Greatest Actors

"Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real." ~ Tim Burton

"I believe that Jack is one of the best actors in Hollywood, perhaps on a par with the greatest stars of the past like Spencer Tracy and James Cagney. I should think that he is on almost everyone's first-choice list for any role which suits him. His work is always interesting, clearly conceived and has the X-factor, magic. Jack is particularly suited for roles which require intelligence. He is an intelligent and literate man, and these are qualities almost impossible to act. In The Shining (1980), you believe he's a writer, failed or otherwise." ~ Stanley Kubrick

Greats: Five Easy Pieces (1970) (1970)★; The Last Detail (1973) (1973)★; Chinatown (1974) (1974)★; The Passenger (1975); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (1975)★; The Shining (1980) (1980)★; Reds (1981) (1981)★; Terms of Endearment (1983) (1983)★; Prizzi's Honor (1985) (1985)★; Broadcast News (1987) (1987); As Good as It Gets (1997) (1997)★; About Schmidt (2002) (2002)★; The Departed (2006)★

Give It a Shot: Easy Rider (1969) (1969)★; Ironweed (1987) (1987)★; Batman (1989) (1989)★; The Pledge (2001) (2001); Something's Gotta Give (2003) (2003)✰; The Bucket List (2007) (2007)

Caution: Tommy (1975) (1975); The Missouri Breaks (1976) (1976); A Few Good Men (1992) (1992)★; Mars Attacks! (1996) (1996); Anger Management (2003) (2003) Other Notable Film(s): The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) (1960); The Terror (1963) (1963); The Raven (1963) (1963); The Shooting (1966) (1966); On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) (1970); Carnal Knowledge (1971) (1971)★; The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) (1972); The Fortune (1975) (1975); Goin' South (1978) (1978); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) (1981); The Border (1982) (1982); Heartburn (1986) (1986); The Witches of Eastwick (1987) (1987); The Two Jakes (1990) (1990); Hoffa (1992) (1992)✰; Man Trouble (1992) (1992); Wolf (1994) (1994); The Crossing Guard (1995) (1995); Blood and Wine (1996) (1996); The Evening Star (1996) (1996); How Do You Know (2010) (2010)

"Marlon Brando changed everything for actors. After him, everyone wanted to be Marlon. No one wanted to be a type: they all wanted to display versatility in every role. But the brilliance that Marlon had was that he had star personality that shone through in every role." ~ Peter Bogdanovich

"When Marlon dies, everybody moves up one." ~ Jack Nicholson

"He is the marker. There's 'before Brando' and 'after Brando'." ~ Martin Scorsese

Greats: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) (1951)★; On the Waterfront (1954) (1954)★; The Godfather (1972) (1972)★; Last Tango in Paris (1974)★; Apocalypse Now (1979) (1979)

Give It a Shot: The Men (1950) (1950); Viva Zapata! (1952) (1952)★; Julius Caesar (1953) (1953)★; Sayonara (1957) (1957)★; Superman (1978) (1978); The Godfather: The Game [voice] (2006)

Caution: The Missouri Breaks (1976) (1976); The Score (2001) (2001)

Other Notable Film(s): The Wild One (1953) (1953); Désirée (1954) (1954); Guys and Dolls (1955) (1955); The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) (1956)✰; The Young Lions (1958) (1958); The Fugitive Kind (1960) (1959); One-Eyed Jacks (1961) (1961); Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) (1962); The Ugly American (1963) (1963)✰; Bedtime Story (1964) (1964); Morituri (1965) (1965); The Chase (1966) (1966); The Appaloosa (1966) (1966); A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) (1967); Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) (1967); Candy (1968) (1968); The Night of the Following Day (1969) (1968); Burn! (1969); The Nightcomers (1971) (1971); The Formula (1980) (1980); A Dry White Season (1989) (1989)✰; The Freshman (1990) (1990); Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) (1992); Don Juan DeMarco (1994) (1994); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) (1996); The Brave (1997) (1997); Free Money (1998) (1998)

Greats: Mean Streets (1973) (1973); The Godfather Part II (1974) (1974)★; Taxi Driver (1976) (1976)★; The Deer Hunter (1978) (1978)★; Raging Bull (1980) (1980)★; The King of Comedy (1982) (1983)★; Once Upon a Time in America (1984) (1984); The Mission (1986) (1986); The Untouchables (1987) (1987); Goodfellas (1990) (1990)★; A Bronx Tale (1993) (1993); Heat (1995) (1995); Casino (1995) (1995); Jackie Brown (1997) (1997); Silver Linings Playbook (2012) (2012)★; American Hustle (2013) (2013); The Irishman (2019) (2019)

Give It a Shot: Midnight Run (1988) (1988)✰; Awakenings (1990) (1990)★; Cape Fear (1991) (1991)★; Sleepers (1996) (1996); Cop Land (1997) (1997); Wag the Dog (1997) (1997); Ronin (1998) (1998); Meet the Parents (2000) (2000)✰; Joker (2019) (2019)

Caution: Brazil (1985) (1985); Angel Heart (1987) (1987); Backdraft (1991) (1991); Guilty by Suspicion (1991) (1991); The Fan (1996) (1996); Analyze This (1999) (1999)✰; The Score (2001) (2001); Showtime (2002) (2002); City by the Sea (2002) (2002); Analyze That (2002) (2002); Shark Tale (2004) [voice] (2004); Meet the Fockers (2004) (2004); The Good Shepherd (2006) (2006); The Family (2013) (2013); Joy (2015) (2015)

Flops: Hide and Seek (2005) (2005); Righteous Kill (2008) (2008); Machete (2010) (2010); Little Fockers (2010) (2010); Killer Elite (2011) (2011); Dirty Grandpa (2016) (2016)

Other Notable Film(s): Hi, Mom! (1970) (1970); Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) (1973); 1900 (1976); The Last Tycoon (1976) (1976); New York, New York (1977) (1977)✰; True Confessions (1981) (1981); Falling in Love (1984) (1984); Stanley & Iris (1990) (1989); We're No Angels (1989) (1989); Jacknife (1989) (1989); Mistress (1992) (1992); Night and the City (1992) (1992); Mad Dog and Glory (1993) (1993); This Boy's Life (1993) (1993); Frankenstein (1994) (1994); Marvin's Room (1996) (1996); Great Expectations (1998) (1998); Flawless (1999) (1999); The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) (2000); Men of Honor (2000) (2000); 15 Minutes (2001) (2001); Godsend (2004) (2004); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004) (2004); Stardust (2007) (2007); What Just Happened (2008) (2008); Everybody's Fine (2009) (2009); Stone (2010) (2010); Limitless (2011) (2011); New Year's Eve (2011) (2011); Freelancers (2012) (2012); Red Lights (2012) (2012); Being Flynn (2012) (2012); The Big Wedding (2013) (2013); Killing Season (2013) (2013); Last Vegas (2013) (2013); Grudge Match (2013) (2013); The Carrier (2014); Heist (2015) (2015); The Intern (2015) (2015); Hands of Stone (2016) (2016); The Comedian (2016) (2016)

Greats: The Graduate (1967) (1967)★; Midnight Cowboy (1969) (1969)★; Papillon (1973) (1973); Lenny (1974) (1974)★; Marathon Man (1976) (1976)★; All the President's Men (1976) (1976)✰; Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) (1979)★; Tootsie (1982) (1982)★; Rain Man (1988) (1988)★

Give It a Shot: Straw Dogs (1971) (1971); Dick Tracy (1990) (1990); Outbreak (1995) (1995); Sleepers (1996) (1996); Wag the Dog (1997) (1997)★; Finding Neverland (2004) (2004)

Caution: Hook (1991) (1991)★; Sphere (1998) (1998); Stranger Than Fiction (2006) (2006)

Flops: Little Fockers (2010) (2011)

Other Notable Film(s): John and Mary (1969) (1969)✰; Little Big Man (1970) (1970)✰; Who Is Harry Kellerman (1971); Alfredo Alfredo (1972) (1972); Straight Time (1978) (1978); Agatha (1979) (1979); Death of a Salesman (1985) [TV] (1985)✰; Ishtar (1987) (1987); Family Business (1989) (1989); Billy Bathgate (1991) (1991); Hero (1992) (1992); American Buffalo (1996) (1996); Mad City (1997) (1997); Joan of Arc (1999); Moonlight Mile (2002) (2002); Confidence (2003) (2003); Runaway Jury (2003) (2003); I Heart Huckabees (2004) (2004); Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) (2006); Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) (2007); Last Chance Harvey (2008) (2008)✰; Barney's Version (2010) (2010); Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) [voice] (2011); Luck (2011) [TV series] (2011-2012); Chef (2014) (2014); Boychoir (2014) (2014); The Cobbler (2014) (2014); The Program (2015) (2015); Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) [voice] (2016); The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) (2017); Into the Labyrinth (2019)

"Al Pacino intimidated me when I watched him in rehearsals, I saw how he turned Tony Montana into something very feral, something immigrant and hungry and decadent." ~ Oliver Stone

Greats: The Panic in Needle Park (1971) (1971); The Godfather (1972) (1972)★; Scarecrow (1973) (1973)★; Serpico (1973) (1973)★; The Godfather Part II (1974) (1974)★; Dog Day Afternoon (1975) (1975)★; Scarface (1983) (1983); The Godfather Part III (1990) (1990); Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) (1992)★; Scent of a Woman (1992) (1992)★; Carlito's Way (1993) (1993); Heat (1995) (1995); The Insider (1999) (1999); Insomnia (2002) (2002); The Irishman (2019) (2019)★

Give It a Shot: ...And Justice for All (1979) (1979)★; Sea of Love (1989) (1989)✰; Dick Tracy (1990) (1990)★; Donnie Brasco (1997) (1997)✰; Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) (2019)

Caution: Cruising (1980) (1980); City Hall (1996) (1996); The Devil's Advocate (1997) (1997); Any Given Sunday (1999) (1999); S1m0ne (2002) (2002); The Recruit (2003) (2003); Two for the Money (2005) (2005); Ocean's Thirteen (2007) (2007)

Flops: Gigli (2003) (2003)☠; 88 Minutes (2007) (2007)☠; Righteous Kill (2008) (2008)☠

Other Notable Film(s): Bobby Deerfield (1977) (1977)✰; Author! Author! (1982) (1982)✰; Revolution (1985) (1985); Frankie and Johnny (1991) (1991); Two Bits (1995) (1995); People I Know (2002) (2002); The Merchant of Venice (2004) (2004); You Don't Know Jack (2010) [TV] (2010)✰; The Son of No One (2011) (2011); Jack and Jill (2011) (2011); Stand Up Guys (2012) (2012); Phil Spector (2013) [TV] (2013)✰; Salomé (2013) (2013); The Humbling (2014) (2014); Manglehorn (2014) (2014); Danny Collins (2015) (2015)✰; Misconduct (2016) (2016); Hangman (2017) (2017); The Pirates of Somalia (2017) (2017); Paterno (2018) [TV] (2018)

"I think he's probably the best actor who's ever hit the screen." ~ Frank Capra

Greats: You Can't Take It with You (1938) (1938); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (1939)★; The Philadelphia Story (1940) (1940)★; The Shop Around the Corner (1940) (1940); It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (1946)★; Rope (1948) (1948); Harvey (1950) (1950)★; Rear Window (1954) (1954)★; The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (1956); Vertigo (1958) (1958)★; Anatomy of a Murder (1959) (1959)★; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) (1962)★

Give It a Shot: The Stratton Story (1949) (1949)

Caution: Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) (1962)

Other Notable Film(s): Vivacious Lady (1938) (1938); Made for Each Other (1939) (1939); Destry Rides Again (1939) (1939); The Mortal Storm (1940) (1940); Come Live with Me (1941) (1941); Pot o' Gold (1941) (1940); Ziegfeld Girl (1941) (1941); Call Northside 777 (1948) (1948); Winchester '73 (1950) (1950); Broken Arrow (1950) (1950); The Jackpot (1950) (1950); No Highway in the Sky (1951); The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) (1952); Bend of the River (1952) (1952); Carbine Williams (1952) (1952); The Naked Spur (1953) (1953); Thunder Bay (1953) (1953); The Glenn Miller Story (1954) (1954); The Far Country (1954) (1954); Strategic Air Command (1955) (1955); The Man from Laramie (1955) (1955); The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) (1957); Night Passage (1957) (1957); Bell Book and Candle (1958) (1958); The FBI Story (1959) (1959); Two Rode Together (1961) (1961); How the West Was Won (1962) (1962); Take Her, She's Mine (1963) (1963); Cheyenne Autumn (1964) (1964); Shenandoah (1965) (1965); The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) (1965); The Rare Breed (1966) (1966); Firecreek (1968) (1968); Bandolero! (1968) (1968); The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) (1970); The Shootist (1976) (1976); Airport '77 (1977) (1977)

Greats: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (1958)★; The Hustler (1961) (1961)★; Cool Hand Luke (1967) (1967)★; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (1969); The Sting (1973) (1973); The Verdict (1982) (1982)★; Road to Perdition (2002) (2002)★

Give It a Shot: The Long, Hot Summer (1958) (1958)★; Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) (1962)★; Hud (1963) (1963)★; Torn Curtain (1966) (1966); The Towering Inferno (1974) (1974); The Color of Money (1986) (1986)★; Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) (1989); The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) (1994)

Other Notable Film(s): The Silver Chalice (1954) (1954); Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) (1956); The Left Handed Gun (1958) (1958); The Young Philadelphians (1959) (1959); From the Terrace (1960) (1960); Exodus (1960) (1960); Paris Blues (1961) (1961); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) (1962)✰; The Prize (1963) (1963); What a Way to Go! (1964) (1964); The Outrage (1964) (1964); Harper (1966) (1966); Hombre (1967) (1967); Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) (1970); The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) (1972); The MacKintosh Man (1973) (1973); The Drowning Pool (1975) (1975); Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976); Slap Shot (1977) (1977); Quintet (1979) (1979); When Time Ran Out... (1980) (1980); Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) (1981); Absence of Malice (1981) (1981)✰; Harry & Son (1984) (1984); Blaze (1989) (1989); Nobody's Fool (1994) (1994)✰; Twilight (1998) (1998); Message in a Bottle (1999) (1999); Where the Money Is (2000) (2000); Empire Falls (2005) [TV series] (2005)✰; Cars (2006) [voice] (2006)

"What's it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It's like getting a phone call from Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan saying they want you to coach them." ~ Antoine Fuqua

Greats: Glory (1989) (1989)★; Malcolm X (1992) (1992)★; Philadelphia (1993) (1993)★; Training Day (2001) (2001)★

Give It a Shot: A Soldier's Story (1984) (1984); Crimson Tide (1995) (1995); The Hurricane (1999) (1999)★; Remember the Titans (2000) (2000); Inside Man (2006) (2006); American Gangster (2007) (2007)✰; Flight (2012) (2012)★; Fences (2016) (2016)★

Caution: The Bone Collector (1999) (1999); John Q (2002) (2002); Out of Time (2003) (2003); Man on Fire (2004) (2004); Deja Vu (2006) (2006); Safe House (2012) (2012); The Equalizer (2014) (2014)

Flops: Power (1986) (1986); The Book of Eli (2010) (2010)

Other Notable Film(s): Carbon Copy (1981) (1981); Cry Freedom (1987) (1987)✰; For Queen & Country (1988) (1988); The Mighty Quinn (1989) (1989); Heart Condition (1990) (1990); Mo' Better Blues (1990) (1990); Mississippi Masala (1991) (1991); Ricochet (1991) (1991); Much Ado About Nothing (1993) (1993); The Pelican Brief (1993) (1993); Virtuosity (1995) (1995); Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) (1995); Courage Under Fire (1996) (1996); The Preacher's Wife (1996) (1996); Fallen (1998) (1998); He Got Game (1998) (1998); The Siege (1998) (1998); Antwone Fisher (2002) (2002); The Great Debaters (2007) (2007); The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) (2009); Unstoppable (2010) (2010); 2 Guns (2013) (2013); The Magnificent Seven (2016) (2016); Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017) (2017)✰; The Equalizer 2 (2018) (2018)

"the best goddamned actor I've ever seen" ~ George M. Cohan

Greats: Fury (1936) (1936); Captains Courageous (1937) (1937)★; Boys Town (1938) (1938)★; Woman of the Year (1942) (1942); A Guy Named Joe (1943) (1943); Adam's Rib (1949) (1949); Father of the Bride (1950) (1950)★; Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) (1955)★; Inherit the Wind (1960) (1960)★; Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (1961)★; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) (1967)★

