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Art Carney (1918-2003) was an Oscar® winning American actor. Carny is best known for playing Ed Norton opposite Jackie Gleason’s Ralph Kramden in the 1950s sitcom The Honeymooners, and for winning the Academy Award® for Best Actor for his role in 1974’s Harry and Tonto. His IMDb page shows 96 acting credits from 1941 to 2007. This page will rank Art Carney movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings. Sadly we were unable to find any box office information on any of his silent movies.
Art Carney Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Art Carney Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Best IMDb trivia on Art Carney
- Arthur William Matthew Carney was born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1918.
2. Art Carney was a World War II veteran stationed in France as an infantryman. Wounded in leg by shrapnel and was hospitalized for nine months. He walked with a limp for the rest of his life.
3. Art Carney gained lifelong fame for his portrayal of sewer worker Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason’s bus driver, Ralph Kramden. These characters appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show and The Honeymooners. Carny would 5 of his 6 Emmy® awards for playing Norton.
4. The 55-year-old Art Carney convinced director Paul Mazursky, that he could play the role of a 72 year old man in 1974’s Harry Tonto, by growing his own mustache, whitening his hair, wearing his own hearing aid and not trying to mask the limp he received from a World War II injury.
5. Art Carney beat out Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Albert Finney and Al Pacino to win his first and only Best Actor Oscar® for Harry and Tonto (1974).
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“Although Art Carney was TV’s best second banana for eight years on The Honeymooners, it took the big screen to project his greatness.
Rating the Movie Stars 4 Star Art Carney Performances
1974’s Harry and Tonto
1975’s W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings
1977’s The Late Show
1978’s House Calls
1978’s Movie Movie
HI JOEL
I was half asleep when reading your 10.52 pm post today and got things a bit mixed up, so W o Bob had to correct me when I said to her “Oh look – Joel Cor ney has written something about that guy Art whom I told you The Work Horse had done a page on!”
Funny!
good thoughts from Joel and his team from Consumer Reports
Art Carney was actually on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 back in the early days of the list but alas no more. These are the actors he appeared with on the most recent list.
10 MARTIN SHEEN Firestarter (1984)
14 ERNEST BORGNINE Ravagers (1979)
29 NED BEATTY W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
30 ANTHONY QUINN Last Action Hero (1993)
31 ROGER MOORE The Naked Face (1984)
36 ROD STEIGER The Naked Face (1984)
41 MICHAEL HORDERN The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
45 OMAR SHARIFF The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
48 JOHN CARRADINE Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
49 GEORGE KENNEDY Steel (1980)
56 ELLIOTT GOULD The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
56 ELLIOTT GOULD The Naked Face (1984)
73 BURT REYNOLDS W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
79 BRUCE DERN Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
97 JEANNE MOREAU The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
100 ELI WALLACH Movie Movie (1978)
106 BRAD DOURIF W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
109 DAVID NIVEN Better Late Than Never (1983)
111 RICHARD HARRIS Ravagers (1979)
112 SHIRLEY MACLAINE The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
119 DEAN STOCKWELL Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
143 F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Last Action Hero (1993)
156 CHARLES DANCE LAST ACTION HERO (1993)
167 MAGGIE SMITH Better Late Than Never (1983)
198 ELLEN BURSTYN Harry and Tonto (1974)
213 DANNY DEVITO Last Action Hero (1993)
227 KEENAN WYNN Sunburn (1979)
235 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Last Action Hero (1993)
263 DANNY AIELLO Defiance (1980)
276 SEYMOUR CASSEL Ravagers (1979)
276 SEYMOUR CASSEL Sunburn (1979)
303 MARK MARGOLIS Going in Style (1979)
311 SHARON STONE Last Action Hero (1993)
312 HARRIS YULIN Steel (1980)
342 EDDIE ALBERT Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
375 TERI GARR Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
410 WOODY STRODE Ravagers (1979)
445 DABNEY COLEMAN The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
483 ROBERT PATRICK Last Action Hero (1993)
508 BARBARA HERSHEY Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
511 TERRY-THOMAS A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
512 KEYE LUKE Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
516 ALAIN DELON The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
521 ROYAL DANO Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
523 DREW BARRYMORE Firestarter (1984)
555 WALTER MATTHAU A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
555 WALTER MATTHAU House Calls (1978)
613 BRODERICK CRAWFORD Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
633 CHEVY CHASE Last Action Hero (1993)
650 ROLAND CULVER The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
672 WALTER PIDGEON Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
674 IAN MCKELLEN LAST ACTION HERO (1993)
695 ROBERT PROSKY Last Action Hero (1993)
698 ALDO RAY Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
702 REX HARRISON The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
706 RICHARD PORTNOW Roadie (1980)
716 TOM NOONAN LAST ACTION HERO (1993)
730 LOUISE FLETCHER Firestarter (1984)
736 FREDDIE JONES Firestarter (1984)
759 NEHEMIAH PERSOFF St. Helens (1981)
770 MADELINE KAHN Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
794 JOAN COLLINS Sunburn (1979)
805 CHARLES LANE Movie Movie (1978)
812 GEORGE C. SCOTT Firestarter (1984)
812 GEORGE C. SCOTT Movie Movie (1978)
812 GEORGE C. SCOTT The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
831 COLLEEN CAMP Last Action Hero (1993)
852 ANNE ARCHER The Naked Face (1984)
867 PETER LAWFORD Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
874 DAVID KEITH Firestarter (1984)
874 DAVID KEITH Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
889 RICHARD LYNCH Steel (1980)
909 JAMES STEWART Pot o’ Gold (1941)
946 RICHARD VERNON THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE (1964)
970 YVONNE DE CARLO Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
HM (862) JOAN PLOWRIGHT LAST ACTION HERO (1993)
HM (932) LIONEL JEFFRIES BETTER LATE THAN NEVER (1983)
HM (974) KURTWOOD SMITH Roadie (1980)
HM (976) BROOKE SHIELDS The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Like how he appears with James Stewart in 1941’s Pot o’ Gold and then is in nothing till the mid 60’s.
