Favorite Non-Oscar Nominated Performances: Actor, 1943

[SelwynMcGinty]

As the title of the thread suggests, we're looking to pinpoint the Next Best Celebrated Acting Performances of film history. Plenty of great turns get ignored or forgotten through the sands of time, and this is a quick way to review and vote for our favorites.

This is for the North American calendar release year of 1943, so to save us clicking on Wikipedia, the following Oscar nominees are exempt:

Best Actor - Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine
Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
Gary Cooper, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Walter Pidgeon, Madame Curie
Mickey Rooney, The Human Comedy

Best Supp. Actor - Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier
Charles Bickford, The Song of Bernadette
J. Carrol Naish, Sahara
Claude Rains, Casablanca
Akim Tamiroff, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Anything else is fair game! You may notice that the choices are primarily Leading roles, but I'm not going to disallow other selections. It doesn't seem fair or sensible to quibble about Lead/Supporting categories.

Feel free to discuss these or other choices, 1943 the movie year in general, or any other rankings or opinions.

Thanks to everyone participating in these crazy polls! Cheers!

[Alan T]

Claude Rains, Phantom of the Opera

[Cruel Angel]

Claude Rains, Phantom of the Opera

[Beckford]

1943 - a great year for supporting actors (Robert Paige "Son of Dracula". Vincent Price and Roman Bohnen, both for "The Song of Bernadette"), Jack Carson "The Hard Way"). But I have to give top honors to Dana Andrews, heartbreakingly good in "The Ox-Bow Incident"

[BerC]

Roger Livesey for "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."

[Lord-Oakbeard]

James Mason, The Man in Grey

[djzero]

Anton Walbrook, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

[jeangreyforever]

Charles Laughton in This Land is Mine.

Also Charles Boyer for The Constant Nymph and Joel McCrea for The More the Merrier.