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... of any actor.
I, of course, will start with Bela Lugosi.
My favorite film of his is the RAVEN (1935). His Dr. Vollin is so gleeful in his sadism. He steals the show from the top billed Boris Karloff.

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Worst- the DEATH KISS (1933). I was torn between this and BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA (1952). At least in Bela in the '52 film has something to do. the DEATH KISS will put you to sleep in record time.


So! Howzabout you fine folks?

Christopher Lee.

For his best movie, I am going to go with The Wicker Man. For his worst, oh boy was he in some stinkers, but he always brought a certain gravitas to his roles and I don't recall seeing him ever phoning in a performance regardless of how little he believed in his role.

For the worst movie, he is in (that I've seen), I am torn between Police Academy: Mission to Moscow and The Howling II. I think I am going to have to go with the first one though.

I had no idea he was in a Police Academy movie!  :buggedout:
Holy Lowly!

Quote from: RCMerchant on January 09, 2023, 05:33:53 PM
I had no idea he was in a Police Academy movie!  :buggedout:
Holy Lowly!

Its been a while, but I am fairly sure he played a Russian. He played a lot of Russians and nazi's over the years.

Brad Pitt. His best movie was Once Upon A Time In Hollywood; his worst was Seven Years in Tibet.

Tom Cruise -

best: Eyes Wide Shut

worst: Magnolia

Quote from: bob on January 09, 2023, 07:10:54 PM
Tom Cruise -

best: Eyes Wide Shut

worst: Magnolia

Agreed.

Ok...Peter Lorre!

Best- so many great films! MAD LOVE, the MALTESE FALCON-but I'm going with Fritz Lang's M (1931)
Lorre plays a psychotic child killer. And he does the impossible- You feel sorry for him.

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Worst- VOYAGE TO THR BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1961) Leave it to hack director Irwin Allen to put Lorre in a nothing role in a nothing film.  Watching Irwin Allen movies is like a watching a monkey trying to fvck a football.

Harrison Ford.
Best movie: Bladder Runner, of course.
Worst movie: The Force Awakens.

^ Would the STAR WARS Holiday special count ? That show is so special it needs a helmet.

Quote from: RCMerchant on January 09, 2023, 11:20:35 PM
^ Would the STAR WARS Holiday special count ? That show is so special it needs a helmet.

:teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:

Quote from: ER on January 09, 2023, 11:07:51 PM
Best movie: Bladder Runner, of course.

:teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:

Kevin Kline

Best: Dave and A Fish Called Wanda
Worst: Cry Freedom.

BETTE DAVIS

NOW VOYAGER (1941)  
BURNT OFFERINGS (1976)


VERONICA LAKE   

I MARRIED A WITCH (1942) 
FLESH FEAST (1970)

Nicolas Cage

Best movie: tough one to answer, but I'll stick with LORD OF WAR.
Worst movie: even tougher, if you know the man. It's a fierce competition, my main contenders are GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE, THE WICKER MAN and KNOWING, although I'm aware he's done some kind of post-apocalyptic movie recently that's insanely bad. I haven't seen it tho.

Quote from: ER on January 09, 2023, 08:13:52 PM

Quote from: bob on January 09, 2023, 07:10:54 PM
Tom Cruise -

best: Eyes Wide Shut

worst: Magnolia

Agreed.

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I offer instead

Tom Cruise Best: "A Few Good Men" (though "Magnolia" is his best performance)

Tom Cruise Worst: "Cocktail" (but I haven't seen "Endless Love")

Nic Cage:

Best: "Adaptation."

Worst: "Between Worlds"

Jaws.

Jaws' best movie was in 1975's Jaws (really sensitive, understated performance by Jaws there).

Jaws' worst acting was when his ego was all out of control and he hammed it up in Jaws 3.

I guess I haven't seen him doing much since his cameo in Deep Blue Sea.

Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 10, 2023, 09:52:17 AM
Nic Cage:

Best: "Adaptation."

Worst: "Between Worlds"

Seems like a couple of folks did Nick Cage- I will too!

Best- BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (2009)
Worst? Hmm.. VALLEY GIRL (1983)

Grouch Marx
Best: A DAY AT THE RACES (1937)
Worst: SKIDOO (1968) He plays God. BAD Bad movie. Not in a good way.
This gif is from neither.

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Quote from: RCMerchant on January 10, 2023, 01:53:02 PM
Grouch Marx

Worst: SKIDOO (1968) He plays God. BAD Bad movie. Not in a good way.

I like "Skiddoo" as a good bad movie. It is Groucho's worst, though.

William Shatner.

Going to go for Star Trek 2, The Wrath of Khan for his most enjoyable movie and Kingdom of the Spiders as his worst.

Michael Caine

I admit, I haven't seen that many of his movies, but from what I've seen, I go for:
Best: HARRY BROWN. Intense and real, amazingly good.
Worst: SLEUTH. The 2007 version, not the original, which I haven't seen. Weird, nonsensical... stuff. It barely has a coherent narrative to be called a movie.

Quote from: Alex on January 10, 2023, 02:31:18 PM
William Shatner.

Going to go for Star Trek 2, The Wrath of Khan for his most enjoyable movie and Kingdom of the Spiders as his worst.

KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS? A classic!

Quote from: RCMerchant on January 10, 2023, 03:06:11 PM

Quote from: Alex on January 10, 2023, 02:31:18 PM
William Shatner.

Going to go for Star Trek 2, The Wrath of Khan for his most enjoyable movie and Kingdom of the Spiders as his worst.

KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS? A classic!

Used to have it on VHS. His acting as he rolls around suffering from spider bites...

The Shat-!

Best- IMPULSE (1974) I seen this at the Strand in Paw Paw, MI in 74!
" People like you should be ground into dog meat! "

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Worst...jeez...STAR TREK IV (1986) This movie needs an IV all right.

GLORIA SWANSON 

SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) 

KILLER BEES (1974) or AIRPORT 1975 (1974  :lookingup:)   

You got that straight. Gloria Swanson was great in the 20's and in SUSET BOULEVARD.
I have this 1920's makeup tin. I store my weed in it!
This pic is about the right scale.

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another Cage

best: WILD AT HEART

worst: PAY THE GHOST

JOHN CARRADINE 

THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) 

BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE (1969)

Peter Cushing
Best- the CURSE OF FRANKENSTIEN (1957)
Worst- STAR WARS (1977) I can't stand anything Star Wars related. Ugh!

Marilyn Monroe:
Best: Some Like It Hot
Worst: Bus Stop

Marilyn-
Best-the MISFITS (1961)
Worst-LOVE HAPPY (1949) Pathetic Marx Bros. mess. Their last film.

JOHN WAYNE 

THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (1945) 

THE GREEN BERETS (1968)  - even grosser than THE CONQUEROR (1956) 

CLINT EASTWOOD

Best- the GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1966)
Worst- CASPER (1995)

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Boris Karloff
Best- FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
Worst- ISLAND MONSTER (1954) Whatta turd!

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Adam Sandler:

Best - Uncut Gems (2019)

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Worst - Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

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While I'm sure Sandler has MANY contenders, this is the movie that made me cut any more of his films in my life. We get a triple bill of him at his worst.

Johnny Depp:
Best: Sweeney Todd.
Worst: Crybaby

^ No ED WOOD?  :bluesad:

Mel Gibson

Best: Braveheart
Worst: Lethal Weapon 2

Quote from: RCMerchant on January 12, 2023, 12:04:26 PM
^ No ED WOOD?  :bluesad:

I liked Ed Wood but it wasn't his best in my view, and far from his worst.

Elijah Wood

Best: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Worst: North

Nicholas Cage

Best: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Worst (that I've seen): Trespass

Joaquin Phoenix.

