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Top Films by Actor (P-R)

Al Pacino

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 13
3 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 171
4 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 248
5 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 300
6 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 419
7 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 609
8 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 658
9 Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell 873
10 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet 1068
11 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 1437
12 Any Given Sunday 1999 Oliver Stone 1855
13 Scent of a Woman 1992 Martin Brest 1957
14 Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty 2029
15 Insomnia 2002 Christopher Nolan 2178

Chazz Palminteri

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 63
2 Stuart Little 1999 Rob Minkoff 1484
3 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro 2005
4 Bullets over Broadway 1994 Woody Allen 2209

Guy Pearce

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 88
2 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 152
3 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994 Stephan Elliott 1822

Gregory Peck

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 55
2 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 311
3 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 756
4 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 803
5 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 942
6 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 1086
7 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1091
8 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1103
9 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1213
10 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1289
11 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 1523
12 On the Beach 1959 Stanley Kramer 1629
13 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1769
14 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1775
15 The Yearling 1946 Clarence Brown 2117

Robin Wright Penn

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Sean Penn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 327
2 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 410
3 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 425
4 Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins 744
5 Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 Stacy Peralta 1370
6 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 1437
7 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 1444
8 The Game 1997 David Fincher 1485
9 21 Grams 2003 Alejandro González Iñárritu 1606
10 Before Night Falls 2000 Julian Schnabel 1848
11 Persepolis 2007 Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi 1967
12 Bad Boys 1983 Rick Rosenthal 2248

Anthony Perkins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 6
2 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1063
3 On the Beach 1959 Stanley Kramer 1629
4 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1875

Joe Pesci

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
2 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 27
3 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 213
4 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 445
5 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 457
6 Home Alone 1990 Chris Columbus 1073
7 My Cousin Vinny 1992 Jonathan Lynn 1862
8 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro 2005

Brad Pitt

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 91
2 Seven 1995 David Fincher 118
3 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 216
4 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 327
5 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 338
6 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 444
7 Snatch. 2000 Guy Ritchie 1032
8 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1357
9 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 1363
10 A River Runs Through It 1992 Robert Redford 1880
11 Babel 2006 Alejandro González Iñárritu 1882
12 Legends of the Fall 1994 Edward Zwick 1904
13 Troy 2004 Wolfgang Petersen 2250

Donald Pleasence

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 138
2 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 170
3 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 988
4 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 1216
5 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas 1282
6 Will Penny 1968 Tom Gries 2182

Christopher Plummer

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 72
2 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 338
3 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 620
4 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 621
5 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 652
6 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 658
7 Up 2009 Pete Docter 1515
8 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 1980
9 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991 Nicholas Meyer 2268

William Powell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 405
2 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 499
3 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 762
4 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Robert Z. Leonard 1567
5 Life with Father 1947 Michael Curtiz 2072
6 The Last Command 1928 Josef von Sternberg 2259

Jonathan Pryce

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 86
2 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 368
3 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 525
4 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 609
5 Evita 1996 Alan Parker 1601
6 Ronin 1998 John Frankenheimer 1685
7 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 Gore Verbinski 1724
8 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 Gore Verbinski 2216

Douglas Rain

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
2 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 578

Claude Rains

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
2 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
3 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 109
4 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 136
5 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 155
6 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 361
7 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 745
8 The Wolf Man 1941 George Waggner 1012
9 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 Alexander Hall 1235
10 The Sea Hawk 1940 Michael Curtiz 1623
11 Kings Row 1942 Sam Wood 2085

Basil Rathbone

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 155
2 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor 953
3 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 1042
4 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1945
5 Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz 1994
6 The Mask of Zorro 1998 Martin Campbell 2038
7 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield 2073
8 Son of Frankenstein 1939 Rowland V. Lee 2107

Robert Redford

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 107
2 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 261
3 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 269
4 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 433
5 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 834
6 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson 1079
7 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack 1266
8 Downhill Racer 1969 Michael Ritchie 1784
9 A River Runs Through It 1992 Robert Redford 1880
10 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 2043
11 The Candidate 1972 Michael Ritchie 2083
12 Barefoot in the Park 1967 Gene Saks 2127

Keanu Reeves

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 47
2 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont 389
3 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears 627
4 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 1024
5 The Matrix Reloaded 2003 Andy and Larry Wachowski 1163
6 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1167
7 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow 1380
8 River's Edge 1986 Tim Hunter 1690
9 Hot Fuzz 2007 Edgar Wright 1714
10 Parenthood 1989 Ron Howard 1825
11 The Matrix Revolutions 2003 Andy and Larry Wachowski 1887
12 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 Stephen Herek 1888

Fernando Rey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 147
2 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 326
3 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 328
4 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 969
5 Seven Beauties 1975 Lina Wertmüller 1017
6 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1077
7 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel 1153

Burt Reynolds

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 335
2 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 367
3 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 495
4 The Longest Yard 1974 Robert Aldrich 832
5 Citizen Ruth 1996 Alexander Payne 1428
6 Sherman's March 1986 Ross McElwee 1645

John Rhys-Davies

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 30
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 69
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 113
4 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 139
5 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 460
6 Victor/Victoria 1982 Blake Edwards 1277

Tim Robbins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 50
2 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 204
3 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 408
4 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 440
5 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 495
6 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 579
7 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 713
8 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Adrian Lyne 883
9 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 Adam McKay 1202
10 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 1444
11 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 1449
12 War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg 1828
13 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 Jay Roach 1964
14 Bob Roberts 1992 Tim Robbins 2019
15 The Sure Thing 1985 Rob Reiner 2111

Julia Roberts

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 279
2 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 495
3 Erin Brockovich 2000 Steven Soderbergh 647
4 Notting Hill 1999 Roger Michell 1081
5 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 P.J. Hogan 1179
6 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1191
7 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 1363
8 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Woody Allen 1669
9 Stepmom 1998 Chris Columbus 1891

Edward G. Robinson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
2 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 357
3 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy 644
4 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 1105
5 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1141
6 Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang 1793
7 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang 1926

Ginger Rogers

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 153
2 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 350
3 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 355
4 Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava 905
5 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 1122
6 Cocoon 1985 Ron Howard 1446
7 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich 1668
8 Shall We Dance 1937 Mark Sandrich 1846
9 Follow the Fleet 1936 Mark Sandrich 2253

Tim Roth

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 17
2 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 70
3 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1114
4 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Woody Allen 1669

Kurt Russell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 83
2 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 233
3 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 988
4 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1020
5 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1442
6 Miracle 2004 Gavin O'Connor 1614
7 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 John Carpenter 2201

Rosalind Russell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 78
2 The Women 1939 George Cukor 855
3 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 1776
4 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1896

Meg Ryan

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 178
2 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 440
3 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 630
4 You've Got Mail 1998 Nora Ephron 1375
5 City of Angels 1998 Brad Silberling 1979

Winona Ryder

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 308
2 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 327
3 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 525
4 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton 753
5 Heathers 1988 Michael Lehmann 778
6 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 858
7 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller 1015
8 Alien: Resurrection 1997 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1053
9 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1167
10 The Crucible 1996 Nicholas Hytner 1774
11 Girl, Interrupted 1999 James Mangold 1899
12 Star Trek 2009 J.J. Abrams 2052
13 Reality Bites 1994 Ben Stiller 2235

Chishu Ryu

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 124
2 Late Spring 1949 Yasujiro Ozu 889
3 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujiro Ozu 1418
4 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1930
5 Early Summer 1951 Yasujiro Ozu 2026
6 Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 1990 Akira Kurosawa 2030
7 I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujiro Ozu 2060
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