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Top Films by Actor (H)

Gene Hackman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
2 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 80
3 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 153
4 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 176
5 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 274
6 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 314
7 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 452
8 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 714
9 Hoosiers 1986 David Anspaugh 754
10 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 983
11 Get Shorty 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld 1179
12 Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn 1320
13 Superman II 1980 Richard Lester 1766
14 Downhill Racer 1969 Michael Ritchie 1776
15 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 1873
16 Postcards from the Edge 1990 Mike Nichols 2134
17 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker 2296
18 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2353
19 The Birdcage 1997 Mike Nichols 2373
20 Enemy of the State 1998 Tony Scott 2381

Mark Hamill

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 7
2 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 46
3 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 199
4 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 575
5 The Little Mermaid 1989 Ron Clements and John Musker 874
6 Laputa: Castle in the Sky 1986 Hayao Miyazaki 2276
7 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 1993 Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm 2397

Linda Hamilton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 110
2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 126

Tom Hanks

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 67
2 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
3 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 83
4 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 325
5 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 375
6 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 539
7 Big 1988 Penny Marshall 563
8 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 568
9 A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall 621
10 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 777
11 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis 1125
12 Splash 1984 Ron Howard 1030
13 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1190
14 You've Got Mail 1998 Nora Ephron 1358
15 Band of Brothers 2001 David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To 1956
16 The Queen 2006 Stephen Frears 2369

Ed Harris

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 364
2 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 366
3 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 375
4 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 645
5 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 700
6 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 731
7 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 943
8 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1044
9 Places in the Heart 1984 Robert Benton 1193
10 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 1514
11 Stepmom 1998 Chris Columbus 1647
12 Pollock 2000 Ed Harris 2269
13 Baseball 1994 Ken Burns 2396
14 Enemy at the Gates 2001 Jean-Jacques Annaud 2471

Rex Harrison

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 150
2 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 960
3 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1169
4 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 1463
5 Major Barbara 1941 Gabriel Pascal 1819

Laurence Harvey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
2 Room at the Top 1959 Jack Clayton 819
3 Darling 1965 John Schlesinger 1205
4 F for Fake 1974 Orson Welles 1337
5 The Alamo 1960 John Wayne 2267

Rutger Hauer

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 25
2 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 765
3 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 1005
4 The Hitcher 1986 Robert Harmon 1621
5 Soldier of Orange 1977 Paul Verhoeven 2019

Sterling Hayden

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 2
2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
3 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 550
4 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 557
5 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 619
6 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 744
7 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 814
8 Nine to Five 1980 Colin Higgins 1516

Audrey Hepburn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 150
2 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
3 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 330
4 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 582
5 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 653
6 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 711
7 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1016
8 Two for the Road 1967 Stanley Donen 1143
9 The Nun's Story 1959 Fred Zinnemann 1496
10 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 1553
11 Robin and Marian 1976 Richard Lester 2358

Katharine Hepburn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 44
2 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 71
3 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
4 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 270
5 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 564
6 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 566
7 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 587
8 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 720
9 Long Day's Journey into Night 1962 Sidney Lumet 837
10 Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava 839
11 Little Women 1933 George Cukor 863
12 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 1024
13 Holiday 1938 George Cukor 1052
14 Summertime 1955 David Lean 1542
15 Christopher Strong 1933 Dorothy Arzner 1920
16 Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2186

Charlton Heston

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
2 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 101
3 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 279
4 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 323
5 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 712
6 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 933
7 El Cid 1961 Anthony Mann 1192
8 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1299
9 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1430
10 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1459
11 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1701
12 Any Given Sunday 1999 Oliver Stone 1711
13 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1898
14 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 2012
15 Planet of the Apes 2001 Tim Burton 225
16 The Omega Man 1971 Boris Sagal 2243

Dustin Hoffman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
2 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 120
3 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 186
4 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 296
5 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 309
6 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 356
7 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 448
8 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 699
9 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 963
10 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner 1093
11 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1217
12 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 1286
13 Lenny 1974 Bob Fosse 1508
14 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1613
15 Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty 2034
16 Straight Time 1978 Ulu Grosbard 2155
17 A Walk on the Moon 1999 Tony Goldwyn 2189

William Holden

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
2 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
3 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
4 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 202
5 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 508
6 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 541
7 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1016
8 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1265
9 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1529
10 Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Hiroshi Inagaki 1716
11 The Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954 Mark Robson 2168
12 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 1955 Henry King 2469

Anthony Hopkins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 39
2 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 457
3 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 591
4 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 720
5 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 835
6 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1401
7 Legends of the Fall 1994 Edward Zwick 1725
8 Shadowlands 1993 Richard Attenborough 1733
9 The Mask of Zorro 1998 Martin Campbell 1804
10 Amistad 1997 Steven Spielberg 2092
11 Hannibal 2001 Ridley Scott 2291
12 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2353
13 Mission: Impossible II 2000 John Woo 2392

Dennis Hopper

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
2 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
3 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 85
4 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 161
5 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 362
6 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont 390
7 Giant 1956 George Stevens 412
8 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 440
9 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 619
10 Hoosiers 1986 David Anspaugh 754
11 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1108
12 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1279
13 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1367
14 River's Edge 1986 Tim Hunter 1851
15 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2175
16 Rumble Fish 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 2206
17 Jesus' Son 1999 Alison Maclean 2382
18 Head 1968 Bob Rafelson 2408

Rock Hudson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 405
2 Giant 1956 George Stevens 412
3 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 671
4 Pillow Talk 1959 Michael Gordon 774
5 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 939
6 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer 1068
7 Magnificent Obsession 1954 Douglas Sirk 1997
8 Bend of the River 1952 Anthony Mann 2510

Holly Hunter

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 203
2 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 476
3 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 500
4 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 569
5 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 657
6 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 793
7 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 867
8 Home for the Holidays 1995 Jodie Foster 2122
9 Jesus' Son 1999 Alison Maclean 2382
10 Thirteen 2003 Catherine Hardwicke 2480

Jeffrey Hunter

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
2 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 536
3 King of Kings 1961 Nicholas Ray 2036

Walter Huston

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
2 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 69
3 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D. W. Griffith 112
4 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 257
5 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 578
6 And Then There Were None 1945 René Clair 1213
7 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1421
8 The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 William Dieterle 1890
9 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War 1943 Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak 2265
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