Greatest Film Star Roles (and Filmographies)

GREATEST FILM STAR
ROLES AND FILMOGRAPHIES

Greatest Film Star Roles and Filmographies (see below) contains a selected sampling of the starring roles that best define the screen presence or persona of some of the greatest stars of the American cinema. The definitive screen role is often the one for which the actor or actress is best-remembered. In some cases, some actors/actresses - over a long, prolific career - have had more than one exemplary or essential example of their acting portrayed in films.

The 25 Greatest Men and 25 Greatest Women Screen Legends in the First Century of American Film, according to the AFI polling of June 1999, are found in a separate section.

The 100 Greatest Films that have been selected at this site are identified by a yellow star .

Alphabetical By Last Name

A1 A2-B1 B2 B3 B4 B5-C1 C2 C3 C4-D1 D2
D3 D4-F1 F2 F3-G1 G2 G3-H1 H2 H3 H4-J1 J2-K1
K2-L1 L2 L3-M1 M2 M3 M4 N O-P1 P2 P3-R1
R2 R3 R4-S1 S2 S3 S4-T1 T2 U-W1 W2 W3-Z

Actor or Actress	Definitive Screen Role	Other Great Film Roles
Jerry Lewis (1926- )	Prof. Julius Ferris Kelp and Buddy Love in The Nutty Professor (1963)	Stanley in The Bellboy (1960) Cinderfella in Cinderfella (1960) Jerry Langford in The King of Comedy (1983)
Jerry Lewis with Dean Martin		Seymour and Steve Baird in My Friend Irma (1949) Melvin Jones and Al Crowthers in Sailor Beware (1952) Myron Myron Metz and Larry Todd in Scared Stiff (1953) Harvey Miller, Jr. and Joe Anthony in The Caddy (1953)
John Lithgow (1946- )	Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp (1982)	Sam in Terms of Endearment (1983) Valentine in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) Dr. Emilio Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (1984) Rev. Shaw Moore in Footloose (1984) Earl Talbot Blake in Ricochet (1991)
Harold Lloyd (1893-1971)	The Boy in Safety Last (1923)	in Never Weaken (1921) The Boy in A Sailor-Made Man (1921) Harold Van Pelham in Why Worry? (1923) Harold "Speedy" Lamb in The Freshman (1925) Harold Hickory in The Kid Brother (1927) Harold "Speedy" Swift in Speedy (1928) Burleigh "Tiger" Sullivan in The Milky Way (1936) Harold Diddlebock in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock/Mad Wednesday (1947)
Gina Lollobrigida (1928- )	Magda, Queen of Sheba in Solomon and Sheba (1959)	Maria Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953) The Girl, "Frisky" in Bread, Love and Dreams (1953) Lola in Trapeze (1956) Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1957) Carla Vesari in Never So Few (1959) Giulietta Cameron in Go Naked in the World (1961) Lisa Fellini in Come September (1961) Marcelle Cotte in Hotel Paradiso (1966) Carla Campbell in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
Peter Lorre (1904-1964)	Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon (1941)	Franz Becker in M (1931) Abbott in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment (1935) Dr. Gogol in Mad Love (1935) Ugarte in Casablanca (1943) Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Cornelius Latimer Leyden in The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) Kismet in My Favorite Brunette (1947) O'Hara in Beat the Devil (1953) Dr. Adolphus Bedlo in The Raven (1963)
Myrna Loy (1905-1993)	Milly Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	Mai, Lady in Waiting in Don Juan (1926) The Maid in So This is Paris (1926) Eleanor Packer in Manhattan Melodrama (1934) Billie Burke in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Connie Allenbury in Libeled Lady (1936) Ann Barton in Test Pilot (1938) Judge Margaret Turner in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) Muriel Blandings in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth in Cheaper By the Dozen (1950)
