Greatest Film Performances
of the 1960s (US/UK)
Criteria: Film Performances of the 1960s are ranked based on initial and lasting acclaim, popular and cultural recognition, plus influence. In order to qualify for this list the performance has to come from a predominately English-language film produced or co-produced by American or British production companies.
Actor - Film Title (Year of Release)
1. Peter Sellers
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2. Elizabeth Taylor
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
3. Gregory Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
4. Peter O'Toole
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
5. Shirley MacLaine
The Apartment (1960)
6. Peter O'Toole
The Lion in Winter (1968)
7. Paul Scofield
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
8. Richard Burton
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
9. Dustin Hoffman
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
10. Anthony Quinn
Zorba the Greek (1964)
11. Paul Newman
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
12. Katharine Hepburn
The Lion In Winter (1968)
13. Paul Newman
The Hustler (1961)
14. Rod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
15. Sidney Poitier
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
16. Glenda Jackson
Women in Love (1969)
17. Jon Voight
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
18. Sidney Poitier
Lilies of the Field (1963)
19. Paul Newman
Hud (1963)
20. Jack Lemmon
The Apartment (1960)
21. Audrey Hepburn
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
22. Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry (1960)
23. Barbra Streisand
Funny Girl (1968)
24. Henry Fonda
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
25. Anne Bancroft
The Miracle Worker (1962)
26. Kirk Douglas
Spartacus (1960)
27. Michael Caine
Alfie (1966)
28. Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
29. Julie Christie
Darling (1965)
30. Anthony Perkins
Psycho (1960)
31. Katharine Hepburn
Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
32. Bette Davis
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
33. Robert Mitchum
Cape Fear (1962)
34. Lee Marvin
Cat Ballou (1965)
35. Dustin Hoffman
The Graduate (1967)
36. Jane Fonda
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
37. Peter O'Toole
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
38. Julie Andrews
The Sound of Music (1965)
39. Anne Bancroft
The Graduate (1967)
40. Peter O'Toole
Becket (1964)
41. Audrey Hepburn
My Fair Lady (1964)
42. Katharine Hepburn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
43. Faye Dunaway
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
44. Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins (1964)
45. Elizabeth Taylor
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
46. Albert Finney
Tom Jones (1963)
47. Spencer Tracy
Inherit the Wind (1960)
48. Burt Lancaster
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
49. Jack Lemmon
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
50. Omar Sharif
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
51. Geneviève Bujold
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
52. Paul Newman
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
53. Richard Burton
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
54. Robert Redford
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
55. Samantha Eggar
The Collector (1965)
56. Edith Evans
The Whisperers (1967)
57. Warren Beatty
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
58. Richard Harris
This Sporting Life (1963)
59. Laurence Olivier
Spartacus (1960)
60. Maximilian Schell
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
61. Natalie Wood
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
62. Shirley MacLaine
Irma la Douce (1963)
63. Richard Burton
Becket (1964)
64. Cliff Robertson
Charly (1968)
65. John Wayne
True Grit (1969)
66. Simone Signoret
Ship of Fools (1965)
67. Omar Sharif
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
68. Richard Burton
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
69. Spencer Tracy
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
70. Julie Christie
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
71. Sidney Poitier
A Patch of Blue (1965)
72. George C. Scott
The Hustler (1961)
73. Greer Garson
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
74. Rex Harrison
My Fair Lady (1964)
75. Anne Bancroft
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
76. Sean Connery
Goldfinger (1964)
77. Gene Wilder
The Producers (1967)
78. Joanne Woodward
Rachel, Rachel (1968)
79. Alan Arkin
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
80. Alan Bates
The Fixer (1968)
81. Mia Farrow
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
82. Jack Nicholson
Easy Rider (1969)
83. Fredric March
Inherit the Wind (1960)
84. Melvin Douglas
Hud (1963)
85. Natalie Wood
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
86. Steve McQueen
The Great Escape (1963)
87. Kim Stanley
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
88. Ava Gardner
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
89. Frank Sinatra
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
90. Laurence Olivier
The Entertainer (1960)
91. Deborah Kerr
The Sundowners (1960)
92. Lynn Redgrave
Georgy Girl (1966)
93. Walter Matthau
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
94. Gene Hackman
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
