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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.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1951
Quo Vadis (1951)
AA Best Picture Nom
1935
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
AA Best Picture Nom
1952
Ivanhoe (1952)
AA Best Picture Nom
1936
Camille (1936)
1938
Three Comrades (1938)
1941
Johnny Eager (1941)
1943
Bataan (1943)
1953
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
1951
Westward the Women (1951)
1937
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
1946
Undercurrent (1946)
1938
The Crowd Roars (1938)
1940
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
1938
A Yank at Oxford (1938)
1942
Stand By For Action (1942)
1937
This Is My Affair (1937)
1937
Personal Property (1937)
1941
Billy The Kid (1941)
1939
Lady of The Tropics (1939)
1939
Stand Up And Fight (1939)
1952
Above and Beyond (1952)
1940
Escape (1940)
1935
Magnificent Obsession (1935)
1936
Small Town Girl (1936)
1944
Song of Russia (1944)
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
1936
His Brother's Wife (1936)
1940
Flight Command (1940)
1950
Ambush (1950)
1947
High Wall (1947)
1941
When Ladies Meet (1941)
1963
Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
1950
Devil's Doorway (1950)
1956
The Last Hunt (1956)
1955
Many Rivers To Cross (1955)
1949
The Bribe (1949)
1953
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
1954
Rogue Cop (1954)
1936
Private Number (1936)
1935
West Point of The Air (1935)
1953
All The Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
1939
Lucky Night (1939)
1958
Party Girl (1958)
1956
D-Day The Sixth of June (1956)
1939
Remember? (1939)
1958
Saddle The Wind (1958)
1942
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
1954
Valley of The Kings (1954)
1948
The Secret Land (1948)
1949
Conspirator (1949)
1955
The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955)
1968
Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968)
1964
A House Is Not a Home (1964)
1934
There's Always Tomorrow (1934)
1958
The Law and Jake Wade (1958)
1934
Handy Andy (1934)
1935
Murder in The Fleet (1935)
1964
The Night Walker (1964)
1935
Times Square Lady (1935)
1956
The Power And The Prize (1956)
1934
A Wicked Woman (1934)
1959
The Hangman (1959)
1935
Society Doctor (1935)
1966
Johnny Tiger (1966)
1957
Tip On a Dead Jockey (1957)
1959
The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)
1963
Cattle King (1963)
1959
Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959)
1965
Savage Pampas (1965)
1968
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968)
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.
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | Quo Vadis (1951) AA Best Picture Nom |
Deborah Kerr & Peter Ustinov |
26.10 | 563.2 | 1,172.7 | 1 | 75 | 08 / 00 | 98.6 | |
| 2 | Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) AA Best Picture Nom |
Jack Benny | 4.70 | 212.4 | 368.4 | 6 | 75 | 03 / 01 | 98.2 | |
| 3 | Ivanhoe (1952) AA Best Picture Nom |
Elizabeth Taylor & Joan Fontaine |
17.40 | 340.7 | 617.6 | 4 | 73 | 03 / 00 | 97.8 | |
| 4 | Camille (1936) | Greta Garbo & Lionel Barrymore |
4.80 | 209.0 | 451.6 | 20 | 81 | 01 / 00 | 97.7 | |
| 6 | Three Comrades (1938) | Margaret Sullavan | 4.80 | 190.5 | 326.3 | 31 | 77 | 01 / 00 | 96.2 | |
| 5 | Johnny Eager (1941) | Lana Turner & Van Heflin |
6.40 | 247.9 | 370.8 | 12 | 72 | 01 / 01 | 96.1 | |
| 7 | Bataan (1943) | Thomas Mitchell & Robert Walker |
5.90 | 210.4 | 320.0 | 44 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 94.5 | |
| 7 | Knights of the Round Table (1953) | Ava Gardner & Mel Ferrer |
13.70 | 246.0 | 440.8 | 10 | 62 | 02 / 00 | 93.6 | |
| 9 | Westward the Women (1951) | Denise Darcel | 7.50 | 162.6 | 246.2 | 21 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 93.5 | |
| 8 | Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) | Judy Garland | 7.60 | 313.3 | 472.0 | 8 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 93.3 | |
| 9 | Undercurrent (1946) | Katharine Hepburn | 7.60 | 235.4 | 352.7 | 38 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 93.3 | |
| 13 | The Crowd Roars (1938) | Edward Arnold & Frank Morgan |
5.50 | 218.6 | 324.5 | 23 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 92.3 | |
| 15 | Waterloo Bridge (1940) | Vivien Leigh & Lucille Watson |
