Want to know the best Robert Taylor movies? How about the worst Robert Taylor movies? Curious about Robert Taylor’s box office grosses or which Robert Taylor movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Robert Taylor movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Robert Taylor (1911-1969) was an American film and television actor who was one of the most popular leading men of his time. His IMDb page shows 79 acting credits from 1934 to 1969. This page will rank 68 Robert Taylor movies. Movies will be ranked from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters in North America were not included in the rankings.
Drivel part of the page: Recently Marcel G. sent us a wonderful comment, saying….(1) he had been coming to our website for years (2) how amazing our website was and (3) that it was lacking a Robert Taylor page. So after reading his comment….we did a quick check on Mr. Taylor’s career and realized that we not only had domestic box office numbers (thank you MGM) on most of his movies….but also we had worldwide box office numbers on 60 of his movies. Amazingly we were able to put together, write and publish this page in less than 90 minutes. For comparison…please know we spent almost two months working (because Paramount kept horrible records) on our Bing Crosby page. So Marcel….here is your requested Robert Taylor page.
Robert Taylor Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Robert Taylor 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 anyway you want.
- Sort Robert Taylor movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Robert Taylor movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Robert Taylor movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Robert Taylor movies 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 Robert Taylor movie received.
- Sort Robert Taylor movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Robert Taylor Table
- Thirty-two Robert Taylor movie crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 47.06% of his movies listed. Quo Vadis (1951) was his biggest box office hit.
- An average Robert Taylor movie grosses $106.000 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 36 of Robert Taylor’s movies are rated as good movies…or 52.94% of his movies. Camille (1936) was his highest rated movie while Valley Of The Kings (1954) was his lowest rated movie.
- Fifteen Robert Taylor movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 22.05% of his movies.
- Two Robert Taylor movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 2.94% of his movies.
- An good Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 44 Robert Taylor movie scored higher that average….or 64.70% of his movies. Quo Vadis (1951) got the the highest UMR Score while Savage Pampas (1966) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Robert Taylor
1.Spangler Arlington Brugh was born in Filley, Nebraska in 1911. After signing a 7 year contract with MGM…they give him Robert Taylor as his screen name.
2. Robert Taylor was a track star and played the cello in his high school orchestra. Taylor moved to California and enrolled at Pomona College. In 1932 he was spotted by a MGM scout while appearing in a play at Pomona. By 1935 he was a movie star.
3. During World War II, Robert Taylor was a flying instructor in the U.S. Naval Air Corps. He also directed 17 United States Navy training films during World War II.
4. Robert Taylor and Clark Gable were great friends. Taylor was one of the pallbearers at Gable’s funeral in November 1960.
5. Robert Taylor never received a Oscar® or Golden Globe nomination during his entire career.
6. Robert Taylor’s favorite movie he starred in was 1940’s Waterloo Bridge….with 1936’s Camille being his second favorite. Greta Garbo was his favorite co-star.
7. Robert Taylor’s nicknames included: The Man with the Perfect Profile”, Arly, Bob and The New King. He was called the New King when Clark Gable left MGM in 1953.
8. Robert Taylor was married two times. His first marriage was to actress Barbara Stanwyck. They were married from 1939 to 1951. His second marriage was to actress Ursula Thiess from 1954 to his death in 1969. They had two children.
9. Robert Taylor owned a house in Mandeville Canyon, in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. That in itself is not so interesting…however the house known as the Robert Taylor Ranch is a 34-room home situated on 112 acres. At one point it was on sell for only $45 million!
10. Check out Robert Taylor‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time. His 30 $100 Million Dollar Movies is one of the best totals of all-time.
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Robert Taylor died in 1969. According to the Oracle of Bacon some of his co-stars include.
B. D. Wong
Bill Paxton
Carrie Ann-Moss
Chris O’Donnell
Doug E. Fresh
Gerald McRaney
Grandmaster Melle Mel
Joe Pantoliano
Joel Edgerton
Keanu Reeves
Laurence Fishburne
Margot Robbie
Rachel Griffiths
Rae Dawn Chong
Rainn Wilson
Robin Tunney
Sam Worthington
Think that’s wrong?
I think that is very very wrong….with the exception of some like McRaney, Paxton and Pantoliano….not thinking the rest were even alive when he passed.
Dear Cogerson
I think 31 $100 million should actually be 32
Regards
David Stark
Hey David….fixed those totals….as well as a few more on that chart. Inflation has helped him reach 32 $100 million movies….that is one of the best totals of all-time. You can see his career compared to lots of others on this UMR page. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/100-million-movies-1930-2015/ Thanks for the return comment…it was greatly appreciated.
Heidi song is by director Robert Taylor not our Spangler.
Your worldwide box office must be wrong for Savage Pampas
Hey David Star……thanks for the headsup on Heidi Song…..our database grabbed the wrong Robert Taylor…….that movie will be taken off this table on the next major update for the website…currently scheduled for tonight. As for Savage Pampas….we were unable to find a worldwide gross for that one. When our two totals match..that means there is no current data for worldwide grosses. Luckily….he have lots of worldwide grosses for Mr. Taylor. Thanks for stopping by and commenting. It is greatly appreciated.
HI STEVE
1 HI MO Good informative feedback about my Spangler posts with some interesting new quotes from you.
2 I took your advice about checking out Myrna’s latest ranking on Bruce’s 100 Greatest stars list and my wife and daughter have just put me on suicide watch!
