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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 18
3 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 626
4 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 745
5 Rollerball 1975 Norman Jewison 1079
6 Elf 2003 Jon Favreau 1154
7 Bottle Rocket 1996 Wes Anderson 1511
8 Brian's Song 1971 Buzz Kulik 1693
9 Thief 1981 Michael Mann 1789
10 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2099
11 El Dorado 1967 Howard Hawks 2172
12 The Tale of Princess Kaguya 2013 Isao Takahata 2178
13 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2009 Phil Lord and Christopher Miller 2343

Nicolas Cage

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 476
2 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 536
3 Face/Off 1997 John Woo 721
4 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 770
5 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 888
6 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 927
7 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018 Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman 1118
8 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1157
9 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 1308
10 Kick-Ass 2010 Matthew Vaughn 1341
11 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1507
12 Rumble Fish 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 1529
13 Lord of War 2005 Andrew Niccol 2239

James Cagney

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 336
2 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 687
3 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 753
4 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 1074
5 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1382
6 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh 1456
7 One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder 1540
8 Footlight Parade 1933 Lloyd Bacon 1584
9 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 1627

Michael Caine

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 47
2 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 158
3 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 258
4 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 414
5 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 459
6 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 555
7 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 564
8 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 Christopher Nolan 614
9 Interstellar 2014 Christopher Nolan 638
10 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 764
11 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 825
12 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie 912
13 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz 1227
14 Alfie 1966 Lewis Gilbert 1418
15 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1430
16 Dunkirk 2017 Christopher Nolan 1439
17 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson 1447
18 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma 1538
19 Victory 1981 John Huston 1809
20 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2099
21 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 2262
22 The Quiet American 2002 Phillip Noyce 2360
23 The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992 Brian Henson 2527

Claudia Cardinale

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 58
2 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 74
3 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 293
4 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 465
5 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 727
6 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 1143
7 Burden of Dreams 1982 Les Blank 1323
8 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 1480
9 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 1836

Jim Carrey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 76
2 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 242
3 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 939
4 The Mask 1994 Chuck Russell 1585
5 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 Tom Shadyac 1817
6 Man on the Moon 1999 Milos Forman 2742

Charles Chaplin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 46
2 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 53
3 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 116
4 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 183
5 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 338
6 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 1092
7 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin 1412
8 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1485
9 The Immigrant 1917 Charles Chaplin 2450
10 Show People 1928 King Vidor 2500
11 Chaplin 1992 Richard Attenborough 2770

Graham Chapman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 111
2 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 156
3 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 2019

Yun-Fat Chow

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 191
2 The Killer 1989 John Woo 437
3 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 567
4 A Better Tomorrow 1986 John Woo 1357
5 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 Gore Verbinski 2455

Julie Christie

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 121
2 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 165
3 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 288
4 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 425
5 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 Alfonso Cuarón 449
6 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut 1178
7 Heaven Can Wait 1978 Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1262
8 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1313
9 Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger 1678
10 Shampoo 1975 Hal Ashby 1871
11 Darling 1965 John Schlesinger 2458
12 Away from Her 2006 Sarah Polley 2635
13 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 2652

John Cleese

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 111
2 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 156
3 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 446
4 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 Chris Columbus 503
5 Time Bandits 1981 Terry Gilliam 851
6 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 Chris Columbus 1151
7 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1287
8 Silverado 1985 Lawrence Kasdan 1839
9 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 2019

Montgomery Clift

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 271
2 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 372
3 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 786
4 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1055
5 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1286
6 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 1391
7 Wild River 1960 Elia Kazan 2696

Colin Clive

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 152
2 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 155

George Clooney

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 378
2 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 Trey Parker 407
3 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 645
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson 694
5 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 806
6 Out of Sight 1998 Steven Soderbergh 860
7 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell 967
8 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 984
9 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1648
10 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 George Clooney 1854
11 Michael Clayton 2007 Tony Gilroy 2027
12 Up in the Air 2009 Jason Reitman 2160
13 Solaris 2002 Steven Soderbergh 2161
14 The Descendants 2011 Alexander Payne 2684

