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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 1
2 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
3 Rollerball 1975 Norman Jewison 916
4 Brian's Song 1971 Buzz Kulik 1006
5 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 1130
6 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 1202
7 Bottle Rocket 1996 Wes Anderson 1286
8 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 1709
9 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg 1973
10 Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty 2098
11 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks 2365

Nicolas Cage

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 424
2 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 445
3 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 528
4 Face/Off 1997 John Woo 602
5 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 793
6 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 971
7 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 1058
8 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1406
9 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1665
10 Rumble Fish 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 1974
11 City of Angels 1998 Brad Silberling 2066
12 Birdy 1984 Alan Parker 2122
13 Valley Girl 1983 Martha Coolidge 2211

James Cagney

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 313
2 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 338
3 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 426
4 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 447
5 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 863
6 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1145
7 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh 1184
8 One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder 1382
9 Footlight Parade 1933 Lloyd Bacon 1447
10 Love Me or Leave Me 1955 Charles Vidor 2392

Michael Caine

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 339
2 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 354
3 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 491
4 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 581
5 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson 586
6 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 592
7 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 609
8 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie 656
9 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 665
10 Alfie 1966 Lewis Gilbert 915
11 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1124
12 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma 1325
13 The Quiet American 2002 Phillip Noyce 1429
14 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 1654
15 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 1688
16 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 1709
17 Victory 1981 John Huston 1896
18 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 1910
19 Educating Rita 1983 Lewis Gilbert 2102
20 The Cider House Rules 1999 Lasse Hallström 2139
21 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz 2305
22 Mona Lisa 1986 Neil Jordan 2374

Claudia Cardinale

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 80
2 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 107
3 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 332
4 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 541
5 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 820
6 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 1008
7 Burden of Dreams 1982 Les Blank 1609
8 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 2021
9 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 2100

Robert Carlyle

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 117
2 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 366

Jim Carrey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 176
2 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 291
3 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 1311
4 The Mask 1994 Chuck Russell 1381
5 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 Tom Shadyac 1667

Adriana Caselotti

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
2 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 89
4 Naughty Marietta 1935 Robert Z. Leonard and W.S. Van Dyke 2311

Charles Chaplin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 68
2 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 97
3 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 108
4 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 369
5 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 502
6 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 755
7 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1117
8 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin 1687
9 Chaplin 1992 Richard Attenborough 2072

Graham Chapman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
2 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 147
3 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 2369

Yun-Fat Chow

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 165
2 The Killer 1989 John Woo 398
3 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 693
4 A Better Tomorrow 1986 John Woo 1866

Julie Christie

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
2 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 162
3 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
4 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 290
5 Darling 1965 John Schlesinger 1084
6 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 Alfonso Cuarón 1123
7 Heaven Can Wait 1978 Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1129
8 Shampoo 1975 Hal Ashby 1200
9 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1219
10 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1386
11 Petulia 1968 Richard Lester 1469
12 Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger 1535
13 The Go-Between 1970 Joseph Losey 1843
14 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut 1961
15 Troy 2004 Wolfgang Petersen 2333

John Cleese

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
2 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 147
3 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 334
4 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 Chris Columbus 692
5 Time Bandits 1981 Terry Gilliam 1081
6 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1380
7 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 Chris Columbus 1909
8 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 2369

Montgomery Clift

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 220
2 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 234
3 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 356
4 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 1045
5 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1126
6 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1549
7 The Search 1948 Fred Zinnemann 2385

Colin Clive

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
2 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 137
3 Christopher Strong 1933 Dorothy Arzner 2251

George Clooney

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 357
2 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 Trey Parker 466
3 Out of Sight 1998 Steven Soderbergh 625
4 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell 663
5 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 776
6 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1222
7 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 1352
8 Solaris 2002 Steven Soderbergh 1689
9 Spy Kids 2001 Robert Rodriguez 1768
10 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 George Clooney 1901

Claudette Colbert

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 69
2 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 437
3 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen 1177
4 Imitation of Life 1934 John M. Stahl 1627

Sean Connery

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 186
2 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 408
3 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 450
4 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young 524
5 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 614
6 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 665
7 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 720
8 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 1058
9 Time Bandits 1981 Terry Gilliam 1081
10 The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan 1468
11 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy 1490
12 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1617
13 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 1709
14 A Night to Remember 1958 Roy Ward Baker 1883
15 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 2105
16 The Name of the Rose 1986 Jean-Jacques Annaud 2184

Gary Cooper

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 58
2 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 654
3 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 671
4 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 919
5 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks 986
6 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1091
7 Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg 1097
8 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1226
9 Meet John Doe 1941 Frank Capra 1231
10 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1538
11 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 Sam Wood 1946
12 Beau Geste 1939 William A. Wellman 2147

Kevin Costner

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 213
2 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 245
3 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 344
4 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 408
5 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 423
6 Tin Cup 1996 Ron Shelton 1216

Joseph Cotten

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
2 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 27
3 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
4 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 201
5 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 382
6 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles 799
7 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 923
8 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1146
9 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1257
10 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1410
11 Petulia 1968 Richard Lester 1469
12 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda 1760
13 Othello 1952 Orson Welles 1790
14 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 2196
15 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich 2230

Joan Crawford

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 388
2 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 590
3 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 682
4 The Women 1939 George Cukor 835
5 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 911
6 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1226
7 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning 2141
8 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich 2230

Russell Crowe

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 82
2 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 113
3 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 621
4 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 647
5 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1056
6 Cinderella Man 2005 Ron Howard 1624
7 Proof 1991 Jocelyn Moorhouse 2273

Tom Cruise

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 202
2 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 304
3 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 347
4 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 411
5 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 781
6 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 796
7 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 853
8 Risky Business 1983 Paul Brickman 870
9 Mission: Impossible 1996 Brian De Palma 963
10 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese 1153
11 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1183
12 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1412
13 War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg 1449
14 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann 2054
15 The Last Samurai 2003 Edward Zwick 2101
16 The Outsiders 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 2182
17 Vanilla Sky 2001 Cameron Crowe 2317

Billy Crystal

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 78
2 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 132
3 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 167
4 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 607
5 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1386
6 American Movie 1999 Chris Smith 1453
7 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki 1479
8 City Slickers 1991 Ron Underwood 1614

Jamie Lee Curtis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 131
2 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 334
3 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 811
4 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 974
5 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1411
6 Freaky Friday 2003 Mark Waters 1919
7 The Fog 1980 John Carpenter 2047

Tony Curtis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
2 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 177
3 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 193
4 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 211
5 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 943
6 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer 1009

John Cusack

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 315
2 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 319
3 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 357
4 Say Anything… 1989 Cameron Crowe 448
5 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 492
6 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 564
7 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 674
8 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 687
9 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 George Armitage 745
10 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears 790
11 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 971
12 Sixteen Candles 1984 John Hughes 1173
13 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1406
14 Bob Roberts 1992 Tim Robbins 1922
15 Better Off Dead… 1985 Savage Steve Holland 2068
16 The Sure Thing 1985 Rob Reiner 2177
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