Usually both, atleast when they are different (cuts/music/sub-dub/whatever). I haven't repurchased many of the recent Columbia ones though as the HK versions are good enough and I've been waiting for the HKL-R2 versions to come out w/ full SEs :D

I have three actors/actresses:

Sylvester Stallone

Rocky Saga boxset 1-5
Rambo Trilogy
The Specialist
Cobra
Assasins
Tango and Cash
Cliffhanger
Eye See You
Avenging Angelo
Death Race 2000
Copland
Judge Dredd
Daylight
Get Carter
Driven

Tom Hanks

The Green Mile
Forrest Gump
Cast Away
BIG
Bachelor Party
The Road to Perdition

[b]Angelina Jolie[b]

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Girl Interupted
Life or Something Like It
Hackers
Gia
Original Sin

Steve Buscemi (9)

Sean Penn - 24 (including the films he directed. I have almost all the DVDs and laserdiscs that feature him. He is my favorite contemporary actor, along with--
Billy Crudup - 9

I don't know, it hurts just thinking about it.

I guess I could say the cast of:

SG1
Star Trek Next Generation (1-7)
LEXX
Space 1999 box set
X-Files (1-7)
Buffy/Angel (1-4)
Babylon 5 (Year 1 & 2 out of 5)
Aliens Legacy (1-4)
Planet Of The Ape Movies (Roddy McDowell)
Jurassic Park (1-3)
Buster Keaton box set
Jay and Silent Bob
Upstairs Downstairs (entire series)
Horatio Hornblower series

I'm tired.....

1. Patrick Stewart (10) - 7 seasons of TNG; 2 X-Men DVDs; Nemesis
2. Samuel L. Jackson (9) - SW 1&2; 3 Tarantino movies; Unbreakable; XXX; R2-D2; Rules of Engagment

And if you minus the other Next Generation cast...

3. Robert DeNiro (6) - Jackie Brown, The Mission, Meet the Parents, Men of Honor, Ronin, Untouchables

Funny. Brad Pitt is my most frequent actor -- Fight Club, Se7en, Kalifornia, Thelma and Louise, True Romance, a couple of others I can't think of off the top of my head.

Funny because I'd never been a Brad Pitt fan (even though he went to the same high school as my wife in Springfield, MO). But at some point, I realized that he turned up quite a bit in my favorite movies, even though I had never intentionally bought a Brad Pitt movie.

So I decided to do so, blind buy a movie because Brad Pitt was in it. And it sucked (The Mexican).

1. Samuel Jackson
2. Denzel Washington
3. Robert DeNiro

The man with the plan: Bruce Campbell

7
John Cusack
Jason Lee

6
Al Pacino
Tom Hanks
Samuel L Jackson

1. Tom Cruise: 8
Diane Keaton: 8
3. Woody Allen: 7
Robert De Niro: 7
Robert Englund: 7
Philip Seymour Hoffman: 7
Samuel L. Jackson: 7
Julianne Moore: 7
9. John Goodman: 6
Seth Green: 6
Harvey Keitel: 6
Klaus Kinski: 6
Bill Murray: 6
Sigourney Weaver: 6

I was surprised by my number 1, since I've never been a huge fan, but I guess he has appeared in a good handful of the flicks I own... here's my top 10 from Guzzlefish's stats:

1. Ben Affleck - 12 titles
2. Samuel L. Jackson - 11 titles
3. Steve Buscemi - 10 titles
4. Philip Seymour Hoffman - 10 titles
5. Tom Cruise - 9 titles
6. Robert DeNiro - 9 titles
7. Tom Hanks - 9 titles
8. Jason Lee - 9 titles
9. Brad Pitt - 9 titles
10. Ben Stiller - 9 titles

I'm not too surprised by the rest of the list... the highest charting actresses have 7 titles each in my collection(Cameron Diaz, Heather Graham, Julianne Moore, Julia Roberts)... Interesting stats really...

MATT

apparently, my 187 movies are VERY diverse. my top actor is tied at 5 between Steve Buscemi, Chevy Chase, and Dan Aykroyd.

the actress count is at 4 with Beverly D'Angelo (by virtue of all the Vacation movies).

My list, according to Guzzlefish, is absolute nonsense:

1. Toshiro Mifune
2. Takashi Shimura
3. David Cross
4. David Schwimmer
5. James Stewart
6. Orson Welles

That is a confoundingly stupid combination, but keep in mind that I don't have that many DVDs.

John Wayne (16)
Sean Connery (10)
Burt Lancaster (10)
Kevin Costner (8)*

* should be 10 if you count Costner's cameos as the dead guy (Alex) in <i>The Big Chill</i> & as one of the frat boys partying @ the morgue in <i>Night Shift</i>... too funny!

Clint Eastwood
Al Pacino
Robert Deniro

Harrison Ford
Tom Hanks
John Cusack
Sean Connery

Meg Ryan
Marilyn Monroe
Laurent Becall

Nicolas Cage-28
Bruce Willis-17
Mel Gibson-17
Brad Pitt-16

Top 10

Robert De Niro and Samuel Jackson - 14
Bruce Willis - 13
Clint Eastwood and Bill Paxton - 12
Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, Robert Englund and Brad Pitt - 11
Tom Cruise 10

Supporting Actors

Desmond Llewelyn - 17 ("Q" from Bond)
Lois Maxwell - 14 ("Moneypenny" from Bond)
Bernard Lee - 12 ("M" from Bond)

Starring Actors

Sean Connery - 9
Christopher Lee - 8
Bela Lugosi - 8
Lon Chaney - 7
Roger Moore - 7
Bruce Willis - 7

If you count cameo appearances, then Alfred Hitchcock with 23.

arrgh! this guzzlefish is incredible!!! I feel like a greased Scotsman - nary a DVD (w/ a UPC code) can escape me!


oh yeah, re: the question - there are about 10 guys and girls brutely fighting it out for my first place choice as favorite actor.


btw the greased scotsman thing was in reference to Simpsons; it might disturb some if it popped up from the dark recesses of my mind for me to share.

John Cusack for me. My husband and I both appreciate his work.

Christina

Jim Carrey with 8 of his films is number 1.

Are we counting TV series as well? If so, I'd probably have to have the stars of X-Files and Star Trek NG on my list having all seven season sets for each of them in addition to the movies that have been released for those series.

I'm guessing it would be Patrick Stewart on a number of other DVDs beside the above such as:

Dune
X-Men
X-Men 1.5
Moby Dick
Prince of Egypt
Lifeforce
Excalibur
Conspiracy Theory

Robert DeNiro 12
Al Pacino 11
Brad Pitt 9
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Sean Penn all tied at 6