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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1 VIDEO ENTRIES 44-23. Best POSTERS for me are American Guerrilla in the Philippines [aka I shall Return] Pony Soldier [aka MacDonald of the Canadian Mounties [with presumably Penny Edwards draped round Ty as if he were Flynn!] Crash Dive, Thin Ice, Café Metropole, I’ll Never Forget You [aka House in the Square] King of the Khyber Rifles, Love is News, Mississippi Gambler and the stunning set for The Black Rose.
2 STILLS. More than usual in the 1st part of an extended video. My pick are (1) That Wonderful Urge, with the fur coats (2) solo from Crash Dive (3) A Yank in the RAF [Ty with presumably Betty Grable] (4) with a low-cut dressed Susan Hayward in Untamed (5) with Brit JackHawkins in The Black Rose and (6) an excellent Suez lobby card – really beautiful
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3 Tyrone undertook a stage career parallel with his highly successful movie career and tread the boards in 7 productions between 1941 and his death in 1958, including the Devil’s Disciple in 1956 in which he played the role of Dick Dudgeon that Kirk Douglas occupied in the 1959 movie version with Burt and Larry.
4 Ty’s “double” career was probably unusual for a very top Hollywood male star at that time. For example (1) Liz had to publicly defend Burton for abandonintg the stage for Hollywood (2) in 1953 after establishing himself as a movies superstar Mr Mumbles permanently forsook the stage and indeed turned down an offer by Sir John Gielgud to do an English theatrical tour with Sir John because Mr M felt there was not enough money in theatre.
5 Ironically – from your viewpoint at least Mo – Sir John later explained that he invited Mr Mumbles to tour with him because he was impressed by the latter’s flare for, and delivery of, fine English dialogue after working with the Great Mumbler in Julius Caesar! In fact Mr M’s very last stage appearance was in Irishman George Bernard Shaw’s classic play Arms and the Man in Connecticut USA for a one-week engagement in 1953. A very oblique Shaw/Mumbles Dan-like link here is that Bernard also wrote the 1903 4-act drama Man and Superman!
So I assuming Tyrone got an upgraded video…. I will have to check out and share that video. Currently working on a 1930 page….should be out later today….plus thinking about doing a page that breaks down the 1930 decade….since it is now complete. Good stuff.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing the first half of my Tyrone Power video. Appreciate the comment and info. Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
There are many films here I’ve missed or I can’t remember if I’ve seen them or not. I can remember seeing The Black Rose but not King of the Khyber Rifles or Suez, there’s no way I would have missed them with my parents when I was young. I don’t check the TV listings as often as I used to.
Looking forward to p.2 of your review.
Steve got Ure post thanks. I have completed my ty part two post bu it’s locked away in my malfunctioning computer along with some other posts that I have prepared. At the moment therefore I am a bit like the guy who is all dressed up but with nowhere to go. The good news is that my daughter came home early and will look at the machine it’s. thing in morn have a good weekend. Looking forward to the cowboy of the century, Spangler. Ram 2
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I bit off topic, but info so interesting I thought I would share it. In tribute to Mary Tyler Moore I watched the 1988 made for TV movie Lincoln yesterday. (Aside–I highly recommend it) A major character was John Hay who was Lincoln’s secretary during his administration. This caused me to read up a bit on Hay, whom I had only vague knowledge of. Hay would eventually become Secretary of State under McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. He was also, besides his diplomatic career, a journalist and writer (a ten volume biography of Lincoln which has largely shaped our perception of Lincoln). To cut to the chase and movies, Hay was the assistant editor of the New York Tribune, under editor Horace Greeley, at the time of the Chicago fire. He went to Chicago. I don’t know who exactly started the “legend” about Mrs. O’Leary and her cow (which is how Tyrone Power & In Old Chicago come into this) but I do know who gave it credibility. None other than the distinguished John Hay. He interviewed Mrs. O’Leary and wrote–
“a woman with a lamp who went to the barn behind the house, to milk the cow with the crumpled temper, that kicked the lamp, that spilled the kerosene, that fired the straw that burned Chicago.”
And there is another interesting connection with Hay to movies. Hay’s grandson was John Hay Whitney who was an early backer of Technicolor. Whitney formed Pioneer films in 1933 in partnership with Merion C. Cooper. They produced the first live action three-ship Technicolor short and feature. Whitney later also backed David O; Selznick. From 1936 to 1940 Whitney was chairmen of the board of Selznick International. It was Whitney who purchased the rights to Gone with the Wind and Whitney who largely financed the filming. So Abraham Lincoln’s secretary’s grandson was a driving force behind the production of Gone with the Wind. Even though I vaguely knew who Whitney was, I never really connected these dots before.
