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Top Films by Actor (N-O)

Tatsuya Nakadai

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 36
2 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 177
3 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 384
4 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1007
5 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1251
6 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 2008
7 Harakiri 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 2218
8 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 2224

Liam Neeson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
2 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 857
3 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 907
4 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman 976
5 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 1005
6 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 1147
7 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1209
8 Husbands and Wives 1992 Woody Allen 1291
9 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé 1623
10 Kinsey 2004 Bill Condon 2436

Sam Neill

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 131
2 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 203
3 My Brilliant Career 1979 Gillian Armstrong 860
4 The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan 1428
5 The Dish 2000 Rob Sitch 2335

Paul Newman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
2 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 216
3 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 254
4 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 362
5 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 531
6 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill 718
7 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 968
8 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1190
9 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese 1255
10 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 1258
11 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1265
12 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks 1827
13 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Robert Wise 2010
14 Baseball 1994 Ken Burns 2396
15 The Long, Hot Summer 1958 Martin Ritt 2403
16 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2421

Jack Nicholson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
2 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 37
3 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 129
4 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 161
5 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 268
6 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 320
7 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 452
8 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 476
9 Batman 1989 Tim Burton 493
10 As Good as It Gets 1997 James L. Brooks 554
11 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 802
12 Prizzi's Honor 1985 John Huston 903
13 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 905
14 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1033
15 Targets 1968 Peter Bogdanovich 1254
16 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby 1304
17 About Schmidt 2002 Alexander Payne 1543
18 Tommy 1975 Ken Russell 1721
19 Something's Gotta Give 2003 Nancy Meyers 2073
20 Carnal Knowledge 1971 Mike Nichols 2318
21 Head 1968 Bob Rafelson 2408

David Niven

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 242
2 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 299
3 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 300
4 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 578
5 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 838
6 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 885
7 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 985
8 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 John Cromwell 1253
9 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz 1321
10 The Bishop's Wife 1947 Henry Koster 2190
11 Separate Tables 1958 Delbert Mann 2437

Edward Norton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 118
2 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 868
3 25th Hour 2002 Spike Lee 1240
4 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 Milos Forman 1329
5 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Woody Allen 1452
6 Frida 2002 Julie Taymor 2304
7 Primal Fear 1996 Gregory Hoblit 2438

Kim Novak

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
2 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 1097
3 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1529
4 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 2355

George O'Brien

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunrise 1927 F. W. Murnau 95
2 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford 842
3 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1374
4 The Iron Horse 1924 John Ford 2024

Donald O'Connor

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 5
2 Beau Geste 1939 William A. Wellman 1511
3 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060

Maureen O'Hara

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 236
2 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 342
3 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 421
4 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 759
5 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner 1923
6 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford 1985

Laurence Olivier

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 198
2 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
3 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 286
4 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 299
5 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier 708
6 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 809
7 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 917
8 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 975
9 Richard III 1955 Laurence Olivier 1137
10 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 1286
11 49th Parallel 1941 Michael Powell 1902
12 The Entertainer 1960 Tony Richardson 2129
13 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2353
14 Clash of the Titans 1981 Desmond Davis 2434

Peter O'Toole

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
2 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 504
3 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 720
4 My Favorite Year 1982 Richard Benjamin 1119
5 The Ruling Class 1972 Peter Medak 1325
6 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush 1416
7 Troy 2004 Wolfgang Petersen 2051
8 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville 2081
9 Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird 2431
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