Nick Nolte (1941-) is a 3-time Oscar®-nominated American film actor. Nolte is probably best known for his roles in 1977’s The Deep, 1982’s 48 Hours and 1991’s The Prince of Tides. His IMDb page shows over 105 acting credits since 1969. This page ranks Nick Nolte 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.
Career Stats you will find from the following tables: Nick Nolte’s movies have grossed over $3 billion dollars in adjusted domestic box office. His movies have received 23 Oscar® nominations…winning 5 Oscars®. 22 of his movies would be considered good by critic and audience reviews.
Nick Nolte Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Nick Nolte Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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I have seen 4 Nick Nolte movies. I have enjoyed all of them.
In order of preference:
The Prince of Tides
A Walk in the Woods
Affliction
Cape Fear (saw this mainly for Gregory Peck’s cameo)
Hey Flora…..thanks for commenting on one of modern pages. So you have seen 4 of his movies…and you liked them all. That is a good percentage. I have seen all 4 of the movies. A Walk In the Woods was at one point going to be the third Redford/Newman movie. Sadly Newman got sick and could not do the part. But…the scene in which Nolte/Redford get stuck on a cliff….is a nice reminder of the famous scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. As always…thanks for sharing your movie thoughts.
Love Nick Nolte. I loved 48 Hours. Heck I even loved Another 48 Hours. Nolte seems to be a throwback to the hellraisers of the 1960s. I could easily see him hanging out with Peter O’Toole, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris. Shocked to see he is so close to being 80 years old. Nice addition to the Ultimate Movie Rankings athenaeum. I am right there with you and Steve with regards to Tropic Thunder.
Hey Taylor….glad a fan of Nolte found our new Nick page. I loved 48 HRs….not a huge fan of Another 48 HRs. Good comparison off Nolte with Peter O’Toole, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris. Glad you like our new addition to our athenaeum. Ok I admit it…I had to look up athenaeum…lol Good feedback.
You’ve seen 35 out of the 60 listed Bruce? Whoa I only managed 17, less than half your score. My problem is I watch the same films all the time, while you watch as many different films as possible. Instead of watching an old favorite for the umpteenth time tonight I should search for something new. I just can’t resist picking something off my DVD shelf instead of scanning the TV guide for something I haven’t seen before.
My favorite Nick Nolte films – Hulk, Under Fire, Uncommon Valor, 48 Hrs, The Deep, Cape Fear, Over the Hedge, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Extreme Prejudice and Tropic Thunder.
I haven’t seen his top 3 highest rated but I have seen his top 6 highest grossing. 🙂
A worthy subject for UMR.com and a likely future video from me. Vote Up!
GOOD MORNING CUR [SORRY, slip of pen, I MEAN SIR]
As Richard Nixon said to his aide who was the first person EVER to address him as Mr President “Somebody should be taking a note of this.” I agree with you wholeheartedly about Nick Nolte and I have admired him ever since I saw him in the TV mini-series Rich Man Poor Man way back in 1976.
My fave Nolte roles in the movies were Down and Out in Beverly Hills, the 1991 Cape Fear [in which he played the role of lawyer Sam Bowden that my Greg (Peck) performed in the 1962 version] and most especially The Prince of Tides co-starring my Barbra ( Streisand)
[NB: Even those viewers who have just glanced at a few of my posts on this site, like your Protégé, will know that I may well be Barbra’s greatest and possibly Greg’s second greatest fan on the site]
Though Barbra also directed and produced Prince of Tides, Nick’s Tom Wingo was really the more central character as he narrated the story, was on screen the most and everything was seen through his eyes. Accordingly my Babs whilst the bigger star and billed first on the posters gave Nolte top billing in the cast lists and on prints of the film on the screen – certainly on the one that I saw.
Therefore if Babs had had production control over the 1940 Philadelphia Story and agreed with your Follower that Cary Grant had only a supporting role I can’t help wondering how she would have sorted out the billing for that movie.
Nick’s decline in recent years has been savage, he has been vastly overweight when I’ve seen him on screen and hasn’t aged well. However your Disciple’s new page excellently celebrates what Nick once was and the normal practice on this site is to give such a profile a “Vote Up” which I now do as the page is most welcome to me.
to The Bob, I love Barbra, had her in top 5 all time favorites and our agreement on her and much more got me to comment about our similar tastes. months ago. I love her more but others love her too. the other bob
HI BOB COX
I’m already fighting enough battles on this site trying to keep Bruce and Steve at bay over matters like billing so I’m not going to get into a competition about who loves Barbra the most. I’m happy we both love her. Take care.
The 2ND BOB
Funny comment Bob….I thought we had decided the Philadelphia Story agreement…I am correct you are mistaken…lol.
Hey the other bob….good to know that Streisand is one of your favorites….not sure I remember you commented on her page…I will have to check to see if I missed that. I imagine you are happy that Prince of Tides got the Top UMR spot. Good stuff.
Hey Bob….thanks for checking out our latest UMR page. Seems like Nolte had been requested a lot lately. I agree Rich Man, Poor Man put Nolte on the map. His second movie The Deep, turned out to be one of his biggest hits…not a bad way to start off your movie career. Of your favorites…I liked Down and Out in Beverly Hills…..but Cape Fear is in my Top 10 as well. Prince of Tides was good…but not in my Top 10 either. I think Prince of Tides is thought of as a Streisand movie…I imagine many of Babs fans…do not even realize Nolte was in the movie….lol. I also agree (see it happens…lol) on his decline…..but maybe he has another good movie in him. Good feedback.
