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Royal Dano (1922-1994) was an American actor. Dano was a character actor whose acting career spanned 6 decades. He was best known for playing cowboys, villains, and Abraham Lincoln. His IMDb page shows 195 acting credits from 1949 to 1993. This page will rank Royal Dano movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.
Royal Dano 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
1954
Johnny Guitar (1954)
1961
King of Kings (1961)
1954
The Far Country (1954)
1952
Bend of the River (1952)
1956
Moby Dick (1956)
1976
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
1983
The Right Stuff (1983)
AA Best Picture Nom
1958
Man of the West (1958)
1952
Carrie (1952)
1955
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
1960
Cimarron (1960)
1951
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
1951
Flame of Araby (1951)
1969
The Undefeated (1969)
1984
Teachers (1984)
1964
7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
1973
Cahill United States Marshal (1973)
1957
Man in the Shadow (1957)
1960
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
1972
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
1956
Santiago (1956)
1956
Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
1963
Savage Sam (1963)
1958
Saddle The Wind (1958)
1971
Skin Game (1971)
1983
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
1956
Tension at Table Rock (1956)
1957
Trooper Hook (1957)
1981
Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
1959
Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
1959
These Thousand Hills (1959)
1961
Posse From Hell (1961)
1973
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
1969
Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
1956
Crime of Passion (1956)
1976
Drum (1976)
1958
Handle With Care (1958)
1993
The Dark Half (1993)
1974
Big Bad Mama (1974)
1972
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
1986
Red Headed Stranger (1986)
1988
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
1982
Hammett (1982)
1968
Day Of The Evil Gun (1968)
1991
Joey Takes A Cab (1991)
1973
Messiah of Evil (1973)
1967
The Last Challenge (1967)
1975
The Wild Party (1975)
1959
Hound-Dog Man (1959)
1973
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973)
1967
Welcome To Hard Times (1967)
1987
Ghoulies II (1987)
1985
Cocaine Wars (1985)
1990
Spaced Invaders (1990)
1987
House II: The Second Story (1987)
1975
Capone (1975)
Royal Dano 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 any way you want.
- Sort Royal Dano movies by his co-stars
- Sort Royal Dano movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Royal Dano movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Royal Dano 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 Royal Dano movie received.
- Sort Royal Dano movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 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 | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | Johnny Guitar (1954) | Joan Crawford & Sterling Hayden |
7.10 | 167.4 | 167.40 | 45 | 86 | 00 / 00 | 96.5 | |
| 1 | King of Kings (1961) | Jeffrey Hunter & Robert Ryan |
22.90 | 333.0 | 333.00 | 8 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.3 | |
| 5 | The Far Country (1954) | James Stewart & Walter Brennan |
7.10 | 167.4 | 167.40 | 43 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 95.4 | |
| 6 | Bend of the River (1952) | James Stewart & Rock Hudson |
8.30 | 163.3 | 163.30 | 16 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 95.2 | |
| 3 | Moby Dick (1956) | Gregory Peck & Orson Welles |
13.70 | 268.1 | 268.10 | 15 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 94.9 | |
| 7 | The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) | Clint Eastwood & Sondra Locke |
29.70 | 150.3 | 150.30 | 21 | 82 | 01 / 00 | 94.4 | |
| 6 | The Right Stuff (1983) AA Best Picture Nom |
Sam Shepard & Dennis Quaid |
21.20 | 72.5 | 72.50 | 33 | 88 | 08 / 04 | 93.7 | |
| 8 | Man of the West (1958) | Gary Cooper & Lee J. Cobb |
5.00 | 89.8 | 89.80 | 49 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 85.8 | |
