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Top Films by Actor (I-K)

Jeremy Irons

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 270
2 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 707
3 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé 1355
4 Reversal of Fortune 1990 Barbet Schroeder 1762
5 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 John McTiernan 1846
6 The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981 Karel Reisz 1867
7 Moonlighting 1982 Jerzy Skolimowski 2088

Samuel L. Jackson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
2 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
3 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 100
4 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 149
5 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 385
6 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 430
7 Out of Sight 1998 Steven Soderbergh 625
8 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 701
9 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 876
10 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 927
11 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 959
12 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 George Lucas 1252
13 Menace II Society 1993 Albert and Allen Hughes 1632
14 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 1738
15 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 John McTiernan 1846
16 Unbreakable 2000 M. Night Shyamalan 1920
17 Iron Man 2008 Jon Favreau 1934

Tommy Lee Jones

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 423
2 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis 496
3 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld 562
4 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 589
5 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 759
6 Love Story 1970 Arthur Hiller 777
7 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Michael Apted 935

Boris Karloff

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
2 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 137
3 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 328
4 The Mummy 1932 Karl Freund 852
5 The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer 1046
6 Targets 1968 Peter Bogdanovich 1132
7 The Old Dark House 1932 James Whale 1321
8 Son of Frankenstein 1939 Rowland V. Lee 2172

Buster Keaton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
2 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 45
3 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 261
4 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 797
5 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1117
6 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1140
7 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1208
8 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1288
9 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 1415
10 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer 1445
11 Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton 2125

Diane Keaton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
3 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
4 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
5 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 432
6 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 553
7 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 588
8 Love and Death 1975 Woody Allen 1343
9 Play It Again, Sam 1972 Herbert Ross 1622
10 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen 1869

Harvey Keitel

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
2 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
3 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 66
4 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 190
5 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 228
6 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 247
7 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese 865
8 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1222
9 Bad Lieutenant 1992 Abel Ferrara 1238
10 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Martin Scorsese 1268
11 Get Shorty 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld 1374
12 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 1738
13 Bugsy 1991 Barry Levinson 1770
14 Blue Collar 1978 Paul Schrader 1937
15 Smoke 1995 Wayne Wang 1943

Gene Kelly

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
2 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 237
3 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 506
4 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1144
5 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer 1338
6 The Pirate 1948 Vincente Minnelli 2027

Grace Kelly

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
2 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 58
3 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 1176
4 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1263
5 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1517

Deborah Kerr

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 82
2 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 220
3 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 335
4 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 390
5 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 514
6 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 519
7 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 583
8 Quo Vadis 1951 Mervyn LeRoy 1871
9 Major Barbara 1941 Gabriel Pascal 2380

Nicole Kidman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 219
2 The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenábar 803
3 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 853
4 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1085
5 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 1130
6 The Queen 2006 Stephen Frears 1639
7 To Die For 1995 Gus Van Sant 1690

Ben Kingsley

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
2 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 251
3 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 584
4 Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer 920
5 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 Steven Zaillian 1149
6 Bugsy 1991 Barry Levinson 1770
7 Dave 1993 Ivan Reitman 1817
8 House of Sand and Fog 2003 Vadim Perelman 2134

Klaus Kinski

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 188
2 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
3 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 541
4 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 1047
5 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 1533
6 Burden of Dreams 1982 Les Blank 1609

Yaphet Kotto

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
2 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest 1021
3 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 1484
4 Blue Collar 1978 Paul Schrader 1937
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