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Best Male Performances - 1950s
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8.8
0
#1
as Scottie Ferguson in "Vertigo" (1958)#8
as LB 'Jeff' Jefferies in "Rear Window" (1954)#13
as Elwood P. Dowd in "Harvey" (1950)#25
as Paul Biegler in "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959)#56
as Charles Augustus 'Slim' Lindbergh in "The Spirit of St. Louis" (1957)#68
as Dr. Benjamin McKenna in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956)#70
as Glenn Miller in "The Glenn Miller Story" (1953)
Stehako's rating:
8.3
0
#2
as Don Lockwood in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)#14
as Jerry Mulligan in "An American in Paris" (1951)#42
as Barry Nichols in "Les Girls" (1957)#69
as Joe D. Ross in "Summer Stock" (1950)#94
as Tommy Albright in "Brigadoon" (1954)#109
as Ted Riley in "It's Always Fair Weather" (1955)
Stehako's rating:
8.6
0
#3
as Terry Malloy in "On the Waterfront" (1954)#15
as Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)#36
as Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls" (1955)#71
as Mark Antony in "Julius Caesar" (1953)#96
as Lt. Christian Diestl in "The Young Lions" (1958)#118
as Emiliano Zapata in "Viva Zapata!" (1952)
Stehako's rating:
8.7
0
#4
as Juror #8 in "12 Angry Men" (1957)#22
as Christopher 'Manny' Balestrero in "The Wrong Man" (1956)#48
as Lt. JG Douglas A. Roberts in "Mister Roberts " (1955)#82
as Pierre Bezukhov in "War and Peace" (1956)
Stehako's rating:
8.3
0
#5
as Sgt. J.J. Sefton in "Stalag 17" (1953)#9
as Joe Gills in "Sunset Boulevard" (1950)#18
as Shears in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)#43
as Paul Verrall in "Born Yesterday" (1950)#64
as Bernie Dodd in "The Country Girl" (1954)#84
as David Larrabee in "Sabrina" (1954)
Stehako's rating:
8.7
0
#6
as Roger O. Thornbill in "North By Northwest" (1959)#32
as John Robie in "To Catch a Thief" (1955)#95
as Dr. Barnaby Fulton in "Monkey Business" (1952)
Stehako's rating:
8
0
#7
as CK Dexter-Haven in "High Society" (1956)#39
as Frank Elgin in "The Country Girl" (1954)#57
as Bob Wallace in "White Christmas" (1954)
Stehako's rating:
8.7
0
#10
as Linus Larrabee in "Sabrina" (1954)#17
as Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen" (1951)#98
as Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny" (1954)#120
as Harry Dawes in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954)#37
as Eddie Willis in "The Harder They Fall" (1956)
Stehako's rating:
8.5
0
#11
as The Old Man/Narrator in "The Old Man and the Sea" (1958)#46
Stanley Banks in "Father of the Bride" (1950)
Stehako's rating:
8.4
0
#12
as Bill Starbuck, a.k.a. Bill Smith, Bill Harley, Tornad in "The Rainmaker" (1956)#53
as Lt. Jim Bledsoe in "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958)#76
as Sidney Falco in "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957)#88
as Sgt. Milton Warden in "From Here to Eternity" (1953)
Stehako's rating:
8.6
0
#16
as Joe Bradley in "Roman Holiday" (1953)#19
as General Savage in "Twelve O'Clock High" (1950)#31
as Cmdr. Dwight Lionel Towers, USS Sawfish in "On the Beach" (1959)#67
as Captain Ahab in "Moby Dick" (1956)#79
as Harry Street in "The Snows of Killimanjaro" (1952)#97
as James McKay in "The Big Country" (1958)
Stehako's rating:
8.3
0
#20
as Mike Connor in "High Society" (1956)#40
as Dave Hirsch in "Some Came Running" (1958)#44
as Pvt. Angelo Maggio in "From Here to Eternity" (1953)#65
as Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls" (1955)#81
as Tony Manetta in "A Hole in the Head" (1959)#99
as Joey Evans in "Pal Joey" (1957)
Stehako's rating:
8.5
0
#21
