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Greatest Screen Performances
per Film Actors - M-O


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

Fredric March

(1897 - 1975)
  1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
  2. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  3. Death of a Salesman (1951)
  4. The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
  5. A Star is Born (1937)
  6. Inherit the Wind (1960)
  7. Seven Days in May (1964)
  8. Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
  9. Les Misérables (1935)
  10. Anthony Adverse (1936)

Lee Marvin

(1924 - 1987)
  1. Cat Ballou (1965)
  2. The Killers (1964)
  3. The Professionals (1966)
  4. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
  5. Point Blank (1967)
  6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  7. Paint Your Wagon (1969)
  8. Monte Walsh (1970)
  9. The Comancheros (1961)
  10. The Big Red One (1980)

Groucho Marx

(1890 - 1977)/The Marx Brothers
  1. Duck Soup (1933)
  2. A Night at the Opera (1935)
  3. The Cocoanuts (1929)
  4. Animal Crackers (1930)
  5. A Day at the Races (1937)
  6. Horse Feathers (1932)
  7. Monkey Business (1931)
  8. Go West (1940)
  9. The Big Store (1941)
  10. At the Circus (1939)

James Mason

(1909 - 1984)
  1. Bigger Than Life (1956)
  2. A Star Is Born (1954)
  3. Julius Caesar (1953)
  4. Odd Man Out (1947)
  5. Lolita (1962)
  6. Georgy Girl (1966)
  7. The Verdict (1982)
  8. North by Northwest (1959)
  9. The Deadly Affair (1967)
  10. The Seventh Veil (1945)

Marcello Mastroianni

(1924 - 1996)
  1. La Dolce Vita (1960)
  2. 8½ (1963)
  3. Divorce Italian Style (1961)
  4. Dark Eyes (1987)
  5. Yesterday, Today and Tommorrow (1963)
  6. A Special Day (1977)
  7. Marriage Italian Style (1964)
  8. La Notte (1961)
  9. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
  10. Days of Love (1954)

James McAvoy

(1979 - )
  1. Filth (2013)
  2. Atonement (2007)
  3. The Last King of Scotland (2006)
  4. Split (2016)
  5. Glass (2019)
  6. X-Men: First Class (2011)
  7. The Conspirator (2010)
  8. Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
  9. Shameless (2004 - 2005)
  10. The Last Station (2009)

Matthew McConaughey

(1969 - )
  1. True Detective (2014)
  2. Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
  3. Interstellar (2014)
  4. The Beach Bum (2019)
  5. Mud (2012)
  6. Magic Mike (2012)
  7. Killer Joe (2011)
  8. Bernie (2011)
  9. Dazed and Confused (1991)
  10. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Joel McCrea

(1905 - 1990)
  1. The More the Merrier (1943)
  2. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
  3. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  4. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
  5. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
  6. Stars in My Crown (1950)
  7. Union Pacific (1939)
  8. Primrose Path (1940)
  9. These Three (1936)
  10. The Silver Horde (1930)

Ewan McGregor

(1971 - )
  1. Trainspotting (1996)
  2. The Ghost Writer (2010)
  3. Fargo (2017)
  4. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
  5. Halston (2021)
  6. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
  7. The Impossible (2012)
  8. Young Adam (2003)
  9. Star Wars: Episode lll – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
  10. Shallow Grave (1994)

Ian McKellen

(1939 - )
  1. Gods and Monsters (1998)
  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  3. Richard III (1995)
  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  6. And the Band Plays On (1993)
  7. X2 (2003)
  8. Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996)
  9. Apt Pupil (1998)
  10. Mr. Holmes (2015)

Steve McQueen

(1930 - 1980)
  1. The Great Escape (1963)
  2. The Sand Pebbles (1966)
  3. Bullitt (1968)
  4. Papillon (1973)
  5. Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
  6. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
  7. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
  8. The Reivers (1969)
  9. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
  10. Never So Few (1959)

Toshiro Mifune

(1920 - 1997)
  1. Seven Samurai (1954)
  2. Yojimbo (1961)
  3. Rashomon (1950)
  4. High and Low (1963)
  5. Red Beard (1965)
  6. Throne of Blood (1957)
  7. Shogun (1981)
  8. Samurai I: Mushashi Miyamoto (1954)
  9. Life of Oharu (1952)
  10. The Quiet Duel (1949)

Thomas Mitchell

(1892 - 1962)
  1. Stagecoach (1939)
  2. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  3. The Hurricane (1937)
  4. The Long Voyage Home (1940)
  5. Moontide (1942)
  6. Lost Horizon (1937)
  7. Flight from Destiny (1941)
  8. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  9. Swiss Family Robinson (1940)
  10. The Black Swan (1942)

Robert Mitchum

(1917 - 1997)
  1. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  2. Out of the Past (1947)
  3. Cape Fear(1962)
  4. The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
  5. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
  6. The Sundowners (1960)
  7. Home from the Hill (1960)
  8. Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
  9. The Lusty Men (1952)
  10. The Enemy Below (1957)

