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Birthdate: May 12, 1907

Death date: June 29, 2003

Katharine Hepburn

ACTOR RANKINGS:

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All-time

of 196,448

20
All Time Actress

of 24,004

6
Decades
- 1930s
  
  of 4,137
  
  67
- 1940s
  
  of 5,357
  
  51
- 1950s
  
  of 7,577
  
  9
- 1960s
  
  of 10,860
  
  15
- 1970s
  
  of 21,066
  
  2,330
- 1980s
  
  of 44,733
  
  4,188
- 1990s
  
  of 71,585
  
  11,251
Genres
- Adventure
  
  of 25,536
  
  477
- Biography
  
  of 11,944
  
  2,518
- Comedy
  
  of 84,829
  
  7
- Drama
  
  of 107,166
  
  3
- Family
  
  of 15,342
  
  214
- Family
  
  of 15,342
  
  214
- Horror
  
  of 36,682
  
  1,234
- Music
  
  of 9,349
  
  6,840
- Musical
  
  of 10,828
  
  5,938
- Romance
  
  of 37,232
  
  3
- Sports
  
  of 9,438
  
  206
- Thriller
  
  of 49,529
  
  26,606
- War
  
  of 9,729
  
  269
- Western
  
  of 7,069
  
  2,561

CAREER SPAN

Decade

Movie Score

# Movies

1930s

3.6848

1940s

2.8964

1950s

3.1391

1960s

2.9427

1970s

1.8084

1980s

1.7192

1990s

1.6048

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.

Overall Actor Score: Katharine Hepburn is ranked overall as 3.4032 of of 4 stars

3.4032

Katharine Hepburn Movie Rankings

Katharine Hepburn starring in Philadelphia Story

Philadelphia Story, The (1940)

3.4740

Just before Tracy is about to marry, her ex-husband shows up at the wedding with a reporter from a local magazine, but while he is there Tracy begins to reconsider her engagement and starts falling for her ex. ...more about Philadelphia Story

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress

DVD from $5.17

(15 sellers)

Katharine Hepburn starring in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

3.3144

The answer to that question is, your new son-in-law's parents. A wealthy white family is informed that their daughter's intended is coming to meet them, and he's black. Scripted in the late 60s, the idea of a bi-racial marriage was still fairly shocking. ...more about Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama

DVD from $12.74

(2 sellers)

Katharine Hepburn starring in African Queen

African Queen, The (1951)

3.1952

At the start of WWI, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samual Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayer's sister, Rose, back to civilization. ...more about African Queen

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role

Not Available on DVD

Holiday (1938)

3.1658

Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. ...more about Holiday

DVD from $10.23

(13 sellers)

Woman of the Year (1942)

3.1373

Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. ...more about Woman of the Year

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role

DVD from $8.68

(13 sellers)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

3.1155

When a stuffy paleontologist and a scatterbrained heiress cross paths chaos ensues. She mistakes him for a zoologist and insists he help her with her pet leopard. ...more about Bringing Up Baby

DVD from $14.42

(16 sellers)

Lion in Winter, The (1968)

3.0865

Christmas 1183--an aging and conniving King Henry II plans a reunion where he hopes to name his successor. ...more about Lion in Winter

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama

DVD from $4.12

(12 sellers)

Morning Glory (1933)

3.0253

Eva Lovelace, would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage, is a wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms. ...more about Morning Glory

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role

Not Available on DVD

Stage Door (1937)

2.9372

Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. ...more about Stage Door

DVD from $8.68

(13 sellers)

Delicate Balance, A (1973)

2.9335

The setting is the comfortable Connecticut home of a well-to-do family. Agnes is a determined, powerful woman who feels she must hold her husband together and present a brave face to the world. ...more about Delicate Balance

DVD from $23.14

(10 sellers)

Desk Set (1957)

2.9290

The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner, who's been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing the office. ...more about Desk Set

DVD from $9.27

(10 sellers)

Adam's Rib (1949)

2.8994

When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. ...more about Adam's Rib

DVD from $9.76

(13 sellers)

Little Women (1933)

2.8732

Little Women is a "coming of age" drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. ...more about Little Women

Actor Awards

Venice Film Festival - Best Actress

DVD from $11.99

(11 sellers)

Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

2.8644

Escaping to England from a French embezzlement charge, widower Henry Scarlett is accompanied by daughter Sylvia who, to avoid detection, "disguises" herself as a boy, "Sylvester. ...more about Sylvia Scarlett

Not Available on DVD

Pat and Mike (1952)

2.8478

Pat's a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiance is around. The lady's golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. ...more about Pat and Mike

Actor Awards

BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy

DVD from $7.99

(13 sellers)

On Golden Pond (1981)

2.8439

The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. ...more about On Golden Pond

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
American Movie Awards - Best Actress
BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama

DVD from $7.14

(15 sellers)

Summertime (1955)

2.8186

Jane Hudson, a jaunty as well as attractive middle-aged secretary from Akron, Ohio, has finally made it to Venice, Italy, for her long-awaited dream vacation. ...more about Summertime

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actress

DVD from $21.95

(9 sellers)

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

2.8185

Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife, fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous actor and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and a misfit. ...more about Long Day's Journey Into Night