95. William Holden
The Wild Bunch (1969)
96. Patricia Neal
Hud (1963)
97. Spencer Tracy
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
98. Geraldine Page
Summer and Smoke (1961)
99. Jackie Gleason
The Hustler (1961)
100. Leslie Caron
The L-Shaped Room (1962)
101. Lee Remick
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
102. John Wayne
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
103. Sean Connery
From Russia with Love (1963)
104. Alan Arkin
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (1966)
105. Vanessa Redgrave
Morgan! (1966)
106. George Kennedy
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
107. Patricia Neal
The Subject Was Roses (1968)
108. Vanessa Redgrave
Isadora (1968)
109. Ron Moody
Oliver! (1968)
110. Ruth Gordon
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
111. George C. Scott
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
112. Rex Harrison
Cleopatra (1963)
113. Roddy McDowell
Planet of the Apes (1968)
114. Sandra Locke
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
115. Lynn Carley
Faces (1968)
116. Steve McQueen
Bullitt (1968)
117. Sandy Dennis
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
118. Jack Lemmon
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
119. Oskar Werner
Ship of Fools (1965)
120. Elizabeth Hartman
A Patch of Blue (1965)
121. Melina Mercouri
Never on Sunday (1960)
122. Trevor Howard
Sons and Lovers (1960)
123. George Chakiris
West Side Story (1961)
124. Rachel Roberts
This Sporting Life (1963)
125. Stathis Giallelis
America America (1963)
126. Hugh Griffith
Tom Jones (1963)
127. Cary Grant
Charade (1963)
128. Audrey Hepburn
Two for the Road (1967)
129. Zero Mostel
The Producers (1967)
130. Robert Shaw
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
131. Gig Young
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
132. Goldie Hawn
Cactus Flower (1969)
133. Sidney Poitier
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
134. Alec Guinness
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
135. Peter Sellers
The Pink Panther (1963)
136. Geraldine Page
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
137. Rita Moreno
West Side Story (1961)
138. Lila Kedrova
Zorba the Greek (1964)
139. Debbie Reynolds
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
140. Warren Beatty
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
141. Rod Steiger
The Pawnbroker (1964)
142. Steve McQueen
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
143. Frank Finlay
Othello (1965)
144. Tom Courtenay
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
145. Natalie Wood
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
146. George Segal
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
147. Martin Balsam
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
148. Terence Stamp
The Collector (1965)
149. Peter Finch
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
150. Lee Marvin
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
151. Alan Arkin
Popi (1969)
152. Peter Ustinov
Topkapi (1964)
153. Piper Laurie
The Hustler (1961)
154. Dirk Bogarde
Victim (1961)
155. Patty Duke
The Miracle Worker (1962)
156. Shirley Jones
Elmer Gantry (1960)
157. Sal Mineo
Exodus (1960)
158. Angela Lansbery
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
159. Joan Crawford
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
160. Tony Curtis
The Boston Strangler (1968)
161. Dyan Cannon
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
162. James Mason
Georgy Girl (1966)
163. Vivien Merchant
Alfie (1966)
164. Shelley Winters
A Patch of Blue (1965)
165. Celia Johnson
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
166. Douglas Rain
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
167. Jean Simmons
Elmer Gantry (1960)
168. Claudia McNeil
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
169. Dirk Bogarde
The Servant (1963)
170. Margaret Rutherford
The V.I.P.s (1963)
171. John Huston
The Cardinal (1963)
172. Oskar Werner
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
173. Mako
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
174. Wendy Hiller
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
175. Carol Channing
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
176. John Cassavetes
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
177. Vincent Price
Witchfinder General (1968)
178. Judy Garland
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
179. Shirley MacLaine
The Children's Hour (1961)
180. Janet Leigh
Psycho (1960)
181. Peter Ustinov
Spartacus (1960)
182. Fred MacMurray
The Apartment (1960)
183. Jerry Lewis
The Nutty Professor (1963)
184. Montgomery Clift
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
185. Ruth Gordon
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
186. Sidney Poitier
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
187. Geraldine Page
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
188. Catherine Deneuve
Repulsion (1965)
189. Leslie Caron
Fanny (1961)
190. Clark Gable
The Misfits (1961)
191. James Mason
Lolita (1962)
192. Tom Courtenay
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
193. Rod Steiger
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
194. Max von Sydow
Hawaii (1966)
195. Tony Randall
Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
196. Sterling Hayden
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
197. Melina Mercouri
Topkapi (1964)
