TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Piper Laurie.
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Birthdate: January 22, 1932
Piper Laurie
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1950s
2.1475
17
1960s
2.3660
2
1970s
1.4978
3
1980s
0.8958
6
1990s
2.2883
11
2000s
2.1359
4
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.2114
2.2114
Piper Laurie Movie Rankings
1
3.2533"Fast" Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary "Minnesota Fats" to a high-stakes match, but he loses in a heartbreaking marathon. ...more about Hustler
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actress
DVD from $14.99
(11 sellers)
2
3.0050Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. ...more about Carrie
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role
DVD from $5.69
(14 sellers)
3
2.9386Dorothy, back in Kansas, can't stop thinking about Oz, and even believes that her friends have sent her a key. Auntie Em, worried for Dorothy's health, takes her to a famous doctor who works miracles with electricity. ...more about Return to Oz
DVD from $7.02
(9 sellers)
4
2.6933
A horror tale set in a High School where the students suspect the teaching staff of being aliens, who are intent on making the students their victims. ...more about Faculty
DVD from $7.02
(12 sellers)
5
2.6335
An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. ...more about Trauma
DVD from $12.14
(8 sellers)
6
2.5397
The film tells the story of seven seemingly unrelated women and their possible connection to a dead woman found in a field. ...more about Dead Girl
DVD from $7.75
(10 sellers)
7
2.4977
The "Dead Girl" is a quintet of stories about seemingly unrelated women whose lives converge around the murder of a young woman. ...more about Dead Girl
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.4095
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. ...more about No Room for the Groom
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.4042
After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. ...more about Grass Harp
Actor Awards
- Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $7.00
(12 sellers)
10
2.3906
When three generations of a dysfunctional family gather in Rhode Island to bury the family patriarch, members of the Collins clan are at each other's throats in no time. Son Daniel is a secret porn actor, and daughter Lucy is a lesbian. ...more about Eulogy
DVD from $4.60
(9 sellers)
11
2.3476
The Crossing Guard is a suspenseful action thriller about one man's unquenchable thirst for revenge. For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale(Nicholson) has waited for John Booth(Morse), the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. ...more about Crossing Guard
DVD from $4.99
(10 sellers)
12
2.0990
Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago because he was poor. ...more about Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
DVD from $12.34
(12 sellers)
13
1.9529
Harum (Rock Hudson) is a fearless man of the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets Krairuzan (Piper Laurie), a princess disguised as a commoner, working against a plot by a band of evil schemers trying to do away with ...more about Golden Blade
DVD from $12.34
(12 sellers)
14
1.9176
Emily Boynton, step-mother to the three Boynton children and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of her late husband which would have freed the childern from her dominating influence. ...more about Appointment with Death
- Not Available on DVD
15
1.8340
A young candidate for the senate is filmed with a hooker as blackmail. As he investigates, he discovers some family secrets involving his father and their political careers. ...more about Storyville
DVD from $4.99
(2 sellers)
16
1.8086
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. ...more about Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
- Not Available on DVD
17
1.7337
The Norton family is in a turmoil due to faultfinding grandma Louisa. ...more about Louisa
- Not Available on DVD
18
1.6705
A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. ...more about Other People's Money
DVD from $4.99
(11 sellers)
19
1.6301
Summer vacation will never be the same for nine College students on their way to Lake Tahoe when they are derailed from their plans and land at 'Millie's Cherry Pie Inn and Diner' and the very 'normalcy' of both Conrad Janis as 'Lawrence' the Charming ...more about Bad Blood
- Not Available on DVD
20
1.5967
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. ...more about Dawn at Socorro
- Not Available on DVD
21
1.5296
The life of a teenager (Kathryn Erbe), in her last year of high school in Charleston, South Carolina, is upended when her mother (Jill Clayburgh) leaves her father (Albert Finney) and cuts all contact with her family. ...more about Rich in Love
- Not Available on DVD
22
1.2245
Tim is a young man with below average intelligence. He works as a builder's labourer, and is often taken advantage of by his fellow workers and other people. Mary asks Tim to work around her yard for a day. ...more about Tim
- Not Available on DVD
23
1.1766
In medieval Persia, Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a roisterer by night. The morning after a rowdy banquet, Kiki, an escaped slave, takes shelter under Kashma's roof. ...more about Son of Ali Baba
- Not Available on DVD
24
1.0008
Sixteen years after Ruby Claire's gangster boyfriend was shot and killed by four associates, a series of gruesome murders takes place at the drive-in movie theatre she now owns. ...more about Ruby
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress - Horror
DVD from $6.00
(6 sellers)
25
0.6757
An unfortunate bike accident leaves the minds of an elderly man and a young teenager swapped over - and the teenager uses the mind of the elderly man to win the girl of his dreams. ...more about Dream a Little Dream
DVD from $6.29
(10 sellers)
29
Witness to a mob killing and afraid to testify, young Louise Graham flees to Montana where she hopes to disappear working in the gift shop at Glacier National Park. ...more about Dangerous Mission
- Not Available on DVD
31
Automobile engineer, Johnny Dark (Tony Curtis), designs a radical new car. ...more about Johnny Dark
- Not Available on DVD
32
Flop vaudeville performer Len Carmody is adopted by Kelly, a trained dog abandoned by Malo's dog act. When Kelly joins Len's ho-hum song and dance, a popular comedy act is born. ...more about Kelly and Me
- Not Available on DVD
33
A teenage actor called Jordan Highland is won as a prize in a card game between his actress mother and cancer-stricken grandmother. As her illness gets worse, Jordan and his grandmother take a road trip to the Nevada desert to spend time with each other. ...more about Mao Game
Actor Awards
- Seattle International Film Festival - Best Actress
- Not Available on DVD
34
Roger Bradley, son of a milk magnate, isn't allowed to work for his dad's company because of a lingering war trauma: in moments of stress he quacks like a duck. ...more about Milkman
- Not Available on DVD
35
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. ...more about Mississippi Gambler
- Not Available on DVD
36
A Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival, this hard-hitting, dramatic production is about the relationship between a young man with AIDS and his estranged mother. ...more about Mother
- Not Available on DVD
37
Two dimwit owners (Robert Carradine, Richard Hillman) of a struggling hauling company are approached about hauling a huge, mysterious box across country at the end of the century. ...more about Palmer's Pick Up
- Not Available on DVD
39
Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. ...more about Smoke Signal
- Not Available on DVD
42
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. ...more about Until They Sail
- Not Available on DVD
43
0.0001
A man goes to speak with a gigolo and is promptly beaten for his trouble. Soon afterward, his wife is told that he burned to death in a car wreck and is shown the body... ...more about Distortions
- Not Available on DVD
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