Ranking My Favorite Actors
by ssnape3 | created - 10 Jan 2016 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicA list of my favorite actors ranked by the number of movies of each actor I have seen, along with my top 5 films of each actor with 10 or more films watched and my top 3 films of each actor with less than 10 films watched.
1. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
Born: August 17, 1943
Number of Movies Seen - 51 *
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The King Of Comedy
2. The Untouchables
3. Taxi Driver
4. The Godfather Part 2
5. Cape Fear
2. Samuel L. Jackson
Actor | Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...
Born: December 21, 1948
Number of Movies Seen - 43 *
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Avengers
3. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
4. The Hateful Eight
4. Die Hard With a Vengeance
3. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
Born: July 9, 1956
Number of Movies Seen - 42 *
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Forrest Gump
2. Apollo 13
3. You've Got Mail
4. A League of Their Own
5. Splash
4. Tom Cruise
Actor | Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...
Born: July 3, 1962
Number of Movies Seen - 37 *
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Rain Man
2. Risky Business
3. Interview With The Vampire
4. Born on the 4th of July
5. Minority Report
5. Bill Murray
Actor | Lost in Translation
Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...
Born: September 21, 1950
Number of Movies Seen - 37 *
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Ghostbusters
2. Stripes
3. Groundhog Day
4. Tootsie
5. Quick Change
6. Bruce Willis
Actor | Die Hard
Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.
Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...
Born: March 19, 1955
Number of Movies Seen - 36 *
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Die Hard
2. The Sixth Sense
3. Pulp Fiction
4. 12 Monkeys
5. Looper
7. Harrison Ford
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...
Born: July 13, 1942
Number of Movies Seen - 34 *
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Star Wars Trilogy (Originals)
3. The Fugitive
4. Air Force One
5. Blade Runner
8. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
Born: June 1, 1937
Number of Movies Seen - 33 *
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Seven
2. Outbreak
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Unforgiven
9. Dan Aykroyd
Writer | Ghostbusters
Daniel Edward Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Lorraine Hélène (Gougeon), a secretary from a French-Canadian family, and Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer who advised prime minister Pierre Trudeau. Aykroyd attended Carleton University in 1969, where...
Born: July 1, 1952
Number of Movies Seen - 29 *
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Ghostbusters
2. The Blues Brothers
3. Trading Places
4. Spies Like Us
5. Dragnet
10. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
Born: April 22, 1937
Number of Movies Seen - 29 *
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Shining
2. Batman
3. Terms of Endearment
4. Prizzi's Honor
5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
11. Michael Caine
Actor | The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...
Born: March 14, 1933
Number of Movies Seen - 29
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Man Who Would be King
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. The Dark Knight
4. Secondhand Lions
5. The Prestige
12. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
Born: June 9, 1963
Number of Movies Seen - 28
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2. Sleepy Hollow
3. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
4. Secret Window
5. Edward Scissorhands
13. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
Born: May 31, 1930
Number of Movies Seen - 28
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Sudden Impact
2. In The Line of Fire
3. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
4. The Bridges of Madison County
5. Unforgiven
14. John Goodman
Actor | 10 Cloverfield Lane
John Stephen Goodman's an American film, TV & stage actor. He was born in Affton, Missouri to Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman & Leslie Francis Goodman, a postal worker who died when he was a small child. He's of English, Welsh & German ancestry. He's best known for his role as ...
Born: June 20, 1952
Number of Movies Seen - 27
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Monsters Inc.
2. Fallen
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Trumbo
5. Arachnophobia
15. Robin Williams
Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...
Born: July 21, 1951
Died: August 11, 2014
Number of Movies Seen - 27
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The World According to Garp
2. Mrs. Doubtfire
3. Good Morning Vietnam
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Fisher King
16. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
Born: December 18, 1963
Number of Movies Seen - 26
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2. Troy
3. Seven
4. Interview with the Vampire
5. 12 Monkeys
17. Sylvester Stallone
Actor | Rocky
Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.
Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...
Born: July 6, 1946
Number of Movies Seen - 26
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Rocky
2. Demolition Man
3. Grudge Match
4. Over The Top
5. First Blood
18. Gene Hackman
Actor | The French Connection
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...
Born: January 30, 1930
Number of Movies Seen - 25
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Poseidon Adventure
2. Crimson Tide
3. Bonnie and Clyde
4. Superman
5. Under Fire
19. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and...