Give It a Shot: San Francisco (1936) (1936)★; Test Pilot (1938) (1938); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) (1941); It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) (1963)

Caution: Tortilla Flat (1942) (1942) Other Notable Film(s): Libeled Lady (1936) (1936); Mannequin (1937) (1937); Northwest Passage (1940); Edison, the Man (1940) (1940); Boom Town (1940) (1940); Men of Boys Town (1941) (1941); Keeper of the Flame (1942) (1942); The Seventh Cross (1944) (1944); Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) (1944); Without Love (1945) (1945); The Sea of Grass (1947) (1947); Cass Timberlane (1947) (1947); State of the Union (1948) (1948); Edward, My Son (1949) (1949); Malaya (1949) (1949); Father's Little Dividend (1951) (1951); The People Against O'Hara (1951) (1951); Pat and Mike (1952) (1952); Plymouth Adventure (1952) (1952); The Actress (1953) (1953)✰; Broken Lance (1954) (1954); The Mountain (1956) (1956); Desk Set (1957) (1957); The Old Man and the Sea (1958) (1958)✰; The Last Hurrah (1958) (1958); The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961) (1961)

Greats: Gandhi (1982) (1982); My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) (1985); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) (1988); My Left Foot (1989)★; The Last of the Mohicans (1992) (1992); In the Name of the Father (1993) (1993)★; Gangs of New York (2002) (2002)★; There Will Be Blood (2007) (2007)★; Lincoln (2012) (2012)★; Phantom Thread (2017) (2017)★

Give It a Shot: The Age of Innocence (1993) (1993); The Crucible (1996) (1996)

Other Notable Film(s): The Bounty (1984) (1984); A Room with a View (1985) (1985); Nanou (1986) (1986); Stars and Bars (1988) (1988); Eversmile New Jersey (1989) (1989); The Boxer (1997) (1997)✰; The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) (2005); Nine (2009) (2009)✰

Greats: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) (1993)★; Titanic (1997) (1997)✰; Gangs of New York (2002) (2002); Catch Me If You Can (2002) (2002)✰; The Aviator (2004) (2004)★; The Departed (2006) (2006)★

Give It a Shot: The Basketball Diaries (1995) (1995)★; Blood Diamond (2006) (2006)★; Body of Lies (2008) (2008); Revolutionary Road (2008) (2008)★; Inception (2010) (2010); Shutter Island (2010) (2010); Django Unchained (2012) (2012)★; The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) (2013)★; The Revenant (2015) (2015)★; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)★

Caution: Romeo + Juliet (1996) (1996); J. Edgar (2011) (2011)✰

Other Notable Film(s): Critters 3 (1991) (1991); Poison Ivy (1992) (1992); This Boy's Life (1993) (1993); The Quick and the Dead (1995) (1995); Total Eclipse (1995) (1995); Marvin's Room (1996) (1996); The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) (1998); Celebrity (1998) (1998); The Beach (2000) (2000); Don's Plum (2001) (2001); The Great Gatsby (2013) (2013)

"Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director." ~ Sydney Pollack

Greats: From Here to Eternity (1953) (1953)★; Sweet Smell of Success (1957) (1957); Elmer Gantry (1960) (1960)★; Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (1961)★; Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) (1962)★; The Train (1964) (1964)★; Atlantic City (1980)★

Give It a Shot: Separate Tables (1958) (1958)★; Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) (1958); Airport (1970) (1970); Field of Dreams (1989) (1989)

Other Notable Film(s): The Killers (1946) (1946); Brute Force (1947) (1947); Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) (1948); Criss Cross (1949) (1949); The Flame and the Arrow (1950) (1950); The Crimson Pirate (1952) (1952); Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) (1952); Vera Cruz (1954) (1954); Apache (1954) (1954); Vera Cruz (1954) (1954); The Rose Tattoo (1955) (1955); The Rainmaker (1956) (1956)✰; Trapeze (1956) (1956); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) (1957); The Unforgiven (1960) (1960); The Leopard (1963); A Child Is Waiting (1963) (1963); Seven Days in May (1964) (1964); The Hallelujah Trail (1965) (1965); The Professionals (1966) (1966); The Swimmer (1968) (1968); Castle Keep (1969) (1969); Lawman (1971) (1971); Valdez Is Coming (1971) (1971); Ulzana's Raid (1972) (1972); Executive Action (1973) (1973); 1900 (1976); The Cassandra Crossing (1976) (1976); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) (1977); Go Tell the Spartans (1978) (1978); Zulu Dawn (1979) (1979); Local Hero (1983) (1983)✰; Tough Guys (1986) (1986); Rocket Gibraltar (1988) (1988)

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business. ~ Hank Azaria

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business." ~ Kim Basinger

Greats: Some Like It Hot (1959) (1959)★; The Apartment (1960) (1960)★; The Fortune Cookie (1966) (1966); The Odd Couple (1968) (1968)✰; Missing (1982) (1982)★; JFK (1991) (1991); Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) (1992)★

Give It a Shot: Days of Wine and Roses (1962) (1962)★; Save the Tiger (1973) (1973)★; Avanti! (1972) (1972)✰; The Front Page (1974) (1974)✰; The China Syndrome (1979) (1979)★

Other Notable Film(s): It Should Happen to You (1954) (1954); Mister Roberts (1955) (1955)✰; Bell Book and Candle (1958) (1958); Irma la Douce (1963) (1963); How to Murder Your Wife (1965) (1965); The Great Race (1965) (1965); The Out of Towners (1970) (1970); The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) (1975); Airport '77 (1977) (1977); Tribute (1980) (1980)✰; Buddy Buddy (1981) (1981); That's Life! (1986) (1986); Dad (1989) (1989); Short Cuts (1993) (1993); Grumpy Old Men (1993) (1993); Grumpier Old Men (1995) (1995); The Grass Harp (1995) (1995); My Fellow Americans (1996) (1996); Out to Sea (1997) (1997); The Odd Couple II (1998) (1998)

Greats: Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) (1938); Dark Victory (1939) (1939); The Maltese Falcon (1941) (1941)★; Casablanca (1942) (1943)★; The Big Sleep (1946) (1946); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) (1948)★; In a Lonely Place (1950) (1950); The African Queen (1951) (1951)★; Sabrina (1954) (1954)

Give It a Shot: Sahara (1943) (1943)

Other Notable Film(s): The Petrified Forest (1936) (1936); Bullets or Ballots (1936) (1936); Black Legion (1937) (1937); Marked Woman (1937) (1937); Kid Galahad (1937) (1937); San Quentin (1937) (1937); Dead End (1937) (1937); The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) (1938); The Oklahoma Kid (1939) (1939); The Roaring Twenties (1939) (1939); They Drive by Night (1940) (1940); Brother Orchid (1940) (1940); High Sierra (1940) (1941); All Through the Night (1942) (1941); Across the Pacific (1942) (1942); Action in the North Atlantic (1943) (1943); To Have and Have Not (1944) (1944); Passage to Marseille (1944) (1944); Conflict (1945) (1945); Dark Passage (1947) (1947); Dead Reckoning (1946) (1947); The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) (1947); Key Largo (1948) (1948); Tokyo Joe (1949) (1949); Knock on Any Door (1949) (1949); The Enforcer (1951) (1951); Sirocco (1951) (1951); Beat the Devil (1953) (1953); The Caine Mutiny (1954) (1954)✰; The Barefoot Contessa (1954) (1954); The Desperate Hours (1955) (1955); The Left Hand of God (1955) (1955); We're No Angels (1955) (1955); The Harder They Fall (1956) (1956)

He's the best star actor there ever was in the movies." ~ Richard Schickel

Greats: The Awful Truth (1937) (1937)★; Bringing Up Baby (1938) (1938)★; Only Angels Have Wings (1939) (1939); His Girl Friday (1940) (1940); The Philadelphia Story (1940) (1940)★; Suspicion (1941) (1941); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) (1944); Notorious (1946) (1946); To Catch a Thief (1955) (1955); An Affair to Remember (1957) (1957)★; North by Northwest (1959) (1959); Charade (1963) (1963)★

Give It a Shot: Penny Serenade (1941) (1941)★; The Bishop's Wife (1947) (1947); Monkey Business (1952) (1952)

Other Notable Film(s): Blonde Venus (1932) (1932); Sylvia Scarlett (1935) (1933); I'm No Angel (1933) (1933); She Done Him Wrong (1933) (1933); Walk Don't Run (1966) (1935); Topper (1937) (1937); Holiday (1938) (1938); Gunga Din (1939) (1939); My Favorite Wife (1940) (1940); The Talk of the Town (1942) (1942); Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) (1942); Destination Tokyo (1943) (1943); Mr. Lucky (1943) (1943); None But the Lonely Heart (1944) (1944)✰; Night and Day (1946) (1946); The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) (1947); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) (1948); I Was a Male War Bride (1949) (1949); People Will Talk (1951) (1951); Indiscreet (1958) (1958)✰; Houseboat (1958) (1958); Operation Petticoat (1959) (1959)✰; The Grass Is Greener (1960) (1960)✰; That Touch of Mink (1962) (1962)✰; Father Goose (1964) (1966)

"I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation." ~ Brian Dennehy

Greats: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (1967)★; The French Connection (1971) (1971)★; Scarecrow (1973) (1973)★; The Conversation (1974) (1974)★; Night Moves (1975) (1975); Reds (1981) (1981); Unforgiven (1992) (1992)★; The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) (2001)★

Give It a Shot: I Never Sang for My Father (1970) (1970)★; The Poseidon Adventure (1972) (1972); Young Frankenstein (1974) (1974); Superman (1978) (1978); Hoosiers (1986) (1986); Mississippi Burning (1988) (1988)★; Crimson Tide (1995) (1995); Get Shorty (1995) (1995); Absolute Power (1997) (1997); Enemy of the State (1998) (1998)

Caution: The Birdcage (1996) (1996); Heist (2001) (2001)

Flops: Power (1986) (1986); The Replacements (2000) (2000); Heartbreakers (2001) (2001); Welcome to Mooseport (2004) (2004)

Other Notable Film(s): Lilith (1964) (1964); Marooned (1969) (1969); French Connection II (1975) (1975)✰; A Bridge Too Far (1977) (1977); Superman II (1980) (1980); Under Fire (1983) (1983)✰; Twice in a Lifetime (1985) (1985)✰; No Way Out (1987) (1987); Bat*21 (1988) (1988); The Package (1989) (1989); Loose Cannons (1990) (1990); Postcards from the Edge (1990) (1990); Narrow Margin (1990) (1990); Class Action (1991) (1991); The Firm (1993) (1993); Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) (1993); Wyatt Earp (1994) (1994); The Quick and the Dead (1995) (1995); Extreme Measures (1996) (1996); The Chamber (1996) (1996); Twilight (1998) (1998); Under Suspicion (2000) (2000); Behind Enemy Lines (2001) (2001); Runaway Jury (2003) (2003)

Greats: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) (1936)★; Sergeant York (1941) (1941)★; Meet John Doe (1941) (1941)★; The Pride of the Yankees (1942) (1942)★; High Noon (1952) (1952)★

Other Notable Film(s): A Farewell to Arms (1932) (1932); Beau Geste (1939) (1939); The Westerner (1940) (1940); Ball of Fire (1941) (1941); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) (1943)✰; Saratoga Trunk (1945) (1945); Unconquered (1947) (1947); The Fountainhead (1949) (1949); Vera Cruz (1954) (1954); The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) (1955); Friendly Persuasion (1956) (1956); Love in the Afternoon (1957) (1957); Man of the West (1958) (1958); The Hanging Tree (1959) (1959)

Greats: Jezebel (1938) (1938); The Grapes of Wrath (1940) (1940)★; The Lady Eve (1941) (1941); My Darling Clementine (1946) (1946); The Wrong Man (1956) (1956); 12 Angry Men (1957) (1957)★; Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)★; On Golden Pond (1981) (1981)★

Other Notable Film(s): You Only Live Once (1937) (1937); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) (1939); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) (1939); Jesse James (1939) (1939); The Return of Frank James (1940) (1940); Tales of Manhattan (1942) (1942); The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) (1943); The Fugitive (1947) (1947); Fort Apache (1948) (1948); Mister Roberts (1955) (1955); War and Peace (1956) (1956); The Tin Star (1957) (1957); Warlock (1959) (1959); The Longest Day (1962) (1962); How the West Was Won (1962) (1962); Advise & Consent (1962) (1962); Fail Safe (1964) (1964); The Best Man (1964) (1964); Battle of the Bulge (1965) (1965); A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) (1966); Firecreek (1968) (1968); Madigan (1968) (1968); Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) (1968); The Boston Strangler (1968) (1968); The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) (1970); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) (1970); Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) (1970); My Name is Nobody (1973); Midway (1976) (1976)

"the greatest actor in the English-speaking world." ~ Spencer Tracy

Greats: Wuthering Heights (1939) (1939)★; Rebecca (1940) (1940)★; Spartacus (1960) (1960)★; Sleuth (1972) (1972)★; Marathon Man (1976) (1976)★

Give It a Shot: 49th Parallel (1941) (1941); Hamlet (1948) (1948)★; The Boys from Brazil (1978) (1978)★

Other Notable Film(s): Pride and Prejudice (1940) (1940); That Hamilton Woman (1941) (1941); Henry V (1944)✰; Carrie (1952) (1952); Richard III (1955) (1955)✰; The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) (1957); The Entertainer (1960) (1960)✰; Othello (1965) (1965)✰; Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) (1965); Khartoum (1966) (1966); The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) (1968); The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) (1976); A Bridge Too Far (1977) (1977); A Little Romance (1979) (1979)✰; Dracula (1979) (1979); Clash of the Titans (1981) (1981); The Bounty (1984) (1984)

Greats: The Public Enemy (1931) (1931)★; Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) (1938)★; Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) (1942)★; White Heat (1949) (1949)

Other Notable Film(s): Footlight Parade (1933) (1933); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) (1935); 'G' Men (1935) (1935); The Roaring Twenties (1939) (1939); The Oklahoma Kid (1939) (1939); Each Dawn I Die (1939) (1939); City for Conquest (1940) (1940); The Strawberry Blonde (1941) (1941); The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) (1941); Blood on the Sun (1945) (1945); 13 Rue Madeleine (1947) (1947); Love Me or Leave Me (1955) (1955)✰; Mister Roberts (1955) (1955); Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) (1957); One, Two, Three (1961) (1961); Ragtime (1981) (1981)

Greats: Sunset Boulevard (1950) (1950)★; Stalag 17 (1953) (1953)★; Sabrina (1954) (1954); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (1957)★; The Wild Bunch (1969) (1969); Network (1976) (1976)★

Give It a Shot: Born Yesterday (1950) (1950); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) (1955); Picnic (1955) (1955); The Towering Inferno (1974) (1974)

Flops: Casino Royale (1967) (1967)

Other Notable Film(s): Golden Boy (1939) (1939); Our Town (1940) (1940); Rachel and the Stranger (1948) (1948); Union Station (1950) (1950); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) (1953); The Moon Is Blue (1953) (1953); The Country Girl (1954) (1954); Executive Suite (1954) (1954); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) (1954); The Horse Soldiers (1959) (1959); The World of Suzie Wong (1960) (1960); The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) (1962); Paris - When It Sizzles (1964) (1964); Alvarez Kelly (1966) (1966); The Devil's Brigade (1968) (1968); Breezy (1973) (1973); Fedora (1978) (1978); Damien: Omen II (1978) (1978); When Time Ran Out... (1980) (1980); S.O.B. (1981) (1981)

Greats: It Happened One Night (1934) (1934)★; Gone with the Wind (1939) (1939)★

Give It a Shot: San Francisco (1936) (1936); Test Pilot (1938) (1938); Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) (1958)

Other Notable Film(s): A Free Soul (1931) (1931); Red Dust (1932) (1932); Manhattan Melodrama (1934) (1934); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) (1935)✰; Wife vs. Secretary (1936) (1936); Cain and Mabel (1936) (1936); Boom Town (1940) (1940); Strange Cargo (1940) (1940); Command Decision (1948) (1948); Mogambo (1953) (1953); Teacher's Pet (1958) (1958); It Started in Naples (1960) (1960); The Misfits (1961) (1961)

Greats: Out of the Past (1947) (1947); Ace in the Hole (1951) (1951); The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) (1952)★; Lust for Life (1956) (1956)★; Paths of Glory (1957) (1957); Spartacus (1960) (1960)★

