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Top Films by Actor (M)

Andie MacDowell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 130
2 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 267
3 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 492
4 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 520
5 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 603

Marion Mack

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 45

Kyle MacLachlan

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 59
2 Showgirls 1995 Paul Verhoeven 1293
3 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 1297
4 Dune 1984 David Lynch 2067
5 The Doors 1991 Oliver Stone 2164
6 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder 2268

Shirley MacLaine

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 127
2 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 330
3 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 459
4 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1239
5 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1288
6 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1640

Fred MacMurray

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
2 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 127
3 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 884

William H. Macy

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
2 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 202
3 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 373
4 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 Steven Zaillian 1149
5 House of Games 1987 David Mamet 1218
6 Pleasantville 1998 Gary Ross 1260
7 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1261
8 Air Force One 1997 Wolfgang Petersen 1488
9 Seabiscuit 2003 Gary Ross 1610
10 Mr. Holland's Opus 1995 Stephen Herek 1780
11 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen 1869

Patrick Magee

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
2 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 320
3 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 355
4 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 491
5 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 688
6 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman 2161

Lamberto Maggiorani

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 67
2 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 391

Fredric March

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 126
2 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian 874
3 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer 1338
4 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1717
5 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1789
6 Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman 1880
7 A Star Is Born 1937 William A. Wellman 2159

Mae Marsh

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
2 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 102
3 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 161
4 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 181
5 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 250
6 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 263
7 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 307
8 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 417
9 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 540
10 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1203
11 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1341
12 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 1384
13 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1487
14 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 1645
15 It Happens Every Spring 1949 Lloyd Bacon 2180
16 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 2194
17 Jane Eyre 1943 Robert Stevenson 2378

Steve Martin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner 764
2 Roxanne 1987 Fred Schepisi 993
3 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 1017
4 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 1243
5 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1668
6 L.A. Story 1991 Mick Jackson 1786
7 The Man with Two Brains 1983 Carl Reiner 1795
8 Parenthood 1989 Ron Howard 1812
9 Pennies from Heaven 1981 Herbert Ross 1875
10 All of Me 1984 Carl Reiner 1962
11 The Prince of Egypt 1998 Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells 2185
12 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2187
13 The Spanish Prisoner 1997 David Mamet 2226
14 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz 2305

Lee Marvin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
2 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 518
3 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 566
4 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 578
5 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 619
6 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 639
7 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 884
8 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 1345
9 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein 1510
10 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman 1890
11 The Wild One 1953 László Benedek 1941
12 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 2021

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 253
3 Horse Feathers 1932 Norman Z. McLeod 819
4 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood 1385
5 Monkey Business 1931 Norman Z. McLeod 1754
6 Animal Crackers 1930 Victor Heerman 2061

Giulietta Masina

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 243
2 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 440
3 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 871
4 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini 1546

James Mason

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 31
2 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 250
3 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 753
4 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 806
5 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 831
6 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 1001
7 Heaven Can Wait 1978 Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1129
8 Cross of Iron 1977 Sam Peckinpah 1440
9 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1461
10 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls 1799

Marcello Mastroianni

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 80
2 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
3 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1299
4 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 2100
5 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 Pietro Germi 2243

Joel McCrea

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 125
2 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 437
3 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 880
4 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 1054
5 The More the Merrier 1943 George Stevens 1945
6 Dead End 1937 William Wyler 1990

Frances McDormand

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
2 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 460
3 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 479
4 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 528
5 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 571
6 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 603
7 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 659
8 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 907
9 Wonder Boys 2000 Curtis Hanson 1878
10 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker 2368

Malcolm McDowell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
2 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 492
3 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 559
4 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 1354
5 Time after Time 1979 Nicholas Meyer 2320

Ewan McGregor

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 117
2 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 219
3 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott 866
4 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 876
5 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 959
6 Shallow Grave 1994 Danny Boyle 1023
7 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 George Lucas 1252
8 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 1258
9 Brassed Off 1996 Mark Herman 1704
10 Emma 1996 Douglas McGrath 2017
11 The Pillow Book 1996 Peter Greenaway 2334

Michael McKean

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 78
2 Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest 822
3 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 1017
4 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg 1973

Ian McKellen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
4 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 858
5 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 888
6 Richard III 1995 Richard Loncraine 1175
7 Gods and Monsters 1998 Bill Condon 1369

Steve McQueen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 166
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 318
3 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 587
4 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1267
5 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner 1292
6 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 1484
7 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah 1694
8 Junior Bonner 1972 Sam Peckinpah 1942
9 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Robert Wise 2169

Toshirô Mifune

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
2 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 84
3 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 342
4 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 712
5 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 1044
6 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1074
7 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1242
8 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1450
9 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman 1890
10 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg 1973
11 Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Hiroshi Inagaki 2212
12 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 2264
13 Grand Prix 1966 John Frankenheimer 2324

John Mills

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 251
2 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 257
3 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 Sam Wood 685
4 In Which We Serve 1942 Noel Coward and David Lean 978
5 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1288
6 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1386
7 Ice-Cold in Alex 1958 J. Lee Thompson 1426
8 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 Ken Annakin 2016

Robert Mitchum

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 61
2 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 242
3 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 614
4 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 732
5 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1160
6 Saboteur 1942 Alfred Hitchcock 1416
7 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1573
8 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1646
9 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 William A. Wellman 1907
10 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy 2284
11 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks 2365

Marilyn Monroe

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
2 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
3 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 558
4 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 719
5 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 817
6 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1549

Yves Montand

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 230
2 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 386
3 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 489
4 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 617
5 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 1335
6 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton 1886
7 Grand Prix 1966 John Frankenheimer 2324

Masayuki Mori

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 84
2 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 273

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 60
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
4 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 510
5 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 994
6 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 1351
7 A Walk on the Moon 1999 Tony Goldwyn 1820

Eddie Murphy

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 284
2 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 811
3 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest 1073
4 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill 1210
5 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1380
6 The Nutty Professor 1996 Tom Shadyac 2120
7 Mulan 1998 Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook 2140

Bill Murray

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 130
2 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 197
3 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 254
4 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 286
5 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 314
6 Caddyshack 1980 Harold Ramis 467
7 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 497
8 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 516
9 Kingpin 1996 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 1031
10 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1668
11 Wild Things 1998 John McNaughton 1724
12 Stripes 1981 Ivan Reitman 1730
13 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Wes Anderson 1913

Mike Myers

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 284
2 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 401
3 Wayne's World 1992 Penelope Spheeris 1180
4 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1380
5 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 1738
6 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 Jay Roach 2135
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