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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. Harrison Ford
  4. Tom Hanks
  5. Al Pacino
  6. Jack Nicholson
  7. Humphrey Bogart
  8. Marlon Brando
  9. Cary Grant
  10. Clint Eastwood
  11. John Wayne
  12. Leonardo DiCaprio
  13. Charles Chaplin
  14. Orson Welles
  15. Henry Fonda
  16. Tom Cruise
  17. Mark Hamill
  18. Christian Bale
  19. William Holden
  20. Toshirô Mifune
  21. Matt Damon
  22. Brad Pitt
  23. Sigourney Weaver
  24. Dustin Hoffman
  25. Bruce Willis
  26. Keanu Reeves
  27. Johnny Depp
  28. Woody Allen
  29. Joseph Cotten
  30. Paul Newman
  31. Charlton Heston
  32. Morgan Freeman
  33. John Travolta
  34. Gene Hackman
  35. Gregory Peck
  36. Jodie Foster
  37. Jack Lemmon
  38. Bill Murray
  39. Viggo Mortensen
  40. Judy Garland
  41. Katharine Hepburn
  42. Daniel Radcliffe
  43. Gene Kelly
  44. Sean Connery
  45. Jeff Bridges
  46. Roy Scheider
  47. Russell Crowe
  48. Tony Chiu-Wai Leung
  49. Jake Gyllenhaal
  50. Robert Downey Jr.
  51. Burt Lancaster
  52. Ian McKellen
  53. Kirk Douglas
  54. Robert Redford
  55. Mel Gibson
  56. Anthony Hopkins
  57. Heath Ledger
  58. Samuel L. Jackson
  59. Anthony Perkins
  60. Peter Sellers
  61. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  62. Liam Neeson
  63. Clark Gable
  64. Kate Winslet
  65. Buster Keaton
  66. Takashi Shimura
  67. Robin Williams
  68. Daniel Day-Lewis
  69. Jim Carrey
  70. Tony Curtis
  71. Catherine Deneuve
  72. Joe Pesci
  73. Martin Sheen
  74. Michael Caine
  75. Matthew Broderick
  76. Robert Mitchum
  77. Kevin Costner
  78. Diane Keaton
  79. Tim Allen
  80. Kurt Russell
  81. Nicolas Cage
  82. Alec Guinness
  83. Marcello Mastroianni
  84. Claude Rains
  85. Linda Hamilton
  86. Audrey Hepburn
  87. Ewan McGregor
  88. Tim Robbins
  89. Donald Sutherland
  90. Elijah Wood
  91. George Clooney
  92. Ethan Hawke
  93. George C. Scott
  94. Faye Dunaway
  95. Peter O'Toole
  96. Keir Dullea
  97. Kevin Spacey
  98. Edward Norton
  99. Sylvester Stallone
  100. Barbara Stanwyck
  101. Bette Davis
  102. Michael J. Fox
  103. Warren Beatty
  104. Denzel Washington
  105. Hugh Jackman
  106. Boris Karloff
  107. Joaquin Phoenix
  108. Tatsuya Nakadai
  109. Gary Cooper
  110. Josh Brolin
  111. Janet Leigh
  112. Harvey Keitel
  113. Robin Wright
  114. Ingrid Bergman
  115. Jean-Pierre Léaud
  116. Vivian Leigh
  117. Ryan Gosling
  118. Frances McDormand
  119. Laura Dern
  120. Richard Dreyfuss
  121. Ben Kingsley
  122. Scarlett Johansson
  123. Claudia Cardinale
  124. Mia Farrow
  125. Chris Evans
  126. Laurence Fishburne
  127. Jean-Louis Trintignant
  128. Sissy Spacek
  129. Malcolm McDowell
  130. Grace Kelly
  131. Holly Hunter
  132. Meryl Streep
  133. Max von Sydow
  134. Ray Liotta
  135. Omar Sharif
  136. Eva Marie Saint
  137. Guy Pearce
  138. Nicole Kidman
  139. Naomi Watts
  140. Robert Shaw
  141. Richard Gere
  142. Julie Christie
  143. Geena Davis
  144. Natalie Portman
  145. Julie Andrews
  146. Robert Duvall
  147. John Cusack
  148. Ellen Burstyn
  149. Mark Ruffalo
  150. James Mason
  151. John Goodman
  152. Alain Delon
  153. Ralph Fiennes
  154. Spencer Tracy
  155. Eddie Murphy
  156. Graham Chapman
  157. Fred Astaire
  158. Sean Penn
  159. Emma Watson
  160. Fred MacMurray
  161. Laurence Olivier
  162. Charlize Theron
  163. Cary Elwes
  164. Henry Thomas
  165. The Marx Brothers
  166. Yaphet Kotto
  167. Drew Barrymore
  168. Deborah Kerr
  169. Douglas Rain
  170. Liv Ullmann
  171. Hugh Grant
  172. Michael Keaton
  173. Uma Thurman
  174. Yun-Fat Chow
  175. Chishû Ryû
  176. Shirley MacLaine
  177. Donald Pleasence
  178. Sam Neill
  179. Kirsten Dunst
  180. Matthew McConaughey
  181. Jamie Lee Curtis
  182. Song Kang-ho
  183. Sterling Hayden
  184. Masayuki Mori
  185. Rutger Hauer
  186. Dana Andrews
  187. Julie Delpy
  188. James Caan
  189. Kim Novak
  190. Gene Wilder
  191. Jean Gabin
  192. Will Smith
  193. Natalie Wood
  194. Jean-Paul Belmondo
  195. Rumi Hiiragi
  196. Jeremy Irons
  197. Donald O'Connor
  198. Juliette Binoche
  199. James Cagney
  200. Eli Wallach
  201. Ed Harris
  202. Michael Douglas
  203. John Cleese
  204. Lee Marvin
  205. Albert Brooks
  206. Zoe Saldaña
  207. Ray Bolger
  208. Joan Crawford
  209. Klaus Kinski
  210. Carrie Fisher
  211. Billy Crystal
  212. Jon Voight
  213. Paulette Goddard
  214. Alfred Abel
  215. James Woods
  216. Susan Sarandon
  217. Bruno Ganz
  218. Gael García Bernal
  219. Daniel Craig
  220. Sandra Bullock
  221. Shelley Duvall
  222. Montgomery Clift
  223. Jamie Foxx
  224. Teri Garr
  225. Elliot Page
  226. Karen Allen
  227. Michael Biehn
  228. Edward Furlong
  229. Frank Sinatra
  230. John Rhys-Davies
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