100 Greatest Male Acting Performances
1920-1969

  Movie Title - Movie Actor (Year)

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  1. On The Waterfront - Marlon Brando - 1954
  2. Dr. Strangelove - Peter Sellers - 1964
  3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - James Stewart - 1939
  4. The Bridge On The River Kwai - Alec Guinness - 1957
  5. Hamlet - Laurence Olivier - 1948
  6. Rebel Without a Cause - James Dean - 1955
  7. Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart - 1942
  8. High Noon - Gary Cooper - 1952
  9. Citizen Kane - Orson Wells - 1941
10. North by Northwest - Cary Grant - 1959
11. To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck - 1962
12. Once Upon a Time in the West - Henry Fonda - 1968
13. A Streetcar Named Desire - Marlon Brando -1951
14. City Lights - Charles Chaplin - 1931
15. The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart - 1941
16. Stalag 17 - William Holden - 1953
17. Night of the Hunter - Robert Mitchum - 1955
18. From Here to Eternity - Montgomery Clift - 1953
19. Psycho - Anthony Perkins - 1960
20. From Here To Eternity - Burt Lancaster - 1953
21. 12 Angry Men - Henry Fonda - 1957
22. It's a Wonderful Life - James Stewart - 1946
23. White Heat - James Cagney - 1949
24. The Great Dictator - Charles Chaplin - 1940
25. Boys Town - Spencer Tracy - 1938
26. The Philadelphia Story - James Stewart - 1940
27. Kind Hearts and Coronets - Alec Guinness - 1949
28. The African Queen - Humphrey Bogart - 1951
29. Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney - 1942
30. Lawrence of Arabia - Peter O'Toole - 1962
31. Touch of Evil - Orson Wells - 1958
32. On The Waterfront - Rod Steiger - 1954
33. The Third Man - Orson Welles - 1949
34. The Lost Weekend - Ray Milland - 1945
35. Rear Window - James Stewart - 1954
36. His Girl Friday - Cary Grant - 1940
37. The Apartment - Jack Lemmon - 1960
38. Mutiny On The Bounty - Charles Laughton - 1935
39. Notorius - Claude Rains - 1946
40. M - Peter Lorre - 1931
41. Elmer Gantry - Burt Lancaster - 1960
42. Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon - 1959
43. The Searchers - John Wayne - 1956
44. Gone With The Wind - Clarke Gable - 1939
45. A Place in the Sun - Montgomery Clift - 1951
46. Wuthering Heights - Laurence Olivier - 1939
47. The Graduate - Dustin Hoffman - 1967
48. Death of a Salesman - Frederic March - 1951
49. The Grapes of Wrath - Henry Fonda - 1940
50. In the Heat of the Night - Sydney Portier - 1967

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51. Cape Fear - Robert Mitchum - 1962
52. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Gary Cooper - 1936
53. The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin - 1925
54. Sunset Boulevard - William Holden - 1950
55. It Happened One Night - Clarke Gable - 1934
56. Vertigo - James Stewart - 1958
57. East of Eden - James Dean - 1955
58. Rashomon - Toshiro Mifune - 1950
59. Notorius - Cary Grant - 1946
60. Shadow Of A Doubt - Joseph Cotten - 1943
61. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Claude Rains - 1939
62. Viva Zapata - Marlon Brando - 1952
63. Bonnie and Clyde - Warren Beatty - 1967
64. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Humphrey Bogart - 1948
65. Dr. Strangelove - George C. Scott - 1964
66. Spartacus - Kirk Douglas - 1960
67. Birdman of Alcatraz - Burt Lancaster - 1962
68. Bullitt - Steve McQueen - 1968
69. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly - Clint Eastwood - 1966
70. 12 Angry Men - Lee J. Cobb - 1957
71. From Russia With Love - Sean Connery - 1964
72. The Manchurian Candidate - Frank Sinatra - 1962
73. Strangers On A Train - Robert Walker - 1951
74. Casablanca - Claude Rains - 1942
75. Arsenic And Old Lace - Cary Grant - 1944
76. The Maltese Falcon - Peter Lorre - 1941
77. Spellbound - Gregory Peck - 1945
78. None But The Lonely Heart - Cary Grant - 1944
79. On The Waterfront - Karl Malden - 1954
80. Rebecca - Laurence Olivier - 1940
81. The Defiant Ones - Sydney Poitier - 1958
82. Marty - Ernest Borgnine - 1955
83. The Entertainer - Laurence Olivier - 1960
84. Days of Wine and Roses - Jack Lemmon - 1962
85. Henry V - Laurence Olivier - 1944
86. The Band Wagon - Fred Astaire - 1953
87. Lilies of the Field - Sydney Poitier - 1963
88. True Grit - John Wayne - 1969
89. Hud - Paul Newman - 1963
90. The Wizard of Oz - Ray Bulger - 1939
91. Captains Courageous - Spencer Tracy - 1937
92. Little Ceaser - Edward G. Robinson - 1930
93. Othello - Laurence Olivier - 1965
94. Harvey - James Stewart - 1950
95. Cyrano de Bergerac - Jose Ferrer - 1950
96. Sayonara - Marlon Brando - 1957
97. The Best Years of Our Lives - Frederic March - 1946
98. Sergeant York - Gary Cooper - 1941
99. Duck Soup - Groucho Marx - 1932
100. Gigot - Jackie Gleason - 1962