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Top Films by Actor (W)

Anton Walbrook

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 212
2 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 368
3 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 497
4 La Ronde 1950 Max Ophüls 955
5 49th Parallel 1941 Michael Powell 1902
6 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 1949

Christopher Walken

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
2 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 24
3 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 72
4 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 440
5 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1269
6 Pennies from Heaven 1981 Herbert Ross 1355
7 The Dead Zone 1983 David Cronenberg 1499
8 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1519
9 Wedding Crashers 2005 David Dobkin 1674
10 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 1873
11 King of New York 1990 Abel Ferrara 2068

M. Emmet Walsh

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 25
2 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 120
3 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 352
4 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 389
5 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 452
6 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 500
7 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 569
8 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird 598
9 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 699
10 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill 718
11 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 P.J. Hogan 958
12 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner 977
13 What's Up, Doc? 1972 Peter Bogdanovich 1056
14 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1274
15 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet 1472
16 A Time to Kill 1996 Joel Schumacher 1834
17 Fletch 1985 Michael Ritchie 1988
18 Straight Time 1978 Ulu Grosbard 2155
19 Bound for Glory 1976 Hal Ashby 2165
20 Baseball 1994 Ken Burns 2396

Eli Wallach

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 140
2 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 387
3 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 404
4 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 1487
5 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1489
6 Baby Doll 1956 Elia Kazan 1518
7 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1868

Henry B. Walthall

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 112
2 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 290
3 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 934
4 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Jack Conway 2071

Denzel Washington

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick 358
2 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 551
3 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 777
4 The Hurricane 1999 Norman Jewison 1745
5 A Soldier's Story 1984 Norman Jewison 1791
6 Training Day 2001 Antoine Fuqua 1841
7 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Carl Franklin 1856
8 Mississippi Masala 1991 Mira Nair 2001
9 Remember the Titans 2000 Boaz Yakin 2049
10 Much Ado about Nothing 1993 Kenneth Branagh 2258

John Wayne

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
2 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 76
3 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 183
4 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 236
5 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 280
6 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
7 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 536
8 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford 842
9 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 Allan Dwan 1046
10 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1108
11 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1129
12 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1207
13 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1374
14 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1489
15 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 1793
16 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford 1985
17 The Long Voyage Home 1940 John Ford 2095
18 The Alamo 1960 John Wayne 2267

Sigourney Weaver

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 24
2 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 54
3 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 88
4 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 429
5 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 694
6 Alien: Resurrection 1997 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 997
7 Alien³ 1992 David Fincher 1071
8 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1083
9 Dave 1993 Ivan Reitman 1506
10 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 1707
11 Galaxy Quest 1999 Dean Parisot 2167
12 Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey 1988 Michael Apted 2273

Orson Welles

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
2 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
3 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
4 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 142
5 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 428
6 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 801
7 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 841
8 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1135
9 F for Fake 1974 Orson Welles 1337
10 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1367
11 Othello 1952 Orson Welles 1500
12 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1421
13 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 1787
14 King of Kings 1961 Nicholas Ray 2036
15 Jane Eyre 1944 Robert Stevenson 2151
16 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 2160
17 The Long, Hot Summer 1958 Martin Ritt 2403

Oskar Werner

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 154
2 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 497
3 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 Martin Ritt 1564
4 Ship of Fools 1965 Stanley Kramer 2214
5 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut 2385

Gene Wilder

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
2 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 217
3 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 264
4 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 274
5 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart 415
6 Silver Streak 1976 Arthur Hiller 2090

Robin Williams

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dead Poet's Society 1989 Peter Weir 310
2 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 474
3 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 648
4 Aladdin 1992 Ron Clements and John Musker 724
5 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson 1013
6 The Fisher King 1991 Terry Gilliam 1182
7 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1430
8 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 Chris Columbus 1512
9 What Dreams May Come 1998 Vincent Ward 2039
10 Awakenings 1990 Penny Marshall 2087
11 Deconstructing Harry 1997 Woody Allen 2371
12 The Birdcage 1996 Mike Nichols 2373
13 The World According to Garp 1982 George Roy Hill 2471

Bruce Willis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
2 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 124
3 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 215
4 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 394
5 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
6 The Fifth Element 1997 Luc Besson 579
7 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 712
8 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 765
9 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 968
10 Die Hard 2 1990 Renny Harlin 1788

Kate Winslet

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 79
2 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michael Gondry 278
3 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 357
4 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 691
5 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1430
6 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1613

Shelley Winters

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 73
2 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 183
3 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 313
4 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 695
5 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 912
6 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 939
7 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 983
8 Alfie 1966 Lewis Gilbert 1098
9 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1469

Elijah Wood

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 104
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 166
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 191
4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michael Gondry 278
5 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 765
6 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1083
7 Back to the Future Part II 1989 Robert Zemeckis 1112

Natalie Wood

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
2 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 84
3 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 85
4 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 421
5 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 640
6 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 960
7 Downhill Racer 1969 Michael Ritchie 1776
8 The Candidate 1972 Michael Ritchie 2085

Fay Wray

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
2 The Wedding March 1928 Erich von Stroheim 1751

Robin Wright

See Robin Wright Penn.

Chow Yun-Fat

See Yun-Fat Chow.

Renée Zellweger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 308
2 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 613
3 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 Sharon Maguire 626
4 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 680
5 Reality Bites 1994 Ben Stiller 1981
6 Cinderella Man 2005 Ron Howard 1928
7 One True Thing 1998 Carl Franklin 2390
8 Cold Mountain 2003 Anthony Minghella 2507
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