Action Boyz Podcast Stats Page

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1	Number of appearances each person has had in ABZ movies. Doesn't count the rewatched movies twice.						Stats for the Action Boyz Podcast		https://www.patreon.com/ActionBoyz
2	Data Pulled from TMDB Action Boyz movie list using TMDB API				https://www.themoviedb.org/list/8223501
3	Last Updated: Tue Nov 04 2025 04:17:57 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)				Latest Movie: The 'Burbs
4	Rank	Actor	Appearances	Director	Appearances	Writer	Appearances	Director of Photography	Appearances	Editor	Appearances	Original Music Composer	Appearances
5	1	Thomas Rosales Jr.	23	John Carpenter	8	Steven E. de Souza	10	Adam Greenberg	8	Frank J. Urioste	12	Jerry Goldsmith	19
6	2	Arnold Schwarzenegger	19	Tony Scott	8	Sylvester Stallone	7	Matthew F. Leonetti	7	Mark Goldblatt	10	Basil Poledouris	14
7	3	Sven-Ole Thorsen	18	Walter Hill	7	Walter Hill	7	Mark Irwin	7	John F. Link	9	James Horner	13
8	4	Sylvester Stallone	18	Brian De Palma	6	Stephen King	6	João Fernandes	7	Stuart Baird	9	Michael Kamen	13
9	5	Chuck Norris	16	Andrew Davis	5	Shane Black	6	Ric Waite	7	Chris Lebenzon	9	Hans Zimmer	13
10	6	Jean-Claude Van Damme	14	Richard Donner	5	Sheldon Lettich	5	Dean Semler	7	Mark Helfrich	8	Alan Silvestri	12
11	7	Al Leong	14	Clint Eastwood	5	James Cameron	5	Dean Cundey	6	Robert A. Ferretti	8	John Carpenter	8
12	8	Frank Welker	14	J. Lee Thompson	5	David Twohy	5	Richard H. Kline	6	Billy Weber	8	Brad Fiedel	8
13	9	Bill Paxton	13	Martin Scorsese	5	John Carpenter	5	Michael Chapman	6	Michael Tronick	8	Gary Chang	8
14	10	Wesley Snipes	13	John McTiernan	4	Michael Crichton	5	Russell Carpenter	5	Michael J. Duthie	7	Mark Mancina	7
15	11	Bob Minor	12	James Cameron	4	Robert Mark Kamen	5	Bill Butler	5	Christian Wagner	7	Graeme Revell	7
16	12	Kurt Russell	12	Michael Winner	4	Ernest Tidyman	5	James A. Contner	5	Mark Warner	6	Bill Conti	7
17	13	Gene Hackman	12	John Woo	4	Jeb Stuart	4	William A. Fraker	5	John Wright	6	Michel Colombier	7
18	14	Jeff Imada	11	John Badham	4	James Bruner	4	Bruce Surtees	5	Freeman A. Davies	6	Danny Elfman	7
19	15	George Cheung	11	Paul Verhoeven	4	Brian Garfield	4	Peter Levy	5	Dov Hoenig	6	David Michael Frank	6
20	16	James Lew	11	Richard Fleischer	4	Chuck Pfarrer	4	Andrew Laszlo	5	Steven Kemper	6	Harold Faltermeyer	6
21	17	Charles Bronson	11	Renny Harlin	4	Larry Ferguson	4	John Bailey	5	Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung	6	Jay Chattaway	6
22	18	Brion James	11	Robert Clouse	4	Ronald Shusett	4	Owen Roizman	5	Gerald B. Greenberg	6	Mark Isham	6
23	19	Steven Seagal	10	John Frankenheimer	4	John Milius	4	Alex Thomson	4	Mark Conte	5	James Newton Howard	6
