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Top 25 Male Screen Legends list. In 1999 the American Film Institute recognized the 50 greatest American screen legends -25 men and 25 women. Criteria was as an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work. The list was selected by leaders from the American film community, including artists, historians, critics and other cultural leaders, who chose from a list of 250 nominees in each gender. The lists were presented by 50 Hollywood stars.

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Rank   Name Born Films Birthplace Nationality
  1. 1
    1899
    The Return of Doctor X, Chain Lightning, High Sierra, The Left Hand of God, Midnight, We're No Angels, Big City Blues, All Through the Night, Broadway's Like That, Sahara, Virginia City, The Big Sleep, It All Came True, The Caine Mutiny, Tokyo Joe, Crime School, Battle Circus, The Dancing Town, A Devil with Women, The African Queen, Across the Pacific, The Oklahoma Kid, A Star Is Born, Brother Orchid, Love Affair, Humphrey Bogart: Behind the Legend, To Have and Have Not, Casablanca, In a Lonely Place, They Drive by Night, Men Are Such Fools, The Harder They Fall, Dark Victory, Road to Bali, San Quentin, Dead End, Passage to Marseille, The Enforcer, Deadline - U.S.A., Hollywood Tough Guys #1: Call It Murder, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Two Against the World , Marked Woman, Invisible Stripes, Black Legion, World War II: Homefront: Vol. 1, You Can't Get Away with Murder, Female, Up the River, The Roaring Twenties, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Bullets or Ballots, Dead Reckoning, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Three on a Match, Racket Busters , The Bad Sister, King of the Underworld , The Best of Film Noir, Dark Passage, Two Against the World, The Petrified Forest, The Great O'Malley , Knock on Any Door, Isle of Fury , Key Largo, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Big Shot, The Wagons Roll at Night, Angels with Dirty Faces, Beat the Devil, Conflict, Sabrina, Sirocco, The Desperate Hours, Thank Your Lucky Stars, Body and Soul, Kid Galahad, Action in the North Atlantic, The Barefoot Contessa, The Maltese Falcon, China Clipper , Swing Your Lady, Stand-In, The Century That Made America Great, A Devil with Women More
    New York City
    United States of America, France
  2. 2
    1904
    Enter Madame, Sinners in the Sun, In Name Only, People Will Talk, Suzy, Every Girl Should Be Married, Crisis, Gambling Ship, Wedding Present, Merrily We Go to Hell, The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, Sylvia Scarlett, Monkey Business, Terror in the Aisles, Born to Be Bad, Ladies Should Listen, Kiss and Make-Up, Holiday, Bringing up Baby, Dream Wife, The Pride and the Passion, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Devil and the Deep, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Night and Day, The Woman Accused, Mr. Lucky, Room for One More, The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, Madame Butterfly, Wings in the Dark, Penny Serenade, The Toast of New York, Father Goose, We Are the Mods, Alice in Wonderland, Kiss Them for Me, I Was a Male War Bride, Blonde Venus, Walk Don't Run, This Is the Night, She Done Him Wrong, The Grass Is Greener, An Affair to Remember, The Best of Film Noir, Arsenic and Old Lace, Suspicion, Destination Tokyo, None but the Lonely Heart, Hollywood Rhythm: Vol. 2: The Best of Big Band & Swing, Hot Saturday, Once Upon a Time, The Howards of Virginia, Indiscreet, Once Upon a Honeymoon, The Talk of the Town, Thirty Day Princess, Sex at 24 Frames Per Second, North by Northwest, Gunga Din, The Eagle and the Hawk, Charade, Notorious, Houseboat, My Favourite Wife, Only Angels Have Wings, Operation Petticoat, The Bishop's Wife, To Catch a Thief, Topper, That Touch of Mink, I'm No Angel, When You're in Love, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, 100 Years of Comedy, It's Showtime, Singapore Sue More
    Bristol
    United States of America, England
  3. 3
    1908
    The FBI Story, Born to Dance, The Naked Spur, Broken Arrow, How the West Was Won, Winchester '73, Vertigo, Anatomy of a Murder, Carbine Williams, Harvey, The Glenn Miller Story, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, On Our Merry Way, Firecreek, Night Passage, Two Rode Together, Malaya, Rope, Magic Town, You Can't Take It With You, The Big Sleep, Moguls and Movie Stars, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Take Her, She's Mine, Airport '77, Bandolero!, Bell, Book and Candle, Bend of the River, Call Northside 777, Cheyenne Autumn, Destry Rides Again, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, No Highway in the Sky, Rear Window, Shenandoah, The Cheyenne Social Club, The Far Country, The Jackpot, The Man from Laramie, The Mortal Storm, The Philadelphia Story, The Shootist, The Shop Around the Corner, The Spirit of St. Louis, Thunder