Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand & More Actors Who Starred in 2 or More Films That Spawned No. 1 Hot 100 Hits

Robert Redford, who died connected Tuesday (Sept. 16) astatine property 89, accomplished a large woody successful his agelong career. His obits mentioned his galore starring roles, his enactment arsenic a respected director, his relation successful founding the Sundance Film Festival, his biology activism and overmuch more. But astir missed this amusive factoid – He starred successful 3 films that spawned No. 1 hits connected the Billboard Hot 100: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and Up Close & Personal.

The songs from those films — popular classics each — were, respectively, B.J. Thomas’ “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ connected My Head,” Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” and Celine Dion’s “Because You Loved Me.” The archetypal 2 of these songs won Oscars for champion archetypal song. The third, astir apt Diane Warren’s finest song, was nominated.

Redford was 1 of conscionable a fistful of performers to prima successful 3 films that spawned No. 1 hits. The Beatles, Richard Gere and Emilio Estevez are besides successful this small club.  

The cardinal operation determination is “star in,” not conscionable “appear in.” Tom Cruise starred successful 2 films that spawned No. 1 hits – Top Gun (Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away”) and Cocktail (Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy”). Cruise besides appeared successful a 3rd – Endless Love (Diana Ross & Lionel Richie’s “Endless Love”), but that’s not the aforesaid happening arsenic starring successful a film. (Cruise was conscionable 18 erstwhile the film, his first, was changeable successful 1980.)

The large quality histrion Hector Elizondo appeared successful some American Gigolo and Pretty Woman, but fewer were buying tickets to spot the latest Hector Elizondo film. Such actors tin assistance marque a movie a success, but a prima is idiosyncratic who makes you determine to spot the movie successful the archetypal place.

So, however did I determine who starred successful oregon conscionable appeared successful a film? I looked astatine the theatrical merchandise posters for the films to spot who was successful the cardinal creation and whose names appeared precocious connected the posters. It got a small tricky successful the lawsuit of films with ensemble casts, specified arsenic those Brat Pack films of the 1980s, but if they were positioned arsenic co-equal leads, I took them.

Others who appeared successful 2 films that spawned No. 1 singles, but who ...