Want to know the best Gene Autry movies? How about the worst Gene Autry movies? Curious about Gene Autry box office grosses or which Gene Autry movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Gene Autry movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Gene Autry (1907-1998) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, musician, and rodeo performer. Autry gained fame by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades. His IMDb page shows 99 acting credits from 1934 to 1985. This page will rank Gene Autry 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.
A shout out to Mike. Without his hard work of digging through old Variety magazines and finding Autry box office nuggets, there is no way this page would have ever been completed. So thank you, Mike. Your work was impressive and appreciated. You impressed WoC too!
Gene Autry Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.
Gene Autry 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 Gene Autry movies by his co-stars
- Sort Gene Autry movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Gene Autry movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Gene Autry 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 Gene Autry movie received.
- Sort Gene Autry 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 Gene Autry
1. Orvon Grover “Gene” Autry was born in Grayson County in Texas in 1907.
2. According to a Hollywood legend, published in The Orange County Register after his death, Autry was discovered singing in a telegraph office in Oklahoma by Will Rogers. Rogers told him that he had a pretty good voice, and suggested that he go to Hollywood where he could make some money singing in the movies.
3. Gene Autry’s nickname was “The Singing Cowboy”.
4. Of Gene Autry’s 92 starring features, only The Strawberry Roan (1948) and The Big Sombrero (1949) were filmed and released in color.
5. Gene Autry’s Cowboy Code: 1. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage. 2. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. 3. He must always tell the truth. 4. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals. 5. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas. 6. He must help people in distress. 7. He must be a good worker. 8. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits. 9. He must respect women, parents, and his nation’s laws. 10. The Cowboy is a patriot.
6. Almost 70 years after the last Gene Autry western, he is better known to later generations as a singer. His remastered vintage recordings of “Here Comes Santa Claus” and “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” remain very popular holiday standards into the 21st century.
7. During World War II, when Gene Autry left Republic Pictures to join the U.S. Army, he was the only officer allowed to wear cowboy boots with his uniform.
8. Gene Autry was nominated for a Best Music, Original Song Oscar® for 1941’s Ridin’ On A Rainbow.
9. Gene Autry was the first owner of the Los Angeles Angels MLB baseball team.
10. The town of Gene Autry, Oklahoma, was named in his honor, as was the Gene Autry precinct in Mesa, Arizona.
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Saturday morning with Roy and Gere were great. The singing cowboys will never come back, they lived by a different code.
Hey George…..good point. I agree with you 100% the singing cowboys will never come back. About 35 years ago, Tom Berenger played a singing cowboy in Rustler’s Rhapsody….but that one died at the box office. I think the only other singing cowboy in the last 30 years was Tim Blake Nelson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs…..but he does not last long in that movie. Good feedback.