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DmitryXenon wrote: Fri Jan 23, 2026 11:47 pm I think Tim Robbins and Rutger Hauer still deserve to be here.

I am not opposed to that in principle, Robbins has a supporting Oscar win and roles in some major films to his credit while Hauer is simply iconic. I guess the question is, which actors near the bottom of my last update you see them beating by criteria: influence, acclaim, popularity/cultural impact, body of work.

Taking Man's feedback on the top 300 plus reshuffling #301-375 on my own for now. Moved John Goodman out of the top 300 again as I feel he falls just short.

1. Marlon Brando
2. Charles Chaplin
3. Laurence Olivier
4. Robert De Niro
5. James Stewart
6. Jack Nicholson
7. Al Pacino
8. Toshiro Mifune
9. Paul Newman
10. Humphrey Bogart
11. Cary Grant
12. Buster Keaton
13. Dustin Hoffman
14. Marcello Mastroianni
15. John Wayne
16. Daniel Day-Lewis
17. Henry Fonda
18. Alec Guinness
19. Jack Lemmon
20. Jean Gabin
21. Tom Hanks
22. Denzel Washington
23. Gregory Peck
24. Sidney Poitier
25. Gary Cooper
26. James Cagney
27. Gérard Depardieu
28. Spencer Tracy
29. Peter O'Toole
30. Gene Hackman
31. Leonardo DiCaprio
32. Clark Gable
33. Clint Eastwood
34. Richard Burton
35. Max von Sydow
36. Burt Lancaster
37. Robert Mitchum
38. Peter Sellers
39. William Holden
40. Anthony Hopkins
41. Kirk Douglas
42. Michael Caine
43. Morgan Freeman
44. Jean-Paul Belmondo
45. Orson Welles
46. Harold Lloyd
47. Sean Connery
48. Alain Delon
49. Robert Duvall
50. Anthony Quinn
51. Vittorio Gassman
52. Rudolph Valentino
53. George C. Scott
54. Robert Redford
55. Montgomery Clift
56. James Dean
57. Michel Piccoli
58. Klaus Kinski
59. Tom Cruise
60. Harrison Ford
61. Gene Kelly
62. Peter Lorre
63. Fred Astaire
64. Edward G. Robinson
65. Charles Laughton
66. Takashi Shimura
67. Sean Penn
68. Philip Seymour Hoffman
69. Gary Oldman
70. Douglas Fairbanks
71. Max Linder
72. Groucho Marx/The Marx Brothers
73. Ronald Colman
74. Tatsuya Nakadai
75. Johnny Depp
76. Jackie Chan
77. Robin Williams
78. Ben Kingsley
79. Fredric March
80. James Mason
81. Michel Simon
82. Jean-Louis Trintignant
83. Bill Murray
84. Jeff Bridges
85. Amitabh Bachchan
86. Dennis Hopper
87. John Barrymore
88. Chishu Ryu
89. Lon Chaney
90. Tony Leung Chiu Wai
91. Laurel and Hardy
92. Jean-Pierre Léaud
93. Errol Flynn
94. Bruce Lee
95. Albert Finney
96. Emil Jannings
97. Philippe Noiret
98. John Hurt
99. Russell Crowe
100. Walter Matthau
101. Uttam Kumar
102. Rod Steiger
103. Ralph Fiennes
104. Richard Harris
105. Javier Bardem
106. Woody Allen
107. Raj Kapoor
108. Yves Montand
109. Christian Bale
110. Brad Pitt
111. Warren Beatty
112. Louis de Funès
113. Yul Brynner
114. Charlton Heston
115. Steve McQueen
116. Mickey Rooney
117. Boris Karloff
118. Totò
119. Claude Rains
120. Willem Dafoe
121. Kevin Spacey
122. Samuel L. Jackson
123. Dirk Bogarde
124. John Gielgud
125. Vincent Price
126. Chow Yun-fat
127. Alberto Sordi
128. Conrad Veidt
129. George Clooney
130. Christopher Walken
131. Donald Sutherland
132. Ian McKellen
133. Michael Douglas
134. Dilip Kumar
135. Paul Muni
136. Lee Marvin
137. Jacques Tati
138. Jean Marais
139. Jerry Lewis
140. Robert Downey Jr.
141. Joaquin Phoenix
142. Jim Carrey
143. Rock Hudson
144. Naseeruddin Shah
145. Geoffrey Rush
146. Omar Sharif
147. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
148. Peter Finch
149. Lionel Barrymore
150. Rajesh Khanna
151. Sessue Hayakawa
152. King Baggot
153. Jeremy Irons
154. Jon Voight
155. Kenneth Branagh
156. Richard Attenborough
157. Gérard Philipe
158. Erland Josephson
159. Farid Shawqi
160. Ernest Borgnine
161. Heath Ledger
162. Matt Damon
163. Shah Rukh Khan
164. Charles Boyer
165. William Hurt
166. Will Smith
167. Bing Crosby
168. Liam Neeson
169. Edward Norton
170. Christopher Lee
171. Daniel Auteuil
172. Fernandel
173. Nino Manfredi
