Best run in terms of anything
Jack Nicholson: Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Missouri Breaks, The Last Detail, Carnal Knowledge, Drive he Said, The Last Tycoon, The King of Marvin Gardens, Tommy, The Fortune,The Passenger, Goin' South, and The Rebel Rousers.
John Cazale: The Godfather 1 & 2, The Conversation, The Deer Hunter, and Dog Day Afternoon.
Donald Sutherland: MASH, Don’t Look Now, Kelly’s Heroes, Klute, Alex in Wonderland, 1900, The Day of the Locust, Steelyard Blues, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Animal House, The First Great Train Robbery, Murder by Decree, The Eagle Has Landed, Fellini's Casanova, Start the Revolution Without Me, The Act of the Heart, F.T.A., Little Murders, Lady Ice, Johnny Got His Gun, Alien Thunder, End of the Game, Bear Island, A Man, a Woman, and a Bank, The Kentucky Fried Movie, Blood Relatives, The Disappearance, and SPY*S.
Al Pacino: The Panic in Needle Park, The Godfather 1 & 2, Serpico, Scarecrow, Dog Day Afternoon, ... And Justice for all!, and Bobby Deerfield.
Robert DeNiro: 1900, Taxi Driver, The Godfather 2, The Last Tycoon, Mean Streets, Bang the Drum Slowly, Jennifer on My Mind, Hi, Mom!, The Deer Hunter, Bloody Mama, Born to Win, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, and New York, New York.
Robert Redford: The Sting, The Candidate, The Hot Rock, Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor, All the President's Men, The Electric Horseman, A Bridge Too Far, The Great Waldo Pepper, The Great Gatsby, The Way We Were, and Little Fauss and Big Halsy.
Robert Duvall: The Eagle Has Landed, MASH, The Godfather 1 & 2, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Greatest, THX 1138, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, Tomorrow, Network, The Greatest, The Great Santini, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Breakout, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Joe Kidd, Badge 373, Lady Ice, The Killer Elite, The Betsy, and Breakout.
Gene Hackman: A Bridge Too Far, The French Connection 1 & 2, The Poseidon Adventure, Bite the Bullet,The Conversation, Superman, Night Moves, I Never Sang for My Father, Prime Cut, Cisco Pike, Scarecrow, Zandy's Bride, The Domino Principle, The Hunting Party, Doctors' Wives, and March or Die.
Marlon Brando: The Godfather, Missouri Breaks, Last Tango in Paris, The Night Comers, Apocalypse Now, and Superman.
Dustin Hoffman: Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon, Lenny, Marathon Man, All the President’s Men, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?,Kramer vs. Kramer, Agatha, Straight Time, and Alfredo, Alfredo.
Roy Scheider: Jaws 1 & 2, All That Jazz, Marathon Man, The French Connection, The Seven-Ups, Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, The Outside Man,Klute, Loving, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Last Embrace, and Sorcerer.
Richard Dreyfuss: Jaws, American Graffiti, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Dillinger, The Big Fix, Inserts, and The Second Coming of Suzanne.
Bruce Lee: Enter The Dragon, The Big Boss, Game of Death, Fist of Fury, and Circle of Iron.
Ned Beatty: Nashville, Network, Superman, Silver Streak, All the President's Men, Deliverance, 1941, Wise Blood, Friendly Fire, Mikey and Nicky, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The Great Bank Hoax, White Lightning, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, The Last American Hero, The Thief Who Came to Dinner and Alambrista!.
Warren Beatty: Heaven Can Wait, Shampoo, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Fortune, Dollars, The Fortune, The Only Game in Town, and The Parallax View.
Paul Newman: The Sting, Slapshot , WUSA, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Towering Inferno, The Mackintosh Man, Buffalo Bill, Silent Movie, and The Drowning Pool.
Steve McQueen: The Towering Inferno, The Getaway, Junior Bonner, Le Mans, Papillon, and An Enemy of the People.