3.60 | 137.5 | 271.4 | 40 | 78 | 02 / 00 | 92.2 | |
| 13 | A Yank at Oxford (1938) | Vivien Leigh & Lionel Barrymorre |
5.20 | 206.2 | 436.9 | 29 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 92.2 | |
| 14 | Stand By For Action (1942) | Charles Laughton & Walter Brennan |
5.80 | 213.8 | 339.6 | 27 | 58 | 01 / 00 | 92.1 | |
| 17 | This Is My Affair (1937) | Barbara Stanwyck | 4.00 | 165.8 | 219.9 | 45 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 91.9 | |
| 18 | Personal Property (1937) | Jean Harlow | 4.30 | 180.1 | 287.1 | 34 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 91.4 | |
| 17 | Billy The Kid (1941) | Brian Donlevy | 6.30 | 241.3 | 354.8 | 13 | 55 | 01 / 00 | 91.1 | |
| 19 | Lady of The Tropics (1939) | Hedy Lamarr | 4.20 | 160.5 | 236.1 | 45 | 67 | 01 / 00 | 90.9 | |
| 20 | Stand Up And Fight (1939) | Wallace Beery | 4.90 | 189.9 | 283.4 | 31 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 90.8 | |
| 21 | Above and Beyond (1952) | Eleanor Parker & James Whitmore |
7.40 | 144.1 | 216.7 | 25 | 69 | 02 / 00 | 90.1 | |
| 22 | Escape (1940) | Norma Shearer | 3.90 | 149.3 | 260.0 | 33 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 89.9 | |
| 24 | Magnificent Obsession (1935) | Irene Dunne | 3.70 | 167.2 | 167.2 | 12 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 89.5 | |
| 23 | Small Town Girl (1936) | Janet Gaynor & James Stewart |
3.70 | 159.3 | 230.7 | 36 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 89.5 | |
| 26 | Song of Russia (1944) | Susan Peters & John Hodiak |
6.00 | 200.5 | 405.2 | 53 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 89.0 | |
| 25 | The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) | Joan Crawford & James Stewart |
4.90 | 209.6 | 290.2 | 18 | 48 | 02 / 00 | 88.8 | |
| 27 | His Brother's Wife (1936) | Barbara Stanwyck | 4.00 | 171.9 | 238.9 | 30 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 88.6 | |
| 28 | Flight Command (1940) | Walter Pidgeon & Ruth Hussey |
4.10 | 158.9 | 252.1 | 31 | 57 | 01 / 00 | 87.3 | |
| 30 | Ambush (1950) | Arlene Dahl & John Hodiak |
6.00 | 135.3 | 206.3 | 40 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 85.1 | |
| 29 | High Wall (1947) | Herbert Marshall | 4.20 | 122.3 | 206.2 | 82 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 85.1 | |
| 31 | When Ladies Meet (1941) | Joan Crawford & Greer Garson |
3.70 | 144.3 | 229.3 | 61 | 55 | 01 / 00 | 84.3 | |
| 32 | Miracle of the White Stallions (1963) | Curd Jürgens & Eddie Albert |
6.90 | 86.0 | 128.9 | 41 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 83.2 | |
| 33 | Devil's Doorway (1950) | Louis Calhern & Edgar Buchanan |
3.90 | 86.6 | 134.5 | 84 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 81.6 | |
| 34 | The Last Hunt (1956) | Stewart Granger | 4.60 | 89.8 | 167.0 | 64 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 81.0 | |
| 35 | Many Rivers To Cross (1955) | Eleanor Parker & Victor McLaglen |
6.00 | 123.4 | 227.0 | 55 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 80.6 | |
| 36 | The Bribe (1949) | Ava Gardner & Vincent Price |
4.30 | 108.6 | 174.8 | 72 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 80.2 | |
| 37 | Ride, Vaquero! (1953) | Anthony Quinn & Ava Gardner |
5.60 | 99.9 | 186.6 | 54 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 80.0 | |
| 38 | Rogue Cop (1954) | Janet Leigh & George Raft |
4.00 | 94.9 | 168.0 | 77 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 77.8 | |
| 39 | Private Number (1936) | Loretta Young & Basil Rathbone |
1.80 | 76.5 | 76.5 | 107 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 76.8 | |
| 41 | West Point of The Air (1935) | Wallace Beery & Lewis Stone |
1.90 | 86.9 | 169.0 | 69 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 76.6 | |
| 42 | All The Brothers Were Valiant (1953) | Stewart Granger | 6.10 | 109.1 | 252.0 | 45 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 76.3 | |
| 43 | Lucky Night (1939) | Myrna Loy | 2.90 | 110.3 | 166.3 | 83 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 76.1 | |
| 43 | Party Girl (1958) | Cyd Charisse & Lee J. Cobb |
3.20 | 58.0 | 122.2 | 68 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 76.1 | |
| 44 | D-Day The Sixth of June (1956) | Richard Todd | 5.60 | 109.2 | 144.2 | 53 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 74.4 | |
