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Greatest Screen Performances
per Film Actors - G-I


Criteria: These screen performances are ranked according to their acclaim, influence as well as popularity.

Actors are displayed in alphabetical order by last name.

 Edited By: Tim
Last Updated: 2026-05-17
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Jean Gabin

(1904 - 1976)
  1. Pépé le Moko (1937)
  2. La Grande Illusion (1937)
  3. Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
  4. Maria Chapdelaine (1934)
  5. Le Chat (1971)
  6. La Bête Humaine (1938)
  7. Port of Shadows (1938)
  8. Air of Paris (1954)
  9. The Magnificent Tramp (1959)
  10. La Bandera (1936)

Clark Gable

(1901 - 1960)
  1. Gone With the Wind (1939)
  2. It Happened One Night (1934)
  3. Mutiny on Bounty (1935)
  4. Red Dust (1932)
  5. The Misfits (1961)
  6. A Free Soul (1931)
  7. Teacher's Pet (1958)
  8. Call of the Wild (1935)
  9. San Francisco (1936)
  10. Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)

James Gandolfini

(1961–2013)
  1. The Sopranos (1999 - 2007)
  2. Enough Said (2013)
  3. True Romance (1993)
  4. The Drop (2014)
  5. The Mexican (2001)
  6. Romance & Cigarettes (2006)
  7. Killing Them Softly (2012)
  8. Not Fade Away (2012)
  9. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
  10. In the Loop (2009)

Andrew Garfield

(1983 - )
  1. tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
  2. Silence (2016)
  3. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
  4. The Social Network (2010)
  5. Under the Silver Lake (2018)
  6. Boy A (2007)
  7. Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)
  8. Never Let Me Go (2009)
  9. Breathe (2017)
  10. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Vittorio Gassman

(1922 - 2000)
  1. Scent of a Woman (1974)
  2. Bitter Rice (1949)
  3. Il Sorpasso (1962)
  4. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
  5. The Great War (1959)
  6. La congiuntura (1965)
  7. We All Loved Each Other So Much (1074)
  8. L'Armata Brancaleone (1966)
  9. Il tigre (1967)
  10. La famiglia (1987)

Paul Giamatti

(1967 - )
  1. John Adams (2008)
  2. The Holdovers (2023)
  3. American Splendor (2003)
  4. Sideways (2004)
  5. Cinderella Man (2005)
  6. The Illusionist (2006)
  7. Too Big to Fail (2011)
  8. Barney's Version (2010)
  9. Billions (2016 - 2023)
  10. Man on the Moon (1999)

Mel Gibson

(1956 - )
  1. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
  2. Gallipoli (1981)
  3. Signs (2002)
  4. Braveheart (1995)
  5. Lethal Weapon (1987)
  6. Ransom (1996)
  7. Hamlet (1990)
  8. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
  9. Tim (1979)
  10. The Patriot (2001)

Ryan Gosling

(1980 - )
  1. Half Nelson (2006)
  2. Drive (2011)
  3. Barbie (2023)
  4. Blue Valentine (2010)
  5. Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
  6. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
  7. La La Land (2016)
  8. The Believer (2001)
  9. The Nice Guys (2016)
  10. The Notebook (2004)

Cary Grant

(1904 - 1986)
  1. North by Northwest (1959)
  2. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  3. Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)
  4. His Girl Friday (1940)
  5. The Awful Truth (1937)
  6. Notorious (1946)
  7. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  8. None But The Lonely Heart (1944)
  9. Charade (1963)
  10. Penny Serenade (1941)

Alec Guinness

(1914 - 2000)
  1. Bridge Over River Kwai (1957)
  2. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  3. Star Wars (1977)
  4. The Ladykillers (1955)
  5. The Horse's Mouth (1958)
  6. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
  7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1980)
  8. Olivier Twist (1948)
  9. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  10. Little Dorrit (1988)

Jake Gyllenhaal

(1980 - )
  1. Nightcrawler (2014)
  2. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
  3. Nocturnal Animals (2016)
  4. Stronger (2017)
  5. Donnie Darko (2001)
  6. Southpaw (2015)
  7. Prisoners (2013)
  8. Love & Other Drugs (2010)
  9. Enemy (2013)
  10. Jarhead (2005)

Gene Hackman

(1930 - 2025)
  1. The French Connection (1971)
  2. The Conversation (1974)
  3. The Unforgiven (1992)
  4. I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
  5. The Royal Tennenbaums (2001)
  6. Mississipi Burning (1986)
  7. Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
  8. Scarecrow (1973)
  9. Superman (1978)
  10. The Hoosiers (1986)

Tom Hanks

(1956 - )
  1. Forrest Gump (1994)
  2. Cast Away (2000)
  3. Philadelphia (1993)
  4. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  5. Big (1988)
  6. Captain Phillips (2013)
  7. Road to Perdition (2002)
  8. The Green Mile (1999)
  9. Apollo 13 (1995)
  10. The Terminal (2004)

Tom Hardy

(1977 - )
  1. Bronson (2008)
  2. The Revenant (2015)
  3. Locke (2013)
  4. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
  5. Legend (2015)
  6. Warrior (2011)
  7. The Drop (2014)
  8. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
  9. Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
  10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Woody Harrelson

