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Birthdate: August 18, 1920
Death date: January 14, 2006
Shelley Winters
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
1.9991
6
1950s
2.8461
24
1960s
2.6664
16
1970s
2.3540
19
1980s
0.3455
8
1990s
1.7517
11
2000s
No Reviews
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.6447
2.6447
Shelley Winters Movie Rankings
1
3.5409While incarcerated with condemned killer Ben Harper (Peter Graves), fake preacher Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) discovers Ben has $10,000 worth of stolen money hidden in a place only his family knows about. ...more about Night of the Hunter
DVD from $6.62
(12 sellers)
2
3.0629It really looks like George Eastman can at last have his place in the sun. A chance meeting with a long lost uncle has led to a job with a future and the beautiful and well bred Angela Vickers is just as infatuated with him as he is with her. ...more about Place in the Sun
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
DVD from $3.90
(12 sellers)
3
3.0164A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. ...more about Poseidon Adventure
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
DVD from $12.79
(8 sellers)
4
2.9654
In New England in the early 20th century, Pete is a nine-year-old orphan escaping from his brutal adoptive parents, the Gogans, with his only friend, a cartoon dragon named Elliott. ...more about Pete's Dragon
DVD from $17.87
(14 sellers)
5
2.9334
Middle-aged novelist Humbert Humbert rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house after he falls passionately in love with her daughter Lolita. ...more about Lolita
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
DVD from $12.49
(4 sellers)
6
2.9088
In a marksmanship contest, Lin McAdam (Stewart) wins a prized Winchester rifle, which is immediately stolen by the runner-up, Dutch Henry Brown (McNally. ...more about Winchester '73
DVD from $5.26
(11 sellers)
7
2.8583
Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. When he's playing comedy, he's the most enjoyable person in the world, but when he's playing drama, it's terrible to be around him. ...more about Double Life
DVD from $9.59
(7 sellers)
8
2.8134
Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women. He also rarely gets emotionally involved with them. ...more about Alfie
DVD from $5.68
(12 sellers)
9
2.8052
Avery Bullard, President of the Tredway Corporation has died. But he never named a clear successor, so the Board members must choose a replacement. ...more about Executive Suite
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.7252
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. ...more about Heavy
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.6959
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role
DVD from $4.11
(11 sellers)
12
2.6797
The life of Jesus Christ. ...more about Greatest Story Ever Told
DVD from $7.49
(12 sellers)
13
2.6617
In the mid-1930's, Adelle (Debbie Reynolds) and Helen (Shelley Winters) are the mothers of a pair of murderers in What's the Matter with Helen? With their small Midwest town in an uproar over a relaxed sentence on the men and harassing them with breathy ...more about What's the Matter with Helen?
DVD from $10.37
(6 sellers)
14
2.6553
Cleopatra Jones is a United States Special Agent assigned to crack down on drug-trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. ...more about Cleopatra Jones
DVD from $1.96
(14 sellers)
15
2.6025
A film-within-a-film: a fading movie producer has a plan for a successful movie: get a actress famous for her wholesome image to appear in the nude on the screen.... much like this film itself. ...more about S.O.B.
DVD from $9.76
(12 sellers)
16
2.5089
A black professional man meets a blind white girl in the park one day. The tray of colored beads she strings for a living has been turned over and he helps her put them back in order. ...more about Patch of Blue
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $12.79
(10 sellers)
17
2.4563
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. ...more about Tentacles
DVD from $9.59
(6 sellers)
18
2.3529
Charles Castle is a Hollywood actor whose career needs to rebound after several flops. When he sees his marriage and career crumbling before him, it's all he can do to keep his spirits up and his wits about him. ...more about Big Knife
DVD from $10.34
(12 sellers)
19
2.3334
Dave Burke is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl Slater, an white ex-convict, and Johnny Ingram, a black gambler. ...more about Odds Against Tomorrow
DVD from $6.59
(9 sellers)
20
2.2952
Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. ...more about Scalphunters
DVD from $6.62
(10 sellers)
21
2.2641
A lawyer (Stephen Blume), specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. ...more about Blume in Love
DVD from $9.83
(10 sellers)
22
2.2456
When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. ...more about Jury Duty
DVD from $3.92
(10 sellers)
23
2.1907
Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. ...more about Balcony
DVD from $24.99
(3 sellers)
25
2.1629
In the early thirties, aspiring writer Christopher Isherwood, living in Berlin, meets the vivacious, penniless singer Sally Bowles. They develop a platonic relationship while Sally has a wild time spending other peoples money. ...more about I Am a Camera
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.1369
Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. ...more about Take One False Step
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.1004
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. ...more about Great Gatsby
- Not Available on DVD
28
2.0505
Harper is one of the best detectives around. He is called by Elaine Sampson to find her missing husband. Harper reluctantly takes the case knowing that his job is putting his marriage in jeopardy. ...more about Harper
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
29
1.9921
David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. His parents want David to study to become a pharmacist. But what he really wants is to be an actor like his idol, Ronald Colman. ...more about Enter Laughing
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.9829
Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most popular entertainer. ...more about Wild in the Streets
DVD from $9.59
(7 sellers)
32
1.9482
This poignant film centers around an overweight chef at a rust-belt tavern. ...more about Heavy
- Not Available on DVD
34
1.7960
Harry Stone (Danny Aiello), a formerly top notch director, has had three disastrous movies in a row. ...more about Pickle
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
35
1.7474
Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is killed, along with a policeman. Nick hides out in a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. He goes back to her apartment with her and forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt. ...more about He Ran All the Way
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.7337
Who knew that an adorable little Welsh terrier could have such dangerous ties? When William "Bill" Denny (Farley Granger) is followed home by a little dog one day, he is totally oblivious to the danger and mayhem he has let himself in for. ...more about Behave Yourself!