Best: QUILLS (2000). Simply excellent.
Worst: JOKER (2019). Seriously, f**k that overrated movie.

John Travolta

Best - Pulp Fiction

Worst - Battlefield Earth

Lon Chaney Jr.

Best- OF MICE AND MEN (1939)
Worst- GALLERY OF HORRORS (1966) One of the worst films I have ever seen.
Made me wanna cry.

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Robin Williams

Good Will Hunting (1997)
Club Paradise (1986)

Adam Sandler

best: Happy Gilmore

worst: Eight Crazy Nights

Rudolph Valentino:

Best film: The Sheik

Worst film: The Sheik

The man did what he did better than anyone in his era, but played the same character over and over. Reminded me of a date rapist sort, to be honest. Like James Dean after him, early death was a good career move for Valentino.

Linda Blair
Best- the EXORCIST (1973)
Worst- HELL NIGHT (1981) Put me to sleep.

Chloë Grace Moretz

500 Days of Summer (2009)
Movie 43 (2013)

Tim Curry.

Best: Legend, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Worst: McHales Navy (Curry and Bruce Campbell are the best things about this movie).

Russell Crowe:

Best: LA Confidential

Worst: Noah

Quote from: Alex on January 15, 2023, 05:15:50 PM
Tim Curry.

Best: Legend, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Worst: McHales Navy (Curry and Bruce Campbell are the best things about this movie).

Rocky Horror could go to bat in either category, lol. It's entertaining but baaad, and definitely the sorta film this site was founded to extol.

Tor Johnson

best - Plan 9 from Outer Space   

worst - The Beast of Yucca Flats   

Sharon Stone

Basic Instinct (1992)
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

Quote from: bob on January 15, 2023, 07:44:27 PM
Tor Johnson

best - Plan 9 from Outer Space   

worst - The Beast of Yucca Flats   

My favorite would be BRIDE OF THE MONSTER. I agree on the BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS! ( I still like it! I like everything Tor did! )

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Lance Henriksen.

Best. Near Dark.

Worst. Alien 3.

Leslie Nielsen

Best: Forbidden Planet (of course)

Worst: Dracula Dead and Loving It

Leonardo Di Caprio

Best: Shutter Island and The Departed
Worst: Blood Diamond with that fake "Rhodesian" accent.

Quote from: ER on January 15, 2023, 06:29:19 PM
...Rocky Horror could go to bat in either category, lol. It's entertaining but baaad, and definitely the sorta film this site was founded to extol.

Or EXCLUDE...  :teddyr:

ROD STEIGER 

Best:  THE CHOSEN  (1981) is his best acting job, best film must be IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)

Worst:  THE SPECIALIST  (1994) I admit I haven't seen it...a notoriously bad big success...

Later in his career Rod Steiger played Gordon Kahl, the former war veteran turned anti government fugitive in The Twilight Murders  which had several other titles.

Quote from: Trevor on January 29, 2023, 03:33:54 PM
Later in his career Rod Steiger played Gordon Kahl, the former war veteran turned anti government fugitive in The Twilight Murders  which had several other titles.

ROD STEIGER had been in my mind since I saw this thread but couldn't think of a bad performance... but then THE CHOSEN was on TCM the other night, I love it, watched it again, and his performance always breaks me down.  He is both fearsome and cuddly.  And I had to talk about it.

I liked his performance in Waterloo, but he also did fine in Waterfront.

I'm reminded of Widmark, with that fascinating performance in Kiss of Death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw)

Brutal, baby!

Quote from: ralfy on January 29, 2023, 10:06:46 PM
I liked his performance in Waterloo, but he also did fine in Waterfront.

I'm reminded of Widmark, with that fascinating performance in Kiss of Death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw)

Brutal, baby!

Yes, indeed.

Marlon Brando-
Best-
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)

Worst-
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1973)
That movie put me to sleep.

