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.
- AFI’s Top 50 Stars – stars before 1950
- UMR’s Top 25 Actors – actors who became stars after 1950
- 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”.
| Rank | Top 100 Star | Overall Rank | Movies | Total Adjusted Domestic Box Office | AVG Review % | Oscar Noms / Wins | AVG UMR Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Stewart | 1st | 76 | $10,571,600,000 | 70.3 % | 081 / 014 | 79.10 | |
| Cary Grant | 2nd | 65 | $9,373,000,000 | 72.6 % | 071 / 009 | 79.90 | |
| Gary Cooper | 3rd | 73 | $10,767,500,000 | 67.7 % | 101 / 018 | 79.50 | |
| Spencer Tracy | 4th | 62 | $9,606,156,000 | 68.4 % | 090 / 017 | 77.70 | |
| Tom Hanks | 5th | 50 | $8,355,000,000 | 68.8 % | 090 / 020 | 73.10 | |
| Gregory Peck | 6th | 53 | $7,875,800,000 | 67.2 % | 095 / 022 | 73.90 | |
| Humphrey Bogart | 7th | 70 | $8,624,000,000 | 69.8 % | 052 / 010 | 76.70 | |
| Fred Astaire | 8th | 39 | $5,850,000,000 | 69.7 % | 059 / 007 | 81.50 | |
| Clark Gable | 9th | 64 | $11,475,200,000 | 67.5 % | 047 / 017 | 82.70 | |
| Marlon Brando | 10th | 38 | $5,874,800,000 | 69.1 % | 092 / 023 | 72.60 | |
| Burt Lancaster | 11th | 69 | $7,010,400,000 | 69.5 % | 088 / 020 | 70.10 | |
| Harrison Ford | 12th | 52 | $11,996,400,000 | 67.0 % | 088 / 022 | 68.90 | |
| Judy Garland | 13th | 31 | $5,784,600,000 | 72.5 % | 039 / 006 | 87.60 | |
| Paul Newman | 14th | 60 | $7,512,000,000 | 66.7 % | 102 / 022 | 67.40 | |
| John Wayne | 15th | 94 | $12,154,200,000 | 64.5 % | 077 / 014 | 73.80 | |
| Olivia de Havilland | 16th | 48 | $7,483,200,000 | 65.4 % | 081 / 025 | 74.50 | |
| Ingrid Bergman | 17th | 32 | $4,899,200,000 | 72.3 % | 066 / 013 | 74.00 | |
| Clint Eastwood | 18th | 65 | $7,065,500,000 | 69.5 % | 049 / 013 | 74.30 | |
| Jack Nicholson | 19th | 51 | $5,599,800,000 | 69.9 % | 097 / 022 | 66.30 | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | 20th | 26 | $3,842,800,000 | 71.1 % | 095 / 031 | 73.30 | |
| Tom Cruise | 21st | 42 | $7,047,600,000 | 66.7 % | 055 / 009 | 78.40 | |
| Robert Redford | 22nd | 47 | $7,256,800,000 | 67.6 % | 070 / 027 | 70.00 | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | 23rd | 17 | $1,052,300,000 | 80.2 % | 082 / 021 | 78.10 | |
| Meryl Streep | 24th | 59 | $4,489,900,000 | 69.5 % | 119 / 028 | 67.30 | |
| Katharine Hepburn | 25th | 43 | $5,314,800,000 | 69.0 % | 063 / 014 | 71.30 | |
| Cate Blanchett | 26th | 47 | $4,577,800,000 | 69.9 % | 094 / 029 | 61.80 | |
| Dustin Hoffman | 27th | 55 | $7,067,500,000 | 66.5 % | 088 / 023 | 63.70 | |
| William Holden | 28th | 66 | $7,510,800,000 | 64.6 % | 088 / 028 | 66.60 | |
| Jack Lemmon | 29th | 53 | $5,225,800,000 | 67.9 % | 073 / 015 | 69.70 | |
| Brad Pitt | 30th | 45 | $4,315,500,000 | 68.3 % | 076 / 013 | 71.70 | |
