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. Given those guidelines, it is time once again to look at the now 107 actors that have starred in at least 10 films that I have seen, as of July 1.
We continue today with the nine actors that have starred in exactly 12 movies that I have seen, down one from 3 years ago.
Kristen Bell
The Veronica Mars star made her first “big screen” appearance in my life with the television remake of Reefer Madness in 2005. She’s been a pretty steady presence since, with a two-year gap in 2015 and 2016 being her largest. 2018’s Like Father, which I saw in 2020, remains my most recent exposure to her in a starring role.
Leonardo DiCaprio
A small bump up for DiCaprio, who first appeared on my movie screen in 1996, with The Basketball Diaries. After a three-year run to start, I had a gap of eight years between his films, from 2002-2009. 2011 was his most prolific year, with three different films. The most recent film of his that I’ve seen was 2021’s Don’t Look Up.
Michael Douglas
I have not seen a Michael Douglas starring project since 2015’s Ant-Man.
Aaron Eckhart
Aaron Eckhart first showed up on the list of film actors I’ve seen way back in 1999 with Your Friends & Neighbors. Since then, his appearances have been a little haphazard, with nothing more than three two-year streaks over the past 21 years. The most recent film of his I’ve seen was 2014’s atrocious I, Frankenstein, which I unfortunately saw in 2020.
Corey Haim
My final Haim film was 1993’s Just One Of The Girls, which I saw in 2004. Haim passed away in 2010, so he is not likely to be moving up this list anytime soon.
Helen Hunt
I first came across Helen Hunt back in 1987’s Project X. She racked up nine of her twelve films between 1994 and 2006, with a double shot in 1996 thanks to Trancers and Twister. After a fifteen-year hiatus, she returned to my screen in 2021, thanks to 2019’s I See You.
Anna Kendrick
Kendrick, who packed nine films into just three years, started in 2016, when Pitch Perfect 2 was the first of four films I saw starring her. She followed that up with another four in 2017, an additional two in 2018, and single outings in 2019 and 2021, when I watched her in Stowaway.
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