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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Tyrone Power came from my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio and , when I was a kid, the five major television stations in town showed quite a few of his films as part of their “afternoon movie” shows. I have seen 23 Tyrone Power movies. The HIGHEST ranked movie I have seen is ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND. The LOWEST ranked movie I have seen is DAYTIME WIFE. The highest ranked movie HAVEN’T seen is THE BLACK SWAN. Favorites include THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY, THE SUN ALSO RISES, WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, JESSE JAMES, A YANK IN THE RAF, NIGHTMARE ALLEY, BRIGHAM YOUNG, THE MARK OF ZORRO, THIS ABOVE ALL, IN OLD CHICAGO, ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND, and LLOYD’S OF LONDON. Other Tyrone Power movies I have seen include LADIES IN LOVE, LOVE IS NEWS, MARIE ANTIONETTE, SUEZ, ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE, DAYTIME WIFE, THE RAZOR’S EDGE, PRINCE OF FOXES, RAWHIDE, THE LONG GRAY LINE, and UNTAMED. I know many film historians consider NIGHTMARE ALLEY to be Tyrone’s best performance. I always considered his performance in the underrated A YANK IN THE RAF to be his best and he should have won an Oscar for it in my opinion. He also deserved Oscar nominations for his performances in THIS ABOVE ALL and NIGHTMARE ALLEY as well. He was a major box office draw throughout his career and he had the talent to back it up. Period. End Of Story.
Hey Greg…great comment on Tyrone Power. Interesting to know that he and you are both from Cincy. I agree with you about his box office power….he along with Judy Garland are the two people when researching that really blew me away with all of their box office success. 23 Tyrone Power movies is pretty stout. Good points on Nightmare Alley and A Yank in the RAF…I liked both of those movies. Good stuff!
why is Tyrone in your 50 greatest movie stars but not in the online top 100 list which has James Dean at .92 billion. Tyrone’s adjusted box office was 7.2 billion which puts him between Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. So why isn’t he there? In your book he is #25. Why are so many of the same names in your book and he is left off this list?
Hey Joan….my book did not factor in the AFI legends list….The Top 100 list on the website…used the 50 the AFI picked….and 50 stars of the modern era. AFI did not list Power….when their initial list came out….a bad miss in my thoughts. Sorry for the confusion.
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Power had 3 children, his daughters Romina and Taryn with his second wife, Linda Christian, and his son Tyrone jr. by his third/last wife, Debbie Minardos. He also adopted his first wife’s (Annabella) daughter Anne – but Anne never became an actress…
There might have been at least one child born out of wedlock, possibly even more considering Tyrone’s promiscuity throughout his life.
Hey Angela N. Thanks for the visit and the heads up on his personal life. Tweaked some of the possibly interesting facts to include your thoughts. Thank you.