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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 89
2 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 676
3 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 1120
4 Pépé Le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier 1256
5 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 1403
6 La Bête Humaine 1938 Jean Renoir 1497
7 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 1949
8 French Cancan 1954 Jean Renoir 1979

Clark Gable

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
2 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 53
3 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 300
4 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 861
5 San Francisco 1936 W.S. Van Dyke 1310
6 Red Dust 1932 Victor Fleming 1816
7 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1868
8 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060
9 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 Robert Wise 2238

Bruno Ganz

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
2 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 1222
3 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1279
4 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 1576
5 Eternity and a Day 1998 Theodoros Angelopoulos 2501

Greta Garbo

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 190
2 Camille 1936 George Cukor 437
3 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 529
4 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 677
5 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1530
6 Flesh and the Devil 1926 Clarence Brown 2325

Judy Garland

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 6
2 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 204
3 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
4 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 920
5 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1327
6 The Pirate 1948 Vincente Minnelli 1825
7 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060
8 Babes in Arms 1939 Busby Berkeley 2404
9 Love Finds Andy Hardy 1938 George B. Seitz 2420
10 The Clock 1945 Vincente Minnelli 2482

Teri Garr

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
2 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 176
3 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 186
4 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 274
5 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
6 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 967
7 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese 1048
8 The Black Stallion 1979 Carroll Ballard 1111
9 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 1676
10 Head 1968 Bob Rafelson 2408

Janet Gaynor

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunrise 1927 F. W. Murnau 95
2 Seventh Heaven 1927 Frank Borzage 1563
3 A Star Is Born 1937 William A. Wellman 1679

Richard Gere

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 272
2 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 295
3 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 680
4 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 Taylor Hackford 1040
5 American Gigolo 1980 Paul Schrader 1957
6 Primal Fear 1996 Gregory Hoblit 2438

Mel Gibson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 94
2 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 370
3 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 543
4 Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir 590
5 Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord and Nick Park 707
6 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner 807
7 The Passion of the Christ 2004 Mel Gibson 1292
8 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 1707
9 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 George Miller 2083
10 Signs 2002 M. Night Shyamalan 2161
11 The Patriot 2000 Roland Emmerich 2181

Lillian Gish

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 73
2 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D. W. Griffith 112
3 Intolerance 1916 D. W. Griffith 133
4 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 410
5 Broken Blossoms 1919 D. W. Griffith 501
6 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 861
7 Way Down East 1920 D. W. Griffith 1294
8 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1421
9 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 1850
10 Orphans of the Storm 1921 D. W. Griffith 2323

Paulette Goddard

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
2 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 392
3 The Women 1939 George Cukor 668

Li Gong

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 326
2 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 548
3 Ju Dou 1990 Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang 918
4 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1038
5 Red Sorghum 1987 Yimou Zhang 1178
6 The Story of Qiu Ju 1992 Yimou Zhang 1354
7 2046 2004 Kar Wai Wong 2517

Elliott Gould

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 70
2 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
3 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
4 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 744
5 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 868
6 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 1432
7 Bugsy 1991 Barry Levinson 1614
8 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 1787
9 Airport 1970 George Seaton 2102
10 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult 1994 Peter Segal 2339
11 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2353

Farley Granger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 220
2 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 957
3 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1079
4 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 1257

Cary Grant

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 28
2 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 44
3 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
4 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
5 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
6 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 388
7 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 393
8 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 455
9 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 582
10 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 790
11 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 922
12 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 984
13 Holiday 1938 George Cukor 1052
14 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1090
15 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 1522
16 The Talk of the Town 1942 George Stevens 1722
17 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060
18 Topper 1937 Norman Z. McLeod 2179
19 The Bishop's Wife 1947 Henry Koster 2190
20 Blonde Venus 1932 Josef von Sternberg 2242
21 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 H.C. Potter 2376
22 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460

Hugh Grant

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 241
2 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 357
3 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 591
4 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 Sharon Maguire 626
5 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 1147
6 Notting Hill 1999 Roger Michell 1223
7 About a Boy 2002 Chris and Paul Weitz 1922

Alec Guinness

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 7
2 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
3 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
4 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 46
5 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 167
6 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 199
7 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 228
8 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 234
9 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 441
10 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 653
11 Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean 784
12 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 908
13 Tunes of Glory 1960 Ronald Neame 1720
14 A Passage to India 1984 David Lean 1758
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