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Actors in Top Films

The actors below are ranked based on the quality of films in which they had a major role and their relative prominence in those films. Films that are not on the master list affect these rankings.

  1. Robert De Niro
  2. James Stewart
  3. Humphrey Bogart
  4. Harrison Ford
  5. Marlon Brando
  6. Cary Grant
  7. Al Pacino
  8. Jack Nicholson
  9. John Wayne
  10. Orson Welles
  11. Tom Hanks
  12. Henry Fonda
  13. Katharine Hepburn
  14. William Holden
  15. Joseph Cotten
  16. Dustin Hoffman
  17. Charles Chaplin
  18. Mark Hamill
  19. Woody Allen
  20. Judy Garland
  21. Gene Kelly
  22. Clint Eastwood
  23. Paul Newman
  24. Charlton Heston
  25. John Travolta
  26. Clark Gable
  27. Jodie Foster
  28. Toshirô Mifune
  29. Jack Lemmon
  30. Gene Hackman
  31. Alec Guinness
  32. Morgan Freeman
  33. Peter Sellers
  34. Tony Curtis
  35. Faye Dunaway
  36. Tom Cruise
  37. Burt Lancaster
  38. Gary Cooper
  39. Peter O'Toole
  40. Bette Davis
  41. Gregory Peck
  42. Warren Beatty
  43. Vivian Leigh
  44. Sigourney Weaver
  45. Claude Rains
  46. Diane Keaton
  47. Omar Sharif
  48. Barbara Stanwyck
  49. Buster Keaton
  50. George C. Scott
  51. Kevin Costner
  52. Kirk Douglas
  53. Martin Sheen
  54. Mel Gibson
  55. Laurence Olivier
  56. Fred Astaire
  57. Roy Scheider
  58. Bruce Willis
  59. Grace Kelly
  60. Eva Marie Saint
  61. Keir Dullea
  62. Audrey Hepburn
  63. Robert Redford
  64. Sean Connery
  65. Anthony Perkins
  66. Spencer Tracy
  67. Michael Caine
  68. Harvey Keitel
  69. Liam Neeson
  70. Boris Karloff
  71. Robert Mitchum
  72. Anthony Hopkins
  73. Kevin Spacey
  74. Richard Dreyfuss
  75. James Cagney
  76. Tim Robbins
  77. The Marx Brothers
  78. Ben Kingsley
  79. Marcello Mastroianni
  80. Janet Leigh
  81. Russell Crowe
  82. Takashi Shimura
  83. Ingrid Bergman
  84. Keanu Reeves
  85. Natalie Wood
  86. Joe Pesci
  87. Julie Christie
  88. Leonardo DiCaprio
  89. Montgomery Clift
  90. Donald Sutherland
  91. Ewan McGregor
  92. Johnny Depp
  93. Jeff Bridges
  94. Julie Andrews
  95. Jean-Pierre Léaud
  96. James Mason
  97. Susan Sarandon
  98. Henry Thomas
  99. Donald O'Connor
  100. Jean Arthur
  101. Douglas Rain
  102. Catherine Deneuve
  103. Malcolm McDowell
  104. Brad Pitt
  105. Claudia Cardinale
  106. Dana Andrews
  107. Bill Murray
  108. Lillian Gish
  109. Fred MacMurray
  110. Kim Novak
  111. Samuel L. Jackson
  112. John Cusack
  113. Linda Hamilton
  114. Kate Winslet
  115. Drew Barrymore
  116. Ray Bolger
  117. Nicolas Cage
  118. Ray Liotta
  119. Laura Dern
  120. Robert Shaw
  121. Jean Gabin
  122. Max von Sydow
  123. Joel McCrea
  124. Matt Damon
  125. Sissy Spacek
  126. Frances McDormand
  127. Claudette Colbert
  128. Matthew Broderick
  129. Jon Voight
  130. Frank Sinatra
  131. Guy Pearce
  132. Robert Duvall
  133. Henry Travers
  134. Ian McKellen
  135. Viggo Mortensen
  136. Robin Williams
  137. Meryl Streep
  138. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  139. Anne Bancroft
  140. Cathy Moriarty
  141. Walter Huston
  142. Jean-Paul Belmondo
  143. Rutger Hauer
  144. Shirley MacLaine
  145. Jeffrey Hunter
  146. Graham Chapman
  147. Robin Wright Penn
