Actors we Love

[Lincoln Thorn]

Simple Premise for a topic -

Just Name 5 (or more) actors from all decades of film that you love and a movie you love them in!

I'll start:
Cary Grant - Arsenic and Old Lace
Alain DeLon - Purple Noon
Dick Miller - *Everything but to pick one -Buckets of Blood
Katherine Hepburn - Bringing Up Baby
Peter Falk - Columbo
Daniel Kaluuya - Nope
Michelle Yeoh - Heroic Trio

[Paul Adsett]

Alan Ladd - Shane
Robert Ryan- Crossfire
Al Pacino- The Devils Advocate
Vincent Price - House of Usher
Humphrey Bogart = Casablanca

[Jim Seaburg]

Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot
Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
Boris Karloff - Targets
Lon Chaney Jr. - The Wolf Man
Rosalind Russell - Mame

[Osi Osgood]

Richard Harris, always interesting. Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Oliver Reed, always good, even in bad films, Audrey Hepburn, ahhhh, Audrey!

[Ed Gordon]

When I started thinking about favorite actors over the decades, there were too many to list. So I looked at an IMDB list of best films by decades and came up with two actors that stood out:

Favorite actors over the decades:
Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon
Ian McKellen - Lord of the Rings (all)

And here is the list of favorite films and actors by decades:

List of favorite films by decades
1930's
The Wizard of Oz - Judy Garland

1940's
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart

1950's
Vertigo - James Stewart
On the Waterfront - Marlon Brando
Singin' in the Rain - The entire cast, but Debbie Reynolds stand out.

1960's
To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck

1970's
Taxi Driver - Robert De Niro

1980's
Blade Runner - Harrison Ford

1990's
Pulp Fiction - Samual L Jackson
The Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman

2000's
Lord of the Rings (all) - Ian McKellen

2010's
Drive Ryan - Gosling

Notably absent over the decades: Star Wars. Favorite actors there would be Alec Guiness and James Earl Jones. The other actors did there jobs, but none gave there best performance in Star Wars. But what about Harrison Ford? He did better work as Indiana Jones in my opinion.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons, Black Sunday

Frank Langella - Dracula, Dave

Myrna Loy - any Thin Man movie!

William Powell - any Thin Man movie!

Katy Jurado - High Noon, Broken Lance

Denzel Washington - Man on Fire, Devil in a Blue Dress

[Charlie Peich]

Lock Martin - Gort in Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

[Douglas Meltzer]

Charlie,

Thank you! I never thought to look up who played Gort, but your post made me curious about Mr. Martin.



This blog gives some details and if you scroll down to the comments, there's more information from a relative of his.