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Don Rickles (1926-2017) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author, known especially for his insult comedy. Rickles’ IMDb page shows 87 acting credits from 1955 to 2014. This page will rank Don Rickles movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings. This page comes from a request by Mike.
Donald Rickles 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
2010
Toy Story 3 (2010)
AA Best Picture Nom
Voice Only
1995
Toy Story (1995)
1999
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Voice Only
1958
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
1970
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
1995
Casino (1995)
1960
The Rat Race (1960)
1964
Bikini Beach (1964)
1963
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
1971
The Love Machine (1971)
1965
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
1998
The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot (1998)
Voice Only
1992
Innocent Blood (1992)
1967
Enter Laughing (1967)
1998
Dirty Work (1998)
1964
Muscle Beach Party (1964)
2011
Zookeeper (2011)
Voice Only
1969
Where It's At (1969)
1990
Keaton's Cop (1990)
1964
Pajama Party (1964)
Donald Rickles Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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- Sort Don Rickles 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 | Toy Story 3 (2010) AA Best Picture Nom Voice Only |
Tom Hanks & Michael Keaton |
420.00 | 573.8 | 1,459.40 | 1 | 88 | 05 / 02 | 99.5 | |
| 2 | Toy Story (1995) | Tom Hanks & Tim Allen |
190.80 | 472.8 | 894.50 | 1 | 94 | 03 / 00 | 99.3 | |
| 3 | Toy Story 2 (1999) Voice Only |
Tom Hanks & Tim Allen |
241.90 | 515.3 | 1,024.80 | 3 | 87 | 01 / 00 | 98.6 | |
| 4 | Run Silent Run Deep (1958) | Clark Gable & Burt Lancaster |
7.10 | 128.3 | 180.70 | 33 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 91.1 | |
| 5 | Kelly's Heroes (1970) | Clint Eastwood & Telly Savalas |
16.20 | 112.8 | 112.80 | 21 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 90.4 | |
| 6 | Casino (1995) | Robert De Niro & Directed by Martin Scorsese |
42.50 | 105.4 | 287.70 | 41 | 81 | 01 / 00 | 89.7 | |
| 7 | The Rat Race (1960) | Debbie Reynolds & Tony Curtis |
9.70 | 151.8 | 151.80 | 25 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 88.8 | |
| 8 | Bikini Beach (1964) | Boris Karloff & Annette Funicello |
12.90 | 147.4 | 147.40 | 16 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 82.5 | |
| 9 | X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) | Ray Milland & Diana Van der Vlis |
2.40 | 30.4 | 30.40 | 81 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 66.7 | |
| 10 | The Love Machine (1971) | Robert Ryan & Dyan Cannon |
13.90 | 91.1 | 91.10 | 23 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 62.3 | |
| 11 | Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) | Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello |
2.60 | 27.2 | 27.20 | 89 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 46.8 | |
| 13 | The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot (1998) Voice Only |
Gary Oldman & Pierce Brosnan |
22.50 | 51.7 | 87.10 | 78 | 49 | 01 / 00 | 42.6 | |
| 12 | Innocent Blood (1992) | Anne Parillaud & Anthony LaPaglia |
4.90 | 12.8 | 12.80 | 120 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 42.6 | |
| 14 | Enter Laughing (1967) | José Ferrer & Shelley Winters |
1.30 | 11.5 | 11.50 | 129 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 36.0 | |
| 15 | Dirty Work (1998) | Norm MacDonald & Chevy Chase |
10.00 | 23.0 | 23.00 | 119 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 35.9 | |
| 16 | Muscle Beach Party (1964) | Annette Funicello & Peter Lorre |
4.10 | 46.7 | 46.70 | 70 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 34.5 | |
| 17 | Zookeeper (2011) Voice Only |
Sylvester Stallone & Rosario Dawson |
80.40 | 109.2 | 230.90 | 40 | 27 | 00 / 00 | 32.5 | |
| 18 | Where It's At (1969) | David Janssen & Brenda Vaccaro |
1.90 | 14.2 | 14.20 | 103 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 12.4 | |
| 19 | Keaton's Cop (1990) | Lee Majors | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 234 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 6.9 | |
| 20 | Pajama Party (1964) | Dorothy Lamour & Buster Keaton |
2.40 | 27.9 | 27.90 | 97 | 25 | 00 / 00 | 1.6 |
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I saw 7 including top 6. 10s and favorites: kellys heroes, toy story 3. 9 not favorite toy story 2. no hidden gems
Hey bob cox….your tally of 7 puts you near the top. As for your 10 and favorites…love Kelly’s Heroes….and like Toy Story 3. To me Toy Story will always be a 10….that is certainly a movie that changed how movies got made. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Don Rickles’ movies.
I’ve seen 11 of the 20 films on the chart, more than I thought. Watching a bunch of Beach Party films a couple of years ago helped my total.
Favorites are – Kelly’s Heroes, Casino, Run Silent Run Deep, X The Man with X-Ray Eyes and the Toy Story series.
