Morgan Freeman

Actor · 72 movies + 5 cameos · IMDb

Lost the touch

Best movie

9.3

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Worst movie

4.8

The Poison Rose (2019)

First 5 to latest 5

−1.2

7.2 → 6.0 on average

Average rating

6.6

22.9M votes in total

IMDb rating per movie

Cameos

The best rated of the 72 movies Morgan Freeman starred in is The Shawshank Redemption (1994), at 9.3 on IMDb, and the worst is The Poison Rose (2019), at 4.8. The first 5 average 7.2 and the latest 5 6.0, down by 1.2. Together they average 6.6, from 22.9M votes in total. 5 cameos, like War of the Worlds (2005), aren't counted.

Movie by movie

Movie	Role	Released	Votes	Rating	Change
The PawnbrokerCameo	as Man on Street (Uncredited)	1964	11.9K	7.6
Brubaker	as Walter	1980	21.8K	7.2
Driving Miss Daisy	as Hoke Colburn	1989	124.9K	7.3	+0.1
Glory	as Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins	1989	154.6K	7.8	+0.5
Johnny Handsome	as Lt. A.Z. Drones	1989	12.2K	6.1	−1.7
Lean on Me	as Principal Joe Clark	1989	25.2K	7.4	+1.3
The Bonfire of the Vanities	as Judge Leonard White	1990	27.7K	5.6	−1.8
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	as Azeem	1991	224.8K	6.9	+1.3
The Power of One	as Geel Piet	1992	11.5K	7.1	+0.2
Unforgiven	as Ned Logan	1992	473.9K	8.2	+1.1
The Shawshank RedemptionBest	as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding	1994	3.3M	9.3	+1.1
Outbreak	as General Billy Ford	1995	147.5K	6.6	−2.7
Seven	as Somerset	1995	2.1M	8.6	+2.0
Chain Reaction	as Paul Shannon	1996	59.3K	5.7	−2.9
Amistad	as Theodore Joadson	1997	88.9K	7.3	+1.6
Kiss the Girls	as Det. Alex Cross	1997	101.8K	6.6	−0.7
Deep Impact	as President Tom Beck	1998	208.2K	6.3	−0.3
Hard Rain	as Jim	1998	38.9K	5.9	−0.4
Under Suspicion	as Captain Victor Benezet	2000	30.8K	6.4	+0.5
Nurse Betty	as Charlie	2000	36K	6.3	−0.1
Along Came a Spider	as Alex Cross	2001	105.3K	6.4	+0.1
The Sum of All Fears	as DCI William Cabot	2002	135.7K	6.5	+0.1
High Crimes	as Charlie Grimes	2002	52.5K	6.4	−0.1
Dreamcatcher	as Col. Abraham Curtis	2003	102.2K	5.6	−0.8
Bruce Almighty	as God	2003	476.9K	6.8	+1.2
The Big Bounce	as Walter Crewes	2004	19.4K	4.9	−1.9
Million Dollar Baby	as Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris	2004	775.3K	8.1	+3.2
Unleashed	as Sam	2005	112.9K	7.0	−1.1
An Unfinished Life	as Mitch Bradley	2005	36.7K	7.0	±0.0
Batman Begins	as Lucius Fox	2005	1.7M	8.2	+1.2
Edison	as Ashford	2005	17.1K	5.3	−2.9
War of the WorldsCameo	as Narrator (voice)	2005	515.6K	6.6
March of the Penguins	as Narrator	2005	62.7K	7.5	+2.2
Lucky Number Slevin	as The Boss	2006	342.1K	7.7	+0.2
The Contract	as Frank Carden	2006	27.7K	5.6	−2.1
10 Items or Less	as 'Him'	2006	17.3K	6.5	+0.9
Evan Almighty	as God	2007	164.7K	5.5	−1.0
Gone Baby Gone	as Jack Doyle	2007	314.2K	7.6	+2.1
Feast of Love	as Harry Stevenson	2007	17.8K	6.5	−1.1
The Bucket List	as Carter Chambers	2007	275.7K	7.3	+0.8
The Dark Knight	as Lucius Fox	2008	3.2M	9.1	+1.8
Wanted	as Sloan	2008	431.8K	6.7	−2.4
The Love GuruCameo	as Morgan Freemann (voice) (uncredited)	2008	57.3K	3.8
Invictus	as Nelson Mandela	2009	175.8K	7.3	+0.6
The Maiden Heist	as Charles Peterson	2009	18.8K	6.0	−1.3
The Code	as Keith Ripley	2009	37.2K	6.0	±0.0
RED	as Joe Matheson	2010	341.5K	7.0	+1.0
Conan the BarbarianCameo	as Narrator (voice)	2011	106.7K	5.2
Dolphin Tale	as Dr. McCarthy	2011	27.1K	6.8	−0.2
The Dark Knight Rises	as Fox	2012	2M	8.4	+1.6
The Magic of Belle Isle	as Monte Wildhorn	2012	22.7K	7.0	−1.4
Last Vegas	as Archibald 'Archie' Clayton	2013	141.1K	6.6	−0.4
Oblivion	as Beech	2013	592.1K	7.0	+0.4
Now You See Me	as Thaddeus Bradley	2013	780.3K	7.2	+0.2
Olympus Has Fallen	as Alan Trumbull	2013	309.5K	6.5	−0.7
The Lego Movie	as Vitruvius (voice)	2014	422.3K	7.7	+1.2
Transcendence	as Joseph Tagger	2014	249K	6.2	−1.5
Lucy	as Professor Norman	2014	587.1K	6.4	+0.2
5 Flights Up	as Alex Carver	2014	12.1K	6.2	−0.2
Dolphin Tale 2	as Dr. Cameron McCarthy	2014	10.4K	6.4	+0.2
Last Knights	as Bartok	2015	48.2K	6.2	−0.2
Ted 2	as Patrick Meighan	2015	266.9K	6.3	+0.1
Momentum	as Senator	2015	17.9K	5.5	−0.8
Ben-Hur	as Sheik Ilderim	2016	50.7K	5.7	+0.2
Now You See Me 2	as Thaddeus Bradley	2016	367.3K	6.4	+0.7
London Has Fallen	as Alan Trumbull	2016	182.6K	5.9	−0.5
Going in Style	as Willie Davis	2017	100.8K	6.6	+0.7
Brian BanksCameo	as Jerome Johnson (uncredited)	2018	11K	7.2
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms	as Drosselmeyer	2018	41K	5.6	−1.0
The Poison RoseWorst	as Doc	2019	12.3K	4.8	−0.8
Angel Has Fallen	as Alan Trumbull	2019	124.8K	6.4	+1.6
The Comeback Trail	as Reggie Fontaine	2020	14.9K	5.7	−0.7
Coming 2 America	as Morgan Freeman	2021	82.2K	5.3	−0.4
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard	as Senior	2021	121.7K	6.1	+0.8
A Good Person	as Daniel	2023	30K	7.1	+1.0
57 Seconds	as Anton Burrell	2023	14.7K	5.4	−1.7
Now You See Me: Now You Don't	as Thaddeus Bradley	2025	81K	5.9	+0.5

Movies with at least 10,000 votes on IMDb. Cameos, billed after the first 20 or uncredited, are listed but not counted.

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