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Top Films by Actor (M)

Andie MacDowell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 149
2 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 278
3 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 483
4 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 495
5 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 579

Marion Mack

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 44

Kyle MacLachlan

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
2 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 1318
3 Showgirls 1995 Paul Verhoeven 1371
4 Dune 1984 David Lynch 1791
5 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder 2169

Shirley MacLaine

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 141
2 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 288
3 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 468
4 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1083
5 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1191
6 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1568

Fred MacMurray

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
2 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 141
3 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 750
4 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2024

William H. Macy

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
2 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 214
3 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 367
4 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 Steven Zaillian 1147
5 House of Games 1987 David Mamet 1221
6 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1255
7 Pleasantville 1998 Gary Ross 1287
8 Air Force One 1997 Wolfgang Petersen 1752
9 Seabiscuit 2003 Gary Ross 1785
10 Mr. Holland's Opus 1995 Stephen Herek 1881
11 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen 1960

Patrick Magee

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 41
2 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 319
3 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 382
4 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 504
5 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 737
6 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman 2086

Lamberto Maggiorani

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 71
2 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 356

Fredric March

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 114
2 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian 821
3 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer 1436
4 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1634
5 Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman 1642
6 A Star Is Born 1937 William A. Wellman 1937
7 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1945
8 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2271

Mae Marsh

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 25
2 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 80
3 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 145
4 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 160
5 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 245
6 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 247
7 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 267
8 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 353
9 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 464
10 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1091
11 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1347
12 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1352
13 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 1395
14 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 1571
15 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 1944

Steve Martin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner 817
2 Roxanne 1987 Fred Schepisi 1018
3 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 1059
4 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 1531
5 Pennies from Heaven 1981 Herbert Ross 1585
6 L.A. Story 1991 Mick Jackson 1625
7 The Man with Two Brains 1983 Carl Reiner 1722
8 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1768
9 Parenthood 1989 Ron Howard 1825
10 The Prince of Egypt 1998 Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells 2023
11 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2024
12 The Spanish Prisoner 1997 David Mamet 2158
13 All of Me 1984 Carl Reiner 2183
14 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz 2202

Lee Marvin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 272
2 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 536
3 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 543
4 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 588
5 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 591
6 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 706
7 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 750
8 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 1173
9 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein 1404
10 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman 1819
11 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 2058
12 The Wild One 1953 László Benedek 2241

The Marx Brothers

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 57
2 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 250
3 Horse Feathers 1932 Norman Z. McLeod 845
4 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood 1338
5 Monkey Business 1931 Norman Z. McLeod 2068
6 Animal Crackers 1930 Victor Heerman 2081
7 The Candidate1 1972 Michael Ritchie 2083

1 Includes just Groucho Marx.

Giulietta Masina

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 224
2 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 427
3 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 859
4 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini 1494

James Mason

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 32
2 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 245
3 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 721
4 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 813
5 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 816
6 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 868
7 Heaven Can Wait 1978 Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1262
8 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1411
9 Cross of Iron 1977 Sam Peckinpah 1557
10 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls 1731

Marcello Mastroianni

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 84
2 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 144
3 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1252
4 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 1919
5 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 Pietro Germi 2157

Joel McCrea

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 130
2 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 416
3 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 749
4 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 1051
5 Dead End 1937 William Wyler 1931
6 The More the Merrier 1943 George Stevens 2166

Frances McDormand

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
2 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 449
3 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 481
4 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 496
5 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 579
6 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 603
7 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 671
8 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 923
9 Wonder Boys 2000 Curtis Hanson 1715
10 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 Joel Coen 2244
11 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker 2270

Roddy McDowall

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 228
2 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 353
3 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 607
4 A Bug's Life 1998 John Lasseter 760
5 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 1125
6 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1372
7 Lassie Come Home 1943 Fred M. Wilcox 1706
8 Fright Night 1985 Tom Holland 2261

Malcolm McDowell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 41
2 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 495
3 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 546
4 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 1366
5 Time after Time 1979 Nicholas Meyer 2220

Ewan McGregor

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 132
2 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 237
3 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 837
4 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 899
5 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott 978
6 Shallow Grave 1994 Danny Boyle 1043
7 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 George Lucas 1269
8 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 1342
9 Brassed Off 1996 Mark Herman 1883
10 The Pillow Book 1996 Peter Greenaway 2213
11 Emma 1996 Douglas McGrath 2227

Michael McKean

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 99
2 Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest 851
3 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 1059
4 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg 1903

Ian McKellen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 69
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 113
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 139
4 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 836
5 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 944
6 Richard III 1995 Richard Loncraine 1240
7 Gods and Monsters 1998 Bill Condon 1389

Steve McQueen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 170
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 325
3 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 597
4 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner 1292
5 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1307
6 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 1414
7 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah 1632

Toshirô Mifune

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 37
2 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 96
3 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 391
4 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 629
5 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 1007
6 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1215
7 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1298
8 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman 1819
9 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg 1903
10 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1930
11 Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Hiroshi Inagaki 2262

John Mills

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 240
2 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 249
3 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 Sam Wood 672
4 In Which We Serve 1942 Noel Coward and David Lean 955
5 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1083
6 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1483
7 Ice-Cold in Alex 1958 J. Lee Thompson 1605
8 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 Ken Annakin 1959

Liza Minnelli

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 146
2 The King of Comedy 1983 Martin Scorsese 528
3 Arthur 1981 Steve Gordon 1113

Robert Mitchum

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 59
2 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 232
3 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 607
4 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 768
5 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1289
6 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1442
7 Saboteur 1942 Alfred Hitchcock 1525
8 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 William A. Wellman 1636
9 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1769
10 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy 2018
11 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks 2264

Marilyn Monroe

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 11
2 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
3 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 88
4 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 518
5 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 723
6 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 799
7 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1315
8 Niagara 1953 Henry Hathaway 2206

Yves Montand

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 259
2 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 424
3 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 487
4 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 655
5 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 1402

Masayuki Mori

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 96
2 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 262

Cathy Moriarty

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18

Viggo Mortensen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 69
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 113
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 139
4 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 472
5 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 990
6 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 1437
7 A Walk on the Moon 1999 Tony Goldwyn 1754

Eddie Murphy

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 281
2 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 765
3 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest 962
4 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill 1140
5 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1539
6 Mulan 1998 Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook 2064

Bill Murray

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 149
2 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 175
3 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 280
4 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 303
5 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 336
6 Caddyshack 1980 Harold Ramis 477
7 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 515
8 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 563
9 Kingpin 1996 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 1045
10 Stripes 1981 Ivan Reitman 1452
11 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1768
12 Wild Things 1998 John McNaughton 1932

Mike Myers

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 281
2 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 417
3 Wayne's World 1992 Penelope Spheeris 1273
4 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1539
5 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 Jay Roach 1964
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