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Top Films by Actor (S)

Eva Marie Saint

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 28
2 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29

Susan Sarandon

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 188
2 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 333
3 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 374
4 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 419
5 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
6 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 715
7 Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins 751
8 Stepmom 1998 Chris Columbus 1647
9 James and the Giant Peach 1996 Henry Selick 2236
10 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 2114
11 Bob Roberts 1992 Tim Robbins 2278

Roy Scheider

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 27
2 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 153
3 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 644
4 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 732
5 Naked Lunch 1991 David Cronenberg 1224
6 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 1286
7 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 2262

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 110
2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 126
3 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 744
4 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 986
5 Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven 1036
6 Pumping Iron 1977 George Butler and Robert Fiore 1445
7 Dave 1993 Ivan Reitman 1506
8 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1701
9 Conan the Barbarian 1982 John Milius 1715

George C. Scott

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
2 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 178
3 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 216
4 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 517
5 Petulia 1968 Richard Lester 1330
6 The Hospital 1971 Arthur Hiller 1652

Jean Seberg

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
2 The Mouse That Roared 1959 Jack Arnold 1493
3 Airport 1970 George Seaton 2102

Peter Sellers

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
2 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 441
3 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 454
4 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 695
5 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards 763
6 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 838
7 The Mouse That Roared 1959 Jack Arnold 1493
8 I'm All Right Jack 1959 John Boulting 1547
9 The Party 19684 Blake Edwards 2097

Omar Sharif

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
2 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 167
3 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 516
4 Top Secret! 1984 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker 1691

Robert Shaw

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 27
2 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 254
3 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 428
4 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 653
5 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 728
6 The Dam Busters 1955 Michael Anderson 1883
7 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent 2187
8 Robin and Marian 1976 Richard Lester 2358

Wallace Shawn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 83
2 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
3 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 145
4 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 325
5 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 374
6 Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling 464
7 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Peter Docter 580
8 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 657
9 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 732
10 My Dinner with André 1981 Louis Malle 902
11 Vanya on 42nd Street 1994 Louis Malle 1501
12 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen 2150

Charlie Sheen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 111
2 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 347
3 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 356
4 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 852
5 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1333

Martin Sheen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
2 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 218
3 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 221
4 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 424
5 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 802
6 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1135
7 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 1218
8 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1333
9 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1367
10 The Dead Zone 1983 David Cronenberg 1499
11 Gettysburg 1993 Ronald F. Maxwell 1658

Takashi Shimura

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 36
2 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 91
3 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 316
4 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 384
5 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 581
6 Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 954
7 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 987
8 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1007
9 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1251
10 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 1405
11 Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 1956 Ishirô Honda and Terry O. Morse 1717
12 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 1998
13 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 2008
14 Samurai 3: Duel at Ganryu Island 1956 Hiroshi Inagaki 2120
15 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 2224
16 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 2326

Frank Sinatra

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
2 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
3 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 152
4 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 408
5 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 471
6 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 971
7 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 985
8 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1296
9 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060
10 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 2135
11 Ocean's Eleven 1960 Lewis Milestone 2174
12 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 2355
13 Von Ryan's Express 1965 Mark Robson 2395

Sissy Spacek

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 218
2 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 275
3 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 424
4 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 740
5 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Michael Apted 870
6 Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras 1394
7 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman 1740
8 In the Bedroom 2001 Todd Field 1808
9 Trash 1970 Paul Morrissey 2366

Kevin Spacey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 64
2 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
3 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 123
4 Seven 1995 David Fincher 143
5 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 694
6 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 700
7 A Bug's Life 1998 John Lasseter 705
8 A Time to Kill 1996 Joel Schumacher 1834
9 Henry & June 1990 Philip Kaufman 1976
10 The Ref 1994 Ted Demme 2198

Sylvester Stallone

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 107
2 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 644
3 Bananas 1971 Woody Allen 1300
4 First Blood 1982 Ted Kotcheff 1551
5 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 1873
6 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 George P. Cosmatos 1994
7 Death Race 2000 1975 Paul Bartel 2216
8 Cop Land 1997 James Mangold 2419

Harry Dean Stanton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
2 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 54
3 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 362
4 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 431
5 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 568
6 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone 702
7 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 740
8 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese 910
9 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 944
10 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox 1042
11 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 1175
12 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 1248
13 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 1356
14 Private Benjamin 1980 Howard Zieff 1412
15 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1489
16 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1559
17 Pretty in Pink 1986 Howard Deutch 1599
18 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1753
19 Wise Blood 1979 John Huston 1863
20 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton 2098
21 Straight Time 1978 Ulu Grosbard 2155

Barbara Stanwyck

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
2 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 125
3 Stella Dallas 1937 King Vidor 787
4 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks 890
5 Meet John Doe 1941 Frank Capra 1073
6 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 1793
7 The Bitter Tea of General Yen 1933 Frank Capra 2153
8 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460

Rod Steiger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
2 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 167
3 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 319
4 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
5 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 536
6 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 651
7 The Pawnbroker 1964 Sidney Lumet 1264
8 The Hurricane 1999 Norman Jewison 1745
9 The Harder They Fall 1956 Mark Robson 2308

James Stewart

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
2 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 13
3 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
4 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
5 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 109
6 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
7 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 344
8 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 517
9 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 602
10 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 850
11 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 939
12 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 1097
13 You Can't Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra 1141
14 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1207
15 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 1257
16 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 1406
17 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1459
18 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1489
19 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1585
20 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann 1888
21 That's Entertainment! 1974 Jack Haley Jr. 2060

Meryl Streep

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 72
2 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
3 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 445
4 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 448
5 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 648
6 Sophie's Choice 1982 Alan J. Pakula 775
7 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood 962
8 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1044
9 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 1181
10 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1274
11 Julia 1977 Fred Zinnemann 1287
12 The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981 Karel Reisz 1465
13 Postcards from the Edge 1990 Mike Nichols 2134
14 One True Thing 1998 Carl Franklin 2390
15 Defending Your Life 1991 Albert Brooks 2411

Donald Sutherland

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
2 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 185
3 Animal House 1978 John Landis 282
4 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 389
5 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 424
6 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 632
7 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 644
8 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 814
9 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 932
10 A Time to Kill 1996 Joel Schumacher 1834
11 Without Limits 1998 Robert Towne 2003
12 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton 2098
13 Pride & Prejudice 2005 Joe Wright 2125
14 Six Degrees of Separation 1993 Fred Schepisi 2348
15 Cold Mountain 2003 Anthony Minghella 2507

Gloria Swanson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
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