10 Best Actors

[The Burgomaster]

Yeah . . . I'm sure we've been down this path before, but I'm about as original as Hollywood these days.  Here's my list (subject to change of course).  Someone else can start a 10 Best Actress discussion . . . I don't have the ambition.

In no particular order:

* Dustin Hoffman
* Paul Newman
* Spencer Tracy
* Marlon Brando
* Robert DeNiro
* James Stewart
* Al Pacino
* Jack Nicholson
* Charles Laughton
* Gene Hackman

[crackers]

Again In no particular order:

1) Bill Murray
2) John Candy
3) Rodney Dangerfield
4) Dick Miller
5) Divine
6) Chevy Chase
7) Warwick Davis
8) Robert Englund
9) Paul Reubens
10) Bruce Campbell

There you have it.

[Psycho Circus]

Crap! Okay....

1. Don Johnson
2. Al Pacino
3. Mickey Rourke
4. John Cusack
5. William Peterson
6. Bill Murray
7. Patrick Swayze
8. Dennis Hopper
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Sylvester Stallone

Just outside of those I'd have to say Ed O'Neill

[JaseSF]

1. James Stewart
2. Cary Grant
3. Humphrey Bogart
4. Marlon Brando
5. James Cagney
6. Lon Chaney Sr.
7. Boris Karloff
8. Robert DeNiro
9. Kirk Douglas
10. Morgan Freeman

Honorable Mentions:

Lew Ayres
Charles Boyer
Richard Burton
Michael Caine
Montgomery Clift
James Dean
Clint Eastwood
Henry Fonda
Paul Giamatti
Alec Guinness
Rutger Hauer
John Hurt
Rock Hudson
Charles Laughton
Jack Lemmon
Peter Lorre
Ray Milland
Robert Mitchum
Bill Murray
Warren Oates
Jack Nicholson
Claude Rains
Edward G. Robinson
Peter Sellers
Charlton Heston
Bela Lugosi
Peter Cushing
Vincent Price

[The Burgomaster]

Jack Lemmon

And for this, sir, I salute you.  A very talented actor who is often overlooked.  His performances in THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES and THE APARTMENT (among many other movies) are top notch.

[Doggett]

1. Jeff Goldblum
2. Paul Giamatti
3. Micheal Caine
4. Micheal Keaton
5. Morgan Freeman
6. Danny DeVito
7. Christopher Walken
8. Thomas Jane
9. Alfred Molina
10. Matt Damon

[RCMerchant]

Gee whilickers hmmmm...OH! I KNOW!

1.Bela LUGOSI

2.Peter Lorre
3.Jimmy Cagney
4.Lon Chaney Sr.
5.John Carradine
6.Boris Karloff
7.Humphrey Bogart
8.Jack Nicholson
9.Clint Eastwood
10.Moe Howard
Honorable mentions....
.Vincent Price
.Curly Howard
.Shemp Howard
.Sterling Hayden
.Robert DeNiro
.Peter Fonda
.Lon Chaney Jr.
.Peter O'Toole
.Frank Sinatra
.Edward G. Robinson

[JaseSF]

Wow, I forgot Danny DeVito, Lon Chaney Jr., Jeff Goldblum and Frank Sinatra...they're all great!!!

[God the Worms]

1. Jack Nicholson
2. Kiefer Sutherland
3. Humphrey Bogart
4. Bruce Cambell
5. Samuel Jackson
6. Bill Murray
7. Clint Eastwood
8. Dick Miller
9. Jeffery Combs
10. Jim Carrey (yep)

[ChaosTheory]

hmmmm....
no particular order
1.Gene Hackman
2.Dustin Hoffman
3.Sam Rockwell
4.Robert Duvall
5.Bill Murray
6.Tim Roth
7.Kenneth Branagh
8.Edward Norton
9.James Stewart
10.Cary Grant

Honorable mentions: Johnny Depp, Joseph Cotton, Sidney Poitier, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Robert Mitchum, Tommy Lee Jones, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Ben Foster

[RCMerchant]

More honarables....
.Lionel Atwill
.Tor Johnson
.Max Von Sydow
.Stan Laurel
.Peter Boyle
.Anthony Perkins
.Mantan Moreland
.Donald Sutherland
.Anthony Hopkins
.Cary Grant
.Jimmy Stewart
.Cameron Mitchell









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[Psycho Circus]

I forgot Sidney Poitier!

[RCMerchant]

I forgot Sidney Poitier!

Me too! Which made me think of...
.Spencer Tracy!

[ChaosTheory]

And I forgot Walken!

Also, George C. Scott, Michael Keaton, Aaron Eckhart, Alan Rickman....there's too many!

[The Burgomaster]

I forgot Sidney Poitier!

Yeah.  He belongs on my list.  I could probably bump Charles Laughton out and add Poitier.