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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 3
2 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
3 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 208
4 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 260
5 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 324
6 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 387
7 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 636
8 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 700
9 Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell 1099
10 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet 1472
11 Any Given Sunday 1999 Oliver Stone 1711
12 Scent of a Woman 1992 Martin Brest 1871
13 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 1880
14 Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty 2034
15 The Devil's Advocate 1997 Taylor Hackford 2491

Chazz Palminteri

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 64
2 Stuart Little 1999 Rob Minkoff 1625
3 Bullets over Broadway 1994 Woody Allen 1683
4 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro 1989

Guy Pearce

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
2 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 196
3 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994 Stephan Elliott 1668

Gregory Peck

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 57
2 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 330
3 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 704
4 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 840
5 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 885
6 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1062
7 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 1081
8 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1115
9 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1421
10 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1489
11 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1549
12 The Yearling 1946 Clarence Brown 1586
13 On the Beach 1959 Stanley Kramer 1620
14 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1723
15 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 2012

Robin Wright Penn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
2 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 145

Sean Penn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 356
2 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 442
3 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 490
4 Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins 751
5 Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 Stacy Peralta 1281
6 The Game 1997 David Fincher 1377
7 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 1487
8 21 Grams 2003 Alejandro González Iñárritu 1696
9 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 1880
10 Casualties of War 1989 Brian De Palma 2028
11 Before Night Falls 2000 Julian Schnabel 2487

Anthony Perkins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 9
2 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1135
3 On the Beach 1959 Stanley Kramer 1620
4 Friendly Persuasion 1956 William Wyler 1884
5 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 1969
6 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 2160

Joe Pesci

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
2 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 31
3 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 233
4 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 424
5 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 560
6 Home Alone 1990 Chris Columbus 1162
7 My Cousin Vinny 1992 Jonathan Lynn 1749
8 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro 1989

Brad Pitt

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 118
2 Seven 1995 David Fincher 143
3 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 188
4 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 356
5 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 394
6 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 440
7 Snatch. 2000 Guy Ritchie 1176
8 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1183
9 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 1432
10 A River Runs Through It 1992 Robert Redford 1633
11 Legends of the Fall 1994 Edward Zwick 1725
12 Troy 2004 Wolfgang Petersen 2051
13 Babel 2006 Alejandro González Iñárritu 2215

Donald Pleasence

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 160
2 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 175
3 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 944
4 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 1123
5 THX 1138 1971 George Lucas 1844
6 You Only Live Twice 1967 Lewis Gilbert 2237

Christopher Plummer

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 62
2 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 394
3 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 509
4 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 551
5 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 636
6 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 645
7 Somewhere in Time 1980 Jeannot Szwarc 2401

Sidney Poitier

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 319
2 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 564
3 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer 900
4 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 Daniel Petrie 1082
5 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks 1607
6 Porgy and Bess 1959 Stanley Kramer 1891
7 Lilies of the Field 1963 Ralph Nelson 2352

William Powell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 337
2 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 515
3 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 681
4 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Robert Z. Leonard 1631
5 Life with Father 1947 Michael Curtiz 1754
6 The Last Command 1928 Josef von Sternberg 1995
7 Libeled Lady 1936 Jack Conway 2345

Jonathan Pryce

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
2 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 449
3 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 547
4 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 700
5 Evita 1996 Alan Parker 1290
6 Ronin 1998 John Frankenheimer 1460

Douglas Rain

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
2 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 641

Claude Rains

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
3 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 109
4 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
5 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 155
6 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 328
7 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 713
8 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 Alexander Hall 965
9 The Wolf Man 1941 George Waggner 1026
10 The Sea Hawk 1940 Michael Curtiz 1219
11 Kings Row 1942 Sam Wood 1654

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 778
3 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 959
4 Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz 1324
5 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 1513
6 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1530
7 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield 1667
8 Son of Frankenstein 1939 Rowland V. Lee 1861
9 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Jack Conway 2071

