100 Greatest Movie Actors

lew · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:56 am

100 Greatest Movie Actors

Criteria: - These are the Greatest Actors in film based on talent, versatility, influence, characterization, charisma, and success in the movie business.

Edited By: Lew
Last Updated: 04-02-06

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1. Marlon Brando
2. Laurence Olivier
3. Robert DeNiro
4. James Stewart
5. Alec Guinness
6. Humphrey Bogart
7. Gregory Peck
8. Jack Nicholson
9. Henry Fonda
10. Spencer Tracy
11. Charlie Chaplin
12. Gary Cooper
13. James Cagney
14. Al Pacino
15. Cary Grant
16. Sidney Poitier
17. Paul Newman
18. George C. Scott
19. Burt Lancaster
20. Anthony Hopkins
21. Dustin Hoffman
22. Peter Sellers
23. Robert Mitchum
24. Richard Burton
25. Yul Brenner
26. Edward G. Robinson
27. Charlton Heston
28. Clark Gable
29. William Holden
30. Jack Lemmon
31. Gene Kelly
32. Charles Laughton
33. Denzel Washington
34. Fredric March
35. Errol Flynn
36. Kirk Douglas
37. James Dean
38. Orson Welles
39. Gene Hackman
40. Robert DuVall
41. John Wayne
42. Anthony Quinn
43. Michael Caine
44. Sean Connery
45. Peter O'Toole
46. Harrison Ford
47. Robert Redford
48. Buster Keaton
49. Richard Harris
50. Sean Penn
51. Toshiro Mifune
52. Morgan Freeman
53. Lee Marvin
54. Kenneth Branagh
55. Steve McQueen
56. Paul Winfield
57. Ben Kingsley
58. Ralph Richardson
59. Montgomery Clift
60. Rod Steiger
61. Victor Mature
62. Marcello Mastroianni
63. Tom Hanks
64. Christopher Walken
65. Clint Eastwood
66. Walter Matthau
67. Peter Finch
68. Gary Oldman
69. John Malkovich
70. Daniel Day Lewis
71. John Gielgud
72. Dennis Hopper
73. Liam Neeson
74. Geoffrey Rush
75. Samuel L. Jackson
76. James Mason
77. Peter Lorre
78. Fred Astaire
79. Jon Voight
80. Mel Gibson
81. Johnny Depp
82. Gerard Depardieu
83. James Caan
84. Max von Sydow
85. Ralph Fiennes
86. John Hurt
87. Boris Karloff
88. Richard Widmark
89. Kevin Spacey
90. Nicolas Cage
91. Micheal Douglas
92. Russel Crowe
93. William Hurt
94. Richard Dreyfuss
95. Ian McKellan
96. Robin Williams
97. Sydney Greenstreet
98. Tom Cruise
99. Willem Dafoe
100. Gene Wilder

BayPineapple · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:30 pm **Posts:** 373

My Top Three
1. Humphrey Bogart
2. James Stewart
3. Marlon Brando

rockvirtuoso · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:36 pm **Posts:** 2351

why is day-lewis so low on this list? surely hes a lock for the top 10?!?

Sodacake · **Posted:** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:53 am

Maybe it's because I'm unfamiliar with a lot of his work, but Alec Guinness seems a little high.

all the young trains · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:19 pm **Posts:** 1180

rockvirtuoso wrote:

why is day-lewis so low on this list? surely hes a lock for the top 10?!?

It was made a while ago, certainly before TWBB. But you've still got some ridiculous stuff like Hanks and Mifune being so low.

Sodacake wrote:

Maybe it's because I'm unfamiliar with a lot of his work, but Alec Guinness seems a little high.

Agreed. Someone like Peter O'Toole would be a better fit for that position (second-greatest British film actor, if you will) IMO, although it could really go either way. His awards resume is certainly nothing to fuck with. Guinness really only has one performance (River Kwai) that's of the same stature as Lawrence, Ruling Class, and The Stunt Man -- although I'd personally watch Kind Hearts and Coronets over any of them, any day of the week.

How's this for a top 15?

1. Brando
2. De Niro
3. Olivier
4. Stewart
5. Chaplin
6. O'Toole
7. DDL
8. Bogart
9. Nicholson
10. D. Hoffman
11. Pacino
12. Hanks
13. Guinness
14. Newman
15. Mifune

Sodacake · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:43 pm

I much prefer that top 15. Nice work.

rockvirtuoso · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:36 pm **Posts:** 2351

what makes deniro so much greater than pacino and hoffman?

all the young trains · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:19 pm **Posts:** 1180

Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, mostly. But <10 places among every actor ever isn't all that much.

Sherick · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:11 pm

Sodacake wrote:

I much prefer that top 15. Nice work.

Sid_Vicious_24 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:31 am

Pacino is better than Hoffman imo. That's the only thing that I really don't like.

pave · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:00 pm

honestly, those 4 should be in a group... DeNiro>Nicholson>Hoffman>Pacino (thats not my personal preference, which actually goes Pacino>Hoffman>DeNiro>Nicholson)... i dont see any reason why DeNiro should be THAT much ahead of them. personally i think it goes Brando, Olivier, Chaplin, that group of 4, then Stewart & Bogart, then DDL, then Newman.

pave · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:01 pm

fearoftrains wrote:

rockvirtuoso wrote:

why is day-lewis so low on this list? surely hes a lock for the top 10?!?

It was made a while ago, certainly before TWBB.

even before TWBB, my list had DDL at i think 14th. then he was moved down when i stepped down as editor, and then TWBB came out after that.

rockvirtuoso · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:36 pm **Posts:** 2351

pave wrote:

honestly, those 4 should be in a group... DeNiro>Nicholson>Hoffman>Pacino (thats not my personal preference, which actually goes Pacino>Hoffman>DeNiro>Nicholson)...

thar makes much more sense.

Raul · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:04 pm

you mean his personal preference?

I agree with his objective ranking. My personal preference would be Nicholson>Hoffman>DeNiro>Pacino.

Sherick · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:06 pm

Pacino>DeNiro>Nicholson>Hoffman

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