Myrna Loy with William Powell	Nora and Nick Charles in The Thin Man (1934) series	Connie Allenbury and Bill Chandler in Libeled Lady (1936) Susan Ireland and Steven Ireland in Love Crazy (1941)
Bela Lugosi (1882-1956)	Count Dracula in Dracula (1931)	Sayer of the Law in Island of Lost Souls (1932) Dr. Vitus Werdegast in The Black Cat (1934) Commissar Razinin in Ninotchka (1939) Bela in The Wolf Man (1941) Joseph in The Body Snatcher (1945) Count Mora in Mark of the Vampire (1945) Dracula in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Scientist in Glen or Glenda (1953) Ghoul Man in Plan 9 From Outer Space (1958)
Ida Lupino (1918-1995)	Marie Garson in High Sierra (1941) and Helen Chernen in The Hard Way (1942)	Ann Brandon in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) Bessie Broke in The Light That Failed (1939) Lana Carlsen in They Drive By Night (1940) Ruth Webster in The Sea Wolf (1941) Petey Brown in The Man I Love (1946) Lily Stevens in Road House (1948) Mary Malden in On Dangerous Ground (1951) Mrs. Helen Gordon in Beware, My Lovely (1952) Phyllis Martin in The Bigamist (1953) Marion Castle in The Big Knife (1955)
Jeanette MacDonald (1901-1965)	Colette Bertier in One Hour With You (1932)	Queen Louise in The Love Parade (1929) Princess Jeanette in Love Me Tonight (1932) Sonia (Fifi) in The Merry Widow (1934) Mary Blake in San Francisco (1936) Nina Maria Azara in The Firefly (1937)
Andie MacDowell (1958- )	Carrie in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)	Jane Porter in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) Dale Biberman in St. Elmo's Fire (1985) Ann in sex, lies, and videotape (1989) Bronte Mitchell Faure in Green Card (1990) Anna Baragli in Hudson Hawk (1991) Rita in Groundhog Day (1993) Ann Finnegan in Short Cuts (1993) Eileen Spenser in Bad Girls (1994) Dorothy Winters in Michael (1996) Laura Kinney in Multiplicity (1996) Shelley Snipes in Muppets From Space (1999)
Shirley MacLaine (1934- )	Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment (1983)	Ginny Moorhead in Some Came Running (1958) Fran Kubelik in The Apartment (1960) Simone Pistache in Can Can (1960) Martha Dobie in The Children's Hour (1961) Irma La Douce in Irma La Douce (1963) Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity (1969) Sister Sara in Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) Deedee Rodgers in The Turning Point (1977) Eve Rand in Being There (1979) Louisa 'Ouiser' Boudreaux in Steel Magnolias (1989) Doris Mann in Postcards from the Edge (1990) Tess Carlisle in Guarding Tess (1994) Aurora Greenway in The Evening Star (1996) Grace Winterbourne in Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
Fred MacMurray (1908-1991)	Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (1944)	Arthur Russell in Alice Adams (1935) Bob MacDonald in The Egg and I (1947) Lt. Tom Keefer in The Caine Mutiny (1954) Wilson Daniels in The Shaggy Dog (1959) Jeff D. Sheldrake in The Apartment (1960) Professor Ned Brainard in The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) Professor Ned Brainard in Son of Flubber (1963)
Madonna (1958- )	Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron in Evita (1996)	Susan in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) Gloria Tatlock in Shanghai Surprise (1986) Nicole "Nikki" Finn in Who's That Girl? (1987) Breathless Mahoney in Dick Tracy (1990) Herself in Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) Mae Mordabito in A League of Their Own (1992) Marie in Shadows and Fog (1992) Rebecca Carlson in Body of Evidence (1993) Elspeth in Four Rooms (1995) Abbie Reynolds in The Next Best Thing (2000)
Karl Malden (1913- )	Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)	Inspector Larrue in I Confess (1953) Father Barry in On the Waterfront (1954) Archie in Baby Doll (1956) Dad Longworth in One-Eyed Jacks (1961) Harvey Shoemaker in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) Gen. Omar N. Bradley in Patton (1970)