Other Notable Film(s): The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) (1946); Champion (1949) (1949)✰; A Letter to Three Wives (1949) (1949); Young Man with a Horn (1950) (1950); Detective Story (1951) (1951)✰; The Big Sky (1952) (1952); Ulysses (1954); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) (1954); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) (1957); The Vikings (1958) (1958); Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) (1959); Town Without Pity (1961) (1961); Lonely Are the Brave (1962) (1962); The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) (1963); Seven Days in May (1964) (1964); In Harm's Way (1965) (1965); The War Wagon (1967) (1967); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) (1970); The Fury (1978) (1978); The Final Countdown (1980) (1980); The Man from Snowy River (1982) (1982); Tough Guys (1986) (1986); Greedy (1994) (1994)

Greats: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (1962)★; Becket (1964) (1964)★; The Lion in Winter (1968) (1968)★; The Last Emperor (1987) (1987); Ratatouille (2007) [voice] (2007)

Give It a Shot: Troy (2004) (2004)

Caution: Phantoms (1998) (1998)

Flops: Casino Royale (1967) (1967)

Other Notable Film(s): What's New Pussycat (1965) (1965); Lord Jim (1965) (1965); How to Steal a Million (1966) (1966); The Bible in the Beginning... (1966) (1966); The Night of the Generals (1967) (1967); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) (1969)✰; Murphy's War (1971) (1971); The Ruling Class (1972) (1972)✰; Man of La Mancha (1972) (1972)✰; Zulu Dawn (1979) (1979); Caligola (1979) (1979); The Stunt Man (1980) (1980)✰; Masada (1981) [TV series] (1981)✰; My Favorite Year (1982) (1982)✰; Supergirl (1984) (1984); Creator (1985) (1985); Club Paradise (1986) (1986); High Spirits (1988) (1988); King Ralph (1991) (1991); FairyTale: A True Story (1997) (1997); Joan of Arc (1999) [TV series] (1999)✰; Bright Young Things (2003) (2003); Lassie (2005) (2005); Venus (2006) (2006)✰; Stardust (2007) (2007); Dean Spanley (2008) (2008)

Greats: Spellbound (1945) (1945); Roman Holiday (1953) (1953); The Guns of Navarone (1961) (1961)★; To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (1962)★; Cape Fear (1962) (1962)★

Give It a Shot: The Yearling (1946) (1946)★; Gentleman's Agreement (1947) (1947)★; Twelve O'Clock High (1949) (1949)★; The Omen (1976) (1976); The Boys from Brazil (1978) (1978)★; Cape Fear (1991) (1991)

Other Notable Film(s): The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) (1944)✰; The Valley of Decision (1945) (1945); Duel in the Sun (1946) (1946); The Paradine Case (1947) (1947); Yellow Sky (1948) (1948); The Gunfighter (1950) (1950); Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) (1951); David and Bathsheba (1951) (1951); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) (1952); Moby Dick (1956) (1956); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) (1956); Designing Woman (1957) (1957); The Bravados (1958) (1958); The Big Country (1958) (1958); Pork Chop Hill (1959) (1959); On the Beach (1959) (1959); How the West Was Won (1962) (1962); Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) (1963)✰; Arabesque (1966) (1966); Mackenna's Gold (1969) (1969); MacArthur (1977) (1977)✰; The Sea Wolves (1980) (1980)

Greats: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (1962); True Grit (1969) (1969); MASH (1970) (1970); The Godfather (1972) (1972)★; The Conversation (1974) (1974); The Godfather Part II (1974) (1974); Network (1976) (1976)★; Apocalypse Now (1979) (1979)★; Tender Mercies (1983) (1983)★; Sling Blade (1996) (1996); Crazy Heart (2009) (2009)

Give It a Shot: The Detective (1968) (1968); Bullitt (1968) (1968); The Natural (1984) (1984); Falling Down (1993) (1993); Thank You for Smoking (2005) (2005)

Caution: Joe Kidd (1972) (1972); A Civil Action (1998) (1998)★; Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) (2000); The 6th Day (2000) (2000); John Q (2002) (2002); We Own the Night (2007) (2007); Jack Reacher (2012) (2012)

Flops: Kicking & Screaming (2005) (2005)

Other Notable Film(s): The Chase (1966) (1966); The Rain People (1969) (1969); THX 1138 (1971) (1971); Tomorrow (1972) (1972); The Killer Elite (1975) (1975); The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) (1976); The Eagle Has Landed (1976) (1976); The Great Santini (1979) (1979)✰; True Confessions (1981) (1981); Colors (1988) (1988); Lonesome Dove (1989) [TV Mini-Series] (1989)✰; Days of Thunder (1990) (1990); Rambling Rose (1991) (1991); Newsies (1992) (1992); Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) (1993); The Paper (1994) (1994); Something to Talk About (1995) (1995); The Scarlet Letter (1995) (1995); Phenomenon (1996) (1996); A Family Thing (1996) (1996); The Apostle (1997) (1997)✰; The Gingerbread Man (1998) (1998); Deep Impact (1998) (1998); Assassination Tango (2002) (2002); Gods and Generals (2003) (2003); Open Range (2003) (2003); Secondhand Lions (2003) (2003); Broken Trail (2006) [TV series] (2006)✰; Lucky You (2007) (2007); Four Christmases (2008) (2008); The Road (2009) (2009); Get Low (2009) (2010)✰; Seven Days in Utopia (2011) (2011); Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012) (2012*); A Night in Old Mexico (2013) (2013); The Judge (2014) (2014)✰; Wild Horses (2015) (2015); In Dubious Battle (2016) (2016)

He has what many of the great 1930s and 1940s actors who are today's cult heroes had: a capacity to retain and even expand their dignity, their image, their self-possession, even in the midst of the worst possible material. You see Mitchum in bad movies, but you can never spot him being bad." ~ Roger Ebert

Greats: Out of the Past (1947) (1947)★; The Night of the Hunter (1955) (1955)★; Cape Fear (1962) (1962)★; El Dorado (1966) (1966)

Give It a Shot: Scrooged (1988) (1988); Cape Fear (1991) (1991); Dead Man (1995) (1995)

Caution: River of No Return (1954) (1954); Two for the Seesaw (1962) (1962)

Other Notable Film(s): Story of G.I. Joe (1945) (1945)✰; Undercurrent (1946) (1946); Pursued (1947) (1947); Crossfire (1947) (1947); The Big Steal (1949) (1949); Holiday Affair (1949) (1949); His Kind of Woman (1951) (1951); Angel Face (1952) (1952); Not as a Stranger (1955) (1955); Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) (1957); The Enemy Below (1957) (1957); Thunder Road (1958) (1958); Home from the Hill (1960) (1960); The Grass Is Greener (1960) (1960); The Sundowners (1960) (1960); The Longest Day (1962) (1962); What a Way to Go! (1964) (1964); 5 Card Stud (1968) (1968); Secret Ceremony (1968) (1968); Anzio (1968); Ryan's Daughter (1970) (1970); The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) (1973); The Yakuza (1974) (1974); Farewell, My Lovely (1975) (1975); The Last Tycoon (1976) (1976); Midway (1976) (1976)

Greats: Becket (1964) (1964)★; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (1966)★; Where Eagles Dare (1968) (1968); Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) (1969)★

Give It a Shot: Equus (1977) (1977)★

Flops: Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) (1977)

Other Notable Film(s): My Cousin Rachel (1952) (1952)✰; The Desert Rats (1953) (1953); The Robe (1953) (1953)✰; Alexander the Great (1956) (1956); Bitter Victory (1957) (1957); Look Back in Anger (1959) (1959)✰; The Longest Day (1962) (1962); The V.I.P.s (1963) (1963); Cleopatra (1963) (1963); The Night of the Iguana (1964) (1964); The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) (1965)✰; The Sandpiper (1965) (1965); The Taming of the Shrew (1967) (1967)✰; The Comedians (1967) (1967); Candy (1968) (1968); Raid on Rommel (1971) (1971); The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) (1972); The Wild Geese (1978) (1978); The Medusa Touch (1978) (1978); 1984 (1984)

Greats: Red River (1948) (1948)★; A Place in the Sun (1951) (1951)★; From Here to Eternity (1953) (1953)★; I Confess (1953) (1953); Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) (1959); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (1961)★

Other Notable Film(s): The Search (1948) (1948)✰; The Heiress (1949) (1949); The Big Lift (1950) (1950); Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953); Raintree County (1957) (1957); The Young Lions (1958) (1958); Lonelyhearts (1958) (1958); Wild River (1960) (1960); The Misfits (1961) (1961); Freud (1962) (1962); The Defector (1966)

"John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen." ~ Howard Hawks

Greats: Stagecoach (1939) (1939)★; Red River (1948) (1948)★; The Searchers (1956) (1956)★; Rio Bravo (1959) (1959); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) (1962)★; El Dorado (1966) (1966); True Grit (1969) (1969)★

Other Notable Film(s): Flying Tigers (1942) (1942); In Old Oklahoma (1943) (1943); A Lady Takes a Chance (1943) (1943); Tall in the Saddle (1944) (1944); The Fighting Seabees (1944) (1944); Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) (1945); Back to Bataan (1945) (1945); Dakota (1945) (1945); They Were Expendable (1945) (1945); Without Reservations (1946) (1946); Tycoon (1947) (1947); Angel and the Badman (1947) (1947); Wake of the Red Witch (1948) (1948); Fort Apache (1948) (1948); 3 Godfathers (1948) (1948); The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) (1949); Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) (1949)✰; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) (1949); Rio Grande (1950) (1950); Operation Pacific (1951) (1951); Flying Leathernecks (1951) (1951); The Quiet Man (1952) (1952); Big Jim McLain (1952) (1952); Trouble Along the Way (1953) (1953); Island in the Sky (1953) (1953); Hondo (1953) (1953); The High and the Mighty (1954) (1954); The Sea Chase (1955) (1955); Blood Alley (1955) (1955); The Conqueror (1956) (1956); The Wings of Eagles (1957) (1957); Legend of the Lost (1957) (1957); Jet Pilot (1957) (1957); The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) (1958); The Horse Soldiers (1959) (1959); The Alamo (1960) (1960); North to Alaska (1960) (1960); The Comancheros (1961) (1961); The Longest Day (1962) (1962); How the West Was Won (1962) (1962); Hatari! (1962) (1962); Donovan's Reef (1963) (1963); McLintock! (1963) (1963); They Were Expendable (1945) (1963); Circus World (1964) (1964); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) (1965); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) (1965); In Harm's Way (1965) (1965); Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) (1966); The War Wagon (1967) (1967); The Green Berets (1968) (1968); Hellfighters (1968) (1968); The Undefeated (1969) (1969); Chisum (1970) (1970); Rio Lobo (1970) (1970); Big Jake (1971) (1971); The Cowboys (1972) (1972); The Train Robbers (1973) (1973); Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973) (1973); McQ (1974) (1974); Brannigan (1975) (1975); Rooster Cogburn (1975) (1975); The Shootist (1976) (1976)

"When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable." ~ Robert Osborne

Greats: Citizen Kane (1941) (1941)★; The Stranger (1946) (1946); The Lady from Shanghai (1947) (1947)★; The Third Man (1949) (1949); Touch of Evil (1958) (1958); A Man for All Seasons (1966) (1966)

Give It a Shot: Macbeth (1948) (1948); Othello (1952); Mr. Arkadin (1955) (1955); The Long, Hot Summer (1958) (1958); The Trial (1962); Chimes at Midnight (1965)

Flops: Casino Royale (1967) (1967)

Other Notable Film(s): Jane Eyre (1943) (1943); Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) (1946); The Black Rose (1950) (1950); Moby Dick (1956) (1956); Compulsion (1959) (1959)✰; Waterloo (1970) (1970); Catch-22 (1970) (1970)

Greats: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) (1931)★; The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) (1946)★; Inherit the Wind (1960) (1960)★

Other Notable Film(s): The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) (1930)✰; Anna Karenina (1935) (1935); Les Misérables (1935) (1935); Anthony Adverse (1936) (1936); A Star Is Born (1937) (1937)✰; I Married a Witch (1942) (1942); The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) (1944); Death of a Salesman (1951) (1951)✰; Executive Suite (1954) (1954); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) (1954); The Desperate Hours (1955) (1955); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) (1956); Alexander the Great (1956) (1956); Middle of the Night (1959) (1959); Seven Days in May (1964) (1964); Hombre (1967) (1967); The Iceman Cometh (1973) (1973)

"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has." ~ Norman Jewison

Greats: Get Carter (1971) (1971)★; Sleuth (1972) (1972)★; The Man Who Would Be King (1975) (1975); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (1986)★; Children of Men (2006) (2006); The Prestige (2006) (2006)

Give It a Shot: Zulu (1964) (1964); Gambit (1966) (1966)★; Alfie (1966) (1966)★; Mona Lisa (1986) (1986); Batman Begins (2005) (2005); The Dark Knight (2008) (2008); Inception (2010) (2010); The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (2012); Now You See Me (2013) (2013); Interstellar (2014) (2014); Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) (2014); Now You See Me 2 (2016) (2016)

Caution: The Italian Job (1969) (1969); Miss Congeniality (2000) (2000); Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) (2002)

Flops: Jaws: The Revenge (1987) (1987); Bewitched (2005) (2005)

Other Notable Film(s): The Ipcress File (1965) (1965); The Wrong Box (1966) (1966); Funeral in Berlin (1966) (1966); Hurry Sundown (1967) (1967); Billion Dollar Brain (1967) (1967); Woman Times Seven (1967) (1967); Deadfall (1968) (1968); The Magus (1968) (1968); Play Dirty (1969) (1969); Battle of Britain (1969) (1969); The Eagle Has Landed (1976) (1976); A Bridge Too Far (1977) (1977); The Swarm (1978) (1978); California Suite (1978) (1978); Dressed to Kill (1980) (1980); Deathtrap (1982) (1982); Educating Rita (1983) (1983)✰; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) (1988); The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) (1992); Little Voice (1998) (1998)✰; The Cider House Rules (1999) (1999)✰; Quills (2000) (2000); The Quiet American (2002) (2002)✰; Secondhand Lions (2003) (2003); The Weather Man (2005) (2005); Flawless (2007) (2007); Sleuth (2007) (2007); Is Anybody There? (2008) (2008); Harry Brown (2009) (2009); Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013) (2013); Stonehearst Asylum (2014) (2014); Youth (2015) (2015); The Last Witch Hunter (2015) (2015); Going in Style (2017) (2017); Dear Dictator (2017) (2017)

Extremely hard to rank this 50's heart throb. His tragic death left him with only three films and two oscar nominations. Can he be considered one of the best actors ever, I don't think so but his performances are easily memorable and we're lucky to squeeze three films out of this legend.

Greats: East of Eden (1955)★; Rebel Without a Cause (1955)★; Giant (1956)★

Greats: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (1957)★; Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (1962)★; Doctor Zhivago (1965) (1965); Star Wars (1977) (1977)★; The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Give It a Shot: The Ladykillers (1955) (1955)

Caution: Murder by Death (1976) (1976)

Other Notable Film(s): Great Expectations (1946) (1946); Oliver Twist (1948) (1948); Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) (1949); Last Holiday (1950) (1950); The Man in the White Suit (1951) (1951); The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) (1951)✰; The Card (1952) (1952); The Captain's Paradise (1953) (1953); The Prisoner (1955) (1955); The Swan (1956) (1956); The Horse's Mouth (1958) (1958); Our Man in Havana (1959) (1959); Tunes of Glory (1960) (1960); A Majority of One (1961) (1961); H.M.S. Defiant (1962) (1962); The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) (1964); The Quiller Memorandum (1966) (1966); The Comedians (1967) (1967); Scrooge (1970) (1970); Cromwell (1970) (1970); Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) (1973); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) (1980); A Passage to India (1984) (1984); Little Dorrit (1987) (1988)✰

Outstanding performance in films such as Lust for Life, La Strada, Lawrence of Arabia, Zorba the Greek, The Guns of Navarone, Viva Zapata! and among others.