| James Cagney | 31st | 61 | $6,801,500,000 | 66.8 % | 046 / 008 | 75.30 | |
| Myrna Loy | 32nd | 74 | $9,057,600,000 | 65.3 % | 041 / 013 | 73.40 | |
| Marlene Dietrich | 33rd | 32 | $3,952,000,000 | 70.1 % | 043 / 008 | 77.00 | |
| Gene Hackman | 34th | 76 | $7,083,200,000 | 65.7 % | 092 / 017 | 57.50 | |
| Deborah Kerr | 35th | 39 | $4,543,500,000 | 67.0 % | 071 / 022 | 71.10 | |
| Irene Dunne | 36th | 31 | $4,067,200,000 | 67.9 % | 042 / 007 | 79.40 | |
| Vivien Leigh | 37th | 15 | $3,196,500,000 | 71.6 % | 041 / 015 | 78.00 | |
| Claudette Colbert | 38th | 48 | $6,273,600,000 | 66.4 % | 041 / 008 | 74.60 | |
| Bette Davis | 39th | 79 | $6,351,600,000 | 65.2 % | 084 / 014 | 65.00 | |
| Henry Fonda | 40th | 83 | $8,690,100,000 | 64.2 % | 058 / 013 | 66.60 | |
| Grace Kelly | 41st | 11 | $2,338,600,000 | 77.2 % | 028 / 008 | 89.50 | |
| Audrey Hepburn | 42nd | 25 | $2,862,500,000 | 71.9 % | 058 / 015 | 69.50 | |
| Shirley Temple | 43rd | 37 | $5,072,700,000 | 67.6 % | 013 / 002 | 80.00 | |
| Charles Chaplin | 44th | 13 | $2,860,000,000 | 81.9 % | 007 / 001 | 83.00 | |
| James Dean | 45th | 3 | $930,300,000 | 85.5 % | 017 / 002 | 98.70 | |
| Edward G. Robinson | 46th | 72 | $7,365,600,000 | 66.6 % | 033 / 002 | 68.70 | |
| Gene Kelly | 47th | 40 | $5,140,000,000 | 64.8 % | 052 / 013 | 72.30 | |
| Ginger Rogers | 48th | 55 | $6,644,000,000 | 64.7 % | 039 / 003 | 72.30 | |
| Marilyn Monroe | 49th | 25 | $3,217,500,000 | 70.8 % | 030 / 007 | 73.40 | |
| Greta Garbo | 50th | 24 | $2,217,600,000 | 71.9 % | 014 / 001 | 80.00 | |
| Laurence Olivier | 51st | 49 | $3,856,300,000 | 67.2 % | 073 / 017 | 64.50 | |
| Doris Day | 52nd | 39 | $4,945,200,000 | 65.2 % | 029 / 004 | 78.20 | |
| Steve McQueen | 53rd | 26 | $3,400,800,000 | 69.7 % | 030 / 005 | 71.80 | |
| Robert DeNiro | 54th | 95 | $5,937,500,000 | 62.2 % | 099 / 019 | 51.50 | |
| Denzel Washington | 55th | 47 | $3,886,900,000 | 68.2 % | 035 / 007 | 71.10 | |
| Jean Harlow | 56th | 22 | $2,844,600,000 | 69.7 % | 004 / 000 | 80.20 | |
| Barbara Stanwyck | 57th | 81 | $7,484,400,000 | 64.8 % | 029 / 001 | 67.40 | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | 58th | 48 | $6,840,000,000 | 58.4 % | 076 / 023 | 61.20 | |
| Al Pacino | 59th | 46 | $4,117,000,000 | 65.6 % | 078 / 016 | 59.70 | |
| Morgan Freeman | 60th | 70 | $7,028,000,000 | 62.3 % | 061 / 018 | 58.00 | |
| Mary Pickford | 61st | 33 | $4,596,900,000 | 65.8 % | 001 / 001 | 79.70 | |
| Julie Andrews | 62nd | 28 | $5,862,920,000 | 64.7 % | 064 / 012 | 69.18 | |
| Barbra Streisand | 63rd | 19 | $4,005,200,000 | 59.1 % | 044 / 008 | 78.00 | |
| Michael Caine | 64th | 100 | $6,500,000,000 | 62.3 % | 072 / 013 | 48.80 | |
| Kirk Douglas | 65th | 71 | $5,580,600,000 | 64.1 % | 048 / 015 | 59.70 | |
| Lillian Gish | 66th | 31 | $3,865,700,000 | 68.6 % | 006 / 001 | 69.60 | |
