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Birthdate: January 18, 1904
Death date: November 29, 1986
Cary Grant
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.9678
34
1940s
3.3773
20
1950s
3.0082
13
1960s
2.7045
5
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.3448
3.3448
Cary Grant Movie Rankings
1
3.6021After her father is convicted of treason and commits suicide Alicia is asked by the U.S. government to spy on a Brazilian Nazi faction to help clear her name. She agrees and later falls in love with the agent assigned to her case, but he feels he still can't trust her. ...more about Notorious
DVD from $39.95
(1 sellers)
2
3.5541Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. ...more about North by Northwest
DVD from $10.53
(18 sellers)
3
3.4740Just 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
DVD from $5.17
(15 sellers)
4
3.3154
Regina returns home to find her house empty and her husband dead. The police inform her her husband had stolen $250,000 from the government. Now, his former associates begin harassing her, assuming she knows where the money is hidden. ...more about Charade
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $2.42
(13 sellers)
5
3.2053
Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day after. ...more about His Girl Friday
DVD from $3.93
(13 sellers)
6
3.1664
Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel in a first class carriage with a third class ticket. ...more about Suspicion
DVD from $7.99
(14 sellers)
7
3.1658
Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. ...more about Holiday
DVD from $10.23
(13 sellers)
8
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)
9
3.0942
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. Unfortunately one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see "his" girl, not realising she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. ...more about She Done Him Wrong
- Not Available on DVD
10
3.0840
Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner both do their best to ruin each other's plans for remarriage, Jerry to haughty socialite Molly Lamont, she to oil-rich bumpkin Daniel Leeson. ...more about Awful Truth
DVD from $15.66
(13 sellers)
11
3.0426
Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Three fun loving sergeants are doing fine until one of them wants to get married and leave the service. ...more about Gunga Din
DVD from $12.20
(8 sellers)
12
3.0158
As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. One of them is the song that was playing when she and Roger first met in a music store. ...more about Penny Serenade
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $1.99
(6 sellers)
13
3.0063
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson (and murder; one man was lost). Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley ... ...more about Talk of the Town
DVD from $15.34
(13 sellers)
14
2.9992
While waiting for her boat, Bonnie Lee stops at a small airport in South America. The pilots there deliver mail over a dangerous and usually foggy mountain pass. Geoff Carter, the lead flyer, seems distant and cold as Bonnie tries to get closer to him. ...more about Only Angels Have Wings
DVD from $10.23
(13 sellers)
15
2.9469
Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca. The overjoyed Nick awkwardly tries to break the news gently to Bianca. ...more about My Favorite Wife
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
16
2.8720
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. ...more about I'm No Angel
DVD from $5.96
(12 sellers)
17
2.8693
The Blandings live in New York in a tiny apartment. They decide to move to the country and find that buying and building and living in their own home is simpler said than done. ...more about Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
18
2.8687
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson. ...more about People Will Talk
DVD from $6.88
(13 sellers)
19
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
20
2.8509
Handsome playboy Nicky Ferrante and beautiful night club singer Terry McKay have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. ...more about Affair to Remember
DVD from $6.88
(12 sellers)
21
2.8059
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope at finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream (one of the best scenes), while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks Philip Adams. ...more about Indiscreet
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $9.00
(11 sellers)
22
2.7719
Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Capt. Rochard tries to return to America with the other female war brides. ...more about I Was a Male War Bride
DVD from $6.88
(10 sellers)
23
2.7664
Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. ...more about Monkey Business
DVD from $6.88
(13 sellers)
24
2.7362
American expatriate John Robie living in high style on the Riviera is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copy cat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. ...more about To Catch a Thief
DVD from $5.56
(13 sellers)
25
2.7302
An episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for a new cathedral paid for by a stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. ...more about Bishop's Wife
DVD from $6.62
(13 sellers)
26
2.6939
Cary Grant plays gambler, Joe Adams, who takes on the identity of a dead gangster in order to avoid the draft. ...more about Mr. Lucky
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.6452
Smalltime crookster and showman Jerry Flynn is desperately searching for a new act to promote in order to save him from ruin. He meets a boy on the street who claims to have a dancing caterpillar called Curly. ...more about Once Upon a Time
DVD from $26.99
(2 sellers)
28
2.6378
Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. ...more about Houseboat
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
29
2.6347
During World War II South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. ...more about Father Goose
DVD from $9.10
(9 sellers)
30
2.6163
The story starts just before the Civil War, showing Fisk (Arnold), Boyd (Grant), and Luke (Oakie) conning Southern townsfolk into buying bars of soap that, might, have a $10 gold piece inside. ...more about Toast of New York
