Greatest Actors Actresses of all time

Greatest Male Actors
Top 10 Lists from various sources

IMDb
1 Jack Nicholson
2 Marlon Brando
3 Robert De Niro
4 Al Pacino
5 Daniel Day Lewis
6 Dustin Hoffman
7 Tom Hanks
8 Anthony Hopkins
9 Paul Newman
10 Denzel Washington

AMC
1 Tom Hanks
2 Robert De Niro
3 Al Pacino
4 Dustin Hoffman
5 James Stewart
6 Paul Newman
7 Marlon Brando
8 Humphrey Bogart
9 Jack Nicholson
10 Morgan Freeman

TOPTEN REVIEWS
1 Tom Hanks
2 Robert De Niro
3 Denzel Washigton
4 Johnny Depp
5 Michael Caine
6 Tom Cruise
7 Harrison Ford
8 Dustin Hoffman
9 Al Pacino
10 Robin Williams

WIKIPEDIA
1 Humphrey Bogart
2 Cary Grant
3 James Stewart
4 Marlon Brando
5 Fred Astaire
6 Henry Fonda
7 Clark Gable
8 James Cagney
9 Spencer Tracey
10 Charlie Chaplin

My top 3 [unlisted included]
1 Johnathon Harris...Alias Dr. Zachary Smith , what an actor who made that classic series Lost In Space
2 James Stewart .....I consider him the best actor of all time, has that unique drawl about him, plays good parts
3 Elvis Presley.........Never lost a fight or a gal in TV movies! and off course love his music

I will take punt on who Bayman has number 1
1 Groucho Marx?

Scrappy it is a triple dead heat between Groucho Marx, Basil Rathbone & Gavin Wanganeen

Greatest actressess of all time
Top 10 Lists from various sources

IMDb
1 Meryl Streep
2 Ingrid Bergman
3 Vivienne Leigh
4 Bette Davis
5 Jodie Foster
6 Katherine Hepburn
7 Elizabeth Taylo
8 Kate Winslet
9 Hillary Swank
10 Naomi Watts

AMC
1 Bette Davis
2 Katherine Hepburn
3 Ingrid Bergman
4 Olivia De Havilland
5 Vivien Leigh
6 Joan Fontaine
7 Meryl Streep
8 Claudia Colbert
9 Kate Winslet
10 Joan Crawford

TOPTEN REVIEWS
1 Meryl Streep
2 Jodie Foster
3 Sandra Bullock
4 Angelina Jolie
5 Nicole Kidman
6 Kate Winslet
7 Noras Aunor
8 Kim Bassinger
9 Sigourney Weaver
10 Gillian Anderson

WIKIPEDIA
1 Katherine Hepburn
2 Bette Davis
3 Audrey Hepburn
4 Ingrid Bergman
5 Greta Garbo
6 Marilyn Monroe
7 Elizabeth Taylor
8 Judy Garland
9 Marlene Dietrich
10 Joan Crawford

my three
Thelma Todd
Jenna Jameson
Skippy

Bayman you forgot the bubbleheaded booby robot from Lost In Space
Skippy I can understand being in your list Bayman, but how did you pick the other 2

I had
1 Johnathon Harris
2 James Stewart
3 Elvis Presley

I want to ammend that to
1 Johnathon Harris
2 Errol Flynn
3 James Stewart

How could I have left In Like Flynn from my top 3

No john Wayne

bayman wrote:my three
Thelma Todd
Jenna Jameson
Skippy

I remember Thelma Todd in Marx brothers movies
Born 1906 died 1935
29 years old
Died of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, it was treated as suspicious enough to have enquiries , and subsequently adjudged to have been an  accidental death

Bayman
Have you read the book on Thelma Todd, The Life And Death of Thelma Todd [by William Donati]
Book retails online in some places for close to $36 , it was released in early 2012

bayman wrote:my three
Thelma Todd
Jenna Jameson
Skippy

Denzel Washington
Morgan Freeman

Hot Actress : Clare Danes, Meghan Markle (suits)  

Adult stars : Jenavene Jolie and Sasha Grey for mine Bayman

Claire Danes looked and acted superb in the movie Shopgirl
She has the look, a cute looking girl , the type you would bring home to meet mum


Morgan Freeman is a great actor , and keeps on keeping on
He played in that excellent movie Shawshank Redemption

When I see Morgan Freeman I'm always reminded of Nelson Mandella

PS
BC
You like the dark haired girls, looking at your list of gals
How did Claire Danes make your list though ?

Scrappy wrote:Claire Danes looked and acted superb in the movie Shopgirl
She has the look, a cute looking girl , the type you would bring home to meet mum


Morgan Freeman is a great actor , and keeps on keeping on
He played in that excellent movie Shawshank Redemption

When I see Morgan Freeman I'm always reminded of Nelson Mndealla

PS
BC
You like the dark haired girls, looking at your list of gals
How did Claire Danes make your list though ?

She is fantastic in Homeland Scrappy - Dark haired girls indeed Scrappy - dair haired latin girls even more so hence JJ  

Sasha Grey is the pick of the dark haired gals
Does the gorgeous brunette Zooey Deschanel make a supplementary list BC ?

