Top Movie Stars of the 1960s

Who were the Top Movie Stars of the 1960s statistically?  This page will attempt to answer that question.  Our main source of information was our Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) pages that covered movie stars that made movies in the 1960s. So far we have box office grosses on 1,644 movies made between 1960 and 1969.  Granted this is far from all the movies made during that time frame….but it does cover most of the major movie releases in that decade.

We have included four lists of information.  List one looks at the Top 15 stars by adjusted domestic box office (the Top Star might surprise you).  List two looks at the Top 15 stars by highest average rating per movie according to critics and audiences.   List three looks at the Top 15 Stars by highest average UMR score per movie.  List four shows our entire table of all the stars we looked at while complying these lists.

Top 15 Adjusted Domestic Box Office Leaders 1960 – 1969

    1. 1st John Wayne $3,182,500,000
  2.  2nd Julie Andrews $2,973,600,000
  3. 3rd Paul Newman $2,788,000,00
  4. 4th Sean Connery $2,665,000,000
  5. 5th Richard Burton $2,656,000,000
  6. 6th Omar Sharif  $2,441,600,000
  7. 7th Roddy McDowall $2,222,000,000
  8. 8th Dean Martin $2,212,800,000
  9. 9th Tony Curtis $2,071,000,000
  10. 10th Jack Lemmon $2,044,900,000
  11. 11th Rod Steiger $1,994,300,000
  12. 12th Henry Fonda $1,992,600,000
  13. 13th George Kennedy $1,980,300,000
  14. 14th Rod Taylor $1,920,600,000
  15. 15th Alec Guinness $1,902,000,000

Top 15 Average Critic/Audience Rating Leaders 1960 – 1969 (minimum 8 movies)

    1. Laurence Olivier  75.6 % critic and audience voting
      Burt Lancaster  75.1 % critic and audience voting
      Steve McQueen  74.9 % critic and audience voting
      Peter O’Toole  74.3 % critic and audience voting
      Jean Simmons 74.7% critic and audience voting
      Sean Connery  73.2 % critic and audience voting
      Lee Marvin  72.6 % critic and audience voting
      Julie Christie 72.6% critic and audience voting
      Jack Lemmon  71.3 % critic and audience voting
      Alec Guinness  71.3 % critic and audience voting
      Gregory Peck  70.9 % critic and audience voting
      Michael Caine  70.3 % critic and audience voting
      Anthony Quinn  69.9 % critic and audience voting
      Henry Fonda 69.6% critic and audience voting
      Audrey Hepburn 79.9% critic and audience voting

Top 15 Average UMR Score (Box Office, Reviews, Awards) Per Movie 1960-1969 (minimum 8 movies)

    1. Peter O’Toole
      Audrey Hepburn
      Jack Lemmon
  2.  John Wayne
  3.  Lee Marvin
  4. Natalie Wood
  5. Sean Connery
  6. Omar Sharif
  7. Steve McQueen
  8. Gregory Peck
  9. Richard Harris
  10. Paul Newman
  11. Hayley Mills
  12. Burt Lancaster
  13. Sidney Poitier

