Want to know the best Claude Rains movies? How about the worst Claude Rains movies? Curious about Claude Rains box office grosses or which Claude Rains movie picked up the most Oscar nominations? Need to know which Claude Rains 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.
If there was a Mount Rushmore of great movie character actors…joining Walter Brennan, Lionel Barrymore and Christopher Walken would be Claude Rains (1889-1967). Raines was an English 4-time Oscar® nominated actor of stage and screen whose career spanned 46 years. Rains’ IMDb page shows 79 acting credits from 1920 – 1965. This page will take a statistical look at 52 Claude Rains movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. His cameo roles, his television appearances and movies not released in North America were not included in the table.
Drivel part: So this weekend we (the family) were supposed to be in Philadelphia. We went to bed Thursday night packed and ready to go first thing Friday morning. All our carefully made plans went right out the window at 3:30 A.M….when our youngest child (Emily) showed up in our room saying she did not feel well and was burning up with fever. Well…..18 hours later she is feeling better and our Philly trip is canceled. So with some unexpected free time, we figured we would finish and publish this Claude Rains page on Friday versus our plan of publishing on Monday.
Claude Rains 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 Claude Rains movies by his co-star in the move
- Sort Claude Rains movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Claude Rains movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Claude Rains movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Claude Rains movie received and
- Sort by many Oscar® wins each Claude Rains movie won.
- Sort Claude Rains 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.
- Use the search and sort button to make this page very interactive.
- If there is a link in the co-star column….that link takes you to that performers’ UMR movie page
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Claude Rains Table
- Twenty-eight Claude Rains movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 52.83% of his movies listed. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was his biggest box office ht when looking at adjusted domestic box office gross.
- An average Claude Rains movie grosses $123.50 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 39 of Claude Rains’ movies are rated as good movies…or 75.00% of their movies. Casablanca (1942) is his highest rated movie while Anthony Adverse (1936) was his lowest rated movie.
- Eighteen Claude Rains movie received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 34.61% of his movies.
- Eight Claude Rains movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 15.38% of his movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 36 Claude Rains movies scored higher than that average….or 69.23% of his movies. Casablanca (1942) got the the highest UMR Score while The Paris Express (1952) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Claude Rains
- William Claude Rains was born in Camberwell, London in 1889.
2. Claude Rains served in the First World War in the London Scottish Regiment. He served alongside fellow actors Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman and Herbert Marshall. At one time, he was involved in a gas attack that left him nearly blind in one eye for the rest of his life.
3. Claude Rains was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before coming to Hollywood, whose students included John Gielgud.
4. Claude Rains appeared in two Best Picture Oscar® winners: 1942’s Casablanca and 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia.
5. Claude Rains was married 7 times in his life. He had one child, actress Jennifer Rains. Rains screen name is Jennifer Rains and has 39 IMDb acting credits.
6. Claude Rains was offered but turned down these roles: Dr. Pretorius in 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein, Frollo or Qasimodo in 1939’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Professor Higgins in 1938’s Pygmalion, Mr. Doolittle in 1964’s My Fair Lady, Klaatu in 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still and Henry Potter in 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life.
7. Claude Rains was nominated for 4 Best Supporting Actor Oscars®: 1939’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1942’s Casablanca, 1944’s Mr. Skeffington and 1946’s Notorious.
8. Claude Rains 52 movies listed here grossed $6.42 billion in adjusted domestic box office. Earned 77 Oscar® nominations….winning 23 times.
9. Check out Claude Rains’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
10. There are two movies that did not make the page that we really wanted to: 1934’s The Man Who Reclaimed His Head and 1935’s The Last Outpost. We could not find any box office information on those two movies…so they were not included. Actually we have been looking for years now when it comes to The Last Outpost….maybe one day.
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Figured it might be interesting to see the process of what it takes to put these pages together. How we put together our Alan Ladd page.
He was great in all of his movies, but he was even greater when he was the villain. Love this!
Good point DK1954….thanks for stopping by.
Get well soon Emily.
Have fun on your family birthday.
Wow ! “Invisible man” ! I’ve looked for it ‘s box office for many years. Where did you find it ? Can you tell me the rental for this movie ? And, of course, another a great job Bruce.
Hey laurent. I have the box office rental number at $976,339…for a gross of $2.78 million. I had to reverse engineer to get the box office number. I had many pieces of the puzzle….so using the knonw budget, how much profit it made and a ceiling. This was the number I came up with. One of the main sources of information was Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmography, 1931-1939 by Bryan Senn. I feel good about the rental number…..but in the end….like all box office information for this time frame….it is just an estimation. Thanks for stopping by.
Thank you, Bruce. I bought the book on Amazon. I love the horror movies of the 30’s. About that, have you got the box office for the Wolf Man (1941), please ?
I have The Wolf Man at $736,000 in rentals and $71.50 million in adjusted box office. Numerous sources say that Pearl Harbor hurt the box office results of this movie. Hope that helps….and hope you enjoyed the book by Bryan Senn. It is a great read.
A big thank you, Bruce. the book will be delivered wednesday. I can recommend this book : Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, the expanded stroy of haunting collaboration by Gregory William Mank. Very interesting.
This is a list filled with some really good movies. I had no idea he was this successful.
Hey L1NDA CARES…He has a great resume filled with many classic movies….glad you liked the page….thanks for stopping by.
Hi, Bruce!
Glad your daughter is better.
I adore Claude Rains. I want to see every movie he ever made.
The highest ranking movie I have seen is number 1: Casablanca
The highest raking movie I have not seen is number 12: They Won’t Forget
The lowest ranking movie I have seen is Twilight of Honor.
I have seen 28 movies. Most of these are in the top half of the table.
The most recently seen film for the first time was The white Tower with Glen Ford.
There are several films that I think I will be able to see through TCM that I have not seen.
Here are my favourites in no particular order except the first:
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Lawrence of Arabia
Passage to Marsaille
Phantom of the Opera
The Sea Hawk
Casablanca
Deception
The Wolf Man
The Unsuspected
Mr. Skeffington
They Made Me A Criminal
12 instead of 10. Oh, well.
I left out Notorious!
See what happens when you list things off the top of your head?
That would be 13 a very unlucky number, so a 14th:
Now Voyager
Hey Flora….fixed your comment…and deleted the other one. I have seen and enjoyed 9 of your favorite 14 Rains movies. They Made Me A Criminal is the one I want to see the most.
Hey Flora….about 4 hours after publishing this page….we were in the emergency room with Emily (her fever came back even worse than the night before)….a scary that ended well….but boy are we tired today.
So you are at 28….I bet Steve will be close to that total….I am at 11….and I got off to a great start as I have all of Top 11 with the exception of # 8 Four Daughers. After that I have only seen #28 The Wolf Man. As for the first one you have not seen…They Won’t Forget….I read in numerous places that this is one of his better roles. And considering how awesome he is in some of the Rains movies I have seen…that is pretty good review.
I have seen and enjoyed 7 of your top 12. I am thinking it is possible that his Top 5 UMR Scored Movies might be the Best Top 5 of all the people I have done a page on….Casablanca, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Lawrence Of Arabia, Notorious and Robin Hood….that is a stout Top 5.
As always….thanks for stopping by and commenting. I will be seeing if Steve can get the top spot here.