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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	365
3	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	1989	Steven Soderbergh	446
4	The Player	1992	Robert Altman	456
5	Short Cuts	1993	Robert Altman	537

Kyle MacLachlan

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Blue Velvet	1986	David Lynch	72
2	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	1992	David Lynch	1265
3	Showgirls	1995	Paul Verhoeven	1335
4	Inside Out	2015	Pete Docter	1869
5	Dune	1984	David Lynch	1888
6	The Doors	1991	Oliver Stone	2183
7	Twin Peaks Pilot	1989	David Lynch	2244

Shirley MacLaine

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder	65
2	Being There	1979	Hal Ashby	510
3	Terms of Endearment	1983	James L. Brooks	602
4	Steel Magnolias	1989	Herbert Ross	1674
5	Some Came Running	1958	Vincente Minnelli	1721
6	Around the World in Eighty Days	1956	Michael Anderson	2023

Fred MacMurray

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Double Indemnity	1944	Billy Wilder	41
2	The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder	65
3	The Caine Mutiny	1954	Edward Dmytryk	1240

William H. Macy

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Fargo	1996	Joel Coen	67
2	Magnolia	1999	Paul Thomas Anderson	217
3	Boogie Nights	1997	Paul Thomas Anderson	284
4	Pleasantville	1998	Gary Ross	1106
5	Inland Empire	2006	David Lynch	1229
6	Seabiscuit	2003	Gary Ross	1286
7	House of Games	1987	David Mamet	1676
8	Wag the Dog	1997	Barry Levinson	1812
9	Searching for Bobby Fischer	1993	Steven Zaillian	1905
10	Radio Days	1987	Woody Allen	2066
11	Air Force One	1997	Wolfgang Petersen	2161
12	Thank You for Smoking	2005	Jason Reitman	2237

Patrick Magee

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick	23
2	Barry Lyndon	1975	Stanley Kubrick	320
3	Chariots of Fire	1981	Hugh Hudson	396
4	The Servant	1963	Joseph Losey	669
5	Zulu	1964	Cy Endfield	744
6	The Masque of the Red Death	1964	Roger Corman	1868

Lamberto Maggiorani

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Bicycle Thief	1948	Vittorio De Sica	54
2	Umberto D.	1952	Vittorio De Sica	435

Mae Marsh

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Searchers	1956	John Ford	32
2	The Grapes of Wrath	1940	John Ford	159
3	The Birth of a Nation	1915	D.W. Griffith	228
4	Intolerance	1916	D.W. Griffith	243
5	A Star Is Born	1954	George Cukor	330
6	My Darling Clementine	1946	John Ford	357
7	The Quiet Man	1952	John Ford	462
8	Miracle on 34th Street	1947	George Seaton	583
9	How Green Was My Valley	1941	John Ford	587
10	Fort Apache	1948	John Ford	1107
11	The Gunfighter	1950	Henry King	1488
12	Leave Her to Heaven	1945	John M. Stahl	1838
13	The Robe	1953	Henry Koster	1872
14	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	1945	Elia Kazan	1899

Steve Martin

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Jerk	1979	Carl Reiner	659
2	The Muppet Movie	1979	James Frawley	779
3	Planes, Trains & Automobiles	1987	John Hughes	972
4	Roxanne	1987	Fred Schepisi	1425
5	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	1988	Frank Oz	1508
6	L.A. Story	1991	Mick Jackson	1780
7	Little Shop of Horrors	1986	Frank Oz	1852
8	The Man with Two Brains	1983	Carl Reiner	1978
9	Parenthood	1989	Ron Howard	2207

Lee Marvin

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	1962	John Ford	226
2	The Big Heat	1953	Fritz Lang	444
3	Point Blank	1967	John Boorman	507
4	The Dirty Dozen	1967	Robert Aldrich	599
5	The Big Red One	1980	Samuel Fuller	658
6	Bad Day at Black Rock	1955	John Sturges	777
7	The Caine Mutiny	1954	Edward Dmytryk	1240
8	Seven Men from Now	1956	Budd Boetticher	1318
9	The Professionals	1966	Richard Brooks	1781
10	The Wild One	1953	László Benedek	1809
11	Hell in the Pacific	1968	John Boorman	2091
12	Cat Ballou	1965	Elliot Silverstein	2199