Born: July 30, 1947
Number of Movies Seen - 25
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Terminator
2. The Terminator 2: Judgement Day
3. Total Recall
4. True Lies
5. Last Action Hero
20. Danny DeVito
Actor | Matilda
Danny DeVito has amassed a formidable and versatile body of work as an actor, producer and director that spans the stage, television and film.
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. was born on November 17, 1944, in Neptune, New Jersey, to Italian-American parents. His mother, Julia (Moccello), was a homemaker. ...
Born: November 17, 1944
Number of Movies Seen - 24
Top Five favorite Films:
1. Throw Mamma From the Train
2. Twins
3. Romancing the Stone
4. Batman Returns
5. The War of the Roses
21. Dustin Hoffman
Actor | Tootsie
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
Born: August 8, 1937
Number of Movies Seen - 24
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Tootsie
2. Little Big Man
3. Rain Man
4. Outbreak
5. Kramer vs. Kramer
22. Woody Harrelson
Actor | True Detective
Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Woodrow Tracy Harrelson was born on July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas, to Diane Lou (Oswald) and Charles Harrelson. He grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, where his mother was from. After receiving degrees in theater arts and English from Hanover College, he...
Born: July 23, 1961
Number of Movies Watched - 23
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Zombieland
2. Natural Born Killers
3. Indecent Proposal
4, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
5. Solo: A Star Wars Story
23. Owen Wilson
Actor | The Royal Tenenbaums
Self-proclaimed troublemaker Owen Cunningham Wilson was born in Dallas, to Irish-American parents originally from Massachusetts. He grew up in Texas with his mother, Laura (Cunningham), a photographer; his father, Robert Andrew Wilson, an ad exec; and his brothers, Andrew Wilson (the eldest) and ...
Born: November 18, 1968
Number of Movies Seen - 23
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Wedding Crashers
2. Marley & Me
3. Zoolander
4. Night at the Museum
5. Midnight in Paris
24. James Cromwell
Actor | L.A. Confidential
Born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie-Mellon University, James Cromwell is the son of film director John Cromwell and actress Kay Johnson. He studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon, and went into the theatre (like his parents) doing everything from ...
Born: January 27, 1940
Number of Movies Seen - 22
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Star Trek: First Contact
2. The Longest Yard '05
3. The Artist
4. Babe
5. LA Confidential
25. Matt Damon
Actor | Good Will Hunting
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...
Born: October 8, 1970
Number of Movies Seen - 22
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Departed
2. The Martian
3. True Grit
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Invictus
26. Steve Martin
Writer | Roxanne
Steve Martin was born on August 14, 1945 in Waco, Texas, USA as Stephen Glenn Martin to Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1913-2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914-1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor. He was raised in Inglewood and Garden Grove in California. In 1960, he got a job at the Magic ...
Born: August 14, 1945
Number of Movies Seen - 22
Top Five Movies Seen:
1. L.A. Story
2. All o Me
3. Little Shop of Horrors
4. The Lonely Guy
5. Planes, Trains & Automobiles
27. Eddie Murphy
Actor | The Nutty Professor
Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a ...
Born: April 3, 1961
Number of Movies Seen - 22
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Beverly Hills Cop
2. Trading Places
3. 48 Hrs.
4. Coming to America
5. Shrek
28. Ben Stiller
Producer | Tropic Thunder
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His father was of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his mother was of Irish Catholic descent (she converted to Judaism).
His parents made no real...
Born: November 30, 1965
Number of Movies Seen - 22
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2. Meet the Fockers
3. Zoolander
4. Tropic Thunder
5. Night at the Museum
29. Donald Sutherland
Actor | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The towering presence of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is often noticed, as are his legendary contributions to cinema. He has appeared in almost 200 different shows and films. He is also the father of renowned actor Kiefer Sutherland, among others.
Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint ...
Born: July 17, 1935
Number of Movies Seen - 22
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Ordinary People
2. Outbreak
3. The Dirty Dozen
4. The Hunger Games Series
5. The Leisure Seeker
30. Denzel Washington
Actor | Fences
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...
Born: December 28, 1954
Number of Movies Seen - 22
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Crimson Tide
2. A Soldier's Story
3. Ricochet
4. Fallen
5. Man on Fire
31. George Clooney
Actor | The Ides of March
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...
