Humphrey Bogart Movies

Want to know the best Humphrey Bogart movies?  How about the worst Humphrey Bogart movies?  Curious about Humphrey Bogart ’s box office grosses or which Humphrey Bogart movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Humphrey Bogart 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.

Did you know that the American Film Institute ranked Humphrey Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema? Bogart however did not find an easy road to the title of greatest male star ever. After trying numerous jobs including playing chess for money he turned to acting in 1921. He found regular work on Broadway through the rest of the 1920s. When the Great Depression reduced the demand for plays, he turned his attention to movies. His first full length film was 1930’s Up the River which was directed by a very young John Ford and co-starred Spencer Tracy (also his first film). His first movie contract with Fox Films was terminated when they concluded he was not star material. Shortly there after he signed with Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers gave Bogart plenty of work from 1936 to 1940.

He appeared in twenty movies in that time frame, almost all the movies were low budget B movies. He did manage to get strong notices from two of the movies made during this time….1936’s The Petrified Forest and 1937’s Dead End. So by the end of the 1930s, Bogart either appeared as the one of stars in horrible low budget film, or as the 3rd or 4th lead in a higher budgeted movie. In the higher budgeted movies he would usually get the cowardly bad guy role and many times killed by James Cagney.

Two films in 1941 changed everything for Bogart. High Sierra was a surprise hit, it did very well at the box office and critics loved the movie and proved Bogart could carry a film. Later that year The Maltese Falcon was released to even bigger box office and an Oscar® nomination for Best Picture. After the success of those two films, Bogart found himself in better movies. In 1942 he made his greatest film, Casablanca. Bogart’s role of Rick in Casablanca would cement his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Bogart would appear in 29 more movies from 1943 to 1956, all of which were big budget and he was always the star. Some of his greatest success during this time would include 1944’s To Have and Have Not (his first film with 4th wife Lauren Bacall), 1951’s African Queen (won Oscar® for this movie), 1954’s The Caine Mutiny (his biggest box office hit) and 1956’s The Harder They Fall (his final movie).  Humphrey Bogart passed away in early 1957 after a battle with cancer. John Huston’s eulogy says it all… “He is quite irreplaceable. There will never be another like him.”

His IMDb page shows 85 acting credits from 1928-1956. This page will rank Humphrey Bogart movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, shorts, cameos and uncredited movies that were included in the rankings.

Humphrey Bogart in his biggest box office hit 1954's The Caine Mutiny
Humphrey Bogart in his biggest box office hit 1954’s The Caine Mutiny

Humphrey Bogart Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Humphrey Bogart 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 Humphrey Bogart movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Humphrey Bogart movies by actual domestic box office grosses
  • Sort Humphrey Bogart movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort Humphrey Bogart 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 Humphrey Bogart movie received.
  • Sort Humphrey Bogart 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.
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in one of the best movies ever made....Casablanca.
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in one of the best movies ever made….Casablanca.

Humphrey Bogart Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses 

The Worst of Humphrey Bogart:
 

Let’s take a quick moment to look at two of Bogart’s worst movies. Don’t worry you Bogart fans he thought these two movies were horrible too.

1937’s Swing That Lady: Bogart plays a wrestling promoter who brings his wrestler Joe, to the Ozarks, to wrestle a female hillbilly Amazon named Sadie Hills….naturally Bogart falls in love with Sadie and they all live happily ever after in this musical comedy…..Bogart’s thoughts on this movie….”It’s a stinker”

1938’s The Return of Dr. X:  Bogart’s only science fiction movie….he plays a mad evil genius doctor who figures out a way to bring the dead back to life.  For some reason Bogart refused to talk about this movie later in his life.

Check out Humprey Bogart‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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AFI’s Top 25 Screen Legend Actors….with links to our movie pages on the Screen Legend