Clint Eastwood: Joe Kidd, Kelly’s Heroes, Play Misty for Me, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Every Which Way but Loose, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, High Plains Drifter, The Enforcer, Escape from Alcatraz, The Gauntlet, Beezy, Two Mules for Sister Sara, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Eiger Sanction, and The Beguiled.
Michael Caine: A Bridge Too Far, Get Carter, The Man Who Would Be King, Sleuth, The Eagle Has Landed, California Suite, and The Last Valley.
Martin Sheen: Badlands, Apocalypse Now, Catholics, That Certain Summer, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Eagle's Wing,
Elliott Gould: A Bridge Too Far, MASH, Little Murders, Nashville, The Long Goodbye, California Split, The Touch,Capricorn One, The Silent Partner, Matilda, The Muppet Movie, I Love My Wife, Getting Straight, SPY*S, Escape to Athena, and Harry and Walter Go to New York.
Jeff Bridges: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Last Picture Show, Fat City, The Last American Hero, Stay Hungry, Somebody Killed Her Husband, King Kong, The American Success Company, Winter Kills, Hearts of the West, Rancho Deluxe, Halls of Anger, Lolly-Madonna XXX, Bad Company, The Iceman Cometh, and The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go.
Jon Voight: End of the Game, The Champ, Catch-22, Deliverance, Conrack, The Odessa File, Coming Home, and The Revolutionary.
Gene Wilder: The Last Valley, Silver Steak, Blazing Saddles, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and Young Frankenstein.
Harrison Ford: American Graffiti, Apocalypse Now, Getting Straight, The Conversation, Star Wars, and Heroes.
James Caan: The Godfather 1 & 2, Cinderella Liberty, Chapter Two, Brian's Song, A Bridge Too Far, Funny Lady, The Killer Elite,The Gambler, Freebie and the Bean, and Rollerball.
John Travolta: Grease, Carrie, Saturday Night Fever, Moment by Moment, and The Devil's Rain.
Michael Murphy: Nashville, Manhattan, Phase IV, The Front, MAS*H, Count Yorga, Vampire, Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Lawyer, What's Up, Doc?, The Great Bank Hoax, The Class of Miss MacMichael, An Unmarried Woman, I Love You... Good-bye, I Love You... Good-bye, The Thief Who Came to Dinner, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Ryan O’ Neal: Love Story, A Bridge Too Far, What's Up, Doc?, The Driver, Barry Lyndon, The Thief Who Came to Dinner, and Nickelodeon.
Fernando Ray: The French Connection 1 & 2, Land Raiders, Tristana, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, A Town Called Bastard, Cold Eyes of Fear, The Two Faces of Fear, The Doubt, High Crime, Bianco, rosso e..., The Murri Affair, Seven Beauties, The Desert of the Tartars, Illustrious Corpses, Manuela, A Matter of Time, Smiling Maniacs, The Assignment, Jesus of Nazareth, and Traffic Jam.
Klaus Kinski: Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Woyzeck, And God Said to Cain, A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe, and Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead.
Burt Reynolds: Deliverance, The End, Semi-Tough, Hooper, The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit, White Lightning, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), and At Long Last Love.
Gian Maria Volontè: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Todo modo, Le Cercle Rouge, Sacco & Vanzetti, and Christ Stopped at Eboli.
Charles Bronson: Death Wish, Breakout, Rider on the Rain, Città violenta, Someone Behind the Door, The Stone Killer, From Noon Till Three, Raid on Entebbe, and Mr. Majestyk.
Woody Allen: Bananas, Play It Again Sam, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex Sex * (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, and Manhattan.
George Segal: The Hot Rock, California Split, Blume in Love, Where's Poppa?, A Touch of Class, The Black Bird, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, and Fun with Dick and Jane.
Richard Pryor: Silver Steak, The Wiz, Blue Collar, Greased Lightning, Lady Sings the Blues, and Hit!.
Keith Carradine: Nashville, A Gunfight, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Hex, Run, Run, Joe!, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, An Almost Perfect Affair, Old Boyfriends, The Duellists, Lumière, Idaho Transfer, Emperor of the North Pole, Antoine and Sebastian, Thieves Like Us, Welcome to L.A., and You and Me.
