Top 5 best Actors Of All time......Then list your personal Favorite Actor!!

[Rodney-2187]

Burt Lancaster

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[Jaymole]

5 Best

Marlon Brando
Daniel Day Lewis
Robert De Niro (pre age 60)
Burt Lancaster
Humphrey Bogart

Fave:

Brando

[Talleyrand]

N. Cage
R. De Niro
M. Douglas
M. McDowell
R. Mitchum

[Rich65]

Tough to choose but here we go:
Robert Mitchum
Vincent Price
John Wayne
Max Von Sydow
Gary Oldman
My personal favorite:
Timothy Dalton

[Smartmark]

Tom Hanks
Morgan Freeman
Dustin Hoffman
Robert De Niro
Kevin Spacey

[Cremildo]

Walter Brennan
Jack Nicholson
Max Von Sydow
Robert Duvall
Laurence Olivier

My fav is Von Sydow.

(pretty sure I'm forgetting other great actors who deserve to be listed, especially British ones)

[P-Rock]

Adam Sandler
Hayden Christensen
Kevin James
Mike Meyers
Rob Schneider

Adam Sandler

[leey]

Actors:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Christian Bale
Hugh Jackman
Brad Pitt
Tom Hardy

Actress:
Emma Watson
Natalie Portman
Kate Beckinsale
Yvonne Strahovski
Rooney Mara
honorable mention: Jessica Chastain

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by rodneyfaile

Burt Lancaster
Humphrey Bogart
James Cagney
Peter Sellers
Gary Oldman

I thought I would update my list in this thread, but after looking at it I'm not sure it needs updating.

[imsounoriginal]

Legit BEST:
1) Brando
2) De Niro
3) Pacino
4) Joaquin Phoenix
5) Denzel

Personal Favorites:
1) Bogey
2) Denzel
3) Tom Cruise
4) Shahrukh Khan
5) Brando

[qb2333]

Funniest thing about this "best actors of all time" thread is both Matthew and Martin Lawrence were mentioned before Olivier

[Doctor Jack]

Originally Posted by leey

Yvonne Strahovski

Are you being serious? A top 5 actress? Of all time?

[thecooldud]

Aren't these threads just excuses for people to whine "ooh, your choices suck, mine are the only ones that matter!"?

[yellowjacket1]

Best is so subjective.

Sticking to favorites...

Jimmy Stewart
John Wayne
Robert Downey Jr.
Hugh Jackman
Mel Gibson

[SarahS]

Originally Posted by Jaymole

5 Best

Marlon Brando
Daniel Day Lewis
Robert De Niro (pre age 60)
Burt Lancaster
Humphrey Bogart

Fave:

Brando

You sir are correct as great minds think alike..

[stvn1974]

Best:
Nicholson
Brando
Deniro
Pacino
Duvall

Favorites:
Harrison Ford
William Shatner
Bruce Campbell
Nathon Fillion
Kurt Russell

[gentileschi]

I don't want to try to list best, so my current personal favourites:

Michael Shannon
Ben Mendelsohn
Mads Mikkelsen
Stellan Skarsgård
Oscar Isaac or Alain Delon

[Packerfan75]

It's tough for me to do an all time best but these guys always seem to turn in good performances and get my attention when I see them.

-Tom Hanks
-Clint Eastwood
-Robert DeNiro
-Kurt Russell
-Denzel Washington

[LegacyCosts]

Just picking favorites here

Robert Deniro pre 00s
Nicolas Cage
Patrick Stewart
Michael Fassbender
Bryan Cranston

Michael Shannon, Daniel Day Lewis and Vanilla Sky Tom Cruise are way up there too.

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by tommyboy81

Anthony Hopkins (Duh!)
Marlon Brando
Tom Hanks
Daniel Day Lewis
Meyrl Streep
(She maybe called an actress but she is an actor)

I can't believe it took 28 posts for someone to mention DDL. He's cemented in the top 5.