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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 37
2 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 189
3 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 391
4 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1138
5 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1215
6 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 1996
7 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 2229

Liam Neeson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 21
2 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 583
3 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 837
4 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 899
5 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 985
6 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman 1135
7 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1258
8 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé 1317
9 Husbands and Wives 1992 Woody Allen 1445
10 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 Andrew Adamson 2174

Sam Neill

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 148
2 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 202
3 My Brilliant Career 1979 Gillian Armstrong 987
4 The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan 1654
5 The Dish 2000 Rob Sitch 2230
6 Event Horizon 1997 Paul W.S. Anderson 2246

Paul Newman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 107
2 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 201
3 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 261
4 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 322
5 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 606
6 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill 710
7 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 813
8 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1239
9 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1307
10 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese 1421
11 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 1449
12 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks 2095
13 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2271

Jack Nicholson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
2 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 34
3 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 108
4 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 157
5 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 288
6 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 337
7 Batman 1989 Tim Burton 459
8 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 480
9 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 541
10 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 564
11 As Good as It Gets 1997 James L. Brooks 615
12 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 958
13 Prizzi's Honor 1985 John Huston 971
14 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1092
15 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby 1283
16 Tommy 1975 Ken Russell 1509
17 About Schmidt 2002 Alexander Payne 1786
18 Head 1968 Bob Rafelson 2047
19 Carnal Knowledge 1971 Mike Nichols 2155
20 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 Bob Rafelson 2260

David Niven

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 260
2 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 363
3 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 371
4 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 643
5 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 751
6 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 803
7 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1083
8 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz 1448
9 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 John Cromwell 1456

Edward Norton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 91
2 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 717
3 25th Hour 2002 Spike Lee 1227
4 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 Milos Forman 1638
5 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Woody Allen 1669

Kim Novak

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
2 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 1101
3 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1896
4 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1956

George O'Brien

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunrise 1927 F. W. Murnau 104
2 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford 1008
3 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1352

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 1909

Maureen O'Hara

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 267
2 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 353
3 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 464
4 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1151
5 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner 1671
6 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford 2074

Laurence Olivier

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 197
2 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 218
3 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 363
4 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 364
5 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier 806
6 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 916
7 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 931
8 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1057
9 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 1231
10 Richard III 1955 Laurence Olivier 1349
11 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 1980
12 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2043
13 49th Parallel 1941 Michael Powell 2152

Peter O'Toole

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
2 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 524
3 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 833
4 Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird 1142
5 My Favorite Year 1982 Richard Benjamin 1297
6 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush 1480
7 The Ruling Class 1972 Peter Medak 1735
8 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville 2149
9 Troy 2004 Wolfgang Petersen 2250
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