174. David Niven
175. Ralph Richardson
176. Erich von Stroheim
177. Richard Dreyfuss
178. William S. Hart
179. Gene Wilder
180. Fernando Rey
181. Maximilian Schell
182. Viggo Mortensen
183. Ryan Gosling
184. Tony Curtis
185. Dev Anand
186. Adel Imam
187. Innokenty Smoktunovsky
188. W.C. Fields
189. Ed Harris
190. Tommy Lee Jones
191. Harvey Keitel
192. Thomas Mitchell
193. Walter Brennan
194. Gunnar Björnstrand
195. Bourvil
196. Aamir Khan
197. José Ferrer
198. Fernando Fernán Gómez
199. Nikolay Cherkasov
200. Nicolas Cage
201. Michel Serrault
202. Ugo Tognazzi
203. William Powell
204. George Sanders
205. Joe Pesci
206. James Earl Jones
207. Song Kang-ho
208. Choi Min-sik
209. Arthur Kennedy
210. Joseph Cotten
211. Cantinflas
212. Karl Malden
213. Bruno Ganz
214. John Gilbert
215. Charles Bronson
216. James Coburn
217. Stellan Skarsgård
218. Gian Maria Volonté
219. Eli Wallach
220. John Malkovich
221. Ahmed Zaki
222. Jean-Claude Brialy
223. Melvyn Douglas
224. Bob Hope
225. Walter Huston
226. Abbott and Costello
227. Nanni Moretti
228. Paul Robeson
229. Wallace Beery
230. Tom Courtenay
231. Rex Harrison
232. Benicio del Toro
233. Jake Gyllenhaal
234. Joel McCrea
235. Ewan McGregor
236. Bela Lugosi
237. The Three Stooges
238. Paul Scofield
239. Robert Shaw
240. Gaston Modot
241. John Carradine
242. Harry Dean Stanton
243. Raimu
244. Paul Winfield
245. Mel Gibson
246. Bruce Willis
247. Sylvester Stallone
248. Arnold Schwarzenegger
249. Steve Buscemi
250. Denholm Elliott
251. Roberto Benigni
252. Dana Andrews
253. Michael Chekhov
254. Jason Robards
255. Leslie Cheung
256. Martin Sheen
257. Ethan Hawke
258. Richard Gere
259. Robert Ryan
260. Peter Cushing
261. Takeshi Kitano
262. Rudolf Klein-Rogge
263. Franco Nero
264. Robert Donat
265. Bradley Cooper
266. Christopher Plummer
267. Peter Ustinov
268. Matthew McConaughey
269. Adrian Brody
270. John Travolta
271. James Woods
272. Donald Crisp
273. Pedro Infante
274. Lee J. Cobb
275. Alan Rickman
276. Alastair Sim
277. Richard Widmark
278. Victor Mature
279. Victor McLaglen
280. Michael Redgrave
281. Armin Mueller-Stahl
282. Anthony Perkins
283. Basil Rathbone
284. Walter Pidgeon
285. Giancarlo Giannini
286. Bob Hoskins
287. Daniel Craig
288. Glenn Ford
289. Gael García Bernal
290. James Caan
291. John Cazale
292. John Garfield
293. Martin Balsam
294. Alan Arkin
295. Brendan Gleeson
296. Andy Serkis
297. Leslie Howard
298. Woody Harrelson
299. Adam Sandler
300. Eddie Murphy
301. Steve Martin
302. Martin Landau
303. Aldo Fabrizi
304. John Goodman
305. Edward Everett Horton
306. Tim Robbins
307. Ray Milland
308. Mark Ruffalo
309. Sterling Hayden
310. Don Cheadle
311. Chris Cooper
312. Frank Sinatra
313. Roy Scheider
314. Vincent Cassel
315. Rutger Hauer
316. Michael Fassbender
317. John Cleese
318. Jet Li
319. Jean Rochefort
320. Ken Takakura
321. Christoph Waltz
322. Colin Firth
323. Kevin Costner
324. Mickey Rourke
325. Timothée Chalamet
326. Curd Jürgens
327. Jürgen Prochnow
328. Gert Fröbe
329. Horst Buchcholz
330. Minoru Chiaki
331. Robert Montgomery
332. Fred MacMurray
333. Donald Pleasence
334. Jean Hersholt
335. Maurice Chevalier
336. River Phoenix
337. Tom Hardy
338. Jude Law
339. Barry Fitzgerald
340. Jack Palance
341. Randolph Scott
342. Forest Whitaker
343. Billy Bob Thornton
344. Paul Giamatti
345. Kevin Kline
346. Nick Nolte
347. Charles Bickford
348. Bruce Dern
349. Ian Holm
350. John Turturro
351. Ned Beatty
352. Ward Bond
353. George Arliss
354. Anthony Wong
355. Oleg Yankovsky
356. Colin Farrell
357. Raúl Juliá
358. Jeff Daniels
359. Ossie Davis
360. Vittorio De Sica
361. Michael Shannon
362. Paul Lukas
363. Udo Kier
364. Ulrich Mühe
365. Jim Broadbent
366. Oliver Reed
367. Sidney Greenstreet
368. Wallace Reid
369. Timothy Spall
370. Alan Hale Sr.
371. Masahiro Motoki
372. Rossano Brazzi
373. Mahershala Ali
374. Chiwetel Ejiofor
375. Raf Vallone

