Favorite Movie Actors & Actresses

[Rich Riddle]

I am wondering who you folks like as actors. Mine are relative new-comers in the scene....Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, and Gene Hackman. On the actress side, I like Ava Gardner, Ingrid Bergman, Judi Dench, Julie Andrews, Grace Kelly, and Julia Roberts. For some reason, most of the folks on the list aren't making too many new releases.

[Kev Williams]

Kinda hard for some of those on the list to make movies, too busy pushin' up daisies...

I have a weird 'favorite'... Dane Cook. Not because I like his acting or his material that much... It's because I can understand every word he says. He has the best speaking voice of anyone I can think of...

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I like most of the ones Rich lists. I will add Tom Hanks and Tom Berenger.

[Chuck Wintle]

I like most of the ones Rich lists. I will add Tom Hanks and Tom Berenger.

a thumbs up for tom hanks.

[Mel Fulks]

All of those are good. But in the role of a comic zoned out barber with tender feelings ,and flashes of unreasonable anger, the award goes to .....Howard Mc Near as Floyd the barber on the Andy Grifith Show. A singular unbalanced icon. I sometimes wonder if Rich could have helped him ....

[Brent Cutshall]

Tom Berenger, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, and that guy that played Carl on Slingblade. If I sit here for a minute, I'll probably come up with a new list. I've never watched Ronald Reagan in a movie but he was a good president, does that count?

[Rich Riddle]

One of my college students asked who was John Wayne. I can understand not knowing Peck or Stewart, but John Wayne?

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I'll add Gary Cooper.

BTW...I just saw a life size statue of John Wayne holding Maureen O'Hara in his arms in the village of Cong, Ireland where the exterior scenes for the movie "The Quiet Man" were filmed. We took the movie tour there and it was interesting. Of course the interior scenes were shot on sound stages in Holleywood.

[Brent Cutshall]

Charles Bronson and Andy Griffith too.

[Mel Fulks]

1970 ish films got more "real" and less theatrical. The older films were really recorded plays. The change meant directors quit yelling "bigger!" and started saying "less, less". Gary Cooper was subtle and realistic and ,I think , would have been even more successful today. His "High Noon" (1952) still brings a tear every time I see it. Anyway...my main point is styles change.

[John T Barker]

I like a lot of the male actors already mentioned but I would add one; Robert Duvall. A movie he did a little while ago, Open Range, was very good and he was fantastic. He puts so much in to the most minor actions. Superb. Morgan Freeman is very similar and another of my favorites not mentioned.
From years ago I like Patricia Neal.

[Wayne Lomman]

Sean Connery would have to be my all time favorite actor, especially in Highlander. The ladies - that is a more difficult choice. I love Sigrid Thornton in 'The Man from Snowy River', Bette Midler in 'The Rose' and 'Beaches', Cher in 'Moonstruck', and Marilyn Monroe in everything! Cheers

[Caspar Hauser]

Audrey Hepburn, Myrna Loy, Brenda De Banzie, John Mills and Charles Loughton to add a few more.

[Dave Zellers]

.... Grace Kelly ....

Most beautiful woman ever. Especially in Rear Window.

I will watch any movie with Ed Norton and/or John Turturo in it.

[Mike Henderson]

Wow, I can't believe no one said Meryl Streep. She's an amazing actress - just melts into whatever role she has. Look at the one scene in "Sophie's Choice" where she is asked to choose between her son and daughter. You'll never forget it.

While he hasn't done any interesting work lately, Robert DeNiro in "Raging Bull" was fantastic.

And Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were outstanding in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."

Peter O'Toole in "Lawrence of Arabia". It was his first movie and he never did as good a job later.

While she wasn't a great actress, Audrey Hepburn was absolutely beautiful in "My Fair Lady".

Mike