Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction
10. Robin Williams
9. Will Smith
8. Morgan Freeman
7. Eddie Murphy
6. Bruce Willis
5. Tom Cruise
4. Orlando Bloom
3. Harrison Ford
2. Tom Hanks
1. Samuel L Jackson1
10. Robin Williams
U.S. Gross – $3,177,675,199
Worldwide Gross – $5,749,935,745
Most Successful Films:
1. Night at the Museum – $574,480,841
2. Aladdin – $504,050,219
3. Mrs. Doubtfire – $441,286,195
4. Happy Feet – $385,000,317
9. Will Smith
U.S. Gross – $2,542,908,988
Worldwide Gross – $5,771,022,176
Most Successful Films:
1. Independence Day – $817,400,878
2. Hancock – $624,346,274
3. Men in Black – $587,790,539
4. I Am Legend – $585,055,701
8. Morgan Freeman
U.S. Gross – $3,138,301,600
Worldwide Gross – $5,851,042,996
Most Successful Films:
1. The Dark Knight – $1,000,245,358
2. The War of the Worlds (Narrator) – $591,745,532
3. Bruce Almighty – $485,004,995
4. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves – $390,500,000
7. Eddie Murphy
U.S. Gross – $3,470,799,901
Worldwide Gross – $6,211,397,821
Most Successful Films:
1. Shrek 2 – $919,838,758
2. Shrek the Third – $798,958,162
3. Beverly Hills Cop – $316,300,000
4. Coming to America – $288,800,000
6. Bruce Willis
U.S. Gross – $3,045,317,743
Worldwide Gross – $ 6,432,992,990
Most Successful Films:
1. The Sixth Sense – $672,806,292
2. Armageddon – $554,600,000
3. Live Free or Die Hard – $383,531,464
4. Over the Hedge- $336,002,981
5. Tom Cruise
U.S. Gross – $3,274,294,878
Worldwide Gross – $6,642,337,497
Most Successful Films:
1. The War of the Worlds – $591,745,532
2. Mission Impossible 2 – $546,209,889
3. The Last Samurai – $456,810,575
4. Rain Man – $412,800,000
4. Orlando Bloom
U.S. Gross – $2,390,308,637
Worldwide Gross – $6,554,217,251
Most Successful Films:
1. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – $1,133,027,325
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – $1,065,659,812
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – $926,284,377
4. Troy – $497,398,577
3. Harrison Ford
U.S. Gross – $3,630,449,689
Worldwide Gross – $6,657,454,464
Most Successful Films:
1. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – $797,900,000
2. Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – $786,558,765
3. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back – $534,171,960
4. The Fugitive – $368,900,000
2. Tom Hanks
U.S. Gross – $3,985,186,565
World Gross – $8,007,367,700
Most Successful Films:
1. The Da Vinci Code – $757,236,138
2. Forrest Gump – $679,400,525
3. Saving Private Ryan – $481,635,085
4. Cast Away – $427,230,516
1. Samuel L Jackson
U.S. Gross – $4,458,983,764
Worldwide Gross – $8,640,150,950
Most Successful Films:
1. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace – $924,288,297
2. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith – $848,998,877
3. The Incredibles – $635,564,642
4. Iron Man – $582,313,199
FOOTNOTES:
- SOURCE: TopTenz, http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-successful-actors-at-the-box-office.php ↩
wow this list is exhaustive. i’m skeptical about how these results were calculated though…it doesn’t seem fair that a lot of these actors have a film in their top four where they were onscreen for about two seconds or didn’t even appear. i mean, what if you just so happened to be an extra in both titanic and avatar? would you be catapulted into the top 10?
also, if this list was adjusted for inflation, who would the top 10 be?
Yes. Thank you for raising your points. In fact, all of these factors were carefully considered and weighed. It turns out that Samuel L. Jackson in still the top grossing actor of all time. Personally I questioned the list at first, too, when I saw that Mel Gibson was not named in the top 10. But numbers don’t lie!
This list is dead wrong. First of all, most of Samual L. Jackson roles are NOT LEADING ROLES!!! HE IS NOT THE LEAD ACTOR IN MOST OF HIS FILMS!!!!!! Neither is Orlando Bloom!!!!
This list is WRONG!
I stand by my previous statement: “Samuel L. Jackson was the top grossing actor of all time, and… aside from the near constant stream of profanity in many of his movies, I have to agree he is a pretty talented actor.”
The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed his status, as reported in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Daily News, and MSN.com.