Want to know the best Robert Young movies? How about the worst Robert Young movies? Curious about Robert Young box office grosses or which Robert Young movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Robert Young 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.
Robert Young (1907-1998) was an American actor who appeared in 80 movies before finding even greater fame on television. His IMDb page shows 106 acting credits from 1928-1998. This page will rank 82 Robert Young movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, uncredited roles and 4 movies from the early 1930s were not included in the rankings.
Drivel page: Joel Hirschhorn‘s Rating The Movie Stars book ranked 410 stars. The very last rated star in that book was Robert Young (it is alphabetical order). Hirschhorn’s book is one of the biggest influences on this website. This marks the 195th star in his book that now has a UMR page.
Robert Young Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Robert Young 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 Robert Young movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Robert Young movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Robert Young movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Robert Young 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 Robert Young movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Robert Young movie won.
- Sort Robert Young 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.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Robert Young Table
- Twenty-eight Robert Young movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 34.15% of his movies listed. The Kid From Spain (1932) was his biggest box office hit when looking at adjusted domestic box office gross.
- An average Robert Young movie grosses $88.90 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 45 Robert Young movies are rated as good movies…or 54.87% of his movies. Northwest Passage (1940) is his highest rated movie while The Bride Walks Out (1936) was his lowest rated movie.
- Eight Robert Young movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 9.75% of his movies.
- Two Robert Young movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 2.43% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 44 Robert Young movies scored higher than that average….or 53.65% of his movies. Northwest Passage (1940) got the the highest UMR Score while The Half-Breed (1952) got the lowest UMR Score.
Ten Possibly Interesting Facts About Robert Young
1. Robert George Young was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1907.
2. Robert Young first started acting at Chicago’s Pasadena Playhouse in the late 1920s. A MGM talent agents spotted him in a 1931 touring stage production of “The Ship” and signed him up.
3. Between 1931 and 1949, Robert Young made an incredible 82 motion pictures. That is almost 4 and a half movies for 19 straight years.
4. According to the buzz of 1941…..Robert Young was one of the leading contenders for a Best Actor Oscar® nomination. His performance in 1941’s H.M. Pulham failed to get him a nomination.
5. Robert Young starred in two very popular television shows. From 1954 to 1960 he starred in Father Knows Best and from 1969 to 1976 in Marcus Welby, M.D. He would never appear in another motion picture after 1954’s Secret of the Incas.
6. Robert Young was married 1 time and had 4 children. He was married to Elizabeth Louise Henderson from 1933 to her death in 1994. Not thinking too many Hollywood marriages last over 60 years. Congrats to them.
7. Robert Young did extra work in Keystone Cops movies of the 1920s.
8. Robert Young’s movies from 1930 to 1939 earned $3.94 billion in adjusted domestic gross. That puts him in 3rd place when looking at all the stars of that decade. 1930’s Top Box Office Stars.
9. Robert Young’s movies from 1940 to 1949 earned $3.16 billion in adjusted domestic gross. That puts him in 20th place when looking at all the stars of that decade. 1940’s Top Box Office Stars.
10. Check out Robert Young’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Want more stats? How about Robert Young Adjusted Worldwide Grosses?
- Bride For Sale (1949) $92.80 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Cairo (1942) $98.20 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Crossfire (1947) $204.00 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Goodbye My Fancy (1951) $75.30 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Hell Below (1933) $145.40 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Hell Divers (1931) $256.70 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Joe Smith American (1942) $54.70 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Journey for Margaret (1942) $112.80 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Lady Be Good (1941) $164.90 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Maisie (1939) $93.80 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Men Must Fight (1933) $46.60 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Navy Blue and Gold (1937) $134.80 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- New Morals For Old (1932) $36.60 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Northwest Passage (1940) $270.60 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Spitfire (1934) $64.90 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Strange Interlude (1932) $134.80 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- That Forsyte Woman (1949) $180.00 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- The Bride Walks Out (1936) $75.40 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- The Bride Wore Red (1937) $156.30 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937) $173.10 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- The Enchanted Cottage (1945) $195.10 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- The Shining Hour (1938) $170.60 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Those Endearing Young Charms (1945) $151.30 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Three Comrades (1938) $255.00 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Today We Live (1933) $107.80 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Tugboat Annie (1933) $268.70 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- West Point of The Air (1935) $131.90 million in adjusted worldwide gross
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I am watching a Robert Young Film called ‘the 77%.’ I cant find it on any of the lists. Did it have another name?