Bay, Wife vs. Secretary, Vertigo, The Ice Follies of 1939, Seventh Heaven, Winning Your Wings, Small Town Girl, Ziegfeld Girl, The Stratton Story, Made for Each Other, No Time for Comedy, After the Thin Man, Of Human Hearts, It's a Wonderful World, The Rare Breed, The Greatest Show on Earth, Dear Brigitte, The Magic of Lassie, Vivacious Lady, Strategic Air Command, Fools' Parade, Pot o' Gold, Rose Marie , Next Time We Love, The Mountain Road, The Shopworn Angel, The Flight of the Phoenix, La Classe américaine, Navy Blue and Gold, Speed, You Gotta Stay Happy, The Last Gangster, The Murder Man, Come Live with Me, Mr. Krueger's Christmas, Tomorrow's Drivers, Right of Way, The Gorgeous Hussy, CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years, Art Trouble More
    Indiana
    United States of America
  4. 4
    1924
    The Godfather, The Ugly American, Candy, On the Waterfront, Superman, Bedtime Story, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Missouri Breaks, Don Juan DeMarco, The Wild One, The Fugitive Kind, Désirée, The Formula, The Night of the Following Day, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Godfather: The Game, Free Money, The Ugly American, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, The Freshman, The Nightcomers, Burn!, The Young Lions, One-Eyed Jacks, Viva Zapata!, The Teahouse of the August Moon, The Appaloosa, Citizen Brando, The Score, A Countess from Hong Kong, Guys and Dolls, Apocalypse Now, Sayonara, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Chase, The Brave, Julius Caesar, Superman Returns, Morituri, Brando: The Documentary, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, A Dry White Season, Big Bug Man, Last Tango in Paris, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Men, Apocalypse Now Redux More
    Omaha
    United States of America
  5. 5
    1899
    The Barkleys of Broadway, Ziegfeld Follies, You'll Never Get Rich, Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1930s, The Legendary Bing Crosby, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, Easter Parade, Royal Wedding, That's Entertainment, Part II, Dancing Lady, The Pleasure of His Company, Imagine, Carefree, Daddy Long Legs, You Were Never Lovelier, The Towering Inferno, Blue Skies, Hollywood Musicals of the '50s, Ghost Story, Shall We Dance, Swing Time, Three Little Words, Flying Down to Rio, You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story, Let's Dance, A Damsel in Distress, The Notorious Landlady, A Bing Crosby Christmas, Finian's Rainbow, Yolanda and the Thief, The Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town, Hooray for Hollywood, The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again, The Band Wagon, The Belle of New York, On the Beach, Second Chorus, Top Hat, Broadway Melody of 1940, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, The Gay Divorcee, Hollywood Musicals of the '40s, Holiday Inn, Follow the Fleet, Funny Face, That's Entertainment!, The Sky's the Limit, Silk Stockings, Roberta, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, More Jazz and Big Band Classics: Classic Tracks from the Golden Era of Jazz More
    Omaha
    United States of America, Germany
  6. 6
    1905
    Sometimes a Great Notion, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Tentacles, Sex and the Single Girl, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Greatest Man in the World, Wings of the Morning, War and Peace, The Battle of Midway, You Belong to Me, Mister Roberts, Way Down East , Midway, Chad Hanna, The Longest Day, Born to Buck, Firecreek, Tales of Manhattan, Warlock, Benjy, Gideon's Trumpet, Jezebel, Spawn of the North, The Magnificent Dope, Madigan, The Long Night, Slim, Welcome to Hard Times, Let Us Live, Too Late the Hero, There Was a Crooked Man..., The Mad Miss Manton, In Harm's Way, Clarence Darrow, How the West Was Won, 12 Angry Men, The Fugitive, The Boston Strangler, The Rounders, La Classe américaine, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, How the West Was Won: Special Edition: Bonus Material, Once Upon a Time in the West, American Short Story Collection: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Blockade, Fedora, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Male Animal, The Moon's Our Home, The Best Man, Last Days of Mussolini, The Swarm, Immortal Sergeant, The Great Smokey Roadblock, The Grapes of Wrath, Soldier's Home, Fail-Safe, Almos' a Man, Rollercoaster, That Certain Woman, The Big Street, Rings on Her Fingers, My Darling Clementine, On Golden Pond, Advise and Consent, The Dirty Game, Daisy Kenyon, Drums Along the Mohawk, Ash Wednesday, Battle of the Bulge, Fort Apache, The Tin Star, Yours, Mine and Ours, Jesse James, My Name Is Nobody, Spencer's Mountain, The Cheyenne Social Club, The Lady Eve, The Return of Frank James, The Wrong Man, You Only Live Once, Young Mr. Lincoln, Sacco and Vanzetti, Stage Struck, Night Flight from Moscow, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, I Dream Too Much, Lillian Russell, On Our Merry Way, Wanda Nevada, The Man Who Understood Women, Ash Wednesday, Directed by John Ford, The Golden Honeymoon, Meteor, City on Fire, The Alpha Caper, The Great Smokey Roadblock, Underground Doctors, Blockade More
