Want to know the best Jeff Chandler movies? How about the worst Jeff Chandler movies? Curious about Jeff Chandler box office grosses or which Jeff Chandler movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Jeff Chandler movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place.
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961) was an Oscar® nominated American actor. His IMDb page shows 52 acting credits from 1945-1962. In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks 42 of his movies in 6 different sortable columns. Television roles, shorts and uncredited roles were not included in the rankings. This page was requested by Bob and Dan a very long time ago. Sorry for the delay.
Jeff Chandler 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 Jeff Chandler movies by movie titles and trailers
- Sort Jeff Chandler movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Jeff Chandler movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Jeff Chandler movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Jeff Chandler movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Jeff Chandler movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Jeff Chandler movie won.
- Sort Jeff Chandler 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.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Jeff Chandler Table
- Five Jeff Chandler movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 11.90% of his movies listed. Broken Arrow (1950) was his biggest box office hit.
- An average Jeff Chandler movie grossed $63.00 million in adjusted domestic box office gross.
- That translates to a career adjusted box office of $2.64 billion.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 25 Jeff Chandler movies are rated as good movies…or 59.52% of his movies. Man in the Shadow (1957) is his highest rated movie while War Arrow (1953) is his lowest rated movie.
- One Jeff Chandler movie received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 2.38% of his movies. Zero Jeff Chandler movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 0.00% of his movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 18 Jeff Chandler movies scored higher that average….or 42.85% of his movies. Broken Arrow (1950) got the the highest UMR Score while A Story of David:The Hunted (1960) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting About Jeff Chandler
1. Ira Grossel was born and in New York City, New York in 1918.
2. After serving in World War II, Jeff Chandler began his entertainment career in radio.
3. How did Ira Grossel become Jeff Chandler? He got “Chandler” from the 1946 Van Johnson and Esther Williams movie… Easy to Wed. Fellow actor Gerald Mohr suggested “Jeff.”
4. Jeff Chandler possessed a fine singing voice, at the height of his film fame, he recorded several successful albums for Liberty Records.
5. The Jonny Quest character “Race Bannon” was modeled on Jeff Chandler.
6. Jeff Chandler never appeared in a movie nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®.
7. Jeff Chandler was married one time and had two children.
8. Jeff Chandler’s Yearly Box Office Rankings: 22nd in 1952, 18th in 1953, 16th in 1954, 20th in 1955, 18th in 1956 and 22nd in 1957.
9. While working on Merrill’s Marauders, Chandler injured his back while playing baseball with U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers who served as extras in the film. He had injections to deaden the pain and enable him to finish the production. Later he entered a hospital and had surgery for a spinal disc herniation. There were severe complications; an artery was damaged and Chandler hemorrhaged. A seven-and-a-half-hour emergency operation over-and-above the original surgery, he was given 55 pints of blood. A third operation followed, where he received an additional 20 pints of blood. He died on June 17, 1961. The cause was a blood infection complicated by pneumonia.
10. Check out Jeff Chandler’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Jeff Chandler, is the # 47 most connectible actor of the 1950’s.
The 3.14pm post partially clarifies matters for which I am grateful but I am still confused because
(1) IMDB lists Son of Ali Baba as uncredited as does Wikipedia which gives Jeff NO credit at all for 6 Bridges to Cross – though as said YOURS TRULY is not complaining about their inclusion in Cogerson grosses.
(2) In the stats summary below Cameron’s table it is stated that Something about Mary is her highest grossing movie because the voice role movies are being ignored.
Chandler did the narrations for the 2 Curtis movies as a favour to his friend Tony, who later was a pallbearer at Jeff’s sad funeral. Although Tony and Jeff were Universal’s biggest contract actors along with Rock, Chandler and Curtis were in the end “ships that passed in the night” as regards teaming up for actual appearances together in movies, though the latter almost happened when they were both originally scheduled for Operation Petticoat.
However as we know ultimately Jeff fell away and Cary Grant got the role. Surprisingly though [to me at any rate] Hope was offered the part after Chandler but before Cary and Bob later conceded that it was one the biggest mistakes of his career to turn down the Grant role in what I think was Universal’s highest grossing film up to that time, at least in actual dollars.
However Hope was in serious decline when Operation Petticoat was released and Jeff was nowhere near the box office star that Grant was and Cary was going through a second golden period at the box office so in the end I think Universal was lucky that they did cast him albeit as 3rd choice.
Regarding my suggestion that Operation Petticoat was Universal’s all-time highest grossing film in actual dollars when it was released in 1959, I have checked actual and adjusted domestic grosses for the period 1945 -1959 and no other Universal film in that period touched Operation Petticoat in terms of actual or even adjusted grosses and indeed only a relatively few films from ANY company did and they were the “biggies” like Ben Hur, The Commandments and South Pacific.
The around $26 million actual dollars that was Petticoat’s domestic take was a massive sum for 1959 and Grant had a % which apparently earned him $3 million dollars back then [about 25 million today], his highest financial reward from any film up until then.
The argument has always been whether it was Golden Holden for Kwai, Mr Mumbles for Fugitive Kind or Liz for Cleo who was the first star to be paid an actual million dollars for a movie. However if Wikipedia is accurate about Cary’s Petticoat booty Grant is not just a contender for the accolade but possibly
a multiple one. Cary also narrated the film so maybe he should get double credit for it in his Cogerson grosses table!
Hey Bob Roy….according to Variety…Operation Petticoat was the 28th biggest hit of the entire 1950s decade. Variety bends their decades in years ending in “0”…so that list shows movies from 1951 to 1960. The Top 3 Universal Movies are Spartacus (1960), Operation Petticoat (1959) and Pillow Talk (1959). It would be fitting that Cary got the biggest salary for his biggest box office movie. The biggest paydays I have heard about were Nicholson’s for Batman, Willis’ for The Sixth Sense and Adam Sandler for The Longest Yard (close to 80 million for the Sandman for that one)….good feedback as always.