Hey Clare….hmmmm…interesting question. Do you remember any of the other stars in the movie? All of my sources do not provide an answer….but I will keep looking.
Robert Young, is the # 65 most connected actor of the 1930’s.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing my Robert Young video, the generous rating and song lyrics are appreciated, happy you liked the poster gallery.
Whoa! Bruce has 50 more films on his chart than on my video chart. I can be a bit stingy. No I try to keep the videos at a certain length, about 10mins, too long and the mind starts to wander, or people start yawning!
Northwest Passage is no.1 on Bruce’s chart, it’s no.4 on my video chart. I have The Mortal Storm at no.1, it’s no.2 on Bruce’s critics chart.
One film scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Crossfire, seven films scored 9 out of 10 including – The Mortal Storm, Northwest Passage and Western Union.
The Mortal Storm is no.1 at IMDB and Northwest Passage is tops at RT.
Robert Young on his favorite role in The Enchanted Cottage – “The role symbolized my own life, though I wasn’t a veteran who returned from war tragically disfigured. It demonstrated my theory that we are all, somehow, handicapped. Shyness and fear of people were my invisible scars. These were finally overcome, just as in the movie, because of the love of a woman who saw the ‘perfect man’ through all the imperfections.”
STEVE LENSMAN: “Whoa! Bruce has 50 more films on his chart than on my video chart. I can be a bit stingy.”
NILES CRANE: Frasier I think we are doing too much here. What happened to the concept that at times “less is more”?
FRASIER CRANE: Yes but if less is more think how more “more” would be. Off you go!
[FRASIER TV sitcom “They’re Playing our Song” Series 7 episode 13 Jan 2000]
HI STEVE: Thanks for the interesting and welcome feedback. I used to confuse Robert Young with Robert Montgomery in that at times they seemed to play similar roles and I regarded them both as 2nd string actors. By the latter I mean that although they were undoubtedly very important stars each of whom could carry films on his own, if they appeared alongside one of the great Legends the latter would be the senior and top-billed partner in the movie.
For example Robert played 2nd fiddle to Barbara Stanwyck in The Bride Walks Out and to Claudette Colbert in I met Him in Paris and The Bride Comes Home; and Monty had a habit of showing up as Joan’s leading man in what were undoubtedly “Crawford pictures”: Letty Lynton/No More Ladies/Last of Mrs Cheyney.
[Leaving aside alphabetical cameo billing in ensemble movies] Robert Montgomery did though have the historic distinction of being the last male actor ever to receive ABSOLUTE billing above John Wayne which was in 1945’s They were Expendable. Although an important star at that time The Duke did not quite morph into THE JOHN WAYNE until 1948’s Red River.
I emphasis ABIOSLUTE in that statement because whilst Jimmy Stewart was billed above John on the posters for Liberty Valance in 1962 the Duke was first-billed on the screen under a unique compromise that John Ford was able to get the two then megastars to agree to. Win-win for me though as both were my idols!
“’Melvyn Douglas and billing. Douglas – “Well, Freddie Bartholomew had first billing in Captains Courageous and that drove Spencer Tracy mad. I was billed fourth – and couldn’t have cared less. Joan Crawford once explained to me she was over Clark Gable and William Powell but under Norma Shearer. Powell was under Jean Harlow but above Bob Montgomery and Myrna Loy.’”
That extract is from Possibly Interesting Facts Melvyn Douglas’ Cogerson page. One can’t help thinking if he were about today and followed the Cogerson site Melvyn might think that he had been wrong about that pecking order! I am not so sure that Mel should have kept repeating “under” if you get my meaning!