24	20	Branscombe Richmond	10	William Friedkin	4	Daniel Petrie Jr.	4	Jan de Bont	4	Steve Mirkovich	5	Maurice Jarre	6
25	21	Kenny Endoso	10	George P. Cosmatos	3	David Koepp	4	Thomas Del Ruth	4	Daniel Loewenthal	5	Lalo Schifrin	6
26	22	Mary Ellen Trainor	10	John Irvin	3	Robert Towne	4	Andrzej Bartkowiak	4	Don Zimmerman	5	John Williams	6
27	23	Leo Lee	10	Sheldon Lettich	3	Walon Green	4	John A. Alonzo	4	Don Brochu	5	Alan Howarth	5
28	24	Gary Busey	10	Joseph Zito	3	James R. Silke	4	Jeffrey L. Kimball	4	Dennis Virkler	5	Ennio Morricone	5
29	25	Peter Jason	10	Rowdy Herrington	3	Edward Tang	4	Stephen H. Burum	4	Tom Rolf	5	Christopher Young	5
30	26	Charlie Sheen	10	Russell Mulcahy	3	Jeffrey Boam	4	Dante Spinotti	4	Bud S. Smith	5	Dave Grusin	5
31	27	Dean Norris	9	Peter Hyams	3	Dennis Shryack	4	Mac Ahlberg	4	Bill Pankow	5	Christopher Franke	5
32	28	Xander Berkeley	9	John Milius	3	Jim Thomas	3	Alan Hume	4	Michael Kahn	5	John Barry	4
33	29	Tom Sizemore	9	Dwight H. Little	3	John Thomas	3	Hanania Baer	4	Anthony Redman	5	Trevor Jones	4
34	30	Manny Perry	9	Craig R. Baxley	3	David Morrell	3	Oliver Wood	4	Anne V. Coates	4	J. Peter Robinson	4
35	31	Keith David	9	Sam Firstenberg	3	Gary DeVore	3	Jack N. Green	4	Edward A. Warschilka	4	Howard Shore	4
36	32	Sean Connery	9	Wolfgang Petersen	3	Jean-Claude Van Damme	3	Vilmos Zsigmond	4	Conrad Buff IV	4	David Shire	4
37	33	Tom Cruise	9	Ernest R. Dickerson	3	Gary Goldman	3	Phil Meheux	4	Richard A. Harris	4	Jerry Fielding	4
38	34	Val Kilmer	9	Roland Emmerich	3	William Wisher	3	Donald McAlpine	3	Frank Morriss	4	Edgar Froese	4
39	35	Frank Pesce	9	Phillip Noyce	3	R. Lance Hill	3	Jack Cardiff	3	Richard Francis-Bruce	4	Sylvester Levay	3
40	36	Dolph Lundgren	9	Joe Dante	3	Gregory Widen	3	Donald E. Thorin	3	Terry Rawlings	4	Trevor Rabin	3
41	37	Clint Eastwood	9	Aaron Norris	3	Luc Besson	3	Gerry Fisher	3	Christopher Holmes	4	Randy Edelman	3
42	38	Dan Hedaya	8	Roger Donaldson	3	Larry Gross	3	Douglas Milsome	3	Ferris Webster	4	Herbie Hancock	3
43	39	Nick Dimitri	8	Sydney Pollack	3	Dan O'Bannon	3	David Gurfinkel	3	Pasquale Buba	4	Stewart Copeland	3
44	40	Gerald Okamura	8	Jerry Zucker	3	Steven Pressfield	3	Frank Tidy	3	Bert Lovitt	4	Laurin Rinder	3
45	41	Charles A. Tamburro	8	Ted Post	3	Bruce A. Evans	3	Jost Vacano	3	Peter Lee-Thompson	4	W. Michael Lewis	3
46	42	John Capodice	8	Ted Kotcheff	3	Raynold Gideon	3	Stephen Goldblatt	3	Lois Freeman-Fox	4	Bruce Broughton	3
47	43	Carl Ciarfalio	8	Bruce Malmuth	2	Oliver Stone	3	Peter Hyams	3	Ronald Sanders	4	Michael Lai Siu-Tin	3
48	44	Patrick Swayze	8	Mark L. Lester	2	Robert E. Howard	3	Adrian Biddle	3	Glenn Farr	3	Robert Folk	3
