Favorite actors!!!

Double0 Agent

I would like to know, who are your favorite actors. Maybe add some of their movies!
My favorites are: Sean Connery ( The Rock )
John Malkovich ( would be great for a Bond villain I think) Samuel L.Jackson ( could play a wonderful submission part in a Bond movie)

JLMuench

Harrison Ford, Arnold Swartzanager, Danny Davito, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Leonardo DeCaprio

Dortmunder

Actors:

Nicolas Cage (Con Air, The Rock, Windtalkers)
Pierce Brosnan (The Thomas Crown Affair, Bond Movies)
Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones, Air Force One, The Fugitive)
Steve McQueen (The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles)

Actresses:
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Entrapment, America's Sweethearts)
Julia Roberts (Erin Brokovich, Ocean's Eleven)

Serene Helene

My Top 10 Favorite Actors
1. Marlon Brando
2. Marlon Brando
3. Marlon Brando
4. Marlon Brando
5. Marlon Brando
6. Joaquin Phoenix/Russell Crowe (tie)
7. Marlon Brando
8. Marlon Brando
9. Marlon Brando
10. Marlon Brando
Need I say more?

Alex

Stellaaa!!!

Just kidding Serene...

I've already answered this in another topic but,

1) Vincent Price
2) Peter Cushing
3) Christopher Lee
4) Clint Eastwood
5) Barbara Steele
6) Anthony Quinn
7) Jack Palance
8) Dean Martin
9) Gene Tierney
10) Linda Darnell
(could go on and on) (Tyrone Power) etc.

Hardyboy

Quoting Serene Helene:My Top 10 Favorite Actors
1. Marlon Brando
2. Marlon Brando
3. Marlon Brando
4. Marlon Brando
5. Marlon Brando
6. Joaquin Phoenix/Russell Crowe (tie)
7. Marlon Brando
8. Marlon Brando
9. Marlon Brando
10. Marlon Brando
Need I say more?

Given how much weight Marlon has put on over the years, I guess he does qualify as nine separate people! )

Serene Helene

Quoting Hardyboy:

Given how much weight Marlon has put on over the years, I guess he does qualify as nine separate people! )

Well, I won't deny that! Still, I think he's a truly great actor and I always have to praise his talents. But what it's a shame he's aged so badly . . . he was so hot and sexy when he was young!

General Gogol

Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Peter Sellers, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Carlyle, Robbie Coltrane, Johnny Depp...there´s a few names to mention!

jetsetwilly

Kevin Spacey, Samuel L Jackson, Ewan MacGregor, George Clooney, Tom Hanks and Matthew Broderick for the boys; Sharon Stone, Julie Walters, Cameron Diaz, Jodie Foster, Susan Sarandon and Judi Dench for the girls. All of them have movie-star style and talent in spades.

Ostromite

ACTORS

1. Tom Hanks
2. Denzel Washington
3. Al Pacino
4. Robert DeNiro
5. Jack Nicholson
6. John Travolta
7. Marlon Brando
8. Dustin Hoffman
9. Harrison Ford
10. Samuel L. Jackson

ACTRESSES

1. Jodie Foster
2. Helen Hunt
3. Julia Roberts
4. Michelle Pfeiffer
5. Sally Field
6. Ann Bancroft
7. Susan Sarandon
8. Elizabeth Taylor
9. Katharine Hepburn
10. Julianne Moore

Elizabeth

Actors

1. James Stewart
2. Nathaniel Parker
3. Gerard Butler
4. Lambert Wilson
5. James Purefoy
6. Michael Fassbender
7. Marton Csokas
8. Humphrey Bogart
9. Cary Grant
10.Orlando Bloom

Actresses

1. Audrey Hepburn
2. Kate Winslet
3. Emma Thompson
4. Rachel Weisz
5. Jennifer Aniston
6. Jennifer Garner
7. Kate Bosworth
8. Reese Witherspoon
9. Keira Knightley
10.Nicole Kidman