    Grand Island
    United States of America
  7. 7
    1901
    Teacher's Pet, Hold Your Man, Parnell, It Happened One Night, Strange Interlude, Hell Divers, That's Entertainment!, They Met in Bombay, The Easiest Way, Men in White, La Classe américaine, Making the Misfits, Possessed, Betrayed, Idiot's Delight, The Call of the Wild, Key to the City, The Plastic Age, The Hucksters, Saratoga, Command Decision, Cain and Mabel, Somewhere I'll Find You, Band of Angels, A Free Soul, Gone with the Wind, Love on the Run, Mogambo, Mutiny on the Bounty, Red Dust, Run Silent, Run Deep, The Misfits, The Secret Six, Wife vs. Secretary, Test Pilot, San Francisco, The King and Four Queens, Manhattan Melodrama, Laughing Sinners, Dancing Lady, Strange Cargo, Susan Lenox, Comrade X, Never Let Me Go, The Tall Men, Soldier of Fortune, It Started in Naples, Combat America, The Painted Desert, China Seas, Across the Wide Missouri, Lone Star, After Office Hours, No Man of Her Own, Boom Town, Chained, Forsaking All Others, Night Nurse, Honky Tonk, Wings Up, Adventure, Dance, Fools, Dance, But Not for Me, Homecoming, Hollywood Party, Sporting Blood, To Please a Lady, Too Hot to Handle, Any Number Can Play , That's Entertainment, Part II, Night Flight, Gone with the Wind: Bonus Material, World War II in Color More
    Cadiz
    United States of America, Germany
  8. 8
    1899
    Love Me or Leave Me, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jimmy the Gent, Great Guy, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Captains of the Clouds, Lady Killer, Picture Snatcher , You, John Jones!, The Bride Came C.O.D., The Crowd Roars, G Men, World War II: Homefront: Vol. 1, What Price Glory, City for Conquest, Fade to Black, Something to Sing About, The Oklahoma Kid, Winner Take All, Tribute to a Bad Man, Frisco Kid, The Seven Little Foys, Sinners' Holiday, Each Dawn I Die, Torrid Zone, Ragtime, The Public Enemy, The Mayor of Hell, The Roaring Twenties, Hard to Handle, Mister Roberts, The Gallant Hours, These Wilder Years, Hooray for Hollywood, Angels with Dirty Faces, A Lion Is in the Streets, Mutiny on the Bounty, One, Two, Three, Man of a Thousand Faces, Fighting 69th, Footlight Parade, Hollywood Tough Guys #2: Blood on the Sun, Shake Hands with the Devil, 13 Rue Madeleine, The West Point Story, Blood on the Sun, The Strawberry Blonde, Blonde Crazy, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, White Heat, Smart Money, Here Comes the Navy, The Time of Your Life, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Other Men's Women, Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1930s, Johnny Come Lately, Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1940s, Run for Cover , The Doorway to Hell, Devil Dogs of the Air, Terrible Joe Moran, It's Showtime, The St. Louis Kid More
    New York City
    United States of America
  9. 9
    1900
    Edison, the Man, The Seventh Cross, Northwest Passage, Man's Castle, Quick Millions, Libeled Lady, Riffraff, Test Pilot, Fury, The Power and the Glory, The Devil at 4 O'Clock, Without Love, Stanley and Livingstone, Father's Little Dividend, Malaya, Adam's Rib, San Francisco, Young America, The Sea of Grass, Elizabeth Taylor Triad, Murnau, Borzage & Fox Documentary, Broken Lance, Desk Set, Mannequin, Cass Timberlane, Woman of the Year, Goldie, A Guy Named Joe, Marie Galante, Father of the Bride, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, The Old Man and the Sea, The Last Hurrah, Edward, My Son, The Actress, How the West Was Won, The People Against O'Hara, Up the River, Tortilla Flat, Looking for Trouble, Captains Courageous, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Judgment at Nuremberg, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Bad Day at Black Rock, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Inherit the Wind, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, State of the Union, Boom Town, Pat and Mike, Boys Town, Keeper of the Flame, Plymouth Adventure, Me and My Gal, Dante's Inferno, The Mountain, I Take This Woman, Now I'll Tell, Bottoms Up, Hollywood Party, Big City, La Classe américaine, The Murder Man, That's Entertainment, Part II, Whipsaw, They Gave Him a Gun More
    Milwaukee
    United States of America
  10. 10
    1889
