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Top Films by Actor (C)

James Caan

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 3
2 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
3 Rollerball 1975 Norman Jewison 1091
4 Brian's Song 1971 Buzz Kulik 1150
5 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 1231
6 Bottle Rocket 1996 Wes Anderson 1236
7 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 1378
8 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg 1663
9 Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty 2034
10 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2353
11 Thief 1981 Michael Mann 2393

Nicolas Cage

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 349
2 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 442
3 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 569
4 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 601
5 Face/Off 1997 John Woo 608
6 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 943
7 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 1181
8 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1559
9 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1664
10 City of Angels 1998 Brad Silberling 1895
11 Valley Girl 1983 Martha Coolidge 1899
12 Peggy Sue Got Married 1986 Francis Ford Coppola 2080
13 Birdy 1984 Alan Parker 2141
14 Rumble Fish 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 2206

James Cagney

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 249
2 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 257
3 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 300
4 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 350
5 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 681
6 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 898
7 Footlight Parade 1933 Lloyd Bacon 1054
8 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh 1144
9 One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder 1395
10 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460
11 Love Me or Leave Me 1955 Charles Vidor 2476

Michael Caine

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 372
2 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 407
3 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 468
4 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson 494
5 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 509
6 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie 880
7 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 975
8 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 1005
9 Alfie 1966 Lewis Gilbert 1098
10 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 1142
11 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma 1456
12 Educating Rita 1983 Lewis Gilbert 1655
13 The Quiet American 2002 Phillip Noyce 2048
14 The Cider House Rules 1999 Lasse Hallström 2109
15 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2353
16 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 2417

Claudia Cardinale

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 82
2 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 136
3 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 420
4 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 684
5 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 769
6 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 838
7 The Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 1796
8 Burden of Dreams 1982 Les Blank 1929
9 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 2230

Robert Carlyle

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 128
2 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 391

Leslie Caron

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 169
2 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 426
3 Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström 937
4 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060
5 Lili 1953 Charles Walters 2394

Jim Carrey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michael Gondry 278
2 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 366
3 The Mask 1994 Chuck Russell 1055
4 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 Tom Shadyac 1431
5 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 1676
6 Peggy Sue Got Married 1986 Francis Ford Coppola 2080

Adriana Caselotti

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 6
2 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 13
3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 87
4 Naughty Marietta 1935 Robert Z. Leonard and W.S. Van Dyke 2362

Charles Chaplin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 55
2 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 60
3 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
4 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 392
5 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 522
6 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 669
7 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1227
8 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen 1311
9 Show People 1928 King Vidor 1901
10 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin 2005

Graham Chapman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
2 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 180
3 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 1887

Nikolai Cherkasov

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 363
2 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev 383
3 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 786

Virginia Cherrill

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 55

Yun-Fat Chow

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 205
2 The Killer 1989 John Woo 355
3 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 904
4 A Better Tomorrow 1986 John Woo 1650

Julie Christie

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 70
2 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 167
3 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 185
4 McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 251
5 Shampoo 1975 Hal Ashby 928
6 Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger 1067
7 Darling 1965 John Schlesinger 1205
8 Petulia 1968 Richard Lester 1330
9 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1430
10 Heaven Can Wait 1978 Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1439
11 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 Alfonso Cuarón 1475
12 The Go-Between 1970 Joseph Losey 1517
13 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1613
14 Troy 2004 Wolfgang Peterson 2051
15 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut 2385

John Cleese

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
2 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 180
3 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 378
4 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 Chris Columbus 779
5 Time Bandits 1981 Terry Gilliam 1306
6 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1826
7 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 1887
8 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 Chris Columbus 2410

Montgomery Clift

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 152
2 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 183
3 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 313
4 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 650
5 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 920
6 I Confess 1953 Alfred Hitchcock 1692
7 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1868
8 The Search 1948 Fred Zinnemann 2149
9 Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2186

Colin Clive

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 114
2 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 116
3 Christopher Strong 1933 Dorothy Arzner 1920
4 The Ghost of Frankenstein 1942 Erle C. Kenton 2485

E.E. Clive

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 116
2 Camille 1936 George Cukor 437
3 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 713
4 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor 778
5 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 882
6 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 917
7 Show Boat 1936 James Whale 981
8 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz 1321
9 Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz 1324
10 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich 1462
11 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield 1667
12 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Jack Conway 2071
13 Dracula's Daughter 1936 Lambert Hillyer 2191
14 Libeled Lady 1936 Jack Conway 2345

