# Actors that you can't get enough of **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297 "2020-01-12T05:07:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/21 "2020-01-13T16:53:31Z")
Not _great_ actors, but my two favorites are Cary Grant & Myrna Loy. Separate or together… ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/22 "2020-01-13T18:10:17Z")
Cary Grant, yes! 😃 Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and maybe Jean Harlow, if only to marvel at their amazing 30’s clothes/costumes/houses. Onscreen. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/23 "2020-01-13T18:47:00Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Sterling K. Brown. Only seen him in _This Is Us_ and _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_, but I’ve been impressed. Check out his guest role on Brooklyn 99 as an arrogant murder suspect. He was also briefly very good as Black Panther’s uncle. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/24 "2020-01-13T18:48:41Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > Not _great_ actors, but my two favorites are Cary Grant & Myrna Loy. Separate or together… Funny you should mention that; I just saw a 1948 movie with that pair called ‘Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House’. Thoroughly enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/25 "2020-01-13T18:50:35Z")
Heath Ledger when he was alive ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/26 "2020-01-13T20:05:07Z")
Michael Caine. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything that he wasn’t perfect for, starting way back with _Zulu_. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/27 "2020-01-13T20:34:31Z")
Do-yeon Jeon ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/28 "2020-01-13T20:39:56Z")
Somebody nominated Jennifer Tilly in the other thread. I’m gonna nominate Meg Tilly in this one. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/29 "2020-01-13T20:48:34Z")
Toni Collette Luis Guzman ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/30 "2020-01-13T20:51:48Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Somebody nominated Jennifer Tilly in the other thread. > > I’m gonna nominate Meg Tilly in this one. Out of pure spite, I assume. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/31 "2020-01-13T22:36:01Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > Toni Collette is always watchable, and isn’t afraid to look unglamourous if the part calls for it. I’m having a hard time doing a limited list, but this is one of the first two that come to mind. The other is Bradley Whitford. I mean, I was able to greatly enjoy _The Good Guys_ alsmost solely because of this guy. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/32 "2020-01-14T00:12:40Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > Funny you should mention that; I just saw a 1948 movie with that pair called ‘Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House’. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Which included Melvyn Douglas, another favorite in Hud, including Paul Newman, yet another. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/33 "2020-01-14T00:45:10Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Heath Ledger when he was alive Yeah, his work has really suffered since then. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/34 "2020-01-14T00:56:08Z")
**Kathleen Byron,** who was absolutely terrifying as Sister Ruth in **Black Narcissus** and totally sexy as the Recording Angel in **A Matter of Life and Death.** Charles Laughton, in everything he ever did. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/35 "2020-01-14T00:59:00Z")
Lots of good choices here. I’d add Jake Gyllenhaal and Frances McDormand. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/36 "2020-01-14T01:10:02Z")
**Walter Huston,** John Huston’s poppa. Cameo in **The Maltese Falcon,** brilliant as the old prospector in **Treasure of the Sierra Madre,** superb as the the Yankee Devil, Mr. Scratch, in **The Devil and Dan’l Webster.** ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/37 "2020-01-14T08:27:54Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Somebody nominated Jennifer Tilly in the other thread. > > I’m gonna nominate Meg Tilly in this one. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Out of pure spite, I assume. Why would you assume that? I sincerely find her quite appealing. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/38 "2020-01-14T09:15:25Z")
I’m not sure if Idris Elba is a great actor or just the personification of charisma. Or both. Or if it even matters. I just know he is compelling in everything he does. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/39 "2020-01-14T17:09:50Z")
Oh yeah, you guys are good. Add Elba and McDormand to my list. ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297/40 "2020-01-14T20:29:06Z")
I always put the remote down and watch at least a few minutes of any movie with John Goodman in it. (Can’t say the same for his TV appearances.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-cant-get-enough-of/846297.md?page=3)