I lead off with:

John Wayne
Anthony Quinn
Sean Connery
James Stewart
Rod Steiger
George C. Scott

take it from there....

John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are definately at the top of my list. Deniro is up there, as well, everyone else on your list is pretty good, though, so good start!

I would add Mel Gibson to Justin's choices.

Sean Connery is my favorite, I would say Harrison Ford is next.
Ken

Just watched The Boys From Brazil again....

Add

James Mason
Gregory Peck
Laurence Olivier

and I forgot

Robert Duvall

If you are talking about real actors who become their characters, Sir John Gielgud, Sydney Potier, and Tom Hanks.

In no particular order:

Jack Nicholson
Al Pacino
Sean Connery
Jay Blum (voice of Spike Speigel from "Cowboy Bebop)
Hugo Weaving
Samuel L. Jackson
Tommy Lee Jones
Matt Damien

How can anyone leave out Robert Duval..."by God Woodrow, it's been one hell of a party".

Bull1

*The old time actors;
Stuart Granger
Carry Grant
Grace Kelly
Kirk Douglas
Richard Harris
Richard Burton
Gregory Peck
Lee Marvin
Charlton Heston
Marlin Brando
Gene Hackman
Jack Nicolson

*Actors of late;
Georg Clunie
Val Kilmer
Leonardo DiCaprio
Al Pacino

Russel Crowe - ow yeah and Robert Redford

I'm adding Gene Hackman to my list.

Bull1

Jack Nicholson

sean connery

john wayne

charles bronson

Denzel Washington has played some great roles

Pacino
Nicholson
Duvall
Hanks
Crowe (Beautiful Mind)

Younger generation
Damon
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
De Caprio (Blood Diamond great role)

More's the pity that the one's that are pro-gun out of them all can be counted on one hand. My favorite comtemporary actor is Tom Selleck. He's really good in westerns and I am a big fan of his Jessie Stone series of movies.

William Holden
Lee Marvin
Humphrey Bogart
Richard Burton
Robert Shaw
Peter Lorre
George C. Scott
Hugo Weaving
James Mason
William Hurt
Gene Hackman
Robert Duvall

Jenna Jamison

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
William Holden
Lee Marvin
Humphrey Bogart
Richard Burton
Robert Shaw
Peter Lorre
George C. Scott
Hugo Weaving
James Mason
William Hurt
Gene Hackman
Robert Duvall

I'm with you on those choices. I'm guessing we're both over 50 ...

Some of the newer crowd out there are pretty good as well such as Russel Crowe and Tom Hanks to mention a couple...

I also like Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, John Wayne and a host of others...

Bottom line for actors with me is if I am entertained by the movie then an actor I may not like would be just fine if he/she worked the part correctly...

Ken....

Seconding Lee Marvin. Not the world's greatest actor, but a real man. Decorated Marine, Iwo Jima. I guess you never say ex-Marine.

I agree with 90% of the nominees so far. I'd add Sterling Hayden, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, Alan Ladd, Marlon Brando, Struther Martin, Jon Voight, lots of others if I could think of them....

Wallace Beary
Paul Muney
Richard Widmark
Kirt Douglas
Anthony Quinn
Douglas Fairbanks
Lee Marvin
William Holden
Glen Ford
Humfrey Bogart
James Cagney
Bert Lancaster
Ronald Coleman
Lon Chaney
S Connery
Berel Ives
Walter Brenen
Ward Bond
Al Pachino
Dustin Hoffman
Randolf Scott
Orson Wells
Gabby Hayes
Chill Wills
James Mason
Jackie Gleason
Brodrick Crawford
Clark Cable
Sidney Greenstreet
Claude Rains
Jimmy Stewart
Ben Johnson
Jack Nickelson
George Raft
Brian Dunnlevy

How about Christipher Walkin


In The Departed Leonard Decaprio

Of course Jack Nicolson

Tommy Lee Jones
Tom Selik
Robert Duval
Sam Elliot
Gene Hackman

Kurt Russel !

Robert Denaro
Clint Eastwood
James Garner
Ed Harris
Gary Sineise

for a minute i thought you guys were going to forget glen ford and sam elliot...how about slim pickens

Paul Newman

James Woods. The guy is educated beyond belief...

Lee Marvin
Steve McQueen
Glenn Ford
Peter Sellers
Johnny Depp
Bruce Campbell
Viggo Mortenson
Tommie Lee Jones
Robert Duvall
Micheal Caine

Why hasn't anyone mentioned Charlton Heston?