Greats: La Strada (1956)★; Lust for Life (1956) (1956)★; The Guns of Navarone (1961) (1961); Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (1962)★

Give It a Shot: Viva Zapata! (1952) (1952)★

Caution: Last Action Hero (1993) (1993)

Other Notable Film(s): Blood and Sand (1941) (1941); The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) (1943); Back to Bataan (1945) (1945); Wild Is the Wind (1957) (1957)✰; Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) (1959); The Savage Innocents (1960) (1960); Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) (1961); Barabbas (1961) (1962); Zorba the Greek (1964)✰; A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) (1965); The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) (1969)✰; Across 110th Street (1972) (1972); The Message (1976) (1977); Lion of the Desert (1980) (1981); Revenge (1990) (1990)

Greats: The Defiant Ones (1958) (1958)★; In the Heat of the Night (1967) (1967)★; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) (1967)

Caution: The Jackal (1997) (1997)

Other Notable Film(s): No Way Out (1950) (1950); Blackboard Jungle (1955) (1955); Edge of the City (1957) (1957); Porgy and Bess (1959) (1959)✰; A Raisin in the Sun (1961) (1961)✰; Paris Blues (1961) (1961); Pressure Point (1962) (1962); Lilies of the Field (1963) (1963)✰; The Long Ships (1964) (1964); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) (1965); The Bedford Incident (1965) (1965); The Slender Thread (1965) (1965); A Patch of Blue (1965) (1965)✰; Duel at Diablo (1966) (1966); To Sir, with Love (1967) (1967); For Love of Ivy (1968) (1968); They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) (1970); Uptown Saturday Night (1974) (1974); The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) (1975); Let's Do It Again (1975) (1975); A Piece of the Action (1977) (1977); Shoot to Kill (1988) (1988); Little Nikita (1988) (1988); Sneakers (1992) (1992)

Greats: The Kid (1921) (1921)★; The Gold Rush (1925) (1925)★; City Lights (1931) (1931)★; Modern Times (1936) (1936)★; The Great Dictator (1940) (1940)★

Other Notable Film(s): The Tramp (1915) (1915); The Immigrant (1917) (1917); Shoulder Arms (1918) (1918); A Dog's Life (1918) (1918); The Pilgrim (1923) (1923); The Circus (1928) (1928)✰; Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (1947); Limelight (1952) (1952); A King in New York (1957) (1957)

Greats: The Magnificent Seven (1960) (1960); The Great Escape (1963) (1963)★; Bullitt (1968) (1968); The Getaway (1972) (1972); Papillon (1973) (1973)★

Give It a Shot: The Cincinnati Kid (1965) (1965); The Towering Inferno (1974) (1974)

Other Notable Film(s): Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958) [TV series] (1958-1961); The Blob (1958) (1958); The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) (1959); Never So Few (1959) (1959); The Honeymoon Machine (1961) (1961); Hell Is for Heroes (1962) (1962); The War Lover (1962) (1962); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) (1963)✰; Soldier in the Rain (1963) (1963); Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) (1965); The Sand Pebbles (1966) (1966)✰; Nevada Smith (1966) (1966); The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) (1968); The Reivers (1969) (1969)✰; Le Mans (1971) (1971); Junior Bonner (1972) (1972); The Hunter (1980) (1980); Tom Horn (1980) (1980)

Greats: Philadelphia (1993) (1993)★; Forrest Gump (1994) (1994)★; Toy Story (1995) [voice] (1995); Saving Private Ryan (1998) (1998)★; The Green Mile (1999) (1999)★; Toy Story 2 (1999) [voice] (1999); Catch Me If You Can (2002) (2002); Road to Perdition (2002) (2002); Toy Story 3 (2010) [voice] (2010); Captain Phillips (2013) (2013)★

Give It a Shot: Big (1988) (1988)★; A League of Their Own (1992) (1992)★; Sleepless in Seattle (1993) (1993)✰; Cast Away (2000) (2000)★; The Terminal (2004) (2004); Bridge of Spies (2015) (2015); Sully (2016) (2016); The Post (2017)✰

Caution: Turner & Hooch (1989) (1989); Apollo 13 (1995) (1995); Charlie Wilson's War (2007) (2007)✰; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) (2011)

Other Notable Film(s): Splash (1983) (1984); Bachelor Party (1984) (1984); The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) (1985); Volunteers (1985) (1985); The Money Pit (1986) (1986); Nothing in Common (1986) (1986); Dragnet (1987) (1987); Punchline (1988) (1988); The 'Burbs (1989) (1989); Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) (1990); The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) (1990); That Thing You Do! (1996) (1996); You've Got Mail (1998) (1998); The Ladykillers (2004) (2004); The Polar Express (2004) [voice] (2004); The Da Vinci Code (2006) (2006); The Great Buck Howard (2008) (2008); Angels & Demons (2009) (2009); Larry Crowne (2011) (2011); Cloud Atlas (2012) (2012); Saving Mr. Banks (2013) (2013); Ithaca (2015) (2015); A Hologram for the King (2016) (2016); Inferno (2016) (2016); The Circle (2017) (2017)

Greats: Glory (1989) (1989)★; Unforgiven (1992) (1992); The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (1994)★; Se7en (1995) (1995)★; Million Dollar Baby (2004) (2004)★; Gone Baby Gone (2007) (2007)

Give It a Shot: Driving Miss Daisy (1989) (1989)★; Amistad (1997); Batman Begins (2005) (2005); Lucky Number Slevin (2006) (2006); The Dark Knight (2008) (2008); The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (2012); Now You See Me (2013) (2013); The Lego Movie (2014) [voice] (2013); Now You See Me 2 (2016) (2016)

Caution: The Sum of All Fears (2002) (2002); Bruce Almighty (2003) (2003); Unleashed (2005); The Contract (2006) (2006); The Bucket List (2007) (2007); Wanted (2008) (2008); Ted 2 (2015) (2015)

Flops: Dreamcatcher (2003) (2003); The Big Bounce (2004) (2004); Evan Almighty (2007) (2007)

Other Notable Film(s): Brubaker (1980) (1980); Eyewitness (1981) (1981); Harry & Son (1984) (1984); Teachers (1984) (1984); Street Smart (1987) (1987)✰; Clean and Sober (1988) (1988); Johnny Handsome (1989) (1989); Lean on Me (1989) (1989); The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) (1990); Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) (1991); The Power of One (1992) (1992); Outbreak (1995) (1995); Moll Flanders (1996) (1996); Chain Reaction (1996) (1996); Kiss the Girls (1997) (1997); Deep Impact (1998) (1998); Hard Rain (1998) (1998); Under Suspicion (2000) (2000); Nurse Betty (2000) (2000); Along Came a Spider (2001) (2001); High Crimes (2002) (2002); Levity (2003) (2003); An Unfinished Life (2005) (2005); Edison (2005) (2005); 10 Items or Less (2006) (2006); Feast of Love (2007) (2007); Thick as Thieves (2009) (2009); The Maiden Heist (2009) (2009); Invictus (2009) (2009)✰; RED (2010) (2010); Dolphin Tale (2011) (2011); Olympus Has Fallen (2013) (2013); Oblivion (2013) (2013); Last Vegas (2013) (2013); Transcendence (2014) (2014); Lucy (2014) (2014); Dolphin Tale 2 (2014) (2014); 5 Flights Up (2014) (2014); Last Knights (2015) (2014); Momentum (2015) (2015); Ben-Hur (2016) (2016); London Has Fallen (2016) (2016); Going in Style (2017) (2017); Just Getting Started (2017) (2017)

Greats: The Lion in Winter (1968) (1968); The Elephant Man (1980) (1980); The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (1991)★; Westworld (2016) [TV series] (2016)

Give It a Shot: Howards End (1992) (1992); Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) (1992); Chaplin (1992) (1992); Amistad (1997) (1997)★; Red Dragon (2002) (2002); Fracture (2007) (2007); Thor: Ragnarok (2017) (2017)

Caution: Desperate Hours (1990) (1990); Hannibal (2001) (2001); Bobby (2006) (2006); Beowulf (2007) (2007); Thor (2011) (2011); Thor: The Dark World (2013) (2013)

Flops: Bad Company (2002) (2002); Alexander (2004) (2004)

Other Notable Film(s): Young Winston (1972) (1972); Juggernaut (1974) (1974); Audrey Rose (1977) (1977); A Bridge Too Far (1977) (1977); Magic (1978) (1978)✰; The Bounty (1984) (1984); 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) (1987); Freejack (1992) (1992); The Trial (1993) (1993); Shadowlands (1993) (1993); The Remains of the Day (1993) (1993)✰; Legends of the Fall (1994) (1994); The Road to Wellville (1994) (1994); Nixon (1995) (1995)✰; Surviving Picasso (1996) (1996); The Edge (1997) (1997); The Mask of Zorro (1998) (1998); Meet Joe Black (1998) (1998); Titus (1999) (1999); Instinct (1999) (1999); Hearts in Atlantis (2001) (2001); The Human Stain (2003) (2003); Shortcut to Happiness (2004); Proof (2005) (2005); The World's Fastest Indian (2005) (2005); Slipstream (2007) (2007); The City of Your Final Destination (2009) (2009); The Wolfman (2010) (2010); You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) (2010); The Rite (2011) (2011); Hitchcock (2012) (2012); RED 2 (2013) (2013); Noah (2014) (2014); Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015) (2015); Solace (2015) (2015); Misconduct (2016) (2016); Collide (2016) (2016); Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) (2017)

Greats: A Face in the Crowd (1957) (1957); Charade (1963) (1963); The Fortune Cookie (1966) (1966)★; The Odd Couple (1968) (1968)★; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) (1974); JFK (1991) (1991)

Give It a Shot: Cactus Flower (1969) (1969); Hello, Dolly! (1969) (1969); The Front Page (1974) (1974)✰; The Bad News Bears (1976) (1976)

Other Notable Film(s): The Indian Fighter (1955) (1955); Bigger Than Life (1956) (1956); King Creole (1958) (1958); Strangers When We Meet (1960) (1960); Lonely Are the Brave (1962) (1962); Fail Safe (1964) (1964); Mirage (1965) (1965); A Guide for the Married Man (1967) (1967); A New Leaf (1971) (1968); A New Leaf (1971) (1971); Plaza Suite (1971) (1971); Kotch (1971) (1971)✰; Pete 'n' Tillie (1972) (1972)✰; Charley Varrick (1973) (1973); Earthquake (1974) (1974); The Sunshine Boys (1975) (1975)✰; California Suite (1978) (1978); Hopscotch (1980) (1980)✰; First Monday in October (1981) (1981)✰; Buddy Buddy (1981) (1981); Pirates (1986) (1986); The Couch Trip (1988) (1988); Dennis the Menace (1993) (1993); Grumpy Old Men (1993) (1993); Grumpier Old Men (1995) (1995); Out to Sea (1997) (1997); The Odd Couple II (1998) (1998); Hanging Up (2000) (2000)

Greats: A Fistful of Dollars (1964); For a Few Dollars More (1965); The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966); Where Eagles Dare (1968) (1968); Dirty Harry (1971) (1971); High Plains Drifter (1973) (1973); The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) (1976); Unforgiven (1992) (1992)★; A Perfect World (1993) (1993); In the Line of Fire (1993) (1993); The Bridges of Madison County (1995) (1995); Million Dollar Baby (2004) (2004)★; Gran Torino (2008) (2008)

Give It a Shot: Hang 'Em High (1968) (1968); Play Misty for Me (1971) (1971); The Beguiled (1971) (1971); Magnum Force (1973) (1973); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) (1974); The Enforcer (1976) (1976); The Gauntlet (1977) (1977); Escape from Alcatraz (1979) (1979); Tightrope (1984) (1984); Pale Rider (1985) (1985); White Hunter Black Heart (1990) (1990); Absolute Power (1997) (1997); True Crime (1999) (1999); Space Cowboys (2000) (2000); Blood Work (2002) (2002)

Caution: Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) (1970); Joe Kidd (1972) (1972); The Eiger Sanction (1975) (1975); The Rookie (1990) (1990)

Flops: Every Which Way But Loose (1978) (1978)

Other Notable Film(s): Rawhide (1959) [TV series] (1959-1965); Coogan's Bluff (1968) (1968); Paint Your Wagon (1969) (1969); Kelly's Heroes (1970) (1970); Bronco Billy (1980) (1980); Any Which Way You Can (1980) (1980); Firefox (1982) (1982); Honkytonk Man (1982) (1982); Sudden Impact (1983) (1983); City Heat (1984) (1984); Heartbreak Ridge (1986) (1986); The Dead Pool (1988) (1988); Pink Cadillac (1989) (1989); Trouble with the Curve (2012) (2012); The Mule (2019)

Greats: North by Northwest (1959) (1959); Lolita (1962) (1962)★; Heaven Can Wait (1978) (1978); The Verdict (1982) (1982)★

Give It a Shot: Julius Caesar (1953) (1953); The Boys from Brazil (1978) (1978)

Other Notable Film(s): The Seventh Veil (1945) (1945); Odd Man Out (1947) (1947); Caught (1949) (1949); The Reckless Moment (1949) (1949); Madame Bovary (1949) (1949); East Side, West Side (1949) (1949); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) (1951); The Desert Fox (1951); 5 Fingers (1952) (1952); The Desert Rats (1953) (1953); Prince Valiant (1954) (1954); A Star Is Born (1954) (1954)✰; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) (1954); Bigger Than Life (1956) (1956); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) (1959); The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) (1964); The Pumpkin Eater (1964) (1964); Lord Jim (1965) (1965); The Blue Max (1966) (1966); Georgy Girl (1966) (1966)✰; The Deadly Affair (1967) (1966); The MacKintosh Man (1973) (1973); The Last of Sheila (1973) (1973); Voyage of the Damned (1976) (1976); Cross of Iron (1977) (1977); North Sea Hijack (1980) (1979); Murder by Decree (1979) (1979); Evil Under the Sun (1982) (1982); The Shooting Party (1984) (1985)

Greats: Anatomy of a Murder (1959) (1959)★; The Hustler (1961) (1961)★; Dr. Strangelove (1964); Patton (1970) (1970)★

Give It a Shot: The Hospital (1971) (1971)★

Other Notable Film(s): The Hanging Tree (1959) (1959); The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) (1963); The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) (1964); The Bible in the Beginning... (1966) (1966); The Flim-Flam Man (1967) (1967); Petulia (1968) (1968); They Might Be Giants (1971) (1971); The Day of the Dolphin (1973) (1973); The Hindenburg (1975) (1975); Islands in the Stream (1977) (1977); Movie Movie (1978) (1978)✰; Hardcore (1979) (1979); The Changeling (1980) (1980); The Formula (1980) (1980); Taps (1981) (1981); Firestarter (1984) (1984); The Exorcist III (1990) (1990)

Greats: Scarface (1932) (1932); I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) (1932)★

Give It a Shot: The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) (1936)★

Other Notable Film(s): The Valiant (1929) (1929)✰; Bordertown (1935) (1935); Black Fury (1935) (1935)✰; The Life of Emile Zola (1937) (1937)✰; The Good Earth (1937) (1937); Juarez (1939) (1939); A Song to Remember (1945) (1945); Angel on My Shoulder (1946) (1946); The Last Angry Man (1959) (1959)✰

Greats: The Prestige (2006) (2006); The Fighter (2010) (2010)★; American Hustle (2013) (2013)★; The Big Short (2015) (2015)★

Give It a Shot: Empire of the Sun (1987) (1987); American Psycho (2000) (2000)★; The Machinist (2004) (2004)★; Batman Begins (2005) (2005); The New World (2005) (2005); Rescue Dawn (2006) (2006); 3:10 to Yuma (2007) (2007); The Dark Knight (2008) (2008); Public Enemies (2009) (2009); The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (2012); Out of the Furnace (2013) (2013); Ford vs. Ferrari (2019)✰

Caution: Equilibrium (2002) (2002); I'm Not There (2007) (2007); Terminator Salvation (2009) (2009); VICE (2018)★

Other Notable Film(s): Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987); Henry V (1989) (1989); Newsies (1992) (1992); Swing Kids (1993) (1993); Royal Deceit (1994); Little Women (1994) (1994); Pocahontas (1995) [voice] (1995); The Portrait of a Lady (1996) (1996); The Secret Agent (1996) (1996); Metroland (1997) (1997); Velvet Goldmine (1998) (1998); All the Little Animals (1998) (1998); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) (1999); Shaft (2000) (2000); Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) (2001); Laurel Canyon (2002) (2002); Reign of Fire (2002) (2002); Howl's Moving Castle [voice] (2004); Harsh Times (2005) (2005); The Flowers of War (2011); Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) (2014); Knight of Cups (2015) (2015); Song to Song (2017) (2016); The Promise (2016) (2016); Mowgli (2018) [voice] (2017); Hostiles (2017) (2017)

Greats: On the Waterfront (1954) (1954)★; The Big Knife (1955) (1955); Doctor Zhivago (1965) (1965); In the Heat of the Night (1967) (1967)★

Give It a Shot: Oklahoma! (1955) (1955)

Caution: Mars Attacks! (1996) (1996); Shiloh (1996) (1996); The Hurricane (1999) (1999)

