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Top Films by Actor (N-O)

Tatsuya Nakadai

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 24
2 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 186
3 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 354
4 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 642
5 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 753
6 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 852
7 The Tale of Princess Kaguya 2013 Isao Takahata 1148
8 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1326
9 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 Masaki Kobayashi 1689
10 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Masaki Kobayashi 1764
11 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi 1766
12 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 1900
13 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960 Mikio Naruse 2251
14 The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity 1959 Masaki Kobayashi 2640
15 The Face of Another 1966 Hiroshi Teshigahara 2751

Liam Neeson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 21
2 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 384
3 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 Christopher Nolan 438
4 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 503
5 The Lego Movie 2014 Phil Lord and Christopher Miller 532
6 Taken 2008 Pierre Morel 1048
7 Ponyo 2008 Hayao Miyazaki 1092
8 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 Andrew Adamson 1467
9 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1532
10 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman 1736
11 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 2013
12 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé 2060
13 Darkman 1990 Sam Raimi 2464
14 Silence 2016 Martin Scorsese 2874
15 Widows 2018 Steve McQueen 3011

Sam Neill

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 83
2 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 309
3 Thor: Ragnarok 2017 Taika Waititi 756
4 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 1176
5 The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan 1633
6 Hunt for the Wilderpeople 2016 Taika Waititi 1746
7 My Brilliant Career 1979 Gillian Armstrong 2481
8 In the Mouth of Madness 1994 John Carpenter 3036

Paul Newman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 162
2 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 308
3 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 343
4 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 426
5 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill 841
6 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 1037
7 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese 1269
8 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1328
9 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 1346
10 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks 2095
11 Cars 2006 John Lasseter 2239
12 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin 2336
13 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2609
14 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 2694

Jack Nicholson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 22
2 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 34
3 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 39
4 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 153
5 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 323
6 Batman 1989 Tim Burton 486
7 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 765
8 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 894
9 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 982
10 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 1060
11 As Good as It Gets 1997 James L. Brooks 1150
12 Something's Gotta Give 2003 Nancy Meyers 1470
13 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1558
14 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 1837
15 The Shooting 1966 Monte Hellman 1887
16 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby 2004
17 Mars Attacks! 1996 Tim Burton 2083
18 Carnal Knowledge 1971 Mike Nichols 2438
19 The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 Roger Corman 2457
20 Tommy 1975 Ken Russell 2693
21 About Schmidt 2002 Alexander Payne 2852
22 Prizzi's Honor 1985 John Huston 2863

Edward Norton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
2 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 458
3 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Wes Anderson 467
4 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Wes Anderson 757
5 25th Hour 2002 Spike Lee 1051
6 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1140
7 Primal Fear 1996 Gregory Hoblit 1711
8 Isle of Dogs 2018 Wes Anderson 1742
9 Frida 2002 Julie Taymor 2399
10 The Italian Job 2003 F. Gary Gray 2715
11 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 Milos Forman 2732
12 The Illusionist 2006 Neil Burger 2911

Kim Novak

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 15
2 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 700
3 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1653
4 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 Ettore Scola 2753
5 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 2879

Donald O'Connor

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7

Laurence Olivier

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 311
2 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 336
3 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 1163
4 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 1503
5 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1747
6 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 1861
7 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2141
8 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier 2146
9 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 2209
10 Clash of the Titans 1981 Desmond Davis 2695
11 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 2918

Peter O'Toole

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 25
2 Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird 285
3 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 779
4 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 1596
5 Stardust 2007 Matthew Vaughn 1667
6 Troy 2004 Wolfgang Petersen 2308
7 My Favorite Year 1982 Richard Benjamin 2767
8 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville 2820
9 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush 2829
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