Greatest Film Performances of the 1950s (US/UK)

  Actor - Film Title (Year of Release)

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  1. Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront (1954)
  2. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  3. Bette Davis - All About Eve (1950)
  4. Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  5. Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  6. James Dean - Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  7. Katharine Hepburn - The African Queen (1951)
  8. Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men (1957)
  9. Judy Garland - A Star Is Born (1954)
10. Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot (1959)
11. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
12. Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
13. Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday (1953)
14. William Holden - Stalag 17 (1953)
15. Laurence Olivier - Richard lll (1955)
16. Gary Cooper - High Noon (1952)
17. Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
18. Susan Hayward - I Want to Live! (1958)
19. Simone Signoret - Room at the Top (1959)
20. Cary Grant - North by Northwest (1959)
21. Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata! (1952)
22. Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba! (1952)
23. Burt Lancaster - The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
24. John Wayne - The Searchers (1956)
25. Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata! (1952)
26. Gene Kelly - Singin' in the Rain (1952)
27. Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen (1951)
28. Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo (1955)
29. William Holden - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
30. Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear (1952)
31. David Niven - Separate Tables (1958)
32. James Stewart - Vertigo (1958)
33. Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones (1958)
34. Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter (1955)
35. James Stewart - Rear Window (1954)
36. Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar (1953)
37. Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity (1953)
38. Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
39. Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity (1953)
40. José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
41. Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday (1950)
42. Laurence Olivier - Carrie (1952)
43. Marlon Brando - Sayonara (1957)
44. Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia (1956)
45. Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life (1956)
46. Charlie Chaplin - Limelight (1952)
47. Deborah Kerr - The King and I (1956)
48. James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
49. Doris Day - Pillow Talk (1959)
50. Anna Magnani - Wild Is the Wind (1957)

51. Kirk Douglas - Paths of Glory (1957)
52. Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
53. Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
54. Grace Kelly - The Country Girl (1954)
55. Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront (1954)
56. Marlon Brando - The Wild One (1953)
57. Alan Ladd - Shane (1953)
58. Fredric March - Death of a Salesman (1951)
59. Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun (1951)
60. John Wayne - The Quiet Man (1952)
61. James Stewart - Harvey (1950)
62. Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny (1954)
63. James Mason - A Star Is Born (1954)
64. Karl Malden - On the Waterfront (1954)
65. Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina (1954)
66. Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity (1953)
67. Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story (1959)
68. Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot (1959)
69. Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity (1953)
70. Bing Crosby - The Country Girl (1954)
71. Dorothy Dandridge - Carmen Jones (1954)
72. Anne Baxter - All About Eve (1950)
73. Tony Curtis - Some Like It Hot (1959)
74. Ernest Borgnine - Marty (1955)
75. James Dean - East of Eden (1955)
76. Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones (1958)
77. Orson Welles - The Touch of Evil (1958)
78. Susan Hayward - With a Song in My Heart (1952)
79. Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
80. Alastair Sim - A Christmas Carol (1951)
81. Eleanor Parker - Caged (1950)
82. George Sanders - All About Eve (1950)
83. Spencer Tracy - The Last Hurrah (1958)
84. John Wayne - Rio Bravo (1959)
85. Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur (1959)
86. Ingrid Bergman - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
87. Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame (1958)
88. Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
89. Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life (1956)
90. James Dean - Giant (1956)
91. Yul Brynner - The King and I (1956)
92. Carroll Baker - Baby Doll (1956)
93. Tony Curtis - The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
94. Susan Hayward - I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
95. Alec Guinness - The Ladykillers (1955)
96. Katharine Hepburn - Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
97. Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top (1959)
98. Alec Guinness - The Horse's Mouth (1958)
99. Deborah Kerr - Separate Tables (1958)
100. Peter Sellers - The Mouse That Roared (1959)

101. Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun (1951)
102. Jane Wyman - Magnificent Obsession (1954)
103. James Mason - Julius Caesar (1953)
104. Leslie Caron - Lili (1953)
105. James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
106. Katharine Hepburn - Summertime (1955)
107. Lee J. Kobb - 12 Angry Men (1957)
108. Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts (1955)
109. Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
110. Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
111. Rock Hudson - Giant (1956)
112. Cantinflas - Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
113. Lee J. Cobb - On the Waterfront (1954)
114. Grace Kelly - Rear Window (1954)
115. Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train (1951)
116. Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
117. Sterling Hayden - The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
118. Josephine Hull - Harvey (1950)
119. Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
120. Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
121. Paul Newman - The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
122. Marlon Brando - The Young Lions (1958)
123. Rock Hudson - Pillow Talk (1959)
124. George C. Scott - Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
125. James Mason - North by Northwest (1959)
126. Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain (1957)
127. Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride (1950)
128. Eva Marie Saint - On the Waterfront (1954)
129. Grace Kelly - Mogambo (1953)
130. Jack Palance - Shane (1953)
131. Spencer Tracy - The Actress (1953)
132. Gregory Peck - Roman Holiday (1953)
133. Frank Sinatra - From Here to Eternity (1953)
134. Marlene Dietrich - Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
135. Marilyn Monroe - Bus Stop (1956)
136. Yul Brynner - The Ten Commandments (1956)
137. James Stewart - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
138. Eva Marie Saint - A Hatful of Rain (1957)
139. Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
140. Charlton Heston - The Ten Commandments (1956)
141. Katharine Hepburn - The Rainmaker (1956)
142. Kim Novak - Vertigo (1958)
143. Marlon Brando - The Men (1950)
144. Jean Simmons - The Actress (1953)
145. Julie Harris - The Member of the Wedding (1952)
146. Donald O'Connor - Singin' In the Rain (1952)
147. Eleanor Parker - Detective Story (1951)
148. Elizabeth Taylor - A Place in the Sun (1951)
149. Ava Gardner - The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
150. José Ferrer - Moulin Rouge (1952)

151. Burl Ives - The Big Country (1958)
152. Robert Donat - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
153. Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind (1957)
154. Jennifer Jones - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
155. Marisa Pavan - The Rose Tattoo (1955)
156. Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
157. Humphrey Bogart - In a Lonely Place (1950)
158. Maureen O'Hara - The Quit Man (1952)
159. Bette Davis - Star (1952)
160. Lee Grant - Detective Story (1951)
161. Dan O'Herlihy - Robinson Crusoe (1954)
162. Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
163. Kirk Douglas - Detective Story (1951)
164. Karl Malden - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
165. Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victory (1951)
166. Kirk Douglas - Ace in the Hole (1951)
167. Jane Wyman - The Blue Veil (1951)
168. Nancy Kelly - The Bad Seed (1956)
169. Karl Malden - Baby Doll (1956)
170. Deborah Kerr - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
171. Elsa Lanchester - Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
172. Dean Martin - Rio Bravo (1959)
173. Christopher Lee - The Horror of Dracula (1958)
174. Grace Kelly - Dial M for Murder (1954)
175. Ray Milland - Dial M for Murder (1954)
176. John Dall - Gun Crazy (1950)
177. Richard Widmark - No Way Out (1950)
178. Peggy Cummins - Gun Crazy (1950)
179. Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
180. William Holden - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
181. Glenn Ford - Blackboard Jungle (1955)
182. Julie Harris - East of Eden (1955)
183. Natalie Wood - Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
184. Katie Johnson - The Ladykillers (1955)
185. Colette Marchand - Moulin Rouge (1952)
186. Ava Gardner - Mogambo (1953)
187. Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
188. Juanita Moore - Imitation of Life (1959)
189. Peter Ustinov - Quo Vadis (1951)
190. Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man (1952)
191. Debbie Reynolds - Singin' In the Rain (1952)
192. Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind (1956)
193. Doris Day - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
194. Helen Hayes - Anastasia (1956)
195. Fred Astaire - The Band Wagon (1953)
196. Jack Palance - Sudden Fear (1952)
197. Marilyn Monroe - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
198. Red Buttons - Sayonara (1957)
199. Robert Mitchum - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
200. Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa (1954)