Born: May 6, 1961
Number of Movies Seen - 21
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Perfect Storm
2. Gravity
3. The Descendants
4. Batman & Robin
5. Burn After Reading
32. Robert Downey Jr.
Actor | Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the business.
Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, the son of writer, director and ...
Born: April 4, 1965
Number of Movies Seen - 21
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Avengers
2. Iron Man
3. Captain America: Civil War
4. Chaplin
5. Avengers: Infinity War
33. Christopher Lloyd
Actor | Back to the Future
Christopher Lloyd is an American actor with a relatively long career. His better known roles include drug-using taxicab driver Jim Ignatowski in the sitcom Taxi (1978), Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), inventor Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future ...
Born: October 22, 1938
Number of Movies Seen- 21
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Back To The Future Trilogy
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
3. The Addams Family
4. Addams Family Values
5. Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
34. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
April 25, 1940
Number of Movies Seen - 21
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Godfather
2. Scarface
3. The Godfather: Part II
4. And Justice For All
5. Dog Day Afternoon
35. Christopher Walken
Actor | The Deer Hunter
Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...
Born: March 31, 1943
Number of Movies Seen - 21
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Deer Hunter
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Wedding Crashers
4. Batman Returns
5. The Dead Zone
36. Jim Carrey
Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: ...
Born: January 17, 1962
Number of Movies Seen - 20
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Truman Show
2. Batman Forever
3. Man on the Moon
4. Liar Liar
5. Dumb and Dumber
37. Robert Duvall
Actor | The Apostle
Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...
Born : January 5, 1931
Number of Movies Seen - 20
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Godfather
2. Falling Down
3. Apocalypse Now
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. True Grit '69
38. Jeff Goldblum
Actor | Jurassic Park
Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum was born October 22, 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of four children of Shirley (Temeles), a radio broadcaster who also ran an appliances firm, and Harold L. Goldblum, a doctor. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry.
...
Born: October 22, 1952
Number of Movies Seen - 20
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Independence Day
2. The Big Chill
3. Jurassic Park
4. The Fly ' 86
5. Thor: Ragnarok
39. Michael Keaton
Actor | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Quirky, inventive and handsome American actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift (1982). He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny...
Born: September 5, 1951
Number of Movies Seen - 20
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Mr. Mom
2. Johnny Dangerously
3. Batman
4. Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
5. The Founder
40. Kurt Russell
Actor | Escape from New York
Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Thousand Oaks, California to Louise Julia Russell (née Crone), a dancer & Bing Russell, an actor. He is of English, German, Scottish and Irish descent. His first roles were as a child on television series, ...
March 17, 1951
Number of Movies Seen - 20
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Tombstone
2. The Hateful Eight
3. Escape From New York
4. The Thing
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
41. Mark Wahlberg
Producer | The Fighter
American actor Mark Wahlberg is one of a handful of respected entertainers who successfully made the transition from teen pop idol to acclaimed actor. A Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for The Departed (2006) who went on to receive positive critical reviews for his performance in The Fighter (...
Born: June 5, 1971
Number of Movies Seen - 20
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Perfect Storm
2. The Departed
3. Daddy's Home 2
4. Ted
5. Patriots Day
42. Alan Arkin
Actor | Argo
Alan Arkin was an Academy Award-winning American actor who was also an acclaimed director, producer, author, singer and composer.
He was born Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York. His family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Germany. In 1946, the Arkins moved from Brooklyn to...
Born: March 26, 1934
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. Argo
4. Grudge Match
5. Wait Until Dark
43. Alec Baldwin
Actor | The Departed
Alec Baldwin is the oldest, and best-known, of the four Baldwin brothers in the acting business (the others are Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin and Daniel Baldwin). Alexander Rae Baldwin III was born on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (Martineau) and Alexander Rae ...
Born: April 3, 1958
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Departed
2. Beetlejuice
3. The Edge
4. Ghosts of Mississippi
5. Glengarry Glen Ross
44. Jeff Bridges
Actor | The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...
Born: December 4, 1949
Number of Movies Seen -19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Against All Odds
2. Jagged Edge
3. The Big Lebowski
4. The Fisher King
5. The Morning After
45. John Cleese
Actor | A Fish Called Wanda
John Cleese was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, to Muriel Evelyn (Cross) and Reginald Francis Cleese. He was born into a family of modest means, his father being an insurance salesman; but he was nonetheless sent off to private schools to obtain a good education. Here he ...