Viggo Mortensen

(1958 - )
  1. A History of Violence (2005)
  2. Captain Fantastic (2016)
  3. Eastern Promises (2007)
  4. The Road (2009)
  5. Green Book (2018)
  6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  8. A Dangerous Method (2011)
  9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  10. Falling (2020)

Paul Muni

(1895 - 1967)
  1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
  2. Scarface (1932)
  3. The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
  4. The Valiant (1929)
  5. Black Fury (1935)
  6. The Good Earth (1937)
  7. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  8. The Last Angry Man (1959)
  9. Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
  10. A Song to Remember (1945)

Cillian Murphy

(1976 - )
  1. Oppenheimer (2022)
  2. Peaky Blinders (2013 - 2022)
  3. Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
  4. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
  5. Small Things like These (2024)
  6. Steve (2025)
  7. Red Eye (2005)
  8. Batman Begins (2005)
  9. 28 Days Later (2002)
  10. Peacock (2010)

Eddie Murphy

(1961 - )
  1. Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
  2. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
  3. Shrek (2001)
  4. Dreamgirls (2006)
  5. Saturday Night Live (1980 - 1984; 2019)
  6. The Nutty Professor (1996)
  7. Coming to America (1988)
  8. Mr. Church (2016)
  9. 48 Hrs. (1982)
  10. Trading Places (1983)

Bill Murray

(1950 - )
  1. Groundhog Day (1993)
  2. Lost in Translation (2003)
  3. Ghostbusters (1984)
  4. Rushmore (1998)
  5. Cadddyshack (1980)
  6. Broken Flowers (2005)
  7. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
  8. Saturday Night Live (1977 - 1980)
  9. What About Bob? (1991)
  10. Scrooged (1988)

Tatsuya Nakadai

(1932 - 2025)
  1. Harakiri (1962)
  2. Ran (1985)
  3. Kagemusha (1980)
  4. The Human Condition Part I: No Greater Love (1959)
  5. Yojimbo (1961)
  6. The Human Condition Part ll: Road to Eternity (1959)
  7. The Human Condition Part lll: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
  8. Sanjuro (1962)
  9. High and Low (1963)
  10. Samurai Rebellion (1967)

Liam Neeson

(1952 - )
  1. Schindler's List (1993)
  2. Michael Collins (1996)
  3. Kinsey (2004)
  4. The Naked Gun (2025)
  5. Taken (2008)
  6. Ordinary Love (2019)
  7. Les Misérables (1998)
  8. The Grey (2011)
  9. Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
  10. A Monster Calls (2016)

Paul Newman

(1925 - 2008)
  1. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  2. The Hustler (1961)
  3. Hud (1963)
  4. The Verdict (1982)
  5. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  6. Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (1969)
  7. The Sting (1973)
  8. The Color of Money (1986)
  9. The Absence of Malice (1981)
  10. The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

Jack Nicholson

(1937 - )
  1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  2. Chinatown (1974)
  3. The Shining (1980)
  4. The Last Detail (1973)
  5. About Schmidt (2002)
  6. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
  7. As Good as It Gets (1997)
  8. Terms of Endearment (1983)
  9. Batman (1989)
  10. Easy Rider (1969)

David Niven

(1910 - 1983)
  1. Separate Tables (1958)
  2. The Moon Is Blue (1953)
  3. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
  4. The Pink Panther (1963)
  5. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
  6. My Man Godfrey (1957)
  7. Carrington V.C. (1954)
  8. Dawn Patrol (1938)
  9. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
  10. Murder by Death (1976)

Philippe Noiret

(1930 - 2006)
  1. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
  2. Life and Nothing But (1989)
  3. Il Postino(1994)
  4. Le Vieux Fusil (1975)
  5. The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
  6. Coup de torchon (1981)
  7. Les ripoux (1984)
  8. La vieille fille (1972)
  9. Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962)
  10. Pile ou Face (1980)

Edward Norton

(1969 - )
  1. American History X (1998)
  2. Fight Club (1999)
  3. Primal Fear (1996)
  4. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
  5. 25th Hour (2002)
  6. A Complete Unknown (2024)
  7. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
  8. Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
  9. The People vs Larry Flynt (1996)
  10. The Illusionist (2006)

Gary Oldman

(1958 - )
  1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy(2011)
  2. Sid and Nancy (1986)
  3. Darkest Hour (2017)
  4. The Firm (1989)
  5. Mank (2020)
  6. The Contender (2001)
  7. Léon: The Professional (1994)
  8. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
  9. Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
  10. The Fifth Element (1997)

Laurence Olivier

(1907 - 1989)
  1. Hamlet (1948)
  2. Henry V (1944)
  3. Richard lll (1955)
  4. Rebecca (1940)
  5. Wuthering Heights (1939)
  6. Sleuth (1972)
  7. Marathon Man (1976)
  8. Carrie (1952)
  9. The Boys from Brazil (1977)
  10. Spartacus (1960)

Peter O'Toole

(1932 - 2013)
  1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  2. The Lion in the Winter (1968)
  3. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
  4. Becket (1964)
  5. The Ruling Class (1972)
  6. The Stunt Man (1980)
  7. My Favourite Year (1982)
  8. Venus (2006)
  9. The Man of La Mancha (1972)
  10. The Last Emperor (1987)
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