| Robert Mitchum | 67th | 85 | $7,335,500,000 | 62.1 % | 037 / 006 | 58.50 | |
| Mel Gibson | 68th | 44 | $5,253,600,000 | 63.8 % | 038 / 011 | 66.20 | |
| Julie Christie | 69th | 34 | $3,002,200,000 | 67.8 % | 054 / 012 | 58.20 | |
| Natalie Wood | 70th | 44 | $4,822,400,000 | 61.7 % | 051 / 015 | 66.00 | |
| Shirley MacLaine | 71st | 51 | $4,411,500,000 | 61.1 % | 075 / 017 | 57.60 | |
| Sidney Poitier | 72nd | 46 | $4,140,000,000 | 63.6 % | 054 / 012 | 62.40 | |
| Diane Keaton | 73rd | 48 | $4,387,200,000 | 63.6 % | 067 / 017 | 54.80 | |
| Robin Williams | 74th | 66 | $6,923,400,000 | 57.1% | 056 / 010 | 54.59 | |
| Anne Bancroft | 75th | 50 | $3,495.000000 | 63.9% | 044 / 003 | 55.50 | |
| Sean Connery | 76th | 57 | $6,857,100,000 | 62.8 % | 034 / 007 | 57.00 | |
| Sally Field | 77th | 33 | $4,669,500,000 | 61.0 % | 046 / 013 | 63.30 | |
| Jane Fonda | 78th | 45 | $3,978,000,000 | 62.2 % | 063 / 013 | 58.80 | |
| Rita Hayworth | 79th | 35 | $3,790,500,000 | 64.0 % | 035 / 005 | 69.20 | |
| Lauren Bacall | 80th | 36 | $3,272,400,000 | 68.0 % | 018 / 005 | 62.60 | |
| Richard Burton | 81st | 47 | $4,032,600,000 | 61.0 % | 073 / 018 | 53.80 | |
| Joan Crawford | 82nd | 78 | $6,762,600,000 | 58.8 % | 032 / 003 | 60.50 | |
| Peter O'Toole | 83rd | 37 | $2,834,200,000 | 66.0 % | 054 / 021 | 57.30 | |
| Will Smith | 84th | 32 | $5,574,400,000 | 58.4 % | 012 / 003 | 69.50 | |
| Marx Brothers | 85th | 18 | $1,704,600,000 | 68.0 % | 001 / 000 | 67.70 | |
| Kate Winslet | 86th | 36 | $2,354,400,000 | 66.0 % | 054 / 016 | 52.10 | |
| Ava Gardner | 87th | 42 | $4,569,600,000 | 60.3 % | 030 / 003 | 61.70 | |
| Buster Keaton | 88th | 29 | $664,888,000 | 66.6% | 003 / 002 | 64.60 | |
| Orson Welles | 89th | 56 | $3,382,400,000 | 66.0 % | 034 / 009 | 50.50 | |
| Jodie Foster | 90th | 40 | $2,568,000,000 | 66.7 % | 027 / 007 | 59.00 | |
| Carole Lombard | 91st | 39 | $3,279,900,000 | 63.4 % | 008 / 000 | 68.30 | |
| Julia Roberts | 92nd | 46 | $4,926,600,000 | 58.1 % | 022 / 001 | 60.50 | |
| Faye Dunaway | 93rd | 43 | $3,186,300,000 | 60.3 % | 049 / 011 | 44.90 | |
| Susan Sarandon | 94th | 76 | $3,724,000,000 | 62.1 % | 034 / 002 | 47.00 | |
| Sandra Bullock | 95th | 37 | $3,977,500,000 | 54.2 % | 025 / 014 | 54.80 | |
| Mae West | 96th | 12 | $1,515,600,000 | 60.4 % | 002 / 000 | 67.60 | |
| Charlize Theron | 97th | 44 | $2,455,200,000 | 59.8 % | 029 / 010 | 48.30 | |
| Goldie Hawn | 98th | 30 | $2,649,000,000 | 57.1 % | 016 / 004 | 57.80 | |
| Angelina Jolie | 99th | 35 | $3,178,000,000 | 56.2 % | 016 / 001 | 53.10 | |
| Sophia Loren | 100th | 35 | $2,261,000,000 | 58.4 % | 018 / 001 | 51.20 |
So what do you think of our rankings? Look good? Think we are crazy? Left somebody out? Look forward to some feedback.
