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Wendy Hiller (1912-2003) was an Oscar® winning English actress. Hiller enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. The writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as “a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film”. Despite many notable film performances, she chose to remain primarily a stage actress. Her IMDb page shows 59 acting from 1937 to 1992. This page will rank Wendy Hiller movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. 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.
Wendy Hiller Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Wendy Hiller 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 Wendy Hiller movie received.
- Sort Wendy Hiller movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Best IMDb Trivia On Wendy Hiller
1. Wendy Margaret Hiller was born in Bramhall, Cheshire, England in 1912.
2. Wendy Hiller’s big break occurred on stage in Love On The Dole. Her performance attracted the attention of George Bernard Shaw. Shaw cast her in several of his plays, including Saint Joan, Pygmalion and Major Barbara.
3. Wendy Hiller appeared in five Oscar® Best Picture nominees: Pygmalion (1938),Separate Tables (1958), Sons and Lovers (1960), A Man for All Seasons (1966) and The Elephant Man (1980). A Man for All Seasons is the only winner.
4. Wendy Hiller was director Sidney Lumet’s second choice to play Princess Dragonmiroff inMurder on the Orient Express (1974). His first choice was vetoed by the producers. Ingrid Bergman was then offered the role and declined, instead choosing to play Greta Ohlsson. The role of the Princess was then offered to Hiller.
5. In 1971, Wendy Hiller was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), by Queen Elizabeth, and in 1975 it was raised to Dame Commander (DBE).
Check out Wendy Hiller’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
HI BRUCE: My immediately preceeding 4.15 pm post today was incomplete – please delete it. Many thanks
Thanks for the triple feedback on my own 3 part post. The 3rd part was exclusively for YOU as I know you love Oscar chat and stats. I loved Ben Johnson who made films with 3 of my idols Brando’Laddie/The Duke. Ben was a lovely actor.
Interesting chat between you and W oC about Joel. She too doesn’t think he’s the bees knees does she?
WoC – Whatever happened to your book with the M&M duct tape?…I have not seen it lying around lately.
“Cogerson- I sent to to Bob in Ireland…..sort as a JOKE….but pretty sure he still has it.”
Sent it to me as a joke eh? As historians claim England’ s great Queen Victoria once said “I am not amused!” It is probaly truer to say that I don’t have the book: IT now has ME in the way all Svengali types ultimately own their victims!!
Please keep safe.
Hey Bob….good to know our evil planned worked….and Joel’s book has you under it’s control….lol.
I have seen 8 Wendy Hiller movies.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is A Man For All Seasons.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is The Elephant Man.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Toys in the Attic.
Favourite Wendy Hiller Movies:
Murder on the Orient Express
Separate Tables
Pygmalion
I Know Where I’m Going
Other Wendy Hiller Movies I Have Seen:
A Man For All Seasons
Sons and Lovers
Something of Value
Toys in the Attic
Hey Flora….thanks for the feedback on Dame Wendy Hiller. Tally count. 8 for you, 7 for Bob and 5 for me. I have seen 2 of your favorites…Murder on the Orient Express and Seperate Tables. And one of your others…A Man For All Seasons. The Elephant Man is an excellent movie…with John Hurt being completely amazing. As always thanks for taking the time to visit us.
ACADEMY AWARDS FOR PERFORMANCES OF SHORTEST SCREEN DURATION
The eight not listed “lead” were all supporting roles.
10/Anthony Quinn/Lust for Life – 23 mins
9/Jared Leto/Dallas Buyers’ Club – 21 mins
8/Lee Grant/Shampoo – 18 mins ***
7/Anthony Hopkins/Silence of the Lambs – 16 mins [LEAD]
6/Anne Hathaway/Les Miserables -15 mins
5/David Niven/Separate Tables – 15 mins [LEAD]
4/Ben Johnson/Last Picture Show – 10 mins
3/Gloria Grahame/Bad and the Beautiful -9 mins
2/Judi Dench/Shakespeare in Love – 8 mins
1/Beatrice Straight/Network – 5 mins
*** Very pleasing award in my eyes. A sexy lady who was a fine actress and personality; and it’s always good to see a one-time Brando romantic lover getting an acting honour.
