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Joe Pesci (1943-) is an Oscar®-winning American actor and singer. Pesci is known for portraying tough, volatile characters in a variety of genres. His most famous roles would include two Home Alone movies and many movies with Robert DeNiro and Martin Scorsese. Pesci’s IMDb page shows 40 acting credits since 1961. This page will rank Joe Pesci 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 and a handful of his movies that we could not find box office on, were not included in the rankings.
Joe Pesci Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Joe Pesci Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Joe Pesci Worldwide Adjusted Box Office Grosses
Best IMDb Trivia on Joe Pesci
1. In the mid-1960s, Joe Pesci recorded an album under the stage name Joe Ritchie titled “Little Joe Sure Can Sing”.
2. Director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro tracked down Pesci after seeing him in The Death Collector (1976) because they felt he was perfect for the role of Joey LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980). Before they persuaded him to take the role, Pesci had been on the verge of giving up his faltering acting career.
3. Joe Pesci’s acceptance speech at the Academy Awards® is the one of shortest in history at just six words and three seconds. His speech? “It’s my privilege, thank you,”
4. The word pesci in Italian means “fish” (plural).
Check out Joe Pesci’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Steve’s Joe Pesci You Tube Video
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Good thoughts from Bob and Steve on Steve’s video and Joe’s career.
PESCI VIDEO: THE 15 ENTRIES WITH MY PICK OF THE POSTERS
1/Jimmy Hollywood
2/Love Ranch
3/Man on Fire
4/Catchfire
5/first one for Home Alone 2
6/Public Eye
7/Good Shepherd
8/2nd one for Home Alone [One]
9/My Cousin Vinny
10/The Irishman
11/first one for Casino
12/Foreign language one for Once Upon a Time
13/Gone Fishin
14/The Super
15/Raging Bull
BEST STILLS
1/Gone Fishin
2/Jimmy Holliday
3/Easy Money – raunchy!
4/Moonwalker
5/Home Alone 2
6/The Public Eye
7/Good Shepherd
8/My Cousin Vinny
9/Lethal Weapon 3
10/Home Alone [One]
11/Lethal Weapon 2
12/Casino
13/JFK
14/all from Goodfellas
15/The Irishman.
I have given that last one a miss so far because although I like DeNiro/Pacino and wouldn’t mind seeing them together again with all that’s going on at the moment I am not in the mood to watch Pesci.
HI STEVE: A close friend of mine once confided in me that he was one of those people who was of a natural cheery disposition and that whilst most times that was a good thing it was a drawback when his family/friends were experiencing difficulties so that he was expected to take their problems seriously and therefore he couldn’t look over- happy. Accordingly to engender a suitably depressed appearance he watched a Joe Pesci film.
I must confess that I can see where he’s coming from. A few years ago there was a practice whereby classic films were being rerun in venues appropriate to their subject matter: for example Shawshank Redemption was shown in the former prison here where terrorists used to be jailed; Mr Smith Goes to Washington was screened in the central hall of Sormont in Belfast where our houses of Parliament are; and DeCaprio’s Titanic was shown aboard a ship.
Accordingly I remember saying to that friend of mine that all reruns of Pesci’s movies should be held in morgues as in my opinion the only actor whom I can ever remember being more un-entertaining/morbid/depressing and lacking in star quality from my own perspective than Joe was Britain’s Welsh actor Mervyn Johns. Luckily a fine array of posters and stills is not dependent on the charisma of the stars involved and I rate your Pesci video 97.5% on its own merits. Listings in Part 2.
BOB COX “September 9, 2019 at 2:49 pm ‘I am not a Pesci fan. I am not a fan of unnecessary “F” words, which is possibly Pesci’s idea of acting due to its continued use throughout almost every movie’.”
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing my Joe Pesci video, the generous rating and info is much appreciated. Happy you liked the picture gallery.
As the yanks say ‘different strokes for different folks’. I like Joe Pesci. I enjoy watching his profanity laden performances, just like I enjoy Samuel L. Jacksons. He was hilarious in the Lethal Weapon films but I’m not a huge fan of the Home Alone films.
