London: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan as been voted as one of the greatest 100 film stars of all time.

The vote, conducted by Britain's Channel 4 television and aired on May 5 includes Al Pacino, Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Connery.

Amitabh Bachchan, who was voted as the star of the millennium in a poll conducted by the BBC on-line earlier, is listed as 92nd among the 100 top stars of all time.

Considered in popular parlance as the king of Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan made his first appearance in the movie "Saat Hindustani", which did not do particularly well at the box office.

But he made a mark in his films 'Zanjeer' and 'Deewar' and introduced the role of the "angry young man" to Indian cinema.

Amitabh has acted in all over 70 films, many of them, particularly those from the mid-1970s to the mid- 1980s, resounding successes.

Lord Lawrence Olivier, Sir Alec Guinness and Sir John Giegud are among the missing in the star list, while the vote found a strong preference for living actors, led by Al Pacino at number one.

The rest of the top 10 included Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey, Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Ewan McGregor and Cary Grant.

Jane Fonda (98) and Michael Douglas (100) made the list, but their fathers didn't.

Audrey Hepburn was 13th and Marilyn Monroe 39th, while Bruce Lee and Sidney Poitier are listed as 49th and 52nd respectively. Elizabeth Taylor is 77th in the list.

"Although all the classic greats are there, the final top five demonstrates that there are now modern greats who are established and are recognised up there alongside those classic movie stars," said John Piper, who produced the Channel 4 programme.

PTI