John Garfield Movie Rankings
1
John Garfield scores a combined 3.1381 out of 4 stars for Gentleman's Agreement
3.1381
This film is about a journalist who passes himself off as a Jew to write an article about Semitism in America. ... more about Gentleman's Agreement
DVD from $3.89 
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2
John Garfield scores a combined 3.1295 out of 4 stars for Postman Always Rings Twice
3.1295
Nick Smith, the middle-aged proprietor of a roadside restaurant, hires drifter Frank Chambers as a handyman. Frank eventually begins an affair with Nick's beautiful wife Cora, who talks Frank into helping her kill Nick, by "accident. ... more about Postman Always Rings Twice
DVD from $6.06 
(6 sellers)
3
John Garfield scores a combined 2.7641 out of 4 stars for Force of Evil
2.7641
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. ... more about Force of Evil
DVD from $6.75 
(3 sellers)
4
John Garfield scores a combined 2.7606 out of 4 stars for Body and Soul
2.7606
Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. ... more about Body and Soul
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $6.50 
(3 sellers)
5
John Garfield scores a combined 2.7222 out of 4 stars for Humoresque
2.7222
Helen Wright, a neurotic society woman, sets her sights on ambitious young violinist Paul Boray, who returns her love, but is undeterred from his music. ... more about Humoresque
DVD from $3.78 
(7 sellers)
6
John Garfield scores a combined 2.6970 out of 4 stars for They Made Me a Criminal
2.6970
Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the world championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken for dead. Running away from New York, he ends up in a ranch in Arizona, run by an old lady as a work farm for delinquent teenagers. ... more about They Made Me a Criminal
DVD from $1.96 
(4 sellers)
7
John Garfield scores a combined 2.5630 out of 4 stars for Between Two Worlds
2.5630
Several people are killed in a London air raid. They each awake aboard a strange ship which will deliver each of them either to heaven or hell. Their lives and stories are revealed as they individually begin to realize where they are. ... more about Between Two Worlds
Not Available on DVD
8
John Garfield scores a combined 2.5592 out of 4 stars for Sea Wolf
2.5592
Humphrey van Weyden, a writer, and fugitives Ruth Webster and George Leach have been given refuge aboard the sealer "Ghost," captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen. ... more about Sea Wolf
Not Available on DVD
9
John Garfield scores a combined 2.4824 out of 4 stars for Destination Tokyo
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 $5.79 
(7 sellers)
10
John Garfield scores a combined 2.3994 out of 4 stars for Four Daughters
2.3994
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. ... more about Four Daughters
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Not Available on DVD
11
John Garfield scores a combined 2.3218 out of 4 stars for Juarez
2.3218
The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. ... more about Juarez
Not Available on DVD
12
John Garfield scores a combined 2.3049 out of 4 stars for We Were Strangers
2.3049
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. ... more about We Were Strangers
DVD from $5.50 
(5 sellers)
13
John Garfield scores a combined 2.1734 out of 4 stars for Nobody Lives Forever
2.1734
Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich young widow, but finds himself falling for her for real, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts. ... more about Nobody Lives Forever
Not Available on DVD
14
John Garfield scores a combined 2.0684 out of 4 stars for Out of the Fog
2.0684
Fishermen Jonah Goodwin and Olaf Johnson are confronted by gangster Harold Goff who tries to extort "boat protection" money out of the two men. ... more about Out of the Fog
Not Available on DVD
15
John Garfield scores a combined 1.8546 out of 4 stars for Breaking Point
1.8546
Fishing boat captain Harry Morgan charters his boat. Due to strained finances, he is none too careful as to whom he does business with. ... more about Breaking Point
Not Available on DVD
16
John Garfield scores a combined 1.8173 out of 4 stars for Castle on the Hudson
1.8173
Mobster Tommy Gordon isn't worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison because his political pals have promised him a quick parole. A troublesome prisoner, he finally concedes that his friends have deserted him, and he makes an effort to reform. ... more about Castle on the Hudson
Not Available on DVD
18
John Garfield scores a combined 1.8173 out of 4 stars for Saturday's Children
1.8173
Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become rich. ... more about Saturday's Children
Not Available on DVD
19
John Garfield scores a combined 1.8081 out of 4 stars for Dangerously They Live
1.8081
Dr. Michael Lewis treats Jane, a mysterious woman claiming to be a British secret agent on the run from German spies. ... more about Dangerously They Live
Not Available on DVD
20
John Garfield scores a combined 1.7496 out of 4 stars for He Ran All the Way
1.7496
Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is killed, along with a policeman. Nick hides out in a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. He goes back to her apartment with her and forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt. ... more about He Ran All the Way
Not Available on DVD
21
John Garfield scores a combined 1.7488 out of 4 stars for Thank Your Lucky Stars
1.7488
Two producers are putting together a Calvacade of Stars for a wartime charity show. Along with a list of well-knowns they promote the work of an unknown singer and songwriter. ... more about Thank Your Lucky Stars
Not Available on DVD
22
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Blackwell's Island
0.0001
In a fictional version of true events at the New York prison of Blackwell's Island in 1934, reporter Tim Haydon breaks up a crime organization run by racketeer Bull Bransom from within the prison. ... more about Blackwell's Island
Not Available on DVD
23
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Daughters Courageous
0.0001
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. ... more about Daughters Courageous
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24
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Dust Be My Destiny
0.0001
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. ... more about Dust Be My Destiny
Not Available on DVD
25
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for East of the River
0.0001
Troubled youths Joe and Nick Lorenzo grow into very different men: Joe a small-time hoodlum and Nick an honored college graduate. When Nick falls for Joe's girl Laurie, trouble erupts between the two men and also with the gang that has it in for Joe. ... more about East of the River
Not Available on DVD
26
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Flowing Gold
0.0001
Johnny Blake, dodging the law on a false murder charge, gets work in the oil fields. His boss and friend Hap O'Connor turns on him when Johnny and Hap's girlfriend Linda fall in love. An oil well fire becomes the catalyst for their relationships. ... more about Flowing Gold
Not Available on DVD
27
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Four Wives
0.0001
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Adam Lemp and his daughters have gone on with life after the death of Mickey Borden. Ann, Mickey's widow, falls in love with Felix Dietz, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child. ... more about Four Wives
Not Available on DVD
28
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Canteen
0.0001
Two soldiers on sick leave spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen before going back to active duty. With a little friendly help from John Garfield, Slim gets to kiss Joan Leslie, who he has been dreaming about while in the Pacific. ... more about Hollywood Canteen
Not Available on DVD
29
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Meet the Stars #1: Chinese Garden Festival
0.0001
A deluge of stars turn out at Pickfair, where Mary Pickford and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers host a benefit to aid war-torn China. ... more about Meet the Stars #1: Chinese Garden Festival
Not Available on DVD
30
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Screen Snapshots Series 27
0.0001
Hollywood was always a big sports town, until it actually got some professional sports franchises, and many of the actors around town--- ex-jocks,would-be-jocks or just sports fans---belonged to and played on summer amatuer baseball or softball teams for ... more about Screen Snapshots Series 27
Not Available on DVD
31
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Screen Snapshots: The Skolsky Party
0.0001
This Screen Snapshots (production number 8854) was made in connection with a party held at Schwab's Hollywood drug store - called the "Schwabadero" here - and hosted by columnist/producer Sidney Skolsky to celebrate the opening of his production, "The ... more about Screen Snapshots: The Skolsky Party
Not Available on DVD
33
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Tortilla Flat
0.0001
Danny inherits two houses so Pilon and his lazy, impoverished friends move in. One of them, Pirate, is saving money which Pilon hopes to steal till he learns it is being saved to buy a gold candlestick for St. Francis. ... more about Tortilla Flat
Not Available on DVD
34
John Garfield scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Under My Skin
0.0001
When jockey Dan Butler wins a steeplechase race he had agreed to throw, he is roughed up and threatened by the racketeer he disappointed, Louis Bork. ... more about Under My Skin
DVD from $26.68 
(5 sellers)
 
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John Garfield
Birthdate:
March 4, 1913
Death date:
May 21, 1952

John Garfield

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1930s
7
total ranking of 1.8839  1.8839
1940s
24
total ranking of 2.7540  2.7540
1950s
3
total ranking of 1.1023  1.1023
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.5921
John Garfield is ranked overall as 2.5921 of of 4 stars
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