Harrison Ford

muttley-dps

Best actor ever!

Given genre and all other considerations, name someone else more appealing? e.g Witness, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Jack Ryan, Fugitive ... anyone else out there?

muttley-dps

I think his chin could even rival Ben Affleck as Batman .... not the alter ego Bruce Wayne obviously given the crystal skull episode!

muttley-dps

name your favourites then

stefan idiot jones

Best actor ever... Denzil Washington.

internelligent

Best actor ever? Might be exaggerating slightly there. He's good and starred in some great movies though. Pretty good in the mosquito coast.

muttley-dps

Denzel is good, very good even and hard to argue against .. on a par I reckon given the volume of work .... anyone else out there?

Sir Gallagher

Mikey Graham, his career defining performance in Fatal Deviation revolutionised the way we think about acting. The actor Daniel Day Lewis wish he had become.

muttley-dps

i thought mikey graham was a boyzone member so might need to brush up on the mainstream!!!????

The Backwards Man

Charlton Heston.

Starred in 1,269 films, everyone one of them a blockbuster.

muttley-dps

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Charlton Heston.

Starred in 1,269 films, everyone one of them a blockbuster.

I loved him in that until i seen 'bowling for columbine' .. he was hard to stomach after that ... NRA does not rule

muttley-dps

by that, i refer to 'ben hur'

dazza b

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

Mikey Graham, his career defining performance in Fatal Deviation revolutionised the way we think about acting. The actor Daniel Day Lewis wish he had become.

best irish movie ever,the movie can be watched in whole on you tube .cracked.com wrote an article about the fiim:p

The Backwards Man

muttley-dps wrote: »

I loved him in that until i seen 'bowling for columbine' .. he was hard to stomach after that ... NRA does not rule

Well, if you're going to bring their personal lives into it, Harrison Ford farts in bed.

Galwayguy35

Daniel Day Lewis.

ron jambo

Clint

Sir Gallagher

ron jambo wrote: »

Clint

I love Clint, but i wouldn't call him a great actor. He plays the badass with a heart to a tee he owns that character. He wouldn't be in the same league as Paul Newman, now there was an actor.

AlmightyCushion

ron jambo wrote: »

Clint

I didn't realise Fr. Clint Power was an actor.

Mr. Incognito

Tom Hanks

Box office gold

Royal Irish

The three best performances in lead male roles in my opinion would be Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood, Gene Hackman in The French Connection II, and Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Ace Attorney

Edward norton

ron jambo

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

I love Clint, but i wouldn't call him a great actor. He plays the badass with a heart to a tee he owns that character. He wouldn't be in the same league as Paul Newman, now there was an actor.

Yeah you're right.

Duggy747

Ah-nuld!

His puns are like liquid poetry :pac:

Chareth Cutestory

Bill Murray (Garfield and Charlie's Angels notwithstanding)

The Backwards Man

Chareth Cutestory wrote: »

Bill Murray (Garfield and Charlie's Angels notwithstanding)

Chevy Chase, if you only count two of his films, three at a push.

osarusan

Some great performances I remember:
Dustin Hoffman in Lenny, Zbigniew Zamachowski in Three Colors: White, Henry Fonda in The Ox-Bow Incident, Carlo Battisti in Umberto D, Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo.

muttley-dps

Clint is hard to disagree with alright. Newman is in the same category as steve mc queen, and sly for that matter ... lets rate them then??

Nicholson
ford,
stallone,
McQueen,

??

The Backwards Man

Thread needs more ladies.

Marlene Dietrich would put most of the lads mentioned in their place.

muttley-dps

when i started this was thinking movies i'd watch again and again, am afraid marleinech doesn't show up :-(
Robert englund maybe!?
was watching commando going to primary school at age 10 every morning here, 'rosebud' never got much of a mention, though the shining was crap compared to the book!

ron jambo

Russel Crowe, all the way back to Romper Stomper ?

muttley-dps

ron jambo wrote: »

Russel Crowe, all the way back to Romper Stomper ?

quality, sticking the dvd on now

lahalane

Leonardo Dicaprio. I've seen almost all his films and it's very hard to think of a bad performance. Plus he's so ****ing dreamy.

ron jambo

muttley-dps wrote: »

quality, sticking the dvd on now

Racist :P

Sir Osis of Liver.

Pat Shortt in The Garage..........

Sir Gallagher

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Chevy Chase, if you only count two of his films, three at a push.

Fletch and Fletch Lives, Chavy Chase at his best.

kryogen

Brando
De Niro
Pacino
Di Caprio
Denzel
Nicholson


Probably a couple slipped my mind, but those are some very fine actors

Cruise gets a mention actually

SV

Will Smith is the greatest actor in the world.

TeddyTedson

I think it has to be Nicholson. He's an old dude, never got roles for being a pretty boy but he is a phenomenal Actor.

