Top 100 Movie Stars

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This page of Top 100 Movie Stars comes from two lists.  The first list is the American Film Institute’s Top 50 Classic Stars.  The second list is our list of the Top 50 Current Stars.  Current at least compared to the AFI list.  There are 50 Actors and 50 Actresses Listed Here.  Yes some great performers were left off…but overall we feel this is an outstanding Top 100.

  1.  AFI’s Top 50 Stars – stars before 1950
  2. UMR’s Top 25 Actors – actors who became stars after 1950
  3. UMR’s Top 25 Actresses – actresses who became stars after 1950

Top 100 Movie Stars by Category

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.

  • Sort Top 100 Movie Stars by the number of their movies in our database
  • Sort Top 100 Movie Stars by career adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
  • Sort Top 100 Movie Stars by career average critics and audience rating…all their movies combined
  • Sort Top 100 Movie Stars by how many career Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins their combined movies earned
  • Sort Top 100 Movie Stars by their career average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • The actor link takes you to our UMR page on that performer

Our Top 100 Stars Are Ranked By Using All The Stats In The Table – James Stewart is our “Best of the Best” while Sophia Loren is the “Worst of the Best”.

RankTop 100 StarOverall RankMoviesTotal Adjusted Domestic Box OfficeAVG Review %Oscar Noms / WinsAVG UMR Score
James Stewart1st76$10,571,600,00070.3 %081 / 01479.10
Cary Grant2nd65$9,373,000,00072.6 %071 / 00979.90
Gary Cooper3rd73$10,767,500,00067.7 %101 / 01879.50
Spencer Tracy4th62$9,606,156,00068.4 %090 / 01777.70
Tom Hanks5th50$8,355,000,00068.8 %090 / 02073.10
Gregory Peck6th53$7,875,800,00067.2 %095 / 02273.90
Humphrey Bogart7th70$8,624,000,00069.8 %052 / 01076.70
Fred Astaire8th39$5,850,000,00069.7 %059 / 00781.50
Clark Gable9th64$11,475,200,00067.5 %047 / 01782.70
Marlon Brando10th38$5,874,800,00069.1 %092 / 02372.60
Burt Lancaster11th69$7,010,400,00069.5 %088 / 02070.10
Harrison Ford12th52$11,996,400,00067.0 %088 / 02268.90
Judy Garland13th31$5,784,600,00072.5 %039 / 00687.60
Paul Newman14th60$7,512,000,00066.7 %102 / 02267.40
John Wayne15th94$12,154,200,00064.5 %077 / 01473.80
Olivia de Havilland16th48$7,483,200,00065.4 %081 / 02574.50
Ingrid Bergman17th32$4,899,200,00072.3 %066 / 01374.00
Clint Eastwood18th65$7,065,500,00069.5 %049 / 01374.30
Jack Nicholson19th51$5,599,800,00069.9 %097 / 02266.30
Leonardo DiCaprio20th26$3,842,800,00071.1 %095 / 03173.30
Tom Cruise21st42$7,047,600,00066.7 %055 / 00978.40
Robert Redford22nd47$7,256,800,00067.6 %070 / 02770.00
Daniel Day-Lewis23rd17$1,052,300,00080.2 %082 / 02178.10
Meryl Streep24th59$4,489,900,00069.5 %119 / 02867.30
Katharine Hepburn25th43$5,314,800,00069.0 %063 / 01471.30
Cate Blanchett26th47$4,577,800,00069.9 %094 / 02961.80
Dustin Hoffman27th55$7,067,500,00066.5 %088 / 02363.70
William Holden28th66$7,510,800,00064.6 %088 / 02866.60
Jack Lemmon29th53$5,225,800,00067.9 %073 / 01569.70
Brad Pitt30th45$4,315,500,00068.3 %076 / 01371.70
James Cagney31st61$6,801,500,00066.8 %046 / 00875.30
Myrna Loy32nd74$9,057,600,00065.3 %041 / 01373.40
Marlene Dietrich33rd32$3,952,000,00070.1 %043 / 00877.00
Gene Hackman34th76$7,083,200,00065.7 %092 / 01757.50
Deborah Kerr35th39$4,543,500,00067.0 %071 / 02271.10
Irene Dunne36th31$4,067,200,00067.9 %042 / 00779.40
Vivien Leigh37th15$3,196,500,00071.6 %041 / 01578.00
Claudette Colbert38th48$6,273,600,00066.4 %041 / 00874.60
Bette Davis39th79$6,351,600,00065.2 %084 / 01465.00
