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 decade of the 1970s. Given I was born late in 1974, this should be a short list.
1977
| Name | Films |
|---|---|
| Lisa Eilbacher | 1 |
| Nicholas Hammond | 1 |
According to my records, I watched one movie in the year that I turned 3 years old, the TV movie pilot to the Spider-Man television series, meaning its stars were the big winners for the year.
1979
| Name | Films |
|---|---|
| Bob Denver | 1 |
| Charles Durning | 1 |
| Alan Hale Jr. | 1 |
| Austin Pendleton | 1 |
After a year off, I’ve identified 2 movies that I saw in 1979, the made for TV Gilligan’s Island reunion and the big screen debut of the Muppets.
1980
| Name | Films |
|---|---|
| Shelley Duvall | 1 |
| Harrison Ford | 1 |
| Mark Hamill | 1 |
| Robin Williams | 1 |
We finish off the 1970s with the four stars from the 2 movies I believe I saw in 1980, The Empire Strikes Back and the big screen adaptation of Popeye.