[Leaving aside alphabetical cameo billing in ensemble movies] Robert Montgomery did though have the historic distinction of being the last male actor ever to receive ABSOLUTE billing above John Wayne which was in 1945’s They were Expendable. Although an important star at that time The Duke did not quite morph into THE JOHN WAYNE until 1948’s Red River.
I emphasis ABSOLUTE in that statement because whilst Jimmy Stewart was billed above John on the posters for Liberty Valance in 1962 the Duke was first-billed on the screen under a unique compromise that John Ford was able to get the two then megastars to agree to. Win-win for me though as both were my idols!
“’Melvyn Douglas and billing. Douglas – “Well, Freddie Bartholomew had first billing in Captains Courageous and that drove Spencer Tracy mad. I was billed fourth – and couldn’t have cared less. Joan Crawford once explained to me she was over Clark Gable and William Powell but under Norma Shearer. Powell was under Jean Harlow but above Bob Montgomery and Myrna Loy.’”
That extract is from Possibly Interesting Facts Melvyn Douglas’ Cogerson page. One can’t help thinking if he were about today and followed the Cogerson site Melvyn might think that he had been wrong about that pecking order! I am not so sure that Mel should have used “under” if you get my meaning!
SIMON DEE [English TV Presenter]
Ray in your long career you have played opposite some of the most famous and gorgeous women on screen such as Grace Kelly and Susan Hayward.
RAY MILLAND Yes those are two of the really glamorous females that I’ve had in my movies.
DEE: Maybe you shouldn’t use the word “had” – people might get the wrong idea!
I love that The Enchanted Cottage was Robert Young’s favourite film of his career. I love this movie. It is not only my favourite Young film, but one of my favourites period.
MY TOP 20 POSTER SELECTIONS FROM STEVE’s ROBERT YOUNG VIDEO
1/two for Joel Smith
2/Miracles for Sale
3/two for Honolulu
4/Secret of the Incas-Chuck when I first discovered him!
5/1st one for Cairo
6/1st one for Maisie
7/1st one for Lady be Good
8/Relentless
9/Black Camel
10/Remember Last Night
11/Claudia
12/set for Centerville Ghost
13/the set for Secret Agent
14/two for House of Rothschild
15/2 for Western Union
16/1st one for HM Pulham
17/Three Comrades
18/Northwest Passage
19/Crossfire
20/Sweet Rosie O’Grady.
Just down around the corner of the street where I reside,
There lives the cutest little girl that I have ever spied;
Her name is Rose O’Grady and, I don’t mind telling you,
That she’s the sweetest little Rose the garden ever grew.
Sweet Rosie O’Grady, my dear little Rose,
She’s my steady lady, most everyone knows.
And, when we are married, how happy we’ll be;
I love sweet Rosie O’Grady, and Rosie O’Grady loves me.
The first time that Robert Young ever came to my attention was when I was leaving the Castle cinema over here in 1952 and stopped in the foyer to gaze at the stills for The Half Breed.
The Half Breed [Apache Charlie Wolf] was played by Jack Buetel who was Billy the Kid in the famous Howard Hughes/Jane Russell film The Outlaw in the early 1940s
OVERALL: Steve’s Robert Young video gave me pleasure to the tune of 98%. My pick of the TOP 20 STILLS/LOBBY CARDS are
1/Goodbye My Fancy
2/Miracles for Sale
3/Lady Luck
4/Honolulu
5/Cairo
6/Shining Hour
7/I Met Him in Burnley
8/two for Bride Wore Red
9/Lady Be Good
10/Relentless
11/Slightly Dangerous
12/Secret Agent
13/Stowaway
14/House of Rothschild
15/Wester Union – Robert was billed above Randy Scott
16/HM Pulham
17/Sitting Pretty
18/Northwest Passage
19/The Mortal Storm
20/The 3 Roberts in Crossfire – I liked both visuals here.