Born: October 27, 1939
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Life of Brian
2. A Fish Called Wanda
3. The Meaning of Life
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5. Time Bandits
46. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
Born: January 18, 1955
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Untouchables
2. Field of Dreams
3. The Bodyguard
4. Dances With Wolves
5. Bull Durham
47. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
Born: November 11, 1974
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Titanic
2. The Departed
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
4. The Great Gatsby
5. What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
48. Ed Harris
Actor | Appaloosa
By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.
Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. ...
Born: November 28, 1950
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Apollo 13
2. A Beautiful Mind
3. The Right Stuff
4. Under Fire
5. The Truman Show
49. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
Born: December 31, 1937
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Silence of the Lambs
2. Hitchcock
3. Amistad
4. The Edge
5. Nixon
50. William Hurt
Actor | A History of Violence
William McChord Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to Claire Isabel (McGill) and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked at the State Department. He was trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including the most recent nomination for his ...
Born: March 20, 1950
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Big Chill
2. Kiss of the Spiderwoman
3. Captain America: Civil War
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
5. Children of a Lesser God
51. James Earl Jones
Actor | Rogue One
Widely regarded as the one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native USA and internationally, James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi. At an early age, he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred ...
Born: January 17, 1931
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Original Star Wars Trilogy
2. Field of Dreams
3. The Lion King
4. Coming to America
5. Sandlot
52. Christopher Lee
Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it ...
Born: May 27, 1922
Died: June 7, 2015
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3. The Wicker Man
4. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
5. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
53. John Lithgow
Actor | The World According to Garp
If "born to the theater" has meaning in determining a person's life path, then John Lithgow is a prime example of this truth. He was born in Rochester, New York, to Sarah Jane (Price), an actress, and Arthur Washington Lithgow III, who was both a theatrical producer and director. John's father was ...
Born: October 19, 1945
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The World According to Garp
2. Terms of Endearment
3. Footloose
4. Ricochet
5. Twilight Zone: The Movie
54. Liam Neeson
Actor | Kinsey
Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an ...
Born: June 7, 1952
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Schindler's List
2. Taken
3. Batman Begins
4. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
5. K-19: The Widowmaker
55. Gary Oldman
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...
Born March 21, 1958
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top 5 Favorite Films:
1. Batman Begins
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Dark Knight Rises
4. Air Force One
5. Darkest Hour
56. Wallace Shawn
Actor | My Dinner with Andre
American character actor and playwright Wallace Shawn has one of those fun, delightfully mischievously gnomish faces made for entertaining. Though he got out of the acting starting gate rather late, he quickly excelled film and TV while managing to turn himself into comedy egghead or loser types. ...
Born: November 12, 1943
Number of Movies Seen - 19
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Princess Bride
2. Toy Story Trilogy
3. The Incredibles
4. My Dinner with Andre
5. Las Vegas Vacation
57. Steve Buscemi
Actor | Fargo
Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dorothy (Wilson), a restaurant hostess, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker. He is of Italian (father) and English, Dutch, and Irish (mother) descent. He became interested in acting during his last year of high school. After graduating, he moved to...
December 13, 1957
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Reservoir Dogs
2. Fargo
3. Monsters Inc.
4. The Death of Stalin
5. The Big Fish
58. Jack Black
Actor | School of Rock
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black was born on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, California and raised in Hermosa Beach, California to Judith Love Cohen & Thomas William Black, both satellite engineers. He is of Russian Jewish & British-German ancestry. Black attended the University of California at Los ...
Born: August 28, 1969
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top 5 Favorite Films:
1. King Kong '05
2. Shark Tale
3. School of Rock
4. Tropic Thunder
5. High Fidelity
59. Steve Carell
Actor | The Office
Steve Carell, one of America's most versatile comics, was born Steven John Carell on August 16, 1962, in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the son of Harriet Theresa (Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His mother was of Polish descent and his father of Italian and ...
Born: August 16, 1962
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Little Miss Sunshine
2. Battle of the Sexes
3. Despicable Me Trilogy
4. Get Smart
5. Foxcatcher
60. Sean Connery
Actor | The Rock
The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...
Born: August 25, 1930
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Untouchables
2. The Man Who Would be King
3. Goldfinger
4. Murder on the Orient Express
5. Time Bandits
61. Willem Dafoe
Actor | Spider-Man
Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...