Claudette Colbert

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 92
2 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 803
3 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen 1832

Sean Connery

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 244
2 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 380
3 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 471
4 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young 742
5 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 764
6 Time Bandits 1981 Terry Gilliam 851
7 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 856
8 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 923
9 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 927
10 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1401
11 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy 1714
12 The Name of the Rose 1986 Jean-Jacques Annaud 1844
13 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2099
14 The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan 2229
15 Thunderball 1965 Terence Young 2535
16 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 2597
17 Outland 1981 Peter Hyams 2687

Gary Cooper

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
2 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 1014
3 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 1133
4 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 1191
5 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1283
6 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks 1446
7 Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg 1642
8 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1673
9 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1823
10 Love in the Afternoon 1957 Billy Wilder 2252
11 Design for Living 1933 Ernst Lubitsch 2451
12 The Westerner 1940 William Wyler 2724

Kevin Costner

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 318
2 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 385
3 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 441
4 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 471
5 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 529
6 Tin Cup 1996 Ron Shelton 1359
7 The Big Chill 1983 Lawrence Kasdan 1429
8 Open Range 2003 Kevin Costner 1504
9 Silverado 1985 Lawrence Kasdan 1839
10 Man of Steel 2013 Zack Snyder 2589

Joseph Cotten

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
2 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 30
3 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 55
4 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 405
5 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 432
6 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles 640
7 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 910
8 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1040
9 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1285
10 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 1380
11 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 1802
12 Othello 1951 Orson Welles 1917

Joan Crawford

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 419
2 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 440
3 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 488
4 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 1274
5 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294
6 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1673
7 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning 1979

Russell Crowe

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 127
2 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
3 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 524
4 3:10 to Yuma 2007 James Mangold 1059
5 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 1105
6 Cinderella Man 2005 Ron Howard 1126
7 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1130
8 American Gangster 2007 Ridley Scott 1692
9 Les Misérables 2012 Tom Hooper 2067
10 Man of Steel 2013 Zack Snyder 2589

Tom Cruise

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 292
2 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 382
3 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 479
4 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 516
5 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 693
6 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 699
7 Risky Business 1983 Paul Brickman 1044
8 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1335
9 Edge of Tomorrow 2014 Doug Liman 1421
10 Mission: Impossible 1996 Brian De Palma 1435
11 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 1467
12 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1492
13 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese 1587
14 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann 1645
15 War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg 1684
16 The Outsiders 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 1892
17 The Last Samurai 2003 Edward Zwick 1922
18 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 2011 Brad Bird 2080
19 Tropic Thunder 2008 Ben Stiller 2321
20 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 2015 Christopher McQuarrie 2435
21 Mission: Impossible III 2006 J.J. Abrams 2454
22 Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018 Christopher McQuarrie 2474
23 Vanilla Sky 2001 Cameron Crowe 2767

Billy Crystal

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 96
2 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 109
3 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 149
4 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 397
5 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki 573
6 American Movie 1999 Chris Smith 1113
7 61* 2001 Billy Crystal 2638
8 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 2652

Jamie Lee Curtis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 150
2 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 446
3 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 624
4 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 632
5 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1107
6 The Fog 1980 John Carpenter 1524
7 Freaky Friday 2003 Mark Waters 2220

Tony Curtis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
2 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 78
3 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 173
4 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 254
5 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 668
6 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 722
7 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer 2010
8 The Celluloid Closet 1995 Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman 2284
9 Criss Cross 1949 Robert Siodmak 2518

John Cusack

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 325
2 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 346
3 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 378
4 Say Anything… 1989 Cameron Crowe 526
5 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 551
6 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 888
7 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 972
8 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 1032
9 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 1052
10 Sixteen Candles 1984 John Hughes 1057
11 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears 1261
12 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 George Armitage 1434
13 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1507
14 Better Off Dead… 1985 Savage Steve Holland 1960
15 The Sure Thing 1985 Rob Reiner 2393
16 Anastasia 1997 Don Bluth and Gary Goldman 2530
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