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Ed Begley (1901-1970) was an Oscar®-winning American actor. Begley’s career included successful roles in theater, radio, film and television. He won the Best Supporting Oscar® for his role in 1962’s Sweet Bird of Youth. His acting career has spanned over 4 decades. His IMDb page shows 105 acting credits between 1946 and 1970. This page will rank Ed Begley 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.
Ed Begley 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
1948
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
1948
Sitting Pretty (1948)
1964
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
1947
Boomerang! (1947)
1950
Stars In My Crown (1950)
1948
The Street with No Name (1948)
1957
12 Angry Men (1957)
AA Best Picture Nom
1968
Hang 'em High (1968)
1962
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
AA Best Supp Actor Win
1949
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
1949
The Great Gatsby (1949)
1951
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
1952
Lone Star (1952)
1949
Tulsa (1949)
1956
Patterns (1956)
1968
Wild in The Streets (1968)
1951
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
1950
Saddle Tramp (1950)
1950
Convicted (1950)
1959
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
1952
Deadline - USA (1952)
1948
Deep Waters (1948)
1950
Dark City (1950)
1952
Boots Malone (1952)
1950
Backfire (1950)
1970
The Road to Salina (1970)
1968
Firecreek (1968)
1951
The Lady From Texas (1951)
1952
The Turning Point (1952)
1967
Warning Shot (1967)
1950
Wyoming Mail (1950)
1967
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
1970
The Dunwich Horror (1970)
1961
The Green Helmet (1961)
1966
The Oscar (1966)
1969
The Monitors (1969)
Ed Begley Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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- Sort Ed Begley 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.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | 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 | UMR Score | S |
| 2 | Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) | Barbara Stanwyck & Burt Lancaster |
7.50 | 234.4 | 234.40 | 25 | 80 | 01 / 00 | 97.4 | |
| 1 | Sitting Pretty (1948) | Clifton Webb & Maureen O'Hara |
9.50 | 296.1 | 296.10 | 9 | 77 | 01 / 00 | 96.6 | |
| 3 | The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) | Debbie Reynolds & Harve Presnell |
17.30 | 229.5 | 229.50 | 7 | 68 | 06 / 00 | 95.5 | |
| 5 | Boomerang! (1947) | Dana Andrews & Directed by Elia Kazan |
6.10 | 205.4 | 205.40 | 47 | 70 | 01 / 00 | 94.9 | |
| 6 | Stars In My Crown (1950) | Joel McCrea & Dean Stockwell |
5.60 | 146.0 | 159.70 | 46 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 92.1 | |
| 8 | The Street with No Name (1948) | Richard Widmark | 6.20 | 193.3 | 193.30 | 43 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 91.5 | |
| 4 | 12 Angry Men (1957) AA Best Picture Nom |
Henry Fonda & Lee J. Cobb |
2.90 | 63.8 | 63.80 | 80 | 95 | 01 / 00 | 90.9 | |
| 7 | Hang 'em High (1968) | Clint Eastwood & Inger Stevens |
14.80 | 140.9 | 140.90 | 25 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 90.6 | |
| 9 | Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) AA Best Supp Actor Win |
Geraldine Page & Shirley Knight & <a href='https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/paul-newman-movi |
7.70 | 128.6 | 128.60 | 31 | 74 | 03 / 01 | 89.5 | |
| 10 | It Happens Every Spring (1949) | Ray Milland & Baseball Movies |
5.10 | 149.4 | 149.40 | 56 | 66 | 01 / 00 | 87.7 | |
| 11 | The Great Gatsby (1949) | Alan Ladd & Shelley Winters |
5.60 | 161.5 | 161.50 | 45 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 85.8 | |
| 14 | You're in the Navy Now (1951) | Gary Cooper & Directed by Henry Hathaway |
4.60 | 114.3 | 114.30 | 71 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 81.5 | |
| 13 | Lone Star (1952) | Clark Gable & Ava Gardner |
6.90 | 156.4 | 247.60 | 33 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 81.4 | |
| 15 | Tulsa (1949) | Susan Hayward & Robert Preston |
4.40 | 129.2 | 129.20 | 69 | 56 | 01 / 00 | 81.0 | |
| 15 | Patterns (1956) | Van Heflin & Everett Sloane |
2.30 | 51.9 | 51.90 | 128 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 79.5 | |
| 18 | Wild in The Streets (1968) | Shelley Winters & Richard Pryor |
11.40 | 109.1 | 109.10 | 35 | 59 | 01 / 00 | 79.2 | |
| 16 | On Dangerous Ground (1951) | Robert Ryan & Ida Lupino |
1.90 | 46.8 | 46.80 | 159 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 79.1 | |