1.   Humphrey Bogart  58 Movies Ranked….from Casablanca (1942) to Swing Your Lady (1938)
2.   Cary Grant 58 Movies Ranked… from North by Northwest (1959) to Born To Be Bad (1934)
3.   James Stewart 73 Movies Ranked Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(1939) to Big Sleep(1978)
4.   Marlon Brando 37 Movies Ranked….from The Godfather (1972) to Christopher Columbus (1992)
5.   Fred Astaire 39 Movies Ranked The Towering Inferno (1974) to The Amazing Dobermans (1976)
6.   Henry Fonda 81 Movies Ranked… On Golden Pond (1981) to City on Fire (1979)
7.   Clark Gable 63 Movies Ranked….from Gone With The Wind (1939) to Parnell (1937)
8.   James Cagney 61 Movies Ranked….from Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) to Boy Meets Girl (1938)
9.   Spencer Tracy 53 Movies Ranked….from Boy’s Town (1938) to Up the River (1930)
10. Charles Chaplin 12 Movies Ranked….from The Kid (1921) to A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
11. Gary Cooper 67 Movies Ranked….from Sergeant York (1941) to Fighting Caravans (1931)
12. Gregory Peck 53 Movies Ranked To Kill a Mockingbird(1962) to Amazing Grace & Chuck(1987)
13. John Wayne 83 Movies Ranked….from True Grit (1969) to Brannigan (1975)
14. Laurence Olivier 48 Movies Ranked….from Rebecca (1940) to Inchon (1982)
15. Gene Kelly 40 Movies Ranked….from Anchors Aweigh (1945) to Viva Knievel! (1977)
16. Orson Welles 75 Movies Ranked….from Citizen Kane (1941) to Treasure Island (1972)
17. Kirk Douglas 71 Movies Ranked….from Spartacus (1960) to Diamonds (1999)
18. James Dean 3 Movies Ranked….from East of Eden (1955) to Giant (1956)
19. Burt Lancaster 67 Movies Ranked From Here to Eternity (1953) to Executive Action (1973)
20. Marx Brothers 18 Movies Ranked….from Horse Feathers (1932) to The Story of Mankind (1957)
21. Buster Keaton 28 Movies Ranked….from The Cameraman (1928) to The Intruder (1936)
22. Sidney Poitier 46 Movies Ranked….from In the Heat of the Night (1967) to Fast Forward (1985)
23. Robert Mitchum 83 Movies Ranked….from The Longest Day (1962) to Matilda (1978)
24. Edward G. Robinson 67 Movies Ranked 10 Commandments(1956) to BiggestBundleofAll(1968)
25. William Holden 66 Movies Ranked….from The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) to Ashanti (1979)

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  1. Just added Steve’s You Tube Video to our Humphrey Bogart Page…our comment on his video page.

    “Bogart…the AFI number one actor….and our statistical page…Bogie is one of our Top Rated Actors. This is an EPIC PAGE. Seen #47 San Quentin…more of a Pat O’Brien movie than Bogie movie #43 Beat the Devil…a cult classic…but it bores me. #38 We’re No Angels….much better the second time around #34 Bullets or Ballots….seen a hour of it….but my DVD is messed up…so I have not seen the ending. #24 They Drive By Night…Bogie taking a backseat to Raftie #23 Barefoot Contessa…decent movie. #21 Sahara…saw it years ago. #18 Dark Passage…ok movie #17 High Sierra….the Bogart ball starts to roll #15 Dark Victory….Bogie in support of Davis #14 Desperate Hours….Bogie’s last great movie #12 Caine Mutiny…great Bogie performance #11 Petrified Forest…the one that got Bogie noticed #10 In A Lonely Place…I know it is a classic….but I think it is ok at best #9 Sabrina…what a cast #8 Key Largo…fun movie with great performances #7 To Have and Have Not….Bogie shines #6 Angels With Dirty Faces…Bogie backing up Cagney #5 African Queen…my grandmother’s favorite movie #4 The Big Sleep…..classic! #3 Maltese Falcon…surprised this is not #2 #2 Treasure of Sierre Madre…maybe his best acting performance #1 Casablanca…is that the Ronald Reagan movie?….lol. So that is 23 seen. Great posters. Great video. Voted up and shared.”

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  2. Captain Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
    Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
    Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
    Rick: I was misinformed.

    HI MOSES {Ouch!]
    1 You regretfully seem misinformed about my attitude to Miss Loy. I have said on previous occasions on this site that she was (1) an excellent actress (2) a great and admirable crusader for civil rights (3) a good friend [to Joan Crawford for example] (4) very popular but not in my view the “most successful female box office star ever”

    2 Others have drawn attention to the similar misnomer of ranking the likes of Walter Brennan above for example Wayne and Cooper simply because Walt was in a lot of “other people’s” films that made money.

    3 Bruce actually started off the current “Myrna” round when a few weeks ago he again referred to her as the most successful [“ticket seller” this time] ever. I simply was quite happy to join in the fun and Bruce then continued matters by sending me a post in which he boasted about reducing Myrna’s grosses. You then decided to enter the “debate” by flaunting Myrna’s 4/10 x 10 credentials and in your 7.55am am post yesterday on Eddie Robinson’s page
    confessed to wanting to “press my buttons”.