Top Movie Stars 1960-1969 Main Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort by actor or actress
  • Sort by movies made between 1960 and 1969
  • Sort by total adjusted domestic box office from 1960 to 1969
  • Sort by total adjusted worldwide box office from 1960 to 1969
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each performers’ movies earned
  • Sort by highest average UMR Score (best combo of box office, reviews & awards)
Box Office RankThespianMoviesAdj. Domestic B.O.Adj Worldwide B.O.AVG Review %Oscar Noms / WinsAVG UMR Score
John Wayne19$3,182,500,000$4,533,600,00067.1 %025 / 0774.30
Julie Andrews7$2,973,600,000$4,874,900,00074.5 %046 / 1187.37
Paul Newman20$2,788,000,000$3,090,300,00067.3 %042 / 1271.15
Sean Connery13$2,665,000,000$5,787,100,00073.2 %006 / 0369.98
Richard Burton20$2,656,000,000$3,110,200,00063.0 %059 / 1668.65
Omar Sharif14$2,441,600,000$3,363,400,00068.3 %029 / 1365.44
Roddy McDowall20$2,222,000,000$2,770,600,00060.5 %025 / 0660.32
Dean Martin24$2,212,800,000$2,610,700,00056.9 %006 / 0061.24
Tony Curtis19$2,071,000,000$2,071,000,00068.9 %015 / 0567.02
Jack Lemmon13$2,044,900,000$2,072,100,00071.3 %029 / 0977.07
Rod Steiger11$1,994,300,000$2,906,300,00068.7 %024 / 1268.75
Henry Fonda18$1,992,600,000$2,616,900,00069.6 %015 / 0566.64
George Kennedy23$1,980,300,000$1,980,200,00069.5 %023 / 0265.05
Rod Taylor18$1,920,600,000$2,423,000,00065.7 %005 / 0260.91
Alec Guinness10$1,902,000,000$2,813,600,00071.3 %023 / 1265.56
Doris Day14$1,892,800,000$2,016,900,00064.2 %006 / 0069.40
Natalie Wood12$1,888,800,000$1,939,700,00068.6 %033 / 1273.83
Peter O'Toole14$1,839,600,000$2,006,200,00070.3 %034 / 1172.05
Karl Malden19$1,833,500,000$2,660,000,00066.8 %018 / 0364.84
Katharine Ross8$1,829,600,000$2,652,100,00067.8 %016 / 0569.45
Elvis Presley27$1,814,400,000$1,814,600,00055.9 %000 / 0056.71
Sidney Poitier16$1,784,000,000$1,859,200,00069.5 %036 / 0969.24
Walter Matthau16$1,782,400,000$1,796,900,00069.5 %015 / 0569.18
Frank Sinatra18$1,780,200,000$2,061,600,00062.0 %008 / 0064.27
Dick Van Dyke11$1,771,000,000$2,679,500,00063.1 %019 / 0567.85
Gregory Peck12$1,758,000,000$2,365,300,00070.9 %029 / 0871.44
Richard Harris12$1,744,800,000$1,744,500,00069.3 %029 / 0468.81
Steve McQueen14$1,703,800,000$2,081,200,00074.9 %021 / 0271.84
Elizabeth Taylor11$1,691,800,000$2,266,300,00053.8 %028 / 1265.25
Anthony Quinn20$1,676,000,000$1,754,300,00069.9 %029 / 1162.61
Eleanor Parker8$1,676,000,000$2,842,000,00060.8 %012 / 0560.62
Rex Harrison10$1,675,000,000$2,137,700,00061.5 %036 / 1467.60
Peter Lawford14$1,643,600,000$1,727,200,00059.3 %017 / 0363.40
Ralph Richardson13$1,639,300,000$2,554,800,00072.2 %015 / 0661.78
Robert Ryan14$1,632,400,000$1,632,600,00068.8 %015 / 0366.38
Robert Mitchum21$1,608,600,000$1,781,700,00063.5 %014 / 0260.33
Telly Savalas19$1,601,700,000$2,091,700,00066.0 %015 / 0162.59
David Niven15$1,593,000,000$1,916,800,00059.2 %011 / 0162.12
Spencer Tracy6$1,588,200,000$2,224,600,00075.2 %039 / 0885.46
