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Birthdate: June 8, 1918
Death date: March 21, 1987
Robert Preston
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
1.4244
5
1940s
2.4368
20
1950s
1.4805
7
1960s
2.1248
5
1970s
1.6401
4
1980s
1.8428
4
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.4679
2.4679
Robert Preston Movie Rankings
1
3.1222A 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
DVD from $8.68
(13 sellers)
2
3.0875Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. ...more about This Gun for Hire
DVD from $5.95
(11 sellers)
3
2.8205Living 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
DVD from $6.62
(13 sellers)
4
2.7563
Beau, John, and Digby Geste are three inseparable, adventurous brothers who haven been adopted into the wealthy household of Lady Brandon. ...more about Beau Geste
DVD from $16.37
(12 sellers)
5
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
DVD from $8.89
(8 sellers)
6
2.6671
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
DVD from $8.99
(10 sellers)
7
2.6025
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
DVD from $9.76
(12 sellers)
8
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
DVD from $5.95
(11 sellers)
9
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
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
2.2118
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
DVD from $9.76
(9 sellers)
12
2.1245
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
DVD from $9.58
(5 sellers)
13
2.0807
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
1.9757
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
DVD from $5.99
(9 sellers)
15
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
1.9186
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
1.8779
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
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
20
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
DVD from $1.99
(5 sellers)
21
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
DVD from $19.99
(13 sellers)
22
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
DVD from $5.66
(8 sellers)
24
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
31
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. ...more about Lady from Cheyenne
- Not Available on DVD
32
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
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
36
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
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
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
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
DVD from $5.71
(11 sellers)
42
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
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
"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
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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