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Don Siegel (1912-1991) was an American director.   Siegel was most famous for directing 1956’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, five movies with Clint Eastwood, including 1971’s Dirty Harry, 1979’s Escape from Alcatraz, and John Wayne’s final film, 1976’s The Shootist. His IMDB page shows 50 directing credits from 1945 to 1982.  This page will rank Don Siegel 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.

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

Don Siegel 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 any way you want.

• Sort Don Siegel movies by his co-stars
• Sort Don Siegel movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort Don Siegel movies by yearly domestic box office rank
• Sort Don Siegel 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 Don Siegel movie received.
• Sort Don Siegel movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Don Siegel

1. Donald Siegel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1912.

2.  In 1945 Don Siegel directed two shorts (1945’s Hitler Lives and 1945’s Star in the Night ) which both won Academy Awards®.

3. Don Siegel was the first director to be credited by the Director’s Guild of America’s universal pseudonym Alan Smithee, for Death of a Gunfighter (1969). Siegel wished to remain uncredited because he felt the film’s star, Richard Widmark, ruined the picture by insisting on creative control that usurped Siegel’s authority as director, and also because Widmark had fired original director Robert Totten, who completed most of the picture, and Siegel felt that if anyone should be credited for the film it should have been Totten and not him.

4. Don Siegel while filming Flaming Star (1960) starring Elvis Presley, he drove Presley’s new Rolls-Royce for two weeks.

5. Don Siegel was the mentor to Sam Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood.

6. During filming of Dirty Harry (1971), Don Siegel fell ill with the flu, and Clint Eastwood stepped in temporarily as director, during a critical scene involving a suicide jumper. This was Eastwood’s first unbilled credit as director.

7. Clint Eastwood dedicated 1992’s Unforgiven to Don Siegel.

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