HI BRUCE
Thanks for some fine feedback. As our old mate Dalton in Roadhouse said “Opinions vary.” Maybe impressions of the 1991 Cape Fear have improved with time but back when it was released some critics thought that DeNiro’s Cady was a bit over the top and even laughable at times though Nick got Sam Bowden just right.
I enjoyed the 1991 version and always like Scorsese [what’s not to like about a man who restored One Eyed Jacks!] but if asked to watch either again it would be the Peck/Mitchum one which I thought was more atmospheric despite [indeed maybe because of] being in black and white and of course much as I love Nick he can never really take the place of Greg in my affections.
Flora has been providing valuable comment on many of your new pages recently and I would take it from her remarks on this page that she too would prefer 1962’s Cape Fear in which her Greg and mine took centre stage.
Flora is one of this site’s stalwart females and certainly for once the GOOD GUYS are on my side – Cogerson ratings 1962 Cape Fear 85% rated/1991 version 77%.
By the way if you insist that Greg had just a supporting role in the 1991 version you and I will certainly agree on that point. Is that not a nice “friendly” note to wind down Part One on?
But a parting shot -Greg should have got top billing in the 1991 version as well just as Marlon did for his supporting role in Superman 1978! BOTH are massive Legends . Anyway that’s my sentiment regarding those two because to quote the tagline for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Dracula “Love Never Dies”.
All’s well that ends well though because the Cogerson site recognises both supporting roles on the respective Peck/Brando pages.
I’m glad you have been enjoying my comments, Bob. You are quite correct. I prefer the original version of Cape Fear. Thanks for your kind thoughts.
Hey Flora…lots of people enjoy these comments….I think the “unseen majority” check out the comment boxes on a regular basis. Rough estimates have only about 1/2 of a one percent actually comment. Most are like “In The Shadows” rarely coming out..but reading the comments….so your efforts are appreciated by those you know (the regular contributors) and those “unseen majority”. Thanks for your efforts.
ADDITIONAL TRIVIA – CAPE FEAR 1962 and 1991
1/Nick and DeNiro got along famously when making the 1991 version but Peck and Mitch didn’t way back in 1962. Scorsese therefore ensured that the two Hollywood Golden Era Legends had no scenes together in their 1991 cameos.
It has always puzzled me that friction because it was actually Greg who recommended Big Bob for the plum role of Cady and of course Greg was going through one of a Hollywood star’s golden periods with a run of massive hits from 1958 until 61 with The Big Country, On the Beach and Guns of Navarone. consolidated in 1962/63 with his Oscar winning To Kill a Mockingbird and thus Greg had massive influence in the late fifties early 1960s so could go to bat effectively for Mitch in landing the Cady role.
2/George C Scott was originally contracted for the Mitchum cameo but fell ill. George had an alcohol problem and for example Lancaster had once been obliged to send him home from a celebrity golfing tour that Burt organised and during which Scott wrecked a hotel room in his cups.
[My Greg was regarded as one of the best behaved and upright citizens that you could find in Old Hollywood so if Scott was still drinking and doing Russell Crowe/Johnny Depp stuff in 1991 it would be difficult for me to imagine George and Greg becoming bosom -or boozing! – buddies.]
3/It is said that Mitch never watched either Cape Fear version because (1) in view of their mutual dislike for each other he didn’t want to see himself and Peck together on screen (2) he was terrified he might have to concede that DeNiro’s Max Cady interpretation was the better one.
Steve, I found a great resource for increasing the variety on my to be watched list, UMR(LOL). by year or by actor or by umr ranking/Oscar nominations/box office on the top 1000/top 500 sortable list on site index at bottom of UMR section. I just added Hulk to my library movie list(thanks to you sharing your favorites) , I get 10 at a time from all the libraries in san Antonio sent to my nearest library. in and out in 5 minutes following cogerson’s recommendation.
Hi Bob, glad listing our favorites comes in useful. I’ll recommend Under Fire if you haven’t seen it, an excellent political thriller co-starring Gene Hackman and loosely based on real events.
Steve, thanks for all you do.
Been years since I saw Under Fire..I will have to check that one out.
Hey bob cox….like you…I have enjoyed reading the “favorites” from readers too. Good to see that you are using your San Antonio libraries like I do here. I watch almost 95% of my movies from my local library…what an awesome source of movies. Good comment.
Hey Steve….your 17 is lower than I thought it would be….I would say many of his movies have been “mini event” movies. But 17 is still a good total. I understand your thinking…you are right…of the 430 movies I have seen in 2018…I would say 400 have been new movies…with only 30 being repeat viewings. Of your favorites….I am with you on 48 Hrs, Cape Fear, Over The Hedge and Tropic Thunder. I enjoyed Down and Out in Beverly Hills (saw in theaters) and Extreme Prejudice. I have not seen Uncommon Valor in years. So of 0-3 in the critic category but 6 for 6 with the hits…I image many have that stat as well. Good feedback.
I have seen 35 of these movies….actually a little less than I expected. My Top 10 Personal Nick Nolte Movies (in alphabetical order)
48 Hours
Blue Chips
Cannery Row
Cape Fear (DeNiro is awesome)
North Dallas Forty
Off The Black (little known movie)
Over The Hedge
Thin Red Line (movie is ok…but Nolte is brilliant in his role)
Tropic Thunder
A Walk In The Woods (though I wish Newman had done the Nolte part)
“Nick Nolte always looks like a laborer sweating under a hot sun, and a Los Angeles magazine described his as “a beer drinker”. However, this surface appearance masks an individual dedication to his craft, a dedication that kept him on the stage in repertory and stock for 13 years before reaching the screen.” – Joel
Nolte was one of the younger (at the time) actors that made his Rating The Movie Star Book. -Cogerson