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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 152
2 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 170
3 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 219
4 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 374
5 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 420
6 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 439
7 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 622
8 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 814
9 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 920
10 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer 1197
11 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1419
12 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks 1565
13 Airport 1970 George Seaton 2102
14 Criss Cross 1949 Robert Siodmak 2171
15 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2175
16 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 2230
17 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 Robert Wise 2238
18 Ulzana's Raid 1972 Robert Aldrich 2261
19 Separate Tables 1958 Delbert Mann 2437
20 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460

Charles Laughton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 198
2 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 300
3 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 600
4 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 759
5 The Old Dark House 1932 James Whale 1546
6 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Alexander Korda 1550
7 Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 Leo McCarey 1765
8 Island of Lost Souls 1933 Erle C. Kenton 1903
9 Head 19 Bob Rafelson 2408
10 Les Misérables 1935 Richard Boleslawski 2425
11 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460
12 The Sign of the Cross 1932 Cecil B. DeMille 2473
13 Hobson's Choice 1954 David Lean 2508

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 78
2 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 271
3 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 322
4 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 521
5 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 552
6 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 873
7 Stolen Kisses 1968 François Truffaut 964
8 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 1017
9 Elizabeth 1998 Shekhar Kapur 1039
10 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1312
11 Two English Girls 1971 François Truffaut 1438
12 Irma Vep 1996 Olivier Assayas 1515
13 Love on the Run 1979 François Truffaut 1909
14 Bed and Board 1970 François Truffaut 2130
15 The Testament of Orpheus 1960 Jean Cocteau 2447

Spike Lee

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 106
2 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 359
3 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 551
4 When We Were Kings 1996 Leon Gast 752
5 She's Gotta Have It 1986 Spike Lee 808
6 Clockers 1995 Spike Lee 2282

Janet Leigh

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 9
2 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
3 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
4 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 1406
5 Bye Bye Birdie 1963 George Sidney 1521
6 The Fog 1980 John Carpenter 2082
7 Angels in the Outfield 1951 Clarence Brown 2180

Vivien Leigh

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 99
3 Ship of Fools 1965 Stanley Kramer 2214

Jack Lemmon

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
2 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 147
3 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 424
4 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 508
5 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 594
6 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 681
7 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 700
8 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks 972
9 The China Syndrome 1979 James Bridges 1000
10 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards 1336
11 Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras 1394
12 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1430
13 Avanti! 1972 Billy Wilder 1737

Tony Leung Chiu Wai

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar Wai Wong 511
2 Chungking Express 1994 Kar-wai Wong 593
3 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 904
4 Happy Together 1997 Kar Wai Wong 1032
5 Hero 2002 Yimou Zhang 1060
6 City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1702
7 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai-keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak 1878
8 Cyclo 1995 Anh Hung Tran 2297
9 Bullet in the Head 1990 John Woo 2305
10 Days of Being Wild 1991 Kar Wai Wong 2313
11 2046 2004 Kar Wai Wong 2517

Gong Li

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Ray Liotta

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 31
2 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 219
3 Something Wild 1986 Jonathan Demme 2157
4 Hannibal 2001 Ridley Scott 2291
5 Cop Land 1997 James Mangold 2419

Roger Livesey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 242
2 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 368
3 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 829
4 The Entertainer 1960 Tony Richardson 2129

Carole Lombard

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 197
2 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 515
3 Twentieth Century 1934 Howard Hawks 1008
4 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen 1311
5 Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman 1334

Peter Lorre

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
3 M 1931 Fritz Lang 74
4 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 654
5 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 790
6 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 985
7 Beat the Devil 1953 John Huston 1792
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