Who are your top 5 favorite actors?

[True Dough]

Mine:

Tom Hanks

Helen Mirren

Kate Winslet

Morgan Freeman

Russell Crowe (the actor, not the individual)

[cachukis]

1. Spencer Tracy, Walter Brennan, John Carradine, Bette Davis,

Meryl Streep.

[Blue_playwright]

2. Mine

Alan Rickman
Bernadette Peters
Benedict Cumberbatch
Mandy Patinkin
Liz Taylor

[SouthernIrish]

3. Mine

George Clooney
Julia Robert's
Matt Damon
Maggie Smith
Denzel Washington

[SheltieLover]

4. Fmine

Robert De Niro
Jack Nicholson
Morgan Freeman
The Divine Ms. M
Will Ferrell

[Xipe Totec]

5. Mine

Billy Bob Thornton

Tommy Lee Jones

Morgan Freeman

Scarlet Johansen

Peter Dinklage

[choie]

6. Spencer Tracy

Katharine Hepburn
Robert Redford
Helen Mirren
Meryl Streep

Runners up: Kate Winslet, Al Pacino

[Skittles]

7. changes quite frequently but for now...

Casey Affleck
Paul Dano
Diane Lane
Emily Blunt
William Hurt


I really liked Mark Blum but he was an early casualty of Covid

[True Dough]

9. Paul Dano

would definitely get an honorable mention from me! Hope to see more of him in the years to come.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Did you ever see Ruby Sparks?

He made it with his partner, Zoe Kazan.

[Skittles]

17. I did

I make it a point to watch anything he is in

loved it

[True Dough]

18. Not yet

But it's on my "must watch" list. With winter creeping closer, I'm guessing my wife and I will see it pretty soon.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. I think you'll like it

[Skittles]

16. there is just something about him

he's a good director, too

[First Speaker]

8. Me--Bogart, Mitchum, Claude Rains, Bette Davis, Dan Duryea

[blm]

10. Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Hyun Bin

Kim Tae Ri, Michael Shannon

[lisa58]

11. Interesting question...

Spencer Tracy
Gregory Peck
Jack Lemmon
Shirley MacLaine
Anthony Hopkins

[Groundhawg]

12. Christoph Waltz

Margot robbie
Edward Norton
Gene Hackman
Clint Eastwood

[tulipsandroses]

13. Denzel always tops my list

1. Denzel
2. Viola Davis
3. Angela Bassett
4. Samuel Jackson
5. Robert Deniro

[OAITW r.2.0]

15. Mine (amongst the living)

Hanks, DeNiro, Pacino, Streep, J Fonda.

Honorable mention (in no particular order)-

Mirren, O'Toole, Freeman, Keaton, Harrelson, M. Ryan, DiCaprio, Affleck(both), Douglas, Boothe, Russell, Beuschemi, Thornton, Damon, D. Washington, Cumberbach, Oldman, Jones, Knightly, Bridges (both), Depp, Hoffman, Redford, Winslet, S. Jackson, Craig.....off the top of my head.

[smirkymonkey]

22. Good to divide among living and non-living. Otherwise it's too hard.

Living: Maggie Smith, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, Vanessa Redgrave, Daniel Craig, Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Colin Firth, Emily Blunt. Comedy: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Eddie Murphy, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle. Ok, I went way over, and there are still a lot more.

Not living: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ingrid Bergman, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Rosalind Russell, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, David Niven, Paul Henried, Peter Lorre, etc. Again, a lot more I can't think of right now.

[Walleye]

19. Just off the top of my head

Robert Mitchum
Katherine Hepburn
Robert de Niro
Denzel Washington
Claire Trevor

[FakeNoose]

21. Jeff Bridges, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Denzel Washington

[Tetrachloride]

23. 5

Aamir Khan
Akshay Kumar
Ohara Sayako
Miyamoto Nobuko
Tom and Jerry

[True Dough]

27. As Sesame Street would say

"One of these things is not like the others."

[LeftInTX]

28. Akshay Kumar...LOL

[Harker]

24. Ok...

Paul Newman
Katherine Hepburn
Shimura Takashi
Nakadai Tatsuya
Oskar Werner

Ask me again, and you'll get a different list.

[Auggie]

25. No love for Christian Bale, eh?

He's among the top actors working IMO. Love watching him. All these folks:

Christian Bale
Robert DeNiro
Samuel L. Jackson
Cate Blanchett
Meryl Streep

No longer with us:

Humphrey Bogart
Robert Mitchum
Cary Grant
Stan Laurel
Martin Balsam

[True Dough]

26. Bale is a deserving mention, seemingly overlooked so far

but that's why we have Auggie coming in to school us at post #25!

No Leonardo DiCaprio votes yet, either!

[Harker]

30. Love Martin Balsam.

He was in a bunch of my favorites. Psycho, Hombre, Seven Days in May, 12 Angry Men...

[Auggie]

31. Perhaps the most underrated actor ever IMO

[Harker]

32. Steady. Versatile. He could stand out or blend in as needed. n/t

[malthaussen]

29. Kate & Audrey. Cary Grant. Bogart. Jack Lemmon.

In no particular order.

-- Mal

[wnylib]

33. Too many to limit to just 5.

Among the living: Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Cate Blanchet, Denzel Washington, Harrison Ford, Graham Greene, Sidney Poitier.

No longer living: Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Cicily Tyson, Liz Taylor.