Previously unranked actors in bold.

I'd have Mads Mikkelsen near Rourke, Firth and Waltz.

Re-cap. Added Mads as per Man's suggestion, promoted four more actors into the ranked section, gave another bump to Denzel, as I believe him and DDL are closer than the list used to imply, with DDL winning acclaim and Denzel winning popularity and arguably influence and body of work a draw I think.

1. Marlon Brando
2. Charlie Chaplin
3. Laurence Olivier
4. Robert De Niro
5. James Stewart
6. Jack Nicholson
7. Al Pacino
8. Toshiro Mifune
9. Paul Newman
10. Humphrey Bogart
11. Cary Grant
12. Buster Keaton
13. Dustin Hoffman
14. Marcello Mastroianni
15. John Wayne
16. Daniel Day-Lewis
17. Henry Fonda
18. Denzel Washington
19. Alec Guinness
20. Jack Lemmon
21. Tom Hanks
22. Jean Gabin
23. Gregory Peck
24. Sidney Poitier
25. Gary Cooper
26. James Cagney
27. Gérard Depardieu
28. Spencer Tracy
29. Peter O'Toole
30. Gene Hackman
31. Leonardo DiCaprio
32. Clark Gable
33. Clint Eastwood
34. Richard Burton
35. Max von Sydow
36. Burt Lancaster
37. Robert Mitchum
38. Peter Sellers
39. William Holden
40. Anthony Hopkins
41. Kirk Douglas
42. Michael Caine
43. Morgan Freeman
44. Jean-Paul Belmondo
45. Orson Welles
46. Harold Lloyd
47. Sean Connery
48. Alain Delon
49. Robert Duvall
50. Anthony Quinn
51. Vittorio Gassman
52. Rudolph Valentino
53. George C. Scott
54. Robert Redford
55. Montgomery Clift
56. James Dean
57. Michel Piccoli
58. Klaus Kinski
59. Tom Cruise
60. Harrison Ford
61. Gene Kelly
62. Peter Lorre
63. Fred Astaire
64. Edward G. Robinson
65. Charles Laughton
66. Takashi Shimura
67. Sean Penn
68. Philip Seymour Hoffman
69. Gary Oldman
70. Douglas Fairbanks
71. Max Linder
72. Groucho Marx/The Marx Brothers
73. Ronald Colman
74. Tatsuya Nakadai
75. Johnny Depp
76. Jackie Chan
77. Robin Williams
78. Ben Kingsley
79. Fredric March
80. James Mason
81. Michel Simon
82. Jean-Louis Trintignant
83. Bill Murray
84. Jeff Bridges
85. Amitabh Bachchan
86. Dennis Hopper
87. John Barrymore
88. Chishu Ryu
89. Lon Chaney
90. Tony Leung Chiu Wai
91. Laurel and Hardy
92. Jean-Pierre Léaud
93. Errol Flynn
94. Bruce Lee
95. Albert Finney
96. Emil Jannings
97. Philippe Noiret
98. John Hurt
99. Russell Crowe
100. Walter Matthau
101. Uttam Kumar
102. Rod Steiger
103. Ralph Fiennes
104. Richard Harris
105. Javier Bardem
106. Woody Allen
107. Raj Kapoor
108. Yves Montand
109. Christian Bale
110. Brad Pitt
111. Warren Beatty
112. Louis de Funès
113. Yul Brynner
114. Charlton Heston
115. Steve McQueen
116. Mickey Rooney
117. Boris Karloff
118. Totò
119. Claude Rains
120. Willem Dafoe
121. Kevin Spacey
122. Samuel L. Jackson
123. Dirk Bogarde
124. John Gielgud
125. Vincent Price
126. Chow Yun-fat
127. Alberto Sordi
128. Conrad Veidt
129. George Clooney
130. Christopher Walken
131. Donald Sutherland
132. Ian McKellen
133. Michael Douglas
134. Dilip Kumar
135. Paul Muni
136. Lee Marvin
137. Jacques Tati
138. Jean Marais
139. Jerry Lewis
140. Robert Downey Jr.
141. Joaquin Phoenix
142. Jim Carrey
143. Rock Hudson
144. Naseeruddin Shah
145. Geoffrey Rush
146. Omar Sharif
147. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
148. Peter Finch
149. Lionel Barrymore
150. Rajesh Khanna
151. Sessue Hayakawa
152. King Baggot
153. Jeremy Irons
154. Jon Voight
155. Kenneth Branagh
156. Richard Attenborough
157. Gérard Philipe
158. Erland Josephson
159. Farid Shawqi
160. Ernest Borgnine
161. Heath Ledger
162. Matt Damon
163. Shah Rukh Khan
164. Charles Boyer
165. William Hurt
166. Will Smith
167. Bing Crosby
168. Liam Neeson
169. Edward Norton
170. Christopher Lee
171. Daniel Auteuil
172. Fernandel
173. Nino Manfredi
174. David Niven
175. Ralph Richardson
176. Erich von Stroheim
177. Richard Dreyfuss
178. William S. Hart
179. Gene Wilder
180. Fernando Rey
181. Maximilian Schell
