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1. Peter Lorre

Hans Beckert in M (1931)

propelas's rating:

8.6

2. Robert De Niro

Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver [1976]

propelas's rating:

8.8

3. Buster Keaton

Johnny Gray in General [1926]

propelas's rating:

8.9

4. Charles Chaplin

A Tramp in City Lights [1931]

propelas's rating:

8.7

5. Marlon Brando

Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar named desire [1951]

propelas's rating:

8.5

6. Peter Sellers

Chance in Being There [1979]

propelas's rating:

8.1

7. Max Schreck

Graf Orlok in Nosferatu [1922]

propelas's rating:

8.1

8. Bruno Ganz

Adolf Hitler in Downfall [2004]

propelas's rating:

8.4

9. Laurence Olivier

Richard III in Richard III [1955]

propelas's rating:

7.7

10. Philip Seymour Hoffman

Truman Capote in Capote [2005]

propelas's rating:

8.1

11. Dustin Hoffman

Ratso in Midnight Cowboy [1969]

propelas's rating:

8.7

12. James Stewart

John 'Scottie' Ferguson in Vertigo

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propelas's rating:

8.7

13. Al Pacino

Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon [1975]

propelas's rating:

7.8

14. Max von Sydow

Johan Borg in Hour of the wolf [1968]

propelas's rating:

8.7

15. Marcello Mastroianni

Guido Anselmi in (8½) (1963]

propelas's rating:

8.7

16. Humphrey Bogart

Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon [1941]

propelas's rating:

8.6

17. Jack Nicholson

Jack Torrance in The Shining [1980]

propelas's rating:

8.2

18. James Cagney

Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties [1939]

propelas's rating:

8.8

19. Toshirô Mifune

Tajômaru in Rashomon [1950]

propelas's rating:

8.7

20. Paul Newman

Eddie Felson in The Hustler [1961]

propelas's rating:

8.5

21. Henry Fonda

Juror #8 in '12 angry men'

propelas's rating:

8.2

22. Jean-Louis Trintignant

Marcello Clerici in The Conformist [1970]

propelas's rating:

7.8

23. Jeff Bridges

Jeffrey Lebowski-Dude in The Big Lebowski [1998]

propelas's rating:

8.1

24. George C. Scott

Gen.George S Patton Jr. in Patton [1970]

propelas's rating:

8.6

25. Anthony Hopkins

Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the lambs [1991]

propelas's rating:

7.8

26. Bill Murray

Phil in Crounhog Day in [1993]

propelas's rating:

7.8

27. Gene Hackman

Harry Caul in The Conversation [1974]

propelas's rating:

8.5

28. Cary Grant

Roger O. Thornhill in North by Northwest [1959]

propelas's rating:

8.1

29. Peter O'Toole

T.E. Lawrence in Lawrwence of Arabia [1962]

propelas's rating:

8.6

30. Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood [2007]

propelas's rating:

8

31. Anthony Perkins

Norman Bates in Psycho [1960]

propelas's rating:

8.5

32. Christoph Waltz

Col. Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds [2009]

propelas's rating:

8.1

33. Javier Bardem

Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men [2007]

propelas's rating:

8.4

34. Gregory Peck

Atticus Finch in To Kill a Monkingbird [1962]

propelas's rating:

8.5

35. James Dean

Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause [1955]

propelas's rating:

7.7

36. Claude Rains

The Invisible e Man in The Invisible Man [1933]

propelas's rating:

8.6

37. Heath Ledger

Joker in The Dark Knight [2008]

propelas's rating:

7.8

38. Malcolm McDowell

Alex / Alexander/De Large/Alex Burgess
in Clockwork Orange [1971]

propelas's rating:

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Comments

Posted: 1 year, 9 months ago at Aug 28 0:38

great choices man

CuriosityKitten

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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