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Farley Granger (1925-2011) was an American actor. Granger is best known for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock: 1948’s Rope and 1951’s Strangers on a Train. His IMDb page shows 86 acting credits from 1943 to 2011. This page will rank Farley Granger movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. Sadly that includes many of Granger’s Italian movies. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Farley Granger Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Farley Granger 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.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Farley Granger movie received.
- Sort Farley Granger movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Best IMDb Trivia On Farley Granger
1. Farley Earle Granger was born in San Jose, California in 1925.
2. Farley Granger was one of the last of Samuel Goldwyn’s contract players.
3. Farley Granger’s studio publicity department was concerned audiences would confuse Granger with British actor Stewart Granger, so they suggested he change his name and offered him a list from which to choose. “The names were all interchangeable, like Gordon Gregory and Gregory Gordon. I didn’t want to change my name,” Granger later recalled. “I liked Farley Granger. It was my father’s name, and his grandfather’s name. They kept bringing me new combinations, and finally I offered to change it to Kent Clark. I was the only one who thought it was funny.” Eventually the studio issued a press release announcing Farley Granger, a senior at North Hollywood High School, had been cast in The North Star after he responded to an ad in the local paper. “I thought that was a really dumb story,” said Granger. “The truth was much more interesting.”
4. On the audio commentary for They Live by Night (1948), Farley Granger says that Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray were the best directors he ever worked with. In addition, his two favorite films of his own are Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951) and Ray’s They Live by Night (1948).
5. Farley Granger might be the only actor to play the hero and a villain in an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Granger was one of the villains in 1948’s Rope and the hero in 1951’s Strangers On A Train.
Check out Farley Granger’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Although Farley Granger is listed as starring in Hans Christian Andersen on the Danny Kaye Movies page, it seems to be missing from this page. From a boxoffice standpoint it was his most successful film.
Hey Anonymous…not sure why Hans Christian Andersen is not showing up on the table….it is his highest rated Granger movie in our database. Efforting a way to fix the connection from our database to the website. Thanks for the catch.