Want to know the best Tyrone Power movies? How about the worst Tyrone Power movies? Curious about Tyrone Power’s box office grosses or which Tyrone Power movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Tyrone Power 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.
I was looking through my request book when I kept seeing the name Tyrone Power. When I am deciding my next movie subject I usually look at the requested performer’s movie career and try to guess how difficult it will be to find all the information needed to do this page. Well with the help of Audrey Soloman’s book Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History I realized I had box office information on 41 of the 45 Tyrone Power movies. So having to only research 4 movies,Tyrone Power moved to the head of the requested movie subject line. So here you go an Ultimate Movie Rankings page on one of the most successful and popular actors from 1936 to 1958…..Mr. Tyrone Power.
His IMDb page shows 52 acting credits from 1925-1959. This page will rank 46 Tyrone Power movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and bit parts were not included in the rankings.
Tyrone Power Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Tyrone Power 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 Tyrone Power movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Tyrone Power movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Tyrone Power movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Tyrone Power 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 Tyrone Power movie received.
- Sort Tyrone Power 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.
- Using the sort and search buttons makes this a very interactive table….highly recommend using those two features
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Tyrone Power Table
- Thirty-three Tyrone Power movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 71.73% of his movies listed. Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938) was his biggest box office hit.
- An average Tyrone Power movie grossed $156.60 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 30 Tyrone Power movies are rated as good movies…or 65.21% of his movies. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) is his highest rated movie while Untamed (1955) is his lowest rated movie.
- Twenty-three Tyrone Power movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 50.00% of his movies.
- Nine Tyrone Power movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 19.56% of his movies.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Tyrone Power
1. Tyrone Edmund Power III was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1914.
2. Tyrone Power’s great-grandfather was a famed Irish comedian….Tyrone Power the First lived from 1795-1841. Tyrone Power’s father was a famous stage and screen actor….Tyrone Power the Second lived from 1869-1931. Tyrone Power the Third (our movie page subject) lived from 1914 to 1958. Tyrone Power’s son is an active actor with 21 IMDb acting credits….Tyrone Power the 4th was born in 1959.
3. Tyrone Power’s path to stardom…Cliff Notes style. Decided to become an actor after his father’s passing 1931. He found very few opportunities initially….only managing a few bit parts. He left Hollywood and moved to New York City to get some experience as a stage actor. In 1936 he returned to Hollywood. He caught the eye of director Henry King. King gave Power the biggest role in his 1936 movie Lloyd’s Of London. Lloyd’s Of London was a hit…and a star was born.
4. Tyrone Power enlisted in the Marines in 1942. As a US Marine Corps pilot in World War II, he flew supplies into and wounded out of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. For his services in the Pacific War, Power received American Campaign, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign and the World War II Victory medals.
5. Tyrone Power was married three times. He had four children…..many of his children have followed him in the family acting tradition
6. Tyrone Power has been never nominated for an Oscar® or a Golden Globe® during his long impressive movie career. He did win the first ever Harvard Lampoon Worst Actor Award for 1939’s The Rains Came.
7. Roles Tyrone Power turned down or was seriously considered for: The Robe (Richard Burton role), Gone With The Wind (Leslie Howard role), From Here To Eternity (Burt Lancaster role), Golden Boy (William Holden role) and Viva Zapata! (Marlon Brando role).
8. Tyrone Power was a Top Ten Box Office star in 1938, 1939 and 1940. His high water mark was in 1939 when he finished in 2nd place to Mickey Rooney.
9. Check out Tyrone Power‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time. If you want to see Tyrone Power’s movie career posters then you need to check out this Steve Lensman You Tube Video
10. In 1958 Tyrone Power was filming Solomon and Sheba. He had completed shooting more than half of the film when he collapsed during a fight scene with George Sanders and died a few minutes later. Power was replaced in the role of Solomon by Yul Brynner, who refilmed all of Power’s scenes. Power, however, is still visible in the film in long shots.
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I have seen 24+ of his films. My favorite is by far the very underrated Cafe Metropole! The worst is Alexander Ragtime band, what a bore, had a tough time getting through it, though Lloyd’s is much worse: it doesn’t EVEN look like him, made up like a sissy clown/girl, ECH! Nightmare Alley left me cold, just a boring film saved only by Power’s (star) power and The Black Rose is ruined by Cecile Aubry 12 yr old boy face with stuffed chipmunk cheeks and overlong rabbit teeth. Orson Welles who is usually a hammy it up bore was saved by Michael Rennie’s affable presence: he made me forget the fatso in painted oriental eyes.
Hey Astrid. Thanks for the visit and the comment. When I wrote this page I had seen very few of his movies. I have not reached 24 like you have….but I have enjoyed the ones I have seen. Alexander’s Ragtime Band has not aged well….but back in the 1930s it was loved by critics, audiences and Oscar voters. I have not seen Cafe Metropole! but based on your comment…I will have to check it out. I liked Nightmare Alley more than you…..but it is far from a normal Power performance. I discovered that movie from Danny Peary’s Cult Movies books. I agree with you about Michael Rennie in that movie. Thanks for checking out my Power page.
Power is listed as one of the top 100 box office stars of all time, according to Quigley. This is impressive because it includes modern actors like DiCaprio and Depp.