49	45	Geoffrey Lewis	8	Jan de Bont	2	Daniel Waters	3	Tim Suhrstedt	3	Frank E. Jimenez	3	Brian May	3
50	46	Harry Fielder	8	Andrei Konchalovsky	2	Jim Cash	3	Dariusz Wolski	3	Larry Bock	3	Craig Safan	3
51	47	Christian Slater	8	Kathryn Bigelow	2	Jack Epps Jr.	3	Cheung Yiu-Cho	3	Gib Jaffe	3	Giorgio Moroder	3
52	48	Robert De Niro	8	Kevin Reynolds	2	Fred Dekker	3	Bojan Bazelli	3	James R. Symons	3	Ira Newborn	3
53	49	Ronny Cox	8	Michael Bay	2	Edward Neumeier	3	John Lindley	3	Michael Winner	3	Paul Hertzog	2
54	50	Marshall Bell	8	Luc Besson	2	Doug Richardson	3	Karl Walter Lindenlaub	3	William Hoy	3	Jimmy Page	2
55	51	Tommy Lister Jr.	8	Menahem Golan	2	David Shaber	3	Guillermo Navarro	3	Peter Honess	3	Éric Serra	2
56	52	Richard Roundtree	8	Ron Howard	2	Lawrence Kasdan	3	David Eggby	3	Todd C. Ramsay	3	Eric Clapton	2
57	53	Pam Grier	8	Sylvester Stallone	2	Dean Devlin	3	Geoffrey Unsworth	3	David Finfer	3	John Debney	2
58	54	Carl Weathers	7	Mario Van Peebles	2	Djordje Milicevic	3	Amir Mokri	3	Carroll Timothy O'Meara	3	Misha Segal	2
59	55	Sonny Landham	7	Robert Mandel	2	David S. Ward	3	Philip H. Lathrop	3	Donn Cambern	3	Elliot Goldenthal	2
60	56	Tony Brubaker	7	Luis Llosa	2	Mario Puzo	3	Donald Peterman	2	Ray Lovejoy	3	Keith Forsey	2
61	57	Frank Ferrara Sr.	7	Tim Burton	2	Jim Abrahams	3	Raymond Chang	2	Kevin Stitt	3	Vince DiCola	2
62	58	Bruce Willis	7	Martin Brest	2	Pat Proft	3	Ward Russell	2	Derek Brechin	3	Patrick Doyle	2
63	59	Grand L. Bush	7	Stuart Baird	2	William Friedkin	3	Thierry Arbogast	2	Paul Hirsch	3	David Arnold	2
64	60	Billy D. Lucas	7	Michael Mann	2	Mardik Martin	3	John Alcott	2	William Goldenberg	3	Robert J. Walsh	2
65	61	Dennis Hopper	7	Chuck Russell	2	Jeph Loeb	2	John Stanier	2	Peter Davies	3	Barry De Vorzon	2
66	62	Laurence Fishburne	7	Stephen Hopkins	2	Matthew Weisman	2	Duke Callaghan	2	Harvey Rosenstock	3	Thomas Newman	2
67	63	Chelcie Ross	7	John Glen	2	Kevin Jarre	2	Rick Bota	2	O. Nicholas Brown	3	Pino Donaggio	2
68	64	James Keane	7	Sam Raimi	2	Norman Wexler	2	Michel Hugo	2	Sam Pollard	3	Carter Burwell	2
69	65	Sam Douglas	7	Eric Karson	2	Roderick Thorp	2	Nico Wong Man-Wan	2	Neil Travis	3	Elmer Bernstein	2
70	66	Kevin Costner	7	Chang Cheh	2	Gale Anne Hurd	2	Thomas E. Ackerman	2	Robert Brown	3	Steven Hufsteter	2
71	67	Greg Collins	7	Jackie Chan	2	Graham Yost	2	Robert C. Thomas	2	Antony Gibbs	3	Marc Shaiman	2
72	68	Steve James	7	Michael Crichton	2	Paula Gosling	2	Alexander Gruszynski	2	Richard Marks	3	Michael Hoenig	2
73	69	J. T. Walsh	7	Sidney J. Furie	2	Michael Winner	2	Michael Ballhaus	2	Donn Aron	3	Lennie Niehaus	2
74	70	Andy Romano	7	Corey Yuen Kwai	2	W. Peter Iliff	2	Douglas Slocombe	2	William Steinkamp	3	Georges Delerue	2