Lee Marvin12$1,575,600,000$1,773,400,00072.6 %022 / 0473.89
James Garner19$1,569,400,000$1,587,900,00069.0 %011 / 0365.37
Eli Wallach18$1,564,200,000$2,680,700,00066.4 %011 / 0362.42
Charlton Heston13$1,539,200,000$1,614,000,00068.8 %019 / 0067.22
Christopher Plummer10$1,537,000,000$2,638,500,00064.3 %014 / 0557.82
George Peppard15$1,521,000,000$2,212,500,00066.1 %014 / 0563.08
Martin Balsam15$1,482,000,000$1,719,200,00074.9 %015 / 0366.64
Debbie Reynolds12$1,477,200,000$2,142,200,00066.1 %023 / 0368.70
John Gavin10$1,437,000,000$1,674,100,00072.7 %019 / 0568.54
Jack Albertson15$1,432,500,000$1,460,700,00065.6 %009 / 0264.49
Peter Sellers24$1,428,000,000$1,570,600,00066.8 %008 / 0060.45
Audrey Hepburn9$1,422,000,000$1,421,600,00079.9 %025 / 1078.40
Hayley Mills12$1,419,600,000$1,419,300,00071.8 %003 / 0068.42
Kirk Douglas19$1,417,400,000$1,598,000,00068.1 %012 / 0461.89
Brian Keith18$1,414,800,000$1,414,100,00059.9 %011 / 0059.29
James Stewart13$1,404,000,000$2,262,000,00064.4 %013 / 0365.36
Julie Christie9$1,384,200,000$2,296,700,00072.6 %016 / 0863.61
William Demarest6$1,369,800,000$1,428,100,00069.4 %013 / 0178.09
Rock Hudson15$1,368,000,000$1,367,700,00064.5 %006 / 0062.68
Shirley MacLaine15$1,363,500,000$1,478,900,00062.2 %031 / 0664.91
George Sanders11$1,362,900,000$1,430,100,00063.6 %002 / 0061.25
Edmond O'Brien15$1,345,500,000$1,503,600,00071.6 %020 / 0466.29
Charles Bronson17$1,343,000,000$1,887,400,00065.6 %007 / 0260.71
Fred MacMurray7$1,337,700,000$1,377,500,00066.3 %017 / 0576.49
Lee J. Cobb8$1,337,600,000$2,031,300,00068.2 %012 / 0472.57
Arthur Kennedy17$1,336,200,000$1,467,800,00065.1 %022 / 1261.19
James Coburn18$1,312,200,000$1,689,100,00069.5 %005 / 0063.42
Laurence Harvey21$1,262,100,000$1,683,200,00061.5 %021 / 0657.61
Jerry Lewis17$1,252,900,000$1,252,500,00061.0 %001 / 0060.18
Dustin Hoffman5$1,244,000,000$1,921,600,00062.8 %014 / 0468.29
Robert Duvall8$1,237,600,000$1,237,300,00074.8 %015 / 0573.93
Elsa Lanchester8$1,235,200,000$2,038,500,00061.2 %013 / 0562.13
Carroll Baker11$1,234,200,000$2,048,100,00061.5 %014 / 0361.46
Richard Widmark13$1,231,100,000$2,270,100,00065.4 %027 / 0663.09
Burt Lancaster16$1,230,400,000$1,393,000,00075.1 %027 / 0569.17
Jane Fonda17$1,220,600,000$1,240,800,00064.1 %017 / 0262.05
Dean Jones9$1,210,500,000$1,210,100,00066.6 %000 / 0068.38
Peter Falk15$1,189,500,000$1,268,900,00060.5 %017 / 0258.43
Janet Leigh11$1,174,800,000$1,522,100,00068.6 %016 / 0065.24
Dennis Hopper11$1,159,400,000$1,176,700,00072.2 %008 / 0265.64
Sophia Loren16$1,123,200,000$1,123,000,00062.4 %008 / 0159.25
George Segal15$1,110,000,000$1,187,900,00064.8 %028 / 0961.63
Trevor Howard16$1,100,800,000$1,100,500,00065.8 %020 / 0260.53
Marlon Brando13$1,099,800,000$1,099,700,00065.2 %010 / 0062.59
Thelma Ritter10$1,096,000,000$1,747,400,00070.4 %014 / 0367.80
Robert Redford9$1,085,400,000$1,229,800,00067.8 %011 / 0463.54
José Ferrer7$1,075,900,000$1,150,900,00067.5 %023 / 0970.59
Red Buttons10$1,069,000,000$1,069,000,00064.5 %015 / 0364.12
