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Jessica Tandy (1909-1994) was an Oscar® winning English-American actress. Tandy appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV, receiving such accolades as an Academy Award®, four Tony Awards®, a Golden Globe Award®, and a Primetime Emmy® Award. Her IMDb page shows 66 acting credits from 1932 to 1994. This page will rank Jessica Tandy movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. 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.
Jessica Tandy 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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| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actress Win |
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| 1963 | The Birds (1963) |  |
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| 1944 | The Seventh Cross (1944) | |
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| 1985 | Cocoon (1985) | |
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| 1991 | Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) AA Best Supp Actress Nom |
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| 1945 | The Valley of Decision (1945) | |
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| 1946 | The Green Years (1946) | |
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| 1946 | Dragonwyck (1946) | |
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| 1947 | Forever Amber (1947) | |
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| 1994 | Nobody's Fool (1994) | |
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| 1951 | The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951) | |
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| 1982 | The World According to Garp (1982) |  |
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| 1958 | The Light in the Forest (1958) | |
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| 1950 | September Affair (1950) | |
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| 1982 | Best Friends (1982) | |
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| 1987 | *batteries not included (1987) |  |
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| 1948 | A Woman's Vengeance (1948) |  |
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| 1962 | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) |  |
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| 1984 | The Bostonians (1984) | |
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| 1974 | Butley (1974) | |
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| 1994 | Camilla (1994) | |
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| 1982 | Still of the Night (1982) | |
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| 1992 | Used People (1992) |  |
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| 1988 | Cocoon: The Return (1988) | |
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| 1988 | The House on Carroll Street (1988) | |
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| 1944 | Blonde Fever (1944) | |
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| 1981 | Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) |  |
Jessica Tandy 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.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Jessica Tandy movie received.
- Sort Jessica Tandy movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | 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 | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actress Win |
Morgan Freeman & Dan Aykroyd |
106.60 | 289.4 | 395.90 | 9 | 81 | 09 / 04 | 99.8 | |
| 2 | The Birds (1963) | Rod Taylor & Suzanne Pleshette |
14.50 | 182.3 | 182.30 | 16 | 88 | 01 / 00 | 98.0 | |
| 3 | The Seventh Cross (1944) | Spencer Tracy & Directed by Fred Zinnemann |
6.70 | 226.2 | 388.10 | 35 | 77 | 01 / 00 | 97.1 | |
| 2 | Cocoon (1985) | Don Ameche & Directed by Ron Howard |
76.10 | 231.1 | 259.10 | 6 | 73 | 02 / 02 | 96.8 | |
| 5 | Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) AA Best Supp Actress Nom |
Kathy Bates | 82.40 | 211.0 | 305.80 | 11 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.3 | |
| 4 | The Valley of Decision (1945) | Gregory Peck & Greer Garson |
12.70 | 402.1 | 713.00 | 5 | 73 | 02 / 00 | 96.2 | |
| 6 | The Green Years (1946) | Charles Coburn & Dean Stockwell |
11.40 | 351.5 | 351.50 | 11 | 70 | 02 / 00 | 95.6 | |
| 7 | Dragonwyck (1946) | Vincent Price & Walter Huston |
8.10 | 249.7 | 249.70 | 33 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 95.4 | |
| 9 | Forever Amber (1947) | Linda Darnell & George Sanders |
13.50 | 393.7 | 393.70 | 5 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 90.8 | |
| 10 | Nobody's Fool (1994) | Paul Newman & Bruce Willis |
39.50 | 104.3 | 174.30 | 35 | 84 | 02 / 00 | 90.6 | |
| 11 | The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951) | James Mason | 6.90 | 147.8 | 147.80 | 31 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 90.2 | |
