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