75	71	Sharon Stone	7	Steven Spielberg	2	Peter Bellwood	2	James Crabe	2	David Rawlins	3	Joe Delia	2
76	72	Ed O'Ross	7	John G. Avildsen	2	Roger Spottiswoode	2	Roy H. Wagner	2	Joel Cox	3	Ry Cooder	2
77	73	Harrison Ford	7	Roger Spottiswoode	2	Jonathan Hensleigh	2	Gary B. Kibbe	2	Walter Murch	3	Robert O. Ragland	2
78	74	Tom Noonan	7	Joel Schumacher	2	Menahem Golan	2	King Baggot	2	Richard Halsey	3	Leonard Rosenman	2
79	75	Mike Starr	7	George Miller	2	J.F. Lawton	2	Conrad L. Hall	2	Jean-Claude Van Damme	2	Frank De Vol	2
80	76	Mako	7	Mark DiSalle	2	Don Coscarelli	2	Lisa Rinzler	2	Richard Nord	2	John Morris	2
81	77	Danny Trejo	7	John Schlesinger	2	Paul Pepperman	2	Jingle Ma Choh-Sing	2	Hubert de La Bouillerie	2	Ron Goodwin	2
82	78	Dennis Burkley	7	Albert Hughes	2	David Rodgers	2	Barry Sonnenfeld	2	Bob Murawski	2	Jack Nitzsche	2
83	79	Brian Libby	7	Allen Hughes	2	Gene Quintano	2	François Protat	2	Peter Boyle	2	Frédéric Talgorn	2
84	80	Fred Thompson	7	James B. Harris	2	Don Jakoby	2	Urs Furrer	2	Sylvie Landra	2	Miles Goodman	2
85	81	Charlton Heston	7	Gordon Parks	2	Roy Huggins	2	Godfrey A. Godar	2	Mike Hill	2	Michael Gibbs	2
86	82	Louis Gossett Jr.	7	Ridley Scott	2	Robert T. Megginson	2	Fred J. Koenekamp	2	Daniel P. Hanley	2	Harry Gregson-Williams	2
87	83	Samuel L. Jackson	7	David S. Ward	2	Gregory Fleeman	2	Steven Bernstein	2	Jack Hofstra	2	Tom Bähler	1
88	84	Dick Miller	7	Barry Levinson	2	Robert Reneau	2	Robert Steadman	2	Brian Berdan	2	Chris Boardman	1
89	85	Robert Duvall	7	Wes Craven	2	Bob Kane	2	Álex Phillips Jr.	2	William D. Gordean	2	Albhy Galuten	1
90	86	Jesse Ventura	6	Geoff Murphy	2	Warren Skaaren	2	Victor J. Kemper	2	Thom Noble	2	John Scott	1
91	87	Henry Kingi	6	Jack Hill	2	Sam Hamm	2	Danny Lee Yau-Tong	2	Michael R. Miller	2	Stanley Clarke	1
92	88	Robert LaSardo	6	Curtis Hanson	2	Danilo Bach	2	Reed Smoot	2	Craig Bassett	2	Tim Simonec	1
93	89	Ernie Lively	6	Abel Ferrara	2	Michael Mann	2	Robert Elswit	2	David Stiven	2	Paul Gilman	1
94	90	Al Goto	6	David Zucker	2	Nick Castle	2	Robert Richardson	2	M. Scott Smith	2	Nick Glennie-Smith	1
95	91	David Patrick Kelly	6	Sean S. Cunningham	2	Tom Clancy	2	Robert M. Stevens	2	Chiang Hsing-Lung	2	Lee Holdridge	1
96	92	George Fisher	6	Godfrey Ho	2	Donald E. Stewart	2	Rexford L. Metz	2	Sally Menke	2	Mike Moran	1
97	93	Matt Landers	6	Guy Hamilton	2	Richard Maibaum	2	Steven Poster	2	Roberto Silvi	2	Brian Banks	1
98	94	Joel Kramer	6	Peter Yates	2	Michael G. Wilson	2	James Lemmo	2	George Bowers	2	Anthony Marinelli	1
99	95	Fred Lerner	6	George A. Romero	2	Ian Fleming	2	Tak Fujimoto	2	John G. Avildsen	2	Mike Shinoda	1
100	96	Charlie Picerni	6	Hal Needham	2	Debra Hill	2	Dick Bush	2	Walt Mulconery	2	Joseph Trapanese	1