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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 90
2 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 965
3 Pépé Le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier 1256
4 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 1300
5 La Bête Humaine 1938 Jean Renoir 1574
6 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 1708
7 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 1831

Clark Gable

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
2 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 69
3 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 447
4 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1226
5 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1549
6 San Francisco 1936 W.S. Van Dyke 1854
7 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 Robert Wise 2043

Bruno Ganz

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
2 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 600
3 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 1047
4 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1653

Greta Garbo

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 229
2 Camille 1936 George Cukor 681
3 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 800
4 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 911
5 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1789

Judy Garland

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
2 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 226
3 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 250
4 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1126
5 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1437
6 The Pirate 1948 Vincente Minnelli 2027

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 155
3 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 197
4 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 260
5 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 492
6 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 815
7 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese 944
8 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 1311
9 The Black Stallion 1979 Carroll Ballard 1342
10 Head 1968 Bob Rafelson 1976

Richard Gere

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 297
2 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 298
3 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 624
4 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 Taylor Hackford 1134
5 American Gigolo 1980 Paul Schrader 1701

Mel Gibson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 116
2 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 306
3 Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir 598
4 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 606
5 Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord and Nick Park 747
6 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner 794
7 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 1189
8 Signs 2002 M. Night Shyamalan 1858
9 The Patriot 2000 Roland Emmerich 2239
10 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Richard Donner 2355

Lillian Gish

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 61
2 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 161
3 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 181
4 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 483
5 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 616
6 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1146
7 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1226
8 Way Down East 1920 D.W. Griffith 1474
9 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 2196

Paulette Goddard

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 108
2 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 369
3 The Women 1939 George Cukor 835

Li Gong

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 363
2 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 601
3 Ju Dou 1990 Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang 946
4 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1221
5 Red Sorghum 1988 Yimou Zhang 1362
6 The Story of Qiu Ju 1992 Yimou Zhang 1565
7 2046 2004 Kar Wai Wong 2244

John Goodman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 173
2 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 528
3 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 607
4 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 776
5 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 907
6 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 1435
7 The Big Easy 1986 Jim McBride 2078
8 Revenge of the Nerds 1984 Jeff Kanew 2351

Elliott Gould

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
2 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
3 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 492
4 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 706
5 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 721
6 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 1243
7 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 1352
8 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 1709
9 Bugsy 1991 Barry Levinson 1770
10 Airport 1970 George Seaton 1979

Farley Granger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 235
2 They Live by Night 1949 Nicholas Ray 910
3 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 1055
4 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1346

Cary Grant

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 31
2 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
3 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 72
4 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
5 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
6 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 469
7 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 514
8 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 623
9 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 638
10 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 686
11 Holiday 1938 George Cukor 1034
12 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 1154
13 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 1278
14 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1517
15 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 1822
16 The Talk of the Town 1942 George Stevens 2015
17 My Favorite Wife 1940 Garson Kanin 2332

Hugh Grant

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 267
2 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 405
3 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 594
4 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 Sharon Maguire 714
5 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 1024
6 Notting Hill 1999 Roger Michell 1166
7 About a Boy 2002 Chris and Paul Weitz 1986

Christopher Guest

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 78
2 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 132
3 Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest 822
4 Waiting for Guffman 1996 Christopher Guest 998
5 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1183
6 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1668

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 57
5 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 170
6 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 178
7 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
8 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 257
9 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 333
10 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 677
11 Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean 939
12 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 1071
13 A Passage to India 1984 David Lean 2023

Jake Gyllenhaal

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 212
2 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 474
3 October Sky 1999 Joe Johnston 1392
4 City Slickers 1991 Ron Underwood 1614
5 Lovely & Amazing 2001 Nicole Holofcener 2266
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