highhopes

I don't think you can separate the actor from the role. For example, just tonight I watched the new DVD transfer of John Ford's "The Searchers," (incredible -- it looks like it was filmed last week) in which John Wayne gives an great performance. For a guy who usually played the hero to little critical acclaim, he was great at darker characters like the Ethan Edwards role in "The Searchers" and the tyrannical trail boss in "Red River." Two of my favorite performances by actresses are Katherine Hepburn as the morphine-addicted mother in "A Long Day's Journey Into Night," and Vivien Leigh in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Her performance is equal to Brando's in that film, in my view. Robert DeNiro in "Godfather II," "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull" and the other Scorcese pictures. Gene Hackman in "The French Connection" and "Unforgiven." One of my most recent favorites is Bruno Ganz as Hitler in "Downfall." Paul Newman in all of his "H" films from the Sixties: "The Hustler," "Hombre," "Hud," "Harper," and "Cool Hand Luke." What an amazing string of great roles. Jeff Bridges in just about everything but especially in "Fearless," a great role in a great film (with absolutely the most terrifying plane crash sequence ever put on film)

Barbel

No particular order: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Harrison Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro.

Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver, Rachel Weisz, Rene Russo, Judi Dench.

(At least that's how it appears from my DVD population- er, collection.)

Son Of Barbel

Actors
1. Johnny Depp (Pirates Of The Carribean)
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Commando ,Total Recall)
3. Tom Cruise (Minority Report)
4. Samuel L , Oh So Cool , Jackson (Unbreakable)
5. Terry O'Quinn (Lost)
6. Robert DeNiro (Ronin ,The Untouchables)
7. Bill Murray (Ghostbusters 1&2)
8. Bill Fagerbake (Spongebob ,Spongebob ,Spongebob)
9.Will Smith ( I'Robot ,Hitch)
10. Jim Carrey ( Liar Liar ,The Mask)


Actresses

1. Sigourney Weaver (Alien 1-4 ,Ghostbusters 1&2)
2. Jennifer Aniston (Friends)
3. Natalie Portman (Star Wars 2nd Trilogy)
4. Selma Hayek (Desparado)
5. Keira Knightley (Pirates Of The Carribean)
6. Michell Pfiefer ( Batman Returns )
7. Judi Dench ( guess )
8. Rene Russo ( In The Line Of Fire )
9. Eva Mendes (Hitch ,Once Upon A Time In Mexico)
10. Toni Collete ( The Sixth Sense ,About A Boy ,Shaft)

Directors

1. James Cameron (True Lies ,Terminator Trilogy)
2. John Mctiernan (Die Hard 1,2&3 ,Last Action Hero)
3. Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall)
4. Tony Scott (Commando)
5. Steven Spielberg (ET, War Of The Worlds)
3. Paul Verhoeven

General_Ourumov

Top Ten


1 - Robert Preston (1918 - 1987)
(The Music Man, The Last Starfighter, Victor/Victoria)

2 - Donald Pleasance (1919 - 1995)
(The Caretaker, You Only Live Twice, Halloween)

3 - Grace Kelly (1929 - 1982)
(Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, To Catch a Thief, High Society)

4 - Christopher Lee (1922 -)
(The Man With the Golden Gun, Star Wars)

5 - Alec Guinness (1914 - 2000)
(Star Wars, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia)

6 - Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
(Suspicion, To Catch a Thief, North By Northwest)

7 - Henry Fonda (1905 - 1982)
(Once Upon a Time in the West, On Golden Pond)

8 - Lawrence Tierney (1919 - 2002)
(Reservoir Dogs, Dillinger, The Devil Thumbs a Ride)

9 - Jack Nicholson (1937 -)
(Batman, Mars Attacks, The Shining, As Good as it Gets)

10 - Harrison Ford (1942 -)
(Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Fugitive, What Lies Beneath)

Mewtwo3090

1.Sean Connery (The Untouchales, 6 Bond Films, Highlander)

2.Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Die Hard 3, Star Wars)

3.Hugh Jackman (X-men series)

4.Chris Evans (Cellular, Fantastic Four)

5.Bruce Willis (Pulp Fiction, Sin City, The Jackal)

6.Johnny Depp (Secret Window, Edward Scissorhands, Pirates Of The Carribean, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

7.Christopher Lambert (Highlander series, Tarzan(not animated))

8.Clive Owen (Sin City, Green Fingers, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Derailed, Closer)

9.Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Star Wars, The Island)

10.Famke Janssen (Goldeneye,X-men series,The Faculty)

Slazenger7

Arnold Schwarzenegger-Nearly everything he's done, especially Predator, True Lies, Terminators, and Total Recall.