as Marshal Will Kane in "High Noon" (1952)#107
as Frank Flannagan in "Love in the Afternoon" (1957)
Stehako's rating:
8.7
0
#23
as Jerry/Daphne in "Some Like it Hot" (1959)#131
as Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver in "Mister Roberts" (1955)
Stehako's rating:
8.1
0
#24
as Phileas Fogg in "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956)#63
as Major Angus Pollock in "Separate Tables" (1958)
Stehako's rating:
7.8
0
#27
as Hans Christian Andersen in "Hans Christian Andersen" (1952)#105
as Phil Davis in "White Christmas" (1954)
Stehako's rating:
8.4
0
#29
as Cmder. 'Rich' Richardson in "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958)#50
as Victor Marswell in "Mogambo" (1953)
Stehako's rating:
8.5
0
#33
as Jim Stark in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955)#74
as Cal Trask in "East of Eden" (1955)#130
as Jett Rink in "Giant" (1956)
Stehako's rating:
8.1
0
#35
as Joe/Josephine in "Some Like it Hot" (1959)#54
as John 'Joker' Jackson in "The Defiant Ones" (1958)#91
as Sidney Falco in "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957)
Stehako's rating:
8.6
0
#38
as Harry Lime in "The Third Man" (1950)#66
as Police Captain Hank Quinlan in "Touch of Evil" (1958)#108
as Othello in "Othello" (1952)
Stehako's rating:
8.2
0
#45
as Noah Ackerman in "The Young Lions" (1958)#58
as George Eastman in "A Place in the Sun" (1951)#110
as Dr. Cukrowicz in "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959)
Stehako's rating:
7.7
0
#47
as Father Barry in "On the Waterfront" (1954)#122
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
Stehako's rating:
7.8
0
#49
as Sean Thornton in "The Quiet Man" (1952)#61
as Ethan Edwards in "The Searchers" (1956)#83
as Sheriff John T. Chance in "Rio Bravo" (1959)#103
as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke in "Rio Bravo" (1950)#135
as Sgt. John M. Stryker in "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1950)
Stehako's rating:
8.2
0
#51
as Noah Cullen in "The Defiant Ones" (1958)#75
as Gregory W. Miller in "Blackboard Jungle" (1955)#124
as Porgy in "Porgy and Bess" (1959)
Stehako's rating:
8.3
0
#52
as Vincent Van Gogh in "Lust for Life" (1956)#60
as Jim Deakins in "The Big Sky" (1952)#89
as Det. James McLeod in "Detective Story" (1951)#126
as Jonathan Shields in "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952)
Stehako's rating:
7.6
0
#55
as Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas in "Touch of Evil" (1958)#77
as Judah Ben-Hur in "Ben-Hur" (1959)#112
as Steve Leech in "The Big Country" (1958)#133
as Moses/God (Voice) in "The Ten Commandments" (1956)#139
as Brad Braden in "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952)
Stehako's rating:
8.2
0
#72
as Asst. State Atty. Gen. Claude Dancer in "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959)
Stehako's rating:
7.6
0
#73
as Charley 'The Gent' Malloy in "On the Waterfront" (1954)#106
as Nick Benko in "The Harder They Fall" (1956)
Stehako's rating:
8.7
0
#78
as Kikuchiyo in "The Seven Samurai" (1956)#132
as Tajomaru in "Rashomon" (1950)
Stehako's rating:
8.1
0
#80
as Addison DeWitt in "All About Eve" (1950)#119
as De Bois-Guilbert in "Ivanhoe" (1952)
Stehako's rating:
8.3
0
#86
as Paul Gauguin in "Lust for Life" (1956)#92
as Zampano in "La Strada" (1954)#121
as Eufemio Zapata in "Viva Zapata!" (1952)
Stehako's rating:
7.6
0
#90
as Claude Chavasse in "Love in the Afternoon" (1957)#129
as Honore Lachaille in "Gigi" (1958)
Stehako's rating:
7.8
0
#101
as Major Calloway in "The Third Man" (1950)#136
as Denis Fallentin in "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956)
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