The Marx Brothers

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Duck Soup	1933	Leo McCarey	82
2	A Night at the Opera	1935	Sam Wood	299
3	Horse Feathers	1932	Norman Z. McLeod	1283
4	A Day at the Races	1937	Sam Wood	1610
5	Animal Crackers	1930	Victor Heerman	1744
6	Monkey Business	1931	Norman Z. McLeod	1841

Giulietta Masina

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	La Strada	1954	Federico Fellini	219
2	Nights of Cabiria	1957	Federico Fellini	400
3	Paisan	1946	Roberto Rossellini	848
4	Juliet of the Spirits	1965	Federico Fellini	1575

James Mason

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock	36
2	A Star Is Born	1954	George Cukor	330
3	Lolita	1962	Stanley Kubrick	813
4	20,000 Leagues under the Sea	1954	Richard Fleischer	884
5	The Verdict	1982	Sidney Lumet	895
6	Heaven Can Wait	1978	Warren Beatty and Buck Henry	1102
7	Bigger Than Life	1956	Nicholas Ray	1342
8	Odd Man Out	1947	Carol Reed	1362
9	Cross of Iron	1977	Sam Peckinpah	1711

Marcello Mastroianni

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	8 1/2	1963	Federico Fellini	66
2	La Dolce Vita	1960	Federico Fellini	100
3	La Notte	1961	Michelangelo Antonioni	1104
4	Big Deal on Madonna Street	1958	Mario Monicelli	1680
5	La Grande bouffe	1973	Marco Ferreri	1737
6	We All Loved Each Other So Much	1974	Ettore Scola	2097

Joel McCrea

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Sullivan's Travels	1941	Preston Sturges	160
2	The Palm Beach Story	1942	Preston Sturges	700
3	Ride the High Country	1962	Sam Peckinpah	881
4	Foreign Correspondent	1940	Alfred Hitchcock	1537
5	Deep End	1970	Jerzy Skolimowski	2204

Frances McDormand

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Fargo	1996	Joel Coen	67
2	Miller's Crossing	1990	Joel Coen	418
3	Almost Famous	2000	Cameron Crowe	427
4	Blood Simple	1984	Joel Coen	433
5	Raising Arizona	1987	Joel Coen	511
6	Short Cuts	1993	Robert Altman	537
7	Barton Fink	1991	Joel Coen	653
8	Lone Star	1996	John Sayles	705
9	Moonrise Kingdom	2012	Wes Anderson	1618
10	Primal Fear	1996	Gregory Hoblit	1793
11	The Man Who Wasn't There	2001	Joel Coen	1999
12	Wonder Boys	2000	Curtis Hanson	2081
13	Mississippi Burning	1988	Alan Parker	2279
14	Something's Gotta Give	2003	Nancy Meyers	2303

Malcolm McDowell

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick	23
2	The Player	1992	Robert Altman	456
3	If....	1968	Lindsay Anderson	465
4	The Artist	2011	Michel Hazanavicius	1348
5	O Lucky Man!	1973	Lindsay Anderson	1881

Ewan McGregor

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Trainspotting	1996	Danny Boyle	142
2	Moulin Rouge!	2001	Baz Luhrmann	203
3	Black Hawk Down	2001	Ridley Scott	916
4	Big Fish	2003	Tim Burton	1054
5	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	2005	George Lucas	1070
6	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones	2002	George Lucas	1288
7	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace	1999	George Lucas	1423
8	Shallow Grave	1994	Danny Boyle	1585
9	Velvet Goldmine	1998	Todd Haynes	1837

Ian McKellen

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	Peter Jackson	35
2	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	Peter Jackson	42
3	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	Peter Jackson	57
4	X2	2003	Bryan Singer	729
5	X-Men	2000	Bryan Singer	1158
6	Gods and Monsters	1998	Bill Condon	1611
7	Richard III	1995	Richard Loncraine	1612
8	Six Degrees of Separation	1993	Fred Schepisi	2294
9	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	2012	Peter Jackson	2312

Steve McQueen

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges	263
2	The Magnificent Seven	1960	John Sturges	306
3	Bullitt	1968	Peter Yates	668
4	Papillon	1973	Franklin J. Schaffner	1215
5	The Towering Inferno	1974	John Guillermin and Irwin Allen	1668
6	The Blob	1958	Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.	2002
7	The Getaway	1972	Sam Peckinpah	2083
8	The Thomas Crown Affair	1968	Norman Jewison	2188
9	Somebody Up There Likes Me	1956	Robert Wise	2233

