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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAre there any actors or actresses that you have watched all of their films?
James Cagney is one of my favorite actors. A few years ago, I decided to hunt down and watch every film that he was in. Has anyone else ever watch every film of a particular actor or actress?
stonecutter357
(13,045 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(61,857 posts)CTyankee
(68,202 posts)Do you have a favorite one of her films?
NRaleighLiberal
(61,857 posts)but even if the movie isn't great, she is!
CTyankee
(68,202 posts)and she rushes home to go through a desk to find his hotel and motel bills where he trysted with his lover is terrific. High point of the film IMO.
NRaleighLiberal
(61,857 posts)Deer Hunter. The TV telemovie Holocaust. Great portfolio she has.
CTyankee
(68,202 posts)But I nearly got up and ran out of the theater during that scene in the film where her "choice" is made. For that reason I will not see that movie again.
choie
(6,906 posts)n/t
Marie Marie
(11,309 posts)anything that John Turturro is in.
DoBotherMe
(2,350 posts)And Nicole Kidman until she started messing with her face.
Harker
(17,785 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Robert Redford, Paul Newman. Diane Keaton, Groucho Marx, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson...
ProfessorGAC
(76,706 posts)Newman, Hanks, Eastwood and Groucho. I might be awfully close on Keaton, too. Seen an awful lot of Redford movies, but not sure i could claim all.
I'd have to actually have a filmography to see if i've seen everything Streep has been in. A lot but i'm guessing not all.
Now for a name probably not going to be mentioned: Kevin Kline. He draws my like a moth to flame. If he's in a movie i'm watching.
Finally, Amy Adams, Jen Lawrence, and Bradley Cooper. My wife and i are both nuts about those 3.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,518 posts)Will never see him, or his movies, the same way.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Bette Davis
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and Fred Astaire. Because. Just because.
IADEMO2004
(6,424 posts)madamesilverspurs
(16,512 posts)sigh...
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He has done a few good drama films, but people don't realize what a great comedic actor he was.
Ohiogal
(40,578 posts)"Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House" was so funny!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)One of my all-time favorite movies. I highly recommend it!
justgamma
(3,693 posts)Father Goose. One of my favorites.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,161 posts)I've had the hots for him since I was a kid.
He has a lot in common with Robert Forster, both are so very comfortable in their own skin, and it shows.
thankfully the inter-tubes are a fantastic source of old films.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I have loved classic films since I was a kid. Robert Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart are both in my top ten of favorite actors. They both died about the same time. Robert Mitchum died July 1st and Jimmy Stewart died July 2nd 1997.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,161 posts)Interesting.
I saw Robert Mitchum's The Night of The Hunter when i was a kid ( 1955) in a theater Scared the bejeses out of me.
Saw it years later, as an adult, it was still spooky.
Loved The Sundowners.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Bob Mitchum's Preacher was my vision of the ultimate evil in a person.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I wish I could say I've seen all of Big Bob's movies, but he made a ton of them. I am always discovering a new one somewhere.
Just rewatched Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison recently. That's a great date movie, for all you youngsters out there.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)films with Eddy Redmayne and Mads Mikklesen.
TexasBushwhacker
(21,204 posts)I saw him in Spider Man and Milk and thought he was a fine young actor, but when I watched 127 Hours I thought "WHO IS THIS GUY?!" and hunted down everything I could find.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,204 posts)Any specifics?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)And inappropriate behavior along those lines.
miyazaki
(2,650 posts)MFM008
(20,042 posts)Sean Connery.
RobinA
(10,478 posts)I generally don't like most actors enough to see them in ANYTHING, but he was an exception.
VOX
(22,976 posts)It's a pity he's known for his Star Wars turn more than anything else. It's a pity, as he was a master chameleon, and he was in some major classics.
NewJeffCT
(56,848 posts)was a great movie and he was excellent
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Guinness plays a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana who begins selling fake intelligence to the British so that he can buy his daughter a horse. He sends MI-6 sketches of his vacuums, and they think they represent some sort of advanced Soviet military death machine. It's a great movie, because as absurd as it is, it's (mostly) played completely straight.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man In the White Suit, The Ladykillers...there's not a dud among them. All five-star efforts. The Brits seem to do comedy best, they know when to hold back just a bit.
VOX
(22,976 posts)He transformed his look from film to film. In Kwai, he wears a prosthetic "barrel chest," to give himself more "weight," in a literal sense, and for some added gravitas as well.
"What have I done?"
