Actor that has worked with the best directors?

[PopcornTreeCt]

Which actor/actress do you think has worked with the best directors?

I'll start:

Tom Cruise

Stanley Kubrick
Francis Ford Coppola
Cameron Crowe
Michael Mann
Robert Redford
Paul Thomas Anderson
John Woo
Oliver Stone
Brian De Palma
Steven Spielberg
Ron Howard
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Martin Scorsese

Some notable directors he has not worked with:

Joel & Ethan Coen
Steven Soderberg
Clint Eastwood
Quentin Tarantino

What do you guys think? There's probably some great actors that have passed away that have just as impressive resumes.

[FinkPish]

Robert Duvall

Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, John Sturges, Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, George Lucas, Walter Hill, Barry Levinson, Dennis Hopper, Tony Scott, Roland Joffé, Ron Howard, Kevin Costner

Maybe not all "great" directors by some standards, but famous to be sure.

[Finisher]

I'll start:

Tom Cruise

Some notable directors he has not worked with:

Martin ScorseseThe lead actor in Color of Money must've been Tom Cruise's long lost identical twin brother.

De Niro has worked with Scorsese, Mann, Coppola, De Palma, Kazan, Bertolucci, Leone, Gilliam, Ritt, Parker, Scott, Levinson, Tarantino, Frankenheimer.

[Drexl]

Jack Nicholson's resume isn't bad:

Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Milos Forman
Mike Nichols
Roman Polanski
James L. Brooks
Alexander Payne
Sean Penn
Tim Burton
Warren Beatty
John Huston
Elia Kazan

[Legolas]

Leonardo DiCaprio

Sam Mendes
Ridley Scott
Edward Zwick
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Danny Boyle
Woody Allen
Baz Luhrmann
Sam Raimi
Lasse Hallström

[PopcornTreeCt]

The lead actor in Color of Money must've been Tom Cruise's long lost identical twin brother.

De Niro has worked with Scorsese, Mann, Coppola, De Palma, Kazan, Bertolucci, Leone, Gilliam, Ritt, Parker, Scott, Levinson, Tarantino, Frankenheimer.

Oh my God, I could kick myself.

[PopcornTreeCt]

Jack Nicholson's resume isn't bad:

Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Milos Forman
Mike Nichols
Roman Polanski
James L. Brooks
Alexander Payne
Sean Penn
Tim Burton
Warren Beatty
John Huston
Elia Kazan

Don't forget Michelangelo Antonioni

[obscurelabel]

James Stewart:

Ernst Lubitsch
George Cukor
Cecil B. DeMille
Anthony Mann
Billy Wilder
Otto Preminger
Robert Aldrich
Frank Capra
Alfred Hitchcock
John Ford
William Wellman

[Premise]

Henry Fonda:

Fritz Lang
Victor Fleming
William Wyler
Henry King
John Ford
Preston Sturges
King Vidor
Alfred Hitchcock
Sidney Lumet
Anthony Mann
Edward Dmytryk
Otto Preminger
Sergio Leone
Gene Kelly

[inri222]

Burt Lancaster :

Bernardo Bertolucci
Luchino Visconti
Sam Peckinpah
Louis Malle
Robert Aldrich
Robert Altman
Michael Winner
John Frankenheimer
Sydney Pollack
John Sturges
John Huston
John Cassavetes
Stanley Kramer
Robert Wise
Guy Hamilton
Carol Reed
Fred Zinnemann
Robert Siodmak
Daniel Mann
Michael Curtiz
Jacques Tourneur
Jules Dassin
Richard Brooks

[William Fuld]

Hank Worden:

Hawks
Wyler
DeMille
Ford
Vidor
Minnelli
Kazan
Wellman
Curtiz
Walsh
Fuller
Friedkin
Milius
Eastwood
Wenders
Lynch

[Groucho]

Leelee Sobieski:

James Ivory
Neil LaBute
Stanley Kubrick
Uwe Boll

[wendersfan]

John Cazale:

Francis Coppola
Sidney Lumet
Michael Cimino

And that's it.

[Bobby Shalom]

Peter O'Toole:

Nicholas Ray
David Lean
Richard Brooks
Clive Donner
Vincente Minelli
William Wyler
John Huston
Anatole Litvak
Herbert Ross
J. Lee Thompson
Peter Medak
Arthur Hiller
Otto Preminger
Arturo Ripstein
Tinto Brass
Richard Rush
Harold Ramis
Bernardo Bertolucci
Neil Jordan
Lina Wertmuller
Alejandro Jodorowsky

[Sean O'Hara]

Jack Nicholson's resume isn't bad:

Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Milos Forman
Mike Nichols
Roman Polanski
James L. Brooks
Alexander Payne
Sean Penn
Tim Burton
Warren Beatty
John Huston
Elia Kazan

You forgot Roger Corman.

