Actors and Actresses

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I thought I would change the pace a bit on the movie stuff. I will start this off by naming some stars of the silver screen (so to speak) and the roles that made them favorites of mine. They may have been in many films prior to the roles but these films and their parts in them made me a big fan of theirs:

 

Kevin Spacey "The Usual Suspects"

 

Morgan Freeman "The Shawshank Redemption"

 

Naomi Watts "Mulholland Drive"

 

Samuel L. Jackson "Pulp Fiction"

 

Gregory Peck "To Kill A Mockingbird"

 

That is some of many of mine. I hope you all will share some of yours also.

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Harrison Ford, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (Indiana Jones).

 

Jacqueline Bisset, "Bullitt."

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Henry Fonda ... The Grapes of Wrath

 

Martin Sheen and Robert Duval ... Apocalypse Now

 

Clint Eastwood ... as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide ... ok it was a TV series but it was still great

 

Leonardo DiCaprio ... The Basketball Diaries

 

Robert DeNiro ... The Deer Hunter ... one of the top movies ever made

 

Jon Voight ... Midnight Cowboy

 

Steve McQueen ... The Great Escape

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Margo Stilley - 9 Songs ( for unsimulated sex, BJ and masturbation )

9 Songs full movie (uncut version)

 

Paul Hogan Croc dundee

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An obvious one...

Al Pacino "The Godfather"

 

Dustin Hoffman "The Graduate"

 

Ken Norton "Fight Club"

 

William H Macy "Fargo"

 

Uma Thurman and David Carradine "Kill Bill"

 

Angel Heart (or maybe Nine 1/2 weeks) Mickey Rourke.

 

Dennis Hopper "Easy Rider"

 

Gary Cooper "High Noon"

 

Billy Bob Thornton "The Man Who Wasn't There"

 

Martin Sheene "Apocalypse Now"

 

Jeff Bridges " The Big Lebowski"

 

Guy Pearce "Mementos"

 

Sean Penn "Dead Man Walkin" (not bad in Mystic River too)

 

Stephen Rea "The Crying Game"

 

Ewan McGregor "Big Fish"

 

John Malkovich "Dangerous Liaisons"

 

Christain Bale "Empire of the Sun"

 

Peter Stormare in "Constantine"

 

Rachel Weisz "The Fountain" (Not a great film but super score)

 

John Candy "Planes Trains and Automobiles"

 

Michael Caine "Alfie"

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i have to agree with all of the above so far, and now a few add ons from my memories,not all oscar winners but they affected me at the time.

 

Sharon Stone in Casino

Michael Madsen in Reservoir dogs

Patrick Swayze in roadhouse

Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society

Pete Postlethwaite in The name of the father

Val Kilmer in Tombstone

Kurt Russel in Tombstone

John Cusack in High Fidelity

Edward Norton in American History x

 

to be continued.....

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Wow, you guys hit many that I could have listed as well.

 

We could do a whole post on different movies and which character(s) resonated with you the most. When jacko mentioned Macy I was thinking Steve Buscemi and when he mentions Stormare I was thinking "Fargo".

 

All of you mentioned someone in a movie that made me a fan of theirs.

 

As for Stilley, I don't care if she ever acts again but I would love to rehearse with her, hehe!

 

I became of fan of Pearce in "LA Confidential" btw and Christian Bale opened my eyes in "The Machinist" - talk about method acting!

 

I see it is a list of mostly actors. Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra blew me away at the time it was released but I was not a huge fan of hers.

 

A few more actors:

 

William Holden and Sir Alec Guinness "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

 

Peter O"Toole "Lawrence of Arabia"

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Bo Derek - "10"

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Ralph Fiennes "The English Patient"

Kevin Spacey "The Usual Suspects"

Tim Robbins The Shawshank Redemption.

Kevin Costner "Dances With Wolves"

John Travolta "Pulp Fiction"

Bruce Willis "The Last Boy Scout" (He has sure done some crap too, but also good in "Unbreakable" and "The Sixth Sense")

Michael Madsen "Kill Bill 2" again (Tarantino made everyone look good his best films)

Tommy Lee Jones "No Country for Old Men"

Randal Tex Cobb "Raising Arizona"

 

I was often surprised by some actors who I previously thought were lightweights, but under a good director shone...eg

John Goodman for example in The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona.

 

Whoever that was in 'Legend' as The Lord of Darkness. (Tim Curry was the voice I believe).

 

Ron Perlman as "HellBoy" but also noticed him in "The Name of the Rose" as Salvatore.

 

Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Capote"

 

Jude Law in "Artificial Intelligence" (Although I loved Gattaca and him in eXistenZ)

 

Leads me to.....

