Top Ten Movie Star Duos and Teams that Played in Multiple Films Together
Any two or more actors or actresses who played in multiple films together count as duos or teams.
It's not necessary to add any comments below an item, but it might make it easier for some to recognize them more quickly if you do. Any portion of an actor team counts as long as it's two or more.
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Laurel and Hardy. They have starred in 27 full-length feature films together. That's not even counting the whopping 79 shorts (45 sound and 34 silent) that they collaborated on.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Abbott and Costello. Were we keeping score (we're not), this duo had become very familiar with one another. They have appeared in 36 films together.
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Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson
Hart and "The Rock" have appeared in 5 films together.
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Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper
Lawrence and Cooper have four films together.
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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Martin and Lewis. A collaboration that lasted exactly 10 years to the day, on both stage and screen. In the 8 years that included their films, Martin and Lewis made 17 films together, although their last collaboration was very short cameo appearances in a dream sequence.
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Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit
Khan and Dixit. The Bollywood heartthrobs of the 1990s and early 2000s. At least 4 films together that I'm aware of.
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt
Clooney and Pitt have at least 4 movies off the top of my head: The Oceans 11, 12, and 13 movies, and Burn After Reading.
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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Bogie and Bacall. They made 4 films together and of course are one of the most famous couples in the history of Hollywood.
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Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen and Elijah Woods
McKellen, Mortensen, and Wood starred in The Lord of the Rings trilogy together. A great many more actors/actresses shared in this epic film trilogy.
I would be less inclined to count series given that they obviously will have some of the same actors, but of course, they did great. Honestly, I'm realizing I have no idea who my favorite Lord of the Rings character is, despite how much I love LOTR.
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Marx Brothers
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Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
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Ghita Nørby and Ebbe Langberg
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Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
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Monty Python
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Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
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Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson
They starred together in all eight Harry Potter films.
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Taylor and Burton did 11 films together. They are one of the UK's most famous couples.
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Maggie Smith and Judi Dench
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Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone
Garfield and Stone have at least 2 movies together, the Amazing Spider-Man series.
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Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
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Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
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Nick Frost and Simon Pegg
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Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong
These guys did nine movies together. Not too shabby for a stoner comedic duo that started out putting out comedy albums. And yes, some of their films were not about weed.
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Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen
Starred together in the original X-Men trilogy and reunited for Days of Future Past.
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Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci