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Coolest Actor of All-Time

Coolest Actor of All-Time

  • Paul Newman

    Votes: 5 9.4%
  • Clint Eastwood

    Votes: 12 22.6%
  • Charles Bronson

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Harrison Ford

    Votes: 7 13.2%
  • Steve MQueen

    Votes: 7 13.2%
  • Marlon Brando

    Votes: 3 5.7%
  • Jack Nicholson

    Votes: 6 11.3%
  • Robert Redford

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • James Dean

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other?

    Votes: 13 24.5%

  • Total voters
    53

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Coolest Actor of All-Time

Others:
Robert De Niro
Al Pacino
Denzel Washington
Humphrey Bogart
Arnold Swarchenegger (sp?)
Samual L. Jackson
Brad Pitt
Mel Gibson
Humphrey Bogart
Jimmie Stewart
Cary Grant
 
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our governments .... :lol:
 
Humphrey Bogart. The runner-up is Marlon Brando.
 
No one beats Steve McQueen.

He was in at least 9 classic films. 5 of them were action films.

* Girl on the Run (1953)
* Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
* Never Love a Stranger (1958)
* The Blob (1958)
* The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
* Never So Few (1959)
* The Magnificent Seven (1960)
* The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
* Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
* The War Lover (1962)
* The Great Escape (1963)
* Soldier in the Rain (1963)
* Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
* Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
* The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
* Nevada Smith (1966)
* The Sand Pebbles (1966) – ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION for Best Actor in a Leading Role


* Think Twentieth (1967) (short subject)
* Bullitt: Steve McQueen's Commitment to Reality (1968) (short subject)
* The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
* Bullitt (1968)
* The Reivers (1969)
* Le Mans (1971)
* On Any Sunday (1971) (documentary)
* Junior Bonner (1972)
* The Getaway (1972)
* The Life and Legend of Bruce Lee (1973) (documentary)
* Papillon (1973)
* The Towering Inferno (1974)
* Dixie Dynamite (1976) (Cameo)
* Bruce Lee, the Legend (1977) (documentary)
* An Enemy of the People (1978) (also executive producer)
* Tom Horn (1980) (also executive producer)
* The Hunter (1980)

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In terms of "Coolest" it would have to be Clive Owen, you can't get any cooler than that.
 
The one yu listed are great actors, yet they are not my favorites. Some of the great film stars of the late 30s are the best in my opinion.
 
James Dean?

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Alain Delon?

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Sean Connery?

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Jack Nickolson?

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Sammy Davis Jr?

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These are my idols for 'coolness'. Tom Cruise? Denzel? Samuel L. Jackson? Are you guys serious?
 
Daniel Day Lewis

Russell Crowe


Klaus Kinski

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Bruce Lee




Of those who have been around for a while I would have to say Sean Connery first, Clint Eastwood Second
 
Daniel Day Lewis is an awesome actor, but whats "cool" about Russel Crowe? :lol:
 
Prehaps the greatest role of all time was played by none other than Randy Quaid, in Christmas Vacation. His whole purpose for existence, was to play that role.
 
Daniel Day Lewis is an awesome actor, but whats "cool" about Russel Crowe? :lol:

Yeah... I see a lot of great actors here, some have done some major movies too.
But not many of them are "cool" IMO.

Steve McQueen doesn't cry in the Great Escape... he leads the Nazis on that massive motorcycle chase, gets shot at, crashes into barbed wire, gets caught and sent back to prison... takes out his baseball glove and ball and chills out in his cell playing ball! That's cool.

He doesn't cry in Bullitt... he chases the bad guys in that massive car chase in his sweet Mustang, doing his own stunt driving, smashes the sweet GTO driving Mafia hit men off the road were they die in a fireball crash and he then goes and ignores the DA so that he can make his case.

He doesn't cry in the Magnificant Seven, he just shoots a lot of bad guys and chills about it.

John Wayne NEVER cried...

Clint Eastwood doesn't cry in Dirty Harry, any of them... scum just keep making his day as he keeps blowing them away.