| 12 | The World According to Garp (1982) | Robin Williams & Glenn Close |
29.70 | 108.9 | 108.90 | 24 | 74 | 02 / 00 | 87.7 | |
| 13 | The Light in the Forest (1958) | Carol Lynley | 5.70 | 102.7 | 102.70 | 44 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 81.3 | |
| 14 | September Affair (1950) | Joan Fontaine & Joseph Cotten |
4.10 | 91.4 | 91.40 | 77 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 80.7 | |
| 16 | Best Friends (1982) | Goldie Hawn & Burt Reynolds |
36.80 | 135.0 | 135.00 | 19 | 51 | 01 / 00 | 80.3 | |
| 15 | *batteries not included (1987) | Hume Cronyn | 32.90 | 90.8 | 179.50 | 35 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 79.7 | |
| 17 | A Woman's Vengeance (1948) | Charles Boyer & Ann Blyth |
1.20 | 32.0 | 32.00 | 167 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 59.5 | |
| 18 | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) | Paul Newman & Diane Baker |
2.70 | 39.0 | 39.00 | 88 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 46.8 | |
| 18 | The Bostonians (1984) | Christopher Reeve & Vanessa Redgrave |
1.00 | 3.2 | 3.20 | 155 | 65 | 02 / 00 | 45.2 | |
| 19 | Butley (1974) | Alan Bates | 0.20 | 0.9 | 0.90 | 148 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 44.7 | |
| 21 | Camilla (1994) | Bridget Fonda & Hume Cronyn |
0.30 | 0.7 | 0.70 | 216 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 41.7 | |
| 22 | Still of the Night (1982) | Roy Scheider & Meryl Streep |
6.00 | 21.9 | 21.90 | 85 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 41.6 | |
| 24 | Used People (1992) | Shirley MacLaine & Kathy Bates |
18.00 | 46.6 | 46.60 | 69 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 36.9 | |
| 25 | Cocoon: The Return (1988) | Don Ameche & Wilford Brimley |
18.90 | 49.6 | 49.60 | 53 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 36.0 | |
| 23 | The House on Carroll Street (1988) | Kelly McGillis & Jeff Daniels |
0.50 | 1.2 | 1.20 | 213 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 33.8 | |
| 26 | Blonde Fever (1944) | Gloria Grahame | 1.10 | 38.7 | 38.70 | 140 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 31.4 | |
| 27 | Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) | Teri Garr & Geraldine Page |
2.00 | 7.8 | 7.80 | 117 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 17.3 |
Best IMDb Trivia On Jessica Tandy
1. Jessica Alice Tandy was born in Hackney, London in 1909.
2. Jessica Tandy was only 18 when she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927. During the 1930s, she acted in many plays in London’s West End, playing roles such as Ophelia (opposite John Gielgud‘s legendary Hamlet) and Katherine (opposite Laurence Olivier‘s Henry V).
3. She and husband Hume Cronyn partnered on screen in 13 movies between 1944 and 1994, usually playing a couple: The Seventh Cross (1944), Blonde Fever (1944), The Green Years (1946), The Moon and Sixpence (1959), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), The World According to Garp (1982), Cocoon (1985), *batteries not included (1987), Foxfire (1987), Cocoon: The Return (1988), The Story Lady (1991), To Dance with the White Dog (1993) and Camilla (1994).
4. At age 80, Jessica Tandy was the oldest winner of a Best Actress Oscar® for her role as Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
5. Jessica Tandy is one of 17 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar®, Emmy® and Tony®); the others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Viola Davis and Glenda Jackson.
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I’ve seen 6 of the 27 films on the chart, favorites are – The Birds, Cocoon 1 & 2, Batteries Not Included and The Desert Fox. I’ve also seen Driving Miss Daisy.
Good to see Hitchcock at no.1 on the review chart.
Valley of Decision and Forever Amber were big hits in the US, sappy romances were popular back then, the type of thing Bob would line up to see instead of noisy movies like Sands of Iwo Jima. [wink- oh I couldn’t resist]
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up.
Oh I get it, it’s Oscar week. 😉
Hey Steve…thanks for checking out our Jessica Tandy page. Our list of Best Actress Oscar winners to do an UMR page is getting very small. After this one, only a handful left. Tally count….6 for you….and….counting…12 for me. As I have in the past…I recommend Noboby’s Fool. Tandy joins Willis, Newman, Griffith and Hoffman as members of that cast that have UMR pages. I figured you would like The Birds rating so high. Picking on Bob….shame shame….lol.
It’s been a long time .but both Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn were at one time on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood universe list. Alas they are long gone. These are the people on the current list Jessica has appeared with (yes she was in a Bruce Willis movie)..
