Cary Grant (1904-1986)
92.0 TOPICAL actor score · #21 of 1,977 actors
Cary Grant (1904-1986) has a TOPICAL actor score of 92.0 - one of the 100 best actors of all time by TOPICAL's score. Their strongest parts are prime and career standing. They've won 2 acting honours from 3 nominations, including the Academy Honorary Award. Their best ten-year run was 1937-1946. Best films: North by Northwest (1959), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Notorious (1946).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours91
Prime99
Their movies88
Credits85
Career standing98
- Acting honours2 wins, 3 nominations - incl. Academy Honorary Award; Kennedy Center Honors
- Prime1937-1946
- Credits89 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 31 scored films (31 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 99 languages
“He was named the second-greatest male star of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute in 1999.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10
Cary Grant's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 67 | North by Northwest | 1959 | 1 |
| 94 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | 1 |
| 146 | Notorious | 1946 | 1 |
| 448 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | 2 |
| 538 | Charade | 1963 | 1 |
| 607 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | 2 |
| 815 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 | 1 |
| 978 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | 1 |
| 1,021 | Suspicion | 1941 | 1 |
| 1,145 | Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | 1 |
| 1,709 | The Talk of the Town | 1942 | 1 |
| 1,748 | Holiday | 1938 | 2 |
| 1,812 | The Bishop's Wife | 1947 | 1 |
| 1,824 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | 1 |
| 1,931 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | 1 |
| 2,076 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | 2 |
| 2,086 | Father Goose | 1964 | 1 |
| 2,342 | Gunga Din | 1939 | 1 |
| 2,438 | Operation Petticoat | 1959 | 1 |
| 2,981 | None But the Lonely Heart | 1944 | 1 |
| 3,040 | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | 1947 | 1 |
| 3,131 | My Favorite Wife | 1940 | 1 |
| 3,238 | Penny Serenade | 1941 | 2 |
| 3,406 | Monkey Business | 1952 | 1 |
| 3,775 | Topper | 1937 | 2 |
| 4,006 | That Touch of Mink | 1962 | 1 |
| 4,375 | Houseboat | 1958 | 1 |
| 5,142 | Once Upon a Honeymoon | 1942 | 1 |
| 5,189 | Dream Wife | 1953 | 1 |
| 5,591 | Night and Day | 1946 | 1 |
| 5,749 | The Howards of Virginia | 1940 | 1 |