Born: July 22, 1955
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Platoon
2. Spider-Man
3. Born on the Fourth of July
4. American Psycho
5. The English Patient
62. Jeff Daniels
Actor | The Squid and the Whale
Actor Jeff Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, but was raised in Chelsea, Michigan. He is the son of Marjorie J. (Ferguson) and Robert Lee Daniels, who owned The Chelsea Lumber Company and was also mayor of Chelsea. Jeff attended Central Michigan University, but became involved in acting and ...
Born: February 19, 1955
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Speed
2. The Purple Rose of Cairo
3. Terms of Endearment
4. Arachnophobia
5. Dumb and Dumber
63. Richard Dreyfuss
Actor | The Goodbye Girl
Richard Dreyfuss is an American leading man, who has played his fair share of irritating pests and brash, ambitious hustlers.
He was born Richard Stephen Dreyfus in Brooklyn, New York, to Geraldine (Robbins), an activist, and Norman Dreyfus, a restaurateur and attorney. His paternal grandparents ...
Born: October 29, 1947
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Jaws
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. American Graffiti
4. Stand By Me
5. What About Bob?
64. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actor | The Master
Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport to Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee, and was mostly of German, Irish, English and Dutch ancestry. After becoming involved in ...
Born: July 23, 1967
Died: February 2, 2014
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Doubt
2. Capote
3. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
4. Mission Impossible III
5. The Boat That Rocked
65. Craig T. Nelson
Actor | Coach
Craig T. Nelson was born on April 4, 1944 in Spokane, Washington, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Coach (1989), The Incredibles (2004) and The Family Stone (2005). He has been married to Doria Cook-Nelson since 1987. He was previously married to Robin McCarthy.
Born: April 4, 1944
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Poltergeist
2. The Incredibles
3. The Killing Fields
4. Incredibles 2
5. Silkwood
66. Robert Redford
Actor | The Natural
Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of ...
Born: August 18, 1936
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2. The Sting
3. The Way We Were
4. The Natural
5. All the President's Men
67. Alan Rickman
Actor | Die Hard
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...
Born: February 21, 1946
Died: January 14, 2016
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite films:
1. Die Hard
2. Galaxy Quest
3. The Harry Potter Series
4. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5. Love Actually
68. Will Smith
Producer | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden ...
Born: September 25, 1968
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Independence Day
2. Men In Black
3. Shark Tale
4. I Am Legend
5. Hancock
69. John Travolta
Actor | Pulp Fiction
John Joseph Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey, one of six children of Helen Travolta (née Helen Cecilia Burke) and Salvatore/Samuel J. Travolta. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His father owned a tire repair shop called Travolta Tires in Hillsdale, ...
Born: February 18, 1954
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Saturday Night Fever
3. Carrie
4. Michael
5. Grease
70. James Woods
Actor | Vampires
James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather ...
Born: April 18, 1947
Number of Movies Seen - 18
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Against All Odds
2. Contact
3. The Way We Were
4. Videodrome
5. Once Upon a Time in America
71. Chevy Chase
Actor | Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Chevy Chase was born Cornelius Crane Chase on October 8, 1943 in Lower Manhattan, New York, to Cathalene Parker (Browning), a concert pianist and librettist, and Edward Tinsley "Ned" Chase, an editor and writer. His parents both came from prominent families, and his grandfathers were artist and ...
Born: October 8, 1943
Number of Movies Seen - 17
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Vacation
2. Fletch
3. Spies Like Us
4. Caddyshack
5. Christmas Vacation
72. Michael Douglas
Actor | Wall Street
A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.
In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated...
Born: September 25, 1944
Number of Movies Seen - 17
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Fatal Attraction
2. Romancing The Stone
3. Falling Down
4. The War of the Roses
5. Basic Instinct
73. William Fichtner
Actor | Crash
A small-town guy with a big heart, William Fichtner has been captivating the hearts of Western New Yorkers for decades. Bill was born in 1956 on Long Island, New York, to Patricia A. (Steitz) and William E. Fichtner. He is of German, Irish, and English descent.
Fichtner was raised in Cheektowaga, ...
Born: November 27, 1956
Number of Movies Seen - 17
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Dark Knight
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Contact
4. The Longest Yard '05
5. Wrong
74. Cary Grant
Actor | North by Northwest
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...