    His Prehistoric Past, Triple Trouble, When Comedy Was King, A Dog's Life, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 8, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 1, A King in New York, One A.M., His New Job, The Masquerader, Work, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 5, Chaplinesque, My Life and Hard Times, A Woman of Paris, The Pawnshop, Mabel at the Wheel, A Busy Day, A Night in the Show, The Gold Rush, The Face on the Bar Room Floor, His Musical Career, Police!, Unknown Chaplin, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 11, A Thief Catcher, Mabel's Married Life, Chaplin: The Collection: Vol. 4, Between Showers, The Pilgrim, Chaplin: The Collection: Vol. 2, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: His Life and Work, The Tramp, Tango Tangles, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 2, Chaplin: The Collection: Vol. 5, City Lights, Easy Street, The Fatal Mallet, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 9, 100 Years of Comedy, Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years, A Day's Pleasure, Getting Acquainted, Those Love Pangs, Twenty Minutes of Love, Burlesque on Carmen, Dough and Dynamite, Limelight, The Champion, Caught in a Cabaret, His Trysting Place, His Favourite Pastime, The Bank, A Night Out, The Knockout, A Countess from Hong Kong, Monsieur Verdoux, Pay Day, Her Friend the Bandit, A Jitney Elopement, Show People, Charlie Chaplin: His Life & Work, Gentlemen of Nerve, The New Janitor, A Woman, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 6, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 3, 30 Years of Fun, The Adventurer, The Floorwalker, Shanghaied, Recreation, The Fireman, Sunnyside, Souls for Sale, Behind the Screen, Chaplin Marathon, Cruel, Cruel Love, The Vagabond, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 7, Chaplin: The Collection: Vol. 1, The Property Man, By the Sea, His New Profession, Kid Auto Races at Venice, Modern Times, The Circus, The Count, The Cure, The Great Dictator, The Immigrant, The Kid, The Rink, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Mabel's Busy Day, Making a Living, Mabel's Strange Predicament, A Film Johnnie, The Star Boarder, Caught in the Rain, Laughing Gas, His Regeneration, The Professor, The Chaplin Revue, The Idle Class, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, The Rounders, High School Confidential, Kings and Queens of Slapstick, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 4, The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 10, Chaplin, Chaplin's Art of Comedy More
    Walworth, London
    United Kingdom, England
  11. 11
    1901
    Saratoga Trunk, One Sunday Afternoon, The Lucky Horseshoe, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The Adventures of Marco Polo, City Streets, Red Hair, Friendly Persuasion, Wings, Garden of Evil, Blowing Wild, Love in the Afternoon, Ball of Fire, The Thundering Herd, The Wolf Song, The Virginian, A Farewell to Arms, Nevada, Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur, The Fountainhead, High Noon, Morocco, The Plainsman, The Real Glory, The Story of Dr. Wassell, The General Died at Dawn, Souls at Sea, Cloak and Dagger, Devil and the Deep, Lilac Time, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Vera Cruz, The Spoilers, Task Force, Paramount on Parade, Old Ironsides, Alias Jesse James, If I Had A Million, Northwest Mounted Police, Ten North Frederick, It, Desire, Unconquered, Today We Live, The Cowboy and the Lady, Dallas, The Legion of the Condemned, Along Came Jones, Distant Drums, Fighting Caravans, Man of the West, Now and Forever, Ben-Hur, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The Westerner, The Wreck of the Mary Deare, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Casanova Brown, Wild Horse Mesa, Peter Ibbetson, The Eagle, The Johnstown Flood, The Vanishing American, It's a Big Country, The Hanging Tree, Design for Living, Alice in Wonderland, Bright Leaf, Meet John Doe, Sergeant York, The Pride of the Yankees, They Came To Cordura, You're in the Navy Now, His Woman, The Naked Edge, Children of Divorce, Return to Paradise, I Take This Woman, Springfield Rifle, Good Sam, The Wedding Night, Seven Days' Leave, Operator 13, The Winning of Barbara Worth, Betrayal, The Stolen Jools, The Shopworn Angel, Hollywood Boulevard, Doomsday More
    Helena
    United States of America
  12. 12
    1916
    The Guns of Navarone, How the West Was Won, Spellbound, MacArthur, Winter People, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Yellow Sky, The Great Sinner, Cape Fear, Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso, Marooned, Beloved Infidel, The Keys of the Kingdom, Other People's Money, Cape Fear, Night People, How the West Was Won: Special Edition: Bonus Material, The Big Country, The Scarlet and the Black, The Boys from Brazil, Captain Newman, M.D., Roman Holiday, The Paradine Case, American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith, Man with a Million, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Chairman, Old Gringo, The Macomber Affair, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Omen, On the Beach, Gentleman's Agreement, The Gunfighter, The Yearling, The Valley of Decision, Twelve O'Clock High, Days of Glory, The Portrait, Shoot Out, Duel in the Sun, The Best of Salute to Vienna: 10th Anniversary Collection, Amazing Grace and Chuck, The World in His Arms, David and Bathsheba, Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days, Pork Chop Hill, The Sea Wolves, Moby Dick, Arabesque, The Bravados, Behold a Pale Horse, I Walk the Line, Designing Woman, Mackenna's Gold, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Conversation With Gregory Peck, The Stalking Moon, Mirage, Terror in the Aisles, Billy Two Hats, The Purple Plain, Only the Valiant More