Shelley Winters14$1,069,600,000$1,120,700,00066.8 %015 / 0164.54
Vera Miles13$1,058,200,000$1,415,800,00066.2 %006 / 0060.15
Bruce Dern15$1,051,500,000$1,138,500,00068.8 %016 / 0163.67
Jeffrey Hunter21$1,043,700,000$1,059,700,00058.9 %005 / 0253.46
Sal Mineo8$1,026,400,000$1,232,600,00058.8 %015 / 0363.73
Michael J. Pollard9$1,024,200,000$1,024,000,00067.9 %015 / 0266.99
Frankie Avalon22$996,600,000$1,296,900,00049.7 %007 / 0149.36
Eva Marie Saint7$994,000,000$994,300,00063.7 %011 / 0571.29
Deborah Kerr12$991,200,000$1,176,100,00063.0 %011 / 0163.25
Ann-Margret13$986,700,000$986,900,00061.0 %006 / 0060.19
Robert Wagner11$981,200,000$1,065,600,00061.4 %007 / 0260.78
Peter Ustinov11$979,000,000$979,200,00067.3 %014 / 0564.35
Gene Hackman11$979,000,000$979,100,00064.4 %021 / 0360.08
Don Knotts9$969,300,000$969,600,00067.4 %006 / 0163.70
Robert Morley23$961,400,000$1,011,400,00060.9 %003 / 0154.19
Edward G. Robinson12$937,200,000$1,179,100,00061.6 %010 / 0061.07
Anne Bancroft5$935,500,000$1,613,000,00078.0 %015 / 0373.28
Clint Eastwood7$935,200,000$935,400,00077.2 %001 / 0075.94
Dorothy McGuire5$932,500,000$1,007,200,00069.4 %006 / 0072.18
James Mason20$932,000,000$931,100,00061.1 %007 / 0056.34
William Holden11$928,400,000$1,071,000,00059.8 %003 / 0060.79
Martin Landau4$923,200,000$1,451,900,00057.8 %014 / 0469.82
Ernest Borgnine12$920,400,000$920,400,00066.0 %012 / 0160.74
Jean Simmons9$904,500,000$904,700,00073.7 %014 / 0768.30
Cliff Robertson15$903,000,000$938,400,00064.4 %002 / 0160.49
Yvette Mimieux16$900,800,000$1,050,300,00059.0 %006 / 0256.56
Harry Morgan10$890,000,000$1,620,800,00062.4 %014 / 0360.81
Ray Walston9$882,000,000$882,400,00060.6 %012 / 0563.65
Shirley Jones9$872,100,000$930,200,00066.7 %020 / 0467.34
Agnes Moorehead8$865,600,000$1,472,700,00065.0 %016 / 0364.80
John Cassavetes10$865,000,000$864,700,00075.4 %009 / 0264.06
Maureen O'Hara7$863,800,000$864,000,00068.8 %002 / 0068.16
George Cukor5$859,500,000$859,500,00058.8 %013 / 0867.96
Tony Randall12$858,000,000$887,800,00063.0 %003 / 0058.54
Angie Dickinson16$856,000,000$899,800,00061.1 %003 / 0056.03
Cary Grant5$855,500,000$855,700,00076.5 %007 / 0181.14
Lee Grant9$846,900,000$847,000,00060.9 %013 / 0662.11
George C. Scott8$829,600,000$838,600,00075.6 %014 / 0270.08
Mickey Rooney12$826,800,000$831,900,00055.3 %011 / 0352.82
Carol Lynley13$819,000,000$818,700,00060.7 %008 / 0057.94
Charles Boyer10$815,000,000$1,173,500,00062.7 %009 / 0063.62
Annette Funicello13$804,700,000$805,300,00051.2 %002 / 0053.83
Jacqueline Bisset9$796,500,000$939,900,00061.7 %004 / 0158.93
Claude Rains4$789,200,000$864,000,00064.0 %017 / 0770.79
Peter Fonda8$779,200,000$778,800,00066.8 %002 / 0063.51
Robert Preston5$778,500,000$1,386,000,00068.6 %015 / 0469.30
Cloris Leachman2$763,800,000$908,600,00066.2 %007 / 0478.81
Burgess Meredith12$758,400,000$775,600,00062.5 %009 / 0059.46
Sandra Dee12$757,200,000$756,800,00063.3 %000 / 0059.07
Harry Dean Stanton8$746,400,000$1,383,900,00061.2 %012 / 0458.86
