{"id":24488,"date":"2026-10-26T02:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24488"},"modified":"2026-09-13T14:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:16:02","slug":"you-ought-to-be-in-21-pictures-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/you-ought-to-be-in-21-pictures-4\/","title":{"rendered":"You Ought To Be In (21) Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Movie_Reel_22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6131\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Movie_Reel_22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Movie_Reel_22.jpg 314w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Movie_Reel_22-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0The guide would list the two main stars for each movie, and that is a tradition that I\u2019ve carried on in my database ever since.\u00a0 Given those guidelines, it is time once again to look at the now 111 actors that have starred in at least 10 films that I have seen, as of August 1.<\/p>\n<p>We continue today with the two actors that have starred in exactly 21 movies that I have seen, a decrease of one from <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/you-ought-to-be-in-21-pictures-3\/\">three years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Samuel L. Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>29 years ago, I first made the acquaintance of Samuel L. Jackson in two polar opposite films, <em>Pulp Fiction<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>National Lampoon\u2019s Loaded Weapon 1<\/em>. \u00a0After 1994, I also saw multiple Jackson films in 2000, 2006, 2019, and 2020.\u00a0 There was a six-year break between <em>Lakeview Terrace<\/em>, which I saw in 2010, and\u00a0<em>Kingsman: The Secret Service<\/em>, which I saw in 2016.\u00a0 He racked up five films between 2019 and 2021, the last of which was <em>Death To 2020<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Denzel Washington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Denzel Washington first appeared in my life in a starring role as Tom Hanks\u2019 homophobic attorney in\u00a0<em>Philadelphia<\/em>.\u00a0 There have been four years, starting in 2000, where I have seen two of his films.\u00a0 2002 started a five-year run where I saw seven of his films.\u00a0 After a six-year absence, he returned to my screen in 2020 and appeared twice in 2024, thanks to 2014&#8217;s <em>The Equalizer<\/em> and 2023&#8217;s <em>The Equalizer 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0The guide would list the two main stars for each movie, and that is a tradition that I\u2019ve carried on in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[2878,9900,334,7083,4880,4879,4896,1790,347,9607,11712,1380],"class_list":["post-24488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-death-to-2020","tag-denzel-washington","tag-kingsman-the-secret-service","tag-lakeview-terrace","tag-national-lampoons-loaded-weapon-1","tag-philadelphia","tag-pulp-fiction","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-the-equalizer","tag-the-equalizer-3","tag-tom-hanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24776,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488\/revisions\/24776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}