[Damfino]

Paul Newman is the only actor I can think of that has worked with Hitchcock and Scorsese. Others on his resume make an impressive list:

Irwin Allen
Robert Altman
Joel & Ethan Cohen
Michael Curtiz
George Roy Hill
Alfred Hitchcock
John Huston
James Ivory
Sidney Lumet
Sam Mendes
Sydney Pollack
Otto Preminger
Stuart Rosenberg
Martin Scorsese
Robert Wise

[Imail724]

Harrison Ford:

George Lucas
Steven Speilberg
Francis Ford Coppola
Ridley Scott
Roman Polanski

[William Fuld]

Paul Newman is the only actor I can think of that has worked with Hitchcock and Scorsese.

Gregory Peck and Martin Balsam come to mind.

[MartinBlank]

Somebody do Christopher Walken. And Kevin Bacon ;)

[toddly6666]

JOHNNY DEPP:

Emir Kusturica
Wes Craven
Oliver Stone
John Waters
Tim Burton
Lasse Hallström
Jim Jarmusch
Terry Gilliam
Roman Polanski
Julian Schnabel
Ted Demme
Hughes Brothers
Gore Verbinski
Robert Rodriguez
Yvan Attal
Marc Forster
Michael Mann (upcoming)
Mira Nair (upcoming)

[McHawkson]

Leonardo DiCaprio

Sam Mendes
Ridley Scott
Edward Zwick
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Danny Boyle
Woody Allen
Baz Luhrmann
Sam Raimi
Lasse Hallström

You don't consider James Cameron as best director?

[johnnysd]

John Cazale:

Francis Coppola
Sidney Lumet
Michael Cimino

And that's it.

One of the great Hollywood losses. How many great performances would he have done since Deer Hunter if he had not died?

[Gerry P.]

Cary Grant?:

Dorothy Arzner
Richard Brooks
Frank Capra
John Cromwell
George Cukor
Michael Curtiz
Delmer Daves
Stanley Donen
Blake Edwards
Howard Hawks
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kramer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Leo McCarey
George Stevens
Joseph von Sternberg
Charles Walters
Raoul Walsh

Plus two great writers turned directors:

Garson Kanin
Clifford Odets

[Mondo Kane]

Felt like seeing this topic again.

Other filmographies I like:

Anthony Quinn
DeMille
Peter Collinson
Dmytryk
Mark Robson
Walsh
Anatole Litvak
Richard Fliescher
Robert Florey
Carol Reed
Mamoulian
Stanley Kramer
Kazan
William A. Wellman
Fellini
Nicholas Ray
Minnelli
J. Lee Thompson
Lean
Terence Young
Zeffirelli
John McTiernan
Chris Columbus
Spike Lee
Tony Scott

Harry Dean Stanton
Monte Hellman
Peckinpah
Stuart Rosenberg
Coppola
Arthur Penn
Sean Penn
Frankenheimer
Scorsese
John Huston
John Milius
John Carpenter
Wenders
Alex Cox
Lynch
Frank Darabont
Gilliam
Ridley Scott

[JumpCutz]

Max Von Sydow

Ingmar Bergman
George Stevens
George Roy Hill
William Friedkin
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorcese
John Huston
Stuart Rosenberg
Sydney Pollack
John Boorman
Woody Allen
David Lynch

[Solid Snake PAC]

One of the great Hollywood losses. How many great performances would he have done since Deer Hunter if he had not died?

Yeah, he's such an underrated guy by the modern moviegoer. Everybody just remembers him as Fredo.

[Rockmjd23]

I think he would have been right up there with De Niro and Pacino, but hopefully without the awful post-millenium output.

[Solid Snake PAC]

My minor gripe, not his acting for sure, was that his "biggest" roles where the wimpy and pathetic guy. I mean he was damn fine at them but I'm not sure if he would've been as into the mainstream as Pacino and De Niro. He probably could've been more subtle in his choice of roles too where he alive. I don't think he'd pick some of the trash Michael and Young Vito did.

[Ash Ketchum]

Christopher Lee has them all beat:


Mario Bava
Terence Fisher
J. Lee Thompson
Edouard Molinaro
Val Guest
Sidney Hayers
Guy Hamilton
Richard Lester
Robin Hardy
Freddie Francis
Eugenio Martin
Burt Kennedy
Roy Ward Baker
Jess Franco
Billy Wilder
Jerry Lewis
Gordon Hessler
Harald Reinl
John Gilling
Seth Holt
Terence Young
Nicholas Ray
Ralph Thomas
Sidney Gilliat
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
John Boulting
George Marshall
Rudolph Maté
Zoltan Korda
Henry Levin
John Huston
Robert Siodmak
Edgar G. Ulmer
Raoul Walsh
Basil Dearden
Laurence Olivier
Tim Burton
Joe Dante

Not to mention a trio of kids whom I’m inclined to leave off any list of “best directors,” but over whom the fanboys will have hissy fits and conniptions if they’re not included: Spielberg, Jackson and Lucas.

[Rockmjd23]

Not to mention a trio of kids whom I’m inclined to leave off any list of “best directors,” but over whom the fanboys will have hissy fits and conniptions if they’re not included: Spielberg, Jackson and Lucas.
Yet you included Joe Dante :lol:

[CharlieK]

Christopher Lee Not to mention a trio of kids whom I’m inclined to leave off any list of “best directors,” but over whom the fanboys will have hissy fits and conniptions if they’re not included: Spielberg, Jackson and Lucas. And Guy Hamilton?!?

