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):

1. Fred Astaire

Favorite role: Tony Hunter in The Band Wagon (1953)

2. John Barrymore

Favorite role: Baron Felix von Gaigern in Grand Hotel (1932)

3. Humphrey Bogart

Favorite role: Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942)

4. Charles Boyer

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)

9. Boris Karloff

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)

Male Cheesecake #1

Robert Mitchum with his shirt popped off, hairy and in color. Could it be better?

I've caught a cold - again. Every time there is some tiny little change in the wheather, I get a cold. I know, everyone feels sorry for me. That's because I'm suffering. Big time.

But there is a cure! Oh yes, there is a cure. Even if the effect maybe isn't too consistent. The cure spells M-A-L-E C-H-E-E-S-E-C-A-K-E.

Go fetch your drooling bucket, and have fun! Even if you don't have a cold. Like me.

Clint Eastwood looks determinated.

Wrestling Nat Pendleton in pretty underwear.

Fred MacMurray visualizes the dream of the perfect American.

Burt Lancaster is proud over his (probably painted-on) tattoo.

If every woman could have their own Tyrone Power in their backyard...

Dear Mr. Gable, oh dear...

Errol Flynn sure knows how to pose.

Hmm, maybe I need to employ a gardener... Do they all have the Montgomery Clift outfit?

Sean Connery looks like he doesn't know how to read. But he sure is handsome.

And a Rock Hudson in a towel - only. I'm no big fan of his, but if he keeps his wardrobe in that style, I guess we can get along.