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Dabney Coleman

Yours?

Blackheart

I think Gene Hackman plays characters very good, just a thing he does well. There's a bunch of good ones.

Dirk Diggler

Here we go. We'll now learn all of the unAmerican aspects of a number of people.

Robert Mitchum.

Lee Marvin

I’m afraid to answer the question, Flame suit is at the cleaners.

Clint Eastwood.

Walter Brennan.

Burt Lancaster or Lee Marvin. Maybe

Who names their kid Dabney anyway?

Steve McQueen or Paul Newman.

+1

Lauren Phillips. Wait you said actor, not actress. NVM, disregard

James Stewart
An American Hero for the ages.

Eddie Murphy

Robert Duvall, Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman for their ability to become the character they play. Will always enjoy Clint Eastwood and John Wayne

John Wayne and Clint Eastwood

Tom Hardy. Even if he is British

Anthony Quinn
Anthony Hopkins

Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson were some of my favorites, breaks my heart to see what's happening to Bruce now

Robert Duvall

Ron

Robert Duvall, I guess. There are a lot of good ones though.

Mr. and Mrs. anyway?

Newman, Mitchum, Lancaster, Washington, and Duvall come to mind immediately

Add Harrison Ford. He's in about half of my favorite movies

No really a fair question, but James Stewart, or John Wayne. \Too many to choose from.

Most of the time a good actor needs a horse under him.

The ones that r dead.

Most actors are the same person every part.
Daniel Day Lewis and Gary Oldman are two that can become someone totally different in every roll.

My favorite westerns are "Once Upon a Time in the West" and " Josey Wales".....hard to beat the actors in them. Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Jack Elam, Clint Eastwood might have missed a few. Bronson is one tough dude in this movie. Watched it a few days ago....never gets old.

Finally someone mentioned Henry Fonda.

Politics aside, I think Tom Hanks is probably the best actor out there right now.

Hard to pick a favorite. Jimmy Stewart is always high on the dead guy list.

Tom Hardy is another. Truly amazing how he can become the character he's playing so completely that he is unrecognizable as Tom Hardy any longer.

Uh, Duvall is the same character from The Apostle to Slingblade to Secondhand Lions.

Put me down for Henry Fonda. Modern day they are mostly prima donnas. Tom Hardy does stand out though. Idris Elba has had some good roles And Denzel Washington.

No question at all, Duke.
Number 2 would be Jimmy Stewart.
Number 3 Henry Fonda.
From 4 on back it’s about a 50 man race!
7mm

All good stories need a villain.

John Wayne

That Charleston Hesston fellow wasn't, so bad.

Will Smith

I agree. Whether an actor is typecast, or whether they lack depth, the result is the same. Bruce Willis is one who seemed typecast and having shallow abilities, but watching him in Death Becomes Her, and The Sixth Sense changed my mind quickly.

I haven't watched Daniel Day Lewis in much, but Oldman is definitely a chameleon.

Favorite draft dodger: John Wayne

Awww jeez, you went and done it now

Henry Fonda

Fahuck the overrated Marion Morrison

Charles Bronson

Clint Eastwood
Mel Gibson
Russell Crowe

Robert Duvall. He's a genuine actor,..can assume many roles and play them convincingly.

He was Tom Hagan, the Consigliere of the Godfather. He was Augustus McRae, a Texas Ranger turned trail boss in Lonesome Dove, and Mac Sledge, a washed up country singer who reclaimed a simple way of life in the movie Tender Mercies. He won an Oscar for that role.

He's a pro.

Let us not forget Boo Radley (Mr. Arthur).

Oh schit......

He is torching the village again..

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Tom Selleck

Lon Chaney Jr.,Vincent Price.

They all start to play 'themselves' in every roll if they are in the game long enough i.e John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Gene Hackman, etc...

Leonardo Dicaprio acts, like him or not. Christian Bale as well. Same with Day-Lewis, Hardy, and Oldman already mentioned.

Living Denzel deceased Jimmy Stewart,Newman,McQueen too many!!

