A Ranking of the 100 Most Influential People
in the History of the Movies

Other Film/TV lists

• 1. WK Laurie Dickson
  2. Edwin S. Porter
  3. Charlie Chaplin
  4. Mary Pickford
  5. Orson Welles
  6. Alfred Hitchcock
  7. Walt Disney
  8. D. W. Griffith
  9. Will Hays
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. John Wayne
  12. J.R. Bray
  13. Billy Bitzer
  14. Jesse Lasky
  15. George Eastman
  16. Sergei Eisenstein
  17. Andre Bazin
  18. Irvin Thalberg
  19. Thomas Ince
  20. Marlon Brando
  21. Louis B. Mayer
  22. Greta Garbo
  23. Robert Flaherty
  24. Lon Chaney
  25. Anita Loos
  26. Georges Melies
  27. Adolph Zukor
  28. John Gilbert
  29. Max Fleischer
  30. John Ford
  31. William Fox
  32. George Lucas
  33. Linwood Gale Dunn
  34. Eadweard Muybridge
  35. Katherine Hepburn
  36. Winsor McCay
  37. Stanley Kubrick
  38. Buster Keaton
  39. James Agee
  40. Fritz Lang
  41. Marcus Loew
  42. Cedric Gibbons
  43. James Cagney
  44. Ben Hecht
  45. Ingmar Bergman
  46. Humphrey Bogart
  47. Leon Schlesinger
  48. Louella Parsons
  49. Roger Corman
  50. Edith Head
  51. Bernard Herrmann
  52. Gary Cooper
  53. Mike Todd
  54. Ernst Lubitsch
  55. Sidney Poitier
  56. Saul Bass
  57. Billy Wilder
  58. Bette Davis
  59. Erich Von Stroheim
  60. Max Factor
• 61. The Lumiere Bros.
• 62. Woody Allen
• 63. Clark Gable
• 64. David O Selznick
• 65. Greg Toland
• 66. Lillian Gish
• 67. William Cameron Menzies
• 68. Lucille Ball
• 69. Samuel Rothafel
• 70. Akira Kurosawa
• 71. Marilyn Monroe
• 72. Vittorio de Sica
• 73. Natalie Kalmus
• 74. Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert
• 75. Willis O'Brien
• 76. Shirley Temple
• 77. Yakima Canutt
• 78. Sam Peckinpah
• 79. Jackie Coogan
• 80. Federico Fellini
• 81. Leni Riefenstahl
• 82. Steven Spielberg
• 83. Sam Warner
• 84. Jean-Luc Godard
• 85. Robert De Niro
• 86. Fred Astaire
• 87. Francis Ford Coppola
• 88. Ted Turner
• 89. Clint Eastwood
• 90. Dalton Trumbo
• 91. Dennis Hopper
• 92. Richard Hollingshead
• 93. Melvin Van Peebles
• 94. John Chambers
• 95. Mark Sennett
• 96. Mark Scorsese
• 97. Karl Struss
• 98. Busby Berkeley
• 99. John Hubley
• 100. John Cassavetes