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.5902
Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates. ...more about Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
DVD from $11.64
(12 sellers)
32
2.5752
American showgirl Suzy is in London in 1914. She loves Irish inventor Terry who works for an engineering firm owned by a German woman. After their marriage Terry is murdered and Suzy flees to Paris where she meets flyer Andre as war is breaking out. ...more about Suzy
- Not Available on DVD
33
2.5661
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy. ...more about Eagle and the Hawk
- Not Available on DVD
34
2.5273
A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Going slowly to this site, they find a stranded group of Army nurses and must take them aboard. ...more about Operation Petticoat
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $8.18
(11 sellers)
35
2.4876
The funloving Kerbys, stockholders in the bank of which henpecked, stuffy Cosmo Topper is president, drive recklessly once too often and become ghosts. ...more about Topper
DVD from $4.98
(5 sellers)
36
2.4839
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
37
2.4824
Made during World War II, this chronicles a voyage of a U.S. submarine on a secret mission to the very shores of Japan. Much of the film is spent developing the cast of characters that populate the sub. ...more about Destination Tokyo
DVD from $8.63
(12 sellers)
38
2.4611
The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s. ...more about Night and Day
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
39
2.4337
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. ...more about Blonde Venus
DVD from $16.37
(11 sellers)
40
2.4290
Three decorated Navy pilots finagle a four day leave in San Francisco. They procure a posh suite at the hotel and Commander Crewson, a master of procurement, arranges to populate it with party people. ...more about Kiss Them for Me
DVD from $6.88
(11 sellers)
41
2.3789
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage. ...more about Every Girl Should Be Married
- Not Available on DVD
42
2.3652
On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening to her, like changing her size or playing croquet with flamingos. ...more about Alice in Wonderland
- Not Available on DVD
43
2.3345
Cary Grant arrives in Tokyo early during Olympic week. With no hotel rooms anywhere, he pulls a card from the embassy bulletin board and talks his way into Samantha Eggar's flat. ...more about Walk Don't Run
DVD from $13.34
(10 sellers)
44
2.2876
While out riding in the country, wealthy New Yorker Alec Walker meets young widow Julie Eden, and a relationship quickly develops. ...more about In Name Only
- Not Available on DVD
45
2.2026
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage of. ...more about Born to Be Bad
DVD from $6.02
(10 sellers)
46
2.1690
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. ...more about Dream Wife
- Not Available on DVD
47
2.1552
Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. ...more about Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
DVD from $4.99
(6 sellers)
48
2.0560
Cathy Timberlake is an old fashioned country girl who meets the man of her dreams, Philip Shayne, after his Rolls Royce splashes her with mud on her way to a job interview. Philip is a romantic businessman who is taken by Cathy's honest heart. ...more about That Touch of Mink
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $7.14
(10 sellers)
50
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)
51
1.7702
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. ...more about Pride and the Passion
DVD from $6.62
(9 sellers)
52
1.6287
Dr Ferguson is a brain surgeon, on vacation with his wife in a small Spanish-speaking country. This is actually a dictatorship ruled by tyrant Raoul Farrago. As they leave the country, Dr and Madam are arrested and lead to Farrago. ...more about Crisis
- Not Available on DVD
53
1.5981
Dan Barr is a flatfoot on the trail of jewel robbers. Eve Fallon is his girl of 5 years. We meet them spitting and sparring, but never doubting they're in love. Eve is a manicurist, with an eye for news. ...more about Big Brown Eyes
DVD from $12.34
(13 sellers)
54
1.5981
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her. ...more about Thirty Day Princess
DVD from $12.34
(13 sellers)
57
Mortimer Bruster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. ...more about Arsenic and Old Lace
DVD from $8.68
(11 sellers)
58
Naval commander Charles Storm has made life miserable for his wife Pauline due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. ...more about Devil and the Deep
- Not Available on DVD
59
Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career. ...more about Enter Madame
- Not Available on DVD
60
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. ...more about Gambling Ship
- Not Available on DVD
62
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. ...more about Ladies Should Listen
- Not Available on DVD
64
Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton is on shore-leave in Japan. He and his buddy Lieutenant Barton, out for a night on the town, stop in at a local establishment to check out the food, drink and girls, 'uh, and girls' to quote Lt. Barton. ...more about Madame Butterfly
- Not Available on DVD
65
Frederich March plays nere-do-well Jerry Corbett, who finally meets and marries the right girl, Joan Prentiss, played by Sylvia Sydney. ...more about Merrily We Go to Hell
- Not Available on DVD
66
At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole, an American radio reporter, sees this as a chance to investigate Von Luber, who is suspected of having Nazi ties. ...more about Once Upon a Honeymoon
- Not Available on DVD
67
Anne and "Poppy" Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once. ...more about Room for One More
- Not Available on DVD
68
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer. ...more about Sinners in the Sun
- Not Available on DVD
72
Jeffrey and Glenda play two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. ...more about Woman Accused
- Not Available on DVD
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