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Top Films by Actor (M)

Andie MacDowell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 187
2 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 241
3 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 491
4 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
5 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 594
6 St. Elmo's Fire 1985 Joel Schumacher 2280

Marion Mack

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The General 1927 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 42

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 1356
3 Showgirls 1995 Paul Verhoeven 1503
4 The Doors 1991 Oliver Stone 2263
5 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder 2418

Shirley MacLaine

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 147
2 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 268
3 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 454
4 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 985
5 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1221
6 Postcards from the Edge 1990 Mike Nichols 2134
7 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 2135
8 Sweet Charity 1969 Bob Fosse 2147
9 Ocean's Eleven 1960 Lewis Milestone 2174
10 Defending Your Life 1991 Albert Brooks 2411
11 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 2514

Fred MacMurray

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
2 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 147
3 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 577
4 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460

William H. Macy

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
2 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 267
3 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 430
4 House of Games 1987 David Mamet 993
5 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 Steven Zaillian 1128
6 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1217
7 Pleasantville 1998 Gary Ross 1368
8 Mr. Holland's Opus 1995 Stephen Herek 1636
9 Seabiscuit 2003 Gary Ross 1684
10 Air Force One 1997 Wolfgang Petersen 1779
11 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen 2150
12 Somewhere in Time 1987 Jeannot Szwarc 2401

Patrick Magee

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
2 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 297
3 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 407
4 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 423
5 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 753
6 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman 2200
7 Seance on a Wet Afternoon 1964 Bryan Forbes 2232

Lamberto Maggiorani

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 63
2 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 334

Fredric March

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 96
2 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian 686
3 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer 1094
4 Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman 1334
5 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1419
6 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1530
7 A Star Is Born 1937 William A. Wellman 1679
8 I Married a Witch 1942 René Clair 2136
9 The Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954 Mark Robson 2168
10 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2421
11 Les Misérables 1935 Richard Boleslawski 2425
12 Death of a Salesman 1951 László Benedek 2455
13 The Sign of the Cross 1932 Cecil B. DeMille 2473

Mae Marsh

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
2 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
3 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D. W. Griffith 112
4 Intolerance 1916 D. W. Griffith 133
5 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
6 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
7 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 236
8 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 342
9 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 421
10 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1115
11 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 1319
12 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1352
13 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1374
14 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 1606
15 The Song of Bernadette 1943 Henry King 1853
16 The Snake Pit 1948 Anatole Litvak 1993
17 Jane Eyre 1944 Robert Stevenson 2151
18 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 2169
19 It Happens Every Spring 1949 Lloyd Bacon 2299

Steve Martin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Roxanne 1987 Fred Schepisi 798
2 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner 977
3 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 1340
4 Pennies from Heaven 1981 Herbert Ross 1355
5 L.A. Story 1991 Mick Jackson 1398
6 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1524
7 Parenthood 1989 Ron Howard 1591
8 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 1787
9 All of Me 1984 Carl Reiner 1839
10 The Prince of Egypt 1998 Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells 2105
11 Fantasia/2000 1999 James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, and Pixote Hunt 2253
12 Father of the Bride 1991 Charles Shyer 2303
13 The Spanish Prisoner 1997 David Mamet 2330
14 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460

Lee Marvin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
2 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 558
3 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 575
4 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 577
5 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 632
6 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 710
7 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 760
8 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein 1332
9 The Wild One 1953 László Benedek 2013
10 Ship of Fools 1965 Stanley Kramer 2214
11 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 2230
12 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman 2288
13 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 2329

The Marx Brothers

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
2 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 232
3 Horse Feathers 1932 Norman Z. McLeod 800
4 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood 1211
5 Monkey Business 1931 Norman Z. McLeod 1581
6 Animal Crackers 1930 Victor Heerman 1739

Giulietta Masina

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 209
2 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 425
3 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 616
4 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini 1466
5 Europa '51 1952 Roberto Rossellini 2126

James Mason

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 28
2 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
3 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 654
4 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 695
5 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 741
6 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 968
7 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1435
8 Heaven Can Wait 1978 Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1439
9 Cross of Iron 1977 Sam Peckinpah 1818
10 Julius Caesar 1953 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2009
11 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls 2065
12 The Last of Sheila 1973 Herbert Ross 2110

Marcello Mastroianni

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 82
2 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
3 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1301
4 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 Pietro Germi 1568
5 The Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 1796
6 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 1963 Vittorio De Sica 2209
7 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 Ettore Scola 2428

Joel McCrea

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
2 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 360
3 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 672
4 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Sam Wood 882
5 Dead End 1937 William Wyler 1802
6 The More the Merrier 1943 George Stevens 2144

