Best Actors : 1940 - 1949


  All-Time   Decade Summary   Films

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Rank Avg (Top 5) Avg (All) Films Name
1 91.0% 78.3% 23 Humphrey Bogart
2 90.2% 80.5% 13 Joseph Cotten
3 89.6% 75.5% 17 Claude Rains
4 88.8% 76.1% 16 Barbara Stanwyck
5 88.6% 77.2% 12 James Stewart
6 88.6% 76.9% 19 Cary Grant
7 88.6% 76.1% 14 Henry Fonda
8 88.4% 84.3% 7 Teresa Wright
9 87.6% 83.1% 8 Orson Welles
10 87.4% 73.9% 14 Walter Huston
11 86.8% 76.0% 18 Edward G. Robinson
12 86.8% 74.8% 13 Ingrid Bergman
13 86.8% 73.3% 19 Ray Milland
14 86.6% 85.8% 6 Laurence Olivier
15 86.6% 72.5% 15 Linda Darnell
16 86.6% 72.2% 19 Charles Coburn
17 86.6% 71.9% 20 George Sanders
18 86.4% 73.9% 18 Dana Andrews
19 86.4% 71.8% 24 John Wayne
20 86.2% 86.2% 5 Anton Walbrook
21 86.2% 75.8% 13 Olivia de Havilland
22 86.2% 75.6% 17 Walter Brennan
23 85.8% 76.2% 12 Gene Tierney
24 85.8% 72.9% 15 Spencer Tracy
25 85.6% 81.3% 7 Robert Newton
26 85.6% 75.9% 14 Judy Garland
27 85.4% 75.9% 15 Donald Crisp
28 85.2% 74.5% 13 Rita Hayworth
29 84.8% 77.1% 12 Bing Crosby
30 84.6% 77.4% 11 Bob Hope
31 84.4% 76.3% 18 Bette Davis
32 84.4% 74.5% 14 Gary Cooper
33 84.4% 74.5% 11 Joan Fontaine
34 84.2% 72.9% 13 Veronica Lake
35 84.0% 76.5% 10 Charles Bickford
36 83.8% 73.7% 12 Joel McCrea
37 83.6% 75.3% 9 Herbert Marshall
38 83.4% 75.5% 8 Gene Lockhart
39 83.0% 73.8% 13 Tyrone Power
40 82.8% 82.8% 5 Lauren Bacall
41 82.8% 79.8% 6 Jean Arthur
42 82.8% 77.8% 8 Rex Harrison
43 82.8% 71.3% 12 Victor Mature
44 82.6% 79.1% 7 Irene Dunne
45 82.6% 71.4% 14 Anne Baxter
46 82.4% 78.6% 7 Beulah Bondi
47 82.4% 73.9% 16 John Garfield
48 82.2% 76.5% 8 Henry Travers
49 82.0% 76.6% 7 Burt Lancaster
50 82.0% 73.2% 14 Brian Donlevy
51 81.8% 76.0% 8 Agnes Moorehead
52 81.8% 74.3% 9 James Cagney
53 81.6% 76.4% 7 Mary Astor
54 81.6% 73.3% 11 Paul Henreid
55 81.4% 74.5% 11 Raymond Massey
56 81.4% 73.9% 11 Pedro Armendáriz
57 81.4% 72.7% 7 Katharine Hepburn
58 81.2% 77.3% 8 Margaret O'Brien
59 81.2% 76.4% 8 Myrna Loy
60 81.2% 74.7% 12 Robert Young
61 81.2% 73.9% 8 Greer Garson
62 81.2% 72.0% 12 Dorothy Lamour
63 81.2% 71.3% 11 John Hodiak
64 81.0% 75.8% 8 Ethel Barrymore
65 81.0% 74.5% 10 Charles Boyer
66 81.0% 72.6% 12 Frank Morgan
67 80.8% 73.9% 10 Van Heflin
68 80.8% 71.9% 12 Paulette Goddard
69 80.6% 78.8% 6 Trevor Howard
70 80.6% 77.3% 6 Fredric March
71 80.6% 76.2% 10 Gregory Peck
72 80.6% 75.4% 7 Bruce Bennett
73 80.6% 75.3% 7 George Macready
74 80.6% 74.0% 10 Jack Carson
75 80.6% 74.0% 9 Joan Crawford
76 80.6% 73.3% 23 Lou Costello
77 80.6% 73.1% 24 Bud Abbott
78 80.4% 72.9% 14 Ann Sheridan
79 80.4% 72.6% 11 Fred Astaire
80 80.4% 72.5% 13 Ida Lupino
81 80.2% 78.2% 6 Donna Reed
82 80.2% 78.0% 6 Richard Widmark
83 80.2% 76.7% 7 Valerie Hobson
84 80.2% 72.4% 16 Basil Rathbone
85 80.2% 71.5% 11 Dennis O'Keefe
86 80.2% 71.1% 16 William Bendix
87 80.0% 80.0% 5 Kirk Douglas
