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Top Films by Actor (D)

Marcel Dalio

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 58
3 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 89
4 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
5 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 717
6 Pillow Talk 1959 Michael Gordon 774
7 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1016
8 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1135
9 Pépé Le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier 1256
10 The Song of Bernadette 1943 Henry King 1853
11 The Great White Hope 1970 Martin Ritt 2002

Matt Damon

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 67
2 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 219
3 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 474
4 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 802
5 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Anthony Minghella 1307
6 Chasing Amy 1997 Kevin Smith 1345
7 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 1432
8 The Bourne Identity 2002 Doug Liman 1458
9 Mystic Pizza 1988 Donald Petrie 1728
10 Dogma 1999 Kevin Smith 1889

Jean Dasté

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 89
2 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 193
3 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 483
4 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 518
5 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Jean Renoir 947
6 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 1120
7 The Crime of Mr. Lange 1936 Jean Renoir 1184
8 The Wild Child 1970 François Truffaut 1426

Bette Davis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
2 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 328
3 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 792
4 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler 811
5 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 824
6 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler 1308
7 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 1835
8 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo 1975
9 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich 2172
10 The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 William Keighley 2194
11 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460

Geena Davis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Tootsie 1982 William Wyler 186
2 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 188
3 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 524
4 A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall 621
5 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton 749
6 Stuart Little 1999 Rob Minkoff 1625
7 Fletch 1985 Michael Ritchie 1988
8 The Accidental Tourist 1988 Lawrence Kasdan 2072

Daniel Day-Lewis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 221
2 A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory 443
3 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 Michael Mann 467
4 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 547
5 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears 637
6 My Left Foot 1989 Jim Sheridan 739
7 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 845
8 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1209
9 Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 John Schlesinger 1632
10 The Crucible 1996 Nicholas Hytner 1780
11 In the Name of the Father 1993 Jim Sheridan 2021

Olivia de Havilland

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
2 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 155
3 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 650
4 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz 1321
5 Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz 1324
6 The Snake Pit 1948 Anatole Litvak 1993
7 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich 2172

Robert De Niro

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
2 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
3 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
4 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 31
5 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 72
6 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
7 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 171
8 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 208
9 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 233
10 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 379
11 The King of Comedy 1983 Martin Scorsese 480
12 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 560
13 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 814
14 Meet the Parents 2000 Jay Roach 1095
15 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1217
16 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 1341
17 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest 1365
18 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1367
19 Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 John D. Hancock 1391
20 Ronin 1998 John Frankenheimer 1460
21 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé 1623
22 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1723
23 Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker 1876
24 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro 1989
25 This Boy's Life 1993 Michael Caton-Jones 2027
26 Awakenings 1990 Penny Marshall 2087
27 Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 Michael Moore 2347
28 Cop Land 1997 James Mangold 2419

James Dean

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 85
2 Giant 1956 George Stevens 412
3 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 413

Alain Delon

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 420
2 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 535
3 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 769
4 The Eclipse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 794
5 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 1962

Catherine Deneuve

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 261
2 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 348
3 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 377
4 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel 935
5 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 1021
6 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1331
7 Indochine 1992 Régis Wargnier 1709
8 The Last Metro 1980 François Truffaut 1814
9 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 2114

Gérard Depardieu

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 385
2 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 696
3 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 814
4 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 1120
5 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1430
6 The Last Metro 1980 François Truffaut 1814
7 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs 1978 Bertrand Blier 2383
8 Danton 1983 Andrzej Wajda 2493

Johnny Depp

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 111
2 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 354
3 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 449
4 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 451
5 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 615
6 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 782
7 Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström 937
8 Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell 1099
9 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1199
10 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1519
11 Finding Neverland 2004 Terry Gilliam 1613
12 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1753
13 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005 Tim Burton 2334
14 Before Night Falls 2000 Julian Schnabel 2487

Laura Dern

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
2 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 131
3 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Martin Scorsese 1076
4 October Sky 1999 Joe Johnston 1396
5 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1559
6 Citizen Ruth 1996 Alexander Payne 2115
7 Mask 1985 Peter Bogdanovich 2361
8 Rambling Rose 1991 Martha Coolidge 2467

Leonardo DiCaprio

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 79
2 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 352
3 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 802
4 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1199
5 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1209
6 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese 1662
7 This Boy's Life 1993 Michael Caton-Jones 2152

Marlene Dietrich

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
2 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 244
3 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 505
4 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 600
5 Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg 828
6 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 850
7 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 920
8 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 985
9 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg 1383
10 Blonde Venus 1932 Josef von Sternberg 2242

Robert Donat

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 223
2 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 Sam Wood 527
3 Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Alexander Korda 1550

Kirk Douglas

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 144
2 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 198
3 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
4 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 654
5 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 830
6 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 1086
7 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1172
8 Champion 1949 Mark Robson 1225
9 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1352
10 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1419
11 Lonely Are the Brave 1962 David Miller 1552
12 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2175
13 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460

Michael Douglas

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne 499
2 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 599
3 Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven 762
4 The China Syndrome 1979 James Bridges 1000
5 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 1218
6 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1333
7 The Game 1997 David Fincher 1377
8 Romancing the Stone 1984 Robert Zemeckis 1478
9 The War of the Roses 1989 Danny DeVito 1646
10 Wonder Boys 2000 Curtis Hanson 1790
11 One Day in September 1999 Kevin Macdonald 1893

Richard Dreyfuss

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 27
2 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
4 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 179
5 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 336
6 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross 1185
7 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 1218
8 Mr. Holland's Opus 1995 Stephen Herek 1636
9 What about Bob? 1991 Frank Oz 2077
10 Postcards from the Edge 1990 Mike Nichols 2134
11 James and the Giant Peach 1996 Henry Selick 2236
12 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1974 Ted Kotcheff 2317
13 Down and Out in Beverly Hills 1986 Paul Mazursky 2380

Keir Dullea

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
2 Black Christmas 1974 Bob Clark 1644

Margaret Dumont

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
2 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 232
3 The Women 1939 George Cukor 668
4 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood 1211
5 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 1719
6 Animal Crackers 1930 Victor Heerman 1739

Faye Dunaway

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
2 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
3 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 202
4 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 699
5 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 1247
6 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1265
7 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack 1732
8 Mommie Dearest 1981 Frank Perry 1864
9 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 John McTiernan 2170
10 Barfly 1987 Barbet Schroeder 2227

Robert Duvall

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 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
4 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 57
5 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
6 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 176
7 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 202
8 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 746
9 Sling Blade 1996 Billy Bob Thornton 805
10 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 932
11 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1108
12 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson 1167
13 Tender Mercies 1983 Bruce Beresford 1297
14 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1367
15 The Apostle 1997 Robert Duvall 1539
16 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas 1844
17 The Great Santini 1979 Lewis John Carlino 2340
18 Rambling Rose 1991 Martha Coolidge 2467
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