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Top Films by Actor (M)

Andie MacDowell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 98
2 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 504
3 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 551
4 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 582
5 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 675

Kyle MacLachlan

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 103
2 Inside Out 2015 Pete Docter 494
3 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 1189
4 Showgirls 1995 Paul Verhoeven 1634
5 Dune 1984 David Lynch 2034
6 Twin Peaks Pilot 1990 David Lynch 2301
7 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder 2447
8 The Doors 1991 Oliver Stone 2805

Shirley MacLaine

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
2 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 554
3 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 905
4 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1658
5 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1891
6 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 2078
7 The Celluloid Closet 1995 Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman 2284
8 Defending Your Life 1991 Albert Brooks 2539
9 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 2578

Fred MacMurray

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
2 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
3 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 1508

William H. Macy

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 75
2 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 292
3 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 319
4 Pleasantville 1998 Gary Ross 1245
5 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1361
6 Seabiscuit 2003 Gary Ross 1474
7 Room 2015 Lenny Abrahamson 2005
8 House of Games 1987 David Mamet 2207
9 Thank You for Smoking 2005 Jason Reitman 2264
10 Air Force One 1997 Wolfgang Petersen 2347
11 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen 2396
12 The Wind Rises 2013 Hayao Miyazaki 2422
13 Mystery Men 1999 Kinka Usher 2514

Patrick Magee

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 24
2 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 231
3 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 450
4 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 824
5 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 825
6 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman 2268

Lamberto Maggiorani

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 57
2 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 445

Mae Marsh

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
2 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 209
3 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 312
4 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 314
5 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 363
6 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 396
7 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 544
8 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 619
9 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 708
10 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 951
11 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1104
12 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 1448
13 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 2065
14 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 2517
15 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2558
16 While the City Sleeps 1956 Fritz Lang 2743

Steve Martin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner 704
2 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 723
3 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 726
4 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz 1227
5 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1410
6 Roxanne 1987 Fred Schepisi 1610
7 L.A. Story 1991 Mick Jackson 1618
8 The Man with Two Brains 1983 Carl Reiner 1702
9 Parenthood 1989 Ron Howard 2428
10 ¡Three Amigos! 1986 John Landis 2616

Lee Marvin

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
2 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 429
3 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 489
4 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 566
5 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 697
6 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 710
7 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 1201
8 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 1480
9 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 1508
10 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein 1837
11 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman 2338
12 The Wild One 1953 László Benedek 2382
13 Attack! 1956 Robert Aldrich 2491

The Marx Brothers

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 85
2 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 340
3 Horse Feathers 1932 Norman Z. McLeod 1533
4 Animal Crackers 1930 Victor Heerman 2104
5 Monkey Business 1931 Norman Z. McLeod 2234
6 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood 2681

James Mason

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 40
2 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 396
3 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 823
4 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 1075
5 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 1159
6 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 1230
7 Heaven Can Wait 1978 Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1262
8 Bigger than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1282
9 Cross of Iron 1977 Sam Peckinpah 1606
10 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls 2001

Marcello Mastroianni

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 74
2 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 86
3 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1400
4 A Special Day 1977 Ettore Scola 1835
5 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 1836
6 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 Pietro Germi 2621
7 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 Ettore Scola 1985

Joel McCrea

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 252
2 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 684
3 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 803
4 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 2232
5 Dead End 1937 William Wyler 2470

Frances McDormand

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 75
2 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 466
3 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 476
4 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 506
5 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 531
6 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 675
7 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 733
8 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 821
9 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Wes Anderson 963
10 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017 Martin McDonagh 1272
11 Primal Fear 1996 Gregory Hoblit 1558
12 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker 1833
13 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 Joel Coen 2272
14 Isle of Dogs 2018 Wes Anderson 2757

Malcolm McDowell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 24
2 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 551
3 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 559
4 The Artist 2011 Michel Hazanavicius 885
5 Easy A 2010 Will Gluck 1903
6 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 1942

Ewan McGregor

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 167
2 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 357
3 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 711
4 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 2015 J.J. Abrams 925
5 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott 947
6 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 George Lucas 1139
7 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 2263
8 Velvet Goldmine 1998 Todd Haynes 2307
9 Shallow Grave 1994 Danny Boyle 2537
10 Beginners 2010 Mike Mills 2611

Ian McKellen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 43
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 48
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 67
4 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 736
5 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 1167
6 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 Bryan Singer 1575
7 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012 Peter Jackson 1679
8 Stardust 2007 Matthew Vaughn 2126
9 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2013 Peter Jackson 2198
10 Gods and Monsters 1998 Bill Condon 2365
11 Richard III 1995 Richard Loncraine 2503

Steve McQueen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 234
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 273
3 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 627
4 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner 948
5 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah 1920
6 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 2144
7 The Blob 1958 Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. 2206
8 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 2306

Toshirô Mifune

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22
2 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 72
3 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 328
4 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 507
5 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 662
6 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 986
7 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1225
8 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1238
9 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Masaki Kobayashi 1861
10 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 1921
11 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 1965
12 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman 2338
13 Drunken Angel 1948 Akira Kurosawa 2723

Robert Mitchum

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 54
2 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 289
3 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 541
4 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 923
5 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1023
6 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1179
7 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1237
8 El Dorado 1967 Howard Hawks 2172
9 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 Peter Yates 2606
10 The Lusty Men 1952 Nicholas Ray 2668
11 Crossfire 1947 Edward Dmytryk 2736

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 56
3 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 562
4 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 595
5 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1286
6 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 1425
7 How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 Jean Negulesco 2716

Yves Montand

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 210
2 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 584
3 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 656
4 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 881
5 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 1503
6 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton 2135

Masayuki Mori

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 72
2 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 241
3 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960 Mikio Naruse 2127
4 Floating Clouds 1955 Mikio Naruse 2200

Cathy Moriarty

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 29
2 But I'm a Cheerleader 1999 Jamie Babbit 1952

Viggo Mortensen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 43
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 48
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 67
4 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 509
5 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 804
6 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 857
7 Eastern Promises 2007 David Cronenberg 1459
8 The Road 2009 John Hillcoat 2326
9 Green Book 2018 Peter Farrelly 2390

Eddie Murphy

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 353
2 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 632
3 Coming to America 1988 John Landis 1042
4 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest 1119
5 Mulan 1998 Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook 1190
6 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1287
7 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill 1919
8 Dreamgirls 2006 Bill Condon 2609

Bill Murray

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 98
2 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 161
3 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 169
4 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 320
5 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 323
6 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 434
7 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 435
8 Caddyshack 1980 Harold Ramis 528
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson 694
10 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Wes Anderson 917
11 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Wes Anderson 963
12 Kingpin 1996 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 1339
13 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1410
14 Wild Things 1998 John McNaughton 1687
15 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Wes Anderson 1826
16 Stripes 1981 Ivan Reitman 2003
17 Zombieland 2009 Ruben Fleischer 2217
18 Space Jam 1996 Joe Pytka 2525
19 The Jungle Book 2016 Jon Favreau 2631
20 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Wes Anderson 2741
21 Isle of Dogs 2018 Wes Anderson 2757
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