The Greatest Actor from Wikipedia's List of Highest-Grossing Actors

the only people who deserve to be here are zoe saldana and the rock

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I had the opportunity while compiling this poll to find out who Bob Bergen (the #5 highest-grossing actor of all time) is but I didn't and so I still have no idea.

voted for tudyk in a heartbeat

sam jackson totally deserves this though

I wonder how many background actors have grossed comparable sums by this definition.

bergen and welker are both voice actors

I knew about Welker and would've guess the same of Bergen but preferred to assume he was someone who'd done some passing bit part in every Harry Potter (Butter Beer Proprietor) and LotR (Scowling Elf #4) and Star War (Mufflorp Binglebop).

voted for the rock

Andy Serkis and Warwick Davis? Really?

And Paul Bettany? Is there something going on here we should know about?

come back fat as a rat

Easiest ever poll tbh

voting for samuel l. so he doesn't yell at me

Warwick Davis was in all the Harry Potter movies and most of the Star Wars movies. I'm actually surprised he wasn't higher. Serkis was in the LOTR movies and 2 of the 3 Star Wars sequels.

I'd imagine 90%+ of Bettany's gross is from Marvel films (as Jarvis/Vision)

I voted Samuel L

Huh. At one point Bill Paxton ranked pretty high, thanks to Cameron connection, and Harrison Ford of course. Which of these have no connection to Star Wars or Marvel? Ratzenberger (that's all Pixar cameos, of course), The Rock ... and the two cartoon voice actors, Bob Bergen and Frank Welker? Is that it?

adjust this for inflation imo

The Rock is actually one of the more surprising entries given the metrics we're working with. Is that all for Fast & Furious-es and, what, Moana? Are there more Dwayne Johnson hypermegablockbusters that I'm forgetting?

Jumanji nearly hit $1 billion worldwide

josh, ratzenberger also had a small role in empire strikes back (which doesn't rank that highly on highest-grossing films list anymore, but still)

Also, as far as I know Alan Tudyk wasn't in any Marvel movies and was only in 1 Star Wars movie. Not sure why he's so high up to be honest.

dodgeball

Alright, Tudyk is the first of these I've bothered to actually look up, and it appears that he's also been very lucky in his choice of voice roles (multiple Disneys, Ice Ages, and Squeakquels).

cutting Tudyk off at $100M grossers

Nov 22, 2019 Frozen II The Duke of Weselton $477,373,578 $969,871,008 $1,447,244,586
Nov 22, 2013 Frozen Duke of Weselton $400,953,009 $867,336,243 $1,268,289,252
Jun 29, 2011 Transformers: Dark of … Dutch $352,390,543 $771,403,536 $1,123,794,079
Dec 16, 2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars… K-2SO $532,177,324 $522,958,274 $1,055,135,598
May 24, 2019 Aladdin Iago $355,559,216 $691,200,296 $1,046,759,512
Mar 4, 2016 Zootopia Weaselton $341,268,248 $664,686,710 $1,005,954,958
Jul 13, 2012 Ice Age: Continental D… Milton/Hunky Siren $161,321,843 $718,443,294 $879,765,137
May 18, 2018 Deadpool 2 Redneck $324,591,735 $462,088,822 $786,680,557
Mar 31, 2006 Ice Age: The Meltdown Cholly $195,330,621 $456,568,661 $651,899,282
Nov 7, 2014 Big Hero 6 Alistair Krei $222,527,828 $427,155,424 $649,683,252
Nov 23, 2016 Moana Heihei $248,757,044 $387,398,716 $636,155,760
Jun 21, 2017 Transformers: The Last… Hot Rod $130,168,683 $472,724,657 $602,893,340
Nov 21, 2018 Ralph Breaks The Internet KnowsMore $201,091,711 $328,199,119 $529,290,830
Nov 2, 2012 Wreck-It Ralph King Candy $189,412,677 $307,098,844 $496,511,521
Mar 15, 2002 Ice Age Saber-Toothed Tiger $176,387,405 $209,728,938 $386,116,343
Dec 16, 2011 Alvin and the Chipmunk… Voice of Simone $133,107,389 $215,981,134 $349,088,523
Jul 16, 2004 I, Robot Sonny $144,801,023 $203,828,562 $348,629,585
Sep 18, 2015 Maze Runner: The Scorc… Blondie $81,697,192 $228,868,970 $310,566,162
Jun 1, 2007 Knocked Up Jack $148,761,765 $70,504,187 $219,265,952
Dec 25, 1998 Patch Adams Everton $135,014,968 $67,158,032 $202,173,000
Jun 18, 2004 Dodgeball: A True Unde… Steve the Pirate $114,326,736 $53,464,968 $167,791,704
May 11, 2001 A Knight’s Tale Wat $56,083,966 $44,538,620 $100,622,586

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That's right, Ratzenberger is an imperial dude in Empire, right?

Alan Tudyk surprised me a bit, too, but I guess all it takes it a Transformers here, an Ice Age there ... slow and steady wins the race.

crossed out the wrong Transformer: the wiki talk page says he's miscredited as Hot Rod

a rebel, apparently xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt28gOnYz94

Was confused by this list until I realized it was really "Who's been in the most Marvel movies".

sam jackson totally deserves this though

tbc no one deserves this much money, but though he's mostly just been coasting on star power for a while he really has been great in an astounding number of movies

I'd be interested in knowing who would top a similar non-acting list. There's probably some dolly grip out there who's super-smug about having worked on the most billion-dollar movies.

I'd guess John Williams would be very near the number one spot for non-actors, right?

tbc no one deserves this much money

I mean part of why I found the list hilarious is that it isn't even about how much money the actors made, just how much the movies they were in grossed.

The secret to being a great actor is either to be an Avenger or be in at least two mega-franchises.

xpost Gotta be Williams, between Star Wars and Harry Potter alone. Plus other Spielberg.

Or Spielberg himself. Or, like, Kathleen Kennedy or something.

Kevin Feige: "The films he has produced have a combined worldwide box office gross of over $26.8 billion.[3]"

Its hard to look beyond Stan Lee here.

Wow I had no idea Alan Tudyk was such an in demand voice actor.

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In terms of recent stuff Cumberbatch was incredible in Patrick Melrose

I liked him in that

Chris Evans' pecs win.

a lot of wtf people on that list

voted for Idris Elba

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