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