 

Tom Hanks in "Road to Perdition"

 

Malcolm McDowell in "A Clockwork Orange"

 

Hellen Mirren in "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover"

 

Daniel Day Lewis in "The Last of the Mohicans" (great fight ).

 

Him again in "Gangs of New York"

 

Tim Roth in "Rob Roy" ( A true cad!)

 

Charles Bronson "Death Wish"

 

Clint Eastwood obviously great in the spaghetti westerns but I plump for "The Unforgiven (1992)" another lead

 

Gene Hackman "Mississippi Burning"

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Malcolm McDowell in "A Clockwork Orange"

 

Also Great in Galigula

 

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John Lithgow in Cliffhanger

 

Paul Newman in Cool hand Luke

 

John Travolta in Face off

 

Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway in Barfly

 

Sting in Dune (one of the best psychopath roles ever imho)

 

Jack Nicholson in As good as it gets

 

Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness (no, i am not kidding you)

 

Margo Stilley and Paul Hogan where more of a joke, BUT Margos sex scenes were great and not over acted, maybe coz they were not fake ones?

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More great stuff guys. Thanks for sharing.

 

Paul Newman "Hombre"

 

Charlton Heston "The Ten Commandments"

 

Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe "Some Like It Hot"

 

Frank Sinatra "From Here to Eternity"

 

Charles Bronson "Chato's Land"

 

Sean Connery "Dr. No"

 

This is not to say all didn't have better roles before or since but just the movie in which I became a big fan.

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I've had too much wine to think much. But, how about Jack Nicholson in "One Flew over the

Cuckoo's Nest"? A classic if there ever was one.

 

Dustin Hoffman, in "The Graduate."

 

Tom Cruise in "Risky Business."

 

Samuel L. Jackson "Pulp Fiction"

 

Al Pacino, "Scent of a Woman."

 

Marlon Brando, The Godfather"

 

Paul Newman, "Cool Hand Luke."

 

I'll think about this later.

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Oh, almost forgot this one...

Rudger Hauer and Harrisson Ford in Blade runner

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Richard Harris in 'A Man Called Horse"

Ray Liotta in "Goodfellas"

Henry Fonda "Once Upon a Time in the West"

Harvey Korman in "Blazing Saddles"

Anthony Hopkins "The Silence of the Lambs"

Robert De Niro "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull"

Dustin Hoffman "Midnight Cowboy"

Sigourney Weaver "Alien"

Gregory Peck "To Kill a Mocking Bird"

Jack Nicholson "Chinatown"

Joe Pesci and De Niro in "Once Upon a Time in America"

Steve McQueen "The Great Escape" (and Papillon).

Brad Pitt in "Snatch" (better if you are English this film)

Woody Allen in "Annie Hall"

Although I saw it as an Apocalypse Now accolade......still a good man's film...

Kevin Dillon "Platoon"

Newman and Redford in the great film..."Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid"

Ewan McGregor in "Trainspotting"

Pacino as "Scarface"

All of them from MPFC in "The Life of Brian" just too funny.....

Big John Wayne in "True Grit" (need to see the new one)

I never thought he could act for toffee but Sly in Rocky (1-2,873)

George C Scott as "Patton"

 

It's normally about the film for me, but sometimes the right actor makes the film.

 

Apologies if I repeat the entries of others.

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Robert DeNiro ... The Deer Hunter ... one of the top movies ever made...

When it first came out it was considered a great movie and won several Academy Awards. I bought the DVD a couple of years ago and as a Veteran who lived through that period I can say there are so many things wrong with that movie it is hard to understand what the public saw in it, other than it was one of the first Vietnam War films made and, perhaps, gave the American public something they needed at that time in U.S. history. That said, other actors on my list...

 

Christopher Walken, "The Deer Hunter." He 'stole the show' from DeNiro and walked away with the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

 

John Cazale, "The Deer Hunter."

 

Jack Lemmon, "Irma la Douce."

 

Shirley MacLaine, "Irma la Douce."

 

Lou Jacobi, "Irma la Douce."

 

Audrey Hepburn, "My Fair Lady."

 

Rex Harrison, "My Fair Lady."

 

Stanley Holloway, "My Fair Lady."

 

George C. Scott, "Patton."

 

Robin Williams (as an actor), "Good Morning, Vietnam." Another movie with some serious flaws, but yet, overall, a good film.

 

William Holden, "The World of Suzie Wong."

 

Sir Alec Guinness, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (Television).

 

Peter Sellers, "A Shot in the Dark."

 

David Niven, "The Pink Panther."

 

Robert Duvall, "The Great Santini."

 

Denholm Elliott, "Saint Jack."

 

It would be a long list.... enough for now.

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