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Desert Island Filmography 15:48 - Sep 27 with 4977 viewsunbelievablue

You're stuck on a desert island, and as part of your setup, you've a big old projector and the filmography of just one actor or actress. You get every film they've been in, but it's feature films only, no TV series or shorts. Voice credits count. You can't watch anything else.

A fun consideration. I find it extremely difficult to choose between quantity and quality, or the balance therein. Someone like Pacino was my first thought because he's been in some of my favourite films, and I'd be gutted not to have them, but I could stack that up against say, Phil Seymour Hoffman (my favourite actor of all time), and just repeat his 30 or so forever and ever.

Maybe James Hong.

Edit - a friend of mine said Hanks is the obvious choice. I don't really like him.
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Desert Island Filmography on 15:50 - Sep 27 with 3414 viewsbluefunk

Denzel Washington is the correct answer
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Desert Island Filmography on 15:54 - Sep 27 with 3385 viewsKeno

Desert Island Filmography on 15:50 - Sep 27 by bluefunk

Denzel Washington is the correct answer


Richard Gere ist a bad shout

or someone who is often in a supporting role like Tom Wilkinson or Harvey Keitel

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Desert Island Filmography on 15:57 - Sep 27 with 3368 viewsbluefunk

Desert Island Filmography on 15:54 - Sep 27 by Keno

Richard Gere ist a bad shout

or someone who is often in a supporting role like Tom Wilkinson or Harvey Keitel


Or Samuel L Jackson, covers a very wide variety
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Desert Island Filmography on 15:59 - Sep 27 with 3362 viewsMookamoo

Willem Dafoe has done enough fluffy stuff and serious stuff so you would have enough variation

If you would allow TV series, then David Bradley has been in everything. And you then get Hot Fuzz.
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Desert Island Filmography on 16:03 - Sep 27 with 3342 viewsBluebell

I have to agree with your friend. It has to be Tom Hanks.
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[Redacted] on 16:29 - Sep 27 with 3318 viewsvictorywilhappen

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Desert Island Filmography on 16:31 - Sep 27 with 3310 viewshomer_123

Harry Dean Stanton

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Desert Island Filmography on 16:34 - Sep 27 with 3297 viewshomer_123

Sam Rockwell

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Desert Island Filmography on 16:35 - Sep 27 with 3283 viewswitchdoctor

hanks or costner for me….
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Desert Island Filmography on 16:37 - Sep 27 with 3274 viewscatch74

Some great ones already mentioned - I’d add Robert Redford as a decade spanning artist.

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Desert Island Filmography on 16:50 - Sep 27 with 3244 viewsblueasfook

Tom Cruise. Laugh if you like. But he's done a lot of great movies. You get classics like Top Gun, Cocktail, A Few Good Men, plus loads of good action movies like MI series.

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Desert Island Filmography on 16:54 - Sep 27 with 3233 viewsYou_Bloo_Right

It's an interesting concept and the temptation is to plump for those actors who have had a number of leading roles.

A slightly different look might perhaps lead you to look at actors who have had both leading and a large number of support roles (is this the "quantity over quality" argument? Perhaps).

So people like John Carradine and Christopher Lee have both appeared in over 200 films. Well and good if you like John Ford or horror I guess.

Looking at it this way might therefore include people like Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Robert De Niro, Susan Sarandon, Anthony Hopkins, Eli Wallach and many more.

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Desert Island Filmography on 16:58 - Sep 27 with 3219 viewspositivity

if appearances in trailers count, it has to be don lafontaine.

otherwise michael caine; who could survive without escape to victory and john wark hasn't had many other starring roles...

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Desert Island Filmography on 17:00 - Sep 27 with 3215 viewsYou_Bloo_Right

Desert Island Filmography on 16:58 - Sep 27 by positivity

if appearances in trailers count, it has to be don lafontaine.

otherwise michael caine; who could survive without escape to victory and john wark hasn't had many other starring roles...


Dubbed but starring nonetheless

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Desert Island Filmography on 17:44 - Sep 27 with 3166 viewsEwan_Oozami

Peter Sellers...

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Desert Island Filmography on 18:38 - Sep 27 with 3114 viewsthatbdude

Christain Bale

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Desert Island Filmography on 18:44 - Sep 27 with 3104 viewsMK1

Demi Moore.

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Desert Island Filmography on 19:07 - Sep 27 with 3071 viewsDJR

Charles Hawtrey.
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Desert Island Filmography on 19:13 - Sep 27 with 3040 viewseireblue

Hmmmmm…..Clint Eastwood or Jenna Jameson….
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Desert Island Filmography on 19:32 - Sep 27 with 3011 viewslowhouseblue

cary grant. no competition.

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Desert Island Filmography on 19:36 - Sep 27 with 3008 viewsjaykay

you all got the wrong actors. someone said denzel washington another said samuel l jackson both very close ,but for me its morgan freeman . who was the role model for both these fine actors

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Desert Island Filmography on 20:03 - Sep 27 with 2976 viewsstonojnr

Christopher Lee, he was in so many movies you'd have a lifetime of watching them all, plus most of them are half decent, and he was a damn fine actor, or at least good curiosities that reflect various eras of Hollywood/Hammer horror. You get Bond, you get Dracula, Sherlock Holmes,Lord of the Rings, Star Wars
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Desert Island Filmography on 20:04 - Sep 27 with 2977 viewsChurchman

Humphrey Bogart. Debate over.
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Desert Island Filmography on 20:06 - Sep 27 with 2961 viewsBluebell

Female would be Julia Roberts.
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