| 9 | Carrie (1952) | Laurence Olivier & Directed by William Wyler |
5.00 | 98.0 | 98.00 | 61 | 71 | 02 / 00 | 85.3 | |
| 10 | The Trouble with Harry (1955) | Shirley MacLaine & Directed by Alfred Hitchcock |
3.70 | 77.0 | 77.00 | 87 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 84.7 | |
| 12 | Cimarron (1960) | Glenn Ford & Anne Baxter |
6.60 | 103.8 | 215.40 | 43 | 62 | 02 / 00 | 81.7 | |
| 11 | The Red Badge of Courage (1951) | Audie Murphy & Directed by John Huston |
2.30 | 48.6 | 66.50 | 143 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 81.6 | |
| 13 | Flame of Araby (1951) | Maureen O'Hara & Jeff Chandler |
4.30 | 92.4 | 92.40 | 81 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 80.1 | |
| 14 | The Undefeated (1969) | John Wayne & Rock Hudson |
11.40 | 86.8 | 86.80 | 28 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 76.4 | |
| 16 | Teachers (1984) | Morgan Freeman & Nick Nolte |
27.80 | 89.1 | 89.10 | 35 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 74.6 | |
| 15 | 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) | Tony Randall & Barbara Eden |
3.60 | 41.0 | 41.00 | 75 | 72 | 01 / 00 | 74.1 | |
| 17 | Cahill United States Marshal (1973) | John Wayne | 12.40 | 75.7 | 114.40 | 28 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 73.8 | |
| 18 | Man in the Shadow (1957) | Jeff Chandler & Orson Welles |
2.00 | 38.2 | 38.20 | 116 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 71.9 | |
| 19 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) | Buster Keaton & Tony Randall |
5.60 | 87.0 | 122.80 | 51 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 71.8 | |
| 20 | The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972) | Royal Dano | 3.80 | 24.0 | 24.00 | 73 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 67.6 | |
| 22 | Santiago (1956) | Alan Ladd & Rossana Podestà |
5.70 | 112.0 | 112.00 | 48 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 67.1 | |
| 21 | Tribute to a Bad Man (1956) | James Cagney & Lee Van Cleef |
3.40 | 66.8 | 114.40 | 101 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 66.9 | |
| 24 | Savage Sam (1963) | Brian Keith & Tommy Kirk |
7.10 | 89.5 | 89.50 | 38 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 66.3 | |
| 22 | Saddle The Wind (1958) | Robert Taylor & John Cassavetes |
2.90 | 51.6 | 106.80 | 72 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 65.9 | |
| 23 | Skin Game (1971) | James Garner & Louis Gossett Jr. |
6.70 | 43.6 | 43.60 | 48 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 65.0 | |
| 26 | Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) | Jason Robards & Jonathan Pryce |
8.40 | 28.7 | 28.70 | 71 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 62.7 | |
| 27 | Tension at Table Rock (1956) | Angie Dickinson & Dorothy Malone |
4.00 | 78.4 | 78.40 | 79 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 62.4 | |
| 28 | Trooper Hook (1957) | Joel McCrea & Barbara Stanwyck |
2.00 | 38.5 | 38.50 | 115 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 59.9 | |
| 29 | Take This Job and Shove It (1981) | Robert Hays & Joel Hirschhorn |
18.50 | 71.6 | 71.60 | 46 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 59.0 | |
| 32 | Never Steal Anything Small (1959) | James Cagney & Shirley Jones |
2.60 | 47.5 | 47.50 | 90 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 57.8 | |
| 31 | These Thousand Hills (1959) | Lee Remick & Richard Egan |
1.90 | 33.5 | 33.50 | 116 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 57.2 | |
| 32 | Posse From Hell (1961) | Audie Murphy & John Saxon |
1.40 | 20.2 | 20.20 | 109 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 56.6 | |
| 33 | Electra Glide in Blue (1973) | Robert Blake & Conrad L. Hall |
1.60 | 10.0 | 10.00 | 135 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 55.7 | |
| 34 | Death of a Gunfighter (1969) | Richard Widmark & Lena Horne |
2.60 | 19.5 | 19.50 | 84 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 53.8 | |
| 35 | Crime of Passion (1956) | Barbara Stanwyck & Sterling Hayden |
1.40 | 28.0 | 28.00 | 158 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 53.0 | |