| 45 | Remember? (1939) | Greer Garson | 2.20 | 85.5 | 136.9 | 108 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 69.6 | |
| 46 | Saddle The Wind (1958) | John Cassavetes & Julie London |
2.90 | 51.6 | 106.8 | 72 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 65.9 | |
| 47 | Her Cardboard Lover (1942) | Norma Shearer & Directed by George Cukor |
1.80 | 67.7 | 103.3 | 133 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 65.9 | |
| 49 | Valley of The Kings (1954) | Eleanor Parker | 4.50 | 106.5 | 221.3 | 65 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 65.7 | |
| 48 | The Secret Land (1948) | Documentary & Robert Montgomery |
1.00 | 28.0 | 40.9 | 176 | 66 | 01 / 01 | 63.3 | |
| 50 | Conspirator (1949) | Elizabeth Taylor | 2.40 | 59.8 | 110.8 | 128 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 61.8 | |
| 52 | The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) | Kay Kendall & Robert Morley |
1.90 | 39.0 | 128.8 | 140 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 58.5 | |
| 53 | Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968) | Rosalind Russell & Stella Stevens |
4.00 | 32.9 | 47.6 | 76 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 57.6 | |
| 52 | A House Is Not a Home (1964) | Shelley Winters | 2.40 | 27.9 | 27.9 | 98 | 64 | 01 / 00 | 57.3 | |
| 54 | There's Always Tomorrow (1934) | Frank Morgan | 0.80 | 38.5 | 38.5 | 129 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 55.4 | |
| 55 | The Law and Jake Wade (1958) | Richard Widmark | 2.80 | 49.8 | 143.5 | 83 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 54.9 | |
| 56 | Handy Andy (1934) | Will Rogers | 1.60 | 74.4 | 74.4 | 72 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 54.5 | |
| 57 | Murder in The Fleet (1935) | Jean Parker & Jean Hersholt |
1.00 | 44.3 | 80.8 | 131 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 49.4 | |
| 57 | The Night Walker (1964) | Barbara Stanwyck | 2.70 | 31.1 | 31.1 | 92 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 49.2 | |
| 58 | Times Square Lady (1935) | Virginia Bruce | 0.90 | 39.8 | 54.4 | 150 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 48.7 | |
| 59 | The Power And The Prize (1956) | Burl Ives & Elisabeth Müller |
1.60 | 31.9 | 59.9 | 152 | 57 | 01 / 00 | 45.9 | |
| 60 | A Wicked Woman (1934) | Mady Christians & Charles Bickford |
0.60 | 27.6 | 44.6 | 168 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 45.7 | |
| 61 | The Hangman (1959) | Tina Louise & Jack Lord |
2.90 | 51.3 | 68.0 | 80 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 41.8 | |
| 62 | Society Doctor (1935) | Chester Morris & Virginia Bruce |
0.90 | 42.5 | 68.5 | 136 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 38.6 | |
| 63 | Johnny Tiger (1966) | Chad Everett | 1.30 | 12.5 | 18.2 | 116 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 30.0 | |
| 65 | Tip On a Dead Jockey (1957) | Dorothy Malone | 1.10 | 22.0 | 57.8 | 147 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 27.9 | |
| 65 | The House of the Seven Hawks (1959) | Nicole Maurey | 1.20 | 21.3 | 54.7 | 137 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 24.8 | |
| 67 | Cattle King (1963) | Robert Loggia | 1.20 | 14.9 | 36.9 | 118 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 19.1 | |
| 67 | Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959) | Anthony Newley | 0.60 | 10.9 | 10.9 | 161 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 17.2 | |
| 68 | Savage Pampas (1965) | Mario Lozano | 1.00 | 10.7 | 10.7 | 126 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 12.8 | |
| 70 | The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968) | Charles Boyer | 0.10 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 183 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 8.1 |
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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Perhaps not the world’s greatest actor but his screen presence was beyond compelling. As a woman, I can not take my eyes off of him in any film. His voice was also amazing. Although never mentioned, he had a great sense of comedic timing and always appeared very relaxed on screen. I am now watching his movies in retrospect and find It so sad that his life was cut short by smoking. Robert Taylor remains irreplaceable.
