Top Movies by Actors

For some, the actors in a movie are the single most depending factor in the choice of seeing it or not, and therefore of course often the reason behind commercial success. Some actors are playing roles with very different kind of characters then others are developing a persona.

Collection of female actors

A selection of the female actors presented on the site, scroll down for more names.

Vivien Leigh

Jodie Foster

Scarlett Johansson

Nicole Kidman

Natalie Portman

Audrey Hepburn

Frances McDormand

Reese Witherspoon

Sigourney Weaver

Collection of male actors

A selection of the male actors presented on the site, scroll down for more names.

Tim Roth

Eddie Murphy

James Dean

Errol Flynn

Al Pacino

Bruce Willis

Leonardo DiCaprio

James Franco

Tom Cruise

Matt Damon

Nicholas Cage

Sidney Poiter

More actors

Jason Statham
American actor (born 1967).

Mia Farrow
American actor.

Edward Norton
American actor.

Grace Kelly
American actor.

Bette Davis
American actor.

Marilyn Monroe
American actor.

Henry Fonda
American actor (born 1905).

Bill Murray
American actor (1950).

Lauren Bacall
American actor (1924-2014).

Sophia Loren
Italian actor.

Donna Reed
American actor

Brad Pitt
American actor.

Joaquin Phoenix
American actor.

Lana Turner
American actor.

Famous actors

Katherine Hepburn
(1907-2003) Selection of movies: Bringing up Baby, The African Queen, The Philadelphia Story.

Betty Davies
(1908-1989) Selection of movies: All About Eve, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane.

Burt Lancaster
(1913-1994) Selection of movies: The Killers, Judgment at Nuremberg.

Being a successful actor in Hollywood (or Bollywood for that matter) means fame and a lot of money. The biggest stars can earn millions for one film and sometimes they also got percents of the gross. Therefore the correct numbers of how much the stars makes on one film is not always easy to calculate, but high on the list is Johnny Deep for his part in Pirates of Caribbean 2 – he got $74 millions!

On GreatestMovies.org "actor" stands for either (male) actor or (female) actress. There is a debate about whether it is an example of sexism to use the word actress for female actors, and because of that reason and also that it is easier to handle one word, actor is the used word on this site.