Longest Career by an Actor

My favorite is the late and great Max von Sydow

FYC:

• Lalita Pawar - 70 years with 700+ films
• Paidi Jairaj - 70 years with 300+ films
• Ashok Kumar - 63 years (he also holds the Guinness World Record for most leading roles throughout an acting career)

cinephile,

Great poll!

I'm inclined to vote for Rita Moreno. However, there are many acting legends on your list so I could easily change my mind.

Eva Marie Saint. Loved her in A Hatful of Rain 

  
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Mickey Rooney
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001682/
Born: September 23, 1920
Died: April 6, 2014 (age 93)
  
Actor: Movie (171 credits) 
2017 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Mr. Louis   (Filming took place in 2014.)
2014 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Gus
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1927 Orchids and Ermine Mickey McGuire (as Joe Yule Jr.)
    
Actor: TV (81 credits)
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Angela Lansbury.
Please make a Murder, She Wrote reunion!

The minimum is now a 61 years long career.

Karl Maden, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hope were deleted from the list.

The minimum is now a 61 years long career.

Karl Maden, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hope were deleted from the list.

FYC: Alan Arkin, he has 63 years and counting if you count a small uncredited role as a singer in 1957, otherwise he's out.

Gloria Stuart 72 years from her first to her last credit.

Dick van Dyke, 63 and counting

Gloria Henry, 65 years

Earl Cameron, 62 years

Johannes Heesters, 87 years

Milton Berle, 86 years

Curt Bois, 84 years

Gisele Casadesus, 83 years

Maxine Hicks, 81 years (but with a huge gap between two periods so I'm not sure if she counts.

The list was going overboard, so I changed the criteria.
These are the current rules:

1) Played leading roles in several movies

2) 60 years or more of career

3) In the Top 5000 of popularity.

If the list hits the 35 option maximum again, the next actors to go are the ones that began or ended their career with uncredited roles such as Tippi Hedren and Alan Arkin. 

Awh... wait.. noooo!
How can any true Star Trek fan choose between Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner?

SUGGESTION:  Make lists shorter by dividing up amongst those living, and those which have departed?  2 polls.

I'm gonna think about it. 

After thinking, I have come to a conclusion.

It would be stupid to exclude Bob Hope only on his STARmeter, as you pointed out he maintained great popularity during decades.

So this is what I think, there is only one actor with the minimum 60 credits in this list. (Anthony Hopkins). I believe that I could raise the criteria to "More than 60 years long acting career" in this way Anthony Hopkins is sadly discarded from the list, but I obtain a more justifiable reason to exclude Bob Hope.

I think that you will be disappointed, but this is the fairest solution that I found.

Carl Reiner, first role on tv in 1948, last role in Toy Story 4 in 2019, thats 71 years adn still active
Lois Smith , first role 1951, last 2020, thats 69 years and still active
Mel Brooke, first role 1951, last role, 2020, thats 69 years and still active
James Hong, first role 1955, last role 2019, thats 64 years adn stil lactive

Hi, 'good list and a nice idea. : )

'One suggested edit to the intro: (below in bold)

Which of these lead actors with the longest careers is your favorite?

(plural actors can't have "one of the longest careers" - I know what you meant but the words actually said something else)