Robert Taylor, is the # 22 most connected actor of the 1950’s.
My personal viewpoint is that whilst Robert didn’t have a wide acting range he had nevertheless massive star quality and I always found him solidly entertaining. For me growing up in the 1950s queuing up to see him was like waiting to get inside to see a familiar friend; and he DID have his own particular stocks in trade-
(1) as a young actor he was exceptionally good looking and set feminine hearts fluttering for years.
(2) he was a SURVIVOR because 20 years after his debut and when his youthful appeal had gone he was still churning out blockbuster smash hits like Ivanhoe/Quo Vadis/Knights of the Round Table alongside entertaining routine actioners like All the Brothers Were Valiant and Valley of the Kings. ***
The public don’t keep a performer up there thru numerous decades if he doesn’t have continuing strong appeal; and the hard-nosed studios of those days didn’t “suffer fools gladly” – and as it was by the mid-1950s MGM were still retaining Robert’s services and he was in fact their longest- serving contract star.
Indeed in that respect the 1983 Razzies book and I for once agree because after getting the knife in via the opening paragraph it closes with an uncharacteristically kind accolade-
“If Taylor had not died in 1969 of cancer he would have gone on working in major roles. Louis B Mayer once said of John Wayne “He has an endless face and he can go on forever.” The same can be said of Taylor.” [Robert of course has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.]
***In the 1951-54 period alone those 5 movies earned a Cogerson inflation- adjusted worldwide gross of around $2.3 billion which is an average per movie not far short of Half a billion dollars – great for those days when the foreign markets were usually not nearly as lucrative as they are today. In Robert’s case though his overseas grosses often match his American one according to a snapshot of Bruce’s comprehensive tables.
HI BRUCE: Obviously when referring to Taylor’s Golden Globes deficit you mean that he had received no noms/awards for ACTING performances. The GG that he did get was for popularity of course.
This site does though ideally convey a performer’s popularity via listing comprehensively his/her box office grosses and in that respect Cogerson does do Robert proudly by quoting for him for example a whopping adjusted domestic gross of nearly $7.5 billion thus putting him up there with the Big Boys in terms of box office achievement.
I did have to smile though when David Stark mention Robert and Golden Globes because whilst Taylor would probably have liked an Oscar/GG as much as the next thespian all I have ever known Robert to complain about was [you will no doubt recall] that he was beaten by my Jimmy for the Cowboy of The [20th] Century Award.
However it might well have annoyed Robert more than not getting an Oscar or Golden Globe or even the Cowboy of the Century award if he had read what was said about him in this site’s own 1983 book of Razzie Awards
“Robert Taylor was handsome and competent but seldom exciting. Occasionally he gave a fine performance but his ability even in a superior picture was limited.”
I don’t wish to pull the “Old Soldier” act and don’t know how long David’s been following this site [and if he’s a relative newcomer it’s great that he can join us and it’s good to have the opportiunity to welcome him] but if he IS a newcomer he will soon learn that the source that I have just quoted cuts more ice on this site than even the Academy Awards.
You say no Golden Globe nomination for Robert Taylor but he was voted World Favorite film star (male) in a tie with Alan Ladd in 1954 at that years GG awards as the Henrietta Award.
Keep up the good work
David Stark