Robert Preston Movie Rankings
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Robert Preston scores a combined 3.0516 out of 4 stars for Music Man
3.0516
A con-artist posing as a music professor convinces a small town to form a band and buy all the material and instruments from him, promising to teach them himself. ... more about Music Man
Lowest Price: $7.99 
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Robert Preston scores a combined 2.9953 out of 4 stars for This Gun for Hire
2.9953
In this classic tough-guy film noir, genre mainstay Alan Ladd plays Philip Raven, a double-crossed gun-for-hire who is out for revenge. Veronica Lake is Ellen Graham, his platinum blond bombshell companion. ... more about This Gun for Hire
Lowest Price: $7.59 
3
Robert Preston scores a combined 2.8204 out of 4 stars for Junior Bonner
2.8204
Living from rodeo to rodeo Junior Bonner returns to Arizona to find the solid, loving family he left is falling apart. His parents have separated and his brother has gone into real estate. Junior tries to help, but the most important thing to him is the next rodeo. ... more about Junior Bonner
Lowest Price: $4.50 
4
Robert Preston scores a combined 2.7563 out of 4 stars for Beau Geste
2.7563
Beau, John, and Digby Geste are three inseparable, adventurous brothers who haven been adopted into the wealthy household of Lady Brandon. When money in the uppercrust household grows tight, Lady Brandon is forced to sell her most treasured jewel the the mighty "Blue Water" sapphire. ... more about Beau Geste
Lowest Price: $13.47 
5
Robert Preston scores a combined 2.6762 out of 4 stars for Last Starfighter
2.6762
Alex Rogan lives in a trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a big extended family. ... more about Last Starfighter
Actor Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actor
Lowest Price: $15.35 
6
Robert Preston scores a combined 2.6711 out of 4 stars for Wake Island
2.6711
In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes everything. ... more about Wake Island
Lowest Price: $9.29 
7
Robert Preston scores a combined 2.6099 out of 4 stars for S.O.B.
2.6099
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.
Actor Awards
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actor
Lowest Price: $13.66 
8
Robert Preston scores a combined 2.4793 out of 4 stars for Reap the Wild Wind
2.4793
Clipper ships taking the shortest route between the Mississippi and the Atlantic often end up on the shoals of Key West in the 1840s. Salvaging the ships' cargos has become a lucrative business for two companies -- one headed by a feisty young woman. ... more about Reap the Wild Wind
Lowest Price: $7.43 
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Robert Preston scores a combined 2.4078 out of 4 stars for Blood on the Moon
2.4078
When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun. ... more about Blood on the Moon
Not Available on DVD
10
Robert Preston scores a combined 2.4078 out of 4 stars for North West Mounted Police
2.4078
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. ... more about North West Mounted Police
Not Available on DVD
11
Robert Preston scores a combined 2.2192 out of 4 stars for Victor/Victoria
2.2192
Victoria is a poverty-stricken soprano trying to find work in turn-of-the-century Paris. With the help of a worldly-wise nightclub singer, she invents her alter-ego Victor, a female impersonator who is hired to sing at a fashionable night spot. ... more about Victor/Victoria
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actor
Lowest Price: $10.13 
12
Robert Preston scores a combined 2.1230 out of 4 stars for How the West Was Won
2.1230
The history of Western expansion in the United States as told by the story of one pioneer family's history. Zebulon Prescott takes his family from New York, heading West in the early 1800s. ... more about How the West Was Won
Lowest Price: $17.72 
13
Robert Preston scores a combined 2.0829 out of 4 stars for Best of the Badmen
2.0829
After the Civil War, Union Major Clanton captures survivors of Quantrill's Raiders, and gets them clemency at the cost of shooting a mob member. ... more about Best of the Badmen
Not Available on DVD
14
Robert Preston scores a combined 1.9779 out of 4 stars for Last Frontier
1.9779
Crude and uncivilized backwoods trapper Jed Cooper and his two partners sign up as scouts in a remote Oregon army fort, manned chiefly by untrained rookie soldiers. ... more about Last Frontier
Lowest Price: $7.26 
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Robert Preston scores a combined 1.9451 out of 4 stars for Macomber Affair
1.9451
Robert Wilson leads safaris on the Kenyan savannah. On this occasion, he takes Mr. and Mrs. Macomber out to chase buffalo. The obnoxius ways of Margaret Macomber make the three of them get on each others nerves. ... more about Macomber Affair
Not Available on DVD
16
Robert Preston scores a combined 1.9173 out of 4 stars for Mame
1.9173
The musical revolves around the antics of Mame Dennis ('Lucille Ball' (qv)), a fun-loving, wealthy eccentric with a flare for life and a razor sharp wit. ... more about Mame
Not Available on DVD
17
Robert Preston scores a combined 1.8765 out of 4 stars for Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1.8765
