Top 10 American actors of all time

[rorymac]

Most of my favourites happen to be British (Daniel Day Lewis, Tom Hardy, Christian Bale)

Gene Hackman
Marlon Brando
Morgan Freeman

Can't really think too clearly at the moment but I'll come back.

[Patty Tanager]

Didn't read thread, but this is my list:

1. Al Perchino.
2. Robert Dinero.
3. Leonardo Di Caprio.
4. Robert Downey Junior.
5. Liam Neeson.
6. Matt Damon.
7. Tom Hanks.
8. Will Smith.
9. Bruce Willis.
10. Denzel Washington.

[Grand Champ]

Damn....what a bunch of male shovenists....

Not a single female mentioned in the thread....

Kathrine Hepburn?
Bette Dasis?
Mae West?
Judy garland?
Marylyn monroe?
Grace Kelly?
Shirley Temple?
Jaen Harlow?
Barbra Stanwyck?

Faye Dunaway?

towering inferno
network
little big man
bonnie and clyde
three days of the condor
thomas crown affair
albino aligator

Wouldn't that be top 10 actresses my man?

[MARKBNLV]

Post yours!
Time to see if the lounge knows its movie history. Today we rate top 10 American actors of all time!

Here's what I got:

1. Marlon Brando (Most Notable: Apocalypse Now)
2. Charlie Chaplin (The Great Dictator)
3. Al Pacino (The Godfather)
4. James Dean (Rebel Without a Course)
5. Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones/Star Wars)
6. Robert DeNiro (Taxi Driver/Goodfellas)
7. Jack Nicholson (The SHining)
8. Morgan Freeman (Shawshank Redemption/Seven)
9. Denzel Washington (Malcolm X/Training Day)
10. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator/The Departed)

Based on:
-Performances
-Influence
-Box Office
-Legacy

How would your top 10 American actors of all time look?

Notable mentions:
1. Daniel Day-Lewis
2. Bill Murray
3. Johnny Depp
4. Tom Hanks
5. Paul Newman

Brando and Dean are insanely overrated as is Morgan Freeman,Tom Cruise anyone the guy has been a top star for 30 years,Dustin Hoffman,Edward Norton,John Lithgow a top ten list would be to hard for me to compile.

[Grand Champ]

Brando and Dean are insanely overrated as is Morgan Freeman,Tom Cruise anyone the guy has been a top star for 30 years,Dustin Hoffman,Edward Norton,John Lithgow a top ten list would be to hard for me to compile.

Movie wise Dean didn't do to much but legacy wise he's undesputable. He's the very definition of a 50s rebel badass! Cultural Icon if anything

[the mesiah]

Robert Deniro
Brando
Pacino
charlton heston
Denzel

[The Tornado]

My personal favorites and their best movies (in no particular order):

Brad Pitt (Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Magnolia or Synecdoche, New York, Before the Devil Knows you're Dead is also a great movie)
Edward Norton (American History X)
Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke)
Morgan Freeman (Shawkshank)
James Stewart (It's A Wonderful Life)
Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan)
Kevin Spacey (American Beauty, LA Confidential, The Usual Suspects - this guy is crazy underrated btw)
Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate)

Honorable Mention

George Clooney
Gregory Peck
Robert Deniro
Al Pacino
and many more

[Spartacus Sully]

Wouldn't that be top 10 actresses my man?

nah, an actor is some one who acts, its not gender specific.

eventually the term actrice was created for female actors thus actress is gender specific.

while actor still remains a non gender specific term while it is oftenly thought as gender specific, with the idea of it being opposite to actress.

but i can allways say "did you see that female actor", and it not sound weird, retaining that actor is not gender specific.

[COVID-19]

[RajahBell]

1. Steve McQueen (Bullitt, my favorite actor)
2. Tom Hanks (Cast Away, he talked to a ball most of the movie)
3. Gary Cooper (High Noon, President Clinton's favorite movie and influenced President Bush Jr. as well).
4. James Stewart (Its a Wonderful Life)
5. Paul Newman (The Hustler, as Fast Eddie in 1961 then he replays the role in 1986 in The Color of Money)
6. Denzel Washington (Malcolm X)
7. Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
8. Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)
9-10, a toss up between these actors and honorable mentions: Jack Nicholson (The Shining), Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves), James Earl Jones (Claudine), Ed Norton(American History X), The Magnificant 7, William DaFoe(Platoon), Gene Hackman(The French Connection), George C. Scott(Patton), and Al Pacino(The Godfather)

I didn't put Marlon Brando because I'm unfamiliar with his work other than The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. He was more of a supporting cast in those movies and I agree that Apocalyse Now wasn't his best performance. He came in out of shape trying to play a Colonel, Robert Duvall had a better performance in my view.