    4 According if time has been wasted I cannot completely own to “Mea Culpa” and of course there is the old saying that if you cannot stand the heat keep out of the kitchen. Anyway hope you are having a good weekend and I look forward to your next epic 50 – how about one on Myrna to show none of us has any hard feelings? Bruce could maybe do a statistical forward to it.

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  3. STEVE
    1 Your response to my Part 2 Bogie post is still apparently in the rough. Tiger Woods may help us locate it and I will continue to live in hope because as I have said before I find your feedbacks valuable in understanding how your selection and rating systems work. Meanwhile my Yankee cousin is on her way over to Bruce’s house to kick his door!

    2 It should be remembered occasionally that massive legend though Bogie ultimately was he was a supporting actor up until 1941 and his career as a fully-fledged star was relatively short, from 1941 until 1956, not even a full CALENDAR decade.

    3 Indeed the 36 movies that he made in those top star years 1941-56 grossed only $5.6 billion in adjusted domestic earnings which whilst commendable in itself was according to Bruce’s stats far short of the figures that Bogie’s fellow Greats likes of Grant, Gable, Cooper and The Duke chalked up in their years as leading actors, none of them serving the apprenticeship as an also ran that Bogie did.

    4 Also I will return briefly to an ongoing theme. Even if we take account of Bogie’s movies as a supporting actor his grand total for all his 70 films listed above comes to just over $8 billion in adjusted domestic grosses. That means that if we accept Bruce’s contentions about Myrna Loy she with a total adjusted domestic gross of $8.3 billion was a bigger star overall albeit slightly than Bogie and considerably so if her entire $8.3 billion is set against his total of $5.6 billion as a leading actor. Do YOU believe that she was anywhere near the ticket seller that Bogie was whatever set of figures is used?

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  4. 1 Your response to my Part 2 Bogie post is still apparently in the rough. Tiger Woods may help us locate it and I will continue to live in hope because as I have said before I find your feedbacks valuable in understanding how your selection and rating systems work. Meanwhile my Yankee cousin is on her way over to Bruce’s house to kick his door!

    2 It should be remembered occasionally that massive legend though Bogie ultimately was he was a supporting actor up until 1941 and his career as a fully-fledged star was relatively short, from 1941 until 1956, not even a full CALENDAR decade.

    3 Indeed the 36 movies that he made in those top star years 1941-56 grossed only $5.6 billion in adjusted domestic earnings which whilst commendable in itself was according to Bruce’s stats far short of the figures that Bogie’s fellow Greats likes of Grant, Gable, Cooper and The Duke chalked up in their years as leading actors, none of them serving the apprenticeship as an also ran that Bogie did.

    4 Also I will return briefly to an ongoing theme. Even if we take account of Bogie’s movies as a supporting actor his grand total for all his 70 films listed above comes to just over $8 billion in adjusted domestic grosses. That means that if we accept Bruce’s contentions about Myrna Loy she with a total adjusted domestic gross of $8.3 billion was a bigger star overall albeit slightly than Bogie and considerably so if her entire $8.3 billion is set against his total of $5.6 billion as a leading actor. Do YOU believe that she was anywhere near the ticket seller that Bogie was whatever set of figures is used?

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  5. 1 Your response to my Part 2 Bogie post is still apparently in the rough. Tiger Woods may help us locate it and I will continue to live in hope because as I have said before I find your feedbacks valuable in understanding how your selection and rating systems work. Meanwhile my Yankee cousin is on her way over to Bruce’s house to kick his door!

    2 It should be remembered occasionally that massive legend though Bogie ultimately was he was a supporting actor up until 1941 and his career as a fully-fledged star was relatively short, from 1941 until 1956, not even a full CALENDAR decade.

    3 Indeed the 36 movies that he made in those top star years 1941-56 grossed only $5.6 billion in adjusted domestic earnings which whilst commendable in itself was according to Bruce’s stats far short of the figures that Bogie’s fellow Greats likes of Grant, Gable, Cooper and The Duke chalked up in their years as leading actors, none of them serving the apprenticeship as an also ran that Bogie did.

    4 Also I will return briefly to an ongoing theme. Even if we take account of Bogie’s movies as a supporting actor his grand total for all his 70 films comes to just over $8 billion in adjusted domestic grosses. That means that if we accept Bruce’s contentions about Myrna Loy she with a total adjusted domestic gross of $8.3 billion was a bigger star overall albeit slightly than Bogie and considerably so if her entire $8.3 billion is set against his total of $5.6 billion as a leading actor. Do YOU believe that she was anywhere near the ticket seller that Bogie was whatever set of figures is used?

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