Henry Fonda40th83$8,690,100,00064.2 %058 / 01366.60
Grace Kelly41st11$2,338,600,00077.2 %028 / 00889.50
Audrey Hepburn42nd25$2,862,500,00071.9 %058 / 01569.50
Shirley Temple43rd37$5,072,700,00067.6 %013 / 00280.00
Charles Chaplin44th13$2,860,000,00081.9 %007 / 00183.00
James Dean45th3$930,300,00085.5 %017 / 00298.70
Edward G. Robinson46th72$7,365,600,00066.6 %033 / 00268.70
Gene Kelly47th40$5,140,000,00064.8 %052 / 01372.30
Ginger Rogers48th55$6,644,000,00064.7 %039 / 00372.30
Marilyn Monroe49th25$3,217,500,00070.8 %030 / 00773.40
Greta Garbo50th24$2,217,600,00071.9 %014 / 00180.00
Laurence Olivier51st49$3,856,300,00067.2 %073 / 01764.50
Doris Day52nd39$4,945,200,00065.2 %029 / 00478.20
Steve McQueen53rd26$3,400,800,00069.7 %030 / 00571.80
Robert DeNiro54th95$5,937,500,00062.2 %099 / 01951.50
Denzel Washington55th47$3,886,900,00068.2 %035 / 00771.10
Jean Harlow56th22$2,844,600,00069.7 %004 / 00080.20
Barbara Stanwyck57th81$7,484,400,00064.8 %029 / 00167.40
Elizabeth Taylor58th48$6,840,000,00058.4 %076 / 02361.20
Al Pacino59th46$4,117,000,00065.6 %078 / 01659.70
Morgan Freeman60th70$7,028,000,00062.3 %061 / 01858.00
Mary Pickford61st33$4,596,900,00065.8 %001 / 00179.70
Julie Andrews62nd28$5,862,920,00064.7 %064 / 01269.18
Barbra Streisand63rd19$4,005,200,00059.1 %044 / 00878.00
Michael Caine64th100$6,500,000,00062.3 %072 / 01348.80
Kirk Douglas65th71$5,580,600,00064.1 %048 / 01559.70
Lillian Gish66th31$3,865,700,00068.6 %006 / 00169.60
Robert Mitchum67th85$7,335,500,00062.1 %037 / 00658.50
Mel Gibson68th44$5,253,600,00063.8 %038 / 01166.20
Julie Christie69th34$3,002,200,00067.8 %054 / 01258.20
Natalie Wood70th44$4,822,400,00061.7 %051 / 01566.00
Shirley MacLaine71st51$4,411,500,00061.1 %075 / 01757.60
Sidney Poitier72nd46$4,140,000,00063.6 %054 / 01262.40
Diane Keaton73rd48$4,387,200,00063.6 %067 / 01754.80
Robin Williams74th66$6,923,400,00057.1%056 / 01054.59
Anne Bancroft75th50$3,495.00000063.9%044 / 00355.50
Sean Connery76th57$6,857,100,00062.8 %034 / 00757.00
Sally Field77th33$4,669,500,00061.0 %046 / 01363.30
Jane Fonda78th45$3,978,000,00062.2 %063 / 01358.80
Rita Hayworth79th35$3,790,500,00064.0 %035 / 00569.20
Lauren Bacall80th36$3,272,400,00068.0 %018 / 00562.60
Richard Burton81st47$4,032,600,00061.0 %073 / 01853.80
Joan Crawford82nd78$6,762,600,00058.8 %032 / 00360.50
Peter O'Toole83rd37$2,834,200,00066.0 %054 / 02157.30
Will Smith84th32$5,574,400,00058.4 %012 / 00369.50
Marx Brothers85th18$1,704,600,00068.0 %001 / 00067.70
Kate Winslet86th36$2,354,400,00066.0 %054 / 01652.10
Ava Gardner87th42$4,569,600,00060.3 %030 / 00361.70
Buster Keaton88th29$664,888,00066.6%003 / 00264.60
Orson Welles89th56$3,382,400,00066.0 %034 / 00950.50
Jodie Foster90th40$2,568,000,00066.7 %027 / 00759.00
Carole Lombard91st39$3,279,900,00063.4 %008 / 00068.30
Julia Roberts92nd46$4,926,600,00058.1 %022 / 00160.50
Faye Dunaway93rd43$3,186,300,00060.3 %049 / 01144.90
Susan Sarandon94th76$3,724,000,00062.1 %034 / 00247.00
Sandra Bullock95th37$3,977,500,00054.2 %025 / 01454.80
Mae West96th12$1,515,600,00060.4 %002 / 00067.60
Charlize Theron97th44$2,455,200,00059.8 %029 / 01048.30
Goldie Hawn98th30$2,649,000,00057.1 %016 / 00457.80
Angelina Jolie99th35$3,178,000,00056.2 %016 / 00153.10
Sophia Loren100th35$2,261,000,00058.4 %018 / 00151.20

So what do you think of our rankings?  Look good? Think we are crazy? Left somebody out?  Look forward to some feedback.

Want more stats? The following link takes you to a page that ranks over 500 Movie Stars…..because more people were involved in the database…the rankings are different.  Ranking 564 Movie Stars.

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