| 16 | Saddle Tramp (1950) | Joel McCrea | 3.40 | 89.3 | 89.30 | 98 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 78.6 | |
| 20 | Convicted (1950) | Glenn Ford & Broderick Crawford |
3.30 | 85.6 | 85.60 | 99 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 76.1 | |
| 19 | Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) | Harry Belafonte & Robert Ryan |
1.80 | 37.2 | 37.20 | 121 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 75.2 | |
| 21 | Deadline - USA (1952) | Humphrey Bogart | 3.50 | 78.9 | 78.90 | 104 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 73.5 | |
| 22 | Deep Waters (1948) | Dana Andrews & Dean Stockwell |
2.60 | 82.2 | 82.20 | 118 | 60 | 01 / 00 | 73.3 | |
| 23 | Dark City (1950) | Charlton Heston & Lizabeth Scott |
2.70 | 70.7 | 70.70 | 117 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 64.6 | |
| 24 | Boots Malone (1952) | William Holden & Stanley Clements |
1.90 | 44.2 | 44.20 | 160 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 62.1 | |
| 25 | Backfire (1950) | Virginia Mayo & Gordon MacRae |
2.50 | 65.1 | 65.10 | 122 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 60.7 | |
| 26 | The Road to Salina (1970) | Mimsy Farmer & Robert Walker Jr. |
1.60 | 12.8 | 12.80 | 120 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 53.4 | |
| 27 | Firecreek (1968) | James Stewart & Henry Fonda |
3.10 | 30.0 | 30.00 | 90 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 52.6 | |
| 28 | The Lady From Texas (1951) | Howard Duff | 1.10 | 28.7 | 28.70 | 195 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 50.8 | |
| 29 | The Turning Point (1952) | William Holden & Edmond O'Brien |
1.10 | 25.3 | 25.30 | 196 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 43.7 | |
| 30 | Warning Shot (1967) | David Janssen & Ed Begley |
2.50 | 25.8 | 25.80 | 86 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 42.2 | |
| 31 | Wyoming Mail (1950) | Stephen McNally | 1.00 | 25.7 | 25.70 | 186 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 42.1 | |
| 32 | Billion Dollar Brain (1967) | Michael Caine | 3.80 | 38.7 | 38.70 | 63 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 38.8 | |
| 33 | The Dunwich Horror (1970) | Sandra Dee & Dean Stockwell |
3.20 | 25.5 | 25.50 | 79 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 31.0 | |
| 34 | The Green Helmet (1961) | Bil Travers | 1.10 | 18.1 | 45.80 | 120 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 28.4 | |
| 35 | The Oscar (1966) | Ernest Borgnine & Joseph Cotten |
2.00 | 22.7 | 22.70 | 100 | 42 | 02 / 00 | 14.1 | |
| 36 | The Monitors (1969) | Alan Arkin | 0.50 | 4.4 | 4.40 | 161 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 9.8 |
Best IMDb Trivia on Ed Begley
1. Edward James Begley Sr. was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1901.
2. Ed Begley Sr. is the father of actor and environmental activist Ed Begley Jr.
3. Ed Begley dropped-out of school when he was in the 5th grade. Begley ran away from home several times, going to work for carnivals, fairs, and small circuses. Later he sold brushes, delivered milk, and served in the United States Navy during World War I.
4. Ed Begley began his acting career as a Broadway and radio actor while in his teens.
5. Ed Begley won Broadway’s 1956 Tony® Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for “Inherit the Wind.”
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HI STEVE: Glad you have now dropped the “old” from “loud mouth bigot” We old-timers don’t like our name taken in vain: ie there are young bigots too; and many elderly guys are very nice people when you get to know them – take me for instance!
WIKIPEDIA: To take one’s name in vain.EXAMPLES
1/Speak casually, critically or idly of someone, or some group particularly as a generalisation that cannot apply to all in the group. This idiom originated as a translation from the Latin of the Vulgate Bible (Exodus 20:7), “to take God’s name in vain,”
2/ to use (a name, especially the name of God) in a way that does not show proper respect or even common sense – for example “poor people are all lazy” whereas logic dictates that cannot be so. However “some people are poor because they are lazy,” is more relaistic, though it should not be used within a context that seeks to attack all of the poor as a class or demographic.
3/to sweepingly associate either directly or by implication a negative characteristic to all people in a group or community. “I would love to lock up young oversexed people!” suggests that the critic MAY mean young people are all oversexed and/or the only oversexed people are the young and/or only the young should be punished for [unlawful]oversexed behaviour.