    La Jolla
    United States of America
  13. 13
    1907
    The Spoilers, West of the Divide, King of the Pecos, Conflict, Overland Stage Raiders, John Wayne: The Later Years, The Desert Trail, The High and the Mighty, Girls Demand Excitement, Arizona, Hatari!, McQ, The Man from Utah, Sea Spoilers, The Telegraph Trail, The Lonely Trail, Lady from Louisiana, Chisum, The Big Trail, Pittsburgh, Somewhere in Sonora, Hangman's House, True Grit, Rio Bravo, Flying Tigers, Sands of Iwo Jima, Three Girls Lost, Stagecoach, Paradise Canyon, The Life of Jimmy Dolan, Island in the Sky, The Alamo, The Longest Day, The Quiet Man, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Noah's Ark, Two-Fisted Law, Lawless Range, Rainbow Valley, The Big Stampede, In Old California, His Private Secretary, Castle Keep, Red River, Rio Lobo, The Conqueror, Texas Terror, Sagebrush Trail, Pals of the Saddle, Three Texas Steers, Winds of the Wasteland, La Classe américaine, Rough Romance, North to Alaska, Rio Grande, The Star Packer, California Straight Ahead, The Hurricane Express, Reunion in France, Three Faces West, Brown of Harvard, New Frontier, Salute, Annie Laurie, Flying Leathernecks, Cahill U.S. Marshal, Donovan's Reef, Wake of the Red Witch, Westward Ho, The Sea Chase, A Man Betrayed, Blue Steel, Maker of Men, The Fighting Kentuckian, Santa Fe Stampede, John Wayne: Lone Cowboy, The Barbarian and the Geisha, A Lady Takes a Chance, College Coach, The Shadow of the Eagle, The Horse Soldiers, The Drop Kick, The Lucky Texan, Riders of Destiny, I Cover the War, Cast a Giant Shadow, In Harm's Way, The Shootist, The Conqueror, The Searchers, Words and Music, Legend of the Lost, The Black Watch, Tycoon, The Comancheros, El Dorado, I Married a Woman, Speakeasy, The Undefeated, Rooster Cogburn, The New Frontier, Rookie of the Year, The Train Robbers, Reap the Wild Wind, Idol of the Crowds, Baby Face, Hooray for Hollywood, Three Godfathers, Lady for a Night, The Long Voyage Home, Without Reservations, In Old Oklahoma, Flashing Spikes, Hondo, How the West Was Won, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Lawless Frontier, The War Wagon, The Fighting Seabees, Born to the West, Imitation of Life, Operation Pacific, Dark Command, Brannigan, McLintock!, Lady and Gent, Range Feud, Angel and the Badman, Circus World, Dakota, The Man from Monterey, Born Reckless, Men Without Women, The Trail Beyond, Blood Alley, Young Duke Series: The Fugitive, The Green Berets, Jet Pilot, Desert Command, Four Sons, Hellfighters, Central Airport, Allegheny Uprising, The Dawn Rider, The Wings of Eagles, Texas Cyclone, CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years, They Were Expendable, Fort Apache, Red River Range, The Three Musketeers, The Lawless Nineties, Tall in the Saddle, Ride Him, Cowboy, 'Neath the Arizona Skies, Big Jake, The Cowboys, Big Jim McLain, Flame of Barbary Coast, Back to Bataan, Haunted Gold, The Oregon Trail, Adventure's End, Wyoming Outlaw, Seven Sinners, The Night Riders, The Shepherd of the Hills, Randy Rides Alone, Trouble Along the Way, Directed by John Ford, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Bardelys the Magnificent, John Wayne: King of the West, That's My Boy, The Deceiver, Cheer Up and Smile, Mother Machree, The Forward Pass, The Great K & A Train Robbery, How the West Was Won: Special Edition: Bonus Material, When the West Was Fun, No Substitute for Victory: From Vietnam to Iraq More
    Winterset
    United States of America
  14. 14
    1907
    Hamlet, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Wild Geese II, A Little Romance, The Devil's Disciple, Love Among the Ruins, The Demi-Paradise, Daphne Laureola, The Merchant of Venice, Clash of the Titans, Battle of Britain, Forty-Ninth Parallel, Peter the Great, Sleuth, The Rehearsal, Othello, Carrie, Terror in the Aisles, The Boys from Brazil, Lost Empires, Richard III, Term of Trial, Romeo and Juliet, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Prince and the Showgirl, William Walton: At the Haunted End of the Day, Khartoum, The Entertainer, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Henry V, 21 Days, The Divorce of Lady X, Lady Caroline Lamb, Q Planes, Long Day's Journey into Night, David Copperfield, War Requiem, Perfect Understanding, The Shoes of the Fisherman, Dance of Death, Fire Over England, Shakespeare's Women and Claire Bloom, Uncle Vanya, A Bridge Too Far, The Bounty, As You Like It, Dracula, Inchon, Oh! What a Lovely War, Pride and Prejudice, Spartacus, That Hamilton Woman, The Beggar's Opera, The Betsy, The Jazz Singer, The Magic Box, Three Sisters, Marathon Man, The Devil's Disciple, King Lear, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The Temporary Widow, The Best of British Cinema: 5 Decades of Classic British Films More
