Top Grossing Movie Stars

It surely helped with Sigourney Weaver's total. But she has also had a longer career than either Saldana or Worthington.

So... this is about the total of all sold tickets* of their movies, not their salaries, right? *Does "box office" include income from royalties, merchandising and so on?

Box office has nothing to do with salaries, merchandising, etc. Only paid attendance.

Yes, every actor in Titanic received the entire box office gross. That's why you never see Billy Zane anymore - it takes a long time to spend $658 Million.

James Earl Jones says hi. 4 Star Wars movies, The Lion King, Patriot Games, The Hunt for Red October, Coming to America and Field of Dreams would put him near the top of the list.

For some reason James Earl Jones isn't even listed on Box Office Mojo. I was thinking the same thing and I'm pretty sure they missed a few others as well.

I got a freebie with Tommy Lee Jones because I thought the same thing. He's undoubtedly a major character in all or nearly all of those films.

Wasn't he in clear and present danger too? Or did he die by then?

No but his character in that movie died.

Great quiz!

Angelina gets in a lot of movies but which of them have grossed a lot?

I find a lot of her movies gross.

or the male actors are paid more :)

Great quiz. Its amazing how blank your mind goes when you're trying to think of every actor/actress out there right now

Quizmaster, change domestic to US please.

This one was harder than I thought.

can't believe Meryl Streep isn't on the list!

Morgan Freeman is now ahead of Eddie Murphy. Staley Tucci (2.79b), Cate Blanchett (2.77b), Bradley Cooper (2.46b), Hugh Jackman (2.238b), Elizabeth Bank (2.247b) etc etc. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/?view=Actor&pagenum=1&sort=sumgross&order=DESC&&p=.htm

I got Ralph Fiennes and Michael Caine but not Leo DiCaprio and Will Smith. wtf brain?

how can robin williams be on there he's dead

Is that a serious question? His death has nothing to do with how much money his movies made prior to (or even after) his death.

I understand this list is accurate per the source, but my gawd, I have a lot of trouble with the way the boxofficemojo website calculates "major" roles! Skarsgard did not have a major role in most of his high grossing movies! He was maybe 12th down the list on The Avengers.

Yes but he did "star" in The Hunt For Red October as Captain Tupolev, commander of the Soviet Alfa class submarine V.K. Konavalov. Yes, I am a huge fan of Hunt For Red October. (Movie not book)

Their total is $143,630,000,000 together. If it we in GDP rankings, it'd be 58th largest GDP.

If all the ticket sales occurred in the same year.

How is it that there are 40 men here and 10 women? And the highest ranking is only 15th? Really says something about the entertainment industry, doesn't it...

how is it that grint, radcliffe and watson make the list, but not rickman? he was in all of the potter movies with those 3 as well as a shit ton of more movies than all 3 of them made combined?

and no ratzenberger...dude has been in every pixar film...according to data i saw...he should rank like 2nd

Your Rickman point has some validity, but Ratzenberger was only a major character in the Toy Story movies (and even that is questionable).

how about making a quiz using this data? http://www.the-numbers.com/people/records/top-grossing-stars-in-all-roles

Not likely. Number 2 on that list is Frank Welker, a pure voice actor who's worked on over 100 films, but no one would ever guess.

I love how Stan Lee of all people is now at the top of this list.

Harrison Ford has regained #1 spot with Star Wars Force Awakens. Quiz should be updated.

Harrison Ford is pretty obviously number 1 now after the third highest grossing film of all time was released last December. I'm also really surprised how people like Angelina Jolie, Alan Rickman and James Earl Jones aren't on there :/

Can McKellan be accepted for McKellen?

Andy Serkis?

Why is Chris Pratt not on here? He was in guardians of the Galaxy,magnificent seven, and Jurassic World. Jurassic World alone should have made him rich, considering it holds the record for biggest opening weekend in history.

Have people also forgotten about Adam Driver, who is surely a billionaire thanks to Force Awakens

Huh? You're joking, right? You do understand that not every dollar spent on a movie goes into an actor's pocket?

Why in the name of Arceus is Christopher Lee not up there

I got Elizabeth Banks but missed Robert downey jr

Raise your hand if you think Chris Pratt,Christopher Lee, and Adam Driver should be up here

Shouldn't Chris Evans be up there

And Tom Hiddleston?

Ok I know he's not technically an actor, but shouldn't Matthew Wood (of voicing General Grievous fame) be up here? I mean seriously, how much did Revenge of the Sith gross?

Not nearly enough to make this list. All these actors have billions of dollars worth of movies, whereas Episode III didn't even gross $1 billion.

Emmmmmm........ Where's McGregor? I'd call his role of Obi-Wan Kenobi pretty major

He's #48 now. this quiz needs updated.

Where. Is. James. Spader. If you've seen avengers: age of Ultron, you know it grossed a lot (not adjusted for inflation) so James Spader, who voiced and motion captured Ultron would be pretty major

Joey, ratzenberger voiced Hamm, P.T. Flea, Remy......

This quiz needs to be updated. With Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2, Fate of The Furious, Beauty and The Beast, The Force Awakens and other films, nine people have been replaced and a whole lot of jumping has occurred, notably, Anthony Daniels jumping up to No. 12 and Scarlett Johanssen cracking the top ten.

The voice acting really throws me off. Looking at the source, the top grossing film on the resume of Ian Mckellen (i.e. Magneto and Gandalf) is now "Beauty and the Beast".

I really wish there were a way for this to be more qualitative. If it included some function of what percentage of the gross these people could really lay claim to, then Elizabeth Banks would have no business on this list. She gets credit for all the Hunger Games and Spider-Man movies as if she were the star. Meanwhile the actual stars of those movies don't even crack this list.

I ran into Idris Elba the other day. Such a nice person!

I'm starting to think BoxOfficeMojo is gathering pretty questionable data, given how many people are not on this list that I'm sure have been in enough big films to make more than $2.5 billion domestic gross. Also, what counts as "starring" for purposes of this list? Does merely being in a movie count, even if it's in a supporting role?

that weird feeling when you realize Will Ferrell and Arnold Schwarzenegger are not on the list.

I find this list to be pretty suspect.

you should put stan lee because he's in the x-men,princess diares,the mcu and the fantastic four

How the heck does Elizabeth Banks get on here? I know she had small roles in the first three Spider-Man movies and in The Hunger Games, but aren't there a bunch of recurring cast members of the Star Wars, Harry Potter, and MCU films that don't make the list?

I'm very sceptical about this list. Surely the total gross of the eight Harry Potter films would be enough to put every Harry Potter star on here. What are they counting as "starring"?

Am I missing something? Where's Leo Dicaprio

DiCaprio is just missing out: 2.52 bil. He's #72 on the list though. Guess there were a few shifts here and there since the last update.

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