James Gandolfini

James Gandolfini

Actor (1961 - 2013)
24
Movies
67.7%
Avg ThumbScore
Crime
Top Genre

Audiences rate James Gandolfini’s films lower than 83% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): The Last Castle (Hoopla) · 8MM (Fawesome) · 12 Angry Men (YouTube, Tubi) · In the Loop (Kanopy) · Killing Them Softly (ViX, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Welcome to the Rileys (Tubi, Fawesome) and 10 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Denzel Washington (3)Catherine Keener (3)Gene Hackman (3)John Travolta (2)Tony Scott (2)
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The ThumbScore for James Gandolfini (67.7%) is the average audience approval rating across 24 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of James's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. (September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013) was an American actor and producer. He was best known for his role as Tony Soprano, the Italian-American crime boss in HBO's television series The Sopranos, for which he won three Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. Gandolfini's portrayal of Tony Soprano is widely regarded as among the greatest performances in television history. Gandolfini's notable film roles include mob henchman Virgil in True Romance (1993), Lt. Bobby Dougherty in Crimson Tide (1995), Colonel Winter in The Last Castle (2001) and Mayor of New York in The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009).

Other roles are enforcer and stuntman Bear in Get Shorty (1995) and impulsive "Wild Thing" Carol in Where the Wild Things Are (2009). For his performance as Albert in Enough Said (2013), Gandolfini posthumously received much critical praise and several awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2007, Gandolfini produced Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, a documentary in which he interviewed injured Iraq War veterans and in 2010, Wartorn: 1861–2010 examining the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on soldiers and families throughout several wars in U.S. history from 1861 to 2010. In addition to Alive Day Memories, he also produced television film Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), which gained him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series nomination. In 2013, Gandolfini died of a heart attack in Rome at the age of 51.

Born 1961-09-18 in Westwood, New Jersey, USA. Died 2013-06-19.

On ThumbScore, James Gandolfini appears in 24 films with an average audience score of 67.7%, most frequently in the Crime genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every James Gandolfini movie, ranked by audience score

The Last Castle
The Last Castle
2001
👍 82%
8MM
8MM
1999
👍 81%
Crimson Tide
Crimson Tide
1995
👍 78%
Get Shorty
Get Shorty
1995
👍 78%
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men
1997
👍 78%
In the Loop
In the Loop
2009
👍 75%
Killing Them Softly
Killing Them Softly
2012
👍 74%
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
👍 72%
Welcome to the Rileys
Welcome to the Rileys
2010
👍 70%
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
👍 69%
Fallen
Fallen
1998
👍 69%
Surviving Christmas
Surviving Christmas
2004
👍 68%
Romance & Cigarettes
Romance & Cigarettes
2006
👍 68%
Night Falls on Manhattan
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
👍 68%
Violet & Daisy
Violet & Daisy
2013
👍 67%
The Juror
The Juror
1996
👍 66%
Lonely Hearts
Lonely Hearts
2006
👍 65%
All the King's Men
All the King's Men
2006
👍 63%
She's So Lovely
She's So Lovely
1997
👍 63%
Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
👍 60%
Enough Said
Enough Said
2013
👍 59%
The Mexican
The Mexican
2001
👍 55%
The Drop
The Drop
2014
👍 52%
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
2013
👍 44%