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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 48
2 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 73
3 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 151
4 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 155
5 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 260
6 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 272
7 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 516
8 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 588
9 Hoosiers 1986 David Anspaugh 651
10 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 1038
11 Downhill Racer 1969 Michael Ritchie 1364
12 Get Shorty 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld 1374
13 Superman II 1980 Richard Lester 1387
14 Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn 1623
15 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 1709
16 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 1994
17 Enemy of the State 1998 Tony Scott 2038
18 The Birdcage 1996 Mike Nichols 2308
19 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker 2368

Mark Hamill

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
2 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 43
3 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 178
4 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 619
5 The Little Mermaid 1989 Ron Clements and John Musker 928
6 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 Hayao Miyazaki 1647
7 Laputa: Castle in the Sky 1986 Hayao Miyazaki 2245
8 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 1993 Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm 2331

Linda Hamilton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 95
2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 98

Tom Hanks

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 50
2 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 64
3 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
4 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 268
5 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 485
6 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 560
7 Big 1988 Penny Marshall 608
8 A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall 641
9 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 652
10 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 898
11 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis 1119
12 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1224
13 Splash 1984 Ron Howard 1515
14 You've Got Mail 1998 Nora Ephron 1567
15 Band of Brothers 2001 David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To 1915
16 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich 1967

Ed Harris

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 291
2 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 371
3 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 485
4 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 612
5 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 621
6 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 661
7 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 994
8 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 1058
9 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1085
10 Places in the Heart 1984 Robert Benton 1350
11 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone 1460
12 Stepmom 1998 Chris Columbus 2073
13 Enemy at the Gates 2001 Jean-Jacques Annaud 2077
14 Pollock 2000 Ed Harris 2312

Rex Harrison

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 164
2 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1307
3 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1397
4 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 1605
5 Major Barbara 1941 Gabriel Pascal 2380

Laurence Harvey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 124
2 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles 799
3 Room at the Top 1959 Jack Clayton 877
4 Darling 1965 John Schlesinger 1084
5 The Alamo 1960 John Wayne 2258

Rutger Hauer

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 21
2 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 575
3 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 592
4 The Hitcher 1986 Robert Harmon 1247
5 Soldier of Orange 1977 Paul Verhoeven 2166

Ethan Hawke

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 384
2 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 508
3 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 679
4 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 950
5 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater 954
6 Quiz Show 1994 Robert Redford 1012
7 A Midnight Clear 1992 Keith Gordon 1454
8 Training Day 2001 Antoine Fuqua 2144

Sterling Hayden

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
3 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 542
4 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 558
5 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 590
6 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 721
7 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 970
8 Nine to Five 1980 Colin Higgins 1741

Audrey Hepburn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 164
2 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 203
3 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 300
4 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 638
5 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 677
6 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 723
7 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1059
8 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 1765
9 The Nun's Story 1959 Fred Zinnemann 1982
10 Two for the Road 1967 Stanley Donen 2375

Katharine Hepburn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
2 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
3 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 120
4 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 358
5 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 778
6 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 804
7 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 827
8 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 848
9 Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava 897
10 Holiday 1938 George Cukor 1034
11 Little Women 1933 George Cukor 1053
12 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 1105
13 Long Day's Journey into Night 1962 Sidney Lumet 1167
14 State of the Union 1948 Frank Capra 2081
15 Summertime 1955 David Lean 2128
16 Christopher Strong 1933 Dorothy Arzner 2251

Charlton Heston

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
2 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 140
3 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 240
4 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 403
5 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 733
6 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 840
7 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1257
8 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1386
9 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1411
10 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1573
11 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1583
12 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 1586
13 Any Given Sunday 1999 Oliver Stone 1660
14 The Omega Man 1971 Boris Sagal 1685
15 El Cid 1961 Anthony Mann 2004
16 The Three Musketeers 1973 Richard Lester 2216
17 Will Penny 1968 Tom Gries 2267

Dustin Hoffman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
2 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 142
3 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 197
4 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 277
5 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 319
6 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 347
7 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 535
8 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 726
9 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 742
10 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 966
11 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1219
12 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1261
13 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner 1292
14 Lenny 1974 Bob Fosse 1816
15 A Walk on the Moon 1999 Tony Goldwyn 1820
16 Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty 2098
17 Straight Time 1978 Ulu Grosbard 2217

William Holden

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
2 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
3 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 57
4 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 221
5 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 569
6 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 690
7 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1059
8 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1267
9 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1775
10 Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Hiroshi Inagaki 2212

Anthony Hopkins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 30
2 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 421
3 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 594
4 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 848
5 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 933
6 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1320
7 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone 1460
8 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 1709
9 Shadowlands 1993 Richard Attenborough 1744
10 Chaplin 1992 Richard Attenborough 2072
11 Legends of the Fall 1994 Edward Zwick 2092
12 The Mask of Zorro 1998 Martin Campbell 2228

Dennis Hopper

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
2 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 59
3 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 115
4 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 160
5 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 336
6 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont 370
7 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 430
8 Giant 1956 George Stevens 605
9 Hoosiers 1986 David Anspaugh 651
10 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1178
11 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1187
12 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1653
13 River's Edge 1986 Tim Hunter 1778
14 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 1939
15 Rumble Fish 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 1974
16 Head 1968 Bob Rafelson 1976

Rock Hudson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 484
2 Giant 1956 George Stevens 605
3 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 670
4 Pillow Talk 1959 Michael Gordon 936
5 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 943
6 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer 1122

Holly Hunter

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 247
2 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 385
3 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 479
4 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 528
5 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 564
6 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 655
7 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 776
8 Home for the Holidays 1995 Jodie Foster 2201

Jeffrey Hunter

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
2 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 614

Walter Huston

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
2 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 92
3 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 161
4 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 338
5 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 698
6 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1146
7 And Then There Were None 1945 René Clair 1613
8 The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 William Dieterle 2296
9 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War 1943 Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak 2316
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