# Your Top 10 Favorite Actors
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-favorite-actors/846116
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 8, 2020, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-favorite-actors/846116 "2020-01-08T10:14:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-favorite-actors/846116/21 "2020-01-11T02:26:08Z")
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Avery Brooks
Bryan Cranston
Christian Bale
Hugh Jackman
Jean Claude van Damme
Mel Gibson
Patrick Stewart
Russell Crowe
Sylvester Stallone
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### Author:  [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-favorite-actors/846116/22 "2020-01-11T02:53:16Z")
> [@Personal](#):
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> I don’t have ten favorites.
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> 1. Peter O’Toole
> 2. Audrey Hepburn
> 3. Steve McQueen
> 4. Burt Lancaster
> 5. David Tennant
> 6. Gene Wilder
> 7. Cary Grant
> 8. Katherine Hepburn
I’m going to add Jason Bateman.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-favorite-actors/846116/23 "2020-01-12T04:39:04Z")
Ooo, tough to keep it down to ten apiece.
\*Actors:
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Brendan Gleeson
Humphrey Bogart
Daniel Day-Lewis
Tom Hanks
Denzel Washington
Robert De Niro
Patrick Stewart
Russell Crowe
Kevin Kline
Morgan Freeman
\*Actresses:
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Judi Dench
Keira Knightley
Meryl Streep
Glenn Close
Audrey Hepburn
Laura Linney
Olivia Coleman
Helen Mirren
Jodie Foster
Holly Hunter
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2020, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-favorite-actors/846116/24 "2020-01-12T06:20:10Z")
> [@control-z](#):
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> I’m not a good judge of fine acting, but these are actors that I usually enjoy in movies.
Describes me and my post as well.
Humphrey Bogart
Jack Nicholson
Denzel Washington
Russel Crowe
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Quinn
Edward Norton
Gene Hackman
Brad Pitt
Ed Harris
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### Author:  [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-favorite-actors/846116/25 "2020-01-12T08:19:24Z")
> [@jerez](#):
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> Gary Oldman
> Katharine Hepburn
> Kathy Bates
> Laurence Olivier
> M. Emmet Walsh
> Marlon Brando
> Meryl Streep
> Robert De Niro
> Robert Shaw
> Spencer Tracy
Let’s make it 11 so I can include Cate Blanchett.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-favorite-actors/846116/26 "2020-01-12T14:10:32Z")
Is th OP speaking of living actors? Ilve seen only a few responses that mention actors who are dead.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-favorite-actors/846116/27 "2020-01-12T14:46:17Z")
Honorable mention to Clancy Brown!
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-favorite-actors/846116/28 "2020-01-13T01:15:52Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Honorable mention to Clancy Brown!
Just saw him in _The Crown_, doing a creditable LBJ, despite looking very little like him.
[https://img.vixdata.io/pd/jpg-large/pt/sites/default/files/t/the-crown-3-lyndon-b-jhonson-margareth-1119-1400x800.jpg](https://img.vixdata.io/pd/jpg-large/pt/sites/default/files/t/the-crown-3-lyndon-b-jhonson-margareth-1119-1400x800.jpg)
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