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MrScissorhands
08-19-2005, 05:33 AM
Only 5 options, sorry if your favorite isn't amongst them.


James Dean isn't on the list for a couple of reasons :
1 : He's too young and therefor too different from the other candidates
2 : In the 1950's he was never really an A-lister
3 : He'd win

Who's the greatest ?
Silver Sable
08-19-2005, 12:00 PM
No Marlon Brando? :confused: :(
Jess
08-19-2005, 02:54 PM
Where is the world is Marlon Brando!?

He created post war method acting in America. Unless you count the group theatre players (Stella Adler) who trained him.

He revolutionized the way you act in film. Even if you dont like him, I uarentee you someone you love in the acting business was inspired by him.
Riven
08-25-2006, 04:43 PM
out of that list, Cary Grant! :up:


"Hello, my name is Cary Grant and I own your soul."
http://laboiteaimages.hautetfort.com/images/medium_kobal-collection-cary-grant.jpg
Kaboom
08-25-2006, 05:09 PM
why is it just males?
Kmack
08-25-2006, 05:50 PM
My top 5

1. Marlon Brando
2. James Dean
3. Cary Grant
4. Jimmy Stewart
5. Paul Newman
tzarinna
08-25-2006, 05:55 PM
I picked Gregory Peck
skorponok
08-25-2006, 06:12 PM
Brando Dammit!!!!!
Mister J
08-25-2006, 06:16 PM
Tough call, but I'm going with Cary Grant. I'm partial to him, Peck and Stewart, but Grant was ridiculously awesome in To Catch a Thief and North By Northwest.
KingOfDreams
08-25-2006, 06:21 PM
Ah, crap. I picked Peck. I like him but I didn't see Jimmy Stewart because you listed him as James Stewart. He's my favorite.
Mr.Webs
08-25-2006, 06:42 PM
Cary Grant is awesome, but personally, Stewart has to be the way to go.
Tangled Web
08-25-2006, 06:43 PM
Jimmy Stewart is the best!!!
Majik1387
08-25-2006, 06:55 PM
My fave is Cary Grant with Stewart and Peck tied in 2nd.
why is it just males?
Technically Actor=Males while Actresses=Females.
MrScissorhands
08-26-2006, 08:54 AM
Brando isn't on the list because I picked five names that could pretty much all be cast for roughly the same part. It's not hard to picture Cary Grant or Gregory Peck sitting in the wheel chair in Rear Window. Brando on the other hand...?
These five were all leading men that were popular with a general audience of middle aged, middle class movie goers. Brando and Dean appealed mostly to the youth counterculture and had such a specific acting style they should compete in a league of their own.
The Chairman
08-26-2006, 10:45 AM
That poll sucks. Off of it I go with Grant.
Shuley
08-26-2006, 02:15 PM
Brando is best...He was awesome in A StreetCar Named Desire *Throws his dinner plate at the wall* "I cleared my plate want me to clear yours too"?
Cyrusbales
08-26-2006, 02:21 PM
BOGART???? He is the greatest actor of all time, and he died before the end of the decade, yet still wins!
CConn
08-26-2006, 02:22 PM
Cary Grant.
Technically Actor=Males while Actresses=Females.Oddly, the dictionary definition of "actor" makes no mention of sex.
Edward Brock
08-26-2006, 02:27 PM
Gregory Peck. That guy could give class to a Uwe Boll movie.



OK, almost. :o
The Chairman
08-26-2006, 02:33 PM
In all honesty, Stewart and Grant should not even be on the poll, because I've always thought they were more associated with the 1940s'. To leave off Dean and Brando is idiotic.
Superman
08-26-2006, 02:59 PM
Cary Grant.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/CaryGrant.jpg
Tangled Web
08-26-2006, 03:12 PM
Stewart would hands down destroy everyone if we were doing the 1930's.
Goddessreicho
08-26-2006, 03:54 PM
Atticus Finch pwns all!

Go Peck.
WorthyStevens
08-26-2006, 04:13 PM
From that list, Cary Grant.


Only 5 options, sorry if your favorite isn't amongst them.


James Dean isn't on the list for a couple of reasons :
1 : He's too young and therefor too different from the other candidates
2 : In the 1950's he was never really an A-lister
3 : He'd win

Who's the greatest ?

Those reasons don't make any sense to exclude him from this poll... :confused:
Majik1387
08-26-2006, 05:49 PM
Oddly, the dictionary definition of "actor" makes no mention of sex.
Men win Best Actor awards and Women win Best Actress awards. Hollywood has its own dictionary.
Hudson
08-26-2006, 05:51 PM
I'm a Peck man myself, If he was around and young today, I would say screw Bale, Peck is your Batman!
Majik1387
08-26-2006, 05:54 PM
Peck would have been a great Batman.
Shuley
08-26-2006, 06:12 PM
I'd say Brando,Bogart and Stewart over Deniro,Nicholson and Pacino
MrScissorhands
08-27-2006, 08:18 AM
Those reasons don't make any sense to exclude him from this poll... :confused:
I explained more here :
Brando isn't on the list because I picked five names that could pretty much all be cast for roughly the same part. It's not hard to picture Cary Grant or Gregory Peck sitting in the wheel chair in Rear Window. Brando on the other hand...?
These five were all leading men that were popular with a general audience of middle aged, middle class movie goers. Brando and Dean appealed mostly to the youth counterculture and had such a specific acting style they should compete in a league of their own.

