The most talented actors on the silver screen

1. Klaus Kinski

2. Bruno S.

3. Orson Welles

4. Marcello Mastroianni

5. Marlon Brando

6. Liv Ullmann

7. Maria Falconetti

8. Eric Idle

9. Takashi Shimura

10. Daniel Day-Lewis

11. Graham Chapman

12. Matti Pellonpää

13. Anna Karina

14. Jean-Paul Belmondo

15. Bibi Andersson

16. Esko Nikkari

17. Dennis Hopper

18. Woody Allen

19. Toshirô Mifune

20. Robert De Niro

21. Al Pacino

22. Humphrey Bogart

23. Philip Seymour Hoffman

24. James Dean

25. John Wayne

26. Max von Sydow

27. Malcolm McDowell

28. Michael Palin

29. Anatoli Solonitsyn

30. Bill Murray

Posted : 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 20 7:28

Idle, Chapman and Palin but no John Cleese? That's interesting and something I really would like to know reasons for. :P

Fine list still, though we might have an argument about De Niro's and Pacino's place on this list, for I can think of a dozen better and more versatile actors from the spot: Alec Guinness, Burt Lancaster, Greg Peck, Emil Jannings, Joan Crawford, Alain Delon and Buster Keaton to name a few. But of course this is something completely matter of an opinion, personal taste and one's state of mind at the moment.

Yet I give my respects for adding Bill Murray on this list. Easily one of the best living american actors there is. :)

Posted : 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 21 8:57

Yes, Cleese surely would fit there, but I found it a bit too boring to list all the Pythons on the same list. ;)

I agree on the fact that Pacino and De Niro are two choises that are a huge cliché on a list of this sort. But since they both had a huge impact for my film loving back in the "early days", I quite can't put them out the list.

Just to make it clear to everyone, the title of this list isn't something to be taken seriously, not that I think that someone has done that. :)