Top rated on the critics chart is Toy Story, no arguement there, it’s a landmark film and still very enjoyable. [Bob grunts]
I’ve watched a few videos of Don Rickles roast stars like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin on youtube, funny stuff.
Good work Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve. That is the best tally count…..edging me by one. Surprised that Innocent Blood is not on your favorites list. Seen all of your favorites except for X Ray Eyes. Glad you agree on Toy Story. It is a movie that changed how movies are made. I also agree that his television roasts are very funny. Good stuff as always.
I have seen Don Rickles in just 4 movies in total. Unfortunately, they were all long ago in the period 1958-70; and I can’t remember him in any of them. However a bonus is that I tie with Flora for once!
On top of his big screen career he has appeared in 55 television productions and in 4 video games. His TV appearances include in 1959, just the year after his big screen acting debut, an episode of The Thin Man television series [1959-1961] starring Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk as Nick and Nora, with three different look-alike little dogs playing Asta during the series’ run. Don’s episode was called The Cat Kicker. [Audiences would have gone mad if it had been called The Dog Kicker!] I sure am giving those Thin Women gals some hype this morning! They say that Mr Hirschhorn may have regarded Phyllis Kirk as the DEFINITIVE Nora.
Anyway Don’s net worth at his death in 2017 death was $30 million. As he was apparently well liked and enjoyed such a long and prolific career [1955-2017 overall according to Wikipedia] he clearly has earned this Cogerson new page, so “Voted Up!”
ADDITIONAL TRIVIA: (1) As faithfully recorded above Don’s final full-length film was Zookeeper [voice role] in 2011. However the following year he contributed, again a voice role, to a short film Partysaurus Rex; and in 2019’s Toy Story 4 he had a posthumous voice role from archives footage.
(2) His actual final physical appearance as an actor was in the TV series Dinner with Don, 13 episodes of which were aired in Sept 2017, 6 months after his death, and in which a group of celebs interviewed him at an amazing 90 years of age. He was the host, played himself and he chewed the fat with the likes of Paul Rudd, Vince Vaughn and [jointly in the same episode] legends Scorsese and DeNiro. The series won a television award and a nomination. Some going
Hey Bob….thanks for the thoughts on Mr. Warmth. Seems he was liked by many many people. I doubt anybody could perform his type of comic act today. If you listen to 5 minutes of his act….it is filled with one “not politically correct” joke after another. Everybody would be banning him…..boycotting him….and labeling him.
You and Flora are tied with 4…which represents 20% of his film total….which is not too bad…especially when neither of you have seen any of his Toy Story movies. In my mind….he only has two successful acting roles……Casino and Kelly’s Heroes. Scorsese gave him the role in Casino….just like he gave Ray Romano the role in this year’s The Irishman.
His television role was much more successful than this movie career. I saw a few episodes of Dinner with Don. He was a regular on Dean Martin’s celebrity roasts, a Johnny Carson favorite (the broken ashtray shows are very funny) and many failed shows. 30 million for Mr. Rickles….not too bad at all. Good stuff.
HI BIG GUY: [I’ll have to stop nicknaming you that: other regulars will be thinking I’m sending posts to Laddie in the way you continue to communicate with Joel. In my mind the tag actually comes from Old Cantankerous’ 1963 Mad Mad World. Burly Buddy Hackett is chasing cowardly Phil Silvers all over the place to pulverize him and when they all finally track down the loot Silvers suggests equal shares for all but to curry favour with Hackett adds “And TWO shares for the Big Guy!”]
Anyway thanks for the feedback. The trajectory of Don’s career, to me included ‘bookends’: he started off in movies appearing with Clark and Burt in Run Silent Run Deep; and he finished it in a discussion with, and being admired by, DeNiro and Scorsese in the very last episode of Dinner with Don. The Legends came easily to him it seems.
Imagine how chuffed you would have been if Joel and Brando had sat down together to chat to you about your site; or how it would delight you if Sir Maurice and Mr Gimme More jointed forces to talk to you [with GM herself thrown in for good measure – though you would then have to dig deep in your pockets if SHE was on the payroll!]. Such discussions would, like Dinner with Don, ideally have had to be held in a laid-back manner in a relaxed setting: ‘Breakfast with Bruce’ ‘Cocktails with Cogerson’ ‘Teatime with Teach’ or ‘Waffling with The Work Horse’.
Anyway keep busy at your day job but don’t forget your REAL homework: those Golden Globes!
I have seen 4 Don Rickles movies. Three of them are in the top 10.
Favourite Don Rickles Movies:
Run Silent, Run Deep
Other Don Rickles Movies I Have Seen:
Kelly’s Heroes
The Rat Race
Beach Blanket Bingo
Hey Flora….I have seen exactly 10 of his movies….with Toy Story 1, Toy Story 2 and Kelly’s Heroes in my Top 3. I enjoyed Run Silent, Run Deep…..but not enough to crack my Top 3. I have seen 3 of the 4 you have seen….Beach Blanket Bingo has escaped….and it might continue to escape me for a very long time. Good stuff as always.