Hey Bob. Great information. I knew about Hopkins limited screen time in Silence of the Lambs, but I was completely unaware of Niven’s screen time in Seperate Tables. Same thing about Dench, Quinn and Straight..I knew….but knew nothing about Graham and Johson clocking in around 10 minutes. Good find…thanks for sharing it.
IMDB credits Wendy with 4 acting awards and 8 nominations but those stats go nowhere near reflecting Wendy’s great acting capacity and I have mentioned before that performers of yesteryear suffer in the stats league from the fact that back in the ‘old days’ awards were bestowed much more sparingly; whereas today they seem to be dished out as if they were limitless with extremely dramatically-restricted performers like [according to the Great Joel Hirschhorn and others] Sylvester Stallone even benefiting from the apparent excess of generosity. In relation to the females I think that the following stats say it all.
Meryl Street:
177 awards and 363 nominations – combined total 540 honours.
Katharine Hepburn
28 awards and 37 nominations – combined total 65.
Myrna Loy
5 awards and no other nominations. None of the awards were for competitive performances and were for eg Walk of Fame; honorary Oscar.
I have long challenged -and teased! – The Work Horse about his designating The Thin Woman ‘greatest all-time female box office attraction’ but I have never doubted that she was a much greater ACTRESS and comedienne than those comparisons would imply; and she was certainly far better than many of today’s actresses who are showered with awards such as Sharon Stone with 24 wins and 37 noms/combined total 61– crazy! So well done WH on giving Wendy her deserved new page.
Hey Bob…good breakdown on the award situation. Wow…Streep with over 540 honors. That is alot. Poor Loy….no award love….but at least they finally gave her an Honorary Oscar. One day, Sharon Stone will have an UMR page. I think Hiller’s 3 Oscar nominations in 17 movies is pretty impressive. Too bad she was not really interested in making movies. Good stuff as always.
On top of her prestigious stage and big screen career Wendy appeared in numerous television productions and Wikipedia lists 18 of them between 1969 and 1991. They include acknowledged cultural classics such as Richard 2nd; Witness for the Prosecution; and David Copperfield.
I have seen Wendy in 7 movies: Sons and Lovers; Murder on the Orient Express; Separate Tables; How to Murder a Rich Uncle; The Elephant Man; Something of Value; and my personal favourite among her movies A Man for All Seasons.
David Niven and Wendy respectively won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars for their performances in Separate Tables. In that achievement Wendy had the distinction of sharing Oscar glory with the performer [David Niven] who holds the record for shortest time on screen by an Academy Award-winning thespian [male or female] in a LEAD ROLE – see table in Part 3.
Wendy’s net worth at the time of her death in 2003 aged 90 is quoted by Celebrity net worth as $5.5 million in today’s money. That’s very respectable in my opinion for a female thespian from the British acting profession who it could be argued was more stage and television than film orientated.
Hey Bob…..thanks for the feedback on Wendy Hiller. I was happily surprised that when I visited her Wiki page….that our buddy Joel was mentioned near the top of her page……I am sure that made both of us…very very happy. WoC and I were discussing the M&M book on a walk the other day.
WoC – Whatever happened to your book with the M&M duct tape?…I have not seen it lying around lately.
Cogerson- I sent to to Bob in Ireland…..sort as a joke….but pretty sure he still has it.
WoC – Did you steal that M&M duct tape from Alex? (SoC3).
Cogerson- Actually that came from Mr. Emler’s Technology Class when I was subbing for his class a few years ago….which is now my class….that is surreal…..that Emler’s duct tape, was from his room, which is now my room, is now in Ireland with Bob.
Ok….back to your comment. good information on Wendy Hiller and her awards and net worth. Bob providing the rare tally count…this could be a winner…..as I suspect it will top me and Steve…and only leaving Flora in the way. I have seen…counting…5….I got off to such a great start….as I have seen the Top 4.
Good stuff.