greatest male performances of the '30s

By: jsaez

alphabetically and chronologically by actor:

John Barrymore (Counsellor at Law)
John Barrymore (Twentieth Century)
Charles Boyer (Mayerling)
James Cagney (The Public Enemy)
James Cagney (Angels with Dirty Faces)
James Cagney (The Roaring Twenties)
Feodor Chaliapin (Don Quixote)
Charles Chaplin (City Lights)
Charles Chaplin (Modern Times)
Gary Cooper (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
Henry Daniell (Camille)
Robert Donat (The 39 Steps)
Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
W.C. Fields (The Dentist)
W.C. Fields (The Fatal Glass of Beer)
W.C. Fields (It’s a Gift)
W.C. Fields (David Copperfield)
W.C. Fields (Man on the Flying Trapeze)
Henry Fonda (Young Mr. Lincoln)
Pierre Fresnay (Grand Illusion)
Jean Gabin (The Lower Depths)
Jean Gabin (Pépé le Moko)
Jean Gabin (Port of Shadows)
Jean Gabin (Le jour se leve)
John Garfield (Four Daughters)
Cary Grant (The Awful Truth)
Cary Grant (Bringing Up Baby)
Leslie Howard (Pygmalion)
Walter Huston (Dodsworth)
Louis Jouvet (The Lower Depths)
Boris Karloff (Frankenstein)
Charles Laughton (The Sign of the Cross)
Charles Laughton (Island of Lost Souls)
Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII)
Charles Laughton (Ruggels of Red Gap)
Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Charles Laughton (The Beachcomber)
Peter Lorre (M)
Peter Lorre (Mad Love)
Peter Lorre (Crime and Punishment)
Bela Lugosi (Dracula)
Fredric March (The Royal Family of Broadway)
Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Adolphe Menjou (The Front Page)
Paul Muni (Scarface)
Paul Muni (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang)
Paul Muni (Black Fury)
William Powell (The Thin Man)
William Powell (My Man Godfrey)
Claude Rains (The Invisible Man)
Paul Robeson (The Emperor Jones)
Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar)
Edward G. Robinson (Five Star Final)
James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
Erich von Stroheim (Grand Illusion)

• 01
  Counsellor at Law
  William Wyler
• 02
  Twentieth Century
  Howard Hawks
• 03
  Mayerling
  Anatole Litvak
• 04
  The Public Enemy
  William A. Wellman
• 05
  Angels with Dirty Faces
  Michael Curtiz
• 06
  The Roaring Twenties
  Raoul Walsh
• 07
  Adventures of Don Quixote
  Georg Wilhelm Pabst
• 08
  City Lights
  Charlie Chaplin
• 09
  Modern Times
  Charlie Chaplin
• 10
  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  Frank Capra
• 11
  Camille
  George Cukor
• 12
  The 39 Steps
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 13
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  Sam Wood
• 14
  It's a Gift
  Norman Z. McLeod
• 15
  The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
  George Cukor
• 16
  The Man on the Flying Trapeze
  Clyde Bruckman
• 17
  Young Mr. Lincoln
  John Ford
• 18
  Grand Illusion
  Jean Renoir
• 19
  The Lower Depths
  Jean Renoir
• 20
  Pépé le Moko
  Julien Duvivier
• 21
  Port of Shadows
  Marcel Carné
• 22
  Le jour se lève
  Marcel Carné
• 23
  Four Daughters
  Michael Curtiz
• 24
  The Awful Truth
  Leo McCarey
• 25
  Bringing Up Baby
  Howard Hawks
• 26
  Pygmalion
  Anthony Asquith
• 27
  Dodsworth
  William Wyler
• 28
  Frankenstein
  James Whale
• 29
  The Sign of the Cross
  Cecil B. DeMille
• 30
  Island of Lost Souls
  Erle C. Kenton
• 31
  The Private Life of Henry VIII
  Alexander Korda
• 32
  Ruggles of Red Gap
  Leo McCarey
• 33
  Mutiny on the Bounty
  Frank Lloyd
• 34
  M
  Fritz Lang
• 35
  Mad Love
  Karl Freund
• 36
  Crime and Punishment
  Josef von Sternberg
• 37
  Dracula
  Tod Browning
• 38
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Rouben Mamoulian
• 39
  The Front Page
  Lewis Milestone
• 40
  Scarface
  Howard Hawks
• 41
  I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  Mervyn LeRoy
• 42
  Black Fury
  Michael Curtiz
• 43
  The Thin Man
  W.S. Van Dyke
• 44
  My Man Godfrey
  Gregory La Cava
• 45
  The Invisible Man
  James Whale
• 46
  The Emperor Jones
  Dudley Murphy
• 47
  Little Caesar
  Mervyn LeRoy
• 48
  Five Star Final
  Mervyn LeRoy
• 49
  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  Frank Capra