollars It was Richard’s last ever big worldwide hit to date.
Beyond the Limit [aka The Honorary Counsel] teams Richard with Sir Maurice and whilst Sir M doesn’t appear to have been permitted to share in the raunchiness of your poster [he had his fun in 1966’s Alfie after all!] it is interesting to note the compromise billing between the dynamic pair similar to the controversial Newman/McQueen arrangement for Towering Inferno and the agreement between Richard Dreyfus and Holly Hunter for 1989’s Always, though Bruce has never accepted that Dreyfus DID compromise his billing and The Work Horse has long insisted that Dreyfus was billed unequivocally first! I gave up trying because “A man convinced against his will remains unconvinced still!
In part 2 I will comment on ALL STILLS that pleased me. Good stuff so far though.
Thanks Bob, looking forward to p.2.
Richard Gere and Dennis Quaid have had long movie careers but they have never been nominated for an Oscar! And no BAFTA noms either. But Gere did win a Globe for Chicago.
To put that in perspective ex-rapper Mark Wahlberg has been Oscar nominated twice.
And no Oscar noms for Jason Statham either! Why why why? [bursts into tears]
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Hey Bob and Steve…good thoughts and information on Richard Gere. The good news is that Jason Statham has a very good chance to not only get his first Oscar nomination….but looks like the front runner for this year’s Best Actor Oscar race. His Meg performance has been compared to some of Olivier and Gielguld’s greatest stage performances….lol.