Top 10 Biopics Goodfellas (1990) - Henrt Hill as played by Ray Liotta
Braveheart (1995) - William Wallace as played by Mel Gibson
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - George M Cohan as played by James Cagney*
The Glenn Miller Story (1954) - Glenn Miller as played by James Stewart
Seabiscuit (2003) - Seasbiscuit as played by a horse.
Glory (1989) - Colonel Robert Gould Shaw as played by Matthew Broderick
The Imitation Game (2014) - Alan Turing as played by Benedict Cumberbatch
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) - Charles Lindbergh as played by James Stewart
The Aviator (2004) - Howard Hughes as played by Leonardo Di Caprio
The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) - Bettie Page as played by Gretchen Mol
I removed films like
The Untouchables as they didn't really show the life of the person in question, more a certain period of time. I almost went with
Rasputin the Mad Monk but decided that was probably fiction in all but character names.