[Solid Snake PAC]

Jesus....I see so little of Lee's work actually. What Christopher Lee films should I watch...ie the good ones?

[Ash Ketchum]

Jesus....I see so little of Lee's work actually. What Christopher Lee films should I watch...ie the good ones?

You should see the Hammer horrors, esp. his Dracula films (he made about 6 of them for Hammer), starting with the first and best, HORROR OF DRACULA (1958), with Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. They reteamed 14 years later in a modern-day update, DRACULA A.D. 1972. He made quite a few Fu Manchu films, but I haven't seen many of those.
There was a German one I liked called TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM (aka BLOOD DEMON).
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1975) is a Bond film that's worth watching for Lee (as the title villain).
He's funny as a German officer in Spielberg's 1941.
THE WICKER MAN (1972), of course. He has one of the lead roles (not the hero, needless to say).
HORROR EXPRESS (1971) - a Spanish horror film on a train. Lee and Cushing play the heroes, while Telly Savalas plays a Cossack villain.
He made a few pirate movies, but I haven't seen those.
He plays Sherlock Holmes' brother in Billy Wilder's THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, a film I like a great deal, but is not recommended to Sherlock purists.

[Jaymole]

You should see the Hammer horrors, esp. his Dracula films (he made about 6 of them for Hammer), starting with the first and best, HORROR OF DRACULA (1958), with Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. They reteamed 14 years later in a modern-day update, DRACULA A.D. 1972. He made quite a few Fu Manchu films, but I haven't seen many of those.
There was a German one I liked called TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM (aka BLOOD DEMON).
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1975) is a Bond film that's worth watching for Lee (as the title villain).
He's funny as a German officer in Spielberg's 1941.
THE WICKER MAN (1972), of course. He has one of the lead roles (not the hero, needless to say).
HORROR EXPRESS (1971) - a Spanish horror film on a train. Lee and Cushing play the heroes, while Telly Savalas plays a Cossack villain.
He made a few pirate movies, but I haven't seen those.
He plays Sherlock Holmes' brother in Billy Wilder's THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, a film I like a great deal, but is not recommended to Sherlock purists.


Good list, especially mentioning TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM which is one of my favorites. Regretably there isn't a good Region 1 release, I had to pick up the Region 2 German DVD.

I would also highly recommend THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, one of the best Satanic/Occult films ever.

[Dr. DVD]

Leelee Sobieski:

James Ivory
Neil LaBute
Stanley Kubrick
Uwe Boll


I am sure the last name on your list is in jest. ;)

[inri222]

Alain Delon


Michelangelo Antonioni
Jean-Pierre Melville
Louis Malle
Luchino Visconti
Terence Young
Julien Duvivier
René Clément
Anthony Asquith
Joseph Losey
Jacques Deray
Michael Winner

[JumpCutz]

^ That's a great list, but Michael Winner...really?

[inri222]

Michael Winner...really?

He did give us this masterpiece :sarcasm:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PE2H9BNGL._SS500_.jpg

[Ash Ketchum]

^ That's a great list, but Michael Winner...really?

He directed Delon in SCORPIO (1973), which co-starred Burt Lancaster and is a very good CIA/hitman/conspiracy thriller that's playing on one of the movie channels (FLIX?) tonight. It's highly recommended. Even though the film is anti-CIA, Winner managed to finagle permission to shoot some scenes at CIA HQ in Langley, VA. I heard him tell the story once when he did a Q&A at a local college.

[NoirFan]

He directed Delon in SCORPIO (1973), which co-starred Burt Lancaster and is a very good CIA/hitman/conspiracy thriller that's playing on one of the movie channels (FLIX?) tonight.

Plus, I'll Never Forget What's'isname is a decent, if dated, comedy.

[Rad14]

What about "The Duke"?

John Ford
John Huston
Howard Hawks
William Wellman
Don Seigal
Henry Hathaway
Michael Curtiz
Cecil B. DeMille
Raoul Walsh
George Marshall
Mark Rydell
Otto Preminger
Andrew V. McGlaglen
George Stevens
Burt Kennedy
George Sherman
John Sturges
Jules Dassin
Edward Dmytrik
Mervyn LeRoy
Allan Dwan
Nicholas Ray
Josef Von Sternberg
John Farrow

[cleaver]

Jimmy Stewart was THE go to guy for Hitchcock and Capra, and a go to guy for John Ford.

[toddly6666]

Steve Buscemi:


Woody Allen
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
James Ivory
Jim Jarmusch
Abel Ferrara
Coen Brothers
Quentin Tarantino
Tom DiCillo
Robert Rodriguez
John Carpenter
Robert Altman
Simon West (kidding)
Michael Bay (come on, Bay is one of the best action directors)
Terry Zwigoff
Tim Burton
Florian Gallenberger