Walter Brennan5$734,500,000$1,341,900,00067.7 %008 / 0368.73
Faye Dunaway7$730,100,000$730,400,00059.5 %012 / 0360.11
Angela Lansbury12$720,000,000$795,000,00064.0 %009 / 0059.59
Warren Beatty8$716,800,000$752,400,00066.8 %013 / 0362.09
Orson Welles17$715,700,000$899,700,00062.1 %013 / 0756.25
Ava Gardner6$714,600,000$734,200,00065.1 %009 / 0167.00
Robert Shaw8$711,200,000$1,291,200,00070.8 %008 / 0665.66
Jack Benny3$708,000,000$708,000,00067.0 %006 / 0174.45
Robert Cummings6$704,400,000$809,800,00055.5 %003 / 0060.61
Susan Hayward8$703,200,000$703,000,00057.2 %003 / 0057.23
Jim Brown8$698,400,000$698,500,00061.4 %006 / 0159.37
Royal Dano11$691,900,000$816,600,00061.6 %003 / 0057.67
Richard Crenna7$686,700,000$690,300,00066.5 %019 / 0165.41
Ben Johnson10$681,000,000$812,300,00065.8 %004 / 0061.80
Yul Brynner19$680,200,000$1,057,500,00058.2 %006 / 0052.59
Kim Novak9$679,500,000$738,100,00059.5 %007 / 0060.12
Joanne Woodward10$680,000,000$734,600,00060.3 %008 / 0060.56
Gene Kelly6$667,800,000$802,600,00069.5 %015 / 0369.82
John Saxon10$666,000,000$666,100,00060.7 %006 / 0059.07
Lee Remick12$662,400,000$689,800,00067.7 %005 / 0160.77
Bob Hope11$660,000,000$659,800,00053.2 %005 / 0154.74
Richard Attenborough12$656,400,000$687,500,00069.4 %021 / 0260.06
Glenn Ford18$655,200,000$877,100,00063.1 %009 / 0055.55
Barbra Streisand2$642,800,000$642,700,00079.6 %015 / 0499.48
Laurence Olivier10$642,000,000$674,900,00075.6 %014 / 0463.88
Gig Young8$636,800,000$637,000,00064.2 %012 / 0161.91
Katharine Hepburn4$632,400,000$632,400,00072.7 %018 / 0580.27
Vincent Price18$628,200,000$628,600,00062.7 %000 / 0054.80
Rita Moreno6$624,600,000$624,500,00067.5 %011 / 1062.40
Anthony Perkins8$618,400,000$856,100,00074.5 %005 / 0062.86
Mel Ferrer9$618,300,000$624,800,00062.8 %006 / 0258.03
Michael Caine13$613,600,000$613,700,00070.3 %008 / 0060.56
Vanessa Redgrave10$612,000,000$611,500,00071.9 %018 / 0964.69
Tuesday Weld12$609,600,000$609,900,00060.2 %001 / 0055.04
Louis Jourdan5$607,000,000$607,100,00058.9 %006 / 0265.15
Walter Pidgeon6$604,800,000$604,600,00069.7 %008 / 0164.53
Dean Jagger9$594,900,000$728,800,00063.0 %006 / 0360.70
Alain Delon25$592,500,000$1,584,100,00067.7 %003 / 0055.00
Albert Finney7$589,400,000$589,100,00070.3 %012 / 0463.56
Elisha Cook Jr.10$589,000,000$594,700,00060.0 %004 / 0254.99
Scatman Crothers8$584,000,000$616,700,00056.8 %007 / 0357.42
George Raft6$573,000,000$715,900,00051.9 %001 / 0059.33
Ethel Merman2$571,200,000$571,100,00071.5 %006 / 0177.46
Max Von Sydow5$567,000,000$661,500,00057.7 %014 / 0163.09
Warren Oates13$560,300,000$560,500,00065.9 %011 / 0558.56
The Beatles8$554,400,000$554,500,00072.1 %003 / 0164.94
Jason Robards13$551,200,000$568,600,00070.1 %007 / 0159.59
Sylvia Miles4$545,600,000$608,800,00071.1 %007 / 0369.54
Ed Begley10$543,000,000$563,000,00061.4 %012 / 0157.77
Jack Nicholson8$540,800,000$554,800,00064.7 %002 / 0058.19
Sandy Dennis7$530,600,000$530,600,00072.8 %015 / 0667.60