  148. Deborah Kerr
  149. Laurence Fishburne
  150. Richard Gere
  151. James Dean
  152. Erich von Stroheim
  153. Ralph Fiennes
  154. Greta Garbo
  155. Liv Ullmann
  156. Gene Wilder
  157. Holly Hunter
  158. Jean-Louis Trintignant
  159. Ellen Burstyn
  160. Ernest Borgnine
  161. Anne Baxter
  162. Michael Douglas
  163. Ginger Rogers
  164. Colin Clive
  165. Elizabeth Taylor
  166. Robert Armstrong
  167. Mia Farrow
  168. Lily Tomlin
  169. Sylvester Stallone
  170. Edward Norton
  171. Mary Astor
  172. Ed Harris
  173. Elijah Wood
  174. Masayuki Mori
  175. Fernando Rey
  176. Olivia de Havilland
  177. Daniel Day-Lewis
  178. Karen Allen
  179. Yves Montand
  180. Carrie Fisher
  181. Gloria Swanson
  182. Kyle MacLachlan
  183. Winona Ryder
  184. Teri Garr
  185. Sterling Hayden
  186. Michael J. Fox
  187. Jamie Lee Curtis
  188. Marlene Dietrich
  189. Jim Carrey
  190. Dennis Hopper
  191. Yun-Fat Chow
  192. Albert Finney
  193. Errol Flynn
  194. Donald Pleasence
  195. Lauren Bacall
  196. John Cleese
  197. Andie MacDowell
  198. Laurence Harvey
  199. Joan Crawford
  200. Louise Fletcher
  201. Peter Lorre
  202. Rock Hudson
  203. Marcel Dalio
  204. David Niven
  205. Tim Allen
  206. Geena Davis
  207. Alfred Abel
  208. Christopher Walken
  209. Frederic March
  210. Rod Steiger
  211. Nicole Kidman
  212. Tim Roth
  213. Lamberto Maggiorani
  214. Sam Neill
  215. Rex Harrison
  216. Aleksandr Antonov
  217. Tatsuya Nakadai
  218. Charles Laughton
  219. Patrick Magee
  220. Denzel Washington
  221. Julia Roberts
  222. James Caan
  223. Charlie Sheen
  224. Maureen O'Hara
  225. Jacques Tati
  226. Shelley Winters
  227. Paulette Goddard
  228. Edward G. Robinson
  229. Marilyn Monroe
  230. Tony Leung Chiu Wai
  231. Ronee Blakley
  232. Kurt Russell
  233. Chishu Ryu
  234. Klaus Kinski
  235. Margaret Dumont
  236. Uma Thurman
  237. Jonathan Pryce
  238. Jane Fonda
  239. William H. Macy
  240. Michael Biehn
  241. Steve McQueen
  242. George O'Brien
  243. Hugh Grant
  244. William Powell
  245. Fay Wray
  246. Richard Beymer
  247. Christopher Plummer
  248. Bruno Ganz
  249. Juliette Binoche
  250. Sean Penn
  251. Lee Marvin
  252. Marion Mack
  253. Jeremy Irons
  254. Mike Myers
  255. Adriana Caselotti
  256. Robert Donat
  257. Billy Crystal
  258. Carole Lombard
  259. George Clooney
  260. Giulietta Masina
  261. Robert Carlyle
  262. Alain Delon
  263. Emil Jannings
  264. John Mills
  265. Basil Rathbone
  266. Yaphet Kotto
  267. Karuna Bannerjee
  268. Steve Martin
  269. Joan Fontaine
  270. Tom Berenger
  271. Bibi Andersson
  272. Paul Muni
  273. Harold Russell
  274. Janet Gaynor
  275. Chazz Palminteri
  276. Eddie Murphy
  277. Annette Bening
  278. Claire Trevor
  279. Li Gong
  280. Meg Ryan
  281. Jean Seberg
  282. Spike Lee
  283. Jean-Louis Barrault
  284. Burt Reynolds
  285. Eli Wallach
  286. Leslie Caron
  287. Yul Brynner
  288. Ingrid Thulin
  289. Sidney Poitier
  290. Oskar Werner
  291. John Belushi
  292. Steve Buscemi
  293. Rosalind Russell
  294. Farley Granger
  295. Virginia Cherrill
  296. Henry B. Walthall
  297. Renée Zellweger
  298. Roger Livesey
  299. Elliott Gould
  300. Nikolai Cherkasov
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