Here are some stars of the 1970s are still going strong.<\/p>\n
Jacqueline Bisset<\/h2>\n
British star Jacqueline Bisset broke out in 1968 with roles in The Detective,\u00a0Bullitt, and\u00a0The Sweet Ride, for which she received a\u00a0Golden Globe\u00a0nomination as\u00a0Most Promising Newcomer.\u00a0<\/p>\n She spent the 1970s decade making good on that promise, starring in films including Airport \u2014 the second highest-grossing film of 1970 \u2014 as well as Murder on the Orient Express, St. Ives, and The Deep.<\/p>\n She also earned a Golden Globe nomination as\u00a0Best Actress \u2013 Motion Picture Comedy or Musical in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe, and made the ageless masterpiece Day for Night\u00a0(1973), which won the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and feels as fresh today as it ever did.<\/p>\n She has never stopped working, and thriving, in both film and television. Her latest film is the new Western Long Shadows, in which she stars with Dermot Mulroney.<\/p>\n And if you like The Deep (see above), you may enjoy seeing how it ranked among the top movies of 1977, a crucial year for film<\/a>.<\/p>\n After breaking out with The Godfather, Diane Keaton hit icon status with Annie Hall (above) and has never let it go. <\/p>\n After a run of films including Reds, Baby Boom, the Father of the Bride films, and Something\u2019s Gotta Give, she returned in 2023 with the sequel Book Club: The Next Chapter. She was terrific in Mack & Rita, too. She\u2019s terrific in everything.<\/p>\n Say, whatever happened to that guy who played her husband in The Godfather films? What was his name again?<\/p>\n Oh, that\u2019s right. Al Pacino, one of the greatest actors of the 1970s and all time, broke out with 1971\u2019s The Panic of Needle Park (still haunting) before beginning a run of \u201970s hits that included not just the first two Godfather films but also Dog Day Afternoon (above), and Serpico. <\/p>\n In the \u201980s, he mostly chose his shots carefully, settling on an iconic turn in Scarface. His spectacular \u201990s run included an Oscar-winning role in Scent of a Woman \u2014 he\u2019s ridiculously only one once, out of nine nominations \u2014 followed by Heat, Donnie Brasco, Devil\u2019s Advocate and more. <\/p>\n Recent highlights include Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, and a hilarious role in House of Gucci. Like others on this list, he has finally moved into television (OK, streaming) with Amazon\u2019s Hunters. <\/p>\n Pacino, 84, also appeared last year with Michael Keaton in Knox Goes Away, which Keaton directed, and in Mod\u00ec, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, directed by his Donnie Brasco co-star, Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n He also just released a new autobiography.<\/p>\n Robert De Niro, a man with whom Pacino has repeatedly co-starred and jousted for roles<\/a>, may also be his best competition for best actor of the 1970s (and perhaps ever?).<\/p>\n After breaking out in 1970s roles including The Gang That Couldn\u2019t Shoot Straight (above) and Bang the Drum slowly, he became a film icon with Mean Streets, The Godfather Part II (for which he won his first Oscar), Taxi Driver, and The Deer Hunter. Next came 1980\u2019s Raging Bull, which earned him his second Oscar. <\/p>\n His too-many to list roles between then and now include Goodfellas, Casino, Awakenings, Silver Linings Playbook, Heat, Jackie Brown, Midnight Run, and the Meet the Parents franchise. He earned the most recent of his Oscar nominations for The Irishman, which again paired him with Pacino and Martin Scorsese, though the film marked the first time he worked with both.<\/p>\n He was also up for an Oscar for best supporting actor in 2024 for his role in Killers of the Flower Moon.<\/p>\n The latest winner of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once may always be best known for her role as Laurie Strode in 1978\u2019s Halloween (above), a role she has repeatedly revisited, including in the latest Halloween trilogy, before vowing that she will never play the character again.<\/p>\n Her other career highlights have included widely varied roles in films from Trading Places to A Fish Called Wanda to True Lies to Knives Out. <\/p>\n She earned raves for her latest, The Last Showgirl, alongside Pamela Anderson, and was one of the first stars to step up and pledge $1 million to support the recovery from the L.A. fires.<\/p>\n Despite a breakout role in 1974\u2019s The Lords of Flatbush, Stallone wasn\u2019t happy with the roles he was being offered. So he blacked out his windows to focus and wrote several screenplays, one of which turned out to be Rocky. Then he insisted on playing the title role and became one of the breakout stars of the 1970s.<\/p>\n In the process, he helped invite the modern blockbuster \u2014 and franchise \u2014 and did it again with the Rambo films. Rocky led to Creed, in which Stallone starred in the first two installments. This year he\u2019s back with the fourth and perhaps final Expendables film.<\/p>\n All that and he decided to give TV a try, playing an ex-con who goes West in Tulsa King (above). He\u2019s remarkably never gotten an Oscar, though Rocky won Best Picture and Best Director for John G. Avildsen. <\/p>\n He\u2019s also the subject of a compelling recent Netflix documentary about his life and career called Sly, and was recently named one of President Trump\u2019s \u201cSpecial Ambassadors to Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n We like her, we really like her. Sally Field, a two-time Best Actress Oscar winner for 1979\u2019s Norma Rae (above) and 1984\u2019s Places in the Heart, is also a 1960s star, thanks to her appearances on Gidget, starting in 1965, and the The Flying Nun.