Art appeared with 19 Oscar winners.
ANTHONY QUINN Last Action Hero (1993)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
DAVID NIVEN Better Late Than Never (1983)
ELLEN BURSTYN Harry and Tonto (1974)
ERNEST BORGNINE Ravagers (1979)
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Last Action Hero (1993)
GEORGE BURNS Going in Style (1979)
GEORGE C. SCOTT Firestarter (1984)
GEORGE C. SCOTT Movie Movie (1978)
GEORGE C. SCOTT The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
GEORGE KENNEDY Steel (1980)
GLENDA JACKSON House Calls (1978)
INGRID BERGMAN The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
JAMES STEWART Pot o’ Gold (1941)
LOUISE FLETCHER Firestarter (1984)
MAGGIE SMITH Better Late Than Never (1983)
RED BUTTONS Movie Movie (1978)
REX HARRISON The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
ROD STEIGER The Naked Face (1984)
SHIRLEY MACLAINE The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
WALTER MATTHAU A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
WALTER MATTHAU House Calls (1978)
Hey Dan. So Ed Norton was on the list……to the moon we go….lol. Not surprised he is no longer on the list. Most of his career was on television. His movie career pretty much got going after he turned 50. Good ole George C. Scott was his most frequent co-star…that is good trivia. Looking at the second list…19 Oscar winning co-stars in only 21 movies is a pretty good percentage. Four of those stats came from The Yellow Rolls-Royce….a movie I keep reading about…but have never seen. Good stuff as always.
I have seen 5 Art Carney movies, all in the top 10.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Harry and Tonto.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is House Calls.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is The Late Show.
Favourite Art Carney Movies: all of them, but in order of preference
Harry and Tonto
The Late Show
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
The Muppets Take Manhattan
A Guide For the Married Man
By the way, there will be a double feature on Art Carney on TCM this Sunday, January 12th starting at 8pm eastern/5pm pacific: Harry and Tonto followed by The Late Show.
I love The Honeymooners.
Hey Flora. Thanks for the thoughts on Art Carney. I have seen 8 of his movies, you are at 5 and Steve sits at 3. Bob might have matched Steve….but his tally is foggy. I have seen 2 of your 5. I liked Harry and Tonto and The Late Show…but did not love either one of them. The Yellow Rolls-Royce interests me. I have not seen….and before starting this website I had not even heard of it. Over the years, it seems that we keep writing UMR pages on stars that appeared in that movie. Carney is the 6th star from that movie to get an UMR page…joining Rex H., Ingrid B., Omar S., George C. Scott and Shirley MacLaine. Good stuff as always.
I am not sure that I have actually ever watched Art. I MAY have seen House Calls and Last Action Hero; but I can’t be sure because, although I am very fond of Arnie and Walter Matthau, they made so many movies that in my opinion had a big similarity about them that I can find it difficult to make retrospective distinctions after a lot of time has elapsed.
Nevertheless whilst apparently best known for television Art was a multi-medium performer across his 54 year entertainment career [1939-1993] performing as he did on the big screen, television, radio and Broadway and making recordings.
His net worth at his death in 2003 was around $8 million in 2019 dollars according to Celeb Net Worth site and IMDB credits him with 13 acting awards and 8 nominations, the vast bulk of which was probably not too surprisingly for television work.