| 37 | Drum (1976) | Warren Oates & Pam Grier |
7.30 | 36.7 | 36.70 | 71 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 49.5 | |
| 36 | Handle With Care (1958) | Thomas Mitchell & Dean Jones |
0.50 | 9.0 | 16.70 | 165 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 47.9 | |
| 38 | The Dark Half (1993) | Timothy Hutton & Stephen King |
10.60 | 27.6 | 27.60 | 106 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 46.9 | |
| 40 | Big Bad Mama (1974) | Angie Dickinson & William Shatner |
4.50 | 26.2 | 26.20 | 67 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 44.8 | |
| 39 | The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) | Cliff Robertson & Robert Duvall |
2.30 | 14.6 | 14.60 | 114 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 44.8 | |
| 41 | Red Headed Stranger (1986) | Katharine Ross | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 239 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 42.1 | |
| 42 | Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) | Grant Cramer | 0.60 | 1.5 | 1.50 | 208 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 41.0 | |
| 43 | Hammett (1982) | Frederic Forrest & Sylvia Sidney |
0.00 | 0.2 | 0.20 | 174 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 40.3 | |
| 45 | Day Of The Evil Gun (1968) | Glenn Ford | 1.70 | 14.4 | 14.40 | 138 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 40.2 | |
| 45 | Joey Takes A Cab (1991) | Kathleen Freeman | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 262 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 38.9 | |
| 46 | Messiah of Evil (1973) | Elisha Cook Jr. | 1.90 | 11.5 | 11.50 | 124 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 36.8 | |
| 47 | The Last Challenge (1967) | Glenn Ford | 1.20 | 10.4 | 10.40 | 135 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 29.4 | |
| 48 | The Wild Party (1975) | Raquel Welch & James Coco |
2.50 | 13.0 | 13.00 | 104 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 28.9 | |
| 49 | Hound-Dog Man (1959) | Carol Lynley | 1.50 | 27.0 | 27.00 | 128 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 28.1 | |
| 50 | Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973) | Cliff Robertson & Story by Steven Spielberg |
2.80 | 16.8 | 16.80 | 98 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 18.5 | |
| 51 | Welcome To Hard Times (1967) | Henry Fonda & Warren Oates |
1.50 | 13.4 | 13.40 | 119 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 17.0 | |
| 52 | Ghoulies II (1987) | Damon Martin | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 255 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 6.9 | |
| 53 | Cocaine Wars (1985) | John Schneider | 0.10 | 0.2 | 0.20 | 198 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 6.7 | |
| 54 | Spaced Invaders (1990) | Douglas Barr | 15.40 | 39.2 | 39.20 | 81 | 30 | 00 / 00 | 5.5 | |
| 55 | House II: The Second Story (1987) | Arye Gross & Jonathan Stark |
7.80 | 21.5 | 21.50 | 89 | 35 | 00 / 00 | 4.9 | |
| 56 | Capone (1975) | Ben Gazzara & Sylvester Stallone |
2.00 | 10.5 | 10.50 | 114 | 32 | 00 / 00 | 2.1 |
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Today’s conversation between Cogerson and G. Vandross HoF18 at WBMS
Cogerson – Do you know you have requested a page on Royal Dano a few times? You requested him a few days ago and then last night I was looking at some old photos on my phone and I found a picture of a Post-It note from you requesting a page on him. That was in May 2017.
G. Vandross – So what are you waiting for? That seems to be more than enough time to put out a Royal Dano page.
Cogerson – I am not even sure who Royal Dano is? Is he the guy that looks like Gregory Peck?
G. Vandross – He looks nothing like Gregory Peck!
Cogerson – Then I have no idea who he is. Cogerson looks up Royal Dano on his phone. That is the guy that looks like Gregory Peck!
G. Vandross – You are crazy. They look nothing alike. Nobody would think Gregory Peck and Royal Dano look alike.
Cogerson – I am going to have to do an UMR page on him just to see what other movie fans think about this little debate.