23 VANESSA REDGRAVE The Bostonians (1984)
33 MORGAN FREEMAN Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
44 JAMES MASON The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
66 BRUCE WILLIS Nobody’s Fool (1994)
73 BURT REYNOLDS Best Friends (1982)
94 PAUL NEWMAN Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
94 PAUL NEWMAN Nobody’s Fool (1994)
100 ELI WALLACH Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
112 SHIRLEY MACLAINE Used People (1992)
119 DEAN STOCKWELL The Green Years (1946)
119 DEAN STOCKWELL The Valley of Decision (1945)
145 DAN AYKROYD Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
154 KATHY BATES Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
154 KATHY BATES Used People (1992)
169 CLINT HOWARD Cocoon (1985)
204 ELIAS KOTEAS Camilla (1994)
227 KEENAN WYNN Best Friends (1982)
233 MARCELLO MASTROIANNI Used People (1992)
237 MERYL STREEP Still of the Night (1982)
242 AVA GARDNER Blonde Fever (1944)
262 WALLACE SHAWN The Bostonians (1984)
267 ROBIN WILLIAMS The World According to Garp (1982)
287 GLENN CLOSE The World According to Garp (1982)
294 MELANIE GRIFFITH Nobody’s Fool (1994)
301 JOE PANTOLIANO Used People (1992)
302 GREGORY PECK The Valley of Decision (1945)
305 JOSEPH COTTEN September Affair (1950)
321 GEORGE SANDERS Forever Amber (1947)
361 JOHN LITHGOW The World According to Garp (1982)
363 PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Nobody’s Fool (1994)
372 BEAU BRIDGES Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
375 TERI GARR Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
377 JEFF DANIELS The House on Carroll Street (1988)
382 ROBERT DOWNEY JR. A Century of Cinema (1994)
388 MARCIA GAY HARDEN Used People (1992)
392 BRIAN DENNEHY Cocoon (1985)
392 BRIAN DENNEHY Cocoon: The Return (1988)
413 RANCE HOWARD Cocoon (1985)
426 LUIS GUZMAN *batteries not included (1987)
434 ROY SCHEIDER Still of the Night (1982)
461 DIANE BAKER Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
469 VINCENT PRICE Dragonwyck (1946)
484 BEVERLY D’ANGELO Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
496 ARTHUR KENNEDY Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
498 MAURY CHAYKIN Camilla (1994)
504 WILFRID HYDE-WHITE Murder in the Family (1938)
538 AMANDA PLUMMER The World According to Garp (1982)
544 MICHAEL BYRNE BUTLEY (1974)
550 JAMES REBHORN The House on Carroll Street (1988)
569 RICHARD RIEHLE Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
616 SUSAN STRASBERG Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
625 ROD TAYLOR The Birds (1963)
714 MICHAEL J. POLLARD Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
749 ALAN BATES Butley (1974)
758 GRACE ZABRISKIE Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
773 PRUITT TAYLOR VANCE Nobody’s Fool (1994)
798 LOIS SMITH Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
835 BRIDGET FONDA Camilla (1994)
836 JOSEF SOMMER Nobody’s Fool (1994)
836 JOSEF SOMMER Still of the Night (1982)
884 WILFORD BRIMLEY COCOON (1985)
884 WILFORD BRIMLEY COCOON: THE RETURN (1988)
930 DANIEL STERN Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
949 DORIS ROBERTS USED PEOPLE (1992)
968 STEVE GUTTENBERG Cocoon (1985)
968 STEVE GUTTENBERG Cocoon: The Return (1988)
986 KENNETH WELSH The House on Carroll Street (1988)
1000 MANDY PATINKIN The House on Carroll Street (1988)
HM (806) CHARLES BOYER A Woman’s Vengeance (1948)
Jessica appeared with 27 Oscar winners in films.
CHARLES COBURN The Green Years (1946)
DON AMECHE Cocoon (1985)
DON AMECHE Cocoon: The Return (1988)
DONALD CRISP THE VALLEY OF DECISION (1945)
GEORGE BURNS A Century of Cinema (1994)
GEORGE SANDERS Forever Amber (1947)
GERALDINE PAGE Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
GLORIA GRAHAME Blonde Fever (1944)
GOLDIE HAWN Best Friends (1982)
GREER GARSON The Valley of Decision (1945)
GREGORY PECK The Valley of Decision (1945)
JAMES DUNN Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
JOAN FONTAINE September Affair (1950)
KATHY BATES Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
KATHY BATES Used People (1992)
LIONEL BARRYMORE The Valley of Decision (1945)
LIZA MINNELLI A Century of Cinema (1994)
MARCIA GAY HARDEN Used People (1992)
MARY ASTOR Blonde Fever (1944)
MAUREEN STAPLETON Cocoon (1985)
MAUREEN STAPLETON Cocoon: The Return (1988)
MERYL STREEP Still of the Night (1982)
MORGAN FREEMAN Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
PAUL NEWMAN Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
PAUL NEWMAN Nobody’s Fool (1994)
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Nobody’s Fool (1994)
ROBIN WILLIAMS The World According to Garp (1982)
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Used People (1992)
SPENCER TRACY The Seventh Cross (1944)
VANESSA REDGRAVE The Bostonians (1984)
WALTER HUSTON Dragonwyck (1946)
Hey Dan. Good to know that the screen and real life team of Jessica and Hume had spots on the Oracle list. Her Bruce Willis movies is actually one of my favorite Willis movies…the back and forth between Newman and Willis is fun to watch. Looking at the first list…no three peaters…but lots of two timers. I never connected the Newman dots…I wonder if they had scenes together in the Hemingway movie…and Nobody’s Fool was their reunion? For the limited amount of movies she made….27 Oscar winning co-stars is actually pretty impressive. Good stuff as always.
