Who is your favorite actor of all time?

[Mindful]

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Jim Caviezel is my favorite!

I loved him in Person of Interest.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I LOVE that film named Frequency.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Jim Caviezel is my favorite!

Other than Frequency, the only other film of his that I have seen is one named High Crimes. Ashley Judd is the co-star. It was good.

God bless you and Jim and Ashley always!!!

Holly

 

[petro]

My favorite is because of his real life personality, would be William Shatner.
Cheesy actor, but seems like an outstanding person, and he was Captain Freaking Kirk, man.

 

[Winco]

I forgot Robert Duvall.

Arthur Radley.

 

[Winco]

But acting requires that the actor convince the audience that s/he IS the character, and a good actor is one who can portray a wide variety of characters, convincingly.

You'll Hate this answer, but ONE of the Best at what you describe is Sean Penn.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

So...

There seems to be differing opinions of what is to be valued. Many of the actors (actresses) mentioned above are not, strictly speaking, good at the craft of acting. They play basically the same character in every role, and "we" kinda like that persona.

But acting requires that the actor convince the audience that s/he IS the character, and a good actor is one who can portray a wide variety of characters, convincingly. Dustin Hoffman, Robert Duvall, Meryl Streep, Jodi Foster.

Tom Hanks is the leading actor of our time, and he's pretty good at acting.

That list of actors who can play a wide variety of characters needs to include Gary oldman,Alex Guinness and johhny deep.Guinness was always called a chameleon because many times you had to look extensively hard to find him in the film you were watching because so many times he looked so much differerent than you were used to seeing him look like and his voice was always differerent,one of his films he played multiple characters convincingly.

The newer generation of actors thst come to mind who does this very convincingly as well is Gary oldman and Johnny deep,you look at one of their movies what they looked and sounded like then you look at their others,same thing,they don’t sound or look the same,thst is a great actor.

I think my favorite actors would be Sean Connery,Roger Moore,and Harrison ford,I am shocked out of my pants I am the first here to mention Harrison ford.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

My favorite is because of his real life personality, would be William Shatner.
Cheesy actor, but seems like an outstanding person, and he was Captain Freaking Kirk, man.

Yuck. Shatner is a real asshole,an arrogant prick.there was this Star Trek book a written where all the cast members of the show said they hated working with him,thst he hogged the spotlight and was real arrogant and difficult to work with.they said they loved Captain Kirk but hated William shatner.for sure not an outstanding person,great actor,he studied Shakespeare,yiu can see that in his performances in the Star Trek show in some of the episodes when he has a long speech. but a jerk in real life.the Star Trek film he directed is considered the worst of the original cast.Nimoy was much better at directing than him,too bad he was not in charge of Star Trek five as well.

Captain Kirk rules,shatner sucks though.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Lets add Lord Olivier and Henry Fonda to the list of Men actors.

Olivier is considered the greatest stage actor of all time.

 

[JamesE]

Favorite Actor for me has to be Cary Grant. Played so many great roles.

 

[the other mike]

My favorite actor of all time is Robert Redford. From "Tell them Willie boy is here!", to Butch and Sundance, to The Sting, to The Last Castle, his movies just rock!

Billy Crystal in City Slickers and
Throw Momma From the Train

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ Considering the way that City Slickers 2 had ended, I wish that a third one had been made.

God bless you always!!!

Holly