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Keenan Wynn (1916-1986) was an American actor. Though Wynn rarely carried the lead role, he had prominent billing in most of his film and television roles. His acting career spanned 5 decades. His IMDb page shows 282 acting credits from 1942 to 1986. This page will rank Keenan Wynn 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.
Drivel Part of the Page: When Dean Stockwell recently passed away, I was looking at the famous 1949 “The Silver Jubilee Stars of MGM” photo (see below). When I saw Keenan Wynn in the photo (top row all the way on the right), I realized I should do an UMR page on his career. Well, a few weeks later and his page is now complete.
Keenan Wynn Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Keenan Wynn 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 Keenan Wynn movies by his co-stars
- Sort Keenan Wynn movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Keenan Wynn movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Keenan Wynn 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 Keenan Wynn movie received.
- Sort Keenan Wynn movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Keenan Wynn’s Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Possibly Interesting Facts About Keenan Wynn
1. Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn was born in New York City in 1916. He is the son of vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn and the grandson of actor, Frank Keenan. Frank Keenan was one of the first Broadway stars to star in Hollywood.
2. Keenan Wynn was married to former stage actress Eve Lynn Abbott (1914–2004) until their divorce in 1947, whereupon Abbott married actor Van Johnson, one of the couple’s closest friends. Abbott contended her marriage to Wynn was a happy one, but that her divorce and remarriage was engineered by MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer, who refused to renew Wynn’s contract unless Abbott divorced him and married Johnson, who was the subject of rumors that he was homosexual.
3. Keenan Wynn appeared with Van Johnson in seven films: Between Two Women (1945), Week-End at the Waldorf (1945), Ziegfeld Follies (1945), No Leave, No Love (1946), Easy to Wed (1946), It’s a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951) and Men of the Fighting Lady (1954).
4. Keenan Wynn Introduced Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin to the power of Triumph motorcycles on a hill climb.
5. Speaking of Lee Marvin. Keenan Wynn were big time drinking buddies.
6. Keenan Wynn was originally to play Perry White in Superman (1978), but had to drop out upon arriving in London for filming due to heart problems. The role went to Jackie Cooper.
7. Keenan Wynn suffered from hearing loss in his later years. Part of the reason for his eventual loss of hearing was due to the fact that he raced just about anything on land or water and most of the vehicles were loud and unmuffled.
8. One of Keenan Wynn’s sons, actor and writer Ned Wynn, wrote the autobiographical memoir We Will Always Live In Beverly Hills. His other son, Tracy Keenan Wynn, is a screenwriter whose credits include The Longest Yard and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (both 1974).
9. Keenan Wynn appeared in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: Since You Went Away (1944), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and Nashville (1975).
10. Direct from Keenan Wynn himself…..”My billing has always been “and”, or “with”, or “including”. That’s all right; let the stars take the blame.”
Check out Keenan Wynn’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
And I just saw Keenan’s granddaughter, Jessica Keenan Wynn, in Clifford, the Big Red Dog.
Keenan Wynn is # 262 on the 2020 Oracle of Bacon list. Keenan is the # 159 most connected actor of the 1950’s, the # 59 most connected actor of the 1960’s, and the # 31 most connected actor of the 1970’s.
These are the actors on the 2020 list he has appeared with.