Hey John….great information on John Hay. With the exception of the cow and the Chicago fire …..it was all new to me. Sounds like his grandson saw the power of color movies well before so many others. Great comment….educational and entertaining.
Some critics questioned the quality of Power’s acting in the more serious roles such as Jake Barnes in The Sun also Rises but my own very favourite Power movies were the high dramas The Razor’s Edge, Witness for the Prosecution, and Nightmare Alley.
COMMENTS
(1) Bruce and you agree on 4 of the Top 5 and I was surprised that for critic/audience he gave Lloyds of London your No 3 a relatively low 64.5% and ranked it only No 21
(2) I was disappointed you ignored Mississippi Gambler but see Bruce ranked it 10 for critic/audience and gave it a respectable 72%
(3) Captain from Castile, Jesse James, and Black Swan are the best of a great bunch of poster reproductions – 9/10. Laird Craiger gave a rollicking performance in the latter movie.
(4) Good action still of Power/Rahtbone in Mark of Zorro and fine closing solo colour one of Ty which I think Bruce has also reproduces above. You can see why Sophia Loren thought Power the most handsome Hollywood star of her day.
(5) I congratulate both you and Bruce for including in your Top 5 Nightmare Alley which as Bruce’s table illustrates was under appreciated by audiences when it was released. Those who cast doubts on Power’s dramatic abilities should watch that one ! BOB
Bob, Mississippi Gambler should have been on the video, somehow it got lost while I was compiling everything, it would have been in 23rd position with a rating of 6.3. I had a nice poster for it too, damn!
It’s funny how Bruce and I sometimes have wildly conflicting ratings, he gives a film a high rating, I give it low, he gives it low, I give it high. Shows how variable and unpredictable opinions are, one man’s meat…
Thanks again for the comments and checking out these videos.
Mmmmm….got me thinking I should look at my numbers for Lloyds….that seems too far off. There is room for both of our rankings….it least currently……though if your cattle keep drinking my water….going to have to put the barb wire up….lol. Had to stick in a western movie reference.
Hey Bob…excellent thoughts on Tyrone Power….I will have to see if I hit the wrong button on Lloyds of London…..yes we never actually match…..but 3rd and 21st seem way too far off.
Good information…as always!
Tyrone Power has 33 movies on your list that have made 100 million. He never appeared on the Oracle of Bacon Center of the Hollywood Universe top 1000 and he passed away in 1958.
There are only 2 actors on the current 1000 that appeared with him and one is Arthur Tovey again.
Blood and Sand (1941) – 681 Anthony Quinn
The Black Swan (1942) – 681 Anthony Quinn
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) – 912 Arthur Tovey
Here are the actors who appeared on the 2000 Oracle of Bacon top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list who have fallen off the list but appeared with him in films. Rank is for 2000.
Abandon Ship (1957) – 92 Ferdy Mayne, 712 Finlay Currie, 786 Lloyd Nolan, 795 Stephen Boyd
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938) – 14 John Carradine, 506 Douglas Fowley, 606 Alberto Morin, 783 James Flavin
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) – 404 Jack Elam, 816 Carleton Young
Blood and Sand (1941) – 14 John Carradine, 696 Alberto Morin
Brigham Young (1940) – 14 John Carradine, 27 Marc Lawrence, 256 Hank Worden, 744 Dean Jagger
Café Metropole (1937) – 606 Alberto Morin
Captain from Castile (1947) – 27 Marc Lawrence, 151 Cesar Romero, 301 Lee J. Cobb
Crash Dive (1943) – 310 Steve Forrest, 451 Dana Andrews, 648 Harry Morgan
Day-Time Wife (1939) – 222 Bess Flowers
Diplomatic Courier (1952) – 53 Charles Bronson, 236 Lee Marvin, 359 Karl Malden, 421 Michael Ansara, 459 Dabbs Greer, 816 Carleton Young, 990 Stefan Schnabel
Flirtation Walk (1934) – 542 Paul Fix
In Old Chicago (1937) – 222 Bess Flowers, 571 Charles Lane, 740 George Chandler
Jesse James (1939) – 14 John Carradine, 56 Henry Fonda, 740 George Chandler, 783 James Flavin
Johnny Apollo (1940) – 27 Marc Lawrence, 222 Bess Flowers, 571 Charles Lane, 783 James Flavin, 786 Lloyd Nolan
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) – 606 Alberto Morin
Lloyds of London (1936) – 323 George Sanders
Love is News (1937) – 219 Elisha Cook Jr., 323 George Sanders
Marie Antionette (1938) – 94 Robert Morley, 100 Ian Wolfe
Nightmare Alley (1947) – 146 Mike Mazurki, 740 George Chandler, 783 James Flavin
Pony Soldier (1952) – 75 Cameron Mitchell, 972 Richard Boone