Vaguely remember her, so I enjoyed reading the trivia on her. I have seen Cocoon, just not recently enough to what character she played.
Hey Taylor. Thanks for sharing your thoughts or vague memories…..lol. I have not seen Cocoon in a very long time….I need to re-watch that one.
1/As the Work Horse has saved some of the “good wine to the last” by profiling one of Marlon Brando’s leading ladies from the 1940s stage, what can we expect next: a new page on JOCELYN Brando?
2/However “sufficient unto the day” and on Jessica’s new page The Work Horse praises her multi-medium involvement with the big screen, the small screen and the stage. Wikipedia in fact lists her US stage credits in full and there are 40 of them.
3/Indeed it has been suggested that despite winning a Tony for her stage performance as Blanche in Streetcar, Jessica wasn’t given the part in the 1951 movie because she was not “box office” on the big screen; and that her disappointment induced her to concentrate subsequently largely on stage work. [In fact she was the only one of the principals in the play’s 1947-49 Broadway run of 855 performances to be left out of the film, Brando, Malden and Kim Hunter all being signed up for the movie.]
4/Wikipedia describes her post 40s film career as sporadic and Bruce’s tables seem to bear out that tag as they list just 6 movies that she appeared in in the 30 year period from 1950-1980. However-
“I also had my hour,
One far-fierce hour and sweet
When there were shouts above my ears,
And palms before my feet”
G K Chesterton’s reference to the much derided donkey being allowed to carry Christ into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday; and Jessica too had her ‘Indian Summer’ when as the Work Horse records above with his usual precision and clarity, she became the oldest Best Actress Oscar winner for Driving Miss Myrnie.
5/IMDB credits Jessica with 12 acting awards and 16 noms away from the stage. Celebrity Net Worth says that her net worth at her death in 1994 was $20 million at 2019 prices. So she was, I am pleased to say, comfortably off in her old age.
6/Regarding the latter, I saw recently an internet photo of a private social reunion between Jessica and Marlon taken shortly before her death and gone were the sexy Blanche and vibrant, thuggish Stanley of the 1940s stage; all that was left were two elderly people smiling, with seeming affection, at each other. Ah! “The Spoils of Time” that English author Sir Philip Gibbs used to write about.
Hey Bob…sorry to have to tell you…but a Jocelyn Brando page is aways from being done. I did see her very recently….as I finally watched The Chase….what a cast…what a dull movie. Good thoughts on Jessica Tandy. I bet that is an awesome photo of Brando and Tandy. I did not realize that Tandy was in the play A Streetcar Named Desire….good trivia….it is in my brain forever now. Good stuff.
Jessica Tandy at last. 🙂 Mrs. Hume Cronyn.
I have seen 9 of her films, all in the top 11.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Driving Miss Daisy.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is The Seventh Cross.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel.
Favourite Jessica Tandy Movies:
The Birds
The Desert Fox
Driving Miss Daisy
Cocoon
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Valley of Decision
Other Jessica Tandy Movies I Have Seen:
The Green Years
Dragonwyck
Forever Amber
Hey Flora….Tally count…12 for me, 11 for you and 6 for Steve. Looks like you have seen all of the best of Jessica Tandy. I have not seen The Seventh Cross either. It is one of the quieter Spencer Tracy movies…..I never hear or read anything about that movie….I want to eventually check that one out. Of your favorites…I have seen them all. I notice Nobody’s Fool is not on your list of movies watched…I suspect you would really enjoy that one….it is a nice drama comedy with solid performance across the board. Good stuff as always.