Name your top 5 favorite actors

[YosemiteSam]

Nicolas Cage

Your name is Josh right? Cause you're Joshing me! :laugh2:

 

[Kevinicus]

Hard to do a list like that, but just well known ones.

1.Gary Oldman

2.Javier Bardem

3.Brian Cox

4.Natalie Portman

5.Johnny Depp

Interesting...

 

[Arch Stanton]

In no particular order...

Clint Eastwood
Steve Buscemi
Edward G
Bogey
Bob DeNiro

Honorable Mentions

Lee Van Cleef
Eli Wallach
Idris Elba
Edward Norton
Jack Elam
Pete Postlewaite
Jim Broadbent
Alfred Molina
Jack

 

[SaltwaterServr]

In no order

Edward G. Robinson

Tom Hanks

Sidney Portier

Denzel Washington

Humphrey Bogart

Actresses is another list entirely.

Honorable mention

Paul Newman
Orson Wells
Yul Brenner
Charlton Heston
Marlon Brando
Robert Mitchum
Cary Grant
Jimmy Stewart
Kevin Bacon

One of these does not belong, one of these is not like the others...

 

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

Hayden Christensen
Adam Sandler
50 cent
Clint Howard
Bender Rodriguez

:laugh2:

 

[DallasEast]

Current
Denzel Washington
Morgan Freemen
Sanaa Latham
Tom Cruise
Samuel L. Jackson

All-Time
Al Pacino
Katherine Hepburn
John Wayne
Sidney Poitier
Paul Newman

 

[SkinsandTerps]

If I go with current top 5:
(In no order)

Ed Norton
Ed Harris
Robin Williams
Leonardo DiCaprio
Tie: Dustin Hoffman/ Kevin Spacey/ Brad Pitt/ Sean Penn/ Don Cheadle



After that I would have a ton.

 

[Muhast]

****ing wow. Bruce Willis? Are you kidding me?

If ever actor was sub 5 years old, MAYBE! In real live, he is like the 6th billionth greatest actor!

Diehard trilogy, 6th sense, 5th element, sin city,armageddon.. Those were all really good movies.

 

[Phoenix]

Nic Cage
Don Knotts
Bob Denver
Ed O'Neill
C3PO

 

[YosemiteSam]

Diehard trilogy, 6th sense, 5th element, sin city,armageddon.. Those were all really good movies.

He has no depth of character. He is a one trick pony and that trick isn't very good. 6th Sense was the only one of those movies that I saw that was decent. The Die Hard and Armageddon relied on something other than acting to keep audiences into the movie. I haven't seen 5th Element or Sin City. I heard 5th Element was good, but I'm sure that one also relied on something other than acting to keep the movie rolling. Probably high action. (that's what made the Die Hards and Armageddon decent movies) That's all he really plays in.

Did you see Unbreakable? How terrible it was and he was in it? That was basically the movie makers trying to recreate the success of The 6th Sense and it failed cause he sucks. The kid made 6th sense a good movie, not Willis.

 

[The30YardSlant]

He has no depth of character. He is a one trick pony and that trick isn't very good. 6th Sense was the only one of those movies that I saw that was decent. The Die Hard and Armageddon relied on something other than acting to keep audiences into the movie. I haven't seen 5th Element or Sin City. I heard 5th Element was good, but I'm sure that one also relied on something other than acting to keep the movie rolling. Probably high action. (that's what made the Die Hards and Armageddon decent movies) That's all he really plays in.

This doesnt make any sense as he was great in Die Hard, The Sixth Sense and The Whole Nine Yards, three completely different roles and only one of which relied on any action at all. He was also a huge part of what made Pulp Fiction so good.

He isnt one of my favorite actors but he's one of the top 10 highest grossing actors ever and has been responsible for the success of numerous films. You're really selling him short.

 

[zrinkill]

1. Ian McKellen

2. Viggo Mortensen

3. Harrison Ford

4. Daniel Craig

5. Burt Reynolds


Honorary mention

Clint Eastwood

Bruce Willis

Michael Gambon

Johnny Depp

Geoffrey Rush

Robert Duvall

Ed Harris

 

[Zaxor]

Dick van Dyke
Jackie Gleason
James Dean
Humphrey Bogart
James Cagney

 

[YosemiteSam]

This doesnt make any sense as he was great in Die Hard, The Sixth Sense and The Whole Nine Yards, three completely different roles and only one of which relied on any action at all. He was also a huge part of what made Pulp Fiction so good.

He isnt one of my favorite actors but he's one of the top 10 highest grossing actors ever and has been responsible for the success of numerous films. You're really selling him short.

The Sixth Sense is the only movie he didn't play the same exact role that was successful. The kid made that movie, not him.

The guy has no depth. Everything he does is a xerox copy of the last movie he did.

 

[DFWJC]

I'd have to spend way more time deciding on a top 5, but here are the ones that come to mind:

DeNiro
Brando
Hanks
Norton
Malkovich
Depp
Nicholson
Oldman
Freeman
Hoffman
McKellen
TL Jones

I'm sure i left as ton out. Like I said, picking 5 would be really tough.
John Wayne, for example. I love him, but I have a real hard time deciding if he was a great actor

 

[MichaelWinicki]

John Wayne
Richard Boone
Boris Karloff
Darren McGavin
Godzilla

 

[JOHNSWIGER]

John Wayne
Harrison Ford
Bruce Willis
Clint Eastwood
Ed Harris

:laugh2:

 

[MFWitt63]

daniel day lewis
tom wilkinson
kevin cline
guy pierce
phillip seymour hoffman

 

[JonJon]

1. Will Smith <= surprised nobody mentioned him yet
2. Denzel Washington
3. Samuel L. Jackson
4. Leonardo DiCaprio
5. Morgan Freeman

Others I like:
Johnny Depp
Brad Pitt
Harrison Ford
Bruce Willis
Chris Tucker <= for the pure comedy

 

[YosemiteSam]

1. Will Smith <= surprised nobody mentioned him yet
2. Denzel Washington
3. Samuel L. Jackson
4. Leonardo DiCaprio
5. Morgan Freeman

Others I like:
Johnny Depp
Brad Pitt
Harrison Ford
Bruce Willis
Chris Tucker <= for the pure comedy

I thought this was "best actor" rather than best entertainer. If it is only entertainer, then I won't argue Bruce Willis or even Chris Tucker. Both are terrible actors, but are very entertaining.