88 80.0% 76.1% 8 Richard Conte
89 80.0% 72.5% 11 Barry Fitzgerald
90 80.0% 72.0% 13 Susan Hayward
91 80.0% 71.7% 10 Walter Pidgeon
92 80.0% 71.2% 13 Errol Flynn
93 79.8% 76.3% 8 Jennifer Jones
94 79.8% 76.0% 7 Lionel Barrymore
95 79.8% 75.0% 7 Richard Carlson
96 79.8% 73.8% 10 Charles Laughton
97 79.8% 73.4% 7 Ruth Hussey
98 79.8% 71.6% 14 Vincent Price
99 79.8% 71.4% 16 Thomas Mitchell
100 79.6% 74.0% 8 Gene Kelly
101 79.6% 73.3% 12 Robert Cummings
102 79.4% 76.7% 6 Hume Cronyn
103 79.4% 75.6% 7 Rita Johnson
104 79.2% 73.9% 7 Edmond O'Brien
105 79.2% 68.1% 14 J. Carrol Naish
106 79.0% 75.8% 6 Jane Wyman
107 79.0% 73.9% 8 Deborah Kerr
108 79.0% 72.7% 10 Van Johnson
109 79.0% 72.6% 10 Dan Duryea
110 79.0% 72.2% 9 Joan Bennett
111 79.0% 71.3% 17 Nigel Bruce
112 78.8% 76.3% 6 Robert Montgomery
113 78.8% 76.0% 6 Roland Culver
114 78.8% 73.4% 10 Robert Mitchum
115 78.8% 72.0% 12 Maureen O'Hara
116 78.8% 72.0% 11 Fred MacMurray
117 78.8% 71.7% 10 Lloyd Nolan
118 78.8% 69.8% 12 Virginia Mayo
119 78.6% 78.6% 5 Conrad Veidt
120 78.6% 77.8% 6 Arthur Kennedy
121 78.6% 73.8% 9 John Mills
122 78.6% 71.8% 10 Lee J. Cobb
123 78.6% 67.6% 17 Boris Karloff
124 78.4% 73.4% 9 Ella Raines
125 78.2% 78.2% 5 John Ireland
126 78.2% 75.7% 6 Roddy McDowall
127 78.2% 75.1% 7 Kent Smith
128 78.2% 73.3% 9 Loretta Young
129 78.2% 73.0% 9 William Demarest
130 78.0% 71.7% 13 Peter Lorre
131 77.8% 77.8% 5 Celeste Holm
132 77.8% 71.7% 10 Alan Hale
133 77.8% 70.9% 9 William Powell
134 77.8% 70.2% 13 James Mason
135 77.6% 71.4% 9 Alan Ladd
136 77.4% 74.4% 7 Jeanne Crain
137 77.4% 73.7% 6 Mark Stevens
138 77.4% 71.5% 13 Claudette Colbert
139 77.2% 77.2% 5 Henry Daniell
140 77.2% 74.0% 7 Monty Woolley
141 77.2% 72.7% 7 George Murphy
142 77.2% 70.4% 9 Akim Tamiroff
143 77.0% 77.0% 5 Basil Radford
144 77.0% 77.0% 5 Peter Lawford
145 77.0% 75.7% 6 Googie Withers
146 77.0% 72.2% 10 George Brent
147 77.0% 70.5% 10 Shirley Temple
148 77.0% 69.3% 10 Marsha Hunt
149 76.8% 76.8% 5 Jane Darwell
150 76.6% 74.6% 7 Laird Cregar
151 76.6% 74.3% 6 June Allyson
152 76.6% 72.1% 8 Robert Ryan
153 76.6% 71.7% 9 Ginger Rogers
154 76.4% 76.4% 5 Porter Hall
155 76.4% 72.3% 8 Claire Trevor
156 76.4% 72.0% 7 Helen Walker
157 76.4% 68.9% 11 Dick Powell
158 76.4% 68.2% 13 Lucille Ball
159 76.2% 76.2% 5 Howard Da Silva
160 76.2% 72.5% 6 Gale Sondergaard
161 76.2% 72.3% 8 Don DeFore
162 76.2% 69.7% 9 Albert Dekker
163 76.0% 72.0% 6 Betty Field
164 76.0% 70.7% 10 Walter Slezak
165 76.0% 70.0% 6 Cornel Wilde
166 75.8% 72.8% 6 Tom Conway
167 75.8% 68.9% 9 Margaret Lockwood
168 75.6% 74.0% 6 John Lund
169 75.6% 72.7% 6 Wendell Corey
170 75.6% 72.6% 7 Evelyn Keyes
171 75.6% 72.1% 8 Michael Redgrave
172 75.6% 70.0% 8 Laraine Day
173 75.4% 73.1% 8 Geraldine Fitzgerald
174 75.4% 70.2% 10 John Payne
175 75.2% 75.2% 5 Cecil Kellaway
176 75.2% 70.1% 8 Edward Arnold
177 75.2% 69.5% 10 Cedric Hardwicke
178 75.2% 62.8% 16 Lon Chaney Jr.
