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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 31
2 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
3 Grand Prix 1966 John Frankenheimer 2324

Susan Sarandon

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 228
2 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 301
3 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 344
4 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 492
5 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 529
6 Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins 757
7 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 894
8 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 1777
9 Bob Roberts 1992 Tim Robbins 1922
10 Stepmom 1998 Chris Columbus 2073
11 James and the Giant Peach 1996 Henry Selick 2075
12 Lorenzo's Oil 1992 George Miller 2200

Roy Scheider

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
2 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 151
3 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 577
4 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 767
5 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 966
6 Naked Lunch 1991 David Cronenberg 1618
7 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 2297

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 95
2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 98
3 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 721
4 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 814
5 Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven 846
6 Pumping Iron 1977 George Butler and Robert Fiore 1332
7 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1411
8 Conan the Barbarian 1982 John Milius 1672
9 Dave 1993 Ivan Reitman 1817

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 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 222
3 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 241
4 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 556
5 Petulia 1968 Richard Lester 1469
6 The Changeling 1980 Peter Medak 2335

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 333
3 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 459
4 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 806
5 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 820
6 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards 861
7 I'm All Right Jack 1959 John Boulting 1642
8 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards 1845
9 The Mouse That Roared 1959 Jack Arnold 1980
10 The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976 Blake Edwards 2367

Omar Sharif

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
2 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
3 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 628
4 Top Secret! 1984 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker 1802
5 The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976 Blake Edwards 2367

Robert Shaw

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
2 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 281
3 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 482
4 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 677
5 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 720
6 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent 1186
7 The Dam Busters 1955 Michael Anderson 1363
8 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 1910

Wallace Shawn

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 64
2 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 132
3 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
4 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 268
5 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 385
6 Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling 452
7 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 529
8 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 577
9 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 607
10 My Dinner with Andre 1981 Louis Malle 1139
11 Vanya on 42nd Street 1994 Louis Malle 1745
12 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen 1869
13 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich 1967

Charlie Sheen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
2 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 295
3 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 319
4 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 674
5 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1120
6 Major League 1989 David S. Ward 1925

Martin Sheen

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
2 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 249
3 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 251
4 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 423
5 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 522
6 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1109
7 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1120
8 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1178
9 Gettysburg 1993 Ronald F. Maxwell 1548
10 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 1674
11 The Dead Zone 1983 David Cronenberg 1714

Takashi Shimura

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
2 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 84
3 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 331
4 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 342
5 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 712
6 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 847
7 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 1044
8 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1061
9 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1074
10 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1242
11 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1450
12 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 2264

Frank Sinatra

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 82
2 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 124
3 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 220
4 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 367
5 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 506
6 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1076
7 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1263
8 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1288
9 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1480
10 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1640
11 Von Ryan's Express 1965 Mark Robson 2007

Sissy Spacek

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 249
2 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 269
3 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 423
4 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 738
5 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Michael Apted 935
6 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman 1448
7 In the Bedroom 2001 Todd Field 1659
8 Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras 1676
9 The Man with Two Brains 1983 Carl Reiner 1795

Kevin Spacey

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 55
2 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 82
3 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
4 Seven 1995 David Fincher 112
5 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 612
6 A Bug's Life 1998 John Lasseter 788
7 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 789
8 Henry & June 1990 Philip Kaufman 2069
9 Moon 2009 Duncan Jones 2256

Sylvester Stallone

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 101
2 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld 562
3 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 767
4 First Blood 1982 Ted Kotcheff 1223
5 Bananas 1971 Woody Allen 1600
6 Rocky II 1979 Sylvester Stallone 1805
7 Victory 1981 John Huston 1896
8 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 1994
9 Rocky III 1982 Sylvester Stallone 2117
10 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 George P. Cosmatos 2146
11 Rocky IV 1985 Sylvester Stallone 2327

Harry Dean Stanton

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
2 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
3 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 336
4 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 473
5 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 560
6 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox 629
7 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone 653
8 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 738
9 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese 865
10 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 867
11 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 885
12 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 974
13 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 1297
14 Pretty in Pink 1986 Howard Deutch 1555
15 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1625
16 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1665
17 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1720
18 Private Benjamin 1980 Howard Zieff 1796
19 The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1848
20 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton 1886
21 Straight Time 1978 Ulu Grosbard 2217
22 Wise Blood 1979 John Huston 2387

Barbara Stanwyck

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
2 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 138
3 Stella Dallas 1937 King Vidor 938
4 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks 986
5 Meet John Doe 1941 Frank Capra 1231
6 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 2107

Rod Steiger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
2 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
3 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 343
4 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 492
5 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 614
6 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 801
7 The Pawnbroker 1964 Sidney Lumet 1547
8 The Hurricane 1999 Norman Jewison 1619
9 The Harder They Fall 1956 Mark Robson 1926
10 Mars Attacks! 1996 Tim Burton 2065

James Stewart

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
2 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
3 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
4 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
5 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 156
6 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
7 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 472
8 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 556
9 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 633
10 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 943
11 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 947
12 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 990
13 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 1055
14 You Can't Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra 1389
15 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1512
16 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1557
17 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1583
18 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1625
19 The Good Earth 1937 Sidney Franklin 2112
20 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann 2205

Meryl Streep

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
2 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
3 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 498
4 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 535
5 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 584
6 Sophie's Choice 1982 Alan J. Pakula 823
7 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood 964
8 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 971
9 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1051
10 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1085
11 Julia 1977 Fred Zinnemann 1403
12 The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981 Karel Reisz 1867

Donald Sutherland

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
2 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 162
3 Animal House 1978 John Landis 299
4 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 423
5 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 481
6 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 518
7 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 767
8 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 889
9 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 970
10 Without Limits 1998 Robert Towne 1563
11 Pride & Prejudice 2005 Joe Wright 1751
12 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton 1886
13 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001 Hironobu Sakaguchi 2358

Gloria Swanson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
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