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Charles Boyer (1899-1978) was a four-time Oscar® winning French actor. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his first real success in American films during the 1930s. His IMDb page shows 92 acting credits from 1920 to 1976. In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks 44 of his movies in 6 different sortable columns. Television roles, cameos, shorts and many of his French movies (no box office) were not included in the rankings on the table.
Charles Boyer Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1944
Gaslight (1944)
AA Best Picture Nom
AA Best Actor Nom
1940
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
AA Best Picture Nom
1961
Fanny (1961)
AA Best Picture Nom
AA Best Actor Nom
1967
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
1943
The Constant Nymph (1943)
1942
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
1941
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
AA Best Picture Nom
1937
Tovarich (1937)
1958
The Buccaneer (1958)
1943
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
1937
History Is Made At Night (1937)
1966
How To Steal a Million (1966)
1945
Confidential Agent (1945)
1939
Love Affair (1939)
AA Best Picture Nom
1938
Algiers (1938)
AA Best Actor Nom
1946
Cluny Brown (1946)
1939
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
1937
Conquest/Marie Walewska (1937)
AA Best Actor Nom
1941
Back Street (1941)
1936
The Garden of Allah (1936)
1967
Casino Royale (1967)
1969
The April Fools (1969)
1932
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
1955
The Cobweb (1955)
1952
Thunder in the East (1952)
1944
Together Again (1944)
1948
Arch of Triumph (1948)
1957
La Parisienne (1957)
1941
Appointment For Love (1941)
1962
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
1934
Caravan (1934)
1951
The 13th Letter (1951)
1966
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
1936
Mayerling (1936)
1973
Lost Horizon (1973)
1965
A Very Special Favor (1965)
1952
The Happy Time (1952)
1948
A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
1935
Shanghai (1935)
1935
Break of Hearts (1935)
1935
Private Worlds (1935)
1951
The First Legion (1951)
1963
Love Is a Ball (1963)
1974
Stavisky... (1974)
1976
A Matter of Time (1976)
1938
Orage/Storm (1938)
1968
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968)
1969
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
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| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | Gaslight (1944) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actor Nom |
Ingrid Bergman & Angela Lansbury |
7.30 | 285.2 | 581.3 | 29 | 83 | 07 / 02 | 99.3 | |
| 2 | All This, and Heaven Too (1940) AA Best Picture Nom |
Bette Davis & Jeffrey Lynn |
4.20 | 187.0 | 314.7 | 29 | 78 | 03 / 00 | 97.7 | |
| 5 | Fanny (1961) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actor Nom |
Leslie Caron | 12.10 | 205.0 | 325.6 | 15 | 69 | 05 / 00 | 97.0 | |
| 3 | Barefoot in the Park (1967) | Robert Redford & Jane Fonda |
22.50 | 232.4 | 232.4 | 12 | 77 | 01 / 00 | 96.6 | |
| 4 | The Constant Nymph (1943) | Joan Fontaine & Peter Lorre |
5.40 | 226.2 | 418.9 | 50 | 74 | 01 / 00 | 96.0 | |
| 4 | Tales of Manhattan (1942) | Charles Boyer & Rita Hayworth |
7.10 | 307.9 | 307.9 | 18 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 95.4 | |
| 7 | Hold Back the Dawn (1941) AA Best Picture Nom |
Olivia de Haviland & Paulette Goddard |
2.90 | 129.6 | 129.6 | 86 | 84 | 06 / 00 | 95.3 | |
| 9 | Tovarich (1937) | Claudette Colbert | 4.10 | 195.0 | 195.0 | 40 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 94.0 | |
| 10 | The Buccaneer (1958) | Charlton Heston & Directed by Anthony Quinn |
9.10 | 190.5 | 190.5 | 20 | 65 | 01 / 00 | 92.3 | |
| 10 | Flesh and Fantasy (1943) | Barbara Stanwyck & Edward G. Robinson |
5.10 | 214.3 | 214.3 | 55 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 92.2 | |
| 12 | History Is Made At Night (1937) | Jean Arthur & Walter Wanger |
3.10 | 151.3 | 266.0 | 68 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 91.7 | |
| 11 | How To Steal a Million (1966) | Audrey Hepburn & Peter O'Toole |
11.00 | 125.0 | 125.0 | 26 | 84 | 00 / 00 | 91.4 | |
| 14 | Confidential Agent (1945) | Lauren Bacall & Peter Lorre |
4.50 | 164.9 | 279.5 | 80 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 91.2 | |
| 13 | Love Affair (1939) AA Best Picture Nom |
Irene Dunne | 2.20 | 96.0 | 96.0 | 110 | 77 | 06 / 00 | 89.3 | |
| 15 | Algiers (1938) AA Best Actor Nom |
Gene Lockhart & Walter Wanger |
3.20 | 149.6 | 250.4 | 59 | 65 | 04 / 00 | 88.5 | |
| 16 | Cluny Brown (1946) | Jennifer Jones | 2.70 | 96.5 | 96.5 | 109 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 86.3 | |
| 17 | When Tomorrow Comes (1939) | Irene Dunne | 3.20 | 142.9 | 142.9 | 68 | 62 | 01 / 01 | 86.1 | |