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PART 2: HONOURABLE MENTIONS Bringing the list up to 100, Variety published 90 names that didn’t make the cut. They were not ranked; were listed alphabetically; and I don’t have the full list; but these 3 have been highlighted in some coverage:
Cary Grant/Actor – aka Archibald Alexander Leach/Archie Leach/and Al Leach
Lassie/the only animal in the 100.
Frank Sinatra/Singer – aka Ole Blue E yes
NOTE: Some coverage suggests that Sinatra tied with Elvis for 10th place which in effect would make a Top 11. That would make sense to me as in my opinion, based on what I have read, Sinatra and Elvis were the two singers with the greatest influence on 20th century pop music, with the exception of the Beatles who were a group. Elvis is my personal favourite.
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS: It will be seen that all the performers who have been mentioned in Part One and above are from not later than the 1960s [ie The Beatles]. Indeed in Variety’s entire 100 listings only 3 artist were contemporary when the list was compiled in 1999:
Kurt Corbyn/Cult lead guitarist and singer
Quentin Tarantino/Cult movie director
Oprah Winfrey/American media executive, actress, talk show host, TV producer, and philanthropist.
OVERVIEW: Such lists, even from Variety – “The Bible of Entertainment” – will always provoke protest and controversy. For example I raised my own eyebrows at the mention of Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong in the Top 10 great though he was [and he was the personal idol of none other than Bing Crosby] and I thought that by 1999 Tom Cruise had done enough to be included as a contemporary artist.
However I am not privy to Variety’s criteria; and whatever one thinks of any of the individual listings; to be even CONSIDERED for the inclusion in a Variety list of that kind is a marked illustration of the impact the performer concerned had on 20th century culture. Ophra’s net worth was assessed at $2.7 billion last year.
VARIETY LIST of THE TOP 10 ENTERTAINERS [in ALL fields] OF THE 20th CENTURY-Published by Variety Nov 1999.
NO 1 OUTRIGHT The Beatles – for overall influence on popular music*
The other 9 were listed IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Louis Armstrong/Jazz Musician-aka Satchmo/Satch/ or Pops***
Lucille Ball/Television personality****
Marlon Brando/Actor-aka Mr Mumbles****
Humphrey Bogart/Actor-aka Bogie
Charles Chaplin/Silent comedian-aka The Little Tramp****
James Dean/Top Male Cult Icon
Marilyn Monroe/Female Sex Icon****
Mickey Mouse/Greatest Cartoon character
Elvis Presley/aka “The King” of popular singers
***Were all listed in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century [along with Frank Sinatra – see Part 2]. That list included people from all professions and virtually every walk of life – for example JFK, Mother Teresa, Ali, and Rosa Parks the civil rights protester-and not just entertainers, who occupy just 10%h of the list though that’s good considering how diverse and widespread the list is.
Time Magazine’s executives later conceded that the only serious mistake they considered they had made was not to include Elvis in their 100. I would agree with them, though I also thought that John Wayne, and maybe Bogie, should have been in it.
