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Farley Granger (1925-2011) was an American actor. Granger is best known for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock: 1948’s Rope and 1951’s Strangers on a Train. His IMDb page shows 86 acting credits from 1943 to 2011. This page will rank Farley Granger movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. Sadly that includes many of Granger’s Italian movies. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Farley Granger Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Farley Granger Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Best IMDb Trivia On Farley Granger
1. Farley Earle Granger was born in San Jose, California in 1925.
2. Farley Granger was one of the last of Samuel Goldwyn’s contract players.
3. Farley Granger’s studio publicity department was concerned audiences would confuse Granger with British actor Stewart Granger, so they suggested he change his name and offered him a list from which to choose. “The names were all interchangeable, like Gordon Gregory and Gregory Gordon. I didn’t want to change my name,” Granger later recalled. “I liked Farley Granger. It was my father’s name, and his grandfather’s name. They kept bringing me new combinations, and finally I offered to change it to Kent Clark. I was the only one who thought it was funny.” Eventually the studio issued a press release announcing Farley Granger, a senior at North Hollywood High School, had been cast in The North Star after he responded to an ad in the local paper. “I thought that was a really dumb story,” said Granger. “The truth was much more interesting.”
4. On the audio commentary for They Live by Night (1948), Farley Granger says that Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray were the best directors he ever worked with. In addition, his two favorite films of his own are Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951) and Ray’s They Live by Night (1948).
5. Farley Granger might be the only actor to play the hero and a villain in an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Granger was one of the villains in 1948’s Rope and the hero in 1951’s Strangers On A Train.
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Farley Granger has never been on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. These are the actors on the current list he has appeared with.
30 ANTHONY QUINN The Naked Street (1955)
44 JAMES MASON The Story of Three Loves (1953)
46 KEITH DAVID The Whoopee Boys (1986)
109 DAVID NIVEN Enchantment (1948)
110 RODDY MCDOWELL Arnold (1973)
137 SHELLEY WINTERS Behave Yourself! (1951)
137 SHELLEY WINTERS Very Close Quarters (1986)
141 KIRK DOUGLAS The Story of Three Loves (1953)
190 MIKE STARR The Next Big Thing (2001)
207 DENHOLM ELLIOTT The Whoopee Boys (1986)
257 PAUL SORVINO Very Close Quarters (1986)
270 PHILIPPE NOIRET The Serpent (1973)
291 ANNE BANCROFT The Naked Street (1955)
297 HENRY FONDA The Serpent (1973)
388 MARCIA GAY HARDEN The Imagemaker (1986)
428 RICHARD WIDMARK O’Henry’s Full House (1952/I)
471 PETER GRAVES The Naked Street (1955)
476 YUL BRYNNER The Serpent (1973)
501 RAY MILLAND The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
535 LESLIE CARON The Story of Three Loves (1953)
537 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Behave Yourself! (1951)
537 KATHLEEN FREEMAN O’Henry’s Full House (1952/I)
613 BRODERICK CRAWFORD Maharlika (1970)
715 LEE VAN CLEEF The Naked Street (1955)
728 DIRK BOGARDE The Serpent (1973)
779 VIRNA LISI The Serpent (1973)
794 JOAN COLLINS The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
809 ALDO SAMBRELL The Man Called Noon (1973)
815 DANA ANDREWS Edge of Doom (1950)
815 DANA ANDREWS I Want You (1951)
815 DANA ANDREWS The North Star (1943)
815 DANA ANDREWS The Purple Heart (1944)
869 RICHARD ANDERSON The Story of Three Loves (1953)
874 DAVID KEITH The Whoopee Boys (1986)
896 ALIDA VALLI Senso (1954)
909 JAMES STEWART Rope (1948)
964 STEPHEN BOYD The Man Called Noon (1973)
966 JIM BACKUS I Want You (1951)
Farley appeared with 17 Oscar winners.
ANNE BANCROFT The Naked Street (1955)
ANNE BAXTER The North Star (1943)
ANNE BAXTER The Purple Heart (1944)
ANTHONY QUINN The Naked Street (1955)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Maharlika (1970)
CHARLES LAUGHTON O’Henry’s Full House (1952/I)
DAVID NIVEN Enchantment (1948)
DEAN JAGGER The North Star (1943)
ETHEL BARRYMORE The Story of Three Loves (1953)
HENRY FONDA The Serpent (1973)
JAMES STEWART Rope (1948)
MARCIA GAY HARDEN The Imagemaker (1986)
RAY MILLAND The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
SHELLEY WINTERS Behave Yourself! (1951)
SHELLEY WINTERS Very Close Quarters (1986)
TERESA WRIGHT Enchantment (1948)
WALTER BRENNAN The North Star (1943)
WALTER HUSTON The North Star (1943)
YUL BRYNNER The Serpent (1973)
Hope all is well with your family at this time,
What is going on? No way this can be a comment from our Hall of Famer Dan. These lists are way too short. I suspect foul play. Who are you and what have you done with Dan? ….lol. As I was scanning down the first list, I noticed there were lots of one time costars, and then I hit the mother load when I got to Dana Andrews name. They made four movies together. 17 Oscar-winning costars is below average. Especially when you consider his career lasted six different decades. All joking aside these lists are still pretty informative and appreciated it.Good stuff as always.
Farley Granger is indeed remembered for his dark films. In addition to his Hitchcock classics, They Live By Night and Side Street are film noir and he was often asked about them too.
Your numbering is a little off. There is no number 1.
I have seen 9 Farley Granger movies.
The HIGHEST ranked film I have seen is Rope.