I know Brando and Dean owned all in the 50's, but I want to known who's most popular from that list.
mister Lennon
08-27-2006, 09:57 AM
Strange list, lots and lots of great actors werent there. I mean: brando, dean, Newman, mitchum, lancaster, douglas,wayne,clift, etc, etc.
Cyrusbales
08-27-2006, 12:41 PM
May I re-iterate my point, BOGART? He is easily the greatest A-list actor of all time, including the 50's and 40's, why is he not here? WHY?
Mr. Vice
08-27-2006, 12:44 PM
Gregory Peck is my choice.
The Chairman
08-27-2006, 12:44 PM
May I re-iterate my point, BOGART? He is easily the greatest A-list actor of all time, including the 50's and 40's, why is he not here? WHY?

Because Bogart was a much more prominent force in cinema in the 1940s' than the 1950s'. Compare his 1940s' work to his work in the 1950s', he had some great films in both decades but he was far more relevant in the 1940s'.
Cyrusbales
08-27-2006, 12:58 PM
Because Bogart was a much more prominent force in cinema in the 1940s' than the 1950s'. Compare his 1940s' work to his work in the 1950s', he had some great films in both decades but he was far more relevant in the 1940s'.

i agree he rocked in the forties, but he still rapes all the other for quality in the fifties aswell. African Queen, Sirroco, and of course the all time classic THE HARDER THEY FALL. He should be here and should win! Best actor ever.
JLBats
08-27-2006, 01:08 PM
Bogart did begin the decade off really well, with In a Lonely Place. I still think that's my favourite Bogart performance.
The Chairman
08-27-2006, 01:10 PM
Bogart did begin the decade off really well, with In a Lonely Place. I still think that's my favourite Bogart performance.

No doubt, and don't forget The African Queen, The Barefoot Contessa, and Sabrina. But there is no argument that the bulk of his best was in the 1940s'.
Cyrusbales
08-27-2006, 01:12 PM
Bogart did begin the decade off really well, with In a Lonely Place. I still think that's my favourite Bogart performance.

Not only his finest performance, but one of the finest films of all time, That's the film that always springs to mind when someone asks my fav. film, truly magnificant! (to be honest, african queen is very overrated for me)
JLBats
08-27-2006, 01:19 PM
Not only his finest performance, but one of the finest films of all time, That's the film that always springs to mind when someone asks my fav. film, truly magnificant! (to be honest, african queen is very overrated for me)

African Queen IS a little overrated. I think In a Lonely Place has to be the most underrated movie ever.
Cyrusbales
08-27-2006, 01:29 PM
African Queen IS a little overrated. I think In a Lonely Place has to be the most underrated movie ever.

In a lonely place is wonderful, beyond words! So are you a mitchum or a bogart man? I love night of the hunter, but farewell my lovely really pained me.

When I think of classic noir, I think of Bogart.
JLBats
08-27-2006, 01:32 PM
In a lonely place is wonderful, beyond words! So are you a mitchum or a bogart man? I love night of the hunter, but farewell my lovely really pained me.

When I think of classic noir, I think of Bogart.

Mitchum will always have a special place in my heart, but he made a lot of really terrible choices. Bogart is definately a hell of a lot more consistent, and he has a wider range.

Incidentally, I was glad to see that Eddie Muller, film historian and film noir aficianado, has In a Lonely Place at number one on the list of his top 25 movies.
Cyrusbales
08-27-2006, 01:37 PM
Mitchum will always have a special place in my heart, but he made a lot of really terrible choices. Bogart is definately a hell of a lot more consistent, and he has a wider range.

Incidentally, I was glad to see that Eddie Muller, film historian and film noir aficianado, has In a Lonely Place at number one on the list of his top 25 movies.

What about kiss me deadly? That was a weird film, great noir example, and the ending, wholly crap! But Dead reckoning shows how bogart can play another type of P.I, he has a range within the genre, awesome!
griffolyon12
08-27-2006, 01:46 PM
No contest Cary Grant.Just see North by Northwest to be convinced.
supzfan
08-27-2006, 02:40 PM
Bogart made three GREAT movies in the 1950s: "The African Queen", for which he won the Oscar beating out Brando in "Streetcar', "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Harder They Fall". Brando also should figure prominently for "Streetcar", "On The Waterfront" and "Viva Zapata". And that comment about not being able to picture Brando in a wheelchair a la Stewart--see Marlon's first movie, "The Men" in which he plays a paralyzed war vet. Montogmery Clift HAS to be mentioned for "A Place In The Sun" and "From Here To Eternity". I would also include Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster along with Heston and Robert Ryan as postwar "A" list actors.
KingOfDreams
08-27-2006, 04:05 PM
I watched some of a Cary Grant marathon on TCM this weekend and he's definitely good...but Jimmy Stewart is still my favorite out of this group. And come to think of it, all those Grant movies I watched were made in the '40s.
MrScissorhands
08-27-2006, 07:19 PM
I'm surprised at how much love Gregory Peck is getting.
I think he's a very strong leading man, but I never expected he would be able to compete with people like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant.


Didn't they also play North By Northwest in that Cary Grant marathon ? I especially liked 1930's Grant actually. Only Angels Have Wings is one of my all time favorite films and screwballs like Bringing Up Baby, The Awful Truth and His Girl Friday just never get old.
Riven
08-30-2006, 09:21 AM
poor Rock Hudson... he gets none of the love... :o




Cary Grant is winning though! GO GRANT! :up:
The Chairman
08-30-2006, 09:31 AM
poor Rock Hudson... he gets none of the love... :o

You know, I really wish I had voted for Rock. He was such an amazing actor, truly underrated.
Elijya
09-05-2006, 09:00 AM
there, that looks about right
Ceb-Man
09-05-2006, 09:39 PM
Robert Mitchum.