| 18 | Conquest/Marie Walewska (1937) AA Best Actor Nom |
Greta Garbo & Reginald Owen |
2.90 | 140.4 | 411.7 | 76 | 63 | 02 / 00 | 86.0 | |
| 20 | Back Street (1941) | Margaret Sullavan | 2.90 | 131.3 | 131.3 | 84 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 85.2 | |
| 22 | The Garden of Allah (1936) | Marlene Dietrich | 3.70 | 183.3 | 183.3 | 37 | 46 | 02 / 00 | 84.8 | |
| 19 | Casino Royale (1967) | Woody Allen & David Niven |
22.40 | 231.8 | 428.1 | 13 | 42 | 01 / 00 | 84.8 | |
| 23 | The April Fools (1969) | Jack Lemmon & Joel Hirschhorn |
14.30 | 125.8 | 125.8 | 23 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 84.4 | |
| 21 | Red-Headed Woman (1932) | Jean Harlow & Lewis Stone |
1.80 | 104.2 | 123.5 | 45 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 84.0 | |
| 22 | The Cobweb (1955) | Richard Widmark & Lauren Bacall |
4.30 | 103.0 | 143.8 | 80 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 83.8 | |
| 24 | Thunder in the East (1952) | Alan Ladd & Deborah Kerr |
5.60 | 126.3 | 126.3 | 58 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 83.4 | |
| 26 | Together Again (1944) | Irene Dunne | 2.70 | 104.0 | 104.0 | 105 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 81.1 | |
| 27 | Arch of Triumph (1948) | Ingrid Bergman & Charles Laughton |
4.50 | 139.8 | 139.8 | 81 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 80.0 | |
| 28 | La Parisienne (1957) | Charles Boyer & Henri Vidal |
3.50 | 78.3 | 78.3 | 70 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 75.1 | |
| 30 | Appointment For Love (1941) | Margaret Sullavan | 2.00 | 89.8 | 89.8 | 117 | 59 | 01 / 00 | 74.7 | |
| 29 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) | Glenn Ford & Ingrid Thulin |
4.60 | 76.2 | 195.2 | 54 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 74.1 | |
| 33 | Caravan (1934) | Loretta Young | 1.20 | 65.5 | 65.5 | 96 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 71.4 | |
| 31 | The 13th Letter (1951) | Linda Darnell | 2.10 | 53.6 | 53.6 | 149 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 71.1 | |
| 32 | Is Paris Burning? (1966) | Jean-Paul Belmondo & Charles Boyer |
2.00 | 22.7 | 79.0 | 104 | 73 | 02 / 00 | 68.1 | |
| 32 | Mayerling (1936) | Danielle Darrieux | 0.80 | 40.0 | 40.0 | 166 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 68.1 | |
| 36 | Lost Horizon (1973) | George Kennedy | 11.50 | 81.3 | 81.3 | 33 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 65.6 | |
| 35 | A Very Special Favor (1965) | Rock Hudson & Leslie Caron |
4.50 | 54.7 | 54.7 | 59 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 63.9 | |
| 37 | The Happy Time (1952) | Louis Jourdan | 0.90 | 20.0 | 20.0 | 207 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 61.9 | |
| 37 | A Woman's Vengeance (1948) | Ann Blyth | 1.20 | 37.1 | 37.1 | 167 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 60.9 | |
| 38 | Shanghai (1935) | Loretta Young & Walter Wanger |
0.90 | 47.2 | 76.1 | 145 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 59.9 | |
| 39 | Break of Hearts (1935) | Katharine Hepburn | 1.20 | 65.0 | 103.4 | 108 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 58.5 | |
| 41 | Private Worlds (1935) | Claudette Colbert & Joel McCrea |
1.50 | 79.2 | 121.9 | 81 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 57.9 | |
| 40 | The First Legion (1951) | William Demarest & Leo G. Carroll |
0.50 | 13.2 | 13.2 | 226 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 49.9 | |
| 43 | Love Is a Ball (1963) | Glenn Ford & Hope Lange |
1.90 | 28.0 | 28.0 | 92 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 48.4 | |
| 43 | Stavisky... (1974) | Jean-Paul Belmondo & Gérard Depardieu |
0.20 | 1.0 | 18.3 | 156 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 41.5 | |
| 44 | A Matter of Time (1976) | Liza Minnelli & Ingrid Bergman |
6.10 | 35.6 | 35.6 | 76 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 38.9 | |
| 46 | Orage/Storm (1938) | Michèle Morgan | 0.20 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 204 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 24.2 | |
| 46 | The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968) | Robert Taylor | 0.10 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 183 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 8.3 | |
| 47 | The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) | Katharine Hepburn & Charles Boyer |
1.90 | 16.5 | 16.5 | 102 | 39 | 00 / 00 | 7.2 |
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Nice new video addition to the Lensman YouTube vault. Have not seen many of his movies…..5 to be exact. Of those five….#2 Gaslight and #12 How To Steal A Million….which I just listened to the DVD commentary on a few weeks ago. Boyer was making that movie when his son passed away. Voted up and shared.