1 CHRISTOPHER LEE The Last Unicorn (1982)
5 DONALD SUTHERLAND Promise Her Anything (1965)
6 MARTIN SHEEN The Legend of Earl Durand (1974)
11 ERNEST BORGNINE Il re di Poggioreale (1961)
11 ERNEST BORGNINE The Devil’s Rain (1975)
21 GERALDINE CHAPLIN Nashville (1975)
31 ROBERT DUVALL Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
38 CHARLTON HESTON Touch of Evil (1958)
39 RODDY MCDOWELL Laserblast (1978)
39 RODDY MCDOWELL Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
50 ALAN ARKIN The Last Unicorn (1982)
50 ALAN ARKIN The Monitors (1969)
52 NED BEATTY Nashville (1975)
53 JOHN SAXON Running Wild (1955)
53 JOHN SAXON The Glove (1979)
58 ELI WALLACH Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
59 CLAUDIA CARDINALE Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
61 BURT REYNOLDS Best Friends (1982)
66 OMAR SHARIFF Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
68 JOHN CARRADINE Northwest Rangers (1942)
68 JOHN CARRADINE The Killer Inside Me (1976)
68 JOHN CARRADINE The Patsy (1964)
76 DEAN STOCKWELL Song of the Thin Man (1947)
84 BRUCE DERN The War Wagon (1967)
86 CHARLOTTE RAMPLING Orca (1977)
93 PETER USTINOV Viva Max (1969)
102 ORSON WELLES Touch of Evil (1958)
107 MICKEY ROONEY 80 Steps to Jonah (1969)
107 MICKEY ROONEY The Manipulator (1971)
110 JEFF BRIDGES The Last Unicorn (1982)
111 STACY KEACH The Killer Inside Me (1976)
113 ROBERT VAUGHN Black Moon Rising (1986)
113 ROBERT VAUGHN The Lucifer Complex (1978)
114 JASON ROBARDS Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
117 RICHARD HARRIS Orca (1977)
126 HENRY FONDA Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
126 HENRY FONDA Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
135 BEN GAZZARA High Velocity (1976)
136 SHANE RIMMER Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
143 JACK WARDEN That Kind of Woman (1959)
149 JEFF GOLDBLUM Nashville (1975)
155 SCOTT GLENN Nashville (1975)
158 SHELLEY WINTERS Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
158 SHELLEY WINTERS Tennessee Champ (1954)
175 GEORGE SEGAL Loving (1970)
180 FERNANDO REY Run Like a Thief (1968)
184 HARRY ANDREWS The Internecine Project (1974)
187 JAMES EARL JONES Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
193 KIRK DOUGLAS My Dear Secretary (1948)
193 KIRK DOUGLAS The War Wagon (1967)
201 KLAUS KINSKI A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
210 TOMMY LEE JONES Black Moon Rising (1986)
219 OLIVER REED A Touch of the Sun (1979)
221 SEYMOUR CASSEL Sunburn (1979)
223 JAMES COBURN The Americanization of Emily (1964)
223 JAMES COBURN The Internecine Project (1974)
235 KEITH CARRADINE Nashville (1975)
237 PETER FALK The Great Race (1965)
248 ANGELA LANSBURY Kind Lady (1951)
248 ANGELA LANSBURY The Last Unicorn (1982)
248 ANGELA LANSBURY The Three Musketeers (1948)
258 SOPHIA LOREN That Kind of Woman (1959)
259 MIA FARROW The Last Unicorn (1982)
265 HENRY SILVA The Animals (1970)
266 PETER CUSHING A Touch of the Sun (1979)
268 BURGESS MEREDITH Joe Butterfly (1957)
268 BURGESS MEREDITH Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
277 JULIAN GLOVER The Internecine Project (1974)
290 GREGORY PECK Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
290 GREGORY PECK The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
296 JAMES GARNER The Americanization of Emily (1964)
306 JOSE FERRER The Great Man (1956)
310 JACK LEMMON The Great Race (1965)
313 AVA GARDNER Lost Angel (1943)
313 AVA GARDNER The Hucksters (1947)
315 CHARLES BRONSON Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
315 CHARLES BRONSON Tennessee Champ (1954)
315 CHARLES BRONSON The Mechanic (1972)
334 PETER JASON Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986)
340 MELANIE GRIFFITH Smith! (1969)
343 PETER BOYLE The Monitors (1969)
344 JOHN WAYNE The War Wagon (1967)
352 TELLY SAVALAS Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
352 TELLY SAVALAS Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
366 ANN-MARGRET Stagecoach (1966)
368 CESAR ROMERO Love That Brute (1950)