Flops: Carpool (1996) (1996)

Other Notable Film(s): The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) (1955); Jubal (1956) (1956); The Harder They Fall (1956) (1956); Run of the Arrow (1957) (1957); Al Capone (1959) (1959); Seven Thieves (1960) (1960); The Longest Day (1962) (1962); Hand Over the City (1963); The Pawnbroker (1964) (1964)✰; The Loved One (1965) (1965); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) (1968); The Illustrated Man (1969) (1969); Waterloo (1970) (1970); Duck, You Sucker (1971); Dirty Hands (1975); F.I.S.T (1978) (1978); The Amityville Horror (1979) (1979); Lion of the Desert (1980) (1981); The Chosen (1981) (1981); American Gothic (1987) (1988); The January Man (1989) (1989); The Specialist (1994) (1994); Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) (1997); Incognito (1997) (1997); Crazy in Alabama (1999) (1999); End of Days (1999) (1999); Poolhall Junkies (2002) (2002)

Greats: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (1967)★; Heaven Can Wait (1978) (1978)★; Reds (1981) (1981)★; Bugsy (1991) (1991)★

Give It a Shot: Dick Tracy (1990) (1990); Bulworth (1998) (1998)★

Caution: The Parallax View (1974) (1974)

Other Notable Film(s): Splendor in the Grass (1961) (1961)✰; The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) (1961); All Fall Down (1962) (1962); Lilith (1964) (1964); Mickey One (1965) (1965); $ (1971) (1971); McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) (1971); Shampoo (1975) (1975)✰; The Fortune (1975) (1975); Ishtar (1987) (1987); Love Affair (1994) (1994); Town & Country (2001) (2001); Rules Don't Apply (2016) (2016)

Greats: Little Caesar (1931) (1931)★; Double Indemnity (1944) (1944)★; The Woman in the Window (1944) (1944); Scarlet Street (1945) (1945); The Stranger (1946) (1946)

Give It a Shot: The Cincinnati Kid (1965) (1965)

Other Notable Film(s): Smart Money (1931) (1931); Five Star Final (1931) (1931); The Whole Town's Talking (1935) (1935); Bullets or Ballots (1936) (1936); The Last Gangster (1937) (1937); Kid Galahad (1937) (1937); The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) (1938); A Slight Case of Murder (1938) (1938); Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) (1939); Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) (1940); Brother Orchid (1940) (1940); The Sea Wolf (1941) (1941); Manpower (1941) (1941); Tales of Manhattan (1942) (1942); Larceny, Inc (1942) (1942); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) (1945); The Red House (1947) (1947); Key Largo (1948) (1948); All My Sons (1948) (1948); House of Strangers (1949) (1949)✰; The Violent Men (1955) (1955); The Ten Commandments (1956) (1956); A Hole in the Head (1959) (1959); Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) (1962); My Geisha (1962) (1962); The Prize (1963) (1963); The Outrage (1964) (1964); Cheyenne Autumn (1964) (1964); Soylent Green (1973) (1973)

Legendary director Ingmar Bergman's main guy is probably Sweden's best actor.

Greats: The Seventh Seal (1957)★; Wild Strawberries (1957); Hour of the Wolf (1968); The Passion of Anna (1969); The Exorcist (1973) (1973)★; Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (1986); Game of Thrones (2011) [TV series; 3 episodes] (2016)

Give It a Shot: Awakenings (1990) (1990); Minority Report (2002) (2002); Shutter Island (2010) (2010); Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) (2015)

Caution: Flash Gordon (1980) (1980); Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) (2011)★

Flops: Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) (1977); Rush Hour 3 (2007) (2007)

Other Notable Film(s): Miss Julie (1951); The Magician (1958); The Virgin Spring (1960); Through a Glass Darkly (1961); Nattvardsgästerna (1963) (1963); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) (1965); Hawaii (1966) (1966)✰; The Quiller Memorandum (1966) (1966); Shame (1968); The Night Vistitor (1971); The Emigrants (1971); The New Land (1972); Three Days of the Condor (1975) (1975); Voyage of the Damned (1976) (1976); March or Die (1977) (1977); Death Watch (1980); Victory (1981) (1981); Conan the Barbarian (1982) (1982); The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (1983) (1983); Never Say Never Again (1983) (1983); Dreamscape (1984) (1984); Dune (1984) (1984); Pelle the Conqueror (1987)✰; Oxen (1991) (1991); A Kiss Before Dying (1991) (1991); The Best Intentions (1992); Needful Things (1993) (1993); Judge Dredd (1995) (1995); Hamsun (1996) (1996); What Dreams May Come (1998) (1998); Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) (1999); Intact (2001); Sleepless (2001); The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007); Solomon Kane (2009) (2009); Robin Hood (2010) (2010); Branded (2012) (2012); The Letters (2014) (2014)

"Mifune had a kind of talent I had never encountered before in the Japanese film world. It was, above all, the speed with which he expressed himself that was astounding. The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; Mifune needed only three. The speed of his movements was such that he said in a single action what took ordinary actors three separate movements to express. He put forth everything directly and boldly, and his sense of timing was the keenest I had ever seen in a Japanese actor. And yet with all his quickness, he also had surprisingly fine sensibilities." ~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa's main guy is possibly the best actor in the history of Japanese cinema.

Greats: Stray Dog (1949); Rashomon (1950)★; Seven Samurai (1954)★; The Hidden Fortress (1958); Yojimbo (1961)★; Sanjuro (1962); High and Low (1963)

Give It a Shot: Grand Prix (1966) (1966)

Flops: 1941 (1979) (1979)

Other Notable Film(s): Drunken Angel (1948); The Quiet Duel (1949); Scandal (1950); The Idiot (1951); The Life of Oharu (1952); Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954); Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955); Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956); The Lower Depths (1957); Throne of Blood (1957); Red Beard (1965)✰; Samurai Rebellion (1967); Hell in the Pacific (1968) (1968)

Easily one of the best actors to never receive an Oscar nomination.

Greats: Citizen Kane (1941) (1941)★; Shadow of a Doubt (1943) (1943)★; Gaslight (1944) (1944); Since You Went Away (1944) (1944); The Third Man (1949) (1949); Heaven's Gate (1980) (1980)

Give It a Shot: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (1942)

Caution: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) (1970)

Other Notable Film(s): Love Letters (1945) (1945); Duel in the Sun (1946) (1946); The Farmer's Daughter (1947) (1947); Portrait of Jennie (1948) (1948); Under Capricorn (1949) (1949); Niagara (1953) (1953); The Last Sunset (1961) (1961); Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) (1964); The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) (1971); Soylent Green (1973) (1973); Airport '77 (1977) (1977); Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) (1977)

Greats: Lolita (1962) (1962)★; Dr. Strangelove (1964)★; Being There (1979) (1979)★

Give It a Shot: The Ladykillers (1955) (1955); A Shot in the Dark (1964) (1964)

Caution: Murder by Death (1976) (1976)

Flops: Casino Royale (1967) (1967)

Other Notable Film(s): The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) (1957); Tom Thumb (1958) (1958); The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959) (1959); The Mouse That Roared (1959) (1959); I'm All Right Jack (1959) (1959); The Pink Panther (1963) (1963)✰; The World of Henry Orient (1964) (1964); What's New Pussycat (1965) (1965); The Party (1968) (1968); I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968) (1968); The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) (1975)✰; The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) (1976)✰; Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) (1978)

Greats: Touch of Evil (1958) (1958); Ben-Hur (1959) (1959)★; Planet of the Apes (1968) (1968)

Caution: The Omega Man (1971) (1971); True Lies (1994) (1994); Alaska (1996) (1996); Any Given Sunday (1999) (1999)

Flops: Cats & Dogs (2001) [voice] (2001)

Other Notable Film(s): The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) (1952); The Naked Jungle (1954) (1954); The Ten Commandments (1956) (1956)✰; The Big Country (1958) (1958); The Buccaneer (1958) (1958); El Cid (1961) (1961); 55 Days at Peking (1963) (1963); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) (1965); The War Lord (1965) (1965); The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) (1965); Major Dundee (1965) (1965); Khartoum (1966) (1966); Will Penny (1967) (1968); Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) (1970); The Three Musketeers (1973) (1973); Soylent Green (1973) (1973); Airport 1975 (1974) (1974); Earthquake (1974) (1974); Midway (1976) (1976); Two-Minute Warning (1976) (1976); Tombstone (1993) (1993); In the Mouth of Madness (1994) (1994); Hamlet (1996) (1996); The Order (2001) (2001)

Easily one of the best actors to never receive an Oscar nomination.

Greats: MASH (1970) (1970)★; Klute (1971) (1971); Don't Look Now (1973) (1973); Ordinary People (1980) (1980)★; JFK (1991) (1991); Cold Mountain (2003) (2003)

Give It a Shot: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (1978); Outbreak (1995) (1995); The Italian Job (2003) (2003); Reign Over Me (2007) (2007); The Hunger Games (2012) (2012)

Caution: National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) (1978); Backdraft (1991) (1991); Space Cowboys (2000) (2000); Horrible Bosses (2011) (2011)

Flops: Fool's Gold (2008) (2008)

Other Notable Film(s): The Dirty Dozen (1967) (1967); Kelly's Heroes (1970) (1970); Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) (1970); Johnny Got His Gun (1971) (1971); The Day of the Locust (1975) (1975); Fellini's Casanova (1976); 1900 (1976); The Eagle Has Landed (1976) (1976); The Great Train Robbery (1979); Murder by Decree (1979) (1979); Eye of the Needle (1981) (1981); Heaven Help Us (1985) (1985); Revolution (1985) (1985); A Dry White Season (1989) (1989); Lock Up (1989) (1989); Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) (1992); Six Degrees of Separation (1993) (1993); The Puppet Masters (1994) (1994); Disclosure (1994) (1994); A Time to Kill (1996) (1996); The Assignment (1997) (1997); Fallen (1998) (1998); Without Limits (1998) (1998)✰; Instinct (1999) (1999); Panic (2000) (2000); The Art of War (2000) (2000); Pride & Prejudice (2005) (2005); Ask the Dust (2006) (2006); The Mechanic (2011) (2011); The Eagle (2011) (2011); Sofia (2012) (2012); Dawn Rider (2012) (2012); The Best Offer (2013); Jappeloup (2013) (2013); The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) (2013); The Calling (2014) (2014); The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) (2014); Forsaken (2015) (2015); The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) (2015); Milton's Secret (2016) (2016); Measure of a Man (2018) (2017); Basmati Blues (2017) (2017); The Leisure Seeker (2017) (2017)

Greats: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) (1992); The Usual Suspects (1995) (1995)★; Se7en (1995) (1995)★; L.A. Confidential (1997) (1997); American Beauty (1999) (1999)★

Give It a Shot: Working Girl (1988) (1988); Outbreak (1995) (1995); The Negotiator (1998) (1998); A Bug's Life (1998) [voice] (1998); Margin Call (2011) (2011); Baby Driver (2017) (2017)

Caution: See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) (1989); The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) (2009); Horrible Bosses (2011) (2011); Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) (2014)

Other Notable Film(s): Heartburn (1986) (1986); Rocket Gibraltar (1988) (1988); Dad (1989) (1989); A Show of Force (1990) (1990); Henry & June (1990) (1990); Consenting Adults (1992) (1992); Iron Will (1994) (1994); The Ref (1994) (1994); Swimming with Sharks (1994) (1994); A Time to Kill (1996) (1996); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) (1997); Hurlyburly (1998) (1998); The Big Kahuna (1999) (1999); Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000) (2000); Pay It Forward (2000) (2000); K-PAX (2001) (2001); The Shipping News (2001) (2001)✰; The United States of Leland (2003) (2003); The Life of David Gale (2003) (2003); Beyond the Sea (2004) (2004)✰; Edison (2005) (2005); Superman Returns (2006) (2006); Fred Claus (2007) (2007); 21 (2008) (2008); Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008) (2008); Recount (2008) [TV] (2008)✰; Shrink (2009) (2009); Moon (2009) [voice] (2009); Father of Invention (2010) (2010); Casino Jack (2010) (2010)✰; Xing ying bu li (2011) (2012*); House of Cards (2013) [TV series] (2013-2017)✰; Elvis & Nixon (2016) (2016); Nine Lives (2016) (2016); Rebel in the Rye (2017) (2017); Billionaire Boys Club (2018) (2017)

Greats: Gladiator (2000) (2000)★; Hotel Rwanda (2004) (2004); Walk the Line (2005) (2005)★; The Master (2012) (2012)★; Her (2013) (2013)★

Give It a Shot: Parenthood (1989) (1989); The Yards (2000) (1999); Signs (2002) (2002); Inherent Vice (2014) (2014)✰; Joker (2019)★

Caution: We Own the Night (2007) (2007)

Other Notable Film(s): SpaceCamp (1986) (1986); Russkies (1987) (1987); To Die For (1995) (1995); Inventing the Abbotts (1997) (1997); U Turn (1997) (1997); Return to Paradise (1998) (1998); Clay Pigeons (1998) (1998); 8MM (1999) (1999); Quills (2000) (2000); Buffalo Soldiers (2001) (2001); It's All About Love (2003) (2003); Brother Bear (2003) [voice] (2003); The Village (2004) (2004); Ladder 49 (2004) (2004); Reservation Road (2007) (2007); Two Lovers (2008) (2008); The Immigrant (2013) (2012); Irrational Man (2015) (2015); You Were Never Really Here (2017)✰

One of the most respected supporting actors in the history of cinema along with Walter Brennan and Claude Rains.

Greats: Captains Courageous (1937) (1937); You Can't Take It with You (1938) (1938); A Guy Named Joe (1943) (1943); Since You Went Away (1944) (1944); It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (1946)★

Give It a Shot: Dinner at Eight (1933) (1933); Test Pilot (1938) (1938)

Other Notable Film(s): Sadie Thompson (1928) (1928); A Free Soul (1931) (1931)✰; Grand Hotel (1932) (1932); Treasure Island (1934) (1934); David Copperfield (1935); Mark of the Vampire (1935) (1935); Camille (1936) (1936); The Devil-Doll (1936) (1936); On Borrowed Time (1939) (1939); The Valley of Decision (1945) (1945); Duel in the Sun (1946) (1946); Key Largo (1948) (1948)

Greats: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) (1951)★; I Confess (1953) (1953); On the Waterfront (1954) (1954)★; Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) (1962)★; Patton (1970) (1970)

Give It a Shot: The Cincinnati Kid (1965) (1965)

Other Notable Film(s): Kiss of Death (1947) (1947); The Gunfighter (1950) (1950); Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) (1950); Halls of Montezuma (1951) (1950); Ruby Gentry (1952) (1952); Take the High Ground! (1953) (1953); Baby Doll (1956) (1956)✰; Fear Strikes Out (1957) (1957); The Hanging Tree (1959) (1959); Pollyanna (1960) (1960); The Great Impostor (1960) (1961); One-Eyed Jacks (1961) (1961); All Fall Down (1962) (1962); Gypsy (1962) (1962)✰; How the West Was Won (1962) (1962); Dead Ringer (1963) (1964); Cheyenne Autumn (1964) (1964); Nevada Smith (1966) (1966); Murderers' Row (1966) (1966); Billion Dollar Brain (1967) (1967); Blue (1968) (1968); Hot Millions (1968) (1968); The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971); Wild Rovers (1971) (1971); The Streets of San Francisco (1972) [TV series] (1972-1976)✰; Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) (1979); Meteor (1979) (1979); The Sting II (1983) (1983); Nuts (1987) (1987)

One of the most respected supporting actors in the history of cinema along with Lionel Barrymore and Walter Brennan.