No Particular order...
Anthony Hopkins
Newman
McQueen
Eastwood
Fonda
Selleck
Lee Marvin
Denzel Washington...

Far too many to list.

Odd..., Robert Redford was excellent in Butch & Sundance, then somewhat disappeared from hit movies. Or at least the kind of movies I watch.

BTW. I hope all of them that were visitors to Epstein Island get to visit Gitmo and are forever forgotten.

But honestly, my faith in justice ever prevailing is disappearing fast.


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Almost forgot...
Mick Dundee!!!

Paul Hogan

Billy Bob Thornton has played some diverse roles

Dwayne " the rock' Johnson. Not because of his ability, but because he is smart enough to get payed to play'The rock" in each and every film or tv appearance he has ever been in.

Robert Duvall, Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Henry Fonda - not in any particular order, and a few others very good as well.

Errol Flynn

KB

No one mentioned Sam Elliot or did I miss it?

My mom (God bless her soul) LOVED Charlton Heston - ever since the Ten Commandments. In 2000, he and Wayne LaPuke were stumping for Bush. They made the circuit near our hometown. My mom heard about it and said she just had to see Charlton. We arranged to make the rally and were in the 4th row. My mom wasn't as passionate about the NRA backed rally as she was seeing "Moses". When he came out to speak, mom - 75 years young and all of 4'10" tall - stood up on her folding chair and yelled "hi Charlton!". He paused and acknowledged her. Later, he even signed an autographed photo and gave it to her.

Good of him to do so. That’s a neat story.

Denzel Washington
Clint Eastwood
Robert Duvall
Tom Selleck
Russell Crowe

In a way, Ronald Reagon.

Denzel might be one of the very best. So good that I can't freaking stand him, & that's probably from him playing a villain so well.

A black guy told me I didn't like him because he was black. And I told him quickly that didn't have a damn thing to do with it as Samuel Jackson was a favorite actor & he was a liberal POS. just talking acting, not color.

I'm a bit surprised I was the only one to name Dabney Coleman.

Joe Biden, he has pretended to be the leader of the USA for over two years, no one can act better than that!!!! FJB, let's go Brandon

Al Pacino

This is a tough question to answer- a lot like the thread about the best football player..

Robert Duvall is a consummate actor- even in some of his more minor roles I sometimes find on cable... and there are a lot of other actors I could recite here but the one I always remember is Denzel Washington.. his role in "Man on Fire" cemented it for sure for me, but he has been in several others that I could watch over and over...

Clint Eastwood. Period! Dot. Exclamation Point!

Definitely Clint Eastwood then Denzel Washington.

Denzel Washington
Christian Bale
Lee Van Cleef
Brad Pitt
Bruce Willis

James Garner

Colin Firth

^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Clint Eastwood
Robert Duvall
Denzel Washington
Tom Selleck
James Garner

Tom Hanks.
From big to castaway, forest Gump, road to perdition and the green mile and many many more he has done well performing his role.

Edward Norton

Have seen but very little of his work so I didn''t mention him. But saw him in a love story or light dama type thing, & then................in American History X, immediately told me that he was a very good& versatile actor. Good gosh, just a couple of his scenes alone in AHX make the movie worth watching again.

Ed Norton and Ralph Kramden were awesome.

They shouldn't have killed his character! A follow up movie would have been awesome!

How did I know that was commin? I even went to the trouble of spelling Edward out, instead of the dreaded ED. But yeah, they were.

He should so another "Men In Black" movie!!!

Ben Johnson

One of the best movies ever.

Ed Norton is an incredible actor.

Sidney Poitier
Harry belafonte
Spencer Tracy

Clint

Jimmy Stewart was a patriot, and a great actor.

Vincent D'Onofrio.

No one else could play a cockroach in an Edgar suit as good as he did.

Shoulda won an Oscar that year.

Hard to say, I got a lot of favorite actors but I left the Batman movie with that guy playing The Joker that died....dammm I believed he was actually THE joker...

Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster and Ron Jeremy.