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