Actors that are always great no matter how crappy the movie

[Venomfan]

you know theres always those actors that rule every scene they are in, even though the rest of the movie sucks. its like no matter what they cant give a bad performance. and everytime they step of screen a part of you goes "YES!" lets list them

off the top of my head

-Alan Rickman
-Morgan Freeman
-Christopher Walken
-Samuel L Jackson
-Bruce Campbell
-Ian Mckellen
-Christopher Lee
-Michael Caine
-Sean Connery
-Sean Bean
-John Rhys Davies
-Chris Cooper
-Willem Dafoe
-Michael Clarke Duncan

 

[WorthyStevens]

Jack Nicholson
Al Pacino
Robert DeNiro

 

[Warhammer]

That, my friend, is a very high quality list.

 

[Movies205]

That, my friend, is a very high quality list.

It's a shame there all actors from our generation Also the fact it's just actors... How could you not mention Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, and Nicole Kidman (Minus Bewitch )

 

[Ghostvirus]

Jack Nicholson
Al Pacino
Robert DeNiro

 

[shapeshifter]

Gabriel Burne
Johnny Depp
Rachel Weisz
Alyson Hannigan
Bella Lugosi
Thomas Jane
Val Kilmer
Eric Idle
John Cleese

 

[WorthyStevens]

Jennifer Jason Leigh
Parker Posey
Clive Owen
Keri Russell
Courtney Vance
Christian Bale
Cate Blanchett
Clint Eastwood
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Ken Watanabe
Jodie Foster
Cillian Murphy
Michael Keaton
Denzel Washington
Holly Hunter
Daniel Craig
Audrey Tautou
Brian Cox
Jean Reno
Helena Bonham Carter
Geoffrey Rush
Bill Nighy
Edward Norton
Rachel McAdams
Kevin Spacey
Jennifer Connolly
Martin Sheen
Helen Mirren

 

[Lighthouse]

Can't believe no one has mentioned Vincent Price or Peter Cushing.

 

[Virus276]

I think Alan Tudyk is an absolutely amazing actor ad some how manages to steal the movie just about everytime even in movies like Serenity where his screen time is limited.

 

[Excel]

will smith, arnold shcwarzeneger.....

 

[Joker]

Al Pacino

someone never saw Gigli

 

[JackBauer]

RON PEARLMAN

 

[shapeshifter]

peter sellers

 

[The Chris]

Kiefer Sutherland
Johnny Depp

 

[shapeshifter]

Jason Statham
Tim Curry
John Cusack

 

[Warhammer]

It's a shame there all actors from our generation Also the fact it's just actors... How could you not mention Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, and Nicole Kidman (Minus Bewitch )

Yeah, that's true.
Speaking of our generation, let's talk back in the day.
The Duke had his fair share of bad movies, but I thought he was pretty good in all the ones I've seen. Not all of Henry Fonda's films were amazing either, but he was great in about all of them. For actresses, Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, or Ellen Burstyn anyone?

 

[WorthyStevens]

I also forgot to put down Robert Redford. Damn would he have made the absolute perfect Angel.

 

[Warhammer]

Robert Redford, great choice WS.

 

[shapeshifter]

Humphrey Bogart
Peter Lorrie
James Coburn
Clint Eastwood
Lee Marvin
Maureen O'Hara

 

[nocomics]

you know theres always those actors that rule every scene they are in, even though the rest of the movie sucks. its like no matter what they cant give a bad performance. and everytime they step of screen a part of you goes "YES!" lets list them

off the top of my head

-Alan Rickman*
-Morgan Freeman
-Christopher Walken
-Samuel L Jackson
-Bruce Campbell
-Ian Mckellen
-Christopher Lee
-Michael Caine
-Sean Connery
-Sean Bean
-John Rhys Davies*
-Chris Cooper*
-Willem Dafoe
-Michael Clarke Duncan
Jack Nicholson
Al Pacino
Robert DeNiro

I'll agree with everything on that list except samuel L. Jackson. Sorry,he was terrible as Mace Windu,shaft, shrug both he and the movies were bad..O,lets not forget Snakes on a PLane...
Would like to add Tom Hanks,and Ewen Mcgregor

*some of those guys I really dont know,maybe if I knew what movies they played in might ring a bell.

 

[Golgo-13]

Denzel Washington.

 

[Drizzle]

-Michael Clarke Duncan

Well the only movie he was really good in was "The Green Mile", but that was a really good movie anyway. After that it went downhill when he was in "Planet of the Apes". He wasn't good in that.

 

[shapeshifter]

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Chow Yun Fat
Will Farrell ( just kidding )

 

[Darkly Dexter]

Marlon Brando (he was GREAT in Last Tango in Paris, despite the movie sucked)

 

[Venomfan]

can't believe i forgot Jean Reno, he's one of the reasons i thought of this thread, and yah i don't have any actresses on my list, cuz for some reason they rarely impress me, and the ones that usually do i've only seen in one movie. all the big names don't impress, i think nicole kidman is awful, meryl streep bugs me, judie dench i just find hard to look at