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50 Greatest Male Performances!

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8.4

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Peter O' Toole

T.E. Lawrence!

4829

8.7

9.2

2. The Godfather (1972)

Marlon Brando

Vito Corleone!

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998

7.5

8.1

3. Ben-Hur (1959)

Charlton Heston

Judah Ben-Hur!

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2544

8.2

8.7

4. Casablanca (1942)

Humphrey Bogart

Rick Blaine!

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1956

7.8

8.2

5. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Clark Gable

Rhett Butler!

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708

8.1

8.3

6. On the Waterfront (1954)

Marlon Brando

Terry Malloy!

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2044

8.1

8.5

7. Citizen Kane (1941)

Orson Welles

Charles Foster Kane!

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5238

8.1

8.7

8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Anthony Hopkins

Dr. Hannibal Lector!

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1001

7.3

9. Dr. No (1962)

Sean Connery

James Bond 007!

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4846

8.2

8.4

10. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Malcolm McDowell

Alex DeLarge!

4639

8.6

9.3

11. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Morgan Freeman & Tim Robbins

Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding & Andy Dufrense!

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1583

8.1

8.3

12. Raging Bull (1980)

Robert De Niro

Jake LaMotta!

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3179

7.5

13. Gangs of New York (2002)

Daniel Day-Lewis

Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting!

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3355

8.6

14. The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Al Pacino

Michael Corleone!

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5949

8.4

15. The Dark Knight (2008)

Heath Ledger

The Joker!

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2139

7.4

8.1

16. Rocky (1976)

Sylvester Stallone!

Rocky Balboa!

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3455

8.5

8.8

17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Jack Nicolson

Randall Patrick McMurphy!

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7767

7.9

8.7

18. Forrest Gump (1994)

Tom Hanks

Forrest Gump!

3383

8.3

19. Blade Runner (1982)

Harrison Ford

Rick Deckard!

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1966

7.1

7.3

20. The Fountain (2006)

Hugh Jackman

Tom!

3172

8.3

8.8

21. GoodFellas (1990)

Joe Pesci

Tommy DeVito!

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1579

7.1

7.5

22. The Fly (1986)

Jeff Goldblum

Seth Brundle!

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1091

7.8

23. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

James Dean

Jim Stark!

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4165

7.7

8.6

24. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Robert Patrick

T-1000!

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863

8.9

25. The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992)

Robert De Niro

Young Vito Corleone!

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8.5

6.5

26. Doctor Bull (1933)

Actually it's Raging Bull!

Joe Pesci

Joey LaMotta

4691

8.4

8.9

27. Schindler's List (1993)

Liam Neeson & Ralph Fiennes & Sir Ben Kingsley

Oskar Schindler & Amon Goerth & Itzhak Stern!

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512

7.5

28. Patton (1970)

George C. Scott

George S. Patton!

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1704

7.3

7.9

29. Hero (2002)

Jet Li

The Nameless!

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1888

8.3

30. The Elephant Man (1980)

John Hurt

John Merrick!

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1737

7.8

31. Blue Velvet (1986)

Dennis Hopper

Frank Booth!

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2362

7.6

32. Mystic River (2003)

Sean Penn

Jimmy Markum!

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7492

8.4

8.9

33. Fight Club (1999)

Edward Norton

The Narrator!

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2634

8.2

34. Into the Wild (2007)

Emile Hirsch

Christopher McCandless / Alex Supertramp!

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4264

7.3

8.1

35. The Terminator (1984)

Arnold Schwarzenneger

The Terminator!

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4119

8.1

8.6

36. Memento (2000)

Guy Pearce

Leonard Shelby!

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2270

7.5

7.7

37. The Machinist (2004)

Christian Bale

Trevor Reznik!

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1268

7.5

38. Planet of the Apes (1968)

Charlton Heston

Taylor!

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4173

8.1

8.3

39. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Christoph Waltz

Colonel Hans Lada!

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2306

8.3

8.6

40. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Wo... (1964)

George C. Scott!

General Turgidson!

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5800

6.7

7.4

41. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Alfred Molina

Doc Ock!

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3372

7.9

8.2

42. The Big Lebowski (1998)

Jeff Bridges

The Dude!

Happy Vader's rating:

1299

7.5

7.3

43. Eraserhead (1977)

Jack Nance

Henry Spencer!

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3153

7.9

8.2

44. No Country for Old Men (2007)

Javier Bardem

Anton Chigurh!

Happy Vader's rating:

1147

7.7

7.8

45. Dirty Harry (1971)

Clint Eastwood

'Dirty' Harry Callahan!

1285

5.3

5.6

46. Hollow Man (2000)

Kevin Bacon

Sebastian Caine!

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5987

7.7

8.2

47. V for Vendetta (2005)

Hugo Weaving

V!

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3203

7.3

7.6

48. American Psycho (2000)

Christian Bale

Patrick Bateman!

3091

8.3

8.6

49. Psycho (1960)

Anthony Perkins

Norman Bates!

Happy Vader's rating:

8335

7.6

50. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the B... (2003)

Johnny Depp

Capt. Jack Sparrow!

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Comments

rocket scientist

Posted: 1 year, 8 months ago at Sep 24 4:22

What about Benicio del Toro in "Che"? May not be as classic as say, Lawrence of Arabia or The Godfather, but if Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean can make this list, I don't see why Toro and his interpretation as Che Guevara can't.