1.EDWARD NORTON ,DEREK VINYARD ,AMERICAN HISTORY X 2.GEOFFERY RUSH ,THE MARQUIS DE SADE ,QUILLS 3.LIAM NEESON ,OSCAR SCHINDLER ,SCHINDLERS LIST 4.DANIEL DAY LEWIS, WILLIAM CUTTINGS AKA BILL THE BUTCHER, GANGS OF NEW YORK 5.JOE PESCI, TOMMY DEVITO, GOODFELLAS 6. BRAD PITT, TYLER DERGAN, FIGHT CLUB 7. ROBERT DENIRO, TRAVIS BICKLE, TAXI DRIVER 8 KEVIN SPACEY, ROGER ‘VERBAL’ KINT, THE USUAL SUSPECTS 9.JOHN LITHGOW, FDR, THEN THERE WERE LIONS 10. HARVEY KIETEL, AGUSTUS WREN, SMOKE
Rudolph Valentino in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera
John Barrymore in Counsellor-at-Law
Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
James Cagney in White Heat
John Gilbert in Downstairs
W.C. Fields in David Copperfield
Eic von Stroheim in Grand Illusion
Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz
James Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life
Lon Chaney Sr. in Phantom of the Opera
Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs
William Holden in Sunset Boulevard
Paul Muni in Scarface
Harvey Fierstein in Torch Song Trilogy
Kevin Spacey in both The Usual Suspects as well as American Beauty
Zero Mostel in The Producers as well as The Front
Harvey Korman in Blazing Saddles
Boris Karloff the Mummy and the Raven not to mention Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein
Jack Lemmon for all his Billy Wilder roles as well as Glengary Glen Ross and so many other roles
Lon Chaney Sr. in Phantom of the Opera
Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs
William Holden in Sunset Boulevard
Paul Muni in Scarface
Harvey Fierstein in Torch Song Trilogy
Kevin Spacey in both The Usual Suspects as well as American Beauty
Zero Mostel in The Producers as well as The Front
Harvey Korman in Blazing Saddles
Boris Karloff the Mummy and the Raven not to mention Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein
Jack Lemmon for all his Billy Wilder roles as well as Glengary Glen Ross and so many other roles
Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field
Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights
Kenneth Branaugh in Henry V
Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire
John Hurt in The Elephant Man
Liza Minnelli in Cabaret
F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus
Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca
Anthony Perkins in Psycho
Kathleen Turner in Crimes of Passion
Redford in The Natural
Hackman in Hoosiers
Mifune in The Seven Samurai
Ford in Star Wars
Sheen in Apocolypse now
Deniro in Deer Hunter(actually I had a hard time deciding him or Walken)
Prochnow in Das Boot(not technically a movie but oh well)
Pryce in Brazil
Mckellan in LOTR
Harris in Enemy at the Gate
(Hmm interesting, I have two Nazis in my top ten, But a Nazi is a hard role to play well, but can be very memorable if done well)
Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia
Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice
Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive
Rod Steiger in Doctor Zhivago
Sir Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs
Sir Lawrence Olivier in Wuthering Heights
Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet
Liza Manelli in Cabaret
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in The Long Hot Summer
I think it’s because you and I are the only ones in this thread that read the OP and the rest just burble because they were the ones in school that got whupped for not following directions.
This proves that pain is not an effective teaching tool.
Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire
Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon
Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver
Charles Laughton, Ruggles of Red Gap
Willem Dafoe, The Last Temptation of Christ
Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove
Emil Jannings, The Last Laugh
Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady
Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Laurence Olivier, The Entertainer
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I think it’s because you and I are the only ones in this thread that read the OP and the rest just burble because they were the ones in school that got whupped for not following directions.
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Hey I tried to follow the rules as much as I could with only the sword+marble bag weilding types in my list so it’s not only you two. I just had to put single roles in 'cause if I tried to figure the general actorship* proficiency in roles equation I would have been debating for the next three weeks. (PS. I wanted to put Lon Chaney in my list as soon as I saw the title line(cause I think he is the most underrated actor of all time(Especialy in Tell it to the Marines(which in my opinion is the best all time silent film performance) , but you both beat me to it so I didn’t want to look like a follower so I couldn’t claim him)))
Damn, all my attemped drunken cleverness is rendered moot but my drunken inability to code correctly. I really should stop playing the ‘who can look more pretensious while wasted’ game with my other friends cause it doesn’t transfer to a message board when I come back and start posting, but it is damn fun so phphpphpphph
James Dean — in Rebel Without A Cause
Marlon Brando — in A Streetcar Named Desire
Paul Newman — in Cool Hand Luke
Steve McQueen — in Bullitt
Gene Hackman — in The French Connection
Robert DeNiro — in Taxi Driver
Clint Eastwood — in Unforgiven
Kevin Spacey — in The Usual Suspects
Samuel L. Jackson — in Pulp Fiction
Robert Mitchum — in The Yakuza
Eve, sorry, I was unaware there was a distinction. I thought we were beyond all that. After all, the OP did not qualify male actors only as opposed to male and female actors.
Gene Hackman * The Conversation*
Peter O’Toole * Lawrence of Arabia*
Robert De Niro Taxi Driver
Ben Kingsley * Sexy Beast*
Forest Whitaker * Ghost Dog*
Peter Sellers* Being There*
Humphrey Bogart * The Maltese Falcon*
Alec Guinness * Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy/ Smiley’s People*
Jack Nicholson * Chinatown*
William Holden * Sunset Blvd*
River Phoenix - Running on Empty
Jack Nicholson - One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest
James Woods - Once Upon a time in America
Frank Sinatra - Man with a Golden Arm
Donald Sutherland- Don’t Look Now
Jeff Bridges - Fearless
Gary Oldman - Prick up your ears
Johnny Depp - What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men
John Cusack - The Grifters
Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
Peter Sellers - All 3 of his roles in Dr. Strangelove
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean
Leonardo DiCaprio - What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Brad Pitt - Kalifornia/Fight Club
Edward Norton - Fight Club
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones series
Ian McKellen - Lord Of the Rings
Nicolas Cage - Adaptation
John Cusack - Grosse Pointe Blank
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