182. Viggo Mortensen
183. Ryan Gosling
184. Tony Curtis
185. Dev Anand
186. Adel Imam
187. Innokenty Smoktunovsky
188. W.C. Fields
189. Ed Harris
190. Tommy Lee Jones
191. Harvey Keitel
192. Thomas Mitchell
193. Walter Brennan
194. Gunnar Björnstrand
195. Bourvil
196. Aamir Khan
197. José Ferrer
198. Fernando Fernán Gómez
199. Nikolay Cherkasov
200. Nicolas Cage
201. Michel Serrault
202. Ugo Tognazzi
203. William Powell
204. George Sanders
205. Joe Pesci
206. James Earl Jones
207. Song Kang-ho
208. Choi Min-sik
209. Arthur Kennedy
210. Joseph Cotten
211. Cantinflas
212. Karl Malden
213. Bruno Ganz
214. John Gilbert
215. Charles Bronson
216. James Coburn
217. Stellan Skarsgård
218. Gian Maria Volonté
219. Eli Wallach
220. John Malkovich
221. Ahmed Zaki
222. Jean-Claude Brialy
223. Melvyn Douglas
224. Bob Hope
225. Walter Huston
226. Abbott and Costello
227. Nanni Moretti
228. Paul Robeson
229. Wallace Beery
230. Tom Courtenay
231. Rex Harrison
232. Benicio del Toro
233. Jake Gyllenhaal
234. Joel McCrea
235. Ewan McGregor
236. Bela Lugosi
237. The Three Stooges
238. Paul Scofield
239. Robert Shaw
240. Gaston Modot
241. John Carradine
242. Harry Dean Stanton
243. Raimu
244. Paul Winfield
245. Mel Gibson
246. Bruce Willis
247. Sylvester Stallone
248. Arnold Schwarzenegger
249. Steve Buscemi
250. Denholm Elliott
251. Roberto Benigni
252. Dana Andrews
253. Michael Chekhov
254. Jason Robards
255. Leslie Cheung
256. Martin Sheen
257. Ethan Hawke
258. Richard Gere
259. Robert Ryan
260. Peter Cushing
261. Takeshi Kitano
262. Rudolf Klein-Rogge
263. Franco Nero
264. Robert Donat
265. Bradley Cooper
266. Christopher Plummer
267. Peter Ustinov
268. Matthew McConaughey
269. Adrian Brody
270. John Travolta
271. James Woods
272. Donald Crisp
273. Pedro Infante
274. Lee J. Cobb
275. Alan Rickman
276. Alastair Sim
277. Richard Widmark
278. Victor Mature
279. Victor McLaglen
280. Michael Redgrave
281. Armin Mueller-Stahl
282. Anthony Perkins
283. Basil Rathbone
284. Walter Pidgeon
285. Giancarlo Giannini
286. Bob Hoskins
287. Daniel Craig
288. Glenn Ford
289. Gael García Bernal
290. James Caan
291. John Cazale
292. John Garfield
293. Martin Balsam
294. Alan Arkin
295. Brendan Gleeson
296. Andy Serkis
297. Leslie Howard
298. Woody Harrelson
299. Adam Sandler
300. Eddie Murphy
301. Steve Martin
302. Martin Landau
303. Aldo Fabrizi
304. John Goodman
305. Edward Everett Horton
306. Tim Robbins
307. Ray Milland
308. Mark Ruffalo
309. Sterling Hayden
310. Don Cheadle
311. Chris Cooper
312. Frank Sinatra
313. Roy Scheider
314. Vincent Cassel
315. Rutger Hauer
316. Michael Fassbender
317. John Cleese
318. Jet Li
319. Jean Rochefort
320. Ken Takakura
321. Christoph Waltz
322. Colin Firth
323. Kevin Costner
324. Mickey Rourke
325. Timothée Chalamet
326. Mads Mikkelson
327. Curd Jürgens
328. Jürgen Prochnow
329. Gert Fröbe
330. Horst Buchcholz
331. Minoru Chiaki
332. Robert Montgomery
333. Fred MacMurray
334. Donald Pleasence
335. Jean Hersholt
336. Maurice Chevalier
337. River Phoenix
338. Tom Hardy
339. Jude Law
340. Barry Fitzgerald
341. Jack Palance
342. Keanu Reeves
343. Randolph Scott
344. Forest Whitaker
345. Billy Bob Thornton
346. Paul Giamatti
347. Kevin Kline
348. Nick Nolte
349. Charles Bickford
350. Hugh Jackman
351. Bruce Dern
352. Ian Holm
353. Sidney Greenstreet
354. John Turturro
355. Ned Beatty
356. Trevor Howard
357. Colin Farrell
358. Jim Broadbent
359. Michael Shannon
360. Timothy Spall
361. Ward Bond
362. Broderick Crawford
363. George Arliss
364. Anthony Wong
365. Oleg Yankovsky
366. Raúl Juliá
367. Jeff Daniels
368. Ossie Davis
369. Vittorio De Sica
370. Paul Lukas
371. Udo Kier
372. Ulrich Mühe
373. Oliver Reed
374. Wallace Reid
375. Alan Hale Sr.
376. Masahiro Motoki
377. Rossano Brazzi
378. Mahershala Ali
379. Chiwetel Ejiofor
380. Raf Vallone