Interesting posts Bob, sorry, The Lister. I agree with most of those entries.
Bruce Lee should be included as Martial Arts Movie Icon, who else comes close? Jackie Chan? His style was more comedic but he loved dangerous stunts, a miracle Chan is still alive.
I was reading an ancient review from Time magazine, an early Brando film, can’t remember which one but the reviewer mentioned the word ‘mumbles’. Even back then! I’ll try to find it and post an excerpt later. Hilarious. Some critics never took him seriously as an actor until he started winning Oscars.
HI STEVE: Bruce Lee IS Listed as an iconic hero in Time 100. I don’t konw if Variety’s 100 lists him as I’ve never seen the full list of “also-rans” so he could be in the Variety list too just not in the Top 10/11. The good news for you is that both Variety and Time agree that the Brit Beatles top EVERYBODY.
When Brando came on the scene, screen actors broadly spoke in either western drawls, gangster mode, Al Leach Transatlantic accents, or honeyed tones like Brits Harrison, Olivier etc.
Characters like Terry Malloy [On the Waterfront] Johnny [The Wild One] who would have been inarticulate were never going to speak in Shakespearian phrases so Brando got put down because in those films he didn’t talk in William Powell drawing room tones or Ronald Colman English.
Marlon was actually quite easy to understand in even those flicks and of course in Mutiny on the Bounty, Burn, The Ugly American and Superman the Movie he did speak in a clipped English accent because those characters were all ‘upper crust’ authority figures with nice accents.
In some ways it is all academic because (1) as I’ve mentioned before Institutes for The Deaf use Brando films as training aids – in their efforst to teach deaf people alternative ways to understand others, Branod’s facial expressions and mannerisms being perceived as more easily to understand than those of many other performers (2) in his diaries Richard Burton suggest that Marlon may well be the greatest ‘silent’ communicator in screen history.
However “When the legend’s more exciting than the truth, print the legend.” [The Man who Shot Liberty Valance]. Quacks like Joel who have never acted have made fortunes out of myths such as Brando being a unremitting mumbler. Oh how I wish I had never been able to understand what Hirsch was saying!!
Hi Bob, I’ve found that review from Time Magazine, dated Feb 11, 1952. It was for the film Viva Zapata! Here is the last paragraph from the review:
“The cast includes such acceptable Latin types as Anthony Quinn and Margo, and such less acceptable Latin types as Jean Peters. In the title role, Marlon Brando, wearing a spitcurl hairdo, drooping mustachios and cartwheel sombrero, slouches and mumbles his way through the excitement in a deadpan Brando voice.”
The same magazine was kinder to Brando a year earlier when they reviewed A Streetcar Named Desire:
“As the hulking, animalistic Kowalski, Marlon Brando fills his scenes with a virile power that gives Streetcar it’s highest voltage.”
And over at at Variety magazine Nov 17, 1954, a review of Désirée drops this titbit, “Brando gives every scene his personal imprint.”
[Bob grins]
HI STEVE: Thanks for the spread of reviews. Zapata was a Mexican peasant who, again wouldn’t have spoken like Rex Harrison, John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart and they tended to be cowed figures in those times who wouldn’t have been over-articulate.
Zap was also a revolutionary and those types are usually brooding and sullen and tend not to be the life and soul of the party. Who can blame them? – Leon Trotsky ended up with an ice pick in his head courtesy of Uncle Joe Stalin –– or Staleen as Americans call him – who joined the Russian revolution to betray it and take power for himself.
1/“If ever Britain falls into the hands of a communist takeover, I hope a Stalin come along to cleanse its vile revolutionary bloodstream.” – Winston Churchill.
2/”You think revolution is a Holy Crusade but revolution is a bloody w**re!” Jesus Raza [Jack Palance]in 1966’s The Professionals.