Greats: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (1939)★; Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) (1941); Casablanca (1942) (1943)★; Notorious (1946) (1946)★; Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (1962)

Other Notable Film(s): The Invisible Man (1933) (1933); Anthony Adverse (1936) (1936); The Prince and the Pauper (1937) (1937); They Won't Forget (1937) (1937); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (1938); Four Daughters (1938) (1938); They Made Me a Criminal (1939) (1939); Juarez (1939) (1939); The Sea Hawk (1940) (1940); The Wolf Man (1941) (1941); Kings Row (1942) (1942); Moontide (1942) (1942); Now, Voyager (1942) (1942); Phantom of the Opera (1943) (1943); Passage to Marseille (1944) (1944); Mr. Skeffington (1944) (1944)✰; Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) (1945); Angel on My Shoulder (1946) (1946); Deception (1946) (1946); The Unsuspected (1947) (1947); The Passionate Friends (1949) (1949); Where Danger Lives (1950) (1950); The Lost World (1960) (1960); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) (1965)

"He was probably the greatest film actor who came from that period of time. He had something quite remarkable. His generosity as an actor, he fed himself into that work. As an actor, you cannot take your eyes off him." ~ Daniel Day-Lewis

Greats: Witness for the Prosecution (1957) (1957)★; Spartacus (1960) (1960)

Other Notable Film(s): If I Had a Million (1932) (1932); Island of Lost Souls (1932) (1932); The Old Dark House (1932) (1932); The Sign of the Cross (1932) (1932); The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) (1933)✰; The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) (1934); Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) (1935); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) (1935)✰; Les Misérables (1935); Rembrandt (1936) (1936); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) (1939); Jamaica Inn (1939) (1939); It Started with Eve (1941) (1941); Tales of Manhattan (1942) (1942); This Land Is Mine (1943) (1943); The Canterville Ghost (1944) (1944); Captain Kidd (1945) (1945); The Paradine Case (1947) (1947); The Big Clock (1948) (1948); Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952) (1952); Young Bess (1953) (1953); Hobson's Choice (1954) (1954); Advise & Consent (1962) (1962)

Greats: Rain Man (1988) (1988); Born on the Fourth of July (1989) (1989)★; Magnolia (1999) (1999)★

Give It a Shot: The Outsiders (1983) (1983); Risky Business (1983) (1983)✰; The Color of Money (1986) (1986); A Few Good Men (1992) (1992)✰; Mission: Impossible (1996) (1996); Jerry Maguire (1996) (1996)★; Eyes Wide Shut (1999) (1999); Minority Report (2002) (2002); The Last Samurai (2003) (2003)✰; Collateral (2004) (2004); Tropic Thunder (2008) (2008)★

Caution: All the Right Moves (1983) (1983); Top Gun (1986) (1986); Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) (1994); Mission: Impossible II (2000) (2000); Vanilla Sky (2001) (2001); War of the Worlds (2005) (2005); Jack Reacher (2012) (2012)

Flops: Lions for Lambs (2007) (2007)

Other Notable Film(s): Taps (1981) (1981); Losin' It (1982) (1983); Legend (1985) (1985); Cocktail (1988) (1988); Days of Thunder (1990) (1990); Far and Away (1992) (1992); The Firm (1993) (1993); Mission: Impossible III (2006) (2006); Valkyrie (2008) (2008); Knight and Day (2010) (2010); Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) (2011); Rock of Ages (2012) (2012); Oblivion (2013) (2013); Edge of Tomorrow (2014) (2014); Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) (2015); American Made (2017) (2017)

Greats: The King and I (1956) (1956)★; The Magnificent Seven (1960) (1960)

Give It a Shot: Anastasia (1956) (1956)

Other Notable Film(s): The Ten Commandments (1956) (1956); The Brothers Karamazov (1958) (1958); The Buccaneer (1958) (1958); Solomon and Sheba (1959) (1959); Taras Bulba (1962) (1962); Morituri (1965) (1965); Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) (1966); Return of the Seven (1966) (1966); Triple Cross (1966) (1966); The Battle on the River Neretva (1969); Westworld (1973) (1973); Futureworld (1976) (1976)

Greats: L.A. Confidential (1997) (1997); The Insider (1999) (1999)★; Gladiator (2000) (2000)★; A Beautiful Mind (2001) (2001)★

Give It a Shot: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) (2003)✰; 3:10 to Yuma (2007) (2007); American Gangster (2007) (2007); Body of Lies (2008) (2008); The Nice Guys (2016) (2016)

Caution: The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) (2012)

Other Notable Film(s): The Crossing (1990) (1990); Proof (1991) (1991); The Efficiency Expert (1992); Romper Stomper (1992) (1992); For the Moment (1993) (1993); The Sum of Us (1994) (1994); The Quick and the Dead (1995) (1995); No Way Back (1995) (1995); Virtuosity (1995) (1995); Rough Magic (1995) (1995); Heaven's Burning (1997) (1997); Breaking Up (1997) (1997); Mystery, Alaska (1999) (1999); Proof of Life (2000) (2000); Cinderella Man (2005) (2005)✰; A Good Year (2006) (2006); State of Play (2009) (2009); Tenderness (2009) (2009); Robin Hood (2010) (2010); The Next Three Days (2010) (2010); Les Misérables (2012) (2012); Broken City (2013) (2013); Man of Steel (2013) (2013); Winter's Tale (2014) (2014); Noah (2014) (2014); The Water Diviner (2014) (2014); Fathers & Daughters (2015) (2016); The Mummy (2017) (2017)

Greats: Gandhi (1982) (1982)★; Bugsy (1991) (1991)★; Schindler's List (1993) (1993)★; Hugo (2011) (2011)★

Give It a Shot: Dave (1993) (1993); Sexy Beast (2000) (2000)★; House of Sand and Fog (2003) (2003)★; Lucky Number Slevin (2006) (2006); Shutter Island (2010) (2010)

Caution: You Kill Me (2007) (2007)

Flops: Iron Man Three (2013) (2013)

Other Notable Film(s): Betrayal (1983) (1983); Maurice (1987) (1987); Without a Clue (1988) (1988); Sneakers (1992) (1992); Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) (1993); Death and the Maiden (1994) (1994); Death and the Maiden (1994) (1994); Species (1995) (1995); Twelfth Night or What You Will (1996) (1996); The Assignment (1997) (1997); Photographing Fairies (1997) (1997); The Confession (1999) (1999); What Planet Are You From? (2000) (2000); Rules of Engagement (2000) (2000); The Triumph of Love (2001) (2001); Tuck Everlasting (2002) (2002); Thunderbirds (2004) (2004); Suspect Zero (2004) (2004); A Sound of Thunder (2005) (2005); BloodRayne (2005) (2005); Oliver Twist (2005) (2005); The Last Legion (2007) (2007); The Wackness (2008) (2008); Elegy (2008) (2008); Transsiberian (2008) (2008); The Love Guru (2008) (2008); War, Inc. (2008) (2008); Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) (2008); Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) (2010); The Dictator (2012) (2012); A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013) (2013); A Common Man (2013) (2013); Walking with the Enemy (2013) (2013); Ender's Game (2013) (2013); The Physician (2013) (2013); War Story (2014) (2014); Stonehearst Asylum (2014); The Boxtrolls (2014) [voice] (2014); Learning to Drive (2014) (2014); Robot Overlords (2014) (2014); Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) (2014); Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) (2014); Life (2015) (2015); Self/less (2015) (2015); The Walk (2015) (2015); An Ordinary Man (2017) (2016); Of Dogs and Men (2016) [voice] (2016); Collide (2016) (2016); The Jungle Book (2016) [voice] (2016); Security (2017) (2017); The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017) (2017); War Machine (2017) (2017); Backstabbing for Beginners (2018) (2017)

Greats: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (1969); The Sting (1973) (1973)★; All the President's Men (1976) (1976)

Give It a Shot: The Great Gatsby (1974) (1974); The Natural (1984) (1984); Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) (2014)

Caution: Out of Africa (1985) (1985)

Flops: Lions for Lambs (2007) (2007)

Other Notable Film(s): Inside Daisy Clover (1965) (1965)✰; This Property Is Condemned (1966) (1966); The Chase (1966) (1966); Barefoot in the Park (1967) (1967); Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) (1969); Downhill Racer (1969) (1969); Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) (1970); The Hot Rock (1972) (1972); The Candidate (1972) (1972); Jeremiah Johnson (1972) (1972); The Way We Were (1973) (1973); Three Days of the Condor (1975) (1975); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) (1975); A Bridge Too Far (1977) (1977); The Electric Horseman (1979) (1979); Brubaker (1980) (1980); Legal Eagles (1986) (1986); Havana (1990) (1990); Sneakers (1992) (1992); Indecent Proposal (1993) (1993); Up Close & Personal (1996) (1996); The Horse Whisperer (1998) (1998); The Last Castle (2001) (2001); Spy Game (2001) (2001); The Clearing (2004) (2004); An Unfinished Life (2005) (2005); Charlotte's Web (2006) [voice] (2006); The Company You Keep (2012) (2012); All Is Lost (2013) (2013) ✰; A Walk in the Woods (2015) (2015); Truth (2015) (2015); Pete's Dragon (2016) (2016); Our Souls at Night (2017) (2017); The Discovery (2017) (2017)

Greats: La Dolce Vita (1960); 8½ (1963) (1963)

Other Notable Film(s): Le Notti Bianche (1957); Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958); Bell' Antonio (1960); Divorce Italian Style (1961)✰; La Notte (1961); A Very Private Affair (1962); The Organizer (1963); Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963); Marriage Italian Style (1964)✰; The 10th Victim (1965); Casanova 70 (1965); The Stranger (1967); Sunflower (1970); What? (1972); The Big Feast (1973); A Special Day (1977)✰; City of Women (1980); The Night of Varennes (1982); Ginger and Fred (1986); The Beekeeper (1986); Dark Eyes (1987)✰; Everybody's Fine (1990); Used People (1992) (1992)✰; Prêt-à-Porter (1994) (1994); One Hundred and One Nights (1995); According to Pereira (1995); Beyond the Clouds (1995); Three Lives and Only One Death (1996); Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)

Greats: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (1962)★; Doctor Zhivago (1965) (1965)★; Funny Girl (1968) (1968)★

Caution: Top Secret! (1984) (1984)

Other Notable Film(s): The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) (1964); Behold a Pale Horse (1964) (1964); The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) (1964); The Night of the Generals (1967) (1967); Mackenna's Gold (1969) (1969); The Last Valley (1971) (1971); The Tamarind Seed (1974) (1974); Juggernaut (1974) (1974); Funny Lady (1975) (1975); Ashanti (1979) (1979); The 13th Warrior (1999) (1999); Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)✰; Hidalgo (2004) (2004)

Greats: Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) (1985)★; Broadcast News (1987) (1987)★; A History of Violence (2005) (2005)★

Give It a Shot: Body Heat (1981) (1981); The Big Chill (1983) (1983); A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); Into the Wild (2007) (2007); Captain America: Civil War (2016) (2016)

Caution: Changing Lanes (2002) (2002); The Good Shepherd (2006) (2006); Mr. Brooks (2007) (2007); The Incredible Hulk (2008) (2008)

Flops: Vantage Point (2008) (2008)

Other Notable Film(s): Altered States (1980) (1980)✰; Eyewitness (1981) (1981); Gorky Park (1983) (1983); Children of a Lesser God (1986) (1986)✰; The Accidental Tourist (1988) (1988); I Love You to Death (1990) (1990); Alice (1990) (1990); The Doctor (1991) (1991); Until the End of the World (1991); Smoke (1995) (1995); Jane Eyre (1996) (1996); A Couch in New York (1996); Michael (1996) (1996); Dark City (1998) (1998); Lost in Space (1998) (1998); One True Thing (1998) (1998); The Big Brass Ring (1999) (1999); The 4th Floor (1999) (1999); Tuck Everlasting (2002) (2002); The Village (2004) (2004); The King (2005) (2005); Neverwas (2005) (2005); Syriana (2005) (2005); Noise (2007) (2007); The Yellow Handkerchief (2008) (2008); Endgame (2009) (2009); Robin Hood (2010) (2010); The River Why (2010) (2010); Late Bloomers (2011) (2011); The Host (2013) (2013); The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2013) (2013); Winter's Tale (2014) (2014); The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014) (2014); Race (2016) (2016); The King's Daughter (2022) (2017); The Miracle Season (2018) (2017)

Greats: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)★; All the President's Men (1976) (1976)★; Philadelphia (1993) (1993); Magnolia (1999) (1999)

Give It a Shot: Parenthood (1989) (1989)

Caution: A Thousand Clowns (1965) (1965)✰; Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) (1970); Little Big League (1994) (1994)

Other Notable Film(s): Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) (1962); A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) (1966); Divorce American Style (1967) (1967); The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) (1967); Hour of the Gun (1967) (1967); The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) (1968); Isadora (1968) (1968); The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) (1970); Julius Caesar (1970) (1970); Johnny Got His Gun (1971) (1971); Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) (1973); A Boy and His Dog (1975) (1975); Julia (1977) (1977)✰; Comes a Horseman (1978) (1978); Raise the Titanic (1980) (1980); Melvin and Howard (1980) (1980)✰; The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) (1981); Max Dugan Returns (1983) (1983); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) (1983); The Good Mother (1988) (1988); Dream a Little Dream (1989) (1989); Black Rainbow (1989) (1989); The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) (1993); The Trial (1993) (1993); The Paper (1994) (1994); A Thousand Acres (1997) (1997); Beloved (1998) (1998)

Greats: The Lost Weekend (1945) (1945)★; Dial M for Murder (1954) (1954)★

Other Notable Film(s): Easy Living (1937) (1937); Beau Geste (1939) (1939); The Major and the Minor (1942) (1942); Reap the Wild Wind (1942) (1942); Ministry of Fear (1944) (1944); The Uninvited (1944) (1944); The Big Clock (1948) (1948); It Happens Every Spring (1949) (1949); The Thief (1952) (1952)✰; The Premature Burial (1962) (1962); Panic in Year Zero! (1962) (1962); X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963); Love Story (1970) (1970); The Thing with Two Heads (1972) (1972); Frogs (1972) (1972); Gold (1974) (1974); Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) (1975); Aces High (1976) (1976); The Last Tycoon (1976) (1976)

"He aspires to the soul rather than the character. He has no sense of personal ambition. He's one of our great, great actors. We're lucky to have him." ~ Helen Mirren

Greats: The Train (1964) (1964)★; A Man for All Seasons (1966) (1966)★; Quiz Show (1994) (1994)★

Give It a Shot: The Crucible (1996) (1996)★

Other Notable Film(s): Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) (1958); King Lear (1970) (1971); Scorpio (1973) (1973); A Delicate Balance (1973) (1973); Henry V (1989) (1989); Hamlet (1990) (1990)

Greats: Schindler's List (1993) (1993)★; Quiz Show (1994) (1994); The English Patient (1996) (1996)★; In Bruges (2008) (2008); The Hurt Locker (2008) (2009); Skyfall (2012) (2012); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (2014)★

Give It a Shot: Red Dragon (2002) (2002); Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) (2005); Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) (2007); The Reader (2008) (2008); The Lego Batman Movie (2017) [voice] (2017)

Caution: Strange Days (1995) (1995)

Flops: The Avengers (1998) (1998); Wrath of the Titans (2012) (2012)

Other Notable Film(s): Wuthering Heights (1992) (1992); The Baby of Mâcon (1993) (1993); Oscar and Lucinda (1997) (1997); The Prince of Egypt (1998) [voice] (1998); Sunshine (1999) (1999); The End of the Affair (1999) (1999); Onegin (1999) (1999); Spider (2002) (2002); Maid in Manhattan (2002) (2002); The Constant Gardener (2005) (2005); The White Countess (2005) (2005); The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) [voice] (2005); Chromophobia (2005) (2005); The Chumscrubber (2005) (2005); Bernard and Doris (2006) (2006); Land of the Blind (2006) (2006); The Duchess (2008) (2008)✰; Clash of the Titans (2010) (2010); Cemetery Junction (2010) (2010); Nanny McPhee Returns (2010); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) (2010); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) (2011); Coriolanus (2011) (2011); Great Expectations (2012) (2012); The Invisible Woman (2013) (2013); Two Women (2014); A Bigger Splash (2015) (2015); Spectre (2015) (2015); Hail, Caesar! (2016) (2016); Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) [voice] (2016); Holmes & Watson (2018) (2018)

Greats: Scent of a Woman (1992) (1992); Boogie Nights (1997) (1997); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (1999); Magnolia (1999) (1999); Cold Mountain (2003) (2003); Capote (2005) (2005)★; Doubt (2008) (2008)★; Moneyball (2011) (2011); The Master (2012) (2012)★

Give It a Shot: Hard Eight (1996); The Big Lebowski (1998) (1998); Almost Famous (2000) (2000); Red Dragon (2002) (2002); 25th Hour (2002) (2002); Punch-Drunk Love (2002) (2002); Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) (2007); The Ides of March (2011) (2011)

Caution: Twister (1996) (1996); Along Came Polly (2004) (2005); Charlie Wilson's War (2007) (2007)★

Flops: Patch Adams (1998) (1998)

Other Notable Film(s): Leap of Faith (1992) (1992); Money for Nothing (1993) (1993); The Getaway (1994) (1994); When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) (1994); Nobody's Fool (1994) (1994); Next Stop Wonderland (1998) (1998); Happiness (1998) (1998); Flawless (1999) (1999); State and Main (2000) (2000); Love Liza (2002) (2002); Owning Mahowny (2003) (2003); Mission: Impossible III (2006) (2006); The Savages (2007) (2007)✰; Synecdoche, New York (2008) (2008); Mary and Max. (2009) [voice] (2009); Pirate Radio (2009); The Invention of Lying (2009) (2009); Jack Goes Boating (2010) (2010); A Late Quartet (2012) (2012); The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) (2013); God's Pocket (2014) (2014); A Most Wanted Man (2014) (2014); The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) (2014); The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) (2015)

Greats: How Green Was My Valley (1941) (1941)★; Mrs. Miniver (1942) (1942)★; The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) (1952); Funny Girl (1968) (1968)

Other Notable Film(s): Dark Command (1940) (1940); Blossoms in the Dust (1941) (1941); Man Hunt (1941) (1941); Madame Curie (1943) (1943)✰; Mrs. Parkington (1944) (1944); Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) (1945); Command Decision (1948) (1948); Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) (1952); Dream Wife (1953) (1953); Executive Suite (1954) (1954); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) (1954); Forbidden Planet (1956) (1956); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) (1961); Advise & Consent (1962) (1962); Skyjacked (1972) (1972); Two-Minute Warning (1976) (1976)

Akira Kurosawa's second main actor is one of the best actors in Japanese cinema history.