When I saw Going in Style listed above for Art I thought I had missed something and in fact I started to ramble on in my post about how wonderful Micklewhite and Freeman were-until I realised that it was the 1979 version that WH was talking about, though I wouldn’t put it past him to slip in the Morg/Sir Maurice one as often as he could get away with it! Since the days of Split I would put NOTHING past him in that respect – though with Morg and Sir M in the 2017 version I would not object on this occasion. It’s discrimination only when it benefits idols who aren’t mine!!
ADDITIONAL TRIVIA: I think that apart from his Oscar and Golden Globe wins for Harry and Tonto, the 1980 Venice Film Festival award for Going in Style was the only win or even nomination that Art ever got for a big screen movie. He had to share the Going in Style award with his co-stars George Burns and Lee Strasberg, Brando’s old mentor. There – I succeeded in gettin in a plug for The Great Mumbler!!
Anyway “Voted Up!” Once again the Cogerson site has put me on a learning curve.
Hey Bob….thanks for stopping by and checking out our Art Carny movie ranking page. Yep….this Going In Style is the original version. In the remake Caine had the George Burns role, Morgan Freeman had the Carney role and Alan Arkin had the Lee Strasberg role. I liked the ending on the original way more than the remake. Surprising that his net worth was not more…especially after such a long and successful career. Glad you were able to get Brando into this comment…seems like you have not done that much lately. Good stuff.
HI BRUCE: Thanks for the feedback on my Carney post and others that I’ve sent recently. I’ve never of course seen 1979’s Going in Style; and though ending preferences can be personal taste, an unsatisfactory one can leave a person mildly dissatisfied with a movie that otherwise might be close to perfect.
I understand that it was the original intention of the makers of Shawshank Redemption not to have Tim Robbins and Morg actually meet up again on screen at the end: their meeting was going to be left to the audience’s imagination and the film would have ended with Morg on the bus making the journey to the reunion.
I wouldn’t have liked that as for me it wouldn’t have provided maximum feelgood value. Also Robbins’ brave and shrewd appealing character, Andy Dufresne, had dominated the movie until his prison break but for the last 15 minutes of so before the end had been missing and I wanted to see Andy once more before I went home. [Hanks was first offered the Dufresne role but turned it down as he was committed to Forrest Gump at the time and Eastwood was considered for the Morg part of Red who had been white in the novel. Certainly The Duke would never have played any guy called “Red” on the screen!]
However often film makers don’t seem to care about what might appeal to audiences and come up with weird stuff which they think might be ‘Oscar material’ just to please critics like Joel Hirschhorn. Yet in certain quarters not only do some of these Hirschhorn types often appear to me as strange guys who seem out of touch at times with audiences and what give the latter pleasure, but most of the critics it is said have never had any actual direct experience of film-making.
Yet their judgement of movies can be placed above that of the likes of Lord Larry Olivier who gave great performances in, AND produced and directed, classics on both the screen and stage.
ROY HOBBS [Baseball hero player]
“Have you ever actually PLAYED ball Max?”
MAX MERCY [Cynical baseball sportswriter – slightly startled by the question]
“Well, no. Never have.”
[THE NATURAL 1984]
HI BRUCE: I feel that I have a duty to protect The Great Mumbler’s interests on this site as not only has your Mentor insulted Mr Mumbles but at times you too do not seem to give Mr M the credit he deserves despite your saying on his own page that he “owned the 1950s”.
For example on your top hundred stars page you quote Mr M’s lifetime gross as $5.34 billion [average $144.3 million per movie] yet the figures on The Great Mumbler’s own page add up to approx $5.8 billion for 38 movies [average $152.2 million] which places him above Sir Sean and in a virtual dead heat with Sir Maurice in the present chart.
No doubt the chart will be revised at some stage as other stars too, especially ones still alive, will require adjustments to their figures but (1) it would have been nice to have had my two idols – SIR M and MISTER M ! – next to each other in a Cogerson chart for even a short while (2) around $5.8 billion would move Mr M up two places on the existing chart –
“When HE died we all moved up a place!” – Jack Nicholson
I’m not very familiar with Art Carney’s work. I knew he won the Best Actor Oscar for Harry and Tonto, looking at your trivia, beating actors Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and Albert Finney. Which must have surprised a few at the time.
Looking at the chart I’ve seen just 3 of the 21 films listed – The Yellow Rolls Royce, Firestarter and Last Action Hero.
Btw you’ve listed him as ‘Art Carny’ instead of ‘Art Carney’ on the page, title and address.
Vote Up!
Damn,damn, damn. Thanks for the timely comment. I was about to walk out the door to go to work….that error would have bugged me all day…because there would have been no way to fix it…until I got back home. I have seen 8 of his movies….so I am 5 ahead of you. I liked The Last Action Hero….I thought it was a good idea for a movie…never understood why that one got such bad press. But…you should know….Richard Dreyfuss is standing with us….he liked the movie too. Thanks again for alerting me to this horrible mistake I made. And now I go to work.