NewJeffCT
(56,848 posts)just kidding...need to think about this one. Probably somebody only in a few movies, I would guess?
Kaleva
(40,365 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)dameatball
(7,669 posts)Upthevibe
(10,180 posts)movies several times. I also don't think I've missed any of Meryl Streep's....
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)He seemed like a good person as well.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,913 posts)Natalie Wood, Goldie Hahn, to name but a few!
fifthoffive
(382 posts)James Cagney
Fred Astaire
Harrison Ford
Cary Grant
All of these guys were in some bad movies, but they all dominate the screen in very different ways.
Katherine Hepburn gets her own special mention. My favorite!
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)The films were Holiday, Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby and Sylvia Scarlett. Three of them were excellent but the other one was not very good. My favorite was Holiday.
samnsara
(18,767 posts)nt
Ohiogal
(40,578 posts)and I love anything with Gregory Peck in it
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)He was a great actor. He was also a democrat.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Empathy is a necessary quality in an actor, and that's not a quality that right-wingers value or tend to have much of.
Jimmy Stewart was a Republican, but he was a kind and decent man who served his country with high distinction in WWII. He actually qualified for the same deferment that John Wayne used to get out of serving, but Stewart used his Hollywood clout to get INTO the Army Air Corps, because he knew they needed experienced pilots who could navigate by landmarks.
3catwoman3
(29,406 posts)...Air Force reserve. An uncommon achievement.
The Flight of the Phoenix is one of my favorite Stewart movies.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Because he was terrific in everything he did.
But if I did have a list, Flight of the Phoenix would be towards the top. It is an exciting and unusual movie that not many people know about.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I love everything he has been in! Not only was he handsome and a great actor, he was also a proud liberal!
Ohiogal
(40,578 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He was great in everything - To Kill a Mockingbird, Gentleman's Agreement, etc., but I think that was one of my favorites. I am a big Hitchcock fan.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They are two of my favorite actors. They just don't make them like that anymore.
SouthernIrish
(539 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)He played Charlie in Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, and it was the only movie he ever made. He hated acting and grew up to be a veterinarian.
samnsara
(18,767 posts)mahina
(20,645 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Eddie Redmayne, As for women, Helena Bonham Carter, Rebecca Hall, Maggie Smith, Judi Densch, Anna Chancellor, Claire Foy, Julie Christie, Carey Mulligan, Kate Winslet, Emily Blunt and Emma Thompson
And the comedians - Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The Monty Python Crew, Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)He was only in five films, and each was nominated for Best Picture.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,571 posts)sigh
Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,443 posts)but also William Powell. i recently watched some of his early silent films.
sweetroxie
(776 posts)CherokeeDem
(3,736 posts)I loved this man's acting....
fierywoman
(8,595 posts)brewens
(15,359 posts)Hoffman, Al Pacino, Robert Redford, and Kevin Spacey.
Leith
(7,864 posts)I've seen most everything he's been in, even January Man and Princess Caraboo. He was the sexiest Pirate King ever to sally forth to seek his prey.
Laffy Kat
(16,952 posts)Love everything she did. What a talent.
MissMillie
(39,652 posts)Every now and then I see a movie that has an actor that I like, but I didn't know he/she was in it.
I guess I just don't have the energy to keep track of them all. Too many actors that I really like... therefore too many movies.
Music is a different story, for me anyway.
Sticky
(1,406 posts)Tikki
(15,140 posts)Tikki
jrandom421
(1,060 posts)Humphrey Bogart
Burt Lancaster
Robert Duvall
Lauren Bacall
Audrey Hepburn
Geena Davis
jalan48
(14,914 posts)Upthevibe
(10,180 posts)I loved him in a movie that's seemed under the radar all these years - Gentlemen's Agreement. He was wonderful in that gem....
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)Homer Wells
(1,576 posts)As many as I can find.
dameatball
(7,669 posts)Actually, I had never heard of her before the Trump related tuff.
PJMcK
(25,048 posts)Accordingly to the Internet Movie Database, Ms. Daniels has 153 film credits:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1317917/
It took a lot of viewing!
iamateacher
(1,120 posts)I could watch them read the phone book...
Christine Baranski
Colin Firth
Benedict Cumberbatch
Toni Collette
Emily Blunt
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)edbermac
(16,449 posts)
stopbush
(24,808 posts)Generic Brad
(14,374 posts)Don't judge me.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I have seen quite a few Adam Sandler films myself. I love the Wedding Singer.