Scrappy wrote:Sasha Grey is the pick of the dark haired gals

very intense - natural actress  

Your have a fav adult actress?

I'm not a fan of Nicholson or Cruise, but I rate Dustin Hoffman very highly.

FF
Was Dustin Hoffman's best movie part in The Graduate?
Lucky man indeed starring with Katherine Ross

I'm no movie guru, Scrappy, but I'll rank "Rain Man" as his best role.

"Kramer vs Kramer" and "Toosie" would be right up there as well.

On a sidenote, it fascinates me that the scene in " Midnight Cowboy" where his character clashes with the taxi - "I'm walking here" - is speculated to have been improvisation/not scripted.

Blast from the very very early past

Mary Pickford
Movie The Taming Of Th Shrew [1929]

Mary was a big star in the silent movie days
This movie was a half speaky half silent movie
Mary Pickford by then in her late thirties, looked as sweet as sweet can be
Her facial expressions made this movie
It was a ordinary film , only watchable because Mary Pickford was in it.
Its the only time I've seen Mary in a picture , hopefully not the last

She was married three times
Her first hubby was Owen Moore
Perhaps they were divorced because he might have had debts ....


One thing about the silent and early speaky actresses
The sets don't seem to do justice to their beautiful looks

Mary Pickford comes up well though

my pin up girl Thelma Todd was better than Mary Pickford


''Owen Moore'' (owing more) very funny

Mary Pickford, from what I've read didn't make the transition from silents to speakies
Thelma Todd , I have only seen in a Marx Brothers Movie , and was good from memory

Look it was a long time ago when these gals graced the big screen
So perhaps this is how they could be rated
Pickford superior actress in silent movies
Todd superior actress in speakies

I reckon Mary was the prettier gal though

Fay Wray had them both covered for good looks in those early times
She was the gorgeous gal King Kong went ape over in that 1933 classic film King Kong
Loved that film, and that late scene on the Empire State Building

Fay Wray was married three times
One of her husbands was Robert Riskin , perhaps that marriage was a gamble ....

Fay Wray passed away not that long ago, she was in her mid 90's, i only learnt that she wore a blonde wig in King Kong (1933) then & she was a brunette, yep Fay was more attractive, Thelma had a high pitched (unless it was an act) voice, i thought Hillary Brooke was even more attractive

1941
West Cinemas
Hindley Street

Movie : North West Mounted Police
The main star was the immeasurable Gary Cooper


GARY COOPER
Gary Cooper was a big big star in the embryonic days of talking movies
My favorite Cooper movie was Meet John Doe , where he portrayed a reluctant fictitous hero.
He was brilliant in this film, he just had the look and demeanour for this part

Gary Cooper legend of the screen
He was even mentioned in a version of the song Puttin on the Ritz , by Taco
" Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper , super dooper."

ALAN LADD
On this day 3/9/64 Alan Ladd passed away
There is some irony of this
I reckon Alan Ladd and Gary Cooper are lookalikes , just my opinion ,they could pass as brothers
Not seen that many Ladd movies, the one that I liked him in was the classic western Shane

One of my favorites was Faye Dunaway in the movie 'Bonney and Clyde'. Woof  

I'm surprised she's not even listed in the top 20.

FAYE DUNAWAY
Bonny and Clyde Movie was a very good movie
Faye Dunaway , is one heeluva woman
Not only is she a stunning looker, but she is a classy actress as well
I don't reckon she has aged  as well as she should have, but as a young lass she was an absolute stunner
She actually scrubs up well in black and white shoots
Liked her performance in the Thomas Crown Affair movie


WARREN BEATTY
Superb actor

The movie Shampoo suited him , when playing a hairdressing playboy
Julie Christie was hot as usual , and I reckon Warren would have cracked a hawn with the other female lead !

Best movie I've seen Beatty in was Heaven Can Wait
I reckon ive seen it a dozen times, and could watch that moovie a dozen more
The lucky barstad got to touch, hold, and kiss Julie Christie

KARL MALDEN
All Fall down was a 1962 movie and one of Warrens first movies
He played a brash young hood in that movie
In that movie was Karl Malden , who seemed to play in a 1000 movies
If looks could kill, Karl had that look ,and that snozza !

In that movie All Fall Down, Karl produced this line
He was taking to either the wild Beatty  or the gullible Brandon De Wilde
" Have you seen Herbie ?
" Herbie who.?
" Her behind."
Then followed a Malden raucous laughter


FIRST BLOOD
Bonnie and Clyde
What was better the movie or that classic song by Georgie Fame ?

What have the following actors/actresses have in common?

Luise Rainer
Olivia De Havilland
Kirk Douglas
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Joan Fontaine
Maureen Ohara
Eva Marie Saint
Lauren Bacall
George Kennedy
Angela Lansbury
Sidney Pointier
Roger Moore
Shirley Temple
Gene Hackman
Sean Connery
William Shatner
Clint Eastwood
Peter Otoole

WARREN BEATTY

is the brother of Shirley MacLaine

Are Eva Marie Saint and Roger Moore related ?