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. ... more about Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Not Available on DVD
18
Robert Preston scores a combined 1.8719 out of 4 stars for All the Way Home
1.8719
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
19
Robert Preston scores a combined 1.8044 out of 4 stars for Cloudburst
1.8044
Not Available on DVD
20
Robert Preston scores a combined 1.7533 out of 4 stars for Tulsa
1.7533
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. ... more about Tulsa
Lowest Price: $0.01 
21
Robert Preston scores a combined 1.6712 out of 4 stars for Union Pacific
1.6712
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. ... more about Union Pacific
Lowest Price: $38.31 
22
Robert Preston scores a combined 1.6164 out of 4 stars for Whispering Smith
1.6164
Smith as an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railraod and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa). ... more about Whispering Smith
Lowest Price: $6.34 
23
Robert Preston scores a combined 1.4561 out of 4 stars for Child's Play
1.4561
Not Available on DVD
24
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Big City
0.0001
An abandoned baby is raised by three men: the Rev. Andrews, cantor Feldman, and Officer O'Donnell. When Feldman and O'Donnell each find a woman to fall in love with, they both think of getting married and settling down. ... more about Big City
Not Available on DVD
25
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Disbarred
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
26
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Face to Face
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
31
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Lady from Cheyenne
0.0001
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. ... more about Lady from Cheyenne
Not Available on DVD
32
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Lady Gambles
0.0001
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. ... more about Lady Gambles
Not Available on DVD
34
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for My Outlaw Brother
0.0001
The outlaw El Tigre and his gang have been repeatedly crossing the border into Texas, robbing and killing. In Border City, a ranger is asked to break up the gang, and he heads to Mexico. ... more about My Outlaw Brother
Not Available on DVD
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Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Night of January 16th
0.0001
The story revoles around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner (Nils Asther), who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane (Ellen Drew), his secretary who also has a personal interest; and Steve Van Ruyle ... more about Night of January 16th
Not Available on DVD
38
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Pacific Blackout
0.0001
While bombers roar overhead during a practice blackout in a large American West coast city, Robert Draper (Robert Preston), is among the prisoners in a police van. ... more about Pacific Blackout
Not Available on DVD
39
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Parachute Battalion
0.0001
In this pre-Pearl Harbor recruiting poster, colonel's estranged son Bill Burke, football hero Donald Morse, and hillbilly Jeff Hollis enlist in the paratroopers. ... more about Parachute Battalion
Not Available on DVD
40
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Semi-Tough
0.0001
A comedy about two football players and their mutual girlfriend. Includes many spoofs and parodies about various self-help groups and personal self-improvement seminars that were wildly popular during the 1970's. ... more about Semi-Tough
Not Available on DVD
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Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Typhoon
0.0001
Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on the island in her childhood. They must fight angry natives and a typhoon in order to survive. ... more about Typhoon
Not Available on DVD
43
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Variety Girl
0.0001
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick ... more about Variety Girl
Not Available on DVD
44
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for When I Grow Up
0.0001
"When I Grow Up" is an uncharacteristically modest film from producer Sam Spiegel (during his "S. P. Eagle" years). Bobby Driscoll plays a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. ... more about When I Grow Up
Not Available on DVD
45
Robert Preston scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Wild Harvest
0.0001
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. ... more about Wild Harvest
Not Available on DVD
 
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Robert Preston
Birthdate:
June 8, 1918
Death date:
March 21, 1987

Robert Preston

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1930s
5
total ranking of 1.4244  1.4244
1940s
20
total ranking of 2.4241  2.4241
1950s
7
total ranking of 1.4829  1.4829
1960s
5
total ranking of 2.1042  2.1042
1970s
4
total ranking of 1.6391  1.6391
1980s
4
total ranking of 1.8507  1.8507
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.4612
Robert Preston is ranked overall as 2.4612 of of 4 stars
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