Actor
Ian McDiarmid
5 films•1983–2019•Action · Adventure · Sci-Fi
71%average critics78%average audience$355.1Mdomestic average
Films
5
1983–2019
Domestic
$1.78B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.50B
lifetime
Avg opening
$75.4M
3-day
Avg legs
7.53x
opening → total
Return
6.5x
on $535.5M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | 2019 | $177.4M | $515.2M | 2.90x | $1.07B | B+ | 51% | #3 |
 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | $64.8M | $487.6M | 6.65x | $1.05B | A- | 54% | — |
 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | $108.0M | $414.4M | 3.51x | $902.9M | — | 79% | #1 |
 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | 1983 | $23.0M | $316.5M | 13.7x | $482.4M | — | 83% | — |
 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | 1988 | $3.8M | $42.0M | 10.9x | — | B+ | 89% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
0$500M$1B
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 9.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
6.5x
$3.50B worldwide on $535.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.73BInternational $1.77B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven14.8x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#1Biggest Christmas openingsStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker$177.4M#2Best multipliersStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace6.65x#3Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace−20.7%#4Biggest December openingsStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker$177.4M#5Longest runs of $1M+ daysStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace—#12Biggest single daysStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker$89.6M#16Biggest May openingsStar Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith$108.4M#20Most weekends in the top 10Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi19 weekends
Top 8 of 15 placings across 14 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
