Many years ago, using the weekly TV guide that came with the Sunday Chicago Tribune, I started keeping track of all of the movies I had seen over the course of my lifetime. The guide would list the two main stars for each movie, and that is a tradition that I’ve carried on in my database ever since. So, given those guidelines, it is time to look at the most prolific actors that have starred in the movies that I have seen in the second half of the decade of the 1980s.
1986
| Name | Films |
|---|---|
| Raymond Burr | 2 |
| Lea Thompson | 2 |
For the first time, our leaders have appeared in more than one movie that I saw throughout the year. Raymond Burr makes his first of many appearances due to the Perry Mason television films. Lea Thompson appears thanks to half of her starring roles, with the favorite SpaceCamp and the not-so-favorite Howard The Duck.
1987
| Name | Films |
|---|---|
| Raymond Burr | 4 |
Another appearance for Raymond Burr thanks to the quarterly Perry Mason films.
1988
| Name | Films |
|---|---|
| Tom Hanks | 3 |
Tom Hanks makes his first appearance with 3 films to top 1988, with starring roles in Big, Punchline, and Dragnet.
1989
| Name | Films |
|---|---|
| Raymond Burr | 3 |
Yet another appearance for Raymond Burr.
1990
| Name | Films |
|---|---|
| Raymond Burr | 4 |
We finish off the decade with yet another appearance by Raymond Burr.