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. Glad to see Treasure of the Sierra Madre is your favourite Bogart movie. It’s got a great theme about greed and paranoia, and stirring music. It’s one of my four favourites along with African Queen, Key Largo and The Caine Mutiny. I can understand why Bogart is rated so highly – he was no cardboard cut-out glamour boy; he was both a box office star and a proper actor who was happy to play traditional heroes, traditional villains, or real, complex characters (as in some of the films I’ve just mentioned). I believe he also developed something of a cult following long after his death.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by Greensleeves….I like the opening of the movie when Bogart keeps begging money off of John Huston the director in Treasure of the Sierre Madre. I wonder with his looks what kind of movies he would get now a days……I can not see him being a leading man….he would probably be a supporting actor the way things were work in Hollywood now….but thank goodness he was able to leave behind such great performances.

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  2. I was reading an interview with Hugh Hefner today in the latest issue of Total Film magazine. He loves classic movies and his 3 favourites all star Bogart – Casablanca, To Have and Have Not and The Maltese Falcon. His favourite film as a kid was King Kong.

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    1. It is good to know Hugh has good taste in movies as well as women…..I think I need to re-watch To Have and Have Not……I have seen it one time and that was almost 25 years ago. At I was at my son’s college library this weekend and I found a book about 1930 movies…..glancing through it….I found a three page story pictures story about Black Legion…..so thanks for mentioning that one so I could put that one in the list of his movies.

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      1. Black Legion was an unusual potboiler and worth a watch.

        Bogart, like John Wayne was acting throughout the 1930’s before becoming a star in the 1940’s. Bogart was a popular bad guy until John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941) spoilt everything and turned him into a hero [wink].

        While John Wayne appeared as a cowboy hero in a hundred b-westerns before John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) made him an A-lister. The biggest star of them all.

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        1. I will try and find that one, I find finding A budget movies of the 1930s hard enought but an even bigger challenge is finding 1930s B budget movies(Wayne made about 75 Bs while Bogart had about 25 B movies)…..currently watching The Adventures of Robin Hood on blu-ray…..I really like my local library…they starting carrying blu-ray….just for me…..lol…

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  3. Another great page! While I like most of Bogart’s best films, I’ve never understood the popularity of ‘Key Largo’ or ‘To Have and Have Not.’ As for homely-looking leading men, I put Bogart in the same league as Walther Matthau. You would never guess these guys were matinee idols. And the stories of his whining while making ‘African Queen’ on location are legendary.

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    1. Thanks for the compliment BoomerFlicks….I agree with you about Key Largo…I have seen it twice and both times I was more than a little bored…..as for To Have and Have Not….that one I like….if only because the chemistry Bogart and Bacall….the stuff legends are made off….Matthau and Bogart….interesting…..I would have never put them together but now that I think about it….I see your point…thanks for the comments

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  4. I can’t remember too many of his movies, the African queen stands out as i’ve seen it countless times. I’ve got cloudy memories of James Cagney dusting him up. James Cagney thought he was a bit of a pussy in real life and didn’t have much time for him off the set. He was a big name during my childhood though and his movies have stood the test of time. Cheers

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    1. Hey attemptedhumour….I think I read the same book where Cagney talked about Bogart…..during the timeframe Cagney and Bogart worked together…Bogart’s third wife….really kept an eagle eye on Bogie…..which caused lots of turmoil…..African Queen is a classic…thanks for reading and commenting

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  5. Another great page Cogerson, very educational for someone who knew very little about him other than the name,

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