<\/p>\n In roles from Sybil to Smokey and the Bandit to Mrs. Doubtfire to Forrest Gump to Lincoln, she demonstrated exceptional range, and mastery of award-ceremony speeches \u2014 her \u201cYou like me, right now, you like me\u201d speech for Places in the Heart still holds a place in the heart of anyone who\u2019s seen it. <\/p>\n Last year she stood out in 80 for Brady, proving she\u2019s still got comic chops \u2014 and a love of hot wings that took everyone by surprise. We also loved her in HBO\u2019s Winning Time as Jessie Buss.<\/p>\n Perhaps the greatest actress, period, Meryl Streep was already highly respected when she earned the first of her 21 Oscar nominations for her role in 1978\u2019s The Deer Hunter (above), alongside a stellar cast that included Robert De Niro, and established herself in the process as one of the most promising stars of the 1970s.<\/p>\n She has won an Oscar three times, once for Best Supporting Actress in Kramer v. Kramer, and twice for Best Leading Actress in Sophie\u2019s Choice\u00a0and\u00a0The Iron Lady. <\/p>\n Her endless list of films includes Out of Africa, Sophie Choice, Doubt, The Hours, the Mamma Mia films, The Devil Wears Prada, and The Post, for which she received her most recent Oscar nomination. She stole the show as pitiless President Janie Orlean in Don\u2019t Look Up, and appeared recently in the Apple TV+ drama Extrapolations and Hulu\u2019s Only Murders in the Building.<\/p>\n One of our all-time favorite actors \u2014 and a two-time Best Actress Oscar winner for The Accused and Silence of the Lambs \u2014 Jodie Foster broke into the industry with a Coppertone ad at age three. <\/p>\n She quickly established herself as a powerhouse with astonishing range, starring in Freaky Friday and Taxi Driver in 1976, when she was barely a teenager, making her one of the youngest stars of the 1970s.<\/p>\n She was back in crime-solving last year as the star of HBO\u2019s True Detective: Night Country, and was up for an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role Nyad. She also just won a Golden Globe for Night Country.<\/p>\n As for her Silence of the Lambs co-star\u2026<\/p>\n Anthony Hopkins broke out in 1960s roles including The Lion in Winter (1968) and Hamlet (1969), then found success in the 1970s with films like A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Magic (1978). He entered the next decade with The Elephant Man (1980).<\/p>\n But things really took off with Silence of the Lambs (1991) \u2014 for which he won a Best Actor Oscar with just 16 minutes of screen time. From there he went on to star in films liike Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997), Hannibal (2001), The Human Stain (2003), Alexander (2004) and Hitchcock (2012). Along the way he\u2019s also dropped into the Thor, Transformers and Mission: Impossible Franchises.<\/p>\n But perhaps his best work of all was for 2020\u2019s The Father, in which he earned his second Best Actor Oscar for his role as an octogenarian losing his faculties. He does almost everything in a role that an actor can do. His long list of awards includes four BAFTA Awards and an Olivier Award, as well as being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. <\/p>\n Hopkins, 86, was also excellent as an immigrant grandfather in 2022\u2019s underseen Armageddon Time. His latest work includes Freud\u2019s Last Session, in which he plays Sigmund Freud, and he just starred in Netflix\u2019s new film Mary as King Herod.<\/p>\n Remarkably, Clint Eastwood isn\u2019t just a star of the 1970s who is still going strong \u2014 he was a star in the 1950s<\/a>, when he broke out in 1950s films including Francis in the Navy, The First Traveling Saleslady and Ambush at Cimarron Pass. <\/p>\n The 1960s brought a steady role on the TV show Rawhide, and he became one of the most iconic stars of the 1960s in Sergio Leone\u2019s \u201cMan With No Name\u201d trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars\u00a0(1964), For a Few Dollars More\u00a0(1965) and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly\u00a0(1966).<\/p>\n He loomed large in the 1970s with the Dirty Harry franchise, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and Escape from Alcatraz, but he also notably launched his directing career in 1970 with 1971\u2019s Play Misty for Me, in which he also starred (above). <\/p>\n His stunning filmmaking career includes two Oscars each for directing and producing The Unforgiven (1993) and Million Dollar Baby (2005). His other outstanding films include Mystic River (2003), Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) and American Sniper (2014). <\/p>\n Now 95, he continues to star in and direct films \u2014 his latest was 2021\u2019s Cry Macho, and last year he released his latest film, Juror #2.<\/p>\n Jane Fonda broke out in 1960s hits like Cat Ballou, and buoyed her reputation with films like Barefoot and the Park and They Shoot Horses, Don\u2019t They before the decade was over. (She also ended up on a lot of dorm walls thanks to 1968\u2019s Barbarella.)