198. Edith Evans
The Chalk Garden (1964)
199. Jean Simmons
The Happy Ending (1969)
200. Elliot Gould
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
1. Peter Sellers
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2. Elizabeth Taylor
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
3. Gregory Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
4. Peter O'Toole
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
5. Shirley MacLaine
The Apartment (1960)
6. Peter O'Toole
The Lion in Winter (1968)
7. Paul Scofield
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
8. Richard Burton
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
9. Dustin Hoffman
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
10. Anthony Quinn
Zorba the Greek (1964)
11. Paul Newman
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
12. Katharine Hepburn
The Lion In Winter (1968)
13. Paul Newman
The Hustler (1961)
14. Rod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
15. Sidney Poitier
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
16. Glenda Jackson
Women in Love (1969)
17. Jon Voight
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
18. Sidney Poitier
Lilies of the Field (1963)
19. Paul Newman
Hud (1963)
20. Jack Lemmon
The Apartment (1960)
21. Audrey Hepburn
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
22. Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry (1960)
23. Barbra Streisand
Funny Girl (1968)
24. Henry Fonda
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
25. Anne Bancroft
The Miracle Worker (1962)
26. Kirk Douglas
Spartacus (1960)
27. Michael Caine
Alfie (1966)
28. Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
29. Julie Christie
Darling (1965)
30. Anthony Perkins
Psycho (1960)
31. Katharine Hepburn
Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
32. Bette Davis
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
33. Robert Mitchum
Cape Fear (1962)
34. Lee Marvin
Cat Ballou (1965)
35. Dustin Hoffman
The Graduate (1967)
36. Jane Fonda
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
37. Peter O'Toole
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
38. Julie Andrews
The Sound of Music (1965)
39. Anne Bancroft
The Graduate (1967)
40. Peter O'Toole
Becket (1964)
41. Audrey Hepburn
My Fair Lady (1964)
42. Katharine Hepburn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
43. Faye Dunaway
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
44. Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins (1964)
45. Elizabeth Taylor
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
46. Albert Finney
Tom Jones (1963)
47. Spencer Tracy
Inherit the Wind (1960)
48. Burt Lancaster
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
49. Jack Lemmon
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
50. Omar Sharif
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
51. Geneviève Bujold
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
52. Paul Newman
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
53. Richard Burton
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
54. Robert Redford
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
55. Samantha Eggar
The Collector (1965)
56. Edith Evans
The Whisperers (1967)
57. Warren Beatty
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
58. Richard Harris
This Sporting Life (1963)
59. Laurence Olivier
Spartacus (1960)
60. Maximilian Schell
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
61. Natalie Wood
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
62. Shirley MacLaine
Irma la Douce (1963)
63. Richard Burton
Becket (1964)
64. Cliff Robertson
Charly (1968)
65. John Wayne
True Grit (1969)
66. Simone Signoret
Ship of Fools (1965)
67. Omar Sharif
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
68. Richard Burton
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
69. Spencer Tracy
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
70. Julie Christie
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
71. Sidney Poitier
A Patch of Blue (1965)
72. George C. Scott
The Hustler (1961)
73. Greer Garson
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
74. Rex Harrison
My Fair Lady (1964)
75. Anne Bancroft
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
76. Sean Connery
Goldfinger (1964)
77. Gene Wilder
The Producers (1967)
78. Joanne Woodward
Rachel, Rachel (1968)
79. Alan Arkin
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
80. Alan Bates
The Fixer (1968)
81. Mia Farrow
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
82. Jack Nicholson
Easy Rider (1969)
83. Fredric March
Inherit the Wind (1960)
84. Melvin Douglas
Hud (1963)
85. Natalie Wood
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
86. Steve McQueen
The Great Escape (1963)
87. Kim Stanley
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
88. Ava Gardner
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
89. Frank Sinatra
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
90. Laurence Olivier
The Entertainer (1960)
91. Deborah Kerr
The Sundowners (1960)
92. Lynn Redgrave
Georgy Girl (1966)
93. Walter Matthau
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
94. Gene Hackman
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
95. William Holden
The Wild Bunch (1969)
96. Patricia Neal
Hud (1963)
97. Spencer Tracy
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
98. Geraldine Page
Summer and Smoke (1961)
99. Jackie Gleason
The Hustler (1961)
