Live Poll: Actor and Director Pairs with Five Movies

Howard Hawks directed John Wayne in five films:

1948's Red River

1959's Rio Bravo

1962.s Hatari

1966's El Dorado

1970's Rio Lobo

Howard Hawks also directed Cary Grant in five films

1938's Bringing Up Baby

1939's Only Angels Have Wings

1940's His Girl Friday

1949's I Was a Male War Bride

1952's Monkey Business

John Ford directed Maureen O'Hara five times

How Green Was My Valley

Rio Grande

The Quiet Man

The Wings of Eagles

The Long Grey Line

Henry Hathaway directed Tyrone Power five times

 Johnny Apollo

Brigham Young

The Black Rose

Rawhide

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Howard Hawks directed John Wayne in five films:

1948's Red River

1959's Rio Bravo

1962.s Hatari

1966's El Dorado

1970's Rio Lobo

Howard Hawks also directed Cary Grant in five films

1938's Bringing Up Baby

1939's Only Angels Have Wings

1940's His Girl Friday

1949's I Was a Male War Bride

1952's Monkey Business

John Ford directed Maureen O'Hara five times

How Green Was My Valley

Rio Grande

The Quiet Man

The Wings of Eagles

The Long Grey Line

Henry Hathaway directed Tyrone Power five times

 Johnny Apollo

Brigham Young

The Black Rose

Rawhide

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John Sturges directed Charles Bronson five times:

The People Against O'Hara 1951

Never So Few  1959

The Magnificent Seven  1960

The Great Escape  1963

Chino  1973

I would be torn between picking John Ford, Howard Hawks, or John Sturges in this poll.  

Nolan and Murphy also did Oppenheimer.

Scorsese and DiCaprio also did Shutter Island.

FYC: 

Luc Besson

And Jean Reno:

The Last Battle

Subway

The Big Blue

Le Femme Nikita

Leon: The Professional

Ryan Coogler

And Michael B. Jordan:

Fruitvale Station

Creed

Black Panther

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Sinners

Todd Haynes

And Julianne Moore:

Safe

Far From Heaven

I'm Not There

Wonderstruck

May December

Tony Scott

And Denzel Washington:

Crimson Tide
Man on Fire
Déjà Vu
The Taking of Pelham 123
Unstoppable

John Woo

And Chow Yun-Fat:

A Better Tomorrow
A Better Tomorrow II
The Killer
Once a Thief
Hard Boiled

Werner Herzog

And Klaus Kinski:

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Woyzeck

Fitzcarraldo

Cobra Verde

Christopher McQuarrie

And Tom Cruise:

Jack Reacher
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Maybe you can specify that it's not more than five movies:

Which of these pairs of directors and actors with exactly five movies together (as of 2026) is your favorite? 

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