Born: January 18, 1904
Died: November 29, 1986
Number of Movies Seen - 17
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. North by Northwest
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. Notorious
4. Arsenic and Old Lace
5. An Affair to Remember
75. Tommy Lee Jones
Actor | The Fugitive
Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...
Born: September 15, 1946
Number of Movies Seen -17
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Fugitive
2. Men in Black
3. Batman Forever
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Client
76. Christopher Plummer
Actor | Beginners
Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...
Born: December 13, 1929
Number of Movies Seen - 17
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Sound of Music
2. The Man Who Would Be King
3. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
4. Dragnet
5. A Beautiful Mind
77. Nicolas Cage
Actor | Face/Off
Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, the son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (whose brother is director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang. He is of Italian (father) and Polish and German (mother) descent. Cage changed his...
January 7, 1964
Number of Movies Seen - 16
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. Raising Arizona
3. The Rock
4. Con Air
5. National Treasure
78. John Candy
Actor | Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Candy was one of Canada's greatest and funniest character actors. His well-known role as the big hearted buffoon earned him classics in Uncle Buck (1989) and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). His career has handed him some dry spells but Candy always rebounded.
Born in Newmarket, Ontario, in ...
Born: October 31, 1950
Died: March 4, 1994
Number of Movies Watched -16
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Spaceballs
2. Vacation
3. Splash
4. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
5. Uncle Buck
79. Bradley Cooper
Actor | A Star Is Born
Bradley Charles Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father, Charles John Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the ...
Born: January 5, 1975
Number of Movies Seen - 16
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Hangover
2. American Sniper
3. Wedding Crashers
4. A Star Is Born '18
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
80. Will Ferrell
Producer | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
John William Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, to Betty Kay (Overman), a teacher, and Roy Lee Ferrell, Jr., a musician. His parents were originally from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
A graduate of the University of Southern California, Ferrell became interested in performing while a student ...
Born: July 16, 1967
Number of Movies Seen - 16
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Wedding Crashers
2. Zoolander
3. Daddy's Home
4. Daddy's Home 2
5. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
81. John Malkovich
Actor | Being John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, to Joe Anne (Choisser), who owned a local newspaper, and Daniel Leon Malkovich, a state conservation director. His paternal grandparents were Croatian. In 1976, Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary ...
December 9, 1953
Number of Movies Seen - 16
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. In The Line of Fire
2. Empire of the Sun
3. The Killing Fields
4. Burn After Reading
5. Places In the Heart
82. Paul Newman
Actor | The Hustler
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...
Born: January 26, 1925
Died: September 26, 2008
Number of Movies Seen - 16
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2. The Sting
3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
4. The Color of Money
5. The Verdict
83. Sean Penn
Actor | Mystic River
Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints.
Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the ...
Born: August 17, 1960
Number of Movies Seen - 16
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Milk
2. Taps
3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
4. The Falcon and the Snowman
5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
84. Patrick Stewart
Actor | Logan
Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (Barrowclough), a textile worker and weaver, and Alfred Stewart, who was in the army. He was a member of various local drama groups from about age 12. He left school at age 15 to work as a junior reporter on a local paper; he ...
Born: July 13, 1940
Number of Movies Seen - 16
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Star Trek: Generations
2. Star Trek: First Contact
3. The Original X-Men Trilogy
4. X-Men: Days of Future Past
5. L.A. Story
85. Kevin Bacon
Actor | Footloose
Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.
Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. ...
Born: July 8, 1958
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Footloose
2. Apollo 13
3. Frost/Nixon
4. Tremors
5. Patriots Day
86. Humphrey Bogart
Actor | Casablanca
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...
Born: December 25, 1899
Died: January 14, 1957
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Casablanca
2. The Caine Mutiny
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. The African Queen
5. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
87. Matthew Broderick
Actor | The Producers
A slight comic actor chiefly known for his boyish charm, Matthew Broderick was born on March 21, 1962 in New York City, to Patricia Broderick (née Biow), a playwright and painter, and James Broderick, an actor. His father had Irish and English ancestry, and his mother was from a Jewish family (from...
Born: March 21, 1962
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. WarGames
3. The Lion King
4. Glory
5. The Cable Guy
88. Dabney Coleman
Actor | WarGames
For decades, Dabney Coleman has often appeared as a smarmy, selfish, nervous person, often with money, who is mostly out for himself. He did such a good job in this type of part that he's made a career of it in film.
