25 Best Leading Men With Minds

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George Clooney. By all accounts quite a shrewd guy.

22
  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Mark Ruffalo
  3. Nick Nolte
  4. Jeff Bridges
  5. William Hurt
  6. Lesley Howard (in The Petrified Forest)
  7. Ethan Hawke
  8. Al Pacino
  9. Dolph Lundgren
  10. Robert Downey, Jr.
  11. Michael Caine
  12. David Niven
  13. I’m actually the first to name Cary Grant???
  14. Colin Firth
  15. George Clooney
  16. Henry Fonda
23

Daniel Radcliffe. I suspect he’s a stealth nerd; he once sang Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements” from memory on a talk show and he aced his “QI” appearance.

And another: Christopher Lee, who did British intelligence work during WW2. He was fluent in English, Italian, French, Spanish and German, and was moderately proficient in Swedish, Russian and Greek.

24

*When it gets to 25 we’ll have a surprise *

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  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Mark Ruffalo
  3. Nick Nolte
  4. Jeff Bridges
  5. William Hurt
  6. Lesley Howard (in The Petrified Forest)
  7. Ethan Hawke
  8. Al Pacino
  9. Dolph Lundgren
  10. Robert Downey, Jr.
  11. Michael Caine
  12. David Niven
  13. I’m actually the first to name Cary Grant???
  14. Colin Firth
  15. George Clooney
  16. Henry Fonda
  17. Charles Boyer one of the sexier, highly clever stars of a remote past
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  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Mark Ruffalo
  3. Nick Nolte
  4. Jeff Bridges
  5. William Hurt
  6. Lesley Howard (in The Petrified Forest)
  7. Ethan Hawke
  8. Al Pacino
  9. Dolph Lundgren
  10. Robert Downey, Jr.
  11. Michael Caine
  12. David Niven
  13. Cary Grant
  14. Colin Firth
  15. George Clooney
  16. Henry Fonda
  17. Charles Boyer
  18. Bradley Cooper

Shoulda got an Oscar for Limitless.

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  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Mark Ruffalo
  3. Nick Nolte
  4. Jeff Bridges
  5. William Hurt
  6. Lesley Howard (in The Petrified Forest)
  7. Ethan Hawke
  8. Al Pacino
  9. Dolph Lundgren
  10. Robert Downey, Jr.
  11. Michael Caine
  12. David Niven
  13. Cary Grant
  14. Colin Firth
  15. George Clooney
  16. Henry Fonda
  17. Charles Boyer
  18. Bradley Cooper
  19. Gregory Peck
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  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Mark Ruffalo
  3. Nick Nolte
  4. Jeff Bridges
  5. William Hurt
  6. Lesley Howard (in The Petrified Forest)
  7. Ethan Hawke
  8. Al Pacino
  9. Dolph Lundgren
  10. Robert Downey, Jr.
  11. Michael Caine
  12. David Niven
  13. Cary Grant
  14. Colin Firth
  15. George Clooney
  16. Henry Fonda
  17. Charles Boyer
  18. Bradley Cooper
  19. Gregory Peck
  20. Burt Lancaster
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I forgot to add mine to the numbered list so:

  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Mark Ruffalo
  3. Nick Nolte
  4. Jeff Bridges
  5. William Hurt
  6. Lesley Howard (in The Petrified Forest)
  7. Ethan Hawke
  8. Al Pacino
  9. Dolph Lundgren
  10. Robert Downey, Jr.
  11. Michael Caine
  12. David Niven
  13. Cary Grant
  14. Colin Firth
  15. George Clooney
  16. Henry Fonda
  17. Charles Boyer
  18. Bradley Cooper
  19. Gregory Peck
  20. Burt Lancaster
  21. Daniel Radcliffe
  22. Christopher Lee
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I forgot to add mine to the numbered list so:

  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Mark Ruffalo
  3. Nick Nolte
  4. Jeff Bridges
  5. William Hurt
  6. Lesley Howard (in The Petrified Forest)
  7. Ethan Hawke
  8. Al Pacino
  9. Dolph Lundgren
  10. Robert Downey, Jr.
  11. Michael Caine
  12. David Niven
  13. Cary Grant
  14. Colin Firth
  15. George Clooney
  16. Henry Fonda
  17. Charles Boyer
  18. Bradley Cooper
  19. Gregory Peck
  20. Burt Lancaster
  21. Daniel Radcliffe
  22. Christopher Lee
  23. Jeremy Irons (how could we have forgotten him?)