Top 25 Actors/Directors With The Most Films In The IMDb Top 250
by sergio91 | created - 18 Nov 2013 | updated - 09 May 2020 | Public
Actors Having Most Appearances In The IMDb Top 250
Directors with The Most Films In The IMDb Top 250
1. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
1. The Godfather 2 2. Taxi Driver 3. Deer Hunter 4. Raging Bull 5. Once Upon a Time in America 6. Goodfellas 7. Casino 8. Heat 9. Joker
2. Harrison Ford
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...
1-3. Star Wars trilogy 4. Apocalypse now 5. Bladerunner 6-7. Two Indiana Jones movies 8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
3. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
1. Unforgiven 2. The Shawshank Redemption 3. Se7en 4. Million Dollar Baby 5. Batman Begins 6. The Dark Knight 7. The Dark Knight Rises
4. Michael Caine
Actor | The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...
1. The Dark Knight Rises 2. Batman Begins 3. The Prestige 4. The Dark Knight 5. Inception 6. Interstellar
5. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
1. Se7en 2. 12 Monkeys 3. Fight Club 4. Snatch. 5. Inglourious Basterds 6. 12 Years a Slave
6. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
1. A Fistful of Dollars 2. For a Few Dollars More 3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 4. Unforgiven 5. Million Dollar Baby 6. Gran Torino
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
1. The Departed 2. Shutter Island 3. Inception 4. Django Unchained 5. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
1-2. Toy Story, two parts 3. Forrest Gump 4. Saving Private Ryan 5. Green Mile
9. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
1. The Kid 2. The Gold Rush 3. City Lights 4. Modern Times 5. The Great Dictator
10. Alec Guinness
Actor | Star Wars
Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...
1-3. Star Wars trilogy 4. Bridge on the River Kwai 5. Lawrence of Arabia
11. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
1-2. The Godfather, two parts 3. Dog Day Afternoon 4. Scarface 5. Heat
12. Bruce Willis
Actor | Die Hard
Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.
Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...
1. Die Hard 2. Pulp Fiction 3. Twelve Monkeys 4. The Sixth Sense 5. Sin City
13. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 2. It's a Wonderful Life 3. Vertigo 4. Rear Window
14. John Cazale
Actor | Dog Day Afternoon
John Cazale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to an Irish-American mother, Cecilia (Holland), and an Italian-American father, John Cazale. Cazale made only five feature films in his career, which fans and critics alike call classics. But before his film debut, in the short The American Way (1962),...
1. The Godfather 2. The Deer Hunter 3. The Godfather: Part II 4. Dog Day Afternoon
15. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
1. Dial M for Murder 2. North by Northwest 3. Notorious 4. Psycho 5. Rear Window 6. Rebecca 7. Vertigo 8. Strangers on a Train
16. Stanley Kubrick
Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2. A Clockwork Orange 3. Barry Lyndon 4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 5. Full Metal Jacket 6. Paths of Glory 7. The Shining
17. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
1. Casino 2. Goodfellas 3. Raging Bull 4. Shutter Island 5. Taxi Driver 6. The Departed 7. The Wolf of Wall Street
18. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
1. Batman Begins 2. Inception 3. Memento 4. The Dark Knight 5. The Dark Knight Rises 6. The Prestige 7. Interstellar
19. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 2. Jaws 3. Jurassic Park 4. Raiders of the Lost Ark 5. Saving Private Ryan 6. Schindler's List
20. Hayao Miyazaki
Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.
Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...
1. Howl's Moving Castle 2. My Neighbor Totoro 3. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 4. Princess Mononoke 5. Spirited Away 6. Castle in the Sky
21. Akira Kurosawa
Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...
1. Ikiru 2. Ran 3. Rashomon 4. Seven Samurai 5. Yojimbo 6. Throne of Blood
22. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
1. Double Indemnity 2. Some Like It Hot 3. Witness for the Prosecution 4. Sunset Blvd. 5. The Apartment
23. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
1. Django Unchained 2. Inglourious Basterds 3. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 4. Pulp Fiction 5. Reservoir Dogs
24. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
1. City Lights 2. Modern Times 3. The Gold Rush 4. The Great Dictator 5. The Kid
25. Sergio Leone
Writer | Once Upon a Time in America
Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in ...
1. A Fistful of Dollars 2. For a Few Dollars More 3. Once Upon a Time in America 4. Once Upon a Time in the West 5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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