Ronald Reagan Movies

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

Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) was a American actor. He appeared in movies from 1937 to 1964.  Reagan’s second career, politics, far out shined his movie career.  Sixteen years after making The Killing, Reagan became the 40th President in United States history.  Since this is a movie website….those will be the only two sentences about his second career.  His IMDb page shows 81 acting credits from 1937-1989. This page ranks 54 Ronald Reagan movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  His television appearances, uncredited roles, shorts and documentaries were not included in the rankings.

Drivel part:  Recently we got a hold of the Warner Brothers box office ledgers from the Golden Era of Hollywood. One of the actors that had many movies listed in those ledgers was Ronald Reagan.  This got us thinking….which can be dangerous…..Reagan’s movie career is almost considered a joke….with descriptions of his career being: “failed actor”, “B movie player” and “Bonzo’s buddy”.  Was his career as bad as some would say?  Well let’s find out.

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Win one for the Kipper…Ronald Reagan in 1940’s Knute Rockne All American

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

Ronald Reagan 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 Ronald Reagan movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Ronald Reagan movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Ronald Reagan movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Ronald Reagan movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)  *** If domestic and worldwide are the same…then worldwide grosses are unknown
  • Sort Ronald Reagan 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 Ronald Reagan movie received.
  • Sort Ronald Reagan 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.
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Ronald Reagan and George Murphy (I think) in 1943’s This Is The Army…Reagan’s monster box office hit

Possibly Interesting Facts About Ronald Reagan

1. Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois in 1911.

2. In the early 1930s, Ronald Reagan, was an baseball announcer for the Chicago Cubs.   His specialty was creating play-by-play accounts of games using as his source only basic descriptions that the station received by wire as the games were in progress

3. While traveling with the Cubs in California, Reagan took a screen test…which resulted in him signing a seven year contract with Warner Brothers.

4. Ronald Reagan’s two best-remembered lines were delivered while he was flat on his back in bed:  “Win just one more for the Gipper!” in 1940’s Knute Rockne All American and “Where’s the rest of me?” in 1942’s Kings Row.

5. Ronald Reagan’s This Is The Army (1943) was the 5th biggest hit of the entire 1940s.  If it was included on Box Office Mojo’s Top Adjusted Gross Hits of All-Time…it would rank in 24th place…right ahead of Jurassic World and The Godfather.

6. As Captain in the U.S. Army, Ronald Reagan signed Major Clark Gable‘s discharge papers in June 1944.

7. Ronald Reagan’s favorite all-time movie was 1952’s High Noon.

8. Check out Ronald Reagan‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Was his movie career as bad as many people suggest? Currently we have 403 actors and directors in our database.  Here is how he ranks in five different categories.

  • Ronald Reagan has 13 $100 million dollar box office hits. That ties him for 146th place in our rankings.
  • Ronald Reagan’s percentage of $100 million dollar hits to movies made is 24.07%.  That % puts him in 294th place.  Other actors near him in the rankings?  George Clooney and Natalie Portman.
  • Ronald Reagan’s movies earned a total of 14 Oscar® nominations.  That ties him for 298th place in our rankings.  Other actors tied with him in the rankings? Drew Barrymore and Lucille Ball.
  • Ronald Reagan’s average critic/audience rating per movie is 57.00%.  That % puts him in 354th place.  Other actors near him in the rankings?  Julia Roberts and Nicolas Cage.
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31 thoughts on “Ronald Reagan Movies”

  1. His movie career can only be considered a “joke” if you do not do any actual research and rely on a few anecdotal references only. He had a very solid, if not spectacular career in Hollywood and was definitely an up and coming star pre World War II. He was no bit part actor either, starring as the lead for a top movie studio (Warner Bros.) in the 40’s and 50’s and many of his films did quite well at the box office. People love to mention his “Bedtime for Bonzo” film with a chimpanzee to try and denigrate him, yet Cary Grant did one too around the same time. BTW, “Bonzo” did quite well at the Box Office but even so, was not representative of all the types of movies he was in.

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