Charles Laughton3$525,900,000$525,800,00083.0 %006 / 0476.22
Bette Davis8$523,200,000$603,200,00070.3 %016 / 0165.31
Rip Torn6$520,200,000$520,300,00069.5 %005 / 0164.01
Ralph Bellamy3$517,800,000$517,900,00082.9 %009 / 0181.73
Peter Finch17$513,400,000$545,500,00061.6 %004 / 0053.31
Joe E. Brown2$503,200,000$503,100,00074.3 %006 / 0173.49
Leo G. Carroll5$501,000,000$500,900,00067.5 %002 / 0062.31
Pat Boone9$500,400,000$575,700,00057.4 %005 / 0055.54
Dana Andrews13$497,900,000$497,500,00057.9 %001 / 0052.98
Lucille Ball4$492,400,000$492,200,00060.5 %005 / 0167.12
Donald Sutherland6$492,000,000$491,800,00069.6 %004 / 0160.87
Alan Ladd6$489,600,000$489,600,00054.9 %000 / 0054.53
Kurt Russell7$489,300,000$489,600,00058.5 %000 / 0058.63
Alan Bates12$482,400,000$482,100,00074.0 %018 / 0462.43
Gene Wilder2$479,600,000$479,600,00087.7 %012 / 0387.61
Oliver Reed14$473,200,000$473,100,00066.4 %015 / 0655.73
Raquel Welch14$473,200,000$472,700,00055.4 %006 / 0251.72
Mia Farrow5$468,000,000$498,600,00068.4 %002 / 0162.41
Paul Lukas6$465,600,000$552,300,00060.0 %002 / 0060.36
Rosalind Russell7$460,600,000$472,800,00067.1 %004 / 0062.22
Patricia Neal5$447,000,000$447,000,00075.6 %015 / 0673.57
Gina Lollobrigida7$446,600,000$446,300,00061.1 %000 / 0057.82
Leslie Caron8$444,800,000$610,700,00066.5 %011 / 0160.92
Lee Van Cleef4$443,200,000$563,000,00086.3 %001 / 0075.93
Alan Arkin7$442,400,000$442,400,00068.2 %007 / 0062.43
Jean-Paul Belmondo30$435,000,000$1,703,000,00066.8 %005 / 0153.55
Lew Ayres2$421,200,000$421,100,00070.5 %000 / 0074.03
Woody Allen3$420,300,000$563,500,00057.3 %002 / 0068.15
Myrna Loy3$419,700,000$419,800,00062.8 %001 / 0071.36
Jean Seberg15$417,000,000$553,100,00059.9 %001 / 0051.77
Ingrid Bergman4$416,400,000$425,400,00069.3 %002 / 0168.83
Troy Donahue9$410,400,000$473,400,00059.3 %000 / 0054.91
Ruth Gordon4$405,600,000$405,700,00073.1 %005 / 0169.20
Dirk Bogarde18$401,400,000$420,600,00067.2 %008 / 0455.19
Jon Voight3$397,200,000$397,200,00074.7 %007 / 0368.86
Van Johnson5$393,000,000$405,200,00057.6 %002 / 0058.59
Greer Garson4$391,600,000$489,500,00063.8 %013 / 0067.55
Lana Turner7$389,200,000$389,000,00054.5 %000 / 0054.24
Bing Crosby4$387,600,000$466,400,00055.6 %003 / 0061.24
Don Rickles8$386,400,000$386,300,00053.5 %000 / 0052.47
Melvyn Douglas6$384,600,000$384,300,00068.8 %010 / 0364.83
Montgomery Clift5$379,000,000$423,000,00074.5 %013 / 0269.22
Peter Lorre8$376,800,000$377,100,00063.5 %000 / 0056.73
Van Heflin8$376,000,000$451,000,00056.6 %005 / 0053.69
Candice Bergen5$372,000,000$372,100,00064.9 %009 / 0059.99
Ron Howard4$364,800,000$364,600,00055.9 %006 / 0158.86
Mary Tyler Moore5$354,000,000$353,900,00056.4 %007 / 0155.46
Aldo Ray10$353,000,000$535,400,00054.5 %000 / 0051.64
Jack Palance5$350,000,000$366,900,00068.2 %003 / 0063.69
Wendy Hiller3$348,300,000$348,200,00069.8 %016 / 0774.94
Lillian Gish4$339,600,000$339,500,00060.4 %000 / 0061.53
Elliott Gould2$327,200,000$327,200,00063.5 %004 / 0073.02
Scott Wilson4$321,600,000$321,700,00070.3 %007 / 0568.17
