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IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 11:17 PM Sep 2018

Are 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?

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Are there any actors or actresses that you have watched all of their films? (Original Post) IrishEyes Sep 2018 OP
Milla Jovovich I love all of her films ! stonecutter357 Sep 2018 #1
Meryl Streep NRaleighLiberal Sep 2018 #2
I am in the process of watching every one of her movies that I can rent on youtube. CTyankee Sep 2018 #41
Out of Africa - then The Hours - then Sophie's Choice NRaleighLiberal Sep 2018 #42
I really like "Heartburn." That scene where she realizes that her husband is having an affair CTyankee Sep 2018 #43
agreed - forgot about that one! and Postcards from the Edge, where she sang! NRaleighLiberal Sep 2018 #44
She sang in Mamma Mia and was terrific. CTyankee Sep 2018 #45
Katharine Hepburn choie Sep 2018 #3
Can't claim to have seen all of them but I will always try to watch Marie Marie Sep 2018 #4
Peter Sellers DoBotherMe Sep 2018 #5
James Dean. n/t Harker Sep 2018 #6
Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood ghostsinthemachine Sep 2018 #7
I Might Be With You On 4 of Those ProfessorGAC Sep 2018 #29
Used to like Clint's movies... but, not after he made his politics known. InAbLuEsTaTe Sep 2018 #84
Vivian Leigh Me. Sep 2018 #8
Two--Kate Hepburn, because I knew her as a kid... First Speaker Sep 2018 #9
That's fantastic. Great memory for you. IADEMO2004 Sep 2018 #60
Cary Grant madamesilverspurs Sep 2018 #10
I think I have seen almost everything by Cary Grant as well. smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #48
Oh my yes Ohiogal Sep 2018 #58
Have you ever seen "Charade" with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn? smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #61
He was hilarious in justgamma Sep 2018 #82
Robert Mitchum..... dixiegrrrrl Sep 2018 #11
I love Robert Mitchum. IrishEyes Sep 2018 #13
I did not know that. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2018 #16
Before Donald Trump... Dave Starsky Sep 2018 #31
My all-time favorite actor. Dave Starsky Sep 2018 #28
Possibly not ALL, but probably MOST HeiressofBickworth Sep 2018 #12
Same for me with James Franco TexasBushwhacker Sep 2018 #17
He is, sadly, an awful human being oberliner Sep 2018 #76
Sorry to hear that TexasBushwhacker Sep 2018 #90
Many accusations of sexual misconduct oberliner Sep 2018 #92
James Dean. miyazaki Sep 2018 #14
Elizabeth Taylor MFM008 Sep 2018 #15
River Phoenix RobinA Sep 2018 #18
Alec Guiness. VOX Sep 2018 #19
Bridge on the River Kwai NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #21
Our Man in Havana is another good one. Dave Starsky Sep 2018 #34
Great film, and clever! As are all the Guinness "little comedies" out of Ealing Studios... VOX Sep 2018 #46
In Kwai, Guinness "disappeared" and Colonel Nicholson appeared. VOX Sep 2018 #47
Kevin Bacon NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #20
Stormy Daniels Kaleva Sep 2018 #22
Whatever makes you happy. IrishEyes Sep 2018 #23
Joking. Have never seen any of her films. But good for her. dameatball Sep 2018 #89
😂 redstateblues Sep 2018 #54
I think I've probably seen all of Jimmy Sterwart's Upthevibe Sep 2018 #24
Jimmy Stewart was a great actor. IrishEyes Sep 2018 #35
Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, Jeff Bridges, Marlon Brando, Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2018 #25
Alan Rickman fifthoffive Sep 2018 #26
Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn were in four films together. IrishEyes Sep 2018 #32
i would deliberately watch a show just to see/hear Alan Rickman... samnsara Sep 2018 #38
Me too. BigMin28 Sep 2018 #79
Cary Grant Ohiogal Sep 2018 #27
I love Gregory Peck. IrishEyes Sep 2018 #33
Most of the truly great actors tend towards being progressive. Dave Starsky Sep 2018 #39
Stewart ultimately achieved the rank of Brigadier General in the... 3catwoman3 Sep 2018 #67
I don't have a favorite Stewart movie. Dave Starsky Sep 2018 #71
Gregory Peck is another one! smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #49
Yes he was. Ohiogal Sep 2018 #59
I loved him in "Spellbound" with Ingrid Bergman! smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #62
Me too! smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #83
Julia Roberts Matt Damon. George Clooney SouthernIrish Sep 2018 #30
Peter Ostrum Dave Starsky Sep 2018 #36
i think all of james dean as he didnt have that many...but on purpose..Greta Garbo.. samnsara Sep 2018 #37
Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Tom Waits mahina Sep 2018 #40
Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Ciaran Hinds, Daniel Craig, Benedict Cumberbatch, smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #50
John Cazale. John Fante Sep 2018 #51
Deniro redstateblues Sep 2018 #52
John Garfield JenniferJuniper Sep 2018 #53
I love John Garfield Ghost of Tom Joad Sep 2018 #75
James Dean sweetroxie Sep 2018 #55
Alan Rickman CherokeeDem Sep 2018 #56
Yes! fierywoman Sep 2018 #88
I've come close to several. Maybe I saw them all, but probably missed a few. DeNiro, Dustin brewens Sep 2018 #57
Kevin Kline Leith Sep 2018 #63
Cicely Tyson. Laffy Kat Sep 2018 #64
Probably not MissMillie Sep 2018 #65
Doris Day nt Sticky Sep 2018 #66
Probably Suzanne Pleshette. She was so pretty and had a great sense of humor. Tikki Sep 2018 #68
Got a few jrandom421 Sep 2018 #69
Michael Caine. jalan48 Sep 2018 #70
I'm adding Gregory Peck. I think I've seen all of his too. Upthevibe Sep 2018 #72
I love that film. IrishEyes Sep 2018 #74
Chris Walken Homer Wells Sep 2018 #73
Stormy Daniels....replying for a friend dameatball Sep 2018 #77
Your "friend" has had to watch a lot of movies PJMcK Sep 2018 #85
Kevin Bacon PJMcK Sep 2018 #86
I have phone book actors iamateacher Sep 2018 #78
The Three Stooges..........seen it all Trust Buster Sep 2018 #80
Gummo Marx. edbermac Sep 2018 #81
Bogart. stopbush Sep 2018 #87
Adam Sandler Generic Brad Sep 2018 #91
No judgement. IrishEyes Sep 2018 #93