The highest ranked film I have NOT seen is Our Very Own.
The LOWEST ranked film I have seen is The Story of Three Loves.
I have I Want You recorded and waiting for me to watch.
Favourite Farley Granger Movies:
Strangers on a Train
Rope
They Live By Night
Side Street
O’Henry’s Full House – his segment is The Gift of the Magi
Small Town Girl
Enchantment
Other Farley Granger Movies I Have Seen:
The North Star
The Story of Three Loves
Hey Florida. Thanks for the visit and comment on our Farley Granger page. As always, you bring good information. No surprise you have seen the most Farley movies. You sit at 9, Stephen I said it for each so our combined total still falls behind you. We are looking at your favorites, I’ve seen three of them. His two Hitchcock roles and Enchantment. I have been wanting to see O’Henry’s House for awhile now. Good stuff. Thank you.
WH’s fine little miniature still above contains the famous first confrontation scene [on a train] between Farley’s Guy Haines and Robert Walker’s Bruno Antony. I have reservations at times about Steve’s addiction to action movies [as he has to my watching “mush”!]; but I cannot fault his admiration of Hitch because in keeping with the general influence of The Master of Suspense’s work that scene and the overall plot of Strangers on a Train has been recreated/copied many times since Hitch made the film.
For example I have seen now obscure TV movies in which (1) two men were again in the Guy/Bruno roles in a repeat of the Hitchcock plot (2) two females took the parts of the men in the same plot in a different production. Also in Dick Van Dyke’s Diagnosis Murder detective series [series 3 episode 14 aired Dec 1999 called The Murder Trade] Dick’s Dr Mark Sloan is furious when unfairly fired by a hard-nosed medical authority female and a nut played by Terry O’Quinn approaches him on the beach while the two are jogging and suggests they swap murders Hitch style.
“Voted Up!” ***Ironically and appropriately as Bruce has given us a Hirsch post about Farley the posters for Edge of Doom/Stronger than Fear have the tagline “The Devil Need Only Whisper to Those who would listen”! – see IMDB and Wikipedia
Hey Bob. I actually think strangers on a train is one of the better Alfred Hitchcock movies. It seems like every 10 years I revisit all of the Hitchcock movies. I actually just re-watched Topaz the other day…far from his best. Anyway, seems like each time I revisit those movies the more that movie increases in quality in my mind. As for his leg TV work, glad he got to work with Dick Van Dyke. Sadly many of his 1970s Italian movies did not make the table. As always good stuff… You are the man.
HI BRUCE: I appreciate the feedback and I agree with you about Strangers on a Train. Walker as Bruno was a tour de force!
Hey Bob…glad we see eye to eye on this one. Hope things are calming down in Ireland….things are getting somewhat crazy in the States.
Excellent choice Bruce. Your chronological table faithfully charts the trajectory of Farley’s initial and subsequent movie careers and shows that he had a fairly solid run from 1943 until 1955 and then took a 13 years ‘sabbatical’ from our screens which often seems like the kind of breaks that you take from us!
Your tables go on to show that Farley resurfaced again in 1968 with Rogues Gallery in which he had a supporting role and which was the final film of its star Roger Smith before retirement to manage the career of his wife Ann-Margaret to whom he was married from 1967 until his 2017 death aged 84. Roger aklso had serious health issues.
For the next 32 years Farley worked fairly solidly with a just few much shorter ‘sabbaticals’ and made a further 23 films. However the Hollywood glory days had gone by then and those films were a mix of Italian productions/slasher and horror pictures/ones in which Farley had supporting and or low billed roles and often such tags were not mutually exclusive.
Farley’s lack of staying power in the Big Time surprised me for he was still in his heyday when I started watching movies in the late 1940s and he was an exceptionally handsome actor then and as The Master observed he was not without talent. Certainly I liked him when I watched him in Rope/Hans Christian Andersen/The Naked Street/Edge of Doom AKA Stronger than Fear***/Story of 3 Loves/Girl on the Red Velvet Swing and especially his classic Strangers on a Train.
Hey Bob. Thanks for the detailed comment on Farley Granger. You have successfully filled in the blanks of his career. That is greatly appreciated, because when I’m doing the research on a subject I don’t have the time to fill in those gaps. I agree with you 100%, from 1943 to 1955 were his peak years. Sad that his peak ended when he was just turning 30. Thanks for sharing the memory of when he was in his heyday. Good stuff as always
I’ve only seen 4 Farley Granger films, I expected more. My favorite is Strangers on a Train of course, but I also enjoyed Rope.
They Call Me Trinity is one of my favorite comedies, watched it many times on video in the 1980s. I’ve also seen They Live By Night.
I liked the trivia. I wonder if some people thought he was related to Stewart Granger? And Stewart Granger’s birth name was James Stewart!
Looking at the box office chart the experimental ‘Rope’ was more popular than ‘Strangers on a Train’. Must be because of James Stewart (and Technicolor!). But I enjoyed Strangers a lot more.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve. Thanks for checking out one of our latest pages. I will admit for a long time, I only thought of him as the Hitchcock guy. Heck I’m not even sure if I realize he was the same guy in Rope that was in Strangers on a Train. I like you have seen four of his movies. I did not include is Trinity movie in my count. No I’m pretty sure I saw it, just not sure if I saw all of the Trinity movies. After looking at his entire career, I’m somewhat surprised that he made Joel’s book. He had a nice run of about 10 years, and then about 40 years of supporting roles or TV work. I agree, Rope benefited from color and continuous shot technique. Good stuff as always.