Question :  Who is the best actor EVER ? ( Dead or ALIVE !!! )  :


Gotta Go with DeNiro ......


....... and you's ?!


J Fly  

DeNiro hasn't impressed me since RONIN...he hasn't carried a film on his own in over 10 years...and so jumped the shark when he played fearless Leader in Rocky & Bullwinkle...

To answer the question...EVER...Katherine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Brando, and maybe Pacino can be oin the BEST EVER catagory

Todays 30+ breed are quite impressive...DiCaprio...Depp...DelToro...Cheadle...Downey Jr and company  are quite strong...I also like Canada's Callum Keith Rennie as well as George Clooney.

It recent years i have really started to enjoy and even prefer ensemble casts...The Ocean movies for example...where the screen chemistry seem great fun and everyone feeds off each other.

I also think that Jack Black is (usually) funny and I thought Tropic Thunder was hilarious due to the many stars...that cold turkey scene almost made me piss myself.

I don't go see movies anymore simply because Blah Blah Blah is in it...

deniro
bruce willis
michael douglas
brad pitt
george cluney
billy crystal
brian denahe [early movies]
tom hanks
robert redford
paul newman
charlie chaplin
buster keaton
nicholas cage

Brando
De Niro
Nicholson
Welles
Pacino
Olivier
Hoffmann (thanks, HoS - a terrible oversight on my part)
Chaplin
Bogie
Guinness
Keaton
Henry Fonda
Depp - possibly the best on current form. Tremendously versatile.
Gary Oldman would run him a close second though. Day-Lewis is terrific as well.


oh..and Laurel & Hardy.  8-) Perfect comic timing isn't a talent that should be lightly regarded.


Could never see the attraction of Nicolas Cage, myself. Likewise with Brad Pitt.

Agree that De Niro hasnt done much in some time. However, just read today that Scorsese is talking about making another movie with him - their first since 'Casino' - and it'd be a gangster movie. Might be some life in the old dog yet.

Best female - Katherine Hepburn, Meryl Streep.
Currently - Cate Blanchett, by a mile.

Where do I start.
Cary Grant,
Gene Hackman.
James Cagney.
Sidney poitier.
Robert Redford.
Bette Davis.
Jodie Foster.
Robert Duvall.
Robert De Niro.
Marlon Brando.
Al Pacino.
Jack Nicholson.
Meryl Streep.
Leonardo Dicaprio.
Morgan Freeman.
James Stewart.
Daniel Day Lewis (outstanding)
Anthony Hopkins.
Sean Penn (outstanding)
Paul Newman.
Clint Eastwood.
Gary Cooper.
Laurence Olivier (outstanding)
Gregory Peck.
Clark Gable.
Dustin Hoffman.

Montgomery Clift-he was fucking brilliant.  Anyone saw "Misfits"?

Brando-Briiliant Actor; Ravaged Private Life.

Gary Cooper

I also like Depp, Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts (Julia's talented older brother) and  Benicio Del Toro.

Factory Girl wrote on Feb 15^th, 2010 at 5:36pm:

Montgomery Clift-he was fucking brilliant.  Anyone saw "Misfits"?

Coincidentaly...as i type this...The Heiress is on TMC...to be followed by A Place In The Sun...Liz Taylor looked so amazing in that...and Clift never as handsome..

TRIVIA...Montgomery Clift is the Brother-in-law of Newsweek's Elenore (you're Swellinoe) Clift of MacLaughlin Group fame...He is also buried in BROOKLYN, NY

My favs:

Olivier
Rex Harrison
Harrison Ford
Richard Burton
Kirk Douglas
Yul Brenner
Spencer Tracy
Cary Grant
Robin Williams
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood alone is freaking brilliant


Honorable mention - Val Kilmer for Tombstone and Salton Sea

Females:
Katherine Hepburn
Vivien Leigh
Lauren Bacall
Helena Bonham Carter
Gene Tierney
Maureen O'Hara

Gary Granite
Stoney Curtis
Rock Quarry
Wednesday Tuesday

" DeNiro .... hasn't carried a film on his own in over 10 years...  "

Concur .


However , there is ALWAYS Hope .  

Joey Shawshank ! ™

Sean Penn has done some great stuff. Love Bogey myself.