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role

DVD from $9.99

(5 sellers)

Keeper of the Flame (1942)

2.7670

Journalist Steve O'Malley is writing a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. The man's widow Christine cooperates, and Steve learns that she could have warned him of the bridge but chose not to... ...more about Keeper of the Flame

Not Available on DVD

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

2.7177

In New Orleans in 1937, a rich widow, Mrs. Venable, plans to fund a hospital building for a state asylum, if Dr. Cukrowicz will perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine. Mrs. ...more about Suddenly

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama

DVD from $13.34

(9 sellers)

State of the Union (1948)

2.6958

Kay Thordyke loves Grant Matthews and helps him become Republican nominee for President. The party machine begins to worry as Grant begins to speak for himself. ...more about State of the Union

DVD from $8.89

(9 sellers)

Bill of Divorcement, A (1932)

2.6939

After spending fifteen years in an asylum, Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. He finds that things at home are different than when he left them. ...more about Bill of Divorcement

Not Available on DVD

Quality Street (1937)

2.6209

Phoebe and Susan Throssel are sisters living in Quality Street. Phoebe is courted by Dr. Valentine Brown and her sister and noisy neighbors expect a proposal shortly. ...more about Quality Street

Not Available on DVD

Alice Adams (1935)

2.6086

In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. ...more about Alice Adams

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role

DVD from $6.00

(11 sellers)

Break of Hearts (1935)

2.6026

Franz Roberti is a famous orchestra conductor who has a number of girlfriends. While talking with his old music teacher, Professor Thalma, he meets Constance, an aspiring music composer. They see each other, fall in love and marry. ...more about Break of Hearts

Not Available on DVD

Love Affair (1994)

2.5284

Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. Both engaged to others, they become romantic on board the ship sent to take the 'plane passengers to a larger island. ...more about Love Affair

DVD from $8.49

(11 sellers)

Mary of Scotland (1936)

2.4816

Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to rule as queen, to the chagrin of Elizabeth I of England who finds her a dangerous rival. ...more about Mary of Scotland

DVD from $38.35

(9 sellers)

Spitfire (1934)

2.4108

Mountain girl Trigger Hicks, a fierce loner equally handy with a rock or a prayer, is in danger of having her faith-healing mistaken for witchcraft by the neighbors. ...more about Spitfire

Not Available on DVD

Little Minister, The (1934)

2.4017

In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. ...more about Little Minister

Not Available on DVD

Without Love (1945)

2.2465

In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together. ...more about Without Love

Not Available on DVD

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

2.2419

"Dakota," a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. ...more about Stage Door Canteen

DVD from $4.08

(5 sellers)

Dragon Seed (1944)

2.1141

Not Available on DVD

Madwoman of Chaillot, The (1969)

2.0682

Not Available on DVD

Christopher Strong (1933)

2.0547

At a party for Bright Young Things, a "treasure hunt" for attractive yet virtuous people nets Sir Christopher Strong, M.P., and Lady Cynthia Darrington, dashing aviatrix. ...more about Christopher Strong

Not Available on DVD

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)

1.9054

Biography of director George Stevens by his son. It includes clips from many of his films with commentary by the actors and by directors such as Frank Capra, John Huston and Alan Pakula, among others. ...more about George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

DVD from $12.78

(8 sellers)

Undercurrent (1946)

1.7259

Not Available on DVD

Rooster Cogburn (1975)

1.6181

A small village in the Indian Nation that is run by a Minister Goodnight and his daughter Eula is overrun by a band of drunken thugs. They kill and rape the people of the village. Miss Goodnight then teams up with the ruthless Marshal Rooster J. ...more about Rooster Cogburn

DVD from $5.66

(10 sellers)

Trojan Women, The (1971)

1.5259

Hecuba and the other women of Troy rise to find their city in ruins and their cause lost. The city has fallen into Greek hands and it is likely their lot to become slaves of Greek soldiers. ...more about Trojan Women

Actor Awards

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress

DVD from $20.95

(7 sellers)

Song of Love (1947)

1.5068

Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms. ...more about Song of Love

Not Available on DVD

Sea of Grass, The (1947)

1.4611

The highly melodramatic western begins with St. Louis resident Katharine Hepburn marrying New Mexico cattleman Spencer Tracy after a short courtship. ...more about Sea of Grass

Not Available on DVD

Rainmaker, The (1956)

1.4141

Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. ...more about Rainmaker

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama

DVD from $4.94

(10 sellers)

American Creed (1946)

No Reviews Available

Not Available on DVD

Grace Quigley (1984)

No Reviews Available

Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. One day she witnesses a murder being committed by top hit-man, Seymour Flint. ...more about Grace Quigley

Not Available on DVD

Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987)

No Reviews Available

Not Available on DVD

Iron Petticoat, The (1956)

No Reviews Available

Captain Vinka Kovelenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. ...more about Iron Petticoat

Not Available on DVD

Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (1978)

No Reviews Available

DVD from $8.63

(6 sellers)

Woman Rebels, A (1936)

No Reviews Available

The story revolves around Pamela, as a woman in late-1800's England who has no intention of marriage and wishes to be her own person. ...more about Woman Rebels

Not Available on DVD

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