Hey Joan….his box office success is truly impressive. Since starting writing these pages four people have really surprised me….Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Dean Martin and Tyrone Power….not many people had the box office success that these four did…yet for some reason it does not seem to be well known. Thanks for stopping by.
For me his best movies were The Razor’s Edge and The Mark of Zorro; his best performances were in Nightmare Alley, Zorro, and This Above All.
When we did a tribute in 2008, I wanted to show Lloyds of London since it was his first, but people called and wanted The Razor’s Edge. We also showed an early comedy, Love is News, and it was the hit of the whole three days. He is really wonderful in that.
He ranks #77 in the top 200 box office stars of all time, right up to people like Clooney, DiCaprio etc., so that list is quite current. There was a site called Top Ten reviews that listed actors and actresses by rank overall, and also by decade, and also by separating male and female. He ranked much higher than either Flynn or Robert Taylor. Interestingly he rated high by decade – interesting because he didn’t work one solid decade – 4 years in the 1930s, 7 years in the ’40s, and 8 years in the ’50s (no film in 1954).
Regarding Oscar, he could and should have been nominated for Nightmare Alley but Zanuck did not promote the film – he withdrew it from circulation and rushed through Captain from Castile.
As far as Solomon & Sheba, the caveat for paying the insurance was that he not be used in ANY of the movie. So if you’re seeing him in the long shots, they cheated.
Unfortunately TCM rewrites history – they left him out of the 50 Greatest Leading Men of the Studio Era but put in Peter O’Toole, who was not part of the studio era. They did nothing for him on his hundredth birthday. They figure by denying his presence we’ll forget about 20th Century Fox and the fact that they don’t own any films from there.
I feel a problem today is that Zanuck refused to lend him out for better films, such as King’s Row and Golden Boy due to the fact that he loaned him out for Marie Antoinette and then realized it was a supporting role. He swore he’d never lend him out again. Power really should have dumped Fox after the war when they refused to give him the contract he wanted, but then, none of those guys had any idea what they were coming back to, and in Power’s case, he was supporting a wife, a stepdaughter, a mother, and a sister.
Hey Joan….first of all thanks for such a detailed comment….I really enjoyed reading it. I have seen all of your favorite Power movies with the exception of This Above All….so I will add that one to my list of movies to watch.
Interesting stats on his box office totals…and reviews….on my https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/100-million-movies-1930-2015/ page…I have Power in 36th place with $4.84 Billion in domestic box office grosses….granted I have not done pages on everybody…yet….lol.
I agree with you about Nightmare Alley….too bad the studio did not support that movie….I think if they did he might have made more movies like that….instead he seems to have stopped taking chances after that one “failed” at the box office. I found that movie in Danny Peary’s Cult Movies books….it might have struggled at the box office back then….but it is still a movie that gets talked about on a regular basis…almost 65 years later.
I have watched Solomon & Sheba a couple of times…including stopping the movie and really studying the long shots…I have never seen him…..I guess he might be there….but I think they hid he well enough to get the insurance people happy.
Power made a ton of money for Fox….so it is a shame they did not treat him better. I have written many movie pages on many performers…so far only two have surprised me when it comes to underestimated their box office power…..one was Dean Martin….and the other was Power. His box office staying power is one of the greatest of all time….maybe one day he will get his due. Thanks again for finding my Power page and commenting…both are greatly appreciated.
I did not know that about TCM…I agree Power was one of the best studio stars ever….O’Toole is a great actor…..but studios were a think of yesteryear for most of his career.
Wow….two pages in a row that you finished last. Steve 22…Bruce 18 and Flora 15 in the tally count…..that is surprising! Seems over the last couple of years I watched most of the Power movies that I have watched. I think 3 years ago my tally count was 1….and that was for Witness for the Prosecution.
The Black Swan was easily the best of the ones I watched. Very well done…..and seems the writers of Pirates of the Caribbean borrowed heavily from that movie when they were making The Black Pearl (the first only decent POTC movie). Flynn says a line in The Sun Also Rises…that talked about how life was like a firework….it was pretty eerie especially knowing Flynn and Power would both be gone in a short time after that scene.
The Razor’s Edge has not aged well….but it was huge in the 1940s. Thanks for checking out my Power page….as always…it was fun talking movies with you.
Hi, Bruce.
I believe I come in 3rd here with with Mr. Power III. Really. He and Don Ameche were the big male stars off their studio.
My favourite Tryone Power films are his swashbuckler films. I love Christie, and Witness for the Prosecution is excellent, but knowing that it was his final completed movie, there are others ahead of it.
My favourite top films of his are:
The Mark of Zorro
The Black Swan
Jesse James
Witness for the Prosecution
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
The last time I saw a Tyrone Power film for the first time it was Nightmare Alley. A big departure for Power the 3rd. It was not what fans were expecting from him. Very dark drama.
Regarding Errol Flynn, I’ve seen The Sun Also Rises a couple of times. Painful considering their histories.
Tops of my to see list is the No.1 title. I have yet to see The Razor’s Edge. There is no particular reason why I have not seen it.
Regarding your ranking,
The highest ranking film I have seen is no. 2: Alexander’s Ragtime Band.
The lowest ranking film I have seen is 32: Johnny Appollo.
I have seen:
4 of his top 5
8 of his top 10
10 of his top 15
But here my percentage drops. I see the same films over and over.
The overall number I have seen is only 15!
Cheers
Flora Breen Robison