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So who's your favorite/best actor and why?
For me, I'm going with Tom Hanks. I think he's this generations best actor. He has starred in an impressive list of movies and some of my favs are:
Forest Gump
Castaway
Saving Private Ryan
Apollo 13
Road to Perdition
He also has done voice-overs for:
Toy Story
Polar Express
Cars
For me, he's one of the all-time great actors.
For me, I'm going with Tom Hanks. I think he's this generations best actor. He has starred in an impressive list of movies and some of my favs are:
Forest Gump
Castaway
Saving Private Ryan
Apollo 13
Road to Perdition
He also has done voice-overs for:
Toy Story
Polar Express
Cars
For me, he's one of the all-time great actors.
CURRENT:
Phillip Seymore Hoffman - RIP
Kevin Spacey
William Macy
Jullian Moore
Ann Hathaway
Meryl Streep
I'm really starting to like Emily Blunt
OLDER:
Robert Duvall
Robert Redford
Kurt Russell
Al Pachino
He was an incredible stage and film actor and starred in some of my favorite films. In his personal life he always stood up for what he believed in even when it wasnt popular to do so. From marching for Civil Rights in Selma, heading the Hollywood Delegation with Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte to the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 to "From my cold dead hands" as President of the NRA and standing up for the 2nd Amendment.
bill murray
they are funny....
that's all I can think of at the moment.
The Shop
Someone who I thought had a chance to be great was Heath Ledger. He could play a pretty wide range of roles and was just getting his career started.
Christoph Waltz is one of my favorites purely because of his performances in Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds.
Kevin Spacey:
House of Cards
American Beauty
Baby Driver
The Usual Suspects
Heath Ledger deserves to be on the list for his performance in The Dark Knight.
Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood was incredible.
Clint Eastwood. Westerns, bro. Also Gran Torino.
Tom Hanks
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Costner
Old School
Burt Lancaster
Jimmy Stewart
Kirk Douglas
Tom Hanks is phenomenal and sets the bar extremely high, too.
Other notables have to be Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, and (don't laugh) Woody Harrelson.
John Wayne
Eastwood
Duval
Denzel Washington
He was good in these movies however.
Inglourious Basterds
Fight Club
Meet Joe Black
Money Ball
I do like Leonardo DiCaprio, mostly because Wolf of Wall Street was just so awesome! lol
He was good in:
Titanic
Gangs of New York
The Wolf of Wall Street
Catch Me If You Can
Revolutionary Road
I know he was a good actor in The Revenant but I did not really care for that movie.
Ted/Ted 2
The Other Guys
Daddy's Home
The Happening
The Big Hit
Boogie Nights
I don't put him near the same level as some of these other actors obviously but I enjoy a lot of his movies and he does a pretty good job in them.
Duvall is also great. he and Tommy Lee Jones were amazing in Lonesome Dove.
Pit Row
Gene Hackman
Mississipi Burning / Poseidon Adventure Crimson Tide and so many more
Jack Nicholson
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest / Shining / A Few Good Men / As Good as it Gets and many more too
Dennis Hopper
Easy Rider and Speed come to mind.
I don't have one actor I can list as a favorite, but I'll say that I can't remember ever seeing a bad Denzel Washington movie.
Most mesmerizing single performance?
Leonardo DiCaprio in "Whats Eating Gilbert Grape". Blew my mind when I found out he wasn't really retarded (not using the term in a non-PC manner).
These are based solely on acting.
I liked his role in The Other Guys. But he was definitely best in lone survivor and shooter.
I also caught "Stuck On You" the other day for the first time in awhile, Matt Damon is pretty versatile, from serious roles to comedies.
i could go on and on...
http://www.amc.com/movie-guide/the-50-greatest-actors-of-all-time
Tom Hanks is the man! Long ways since Bosom Buddies LOL
Mr Heston
Mr Eastwood
I'm old school ... or just old...
Billy Bob Thornton-Slingblade is my favorite movie of all time. Hard to believe that he did that project on his own. Lots of his work that I don't care for, but several other decent efforts.
Gene Wilder-Second favorite movie, Willie Wonka. He sure made it seem real to this kid!
Christopher Walken-Just re-watched The Deer Hunter again the other day.
Kevin Spacey-Everything
Jack Lemmon-The REAL star of Glen Gary Glenross........
Bob Newhart-Loved this guy since I was a kid and his latest stuff hasn't done anything to stop that. From his stuff on Big Bang Theory to the movie Elf, he's just hilarious.
I read a while back that when he signs a contract to do a movie, he has to be allowed to eat while filming because it keeps him from getting nervous.
And if you watch, he''s almost always eating in his movie roles.
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