Factory Girl wrote on Feb 15^th, 2010 at 5:36pm:

Montgomery Clift-he was fucking brilliant.  Anyone saw "Misfits"? Brando-Briiliant Actor; Ravaged Private Life. Gary Cooper I also like Depp, Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts (Julia's talented older brother) and  Benicio Del Toro.

Wow - pretty surprised that there are so many Montgomery Clift fans here! Count me in as well.


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Ever see him in "Judgement at Nuremberg"? (It's about a military tribunal, btw)
It's a small role, and very late in his career, but DAMN.


Joe Strummer turned me on to Monty.

Anthony Hopkins


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Jesus Christ wrote on Feb 16^th, 2010 at 12:57pm:

Factory Girl wrote on Feb 15th, 2010 at 5:36pm: Montgomery Clift-he was fucking brilliant.  Anyone saw "Misfits"? Brando-Briiliant Actor; Ravaged Private Life. Gary Cooper I also like Depp, Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts (Julia's talented older brother) and  Benicio Del Toro. Wow - pretty surprised that there are so many Montgomery Clift fans here! Count me in as well. Ever see him in "Judgement at Nuremberg"? (It's about a military tribunal, btw) It's a small role, and very late in his career, but DAMN. Joe Strummer turned me on to Monty.

Ah, yes...The Left Profile...He's Montgomery Clift, Baby!!!

He was nominated for the role in Judgment...a retarded man who had been tortured by the Nazis by having electrodes attached to his balls...his first for Supporting actor...he had 3 previous nominations for best actor...all in a span of about 5 years!!!

Alec Guinness? Robert De Niro?

Ah, come on! There is only one...

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A very funny appearance on the David Letterman show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9aSFkSCyw8

Paranoid Android wrote on Feb 16^th, 2010 at 1:04pm:

Jesus Christ wrote on Feb 16th, 2010 at 12:57pm: Factory Girl wrote on Feb 15th, 2010 at 5:36pm: Montgomery Clift-he was fucking brilliant.  Anyone saw "Misfits"? Brando-Briiliant Actor; Ravaged Private Life. Gary Cooper I also like Depp, Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts (Julia's talented older brother) and  Benicio Del Toro. Wow - pretty surprised that there are so many Montgomery Clift fans here! Count me in as well. Ever see him in "Judgement at Nuremberg"? (It's about a military tribunal, btw) It's a small role, and very late in his career, but DAMN. Joe Strummer turned me on to Monty. Ah, yes...The Left Profile...He's Montgomery Clift, Baby!!!

Er...it was actually Monty's Right Profile which was less damaged in his catastrophic car wreck.

Say, where have I seen this guy?
In "Red River'?
Or "A Place in the Sun"?
Maybe "The Misfits"?
Or "From Here to Eternity"?

Everybody say, "What's he like?"
Everybody say, "Is he all right?"
Everybody say, "He sure looks funny."
That's...Montgomery Clift, honey!

New York, New York, New York, 42nd Street
Hustlers rustle and pimps pimp the beat
Monty Clift is recognized at dawn
He ain't got no shoes and his clothes are torn

I see a car smashed at night
Cut the applause and dim the light
Monty's face is broken on a wheel
Is he alive? Can he still feel?

Nembutol numbs it all
But I prefer alcohol
He said go out and get me my old movie stills
Go out and get me another roll of pills
There I go again shaking, but I ain't got the chills

ARRRGHHHGORRA BUH BHUH DO ARRRRGGGGHHHHNNNN!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wDqwm-Yhmo

A long long time ago, many apartments ago, I owned Montgomery Clift's biography.  

The young beauty Liz Taylor was in love with him off the silver screen...but they were meant to be just platonic due to MC's preferences.

Monty Clift was fucking magnificent.  Must see Place In the Sun. ;)

Monty, Brando, Dean, the triumvant.
Although Dean was still a work in progress, these three helped set the tone for the of Pacinos and Deniros.
Cary Grant, underrated as an actor....he was a funny, serious, quirky man.
You know who Brando and Dean loved as young actors? Mickey Rooney....no joke, Rooney, in an era of matinee idols, was earthy and subtle in his better films...and kicked ass in The Comedian, a Playhouse 90 production from the 50s....
Rooney was also one of the few in the older generation who welcomed guys like Brando and Dean. .
There are many current actors i like now, but those old guys were pure magic.
Factory, , did you ever see Clift ini Indescretions of an American Wife with Jennifer Jones..? Her quiet intensity was a great match for his quiet intensity...which didn't happen often.
Glad you mentioned Eric Roberts, He was amazing in Star 80 and hilarious in Pope of Greenwich Village...
The crazy, reckless guys like Roberts and Rourke are worth 10 perfectly managed, charming and normal Matt Damons, Dicaprios and Clooneys....

