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The Most Prolific Horror Actors of All Time
The hardest-working faces in horror — ranked by billed appearances across the Horror Vault's English-language films. The lifers, the scream-team regulars, the icons who never left the genre. Re-tallied every week as the catalog deepens.
Ranked by billed horror appearances · Updated weekly · captured Jul 20, 2026
Counts billed roles in English-language horror films in the Vault. A name needs at least 10 qualifying films to chart.
Peter Cushing
48 horror films · avg Crypt Score 6.2
Top film in the Vault: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Christopher Lee
46 horror films · avg Crypt Score 6.1
Top film in the Vault: The Wicker Man
Boris Karloff
45 horror films · avg Crypt Score 6.5
Top film in the Vault: Bride of Frankenstein
Lin Shaye
45 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.2
Top film in the Vault: A Nightmare on Elm Street
John Carradine
42 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.4
Top film in the Vault: The Invisible Man
Bill Moseley
42 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.0
Top film in the Vault: Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival
Robert Englund
41 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.2
Top film in the Vault: In Search of Darkness: Part II
Danny Trejo
39 horror films · avg Crypt Score 4.6
Top film in the Vault: From Dusk Till Dawn
Vincent Price
38 horror films · avg Crypt Score 6.5
Top film in the Vault: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
Bela Lugosi
38 horror films · avg Crypt Score 6.0
Top film in the Vault: Island of Lost Souls
Larry Fessenden
36 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.7
Top film in the Vault: You're Next
Kane Hodder
36 horror films · avg Crypt Score 4.9
Top film in the Vault: In Search of Darkness
Jeffrey Combs
35 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.5
Top film in the Vault: In Search of Darkness
Brad Dourif
34 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.2
Top film in the Vault: Living with Chucky
Tony Todd
33 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.3
Top film in the Vault: Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Dee Wallace
33 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.1
Top film in the Vault: The Frighteners
Eric Roberts
32 horror films · avg Crypt Score 4.5
Top film in the Vault: Nature of the Beast
Barbara Crampton
29 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.8
Top film in the Vault: In Search of Darkness
Michael Paré
29 horror films · avg Crypt Score 4.5
Top film in the Vault: Bone Tomahawk
Stephen McHattie
27 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.2
Top film in the Vault: mother!
Lon Chaney Jr.
26 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.8
Top film in the Vault: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
Udo Kier
26 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.4
Top film in the Vault: Cigarette Burns
Donald Pleasence
24 horror films · avg Crypt Score 6.0
Top film in the Vault: Halloween
Dick Miller
24 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.9
Top film in the Vault: Gremlins
Bruce Campbell
24 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.8
Top film in the Vault: Evil Dead II
Julian Richings
24 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.7
Top film in the Vault: The Witch
Linnea Quigley
24 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.1
Top film in the Vault: Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
Danielle Harris
24 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.1
Top film in the Vault: Stake Land
Tobin Bell
23 horror films · avg Crypt Score 5.3
Top film in the Vault: Saw
Michael Ripper
22 horror films · avg Crypt Score 6.3
Top film in the Vault: The Plague of the Zombies