David Carradine: Bound for Glory, The Serpent's Egg, Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider, Circle of Iron, Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette, Gray Lady Down, You and Me, Deathsport, Thunder and Lightning, Cannon Ball, Death Race 2000, Boxcar Bertha,! A Country Mile, The McMasters, The Long Goodbye, Mean Streets, Macho Callahan, and A Country Mile.
Jack Lemmon: Save the Tiger, Kotch, The War Between Men and Women, Avanti!, The Out-of-Towners, Killer Cop, The Front Page, Wednesday The China Syndrome, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Airport '77, and Alex & the Gypsy.
Sylvester Stallone: Rocky 1 & 2, MASH, The Lords of Flatbush, Paradise Alley, F.I.S.T., Farewell, My Lovely, Capone, No Place to Hide, and The Party at Kitty and Stud's.
Harvey Keitel: Pretty Baby, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Brewster McCloud, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Fingers, Buffalo Bill, That's the Way of the World, Blue Collar, Eagle's Wing, and Mother, Jugs & Speed.
Robert Mitchum: Ryan's Daughter, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Farewell, My Lovely, Going Home, The Wrath of God, The Yakuza, Breakthrough, Midway, The Last Tycoon, The Big Sleep, The Amsterdam Kill, and Matilda.
Peter Finch: Network, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Lost Horizon, Something to Hide, The Abdication, Bequest to the Nation, England Made Me, and Raid on Entebbe.
Dennis Hopper: Apocalypse Now, CIA contro KGB, Les Apprentis Sorciers, The American Dreamer, Crush Proof, The Last Movie, Tracks, Kid Blue, The Festival Game, Mad Dog Morgan, The Sky Is Falling, Flesh Color, and The American Friend.
Sean Connery: The Man Who Would Be King, Murder on the Orient Express, Robin and Marian, The Wind and the Lion, A Bridge Too Far, Ransom, The Dream Factory, The Next Man, Cuba, Meteor, The First Great Train Robbery, Zardoz, The Offence, The Molly Maguires, The Anderson Tapes, and Diamonds Are Forever.
Jason Robards: Julia, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Rosolino Paternò, soldato…, Jud, Fools, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Julius Caesar, The War Between Men and Women, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Johnny Got His Gun, All the President's Men, A Boy and His Dog, Mr. Sycamore, Hurricane, Comes a Horseman, and The Spy Who Never Was..
Warren Oates: Dillinger, The Hired Hand, Race with the Devil, Two-Lane Blacktop, Sleeping Dogs, Barquero, The Movie Murderer, There Was a Crooked Man..., Kid Blue, Chandler, A Job for Mr. Banks, The Reluctant Heroes, The Thief Who Came to Dinner, Tom Sawyer, Badlands, Drum, Race with the Devil, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Rancho Deluxe, Dixie Dynamite, The White Dawn, Cockfighter, The African Queen, True Grit: A Further Adventure, 92 in the Shade, 1941, American Raspberry, And Baby Makes Six, My Old Man, China 9, Liberty 37, and The Brink's Job.
Robert Shaw: Jaws, The Sting, Young Winston, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Robin and Marian, Black Sunday, Figures in a Landscape, The Deep, Avalanche Express, Force 10 from Navarone, Diamonds, End of the Game, Swashbuckler, A Reflection of Fear, The Man in the Glass Booth, A Town Called Bastard, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and The Hireling.
Kurt Russell: Used Cars, The Barefoot Executive, The Captive: The Longest Drive 2, The Strongest Man in the World, Now You See Him, Now You Don't, Superdad, Fools' Parade, and Charley and the Angel.
Michael York: Cabaret, The Three Musketeers, Logan's Run, Zeppelin, Something for Everyone, Touch and Go, Murder on the Orient Express, The Four Musketeers, Conduct Unbecoming, England Made Me, Great Expectations, Fedora, Lost Horizon, The Last Remake of Beau Geste, The Riddle of the Sands, Seven Nights in Japan, and The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Jack Warden: Shampoo, All the President's Men, Being There, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, The Champ, ...And Justice for All., Dreamer, Raid on Entebbe, Heaven Can Wait, Death on the Nile, The White Buffalo, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, The Sporting Club, Summertree, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Welcome to the Club, and Billy Two Hats.