3 I do agree that Miss Loy was gorgeously sexy when she was young but one of the downsides of a long career such as hers is that the ageing processes hardens the features – at least for most of you!
4 Which spins the wheel round to Arlington again as one historian whom I recently read reckoned that ole Spang didn’t age all that well. That was probably because he was a heavy smoker and indeed died of lung cancer at the age of just.57. Not a long innings when you think of centurions like Leslie Townes Hope, George Burns and Kirk or even guys like Jimmy Stewart and Frederick Austerlitz who reached 90 or thereabouts.
PS You must have some great books of quotes as most of them that you’ve given me are new to me.
Bob, that last quote I posted from Robert Taylor was unusual and maybe even prophetic, he died in the 1960s when Russia was still perceived as the biggest threat to world peace, with China close behind.
Btw many of the quotes I’ve been printing are from the IMDB biographies on their actor pages, if you pan down to the bottom of each bio there should be a selection of quotes for that person.
I laughed at your second paragraph. Glad you find Miss Loy gorgeously sexy. Sadly only a few of the legendary actresses retain their beauty even in middle age. The Hollywood hunks lost their prettiness even earlier – Flynn, Power, Taylor, Ladd, Clift.
Today nip and tuck cosmetic surgery makes ageing actors and actresses look like Madame Tussauds waxworks. There are exceptions, Sharon Stone still looks great at 60. I wonder how Harrison Ford will look running thru jungles and leaping over waterfalls at nearly 80 years of age in the next Indiana Jones adventure or will he be a special effect too? 😉
HI STEVE
Nice “bonus” feedback from you
I am sure that even if he makes films until he is 100 Harrison will have many tricks up his sleeve. For example (1) Vic Mature told of how they gave him an old lion without any teeth to fight in Samson and Angela (2) Larry Buster Crabbe laughed in an interview as he told how he had to fight a rubber octopus in a studio tank but the thing kept floating away from him so that he had to continually pull it back towards himself! Harrison could do all that thought only WH will be fooled!.
Personally I preferred the end of Giant where the once burly Rock gets beaten up by a redneck, Rock being too old to fight convincingly!
1 MO In part one I mentioned how well Spangler got on with the McCarthyite politicians in Congress but the same could not be said about Cooper whom they treated abjectly and in fact they forced him to grovel to them. That was certainly not the Gary Cooper that I was used to seeing on the screen [and indeed in The Fountainhead of 1949 he “took on” the courts] whereas the Spangler Arlington Brugh who spoke to those politicians struck me as behaving exactly like the Robert Taylor who appeared in movies.
2 POSTERS 1-25 For me the stand-outs were A Yank at Oxford, Saddle the Wind, the foreign language one for High Wall, Small Town Girl, Bataan, The Night Walker [with ex-wife Stanwyck. It is noteworthy that in their first movie together His Brother’s Wife Barbara got top billing whereas in Night Walker their final one as a team Spangler was billed first. Maybe in-between there had been a “Taming of the Shrew!” ] Quentin Durward, Party Girl, Magnificent Obsession Quo Vadis and Knights of the Round Table with Taylor as the legendary Sir Lancelot
But Lancelot mused a little space;
He said, “She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.”
3 My notes suggest that there is a good run of STILLS across the entire video and my pick of the Part 2 ones are (1) romancing the young Ava (2) with the gorgeous Lana (3) the lobby card from Law and Jake Wade with my Richard. Bruce records just an adjusted WORLDWIDE gross of $120 million for Jake Wade but nevertheless according to Wiki it still turned a small profit as it didn’t cost much to make – about $15 million in today’s money (4) Robert with Liz Taylor, her looking almost like a beautiful Red Indian lady in Ivanhoe (5) Robert with “Tree Woman” Debs [according to Granger and you!] in Quo Vadis (6) with Viv in Waterloo Bridge (7) a rare behind the scenes shot of Taylor and Garbo actually filming Camille, a true collector’s item and very gorgeous it is too (8) also special I think is the closing solo of the very young Spangler looking so beautiful for a male that I feel he would have been at least physically perfect to play Dorian Gray.
4 You and Bruce agree on 7 of Taylor’s Top 10 but you are miles apart regarding Law and Jake Wade as you rank it 8th with 71% whereas WH has it an amazingly low 47th with 56%. Overall I feel your video has earned a 98% rating. Excellently assembled.
Aloha Bob, thanks for the review, rating, info, trivia, comment, quote, observation, evaluation and comparison, always appreciated!
Happy you enjoyed the posters, stills and lobby cards.
That behind the scenes photo from Camille is pretty rare, especially in full color, it doesn’t look colorised.
Nearly all the greats I’ve produced expanded videos on recently have B/W movies at no.1 on my chart, only a couple have Technicolor films at the top. Errol Flynn and Cary Grant.
There are no Robert Taylor films scoring 10 out of 10 from my sources, there are three scoring 9 – Waterloo Bridge, Camille and Three Comrades. And one film scoring 8 – Ivanhoe. Not an impressive overall score for one of Hollywood’s great leading men.
“People seem to think I’m a millionaire, but I’m not. I’ve saved a little money but every time a chance came along to strike it rich outside the movie business, like the real estate deals of some stars, I was always a dollar short or a day late. It’s the story of my life.”
“Looks are good or bad, according to taste. My appearance doesn’t fascinate me. But I’m not the one who has to be pleased either. It’s a big help to an actor if people like to look at him but it has nothing to do with acting.”
“The Middle East is going to get us into the third world war.”