    Dorking
    United Kingdom, England
  15. 15
    1912
    Pilot no. 5, Brigadoon, Summer Stock, It's a Big Country, Let's Make Love, Marjorie Morningstar, The Devil Makes Three, Invitation to the Dance, Seagulls Over Sorrento, Hollywood Musicals of the '50s, That's Entertainment, Part II, Les Girls, Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1950s, What a Way to Go!, Cover Girl, Brigadoon, Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends, That's Entertainment III, The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell, An American in Paris, Xanadu, That's Dancing!, Deep in My Heart, Mickey's Christmas Carol, The Young Girls of Rochefort, It's Always Fair Weather, The Happy Road, For Me and My Gal, Words and Music, Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer, Christmas Holiday, Living in a Big Way, DuBarry Was a Lady, That's Entertainment!, Anchors Aweigh, Singin' in the Rain, The Great American Songbook, Ziegfeld Follies, 40 Carats, Inherit the Wind, Viva Knievel!, The Pirate, Thousands Cheer, The Three Musketeers, On the Town, The Cross of Lorraine, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, A Bing Crosby Christmas, You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story More
    Pittsburgh
    United States of America
  16. 16
    1915
    Catch-22, La Décade prodigieuse, Swiss Family Robinson, Necromancy, Orson Welles' Magic Show, The Lady from Shanghai, Treasure Island, The Battle Over Citizen Kane, Moby Dick, Where Is Parsifal?, La Fayette, Hot Tomorrows, Ferry to Hong Kong, The Other Side of the Wind, Black Magic, Jane Eyre, Masters of the Congo Jungle, The Immortal Story, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, Casino Royale, Chuck Jones Collection, Vienna, Othello, Tomorrow is Forever, The Long, Hot Summer, Royal Affairs in Versailles, Macbeth, Mr. Arkadin: The Comprehensive Version, Kampf um Rom I, It Happened One Christmas, Filming Othello, Trent's Last Case, Compulsion, Is Paris Burning?, King Lear , War of the Worlds Scandal, Tepepa, Sentinels of Silence, The Southern Star, A Man for All Seasons, The Transformers: The Movie, The Thirteen Chairs, Butterfly, The Orson Welles Batman Hoax, A Woman Called Moses, La Classe américaine, King of Kings, Trouble in the Glen, Voyage of the Damned, Mr. Arkadin, Someone To Love, It's All True, In the Land of Don Quixote, Touch of Evil, The Magnificent Ambersons, Around The World With Orson Welles, Duel in the Sun, The Trial, The Muppet Movie, Enchanted Journey, The Secret of Nikola Tesla, Get to Know Your Rabbit, The Kremlin Letter, Waterloo, The Battle of Neretva, To Build a Fire, Journey into Fear, Bugs Bunny: Superstar, Filming The Trial, The Best of Film Noir, Man in the Shadow, The Black Rose, A Safe Place, Three Cases of Murder, Apple Jack, Crack in the Mirror, Moby Dick, The Double McGuffin, Citizen Kane, Malpertuis, Working with Orson Welles, The Stranger, Chimes at Midnight, The Hearts of Age, The Third Man, Too Much Johnson, Prince of Foxes, Return to Glennascaul, The V.I.P.s, I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname, David and Goliath, Don Quixote, Start the Revolution Without Me, History of the World, Part I, The Hitch Hiker, Mr. Arkadin: The Corinth Version, Tut: The Boy King, Who Is Henry Jaglom?, Rita, Genocide, Marco The Magnificent, 12 + 1 More
    Kenosha
    United States of America
  17. 17
    1916
    A Gunfight, A Father ... a Son ... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Heroes of Telemark, Once Is Not Enough, The Racers, The Hook, A Lovely Way to Die, Greedy, For Love or Money, Ulysses, Ace in the Hole, Out of the Past, Posse, To Catch a Spy, The Arrangement, A Letter to Three Wives, The War Wagon, Champion, The Juggler, Draw!, Town Without Pity, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Paths of Glory, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Along the Great Divide, Illusion, The Master Touch, The Fury, The Villain, The List of Adrian Messenger, Oscar, The Glass Menagerie, The Light at the Edge of the World, In Harm's Way, Strangers When We Meet, Mourning Becomes Electra, Man Without a Star, The Big Trees, The Man from Snowy River, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Bad and the Beautiful, My Dear Secretary, Cast a Giant Shadow, Last Train from Gun Hill, Home Movies, The Story of Three Loves, I Walk Alone, There Was a Crooked Man..., Take Me Home Again, It Runs in the Family, Is Paris Burning?, The Big Sky, Holocaust 2000, The Last Sunset, Act of Love, Top Secret Affair, The Way West, The Devil's Disciple, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Detective Story, Lonely are the Brave, Lust for Life, Saturn 3, Seven Days in May, Spartacus, The Devil's Disciple, The Final Countdown, Young Man with a Horn, Tough Guys, The Vikings, Diamonds, The Brotherhood, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Remembrance of Love, The Secret, The Indian Fighter, Eddie Macon's Run, Inherit the Wind, World's Greatest Movie Challenge More
