Damnit Shock I wanted my 1000th post to be special but I guess this'll have to do (punking you out). Thanks for the B&R reference though, I woulda never remembered that.
But you're way off on the highest grossing actor. Bloom isn't even on the list. Harrison Ford is #2.
Number one, ladies and gentlemen...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON.
That's right. It's not that he's been in so many incredibly high grossing movies, it's that he's been in so many movies period. he has twice as many movies as anyone else on the list pretty much, which is really impressive. I guess it's hard to count like Goodfellas for instance, because he was only in it for like a minute and barely even talked, but hey, I didn't make the list.
But looking at his movies, I get why you might forget him, other than Star Wars and Jurassic Park (heck, that's 4 top ten grossing movies though), he hasn't been in that many really high grossing films, but like I said, with him, it's quantity!
Harrison ford would probably be number 1 if we were looking for per movie grossage though. Actually he's only like 100 million underneath Jackson on the list. But Jackson's been the star of more films still, even though he's made double the films.
Full List:
Rank Actor # Starring Films Movies Total # of Movies
1 Samuel L. Jackson 33 $3,365,689,942 64
2 Harrison Ford 27 $3,230,893,589 33
3 Tom Hanks 30 $3,082,736,594 32
4 Eddie Murphy 30 $2,916,855,608 30
5 Tom Cruise 24 $2,358,062,667 26
6 Robin Williams 32 $2,279,143,735 41
7 Bruce Willis 37 $2,192,062,992 41
8 Gene Hackman 66 $2,185,440,116 78
9 Mel Gibson 33 $2,174,020,063 35
10 Robert De Niro 58 $2,140,298,921 64