HARDKOREBJ
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who is the best actor of all time?
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I love this kind of thread...
I usually say Marlon Brando, because he changed film acting so much...But I really don't like any of his films, except for the Godfather...It's more of what he represents as an Actor...
Right now, I'm going with Spencer Tracy
I usually say Marlon Brando, because he changed film acting so much...But I really don't like any of his films, except for the Godfather...It's more of what he represents as an Actor...
Right now, I'm going with Spencer Tracy
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Re: Their's many great actors
Jimmy Stewart was great with the invisible rabbit............ a classic!
Bogie was awesome in Casablanca!
Nicholson, De Niro, Brando and Dean were superb portraying gritty roles......................but who in his or her right mind could forget THE DUKE??? The man was absolutely a terrific role model for millions of American boys, especially in his later years!
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Jimmy Stewart was great with the invisible rabbit............ a classic!
Bogie was awesome in Casablanca!
Nicholson, De Niro, Brando and Dean were superb portraying gritty roles......................but who in his or her right mind could forget THE DUKE??? The man was absolutely a terrific role model for millions of American boys, especially in his later years!
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THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
THE DUKE!
THE DUKE!
Mensa
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The best, bar none
They say the best sign of a truly great actor is that they make it seem so real that you don't even know they were acting. So I'd have to say David Fletcher.
No one ever knew he was acting and you can't get more real than that! In fact, no one ever knew he was even an actor!
They say the best sign of a truly great actor is that they make it seem so real that you don't even know they were acting. So I'd have to say David Fletcher.
No one ever knew he was acting and you can't get more real than that! In fact, no one ever knew he was even an actor!
p_p_man
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I was going to say either...
Meryl Streep or
Donald Sutherland
purely on the basis that they're the only two American actors I know who can impersonate a foreign language without sounding like they're strangling themselves...
but then..."best ever"...hmmm....
I reckon a close thing between Sir Lawrence Olivier and that bloke who plays Picard on Star Trek...Patrick Stewart.
Meryl Streep or
Donald Sutherland
purely on the basis that they're the only two American actors I know who can impersonate a foreign language without sounding like they're strangling themselves...
but then..."best ever"...hmmm....
I reckon a close thing between Sir Lawrence Olivier and that bloke who plays Picard on Star Trek...Patrick Stewart.
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Chronologically: Bogart, Pacino, Hanks and the boy who sees dead people.
p_p_man
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OK...
scrub Donald Sutherland, he should be able to speak in foreign tongues but is still not the best ever...
Meryl Streep an American (?) who has studied her craft but, again, still not the "best ever".
God it's a hard thread to answer...
Why not rename it Absolutely Brilliant Thespians!
That'll broaden the scope...
scrub Donald Sutherland, he should be able to speak in foreign tongues but is still not the best ever...
Meryl Streep an American (?) who has studied her craft but, again, still not the "best ever".
God it's a hard thread to answer...
Why not rename it Absolutely Brilliant Thespians!
That'll broaden the scope...
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I don't think he was the GREATEST actor who ever lived, but Burt Lancaster was cool as hell.
Anybody ever seen a movie called "The Train", directed by John Frankenheimer? Excellent.
Anybody ever seen a movie called "The Train", directed by John Frankenheimer? Excellent.
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Actors are tricky. You have the guy who plays the same character in every movie (Kevin Costner) but does it very well. John Wayne was the same guy in most of his movies except the Shootist....Jack Nicholson I used to think was like that until I saw one of his recent films, I forget the name....he was a retired cop who couldn't let go of a case that everyone else considered solved and faked a relationship with a woman and her kid to lure him out of hiding, ended up stark raving mad and talking to himself....the bad guy died on his way there and everyone thought he was making it up or delusional...great movie and he didnt play a rich suave crazy guy for once...
Gregory Peck, in addition to the guys mentioned before, should be on the honor roll of great actors
Kevin Bacon, for all-time best supporting actor, wins that one. He is the best second or third guy ever, very versatile. If he were a baseball player he'd be the guy that played six positions, hit .250-.275, and could pitch an inning in a blowout
Gregory Peck, in addition to the guys mentioned before, should be on the honor roll of great actors
Kevin Bacon, for all-time best supporting actor, wins that one. He is the best second or third guy ever, very versatile. If he were a baseball player he'd be the guy that played six positions, hit .250-.275, and could pitch an inning in a blowout
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James Earl Jones has presence, no doubt about it.....Tommy Lee Jones is great. Willem DaFoe is an incredible actor, too
I think Kathy Bates is one of the best actresses.....most of the female stars in movie history have been just eye candy with a little training...Ugly actors and actresses that succeed are so much more talented because they have to be
I think Kathy Bates is one of the best actresses.....most of the female stars in movie history have been just eye candy with a little training...Ugly actors and actresses that succeed are so much more talented because they have to be
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How could I forget?
Tom Hanks is THE MAN!!!!! I was wondering how he could have played with just a volleyball, but he pulled it off, BEAUTIFULLY!!!!!!!!! Other great actors are Harrison Ford and SEan Connery. He WAS Bond.Bubblegum *sugarless* said:
