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Harold Russell (1914-2002) was a Canadian-born American World War II veteran and Oscar® winning actor.   He only appeared in only three movies.   He won his Oscar® for 1946’s The Best Years Of Our Lives.   His IMDb page shows 5 acting credits from 1946 to 1997.  This page will rank Harold Russell movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  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.  This is the smallest amount of movies that we ranked on one page, tying James Dean’s 3 movies.  This 72nd Best Supporting Actor Oscar® winner to get an UMR page.

Harold Russell 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
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Supp Actor Win
1980	Inside Moves (1980)
1997	Dogtown (1997)

Harold Russell 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 Harold Russell movies by his co-stars
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• Sort Harold Russell movies by 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 Harold Russell movie received.
• Sort Harold Russell movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Best IMDb Trivia On Harold Russell

1. Harold John Avery Russell was born in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1914.

2.  On June 6, 1944, while Harold Russell was an Army instructor, teaching demolition work with the U.S. 13th Airborne Division at Camp Mackall, North Carolina, a defective fuse detonated TNT explosives he was handling.  As a result, he lost both hands and was given two hooks to serve as hands.

3.  After Harold Russell’s recovery, and while attending Boston University as a full-time student, Russell was featured in Diary of a Sergeant, an Army film about rehabilitating war veterans. When film director William Wyler saw the film on Russell, he cast Russell in 1946’s The Best Years of Our Lives.

4.  Harold Russell was the first of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award® for acting (the other being Haing S. Ngor).   Russell actually received two Oscars®.  One for acting and an Honorary Oscar® for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives.

5.  In August 1992, Harold Russell sold his supporting-actor Oscar®, saying he needed the money to pay his wife’s medical bills and other expenses. An anonymous buyer paid $60,500, including a 10 percent commission for the auctioneer.  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tried to keep him from selling his award, and offered to loan him money, but he turned them down. (Several Oscars have since been auctioned off posthumously, but the Academy now makes all recipients sign an agreement forbidding them from selling their Oscars®.)

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