368 CESAR ROMERO Mission to Glory: A True Story (1977)
372 LLOYD BRIDGES Around the World Under the Sea (1966/I)
373 FERDY MAYNE Promise Her Anything (1965)
375 JOHN TRAVOLTA The Devil’s Rain (1975)
377 GLENN FORD Don’t Go Near the Water (1957)
377 GLENN FORD Smith! (1969)
385 EDDIE ALBERT The Devil’s Rain (1975)
392 KAREN BLACK Nashville (1975)
396 ROY SCHEIDER Loving (1970)
400 SAM WANAMAKER The Winston Affair (1963)
406 LIONEL STANDER Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
406 LIONEL STANDER Promise Her Anything (1965)
413 JOSEPH COTTEN Since You Went Away (1944)
413 JOSEPH COTTEN Touch of Evil (1958)
424 TOM SKERRITT The Devil’s Rain (1975)
444 MICHAEL MURPHY Nashville (1975)
473 TONY CURTIS The Great Race (1965)
473 TONY CURTIS The Perfect Furlough (1958)
475 BRITT EKLAND High Velocity (1976)
485 DICK MILLER Piranha (1978)
501 RALPH BELLAMY Cancel My Reservation (1972)
509 AKIM TAMIROFF Touch of Evil (1958)
510 JOHN IRELAND Mission to Glory: A True Story (1977)
518 JOHN VERNON Point Blank (1967)
518 JOHN VERNON The Rock (1967)
530 WILLIAM SHATNER The Devil’s Rain (1975)
532 DUB TAYLOR A Hole in the Head (1959)
532 DUB TAYLOR Wild in the Sky (1972)
533 ELKE SOMMER Jamaican Gold (1979)
537 WOODY STRODE Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
549 VINCENT PRICE The Three Musketeers (1948)
562 WILFRID HYDE-WHITE A Touch of the Sun (1979)
579 GEORGE C. SCOTT Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
592 ANGIE DICKINSON Point Blank (1967)
592 ANGIE DICKINSON Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
597 PAUL FIX Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
628 GEORGE SANDERS That Kind of Woman (1959)
629 ROYAL DANO The Killer Inside Me (1976)
629 ROYAL DANO Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
633 ALEXANDER KNOX The Winston Affair (1963)
634 JOAN COLLINS Sunburn (1979)
636 MICHAEL BIEHN Coach (1978)
643 JAMES WHITMORE All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
643 JAMES WHITMORE Angels in the Outfield (1951)
643 JAMES WHITMORE It’s a Big Country (1951)
643 JAMES WHITMORE Kiss Me Kate (1953)
643 JAMES WHITMORE The Deep Six (1958)
660 LEE MARVIN Point Blank (1967)
660 LEE MARVIN Shack Out on 101 (1955)
666 SID HAIG POINT BLANK (1967)
667 PETER LAWFORD Royal Wedding (1951)
667 PETER LAWFORD Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
672 PHILIPPE LEROY Panhandle 38 (1972)
683 ALLEN GARFIELD Nashville (1975)
688 LESLIE CARON Promise Her Anything (1965)
688 LESLIE CARON The Glass Slipper (1955)
717 SLIM PICKENS 80 Steps to Jonah (1969)
717 SLIM PICKENS Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
717 SLIM PICKENS Stagecoach (1966)
717 SLIM PICKENS The Legend of Earl Durand (1974)
737 LILY TOMLIN Nashville (1975)
741 GABRIELE FERZETTI Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
744 ANNE ARCHER Cancel My Reservation (1972)
749 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Point Blank (1967)
749 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
749 KATHLEEN FREEMAN The Patsy (1964)
756 DEBBIE REYNOLDS Three Little Words (1950)
768 EDWARD G. ROBINSON A Hole in the Head (1959)
768 EDWARD G. ROBINSON Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
780 JOHN DEHNER The Killer Inside Me (1976)
781 WARREN OATES Smith! (1969)
781 WARREN OATES Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
784 BETTE DAVIS Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
788 MARCEL DALIO The Perfect Furlough (1958)
794 ALEX ROCCO A Woman for All Men (1975)
797 ANTHONY QUAYLE Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
803 PETER WELLER Just Tell Me What You Want (1980)
805 KEYE LUKE Between Two Women (1945)
805 KEYE LUKE Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942)
806 HENRY GIBSON Nashville (1975)
808 JOANNA CASSIDY The Glove (1979)
828 JACK ELAM Love That Brute (1950)
828 JACK ELAM Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
828 JACK ELAM The Night of the Grizzly (1966)
851 ALDO RAY Mission to Glory: A True Story (1977)
