# Best Actor by IMDB ratings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2009, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-actor-by-imdb-ratings/502748 "2009-07-12T09:32:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FilmDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@FilmDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmDog)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-actor-by-imdb-ratings/502748/41 "2014-03-29T21:26:38Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Terribly arbitrary I know but here is the game I was playing. I was watching _Crimson Tide_ and mention was made of _Run Silent Run Deep_ and as a lover of sub movies I went to IMDB to see if I had rated it. I then clicked on Burt Lancaster and chose **filmographies by ratings** to see if I had missed rating any of his movies. > > I was amazed to find he had appeared in 35 movies rating 7.00 or better which generally means a pretty good movie. Looking through the list there are a lot of fine movies. It does include two TV movies but they are both award winners. > > I then wondered who had been in more: DeNiro? No only 26. Pacino? A mere 28. Well obviously Charlie Chaplin. Nope, 22. A woman maybe, Meryl Streep? Ha ha, 13. Katherine Hepburn then? No, just 21. Oh, of course, the greatest film actor of all time, Jimmy Stewart. Bingo 36! > > Any other ideas for who has the most? I think it’s Jimmy! Claudia Cardinale has 34 and might lead all actresses (5 are TV movies and many are foreign art films). Surprise! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-actor-by-imdb-ratings/502748/42 "2014-03-30T03:01:15Z")
I did not realize this was a zombie until someone pointed out Philip Seymour Hoffman has plenty of years left in his career. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-actor-by-imdb-ratings/502748/43 "2014-03-30T03:11:55Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I did not realize this was a zombie until someone pointed out Philip Seymour Hoffman has plenty of years left in his career. > > ☹ You shouldn’t use Philip Seymour Hoffman and zombie in the same sentence. ---
**Author:** ![keeganst94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@keeganst94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keeganst94)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-actor-by-imdb-ratings/502748/44 "2014-03-30T03:31:33Z")
Morgan Freeman has 40 if you count documentaries, 27 if you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-actor-by-imdb-ratings/502748/45 "2014-03-30T04:52:11Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I did not realize this was a zombie until someone pointed out Philip Seymour Hoffman has plenty of years left in his career. > > ☹ I was about to post the same thing. I was also surprised to see Amy Adams described as being just 24. Not only is she older than that now, she was older than that when **Spoke** made his post in 2009. But “24” may have been a typo for “34”, her actual age at the time. Adams will turn 40 this year, although IMHO she looks much younger and if I didn’t know better I could believe she really was ten years younger. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-actor-by-imdb-ratings/502748/46 "2014-03-30T16:13:59Z")
Opening this up to Supporting Actors and Actresses will probably get some high level hits. I count three-time winner Walter Brennan as being in 65 7 or better movies, not counting a handful of tv movies or animated films. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-actor-by-imdb-ratings/502748.md?page=2)