Who do you think is the greatest film actor/actress of all time?

[WI_DEM]

actor: Cary Grant
actress: Bette Davis

oops I did it again, put this in the wrong forum.

[msongs]

1. me? nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Sam Waterston is my favorite actor

and one of my favorite people. He's very kind and generous with his time and also appreciative of his fans.

Favorite actress? I've no idea.

[CrispyQ]

3. ...

actor: Christopher Walken
actress: Ann Bancroft & Juliette Lewis

[cynatnite]

4. Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart n/t

[peacebird]

5. Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart

Modern times:
Judy Dench or Emma Thompson or Jamie Curtis
Will Smith or Kevin Kline

Up & Coming:
Jake Gyllenhall

[applegrove]

8. Kate Hepburn, Robert Deniro.

[Bridget Burke]

53. "Philadelphia Story" has Hepburn, Stewart--& Cary Grant as a bonus!

For modern actors, I'd say that Johnny Depp has shown the greatest range. He can do obscure, arty stuff--then turn a film based on a Disneyland ride into a blockbuster trilogy.

I'll get back to you on the best modern actress.

[Caoimhe]

6. Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman

[Staph]

7. I like the oldies but goodies.

Greta Garbo (the final scene of Queen Christina, with Garbo's thousand yard stare, is amazing)

Spencer Tracy (you never catch him "acting". He simply "is".)

[The Blue Flower]

9. Kate Blanchett

Trying to think of an actor.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

35. Agree - She's the greatest in film today

No question.

[brucefan]

10. Jack Lemmon,Meryl Streep

[WiseButAngrySara]

13. That's a good pair.. Second it .

[piedmont]

11. Jimmy Stewart/Kate Hepburn nt

[enid602]

12. actors

Tony Snow and Condoleeza Rice.


Oh, those kind of actors. . .
Cantinflas, Gena Rollins, Faye Dunnaway

[Missy M]

14. Two for actress...

Actress: Meryl Streep - Cate Blanchett
Actor: Russell Crowe

[kerry-is-my-prez]

15. Meryl Streep

n/t

[idgiehkt]

45. yep, Streep for female, Viggo Mortenson for male n/t

[soleft]

55. Meryl Streep exists on her own plain

At a very close level you'll find Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchete and Toni Collette.

[Sequoia]

16. Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman

[BuyingThyme]

17. Billy Murray, Amy Sedaris

[alfredo]

18. Di Niro and Streep.

[Duer 157099]

49. Exactly my two choices!

:toast:

[Rowdyboy]

19. Henry Fonda and Kate Hepburn

[sendero]

20. That ..

.. is what I was about to type.

[Rowdyboy]

38. Its a tough question, with Jimmy Stewart, Richard Burton, Bette Davis and Liz Taylor....

still out there. But I think we chose the absolute best of the best.

[lonestarnot]

21. Susan Seranden, Kate Hepburn, Susan Hayward (sp?) not

necessarily in that order.

[Ian David]

22. Paul Ruben and Yahoo Serious. n/t

[slackmaster]

23. Marlon Brando, maybe Katherine Hepburn

:nuke:

[doc03]

24. Keanu Reeves and Paris Hilton

:hide:

[karlrschneider]

25. And wouldn't you know, the nuclear blocking function is gone.

:evilgrin:

[cynatnite]

26. Paris Hilton is an actress?

Hmmm...learn something new every day.

[doc03]

37. Co-stared in "A Night in Paris"

[jobycom]

44. Perhaps the most appropriate typo in all of DU history.

Co-stared.

[Swamp Rat]

27. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy

Those are my favs.

I do LOVE Hepburn and Bogart in "The African Queen."

Audrey Hepburn was a great actress and humanitarian too.

[Cameron27]

28. Love, love, love, that duo!!

Ok, I'll pick Myrna Loy for the Thin Man series, and Cary Grant for the best physical comedy ever.

