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Top Films by Actor (G)

Jean Gabin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 105
2 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 810
3 Pépé Le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier 1137
4 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 1253
5 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 1517
6 La Bête Humaine 1938 Jean Renoir 1551
7 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 1756
8 French Cancan 1954 Jean Renoir 2088

Clark Gable

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 15
2 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 58
3 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 371
4 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1058
5 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1315
6 San Francisco 1936 W.S. Van Dyke 1788
7 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 Robert Wise 2103

Bruno Ganz

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 206
2 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 689
3 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 1182
4 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1815

Greta Garbo

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 215
2 Camille 1936 George Cukor 596
3 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 740
4 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 794
5 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1945

Judy Garland

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 7
2 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 211
3 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 245
4 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1033
5 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1530
6 The Pirate 1948 Vincente Minnelli 1965

Teri Garr

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 98
2 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 151
3 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 175
4 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 255
5 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 495
6 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 830
7 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese 935
8 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 1166
9 The Black Stallion 1979 Carroll Ballard 1180
10 Head 1968 Bob Rafelson 2047

Janet Gaynor

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunrise 1927 F. W. Murnau 104
2 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1058
3 A Star Is Born 1937 William A. Wellman 1937
4 Seventh Heaven 1927 Frank Borzage 2188

Richard Gere

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 279
2 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 295
3 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 690
4 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 Taylor Hackford 1084
5 American Gigolo 1980 Paul Schrader 1702

Mel Gibson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 111
2 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 293
3 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 581
4 Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir 650
5 Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord and Nick Park 735
6 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner 780
7 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 1150
8 The Passion of the Christ 2004 Mel Gibson 1476
9 Signs 2002 M. Night Shyamalan 1713
10 The Patriot 2000 Roland Emmerich 2034
11 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 George Miller and George Ogilvie 2249

Lillian Gish

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 59
2 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 145
3 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 160
4 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 400
5 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 568
6 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1058
7 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1103
8 Way Down East 1920 D.W. Griffith 1373
9 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 2130

Paulette Goddard

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 90
2 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 387
3 The Women 1939 George Cukor 855

Li Gong

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 354
2 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 592
3 Ju Dou 1990 Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang 849
4 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1211
5 Red Sorghum 1987 Yimou Zhang 1322
6 The Story of Qiu Ju 1992 Yimou Zhang 1505

John Goodman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 210
2 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 496
3 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 557
4 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 823
5 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 923
6 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 1449
7 The Big Easy 1986 Jim McBride 2009
8 Revenge of the Nerds 1984 Jeff Kanew 2129

Elliott Gould

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 75
2 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 122
3 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 495
4 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 717
5 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 763
6 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 1363
7 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 1531
8 Bugsy 1991 Barry Levinson 1609
9 Capricorn One 1977 Peter Hyams 2025
10 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2043
11 Airport 1970 George Seaton 2212

Farley Granger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 223
2 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 890
3 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 1194
4 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1303

Cary Grant

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 32
2 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 54
3 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 78
4 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 93
5 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 109
6 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 462
7 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 540
8 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 562
9 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 685
10 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 738
11 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 968
12 Holiday 1938 George Cukor 1029
13 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 1159
14 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1454
15 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 1755
16 The Talk of the Town 1942 George Stevens 1958
17 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2024

Hugh Grant

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 278
2 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 420
3 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 594
4 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 Sharon Maguire 709
5 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 985
6 Notting Hill 1999 Roger Michell 1081
7 About a Boy 2002 Chris and Paul Weitz 1856

Alec Guinness

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
2 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
3 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 43
4 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
5 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 176
6 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 185
7 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 193
8 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 249
9 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 401
10 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 651
11 Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean 865
12 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 957
13 A Passage to India 1984 David Lean 1961

Jake Gyllenhaal

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 239
2 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 550
3 October Sky 1999 Joe Johnston 1410
4 City Slickers 1991 Ron Underwood 1482
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