I also liked him in My Cousin Vinny.
Anyway 3 of his films scored 10 out of 10 – Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Once Upon a Time in America. 3 more scored 9 – JFK, Casino and The Irishman.
Goodfellas tops the chart at IMDB and Raging Bull is no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes.
Pesci on Robert De Niro – “We work so well together. It’s like breathing in and out. It’s so easy for us – we feed off each other.”
HI STEVE: Thanks for your customary courteous and sincere reply.
I have never paid much attention to anything Pesci has to say or how he says it; but I think Box Cox has something when he points to the possible ability of some to deliver a performance today only through the use of swear words.
I inadvertently lapse into them myself occasionally but nevertheless feel that the gratuitous employment of them on the screen is not just excessive as it is by definition but is also unpleasant to listen to for any length of time as well as being repetitively boring and worse: a substitute for and hinderance to and the provision of good scripts and crisp dialogue.
What we are getting today by way of a four-letter diatribe is not very original or inventive is it? Would the great reputation of Britain’s famed actor knights and peers have been SO great if they had carved their careers out of four letter words instead of the language of the Bard and the classics?
Anyway I hope that all is going well for you and you are not having to put yourself at risk. Please keep safe.
well stated, but who is this BOB COX ? you are greatly appreciated. bob cox
BOB COX: Great that you seem back to your old form. Here are some passages that I recently came across [pre-coronavirus isolation] in a historical text book on the shelves of our local library about the role of screenwriting in movies. I wrote it down at the time as I thought it was quite an observant piece of writing.
“We must accept I fear that some types of movies that are popular today would probably not survive without profanity, as the use of bad language is the most suitable form of communication for those movies and their stars many of whom have never been asked or even trained to speak in any other way.
Without the swear words the actors and plots involved would be as equally all at sea as the old Hollywood biblical epics of craftsmen like DeMille would have been HAD they used profanities instead of Biblical language.
Accordingly if our contemporary audiences want to continue enjoying certain of the kinds of movies that seem to be popular at the moment then the price to be paid for that is the acceptance of the lowest common denominator as the going standard for screen writing.
Insisting that writers come up with excellent scripts aflush with endless coarseness is akin to obliging them as the saying goes to “cast your pearls before swine” In short the writers have no incentive to come up with anything other that the drivel that modern audiences and sadly critics too seem to accept – indeed demand.”
Best wishes BOB ROY
beautiful. I cannot agree more.
Just added Steve’s Joe Pesci video to this page. Our thoughts found on his channel.
Nice new selection. Voted up and shared. I have seen 19 of these movies…including the Top 14. First miss is #15 Betsy’s Wedding. I really liked him in The Irishman….surprised it did not crack the Top 5….but he has some classic movies in his resume. Favorites would include Once Upon A Time In America, Goodfellas, Home Alone (the one I have seen the most), Lethal Weapon 2 and My Cousin Vinny. Good video.
Hi Bruce, 19 out of 26 is very good, I’ve seen 16. Lethal Weapon 2 is probably my favorite of the 4 Lethal Weapon films. I thought it was more enjoyable than the first.
I prefer Goodfellas to Once Upon a Time in America and Casino. But The Godfather 1 & 2 tops all of these, oops my age is showing. 😉
Thanks for the vote, share and comment, it is appreciated.
I saw top 13. I am not a pesci fan. 10 and favourite : lethal weapon 3. 10: home alone. 9s: goodfellas, JFK, lethal weapon 4. no hidden gems. I am not a fan of unnecessary “F” words , which is possibly pesci’s idea of acting due to its continued use throughout almost every movie.
Hey Bob Cox. So you have seen the top 13, but you’re not a fan? I’m sure on buying that… LOL. I agree he says the F word a lot in his movies. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, sorry took so long to respond.
no worries, it was less than 6 months. I am always tardy in my responses so 6 months is punctual and easily understandable.
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