[WI_DEM]

30. oh yeah, Myrna Loy and William Powell were a great screen couple!

[cynatnite]

33. Talked to some RW nutjob women at the VA about her...

because they saw me reading her book. I knew they were RW nutjobs from their comments about Ron Howard directing Da Vinci Code and a few other remarks. I almost told them about her donations to Planned Parenthood and how much she loathed Raygun. :evilgrin:

[cmkramer]

29. Lon Chaney and Greta Garbo

for the "olden days".

Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep for today.

[leeroysphitz]

31. Lol. I'll tell you in the lounge!

:evilgrin:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

32. Orson Welles called the French character actor Raimu THE greatest of all time

If anyone has ever seen the films of Raimu, which have among the greatest performances of any actor during the 1930s and 1940s, they know what Orson Welles meant. Raimu was a tower of greatness.

I would add French actor Louis Jouvet to that number, too, who was primarily a stage actor but who gave magnificant screen performances. He could play gangsters, aristocrats, homeless bums, aging and world weary detectives, scamming doctors, you name it. He's probably my favorite actor to watch for the sheer skill of his acting ability.

Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Erich Von Stroheim are also ones I would rank at the very top of the profession. Bogart was more than just a great actor, whether it's The Big Sleep, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or The Caine Mutiny, he was and will always be the legend of legends on the screen.

In more modern times, I would say Gene Hackman and Robert Duval deserve mention.

Among the actors in film today, Academy Award winning, Golden Globe winning (and almost every other major acting award winning) Cate Blanchett is the only one who comes to mind when I think of these other great actors in history and when the word "greatness" is spoken. There are many fine actors today, but she's the only one who I feel can be mentioned in the same breath with "greatness", the best person acting on film today in my opinion (and I'm not talking about Lord Of The Rings, either).

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

34. Marcello Mastroianni and Vanessa Redgrave.

[mnhtnbb]

36. Toss-up between Paul Newman and Jack Nicholson for male;

Katharine Hepburn and Meryl Streep for female.

[cmkramer]

41. I love Jack Nicholson

He's my favorite movie star. But I still think DeNiro is the better actor.

[GenDem]

39. Hate to be redundent but Katharine Hepburn & Gregory Peck

Modern day -
-Frances McDormand
-Morgan Freeman

[momophile]

40. recently, Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson

of old, Gregory Peck and I don't know.

[Penndems]

42. Actors: Marlon Brando and Hal Holbrook

Actresses: Meryl Streep and Bette Davis

[johnnie]

43. I like James Dean

He was pretty friggin' good in his 3 movies.

[jobycom]

46. Meryl Streep, and I can't decide between DeNiro or Geoffrey Rush.

Rush doesn't have the body of work of DeNiro, but he's turned in a few spectacular performances that combine the intense emotional appeal of a Tom Hanks style actor with the technical brilliance of a Burton or Olivier. He has greater range than DeNiro. DeNiro has a better overall portfolio, though. So, DeNiro for achievement, Rush for pure ability.

My opinion may change at any moment.

[begin_within]

47. Actor: James Dean ... Actress: Ingrid Bergman

[Connonym]

48. Paul Newman

[Seabiscuit]

50. Anthony Hopkins/Robert Deniro + Kate Blanchett

Honorable mention to: Paul Newman and Kate Winslett.

[Beausoleil]

51. Don't know about greatest

but my favorite current actors are Kevin Spacey and Susan Sarandon.

All time favorites: Peter O'Toole and Kate Hepburn

Shirley Maclaine is right up there.

[BOSSHOG]

52. Paul Newman and Geena Davis

Cool Hand Luke and Thelma

[LostinVA]

54. Kate Winslet

And NO, it's not just because I lust after her.

[sweetheart]

56. Peter Sellers / meryl streep

[NYCGirl]

57. I agree with David Thomson, who write "The Biographical Dictionary of Film"

(a great reference source). He says the two greatest film actors are Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum. Mitch is my favorite.


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