Frances McDormand

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
2 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 478
3 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 500
4 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 559
5 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 594
6 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 667
7 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 738
8 Wonder Boys 2000 Curtis Hanson 1790
9 Something's Gotta Give 2003 Nancy Meyers 2073
10 Laurel Canyon 2002 Lisa Cholodenko 2099
11 The Man Who Wasn't There 2000 Joel Coen 2158
12 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker 2296
13 Primal Fear 1996 Gregory Hoblit 2438

Malcolm McDowell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
2 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 508
3 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 533
4 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 1423
5 Time after Time 1979 Nicholas Meyer 2379

Ewan McGregor

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 128
2 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 235
3 Shallow Grave 1994 Danny Boyle 821
4 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 857
5 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 907
6 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott 1006
7 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 1473
8 Brassed Off 1996 Mark Herman 1666
9 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 George Lucas 1690
10 Emma 1996 Douglas McGrath 1970
11 Velvet Goldmine 1998 Todd Haynes 2103
12 The Pillow Book 1996 Peter Greenaway 2285

Ian McKellen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 104
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 166
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 191
4 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 810
5 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 982
6 Gods and Monsters 1998 Bill Condon 1165
7 Richard III 1995 Richard Loncraine 1704
8 Six Degrees of Separation 1993 Fred Schepisi 2348
9 The Ballad of Little Jo 1993 Maggie Greenwald 2442

Steve McQueen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 175
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 404
3 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 746
4 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner 1093
5 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 1247
6 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1265
7 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah 1640
8 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Robert Wise 2010

Toshirô Mifune

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 36
2 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 91
3 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 384
4 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 581
5 Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 954
6 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 987
7 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1251
8 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg 1663
9 Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Hiroshi Inagaki 1716
10 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 1998
11 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 2008
12 Samurai 3: Duel at Ganryu Island 1956 Hiroshi Inagaki 2120
13 Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple 1955 Hiroshi Inagaki 2133
14 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman 2288
15 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 2326

John Mills

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 221
2 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 234
3 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 Sam Wood 527
4 In Which We Serve 1942 Noel Coward and David Lean 764
5 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 985
6 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1430
7 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 Ken Annakin 1714
8 Tunes of Glory 1960 Ronald Neame 1720
9 Ice-Cold in Alex 1958 J. Lee Thompson 1886
10 Hobson's Choice 1954 David Lean 2508

Liza Minnelli

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 148
2 The King of Comedy 1983 Martin Scorsese 480
3 Arthur 1981 Steve Gordon 1160
4 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060

Helen Mirren

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 663
2 Gosford Park 2001 Robert Altman 813
3 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman 976
4 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1106
5 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 1423
6 The Madness of King George 1994 Nicholas Hytner 1673
7 The Prince of Egypt 1998 Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells 2105
8 The Queen 2006 Stephen Frears 2369

Robert Mitchum

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 73
2 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
3 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 536
4 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 782
5 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 William A. Wellman 1388
6 Saboteur 1942 Alfred Hitchcock 1437
7 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1549
8 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1723
9 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy 1770
10 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1898
11 Crossfire 1947 Edward Dmytryk 1930
12 The Sundowners 1960 Fred Zinnemann 2289

Marilyn Monroe

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
2 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
3 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
4 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 557
5 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 670
6 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 717
7 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1868
8 Niagara 1953 Henry Hathaway 2351

Yves Montand

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 285
2 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 385
3 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 483
4 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 572
5 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 1962

Masayuki Mori

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 91
2 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 250

Cathy Moriarty

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
2 Cop Land 1997 James Mangold 2419
3 Soapdish 1991 Michael Hoffman 2513

Viggo Mortensen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 104
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 166
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 191
4 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 532
5 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 1514
6 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 1880
7 A Walk on the Moon 1999 Tony Goldwyn 2189

Paul Muni

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 315
2 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 553
3 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 William Dieterle 871
4 The Good Earth 1937 Sidney Franklin 1448

Eddie Murphy

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 289
2 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 951
3 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest 1080
4 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill 1201
5 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1826
6 Mulan 1998 Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook 2000
7 The Nutty Professor 1996 Tom Shadyac 2281

Bill Murray

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 186
2 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 187
3 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 353
4 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 429
5 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 486
6 Caddyshack 1980 Harold Ramis 549
7 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 615
8 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 714
9 Kingpin 1996 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 1418
10 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1524
11 Stripes 1981 Ivan Reitman 1746
12 What about Bob? 1991 Frank Oz 2077
13 Charlie's Angels 2000 McG 2121
14 Wild Things 1998 John McNaughton 2178

Mike Myers

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 289
2 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 469
3 Wayne's World 1992 Penelope Spheeris 1280
4 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 Jay Roach 1820
5 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1826
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