CTyankee

(68,202 posts)
41. I am in the process of watching every one of her movies that I can rent on youtube.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 03:14 PM
Sep 2018

Do you have a favorite one of her films?

NRaleighLiberal

(61,857 posts)
42. Out of Africa - then The Hours - then Sophie's Choice
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 03:25 PM
Sep 2018

but even if the movie isn't great, she is!

CTyankee

(68,202 posts)
43. I really like "Heartburn." That scene where she realizes that her husband is having an affair
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 03:29 PM
Sep 2018

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)
44. agreed - forgot about that one! and Postcards from the Edge, where she sang!
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 03:35 PM
Sep 2018

Deer Hunter. The TV telemovie Holocaust. Great portfolio she has.

CTyankee

(68,202 posts)
45. She sang in Mamma Mia and was terrific.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 03:44 PM
Sep 2018

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.

Marie Marie

(11,309 posts)
4. Can't claim to have seen all of them but I will always try to watch
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 11:27 PM
Sep 2018

anything that John Turturro is in.

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)
7. Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 11:33 PM
Sep 2018

Robert Redford, Paul Newman. Diane Keaton, Groucho Marx, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson...

ProfessorGAC

(76,706 posts)
29. I Might Be With You On 4 of Those
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 02:08 PM
Sep 2018

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)
84. Used to like Clint's movies... but, not after he made his politics known.
Sun Sep 9, 2018, 11:03 PM
Sep 2018

Will never see him, or his movies, the same way.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
48. I think I have seen almost everything by Cary Grant as well.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 08:22 PM
Sep 2018

He has done a few good drama films, but people don't realize what a great comedic actor he was.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
61. Have you ever seen "Charade" with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn?
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 09:21 PM
Sep 2018

One of my all-time favorite movies. I highly recommend it!

dixiegrrrrl

(60,161 posts)
11. Robert Mitchum.....
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 11:58 PM
Sep 2018

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)
13. I love Robert Mitchum.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 12:39 AM
Sep 2018

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)
16. I did not know that.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:52 AM
Sep 2018

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)
31. Before Donald Trump...
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 02:18 PM
Sep 2018

Bob Mitchum's Preacher was my vision of the ultimate evil in a person.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
28. My all-time favorite actor.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 02:07 PM
Sep 2018

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.

