Humphrey Bogart Movies

Want to know the best Humphrey Bogart movies?  How about the worst Humphrey Bogart movies?  Curious about Humphrey Bogart ’s box office grosses or which Humphrey Bogart movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Humphrey Bogart 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.

Did you know that the American Film Institute ranked Humphrey Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema? Bogart however did not find an easy road to the title of greatest male star ever. After trying numerous jobs including playing chess for money he turned to acting in 1921. He found regular work on Broadway through the rest of the 1920s. When the Great Depression reduced the demand for plays, he turned his attention to movies. His first full length film was 1930’s Up the River which was directed by a very young John Ford and co-starred Spencer Tracy (also his first film). His first movie contract with Fox Films was terminated when they concluded he was not star material. Shortly there after he signed with Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers gave Bogart plenty of work from 1936 to 1940.

He appeared in twenty movies in that time frame, almost all the movies were low budget B movies. He did manage to get strong notices from two of the movies made during this time….1936’s The Petrified Forest and 1937’s Dead End. So by the end of the 1930s, Bogart either appeared as the one of stars in horrible low budget film, or as the 3rd or 4th lead in a higher budgeted movie. In the higher budgeted movies he would usually get the cowardly bad guy role and many times killed by James Cagney.

Two films in 1941 changed everything for Bogart. High Sierra was a surprise hit, it did very well at the box office and critics loved the movie and proved Bogart could carry a film. Later that year The Maltese Falcon was released to even bigger box office and an Oscar® nomination for Best Picture. After the success of those two films, Bogart found himself in better movies. In 1942 he made his greatest film, Casablanca. Bogart’s role of Rick in Casablanca would cement his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Bogart would appear in 29 more movies from 1943 to 1956, all of which were big budget and he was always the star. Some of his greatest success during this time would include 1944’s To Have and Have Not (his first film with 4th wife Lauren Bacall), 1951’s African Queen (won Oscar® for this movie), 1954’s The Caine Mutiny (his biggest box office hit) and 1956’s The Harder They Fall (his final movie).  Humphrey Bogart passed away in early 1957 after a battle with cancer. John Huston’s eulogy says it all… “He is quite irreplaceable. There will never be another like him.”

His IMDb page shows 85 acting credits from 1928-1956. This page will rank Humphrey Bogart movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, shorts, cameos and uncredited movies that were included in the rankings.

Humphrey Bogart in his biggest box office hit 1954's The Caine Mutiny
Humphrey Bogart in his biggest box office hit 1954’s The Caine Mutiny

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

Humphrey Bogart 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.

  • Sort Humphrey Bogart movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Humphrey Bogart movies by actual domestic box office grosses
  • Sort Humphrey Bogart movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort Humphrey Bogart 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 Humphrey Bogart movie received.
  • Sort Humphrey Bogart 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.
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in one of the best movies ever made....Casablanca.
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in one of the best movies ever made….Casablanca.

Humphrey Bogart Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses 

The Worst of Humphrey Bogart:
 

Let’s take a quick moment to look at two of Bogart’s worst movies. Don’t worry you Bogart fans he thought these two movies were horrible too.

1937’s Swing That Lady: Bogart plays a wrestling promoter who brings his wrestler Joe, to the Ozarks, to wrestle a female hillbilly Amazon named Sadie Hills….naturally Bogart falls in love with Sadie and they all live happily ever after in this musical comedy…..Bogart’s thoughts on this movie….”It’s a stinker”

1938’s The Return of Dr. X:  Bogart’s only science fiction movie….he plays a mad evil genius doctor who figures out a way to bring the dead back to life.  For some reason Bogart refused to talk about this movie later in his life.

Check out Humprey Bogart‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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AFI’s Top 25 Screen Legend Actors….with links to our movie pages on the Screen Legend

1.   Humphrey Bogart  58 Movies Ranked….from Casablanca (1942) to Swing Your Lady (1938)
2.   Cary Grant 58 Movies Ranked… from North by Northwest (1959) to Born To Be Bad (1934)
3.   James Stewart 73 Movies Ranked Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(1939) to Big Sleep(1978)
4.   Marlon Brando 37 Movies Ranked….from The Godfather (1972) to Christopher Columbus (1992)
5.   Fred Astaire 39 Movies Ranked The Towering Inferno (1974) to The Amazing Dobermans (1976)
6.   Henry Fonda 81 Movies Ranked… On Golden Pond (1981) to City on Fire (1979)
7.   Clark Gable 63 Movies Ranked….from Gone With The Wind (1939) to Parnell (1937)
8.   James Cagney 61 Movies Ranked….from Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) to Boy Meets Girl (1938)
9.   Spencer Tracy 53 Movies Ranked….from Boy’s Town (1938) to Up the River (1930)
10. Charles Chaplin 12 Movies Ranked….from The Kid (1921) to A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
11. Gary Cooper 67 Movies Ranked….from Sergeant York (1941) to Fighting Caravans (1931)
12. Gregory Peck 53 Movies Ranked To Kill a Mockingbird(1962) to Amazing Grace & Chuck(1987)
13. John Wayne 83 Movies Ranked….from True Grit (1969) to Brannigan (1975)
14. Laurence Olivier 48 Movies Ranked….from Rebecca (1940) to Inchon (1982)
15. Gene Kelly 40 Movies Ranked….from Anchors Aweigh (1945) to Viva Knievel! (1977)
16. Orson Welles 75 Movies Ranked….from Citizen Kane (1941) to Treasure Island (1972)
17. Kirk Douglas 71 Movies Ranked….from Spartacus (1960) to Diamonds (1999)
18. James Dean 3 Movies Ranked….from East of Eden (1955) to Giant (1956)
19. Burt Lancaster 67 Movies Ranked From Here to Eternity (1953) to Executive Action (1973)
20. Marx Brothers 18 Movies Ranked….from Horse Feathers (1932) to The Story of Mankind (1957)
21. Buster Keaton 28 Movies Ranked….from The Cameraman (1928) to The Intruder (1936)
22. Sidney Poitier 46 Movies Ranked….from In the Heat of the Night (1967) to Fast Forward (1985)
23. Robert Mitchum 83 Movies Ranked….from The Longest Day (1962) to Matilda (1978)
24. Edward G. Robinson 67 Movies Ranked 10 Commandments(1956) to BiggestBundleofAll(1968)
25. William Holden 66 Movies Ranked….from The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) to Ashanti (1979)