Previously unranked actors in bold.

I'm fine with those changes. I could also see Jet Li slightly higher, maybe next to Sandler and Murphy.

How do you think he breaks down with others in that #301-320 range? Some comparisons

Vs John Goodman

Acclaim: Goodman
Influence: Li
Popular and cultural recognition: Li close
Body of work: Goodman easy

Vs Edward Everett Horton

Acclaim: Horton
Influence: Li
Popular and cultural recognition: Li
Body of work: Horton easy

Vs Ray Milland

Acclaim: Milland
Influence: Li
Popular and cultural recognition: Li
Body of work: Milland

Vs Tim Robbins

Acclaim: Robbins
Influence: Li
Popular and cultural recognition: Li
Body of work: Robbins

Vs Mark Ruffalo

Acclaim: Ruffalo
Influence: Li
Popular and cultural recognition: Li close
Body of work: Ruffalo easy

I think Li's win in influence is pretty clear for most of these.

Well, I did not dispute that.

To put it another way, I think his win in influence is as easy as Goodman, Ruffalo or Horton's win in body of work, but your mileage may vary. I'd have him ahead of Milland or Robbins at least.

So I added 11 more actors to the ranked section (feel free to ask me about these promotions) relegated Ossie Davis to honorable mentions (undeniably an acclaimed actor but less so for his movie career), gave boosts to Bradley Cooper (5 Academy's Best Actor nominations plus high popularity and strong body of work), Walter Pidgeon (for similar reasons except just 2 Best Actor nominations), Timothée Chalamet and Jet Li, moved down Broderick Crawford, mostly on the list due to Oscar win, promoted DiCaprio to the top 25.