Hi Bruce, your tally 5, I’ve seen 7 and Flora beats us again with 23. I saw Gaslight for the first time recently and quite enjoyed it.
Thanks for the share, comment and vote, always appreciated.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply and the trivia about Pepe Le Pew.
According to my source despite Boyer never saying “Come with me to the Casbah” today’s generations are still determined to believe that he did as they think it sounds sexy and seductive.
After all today more than ever “fake news” trumps [no pun intended] facts. I mean look at the way WH has gotten guys like you to believe that The Thin Woman is the greatest female star of all time despite the fact that there is clear evidence that she could never on her own open a succession of movies at the box office in the way that Crawford/Davis/Liz Taylor/Durbin/Shirley Temple/Greer Garson/Betty Grable/Doris Day etc in their heydays could.
Anyway keep safe.
OVERALL the video is a comprehensive profile of Boyer’s career highlighting the films that he made in his best years and illustrating how important a star he was in his heyday when he was often billed above prominent female co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman. 98% rated by me.BEST STILLS/LOBBY CARDS
1/Break of Hearts
2/The Cobweb
3/All that Heaven Allows
4/The Buccaneer
5/Confidential Agent
6/Flesh and Fantasy
7/the set for Conquest
8/Back Street
9/Tovarich
10/How to Steal a Million
11/Constant Nymph
12/Tales of Manhattan
13/History is Made at Night
14/Cluny Brown
15/two for Hold Back the Dawn
16/Gaslight
17Garden of Allah
18/Arch of Triumph
19/Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
BEST POSTERS IN Steve’s Charles Boyer Video
1/Lost Horizon
2/First and 3rd ones for Love is a Ball [aka All this and Money too]
3/Two sexy ones for La Parisienne
4/Two absolute STUNNERS for Charlie Bill’s Four Horsemen.
5/Foreign Language one for Arch of Triumph
6/Entire SET for Garden of Allah
7/A Woman’s Vengeance
8/Stavisky
9/Liliom
10/Mayerling
11/The entire Set for Algiers
12/Red Headed Woman
13/STUNNING foreign language one for Tales of Manhattan
14/First one for History is made at Night
15/All This and Heaven Too
16/First 2 for Gaslight – very impressive
17/Love Affair
18/Very Special Favour.
Perhaps Boyer is most famous for the line he is supposed to have spoken as Pepe le Moko in the 1938 movie Algiers: “Come with me to the Casbah.” However I have not seen the movie but have read that Charles no more spoke that precise line than Bogie uttered Play it Again Sam or Cagney snarled You Dirty Rat.
Anyway when I caught up with Charles in the 1950s his golden days of Algiers/Gaslight/the Irene Dunne movies had long gone and I have seen just 8 of his films my fave among them being Laddie’s Thunder in the East.
On top of Boyer’s prolific feature film career Wikipedia gives details of 6 short subjects and 19 television productions that he appeared in.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info and trivia, much appreciated.
Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
Too many films, IMDB lists about 80, and many of them popular, so I had to make it a top 40. I’m sure some people’s favorites have been left out.
oops your favorite didn’t make my list but it did make Bruce’s chart. Worthy of a ‘hail to the chief’ ? [Bob shrugs]
Boyer was a busy boyo in Hollywood but his life ended in tragedy when his young son killed himself playing Russian roulette in front of his girlfriend, and Charles took a fatal barbiturate overdose 2 days after his wife’s death.
Two films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Madame de… and Love Affair.
Five films scored 9 out of 10 – Gaslight, Hold Back the Dawn, Cluny Brown, History is Made at Night and The Constant Nymph.
Madame de… aka ‘The Earrings of Madame de…’ tops both IMDB and RT.
IMDB trivia – His surname is pronounced “Boy-yay”. He often wrote the pronunciation in brackets and eventually he became famous enough for most people to pronounce it the right way.
Often associated with the catchphrase “Come with me to the casbah”, though he never actually said it on screen. The amorous skunk Pepé Le Pew, himself a spoof of Boyer as Pépé le Moko, used “Come wiz me to ze Casbah” as a pickup line in the 1954 Looney Tunes cartoon ‘The Cat’s Bah’, which specifically spoofed Algiers.