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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 163
2 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 383
3 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 484
4 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 1130
5 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 1148
6 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 1202
7 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki 1479
8 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1512
9 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 2105

Christian Bale

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 581
2 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 592
3 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg 843
4 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 894
5 Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh 984
6 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki 1479
7 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 1688
8 American Psycho 2000 Mary Harron 2240

Martin Balsam

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 7
2 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
3 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 154
4 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 203
5 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 277
6 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 742
7 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1109
8 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1160
9 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent 1186
10 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1646
11 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1717
12 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda 1760
13 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 2105

Anne Bancroft

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
2 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 224
3 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 421
4 The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn 1174
5 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 1994
6 Home for the Holidays 1995 Jodie Foster 2201

Karuna Bannerjee

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 159
2 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 442

Drew Barrymore

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 23
2 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 212
3 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 324
4 Ever After: A Cinderella Story 1998 Andy Tennant 1505
5 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Woody Allen 1518
6 Altered States 1980 Ken Russell 1644
7 The Wedding Singer 1998 Frank Coraci 1779
8 Never Been Kissed 1999 Raja Gosnell 2246

Anne Baxter

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 318
3 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 403

Warren Beatty

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 48
2 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 290
3 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 588
4 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 769
5 The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula 953
6 Heaven Can Wait 1978 Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1129
7 Shampoo 1975 Hal Ashby 1200
8 Bulworth 1998 Warren Beatty 1727
9 Bugsy 1991 Barry Levinson 1770
10 Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty 2098

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 81
2 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 551
3 Two Women 1960 Vittorio De Sica 1262
4 Les Misérables 1995 Claude Lelouch 1985

John Belushi

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 293
2 Animal House 1978 John Landis 299
3 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg 1973

Annette Bening

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
2 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears 790
3 Richard III 1995 Richard Loncraine 1175
4 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 1674
5 Bugsy 1991 Barry Levinson 1770
6 Mars Attacks! 1996 Tim Burton 2065

Tom Berenger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
2 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 781
3 The Big Chill 1983 Lawrence Kasdan 1029
4 Gettysburg 1993 Ronald F. Maxwell 1548
5 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 1654
6 Major League 1989 David S. Ward 1925
7 Training Day 2001 Antoine Fuqua 2144

Ingrid Bergman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
2 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
3 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 923
4 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 992
5 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1289
6 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1911
7 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 Sam Wood 1946
8 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 2105

Xander Berkeley

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 98
2 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 150
3 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 485
4 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 754
5 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears 790
6 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 793
7 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 950
8 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 1058
9 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1183
10 Sid and Nancy 1986 Alex Cox 1196
11 Candyman 1992 Bernard Rose 1240
12 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 Steven Kloves 1396
13 Air Force One 1997 Wolfgang Petersen 1488
14 Mommie Dearest 1981 Frank Perry 2036

Richard Beymer

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 88
2 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 614
3 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 1427

Michael Biehn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 65
2 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 95
3 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 187
4 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 661
5 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 1058
6 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1573

Juliette Binoche

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 231
2 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 232
3 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 278
4 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 493
5 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 836
6 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 958
7 Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström 1114
8 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 Leos Carax 1758

Ronee Blakley

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
2 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 345
3 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill 2298

Humphrey Bogart

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
2 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
3 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 92
4 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 120
5 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 163
6 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 250
7 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 383
8 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 486
9 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 884
10 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1059
11 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 1113
12 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1145
13 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 1148
14 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh 1184
15 The Barefoot Contessa 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1612
16 High Sierra 1941 Raoul Walsh 1666
17 Beat the Devil 1953 John Huston 1767
18 The Harder They Fall 1956 Mark Robson 1926
19 Dead End 1937 William Wyler 1990
20 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo 2181

Ray Bolger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
2 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Robert Z. Leonard 1562
3 Annie 1982 John Huston 2110

Ward Bond

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
2 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
3 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
4 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
5 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
6 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 69
7 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 102
8 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 263
9 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 279
10 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 307
11 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 590
12 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 725
13 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 863
14 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 919
15 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1341
16 You Can't Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra 1389
17 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1405
18 Gentleman Jim 1942 Raoul Walsh 1916
19 Dead End 1937 William Wyler 1990
20 Son of Frankenstein 1939 Rowland V. Lee 2172

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 220
3 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 518
4 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 555
5 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 590
6 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 639
7 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 950
8 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 974
9 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 1038

Marlon Brando

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
3 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
4 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 145
5 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 272
6 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 397
7 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1076
8 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1178
9 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1513
10 The Wild One 1953 László Benedek 1941

Walter Brennan

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
2 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 234
3 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 263
4 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 279
5 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 383
6 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 639
7 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 671
8 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 731
9 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 919
10 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang 1115
11 Meet John Doe 1941 Frank Capra 1231
12 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1625
13 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 2107

Jeff Bridges

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 173
2 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 325
3 Tron 1982 Steven Lisberger 703
4 Fat City 1972 John Huston 761
5 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 Steven Kloves 1396
6 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1410
7 The Fisher King 1991 Terry Gilliam 1455
8 Seabiscuit 2003 Gary Ross 1610
9 Cutter's Way 1981 Ivan Passer 1621
10 Fearless 1993 Peter Weir 1899
11 Iron Man 2008 Jon Favreau 1934
12 Starman 1984 John Carpenter 2121

Matthew Broderick

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 270
2 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 295
3 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick 395
4 Election 1999 Alexander Payne 545
5 You Can Count on Me 2000 Ken Lonergan 1407

Albert Brooks

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
2 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 330
3 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton 374
4 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 564
5 Out of Sight 1998 Steven Soderbergh 625
6 Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks 1083
7 Private Benjamin 1980 Howard Zieff 1796

Yul Brynner

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 318
2 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 403
3 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 519
4 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 1568

Ellen Burstyn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 76
2 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 325
3 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 434
4 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Martin Scorsese 1268
5 Providence 1977 Alain Resnais 2005
6 The Fountain 2006 Darren Aronofsky 2278

Richard Burton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 476
2 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 491
3 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 614
4 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G. Hutton 1037
5 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1397
6 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 Martin Ritt 1497
7 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 1645
8 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville 2224

Steve Buscemi

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
2 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
3 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 66
4 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 173
5 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 460
6 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 607
7 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 733
8 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 815
9 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 907
10 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 1258
11 King of New York 1990 Abel Ferrara 1333
12 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1406
13 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 1435
14 Desperado 1995 Robert Rodriguez 1459
15 Living in Oblivion 1995 Tom DiCillo 1735
16 The Wedding Singer 1998 Frank Coraci 1779
17 Mystery Train 1989 Jim Jarmusch 2034
18 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001 Hironobu Sakaguchi 2358
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