Dabney Wharton Coleman was born in Austin, Texas, to Mary Wharton (Johns) and ...
Born: January 3, 1932
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Tootsie
2. On Golden Pond
3. 9 to 5
4. WarGames
5. Dragnet
89. Henry Fonda
Actor | 12 Angry Men
This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He was born in Grand Island, ...
Born: May 16, 1905
Died: August 12, 1982
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. On Golden Pond
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Once Upon a Time in The West
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. Mr. Roberts
90. James Franco
Actor | Spring Breakers
Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of ...
Born: April 19, 1978
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Original Spider-Man Trilogy
2. This Is The End
3. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
4. 127 Hours
5. Pineapple Express
91. Chris Hemsworth
Actor | Snow White and the Huntsman
Christopher "Chris" Hemsworth was born on August 11, 1983 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Leonie Hemsworth (née van Os), an English teacher & Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. His brothers are actors, Liam Hemsworth & Luke Hemsworth; he is of Dutch (from his immigrant maternal ...
Born August 11, 1983
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Avengers
2. Cabin in the Woods
3. Thor
4. Thor: Ragnarok
5. Avengers: Infinity War
92. Charlton Heston
Actor | Ben-Hur
With features chiseled in stone, and renowned for playing a long list of historical figures, particularly in Biblical epics, the tall, well-built and ruggedly handsome Charlton Heston was one of Hollywood's top leading men of his prime and remained active in front of movie cameras for over sixty ...
Born: October 4, 1923
Died: April 5, 2008
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Ten Commandments
2. Planet of the Apes '68
3. Soylent Green
4. Ben Hur
5. Earthquake
93. Hugh Jackman
Actor | Les Misérables
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
Born: October 12, 1968
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Prestige
2. Original X-Men Trilogy
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past
4. Real Steel
5. The Greatest Showman
94. Seth Rogen
Producer | This Is the End
An actor, comedian and writer, Seth Rogen has come a long way from doing stand-up comedy as a teen.
Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sandy (Belogus), a social worker, and Mark Rogen, who worked for non-profits. His father is American-born and his mother is Canadian. He is of Russian...
Born: April 15, 1982
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. This is the End
2. The Pineapple Express
3. The Interview
4. The Disaster Artist
5. Steve Jobs
95. Mark Ruffalo
Actor | Spotlight
Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...
Born: November 22, 1967
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. The Avengers
2. Spotlight
3. Thor: Ragnarok
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. Foxcatcher
96. Charlie Sheen
Actor | Two and a Half Men
Charlie Sheen was born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965, in New York City. His father, actor Martin Sheen (born Ramon Antonio Gerard Estevez), was at the time just breaking into the business, with performances on Broadway. His mother, Janet Sheen (née Templeton), was a former New York art ...
Born: September 3, 1965
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Platoon
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
3. Wall Street
4. Red Dawn
5. Eight Men Out
97. Kevin Spacey
Actor | The Usual Suspects
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...
Born: July 26, 1959
Number of Movies Seen - 15
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Seven
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Pay it Forward
4. Superman
5. The Negotiator
98. Ben Affleck
Producer | Argo
Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...
Born: August 15, 1972
Number of Movies Seen - 14
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Argo
2. Gone Girl
3. Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice
4. Shakespeare In Love
5. Good Will Hunting
99. Josh Brolin
Actor | Avengers: Endgame
Rugged features and a natural charm have worked for Josh Brolin, the son of actor James Brolin. He has played roles as a policeman, a hunter, and the President of the United States.
Brolin was born February 12, 1968 in Santa Monica, California, to Jane Cameron (Agee), a Texas-born wildlife activist,...
Born: February 12, 1968
Number of Movies Seen - 14
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame
2. No Country For Old Men
3. Milk
4. The Goonies
5. True Grit '10
100. John Cusack
Actor | Grosse Pointe Blank
John Cusack is, like most of his characters, an unconventional hero. Wary of fame and repelled by formulaic Hollywood fare, he has built a successful career playing underdogs and odd men out--all the while avoiding the media spotlight. John was born in Evanston, Illinois, to an Irish-American ...
Born: June 28, 1966
Number of Movies Seen - 14
Top Five Favorite Films:
1. Stand By Me
2. High Fidelity
3. Runaway Jury
4. Say Anything
5. Eight Men Out
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