Greats: Stray Dog (1949); Rashomon (1950)★; Ikiru (1952) (1952)★; Seven Samurai (1954)★; The Hidden Fortress (1958); Yojimbo (1961); Sanjuro (1962); High and Low (1963); Kagemusha (1980) (1980)

Other Notable Film(s): Osaka Elegy (1936); Sanshiro Sugata (1943); The Most Beautiful (1944); The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945); Drunken Angel (1948); The Quiet Duel (1949); Scandal (1950); The Idiot (1951); Godzilla (1954); Godzilla Raids Again (1955); I Live in Fear (1955); Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) (1956); Throne of Blood (1957); The Bad Sleep Well (1960); Mothra (1961); Chushingura (1962); Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964); Kwaidan (1964)

Greats: Unfaithfully Yours (1948) (1948)★; My Fair Lady (1964) (1964)★

Other Notable Film(s): The Citadel (1938) (1938); Night Train to Munich (1940) (1940); Blithe Spirit (1945) (1945); Blithe Spirit (1945) (1945); Anna and the King of Siam (1946) (1946); The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) (1947); Midnight Lace (1960) (1960); Cleopatra (1963) (1963)✰; The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) (1964); The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) (1965)✰; Doctor Dolittle (1967) (1967)✰; The Honey Pot (1967) (1967)

Greats: Midnight Cowboy (1969) (1969)★; Deliverance (1972) (1972)★; Heat (1995) (1995)

Give It a Shot: Coming Home (1978) (1978)★; Runaway Train (1985) (1985)★; Mission: Impossible (1996) (1996); Enemy of the State (1998) (1998); Ali (2001) (2001)★

Caution: Varsity Blues (1999) (1999); Holes (2003) (2003); National Treasure (2004) (2004); Glory Road (2006) (2006); Transformers (2007) (2007)☠

Flops: Anaconda (1997) (1997)☠; Zoolander (2001) (2001); Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) (2001); Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) (2004)☠; National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) (2007)☠

Other Notable Film(s): Catch-22 (1970) (1970); The ODESSA File (1974) (1974); Conrack (1974) (1974); The Champ (1979) (1979)✰; Most Wanted (1997) (1997); Rosewood (1997) (1997); The Rainmaker (1997) (1997)✰; U Turn (1997) (1997); The General (1998) (1998); Pearl Harbor (2001) (2001); The Manchurian Candidate (2004) (2004); September Dawn (2007) (2007); Bratz (2007) (2007); Pride and Glory (2008) (2008); Four Christmases (2008) (2008); An American Carol (2008) (2008); 24: Redemption (2008) [TV movie] (2008); 24 (2001) [11 episodes TV series] (2009); Getaway (2013) (2013); Dracula: The Dark Prince (2013) (2013); The Legend of Simon Conjurer (2006) (2014); Ray Donovan (2013) [TV series] (2013-2020)✰; Woodlawn (2015) (2015); Same Kind of Different as Me (2017) (2016); American Wrestler: The Wizard (2016) (2016); Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) (2016); Surviving the Wild (2018) (2017); Same Kind of Different as Me (2017) (2017)

Greats: Carlito's Way (1993) (1993)★; The Thin Red Line (1998) (1998); Mystic River (2003) (2003)★; 21 Grams (2003) (2003)★; Milk (2008) (2008)★

Give It a Shot: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) (1982); Dead Man Walking (1995) (1995)★; The Game (1997) (1997); Sweet and Lowdown (1999) (1999)★; The Tree of Life (2011) (2011)

Caution: I Am Sam (2001) (2001)✰; The Interpreter (2005) (2005); The Angry Birds Movie (2016) [voice] (2016)

Other Notable Film(s): Taps (1981) (1981); Bad Boys (1983) (1983); Racing with the Moon (1984) (1984); The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) (1985); Shanghai Surprise (1986) (1986); At Close Range (1986) (1986); Colors (1988) (1988); Casualties of War (1989) (1989); We're No Angels (1989) (1989); State of Grace (1990) (1990); Hugo Pool (1997) (1997); U Turn (1997) (1997); She's So Lovely (1997) (1997)✰; Hurlyburly (1998) (1998); Before Night Falls (2000) (2000); The Weight of Water (2000) (2000); Up at the Villa (2000) (2000); It's All About Love (2003) (2003); The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) (2004); All the King's Men (2006) (2006); Persepolis (2007) [voice] (2007); What Just Happened (2008) (2008); Fair Game (2010) (2010); This Must Be the Place (2011) (2011); Gangster Squad (2013) (2012); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) (2013); The Gunman (2015) (2015); The Professor and the Madman (2019) (2017)

Greats: Platoon (1986) (1986); What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) (1993); Ed Wood (1994) (1994)✰; Sleepy Hollow (1999) (1999); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) (2007)★

Give It a Shot: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) (1984); Edward Scissorhands (1990) (1990)✰; Dead Man (1995) (1995); Donnie Brasco (1997) (1997); Blow (2001) (2001); Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) (2003)★; Finding Neverland (2004) (2004)★; Corpse Bride (2005) [voice] (2005); Public Enemies (2009) (2009); 21 Jump Street (2012) (2012); Black Mass (2015) (2015)★

Caution: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) (1998); The Ninth Gate (1999) (1999); Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) (2003); Secret Window (2004) (2004); Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) (2006)✰; Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) (2007); Alice in Wonderland (2010) (2010)✰; Rango (2011) [voice] (2011)

Other Notable Film(s): Private Resort (1985) (1985); Cry-Baby (1990) (1990); Arizona Dream (1993) (1993); Benny & Joon (1993) (1993)✰; Don Juan DeMarco (1994) (1994); Nick of Time (1995) (1995); The Brave (1997) (1997); The Astronaut's Wife (1999) (1999); The Man Who Cried (2000) (2000); Chocolat (2000) (2000); Before Night Falls (2000) (2000); From Hell (2001) (2001); ...And They Lived Happily Ever After (2004); The Libertine (2004) (2004); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) (2005)✰; The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) (2009); The Tourist (2010) (2010)✰; Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) (2011); The Rum Diary (2011) (2011); Dark Shadows (2012) (2012); The Lone Ranger (2013) (2013); Transcendence (2014) (2014); Into the Woods (2014) (2014); Mortdecai (2015) (2015); Yoga Hosers (2016) (2016); Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) (2016); Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) (2016); Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) (2017); City of Lies (2018) (2017); Murder on the Orient Express (2017) (2017); Sherlock Gnomes (2018) [voice] (2018); The Professor (2018) (2018); Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) (2018); City of Lies (2018) (2018); Waiting for the Barbarians (2019) (2019); Minamata (2020) (2020)

Greats: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) (1955); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) (1962); Point Blank (1967) (1967)

Other Notable Film(s): The Big Heat (1953) (1953); The Wild One (1953) (1953); The Caine Mutiny (1954) (1954); Not as a Stranger (1955) (1955); 7 Men from Now (1956) (1956); Attack (1956) (1956); Raintree County (1957) (1957); The Comancheros (1961) (1961); Donovan's Reef (1963) (1963); The Killers (1964) (1964); Cat Ballou (1965) (1965)✰; Ship of Fools (1965) (1965); The Professionals (1966) (1966); The Dirty Dozen (1967) (1967); Hell in the Pacific (1968) (1968); Paint Your Wagon (1969) (1969)✰; Prime Cut (1972) (1972); Emperor of the North (1973); The Iceman Cometh (1973) (1973); Shout at the Devil (1976) (1976); The Big Red One (1980) (1980); Death Hunt (1981) (1981); Gorky Park (1983) (1983); The Delta Force (1986) (1986)

Greats: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) (1992)★; Pollock (2000) (2000)★; A Beautiful Mind (2001) (2001); A History of Violence (2005) (2005)★; Gone Baby Gone (2007) (2007); Gravity (2013) [voice] (2013); Westworld (2016) [TV series] (2016)

Give It a Shot: The Abyss (1989) (1989); Apollo 13 (1995) (1995)★; The Rock (1996) (1996); Absolute Power (1997) (1997); The Truman Show (1998) (1998)★; The Hours (2002) (2002)★

Caution: Creepshow (1982) (1982); Pain & Gain (2013) (2013)

Flops: Milk Money (1994) (1994); Radio (2003) (2003); National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) (2007); Mother! (2017) (2017)

Other Notable Film(s): Knightriders (1981) (1981); The Right Stuff (1983) (1983); Under Fire (1983) (1983); Places in the Heart (1984) (1984); Swing Shift (1984) (1984); Sweet Dreams (1985) (1985); Walker (1987) (1987); To Kill a Priest (1988) (1988); Jacknife (1989) (1989)✰; State of Grace (1990) (1990); Paris Trout (1991) (1991); The Firm (1993) (1993); Needful Things (1993) (1993); China Moon (1994) (1994); Just Cause (1995) (1995); Nixon (1995) (1995); Eye for an Eye (1996) (1996); Stepmom (1998) (1998); The Third Miracle (1999) (1999); Waking the Dead (2000) (2000); The Prime Gig (2000) (2000); Enemy at the Gates (2001) (2001); Buffalo Soldiers (2001) (2001); Masked and Anonymous (2003) (2003); The Human Stain (2003) (2003); Winter Passing (2005) (2005); Copying Beethoven (2006) (2006); Cleaner (2007) (2007); Appaloosa (2008) (2008); Once Fallen (2010) (2010); The Way Back (2010) (2010); Salvation Boulevard (2011) (2011); That's What I Am (2011) (2011); Man on a Ledge (2012) (2012); Game Change (2012) [TV] (2013); Sweetwater (2013) (2013); Phantom (2013) (2013); Snowpiercer (2013) (2013); The Face of Love (2013) (2013); Frontera (2014) (2014); Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) [voice] (2014); Cymbeline (2014) (2014); Run All Night (2015) (2015); The Adderall Diaries (2015) (2015); In Dubious Battle (2016) (2016); Rules Don't Apply (2016) (2016); Kodachrome (2017) (2017); A Crooked Somebody (2017) (2017); Geostorm (2017) (2017)

Greats: Miller's Crossing (1990) (1990); Traffic (2000) (2000); Skyfall (2012) (2012)

Give It a Shot: Big Fish (2003) (2003)★; Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) (2007); The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) (2008)

Caution: Tom Jones (1963) (1963)★; Murder on the Orient Express (1974) (1974)★; The Bourne Legacy (2012) (2012)

Other Notable Film(s): Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) (1960)✰; The Entertainer (1960) (1960); Two for the Road (1967) (1967); Scrooge (1970) (1970)✰; Gumshoe (1971) (1971); The Duellists (1977) (1977); Wolfen (1981) (1981); Looker (1981) (1981); Annie (1982) (1982); Shoot the Moon (1982) (1982)✰; The Dresser (1983) (1983)✰; Under the Volcano (1984) (1984)✰; The Browning Version (1994) (1994); Washington Square (1997) (1997); Simpatico (1999) (1999); Breakfast of Champions (1999) (1999); Erin Brockovich (2000) (2000)✰; Delivering Milo (2001) (2001); Corpse Bride (2005) (2005); Amazing Grace (2006) (2006); A Good Year (2006) (2006)

Greats: The Last Picture Show (1971) (1971)★; Heaven's Gate (1980) (1980); Crazy Heart (2009) (2009)★

Give It a Shot: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) (1974)★; Stay Hungry (1976) (1976); Cutter's Way (1981) (1981); Starman (1984) (1984)★; The Fisher King (1991) (1991)★; Fearless (1993) (1993); The Big Lebowski (1998) (1998); Surf's Up (2007) [voice] (2007); Iron Man (2008) (2008); True Grit (2010) (2010)★; Hell or High Water (2016) (2016)★

Caution: The Morning After (1986) (1986); The Contender (2000) (2000)★; The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) (2009); Tron: Legacy (2010) (2010)

Other Notable Film(s): Fat City (1972) (1972); Bad Company (1972) (1972); The Last American Hero (1973) (1973); The Iceman Cometh (1973) (1973); Rancho Deluxe (1975) (1975); Hearts of the West (1975) (1975); King Kong (1976) (1976); Winter Kills (1979) (1979); Tron (1982) (1982); The Last Unicorn (1982) [voice] (1982); Kiss Me Goodbye (1982) (1982); Against All Odds (1984) (1984); Jagged Edge (1985) (1985); 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) (1986); Nadine (1987) (1987); Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) (1988); See You in the Morning (1989) (1989); The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) (1989); Texasville (1990) (1990); American Heart (1992) (1992); The Vanishing (1993) (1993); Blown Away (1994) (1994); Wild Bill (1995) (1995); White Squall (1996) (1996); The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) (1996); Arlington Road (1999) (1999); The Muse (1999) (1999); Simpatico (1999) (1999); Scenes of the Crime (2001) (2001); K-PAX (2001) (2001); Masked and Anonymous (2003) (2003); Seabiscuit (2003) (2003); The Door in the Floor (2004) (2004); The Amateurs (2005); Tideland (2005) (2005); Stick It (2006) (2006); The Open Road (2009) (2009); A Dog Year (2009) (2009); R.I.P.D. (2013) (2013); The Giver (2014) (2014); Seventh Son (2014) (2015); Le Petit Prince (2015) [voice] (2015); The Only Living Boy in New York (2017) (2017); Only the Brave (2017) (2017); Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) (2017)

Greats: The China Syndrome (1979) (1979); Wall Street (1987) (1987)★; Fatal Attraction (1987) (1987); Traffic (2000) (2000)

Give It a Shot: Romancing the Stone (1984) (1984); Falling Down (1993) (1993); The American President (1995) (1995)✰; The Game (1997) (1997); Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) (2010)✰; Ant-Man (2015) (2015); Avengers: Endgame (2019) (2018)

Caution: Basic Instinct (1992) (1992); A Perfect Murder (1998) (1998); Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) (2018)

Flops: The Sentinel (2006) (2006); You, Me and Dupree (2006) (2006); Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) (2009)

Other Notable Film(s): The Streets of San Francisco (1972) [TV series] (1972-1976); Napoleon and Samantha (1972) (1972); Coma (1978) (1978); It's My Turn (1980) (1980); The Star Chamber (1983) (1983); The Jewel of the Nile (1985) (1985); A Chorus Line (1985) (1985); Black Rain (1989) (1989); The War of the Roses (1989) (1989)✰; Shining Through (1992) (1992); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) (1996); Wonder Boys (2000) (2000)✰; One Night at McCool's (2001) (2001); Don't Say a Word (2001) (2001); It Runs in the Family (2003) (2003); The In-Laws (2003) (2003); King of California (2007) (2007); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009) (2009); Solitary Man (2009) (2009); Haywire (2011) (2011); Last Vegas (2013) (2013); Behind the Candelabra (2013) [TV] (2013)✰; And So It Goes (2014) (2014); Beyond the Reach (2014) (2014); Unlocked (2017) (2017); Animal World (2018)

Greats: Collateral (2004); No Country for Old Men (2007)★; Skyfall (2012)★

Give It a Shot: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)✰

Caution: To the Wonder (2012)

Flops: Mother! (2017)

