best European actors of all time

[mister Lennon]

I would like to do a top about the best european actors and actresses of all time. From past and present. Lets post like 20 choices in every list. Here are my list:

Male:

Alec Guinness
Peter Sellers
Charles Chaplin
Charles Laughton
Laurence Olivier
John Gielgud
Anthony Hopkins
John Hurt
Michael Caine
David Niven
Gerad Depardieu
Richard Burton
Daniel Day Lewis
Vittorio Gassman
Peter O toole
Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez
Ian Mackellen
Cary Grant
Stan Laurel
Peter Ustinov



Female:

Julie Christie
Helen Mirren
Vanessa Redgrave
Wendy Hiller
Greta Garbo
Ingrid Bergman
Susanah York
Audrey Hepburn
Deborah Kerr
Elizabeth Taylor
Sophia Loren
Anna Maganni
Jean Simmons
Jeanne Moreau
Catherine Denueve
Claudia Cardinale
Vivien Leigh
Judi Dench
Isabelle Huppert
Maggie Smith

 

[livrule]

Ian Holm
Ben Kingsley
Alan Rickman

 

[mister Lennon]

Good choices too. Excellent actors.

 

[livrule]

Patrick Stewart
David Warner
Gary Oldman
Sean Connery ....

Damn we really do have the best!

 

[mister Lennon]

Yes. we British are the best ones.

 

[That-Guy]

Dolph Lundgren
Jean-Claude Van Damme

 

[Captain Wonder]

Sophia Loren

Lena Olin

Marlene Dietrich

Audrey Hepburn

Julie Andrews

Maggie Smith

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Michael Caine
Sean Connery
Bob Hoskins

 

[Under The Rose]

Christain Bale

 

[enterthemadness]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Damian Lewis.

http://imdb.com/name/nm0507073/

I've only seen him in Dreamcatcher (good movie, I bet the book is better), but he was very good in it.

Patrick Stewart is a great actor.

 

[supzfan]

Men:
Marcello Mastroianni
James Mason
Kenneth Moore
Robert Donat
Peter Sellers
John Geiguld
Chaplin
Charles Laughton
Richard Burton
Anthony Hopkins

Women:
Vvien Leigh
Ingrid Bergman
Anna Magnani
Deborah Kerr
Jeanne Moreau
Simone Signoret

 

[Warhammer]

Michael Caine
Sean Connery
Bob Hoskins

Were you seriously the only one that mentioned Michael Caine?

 

[Franklin Richards]

Laurence Olivier
Elizabeth Taylor

 

[Goddessreicho]

Alan Rickman (YES SOMEONE ELSE THINKS SO TOO!!!!!)
Emma Thompson
Gregory Peck (was he a Brit?)

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Were you seriously the only one that mentioned Michael Caine?

No it is in the first post aswell...and only there.

This man was Jack ****ing Carter!

 

[heypapajinx]

Patrick Stewart
Michael Caine
Anthony Hopkins
Ian Mackellen
Vanessa Redgrave
Ben Kingsley
Maggie Smith
Jonathan Rhys- Myers
Ewan McGregor
Gary Oldman
Sean Connery
Bob Hoskins
Christain Bale
Emma Thompson

 

[Warhammer]

No it is in the first post aswell...and only there.

This man was Jack ****ing Carter!

Oh, I see.
Michael Caine should've been in everybody's list in this thread.
Underappreciation, damn it.

 

[mister Lennon]

Only to clear that Gregory Peck was american, not british.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Men.
Alan Rickman.
Sean Bean.
Ian Mckellan.
Christian Bale.
Liam Neeson.
Sean Connery.
Alec Guinness.
Micheal Cain
Wemon.
1 Judy Dench.
2 Maggie Smith.
3 Laura Fraser.
4 Kate Beckinsale.
5 Emma Watson.
6 Sofia Marceau.

 

[livrule]

Michael Caine is a GREAT movie star.

But ... a GREAT actor ?? ........... not sure.

 

[heypapajinx]

oh my goodness!
i can't believe i fogot Audrey Tatou!?
one of the best ever!
and Jean Reno.
i'm guessing we're including France in the Europe discussion, not just England?
and Alan Cumming
and Minnie Driver

 

[November Rain]

vinnie jones

 

[Maxwinner]

Claudia Cardinale

 

[November Rain]

Yes. we British are the best ones.

probably just more popular on these boards due to the type of films that we are subjected to but by no means does it mean that the brits are the best.

 

[CorporalHicks]

Dolph Lundgren
Jean-Claude Van Damme

right on