top 100 box office stars of the 1980's
these figures, not adjusted for inflation are based on the total amount of US revenue generated by the star during the 1980's. note the amount of star wars and indiana jones trilogy appearances there are in the upper reaches of the chart.
| pos. |
actors name |
star wars or indiana jones appearance |
total box office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harrison Ford | empire/jedi/raiders/temple/crusade | $1,415,133,569 |
| 2 | Dan Ackroyd | temple | $1,074,872,637 |
| 3 | Frank Oz | empire/jedi | $958,142,122 |
| 4 | James Earl Jones | empire/jedi | $913,886,990 |
| 5 | Eddie Murphy | - | $892,493,934 |
| 6 | Billy De Williams | empire/jedi | $866,303,639 |
| 7 | Carrie Fisher | empire/jedi | $849,513,869 |
| 8 | Tom Cruise | - | $786,797,229 |
| 9 | Bill Murray | - | $778,488,038 |
| 10 | Sylvester Stallone | - | $765,187,296 |
| 11 | Kenny Baker | empire/jedi | $762,826,680 |
| 12 | Judge Reinhold | - | $754,807,498 |
| 13 | Rick Moranis | - | $735,370,686 |
| 14 | Mark Hamill | empire/jedi | $732,226,738 |
| 15 | Christopher Lloyd | - | $723,077,578 |
| 16 | Jonathan Banks | - | $666,272,260 |
| 17 | John Candy | - | $660,151,385 |
| 18 | Sir Alec Guiness | empire/jedi | $646,394,010 |
| 19 | Jack Nicholson | - | $646,341,175 |
| 20 | Danny De Vito | - | $632,782,797 |
| 21 | Dabney Coleman | - | $623,995,185 |
| 22 | Denis Lawson | empire/jedi | $605,244,402 |
| 23 | Anthony Daniels | empire/jedi | $599,477,039 |
| 24 | Peter Mayhew | empire/jedi | $599,477,039 |
| 25 | David Prowse | empire/jedi | $599,477,039 |
| 26 | Reginald VelJohnson | - | $591,516,565 |
| 27 | John Ratzenburger | empire | $584,610,433 |
| 28 | Denholm Elliot | raiders/crusade | $564,985,355 |
| 29 | Julian Glover | empire/crusade | $561,470,431 |
| 30 | Steve Guttenberg | - | $558,774,325 |
| 31 | C. Thomas Howell | - | $557,269,026 |
| 32 | Harold Ramis | - | $550,562,242 |
| 33 | Sigourney Weaver | - | $548,170,474 |
| 34 | John Rhys-Davies | raiders/crusade | $542,780,770 |
| 35 | Peter Coyote | - | $542,097,683 |
| 36 | Chevy Chase | - | $536,582,194 |
| 37 | Robert Wuhl | - | $535,513,324 |
| 38 | Kathleen Turner | - | $528,853,013 |
| 39 | Robert Loggia | - | $528,023,538 |
| 40 | Michael Keaton | - | $519,096,345 |
| 41 | Richard Pryor | - | $508,141,025 |
| 42 | M Emmet Walsh | - | $505,204,222 |
| 43 | Michael Douglas | - | $504,242,639 |
| 44 | Tom Hanks | - | $499,532,411 |
| 45 | Craig T. Nelson | - | $498,943,214 |
| 46 | Drew Barrymore | - | $496,308,325 |
| 47 | Dee Wallace-Stone | - | $496,041,695 |
| 48 | Ronny Cox | - | $494,706,248 |
| 49 | Lea Thompson | - | $493,729,501 |
| 50 | Burt Reynolds | - | $484,824,512 |
| 51 | Steven Berkoff | - | $484,443,311 |
| 52 | Paul Reiser | - | $483,887,976 |
| 53 | Michael J. Fox | - | $481,183,144 |
| 54 | John Ashton | - | $473,374,105 |
| 55 | Brian Doyle-Murray | - | $460,019,491 |
| 56 | Ernie Hudson | - | $459,718,521 |
| 57 | Henry Thomas | - | $458,462,506 |
| 58 | Pat Hingle | - | $458,427,758 |
| 59 | Danny Glover | - | $450,978,715 |
| 60 | Annie Potts | - | $447,250,299 |
| 61 | Kim Basinger | - | $444,408,659 |
| 62 | Erika Eleniak | - | $443,358,497 |
| 63 | Forest Whitaker | - | $440,554,681 |
| 64 | Joe Grifasi | - | $440,186,113 |
| 65 | Sean Connery | crusade | $436,727,823 |
| 66 | David Berkson | - | $435,110,554 |
| 67 | Frank Toth | - | $435,110,554 |
| 68 | Michael Durrell | - | $435,110,554 |
| 69 | Richard Swingler | - | $435,110,554 |
| 70 | David M. O'Dell | - | $435,110,554 |
| 71 | K.C. Martel | - | $435,110,554 |
| 72 | Sean Frye | - | $435,110,554 |
| 73 | Robert Barton | - | $435,110,554 |
| 74 | Robert MacNaughton | - | $435,110,554 |
| 75 | Clint Eastwood | - | $432,706,882 |
| 76 | Crispin Glover | - | $424,293,764 |
| 77 | Glenn Close | - | $420,833,667 |
| 78 | Dom DeLuise | - | $420,767,405 |
| 79 | Charlie Sheen | - | $417,879,755 |
| 80 | Corey Feldman | - | $406,414,641 |
| 81 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | - | $405,660,998 |
| 82 | Sven-Ole Thorsen | - | $402,997,962 |
| 83 | Paul Guilfoyle | - | $401,184,870 |
| 84 | Charles Durning | - | $393,921,297 |
| 85 | Debra Winger | - | $393,748,831 |
| 86 | Olympia Dukakis | - | $388,026,447 |
| 87 | Steven Spielberg | - | $385,268,620 |
| 88 | Clint Howard | - | $382,839,800 |
| 89 | Ian McDiarmid | jedi | $381,559,191 |
| 90 | Michael Gough | - | $379,773,792 |
| 91 | Warwick Davis | jedi | $379,204,859 |
| 92 | Geena Davis | - | $378,559,969 |
| 93 | Dustin Hoffman | - | $375,454,451 |
| 94 | Gene Hackman | - | $372,560,786 |
| 95 | Burt Young | - | $368,394,931 |
| 96 | Steve Martin | - | $367,361,065 |
| 97 | Robin Williams | - | $367,052,307 |
| 98 | Jack Palance | - | $362,911,485 |
| 99 | Karen Allen | raiders | $361,224,889 |
| 100 | Tom Berenger | - | $359,462,451 |