Prince of Foxes (1949) – 9 Orson Welles, 671 Eduardo Cianelli
Rawhide (1951) – 50 Jeff Corey, 296 Kenneth Tobey, 404 Jack Elam, 744 Dean Jagger
Rose of Washington Square (1939) – 222 Bess Flowers, 571 Charles Lane, 783 James Flavin
Second Fiddle (1939) – 571 Charles Lane, 740 George Chandler
Son of Fury (1942) – 14 John Carradine, 23 Roddy Mcdowell, 323 George Sanders
Suez (1938) – 606 Alberto Morin, 959 Leon Ames
That Wonderful Urge (1948) – 222 Bess Flowers, 963 Frank Ferguson
The Black Rose (1950) – 9 Orson Welles, 98 Herbert Lom, 508 Robert Blake, 575 Jack Hawkins, 645 Laurence Harvey, 673 Peter Sellers, 712 Finlay Currie
The Black Swan (1942) – 323 George Sanders, 975 Maureen O’Hara
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) – 222 Bess Flowers, 361 James Whitmore
The Long Gray Line (1955) – 93 Harry Carey Jr., 222 Bess Flowers, 353 Peter Graves, 975 Maureen O’Hara
The Luck of the Irish (1948) – 301 Lee J. Cobb, 356 Phil Brown, 606 Alberto Morin, 832 Don Brodie
The Mississippi Gambler (1953) – 789 Anita Ekberg, 821 Piper Laurie, 824 Frank Wilcox, 905 Ron Randell
The Razor’s Edge (1946) – 222 Bess Flowers, 420 Maurice Marsac, 562 Paul Bryar, 848 Frank Latimore
The Sun Also Rises (1957) – 76 Eddie Albert, 177 Marcel Dalio, 186 Ava Gardner, 251 Mel Ferrer
Thin Ice (1937) – 606 Alberto Morin
This Above All (1942) – 255 Alexander Knox
Untamed (1955) – 606 Alberto Morin, 894 Philip Van Zandt
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) – 100 Ian Wolfe, 222 Bess Flowers
Hey Dan….yet another classic star that is being washed away as time rolls on….looking at the actors….seems almost all of them have not made a movie in 30 years….except for Robert Blake, Roddy McDowell and Harry Carey, Jr. As I wrote in the first Power comment….it would be really interesting to see an Oracle list in the 1950s or 1960s….I beat all of these AFI Screen Legends would have places in the Top 100. Thanks for sharing all of this information.
The site is run by a computer program and uses the IMDB site for credits. The site itself started in the late 90’s and I believe the IMDB was celebrating it’s 20th year last year.
I wonder how hard would it be to run the program and use 1959 as the cut off time…my wife…who knows a lot about computers and programs that run them things it should not be to hard to do that. But then again…I guess you can’t have a Kevin Bacon database end when he was only 1 years old.
It started as a college game about Kevin Bacon and they wrote a program from all the IMDB info at the time. The highest on these lists I’ve ever seen Kevin Bacon is 370. I always feel the lists are too modern and there are some strange people who claim to be extras in almost every box office smash these days. I mean have you ever seen extras credited on the screen except for maybe Around the World in 80 Days or one picture where Kevin Smith listed anyone who contributed money to his film as a producer and he had a 1000 or so producers on a film.
I used to play the Kevin Bacon game with my older boys all the time….especially because we did lots of driving around….so we played lots of games like that. I have the board game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon….and the current 24 year old always wants to play (and lose) whenever he is over visiting…lol. I think the game is fun when you are using known actors….when you start going to the 48th billed person who said “thank you” in the movie….it really stops being fun.
Hey Dan….wow….only Quinn and Tovey remain….and Tovey….looks like he might be falling off in the near future. What would be interesting to see is the Top 1000 in 1960….I wonder who would have been in that Top 10?
Me again. As far as Power taking chances after Nightmare Alley, his only concern after that film was finishing his contract with Fox. He basically moved to Europe and later to New York City. He began to pursue more stage work. He starred in Mister Roberts in London, and later did The Devil’s Disciple in Ireland, Miss Julie on European TV (with his then girlfriend Mai Zetterling). On Broadway he starred in two plays, and another, A Quiet Place, which did not come to Broadway. He wanted to make one film a year and do stage the rest of the year, which he did for the last few years of his life.
Hey Joan ….welcome back. Thanks for the information on Power and Nightmare Alley. I did read about his stage work. Glad he was able to do what he wanted during his last years. I am in the process of tweaking this page…so his stats should be even more impressive on your next visit. Thanks again for sharing your Power expertise.