Fred C. Dobbs

I apologize in advance if this has been done, but who are some of your favorite actors and actresses?

I guess i'll just list a top 10, since I can go on forever...

Actors -
Vincent Price
Humphrey Bogart
Lon Chaney Sr.
Peter Lorre
The Marx Brothers (Although i've always been partial to Harpo)
Peter Cushing
Charles Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Boris Karoff
Robert DiNero

Actresses -
Pam Grier
Lauren Bacall
Ingrid Bergman
Jodie Foster
Ann Sheridan

I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen any James Cagney films, but I will be buying One, Two, Three and Yankee Doodle Dandy on DVD next month and I am anxious to check out White Heat, The Public Enemy, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Roaring Twenties, and G-Men when they arrive on DVD!

Rypro 525

rent them on tape if you can find them. or wait until they air on tcm.

Fred C. Dobbs

Hollywood Video, Blockbuster Video, and my public library all don't carry any Cagney films. I don't have TCM, but my friend does. I've heard some rumblings about the Cagney gangster films I listed coming to DVD in 2004. Can't wait.

Sessa17

All-time Favorite actor:

Kurt Russell

the rest of my top ten probably would be:


Toshiro Mifune
Christian Bale
Johnny Depp
Harvey Keitel
Gary Oldman
Brian Cox
Chow Yun-Fat - Although his career isn't what it use to be.
Russel Crowe
Jeremy Irons



Favorite Actress:

Jennifer Garner

Rounding out my top ten:

Keira Knightly - Would be my favorite if she had some more movies under her belt.
Asia Argento
Lucy Liu
[Famke Jensen
Zhang Ziyi
Salma Hayek

Corleone316

Actors:

All-Time Favorite:

Robert De Niro

Other Favs.

Edward Norton
Marlon Brando
Al Pacino
Denzel Washington

Actresses:

Jodie Foster
Meryl Streep
Lucy Liu

Rypro 525

youve got some serious babes in your list. And oh yeah, Keira stars in the remake of Doctor Zchivago starting sunday night on pbs if your interested. (or its on dvd.

B.A.

Favorite Actor: Mel Gibson

Favorite Actress: Cate Blanchett

Other Favs:

John Wayne
Paul Newman
Steve McQueen
Harrison Ford
Brad Pitt
George Clooney
Don Cheadle
Benicio Del Toro
Edward Norton
Bill Murray
Gene Hackman
John Cusack
Matt Damon
Bruce Willis
Cary Grant
Sean Connery
Russell Crowe
Johnny Depp
Ewan McGregor

Famke Janssen
Maureen O'Hara
Julia Roberts
Gwyneth Paltrow
Rene Russo
Natalie Portman
Minnie Driver
Jennifer Garner
Katie Holmes
Jodie Foster
Maria Bello
Kirsten Dunst
Laura Linney

Okay, I need to stop.

flixtime

Actors (the first 2 are easy):
John Wayne
Errol Flynn

I have to give some thought as to the others. Too many classic film actors from which to choose. Maybe:
Robert Taylor
Abbott & Costello
Richard Widmark
Jeff Chandler
and all the rest who did significant work in war/Western/adventure films - Cooper, Peck, Douglas, Lancaster, etc.

Actresses:
I don't really consider myself a big fan of any actress in particular but I suppose I'd have to go with:

Olivia de Havilland (because she was in so many Flynn films)
Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane from the early Tarzan films)
Maureen O'Hara (because of her work with Wayne)
Virginia Mayo - Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Princess and the Pirate, The Best Years of Our Lives, Colorado Territory, Horatio Hornblower

After recently watching Mogambo on TCM, I find myself a bit smitten with the character of Eloise Kelly as played by Ava Gardner. I wouldn't have guessed it to be the case but Gardner completely overshadowed Grace Kelly. Also (and once again thanks to TCM!), Faye Dunaway is pretty high on my list right now (I'll have to keep her in mind for the next time we do a "Most Beautiful Actress" thread). She was incredible in Bonnie & Clyde and The Thomas Crown Affair.

edited to add: Welcome aboard Fred C. Dobbs!

Fred C. Dobbs

Thanks for the warm welcome and the very detailed reply.

