Box Office Ranking
For a number of years, British film exhibitors voted him among the top ten British stars at the box office via an annual poll in the Motion Picture Herald.
- 1945 - 4th
- 1946 - 8th
- 1947 - 4th (6th most popular overall)
- 1948 - 3rd (4th most popular over all)
- 1949 - 3rd (8th most popular over all)
- 1950 - 4th (6th most popular overall)
- 1954 - 10th
- 1955 - 2nd (5th most popular overall)
- 1956 - 10th
- 1957 - 6th
- 1958 - 6th
- 1961 - 5th
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