greatest male performances of the '50s
By: jsaez
alphabetically and chronologically by actor:
Carlo Battisti (Umberto D.)
Chhabi Biswas (The Music Room)
Humphrey Bogart (In a Lonely Place)
Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)
Charles Boyer (The Earrings of Madame De…)\
Gunnar Björnstrand (The Seventh Seal)
Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire)
Marlon Brando (The Wild One)
Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
Joe E. Brown (Some Like It Hot)
Soumitra Chatterjee (The World of Apu)
Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun)
Montgomery Clift (From Here to Eternity)
Zbigniew Cybulski (Ashes and Diamonds)
Vittorio de Sica (The Earrings of Madame De…)
Vittorio de Sica (Il Generale della Rovere)
James Dean (East of Eden)
James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause)
Kirk Douglas (Ace in the Hole)
Kirk Douglas (The Bad and the Beautiful)
Kirk Douglas (Lust for Life)
Bengt Ekerot (The Seventh Seal)
Henry Fonda (Mister Roberts)
Jean Gabin (Touchez Pas au Grisbi)
Cary Grant (North By Northwest)
Alec Guinness (The Lavender Hill Mob)
Alec Guinness (The Ladykillers)
Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Alec Guinness (The Horse’s Mouth)
Sessue Hayakawa (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
William Holden (Sunset Boulevard)
Sam Jaffe (The Asphalt Jungle)
Burt Lancaster (From Here to Eternity)
Burt Lancaster (Sweet Smell of Success)
Charles Laughton (Hobson’s Choice)
Charles Laughton (Witness for the Prosecution)
Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts)
Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot)
James Mason (A Star Is Born)
James Mason (Bigger Than Life)
Toshirô Mifune (Throne of Blood)
Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause)
Robert Mitchum (The Night of the Hunter)
Laurence Olivier (Richard III)
Ulf Palme (Miss Julie)
Michael Redgrave (The Browning Version)
George Sanders (All About Eve)
George C. Scott (Anatomy of a Murder)
Takashi Shimura (Ikiru)
Victor Sjöström (Wild Strawberries)
Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront)
James Stewart (Rear Window)
James Stewart (Vertigo)
James Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder)
Dean Stockwell (Compulsion)
Max von Sydow (The Seventh Seal)
Spencer Tracy (The Last Hurrah)
Robert Walker (Strangers on a Train)
John Wayne (The Searchers)
Eli Wallach (Baby Doll)
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01Vittorio De Sica
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02Satyajit Ray
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03Nicholas Ray
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04John Huston
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05Max Ophüls
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06Ingmar Bergman
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07Elia Kazan
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08László Benedek
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09Elia Kazan
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10Billy Wilder
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11Satyajit Ray
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12George Stevens
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13Fred Zinnemann
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14Andrzej Wajda
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15Roberto Rossellini
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16Elia Kazan
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17Nicholas Ray
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18Billy Wilder
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19Vincente Minnelli
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20Vincente Minnelli
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21Mervyn LeRoy
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22Jacques Becker
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23Alfred Hitchcock
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24Charles Crichton
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25Alexander Mackendrick
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26David Lean
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27Ronald Neame
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28Billy Wilder
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29John Huston
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30Alexander Mackendrick
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31David Lean
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32Billy Wilder
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33George Cukor
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34Nicholas Ray
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35Akira Kurosawa
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36Charles Laughton
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37Laurence Olivier
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38Alf Sjöberg
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39Anthony Asquith
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40Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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41Otto Preminger
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42Akira Kurosawa
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43Ingmar Bergman
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44Ernie Gehr
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45Alfred Hitchcock
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46Richard Fleischer
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47John Ford
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48Alfred Hitchcock
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49John Ford
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50Elia Kazan