Pick Three Actors- That's Your Catalogue

[Nate C.]

I was listening to Samuel Jackson on NPR the other day and he said something that made me think. The man's been in over 70 movies. Now that's a lot of movies. And I love Sammy. My thought was, if you could only pick one actor's work, you'd have a lot of great movies if you picked Sam Jackson.


A Time To Kill
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars I, II, III

etc, etc, etc,

So here's a game. Pick three actors. Every movie they were in goes in your imaginary film library. But that's it. That's all the movies you get, so choose well.

My three picks, until I change my mind-

Samuel Jackson
Harrison Ford
Anthony Hopkins.

I'll come back later with my filmographies and see how I made out.

[Buzz Dixon]

You don't necessarily want famous stars, you want guys who have been in a lot of movies.

John Vernon
John Carradine
Charles Lane

Among them, these guys have been in about a thousand pictures.

[mattbib]

Gene Hackman
Ian Mackellan
Bill Murray or Maggie Smith

[Lord of Denial]

Gene Hackman
Clint Eastwood
Morgan Freeman

[EZMOHR]

Wow, this is hard, because you want people that have been in a lot of movies....but that have been in good movies as well. So I guess....here you go.

1. Gene Hackman (Hey, a good pick)
2. Harrison Ford
3. Kevin Bacon (You, know, weird choice, but I have yet to see a complete and utter disaster with Kevin Bacon in it.)

[ragnarok_2012]

I've thought about this, and I'm going with

1.Matt Damon
2.Brian Cox
3.Gary Oldman

With Cox, I get everything from Braveheart to Super Troopers to X-Men 2.

With Damon, I get the Bourne movies, EuroTrip, Ocean's Eleven, School Ties, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, various Kevin Smith movies, etc.

With Gary Oldman, I get the Professional, some Harry Potter movies, Dracula, JFK, Fifth Element, Hannibal, even Batman Begins.

It's hard to choose just three. I seriously considered Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, Samuel L Jackson, Clint Howard, John Ratzenberger (Empire Strikes Back, Superman, all the Pixar films), and Henry Silva (Manchurian Candidate, Above the Law, Ocean's Eleven, Cannonball Run 2 & Ghost Dog). Ask me in a week and I might very well turn in a totally different list. I was mostly trying to get a large variety of films I really enjoyed.

[cactusmaac]

Morgan Freeman
Samuel L Jackson
James Stewart

[Dan Apodaca]

1. Phillip Seymour Hoffman
2. Bill Murray
3. Sean Connery

[Dipset Byrd Gang]

Samuel L. jackson
John Cusack
Denzel Washington

[Callie]

1. Ewan McGregor
2. William H. Macy
3. Steve Buscemi

William H. Macy has been in a billion good movies and TV shows. Same for Buscemi. And McGregor because he's just lovely*dreamy sigh*.

[kenaustin]

I must say, this is a very good exercise. Excellent post idea.

Samuel L. Jackson
Clint Howard
Steve Buscemi

With an option to trade in Morgan Freeman for one of them.

[Valmore]

Morgan Freeman
Harrison Ford
Mel Gibson

[Nyssane]

Geena Davis
Winona Ryder
Phil Murray

[ragnarok_2012]

Did you mean Bill Murray?

[Nate C.]

Anthony Hopkins's Filmography. 100 films and still making, so pretty good...

Harry and the Butler (2006) (announced)
Papa (2006) (pre-production) .... Ernest Hemingway
Bobby (2006) (filming) .... John Casey
Fracture (2006) (filming)
Beowulf (2007) (filming)
Young Hannibal: Behind the Mask (2006) (post-production) (voice) .... Hannibal Lecter
All the King's Men (2006) (completed) .... Judge Montague Irwin


