My 10 Favorite Actors

By: Mike

Two favorite performances by each of my top ten actors.

Marlon Brando
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Julius Caesar (1953)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Queimada (1969)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)

Leonardo DiCaprio
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
The Aviator (2004)
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Shutter Island (2010)

James Dean
Rebel without a Cause (1955)
East of Eden (1955)
Giant (1956)

Montgomery Clift
A Place in the Sun (1951)
I Confess (1953)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The Young Lions (1958)
The Misfits (1961)

Al Pacino
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
The Godfather Trilogy (1972/1974/1990)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
The Merchant of Venice (2004)

Robert De Niro
Mean Streets (1973)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Raging Bull (1980)
Cape Fear (1991)

Orson Welles
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Stranger (1946)
Macbeth (1948)
Othello (1952)
Touch of Evil (1958)

Humphrey Bogart
Black Legion (1937)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
In a Lonely Place (1950)