Want to know the best Judith Anderson movies? How about the worst Judith Anderson movies? Curious about Judith Anderson box office grosses or which Judith Anderson movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Judith Anderson movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Judith Anderson (1897-1992) was an Oscar® nominated Australian actress. A preeminent stage actress in her era, she won two Emmy® Awards and a Tony Award® and was also nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award®. She is considered one of the 20th century’s greatest classical stage actors. Her IMDb page shows 55 acting credits from 1930 to 1987. This page will rank Judith Anderson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. 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.
Judith Anderson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Judith Anderson 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 Judith Anderson movies by her co-stars
- Sort Judith Anderson movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Judith Anderson movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Judith Anderson movies by 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 Judith Anderson movie received.
- Sort Judith Anderson 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 On Judith Anderson
1. Frances Margaret Anderson was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1897.
2. Judith Anderson made her professional debut (as Francee Anderson) in 1915, playing Stephanie at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, in A Royal Divorce. She made her Broadway debut in 1922. One year later, she had changed her acting forename (albeit not for legal purposes) to Judith and had her first triumph with the play Cobra (1924).
3. Judith Anderson was 87 years old when she appeared as the High Priestess in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984). She had come out of retirement after being away from motion pictures for 14 years. She was encouraged by her nephew to take the role and received a Saturn Award nomination for that role.
4. Judith Anderson appeared in four Oscar® Best Picture nominees: Rebecca (1940), Kings Row (1942), The Ten Commandments (1956) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), with only the first being a winner in the category.
5. Judith Anderson was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen’s New Years Honours List for her services to the performing arts.
Check out Judith Anderson’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
I have seen 14 Judith Anderson movies, including 9 of the top 10.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Rebecca.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Pursued.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Free and Easy.
Favourite Judith Anderson Movies:
And Then There Were None
Rebecca
Laura
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
Stage Door Canteen
All Through the Night
Other Judith Anderson Movies I Have Seen:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Ten Commandments
Salome
Edge of Darkness
The Red House
Free and Easy
Hey Flora….another classic for you. First thanks for the visit and the feedback. Steve and I have seen 9 of her movies. So your 14 has us beat. I have seen 5 of your favorites….the first five you list. Her And Then There Were None is the best film adaptation of the book….sadly….none of the movies have ever followed her original ending. I remember reading the book….and the ending blew me away. Probably my most memorable book ending I have read. I have seen 2 of the “others”…The cat had 10 commandments. Good stuff as always.
Judith Anderson has appeared in two of my all time favorite films – Hitchcock’s Rebecca and DeMille’s The Ten Commandments.
She was unforgettable as the evil Mrs. Danvers obsessed with Rebecca and hating the ‘second’ Mrs. de Winter. I wonder if the book brought up the lesbian angle? Anyway it’s probably the only romantic drama ever made where we never find out what the leading female character’s name is, it’s never mentioned in the book either.
I’ve seen 9 of the 26 films on the chart, favorites are – Rebecca, The Ten Commandments, Laura, Edge of Darkness and Star Trek III The Search for More Sequels (at her nephew’s urging Dame Judith played a Vulcan High Priestess, I’ll bet she had never heard of Star Trek before).
Looking at the box office chart, The Ten Commandments hit the stratosphere, no surprises there, but Rebecca was big too.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve…thanks for checking out our Judith Anderson page…she was another of the Joel subjects….I was mistakenly thinking she won an Oscar for Rebecca….but it was only a nomination…but beyond it is one of the great evil roles. We are tied with 9 Judith Anderson movies seen. I have seen all of your favorites except for Edge of Darkness. Her turn with Chuck was easily her biggest box office hit. Good stuff as always.
I leave it to Steve to comment on Judith’s Star Trek performance if he so wishes because nowadays I don’t pay much attention to movies in that genre and would watch just reruns of Shatner’s heyday television episodes; but Don’t Bother to Knock is an obscure British comedy starring Richard Todd and as WH’s 50% review rating above suggests it deserves to remain in obscurity as a piece of entertainment.
That said historically it is typical of the type of routine comedy film that the British film industry was churning out in the 1950s and early 1960s and The Work Horse deserves credit for being able to give us both a box office gross and a review rating for such a long-past low-key film.
Richard Todd who for a while was one of the biggest stars of the British cinema might be best known to American audiences for his role opposite Reagan in 1949’s The Hasty Heart. In a TV interview that I saw Todd amusingly told of how he and Ronnie became friends while making that film to the extent that they exchanged Christmas cards for years afterwards – until [Todd claimed with a smile and twinkle in his eye] Ronnie became President whereupon he stopped returning Richard’s cards!
[I have often thought that the publicly circumspect Reagan might have started to cool towards Richard when the latter began to appear in overt sexual Continental material on screen – particularly (1) the French/ Italian 1954’s The Bed (Secrets d’alcove) (2) the contemporary version of the UK/Italy’s joint 1970 The Picture of Dorian Gray (Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray) in which Todd played Wilde’s Basil Hallward the artist who actually painted “the picture of Dorian Gray” in the plot.]
For her iconic Mrs Danvers alone Judith’s work does in my opinion deserve highlighting on the Cogerson site so this new page is “Voted Up!” From a film buff’s viewpoint another fine choice Bruce.
Hey Bob….it took Don’t Bother To Knock! four years to reach American theaters. From what I can tell it barely made any money and only played in a small number of theaters. So for records we gave it the lowest box office that will register in our database. It seems to be equal to a VOD movie of today. Good information on Richard Todd (who does not have a page..yet) and Ronald Reagan. Good stuff as always.
Judith had successful careers on the big screen/TV/and the stage though as WH indicates above she seems to have been predominately stage orientated. She also performed on radio in 1953’s Theatre Guild of the Air in an episode called “Black Chiffon”
Most audiences and especially Hitchcock fans probably remember her best as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca; but as a big Heston fan I remember her equally well for her part as Memnet in Chuck’s Ten Commandments.
“Memnet (59 BBM – 30 ABM) was an Egyptian slave-nurse who served Bithiah and Nefretiri, during the reigns of Pharaohs Rameses Ist and Sethi Ist respectively. Being a third-generation servant, she remained allegiant to the royal Egyptian family and disapproved of Moses ‘ entrance into the court of Pharaoh.”
Bruce includes fine stills above from both Rebecca and Ten Commandments and as well as in those two movies I have enjoyed Judith in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Laura; King’s Row; Lewis’ to me awful Cinderfella’; and 1961’s Don’t Bother to Knock [not to be confused with Widmark/Monroe’s 1952 US thriller of the same title; and WH above uses th US title Why Bother to Knock? The Yanks habitually not only steal our stars but screw up our titles!].
Hey Bob….thanks for checking out our Judith Anderson page. She was considered one of the greatest stage actresses from the 1930s to the early 1960s. So many great, featured roles she created on stage. I am right there with you to how audiences know her. I pretty much only knew her from Rebecca. I was actually surprised when I saw she was in The Ten Commandments (sorry Steve..I do not know that movie as well as you)….then shocked when she was in Star Trek 3. I think…that puts your tally of 7 confirmed. I have seen 7 myself. Good stuff.
I have seen her in Laura.
Great UMR Page.
Thx
Mike
Hey Mike….Laura is an all-time classic. Burt Reynolds pretty much remade it with his Sharkey’s Machine…a movie my mom loves…and I enjoy. Thanks for the kind words and the visit.