Still, although Marlon got an Oscar nom for Zapata, and won BAFTA and Cannes Film Festival awards, for me it wasn’t one of his more iconic performances; bu he was OK in it in my opinion, which is probably as good as anyome else’s with the possible exception of Joel Hirschhorn oin this site. The part of Zapwas originally meant for Tyrone Power, who probably would have played Zapata like an Errol Flynn character or like Jamie Waring in The Black Swan.
A wh9ile back I used to keep track of the people on the Oracle of Bacon site who had worked with 3500 or more actors. Most of these people were extras but there were the occasional stars. In December 2018 they switched pulling info from the IMDB to Wikipedia. So I wondered how many connections some of these people would have with the new info. We also know the listings dropped a ton.
Here are a few examples of how many credited actors they have now. After their name is the last known IMDB connections ( # of people they themselves worked with) followed by their Wikipedia direct connections. After that is the percentage they have left of the original listings.
ANTHONY QUINN 4478 1478 0.33
BRUCE MCGILL 4111 954 0.23
BRUCE WILLIS 5047 1229 0.24
BURT REYNOLDS 3607 1244 0.34
CESAR ROMERO 4189 1182 0.28
CHRISTOPHER LEE 4982 2117 0.42
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER 4066 1440 0.35
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN 4379 1339 0.31
DANNY DEVITO 3816 988 0.26
DAVID NIVEN 4033 1223 0.30
DENNIS HOPPER 4313 1432 0.33
DONALD SUTHERLAND 5221 1494 0.29
ERIC ROBERTS 10514 1374 0.13 (no wonder he plunged from # 1)
ERNEST BORGNINE 3571 1216 0.34
FRANK SINATRA 3645 721 0.20
GEORGE RAFT 3982 869 0.22
HARRY DEAN STANTON 4389 1280 0.29
HARVEY KEITEL 4592 1431 0.31
JACKIE CHAN 3761 1678 0.45
JAMES FRANCO 5041 1004 0.20
JOHN CARRADINE 6531 2052 0.31
JOHN GOODMAN 6339 1325 0.21
JOHN HURT 4097 1221 0.30
JOHN WAYNE 3633 1763 0.49
KEENAN WYNN 4005 1376 0.34
MICHAEL CAINE 5807 1643 0.28
MICKEY ROONEY 4766 1671 0.35
MORGAN FREEMAN 6067 1059 0.17
PETER LORRE 3612 882 0.24
RAY MILLAND 3602 1204 0.33
ROBERT DE NIRO 6178 1287 0.21
ROBERT DUVALL 4547 1298 0.29
SAMUEL L. JACKSON 7046 1533 0.22
SHELLEY WINTERS 3638 1293 0.36
SHIRLEY MACLAINE 4023 770 0.19 (all those Around the World in 80 Days extras gone)
STEVE BUSCEMI 4367 1285 0.29
SUSAN SARANDON 4301 1211 0.28
WALTER BRENNAN 4086 1358 0.33
WILLEM DAFOE 4486 1156 0.26
WILLIAM DEMAREST 3634 1333 0.37
And for nostalgia’s sake.
BESS FLOWERS 13765 1368 0.10
ARTHUR TOVEY 9372 285 0.03
KATHLEEN FREEMAN 4669 844 0.18
Arthur Tovey lost 97% and Bessie lost 90%!!
Hey Dan….thanks for sharing this information. I understand the first column….but having some issues understanding the last two columns…. “Direct Wiki connections” & After that is the percentage they have left of the original listings.”
So looking at Anthony Quinn…..he has worked with 4,478 actors….of that total…..1,478 are direct connections…meaning they are listed but not necessarily in their Top 1000? Which means that 33% of the actors he has worked with are direct connections…..and 67% are not direct connections?
After writing this down….it appears my stumbling block is understand exactly what a “Wikipedia direct connections”. Sorry I am confused…..but I do appreciate your efforts. You are the man.
