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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 32
2 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 185
3 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 342
4 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1061
5 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1074
6 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 1949

Liam Neeson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
2 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 592
3 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 876
4 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 959
5 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 1024
6 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman 1111
7 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1276
8 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé 1355
9 Husbands and Wives 1992 Woody Allen 1581
10 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 Andrew Adamson 2109

Sam Neill

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 149
2 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 247
3 My Brilliant Career 1979 Gillian Armstrong 1096
4 The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan 1468
5 The Dish 2000 Rob Sitch 2330
6 Event Horizon 1997 Paul W.S. Anderson 2347

Paul Newman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
2 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 222
3 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 281
4 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 336
5 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill 673
6 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 724
7 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 831
8 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese 1153
9 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1224
10 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1267
11 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 1435
12 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks 2025
13 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Robert Wise 2169

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 35
3 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 87
4 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 160
5 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 330
6 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 352
7 Batman 1989 Tim Burton 451
8 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 522
9 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 564
10 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 588
11 As Good as It Gets 1997 James L. Brooks 635
12 Prizzi's Honor 1985 John Huston 1041
13 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 1063
14 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1183
15 Tommy 1975 Ken Russell 1359
16 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby 1442
17 About Schmidt 2002 Alexander Payne 1950
18 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 Bob Rafelson 1951
19 Carnal Knowledge 1971 Mike Nichols 1972
20 Head 1968 Bob Rafelson 1976
21 Mars Attacks! 1996 Tim Burton 2065

David Niven

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 265
2 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 412
3 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 447
4 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 698
5 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 783
6 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 820
7 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1288
8 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz 1323
9 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 John Cromwell 1519

Nick Nolte

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 357
2 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 492
3 North Dallas Forty 1979 Ted Kotcheff 961
4 Hotel Rwanda 2004 Terry George 1060
5 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill 1210
6 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1646
7 Lorenzo's Oil 1992 George Miller 2200

Edward Norton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 83
2 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 706
3 25th Hour 2002 Spike Lee 1259
4 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Woody Allen 1518
5 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 Milos Forman 1695
6 Frida 2002 Julie Taymor 2222

Kim Novak

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
2 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1480
3 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1775

George O'Brien

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 99
2 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford 1098
3 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1341

Donald O'Connor

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
2 Beau Geste 1939 William A. Wellman 2147

Maureen O'Hara

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 307
2 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 417
3 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 540
4 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1102
5 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner 1764
6 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford 2127

Laurence Olivier

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 211
2 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
3 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 375
4 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 412
5 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 948
6 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 966
7 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier 973
8 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1124
9 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 1277
10 Richard III 1955 Laurence Olivier 1501
11 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 1709
12 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 1910
13 Clash of the Titans 1981 Desmond Davis 2064
14 49th Parallel 1941 Michael Powell 2219

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 546
3 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 848
4 Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird 1181
5 My Favorite Year 1982 Richard Benjamin 1337
6 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush 1540
7 The Ruling Class 1972 Peter Medak 2008
8 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville 2224
9 Troy 2004 Wolfgang Petersen 2333
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