Robert Deniro-Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, GFII, Mean Streets, Casino, Deer Hunter

Harrison Ford-Star Wars, Indy, Blade Runner, Fugitive, Patriot Games

Sean Connery-Bond, James Bond, Highlander, Untouchables, Last Crusade, The Rock

Johnny Depp-Fear and Loathing, Blow, Donnie Brasco, Pirates, Ed Wood

Brando-On the Waterfront, Streetcar, Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and hell, I loved The Freshman!

Ed Norton-Fight Club, American History X, Rounders, 25th Hour, Primal Fear

Nicholson-The Shining, Chinatown, Cuckoo's Nest, Batman, Few Good Men

James Gandolfini-The Sopranos, True Romance

Robert Shaw-Jaws, From Russia with Love, The Sting

Stallone-Rocky

Barry Nelson

Stumbled on the thread while looking for something else so I thought I would add my opinion. I would break this down into 4 categories, all time favorite actor, all time actress, current actor and current actress.

All Time Actor - John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Jack Lemmon

All Time Actress - Katherine Hepburn, Maureen O'Hara, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe

Current Actor - Tom Hanks, Nick Cage, Leanardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp

Current Actress - Amy Adams (everytime I see her I think she jumps right off the screen), Jennifer Connelly, Tilda Swinton.

TonyDP

To my way of thinking, a "favorite" actor is one who makes you watch a movie you ordinarily wouldn't give a second thought to.

There really aren't that many actors that can do that for me; the ones that come closest would probably be Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Al Pacino and Harrison Ford. Lee Marvin is another versatile actor appeared in a lot of movies that are in my collection. I'd also have to give a shout to Tom Hanks, who is another really versatile actor (even if I don't really gravitate towards most of his movies).

As for actresses, that's a tougher call as I always tend to focus on how they look before thinking about their acting chops. Sigourney Weaver is somebody who I always thought could play just about anything. Being Italian, I'd have to give a nod to Sophia Loren. Any movie with Angie Dickinson is also bound to be interesting. And I must confess to an enduring fondness for Halle Berry; I was one of the 4 people on the planet who actually had a good time watching Catwoman and she could probably hold my attention while reading the ingredients off a box of cereal.

There's many, many more but those are the first that spring to mind.

Barry Nelson

TonyDP wrote:

As for actresses, that's a tougher call as I always tend to focus on how they look before thinking about their acting chops.

) My compliments on your honesty, I confess Tony so do I, although I do have Katherine Hepburn and Tilda Swinton in my list and it wasn't for their looks. I do think Halle Berry is super hot, but I haven't cared for most of her movies. Although I have enjoyed many of Jennifer Connelly's fine performances, I have always thought she would be fantastic in a remake of Showgirls. :v

Dan Same

Barry Nelson wrote:

TonyDP wrote:

As for actresses, that's a tougher call as I always tend to focus on how they look before thinking about their acting chops.

) My compliments on your honesty, I confess Tony so do I, although I do have Katherine Hepburn

I do the same thing. ) You know it's interesting that, Tony, you talk about 'acting chops' as when it comes to my favourite actors (male and female), I don't simply evaluate them on how well they can act. Some of my favourite actors are, to be brutally honest, absolutely terrible actors. )

BTW, Barry, Katherine Hepburn is my all-time favourite actress. {[]

Barry Nelson wrote:

I do think Halle Berry is super hot, but I haven't cared for most of her movies.

She is certainly not the greatest when it comes to selecting good films. That said, I absolutely adore her. She's one of my favourite actresses as not only is she a terrific actress, but I would argue that Halle Berry with long hair is one of the world's three most beautiful women.

TonyDP

Barry Nelson wrote:

Although I have enjoyed many of Jennifer Connelly's fine performances, I have always thought she would be fantastic in a remake of Showgirls. :v

Somehow, I knew Jennifer Connelly would factor into your choices somewhere. )

Although, truth be told, I think she's a little too sweet (at least in what I've seen her in) to be dancing topless in Vegas ( I may be shallow, but I still have a conscience ;% ).

Dan Same wrote:

Barry Nelson wrote:

I do think Halle Berry is super hot, but I haven't cared for most of her movies.

She is certainly not the greatest when it comes to selecting good films. That said, I absolutely adore her. She's one of my favourite actresses as not only is she a terrific actress, but I would argue that Halle Berry wil long hair is one of the world's three most beautiful women.

Well, the list was "favorite" actors, not "best" actors.

As for me, I actually tend to prefer Halle with a shorter hairdo, like in DAD or Swordfish.