179 75.0% 75.0% 5 Anne Revere
180 75.0% 72.8% 6 Rudy Vallee
181 75.0% 72.6% 8 Fay Bainter
182 75.0% 72.1% 7 Dennis Morgan
183 75.0% 71.3% 7 Robert Benchley
184 75.0% 70.7% 9 Zachary Scott
185 74.8% 74.8% 5 Anna Lee
186 74.8% 74.8% 5 John Ridgely
187 74.8% 70.9% 8 Lucile Watson
188 74.8% 70.4% 8 Edgar Buchanan
189 74.8% 67.6% 9 Joan Leslie
190 74.6% 71.8% 6 Ralph Bellamy
191 74.4% 70.2% 10 Glenn Ford
192 74.2% 74.2% 5 Alan Curtis
193 74.2% 74.2% 5 Ronald Colman
194 74.2% 72.2% 6 Angela Lansbury
195 74.2% 72.2% 6 Eddie Bracken
196 74.2% 72.0% 6 Tim Holt
197 74.2% 71.4% 8 Mervyn Johns
198 74.2% 71.3% 7 William Gargan
199 74.2% 69.6% 12 Mickey Rooney
200 74.2% 68.2% 12 Randolph Scott
201 74.0% 72.2% 6 Louis Hayward
202 74.0% 69.9% 14 Sydney Greenstreet
203 74.0% 66.8% 11 Alexis Smith
204 73.8% 73.8% 5 Paul Lukas
205 73.8% 72.8% 6 Audrey Totter
206 73.8% 72.7% 6 Ellen Drew
207 73.8% 71.5% 6 Danny Kaye
208 73.6% 73.6% 5 Elizabeth Taylor
209 73.6% 73.6% 5 Joseph Calleia
210 73.6% 72.0% 6 Lee Bowman
211 73.6% 71.7% 6 Dane Clark
212 73.6% 71.0% 6 Lizabeth Scott
213 73.6% 70.7% 7 Ward Bond
214 73.6% 70.3% 6 George Tobias
215 73.4% 71.8% 6 Flora Robson
216 73.4% 70.4% 8 Leo Gorcey
217 73.4% 69.3% 11 Don Ameche
218 73.2% 73.2% 5 Reginald Owen
219 73.2% 69.9% 8 Marjorie Main
220 73.0% 73.0% 5 Andrea King
221 73.0% 71.8% 6 Alice Faye
222 73.0% 69.8% 6 Broderick Crawford
223 73.0% 69.7% 6 Otto Kruger
224 73.0% 68.1% 7 Patric Knowles
225 73.0% 68.0% 8 Huntz Hall
226 73.0% 67.9% 8 Franchot Tone
227 72.8% 72.8% 5 Dean Jagger
228 72.6% 72.6% 5 Rosalind Russell
229 72.6% 69.0% 7 Robert Preston
230 72.2% 70.0% 6 Signe Hasso
231 72.2% 69.3% 6 Adolphe Menjou
232 72.0% 72.0% 5 Martha Scott
233 72.0% 69.1% 8 Deanna Durbin
234 71.8% 71.8% 5 Gail Russell
235 71.8% 69.1% 8 Marlene Dietrich
236 71.6% 71.6% 5 Marjorie Reynolds
237 71.6% 69.1% 7 Lana Turner
238 71.4% 68.9% 7 Hedy Lamarr
239 71.2% 71.2% 5 Jane Greer
240 71.2% 69.2% 6 Robert Taylor
241 71.2% 68.8% 6 Eugene Pallette
242 71.2% 67.3% 6 Patricia Roc
243 71.0% 71.0% 5 Brenda Marshall
244 71.0% 68.9% 7 Bobby Jordan
245 71.0% 65.4% 11 Carmen Miranda
246 70.8% 69.0% 6 Ann Sothern
247 70.8% 67.6% 8 Jack Oakie
248 70.8% 66.2% 6 Dick Foran
249 70.6% 70.6% 5 Edward Chapman
250 70.6% 70.6% 5 Margaret Lindsay
251 70.6% 65.5% 14 Betty Grable
252 70.4% 70.4% 5 Sabu
253 70.4% 68.1% 8 Clark Gable
254 70.4% 67.7% 7 Carole Landis
