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Greatest actor

Eli Wallach and Ray Stevenson.
 
Two that I rate high are: Claude Raines and James Mason. Neither ever gave a bad performance.


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No mention of Harrison Ford yet. Add him to the list.
 
Humphry Bogart- Casablanca, African Queen, Maltese Falcon need I say more
Ingrid Bergman
Katherine Hepburn
Sir Ian McKellen
Natalie Portman
 
Bodhisattva said:
The ones that constantly amaze you with their performances and transformations?

Merryl Streep
Tom Hanks
Matt Damon
Johnny Depp
Will Smith
Tom Hardy
Brad Pitt
Charlize Theron
Leonardo DiCapprio
George Clooney

Who is on your list?
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Female: Streep, slam dunk there.

Male: Hopkins, but I'd waffle there a bit when Pacino or Hanks are really on their game in a film.
 
calamity said:
Female: Streep, slam dunk there.

Male: Hopkins, but I'd waffle there a bit when Pacino or Hanks are really on their game in a film.
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Daniel Day Lewis
Charlton Heston
Morgan Freeman
Clint Eastwood
Al Pacino

Madeline Stow
Cate Blanchett
Meryl Streep
Genevieve Bujold
Ali McGraw
 
Marlon Brando and Toshiro Mifune.
 
TurtleDude said:
Daniel Day Lewis
Charlton Heston
Morgan Freeman
Clint Eastwood
Al Pacino

Madeline Stow
Cate Blanchett
Meryl Streep
Genevieve Bujold
Ali McGraw
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Ali McGraw certainly brings back memories. Which reminds me: Steve McQueen. My absolute favorite actor ever when I dust off those who are dead.

Bullit
Great Escape
Cincinnati Kid

Three wonderful films I have not seen in ages.

Bronson runs a close second here, I should add. I just rewatched a bunch of his stuff during Christmas vacation.
Mr Majestic
Death Wish series
Love and Bullets
Twinky
Breakout
Family of Cops
Magnificent 7
Plus, he was in the Gr Escape too.
 
Lance Henriksen
David Bowie
Al Pacino
Denzel Washington
Carrie Fisher
Jenette Goldstein
Forrest Whitaker
Johnny Depp
Bill Paxton
Mel Gibson
Keanu Reeves
Gary Oldman
Emma Watson
Winona Ryder
Jodi Foster
Jude Law
Sigourney Weaver
Ron Perlman
Harrison Ford
Clint Eastwood
Jim Carrey
Robin Williams
Edward Norton
Charlie Day
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jack Nicholson
James Franco
Seth Rogan
 
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Susan George. Man, I had the biggest crush on her when I was in the 7th grade. :)
 
Depp deserves consideration. His Jack Sparrow persona still gets me......funny stuff.

But all the picks from prior posts are great.
 
calamity said:
Ali McGraw certainly brings back memories. Which reminds me: Steve McQueen. My absolute favorite actor ever when I dust off those who are dead.

Bullit
Great Escape
Cincinnati Kid

Three wonderful films I have not seen in ages.

Bronson runs a close second here, I should add. I just rewatched a bunch of his stuff during Christmas vacation.
Mr Majestic
Death Wish series
Love and Bullets
Twinky
Breakout
Family of Cops
Magnificent 7
Plus, he was in the Gr Escape too.
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some of Bronson's death wish movies were so bombastically over the top, that it sort of detracted from the first couple. My favorite movie he did was the best of the 3-4 films depicting the Israeli mission to free the Entebbe Hostages
 
PoS said:
Marlon Brando and Toshiro Mifune.
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Toshiro Mifune is a great pick. another great foreign actor who was tremendous was Klaus Kinki-who was paranoid bipolar and played such people so well (such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
 
AliHajiSheik said:
Two that I rate high are: Claude Raines and James Mason. Neither ever gave a bad performance.


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wow!. .....those are my top two

love James Mason in "5 fingers"

Claude Raines not only with his words but with his eyes and gestures, shows the man was such a great actor.
 
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Bogart, Deniro, Nicholson, Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks in no articular order.
 
Robert Downey Jr
 
Lee Remick, Jimmy Stewart.
 
Denzel Washington - from the sweetest guy to the meanest (Training Day, An American Gangster). All around - drama, action, light.

Mark Wahlberg

Matt Damon

Merryl Streep

Morgan Freeman

Jessica Chastain

Al Pacino

Ray Liotta

Charlize Theron

Helen Mirren
 
Bodhisattva said:
Adams but Swank too. Good catch. Foster is always so good and I fall in love again whenever I see Maverick. Which reminds me...

Mel Gibson
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Of course, MEL! He's up there with Denzel!
 
Bodhisattva said:
The ones that constantly amaze you with their performances and transformations?

Merryl Streep
Tom Hanks
Matt Damon
Johnny Depp
Will Smith
Tom Hardy
Brad Pitt
Charlize Theron
Leonardo DiCapprio
George Clooney

Who is on your list?
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Too many to list though I approve of your list for the most part. But I judge great acting on a person's ability to make me believe they ARE the person in the role they are playing instead of me watching Jimmy Stewart or Tom Hanks play a role. Richard Harris, Richard Burton, Jessica Tandy, Maggie Smith, Rex Harrison among many others were that caliber of actor.

It is a quality I can't really explain or define, but it's real for me.
 
TurtleDude said:
some of Bronson's death wish movies were so bombastically over the top, that it sort of detracted from the first couple. My favorite movie he did was the best of the 3-4 films depicting the Israeli mission to free the Entebbe Hostages
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Over the top in a good way, IMO. What I mean is the movies changed our perspective. They took the sense of feeling powerless over street crime, a feeling which was rather common back in those days, and showed us through the Bronson character's over the top vengeance that we do not have to take it anymore. CCW rates have soared ever since. :)

Those movies almost single handily took us from being a believe in the super cops society to one which started accepting that you need to take some personal control over the matter.
 
Josh Brolin

Benicio del Toro

Andy Garcia

Helen Mirren

John Malkovich
 
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