<\/p>\n But she owned the next decade, becoming one of the leading stars of the 1970s \u2014 and most acclaimed. <\/p>\n In 1971, she won her first Best Actress Oscar for a daring turn in Klute, and won her second for 1978\u2019s Coming Home (above), in which Fonda, one of Hollywood\u2019s most outspoken progressives, acted opposite Jon Voight, who in recent years has become one of Hollywood\u2019s most outspoken conservatives. It gives the movie and added layer of curiosity. <\/p>\n She was nominated for four additional Oscars in a stellar career that also included 9 to 5, On Golden Pond (in which she starred with her father, Henry Fonda), The Morning After, Stanley and Iris, and Luck.<\/p>\n Jane Fonda seems somehow busier than ever: She recently starred with Sally Field in 80 for Brady and Diane Keaton in Book Club: The Next Chapter, and just wrapped up a long TV run on Grace and Frankie.<\/p>\n Steve Martin seems like he hasn\u2019t aged since his hair turned prematurely grey \u2014 and because his frantic comic energy seems boundless. <\/p>\n After years of struggle, Steve Martin scored a Saturday Night Live hosting gig in October 1976 that finally won mass audiences over to his absurdist comedy. From there he packed arenas and made his first film, 1979\u2019s The Jerk (above), a huge hit despite many critics\u2019 failure to recognize its brilliance.<\/p>\n From there he went on a run of hits that continues to this day, including Three Amigos (1986), Roxanne and Planes, Trains and Automobiles (both 1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Parenthood (1989), Bowfinger (1999) the Father of the Bride films, the Pink Panther films, and It\u2019s Complicated (2009). <\/p>\n Now 79, he\u2019s currently starring with his Three Amigos pal Martin Short on Hulu\u2019s Only Murders in the Building, and will appear this weekend on NBC\u2019s SNL 50: The Anniversary Special.<\/p>\n The 91-year-old winner of two Oscars, for 1986\u2019s\u00a0Hannah and Her Sisters\u00a0and 1999\u2019s\u00a0The Cider House Rules,\u00a0broke out in the 1960s with films including\u00a0Zulu, Alfie,\u00a0and The Italian Job,\u00a0and kept in stride throughout the 1970s with classics including Get Carter\u00a0and\u00a0A Bridge Too Far.\u00a0<\/p>\n Decades later, the dashing actor gained a new generation of film fans in Christopher Nolan\u2019s Dark Knight trilogy \u2014 an experience he discusses in the new memoir Don\u2019t Look Back, You\u2019ll Trip Over: My Guide to Life, on sale March 25 from Mobius.\u00a0You can read an excerpt of it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n His most recent film was 2023\u2019s The Great Escaper. <\/p>\n You knew this one was coming, right? After breaking out in The Conversation and American Graffiti (above), he wasn\u2019t yet one of the biggest stars of the 1970s. But Harrison Ford legendarily snagged the role of Han Solo in Star Wars while agreeing to run lines with actors auditioning for the film.<\/p>\n Soon he was starring in Blade Runner, Working Girl, two Jack Ryan movies and of course the Indiana Jones films, the latest of which, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, opened last year. Ford promises he\u2019s done with the whip and fedora, but given his seemingly boundless energy, who can say?<\/p>\n Ford also stars on the hit Yellowstone prequel 1923, and, as we mentioned, appears this week in Captain America: Brave New World, playing the president of the United States\u2026 who turns into a red Hulk.<\/p>\n![\"Top](\"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10-Top-Films-of-1977--788x443.jpg\")
Columbia Pictures<\/p>\nDiane Keaton<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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United Artists \u2013 Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nAl Pacino<\/h2>\n
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Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nRobert De Niro<\/h2>\n
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MGM \u2013 Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nJamie Lee Curtis<\/h2>\n
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Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nSylvester Stallone<\/h2>\n
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United Artists \u2013 Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nSally Field<\/h2>\n
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Universal Pictures \u2013 Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nMeryl Streep<\/h2>\n
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Universal Pictures \u2013 Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nJodie Foster<\/h2>\n
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Columbia Pictures \u2013 Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nAnthony Hopkins<\/h2>\n
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20th Century Fox \u2013 Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nClint Eastwood<\/h2>\n
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Universal Pictures \u2013 Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nJane Fonda<\/h2>\n
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United Artists<\/p>\nSteve Martin <\/h2>\n
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Universal Pictures \u2013 Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nMichael Caine <\/h2>\n
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MGM<\/p>\nHarrison Ford<\/h2>\n
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Universal Pictures \u2013 Credit: C\/O<\/span><\/p>\nLike This List of 15 Stars of the 1970s Who Are Still Going Strong?<\/h2>\n
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