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Jean Seberg (1938-1979) was an American actress. Seberg’s performance in 1960’s Breathless immortalized her as an icon of French New Wave cinema. Seberg appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, and Airport. Her IMDb page shows 35 acting credits from 1957 to 1976 . This page will rank Jean Seberg 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. Seven of her movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.
Jean Seberg Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 1970 | Airport (1970) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 1969 | Paint Your Wagon (1969) |  |
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| 1959 | The Mouse That Roared (1959) | |
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| 1960 | Breathless (1960) | |
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| 1958 | Bonjour Tristesse (1958) |  |
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| 1966 | Moment to Moment (1966) |  |
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| 1964 | Lilith (1964) | |
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| 1960 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) | |
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| 1966 | Line of Demarcation (1966) | |
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| 1969 | Pendulum (1969) |  |
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| 1963 | In The French Style (1963) | |
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| 1972 | The Assassination (1972) | |
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| 1976 | The Wild Duck (1976) | |
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| 1966 | A Fine Madness (1966) |  |
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| 1961 | Time Out For Love (1961) | |
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| 1970 | Dead Of Summer (1970) | |
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| 1971 | Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971) |  |
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| 1964 | Backfire (1964) | |
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| 1973 | The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973) | |
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| 1961 | Five Day Lover (1961) | |
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| 1957 | Saint Joan (1957) |  |
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| 1970 | Macho Callahan (1970) | |
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| 1961 | Love Play (1961) |  |
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| 1968 | Birds In Peru (1968) | |
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| 1967 | Who's Got the Black Box? (1967) | |
Jean Seberg 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 any way you want.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Jean Seberg movie received.
- Sort Jean Seberg movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
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| CreditRank | 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 | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | Airport (1970) AA Best Picture Nom |
Burt Lancaster & Dean Martin |
102.40 | 712.0 | 712.0 | 2 | 63 | 10 / 01 | 97.1 | |
| 2 | Paint Your Wagon (1969) | Lee Marvin & Clint Eastwood |
40.00 | 303.7 | 303.7 | 8 | 50 | 01 / 00 | 89.4 | |
| 3 | The Mouse That Roared (1959) | Peter Sellers | 5.70 | 102.7 | 102.7 | 43 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 86.5 | |
| 4 | Breathless (1960) | Jean Seberg | 1.70 | 26.8 | 118.1 | 109 | 85 | 00 / 00 | 80.2 | |
| 5 | Bonjour Tristesse (1958) | David Niven | 2.40 | 42.4 | 42.4 | 94 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 74.3 | |
| 6 | Moment to Moment (1966) | Honor Blackmon | 3.50 | 34.3 | 34.3 | 71 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 63.2 | |
| 7 | Lilith (1964) | Warren Beatty & Peter Fonda |
2.30 | 26.2 | 26.2 | 100 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 60.9 | |
| 8 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) | Ricardo Montalban & Shelley Winters |
1.10 | 16.7 | 16.7 | 125 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 55.8 | |
| 9 | Line of Demarcation (1966) | Maurice Ronet | 0.40 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 144 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 53.6 | |
| 10 | Pendulum (1969) | George Peppard | 1.50 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 121 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 46.5 | |
| 11 | In The French Style (1963) | Stanley Baker | 0.70 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 122 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 42.9 | |
| 11 | The Assassination (1972) | Roy Scheider | 0.20 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 170 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 42.8 | |
| 13 | The Wild Duck (1976) | Bruno Ganz | 0.20 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 169 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 41.7 | |
| 16 | A Fine Madness (1966) | Sean Connery & Joanne Woodward |
4.90 | 48.4 | 92.5 | 58 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 37.2 | |
| 14 | Time Out For Love (1961) | Maurice Ronet | 0.10 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 150 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 37.0 | |
| 15 | Dead Of Summer (1970) | Luigi Pistilli | 0.20 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 180 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 34.6 | |
| 18 | Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971) | James Mason | 2.00 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 120 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 27.7 | |
| 17 | Backfire (1964) | Jean-Paul Belmondo | 0.40 | 4.9 | 31.2 | 147 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 27.5 | |
| 19 | The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973) | Marisol | 0.20 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 180 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 24.9 | |
| 20 | Five Day Lover (1961) | Jean-Pierre Cassel | 0.10 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 151 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 22.6 | |
| 21 | Saint Joan (1957) | Richard Widmark & John Gielgud |
1.10 | 22.0 | 22.0 | 146 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 19.2 | |
| 22 | Macho Callahan (1970) | Lee J. Cobb | 0.50 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 163 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 15.6 | |
| 23 | Love Play (1961) | Christian Marquand | 0.10 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 156 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 9.0 | |
| 24 | Birds In Peru (1968) | Danielle Darrieux | 0.10 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 185 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 7.2 | |
| 25 | Who's Got the Black Box? (1967) | Maurice Ronet | 0.10 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 181 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 4.6 |
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i saw 4 including top 3. 10 and favorite paint your wagon, one of my top 10 all-time musicals hilarious dialogue, hilarious plot, eastwood sings…. hilarious. 9 not favorite a fine madness. i am way out of line with standard rating on UMR and letterboxd for these 2. i love to laugh and i love the actors. airport is an 8 ,very melodramatic. the mouse that roared a 7. only breathless UMR reviewed above 80%. 2 others UMR review over 70% making 3 out of 25.
