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40 Legendary Actors!

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8.7

1. Humphrey Bogart

Top 3 Movies:

Angels With Dirty Faces
Casablanca
The Treasure Of Sierra Madre

Happy Vader's rating:

8.3

2. Clark Gable

Top 3 Movies:

Gone With The Wind
It Happened One Night
Mutiny On The Bounty

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8.7

3. James Stewart

Top 3 Movies:

Harvey
Its A Wonderful Life
The Philadelphia Story

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8.7

4. Marlon Brando

Top 3 Movies:

The Godfather
A Streetcar Named Desire
Apocalypse Now

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8.7

5. Orson Welles

Top 3 Moives:

Citizen Kane
The Third Man
A Touch Of Evil

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6. Fred Astaire

Top 3 Movies:

Dancing Lady
Easter Parade
Shall We Dance

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8.5

7. Henry Fonda

Top 3 Movies:

The Ox-Bow Incident
12 Angry Men
Oncec Upon A Time In The West

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8. Sidney Poitier

Top 3 Movies:

In The Heat Of The Night
To Sir, With Love
Lillies Of The Field

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8.8

9. Charlie Chaplin

Top 3 Movies:

Kid Auto Races In Venice
20 Minutes Of Love
The Kid

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7.2

10. Charlton Heston

Top 3 Movies:

Ben-Hur
The 10 Commandments
Planet Of The Apes

Happy Vader's rating:

8.4

11. Harold Lloyd

Top 3 Movies:

Safety Last!
Some Baby
Luke's Double

Happy Vader's rating:

8.8

12. The Marx Brothers

Top 3 Movies:

Duck Soup
Monkey Business
Horse Feathers

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8.8

13. Buster Keaton

Top 3 Movies:

The General
THe Navigator
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.

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8.6

14. Laurel & Hardy

Top 3 Movies:

Sons Of The Desert
Lucky Dog
The Music Box

Happy Vader's rating:

8.2

15. Kirk Douglas

Top 3 Movies:

Spartacus
The Big Trees
Champion

Happy Vader's rating:

7.4

16. John Hurt

Top 3 Movies:

Alien
The Elephant Man
V For Vendetta

Happy Vader's rating:

8.7

17. Paul Newman

Top 3 Movies:

Cool Hand Luke
The Hustler
Road To Perdition

Happy Vader's rating:

8.6

18. Anthony Hopkins

Top 3 Movies:

Silence Of The Lambs
Proof
Elephant Man

Happy Vader's rating:

7.6

19. Dennis Hopper

Top 3 Movies:

Apocalypse Now
Speed
Blue Velvet

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7.8

20. Malcolm McDowell

Top 3 Movies:

A Clockwork Orange
Bolt
Halloween Remakes

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8.7

21. Al Pacino

Top 3 Movies:

The Godfather
Scarface
Serpico

Happy Vader's rating:

7.9

22. Liam Neeson

Top 3 Movies:

Schindler's List
Batman Begins
Love Actually

Happy Vader's rating:

8.5

23. James Dean

Top 3 Movies:

Rebel Without A Cause
East Of Eden
The Giant

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24. Robert Redford

Top 3 Movies:

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Great Gatsby
Downhill Racer

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8.4

25. Bela Lugosi

Top 3 Movies:

Dracula
The Devil Bat
Renegade

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8.3

26. Michael Caine

Top 3 Movies:

Zulu
Harry Brown
The Dark Knight

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6.8

27. Roger Moore

Top 3 Movies:

James Bond
Miracle
Road Trip

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8.6

28. Jack Nicholson

Top 3 Movies:

Chinatown
Batman
The Shining

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8.1

29. Dustin Hoffman

Top 3 Movies:

The Graduate
Kramer Vs. Kramer
Marathon Man

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7.7

30. Russell Crowe

Top 3 Movies:

Gladiator
Proof
A Beautiful Mind

Happy Vader's rating:

8.2

31. Denzel Washington

Top 3 Movies:

Training Day
Malcolm X
Glory

Happy Vader's rating:

7.2

32. Michael Douglas

Top 3 Movies:

Wall Street
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Running

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33. Ralph Fiennes

Top 3 Movies:

Harry Potter
Hurt Locker
Red Dragon

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7.9

34. Ben Kingsley

Top 3 Movies:

Gandhi
Schindler's List
Bugsy

Happy Vader's rating:

8.5

35. Daniel Day Lewis

Top 3 Movies:

There Will Be Blood
Gangs Of New York
The Last Of The Mohicans

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7.6

36. Harvey Keitel

Top 3 Movies:

Reservoir Dogs
Mean Streets
Pulp Fiction

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7.3

37. Leslie Nielsen

Top 3 Movies:

Naked Gun
Airplane!
Superhero Movie

Happy Vader's rating:

7.1

38. Martin Sheen

Top 3 Movies:

Apocalypse Now
Man, Woman And Child
Badlands

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7.7

39. Tim Roth

Top 3 Movies:

Reservoir Dogs
Rob Roy
Incredible Hulk

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6.5

40. Richard Gere

Top 3 Movies:

American Gigolo
Days Of Heaven
Chicago

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There Are 3 Classes Of Actors!

The Good, The Great & The Legendary!

Those Who Dont Come In The 'Great' List Are Either: Plain Good OR Ultra Legendary!

I Have Done 2 Lists: 100 GREATEST Actors And
40 LEGENDARY Actors

The Ones Who Couldnt Make Neither Of The Lists Are Plain Good In my Opinion!

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Comments

4Gypsies

Posted: 2 years, 4 months ago at Jan 4 18:07

An awesome list! I disagree with Gere, Sheen and Tim Roth but other than that a really excellent list!!

Happy Vader

Posted: 2 years, 4 months ago at Jan 4 20:22

Thanks A Lot Dylan!

And Thanks For Voting Also... Really Appreciated It!!

Veed

Posted: 2 years, 2 months ago at Mar 19 8:31

OKay this is a pretty good list, but I can't seriously understand what you did with Chaplin there. He is still one of the best of all time doing what he did, and you picked for his best 2 completely unknown and average non-feature movies.

What happened to City Lights, Modern Times, The Circus, The Great Dictator, Goldrush or even Monsieur Verdeux and Limelight?? Any two of those would make much more sense IMHO.

Anyway it's a personally list, but I can't help but be a huge fan of CHarlie Chaplin and show my disappointment in your picks for him :P

Gaby

Posted: 3 months, 3 weeks ago at Jan 26 15:00

I don't know about Leslie Nielsen, but good choices!