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Best Male Performances - 1930s

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Average listal rating (397 ratings) 8.7  
1. James Stewart

#1

as Jefferson Smith in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)

#8

as Prof. Peter Morgan Jr. in "Vivacious Lady" (1938)

#20

as Tony Kirby in "You Can't Take it with You" (1938)

#23

as Tom Destry, Jr. in "Destry Rides Again" (1939)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (228 ratings) 8.3  
2. Clark Gable

#2

as Duke Bradley in "Saratoga" (1937)

#13

as Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind" (1939)

#22

as Edward J. "Blackie" Gallagher in "Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

#29

as Peter in "It Happened One Night" (1934)

#47

as Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935)

#52

as Dennis Carson in "Red Dust" (1932)

Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (215 ratings) 8.5  
3. Henry Fonda

#3

as Abraham Lincoln in "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939)

#42

as Eddie Taylor in "You Only Live Once" (1937)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (184 ratings) 8.8  
4. Charlie Chaplin

#4

as The Factory Worker in "Modern Times" (1936)

#19

as The Tramp in "City Lights" (1931)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (27 ratings) 7.5  
5. Paul Muni

#5

as Tony Camonte in "Scarface" (1932)

#12

as Emile Zola in "The Life of Emile Zola" (1937)

#30

as Louis Pasteur in "The Story of Louis Pasteur" (1936)

#49

as Benito Juarez in "Juarez" (1939)

Average listal rating (108 ratings) 8.2  
6. James Cagney

#6

as Dan Quigley in "Lady Killer" (1933)

#16

as Tom Powers in "The Public Enemy" (1931)

#25

as Rocky Sullivan in "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938)

#28

as Chester Kent in "Footlight Parade" (1933)

#45

as Brick Davis in "G Men" (1935)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (38 ratings) 7.2  
7. Robert Donat

#7

as Richard Hannay in "The 39 Steps" (1935)

#18

as Edmond Dantes in "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1934)

#31

as Mr. Chips in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1939)

Average listal rating (40 ratings) 7.7  
8. Basil Rathbone

#9

as Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939)

Average listal rating (152 ratings) 8.4  
9. Bela Lugosi

#10

as Count Dracula in "Dracula" (1931)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (363 ratings) 8.4  
10. Cary Grant

#11

as Dr. David Huxley in "Bringing Up Baby" (1938)

#21

as Johnny Case in "Holiday" (1938)

#24

as Geoff Carter in "Only Angels Have Wings" (1939)

#39

as Cutter in "Gunga Din" (1939)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (101 ratings) 8  
11. Errol Flynn

#14

as Robin Hood in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (64 ratings) 8.4  
12. Edward G. Robinson

#15

as Little Caesar/Rico in "Little Caesar" (1931)

#38

as Joe Krozac in "The Last Gangster" (1937)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (126 ratings) 8.2  
13. Gary Cooper

#17

as Michael 'Beau' Geste in "Beau Geste" (1939)

#48

as Legionnaire Tom Brown in "Morocco" (1930)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (151 ratings) 8  
14. Fred Astaire

#26

as Lucky Garnett in "Swing Time" (1936)

#37

as Petrov in "Shall We Dance" (1937)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (20 ratings) 7.8  
15. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

#27

as Joe Massara in "Little Caesar" (1931)

#32

as Ballantine in "Gunga Din" (1939)

Average listal rating (9 ratings) 5.7  
16. Bert Lahr

#33

as Zeke/The Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)

Average listal rating (229 ratings) 7.8  
17. John Wayne

#34

as Ringo Kid in "Stagecoach" (1939)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (15 ratings) 6.5  
18. Victor McLaglen

#35

as Gypo Nolan in "The Informer"

#44

as MacChesney in "Gunga Din" (1939)

Average listal rating (41 ratings) 8.2  
19. William Powell

#36

as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936)

Average listal rating (153 ratings) 8.4  
20. Laurence Olivier

#40

as Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights" (1939)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (35 ratings) 8.2  
21. John Barrymore

#41

as The Baron Felix von Gaigern in "Grand Hotel" (1932)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (83 ratings) 7.8  
22. Charles Laughton

#43

as Bligh in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (151 ratings) 8.3  
23. Peter Lorre

#46

as Hans Beckert in "M" (1931)

Average listal rating (20 ratings) 7.5  
24. Adolphe Menjou

#50

as Walter Burns in "The Front Page" (1930)

Average listal rating (2 ratings) 8  
25. Ben Lyon

#51

as Monte Rutledge in "Hells Angels" (1930)

Average listal rating (8 ratings) 8.5  
26. Lew Ayres

#53

as Paul Baumer in "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930)



Some of the greatest actors got their start in this glorious decade (Stewart, Grant, Fonda), for a few it was their defining decade (Cagney, Muni, Gable), and for a couple the "talkies" saw their end to a shining career (Fairbanks, Barrymore).

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