    Amsterdam
    United States of America
  18. 18
    1931
    Marion
    United States
  19. 19
    1913
    Atlantic City, Rocket Gibraltar, The Jeweller's Shop, Local Hero, Sweet Smell of Success, Sorry, Wrong Number, Lawman, Zulu Dawn, The Swimmer, The Young Savages, The Phantom of the Opera, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Seven Days in May, The Rainmaker, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, The Gypsy Moths, Separate but Equal, The Skin, Come Back, Little Sheba, The Killers, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Victory at Entebbe, The Cassandra Crossing, Three Sailors and a Girl, Judgment at Nuremberg, Airport, The Flame and the Arrow, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Train, Ulzana's Raid, Vengeance Valley, Apache, Voyage Of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair, From Here to Eternity, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Scandal Sheet, Rope of Sand, The Rose Tattoo, Conversation Piece, South Sea Woman, Executive Action, His Majesty O'Keefe, The Devil's Disciple, Birdman of Alcatraz, A Child Is Waiting, The Leopard, Brute Force, Desert Fury, I Walk Alone, All My Sons, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Criss Cross, Mister 880, Jim Thorpe -- All-American, Ten Tall Men, The Crimson Pirate, Vera Cruz, The Kentuckian, Trapeze, Run Silent, Run Deep, Separate Tables, The Unforgiven, Elmer Gantry, The List of Adrian Messenger, The Hallelujah Trail, The Professionals, The Scalphunters, Castle Keep, Valdez Is Coming, Scorpio, The Midnight Man, 1900, Go Tell the Spartans, The Osterman Weekend, Little Treasure, Barnum, Tough Guys, Il Giorno prima, Field of Dreams, The Devil's Disciple More
    New York City
    United States of America
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    The Marx Brothers

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    1895
    Battling Butler, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Coney Island, Daydreams, When Comedy Was King, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, Limelight, The Great Chase, Neighbors, Pest from the West, Blue Blazes, The Stolen Jools, Hidden Hollywood II, Sergeant Dead Head, A Country Hero, The Passionate Plumber, The Villain Still Pursued Her, She's Oil Mine, Allez Oop, The Gangsters, The First Kings of Comedy Collection, Three on a Limb, Around the World in Eighty Days, 100 Years of Comedy, Sidewalks of New York, Back Stage, The Saphead, Kings and Queens of Slapstick, Hard Luck, Go West, 30 Years of Fun, The Scarecrow, The Butcher Boy, The E-Flat Man, Jail Bait, Sunset Boulevard, Arbuckle & Keaton: The Original Comique Paramount Shorts 1917-1920: Vol. 1, The Playhouse, Good-Night, Nurse!, Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, 4 Clowns, The General, Tars and Stripes, The Hollywood Revue of 1929, The Paleface, Palooka from Paducah, The High Sign, One Run Elmer, Li'l Abner, College, The Boat, Ditto, The Garage, The Frozen North, Our Hospitality, Moonshine, Le Roi des Champs-Élysées, What! No Beer?, The Ed Wynn Show: Vol. 2, Cops, Forever and a Day, The Cameraman, The Bell Boy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Buster Keaton Rides Again, Convict 13, Film, Grand Slam Opera, Hayseed Romance, His Wedding Night, Hollywood Cavalcade, In the Good Old Summertime, Love Nest on Wheels, Lucy in London, Mixed Magic, Mooching Through Georgia, My Wife's Relations, Oh Doctor!, One Week, Out West, Pajama Party, Seven Chances, Sherlock, Jr., Speak Easily, Steamboat Bill Jr., The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Balloonatic, The Blacksmith, The Chemist, The Cook, The Electric House, The Goat, The Gold Ghost, The Haunted House, The Hayseed, The Love Nest, The Navigator, The Rough House, The Timid Young Man, Three Ages, Doughboys More
    Piqua
    United States of America
  22. 22
    1927
    A Warm December, Go, Man, Go!, Edge of the City, Good-bye, My Lady, The Lost Man , The Mark of the Hawk, Duel at Diablo, Little Nikita, For Love of Ivy, In the Heat of the Night, Shoot to Kill, Band of Angels, Blackboard Jungle, Buck and the Preacher, Sneakers, Paris Blues, The Slender Thread, The Organization, The Bedford Incident, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Lilies of the Field, Separate but Equal, Sepia Cinderella, A Raisin in the Sun, A Patch of Blue, The Defiant Ones, They call me MISTER Tibbs, Cry, the Beloved Country, Brother John, The Jackal, Uptown Saturday Night, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, David and Lisa, All the Young Men, No Way Out, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Porgy and Bess, To Sir, with Love, To Sir, with Love II, Something Of Value, Let's Do It Again, The Wilby Conspiracy, The Long Ships, A Piece of the Action, Mandela and de Klerk, Children of the Dust, Pressure Point, The Last Brickmaker In America, Red Ball Express, Free of Eden More