851 ALDO RAY Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
851 ALDO RAY The Glove (1979)
851 ALDO RAY The Lucifer Complex (1978)
851 ALDO RAY The Man Who Would Not Die (1975)
851 ALDO RAY Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
860 MIKE MAZURKI Lost Angel (1943)
860 MIKE MAZURKI Neptune’s Daughter (1949)
869 CAMERON MITCHELL What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)
870 RENE AUBERJONOIS The Last Unicorn (1982)
873 BUD CORT Hysterical (1983)
895 JOHN CRAWFORD Hard Knocks (1979)
895 JOHN CRAWFORD The Americanization of Emily (1964)
907 WALTER PIDGEON Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
907 WALTER PIDGEON The Glass Slipper (1955)
907 WALTER PIDGEON Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
915 STERLING HAYDEN Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
915 STERLING HAYDEN Loving (1970)
934 RICHARD ANDERSON Fearless Fagan (1952)
934 RICHARD ANDERSON Holiday for Sinners (1952)
943 BERT REMSEN Nashville (1975)
948 FRANK SINATRA A Hole in the Head (1959)
948 FRANK SINATRA Johnny Concho (1956)
951 KEVIN MCCARTHY Piranha (1978)
956 LEE GRANT The Internecine Project (1974)
970 RON SILVER (I) BEST FRIENDS (1982)
975 RICHARD JAECKEL Black Moon Rising (1986)
975 RICHARD JAECKEL Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
975 RICHARD JAECKEL The Dark (1979)
981 PAUL WINFIELD High Velocity (1976)
Keenan appeared with 54 Oscar winners.
ALAN ARKIN The Last Unicorn (1982)
ALAN ARKIN The Monitors (1969)
ART CARNEY Sunburn (1979)
BETTE DAVIS Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
BING CROSBY Angels in the Outfield (1951)
BING CROSBY Cancel My Reservation (1972)
BING CROSBY Stagecoach (1966)
CHARLES COBURN B.F.’s Daughter (1948)
CHARLTON HESTON Touch of Evil (1958)
CLARK GABLE Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942)
CLARK GABLE The Hucksters (1947)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Since You Went Away (1944)
DEAN JAGGER Smith! (1969)
DEAN JAGGER The Great Man (1956)
DONNA REED See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
DOROTHY MALONE The Man Who Would Not Die (1975)
ERNEST BORGNINE Il re di Poggioreale (1961)
ERNEST BORGNINE The Devil’s Rain (1975)
ETHEL BARRYMORE It’s a Big Country (1951)
ETHEL BARRYMORE Kind Lady (1951)
ETHEL BARRYMORE That Midnight Kiss (1949)
EVA MARIE SAINT Cancel My Reservation (1972)
EVA MARIE SAINT Loving (1970)
FRANK SINATRA A Hole in the Head (1959)
FRANK SINATRA Johnny Concho (1956)
FREDRIC MARCH It’s a Big Country (1951)
FREDRIC MARCH The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
GARY COOPER It’s a Big Country (1951)
GEORGE C. SCOTT Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
GEORGE SANDERS That Kind of Woman (1959)
GIG YOUNG Holiday for Sinners (1952)
GIG YOUNG The Three Musketeers (1948)
GINGER ROGERS Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
GLORIA GRAHAME Song of the Thin Man (1947)
GLORIA GRAHAME Without Love (1945)
GOLDIE HAWN Best Friends (1982)
GREGORY PECK Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
GREGORY PECK The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
HATTIE MCDANIEL SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (1944)
HELEN HAYES Herbie Rides Again (1974)
HENRY FONDA Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
HENRY FONDA Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
HUMPHREY BOGART Battle Circus (1953)
JACK ALBERTSON DON’T GO NEAR THE WATER (1957)
JACK ALBERTSON SON OF FLUBBER (1963)
JACK LEMMON The Great Race (1965)
JAMES COBURN The Americanization of Emily (1964)
JAMES COBURN The Internecine Project (1974)
JASON ROBARDS Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
JEFF BRIDGES The Last Unicorn (1982)
JENNIFER JONES Since You Went Away (1944)
JENNIFER JONES The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
JESSICA TANDY Best Friends (1982)
JO VAN FLEET 80 STEPS TO JONAH (1969)
JOHN WAYNE The War Wagon (1967)
JOSE FERRER The Great Man (1956)
