10 best actors of all time

List them, they dont have to be in order.

I'm assuming DeNiro, Pacino, Hoffman, DDL, and Hackman will make just about everybody's list. Who else?

 

My list would be controversial.

in no particular order:

Hackman
Brando
Heston
DeNiro
Hopkins
Pacino
Connery
Freeman
Washington
Daniel Day Lewis

P.S.

Christoph Waltz deserves an honorable mention for his performance in IB alone. One of the best performances of all time. Incredible.

 

In no certain order: (Off top of my head)

Hackman
DeNiro
Al Pacino
Brando
Nicholson
Connery
Eastwood
Hoffman
Hopkins
Newman

 

Best Hollywood actor or the best period? And judging their skill or personal liking (which is the only way Connery could be listed)

 

If personal liking only I would have listed Harrison Ford, or Bruce Willis...but I didn't.

Connery was an exceptional actor.

 

No. He was a charismatic guy for sure but as an actor he was very average. Or at least I haven't seen many roles of him where he would express several emotions or played complex characters

 

Since when were you the authority on who is a good actor and who isn't?

Check out Dr No and From Russia with Love

Forget that it's "action genre" and just consider the performances themselves. Tremendous.

On an aside: Woody Harrelson is also a tremendous actor

 

The same day you or anybody here has become the authority to say anything about boxing :dunno:

 

Connery is excellent.

 

so only actors from the English speaking world are good?

 

Connery is not an excellent actor, but he i spretty good. Should not be in any top 10 ever lists.

 

LMFAOO @ Connery! You've gotta be joking!


Good mention for Hopkins though. He definitely belongs.

 

Exactly! Especially considering Sly didnt list Hoffman, who should be one everyone's list.

Dustin Hoffman has more acting talent in his left nut than Connery.

Shit, Robin Williams as an actor>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sean Connery

 

How could you be hatin' on Connery?



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Dustin Hoffman doesn't deserve to be mentioned. Fuck you and fuck Hoffman. Overratted little big head ugly shit. What because of Tootsie and Rainman? Fuck him.

I can think of 10 additional actors right off the top of my head that are better actors than Dustin Hoffman!

Jeremy Irons
John Malcovich
Clint Eastwood
Sir Lawrence Olivier
Peter O'Toole
Yul Brunner
Charles Bronson
Kevin Spacey
Eli Walach
Christopher Walken

 

Hopkins is a SUPERB actor.

He was even great as Odin.

 

Correct

 

gene hackman? he's a good guy, but one of the best ever? in which movies?

 

Is this a joke?

 

Unforgiven, Crimson Tide, hell...Superman 1 and 2. The man is a genius.

 

None of them are as good as Hoffman

 

Hackman was brilliant in The Conversation. (top 3 movies of the 70s, IMO beside Network & Taxi Driver)

Im not sure he's top 10 though,,,,

 

none of those performances are really first-class. just not deep enough, not enough scope for him to do a really first-class job.

his work in french connection was pretty good. never saw the conversation, so maybe i'm missing a sterling performance there. the guy's great, but just haven't even seen him take on the kind of role where he could match de niro, day-lewis, et al.

 

I guarantee you Tom Hardy will end up on these lists in the next 10 years

 

Want a fight about it? I'll meet you in Liverpoool

 

We must agree to disagree padna.

 

If Unforgiven and Crimson Tide don't convince you I don't know what else to tell you padna.

That's like me showing someone Ali vs Cleveland Williams and them telling me they don't see what the hype about Ali was.

I give up.

 

Connery? wtf...the guy is the exact same character in every movie

even when he was playing a Russian he was the same character

he sucks!!


versatility should be half the criteria when judging whether an actor is great

 

you're missing a word in your sig. "they're still gonna get hit eventually."