I think what really tells you an actor is good is when you forgot who they are. Nicholas achieves this. So dynamic. An amazing turn of phrase.

I won't pretend I know a lot about acting, but man, Nicholson has really nailed it.

"think you're ****ing brave"

fred funk }{

kryogen wrote: »

Brando
De Niro
Pacino
Di Caprio
Denzel
Nicholson


Probably a couple slipped my mind, but those are some very fine actors

Cruise gets a mention actually

I agree. It's easy to dismiss some actors like Cruise etc. but they're excellent.

Another brilliant actor who IMO doesn't get enough recognition is Brad Pitt.

THT

Christian Bale is up there. Played the best junkie ever in "The fighter".

stoneill

Bela Lugosi

martinedwards

Harrison Ford's Aunt lives in Newtownards, a few doors up from my in laws.

when My Mrs was 18 she arrived at the door with an envelope for her.

a pic of HF, on the rope bridge, whip in hand....

to G******* (unusual name, you're not getting it!) best wishes Harry Ford.

she's still pretty chuffed about that!!

btard

De Niro

/thread

mojesius

Daniel Day all the way

Some honourable mentions to:

Ralph Fiennes
Robert DeNiro
Dustin Hoffman
Joaquin Phoenix
Brad Pitt
Christian Bale

Geomy

Aidan Gillen has good potential, he seems to be getting better and better.

Conall Cernach

A lot of more recent actors being mentioned here. How about I throw Jimmy Stewart into the mix. Never a bad performance in my opinion even if a couple of his movies were below par. I'd also like to add Rudolph Valentino particularly for Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Blood and Sand. He could blow the likes of Brad Pitt off the screen with one smouldering look.

MonstaMash

Giovanni Ribisi

Tim Roth

Gary Oldman

Trond Espen Seim

Viggo Mortensen

oldyouth

Gene Hackman for me

Excellent performances in thrillers, comedy and touchy-feely films

Littlehorny

As mentioned already Nicholson is a true great, I like actors who don't appear to be acting so I would add Sean Penn to this list he has played so many different roles and always nails it. But if you look at a career over all and the types of films and roles they have played I would pick Tom Hanks based purely on the volume and quality of his roles.

Czarcasm

THT wrote: »

Christian Bale is up there. Played the best junkie ever in "The fighter".

Played an even better emaciated skeleton in "The Mechanic", before that he gave Jack Nicholson a run for his money as the psychopathic Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. Equilibrium was a load of bollocks only for he carried it, but the Batman franchise is an embarrassment from start to finish, where he was out-shone by a fantastic Heath Ledger as the Joker, who played a fantastic role in Brokeback Mountain as a straight cowboy who falls in love with another man, where he went from "Ten things I hate about you" to one thing he hated about himself.

Jack Nicholson, what can be said about the ugliest bastard in Hollywood that's not been said already, from the nut job in The Shining, to the nut job in The Witches of Eastwick, where as Daryl Van Horne he did indeed dip his wick in three of the finest ladies in Hollywood- Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon. All three just some of the greatest female actors in Hollywood including Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis and Hillary Swank (she hasn't been in a lot of movies, but damn when she's in them she owns the screen! I'll admit PS I love you was a ball of shìte).

"Million dollar baby" though in which she starred with Clint Eastwood was a cracker, Clint's own movie career has been more crackers than Christmas (except for those orangutan movies, they were like the shìtty toys you get inside the crackers). Just the other night I watched "Gran Turino", as somebody else mentioned earlier in the thread this was Clint "badass with a heart" Eastwood to a tee! It reminded me of Matt Dillon's performance in Crash, as the badass cop that's actually a decent guy underneath all that frustrated anger and bitterness at the world. He's never been a widely recognised actor Matt Dillon, mostly because he always went for shìte roles like playing the buffoon private investigator in There's something about Mary, and again the buffoon guidance counsellor in Wild Things (worth a watch for Denise Richards alone- "Smokin'" as Jim Carrey would say!).

Speaking of which, I'm getting carried away here myself (like an Oscar acceptance speech!), so special mention must go to Don Cheadle, always the token black guy, never the lead role, not like Denzel, who put in a fantastic performance as Philadelphia with Tom Hanks. Willem Dafoe, I was forever mixing him up with Kevin Bacon, and another Kevin often forgotten- Kevin Spacey! Honorable mentions too to Marilyn, some do indeed like it hot, and while gentlemen prefer blondes, I'm not a gentleman so I always had a hard spot for Jane Russell...

Fcuk is that the time? :pac:

amdublin

Omg Harrison ford such a hero.

Air force one "Get Off My Plane" - kick

Almost better than facekicker.

Birroc

Di Caprio well on his way to being a true great. Rarely in a bad movie.