top actors

[Auld Phart]

who do you think are the top actors over the last 100 years?

My picks would be Ethel and Lionel Barrymore, Lon Chaney Sr., Edward G Robinson, James Cagney, Henry Fonda, James Stewart.

yours?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Humphry Bogart

 

[Darkwind]

James Stewart for sure, Henry Fonda for sure.

Burn Me but I can't think of his name, but the Captain of the ship in "Jaws".

Several others, but I'm too tired to think of them right now.

 

[bluzman61]

My favorites would be Humphrey Bogart, Dustin Hoffman, and James Stewart. These are a few I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[Auld Phart]

James Stewart for sure, Henry Fonda for sure.

Burn Me but I can't think of his name, but the Captain of the ship in "Jaws".

Several others, but I'm too tired to think of them right now.

Shaw?

 

[DukeU]

Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones would have to be on the list.

 

[DukeU]

Jack Nicholson.

 

[Darkwind]

Shaw?

That sounds right.

 

[Darkwind]

Jack Nicholson.

How could I forget Jack? He's one of My favorites.

 

[Darkwind]

Jack Nicholson Best scene everh. Michelle Pfieiffer, gorgeous. The movie was Wolf. Great movie too.

 

[DukeU]

Morgan Freeman

 

[Blaster]

Clint Eastwood

 

[Dr.Destructo]

Pretty much everybody from the 50's, 60's and 70s.

With Doris Day being the TOP of the heap!!!!!

 

[DukeU]

Christopher Walken

Dennis Hopper

Michael Douglas

Meryll Streep

 

[bluzman61]

I forgot Jack Nicholson as well. He's definitely one of my favorites.

 

[DukeU]

Sean Connery

 

[westwall]

James Stewart for sure, Henry Fonda for sure.

Burn Me but I can't think of his name, but the Captain of the ship in "Jaws".

Several others, but I'm too tired to think of them right now.

Roy Scheider

 

[toobfreak]

who do you think are the top actors over the last 100 years?

I would have to list Whoopi Goldberg as my top pick. Why?

In ST:TNG, she played Guinan, this incredibly intelligent, perceptive, insightful, wise, good listener.

But then, I saw how Whoopi really is in real life on The View.

I did not think anyone could be that good of an actor to so totally fool me into actually thinking they were really this wise, intelligent, insightful, perceptive good listener! Whoopi should be giving master classes in acting lessons.

 

[egp320i]

pierce brosnan seems like a good actor but what is the criteria to be good?

remember your lines and act with personality?

I mean they get paid to do that

sure watch a B flick and you will clearly see people who can't act very well

they don't seem that coordinated, they appear stiff without expression

 

[Oddball]

Cary Grant
Errol Flynn
Spencer Tracy
Al Pacino
Henry Fonda
Jack Nicholson
Paul Newman
The Duke

Special mention to Steve Martin and Bill Murray....They are certainly far more than funny guys.