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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 40
2 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 64

Susan Sarandon

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 379
2 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 386
3 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 441
4 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 551
5 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 784
6 Enchanted 2007 Kevin Lima 1296
7 Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins 1363
8 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 1786
9 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 1805
10 James and the Giant Peach 1996 Henry Selick 1867
11 The Celluloid Closet 1995 Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman 2284

Roy Scheider

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 23
2 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 172
3 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 486
4 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 880
5 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 1403
6 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 1525
7 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin 1747
8 Naked Lunch 1991 David Cronenberg 1875

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 66
2 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 101
3 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 347
4 Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven 487
5 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 508
6 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1107
7 Conan the Barbarian 1982 John Milius 1433
8 Pumping Iron 1977 George Butler and Robert Fiore 1617
9 Commando 1985 Mark L. Lester 1850

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 12
2 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 291
3 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 301
4 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 513
5 The Changeling 1980 Peter Medak 2118

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 12
2 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 512
3 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 554
4 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 823
5 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards 908
6 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 1143
7 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards 1544

Omar Sharif

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 19
2 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 425
3 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 1137
4 Top Secret! 1984 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker 2278

Robert Shaw

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 23
2 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 294
3 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent 761
4 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 838
5 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 856
6 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 1552
7 The Dam Busters 1955 Michael Anderson 1736
8 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 2262

Wallace Shawn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 50
2 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 96
3 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 117
4 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 221
5 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich 261
6 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 310
7 Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling 333
8 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 397
9 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 486
10 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 784
11 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick 1275
12 My Dinner with Andre 1981 Louis Malle 1996
13 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen 2396

Martin Sheen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 8
2 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 228
3 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 238
4 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 482
5 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 529
6 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 868
7 Catch Me If You Can 2002 Steven Spielberg 988
8 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1062
9 Selma 2014 Ava DuVernay 1589
10 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1796
11 The Dead Zone 1983 David Cronenberg 1816
12 Gettysburg 1993 Ronald F. Maxwell 2033
13 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 2607

Takashi Shimura

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22
2 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 72
3 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 256
4 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 328
5 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 507
6 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 580
7 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 662
8 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 986
9 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 1161
10 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1225
11 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1238
12 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1416
13 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 1921
14 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 1965
15 Drunken Angel 1948 Akira Kurosawa 2723

Frank Sinatra

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 214
2 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 264
3 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 372
4 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 706
5 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1383
6 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1470
7 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1795
8 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1891
9 Advise & Consent 1962 Otto Preminger 1981
10 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 2078
11 Anchors Aweigh 1945 George Sidney 2670

Will Smith

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 588
2 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld 787
3 Ali 2001 Michael Mann 1199
4 The Pursuit of Happyness 2006 Gabriele Muccino 1716
5 Bad Boys 1995 Michael Bay 1779
6 I Am Legend 2007 Francis Lawrence 2385
7 Enemy of the State 1998 Tony Scott 2655

Sissy Spacek

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 228
2 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 278
3 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 529
4 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 916
5 The Help 2011 Tate Taylor 1177
6 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Michael Apted 1326
7 The Man with Two Brains 1983 Carl Reiner 1702
8 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman 1706
9 Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras 2295
10 In the Bedroom 2001 Todd Field 2740

Kevin Spacey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Seven 1995 David Fincher 102
2 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 112
3 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 127
4 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 142
5 Moon 2009 Duncan Jones 660
6 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 914
7 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 1515
8 A Bug's Life 1998 John Lasseter 1689
9 A Time to Kill 1996 Joel Schumacher 2488
10 Baby Driver 2017 Edgar Wright 2495

Sylvester Stallone

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 125
2 First Blood 1982 Ted Kotcheff 775
3 Bananas 1971 Woody Allen 1477
4 Rocky II 1979 Sylvester Stallone 1686
5 Victory 1981 John Huston 1809
6 Rocky IV 1985 Sylvester Stallone 2044
7 Rocky III 1982 Sylvester Stallone 2108
8 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 2155
9 Creed 2015 Ryan Coogler 2231

Harry Dean Stanton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 16
2 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 18
3 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 285
4 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 339
5 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 421
6 The Avengers 2012 Joss Whedon 540
7 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 624
8 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox 657
9 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 712
10 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 716
11 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 916
12 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese 1067
13 Pretty in Pink 1986 Howard Deutch 1128
14 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1157
15 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 1189
16 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1361
17 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1530
18 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1598
19 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton 2135
20 Rango 2011 Gore Verbinski 2164
21 The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 2165

Barbara Stanwyck

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
2 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 193
3 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks 1446
4 Forty Guns 1957 Samuel Fuller 1471
5 Stella Dallas 1937 King Vidor 1913
6 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 2551

James Stewart

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
2 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 33
3 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
4 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
5 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
6 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 303
7 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 345
8 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 513
9 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 668
10 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 669
11 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 836
12 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 867
13 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 907
14 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1110
15 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1463
16 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1530
17 You Can't Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra 1644
18 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann 1788
19 Bend of the River 1952 Anthony Mann 2464
20 Broken Arrow 1950 Delmer Daves 2475

Ben Stiller

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 434
2 There's Something about Mary 1998 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 455
3 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 Adam McKay 491
4 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg 812
5 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller 866
6 Happy Gilmore 1996 Dennis Dugan 968
7 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 2004 Rawson Marshall Thurber 1356
8 Meet the Parents 2000 Jay Roach 1588
9 Tropic Thunder 2008 Ben Stiller 2321
10 Flirting with Disaster 1996 David O. Russell 2398
11 Mystery Men 1999 Kinka Usher 2514

Meryl Streep

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 110
2 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 117
3 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 593
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson 694
5 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 714
6 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 888
7 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 930
8 Sophie's Choice 1982 Alan J. Pakula 1152
9 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1334
10 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood 1347
11 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1924
12 Doubt 2008 John Patrick Shanley 2327
13 Defending Your Life 1991 Albert Brooks 2539
14 Mamma Mia! 2008 Phyllida Lloyd 2639
15 The Devil Wears Prada 2006 David Frankel 2675
16 Julia 1977 Fred Zinnemann 2713

Donald Sutherland

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 165
2 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 248
3 Animal House 1978 John Landis 360
4 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 483
5 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 529
6 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 566
7 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 880
8 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 959
9 Pride & Prejudice 2005 Joe Wright 1208
10 The Hunger Games 2012 Gary Ross 1581
11 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 1600
12 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013 Francis Lawrence 1950
13 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton 2135
14 Lord of War 2005 Andrew Niccol 2239
15 A Time to Kill 1996 Joel Schumacher 2488
16 The Italian Job 2003 F. Gary Gray 2656

Gloria Swanson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
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