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Actor Facts
Birth:
March 10, 1911
Death:
August 26, 1976
Biography:
Starting out as a child actor in silent films, Warner Anderson appeared in burlesque and vaudeville as a teenager, and enjoyed a career in Broadway plays before making his film debut in the early 1940s. His no-nonsense demeanor and commanding voice served him well in playing corporate executives, judges, army officers and other authority figures. ...more about Warner Anderson
Warner Anderson
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
1.9845
22
1950s
2.4132
17
1960s
No Reviews
2
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards for each movie.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.2049
2.2049Warner Anderson Movie Rankings
1
2.9467On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem him; a pair of blustering, but dangerous, burglars; a charmingly naive shoplifter who ...more about Detective Story
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
2
2.9088A group of officers get a new captain during WW II. The new captain is different and they begin to suspect his sanity. ...more about Caine Mutiny
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
3
2.8666A private businessman arranges for an expedition to the moon before the Russians get there first. The American astronauts fly there, establish a base, but are not certain they have enough fuel to return to Earth. ...more about Destination Moon
- DVD Best Pricing:
BarnesandNoble.com
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4
2.6118Nick and Nora Charles are attending a charity benefit aboard a gambling ship. The festive atmosphere conceals many tensions among those connected with the ship, with most of the friction centering around Tommy Drake, its unpopular, spiteful band-leader. ...more about Song of the Thin Man
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
5
2.5804The Original 50's classic about a decent middle aged school teacher who goes to teach in an unruly high school filled with thugs led by Vic Morrow. This is the original film that has had several unofficial updated remakes over the years. ...more about Blackboard Jungle
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
6
2.5719Margaret Elliot is a former oscar winning actress who's career is over and is completely broke. She then desperately tries to get her career and life back, while Jim and daughter, Gretchen try to get her back to reality. ...more about Star
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
7
2.4824Made 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 Best Pricing:
Herman Street
8
2.3774General Dennis of the US Force in England in World War II finds that he must order his planes deeper and deeper into Germany to prevent the production of military jet planes that will turn the tide of battle to the Germans. ...more about Command Decision
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.3013Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance ...more about Week-End at the Waldorf
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.2830It's just after the civil war when the elderly outlaw Bascomb and his gang try to rob a bank. They run into a trap as officers are waiting in ambush. Bascomb and the cold blooded killer Yancy escape and join a Mormon wagon train heading for Utah. ...more about Bad Bascomb
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.1734Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children. ...more about My Reputation
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.1629Colorful bayou peddler Hank Martin marries pretty teacher Verity, who finds that the rural poor all love Hank. Gradually, she realizes that Hank's popularity is the fruit of his expert manipulation of everyone he knows. ...more about Lion Is in the Streets
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.0898The marshal of Medicine Bend is tired and alone. Tired of killing to keep himself from being killed; alone because of an unspoken past disappointment. ...more about Lawless Street
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
14
1.9620A Union ex-officer plans to sell up to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancee, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bully-boy tactics make him think again. ...more about Violent Men
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
15
1.9177It had been forty years since Richard, James and Theodore insulted The O'Monahan and he put a vexing blessing on them. All three have obtained their dreams of grandeur, but they all live in a single house as bachelors. ...more about Three Wise Fools
- Not Available on DVD
17
1.5967A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. ...more about Go for Broke!
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
18
1.5602After the Civil War four brothers who fought for the South head west. Yanks are building the Santa Fe Railroad and one of the brothers joins them. ...more about Santa Fe
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
19
0.2283Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. ...more about High Wall
- Not Available on DVD
20
Buzz and Abercrombie are agents trying to get Jeff Parker the lead in a movie musical. Routines include Lou's insomnia and his being unable to hear Bud due to his wearing an earplug. Lots of movie studio stuff. ...more about Abbott and Costello in Hollywood
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
21
A convict (Wallace Beery) is finishing a ten-year prison sentence, during which time he has studied to become a gentleman and intends to go straight. ...more about Alias a Gentleman
- Not Available on DVD
22
American army unit is trapped in a small town by a German counterattack, discovers that a spy in town is providing the Germans with military information. ...more about Armored Command
- Not Available on DVD
23
Anne Parkson (Frances Gifford) feels neglected by her lawyer-husband Ted (George Murphy), so she falls in love with night-club owner Tony Arnello (John Hodiak), a shady character who is a client of her husband's. ...more about Arnelo Affair
- Not Available on DVD
26
After surviving a plane crash, a couple tries to find out why one of the passengers was carrying four wills for a million dollars, with each one naming him as the beneficiary. ...more about Dangerous Partners
- Not Available on DVD
29
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. ...more about Drum Beat
- Not Available on DVD
32
When the anxiously awaited posse returns with neither prisoners nor the stolen money, we learn in flashback what happened. Having been cheated by Sampson Drune, a father and his two sons have robbed him and fled. ...more about Last Posse
- Not Available on DVD
34
Semi-successful lawyer John Malone is intrigued by local night club singer Anna Marie St. Clair. After meeting her at the club, he is present when her boss (and more?) is killed, and she is arrested for the crime. ...more about Lucky Stiff
- Not Available on DVD
35
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. ...more about Objective
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
36
The city of Tulsa is founded after the 1893 Oklahoma land rush. Judge John Kincaid becomes mayor, and his son, Ned, is sheriff. Saloon owner Whip McCord, who has a criminal past, plots against them to gain control of the city. ...more about Oklahoma Outlaws
- Not Available on DVD
37
Capt. Richard Lance (Gregory Peck) is unjustly held responsible, by his men & girlfriend, for an Indian massacre death of beloved Lt. Holloway. Holloway (Gig Young) is killed while escorting a dangerous Indian chief to another fort's prison. ...more about Only the Valiant
- Not Available on DVD
38
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches. ...more about Rio Conchos
- Not Available on DVD
39
Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. ...more about Tenth Avenue Angel
- Not Available on DVD
40
The Fallon lumber company is after California's redwood trees but logger Bill Cardigan who wants to save the trees is in the way. Cardigan has a note due at the bank and needs to get a large supply of logs to the mill. ...more about Trial by Trigger
- Not Available on DVD
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