George Clooney

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 490
2 Out of Sight 1998 Steven Soderbergh 603
3 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 Trey Parker 617
4 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell 722
5 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 867
6 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1010
7 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 1432
8 Spy Kids 2001 Robert Rodriguez 1602
9 The Limey 1999 Steven Soderbergh 1944
10 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 George Clooney 2453

Claudette Colbert

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 53
2 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 360
3 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen 1059
4 Imitation of Life 1934 John M. Stahl 1848
5 The Sign of the Cross 1932 Cecil B. DeMille 2473

Sean Connery

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 213
2 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 379
3 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 509
4 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 514
5 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 536
6 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young 624
7 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 728
8 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 943
9 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy 1109
10 Time Bandits 1981 Terry Gilliam 1306
11 The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan 1428
12 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1444
13 A Night to Remember 1958 Roy Ward Baker 1474
14 The Name of the Rose 1986 Jean-Jacques Annaud 1875
15 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 1969
16 Darby O'Gill and the Little People 1959 Robert Stevenson 2173
17 You Only Live Twice 1967 Lewis Gilbert 2237
18 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2353
19 Robin and Marian 1976 Richard Lester 2358

Gary Cooper

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 45
2 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 530
3 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 665
4 Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg 828
5 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 861
6 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks 890
7 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 923
8 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 934
9 Meet John Doe 1941 Frank Capra 1073
10 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1411
11 Beau Geste 1939 William A. Wellman 1511
12 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 Sam Wood 1734
13 Friendly Persuasion 1956 William Wyler 1884
14 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 Henry Hathaway 2124
15 The Fountainhead 1941 King Vidor 2239

Kevin Costner

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 165
2 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 219
3 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 379
4 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 424
5 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 419
6 Tin Cup 1996 Ron Shelton 1425

Joseph Cotten

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
2 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
3 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
4 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 142
5 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 401
6 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 688
7 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1269
8 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1299
9 Petulia 1968 Richard Lester 1330
10 F for Fake 1974 Orson Welles 1337
11 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1421
12 Othello 1952 Orson Welles 1500
13 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda 1832
14 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 1850
15 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich 2172
16 Niagara 1953 Henry Hathaway 2351
17 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 Robert Fuest 2450

Joan Crawford

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 371
2 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 619
3 The Women 1939 George Cukor 668
4 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 677
5 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 792
6 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning 1980
7 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060
8 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460

Russell Crowe

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
2 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 138
3 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 636
4 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 645
5 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1121
6 Proof 1991 Jocelyn Moorhouse 1857
7 Cinderella Man 2005 Peter Weir 1928

Tom Cruise

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 267
2 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 296
3 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 308
4 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 461
5 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 678
6 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 817
7 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 877
8 Risky Business 1983 Paul Brickman 1009
9 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1033
10 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1183
11 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese 1255
12 Mission: Impossible 1996 Brian De Palma 1298
13 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann 1759
14 The Outsiders 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 2004
15 The Last Samurai 2003 Edward Zwick 2132
16 The Queen 2006 Stephen Frears 2369
17 Mission: Impossible II 2000 John Woo 2392

Billy Crystal

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 127
2 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 145
3 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 172
4 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Peter Docter 580
5 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1430
6 City Slickers 1991 Ron Underwood 1534
7 American Movie 1999 Chris Smith 2093
8 Deconstructing Harry 1997 Woody Allen 2371
9 Baseball 1994 Ken Burns 2396

Jamie Lee Curtis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 160
2 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 378
3 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 944
4 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 951
5 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1701
6 The Fog 1980 John Carpenter 2082
7 Freaky Friday 2003 Mark S. Waters 2138

Tony Curtis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
2 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 170
3 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 198
4 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 255
5 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer 900
6 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 939
7 Criss Cross 1949 Robert Siodmak 2171

John Cusack

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 336
2 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 356
3 Say Anything… 1989 Cameron Crowe 438
4 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 476
5 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 490
6 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
7 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 730
8 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears 771
9 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 George Armitage 816
10 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 852
11 Sixteen Candles 1984 John Hughes 979
12 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 1181
13 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1664
14 Bullets over Broadway 1994 Woody Allen 1683
15 Better Off Dead… 1985 Savage Steve Holland 2139
16 Baseball 1994 Ken Burns 2396
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