Top Ten Actors of All Time?

[anselmo1]

1. John Barrymore
2. Sir Ralph Richardson
3. Basil Rathbone
4. Sir Laurence Olivier
5. Errol Flynn
6. Joel McCrea
7. Humphrey Bogart
8. Clark Gable
9. James Cagney
10. George Raft

 

[jamespowers]

1. John Barrymore
2. Sir Ralph Richardson
3. Basil Rathbone
4. Sir Laurence Olivier
5. Errol Flynn
6. Joel McCrea
7. Humphrey Bogart
8. Tom Selleck
9. Warren William
10. George Raft

Can you fit James Cagney and Clarke Gable in there somewhere? [huh]

 

[MudInYerEye]

In no particular order:
Warren Oates
Burt Lancaster
Toshiro Mifune
Charles Laughton
Paul Muni
Lon Cheney
Laurence Olivier
Edward G. Robinson
Charlie Chaplin
Alec Guiness

 

[JazzBaby]

Orson Welles
Geoffrey Rush
Daniel Autiel
Richard E. Grant
Ralph Fiennes
Bogie
William Holden
Clark Gable
Jimmy Stewart
I'm not averse to a little Tom Hanks, in a good role.

I know this is 11, but I could watch Jack Lemmon all day!

 

[Mike in Seattle]

I'd have to suggest adding John Wayne and William Powell.

 

[anselmo1]

How did I forget Jimmy Cagney! Please note edit!

 

[Sefton]

Toshiro Mifune
Takashi Shimura
Cary Grant
Orson Wells
Marlon Brando
Peter Sellers
Henry Fonda
Charlie Chaplin
Humphrey Bogart
Bruno Ganz

If I could cheat a bit...the fellow in my avatar for number 11: Sir Michael Caine!

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Movie actors --

1. Humphrey Bogart
2. James Stewart
3. Marlon Brando
4. Sir Alec Guiness
5. Sir Lawrence Olivier
6. Richard Burton (I loved him, my very favorite Hamlet)
7. Al Pacino
8. Dustin Hoffman
9. Robert De Niro
10. Tom Hanks

Again, I could also put Gielgud, Redgrave, Richardson, Attenborough and a whole slew of those English Actors in there. Also, all the character actors and actresses who have been in many movies, sometimes playing to type, sometimes so versatile, you hardly recognize them from movie to move.

karol

 

[HadleyH]

Here we go:

Robert Mitchum
David Niven
Gary Cooper
Warren William (nobody remembers him now, he was fun!)
Spencer Tracy
Charlie Chaplin
Peter Sellers
W.C.Fields
Fredric March
James Mason

 

[LadyStardust]

Rex Harrison
Claude Rains
Jimmy Stewart
Robert Mitchum
Jimmy Cagney
William Powell
Harold Lloyd
Tyrone Power
Charlie Chaplin
Walter Pidgeon

 

[LadyStardust]

Here we go:

Robert Mitchum
David Niven
Gary Cooper
Warren William (nobody remembers him now, he was fun!)
Spencer Tracy
Charlie Chaplin
Peter Sellers
W.C.Fields
Fredric March
James Mason

I remember Warren!:eusa_clap I love him, he's very delightful. He did a wonderful job in the Colbert version of Imitation of Life!

I also love that you included Robert Mitchum! What a force of nature! But sadly, if ever the word under-rated were created for someone, it was him. He deserves so much more applause and recognition! I get chills every time I see a new movie of his!

 

[Jack Scorpion]

Favorites: In no order,

Robert Mitchum
Jimmy Stewart
William Holden
Steve McQueen
Toshiro Mifune
Donald Sutherland
William Hurt
Dennis Quaid
Mickey Rourke
Elliot Gould

 

[HadleyH]

I remember Warren!:eusa_clap I love him, he's very delightful. He did a wonderful job in the Colbert version of Imitation of Life!

I also love that you included Robert Mitchum! What a force of nature! But sadly, if ever the word under-rated were created for someone, it was him. He deserves so much more applause and recognition! I get chills every time I see a new movie of his!

Warren William,wasn't he cute?

And Robert Mitchum what can we say... it's exactly as you put it "a force of nature", talk about film noir, talk about the "detective extraordinaire", gosh, he was the one! Dangerous but at the same time considerate, what a heady combination.
And LadyStardust, I must confess... I also get chills everytime he appears on the screen. lol lol lol

 

[Novella]

Jimmy Stewart
Humphrey Bogart
Cary Grant
Paul Newman
Christian Bale
Michael Caine
Tom Hanks
Ray Milland
Joel McCrea
Leonardo Dicaprio

I also considered Robert Montgomery and Dick Powell since I love their early 1930s charismatic roles. But I feel like I need to see more of their later films to really pass verdict.

 

[Lauren]

In no particular order:
Cary Grant
William Powell
Fred Astaire
Laurence Olivier
George Sanders
James Stuart
Claude Rains
Humphrey Bogart
Gene Kelly
Clark Gable

 

[DOUGLAS]

So many great actors, This is a hard list to come up with.I apologize in advance for butchering the spelling of any ones name.
Charles Durning
Anthony Hopkins
Max Von Sydow
James Cagney
Leslie Howard
Peter Lorey
Patrick McGee
James Earl Jones
Tatsuya Nakadai
Richard Widmark

 

[Amy Jeanne]

William Haines
Edward Everett Horton
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd
Karl Dane
Dick Powell
Allen Jenkins
Ned Sparks
Robert Taylor (yes, really!)
El Brendel (yes, really!!)

I love the funny character guys more than the dashing leading men, but both are divine!