100. Leslie Caron
The L-Shaped Room (1962)
101. Lee Remick
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
102. John Wayne
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
103. Sean Connery
From Russia with Love (1963)
104. Alan Arkin
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (1966)
105. Vanessa Redgrave
Morgan! (1966)
106. George Kennedy
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
107. Patricia Neal
The Subject Was Roses (1968)
108. Vanessa Redgrave
Isadora (1968)
109. Ron Moody
Oliver! (1968)
110. Ruth Gordon
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
111. George C. Scott
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
112. Rex Harrison
Cleopatra (1963)
113. Roddy McDowell
Planet of the Apes (1968)
114. Sandra Locke
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
115. Lynn Carley
Faces (1968)
116. Steve McQueen
Bullitt (1968)
117. Sandy Dennis
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
118. Jack Lemmon
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
119. Oskar Werner
Ship of Fools (1965)
120. Elizabeth Hartman
A Patch of Blue (1965)
121. Melina Mercouri
Never on Sunday (1960)
122. Trevor Howard
Sons and Lovers (1960)
123. George Chakiris
West Side Story (1961)
124. Rachel Roberts
This Sporting Life (1963)
125. Stathis Giallelis
America America (1963)
126. Hugh Griffith
Tom Jones (1963)
127. Cary Grant
Charade (1963)
128. Audrey Hepburn
Two for the Road (1967)
129. Zero Mostel
The Producers (1967)
130. Robert Shaw
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
131. Gig Young
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
132. Goldie Hawn
Cactus Flower (1969)
133. Sidney Poitier
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
134. Alec Guinness
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
135. Peter Sellers
The Pink Panther (1963)
136. Geraldine Page
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
137. Rita Moreno
West Side Story (1961)
138. Lila Kedrova
Zorba the Greek (1964)
139. Debbie Reynolds
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
140. Warren Beatty
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
141. Rod Steiger
The Pawnbroker (1964)
142. Steve McQueen
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
143. Frank Finlay
Othello (1965)
144. Tom Courtenay
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
145. Natalie Wood
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
146. George Segal
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
147. Martin Balsam
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
148. Terence Stamp
The Collector (1965)
149. Peter Finch
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
150. Lee Marvin
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
151. Alan Arkin
Popi (1969)
152. Peter Ustinov
Topkapi (1964)
153. Piper Laurie
The Hustler (1961)
154. Dirk Bogarde
Victim (1961)
155. Patty Duke
The Miracle Worker (1962)
156. Shirley Jones
Elmer Gantry (1960)
157. Sal Mineo
Exodus (1960)
158. Angela Lansbery
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
159. Joan Crawford
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
160. Tony Curtis
The Boston Strangler (1968)
161. Dyan Cannon
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
162. James Mason
Georgy Girl (1966)
163. Vivien Merchant
Alfie (1966)
164. Shelley Winters
A Patch of Blue (1965)
165. Celia Johnson
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
166. Douglas Rain
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
167. Jean Simmons
Elmer Gantry (1960)
168. Claudia McNeil
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
169. Dirk Bogarde
The Servant (1963)
170. Margaret Rutherford
The V.I.P.s (1963)
171. John Huston
The Cardinal (1963)
172. Oskar Werner
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
173. Mako
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
174. Wendy Hiller
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
175. Carol Channing
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
176. John Cassavetes
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
177. Vincent Price
Witchfinder General (1968)
178. Judy Garland
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
179. Shirley MacLaine
The Children's Hour (1961)
180. Janet Leigh
Psycho (1960)
181. Peter Ustinov
Spartacus (1960)
182. Fred MacMurray
The Apartment (1960)
183. Jerry Lewis
The Nutty Professor (1963)
184. Montgomery Clift
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
185. Ruth Gordon
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
186. Sidney Poitier
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
187. Geraldine Page
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
188. Catherine Deneuve
Repulsion (1965)
189. Leslie Caron
Fanny (1961)
190. Clark Gable
The Misfits (1961)
191. James Mason
Lolita (1962)
192. Tom Courtenay
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
193. Rod Steiger
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
194. Max von Sydow
Hawaii (1966)
195. Tony Randall
Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
196. Sterling Hayden
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
197. Melina Mercouri
Topkapi (1964)
198. Edith Evans
The Chalk Garden (1964)
199. Jean Simmons
The Happy Ending (1969)
200. Elliot Gould
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
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Edited By: Tim, Bruno
List Begun: 2019-10-19