Thanks for the additional information about Operation Petticoat’s box office status. Another intriguing factor is that Operation Petticoat was made by Cary’s own production company so he would have had a good say in what he paid himself.
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Cary Grant (born Archibald Alexander Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English-born American film and stage actor. …. In the mid-1950s, Grant formed his own production company, Granart Productions, and produced a number of films distributed by Universal, such as Operation Petticoat (1959)
If only “Gimme More” had formed her own production company think of the colossal fees that might have been paid out to the lead actress in some of its films!
Hey Bob……in some of the Grant books I have read…..Granart Productions caused Cary lots of stress. In Leslie Caron’s autobiography she gives a behind the scenes look at the filming of Father Goose……in her book she describes a very stressed out Cary……making statements like….”This film is going to bankrupt me.” That line of thinking in many ways reminds me of my dad.
I imagine the production offices of Gimme More are pretty small these days…….but in their glory days it was a hopping place for sure. Good stuff as always.
I am responding to this Jeff Chandler page as I initially requested it and I am pleased that George 5th was able to ID that Chandler “Indie” role as the one in Yankee Pasha.
When John McEnroe was in his heyday as a tennis player he was notorious for flaming rows with tennis officials over bad line calls. Once when he was playing Jimmy Connors [whose name Bjorn Borg pronounced as “Jeemy”] McEnroe got involved in a 10 minute ruckus over a “wrong” call whilst poor Connors could only sit impatiently as an onlooker. Later Connors started to complain about a poor call but then thought better of it and instead shouted across the net at MeEnroe “You see, it all evens out!”
Jeff is given credit on the table above for what is actually narration participation only in Six Bridges to Cross and Son of Ali Baba both starring Tony Curtis. Unfortunately there has been inconsistency on many sites in recognizing voice-only contributions. For example on Cogerson Mel Gibson is given credit for Pocahontas and Chicken Run and Bruce Willis’ for Over the Hedge, Beavis and Butt Head and the 2 “Mikey” films. Conversely on Cogerson Cameron Diaz is denied grosses credit for her voice-only lead female roles in the massive Shrek franchise. “I am choosing to ignore those voice role movies,” are Bruce’s own words. The site also chooses to ignore posthumous contributions no matter how important
Nevertheless despite these inconsistencies I would normally argue that even my Jeff should not be given grosses credit for the two Curtis films concerned. However I am not going to debate that point as it’s good to for once see one of my guys being cut some slack on this site! I do not know how interested in movies “Jeemy” is but if he is a cinemagoer he might be pleased to see that in movie matters too there are occasions when it “all evens out”!
Hey Bob. George was very happy to have the name of the movie for that movie memory. Finding it to watch it might be another story. Interesting story about McEnroe and the bad calls…I imagine you are going to be very interested in the new McEnroe movie that is coming out.
Generally if IMDb lists the credit as narration…..the movie is included in the rankings. In Chandler’s case…not all of his narrations made the table as his uncredited narrations in Double Crossbones did not make it….but the credited narrations did.
As for Cameron Diaz….pretty sure she has always gotten credit for her voice roles in Shrek…..before the site went dynamic numerous performers (Williams, Murphy, Hanks, Diaz) got a seperate table with just their voice roles. Since going dynamic those voice roles were put into the main file (mainly because having two types of tables caused some behind the scenes problems)….the attached Diaz page shows Shrek in the first, second, seventh and ninth spots when looking at the UMR scores. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/cameron-diaz-movies/
I agree in the end it all evens out. Good stuff as always.
I hope the information I provided is useful to King George the 5th as I don’t like to disappoint anyone who has made a request for information that I might possibly be able to help with.
Two other outside chances are Yankee Buccaneer and Thunder in the Sun. The heroes that Jeff played in them would not in my opinion bear comparison with Indie but I suppose that there is a bit of the Jones DNA in EVERY hero and King G’s memory could be recalling certain similarities between Indie and one of those Jeff characters, though the Thunder in the Sun one was a druink and a womaniser.
One prominent Chandler movie has actually been left out of the above table, the 1952 Red Ball Express co-starring Poitier, which is on Sidney’s Cogerson page with a $68 million adjusted gross and Jeff duly given credit for it there in the co-star column. However it is a war film and unlikely to be the one that King George is thinking about
Hey Bob Roy……thanks for the information on Yankee Pasha. George is convinced that is the movie and is now actively looking to find that movie so he can re-watch. Your Jeff Chandler knowledge is very very impressive.
As for Red Ball Express…..it is now on the page…..as well fixing all the stats that go with fixing an error. Currently updating the entire database……when it gets through you will find Red Ball Express in 38th place on the Chandler page….not sure how I missed that one….but thanks for letting me know of the error.
As for Jones DNA in EVERY HERO…..I think it might be the opposite way……every screen hero that George Lucas saw as a kid is in Jones DNA. Thanks again for helping up George.
Looks like the “Rank in Year” is zero for a bunch of his movies. What’s up with that?
Hey Bobby….my only guess is that I was updating the page as you uploaded the page….which will cause the rankings column to be 0. Currently the ranking are up….at least on my computer.
Looks like the problem is still there: https://i.imgur.com/heBAVpc.png
Hey Bobby….yeah I see that now….for some reason….movies just added to the database are not ranking when looking at the yearly totals……I have tried some things to fix it…..but it looks like I will have to see if WoC has time to fix it. Good catch.
Hey Bobby….now it is fixed….took all weekend…but we are up and running again.