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Not to say that Royal Dano looks anywhere near identical to Gregory Peck, as he does not, but in my opinion, there’s a similarity there between the two. Maybe it’s the eyes and voice that would make me think Royal could have played Gregory’s father, or older brother in film, and it would have seemed believable.
Bruce, I think you’ve just about insulted all the Gregory Peck fans here, wait… I see a guy in the crowd with a rope, hide quick! [laughs out loud] 🙂
I don’t see the resemblance, let’s see.. Royal Dano looks more like… whatsisname from The Beverly Hillbillies… hang on… Buddy Ebsen.
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/buddy-ebsen-1.jpg
I’ve seen 21 of the 56 films on the chart. Favorites are – King of Kings (as Peter), Moby Dick, The Right Stuff, Something Wicked This Way Comes, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. The Far Country, Bend of the River, Johnny Guitar, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Trouble With Harry, Tribute to a Badman and The Undefeated.
Royal Dano was a good supporting actor and a familiar face in movies. Vote Up!
Hey Steve. I think you are correct, some of the Peck fans are not too happy with the suggestion that Peck and Dano could pass as brothers. So far, with over 100 people voting, that thought is agreed by 53%. Granted the “nays” are much more adament about their no versus the yes people. I can see some Buddy Edsen in Mr. Dano. I guess the important thing is that I now know who Royal Dano is by name and face.
Tally count: 21 for you and 24 for me. I actually own (though not sure why) Killer Klowns from Outer Space…I have even listened to the DVD commentary on that one (at least I think I have) Of your favorites… like The Outlaw Johnny Guitar with 7 Faces of The Right Stuff was Undeafeted the best myself. Thanks for the link, visit and comment.
You are so blind, cant you see the resemblance, his voice, mannerisms, obviously you don’t know that great actors were often imitated in those days in order to capture some screen time for the lesser known actors.
Royal Dano was a fine character actor and I enjoyed him in many films such as Jimmy Stewart’s two westerns Bend of the River and the Far Country and Robert Taylor’s cowboy yarn Saddle the Wind; but to compare Royal an any way with the Great Gregory Peck is for my money somewhat hyperbolic.
In his heyday Greg was universally recognized as one of the most handsome -indeed beautiful – male actors on the planet. Years-ago where I live it was par for the course for women to scream and swoon out loud in cinemas when a handsome male movie “matinee idol” appeared on the screen and Greg drew the swoons in abundance.
I recall standing in a queue once for Duel in the Sun and as the queue moved along it stopped for a moment at a poster for the movie which showed the young pristine Greg leaning over a rock and holding a gun. I gazed at the poster with interest as it was my first ever sighting of Peck but a group of 21-something aged women behind me started to point at the poster and became vocally-excited. I can never-ever remember any female displaying the slightest flicker of excitement when Royal appeared on screen.
Admittedly he was not as a character actor menacingly ‘ugly’ like say Leo Gordon or the young Lee Marvin but Royal did in fact strike me as having a rather furtive appearance and he could therefore excel in supporting roles of furtive characters – see for example the 1979 episode of the TV series Quincy called A Question of Death.
Contrastingly Greg’s Atticus Finch is ranked no I in the American Film Institute’s 50 Greatest Heroes of all Time beating to the punch the likes of Bogie’s Rick Blane in Casablanca; Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey from Wonderful life; Alan Ladd’s Shane; Brando’s Terry Malloy from On the Waterfront; and even such perennial stalwarts as Hans Solo and Peter O’Toole’s real-life Lawrence of Arabia.
Royal regrettably does not have anything like the SCREEN bearing of a hero. I am pleased to see that M-s Breen Robison has not bought into the exaggerated Peck/Dano comparisons and I would invite anyone else tempted to do so to reconsider the matter.
Hey Bob….thanks for the thoughts on Royal Dano. Good information on Gregory Peck and his “hero” status. I think he has that with his performance in To Kill A Mockingbird alone..regardless of his other roles. Good to know you and Flora are thinking the same in the Royal/Greg debate. But based on the poll results…I am not the only one thinking that way. Good stuff as always.