1. Marlon Brando
2. Charlie Chaplin
3. Laurence Olivier
4. Robert De Niro
5. James Stewart
6. Jack Nicholson
7. Al Pacino
8. Toshiro Mifune
9. Paul Newman
10. Humphrey Bogart
11. Cary Grant
12. Buster Keaton
13. Dustin Hoffman
14. Marcello Mastroianni
15. John Wayne
16. Daniel Day-Lewis
17. Henry Fonda
18. Denzel Washington
19. Alec Guinness
20. Jack Lemmon
21. Tom Hanks
22. Jean Gabin
23. Gregory Peck
24. Sidney Poitier
25. Leonardo DiCaprio
26. Gary Cooper
27. James Cagney
28. Gérard Depardieu
29. Spencer Tracy
30. Peter O'Toole
31. Gene Hackman
32. Clark Gable
33. Clint Eastwood
34. Richard Burton
35. Max von Sydow
36. Burt Lancaster
37. Robert Mitchum
38. Peter Sellers
39. William Holden
40. Anthony Hopkins
41. Kirk Douglas
42. Michael Caine
43. Morgan Freeman
44. Jean-Paul Belmondo
45. Orson Welles
46. Harold Lloyd
47. Sean Connery
48. Alain Delon
49. Robert Duvall
50. Anthony Quinn
51. Vittorio Gassman
52. Rudolph Valentino
53. George C. Scott
54. Robert Redford
55. Montgomery Clift
56. James Dean
57. Michel Piccoli
58. Klaus Kinski
59. Tom Cruise
60. Harrison Ford
61. Gene Kelly
62. Peter Lorre
63. Fred Astaire
64. Edward G. Robinson
65. Charles Laughton
66. Takashi Shimura
67. Sean Penn
68. Philip Seymour Hoffman
69. Gary Oldman
70. Douglas Fairbanks
71. Max Linder
72. Groucho Marx/The Marx Brothers
73. Ronald Colman
74. Tatsuya Nakadai
75. Johnny Depp
76. Jackie Chan
77. Robin Williams
78. Ben Kingsley
79. Fredric March
80. James Mason
81. Michel Simon
82. Jean-Louis Trintignant
83. Bill Murray
84. Jeff Bridges
85. Amitabh Bachchan
86. Dennis Hopper
87. John Barrymore
88. Chishu Ryu
89. Lon Chaney
90. Tony Leung Chiu Wai
91. Laurel and Hardy
92. Jean-Pierre Léaud
93. Errol Flynn
94. Bruce Lee
95. Albert Finney
96. Emil Jannings
97. Philippe Noiret
98. John Hurt
99. Russell Crowe
100. Walter Matthau
101. Uttam Kumar
102. Rod Steiger
103. Ralph Fiennes
104. Richard Harris
105. Javier Bardem
106. Woody Allen
107. Raj Kapoor
108. Yves Montand
109. Christian Bale
110. Brad Pitt
111. Warren Beatty
112. Louis de Funès
113. Yul Brynner
114. Charlton Heston
115. Steve McQueen
116. Mickey Rooney
117. Boris Karloff
118. Totò
119. Claude Rains
120. Willem Dafoe
121. Kevin Spacey
122. Samuel L. Jackson
123. Dirk Bogarde
124. John Gielgud
125. Vincent Price
126. Chow Yun-fat
127. Alberto Sordi
128. Conrad Veidt
129. George Clooney
130. Christopher Walken
131. Donald Sutherland
132. Ian McKellen
133. Michael Douglas
134. Dilip Kumar
135. Paul Muni
136. Lee Marvin
137. Jacques Tati
138. Jean Marais
139. Jerry Lewis
140. Robert Downey Jr.
141. Joaquin Phoenix
142. Jim Carrey
143. Rock Hudson
144. Naseeruddin Shah
145. Geoffrey Rush
146. Omar Sharif
147. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
148. Peter Finch
149. Lionel Barrymore
150. Rajesh Khanna
151. Sessue Hayakawa
152. King Baggot
153. Jeremy Irons
154. Jon Voight
155. Kenneth Branagh
156. Richard Attenborough
157. Gérard Philipe
158. Erland Josephson
159. Farid Shawqi
160. Ernest Borgnine
161. Heath Ledger
162. Matt Damon
163. Shah Rukh Khan
164. Charles Boyer
165. William Hurt
166. Will Smith
167. Bing Crosby
168. Liam Neeson
169. Edward Norton
170. Christopher Lee
171. Daniel Auteuil
172. Fernandel
173. Nino Manfredi
174. David Niven
175. Ralph Richardson
176. Erich von Stroheim
177. Richard Dreyfuss
178. William S. Hart
179. Gene Wilder
180. Fernando Rey
181. Maximilian Schell
182. Viggo Mortensen
183. Ryan Gosling
184. Tony Curtis
185. Dev Anand
186. Adel Imam
187. Innokenty Smoktunovsky
188. W.C. Fields
189. Ed Harris
190. Tommy Lee Jones
191. Harvey Keitel
192. Thomas Mitchell
193. Walter Brennan
194. Gunnar Björnstrand
195. Bourvil
196. Aamir Khan
197. José Ferrer
198. Fernando Fernán Gómez
199. Nikolay Cherkasov
200. Nicolas Cage
201. Michel Serrault
202. Ugo Tognazzi
203. William Powell
204. George Sanders
205. Joe Pesci
206. James Earl Jones
207. Song Kang-ho
208. Choi Min-sik
209. Arthur Kennedy
210. Bradley Cooper
211. Joseph Cotten
212. Cantinflas
213. Karl Malden
214. Bruno Ganz
215. John Gilbert
216. Charles Bronson
217. James Coburn
218. Stellan Skarsgård
219. Gian Maria Volonté
220. Eli Wallach
221. John Malkovich
222. Ahmed Zaki
223. Jean-Claude Brialy
224. Melvyn Douglas
225. Bob Hope
226. Walter Huston
227. Abbott and Costello
228. Nanni Moretti
229. Paul Robeson
230. Wallace Beery
231. Tom Courtenay
232. Rex Harrison
233. Benicio del Toro
234. Jake Gyllenhaal
235. Joel McCrea
236. Ewan McGregor
237. Bela Lugosi
238. The Three Stooges
239. Paul Scofield
240. Robert Shaw
241. Gaston Modot
242. John Carradine
243. Harry Dean Stanton
244. Raimu
245. Paul Winfield
246. Mel Gibson
247. Bruce Willis
248. Sylvester Stallone
249. Arnold Schwarzenegger
250. Steve Buscemi
251. Denholm Elliott
252. Roberto Benigni
253. Dana Andrews
254. Michael Chekhov
255. Jason Robards
256. Leslie Cheung
257. Martin Sheen
258. Ethan Hawke
259. Walter Pidgeon
260. Richard Gere
261. Robert Ryan
262. Peter Cushing
263. Takeshi Kitano
264. Rudolf Klein-Rogge
265. Franco Nero
266. Robert Donat
267. Christopher Plummer
268. Peter Ustinov
269. Matthew McConaughey
270. Adrian Brody
271. John Travolta
272. James Woods
273. Donald Crisp
274. Pedro Infante
275. Lee J. Cobb
276. Alan Rickman
277. Alastair Sim
278. Richard Widmark
279. Victor Mature
280. Victor McLaglen
281. Michael Redgrave
282. Armin Mueller-Stahl
283. Anthony Perkins
284. Basil Rathbone
285. Giancarlo Giannini
286. Bob Hoskins
287. Daniel Craig
288. Glenn Ford
289. Gael García Bernal
290. Timothée Chalamet
291. James Caan
292. John Cazale
293. John Garfield
294. Martin Balsam
295. Alan Arkin
296. Brendan Gleeson
297. Andy Serkis
298. Leslie Howard
299. Woody Harrelson
300. Adam Sandler
301. Eddie Murphy
302. Steve Martin
303. Martin Landau
304. Aldo Fabrizi
305. Jet Li
306. John Goodman
307. Edward Everett Horton
308. Tim Robbins
309. Ray Milland
310. Mark Ruffalo
311. Sterling Hayden
312. Don Cheadle
313. Chris Cooper
314. Frank Sinatra
315. Roy Scheider
316. Vincent Cassel
317. Rutger Hauer
318. Michael Fassbender
319. John Cleese
320. Jean Rochefort
321. Ken Takakura
322. Christoph Waltz
323. Colin Firth
324. Kevin Costner
325. Mickey Rourke
326. Mads Mikkelson
327. Curd Jürgens
328. Jürgen Prochnow
329. Gert Fröbe
330. Horst Buchcholz
331. Minoru Chiaki
332. Robert Montgomery
333. Fred MacMurray
334. Donald Pleasence
335. Jean Hersholt
336. Maurice Chevalier
337. River Phoenix
338. Tom Hardy
339. Jude Law
340. Barry Fitzgerald
341. Jack Palance
342. Hugh Grant
343. Keanu Reeves
344. Randolph Scott
345. Forest Whitaker
346. Billy Bob Thornton
347. Paul Giamatti
348. Kevin Kline
349. Nick Nolte
350. Charles Bickford
351. Jeff Goldblum
352. Hugh Jackman
353. Bruce Dern
354. Ian Holm
355. Sidney Greenstreet
356. John Turturro
357. Ned Beatty
358. Trevor Howard
359. Benedict Cumberbatch
360. Colin Farrell
361. Jim Broadbent
362. Michael Shannon
363. Tyrone Power
364. Lino Ventura
365. Lee Van Cleef
366. Timothy Spall
367. Ward Bond
368. George Arliss
369. Anthony Wong
370. Oleg Yankovsky
371. Raúl Juliá
372. Jeff Daniels
373. Chadwick Boseman
374. Michael B. Jordan
375. Vittorio De Sica
376. Andrew Garfield
377. Laurence Fishburne
378. Broderick Crawford
379. Paul Lukas
380. Udo Kier
381. Ulrich Mühe
382. Oliver Reed
383. Wallace Reid
384. Alan Hale Sr.
385. Masahiro Motoki
386. Rossano Brazzi
387. Mahershala Ali
388. Chiwetel Ejiofor
389. Raf Vallone
390. Charles Coburn