TexasBushwhacker

(21,204 posts)
17. Same for me with James Franco
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 02:26 AM
Sep 2018

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.

RobinA

(10,478 posts)
18. River Phoenix
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 08:19 AM
Sep 2018

I generally don't like most actors enough to see them in ANYTHING, but he was an exception.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
19. Alec Guiness.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 09:17 AM
Sep 2018

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.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
34. Our Man in Havana is another good one.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 02:28 PM
Sep 2018

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)
46. Great film, and clever! As are all the Guinness "little comedies" out of Ealing Studios...
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 06:21 PM
Sep 2018

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)
47. In Kwai, Guinness "disappeared" and Colonel Nicholson appeared.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 06:30 PM
Sep 2018

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)
20. Kevin Bacon
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 10:34 AM
Sep 2018

just kidding...need to think about this one. Probably somebody only in a few movies, I would guess?

Upthevibe

(10,180 posts)
24. I think I've probably seen all of Jimmy Sterwart's
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:29 PM
Sep 2018

movies several times. I also don't think I've missed any of Meryl Streep's....

Floyd R. Turbo

(32,913 posts)
25. Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, Jeff Bridges, Marlon Brando,
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:37 PM
Sep 2018

Natalie Wood, Goldie Hahn, to name but a few!

fifthoffive

(382 posts)
26. Alan Rickman
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:38 PM
Sep 2018

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)
32. Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn were in four films together.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 02:25 PM
Sep 2018

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.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
39. Most of the truly great actors tend towards being progressive.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 02:55 PM
Sep 2018

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)
67. Stewart ultimately achieved the rank of Brigadier General in the...
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 09:17 PM
Sep 2018

...Air Force reserve. An uncommon achievement.

The Flight of the Phoenix is one of my favorite Stewart movies.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
71. I don't have a favorite Stewart movie.
Sun Sep 9, 2018, 11:00 AM
Sep 2018

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)
49. Gregory Peck is another one!
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 08:23 PM
Sep 2018

I love everything he has been in! Not only was he handsome and a great actor, he was also a proud liberal!

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
62. I loved him in "Spellbound" with Ingrid Bergman!
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 09:24 PM
Sep 2018

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)
83. Me too!
Sun Sep 9, 2018, 10:54 PM
Sep 2018

They are two of my favorite actors. They just don't make them like that anymore.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
36. Peter Ostrum
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 02:37 PM
Sep 2018

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.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
50. Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Ciaran Hinds, Daniel Craig, Benedict Cumberbatch,
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 08:34 PM
Sep 2018

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.

 

brewens

(15,359 posts)
57. I've come close to several. Maybe I saw them all, but probably missed a few. DeNiro, Dustin
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 08:53 PM
Sep 2018

Hoffman, Al Pacino, Robert Redford, and Kevin Spacey.

Leith

(7,864 posts)
63. Kevin Kline
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 12:25 AM
Sep 2018

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.

MissMillie

(39,652 posts)
65. Probably not
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 02:46 PM
Sep 2018

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.

jrandom421

(1,060 posts)
69. Got a few
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 09:28 PM
Sep 2018

Humphrey Bogart
Burt Lancaster
Robert Duvall
Lauren Bacall
Audrey Hepburn
Geena Davis

Upthevibe

(10,180 posts)
72. I'm adding Gregory Peck. I think I've seen all of his too.
Sun Sep 9, 2018, 01:00 PM
Sep 2018

I loved him in a movie that's seemed under the radar all these years - Gentlemen's Agreement. He was wonderful in that gem....

dameatball

(7,669 posts)
77. Stormy Daniels....replying for a friend
Sun Sep 9, 2018, 09:13 PM
Sep 2018

Actually, I had never heard of her before the Trump related tuff.

PJMcK

(25,048 posts)
85. Your "friend" has had to watch a lot of movies
Sun Sep 9, 2018, 11:11 PM
Sep 2018

Accordingly to the Internet Movie Database, Ms. Daniels has 153 film credits:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1317917/

iamateacher

(1,120 posts)
78. I have phone book actors
Sun Sep 9, 2018, 09:23 PM
Sep 2018

I could watch them read the phone book...
Christine Baranski

Colin Firth

Benedict Cumberbatch

Toni Collette

Emily Blunt

IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
93. No judgement.
Wed Sep 12, 2018, 10:43 PM
Sep 2018

I have seen quite a few Adam Sandler films myself. I love the Wedding Singer.

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