Personal Favourites: Male Screen Actors

By: Trolley Freak

I’ve narrowed my selection down to the elite and the list features three of my favourite films by each actor..

Related Lists:

Personal Favourites: Female Screen Actors
Top 10: Japanese Film Stars

Burt Lancaster (The Killers, Sweet Smell Of Success, Local Hero)

Cary Grant (Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, North By Northwest)

Charlton Heston (Touch Of Evil, Ben-Hur, Planet Of The Apes)

Chishû Ryû (Tokyo Story, Tokyo Twilight, An Autumn Afternoon)

Dana Andrews (Ball Of Fire, Laura, The Best Years Of Our Lives)

Donald Sutherland (MA*S*H, Klute, Don’t Look Now)*

Fred MacMurray (Double Indemnity, The Caine Mutiny, There’s Always Tomorrow)

Glenn Ford (Gilda, The Big Heat, Experiment In Terror)

Gregory Peck (Roman Holiday, Cape Fear, To Kill A Mockingbird)

Gunnar Björnstrand (Smiles Of A Summer Night, Winter Light, Persona)

Henry Fonda (My Darling Clementine, 12 Angry Men, Once Upon A Time In The West)

Humphrey Bogart (The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)

Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days Of Wine And Roses)

James Mason (Odd Man Out, Bigger Than Life, Lolita)

James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, It’s A Wonderful Life, Rear Window)

Jean Gabin (Grand Illusion, Port Of Shadows, Touchez Pas Au Grisbi)

John Hurt (10 Rillington Place, The Elephant Man, 1984)

John Wayne (Stagecoach, The Searchers, Rio Bravo)

Joseph Cotten (Shadow Of A Doubt, Portrait Of Jennie, The Third Man)

Kirk Douglas (Ace In The Hole, Paths Of Glory, Spartacus)

Masayuki Mori (The Idiot, Ugetsu, Floating Clouds)

Michel Simon (La Chienne, Boudu Saved From Drowning, L’Atalante)

Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Stranger, The Lady From Shanghai)

Richard Widmark (Kiss Of Death, Panic In The Streets, Pickup On South Street)

Robert Mitchum (Out Of The Past, Track Of The Cat, The Night Of The Hunter)

Steve McQueen (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Bullitt)

Takashi Shimura (Drunken Angel, Ikiru, Seven Samurai)

Tatsuya Nakadai (The Human Condition, Harakiri, Ran)

Toshirô Mifune (Rashomon, Throne Of Blood, Samurai Rebellion)

Warren Beatty (Bonnie And Clyde, McCabe & Mrs Miller, Dick Tracy)

William Holden (Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, The Bridge On The River Kwai)

To be updated…

• 01
  The Killers
  Robert Siodmak
• 02
  Sweet Smell of Success
  Alexander Mackendrick
• 03
  Local Hero
  Bill Forsyth
• 04
  Bringing Up Baby
  Howard Hawks
• 05
  Only Angels Have Wings
  Howard Hawks
• 06
  North by Northwest
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 07
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 08
  Ben-Hur
  William Wyler
• 09
  Planet of the Apes
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 10
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 11
  Tokyo Twilight
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 12
  An Autumn Afternoon
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 13
  Ball of Fire
  Howard Hawks
• 14
  Laura
  Otto Preminger
• 15
  The Best Years of Our Lives
  William Wyler
• 16
  M*A*S*H
  Robert Altman
• 17
  Klute
  Alan J. Pakula
• 18
  Don't Look Now
  Nicolas Roeg
• 19
  Double Indemnity
  Billy Wilder
• 20
  The Caine Mutiny
  Edward Dmytryk
• 21
  There's Always Tomorrow
  Douglas Sirk
• 22
  Gilda
  Charles Vidor
• 23
  The Big Heat
  Fritz Lang
• 24
  Experiment in Terror
  Blake Edwards
• 25
  Roman Holiday
  William Wyler
• 26
  Cape Fear
  J. Lee Thompson
• 27
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  Robert Mulligan
• 28
  Smiles of a Summer Night
  Ingmar Bergman
• 29
  Winter Light
  Ingmar Bergman
• 30
  Persona
  Ingmar Bergman
• 31
  My Darling Clementine
  John Ford
• 32
  Twelve Angry Men
  Sidney Lumet
• 33
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 34
  The Maltese Falcon
  John Huston
• 35
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 36
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  John Huston
• 37
  Some Like It Hot
  Billy Wilder
• 38
  The Apartment
  Billy Wilder
• 39
  Days of Wine and Roses
  Blake Edwards
• 40
  Odd Man Out
  Carol Reed
• 41
  Bigger Than Life
  Nicholas Ray
• 42
  Lolita
  Stanley Kubrick
• 43
  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  Frank Capra
• 44
  It's a Wonderful Life
  Frank Capra
• 45
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 46
  Grand Illusion
  Jean Renoir
• 47
  Port of Shadows
  Marcel Carné
• 48
  Touchez pas au grisbi
  Jacques Becker
• 49
  10 Rillington Place
  Richard Fleischer
• 50
  The Elephant Man
  David Lynch
• 51
  1984
  Michael Radford
• 52
  Stagecoach
  John Ford
• 53
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 54
  Rio Bravo
  Howard Hawks
• 55
  Shadow of a Doubt
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 56
  Portrait of Jennie
  William Dieterle
• 57
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 58
  Ace in the Hole
  Billy Wilder
• 59
  Paths of Glory
  Stanley Kubrick
• 60
  Spartacus
  Stanley Kubrick
• 61
  The Idiot
  Akira Kurosawa
• 62
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 63
  Floating Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 64
  La chienne
  Jean Renoir
• 65
  Boudu Saved from Drowning
  Jean Renoir
• 66
  L'Atalante
  Jean Vigo
• 67
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 68
  The Stranger
  Orson Welles
• 69
  The Lady from Shanghai
  Orson Welles
• 70
  Kiss of Death
  Henry Hathaway
• 71
  Panic in the Streets
  Elia Kazan
• 72
  Pickup on South Street
  Samuel Fuller
• 73
  Out of the Past
  Jacques Tourneur
• 74
  Track of the Cat
  William A. Wellman
• 75
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 76
  The Magnificent Seven
  John Sturges
• 77
  The Great Escape
  John Sturges
• 78
  Bullitt
  Peter Yates
• 79
  Drunken Angel
  Akira Kurosawa
• 80
  Ikiru
  Akira Kurosawa
• 81
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 82
  The Human Condition
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 83
  Harakiri
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 84
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 85
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 86
  Throne of Blood
  Akira Kurosawa
• 87
  Samurai Rebellion
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 88
  Bonnie and Clyde
  Arthur Penn
• 89
  McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  Robert Altman
• 90
  Dick Tracy
  Warren Beatty
• 91
  Sunset Boulevard
  Billy Wilder
• 92
  Stalag 17
  Billy Wilder
• 93
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  David Lean