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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 122
2 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 1124
3 Pépé Le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier 1243
4 La Bête Humaine 1938 Jean Renoir 1767
5 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 1841
6 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 1851
7 Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 Jacques Becker 2414
8 French Cancan 1955 Jean Renoir 2612

Clark Gable

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 32
2 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 92
3 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 1074
4 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1286
5 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1673
6 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 Robert Wise 2760

Bruno Ganz

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 211
2 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 424
3 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 966
4 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1688
5 The Reader 2008 Stephen Daldry 2056

Gael García Bernal

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 426
2 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 457
3 Coco 2017 Lee Unkrich 809
4 Babel 2006 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1420
5 Bad Education 2004 Pedro Almodóvar 1577
6 The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 Walter Salles 1733

Judy Garland

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 15
2 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 283
3 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 396
4 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1055
5 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1472
6 The Harvey Girls 1946 George Sidney 2691

Teri Garr

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 120
2 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 162
3 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 268
4 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 320
5 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 551
6 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 797
7 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 939
8 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese 992
9 The Black Stallion 1979 Carroll Ballard 1763
10 Head 1968 Bob Rafelson 2317

Richard Gere

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 221
2 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 521
3 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 617
4 Hachiko: A Dog's Story 2009 Lasse Hallström 1490
5 Primal Fear 1996 Gregory Hoblit 1558
6 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 Taylor Hackford 1664
7 I'm Not There. 2007 Todd Haynes 2008

Mel Gibson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 185
2 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 295
3 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 671
4 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner 763
5 Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord and Nick Park 962
6 Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir 1135
7 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Richard Donner 1932
8 Signs 2002 M. Night Shyamalan 2007
9 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 2045
10 The Patriot 2000 Roland Emmerich 2557
11 Pocahontas 1995 Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg 2758

Paulette Goddard

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 53
2 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 183
3 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294

John Goodman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 108
2 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 397
3 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 476
4 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 733
5 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 806
6 The Artist 2011 Michel Hazanavicius 885
7 Argo 2012 Ben Affleck 1660
8 The Princess and the Frog 2009 Ron Clements and John Musker 2175
9 Inside Llewyn Davis 2013 Ethan and Joel Coen 2259
10 The Emperor's New Groove 2000 Mark Dindal 2369
11 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 2605

Cary Grant

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 40
2 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 87
3 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 91
4 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 126
5 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
6 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 533
7 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 758
8 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 794
9 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 1007
10 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 1142
11 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 1213
12 Holiday 1938 George Cukor 1270
13 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1756
14 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2069
15 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 2312
16 Blonde Venus 1932 Josef von Sternberg 2785

Hugh Grant

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 504
2 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 602
3 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 636
4 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 956
5 Notting Hill 1999 Roger Michell 996
6 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 Sharon Maguire 1091
7 About a Boy 2002 Chris and Paul Weitz 1713
8 Maurice 1987 James Ivory 1894
9 Paddington 2 2017 Paul King 2202

Alec Guinness

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 6
2 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 19
3 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 36
4 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 94
5 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 207
6 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 236
7 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 415
8 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 425
9 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 512
10 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 2015 J.J. Abrams 925
11 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 1552
12 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 1614
13 Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean 2037

Jake Gyllenhaal

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 153
2 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 176
3 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher 1037
4 Prisoners 2013 Denis Villeneuve 1562
5 October Sky 1999 Joe Johnston 1611
6 Nightcrawler 2014 Dan Gilroy 1811
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