Want to know the best Liam Neeson movies? How about the worst Liam Neeson movies? Curious about Liam Neeson’s box office grosses or which Liam Neeson movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Liam Neeson movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place.
Liam Neeson (1952-) is an Irish Oscar-nominated actor who has been appearing motion pictures for almost 40 years. His IMDb page shows over 115 acting credits sincd 1978. This page ranks Liam Neeson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, bit parts and his movies not released in North America theaters are not included in the rankings.
Drivel part: When we shut down our Cogerson Movie Score page and transferred all of our pages to Ultimate Movie Score….one of the first pages we moved was Liam Neeson’s page. Since then… we have changed lots of stuff (new formulas, new formats, new table design). Well it finally came time to update this page. Normally we just do the update and move on. This time we have decided to keep the original page as a reference point for two reasons. Reason 1: We will have a reference site that shows how our pages first looked in those early days. Reason 2: To show just how much is changed when we say we have updated a page. So to see how things first looked at UMR.com…..follow this link to our Old Liam Neeson page….to see how they now link..just scan down.
Liam Neeson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Liam Neeson Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Liam Neeson Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Possibly Interesting Facts About Liam Neeson
1. Liam John Neeson was born in Northern Ireland in 1952.
2. Liam Neeson began acting in local stage shows at a very early age and eventually appeared in movies by the end of the 1970s.
3. Liam Neeson appeared in many non-Hollywood movies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the mid 1980s he decided to move to Hollywood and try for bigger and better roles. His first Hollywood role was in Suspect (1987)… it turned out to be an excellent decision.
4. Liam Neeson starred in Shining Through (1992) which won the Razzie® award for Worst Film of the year….the good news is….his performance was noticed by Steven Spielberg and led to Neeson getting the lead role in Schindler’s List (1993) which won the Oscar® for Best Picture of the year.
5. Liam Neeson was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar® in 1993’s Schindler’s List
6. Liam Neeson has been nominated for three Golden Globe® nominations for Best Actor…those nominated performances were in the movies Schindler’s List, Michael Collins and Kinsey.
7. Liam Neeson has been married one time….and that was to the actress Natasha Richardson from 1994 until her death in 2009…they have two boys ….Michael and Daniel.
8. Roles Liam Neeson was considered for or turned down over his career:….playing the giant in The Princess Bride (Andre the Giant got the role)…..the Anthony Hopkins role in Dracula….James Bond in Goldeneye.……Val Kilmer’s role in Alexander….. playing Dracula in The Monster Squad….the Bruce Willis part in The Jackal…..and the Christopher Walken part in True Romance.
Check out Liam Neeson’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Check out Steve Lensman’s Liam Neeson You Tube Video
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Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info and trivia, much appreciated.
Happy you liked the posters and stills.
Liam Neeson has been a prolific actor, a contrast to his fellow Irishman – Daniel Day-Lewis. They both appeared on the scene at roughly the same time.
A top 50 video was the right choice for Liam, making it a top 40 would have left out some interesting low-rated movies. A couple of them favorites of mine.
Two films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Schindler’s List and Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives. Two films scored 9 – Gangs of New York and Excalibur.
Schindler’s List tops all the charts including mine and Bruce’s. I’ve watched it a couple of times but it’s not a favorite.
Surprised Bruce has Kingdom of Heaven ranked so low, I know he’s a big fan of that movie especially the director’s cut.
Liam was Spielberg’s first choice to play Abraham Lincoln but eventually the role went to Daniel Day-Lewis – “I don’t feel sad about it, and I have no regrets whatsoever. There comes a point where you think “I’m past my sell-by date” and I passed that about three years ago. It’s just like a light switch went off in my head: it just wasn’t for me anymore. I’d lived with it too long and there was a process happening: Steven would do something else or I would do something else and it was like “Okay, let’s cut this loose.” They got one of the best actors to do it, you know, in Daniel Day-Lewis.”
Liam on working with Julia Roberts in Michael Collins. – ” I was surprised at first when she was cast. I thought, surely there’s an actress in Ireland who can play the role; Neil Jordan doesn’t need this star power. I thought maybe he was going to shoot himself in the foot. But she was very committed to doing it. I thought she was terribly good and I was very proud of her.”
Liam on Taken – “I thought it was going to be a straight-to-video release. That is actually one of the reasons I did it, to be honest. I felt like spending three months in Paris, I’d get to do all this physical stuff that no one would think of me for, and that the film would go straight to video. Then it became this big success. I was a tiny bit embarrassed by it, a tiny bit, but then people started sending me action scripts.”
STEVE:
As always with you a very htoughtful response with some highly interesting quotes. All of which is most appreciated.
Most pleasing revelation: Liam’s praise for my Julia
Most surprising one: Liam being offered Lincoln.
Hope you have a good weekend in all the circs.
Cheers Bob, I’ll be taking a youtube break next week, so no videos for a while. Recharge my batteries and I’ll be back. Take care and keep safe.