Direct connections is everyone he actually worked with. The Oracle site lists how many connections or how many people are 1 step away from him (those he appeared with), then 2 would be someone who worked with someone who worked with him. Anthony was credited with 4478 actors when they had IMDB credits but now he according to Wikipedia has worked with 1478. If you look below, and it looks much better on their site. Anthony has 1 connection to 0 (that’s himself), acted with 1478 people who connect then they connect to 85535 more people (2 to him), 3 lead to 219299 (gets complicated). If you look up anyone and hit 1 you will see all their actors they appeared with.
anthony quinn Number
# of People
0
1
1
1478
2
85535
3
219299
4
79424
5
6222
6
697
7
70
8
6
Total number of linkable actors: 392732
Weighted total of linkable actors: 1183971
Average anthony quinn number: 3.015
Since he has the fewest of people I mentioned above now, Arthur Tovey. Arthur was on the top 1000 last time, by the IMDB he had 9372 connections which has dropped to 285. I guess there isn’t much of an article on him if there is even one. If you hit 1 for Arthur these are who they show he appeared with. Don’t worry I never heard of most of them either.
A. Cameron Grant
Albert Carrier
Alice Frost
Aline MacMahon
Amzie Strickland
Andy Albin
Angie Dickinson
Anna Lee
Annalena Lund
Anne Baxter
Arthur Donaldson
Arthur O’Connell
Barbara Billingsley
Barney Phillips
Barry Bernard
Barry Norton
Barry Rado
Ben Gary
Ben Wright
Benny Baker
Bernard Sell
Bert Davidson
Bert Stevens
Bess Flowers
Birgitta Engström
Bjørn Foss
Bobby Diamond
Brick Sullivan
Britt Ekland
Buzz Martin
Carl Carlsson
Carl Milletaire
Carl Rydin
Carleton Young
Carol Byron
Charles Andrews
Charles Evans
Charles Ferguson
Charles McGraw
Charles Seel
Charles Sherlock
Charles Watts
Chet Brandenburg
Chet Huntley
Clegg Hoyt
Coleman Francis
Colin Kenny
Curtis Cooksey
Dabbs Greer
Danny Borzage
Danny Klega
David Cross
David Opatoshu
Dawn Little Sky
Denise Darcel
Diane Baker
Dick Ryan
Dick Wessel
Don Dubbins
Donald Ein
Donna Corcoran
Earl Lee
Ed Cassidy
Ed Hinton
Eddie Little Sky
Eddie Lou Simms
Edgar Buchanan
Edith Evanson
Edward G. Robinson
Elke Sommer
Emmett Vogan
Erik Holland
Eula Guy
Fay Roope
Felda Ein
Frank Sully
Frank Wilcox
Franklyn Farnum
Fred Coby
Fred Holliday
Fred Scheiwiller
Gene Coogan
Gene Roth
George Brenlin
George DeNormand
George Ford
Gil Frye
Glenn Ford
Grazia Narciso
Gregg Palmer
Gregory Gaye
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Guy Kingsford
Gérard Oury
Hal K. Dawson
Hal Taggart
Harlan Warde
Harold Dyrenforth
Harry Brown
Harry Morgan
Harry Tenbrook
Helen Spring
Helen Westcott
Helene Millard
Herman Belmonte
Holbrook Blinn
Ian Maclaren
Ike Ivarsen
Inger Stevens
Irene James
Isabel Randolph
Ivan Triesault
J. Edward McKinley
Jack Chefe
Jack Daly
Jack Gargan
Jack Klugman
Jack Kruschen
Jack Perry
Jack Scroggy
Jack Stoney
Jacqueline Beer
James Dime
James Halferty
James Mason
Janet Brandt
Jean Acker
Jeane Wood
Jeffrey Sayre
Jerry Dunphy
Jill Carson
Jimmie Booth
Jimmy Lewis
John Albright
John Banner
John Call
John Damler
John Holland
John L. Cason
John Pickard
John Qualen
John Trebach
John Wengraf
John Zaremba
Johnny Dooley
Jonathan Hale
Jonathan Hole
Jorie Wyler
Joseph Mell
Karen Norris
Karen von Unge
Karl ‘Killer’ Davis
Karl Swenson
Kay Riehl
Kenneth Tobey
Kermit Maynard
Kevin McCarthy
Kit Wain
L.Q. Jones
