Best Male Performances - 1940s
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#1
as Charles Foster Kane in "Citizen Kane" (1941)#27
as Prof. Charles Rankin in "The Stranger" (1946)#73
as Macbeth in "Macbeth" (1948)
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#2
as The Duke/The Banker/The Parson/The General in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949)
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#3
as Dobbs in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948)#7
as Rick Blaine in "Casablanca" (1943)#10
as Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941)#20
as Philip Bogart in "The Big Sleep" (1946)#45
as Frank McCloud in "Key Largo" (1948)#67
as Sgt. Joe Gunn in "Sahara" (1943)
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#4
as George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946)#19
as Macauley Connor in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)#21
as Rupert Cadell in "Rope" (1948)#33
as Alfred Kralik in "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940)#41
as Monty Stratton in "The Stratton Story" (1949)#59
as P.J. Jim McNeal in "Call Northside 777" (1948)
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#5
as C.K. Dexter Haven in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)#11
as Walter Burns in "His Girl Friday" (1940)#37
as Roger Adams in "Penny Serenade" (1941)#40
as Johnnie in "Suspicion" (1941)#44
as T.R. Devlin in "Notorious" (1946)#51
as Mortimer Brewster in "Arsonic and Old Lace" (1944)#72
as Dudley in "The Bishop's Wife" (1947)
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#6
as Dictator of Tomania/A Jewish Barber in "The Great Dictator" (1940)
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#8
as Lou Gehrig in "The Pride of the Yankees" (1942)#34
as Alvin C. York in "Sergeant York" (1941)#68
as Robert Jordan in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943)
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#9
as Tom Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940)#35
as Wyatt Earp in "My Darling Clementine" (1946)#42
as Gil Carter in "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943)#52
as Charlie Poncefort Pike in "The Lady Eve" (1941)
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#12
as George M. Cohan in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942)#17
as Cody Jarrett in "White Heat" (1949)
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#13
as Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle in "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944)#26
as Thomas A. Edison in "Edison, The Man" (1940)#38
as Adam Bonner in "Adam's Rib" (1949)#69
as Major Rogers in "Northwest Passage" (1940)
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#14
as John Ballantine/Dr. Anthony Edwardes in "Spellbound" (1945)#30
as Philip Schuyler Green in "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947)#48
as Lewt McCanles in "Duel in the Sun" (1946)#57
as General Savage in "Twelve O'Clock High" (1949)
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#15
as Mr. Wilson in "The Stranger" (1946)#53
as Barton Keyes in "Double Indemnity" (1944)#66
as Johnny Rocco in "Key Largo" (1948)
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#18
as Jim Hardy in "Holiday Inn" (1942)#43
as Father Chuck O'Malley in "Going My Way" (1944)
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#23
as Johnny Jones in "Foreign Correspondent" (1940)#36
as John L. Lloyd Sullivan in "Sullivan's Travels" (1941)
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#25
as Ted Hanover in "Holiday Inn" (1942)#61
as Don Hewes in "Easter Parade" (1948)
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#28
as Gabey in "On the Town" (1949)#47
as Joseph Brady in "Anchors Aweigh" (1945)#63
as D'Artagnan in "The Three Musketeers" (1948)
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#29
as Clarence Doolittle in "Anchors Aweigh" (1945)#70
as Chip in "On the Town" (1949)
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#31
as John Talbot in "The Wolf Man" (1941)#49
as Captain Renault in "Casablanca" (1943)#75
as Alexander Sebastian in "Notorious" (1946)
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#46
as Uncle Charlie Oakley in "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943)#62
as Eugene Morgan in "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942)#74
as Jesse McCanles in "Duel in the Sun" (1946)
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#77
as Thomas Dunson in "Red River" (1948)#80
as Sgt. John M. Stryker in "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949)
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Nothing But Classic Performances in this glorious decade that hosted a second World War and signified the end of a depression.