255 70.2% 67.6% 7 Robert Paige
256 70.0% 70.0% 5 Dolores del Rio
257 70.0% 70.0% 5 Ronald Reagan
258 69.8% 69.8% 5 Yvonne De Carlo
259 69.8% 67.5% 6 Frances Gifford
260 69.8% 64.3% 19 Roy Rogers
261 69.6% 69.6% 5 Eve Arden
262 69.6% 67.9% 7 Betty Hutton
263 69.6% 66.9% 8 William Holden
264 69.4% 69.4% 5 James Craig
265 69.4% 68.7% 6 John Carroll
266 69.2% 69.2% 5 Bernard Miles
267 69.2% 66.0% 6 Kathryn Grayson
268 69.0% 69.0% 5 Charles Ruggles
269 69.0% 67.7% 6 James Gleason
270 69.0% 67.1% 7 George Raft
271 69.0% 64.2% 10 Trigger
272 68.8% 68.8% 5 Will Hay
273 68.8% 60.0% 9 Bela Lugosi
274 68.6% 66.4% 8 Pat O'Brien
275 68.4% 65.3% 7 Evelyn Ankers
276 68.2% 66.0% 6 Ann Dvorak
277 68.2% 64.3% 11 George 'Gabby' Hayes
278 68.0% 68.0% 5 Arturo de Córdova
279 68.0% 65.5% 6 Nina Foch
280 67.8% 67.8% 5 Ann Rutherford
281 67.8% 66.3% 7 Lewis Stone
282 67.6% 67.6% 5 Anne Shirley
283 67.6% 66.0% 6 Harry Carey
284 67.4% 67.4% 5 Diana Lynn
285 67.4% 67.4% 5 Fay Holden
286 67.4% 67.4% 5 Sonny Tufts
287 67.4% 66.5% 6 Maria Montez
288 67.2% 63.3% 8 Preston Foster
289 67.0% 67.0% 5 John Carradine
290 67.0% 66.0% 6 Jon Hall
291 67.0% 65.7% 6 Binnie Barnes
292 67.0% 64.7% 7 Andy Devine
293 66.8% 66.8% 5 Cesar Romero
294 66.8% 66.8% 5 Melvyn Douglas
295 66.8% 66.5% 6 Phyllis Calvert
296 66.6% 66.6% 5 Eddie Albert
297 66.6% 66.6% 5 Merle Oberon
298 66.6% 66.2% 6 Stewart Granger
299 66.6% 63.8% 6 Ray Collins
300 66.6% 63.0% 6 Lionel Atwill
301 66.4% 66.4% 5 Birger Malmsten
302 66.2% 65.1% 7 S.Z. Sakall
303 66.2% 64.4% 8 Al St. John
304 66.0% 66.0% 5 Charles Winninger
305 66.0% 66.0% 5 Groucho Marx
306 66.0% 63.3% 7 Richard Dix
307 65.8% 65.8% 5 Charlotte Greenwood
308 65.8% 65.8% 5 William Eythe
309 65.4% 63.9% 7 Buster Crabbe
310 65.2% 65.2% 5 Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
311 65.2% 65.2% 5 Lynn Bari
312 65.2% 65.2% 5 Robert Alda
313 64.8% 64.8% 5 Wayne Morris
314 64.6% 64.6% 5 Ann Harding
315 64.4% 64.4% 5 Dan Dailey
316 64.4% 64.4% 5 Jane Wyatt
317 63.8% 63.8% 5 Anne Gwynne
318 63.6% 63.6% 5 Vivian Blaine
319 63.4% 63.4% 5 Esther Williams
320 63.4% 63.4% 5 Janet Blair
321 62.2% 62.2% 5 Dave O'Brien
322 62.2% 62.2% 5 Vera Ralston
323 62.2% 62.2% 5 Victor Moore
324 61.0% 61.0% 5 Turhan Bey
325 60.0% 60.0% 5 Dale Evans
326 57.8% 57.8% 5 Richard Greene
Rank Avg (Top 5) Avg (All) Films Name

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