Favorite MALE actor, anyone?

Mine would probably have to be Jack NIcholson, Anthony Hopkins, or Johnny Depp.

WHAT ABOUT YOOOU!?

Living?

James Garner

or

Gerard Depardieu

Dead

Jimmy Durante

or

Clark Gable

Well if you set aside about the last 20 years or so of Nicholson, I’d say you have a good list Asher. Those three have put in some of my favorite perfomances.

Jack Nicholson
Marlon Brando
Dustin Hoffman
Nathan Lane

This guy!

- Dustin Hoffman
- Emil Jannings
- Gene Hackman
- Jack Nicholson
- James Stewart
- Marlon Brando
- Robert De Niro
- Toshiro Mifune

Brad S. wins

Hackman is pretty decent
not sure why he retired with
Welcome to Mooseport

John Turturro
Ed Harris
Morgan Freeman

If this ISN’T the hottie fall-off-your-chair-go-blind actor thread then: Gunnar Björnstrand and Chishu Ryu – mainly bolstered by my contempt at today reading a UK national newspaper describe Bergman as a ‘drag’ and my joy at finding out my that local cinema is showing Late Spring soon.

Jackie Chan

Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni in What?, specifically. Although technically that belongs in a different type of this type of thread. (see above).

Marcello is awesome.

Tony Leung Chiu Wa is super freaking cool.

And I think Hugh Jackman is really effing cool, but it’s hard to find someone who agrees with me anymore. :(

Savvy

Cillian Murphy

Off the top of my head, Tatsuya Nakadai

:And I think Hugh Jackman is really effing cool, but it’s hard to find someone who agrees with me anymore."

He’s good, not often used to the fullest of his abilities, but still pulls the most out of any role he’s offered. Worst movie I saw him in, Val Helsing, he still managed to give a good go.

—PolarisDiB

John Hurt

Michel Piccoli

Ignacio López Tarso

Klaus Maria Brandauer

Klaus Kinski

James Stewart

Billy Crudup

Héctor Alterio

Nikolay Burlyaev

Jack Nicholson

Gunnar Björnstrand

Charlie Chaplin

i’ll take them if nobody else wants them

Off the top of my head:

Paul Newman
Walter Matthau
Humphrey Bogart
Robert Redford
Jimmy Stewart
Takashi Shimura

Joseph Gordon-Leavitt is becoming a favorite (or at least, I like the roles and films he stars in).
Tobey Maguire
Matt Damon
Ed Norton (where has he been)
Michael Fassbender (a lead with good acting chops)

Burt Lancaster, I think is my favourite, or at least has some of my all-time favourite performances – Elmer Gantry, The Swimmer, The Leopard, Birdman of Alcatraz. Newman and Bogart are close too.

Peter Lorre
Al Pacino in the 1970s

(what is the deal with the Batman Topics link?)

Erland Josephson.

Lee Kang-Sheng

Welles.

James Mason (Tops for me)

And in no particular order:
Cary Grant
James Stewart
Marlon Brando
Tony Leung
Jean Gabin
Fernando Rey
Buster Keaton
Alain Delon
Michel Piccoli
Takashi Shimura

Brad Pitt
Robert De Niro
Michael Fassbender
Bill Murray
William H. Macy
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Joaquin Phoenix
Morgan Freeman
Ed Norton
James Stewart
Leonardo DiCaprio
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Daniel Day Lewis
Jack Nicholson