Your Favourite Actors

[Jeb]

Jack Nicholson
Robert DeNiro
Al Pacino
Humphrey Bogart
Anthony Hopkins
Marlon Brando
Tom Hanks
Orson Welles
Denzel Washington
Cary Grant
Gary Cooper
Charlie Chaplin
Christopher Walken
John Malkovich
Edward Norton
James Caan
Ingrid Bergman
James Dean
Henry Fonda

Yours?

[Pickpocket]

Jean-Pierre Leaud
Bill Murray
Gael Garcia Bernal
Sean Penn
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Anna Karina
Robert De Niro
Daniel Day-Lewis
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Diane Keaton
Woody Allen
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Toshiro Mifune
Ethan Hawke
Humphrey Bogart
Julie Delpy
Alec Guinness
Tom Waits
Guy Pearce
Jimmy Stewart
Catherine Deneuve
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Johnny Depp
Crispin Glover
Chloe Sevingy
Robert Downey Jr.
Marcello Mastroianni

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Malcolm McDowell
Anna Faris
Tim Curry
Jim Carrey
Jeremy Sisto <3
John Cleese
Toni Collette
Leslie Nielsen
Drew Barrymore
Bowie
Bruce Campbell
Hilary Swank
Naomi Watts
Uma Thurman
Angela Bettis
Joseph Cross
Crispin Glover
Heath Ledger
Fairuza Balk
Linda Blair
Morgan Freeman
Rose McGowan
John Cameron Mitchell
Toby Kebbel
John Forsyth
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Robert Englund

[MmzHrrdb]

In no particular order...

Jack Nicholson
Toshiro Mifune
Robert Mitchum
Tatsuya Nakadai
Barbara Stanwyck
Clint Eastwood (he's not the greatest actor but his screen presence is off the charts)
Orson Welles
Kevin Spacey
Jack Lemmon
Gene Tierney
Isuzu Yamada
John Goodman
Steve Buscemi

[Bojangles]

De Niro
Sean Penn
Jeff Bridges
Joe Pesci
Tommy Lee Jones
Tim Robbins
Daniel Day Lewis
John Malkovich
Bill Murray
John Turturro
Johnny Depp
Tom Hanks
Frances McDormand

[paulofilmo]

Conscious of the distinction between favourite and best:
(when did Americans start putting a 'u' in 'favourite?)

Anthony Hopkins
Paddy Considine
Kate Ashfield
Franka Potente
Kevin Spacey
Gunnar Björnstrand
Ingrid Thulin
Allan Edwall
Gene Tierney
Lauren Bacall
PSH
Jodie Foster
Brad Pitt
Kelly Macdonald
Charlie Chaplin
David Thewlis
Ralph Fiennes
Ben Whishaw
Gregory Peck
Sharmila Tagore
Dustin Hoffman (off and on)
Max von Sydow (off and on)
Malcolm McDowell
Jack Nicholson
Peter Mullan
Samantha Morton
Julia Jentsch
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Don Ameche
George Sanders
Rex Harrison
Harrison Ford
Orson Welles
James Dean
Tom Hanks
Klaus Kinski
Johnny Depp
Winona Ryder
Sean Penn (love/hate)
Richard E. Grant
Fred Astaire
Spencer Tracy
Kenneth Branagh (love/hate - mostly for voice and Shakey enthusiasm)
Clive Owen (love/hate)
Paul Bettany
Marlon Brando
Greer Garson
Olivier Gourmet
Alan Bates
David Niven
Shirley MacLaine
Cillian Murphy
Mads Mikkelsen
Laia Marull

Best:
Erland Josephson
Gena Rowlands
Paddy Considine
Ben Kingsley
Ingrid Bergman
Richard Burton
Meryl Streep

[KGB]

There aren't many artist that I admire that deeply to say they are my favourites, but the few of them are:

Klaus Kinski
Charles Chaplin
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Orson Welles
Humphry Bogart
Anna Karina

Also, I must make a confession: if he didn't accept every shitty script he recieves with the morning papers, I would have to say Nicolas Cage would be on that list to. Annoying as hell, yes, but when he gets a good role in a good film, he nails it like no other.

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Al Pacino
Robert De Niro
Henry Fonda
Jimmy Stewart
Jack Nicholson
Robert Mitchum
Alain Delon
Clint Eastwood
Marlon Brando
Kirk Douglas

Diane Keaton
Gena Rowlands
Liv Ullmann
Jodie Foster
Ingrid Bergman
Meryl Streep
Uma Thurman
Faye Dunaway

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These are some performers who help improve my impression of most any movie they appear in (this is based mostly on charisma or physical presence, but acting skills sometimes help):

Paul Newman (sometimes he overacts, but he has real charm)
Raquel Welch (she lacks charisma or acting skills most of the time, but that physical presence...!)
Sharon Tate (beautiful)
Ann-Margret (a fireball of charisma and sex appeal)
Brigitte Bardot (a lovely ornament)
Jeanne Moreau (not pretty, exactly, but she exudes sexuality and presence)
Joan Crawford (sometimes I just can't stop watching this woman)
Barbara Stanwyck (what a little spitfire)
Gena Rowlands (I'm both annoyed and mesmerized by her)
Giulietta Masina (she turns Nights of Cabiria into one of the most enchanting movies I've ever seen)
Bill Murray (always happy to see him)
Alec Baldwin (he seems to be a combination of arrogant asshole and lovable wiseass)
Uschi Digard (it's too bad that she didn't have a lot of speaking roles in her movies, becuase she's likable even without considering her enormous bosom)


SPECIAL HONORABLE MENTION:
Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirsl!!! - Her performance is like the 8th Wonder of the World. I don't care how bad her acting is, she gets an A++ for effort.

[coffee]

Peter Sellers
Humphrey Bogart
James Stewart
Klaus Kinski
Denzel Washington
Christopher Walken
Daniel Day-Lewis
Toshiro Mifune
Min-Sik Choi


Liv Ullman
Grace Kelly
Doris Day
Laura Linney
Jennifer Connelly
Kate Winslet

and Rita Hayworth