Table 10 Top 5 actors (of any gender, actresses in bold) by genre, for comedy, horror, sci-fi and musical movies
From: Identification of key films and personalities in the history of cinema from a Western perspective
Rank | Name | Level | Years | Name | Level | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Comedy | Horror | ||||
1 | Murray, Bill (I) | 10, 4, 5 | ’80-’09 | Price, Vincent (I) | 9, 4, 2 | ’40-’74 |
2 | Stiller, Ben | 10, 3, 4 | ’96-’09 | Lugosi, Bela | 8, 4, 4 | ’31-’55 |
3 | Hawtrey, Charles (I) | 10, 3, 1 | ’42-’69 | Savini, Tom | 8, 0, 2 | ’78-’07 |
4 | Carrey, Jim | 10, 1, 3 | ’83-’04 | Lee, Christopher (I) | 6, 10, 5 | ’57-’99 |
5 | Williams, Kenneth (I) | 10, 1, 1 | ’58-’69 | Karloff, Boris (I) | 6, 7, 1 | ’32-’68 |
| Â | Sci-fi | Musical | ||||
1 | Sahara, Kenji | 7, 9, 1 | ’57-’04 | Garland, Judy | 4, 1, 3 | ’37-’54 |
2 | Nakajima, Haruo | 7, 7, 1 | ’54-’72 | Kelly, Gene (I) | 4, 0, 2 | ’44-’54 |
3 | Tajima, Yoshifumi | 7, 6, 1 | ’56-’84 | MacDonald, Jeanette (I) | 4, 0, 1 | ’29-’37 |
4 | Tezuka, Katsumi | 7, 3, 1 | ’54-’64 | Astaire, Fred | 3, 7, 6 | ’33-’57 |
5 | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | 7, 1, 1 | ’84-’03 | Dumont, Margaret | 3, 4, 0 | ’29-’41 |