Category: top 50 actors

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4. Cary Grant

Cary Grant NORTH BY NORTHWEST, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, NOTORIOUS, BRINGING UP BABY, SUSPICION, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE As he famously told Newsweek in 1990, “Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”...

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5. Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando ON THE WATERFRONT, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, THE GODFATHER, APOCALYPSE NOW, LAST TANGO IN PARIS Marlon Brando’s approach to acting can best be described as “extremely committed.” While he may have started off as a heartthrob, he was...

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6. Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro RAGING BULL, TAXI DRIVER, THE KING OF COMEDY, GOODFELLAS, THE GODFATHER PART II, MEAN STREETS, ANALYZE THIS, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Is it better to flame out or fade away? I’ve heard this question asked specifically about Robert...

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7. Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson CHINATOWN, FIVE EASY PIECES, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, THE SHINING, BATMAN, ABOUT SCHMIDT, THE DEPARTED, AS GOOD AS IT GETS For awhile there, it was pretty fashionable to rag on Jack Nicholson for always playing “Jack.”...

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8. Toshiro Mifune

Toshiro Mifune SEVEN SAMURAI, RASHOMON, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS, YOJIMBO, SAMURAI TRILOGY I’m willing to bet there isn’t an actor on this list quite like Toshiro Mifune. The Japanese actor is the on-screen encapsulation of pure id, a wild ball of...

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9. Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart CASABLANCA, THE MALTESE FALCON, THE BIG SLEEP, THE AFRICAN QUEEN, IN A LONELY PLACE, THE CAINE MUTINY, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT Has anybody ever done more with less than Humphrey Bogart? He was short, far from conventionally attractive,...

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10. Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin THE GOLD RUSH, CITY LIGHTS, MODERN TIMES, THE GREAT DICTATOR, LIME LIGHT Decades before Jerry Lewis claimed the descriptor for himself, Charlie Chaplin was the total filmmaker – he wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in, and often scored...

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