Hello textile,

I have not seen "Indescretions of an American Wife" with Monty Clift, but will add it to my must-see list.

Eric Roberts is overdue for a comeback.  But, apparently, his sister Julia doesn't want to be overshadowed by acting talent.  


I've no interest in Cruise, Hanks, Pitt and their ilk.

Factory Girl wrote on Feb 16^th, 2010 at 3:16pm:

A long long time ago, many apartments ago, I owned Montgomery Clift's biography.   Monty Clift was fucking magnificent.  Must see Place In the Sun. ;)

Yes, that's a good one.

I've read two bios of Monty - by Patricia Bosworth and Robert LaGuardia. I think Bosworth's was the best.

Three names I'm not sure I've seen mentioned:

Peter O'Toole
Robert Mitchum
and, my favorite, the great John Malkovich.

Robert De Niro
Al Pacino
Clint Eastwood
Morgan Freeman

Nobody can touch them  :wtf2

Factory Girl wrote on Feb 16^th, 2010 at 3:46pm:

Hello textile, I have not seen "Indescretions of an American Wife" with Monty Clift, but will add it to my must-see list. Eric Roberts is overdue for a comeback.  But, apparently, his sister Julia doesn't want to be overshadowed by acting talent.   I've no interest in Cruise, Hanks, Pitt and their ilk.

Indiscretion is a moody, slow film, but i loved the chemistry between Monty and Jones..all angsty. The Bosworth is a great bio.....and i agree, Eric Roberts is long overdo for a "comeback" - it seems to be all about who's ass you kiss or what "list" you're on in Hollywood.

For instance, Robert Downey Jr was a fucked up as anybody and he came back....be he also had guys like Penn, Pitt etc.....helping to get back.....
those guys carry clout.
Roberts was more of a lone wolf in Hollywood, although his pal Mickey R. put in some good words for him after his own comeback...
Eric and Julia look alike, but I always thought Eric was the beauty in that family.

Er...it was actually Monty's Right Profile which was less damaged in his catastrophic car wreck.


I am soooooooooo embarrassed!!!


Not only being a huge MC fan...but a JS/Clash fan as well...ohhhh, the shame Will Robinson!!!

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Jack Nicholson

I think he acts under some goooood LSD on "The Shining" and with good weed on "One Flew..."

Sir Anthony Hopkins too

Gazza as he is NOT a Rolling Stones fan but hard core on Jon Bon Jovi, yes believe it or not, he is a good actor and has been acting since 1997

:wtf3

He's been 'acting' as a songwriter for about 15 years before that!

Unfortunately, over 100 million idiots were gullible enough to find him convincing...

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Peter O'Toole

Paranoid Android wrote on Feb 16^th, 2010 at 11:29pm:

Er...it was actually Monty's Right Profile which was less damaged in his catastrophic car wreck. I am soooooooooo embarrassed!!! Not only being a huge MC fan...but a JS/Clash fan as well...ohhhh, the shame Will Robinson!!! http://stillanightowl.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/dr-smith.jpg

Ah, Professor Smith, add this to your mountain of shame - Monty was from Omaha - so you have indirectly insulted The Joey as well!

Peter O'Toole could've been a porn star name!

Not sure how the best actor ever could be a list of 26 people, but some of my favorites are Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda (from Omaha), Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood and Robert DeNiro.

Hell, I don't know who the best is.  I know more about music and I know that Bon Jovvyyyyy sucks!
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Adrian Brody has lots of talent and promise.


Also, Mickey Rourke & Eric Roberts.

For some reason I love Alec Baldwin, I think he steals every flick he's in.  Also, James Garner cracks me up.  Maverick might be the the best show ever followed closely by The Rockford Files.

FG, I've seen The Pope at least 20 times, I love those guys too.

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