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Top Films by Actor (D)

Marcel Dalio

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
2 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 70
3 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 90
4 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 383
5 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 719
6 Pillow Talk 1959 Michael Gordon 936
7 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1059
8 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1109
9 Pépé Le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier 1256

Matt Damon

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 50
2 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 387
3 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 522
4 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass 859
5 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Anthony Minghella 983
6 The Bourne Identity 2002 Doug Liman 1004
7 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 Paul Greengrass 1018
8 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 1352
9 Chasing Amy 1997 Kevin Smith 1430
10 Dogma 1999 Kevin Smith 2059

Bette Davis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
2 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 361
3 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 682
4 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 1113
5 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler 1172
6 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler 1603
7 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo 2181
8 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich 2230
9 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 2259

Geena Davis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 197
2 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 228
3 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 349
4 A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall 641
5 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton 784
6 Stuart Little 1999 Rob Minkoff 1616
7 Fletch 1985 Michael Ritchie 1850
8 The Accidental Tourist 1988 Lawrence Kasdan 2376

Daniel Day-Lewis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 251
2 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 Michael Mann 468
3 A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory 526
4 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 533
5 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 570
6 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears 610
7 My Left Foot 1989 Jim Sheridan 683
8 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 958
9 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1276
10 Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 John Schlesinger 1838
11 The Crucible 1996 Nicholas Hytner 1932
12 In the Name of the Father 1993 Jim Sheridan 2000

Olivia de Havilland

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
2 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 153
3 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 1045
4 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz 1323
5 Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz 1800
6 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich 2230

Robert De Niro

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
2 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
3 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
4 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
5 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 77
6 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
7 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 150
8 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 190
9 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 207
10 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 408
11 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 475
12 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 488
13 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 927
14 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 970
15 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest 1021
16 Meet the Parents 2000 Jay Roach 1066
17 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1178
18 Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 John D. Hancock 1225
19 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1261
20 Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker 1353
21 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé 1355
22 Ronin 1998 John Frankenheimer 1446
23 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1646
24 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro 2071
25 New York, New York 1977 Martin Scorsese 2204
26 Awakenings 1990 Penny Marshall 2232

James Dean

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 115
2 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 214
3 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 527
4 Giant 1956 George Stevens 605

Alain Delon

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 332
2 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 504
3 The Eclipse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 967
4 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 1008
5 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 1335
6 Purple Noon 1960 René Clément 1998

Catherine Deneuve

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 274
2 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 350
3 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 368
4 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 780
5 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1144
6 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel 1191
7 Persepolis 2007 Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi 1651
8 The Last Metro 1980 François Truffaut 1739
9 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 1777
10 Indochine 1992 Régis Wargnier 1921

Johnny Depp

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
2 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 287
3 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 345
4 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 379
5 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 497
6 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 732
7 Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell 869
8 Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström 1114
9 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1219
10 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1326
11 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1516
12 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1720
13 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 Gore Verbinski 1874
14 Before Night Falls 2000 Julian Schnabel 1928
15 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Tim Burton 1975

Laura Dern

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 59
2 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 149
3 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Martin Scorsese 1268
4 October Sky 1999 Joe Johnston 1392
5 Citizen Ruth 1996 Alexander Payne 1492
6 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1665

Leonardo DiCaprio

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
2 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 406
3 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 522
4 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1276
5 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1326
6 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese 1495
7 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 1654

Marlene Dietrich

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
2 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 321
3 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 573
4 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 631
5 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 947
6 Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg 1097
7 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1126
8 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1288
9 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg 1457

Robert Donat

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 206
2 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 Sam Wood 685
3 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Alexander Korda 1769

Kirk Douglas

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 152
2 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 211
3 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 242
4 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 728
5 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 753
6 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1190
7 Champion 1949 Mark Robson 1463
8 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1487
9 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 1525
10 Lonely Are the Brave 1962 David Miller 1629
11 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1717
12 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 1939

Michael Douglas

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne 530
2 Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven 636
3 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 713
4 The China Syndrome 1979 James Bridges 1118
5 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1120
6 The Game 1997 David Fincher 1491
7 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 1674
8 The War of the Roses 1989 Danny DeVito 1784
9 One Day in September 1999 Kevin Macdonald 1792
10 Romancing the Stone 1984 Robert Zemeckis 1872
11 Wonder Boys 2000 Curtis Hanson 1878

Richard Dreyfuss

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
2 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
4 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 198
5 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 315
6 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross 1633
7 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 1674
8 Mr. Holland's Opus 1995 Stephen Herek 1780
9 James and the Giant Peach 1996 Henry Selick 2075

Keir Dullea

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
2 Black Christmas 1974 Bob Clark 1782

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 253
3 The Women 1939 George Cukor 835
4 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood 1385
5 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 1839
6 Animal Crackers 1930 Victor Heerman 2061

Faye Dunaway

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
2 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 48
3 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 221
4 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 742
5 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1267
6 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack 1308
7 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 1484
8 Mommie Dearest 1981 Frank Perry 2036
9 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 John McTiernan 2093
10 The Three Musketeers 1973 Richard Lester 2216

Robert Duvall

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
3 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
4 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 62
5 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
6 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 155
7 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 221
8 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 587
9 Sling Blade 1996 Billy Bob Thornton 826
10 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 889
11 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson 908
12 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1178
13 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas 1182
14 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1187
15 Tender Mercies 1983 Bruce Beresford 1526
16 The Apostle 1997 Robert Duvall 1543
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