HI STEVE
Hope you enjoy your break
HI STEVE: For quantity and quality your Neeson video deserves a 98.5% rating for the satisfaction it gave me. You and The Big Boy agree on just 2 of Liam’s top 5 best reviewed films: Schindler and LEGO. Your No 5 Kingdom of Heaven doesn’t even make Bruce’s Top 20 [no 21 in fact] TOP 16 BEST STILLS in your video
1/Wrath of Titans
2/Clash of Titans
3/Battleship
4/Taken 3
5/Liam and Clint
6/The A Team
7/2 for Phantom Menace – I watched that one on the night of the 2001 Brit general election which gave Blair his 2nd landslide victory. Last Star Wars movie I have ever gone to.
8/with Harrison Ford
9/Non-Stop
10/Taken
11/Love Actually
12/Darkman
13/Excalibur
14/Gangs of New York
15/Kingdom of Heaven
16/Rob Roy- I often get that nickname.
TOP 20 POSTER SETS IN LIAM NEESON VIDEO
1/High Spirits
2/After Life
3/2for Battleship
4/2 for Clash of the Titans
5/Nell
6/Krull
7/two for the Commuter
8/Walk among Tombstones
9/2 for K19
10/Prince Caspian
11/The Grey
12/foreign language one for Widows
13/two for Narnia
14/Silence
15/Michael Collins
16/1st one for The Bounty
17/two for Excalibur
18/Foreign Language one for Gangs of New York
19/Kingdom of Heaven
20/Batman Begins
Liam is arguably one of the biggest box office stars ever to come out of Ireland. He puts a lot back into the community here in the North by for example raising small fortunes in the US for the upgrading/expansion of our local Arts theatre. Liam is probably another Irish actor who wouldn’t have seen eye to eye with The Duke [or Chuck!] about politics –
“Neeson opposes what he sees as the unrestricted right to own firearms in the United States and has made calls for gun control. In January 2015, he repeated his views, calling US gun laws a “disgrace” in an interview with Emirati newspaper Gulf News In response, U.S gun manufacturer Para USA, which provided the weapons used by Neeson in the Taken film series, expressed regret at working with him, saying: “We will no longer provide firearms for use in films starring Liam Neeson and ask that our friends and partners in Hollywood refrain from associating our brand and products with his projects.” – Wikipedia.
Movie business observers suggest that the period between 2008 and 2014 has been Liam’s most impressive period so far at the box office. A close inspection of Bruce’s charts above would seem to support that contention as Bruce’s figures show that in the period Liam was in 6 movies in which he had the top billed lead role and which collectively grossed nearly $1.7 billion worldwide when adjusted for inflation; and a further 6 ensemble films for which The Work Horse gives Liam credit in the period grossed worldwide around $3.6 billion [inflation adjusted].
Liam lived in the early 1980s with prestigious Brit Helen Mirren .IMDB credits Liam with 22 acting awards and 44 noms and he has a reported current net worth of $145 million. He is sure to add to that wealth as he has in the pipeline6 projects at one preparation stage or another; and has been announced for yet a 7th -Marlowe in which he will be the latest actor to play the famous Philip Marlowe if it proceeds.
GOOD AFTERNOON BRUCE
1 Good update on Liam Neeson. He has tended over the years to mix his film appearances so that lead roles have at times gone hand and hand with cameos, supporting parts and/or voice only contributions. Indeed a breakdown in The Numbers of his ACTUAL total domestic grosses shows that nearly half of the latter were accrued by his non-leading role movies. His box office performance over the last few years has not been generally disappointing because though he has had a few respectable hits such Taken 3 and Non Stop he has also had a rash of abysmal grossers like Silence, A Monster Calls and Operation Chromite.
2 Liam comes from Ballymena here in Northern Ireland and the arts in our province and theatre goers in particular owe him a debt of gratitude. As you have mentioned he started out in plays and it would appear that he has never forgotten his roots because in recent times he used his fame and celebrity to engender vital support for local theatre here by for example hosting a star-studded dinner in New York that raiseed $400,000 to help rebuild the prestigious Lyric Theatre in Belfast. He has also become the Lyric’s official Patron and it can be appreciated how helpful it is to that theatre to have a world famous movie star performing that function.
BRUCE – CORRECTION
Para 1 of my previous Liam Neeson post should read box office performance over the last few years HAS been disappointing and the word “not” is incorrect. I’d be grateful if you could remove “not” for me. Many thanks.
Got it…I will fix it later in the day.
Hey Bob
1. I was about to get rid of the old page…when I thought…I should keep this one around…just so people can see how the new page looks compare to the old page….I personally think it looks 200% better.
2. As Liam…I agree…he has done a nice job of mixing up the roles…for awhile…it seemed like every movie was a Bruce Willis clone action movie….but after Taken 3 he has stepped back from those types of movies.
3. I did not even know Operation Chromite existed before doing this update.
4. So Liam is making the Irish proud? That is cool that he has not forgotten his roots…..and the Lyric Theatre.
5. I agree his support is a huge plus for them.
Thanks for checking out this updated page…it is always appreciated.