Fred Astaire4$316,800,000$388,100,00061.6 %002 / 0062.07
Fredric March5$307,500,000$336,700,00078.9 %006 / 0067.29
Shirley Knight8$307,200,000$306,800,00069.1 %004 / 0159.18
Dyan Cannon3$306,300,000$306,400,00067.3 %005 / 0065.30
Herbert Marshall7$303,100,000$313,600,00057.1 %002 / 0053.15
Joseph Cotten7$294,700,000$314,200,00059.7 %009 / 0055.78
Geraldine Page8$294,400,000$333,900,00066.8 %007 / 0159.54
Brigitte Bardot13$292,500,000$484,000,00059.4 %001 / 0051.91
Maggie Smith8$289,600,000$289,400,00070.1 %009 / 0260.75
Charles Bickford4$288,400,000$333,800,00066.0 %005 / 0162.99
Boris Karloff9$288,000,000$288,200,00059.6 %000 / 0052.94
Jack Warden6$284,400,000$363,000,00063.3 %000 / 0057.13
Jane Russell4$282,000,000$281,900,00059.3 %001 / 0058.87
Joan Crawford6$281,400,000$336,100,00056.4 %006 / 0154.27
Mary Astor3$279,000,000$279,000,00065.7 %007 / 0066.22
John Gielgud9$278,100,000$278,100,00071.4 %014 / 0159.13
James Caan9$276,300,000$276,300,00056.3 %000 / 0051.30
Burl Ives7$273,700,000$287,700,00061.0 %000 / 0054.40
Terence Stamp8$272,000,000$304,800,00070.5 %005 / 0058.71
Edward Asner6$262,800,000$262,900,00061.0 %002 / 0055.23
Goldie Hawn2$262,000,000$261,900,00069.8 %001 / 0176.27
Donald Crisp4$258,000,000$258,100,00074.6 %000 / 0064.85
Marilyn Monroe2$254,000,000$297,900,00074.0 %001 / 0074.99
Lauren Bacall3$250,200,000$301,900,00068.0 %000 / 0064.89
Jane Wyman3$248,400,000$248,400,00061.0 %002 / 0061.77
Michael Redgrave10$246,000,000$245,500,00073.6 %002 / 0057.37
Jeff Chandler4$238,800,000$238,800,00062.8 %000 / 0058.73
Gena Rowlands6$237,000,000$237,000,00071.2 %003 / 0060.89
Art Carney2$233,800,000$243,000,00062.0 %000 / 0067.27
Audie Murphy8$232,000,000$231,900,00057.7 %000 / 0051.89
Tab Hunter5$231,500,000$231,600,00059.0 %000 / 0053.18
Joel Grey1$228,600,000$228,600,00074.5 %000 / 0086.00
Jayne Mansfield9$224,100,000$224,300,00052.6 %000 / 0048.57
Clark Gable2$223,800,000$267,700,00073.6 %001 / 0071.24
Joan Blondell7$222,600,000$222,500,00057.6 %000 / 0050.64
Paul Henreid5$222,000,000$333,600,00060.7 %000 / 0055.42
Judy Garland4$222,000,000$221,800,00076.8 %011 / 0268.13
Yvonne De Carlo6$220,800,000$221,000,00059.7 %000 / 0052.66
Christopher Lee17$221,000,000$220,900,00058.6 %000 / 0049.46
Claire Trevor4$219,200,000$271,200,00063.1 %001 / 0058.24
Cyd Charisse5$218,000,000$270,200,00058.1 %000 / 0054.06
Barbara Stanwyck3$217,500,000$217,600,00060.3 %001 / 0059.75
William Bendix6$215,400,000$215,600,00060.6 %000 / 0054.17
Dan Dailey2$214,200,000$272,400,00055.5 %007 / 0064.04
Red Skelton1$213,100,000$213,100,00057.0 %000 / 0077.8
Dorothy Lamour3$207,600,000$286,300,00051.6 %000 / 0053.76
Anne Baxter4$207,200,000$301,500,00057.6 %003 / 0054.40
Dorothy Malone3$204,900,000$242,700,00061.8 %001 / 0059.79
Anthony Hopkins2$204,400,000$204,300,00079.6 %007 / 0376.33
Ali MacGraw1$192,500,000$192,500,00067.5 %000 / 0081.54
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77 thoughts on “Top Movie Stars of the 1960s”

