what actor/actress has the "best" filmography?

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But Cazale appeared in five great movies, Falconetti in only three. Assuming a tie at 100%, the tiebreaker’s gotta go to the person with the highest volume.

The question is, does anyone have more than five?

Also, do we go for perfection, or “Games over .500”? For instance, if an actor has 20 movies and 17 were good, he or she is 14 “movies over .500.” Does 17-3 beat 5-0? That’s still a tough standard, though, because every bad movie then negates a good one; Johnny Depp has been in a lot of terrific movies (to use your example) but he’s also been in the third Pirates movie, and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and “Sleepy Hollow,” and other movies where HE might have been great but the movie wasn’t.

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I’ve seen it. It’s really bad. Even the short version. (Allegedly the longer one is worse.)

“Kids” doesn’t age well either, now that you know Larry Clark’s just a perv.

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I’m not sure how many would agree, but I’m a big fan of every Sarah Polley movie I’ve seen. And I seek them out.

Which reminds me in a perverse way of Dominique Swain, who I also seek out but she unfortunately seems singularly unable to read a script. Holy crap she’s made a ton of terrible movies. I think she’d win the inverse of this thread.

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With current male actors in that league of popularity, I’d say Edward Norton is also a good contender.

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Good call. I was disappointed by Down In The Valley, but looking over his imdb page I have to agree with you.

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George Clooney has a pretty decent resume.

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Was that some kind of secret at some point in the past? :dubious:

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Hard to argue with Harrison Ford . 3 SW films, 4 Indiana Jones, Witness, Air Force One, Clear and Present Danger, The Fugitive, and minor roles in American Graffitti and Apocalypse Now…impressive resume by anyone’s standards. Certainly worthy of forgiveness for 6 Days, 7 Nights .

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My father would agree. Enthusiastically.

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A couple of years somebody put together a list of the best movies. (I don’t recall if it was limited by years or anything.) Robert Duvall was in about a third of them.

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And of course, Robert De Niro’s filmography is good to very strong up until the 00’s (even in the 80’s, he pulled off titles like Raging Bull, Once upon a time in America and Midnight Run). I guess he’s in it for the fun now. His hardboiled 70’s self wasn’t really cut for the likes of Shark Tale, Arthur et les Minimoys or Meet the Fockers.

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Jess Thomas. He has only acted in LA Confidential according to imdb, and that’s my favourite film so nobody could possibly score higher :smiley:

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There’s a joke in there somewhere, desperately trying to get out.

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What about Demonlover?

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Natalie Portman. Excluding the Star Wars movies–and they’re in a weird critical category all their own–her film work has been generally excellent. The Professional, Garden State, Beautiful Girls… I didn’t care for V For Vendetta, but she was excellent in it.

Cameron Diaz has been in two embarrassingly bad movies (The Sweetest Thing and that Charlie’s Angels sequel), but the bulk of her filmography has been quite good.

What’s the worst thing Charlie Chaplin was ever in?

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In the words of Pope Gregory 1: “Not Angles… Angels!”

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Really amongst modern day actresses Cate Blanchett has no wasted space on her filmography.

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<golf clap> Now that, my friend, outgeeked the math joke.

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The Shipping News is just awful.

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Nice nipples Batman.