    Miami
    United States of America
  23. 23
    1917
    The Sundowners, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Two for the Seesaw, Midnight Ride, The Last Time I Saw Archie, The Agency, Villa Rides, Crossfire, That Championship Season, The Lusty Men, The Racket, She Couldn't Say No, My Forbidden Past, Ryan's Daughter, Fire Down Below, Gung Ho!, Home from the Hill, Backfire!, Bandido, Blood on the Moon, The Yakuza, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, One Minute to Zero, What a Way to Go!, Going Home, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, Cape Fear, Farewell, My Lovely, The Angry Hills, Undercurrent, Pursued, Thunder Road, The List of Adrian Messenger, Mister Moses, The Ambassador, Anzio, Man with the Gun, The Big Steal, Maria’s Lovers, Not as a Stranger, The Longest Day, The Enemy Below, The Wonderful Country, Dead Man, His Kind of Woman, The Red Pony, The Amsterdam Kill, Nightkill, Foreign Intrigue, Matilda, Cape Fear, Cry 'Havoc', Track of the Cat, Nevada, Secret Ceremony, The Locket, Beyond the Last Frontier, James Dean: Race with Destiny, Holiday Affair, Till the End of Time, 5 Card Stud, The Big Sleep, We've Never Been Licked, Woman of Desire, The Dancing Masters, Rachel and the Stranger, The Story of G.I. Joe, The Grass Is Greener, Mr. North, Where Danger Lives, Out of the Past, Angel Face, Border Patrol, The Way West, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Second Chance, El Dorado, Macao, Midway, Pursued, River of No Return, The Night of the Hunter, White Witch Doctor, The Hunters, The Last Tycoon, Young Billy Young, Scrooged, Rampage, West of the Pecos , The Lone Star Trail More
    Bridgeport
    United States of America
  24. 24
    1893
    Barbary Coast, Destroyer, A Bullet for Joey, House of Strangers, Nightmare, Soylent Green, Tiger Shark, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Five Star Final, A Dispatch from Reuters, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Mr. Winkle Goes to War, The Stolen Jools, Sammy Going South, Moscow Strikes Back, My Geisha, Hell on Frisco Bay, Song of Norway, The Ten Commandments, Unholy Partners, Blackmail, The Man with Two Faces, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Woman in the Window, Robin and the Seven Hoods, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Never a Dull Moment, The Big Steal, The Last Gangster, Double Indemnity, Grand Slam, Manpower, The Red House, Illegal, The Biggest Bundle of Them All, Seven Thieves, The Little Giant , The Sea Wolf, Kid Galahad, Scarlet Street, Flesh and Fantasy, Smart Money, It's Your Move, Good Neighbor Sam, Hollywood Party, Mooch Goes to Hollywood, The Violent Men, Bullets or Ballots, Key Largo, The Glass Web, Vice Squad, Outside the Law, I Am The Law, Tales of Manhattan, Black Tuesday, Larceny, Inc., Pepe, A Slight Case of Murder, The Outrage, Little Caesar, The Cincinnati Kid, The Stranger, Cheyenne Autumn, It's a Great Feeling, The Hole in the Wall, The Prize, The Hatchet Man, A Hole in the Head, Big Leaguer, The Magic Bullet, Brother Orchid, Two Seconds, The Whole Town's Talking, Tight Spot, The Orson Welles Batman Hoax, Actor's and Sin, All My Sons, Actor's and Sin, The Bright Shawl More
    Bucharest
    United States of America
  25. 25
    1918
    The Turning Point, Submarine command, Dear Ruth, Damien: Omen II, Paris, When It Sizzles, Arizona, The 7th Dawn, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Towering Inferno, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Alvarez Kelly, Miss Grant Takes Richmond, Forever Female , The Country Girl, Satan Never Sleeps, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Our Town, When Time Ran Out, The Revengers, The Wild Bunch, Golden Boy, Toward the Unknown, Force of Arms, Texas, The Earthling, Executive Suite, The Fleet's In, Forever Female, The World of Suzie Wong, Ashanti, Framed, The Proud and Profane, Castle Keep, The Devil's Brigade, Invisible Stripes, Streets of Laredo, Rachel and the Stranger, Young and Willing, Born Yesterday, Wild Rovers, The Counterfeit Traitor, 21 Hours at Munich, The Moon Is Blue, Union Station, Sunset Boulevard, Father Is a Bachelor, The Man from Colorado, Breezy, Network, Picnic, S.O.B., Sabrina, Stalag 17, The Dark Past, The Horse Soldiers, Boots Malone, Casino Royale, The Key, Apartment for Peggy, I Wanted Wings, Escape from Fort Bravo, Dear Wife, Fedora, Dear Wife, CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years More
    O'Fallon
    United States of America

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