In Unforgiven, he kills and entire town in two minutes. Every western he kills everybody, and then chews on his cigar a bit and looks like he might shoot the cameraman too.

Paul Newman and Robert Redford don't cry in Butch and Sundance, they make jokes and tease each other before they jump off cliffs into raging rivers and before they get into massive gunfights against the entire Bolivian Army and as they are being chased by the elite Posse. They crack Jokes!

Redford... Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Downhill Racer, Jeremiah Johnson, The Candidate, The Sting, Three Days of the Condor, The Natural

Newman... The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting

Kurt Russell in as Snake in Escape from NY! Need I say more?

Samuel L Jackson just wants to walk the Earth and get in adventures, like Caine, from Kung Fu! :rofl
He shoots people like Brad that cry...

Jack Nicholson... Heeears Johnny! Nuff said. But if you need more... Chinatown, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Batman, A Few Good Men, The Departed

Marlon Brando or Humphrey Bogart... c'mon! Great!

Toshirō Mifune... VERY COOL! Gread addition Turtle.

Bruce Lee frickin Jeet Koon Do's ANYBODY that stands in his way... even Kareem! I don't think he even cries in RL.

Clive Owen... great addition Lachean. Clive is one of the few "cool" actors of today. Children of Men and the perfect bank robbery movie. Very cool.

Brad Pitt... Seven, Snatch, Fight Club, Twelve Monkeys, Oceans 11, 12 and 13! Done. Cool.

Harrison Ford... American Graffiti, Star Wars, Empire, Return of the Jedi, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Frantic, Blade Runner, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Too Cool.

I almost forgot Robert Duvall! I love the smell of napalm in the morning! Over and out! "Cool".



Johnny Depp is a great actor, but waaay too quirky to be "cool"

Russell Crow cries in his one major hit movie... he cries! :(

daniel day is great... but just doesn't make "cool"
 
Bruce Lee frickin Jeet Koon Do's ANYBODY that stands in his way... even Kareem! I don't think he even cries in RL.

I can pretty much guarentee Bruce Lee doesn't cry in real life.
 
I can pretty much guarentee Bruce Lee doesn't cry in real life.

In an interview about him, one of his actor friends, Lee Marvin or somebody, was saying that as he was walking in Hong Kong with Bruce, guys would just come up to Bruce and challenge him to a fight. He always accepted and he always beat the utter **** outa the other guy. An honor thing. Nobody jumped him, all honorable and all got beat up. Crazy.
 
In an interview about him, one of his actor friends, Lee Marvin or somebody, was saying that as he was walking in Hong Kong with Bruce, guys would just come up to Bruce and challenge him to a fight. He always accepted and he always beat the utter **** outa the other guy. An honor thing. Nobody jumped him, all honorable and all got beat up. Crazy.

Its a shame he's not around. I would have loved to seen him in the UFC.
 
Actually it's Kurt Russell. No, no, you guys don't have to thank me, it is my pleasure to educate.

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There are so many great ones; Russell may not even finish in the top 50..
Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, different, but both great..
 
I can't believe no one has mentioned one of the coolest gangster actors of all time. With the exception of Yankee Doodle Dandy he was pretty hard core.
Lets get a little respect for Cagney.
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James Cagney is the ultimate cool gangster in Angels With Dirty Faces releasd Nov.24,1938
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Al Pachino in Scarface, God Father 1 & 2, and Serpico
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Al Pacino as Cuban drug dealer Tony Montana
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Al Pachino in Scarface, God Father 1 & 2, and Serpico

Al Pacino as Cuban drug dealer Tony Montana

I hate everything about scarface, its a bad movie with disgusting characters, especially the despicable Tony Montana. I don't really like Al Pacino that much in the Godfather either, I prefer Marlon Brando and James Woods characters. James woods is quite cool btw. As for Pacino his best movie is heat, that certainly isn't because of Al Pacino. I just don't like him at all actually. I find other bad guys like Robert De Niro in heat a nicer character than any of the good characters of Al Pacino, but then again, Al Pacino is best at playing despicable and easily hated characters. NOTHING cool about Al Pacino. Is this only my opinion?
 
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