Alfred Abel
Don Ameche
Edward Arnold
Tadanobu Asano
Lew Ayres
Kevin Bacon
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Alec Baldwin
George Bancroft
Sacha Baron Cohen
Jean-Louis Barrault
Richard Barthelmess
Albert Bassermann
Ralph Bellamy
Mel Blanc
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Claude Brasseur
Josh Brolin
Mel Brooks
Louis Calhern
Eddie Cantor
Harry Carey Jr.
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Sonny Chiba
Brian Cox
James Cromwell
Joe Dallesandro
Ossie Davis
Danny DeVito
Divine
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Pierre Fresnay
James Garner
Götz George
Danny Glover
Hugh Griffith
Edmund Gwenn
Kamal Haasan
Cedric Hardwicke
Jack Hawkins
Stanley Holloway
Oscar Isaac
Ben Johnson
Al Jolson
Louis Jourdan
Louis Jouvet
Shintaro Katsu
Michael Keaton
George Kennedy
Hardy Krüger
Alan Ladd
Evgeny Leonov
Tony Leung Ka Fai
John Lithgow
Roger Livesey
William H. Macy
Herbert Marshall
Dean Martin
Malcolm McDowell
John Mills
Tom Mix
Alfred Molina
Frank Morgan
Jorge Negrete
Leslie Nielsen
Ramon Novarro
Daniel Olbrychski
Michael Palin
Jacques Perrin
Richard Pryor
Anthony Quayle
Jean Reno
Burt Reynolds
Sam Rockwell
Roy Rogers
Hrithik Roshan
Kurt Russell
Hiroyuki Sanada
Mack Sennett
Gary Sinise
Sol Kyung-gu
Anatoly Solonitsyn
Terence Stamp
Dean Stockwell
David Strathairn
Henry Travers
Anton Walbrook
M. Emmett Walsh
Jack Warden
H. B. Warner
Tom Wilkinson
Louis Wolheim

