Best 5 movie run ever?

Cafe Society
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So, I was browsing IMDB today and I noticed that Harrison Ford’s page shows these 5 movies consecutively in his profile:

1984 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Indiana Jones
1983 - Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi - Han Solo
1982 - Blade Runner - Rick Deckard
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark - Indy
1980 - Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back - Han Solo

And I thought to myself “that is damn fine run of movies.” Using IMDB as the source, can anyone else come up with a more impressive run of 5 movies, using the following rules:

  1. no movies released in-between (TV shows or other media are fine)
  2. must be in a leading or co-leading role

Note: I’m not claiming that this is the best ever; I’m not enough of a film buff to know. I’d just really like to see some other great runs.

eta: Harrison Ford - IMDb

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Charlie Chaplin

The Gold Rush
The Circus
City Lights
Modern Times
The Great Dictator
Monsieur Verdoux

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I’d say that Ford doesn’t qualify based on what you listed. 4 yes, 5 no. ToD sucked monkey-balls.

How about the Duke?

The War Wagon (1967)
The Green Berets (1968)
Hellfighters (1968)
True Grit (1969)
The Undefeated (1969)
Chisum (1970)

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I’ll also add the Marx Brothers

Monkey Business
Horse Feathers
Duck Soup
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races.

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I’ll nominate James Stewart:

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The Man from Laramie (1955)

Strategic Air Command (1955)

Rear Window (1954)

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If the TV movie that’s bolded doesn’t count; Tom Hanks

That Thing You Do!
Mr. White

1995 Toy Story
Woody (voice)

1995 Apollo 13
Jim Lovell

** 1994 Vault of Horror I (TV Movie) **

1994 Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump

1993 Philadelphia
Andrew Beckett

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I’ll go with John Cazale, who’s entire career was an impressive 5-movie run:

1972 - The Godfather
1974 - The Conversation
1974 - The Godfather Part II
1975 - Dog Day Afternoon
1978 - The Deer Hunter

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Cary Grant 1937-39
Topper
The Awful Truth
Holiday
Gunga Din
Only Angels Have Wings

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I can’t think of anything to beat Harrison Ford there. I like Temple of Doom quite a bit.

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Gregory Peck

On the Beach
The Guns of Navarone
Cape Fear
How the West Was Won
To Kill a Mockingbird

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Tom Hanks did the following:

League of Their Own
Philadelphia
Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
Toy Story
That Thing You Do
Saving Private Ryan

I know That Thing You Do isn’t that great, but it’s not bad and Saving Private Ryan is great.

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Another vote for it being thoroughly abysmal. Ford would be better represented with 1979’s The Frisco Kid than with that other horrible film.

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Robert De Niro 1973-76
Bang the Drum Slowly
Mean Streets
The Godfather, Part II
Taxi Driver
1900

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I predict that this post will soon be only one among many. Another run for Cary Grant could be
1937 The Awful Truth
1938 Bringing Up Baby
1938 Holiday
1939 Gunga Din
1939 Only Angels Have Wings
1939 In Name Only
1940 His Girl Friday
1940 My Favorite Wife

And among the silents, Buster Keaton with
1923 Three Ages
1923 Our Hospitality
1924 Sherlock Jr.
1924 The Navigator
1925 Seven Chances

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Tom Cruise had a blockbuster run from Top Gun to The Color of Money to Cocktail to Rain Man to Born On The Fourth Of July, which gives me an idea for another thread.

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Just wanted to say I love of the feedback here - great stuff.

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I don’t believe that any of those except Forrest Gump, Toy Story, and Saving Private Ryan were even popular. Apollo 13 could be said to be a decent flick, but it’s not more than that.

Philadelphia was well-intentioned and had nice cinematrography, but it was dull and far from a classic. That Thing You Do falls into the same camp, with even less to recommend it.

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I think **Deborah Kerr **can top Harrison Ford with these SIX:

1957 An Affair to Remember
1957 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1956 Tea and Sympathy
1956 The King and I
1956 The Proud and Profane
1955 The End of the Affair

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My opinion: Start with Animal Crackers and knock off the grossly inferior Day at the Races.

What about W.C. Fields?

The great comics were extreme outliers in the 1930s because normally stars were slotted in a million movies a year and so had dogs amidst the gold. But has anybody ever had five better movies in a single year than William Powell in 1936?

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I actually agree. I guess I meant it was solid since he won an Oscar. From his point of view, it was a big.

I think Philadelphia is actually a below average movie and it is filled with cardboard characters.