Thursday, December 17, 2009

My top 20 favorite actors




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):


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)




Favorite role: Rameses in The Ten Commandments (1956)




Favorite role: Cadet White in Wings (1927)




Favorite role: Police Insp. Ed Cornell in I Wake Up Screaming (1941)




Favorite role: C. K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)




Favorite role: Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)




Favorite role: Dr. Richard Vollin in The Raven (1935)




Favorite role: Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind (1960)




Favorit role: Prof. Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962)




Favorite role: Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai (1954)




Favorite role: Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter (1955)




Favorite role: Henry Gondorff in The Sting (1973)




Favorite role: Nick Charles in The Thin Man (1934)




Favorite role: Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942)




Favorite role: Captain Esteban Pasquale in The Mark of Zorro (1940)




Favorite role: Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950)




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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12 comments:

  1. montyDecember 17, 2009 at 11:13 PM

    Great list Lolita. I definitely need to make one now. I see Fred is your main man. Cool. Also I see you had my favorite actor make your list- Cary Grant. Do you plan on doing one for the ladies?

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  2. MeredithDecember 18, 2009 at 12:27 AM

    cary grant was such a precious man, i can never get over it! and robert mitchum in night of the hunter never fails to give me chills.

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  3. montyDecember 18, 2009 at 1:00 AM

    I tried posting a comment earlier and I don't know if it took. But I just said great list, now I need to do one. And I see Fred is your main man. Cool. Do you plan on doing one for the ladies?

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  4. AnonymousDecember 18, 2009 at 3:06 AM

    yay! So happy to see Charles Boyer, Fredric March & James Mason on your list (he would have been on mine if I had more room) :-D

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  5. AnonymousDecember 18, 2009 at 3:34 AM

    GREAT list Lolita!!!! Sanders, Rains, and wow, even Laird Cregar. You are awesome!!!!

    And I love the new blog header; you are absolutely hilarious!

    PS: Jimmy all the way at 20? What has Millie done to you? ;D

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  6. Lolita of the ClassicsDecember 18, 2009 at 3:08 PM

    Monty:
    I get so much spam, so I have activated the comment moderation - therefore your comments won't be visible until I have accepted them! So there's nothing strange :)
    Good idea, I should do one on the ladies... I will! About Cary Grant... I love his so much I even named my bicycle after him. It got stolen, though.

    Meredith:
    You've got great taste, lady ;)

    Kate G:
    Have you heard Eddie Izzard's James Mason impression? "I sound a bit like Goood, don't I?" It's perfect, haha!

    Harley:
    Thanks! And the list was in alphabetical order, so James Stewart is not (I say NOT!) last! I just couldn't decide who was my favorite of them (okay, Rathbone), so I chickened out with the ABC-technique ;)
    Millie is awesome, but she could NEVER make me like James Stewart any less!

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  7. Lolita of the ClassicsDecember 18, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    Harley:
    Oh, and about the header: I felt quite silly yesterday, and that was the result of that combined with photoshop! Haha.

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  8. TomDecember 18, 2009 at 5:54 PM

    I too was a little freaked when I saw Jimmy dead-last. Then I remembered it was just ABC order! Paul Newman would make my list of favorites, too. PS Love your new header with Stripe the Gremlin! LOL

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  9. Lolita of the ClassicsDecember 18, 2009 at 6:50 PM

    Tom:
    Haha, well, even I wouldn't put James Stewart as low on the list as #20.
    Hmm, maybe my craziness just got a little too carried away with that header? ;)

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