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Top Films by Actor (L)

Burt Lancaster

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 173
2 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 174
3 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 242
4 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 343
5 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 426
6 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 447
7 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 569
8 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 934
9 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1033
10 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer 1293
11 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks 1581
12 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1634
13 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 1782
14 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2024
15 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 2058
16 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 Robert Wise 2103
17 Ulzana's Raid 1972 Robert Aldrich 2108
18 Airport 1970 George Seaton 2212

Charles Laughton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 197
2 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 371
3 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 598
4 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1151
5 The Old Dark House 1932 James Whale 1276
6 Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 Leo McCarey 1491
7 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Alexander Korda 1677
8 Island of Lost Souls 1932 Erle C. Kenton 1811
9 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2024

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 79
2 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 346
3 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 362
4 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 542
5 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 619
6 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 702
7 Elizabeth 1998 Shekhar Kapur 937
8 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 984
9 Stolen Kisses 1968 François Truffaut 1070
10 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1385
11 Irma Vep 1996 Olivier Assayas 1739
12 Two English Girls 1971 François Truffaut 2078
13 Love on the Run 1979 François Truffaut 2161

Spike Lee

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 103
2 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 329
3 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 621
4 When We Were Kings 1996 Leon Gast 653
5 She's Gotta Have It 1986 Spike Lee 930

Janet Leigh

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 6
2 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 51
3 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 106
4 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 951
5 Bye Bye Birdie 1963 George Sidney 1760
6 The Fog 1980 John Carpenter 1999

Vivien Leigh

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 15
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 131

Jack Lemmon

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 11
2 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 141
3 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 445
4 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 495
5 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 579
6 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 609
7 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 762
8 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks 807
9 The China Syndrome 1979 James Bridges 1074
10 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1483
11 Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras 1501
12 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards 1545

Tony Leung Chiu Wai

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar Wai Wong 331
2 Chungking Express 1994 Kar Wai Wong 580
3 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 847
4 Happy Together 1997 Kar Wai Wong 1230
5 Hero 2002 Yimou Zhang 1376
6 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1667
7 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai-keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak 1757
8 Days of Being Wild 1990 Kar Wai Wong 1972

Gong Li

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Ray Liotta

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 27
2 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 242
3 Blow 2001 Ted Demme 2225
4 Something Wild 1986 Jonathan Demme 2258

Carole Lombard

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 225
2 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 499
3 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1058
4 Twentieth Century 1934 Howard Hawks 1168
5 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen 1319
6 Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman 1642

Peter Lorre

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
2 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 39
3 M 1931 Fritz Lang 76
4 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 721
5 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 738
6 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1083
7 Beat the Devil 1953 John Huston 1673
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