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TOP PERFORMANCES BY AN ACTOR
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Rank Film Points L #1
#1 Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront 22 6 2
#2 Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleonein The Godfather 18 5 3
#3 Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver 15 5 1
#4 Marlon Brando as Paul in Last Tango in Paris 14 3 2
#5 Robert De Niro as Jake 'Raging Bull' La Motta in Raging Bull 10 4 -
#6 James Dean as Cal Trask in East of Eden 9 2 1
Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth in Dodsworth 9 2 1
#8 Richard Burton as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 8 2 1
#9 Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia 7 3 -
James Stewart as George Baily in It's A Wonderful Life 7 2 1
#11 Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin in King of Comedy 6 2 -
Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs 6 2 -
Klaus Kinski as Don Lope de Aguirre in Aguirre, the Wrath of God 6 2 -
Al Pacino as Don Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part II 6 2 1
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho 6 3 -
Victor Sjöström as Professor Isak Borg in Wild Strawberries 6 2 -
#17 Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire 5 1 1
Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 5 1 1
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump 5 1 1
Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi 5 1 1
Jack Nicholson as J.J. 'Jake' Gittes in Chinatown 5 1 1
Peter O'Toole as Jack the 14th Earl of Gurney in The Ruling Class 5 1 1
Chishu Ryu as Shuehi Horikowa in There Was a Father 5 1 1
Anton Walbrook as Boris Lermontov in The Red Shoes 5 1 1
John Wayne as The Ringo Kid in Stagecoach 5 1 1
Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane 5 1 1
#27 Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca 4 1 -
James Caviezel as Jesus in The Passion of the Christ 4 1 -
Cary Grant as T.R. Devlin in Notorious 4 1 -
Cary Grant as Walter Burns in His Girl Friday 4 1 -
Jeremy Irons as Beverly & Elliot Mantle in Dead Ringers 4 1 -
James Mason as Ed Avery in Bigger Than Life 4 1 -
Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter 4 1 -
Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott in Shine 4 1 -
Chishu Ryu as Shukishi Hirayama in Tokyo Story 4 1 -
James Stewart as Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson in Vertigo 4 2 -
James Stewart as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 4 2 -
Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X 4 1 -
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 4 1 -
#40 Tobin Bell as John Kramer/Jigsaw in Saw II 3 1 -
Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in Treasure of the Sierra Madre 3 1 -
Ernest Borgnine as Marty Piletti in Marty 3 1 -
James Cagney as Cody Jarrett in White Heat 3 1 -
Charles Chaplin as The Tramp in City Lights 3 1 -
John Dall as Bart Tare in Gun Crazy 3 1 -
Kevin Kline as Otto in A Fish Called Wanda 3 1 -
Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert in M 3 1 -
Walter Matthau as Henry Graham in A New Leaf 3 1 -
Toshirô Mifune as Dr. Kyojio 'Akahige' Niide in Red Beard 3 1 -
Jack Nicholson as Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 3 1 -
Laurence Olivier as in The Entertainer 3 1 -
Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon in All That Jazz 3 1 -
Peter Sellers as Insp. Jacques Clouseau in Pink Panther [series] 3 1 -
John Travolta as Jack Terri in Blow Out 3 1 -
Oskar Werner as Jules in Jules et Jim 3 1 -
#56 Nicolas Cage as Charlie & Donald Kaufman in Adaptation 2 1 -
James Cagney as T.L. 'Biff' Grimes in The Strawberry Blonde 2 1 -
Zbignew Cybulski as Maciek Chelmicki in Ashes and Diamonds 2 1 -
Henry Fonda as Frank in Once Upon A Time In The West 2 1 -
Tom Hanks as Josh in Big 2 1 -
Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood 2 1 -
William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo 2 1 -
Malcolm McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange 2 1 -
Toshirô Mifune as Taketori Washizu in Throne of Blood 2 1 -
Tatsuya Nakadai as Kaji in The Human Condition Trilogy 2 1 -
Keanu Reeves as Neo Anderson in The Matrix 2 1 -
Harry Dean Stanton as Travis in Paris, Texas 2 1 -
#68 John Barrymore as Gregory Vance in The Great Man Votes 1 1 -
Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil 1 1 -
Humphrey Bogart as Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg in The Caine Mutiny 1 1 -
Seymour Cassel as Chet in Faces 1 1 -
Ben Gazzara as Cosmo Vitelli in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1 1 -
Alec Guinness as Col. Nicholson in The Bridge On The River Kwai 1 1 -
Enrique Irazoqui as Jesus in The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1 1 -
Marcello Mastroianni as Guido in 8 1/2 1 1 -
Toshirô Mifune as Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai 1 1 -
Dick Miller as Walter Paisley in A Bucket of Blood 1 1 -
Bill Murray as Bob Harris in Lost in Translation 1 1 -
George Burns as God in Oh God! 1 1 -
John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in The Searchers 1 1 -
L=How many lists each film appears on                   #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created.

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