Five Films From ...

EASY GAME

LET'S PLAY ...

Judged on how much a film is worth watching if you are a fan of this actor (so not just "is their performance good?" or "is it a good film?" but a bit of a combination of the two ...). Glaring omissions are most likely to, of course, be films I haven't seen rather than fervent opinions.

It won't surprise you to know that when I was a teenager I went through the Halliwell's Film Guide with a pen and marked films starring lots of different actors to see a) who was in the most films and b) who was in the most highly rated films. So this is all second nature to me.

Robert De Niro

Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The Deer Hunter
Midnight Run

Julia Roberts

Pretty Woman
Charlie Wilson's War
Notting Hill
Erin Brockovich
My Best Friend's Wedding

Alec Guinness

Lavender Hill Mob
The Ladykillers
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Tunes of Glory
Star Wars

Audrey Hepburn

Roman Holiday
My Fair Lady
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Charade
Sabrina

Denzel Washington

Training Day
Flight
Cry Freedom
Crimson Tide
Unstoppable

Julie Christie

Dr Zhivago
Don't Look Now
Far From the Madding Crowd
Darling
The Go-Between

Cate Blanchett

Blue Jasmine
I'm Not There
Carol
Elizabeth
The Aviator

John Goodman

The Big Lebowski
Barton Fink
The Big Easy
Argo
Inside Llewyn Davis

Marion Cotillard

La Vie en Rose
Inception
Rust and Bone
Two Days, One Night
Midnight in Paris

Owen Wilson

The Royal Tenenbaums
Midnight in Paris
Meet the Parents
The Darjeeling Limited
Inhererent Vice

Kevin Costner

No Way Out
Bull Durham
JFK
Tin Cup
The Untouchables

Michelle Williams

Brokeback Mountain
Synecdoche, New York
Blue Valentine
My Week With Marilyn
Shutter Island

Holly Hunter

Broadcast News
Raising Arizona
The Piano
A Life Less Ordinary
O Brother, Where Art Thou

Michael Douglas

The Game
Wonder Boys
Traffic
Wall Street
Falling Down

Emma Thompson

Howard's End
The Remains of the Day
The Tall Guy
In the Name of the Father
Saving Mr Banks

Humphrey Bogart

Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
To Have and Have Not
Key Largo

Katharine Hepburn

Bringing Up Baby
The Philadelphia Story
The African Queen
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
On Golden Pond

Sigourney Weaver

Ghostbusters
Working Girl
The Ice Storm
Avatar
Be Kind Rewind

Benicio Del Toro

The Usual Suspects
Traffic
Sin City
The Pledge
Inherent Vice

Kevin Bacon

Mystic Rover
The Woodsman
Diner
Footloose
Murder in the First

Amy Adams

The Fighter
Enchanted
The Master
American Hustle
Her

Kristin Scott Thomas

I've Loved You So Long
Gosford Park
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Tell No one
The English Patient

John Cusack

Love and Mercy
Grosse Point Blank
High Fidelity
Say Anything ...
Con Air

Joan Cusack

School of Rock
Grosse Point Blank
Working Girl
Runaway Bride
Say Anything ...

Luis Guzman

Carlito's Way
Boogie Nights
Punch Drunk Love
Traffic
Magnolia

Emily Watson

The Boxer
Red Dragon
Punch-Drunk Love
Belle
Gosford Park

Ewan McGregor

Trainspotting
Shallow Grave
Young Adam
A Life Less Ordinary
Big Fish

Jake Gyllenhaal

Donnie Darko
Nightcrawler
Zodiac
Source Code
Brokeback Mountain

Tilda Swinton

Young Adam
Broken Flowers
Burn After Reading
Michael Clayton
We Need to Talk about Kevin

Keanu Reeves

Parenthood
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Thumbsucker
Speed
The Matrix

Whoopi Goldberg

Ghost
Sister Act
Made in America
The Color Purple
The Player

Frances McDormand

Fargo
Blood Simple
Short Cuts
Almost Famous
Moonrise Kingdom

Forest Whitaker

The Last King of Scotland
Ghost Dog
Platoon
Good Morning, Vietnam
Southpaw

Christopher Walken

Catch Me if You Can
The Deer Hunter
True Romance
A View to a Kill
Batman Returns

Sally Hawkins

Happy-Go-Lucky
Submarine
Blue Jasmine
Made in Dagenham
X+Y

Susan Sarandon

Thelma and Louise
Dead Man Walking
Bull Durham
Enchanted
Arbitrage

Christian Slater

Pump Up the Volume
Heathers
Broken Arrow
True Romance
Untamed Heart

Marlon Brando

On the Waterfront
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Godfather
Last Tango in Paris
Superman

Dianne Wiest

Hannah and Her Sisters
Parenthood
Footloose
The Purple Rose of Cairo
A Guide to Recognising Your Saints

Michael Cera

Superbad
Juno
Youth in Revolt
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Julianne Moore

The Kids are All Right
Short Cuts
Far From Heaven
The Hours
The Big Lebowski

Nicolas Cage

Leaving Las Vegas
Raising Arizona
Con Air
Adaptation
Wild at Heart

Naomi Watts

Mulholland Drive
Birdman
While We're Young
King Kong
Eastern Promises

Joseph Cotten

Citizen Kane
Shadow of a Doubt
The Third Man
Duel in the Sun
Gaslight

Lawrence Fishburne

Boyz N The Hood
Apocalypse Now
What's Love Got To Do With It?
The Matrix
The Color Purple

Faye Dunaway

Bonnie and Clyde
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Three Musketeers
Chinatown
The Towering Inferno

Helen Mirren

The Long Good Friday
The Queen
Excalibur
Gosford Park
State of Play

Grace Kelly

High Noon
Dial M for Murder
High Society
To Catch a Thief
Rear Window

Annette Bening

The Grifters
The Kids Are All Right
American Beauty
The American President
Regarding Henry

Emilio Estevez

The Outsiders
St Elmo's Fire
The Breakfast Club
Young Guns
Stakeout

John Wayne

Stagecoach
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Bravo
The Searchers
True Grit

I could go on and on. I will go on and on. But I'll leave a little space for now ...