(1961 - )
  1. True Detective (2014)
  2. The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
  3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
  4. The Messenger (2009)
  5. Cheers (1985 - 1993)
  6. Game Change (2012)
  7. Rampart (2011)
  8. White Men Can't Jump (1992)
  9. Zombieland (2009)
  10. White House Plumbers (2023)

Ed Harris

(1950 - )
  1. Pollock (2000)
  2. A History of Violence (2005)
  3. The Truman Show (1998)
  4. Apollo 13 (1995)
  5. The Hours (2002)
  6. The Right Stuff (1983)
  7. Westworld (2016 - 2022)
  8. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
  9. The Abyss (1989)
  10. Knightriders (1981)

Richard Harris

(1930 - 2002)
  1. This Sporting Life (1963)
  2. The Field (1990)
  3. The Snow Goose (1971)
  4. Cromwell (1970)
  5. Camelot (1967)
  6. My Kingdom (2001)
  7. A Man Called Horse (1970)
  8. Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
  9. Abraham (1993)
  10. Bloomfield (1970)

Rex Harrison

(1908 - 1990)
  1. My Fair Lady (1964)
  2. Cleopatra (1963)
  3. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
  4. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
  5. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
  6. The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
  7. Doctor Dolittle (1967)
  8. Major Barbara (1941)
  9. Escape (1948)
  10. Night Train to Munich (1940)

Ethan Hawke

(1970 - )
  1. First Reformed (2017)
  2. Blue Moon (2025)
  3. Boyhood (2014)
  4. Training Day (2001)
  5. Before Sunrise (1995)
  6. Before Sunset (2004)
  7. Before Midnight (2013)
  8. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
  9. Gattaca (1997)
  10. The Black Phone (2021)

Charlton Heston

(1923 - 2008)
  1. Ben-Hur (1959)
  2. The Ten Commandments (1956)
  3. Touch of Evil (1958)
  4. Planet of the Apes (1968)
  5. El Cid (1961)
  6. Will Penny (1968)
  7. Dark City (1950)
  8. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
  9. The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
  10. 55 Days at Peking (1963)

Dustin Hoffman

(1937 - )
  1. Rain Man (1988)
  2. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  3. Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
  4. Tootsie (1982)
  5. The Graduate (1967)
  6. Lenny (1974)
  7. Marathon Man (1976)
  8. Wag the Dog (1997)
  9. All the President's Men (1976)
  10. Little Big Man (1970)

Philip Seymour Hoffman

(1967 - 2014)
  1. The Master (2012)
  2. Capote (2005)
  3. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
  4. Doubt (2008)
  5. Happiness (1998)
  6. Flawless (1999)
  7. The Savages (2007)
  8. Magnolia (1999)
  9. Almost Famous (2000)
  10. Synecdoche, New York (2008)

William Holden

(1918 - 1981)
  1. Stalag 17 (1953)
  2. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  3. Network (1976)
  4. The Wild Bunch (1968)
  5. Bridge Over River Kwai (1957)
  6. Picnic (1955)
  7. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
  8. Breezy (1973)
  9. Executive Suite (1954)
  10. The World of Suzie Wong (1960)

Ian Holm

(1931 - 2020)
  1. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
  2. Chariots of Fire (1981)
  3. Alien (1979)
  4. The Bofors Gun (1968)
  5. Dreamchild (1985)
  6. The Lost Boys (1978)
  7. The Fifth Element (1997)
  8. The Madness of King George (1995)
  9. Brazil (1985)
  10. Ratatouille (2007)

Anthony Hopkins

(1937 - )
  1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  2. The Father (2020)
  3. Amistad (1997)
  4. The Remains of the Day (1993)
  5. Nixon (1995)
  6. The Elepahant Man (1980)
  7. Magic (1979)
  8. Shadowlands (1993)
  9. The Two Popes (2019)
  10. King Lear (2018)

Dennis Hopper

(1936–2010)
  1. Blue Velvet (1986)
  2. Hoosiers (1986)
  3. Easy Rider (1969)
  4. The American Friend (1977)
  5. True Romance (1993)
  6. River's Edge (1986)
  7. Speed (1994)
  8. Paris Trout (1991)
  9. Red Rock West (1993)
  10. Land of the Dead (2005)

John Hurt

(1940 - 2017)
  1. The Elephant Man (1980)
  2. Midnight Express (1978)
  3. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
  4. The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
  5. Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
  6. Scandal (1989)
  7. The Hit (1984)
  8. An Englishman in New York (2009)
  9. Alien (1979)
  10. 10 Rillington Place (1971)

William Hurt

(1950 - 2022)
  1. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
  2. Children of a Lesser God (1986)
  3. Broadcast News (1987)
  4. Altered States (1980)
  5. A History of Violence (2005)
  6. The Accidental Tourist (1988)
  7. The Doctor (1991)
  8. Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Battleground (2006)
  9. Body Heat (1981)
  10. The Big Chill (1983)

Jeremy Irons

(1948 - )
  1. Dead Ringers (1988)
  2. Reversal of Fortune (1990)
  3. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
  4. Brideshead Revisited (1981)
  5. The Lion King (1994)
  6. The Mission (1986)
  7. Elizabeth I (2005)
  8. Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
  9. Watchmen (2019)
  10. Damage (1992)
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