Previously unranked actors/actors moved up in bold.

Im curious about moving Dicaprio up, not against it, just curious for your reasoning.


I could also see Ali and Waltz a bit higher.

Re: DiCaprio, just a really strong combo of popularity, acclaim, body of work. Influence the only criterion where I don't think he has much of it but it's also rare to achieve as an actor.

Where do you see Ali and Waltz?

I'd have Ali near River Phoenix and I'd have Waltz near Craig.

In terms of Dicaprio, I think he should be ahead of Depardieu/Tracy at least, but I'm less sure about how he compares with Cooper/Cagney. Here's my attempt at a breakdown.

Vs cooper
Acclaim: Dicaprio close
Influence: Cooper close
Popularity: Cooper close
BoW: Dicaprio close

Acclaim is the category I'm least sure about

Vs Cagney
Acclaim: Dicaprio close
Influence: Cagney
Popularity: Close
BoW: Dicaprio

Guess I am fine with Cagney/Cooper staying ahead of DiCaprio for now. Just to see if we are on the same page about Depardieu/Tracy 

Acclaim: Depardieu/Tracy >> DiCaprio
Influence: Tracy > Depardieu > DiCaprio
Popularity: DiCaprio >> Depardieu > Tracy
Body of work: DiCaprio >> Depardieu/Tracy

I actually think acclaim is closer than you have it, other than that I pretty sure much agree.

Edit: I also think Tracy takes body of work over Depardieu.