Raymond Burr Movies

Want to know the best Raymond Burr movies?  How about the worst Raymond Burr movies?  Curious about Raymond Burr box office grosses or which Raymond Burr movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Raymond Burr movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Raymond Burr (1917-1993) was a Candian actor.  Burr was primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.   Despite his television roles overshadowing his movie roles, he, in fact, had a very solid movie career.  His most famous movie role was as the bad guy in 1954’s Rear Window.    His IMDb page shows 145 acting credits from 1946 to 1993.  This page will rank Raymond Burr movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies not released in North American theaters and a few of his low budget 1950s movies were not included in the rankings.  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. This comes from a long time request from UMR Hall of Famer, Flora.

Raymond Burr Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

1954’s Rear Window

Raymond Burr Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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  • Sort Raymond Burr movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Raymond Burr tangled with Godzilla in 1956 and 1984.

Best IMDb Trivia On Raymond Burr

1. Raymond William Stacy Burr was born in New Westminster, British Columbia in 1917.

2. Raymond Burr moved to New York in 1940 and made his first Broadway appearance in Crazy With the Heat.  He started appearing movies in 1946.  Between 1946 and 1957 he appeared in more than 50 movies.  Often cast as the villain, he became a legend in the film noir world.

3. Raymond Burr is commemorated on a 2008 Canadian postage stamp, one of four honoring achievements of Canadians in Hollywood. The other three depict Norma Shearer, Marie Dressler, and Chief Dan George.

4.  Raymond Burr is one of the few stars to headline, not one, but two very successful television shows.  He played Perry Mason on Perry Mason from 1957 to 1966.   He played Michael Ironside on Ironside from 1967 to 1975.   From 1986 till his death he would return to these roles in television movies, making 26
Perry Mason movies and one Ironside movie.

5. Alfred Hitchcock supposedly hired Raymond Burr to play Lars Thorwald in 1954’s Rear Window because he could be easily made to look like his old producer David O. Selznick, who Hitchcock felt interfered too much.

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29 thoughts on “Raymond Burr Movies”

  1. Raymond Burr was one of the greats to play a good guy and a bad guy and not get type cast He was a great actor When you saw him playing a villain you didn’t think of Perry Mason that is a sign of a great actor He was versatile when you see Alan Alda playing in a movie you think of Hawkeye being good or evil but you still see Hawkeye He really isn’t a good actor A good actor can make you forget the role he played before because you believe he is the person he is playing in the present

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