Jean Seberg was never on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. These are the actors on the 2020 list she appeared with.
13 SEAN CONNERY A Fine Madness (1966)
15 DAVID CARRADINE Macho Callahan (1970)
18 JOHN GIELGUD Saint Joan (1957)
43 CHRISTOPHER LLOYD Airport (1970)
45 GEORGE KENNEDY Airport (1970)
78 GENE HACKMAN Lilith (1964)
98 DAVID NIVEN Bonjour tristesse (1958)
120 CLINT EASTWOOD Paint Your Wagon (1969)
131 BURT LANCASTER Airport (1970)
158 SHELLEY WINTERS Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
165 JACQUELINE BISSET Airport (1970)
180 FERNANDO REY Backfire (1964)
180 FERNANDO REY Questa specie d’amore (1972)
184 HARRY ANDREWS Saint Joan (1957)
191 PETER FONDA Lilith (1964)
225 DAVID HEMMINGS Saint Joan (1957)
330 ISABELLE HUPPERT The Big Delirium (1975)
337 CATHERINE DENEUVE Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
363 JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL Five Day Lover (1961)
363 JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
378 MICHEL PICCOLI The Assassination (1972)
393 OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Lilith (1964)
396 ROY SCHEIDER The Assassination (1972)
423 BO HOPKINS Macho Callahan (1970)
445 JAMES GAMMON Macho Callahan (1970)
474 BRUNO GANZ THE WILD DUCK (1976)
480 DIANE LADD Macho Callahan (1970)
502 RICHARD WIDMARK Saint Joan (1957)
517 WOLFGANG PREISS Backfire (1964)
517 WOLFGANG PREISS The Big Delirium (1975)
550 PHILIPPE NOIRET The Assassination (1972)
595 CLIVE REVILL A Fine Madness (1966)
611 JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO Backfire (1964)
611 JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO Breathless (1960)
660 LEE MARVIN Paint Your Wagon (1969)
703 ROLAND CULVER Bonjour tristesse (1958)
723 NIGEL DAVENPORT The Assassination (1972)
729 MATT CLARK Macho Callahan (1970)
740 GERT FROBE Backfire (1964)
870 RENE AUBERJONOIS Lilith (1964)
926 PATRICK O’NEAL A Fine Madness (1966)
934 RICHARD ANDERSON Macho Callahan (1970)
938 MAURICE RONET BIRDS IN PERU (1968)
938 MAURICE RONET LINE OF DEMARCATION (1966)
938 MAURICE RONET TIME OUT FOR LOVE (1961)
938 MAURICE RONET WHO’S GOT THE BLACK BOX? (1967)
972 PEDRO ARMENDARIZ JR. Macho Callahan (1970)
Jean appeared with 15 Oscar winners, 15 more than Gene Autry.
BURL IVES Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
BURT LANCASTER Airport (1970)
DAVID NIVEN Bonjour tristesse (1958)
GENE HACKMAN Lilith (1964)
GEORGE KENNEDY Airport (1970)
HELEN HAYES Airport (1970)
JOANNE WOODWARD A Fine Madness (1966)
JOHN GIELGUD Saint Joan (1957)
KIM HUNTER Lilith (1964)
LEE MARVIN Paint Your Wagon (1969)
MAUREEN STAPLETON Airport (1970)
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Lilith (1964)
SEAN CONNERY A Fine Madness (1966)
SHELLEY WINTERS Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
VAN HEFLIN Airport (1970)
The wording in part of the penultimate paragraph of my 7.20 am Seberg post is clumsy. Jean vanished on 30 Aug 79 and was found dead on 8 Sept after a 9 day absence. Apologies for any confusion.
Jean was actually top-billed in Breathless; but when she and Belmondo renewed their screen partnership in 1964’s Backfire [Echappement Libre] he now a big European Continental star was billed above her [in the way that Al Leach upon achieving Greatness was billed in front of leading ladies who had previously out-billed HIM such as Katie Hepburn and Myrna Loy].
MAJOR stardom eluded Jean Seberg however. The launching pad for THAT was meant to be 1957’s Saint Joan but despite the presence of the classy Gielgud and Widmark then at his peak the film was a disastrous flop as witnessed by Bruce above crediting it with just a $19 million adjusted US gross and a poor 48% critical rating. Richard Burton had originally been announced for one of the male roles but I can’t remember which one.
Jean’s end was tragic. She financed black and general civil rights activities and was kept under scrutiny by Richard Nixon and J Edgar and was ultimately blacklisted and thus was not offered good parts. This led to her deteriorating health and she vanished for 9 days on 30 Aug 79 when aged just 40 she was found dead in the back seat of her Renault car. Her death was ruled suicide; but as in Monroe’s case there were “conspiracy theories” suggesting possible murder by her political enemies,
I have seen 7 of Jean’s movies: Airport/Paint your Wagon/The Joel that Roared/Pendulum/Breathless/A Find Madness/Saint Joan. “Voted Up!”