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Birthdate: January 31, 1929
Jean Simmons
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
2.8368
13
1950s
2.7388
22
1960s
2.6623
9
1970s
0.3623
3
1980s
0.5909
2
1990s
1.3892
1
2000s
1.9819
3
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.7137
2.7137
Jean Simmons Movie Rankings
1
3.6087A slave, trained to be a Gladiator, insights a revolt and uprising against the corrupt Roman establishment that imprisons him and his fellow men. ...more about Spartacus
DVD from $12.87
(12 sellers)
2
3.1734Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. ...more about Great Expectations
DVD from $25.57
(14 sellers)
3
3.1277Anglican nuns, led by the stern Sister Clodagh, attempt to establish a religious community in the Himalayas, and must battle not only suspicious locals and the elements, but their own demons as well. ...more about Black Narcissus
DVD from $25.57
(11 sellers)
4
3.0807
In this film of the classic Shakespearean play, a Danish prince seeks to avenge his father's death when his uncle murders his father, succeeds him as King, and marries the Queen. ...more about Hamlet
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Venice Film Festival - Best Actress
DVD from $19.17
(14 sellers)
6
3.0243
When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. ...more about Angel Face
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
7
3.0007
All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. ...more about Guys and Dolls
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $4.99
(14 sellers)
8
2.7591
Retired, wealthy sea Captain Jame McKay (Gregory Peck) arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill (Carroll Baker). ...more about Big Country
DVD from $9.99
(11 sellers)
9
2.7135
Elmer Gantry, salesman, teams up with Sister Sharon Falconer, evangelist, to sell religion to America in the 1920's. They make enough money to build a temple, and Sister Sharon falls for Elmer. ...more about Elmer Gantry
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
DVD from $9.99
(10 sellers)
10
2.6941
In the year 2065, the next great assault against an invading race of phantom-like aliens is about to be launched. Dr. ...more about Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
DVD from $5.99
(16 sellers)
11
2.6149
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. ...more about Egyptian
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.5676
Finn is a young graduate student, finishing a master's thesis, and preparing for marriage to her fiance Sam. But thoughts of the end of the free life, and a potential summer fling, intrude. ...more about How to Make an American Quilt
DVD from $3.92
(13 sellers)
13
2.5615
Cleopatra hasn't been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Caesar finds the prospect of romance more tempting than he expected, since Cleopatra is a rare woman who is bright as well as beautiful. ...more about Caesar and Cleopatra
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.5022
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. ...more about Way to the Stars
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.3638
As usual with most of the RKO films from this era "presented" by RKO-owner Howard Hughes, the PCA number is usually 500-1000 digits lower than the one from other studios being released at the time, indicating it was released a year or more after it was ...more about She Couldn't Say No
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.2249
After 17 years, things have got too predictable and stale. They argue, they visit a marriage counselor, Richard (drunk) visits a prostitute. They split up. ...more about Divorce American Style
DVD from $5.99
(5 sellers)
18
2.1264
When Secret Service agent David Somers is fired, he takes a quiet job with the Fentons at their country estate - cataloging butterflies, hence the title insect. David grows fond of Jess Fenton's niece, a fragile, fey young woman named Sophie. ...more about Clouded Yellow
- Not Available on DVD
20
2.0777
Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. ...more about Robe
Actor Awards
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
DVD from $9.59
(11 sellers)
21
2.0579
A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries. But then her "dead" husband comes back and tries to extort money from her. ...more about Cage of Gold
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.0168
Chronicles the life of queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. Apart from taking part in the court intrigues, she has an unhappy love for admiral Thomas Seymour, and dreams of building a navy to match the Portuguese and the Spanish. ...more about Young Bess
Actor Awards
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
- Not Available on DVD
23
1.9803
Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seaman's spyglass to sell as she heads for New York City. ...more about Actress
Actor Awards
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
- Not Available on DVD
24
1.8733
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. ...more about All the Way Home
- Not Available on DVD
25
1.8446
Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) to protect her step-daughter Marigold (Lea Thompson) during her trip to Denmark. A real caring parent should have hired an army of P.I. ...more about Yellow Pages
DVD from $4.99
(3 sellers)
27
1.8163
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. ...more about Grass Is Greener
DVD from $9.99
(8 sellers)
28
1.7885
Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. ...more about So Long at the Fair
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.6332
In 1931, Elizabeth Rambeau comes from England to live in California with her aunt and uncle of a winemaking dynasty, who are still wealthy despite 12 years of Prohibition. ...more about This Earth Is Mine
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.5785
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
- Not Available on DVD
31
1.5446
A well-dressed man wakes up on a bench in New York's Central Park, with no idea of who he is, or how he got there. All he can find in his pockets are a train schedule, a couple of drug capsules, and a piece of paper with a phone number on it. ...more about Mister Buddwing
- Not Available on DVD
33
1.2839
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this horror-thriller. He is after her money and must try several times before he finally succeeds. ...more about Dominique
- Not Available on DVD
36
When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce about how the two met and married. ...more about Affair with a Stranger
- Not Available on DVD
37
Androcles is a Christian who follows that religion's teachings even as they apply to the treatment of animals. Seeing a lion in pain, he removes a huge thorn from the beast's paw, creating a friend for life. ...more about Androcles and the Lion
- Not Available on DVD
38
A policeman and his prisoner survive the crash of the plane in the mountains in which they were traveling. They seek shelter in the lonely hut of a man and his daughter... ...more about Bullet Is Waiting
- Not Available on DVD
40
To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. ...more about Footsteps in the Fog
- Not Available on DVD
41
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). ...more about Give Us the Moon
- Not Available on DVD
42
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
- Not Available on DVD
44
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
- Not Available on DVD
48
Joe Lampton thought he had really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his father-in-law. ...more about Life at the Top
- Not Available on DVD
50
An unusual but affectionate story of a man's longing for his ideal of peace and serenity. A postman and part-time poet is inspired by the Greek legend of the two elderly guards at Jupiter's temple who are transformed into beautiful trees. ...more about Mr. Sycamore
- Not Available on DVD
52
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. ...more about Until They Sail
- Not Available on DVD
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