Most recurring actor in your DVD collection?

[OdoWanKenobi]

Just a fun little thing to check out. Which actor appears the most in your DVD collection. One rule is that a series only counts once. (i.e. Trek only counts once for Shatner, Die Hard series is only once for Bruce Willis.)

For me it's a tie between Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson with 8 each.

Willis:
12 Monkeys
Die Hard Series
Ocean's Twelve
Sin City
The Fifth Element
Unbreakable
The Sixth Sense
Pulp Fiction

Jackson:
1408
The Incredibles
Star Wars Prequels
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Die Hard With A Vengeance
Snakes On A Plane
Unbreakable

Interestingly, they share three movies in my collection. Probably the biggest pairing in my collection as well.

 

[Daedalus12]

Um see this thread.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

In my defense, that thread is five months old.

 

[Aragorn]

Based on my DVD Spot listing, which can be misleading since a box set with multiple movies will only count an actor once, Tom Cruise is No. 1, followed by William H. Macy (?????), Matt Damon and Mel Gibson are tied for third and Tom Hanks is No. 4.

Not sure what the official numbers are, since for example my Lethal Weapons aren't in a box set so they count four times for Mel, but my Mission Impossible trilogy and Ocean's Eleven trilogy are in box sets, so they only count once for Cruise and Damon.

 

[Cicero]

For films, mine ties, also.

Errol Flynn:

Captain Blood
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Sea Hawk
They Died with Their Boots On
Dodge City
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
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Orlando Bloom:

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Kingdom of Heaven (Extended)
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I also have all seven seasons of The West Wing, which gives several actors an edge over Bloom and Flynn if television is included.

 

[Davros]

I guess it might be David Carridine
All 3 seasons of Kung Fu
Death Race 2000
Kill Bill vol 1
Kill Bill vol 2

 

[kalysto]

Bill Murray - The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Groundhog Day, Lost In Translation, Rushmore

Tony Leung - 2046, Confession of Pain, Infernal Affairs 1 and 3, Happy Together, Hero, In The Mood for Love

George Clooney - Dusk 'till Dawn, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Out Of Sight, Welcome to Collingwood.

 

[species5618]

You didn't mention TV on DVD (which makes up at least 50% of my collection), but based on a single season of TV being equivalent to a single movie (I know, not really equivalent, but I can't think of a better formula right now), the most recurring actor in my DVD collection is...sigh and ugh...David Boreanaz of Buffy and Angel fame. I don't consider him that great an actor at all but he was in 2 great shows. He was a regular in...

Buffy Seasons 1-3

Angel Seasons 1-5

...which adds up to 8 seasons.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I haven't checked but I imagine that for me it is probably a tie between Johnny Depp and Jimmy Stewart.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Buffy and Angel would each count only once for David Boreanaz.

Yes, Television counts of course, but the entire series only counts once for an actor.

 

[Joy]

I'll just paste my response from the other thread:

For DVD, Johnny Depp wins with 7 movies; Dean Stockwell comes in second with 5 movies.

If VHS and taped-off movies were included, it'd definitely be Dean Stockwell, with almost 60 of his movie performances (yes, that's not including the entire 90+ episode run of Quantum Leap that I taped off Sci-Fi).

Joy

 

[Ethros]

Hey, thanks for ripping my old thread off (even got the same rules)


(I'm not counting TV btw)
With the one-universe rule, I think now it's Arnold Schwarzenegger with 7- Terminators, Raw Deal, Predator, Red Heat, Twins, Total Recall, and Kindegarton Cop

 

[highlander]

I guess for me it's
1) Jet Li
2) Jackie Chan
3) Bruce Lee

OK so I have a ton of Hong Kong movies!!!!!!

Non-Hong Kong
1) Denzel Washington
2) Mel Gibson
3) Bruce Willis

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Hey, thanks for ripping my old thread off (even got the same rules)

It's an homage. Not a rip off. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

 

[Kegek]

No idea. Probably Toshiro Mifune.

 

[Sephiroth]

Megumi Hayashibara

 

[PKTrekGirl]

In my commercial releases -

Gary Cooper - 32 entries in MovieCollectorz: Although I have three boxed sets of his films which each count as one entry, so figure about 45 films, in reality. If it's a Gary Cooper film that has been commercially released in R1 or R2, I own it. He is my favorite actor.

Humphrey Bogart - 32 entries in MovieCollectorz: Although as with Gary Cooper, he's in some boxed sets where there are multiple films, so I give him about 40.

Ben Browder - 29 entries in MovieCollectorz: Although this is mainly because I bought Farscape early and at first that show's episodes were released 2 episodes to a box. In truth, I have all of Farscape and Stargate, and that is all I have that he's in.

Claudia Black, Lani Tupu, & Anthony Simcoe fall into the same boat - high counts because Farscape was released the way it was.

Cary Grant - 26 entries in MovieCollectorz, but like with Gary Cooper and Humphrey Bogart, this includes some boxed sets, so in reality it's more.

Barbara Stanwyck - 24 entries in MovieCollectorz (including two boxed sets of films counting as 1 each). Like Gary Cooper, it doesn't surprise me that she ranks so high - she's my favorite actress of all time.

Johnny Depp - 23 entries in MovieCollectorz


Now, I also have a separate movie collection on DVD-R. Mainly for commercially unreleased films that I've recorded from TCM or traded with other film collectors, but I have some that overlap my commercial releases. That list looks like this (I won't include supporting actors who were in tons of films in the 'old days' as most people here wouldn't even recognize the names):

John Wayne - 71 films
Lewis Stone - 70 films
Bette Davis - 67 films
Gary Cooper - 65 films
Barbara Stanwyck - 64 films
Humphrey Bogart - 62 films
Clark Gable - 62 films
Kay Francis - 60 films
Joan Crawford - 58 films
Walter Pidgeon - 56 films
Cary Grant - 56 films

I own about 6,000 classic films...so I'll just stop there and call it good.

 

[kitkat]

Bruce Willis, Hugh Jackman, Drew Barrymore, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie.

I have lots of all of their stuff.

 

[archeryguy1701]

If TV series only count once, it would have to be Will Smith with three titles... though I need to pick up more of his stuff.

 

[PK95]

Bruce Willis
Die Hard/Die Hard 2/Die Hard With A Vengence/Live Free or Die Hard
The Last Boyscout
Twelve Monkeys
The Fifth Element
Mercury Rising
Armageddon
The Sixth Sense
The Story of Us
Unbreakable
The Kid
Rugrats Go Wild
Over The Hedge

Sandra Bullock
Speed & Speed 2
While You Were Sleeping
The Net
Two If By Sea
A Time To Kill
In Love and War
Hope Floats
Practical Magic
The Prince of Egypt
Forces of Nature
Gun Shy
28 Days
Miss Congeniality & Miss Congeniality 2
Two Weeks Notice

Will Smith
Bad Boys & Bad Boys II
Independence Day
Men In Black & Men In Black II
Enemy of the State
Wild Wild West
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Ali
I, Robot
Shark Tale
Hitch

Ben Affleck
Mallrats/Chasing Amy/Dogma/Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back/Jersey Girl
Armageddon
Shakespeare In Love
Forces of Nature
Joseph King of Dreams
Pearl Harbor
DareDevil
Paycheck
Hollywoodland