Robert Redford

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
2 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 254
3 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 309
4 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 445
5 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 647
6 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson 1167
7 Barefoot in the Park 1967 Gene Saks 1415
8 A River Runs Through It 1992 Robert Redford 1633
9 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack 1732
10 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough 1776
11 Downhill Racer 1969 Michael Ritchie 1873
12 The Candidate 1972 Michael Ritchie 2085

Keanu Reeves

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 59
2 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont 390
3 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears 573
4 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 996
5 The Matrix Reloaded 2003 Andy and Larry Wachowski 1375
6 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1401
7 Parenthood 1989 Ron Howard 1591
8 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow 1743
9 River's Edge 1986 Tim Hunter 1851
10 Something's Gotta Give 2003 Nancy Meyers 2073
11 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 Stephen Herek 2107
12 The Matrix Revolutions 2003 Andy and Larry Wachowski 2112
13 Much Ado about Nothing 1993 Kenneth Branagh 2258
14 The Devil's Advocate 1997 Taylor Hackford 2491

Fernando Rey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 153
2 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 266
3 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 304
4 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 841
5 Seven Beauties 1975 Lina Wertmüller 887
6 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel 935
7 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1153

Burt Reynolds

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 343
2 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 430
3 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
4 The Longest Yard 1974 Robert Aldrich 897
5 Sherman's March 1986 Ross McElwee 1382
6 Citizen Ruth 1996 Alexander Payne 2115
7 Smokey and the Bandit 1977 Hal Needham 2405

Tim Robbins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 48
2 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 419
3 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 461
4 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
5 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 594
6 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 730
7 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 1258
8 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Adrian Lyne 1259
9 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 1487
10 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 Jay Roach 1820
11 Bob Roberts 1992 Tim Robbins 2278

Julia Roberts

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 272
2 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
3 Erin Brockovich 2000 Steven Soderbergh 618
4 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 P.J. Hogan 958
5 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1221
6 Notting Hill 1999 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1223
7 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Francis Ford Coppola 1432
8 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Woody Allen 1452
9 Stepmom 1998 Chris Columbus 1647
10 Mystic Pizza 1988 Donald Petrie 1728

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 323
3 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy 595
4 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 990
5 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1299
6 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang 1694
7 Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang 1781

Ginger Rogers

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 132
2 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 290
3 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 307
4 Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava 839
5 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 859
6 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich 1462
7 Shall We Dance 1937 Mark Sandrich 1520
8 Cocoon 1985 Ron Howard 1538
9 Follow the Fleet 1936 Mark Sandrich 1991
10 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060

Tim Roth

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
2 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 90
3 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1106
4 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Woody Allen 1452
5 Planet of the Apes 2001 Tim Burton 2225

Harold Russell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 96

Kurt Russell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
2 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 276
3 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 944
4 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1274
5 Miracle 2004 Gavin O'Connor 1795
6 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1898
7 Used Cars 1980 Robert Zemeckis 2505

Rosalind Russell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
2 The Women 1939 George Cukor 668
3 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1529
4 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 1719

Meg Ryan

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 172
2 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 461
3 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 539
4 You've Got Mail 1998 Nora Ephron 1358
5 City of Angels 1998 Brad Silberling 1895
6 The Doors 1991 Oliver Stone 2263

Winona Ryder

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 354
2 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 356
3 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 547
4 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 715
5 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton 749
6 Heathers 1989 Michael Lehmann 833
7 Alien: Resurrection 1997 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 997
8 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller 1244
9 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1401
10 The Crucible 1996 Nicholas Hytner 1780
11 Reality Bites 1994 Ben Stiller 1981
12 Night on Earth 1991 Jim Jarmusch 2084
13 Girl, Interrupted 1999 James Mangold 2176

Chishu Ryu

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 130
2 Late Spring 1949 Yasujiro Ozu 875
3 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujiro Ozu 1525
4 Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 1990 Akira Kurosawa 1619
5 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujiro Ozu 1809
6 I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujiro Ozu 1941
7 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 2326
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