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146 thoughts on “Humphrey Bogart Movies”

  1. Great page on one of my favorite actors. I rented Casablanca while searching out the many classic movies I hadn’t seen. I found it interesting, the main theme seemed to me to be people can change for the better.

    African Queen has one of the most powerful scenes, minus dialogue I have ever seen. It is the part just after bogart climbs onto his ship and finds himself covered with leeches. After cleaning them off and expressing his hatred of the vile creatures they go back to pushing on the poles to move through the swamp. The look Hepburn and Bogart exchange as they both realize what he has to do. It made me tear up.

    At the end of Key Largo I though, if bogart wanted to he could sail that ship with all the money to cuba and no one would even look for him. haha.

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    1. Hey ruffridyer…thanks for the great comments on some of his classic movies….I just watched The African Queen on Blu-Ray talk about a much improved picture….it was awesome it was like watching a new movie…I also enjoy the scene between Bogie and Hepburn……I think if Bogart had gone to Cuba it would have made for a better movie….Key Largo is my least favorite of the Bacall/Bogart movies. Casablanca is a classic, the ending was only figured out right before they shot the famous final scene….thanks for reading and commenting on my Bogart page.

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  2. I have really enjoyed reading your take on classic movies, I do however think you need to organized your index better, it appears to be missing links as well as dead links. Bogart was my favorite actor growing up, I was sad to see him die so young but happy that his status has gotten better every year since his untimely death. My favorites would be Casablanca and In A Lonely Place. I will come back to read more of your classic actors. Till then. Richard E. Moody.

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    1. Thank you for the great suggestion Richard Moody, I need to update my index, that much is for sure. I will fix my index very soon.

      As for Bogart….it was indeed very sad when he passed away so young….for what I read he would have lasted a lot longer if he would have gone to the doctor sooner….In a Lonely Place is a cult classic. thanks for reading my movie page.

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    1. I agree Tyler those three movies are classics, especially the first one….Key Largo gets the bronze medal compared to the other two…thanks for your comment

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  4. I always liked Bogart, certainly one of the greatest actors in the history of American cinema. He didn’t act in many turkeys, did he? You forgot to put “Sahara” on the list, though I suppose it must be on one of your lists. How did you make them, with a spreadsheet of some kind? Very impressive. Later!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by and reading….Sahara comes in at #12 on the list of all his movies(the third table)….you can sort the movies via column headings …which makes it much easier to find a movie if you sort by alphabetical order…as for how I make the spreadsheet….I have a access database where I put all the information into, then I download that file to hub pages…..the access database takes all the numbers and generates a number for each movie…..my wonderful wife designed the computer program which makes coming up with these lists much much easier…..as for Bogart I agree he did not make any turkeys after he became really famous in 1941…..I am sure there are many movies in his early 1930s that could be considered turkeys….thanks for the great compliment and for reading my page.

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      1. Hey, Cogerson, I tried to include a math formula in one of my pages and Hubpages wouldn’t accept it, so I gave up on such projects. Regarding such, Access makes sense, since I thought perhaps you’d used Excel, which is another tremendous tool, of course. Later!

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        1. Hey Kosmo…..the access database does all the calculations before it goes to hub pages..the key for my access data….was to turn the report page to a CSV file, which hub pages recognizes….then it is simply a download and I am good to go.

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          1. I love Access – I worked at a sleep lab and insisted on switching from excel to access – it’s amazing in comparison for making tables and graphs. Your wife must be a genius Cogerson!

          2. Thanks RealHousewife. I am glad you too work well together as well. I am very glad to report that my wife is very cool and smart……to me what makes a good marriage is how the strengths and weaknesses work together…in our marriage it has made us a great team…you can tell Dave….I thought Excel was the end all of programs….it has nothing and I repeat nothing on Access……a month of working on Access and he will never want to use Excel again….thanks for the comments.

          3. You’re welcome and thank you – I’m going to cut to the chase and let him read your comments:). Even my computer wiz told him that! Men! Hmpf;) lol

          4. Hope it works….and even better way….take some information he uses every day and do a test case using access that shows its strengths….and then I think you will win him over.

  5. I think Bogart is the closest thing to Pacino. I like your articles. I am saving your address for future reading, very nicely done.

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    1. Thanks for the compliment IloveAl….and thanks for bookmarking my page…..there are over 200 movie pages already done and more to come

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