Larry Adare
Lars Hensen
Lars Passgård
LaRue Farlow
Lawrence Dobkin
Lela Bliss
Leo G. Carroll
Leon Errol
Leonard Bremen
Lester Matthews
Lili Darvas
Louise Lorimer
Lyle Sudrow
Lyn Harding
Mack Chandler
Maclyn Arbuckle
Maiken Thornberg
Margaret Farrell
Margareta Lund
Margarto Sullivan
Margie Liszt
Maria Schell
Maria Schroeder
Marion Davies
Marjorie Bennett
Marshall Bradford
Martha Wentworth
Martin Brandt
Martin Faust
Martine Bartlett
Mary Benoit
Mary Kennedy
Mary Wickes
Mathew McCue
Mauritz Hugo
Mercedes McCambridge
Michael Panaieff
Micheline Presle
Mickie Chouteau
Monya Andre
Nadine Ashdown
Ned Wever
Nella Walker
Neville Brand
Nikki Juston
Nina Foch
Noel Drayton
Norman Rado
Otto Reichow
Pam Peterson
Paul Bradley
Paul Bryar
Paul Busch
Paul Kruger
Paul McAllister
Paul Newman
Peter Bourne
Peter Brocco
Peter Coe
Philo McCullough
Phyllis Douglas
Portland Mason
Queenie Leonard
Raanhild Vidar
Ralph Graves
Ralph Moody
Ralph Reed
Ray Collins
Rayford Barnes
Raymond Largay
Richard Davies
Richard Hale
Robert Carson
Robert Garrett
Robert Haines
Robert Keith
Robert Williams
Robin Adare
Rod Steiger
Rodney Bell
Roger Moore
Ron Nyman
Roy Applegate
Roy Neal
Royal Dano
Rudolph Anders
Rudy Baron
Russ Conway
Russ Tamblyn
Ruth Lee
Ruth Roman
Sacha Pitoëff
Sam Edwards
Sam Flint
Sam Harris
Sayre Dearing
Selmer Jackson
Sergio Fantoni
Sheldon Leonard
Shimen Ruskin
Sid Raymond
Sigfrid Tor
Sigrid Petterson
Stanley Andrews
Stuart Holmes
Sven Hugo Borg
Svend Petersen
Ted Eccles
Terry Ann Ross
Teru Shimada
Theresa Maxwell Conover
Thomas Findley
Tom Daly
Tom Monroe
Vic Morrow
Virginia Christine
Vladimir Sokoloff
Walter Merrill
Wheaton Chambers
Will Wright
William Challee
William Newell
William Remick
William Schallert
Wilson Wood
Wilton Graff
Wow….and that is a short list. I think I recognize about 10% of these thespians. Thanks again for the detailed explainations. Good stuff.
Hey Dan…thanks for the clarification. It makes more sense now. Good lists….as I have said many times in the past….you are the man!
I don’t like the rankings as they are at odds with the rankings in your book. Is it because you are not holding them to the number of films they made as you did in your book?
Hey Anonymous. Thanks for the visit and the comment. Our book had much different rules than this Top 100. 50 of them came from AFI’s Top 50 Screen Legend List….so we had no say in the people on that list. The other 50 came from us but it was more of a subjective decision….while the book used stats only….plus only the star’s Top 25 movies….and the book gave the performers credit for the awards they won individual…so people like Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson earned a lot more points….and points that do not show up on UMR score. Good comment.
I find this list confusing compared to the other lists and most especially the lists in your book. Some of the people from your book aren’t on here.
Hey Pietra…..this list was done before the book got written. We basically took the 50 Screen Legends from AFI and tried to guess who the AFI would have picked if they had a list for stars that got famous from 1950 to 2000. In other words…the book used stats….this list used very subjective means to pick the Top 100. Thanks for buying the book. Thinking it is time to update that list….Robert DeNiro had two more great movies (The Irishman and Joker)….that would move him up a few spots. Good comment.