You MUST choose. No waffling.

[Chas]

It's sort of a poll.

Choice #1: Walt Disney or Max Fleischer?

Choice #2: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I choose Sabu, Bert Wheeler and the Bowery Boys. Okay by you?

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[Chas]

Not in the choices. But there will be a Bowery Boys, Three Stooges poll at some point. Name it.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Max Fleischer.

Charlie Chaplin.

For your next poll: The Ritz Brothers.

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[Red Diabla]

It's sort of a poll.

Choice #1: Walt Disney or Max Fleischer?

Choice #2: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton?

Fleischer.

Keaton.

Yesssssssss.

 

[Tomasso]

I'd have to go with #2; the talent.

 

[hollowpond]

Fleischer

Keaton

 

[Warden]

Walt Disney

Lloyd

 

[BinkieBaumont]

I was expecting a poll?, old man , Do the right thing and organise a POLL!... Flipping Heck!

 

[stephen1965]

1.Fleischer
2. Keaton

 

[Nathan Dodge]

1. Disney
2. Chaplin

Tomorrow it'll be Fleischer and Lloyd...I love all these great artists, how can anyone choose?

 

[skyvue]

1. Fleischer
2. Keaton (with Lloyd in second place and Chaplin in third)

 

[LizzieMaine]

Fleischer
Lloyd

 

[Flivver]

1. Fleischer - Edgier and more creative than Disney

2. Lloyd - An all time favorite of mine. I like the "regular guy" image he portrayed. I'd place Keaton second and Chaplin a very distant third.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

No thinking needed here, much less waffling:

Max Fleischer
Buster Keaton

 

[imoldfashioned]

Choice #1: Max Fleischer

Choice #2: Harold Lloyd

 

[Sefton]

I take it that the question is more about personal enjoyment and not importance to the art of cinema? I think the answers are a bit different between the two, but here's my choice (based mostly on enjoyment although not entirely so):

Max Fleischer


Charlie Chaplin​

(BTW, his son Sydney Chaplin just passed away, aged 82. As reported here in the Notable Passings thread by Carlisle Blues).

 

[Doctor Strange]

Sorry. Can't choose. Won't choose. I love 'em all.

 

[dhermann1]

Of course, Sefton has the right answer. But if you held a gun to my head, I'd say Fleischer (easy) and Chaplin (very difficult).
Keaton and Lloyd made some WONDERFUL movies, but I still would put them Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd, in that order, based, I would guess, on what I've gotten out of them. But such comparisons are odious and silly.
Can I make a write in of Ernie Kovacs???

 

[Sefton]

Of course, Sefton has the right answer. But if you held a gun to my head, I'd say Fleischer (easy) and Chaplin (very difficult).
Keaton and Lloyd made some WONDERFUL movies, but I still would put them Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd, in that order, based, I would guess, on what I've gotten out of them. But such comparisons are odious and silly.
Can I make a write in of Ernie Kovacs???

Only if I can write in the Marx Brothers and Bob Hope and...