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Top Films by Actor (B)

Lauren Bacall

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
2 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
3 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 405
4 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 990
5 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1207
6 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 1231
7 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 1378
8 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 1969

Martin Balsam

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 9
2 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
3 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 156
4 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
5 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 309
6 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 699
7 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1135
8 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1419
9 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1549
10 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1723
11 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda 1832
12 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 1969
13 A Thousand Clowns 1965 Fred Coe 2127
14 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent 2187
15 St. Elmo's Fire 1985 Joel Schumacher 2280
16 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2421

Anne Bancroft

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
2 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 264
3 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 457
4 The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn 1117
5 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 1873
6 Home for the Holidays 1995 Jodie Foster 2122

Karuna Bannerjee

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 157
2 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 402

Jean-Louis Barrault

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 108
2 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 536
3 La Ronde 1950 Max Ophüls 955

Drew Barrymore

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 21
2 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 269
3 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 305
4 Ever After: A Cinderella Story 1998 Andy Tennant 1252
5 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Woody Allen 1452
6 The Wedding Singer 1998 Frank Coraci 1470
7 Altered States 1980 Ken Russell 1697
8 Never Been Kissed 1999 Raja Gosnell 1914
9 Charlie's Angels 2000 McG 2121

Anne Baxter

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
2 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 142
3 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 323
4 I Confess 1953 Alfred Hitchcock 1692

Warren Beatty

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
2 McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 251
3 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 452
4 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 640
5 Shampoo 1975 Hal Ashby 928
6 The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula 1346
7 Heaven Can Wait 1978 Warren Beatty 1439
8 Bugsy 1991 Barry Levinson 1614
9 Bulworth 1998 Warren Beatty 1755
10 Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty 2034

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
2 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 521
3 Two Women 1960 Vittorio De Sica 1351
4 Les Misérables 1995 Claude Lelouch 2086

John Belushi

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Animal House 1978 John Landis 282
2 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 345
3 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg 1663

Annette Bening

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 123
2 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears 771
3 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 1218
4 Bugsy 1991 Barry Levinson 1614
5 Richard III 1995 Richard Loncraine 1704
6 Postcards from the Edge 1990 Mike Nichols 2134

Tom Berenger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 111
2 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Arthur Penn 678
3 The Big Chill 1983 Lawrence Kasdan 886
4 Gettysburg 1993 Ronald F. Maxwell 1658
5 Training Day 2001 Antoine Fuqua 1841

Ingrid Bergman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
3 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 688
4 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 1041
5 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1062
6 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1561
7 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 Sam Wood 1734
8 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 1969
9 Europa '51 1952 Roberto Rossellini 2126
10 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460

Xander Berkeley

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 126
2 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 208
3 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 375
4 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 601
5 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears 771
6 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 772
7 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 943
8 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1033
9 Candyman 1992 Bernard Rose 1157
10 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 1180
11 Sid and Nancy 1986 Alex Cox 1414
12 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 Steven Kloves 1594
13 Air Force One 1997 Wolfgang Petersen 1779
14 Mommie Dearest 1981 Frank Perry 1864
15 Amistad 1997 Steven Spielberg 2092

Richard Beymer

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 84
2 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 536
3 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 912

Michael Biehn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 88
2 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 110
3 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 126
4 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 201
5 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 731
6 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 943
7 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1898

Juliette Binoche

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 214
2 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 231
3 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 277
4 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 542
5 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 845
6 Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström 937
7 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 1906
8 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 Leos Carax 1964

Ronee Blakley

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 70
2 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 451

Humphrey Bogart

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
3 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 69
4 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 71
5 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
6 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
7 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 453
8 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 577
9 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 824
10 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 898
11 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 990
12 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1016
13 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh 1144
14 High Sierra 1941 Raoul Walsh 1387
15 The Barefoot Contessa 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1627
16 Beat the Devil 1953 John Huston 1792
17 Dead End 1937 William Wyler 1802
18 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo 1975
19 The Harder They Fall 1956 Mark Robson 2308
20 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460

Ray Bolger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 6
2 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Robert Z. Leonard 1631
3 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060

Ward Bond

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
2 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 13
3 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
4 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
5 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 44
6 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 53
7 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
8 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
9 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 236
10 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 280
11 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 619
12 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 659
13 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 681
14 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 923
15 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1129
16 You Can't Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra 1141
17 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1374
18 Dead End 1937 William Wyler 1802
19 Son of Frankenstein 1939 Rowland V. Lee 1861
20 The Long Voyage Home 1940 John Ford 2095
21 Topper 1937 Norman Z. McLeod 2179
22 Gentleman Jim 1942 Raoul Walsh 2223
23 You Only Live Once 1937 Fritz Lang 2309

Ernest Borgnine

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
2 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 152
3 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 462
4 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 619
5 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 632
6 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 760
7 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 944
8 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 983
9 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 1180

Marlon Brando

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 3
2 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
3 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
4 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 99
5 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 271
6 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 314
7 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 971
8 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1367
9 Viva Zapata! 1952 Elia Kazan 1911
10 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1952
11 Julius Caesar 1953 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2009
12 The Wild One 1953 László Benedek 2013
13 The Men 1950 Fred Zinnemann 2338

Walter Brennan

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 116
2 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 183
3 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
4 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 280
5 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
6 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 665
7 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 713
8 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 760
9 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang 823
10 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 923
11 Meet John Doe 1941 Frank Capra 1073
12 How the West Was Won 1933 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1489
13 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 1793
14 Northwest Passage 1940 King Vidor 2123

Jeff Bridges

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 239
2 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 283
3 Fat City 1972 John Huston 795
4 Tron 1982 Steven Lisberger 846
5 The Fisher King 1991 Terry Gilliam 1182
6 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1269
7 Cutter's Way 1981 Ivan Passer 1342
8 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 Steven Kloves 1594
9 Seabiscuit 2003 Gary Ross 1684
10 Fearless 1993 Peter Weir 1833
11 Starman 1984 John Carpenter 1866
12 The Contender 2000 Rod Lurie 2426
13 Jagged Edge 1985 Richard Marquand 2495

Matthew Broderick

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 259
2 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 347
3 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick 358
4 Election 1999 Alexander Payne 664
5 You Can Count on Me 2000 Ken Lonergan 1343

Yul Brynner

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 323
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 404
3 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 475
4 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 1643
5 The Testament of Orpheus 1960 Jean Cocteau 2447

Ellen Burstyn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 102
2 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 239
3 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 484
4 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Martin Scorsese 1076
5 Providence 1977 Alain Resnais 1705
6 The Hurricane 1999 Norman Jewison 1745
7 Harry and Tonto 1974 Paul Mazursky 2406

Steve Buscemi

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
2 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
3 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 90
4 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 283
5 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 478
6 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Peter Docter 580
7 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 712
8 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 953
9 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 967
10 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 1258
11 The Wedding Singer 1998 Frank Coraci 1470
12 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 1473
13 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1664
14 Living in Oblivion 1995 Tom DiCillo 1828
15 King of New York 1990 Abel Ferrara 2068
16 Desperado 1995 Robert Rodriguez 2067
17 Parting Glances 1986 Bill Sherwood 2440
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