    1. Hey John
      1. I can’t fix your Anonymous until I get home.
      2. As for Lemmon’s victory on the critic average score….yes Wayne made more movies…and yes his Top 13 topped Lemmon’s Top 13. But his final 13 have to be taken into account as well. Lemmon has some low scoring movies too.
      3. I have enjoyed your guesss on these decade pages…..now start thinking about Sly,Babs, Ryan O’Neal and Bobby Pacino and the 1970s

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  2. Ah the 60s… tree-hugging hippies… high profile assassinations… Vietnam… British Pop Invasion… “she loves you yeah yeah yeah!” …my name is Bond, James Bond… the Space Race… Cleopatra… Blow Up… 2001 A Space Odyssey….

    Good to see the Brits making a dent in some of these charts. Julie Andrews was the star of the biggest box office success of the 60s and for a while the biggest film of all time.

    James Bond was massive, they took a gamble with a Scotsman named Sean Connery, which paid off handsomely and a new star was born.

    And the success of Alfie followed by The Ipcress File quickly turned Michael Caine into a household name.

    Richard Harris and Peter O’Toole were big too.

    There you have it, my comprehensive survey of the 1960s movie scene, I hope I haven’t left anybody out.

    Cheerio

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    1. Hey Steve…yep the 1960s was when England took back America. I am glad that Sir Michael made the trip. From movies to television to music you Brits left your mark for sure. Thanks for the feedback.

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  4. POSTSCRIPT TO MY 4.17am POST

    It should be remembered that what we call the Modern Era of the cinema is considered by film historians to have begun in 1962 so Bruce’s 1960s roundup is the first wide ranging summary that I personally have seen of a decade of the official new Era and the survey covers most of that decade.

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    1. Hey Bob…I agree this gets us to the modern era. Happily lots of people are still working that are on this page. Caine, Nicholson (he is finally making a new movie), Ann-Magret, Alan Atkin, MacLaine and Segal come to mind.

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  5. 1. Good to see Michael Caine at last making his debut in one these surveys. One of the Brando videos for which Bruce helpfully gave me a link had a quick montage of actors and actresses talking about Marlon including Michael who said he was a life-long Brando fan

    2. When the interviewer asked if he had ever met Marlon during his visits to Hollywood he replied yes but added that on the first occasion he Caine was as tongue-tied as a “young girl meeting Elvis for the first time” – Caine had a lovely way of expressing things! – and Michael went on to say he never dared speak throughout that initial meeting until Marlon invited him to do so.

    1 He added though that overall they got on well. I remember Michael previously saying that when he made Gambit with the wonderful Shirley MacLaine in 1966 she graciously did the rounds with him as a ‘newcomer’ and introduced him to many celebs such as Marlon.

    4 Anyway this 60s survey is another fascinating comprehensive document which charts the changing tastes of the public in relation to both stars and types of movies they watched as well as enabling those like me who are interested in stats to compare one decade’s box office performances with those of other decades. Super stuff.

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    1. Hey Bob
      1. Thanks for checking out and commenting on our latest decade page.
      2. This will be Caine’s first of 6 decades that he will appear…thinking he will do the best in the 2010 decade…though most of his movies were supporting.
      3. Caine is a great storyteller. Love his books.
      4. Good to know he has fond memories of Brando.
      5. Speaking of Brando….his numbers in the 1960s are actually better than I thought they would be.
      Thanks for the kind words.

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