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.
- Robert De Niro
- James Stewart
- Humphrey Bogart
- Harrison Ford
- Marlon Brando
- Cary Grant
- Al Pacino
- Jack Nicholson
- John Wayne
- Tom Hanks
- Orson Welles
- Henry Fonda
- William Holden
- Katharine Hepburn
- Joseph Cotten
- Dustin Hoffman
- Charles Chaplin
- Mark Hamill
- Woody Allen
- Clint Eastwood
- Paul Newman
- Judy Garland
- Charlton Heston
- John Travolta
- Gene Kelly
- Jodie Foster
- Jack Lemmon
- Clark Gable
- Gene Hackman
- Tom Cruise
- Toshirô Mifune
- Morgan Freeman
- Sigourney Weaver
- Alec Guinness
- Tony Curtis
- Gregory Peck
- Peter Sellers
- Peter O'Toole
- Warren Beatty
- Bruce Willis
- Gary Cooper
- Faye Dunaway
- Diane Keaton
- Bette Davis
- Claude Rains
- Burt Lancaster
- Vivian Leigh
- Mel Gibson
- Kirk Douglas
- Omar Sharif
- Roy Scheider
- Kevin Costner
- George C. Scott
- Keir Dullea
- Martin Sheen
- Buster Keaton
- Grace Kelly
- Anthony Perkins
- Robert Redford
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Eva Marie Saint
- Laurence Olivier
- Sean Connery
- Fred Astaire
- Audrey Hepburn
- Liam Neeson
- Keanu Reeves
- Boris Karloff
- Michael Caine
- Anthony Hopkins
- Tim Robbins
- Harvey Keitel
- Kevin Spacey
- Russell Crowe
- Johnny Depp
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Robert Mitchum
- Joe Pesci
- Ben Kingsley
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Janet Leigh
- Ewan McGregor
- Takashi Shimura
- Spencer Tracy
- The Marx Brothers
- Julie Christie
- Bill Murray
- Ingrid Bergman
- Brad Pitt
- Natalie Wood
- Donald Sutherland
- Jeff Bridges
- James Cagney
- Matt Damon
- Viggo Mortensen
- Claudia Cardinale
- Malcolm McDowell
- Montgomery Clift
- Julie Andrews
- Kate Winslet
- Ian McKellen
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Nicolas Cage
- Henry Thomas
- Douglas Rain
- Catherine Deneuve
- Susan Sarandon
- Donald O'Connor
- Guy Pearce
- Linda Hamilton
- Ray Liotta
- James Mason
- Jean Arthur
- Jean-Pierre Léaud
- Robert Shaw
- John Cusack
- Kim Novak
- Drew Barrymore
- Fred MacMurray
- Ray Bolger
- Frances McDormand
- Laura Dern
- Matthew Broderick
- Lillian Gish
- Robert Duvall
- Dana Andrews
- Jon Voight
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Sissy Spacek
- Jean Gabin
- Joel McCrea
- Max von Sydow
- Laurence Fishburne
- Meryl Streep
- Elijah Wood
- Frank Sinatra
- Claudette Colbert
- Graham Chapman
- Henry Travers
- Richard Gere
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Rutger Hauer
- Robin Williams
- Gene Wilder
- Cathy Moriarty
- Deborah Kerr
- Sylvester Stallone
- Edward Norton
- Anne Bancroft
- Jean-Louis Trintignant
- Michael J. Fox
- Holly Hunter
- Shirley MacLaine
- Ralph Fiennes
- Robin Wright Penn
- Ellen Burstyn
- Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Jim Carrey
- Robert Armstrong
- Mia Farrow
- Walter Huston
- Ernest Borgnine
- Jeffrey Hunter
- Ed Harris
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Carrie Fisher
- Michael Douglas
- Colin Clive
- Karen Allen
- James Dean
- Teri Garr
- Erich von Stroheim
- Winona Ryder
- Yves Montand
- Anne Baxter
- Sterling Hayden
- Ginger Rogers
- Liv Ullmann
- Kyle MacLachlan
- Lily Tomlin
- Donald Pleasence
- John Cleese
- Yun-Fat Chow
- Masayuki Mori
- Tim Allen
- Gloria Swanson
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Andie MacDowell
- Fernando Rey
- Nicole Kidman
- Dennis Hopper
- Olivia de Havilland
- Mary Astor
- Uma Thurman
- Louise Fletcher
- Geena Davis
- Greta Garbo
- Patrick Magee
- Hugh Grant
- Marlene Dietrich
- Tim Roth
- Albert Finney
- Kurt Russell
- Errol Flynn
- David Niven
- Laurence Harvey
- Joan Crawford
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai
- Alfred Abel
- George Clooney
- Charlie Sheen
- Sam Neill
- Denzel Washington
- Julia Roberts
- Marcel Dalio
- Peter Lorre
- Sean Penn
- Christopher Walken
- Michael Biehn
- Lamberto Maggiorani
- James Caan
- Juliette Binoche
- Lauren Bacall
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Lee Marvin
- Marilyn Monroe
- Jonathan Pryce
- Shelley Winters
- Rod Steiger
- Yaphet Kotto
- Chishu Ryu
- Aleksandr Antonov
- Mike Myers
- William H. Macy
- Steve McQueen
- Jacques Tati
- Fay Wray
- Ronee Blakley
- Charles Laughton
- Rex Harrison
- Paulette Goddard
- Alain Delon
- Bruno Ganz
- Frederic March
- Rock Hudson
- Richard Beymer
- Eli Wallach
- Edward G. Robinson
- Robert Carlyle
- Margaret Dumont
- Eddie Murphy
- Billy Crystal
- Maureen O'Hara
- Steve Martin
- Jeremy Irons
- Steve Buscemi
- John Rhys-Davies
- Klaus Kinski
- Christopher Plummer
- Tom Berenger
- Marion Mack
- George O'Brien
- Jane Fonda
- Annette Bening
- Giulietta Masina
- Adriana Caselotti
- William Powell
- Carole Lombard
- John Goodman
- Yul Brynner
- John Belushi
- Burt Reynolds
- Michael McKean
- Joan Fontaine
- Liza Minnelli
- Chazz Palminteri
- Karuna Bannerjee
- Spike Lee
- Renée Zellweger
- John Mills
- Emil Jannings
- Robert Donat
- Dan Aykroyd
- Meg Ryan
- Li Gong
- Basil Rathbone
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Rosalind Russell
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Janet Gaynor
- Roddy McDowall
- Harold Russell
- Sidney Poitier
- Bibi Andersson
- Mary Badham
- Ingrid Thulin
- Albert Brooks
- Richard Attenborough
- Paul Muni
This page was last modified on May 20, 2009