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Best male performances

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Average listal rating (154 ratings) 8.3  
1. Peter Lorre
Hans Beckert in M (1931)

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Average listal rating (1946 ratings) 8.6  
2. Robert De Niro
Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver [1976]

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Average listal rating (194 ratings) 8.8  
3. Buster Keaton
Johnny Gray in General [1926]

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Average listal rating (512 ratings) 8.9  
4. Charles Chaplin
A Tramp in City Lights [1931]

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Average listal rating (705 ratings) 8.7  
5. Marlon Brando
Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar named desire [1951]

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Average listal rating (242 ratings) 8.5  
6. Peter Sellers
Chance in Being There [1979]

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Average listal rating (42 ratings) 8.1  
7. Max Schreck
Graf Orlok in Nosferatu [1922]

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Average listal rating (102 ratings) 8.1  
8. Bruno Ganz
Adolf Hitler in Downfall [2004]

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Average listal rating (156 ratings) 8.4  
9. Laurence Olivier
Richard III in Richard III [1955]

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Truman Capote in Capote [2005]

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Average listal rating (1126 ratings) 8.1  
11. Dustin Hoffman
Ratso in Midnight Cowboy [1969]

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Average listal rating (398 ratings) 8.7  
12. James Stewart
John 'Scottie' Ferguson in Vertigo

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Average listal rating (1390 ratings) 8.7  
13. Al Pacino
Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon [1975]

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Average listal rating (237 ratings) 7.8  
14. Max von Sydow
Johan Borg in Hour of the wolf [1968]

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Average listal rating (156 ratings) 8.7  
15. Marcello Mastroianni
Guido Anselmi in (8½) (1963]

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Average listal rating (357 ratings) 8.7  
16. Humphrey Bogart
Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon [1941]

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Average listal rating (1629 ratings) 8.6  
17. Jack Nicholson
Jack Torrance in The Shining [1980]

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Average listal rating (105 ratings) 8.2  
18. James Cagney
Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties [1939]

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Average listal rating (187 ratings) 8.8  
19. Toshirô Mifune
Tajômaru in Rashomon [1950]

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Average listal rating (404 ratings) 8.7  
20. Paul Newman
Eddie Felson in The Hustler [1961]

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Average listal rating (216 ratings) 8.5  
21. Henry Fonda
Juror #8 in '12 angry men'

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Marcello Clerici in The Conformist [1970]

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Average listal rating (473 ratings) 7.8  
23. Jeff Bridges
Jeffrey Lebowski-Dude in The Big Lebowski [1998]

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Average listal rating (118 ratings) 8.1  
24. George C. Scott
Gen.George S Patton Jr. in Patton [1970]

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Average listal rating (1268 ratings) 8.6  
25. Anthony Hopkins
Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the lambs [1991]

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Average listal rating (1194 ratings) 7.8  
26. Bill Murray
Phil in Crounhog Day in [1993]

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Average listal rating (528 ratings) 7.8  
27. Gene Hackman
Harry Caul in The Conversation [1974]

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Average listal rating (364 ratings) 8.5  
28. Cary Grant
Roger O. Thornhill in North by Northwest [1959]

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Average listal rating (162 ratings) 8.1  
29. Peter O'Toole
T.E. Lawrence in Lawrwence of Arabia [1962]


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Average listal rating (433 ratings) 8.6  
30. Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood [2007]


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Average listal rating (166 ratings) 8  
31. Anthony Perkins
Norman Bates in Psycho [1960]

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Average listal rating (366 ratings) 8.5  
32. Christoph Waltz
Col. Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds [2009]

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Average listal rating (467 ratings) 8.1  
33. Javier Bardem
Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men [2007]

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Average listal rating (273 ratings) 8.4  
34. Gregory Peck
Atticus Finch in To Kill a Monkingbird [1962]

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Average listal rating (390 ratings) 8.5  
35. James Dean
Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause [1955]

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Average listal rating (67 ratings) 7.7  
36. Claude Rains
The Invisible e Man in The Invisible Man [1933]

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Average listal rating (1381 ratings) 8.6  
37. Heath Ledger
Joker in The Dark Knight [2008]

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Average listal rating (334 ratings) 7.8  
38. Malcolm McDowell
Alex / Alexander/De Large/Alex Burgess
in Clockwork Orange [1971]


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the performances that i keep in my heart

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Posted: 1 year, 9 months ago at Aug 28 0:38
great choices man
Posted: 1 year, 5 months ago at Jan 14 23:13
Henry Fonda was incredible in "12 Angry Men". I would have chosen Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey" as Elwood P. Dowd, though. Great performance!!

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