Pick Your Favorite Actor - From the Group

[Gordon]

I know this is a little bit odd but that other thread - the "Pick Your Seven Favorite Male Actors and Their 5 Best" got me wondering which of my more or less ten favorite actors the fine people at JoBlo.com enjoy watching act the most.

So which one? And probably more importantly, why?

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Well, out of all those actors I picked Hoffman because of his versatility, but none of those actors have the presence and power that Bogey has.

[Hannibal21]

Based on a combination of star quality, acting talent, sex appeal, and screen presence, here's how I would rank these guys:

1. Humphrey Bogart
2. Robert De Niro
3. Orson Welles
4. Jack Nicholson
5. Jimmy Stewart
6. Gregory Peck
7. Henry Fonda
8. Dustin Hoffman
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Gene Wilder

GREAT list overall, numbers 1-7 are all in my top 10 as well.

[The FamilyJulas]

Out of this group Jack would be my favorite

[zeppelin]

Tough decision, but I went with Hoffman. Here's how I'd rank them:

1. Dustin Hoffman
2. Robert De Niro
3. Jack Nicholson
4. Henry Fonda
5. Jimmy Stewart
6. Orson Welles
7. Gene Wilder
8. Gregory Peck
9. Humphrey Bogart
10. Clint Eastwood

[Pulp_Joker]

Welles for me.

1. Orson Welles
2. Humphrey Bogart
3. Jack Nicholson
4. Henry Fonda
5. Jimmy Stewart
6. Dustin Hoffman
7. Robert De Niro
8. Greogory Peck
9. Gene Wilder
10. Clint Eastwood

[ilovemovies]

Jack Nicholson

Robert De Niro is a close second with Dustin Hoffman and Clint Eastwood a distant third and fourth place.

[dalomini]

1. Robert De Niro
2. Dustin Hoffman
3. Jack Nicholson
4. Gene Wilder
5. Jimmy Stewart
6. Clint Eastwood
7. Greogory Peck
8. Orson Welles
9. Henry Fonda
10. Humphrey Bogart

[blk_flower]

Gene Wilder here

[Cronos]

Clint Eastwood

[TylerDurden182]

Robert De Niro. Followed very closely by Jack Nicholson.

[RandalGraves]

Great list, but my vote goes to Bogart

[bigred760]

De Niro, though Clint Eastwood isn't far behind

[VincentPrice]

Had to go with Henry Fonda.

[JackassFan]

Originally posted by bigred760
De Niro, though Clint Eastwood isn't far behind

[jaw2929]

Jack, closely followed by Bobby....

[Brando @$$ Fat]

I hope Jimmy Stewart gets a vote....what a loveable guy.

[Gordon]

Originally posted by Brando @$$ Fat
I hope Jimmy Stewart gets a vote....what a loveable guy.

Yeah, and Gregory Peck too.

[dennisv]

Jack Nicholson. The man can do anything. Simple as that.

[Voodoodoll]

Jimmy Stewart. Mostly because his characters tend to be top blokes I'd like to buy a beer.

[abrooks]

i think that welles and bogart are almost equal. both were smoldering and intense, and their works "stand the test of time".

[blankpage]

I went with Bogart, basically because he's my favourite actor of all-time. To me, he has everything a great actor should have, and there's just something about him that appeals to my taste the most. But, that's a very fine list of actors up there.

[notchreturns]

I enjoy Hoffman the most.

after that...

De Niro
Nicholson
Fonda
Welles
Wilder
Bogart
Eastwood
Stewart
Peck

[PSU80]

DeNiro. I was conflicted between him and Easwood, but DeNiro won by a hair.

[CletusHorniblow]

Originally posted by TylerDurden182
Robert De Niro. Followed very closely by Jack Nicholson.

^ What he said.

[Jedi]

Copy/Paste:
Robert De Niro. Followed very closely by Jack Nicholson.

[KillerKlown]

Robert De Niro

[cocksmokinclerk]

i went with nicholson followed very closely by bogart

[Slim_JGE]

Nicholson... I've never seen him give a performance I wasn't impressed by.

[syxxpac]

I gotta back Robert De Niro. The man is the epitome of acting greatness. Speaking of which... I wonder how Al Pacino feels about being left out of that list...

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Meh, he's probably cool with it, I imagine.





































http://www.kinoweb.de/film98/DevilsAdvocate/pix/pacino.jpg

[Beenthere]

WHERE IS AL PACINO?????

[powersauce]

Nicholson
DeNiro
Hoffman

[BigBoobBlondie]

Originally posted by Beenthere
WHERE IS AL PACINO?????
AND MICHAEL MADSEN??
out of the list.....
Robert DeNiro

[Tony_Montana]

Bobby D!

[sarah1980]

Originally posted by Brando @$$ Fat
I hope Jimmy Stewart gets a vote....what a loveable guy.

[Gordon]

Originally posted by BigBoobBlondie
AND MICHAEL MADSEN??
out of the list.....
Robert DeNiro

You do realize my opinion on the top ten does not include every great actor, right? There are hundreds upon hundreds that I would list as my favorite. This is simply the top ten.

[Sigur509]

Dustin Hoffman

[sparunaway]

Clint Eastwood
honourable mention to Henry Fonda for one of my favourite performances ever in On Golden Pond - loved the movie and his character

[MGBrown]

Although his roles seem to all have the same personality... I have to go with DeNiro, just based on the fact that I love almost every movie I see him in. I would like to see a vote on who is the most intimidating actor. Off the top of my head: DeNiro, Pacino, and Nicholson would probably be the three on top.

DeNiro favs: Midnight Run, Casino, Heat, Deer Hunter, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver

[parsonz]

cant decide between jack and robert but i think im going to have ot go with robert

[LedZeppelin1114]

I love Welles, but DeNiro is phenomenal and has a much larger body of work. Nicholson is very close behind as well.

[thefemalebrodiebruce]

Nicholson... I've never seen him give a performance I wasn't impressed by.

exactly.

[Antonio141]

BOGART

[darknite125]

Bogart followed by Stewart and Peck

[Johnni G]

De Niro ;)

[Sgizzy316]

Bobby D

[Monotreme]

It's Jack for me. Hoffman and De Niro have both also shown incredible range and talent, but Hoffman isn't consistent enough, and De Niro hasn't actually delivered a GOOD performance in a reasonably good movie since the late 90's, so Jack takes the cake for me. Because he's been good in EVERY movie I've seen him in. He has the power and the talent to elate fluffier material (Terms of Endearment), but when he needs to go all-out batshit crazy, it's just DELICIOUS. And unlike his contemporaries like Pacino and De Niro, Jack has been delivering great performances all through the last decade, be it in About Schmidt, The Departed, or even the fluffy-but-harmless Something's Gotta Give, in which he was admittedly and admirably charming.