Best and worst roles rather than movies, surely, but I love these guys, so I feel bad about referring to worst roles, even for actors like John Wayne in Conquerer. Can one say, "That's right, pilgrim, this town ain't big enough for the both of us" or something like that, or maybe "Watcha wan' me ta do, pain' a pitcher for ya?" in a Mongolian accent?

I'm sure someone has already mentioned Great Scott. Forget Patton because Turgidson rocks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yu38kXw7lk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yu38kXw7lk)

Hell, yeah!

Meanwhile, mmmmmm...Maggie....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crJnW0UU2Ak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crJnW0UU2Ak)

Western canonist with a neo-fascist streak? Now, that's hot!

George C. Scott
Best-
DR. STRANGELOVE (1963)

Worst-
the CHANGLING (1980)...or maybe the worthless remake of 12 ANGRY MEN (1997), which is an exact word for word , made for TV remake of the 1957 classic. It even stars Tony Danza!  :bluesad:

Robin Williams - In a Dramatic Role

Best -
One H0our Photo (2002)
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Worst -
Patch Adams (1998)
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Quote from: RCMerchant on January 30, 2023, 01:33:00 AM
Marlon Brando-
Best-
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)

Worst-
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1973)
That movie put me to sleep.

I haven't looked at LAST TANGO and admit I don't want to.  But his worst film has got to be : TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON (1954)

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Quote from: RCMerchant on January 30, 2023, 02:52:06 PM
George C. Scott
Best-
DR. STRANGELOVE (1963)

Worst-
the CHANGLING (1980)...or maybe the worthless remake of 12 ANGRY MEN (1997), which is an exact word for word , made for TV remake of the 1957 classic. It even stars Tony Danza!  :bluesad:

THE CHANGLING is indeed crap (I like it). 
I still think his best is PATTON though his Scrooge for TV is the only other one worth bothering with. 

Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 31, 2023, 10:27:23 PM

Quote from: RCMerchant on January 30, 2023, 01:33:00 AM
Marlon Brando-
Best-
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)

Worst-
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1973)
That movie put me to sleep.

I haven't looked at LAST TANGO and admit I don't want to.  But his worst film has got to be : TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON (1954)

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Never seen that one! Yikes! Can't be as bad as Mickey Rooney in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. Egah!

Quote from: RCMerchant on January 31, 2023, 10:43:39 PM
...Never seen that one! Yikes! Can't be as bad as Mickey Rooney in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. Egah!

Nothing's worse than that. 

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BRUCE WILLIS

Best- PULP FICTION (1994)
Worst- Everything else. Sorry, Bruce.  :bluesad:

Bruce Willis

Best : HUDSON HAWK (yes really )

worst: DEATH WISH

In case Michael Caine hasn't been mentioned yet, I just re-watched The Island, and it was good, but according to the trivia he refuses to talk about that movie. Would he talk about Jaws: The Revenge?

For good movies, I think he did great in movies like Alfie, but I think his best role was in Get Carter.

MICHAEL CAINE ... so many wonderful...and bad movies...!

Best:  HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1988) 

Worst:  BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1979)

Samuel L Jackson

best: Pulp Fiction:

worst: Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones    :hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred:

Robert De Niro

best: CASINO

worst: I've only seen a few clips of DIRTY GRANDPA, but... that's enough

Martin Landau

Best!
ALONE IN THE DARK (1982) It also has Jack Palance and Donald Pleasance!
And Martin plays an escaped psycho ward nut case! ED WOOD would be second!
Jack does a bang up job as a walking freak show as well!
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Worst- I dunno...
the TV show SPACE: 1999
That show - the actors don't even try. Unless they were trying to be zombies.

Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 02, 2023, 11:33:32 PM
MICHAEL CAINE ... so many wonderful...and bad movies...!

Best:  HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1988) 

Worst:  BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1979)

Worst: Jaws: The Revenge