Samuel

Gary Oldman
Cate Blanchett

There are a lot of others I like but these two are my favorites.

MrX

Actor: Robert De Niro
others:
Denzel Washington
Don Cheadle
Benicio Del Toro
Edward Norton
Brad Pitt
Willem Dafoe
Al Pacino
Jude Law
Kevin Spacey
Kiefer Sutherland
Johnny Depp

Actress: Julianne Moore
others
Nicole Kidman
Jodie Foster
Audrey Tautou
Monica Bellucci
Diane Lane
Uma Thurman
Lucy Liu
Naomi Watts
Frances McDormand
Kate Hudson
Kate Beckinsale

mediabear

Favorite Actors: Ian Hart, Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor

Favorite Actresses: Emily Watson, Rita Tushingham, Julianne Moore

cruzness

Favorite Actors

Edward Norton (love everything he does)
Gary Oldman (a true chameleon)
Brad Pitt (much better actor than most believe)
Denzel Washington
Kevin Spacey (script selection needs to improve)
Ian McKellan
Peter O'Toole
Al Pacino (a shell of his former self)
Jack Nicholson
Johnny Depp
Gene Hackman

Favorite Actresses

Selma Hayek
Cameron Diaz
Kristen Dunst
Julliane Moore
Nicole Kidman
Uma Thurman

Deckard-10

Actors:

Robert De Niro
Kurt Russell
Anthony Hopkins
Bruce Campbell
Patrick Stewart
Ian McKellan
Gene Hackman
Sean Connery
Gary Oldman
Lee Marvin
Chow Yun-Fat

Actresses:

Jodie Foster
Sigourney Weaver
Lili Taylor
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Alice Krige
Monica Bellucci

shill66

Male:
Boris Karloff
Ian Holm
Ronald Colman
Cary Grant
Kenneth Branagh
Anatoli Solonitsyn
Gary Sinise
Orson Welles
Kevin Spacey
Bruce Willis
William Hartnell
Morgan Freeman
John C Reilly
William H Macy
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Michael Jeter
Patrick McGoohan
Sam Neill
George Clooney
Richard Attenborough
John Mills
William Powell
Edward Norton
Humphrey Bogart

Female:
Fay Wray
Anne Heche
Isabel Jewell
Myrna Loy
Gwyneth Paltrow
Sigourney Weaver
Louise Brooks
Emma Thompson
Barbara Stanwyck
Michelle Trachtenberg
Cate Blanchett
Ann Carter
Jean Arthur
Hayley Mills
Clea DuVall
Julianne Moore
Deborah Kerr

'owzat?

Joel

I will pick my fave actors/actresses based on their movies that I feel I can't miss.

Actor: Edward Norton
Actress: Julia Roberts

*start listing others*

Adrien Brody
John Cusack
Jim Caviezel
Keanu Reeves
Jude Law
Kevin Kline
Tom Hanks
Audrey Hepburn
Cate Blanchett
Meg Ryan
Nicole Kidman
Jodie Foster

*stop* That's all I can think right now.

Doctor Kick

I'm gonna keep this light with a top 25. I tried to do a top 100 favorite movies once and it somehow spiraled out of control into a top 250.

Denzel Washington
Christian Bale
Robert De Niro
Leonardo Dicaprio
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Victor Buono
Keith David
Jack Nicholson
John Candy
Kevin Mcarthy
John Cusack
Terry O'Quinn
Donald Sutherland
Gene Hackman
Matt Damon
Jim Carrey
Bob Hoskins
William Berger
Tomas Milian
Florinda Bolkan
Damian Lau
Ti Lung
Chan Wai Lau
Louis Koo
Deannie Yip

KaBluie

Rosanna Arquette
Julie Christie
Lisa Eilbacher
Jane Fonda
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Goldie Hawn
Myrna Loy
Hayley Mills
Uma Thurman
Rita Tushingham

Woody Allen
Mel Brooks
Peter Cook
Clint Eastwood
Boris Karloff
Steve Martin
Bill Murray
Peter O'Toole
Peter Sellers
Gene Wilder

Norm de Plume

I'm too lazy to construct a long list, but two of my favourite actors are taciturn tough guy Lino Ventura and detached Polish intellectual Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, or rather, those are the character types they often played.