The World's Fastest Indian (2005) .... Burt Munro
Proof (2005) .... Robert
Alexander (2004) .... Old Ptolemy
The Human Stain (2003) .... Coleman Silk
... aka Couleur du mensonge, La (France)
... aka Menschliche Makel, Der (Germany)
Red Dragon (2002) .... Dr. Hannibal Lecter
... aka Roter Drache (Germany)
Bad Company (2002) .... Officer Oakes
... aka Ceská spojka (Czech Republic)
Hearts in Atlantis (2001) .... Ted Brautigan
Hannibal (2001) .... Hannibal Lecter
The Devil and Daniel Webster (2001) .... Daniel Webster
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) (voice) .... The Narrator
... aka The Grinch (Australia) (UK) (USA: promotional title)
... aka Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (USA: complete title)
... aka Grinch, Der (Germany)
Mission: Impossible II (2000) (uncredited) .... Mission Commander Swanbeck
... aka M:I-2 (USA: DVD box title (promotional abbreviation))
... aka Mission: Impossible II (Germany)


Titus (1999) .... Titus Andronicus
Instinct (1999) .... Ethan Powell
Meet Joe Black (1998) .... William Parrish
The Mask of Zorro (1998) .... Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro
Amistad (1997) .... John Quincy Adams
The Edge (1997) .... Charles Morse
Surviving Picasso (1996) .... Pablo Picasso
August (1996) .... Ieuan Davies
Nixon (1995) .... Richard M. Nixon
Legends of the Fall (1994) .... Col. William Ludlow
The Road to Wellville (1994) .... Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Shadowlands (1993) .... Jack Lewis
The Remains of the Day (1993) .... Stevens
Selected Exits (1993) (TV) .... Gwyn Thomas
The Innocent (1993) .... Bob Glass
... aka ...und der Himmel steht still (Germany)
The Trial (1993) .... The Priest
Chaplin (1992) .... George Hayden
... aka Charlot (Italy)
Dracula (1992) .... Professor Abraham Van Helsing
... aka Bram Stoker's Dracula (USA: complete title)
To Be the Best (1992) (TV) .... Jack Figg
Howards End (1992) .... Henry Wilcox
Spotswood (1992) .... Errol Wallace
... aka The Efficiency Expert (USA)
Freejack (1992) .... Ian McCandless
One Man's War (1991) (TV) .... Joel
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) .... Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Desperate Hours (1990) .... Tim Cornell


"Great Expectations" (1989) (mini) TV Series .... Abel Magwitch
Heartland (1989) (TV) .... Jack
The Tenth Man (1988) (TV) .... Jean Louis Chavel
Across the Lake (1988) (TV) .... Donald Campbell
A Chorus of Disapproval (1988) .... Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
The Dawning (1988) .... Cassius aka Angus Barrie
84 Charing Cross Road (1987) .... Frank P. Doel
The Good Father (1985) .... Bill Hooper
Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of Il Duce (1985) (TV) .... Count Galeazzo Ciano
... aka Ich und der Duce (West Germany)
... aka Io e il duce (Italy)
... aka Mussolini and I
Arch of Triumph (1985) (TV) .... Dr. Ravic
"Hollywood Wives" (1985) (mini) TV Series .... Neil Gray
Guilty Conscience (1985) (TV) .... Arthur Jamison
Blunt (1985) (TV) .... Guy Burgess
... aka Blunt, the Fourth Man
The Bounty (1984) .... Lieutenant William Bligh
Strangers and Brothers (1984) (TV) .... Roger Quaife
A Married Man (1983) (TV) .... John Strickland
"Play of the Month"
- Little Eyolf (1982) TV Episode .... Alfred Allmers
- Uncle Vanya (1970) TV Episode .... Astrov
- The Three Sisters (1970) TV Episode .... Andrei
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982) (TV) .... Quasimodo
... aka Hunchback
Othello (1981/I) (TV) .... Othello
... aka The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Othello (USA: video title)
Peter and Paul (1981) (TV) .... Paul of Tarsus
The Bunker (1981) (TV) .... Adolf Hitler
... aka Bunker, Le (France)
A Change of Seasons (1980) .... Adam Evans
The Elephant Man (1980) .... Dr. Frederick Treves


Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (1979) (TV) .... Capt. Jones
Magic (1978) .... Corky/Voice of Fats the Dummy
Kean (1978) (TV) .... Edmund Kean
International Velvet (1978) .... Captain Johnson
A Bridge Too Far (1977) .... Lt. Col. John Frost
Audrey Rose (1977) .... Elliot Hoover
Victory at Entebbe (1976) (TV) .... Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976) (TV) .... Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Dark Victory (1976) (TV) .... Dr. Michael Grant
All Creatures Great and Small (1975) .... Siegfried Farnon
... aka All Things Great and Small
"Omnibus"
- Find Me (1974) TV Episode .... Marek
Juggernaut (1974) .... Supt. John McCleod
... aka Terror On the Britannic (USA)
"Play for Today"
- The Childhood Friend (1974) TV Episode .... Alexander Tashkov
- Hearts and Flowers (1970) TV Episode .... Bob
"QB VII" (1974) (mini) TV Series .... Dr. Adam Kelno
The Arcata Promise (1974) (TV) .... Theo Gunge
Possessions (1974) (TV) .... Dando
The Girl from Petrovka (1974) .... Kostya
"Black and Blue"
- The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family (1973) TV Episode .... Hi
A Doll's House (1973/I) .... Torvald Helmer
Lloyd George (1973) (TV) .... David Lloyd George
"War and Peace" (1972) (mini) TV Series .... Pierre Bezuhov
Young Winston (1972) .... David Lloyd George
Poet Game (1972) (TV) .... Hugh Sanders
"The Edwardians" (1972) (mini) TV Series .... David Lloyd George
When Eight Bells Toll (1971) .... Philip Calvert
Decision to Burn (1971) (TV)
Danton (1970) (TV) .... Danton
... aka Biography: Danton (UK: series title)
"Department S"
- A Small War of Nerves (1970) TV Episode .... Greg Halliday
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens (1970) (TV) .... Charles Dickens


The Looking Glass War (1969) .... John Avery
Hamlet (1969) .... Claudius
... aka Shakespeare's Hamlet (USA: complete title)
The Lion in Winter (1968) .... Richard
The White Bus (1967) .... Brechtian
... aka Red, White and Zero (USA)
A Flea in Her Ear (1967) (TV)

[Chiasm]

1. Keanu Reeves - say what you will about him. He's been in a lot of movies and has a good variety.
2. Harrison Ford - for all the same reasons have probably said.
3. John Wayne

[Calamas]

Humphrey Bogart

John Wayne

Jack Lemmon

[Nyssane]

Did you mean Bill Murray?

Whatever. ;) I like his movies, not him personally.

[Mon-el]

Ward Bond

Christopher Lee

John Wayne

[Rom]

John Cusack
Keanu Reeves
Jenna Jameson (sp?) :evilsmile

[StoneGold]

The man's been in over 70 movies.
And that's just in the last three months.

[GoGo Yubari]

Toshiro Mifune
Robert DeNiro
Steve Buscemi

[Hombre]

So here's a game. Pick three actors. Every movie they were in goes in your imaginary film library. But that's it. That's all the movies you get, so choose well.



* Paul Newman, that's just an obvious choice for me when I look at my favorite movies through the years.

* Al Pacino, that's a strong filmography right there.

* Woody Allen, I'm pretty sure I'd get a kick out of every movie he's in.

This, of course, leaves out pretty much all my favorite movies, but I guess that's how this game works.

[stealthwise]

Jim Carrey - Because Eternal Sunshine is genius and everyone needs laughs
Nicholas Cage - Despite some really crappy stuff he's still been in some great flicks.
Guy Pearce - My world needs "Ravenous" and "Memento" in it.

[ragnarok_2012]

Jim Carrey - Because Eternal Sunshine is genius and everyone needs laughs
Nicholas Cage - Despite some really crappy stuff he's still been in some great flicks.
Guy Pearce - My world needs "Ravenous" and "Memento" in it.

And don't forget LA Confidential!

[Murrocko]

Jenna Jameson (sp?) :evilsmile
Best choice thus far.

[twilight]

Dan Aykroyd
Christopher Lee
Alan Rickman

[Ontir]

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Steve Buscemi

Meryl Streep

[TomGun13]

Sean Penn
Johnny Depp
Clint Eastwood

I'll get the movies later.