actor / best role / movie

[kid a]

Vince Vaughn / Lester Long / Clay Pigeons

I was watching "Clay Pigeons" again last night - I think that was one of Vince Vaughn's best roles - it is classic psycho Vince.

Maybe I'll find an movie to watch tonight in this list!

=)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Robert De Niro/Jake La Motta/Raging Bull.

[kid a]

3. oh man - that is classic! great role!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

14. Remember the scene where De Niro and Pesci hit each other early in the movie?

Apparently, they were actually hitting each other, which explains why I was flinching. :rofl:

[charlie and algernon]

2. Jack Nicholson / Randall P. McMurphy / One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Koufax... Koufax kicks. He delivers. It's up the middle! It's a base hit! Richardson is rounding first. He's going for second. The ball's into deep right center. Davis cuts the ball off! Here comes the throw. He throws it to second! He slides! He's in there! He's safe! It's a double.! Richardson's on second base!

Koufax is in big fucking trouble! Big trouble, baby! All right. Tresh is the next batter. Tresh looks in. Koufax... Koufax gets a sign from Roseboro. He kicks once. He pumps. He fires. It's a strike! Koufax's curve ball is snapping off like a fucking firecracker! All right, here he comes with the next pitch. Tresh swings. It's a long fly ball to deep left center!


It's going! It's gone! Let's hear it! One way!

[AlCzervik]

4. Bette Davis/Margo Channing/All about Eve.

[TroglodyteScholar]

5. Philip Seymour Hoffman / Wilson Joel / Love Liza

[kid a]

8. ok..there's my movie tonight...havent seen it - love PSH!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. Have you seen "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"?

He was great in that (like everything else he's in).

[Graybeard]

17. Great screenplay, and another Sidney Lumet film!

Look at Lumet's body of work. WOW. Great films.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

18. And he made that when he was in his 80s.

Good thing he's still going.

[TroglodyteScholar]

62. Ooh, no, I haven't seen that

Will look into it, thanks :)

[MrCoffee]

60. What a great film...

I would offer the role of Dan Mahoney as an almost equally stellar performance from the best actor working today.

[jobycom]

6. Robert Duvall/ Augustus McCrae/Lonesome Dove

[MissMillie]

44. I love Duvall

but I think I like him best as Max Sledge in Tender Mercies

[recoveringdittohed]

7. Bonzo / Bonzo / Bedtime For Bonzo

Totally upstaged the other fella who was apparently supposed to be the star of the movie.

[Hangingon]

9. Henry Fonda/Mr. Roberts/Mr. Roberts

[OmahaBlueDog]

20. Henry Fonda/Tom Joad/The Grapes of Wrath

[sarge43]

33. Henry Fonda/Owen Thursday/Ft Apache

Gil Carter/Oxbow Incident
Wyatt Earp/My Darling Clementine
Charles Pike/The Lady Eve

Was that man capable of giving a phone in performance?

[sarge43]

37. Frank/Once Upon a Time in the West

[Ahpook]

10. Douglas Rain / HAL / 2001: A Space Odyssey

If Kubrick wasn't a brilliant Director, I might be able to stop watching this flick someday:)

[darkstar]

19. amen, Dave

:hi:

[Va Lefty]

11. Jimmy Stewart/Jefferson Smith/Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

[flvegan]

12. Val Kilmer / Doc Holliday / Tombstone

[Graybeard]

13. Peter O'Toole/ title role/ Lawrence of Arabia

[OmahaBlueDog]

22. Peter O'Toole/Henry II/ The Lion in Winter

close runner up...

Peter O'Toole/Henry II/ Beckett

[sarge43]

34. Peter O'Toole/Alan Swan/My Favorite Year

"I'm not an actor. I'm a Movie Star![/b}

[MissMillie]

48. love that one!

one of my favorites.

[sarge43]

50. One of mine, too.

He was having so much fun with that character. Pure pleasure to watch.

[Broken_Hero]

16. Christian Bale/Patrick Bateman/American Psycho, nt

[kid a]

21. yep - better than bruce wayne

[pokerfan]

23. Robert Duvall / Captain Augustus McCrae / Lonesome Dove

[OmahaBlueDog]

24. Sir Alec Guinness/ the many members of the D’Ascoyne family / Kind Hearts and Coronets

Guinness is never bad -- even in bad movies, he's great.

My runners up for him would be as Henry Wormold in "Our Man in Havana", Co. Nicolson in "Bridge on the River Kwai", Holland in "The Lavender Hill Mob", Obi Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars." He's also great as George Smiley in the miniseries "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Smiley's People"

[bluesbassman]

25. Clint Eastwood / William Munny / Unforgiven

The grand finale to the spaghetti westerns.

[begin_within]

26. Bette Davis/Jane Hudson/Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

[begin_within]

27. Robert Duvall/Euliss 'Sonny' Dewey/The Apostle

[begin_within]

28. Robert Mitchum/Corporal Allison/Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

[begin_within]

29. Lamberto Maggiorani/Antonio Ricci/Ladri di biciclette

[begin_within]

30. Anthony Perkins/Norman Bates/Psycho

[begin_within]

31. Jack Nicholson/Bobby Dupea/Five Easy Pieces

[begin_within]

32. Marlon Brando/Terry Malloy/On the Waterfront

[Richardo]

35. Jason Robards/Ben Bradlee/All the President's Men

[Richardo]

36. Al Pacino/Michael Corleone/Godfather II

[sarge43]

38. Helen Mirren/Elizabeth II/The Queen

[Rhythm]

39. Brad Pitt / Early Grayce / Kalifornia

[terrya]

40. Peter Finch/Howard Beale/"Network"

[Brewman_Jax]

41. Christian Slater/Mark Hunter (DJ Hard Harry)/Pump Up The Volume

Great indie film from 1990 about a troubled teen using a pirate radio station to deal with teen angst and new surroundings after his family moves for his dad's new job out of town.

[jobycom]

51. That role doesn't have a lot of competition, in terms of Slater's best work.

It was a tremendous performance and a very good movie. Slater never got a script that good again. Though he was good in "The Name of the Rose," and "True Romance."

[Richardo]

42. Peter Sellers/Merkin Muffley-Lionel Mandrake-Dr Strangelove/Dr Strangelove

[Starbucks Anarchist]

61. Yep.

[Burma Jones]

43. Peter Sellers/Chauncey Gardiner/Being There

[MissMillie]

45. yeah.... (n/t)

.

[kid a]

59. 3rd!

[LaydeeBug]

46. Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, Bob Gunton

the Shawshank Redemption.

[MissMillie]

47. Gregory Peck/Atticus Finch/To Kill a Mockingbird

that should be pretty obvious

[Richardo]

55. *headslap*

Of course. :thumbsup:

[soleft]

49. Al Pacino/Michael Corleone/GF I & II

[bertha katzenengel]

52. Dustin Hoffman/Ted Kramer/Kramver vs Kramer

[MissMillie]

53. Hilary Swank/Maggie Fitzgerald/Million Dollar Baby

she was terrific.

[MissMillie]

54. Meryl Streep/ Sophie Zawistowski/Sophie's Choice

a masterpiece.

[Va Lefty]

56. Joe Pesci/Tommy DeVito/Goodfellas

[Rambis]

57. Sean Penn:State of Grace

Gary Oldman was phenomenal too!

[LanternWaste]

58. Kenneth Branagh/Iago/Othello

Kenneth Branagh/Iago/Othello