DVD from $4.99
(5 sellers)
37
1.7146
This is a retelling of the old tale of Hansel and Gretel, but set in England in the 1920s. To the children and staff at the orphanage, Auntie Roo is a kindly American widow who gives them a lavish Christmas party each year in her mansion, Forrest Grange. ...more about Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
DVD from $10.37
(6 sellers)
38
1.6392
A look at the life, work, and impact of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), pop icon and artist, from his childhood in Pittsburgh to his death after a botched surgery. ...more about Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
DVD from $8.95
(7 sellers)
39
1.5441
William Dudley (Leslie Nielson) is a corrupt mayor of a nameless Midwestern U.S. city who has allowed a chemical refinery to be built right in the center of town, far from any river, lake or reservoir. ...more about City on Fire
- Not Available on DVD
40
1.5400
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three Italian teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts are the case aren't exactly as they seem to be. ...more about Young Savages
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.5250
The federal agent Joe di Foster is currently investigating on a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail. This film is the funny parody of the silence of the lambs. ...more about Silenzio dei prosciutti
- Not Available on DVD
43
1.3378
Just as Jeremy Jackson attempts to become the first male firewoman in New York, fires begin mysteriously erupting from toilets all over the City and Fire Marshal Marc Marshall is called in to investigate. ...more about Backfire!
- Not Available on DVD
45
1.1652
Based on a true story. Kate Barker (Shelley Winters) loves her four sons and would do anything for them. In an attempt to improve their lives, she leads them on a violent spree of bank robbery, murder, and kidnapping. ...more about Bloody Mama
- Not Available on DVD
46
1.1049
Set in the backwoods of the deep south. Young, beautiful Ellie has just witnessed the murder of her father at the hands of her evil step-mother Cora and Cora's three lecherous sons, all hoping to get their hand's on Ellie's father's money. ...more about Ellie
- Not Available on DVD
52
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. ...more about Fanny Hill
DVD from $4.29
(7 sellers)
55
Gideon Webb is a man with the mind of a child. Raised in rural South Carolina, his Aunt can no longer keep him when she re-marries. Gideon is placed in the closest institution that can look after him: A retirement home for the elderly. ...more about Gideon
- Not Available on DVD
65
Danny Wilson and partner Mike make a meager living singing in dives and hustling pool. One night they meet entertainer Joy Carroll, who gets them a job at racketeer Nick Driscoll's posh nightclub. ...more about Meet Danny Wilson
- Not Available on DVD
68
A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan. ...more about Over the Brooklyn Bridge
- Not Available on DVD
70
Nightclub singer Fran Davis (Shelley Winters) is out to educate her out-of-town friend Phyllis Matthews (Coleen Miller)on the ins-and-outs of life in the Big City. ...more about Playgirl
- Not Available on DVD
71
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lieut. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. ...more about Raging Tide
- Not Available on DVD
72
O'Rourke and his Cree half brother Cajou are returning from a northern Canadian trapping trip when they encoutner a burned wagon train and sole surivor Grace. Naive Mountie commander Benton believes it to be a Cree attack. ...more about Saskatchewan
- Not Available on DVD
74
A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because "men like her too much. ...more about South Sea Sinner
- Not Available on DVD
75
A little B-picture that M-G-M tossed out, barely promoted and forgot about but one that is better than some of the A-dross from Leo in the same era. ...more about Tennessee Champ
- Not Available on DVD
76
A European arms dealer (Roger Moore) meets a liberated woman journalist (Susannah York), who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting. Needless to say, the two meet and make sparks. ...more about That Lucky Touch
- Not Available on DVD
78
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. ...more about Three Sisters
- Not Available on DVD
79
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. ...more about To Dorothy a Son
- Not Available on DVD
81
The Denbow family hope to freeze out homesteaders by denying access across their land; but to evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries the only witness, Jane, who's conveniently in love with him, but favors the settlers. ...more about Untamed Frontier
- Not Available on DVD
83
When her psychiatrist is killed in an auto accident, his mentally deranged patient and two of her even crazier companions hide out in a house in a rural area where, years ago, the woman had set fire to her parents. ...more about Witchfire
- Not Available on DVD
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