Other Notable Film(s): The Ages of Lulu (1990); High Heels (1991); Jamon Jamon (1992); Golden Balls (1993); Mouth to Mouth (1995); Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (1996); Perdita Durango (1997) (1997); Live Flesh (1997); Between Your Legs (1999); Before Night Falls (2000)✰; The Dancer Upstairs (2002) (2002); Mondays in the Sun (2002); The Sea Inside (2004)✰; Goya's Ghosts (2006) (2006); Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) (2007); Biutiful (2010) (2010)✰; Eat Pray Love (2010) (2010); The Counselor (2013) (2013); Autómata (2014) [voice] (2013); The Gunman (2015) (2015); The Last Face (2016) (2015); Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) (2017); Loving Pablo (2017) (2017); Everybody Knows (2018); The Roads Not Taken (2020); Dune (2020)

Greats: Gaslight (1944) (1944)★

Flops: Casino Royale (1967) (1967)

Other Notable Film(s): Red-Headed Woman (1932) (1932); Liliom (1934) (1934); The Garden of Allah (1936) (1936); History Is Made at Night (1937) (1937); Conquest (1937) (1937)✰; Algiers (1938) (1938)✰; Love Affair (1939) (1939); All This, and Heaven Too (1940) (1940); Hold Back the Dawn (1941) (1941); Tales of Manhattan (1942) (1942); Cluny Brown (1946) (1946); Arch of Triumph (1948) (1948); The Earrings of Madame de... (1953); Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (1956); The Buccaneer (1958) (1958); Fanny (1961) (1961)✰; The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) (1962); Is Paris Burning? (1966); How to Steal a Million (1966) (1966); Barefoot in the Park (1967) (1967); Lost Horizon (1973) (1973); Stavisky... (1974) (1974)✰

Greats: On the Waterfront (1954) (1954)★; 12 Angry Men (1957) (1957)★; The Exorcist (1973) (1972)

Other Notable Film(s): Golden Boy (1939) (1939); The Song of Bernadette (1943) (1943); Anna and the King of Siam (1946) (1946); Boomerang! (1947) (1947); Captain from Castile (1947) (1947); Call Northside 777 (1948) (1948); The Dark Past (1948) (1948); Thieves' Highway (1949) (1949); Sirocco (1951) (1951); The Left Hand of God (1955) (1955); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) (1956); The Three Faces of Eve (1957) (1957); The Brothers Karamazov (1958) (1958)✰; Man of the West (1958) (1958); Party Girl (1958) (1958); But Not for Me (1959) (1959); Green Mansions (1959) (1959); Exodus (1960) (1960); How the West Was Won (1962) (1962); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) (1962); Come Blow Your Horn (1963) (1963)✰; Our Man Flint (1966) (1966); In Like Flint (1967) (1967); Coogan's Bluff (1968) (1968); Mackenna's Gold (1969) (1969); Lawman (1971) (1971)

Greats: The Guns of Navarone (1961) (1961); Unforgiven (1992) (1992); Gladiator (2000) (2000)

Give It a Shot: Patriot Games (1992) (1992); Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) (2001); Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) (2002)

Other Notable Film(s): The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) (1959); The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) (1961); Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) (1962); This Sporting Life (1963) (1963)✰; Red Desert (1964); The Heroes of Telemark (1965) (1965); Major Dundee (1965) (1965); The Bible in the Beginning... (1966) (1966); Hawaii (1966) (1966); Camelot (1967) (1967)✰; A Man Called Horse (1970) (1970); The Molly Maguires (1970) (1970); Cromwell (1970) (1970); Man in the Wilderness (1971) (1971); Juggernaut (1974) (1974); Robin and Marian (1976) (1976); The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) (1976); The Cassandra Crossing (1976) (1976); Orca (1977) (1977); The Wild Geese (1978) (1978); Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) (1981); The Field (1990) (1990)✰; Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) (1993); Cry, the Beloved Country (1995) (1995); Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) (1997); The Barber of Siberia (1998); The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) (2002)

Greats: Captains Courageous (1937) (1937); Hud (1963) (1963)★; I Never Sang for My Father (1970) (1970)★; Being There (1979) (1979)★

Other Notable Film(s): Tonight or Never (1931) (1931); The Old Dark House (1932) (1932); Counsellor at Law (1933) (1933); The Vampire Bat (1933) (1933); Annie Oakley (1935) (1935); Theodora Goes Wild (1936) (1936); The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) (1936); Angel (1937) (1937); Ninotchka (1939) (1939); Too Many Husbands (1940) (1940); That Uncertain Feeling (1941) (1941); A Woman's Face (1941) (1941); The Sea of Grass (1947) (1947); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) (1948); Billy Budd (1962) (1962); The Americanization of Emily (1964) (1964); The Candidate (1972) (1972); The Tenant (1976); Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) (1977); The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) (1979); The Changeling (1980) (1980); Ghost Story (1981) (1981)

A great actor that's usually in blockbusters. Ford's career went sky rocket for his role as Han Solo in George Lucas' Star Wars in 1977. After that he was in the two sequels of Star Wars (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi). Ford was also in Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark as Indiana Jones which also spawned three Indiana Jones sequels (Temple of Doom, Last Crusade, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). Ford's other well known performances are in movies such as Blade Runner, Witness, Working Girl, The Fugitive, Air Force One, and What Lies Beneath.

Greats: American Graffiti (1973) (1973); The Conversation (1974) (1974); Star Wars (1977) (1977); Apocalypse Now (1979) (1979); The Empire Strikes Back (1980); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (1981); Blade Runner (1982) (1982); Return of the Jedi (1983); Witness (1985) (1985)★; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (1989); The Fugitive (1993) (1993)★

Give It a Shot: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (1984); Working Girl (1988) (1988); Patriot Games (1992) (1992); Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) (2015); Blade Runner 2049 (2017) (2017)

Caution: Clear and Present Danger (1994) (1994); Air Force One (1997) (1997); What Lies Beneath (2000) (2000); Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) (2008); Morning Glory (2010) (2010); Cowboys & Aliens (2011) (2011); Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) (2013)

Other Notable Film(s): Heroes (1977) (1977); Force 10 from Navarone (1978) (1978); Hanover Street (1979) (1979); The Frisco Kid (1979) (1979); The Mosquito Coast (1986) (1986)✰; Frantic (1988) (1988); Presumed Innocent (1990) (1990); Regarding Henry (1991) (1991); Sabrina (1995) (1995)✰; The Devil's Own (1997) (1997); Six Days Seven Nights (1998) (1998); Random Hearts (1999) (1999); K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) (2002); Hollywood Homicide (2003) (2003); Firewall (2006) (2006); Crossing Over (2009) (2009); Extraordinary Measures (2010) (2010); 42 (2013) (2013); Paranoia (2013) (2013); Ender's Game (2013) (2013); The Expendables 3 (2014) (2014); The Age of Adaline (2015) (2015)

Greats: M (1931)★; The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) (1934); The Maltese Falcon (1941) (1941); Casablanca (1942) (1943); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) (1944)

Caution: Secret Agent (1936) (1936)

Other Notable Film(s): Mad Love (1935) (1935); Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) (1940); All Through the Night (1942) (1941); Passage to Marseille (1944) (1944); The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) (1944); The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) (1946); The Verdict (1946) (1946); Black Angel (1946) (1946); My Favorite Brunette (1947) (1947); Quicksand (1950) (1950); Beat the Devil (1953) (1953); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) (1954); Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (1956); Silk Stockings (1957) (1957); Tales of Terror (1962) (1962); The Raven (1963) (1963); The Comedy of Terrors (1963) (1963); The Patsy (1964) (1964)

Greats: Network (1976) (1976)★

Give It a Shot: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) (1971)★

Other Notable Film(s): Elephant Walk (1954) (1954); The Detective (1954); A Town Like Alice (1956) (1956); The Battle of the River Plate (1956) (1956); The Nun's Story (1959) (1959); Kidnapped (1960) (1960); The Pumpkin Eater (1964) (1964); The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) (1965); Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) (1967); The Red Tent (1969); Lost Horizon (1973) (1973)

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one. ~ F. Murray Abraham

Greats: Dr. No (1962) (1962); From Russia with Love (1963) (1963); Goldfinger (1964) (1964); Marnie (1964) (1964); The Man Who Would Be King (1975) (1975); The Untouchables (1987) (1987)★; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (1989)✰

Give It a Shot: The Rock (1996) (1996); Finding Forrester (2000) (2000)

Caution: Murder on the Orient Express (1974) (1974)

Flops: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) (2003)

Other Notable Film(s): Hell Drivers (1957) (1957); Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) (1959); The Longest Day (1962) (1962); Woman of Straw (1964) (1964); The Hill (1965) (1965); Thunderball (1965) (1965); A Fine Madness (1966) (1966); You Only Live Twice (1967) (1967); Shalako (1968) (1968); The Red Tent (1969); The Molly Maguires (1970) (1970); The Anderson Tapes (1971) (1971); Diamonds Are Forever (1971) (1971); The Offence (1973) (1972); Zardoz (1974) (1974); The Wind and the Lion (1975) (1975); Robin and Marian (1976) (1976); A Bridge Too Far (1977) (1977); The Great Train Robbery (1978); Meteor (1979) (1979); Cuba (1979) (1979); Outland (1981) (1981); Time Bandits (1981) (1981); Wrong Is Right (1982) (1982); Never Say Never Again (1983) (1983); Highlander (1986) (1986); The Name of the Rose (1986); The Presidio (1988) (1988); Family Business (1989) (1989); The Hunt for Red October (1990) (1990); The Russia House (1990) (1990); Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) (1992); Medicine Man (1992) (1992); The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) [voice] (1993); Rising Sun (1993) (1993); A Good Man in Africa (1994) (1994); Just Cause (1995) (1995); First Knight (1995) (1995); DragonHeart (1996) [voice] (1996); The Avengers (1998) (1998); Playing by Heart (1998) (1998); Entrapment (1999) (1999)

Greats: Annie Hall (1977) (1977); The Deer Hunter (1978) (1978)★; Heaven's Gate (1980) (1980); Pulp Fiction (1994) (1994); Sleepy Hollow (1999) (1999); Catch Me If You Can (2002) (2002)★

Give It a Shot: The Dead Zone (1983) (1983); King of New York (1990) (1990); Batman Returns (1992) (1992); True Romance (1993) (1993); Suicide Kings (1997) (1997)

Caution: Wayne's World 2 (1993) (1993); Blast from the Past (1999) (1999); Joe Dirt (2001) (2001); The Rundown (2003) (2003); Man on Fire (2004) (2004); Wedding Crashers (2005) (2005); Click (2006) (2006); Man of the Year (2006) (2006); Hairspray (2007) (2007); Seven Psychopaths (2012) (2012)

Flops: Mouse Hunt (1997) (1997); Excess Baggage (1997) (1997); America's Sweethearts (2001) (2001); The Country Bears (2002) (2002)☠; Kangaroo Jack (2003) (2003)☠; Gigli (2003) (2003)☠; Balls of Fury (2007) (2007)

Other Notable Film(s): The Anderson Tapes (1971) (1971); Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) (1976); The Sentinel (1977) (1977); Last Embrace (1979) (1979); The Dogs of War (1980) (1980); Pennies from Heaven (1981) (1981); Brainstorm (1983) (1983); A View to a Kill (1985) (1985); At Close Range (1986) (1986); The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) (1988); Biloxi Blues (1988) (1988); Homeboy (1988) (1988); Communion (1989) (1989); The Comfort of Strangers (1990) (1990); Mistress (1992) (1992); The Addiction (1995) (1995); The Prophecy (1995) (1995); Wild Side (1995) (1995); Search and Destroy (1995) (1995); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) (1995); Nick of Time (1995) (1995); Basquiat (1996) (1996); The Funeral (1996) (1996); Touch (1997) (1997); Illuminata (1998) (1998); New Rose Hotel (1998) (1998); Antz (1998) [voice] (1998); Scotland, PA (2001) (2001); The Affair of the Necklace (2001) (2001); Poolhall Junkies (2002) (2002); Undertaking Betty (2002); Envy (2004) (2004); The Stepford Wives (2004) (2004); Around the Bend (2004) (2004); Romance & Cigarettes (2005) (2005); Domino (2005) (2005); $5 a Day (2008) (2008); The Maiden Heist (2009) (2009); Kill the Irishman (2011) (2011); Stand Up Guys (2012) (2012); A Late Quartet (2012) (2012); The Power of Few (2013) (2013); Jersey Boys (2014) (2014); The Family Fang (2015) (2014); One More Time (2015); Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser (2015) (2015); The Family Fang (2015) (2015); Eddie the Eagle (2015) (2016); The Jungle Book (2016) [voice] (2016); Nine Lives (2016) (2016)

Greats: JFK (1991) (1991)

Give It a Shot: True Romance (1993) (1993); Leon: The Professional (1994); The Contender (2000) (2000); Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) (2004); Batman Begins (2005) (2005); Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) (2005); Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) (2007); The Dark Knight (2008) (2008); Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) (2011)★; The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (2012)

Caution: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) (1992); Air Force One (1997) (1997); Le Cinquième Élément (1997) (1997); Hannibal (2001) (2001); Darkest Hour (2017) (2017)★

Flops: A Christmas Carol (2009) [voice] (2009); The Book of Eli (2010) (2010)

Other Notable Film(s): Sid and Nancy (1986) (1986); Prick Up Your Ears (1987) (1987)✰; Track 29 (1988) (1988); Criminal Law (1988) (1988); Chattahoochee (1989) (1989); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) (1990); State of Grace (1990) (1990); Romeo Is Bleeding (1993) (1993); Immortal Beloved (1994) (1994); Murder in the First (1995) (1995); The Scarlet Letter (1995) (1995); Basquiat (1996) (1996); Lost in Space (1998) (1998); Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002) (2002); Tiptoes (2002) (2003); Sin (2003) (2003); Dead Fish (2005) (2005); BackWoods (2006); The Unborn (2009) (2009); Red Riding Hood (2011) (2011); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) (2011); Lawless (2012) (2012); Guns, Girls and Gambling (2012) (2012); Paranoia (2013) (2013); RoboCop (2014) (2014); Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) (2014); Child 44 (2015) (2015); Man Down (2015) (2015); Criminal (2016) (2016); The Space Between Us (2017) (2016); The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) (2017); Hunter Killer (2018) (2017); Mary (2019)

Greats: Klute (1971) (1971); The French Connection (1971) (1971)★; Jaws (1975) (1975)★; Marathon Man (1976) (1976); All That Jazz (1979) (1979)★

Give It a Shot: Sorcerer (1977) (1977)

Caution: Naked Lunch (1991) (1991)

Other Notable Film(s): The Seven-Ups (1973) (1973); Jaws 2 (1978) (1978); Last Embrace (1979) (1979); Still of the Night (1982) (1982); Blue Thunder (1983) (1983); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) (1984); 52 Pick-Up (1986) (1986); Cohen and Tate (1988) (1988); The Fourth War (1990) (1990); The Russia House (1990) (1990); Romeo Is Bleeding (1993) (1993); SeaQuest DSV (1993) [TV series] (1993-1995); The Peacekeeper (1997) (1997); The Rainmaker (1997) (1997); The Myth of Fingerprints (1997) (1997); Time Lapse (2001) (2001); The Punisher (2004) (2004)

Greats: The Mission (1986) (1986)✰; Dead Ringers (1988) (1988)★; Reversal of Fortune (1990) (1990)★; The Lion King (1994) [voice] (1994); Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) (1995)

Give It a Shot: Margin Call (2011) (2011)

Flops: Dungeons & Dragons (2000) (2000)☠; Assassin's Creed (2016) (2016)

Other Notable Film(s): The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) (1981); Moonlighting (1982) (1982); Betrayal (1983) (1983); Swann in Love (1984); Kafka (1991) (1991); Waterland (1992) (1992); Damage (1992) (1992); M. Butterfly (1993) (1993); The House of the Spirits (1993) (1993); Stealing Beauty (1996) (1996); Chinese Box (1997) (1997); Lolita (1997) (1997); The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) (1998); The Fourth Angel (2001) (2001); The Time Machine (2002) (2002); And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002) (2002); Callas Forever (2002) (2002); Being Julia (2004) (2004); The Merchant of Venice (2004) (2004); Kingdom of Heaven (2005) (2005); Casanova (2005) (2005); Inland Empire (2006) (2006); Eragon (2006) (2006); Appaloosa (2008) (2008); The Pink Panther 2 (2009) (2009); The Borgias (2011) [TV series] (2011-2013)✰; The Words (2012) (2012); Night Train to Lisbon (2013) (2013); Beautiful Creatures (2013) (2013); High-Rise (2015) (2015); The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) (2015); La corrispondenza (2016) (2016); Race (2016) (2016); Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) (2016)