John Wayne: Rooster Cogburn, The Shootist, McQ, Cahill U.S. Marshal, The Train Robbers, Brannigan, Chisum, Rio Lobo, Cancel My Reservation, The Cowboys, Big Jake, Harry Jackson: A Man and His Art, Swing Out, Sweet Land, and No Substitute for Victory.
Malcolm McDowell: O Lucky Man!, A Clockwork Orange, Caligula, Time After Time, The Raging Moon, Figures in a Landscape, The Passage, Voyage of the Damned, Royal Flash, and Aces High.
Kris Kristofferson: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Blume in Love, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, A Star Is Born, Convoy, The Last Movie, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Vigilante Force, Cisco Pike, Semi-Tough, and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.
Sterling Hayden: The Godfather, 1900, The Long Goodbye, King of the Gypsies, Winter Kills, Is It Any Wonder?, Cry, Onion!, The Final Programme, Deadly Strangers, Le Grand départ, Loving, Ternos Caçadores, and Le Saut de l'ange.
Lee Marvin: Prime Cut, Monte Walsh, The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday, Avalanche Express, Emperor of the North Pole, The Iceman Cometh, Pocket Money, The Klansman, Shout at the Devil, and The Spikes Gang.
Ben Johnson: The Last Picture Show, Chisum, Corky, The Wayne Train, Locusts, Hustle, The Savage Bees, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, The Sugarland Express, Blood Sport, Bite the Bullet, Breakheart Pass, The Sacketts, The Greatest, The Swarm, Grayeagle, The Red Pony, The Train Robbers, The Getaway, Junior Bonner, Kid Blue, Something Big, Runaway!, and Dillinger.
Lee Van Cleef: The Rip-Off, God’s Gun, The Stranger and the Gunfighter, Kid’s Vengeance, Mean Frank and Crazy Tony, Quel pomeriggio maledetto, The Magnificent Seven Ride, Take a Hard Ride, El Condor, Barquero, Return of Sabata, The Grand Duel, Captain Apache, and Bad Man's River.
Christopher Plummer: Waterloo, The Happy Prince, The Pyx, The Return of the Pink Panther, The Day That Shook the World, Hanover Street, International Velvet, Starcrash, Murder by Decree, The Assignment, The Man Who Would Be King, Aces High, The Disappearance, Conduct Unbecoming, The Silent Partner, and The Spiral Staircase.
James Earl Jones: The Great White Hope, Claudine, Star Wars, The Bushido Blade, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, Swashbuckler, Exorcist II: The Heretic, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, The Man, Malcom X, End of the Road, The Greatest, The Last Remake of Beau Geste, Deadly Hero, and A Piece of the Action.
Charlton Heston: King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, Soylent Green, The Omega Man, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Julius Caesar, The Hawaiians, Midway, The Fun of Your Life, Two-Minute Warning, The Last Hard Men, The Prince and the Pauper, Gray Lady Down, Earthquake, The Four Musketeers, Antony and Cleopatra, The Call of the Wild, Skyjacked, The Three Musketeers, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and Airport 1975.
M. Emmet Walsh: Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Little Big Man, End of the Road, Crime Club, The Jerk, The Invasion of Johnson County, Slapshot, Airport '77, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, Serpico, Kid Blue, They Might Be Giants, The Traveling Executioner, Cold Turkey, Get to Know Your Rabbit, What's Up, Doc?, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, At Long Last Love, The Gambler, Nickelodeon, Straight Time, Mikey and Nicky, and Bound for Glory.
Yaphet Kotto: Alien, Blue Collar, Bone, Drum, The Limit, Man and Boy, Report to the Commissioner, The Monkey Hustle, The Liberation of L.B. Jones, Live and Let Die, Across 110th Street, Truck Turner, Sharks' Treasure, and Friday Foster.
Jack Nicholson, Roy Scheider, and Marlon Brando are my top three.