I saw Kate's list the other day [link], and I just needed to copy the idea. If anyone else hasn't done this top 20 tag, go ahead and do it now! You may use the header I made if you want to.
There is a problem with me vs. these kind of tags though, and that is that I suck at making lists. I just can't rank favorite actors and point out the best. So what I did was that I first narrowed my favorites down to pre-1960's. Then I just went with those I feel are in the top 20 at the moment, and skipped a lot of my obvious favorites like:
The Marx Brothers
Vincent Price
Clark Gable
Robert Montgomery
Buster Keaton
Orson Welles
Edward G. Robinson
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Charles Chaplin
Lon Chaney
David Niven
Ricardo Cortez
Tony Curtis
James Dean
Etc etc... I hope they will forgive me, and that I will be able to sleep tonight. Here is my current top 20 favorite actors, in alphabetical order (I'm a chicken, I know):
1. Fred Astaire
Favorite role: Tony Hunter in The Band Wagon (1953)
Favorite role: Baron Felix von Gaigern in Grand Hotel (1932)
Favorite role: Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942)
Favorite role: Général André de... in Madame de... (1953)
5. Yul Brynner
Favorite role: Rameses in The Ten Commandments (1956)
6. Gary Cooper
Favorite role: Cadet White in Wings (1927)
7. Laird Cregar
Favorite role: Police Insp. Ed Cornell in I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
8. Cary Grant
Favorite role: C. K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Favorite role: Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)
10. Bela Lugosi
Favorite role: Dr. Richard Vollin in The Raven (1935)
11. Fredric March
Favorite role: Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind (1960)
12. James Mason
Favorit role: Prof. Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962)
13. Toshirô Mifune
Favorite role: Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai (1954)
14. Robert Mitchum
Favorite role: Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter (1955)
15. Paul Newman
Favorite role: Henry Gondorff in The Sting (1973)
16. William Powell
Favorite role: Nick Charles in The Thin Man (1934)
17. Claude Rains
Favorite role: Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942)
18. Basil Rathbone
Favorite role: Captain Esteban Pasquale in The Mark of Zorro (1940)
19. George Sanders
Favorite role: Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950)
20. James Stewart
Favorite role: Rupert Cadell in Rope (1948)
An honorary favorite actor award goes to my Swedish favorite actor and drooling object:
Jarl Kulle (1927-1997)
Favorite roles:
Count Carl Magnus Malcolm in Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Don Juan in The Devil's Eye (1960)
Gustav Adolf Ekdahl in Fanny and Alexander (1982)
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