Toshirô Mifune

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa	29
2	Rashômon	1950	Akira Kurosawa	75
3	Yojimbo	1961	Akira Kurosawa	361
4	Throne of Blood	1957	Akira Kurosawa	530
5	The Life of Oharu	1952	Kenji Mizoguchi	743
6	High and Low	1963	Akira Kurosawa	899
7	The Hidden Fortress	1958	Akira Kurosawa	1174
8	Red Beard	1965	Akira Kurosawa	1220
9	Sanjuro	1962	Akira Kurosawa	1884
10	Hell in the Pacific	1968	John Boorman	2091
11	Samurai Rebellion	1967	Masaki Kobayashi	2121
12	Drunken Angel	1948	Akira Kurosawa	2287
13	Stray Dog	1949	Akira Kurosawa	2348

Robert Mitchum

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Night of the Hunter	1955	Charles Laughton	50
2	Out of the Past	1947	Jacques Tourneur	275
3	Dead Man	1995	Jim Jarmusch	633
4	The Longest Day	1962	Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki	913
5	Cape Fear	1991	Martin Scorsese	1187
6	Cape Fear	1962	J. Lee Thompson	1225
7	Tombstone	1993	George P. Cosmatos	1330
8	Saboteur	1942	Alfred Hitchcock	2201
9	The Lusty Men	1952	Nicholas Ray	2256

Marilyn Monroe

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Some Like It Hot	1959	Billy Wilder	9
2	All about Eve	1950	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	44
3	The Asphalt Jungle	1950	John Huston	556
4	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	1953	Howard Hawks	735
5	The Seven Year Itch	1955	Billy Wilder	1296
6	The Misfits	1961	John Huston	1470

Yves Montand

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Wages of Fear	1953	Henri-Georges Clouzot	230
2	Z	1969	Costa-Gavras	544
3	Jean de Florette	1986	Claude Berri	624
4	Le Cercle rouge	1970	Jean-Pierre Melville	923
5	Manon of the Spring	1986	Claude Berri	1020
6	Kelly's Heroes	1970	Brian G. Hutton	2271

Masayuki Mori

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Rashômon	1950	Akira Kurosawa	75
2	Ugetsu	1953	Kenji Mizoguchi	253
3	When a Woman Ascends the Stairs	1960	Mikio Naruse	2333
4	Floating Clouds	1955	Mikio Naruse	2372

Cathy Moriarty

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Raging Bull	1980	Martin Scorsese	25

Viggo Mortensen

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	Peter Jackson	35
2	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	Peter Jackson	42
3	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	Peter Jackson	57
4	A History of Violence	2005	David Cronenberg	596
5	Witness	1985	Peter Weir	645
6	Carlito's Way	1993	Brian De Palma	1290
7	Eastern Promises	2007	David Cronenberg	1465

Eddie Murphy

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Shrek	2001	Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson	304
2	Trading Places	1983	John Landis	786
3	Shrek 2	2004	Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon	1183
4	Beverly Hills Cop	1984	Martin Brest	1386
5	Coming to America	1988	John Landis	1615
6	Mulan	1998	Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook	1882
7	48 Hrs.	1982	Walter Hill	2385
8	Dreamgirls	2006	Bill Condon	2407

Bill Murray

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Groundhog Day	1993	Harold Ramis	98
2	Lost in Translation	2003	Sofia Coppola	169
3	Ghostbusters	1984	Ivan Reitman	220
4	Rushmore	1998	Wes Anderson	287
5	Tootsie	1982	Sydney Pollack	303
6	The Royal Tenenbaums	2001	Wes Anderson	404
7	Caddyshack	1980	Harold Ramis	434
8	Ed Wood	1994	Tim Burton	438
9	Kingpin	1996	Bobby and Peter Farrelly	994
10	Fantastic Mr. Fox	2009	Wes Anderson	1129
11	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	2004	Wes Anderson	1548
12	Moonrise Kingdom	2012	Wes Anderson	1618
13	The Grand Budapest Hotel	2014	Wes Anderson	1642
14	Stripes	1981	Ivan Reitman	1785
15	Little Shop of Horrors	1986	Frank Oz	1852
16	Wild Things	1998	John McNaughton	2041

Mike Myers

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Shrek	2001	Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson	304
2	Inglourious Basterds	2009	Quentin Tarantino	469
3	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	1997	Jay Roach	567
4	Shrek 2	2004	Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon	1183
5	Wayne's World	1992	Penelope Spheeris	1257
6	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	1999	Jay Roach	2099

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