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT KING OF THE ROARING 20’S: THE STORY OF ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN (1961)
JULIE ANDREWS The Americanization of Emily (1964)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Without Love (1945)
LEE GRANT The Internecine Project (1974)
LEE MARVIN Point Blank (1967)
LEE MARVIN Shack Out on 101 (1955)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Between Two Women (1945)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Since You Went Away (1944)
MELVYN DOUGLAS The Americanization of Emily (1964)
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)
PETER USTINOV Viva Max (1969)
RED BUTTONS Stagecoach (1966)
ROBERT DUVALL Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
SHELLEY WINTERS Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
SHELLEY WINTERS Tennessee Champ (1954)
SOPHIA LOREN That Kind of Woman (1959)
SPENCER TRACY Without Love (1945)
TOMMY LEE JONES Black Moon Rising (1986)
VAN HEFLIN B.F.’s Daughter (1948)
VAN HEFLIN Stagecoach (1966)
VAN HEFLIN The Three Musketeers (1948)
Hey Dan.
1. As always thanks for the feedback.
2. Sorry that I have not been very present here at UMR….I am literally having a hard time even finding the time to do the Daily UMR Post….much less writing new pages and commenting back. I am overwhelmed with my teaching job this semester.
3. Wow….you watched Clifford?…..that has to be on one of the streaming services as well as in theaters. I will have to look up Jessica Keenan Wynn….as currently…I have no idea what she looks like…and how much Keenan is in her.
4. Not surprised he is so Oracle connected….although this page is massive…there are still numerous movies that I could not locate box office grosses on.
5. Aldo Ray looks like he is the most frequent Oracle Co-Star. Seeing Angela Lansbury on the list, reminds that she is the last MGM star from the attached photo that is still alive (granted I could be wrong), but with the recent passing of Dean Stockwell…she appears to be the last one standing.
6. 54 Oscar winners is pretty impressive….not Caine impressive…but pretty impressive.
Good stuff as always.
I have seen 50 Keenan Wynn movies. Wynn was the son of Ed Wynn.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Since You Went Away.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Son of Flubber.
The LOWEST ranked movie I have seen is Pretty Maids All in a Row.
Favourite Keenan Wynn Movies:
Sine You Went Away
Dr. Strangelove
The Great Race
Annie Get Your Gun
The Hucksters
For Me and My Gal
The Absent Minded Professor
The Three Musketeers
Ziegfeld Follies
The Clock
Week-end at the Waldorf
A Hole in the Head
Three Little Words
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Royal Wedding
Don’t Go Near the Water
Somewhere I’ll Find You
The Americanization of Emily
Lost Angel
Kiss Me Kate
Point Blank
Touch of Evil
Song of the Thin Man
Once Upon a Time in the West
Finian’s Rainbow
Angels in the Outfield
MacKenna’s Gold
Men of the Fighting Lady
The Belle of New York
Other Keenan Wynn Movies I Have Seen:
The Long, Long Trailer
Easy to Love
See Here Private Hargroves
Marriage is a Private Affair
The War Wagon
That Midnight Kiss
Bikini Beach
The Perfect Furlough
B.F.’s Daughter
The Glass Slipper
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
All The Brothers Were Valliant
My Dear Secretary
Kind Lady
Battle Circus
The Crowded Sky
The Deep Six
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
It’s a Big Country
Welcome to Hard Times
Pretty Maids All in a Row
Hey Flora…thanks for the comment on this massive Keenan Wynn page. I had no idea I had this many of his movies sitting in the database. Tally count….50 for you and 28 for me. I have seen 7 of your favorites and three of your others. I would say my favorite Wynn movies would be Point Blank, The Americanization of Emily, Touch of Evil (a very small role for him) and Dr. Strangelove….though that movie which is a classic…does not seem as funny as the first time I saw it. Good stuff as always.