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In the AFI top 100. certain actors
show up over and over again.
AFI
Top 100
ranking
Humphrey Bogart
2. Casablanca (1942)
17. The African Queen (1951)
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
other notables include
the fact that both George Raft and Ronald Reagan had been up
for the part of Rick before Bogie ...
Dead End (1937) - because it is the film which introduced
the Dead End kids (later to be known as The Bowery Boys)
The FOUR films he did with Betty (Lauren Bacall)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Dark Passage (1947)
Key Largo (1948)
To Have and Have Not (1944) - from the book by Ernest Hemingway,
after the making of which, Betty became Mrs. Bogart
until his death, and with whom, during the course of the marriage
he fathered children.
The Caine Mutiny (1954) - which SHOULD have gotten him ANOTHER Oscar
(his was for The African Queen).
Clark Gable
4. Gone With The Wind (1939)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
other notables include
The Misfits (1961) - Besides being Gable's last film, it was also
the final film for Marilyn Monroe
Mogambo (1953) - Notable in that it was
Red Dust (1932) with Gable playing THE SAME PART AGAIN
(even though the character names were changed to protect the guilty)
Though THEY were never married (affair rumors BIG TIME),
Gable made many films with Joan Crawford
Strange Cargo (1940) - a FASCINATING film
Love on the Run (1936)
Dancing Lady (1933) - also notable for GABLE'S song-and-dance number
Screen Snapshots (1932)
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
Possessed (1931)
The Merry Widow (1925)
Dustin Hoffman
7. The Graduate (1967)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
62. Tootsie (1982)
other notables include
Wag the Dog (1997)
Rain Man (1988)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Little Big Man (1970)
Lenny (1974)
Jack Nicholson
19. Chinatown (1974) As J. J. (Jake) Gittes
and again in The Two Jakes (1990)
20. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
other notables include
About Schmidt (2002)
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Wolf (1994) - A surprisingly GOOD film where Jack plays A WEREWOLF.
A Few Good Men (1992) - The film that immortazized,
"You can't HANDLE the truth!"
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
The Last Detail (1973)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Easy Rider (1969) - Jack's supporting turn as George Hanson
was probably what set his star rising, and
Chinatown (1974)
Jack Lemmon
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
93. The Apartment (1960)
other notables include
Missing (1982)
Tribute (1980)
The China Syndrome (1979) - another fine, dramatic, supporting turn.
Save the Tiger (1973) - Finally! Another Oscar.
The Odd Couple (1968)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962) - An amazing turn as an alcoholic.
Bell Book and Candle (1958), again supporting as a witch in the family.
Mister Roberts (1955) First Oscar, supporting as Ensign Pulver
Robert Deniro
24. Raging Bull (1980)
32. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
94. GoodFellas (1990)
other notables include
Cape Fear (1991)
Awakenings (1990)
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) - Though perhaps not his breakthrough role,
his supporting part as a baseball catcher dying of Hodgkin's Disease
caught MY eye (survived a 1981 bout with MOPP chemotherapy,
developed only five years prior).
Also, 1973 would see the start
of a LONG and fruitful collaboration with Martin Scorcese.
Mean Streets (1973)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
New York, New York (1977)
24. Raging Bull (1980)
The King of Comedy (1983)
Goodfellas (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
Casino (1995)
Jimmy Stewart
11. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - Oscar nominated
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Oscar nominated
42. Rear Window (1954)
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940) - ONLY Oscar (amazing)
for best supporting
61. Vertigo (1958)
other notables include
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) - The original (the Quaid film's a remake)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Oscar nominated
Harvey (1950) - Oscar nominated
He also seemed to have a penchant for bio pics ...
The Stratton Story (1949) .... Monty Stratton
The Glenn Miller Story (1953) .... Glenn Miller
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) .... Charles Lindbergh
Cary Grant
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
40. North By Northwest (1959)
97. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
other notables include
An Affair to Remember (1957)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Notorious (1946)
None But the Lonely Heart (1944) - Some consider this his FINEST acting.
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Penny Serenade (1941) - TRY not to need tissue ...
Suspicion (1941)
His Girl Friday (1940) - The second, and arguably best,
making of The Front Page
(1st had Adolphe Menjou
3rd Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau)
Gene Kelly
10. Singin' In The Rain (1952) - considered to be the greatest musical
68. An American In Paris (1951)
other notables include
Xanadu (1980) .... Danny McGuire was his final film-dancing part.
Inherit the Wind (1960) - Though the stars are Spencer Tracy and
Frederic March, Gene's turn as newsman E. K. Hornbeck sardonicly
delightful.
It's Always Fair Weather (1955) - Undersung, and as good as
Singin' In The Rain. Fabulous dance sequences including the three
buddies tap-dancing down New York streets wearing each, an ashcan
cover AND Gene's street-dance ON ROLLER SKATES.
Brigadoon (1954) - THIS time Cyd Charisse didn't have a bit part as in
Singin' In The Rain, where she was a supporting player.
On the Town (1949) - The first musical with on-location shooting
The Three Musketeers (1948) .... D'Artagnan - It was footage from
here that showed up as The Dueling Cavalier in Singin' In The Rain
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Harrison Ford
15. Star Wars (1977)
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
other notables include
Regarding Henry (1991) - Slick lawyer suffers brain damage
AND BECOMES A MENSCH
Witness (1985)
The Frisco Kid (1979) - Notable as a western outlaw who takes a protective
interest in Polish Chasiddic rabbi, Gene Wilder; very interesting in light
of Harrison's mother being Russian-Jewish, which technically makes
HARRISON Jewish ...
John Wayne
63. Stagecoach (1939)
96. The Searchers (1956)
other notables include
(amongst the 174 credited, Wayne always claimed over 200 ...)
The Shootist (1976) - his final film, and a good one
True Grit (1969) - for which he won his Oscar
The Alamo (1960)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Red River (1948)
Richard Dreyfuss
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
48. Jaws (1975)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
other notables include
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) - "The Education of Max Bickford"
(2001) TV Series .... Max Bickford ... who
for my money, is just the second incarnation of Glenn Holland ...
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) - Possibly the single greatest argument
for the work of Jack Kervorkian.
The Goodbye Girl (1977) - His Oscar win
Inserts (1975) - During the same year as Jaws, this litte-known X-rated
film is nevertheless a HOOT!
Tom Hanks & Spencer Tracy are the ONLY two actors ever to win
BEST ACTOR Oscars TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS.
Tom Hanks
Philadelphia (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
other notables include
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Cast Away (2000)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Big (1988)
Splash (1984)
Spencer Tracy
Boys Town (1938)
Captains Courageous (1937)
other notables include
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Father of the Bride (1950)
San Francisco (1936)
And the films he made with Katherine Hepburn. Though they never
married, they were inseparable from 1942 to his death through nine films.
Woman of the Year (1942)
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Without Love (1945)
Sea of Grass, The (1947)
State of the Union (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Pat and Mike (1952)
Desk Set (1957)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
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