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Posted by Demetris Thoupis (Member # 833) on 11-18-2009, 02:29 PM:

Gary Oldman

The man portrays a character in such a way that you cannot realise if he is acting of if its really Gary Oldman!

Al Pacino

No comments needed [Smile]

Liam Neeson

After Schindlers' List I was so mesmerised by Liam Neeson acting.

Posted by Robert E. Allen (Member # 1351) on 11-18-2009, 03:11 PM:

I agree with you about Liam Demetris. But I'd have to add Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams. My two favorite actresses are Sandra Bullock and Meg Ryan. Am I allowed 2 or 3?

Posted by Demetris Thoupis (Member # 833) on 11-18-2009, 03:23 PM:

No limits. Keep adding

Posted by Todd McCracken (Member # 4718) on 11-18-2009, 03:47 PM:

Though effectively retired Sean Connery.

Posted by Joe Tommassello (Member # 4632) on 11-18-2009, 04:40 PM:

James Stewart

Christopher Lee

I agree Gary Oldman is consistently good as is another "character actor"...

Alan Rickman

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 11-18-2009, 04:44 PM:

I always liked Johnny Depp after I saw "Ed Wood". Christopher Walken. Steve Martin is a favorite as well. They're all very versatile players. All-time favorites are John Wayne, Burt Reynolds, and William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy). Billy Bob Thornton dropped off my favorite list long ago, however, because he's such a weird-ball in real life. That has a retroactive effect on his screen presence, in my eyes.

Fellow native-Kentuckians Harry Dean Stanton and Ned Beatty are on my list of favorite character actors, as are William H. Macy and George "Gabby" Hayes.

Actresses I'm too busy swooning over to note their acting abilities: Ava Gardner, Teri Garr, Rene Russo, Christina Ricci, Elisabeth Shue, Jennifer Connelly.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 11-18-2009, 05:14 PM:

Actors:
Tom Hanks
Dustin Hoffman

Actresses:
Meryl Streep
Sandra Bullock

Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 11-18-2009, 06:03 PM:

George Clooney is a huge talent. In both serious roles like Michael Clayton, and in comedic roles like O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Irreconcilable Differences, I have never not enjoyed his stuff. Close behind: Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Day-Lewis.

I think Meryl Streep is unarguably the leading actress of her generation (although if Charles Everett is still reading these forums, he just had a stroke). Again, never a bad performance that I've seen. I love looking at Kate Winslet and Chloe Sevigny, and Tilda Swinton is a fine actress too. Also, there's an obscure British comic actress named Anna Quayle that cracks me up in everything I see her in.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-18-2009, 06:14 PM:

I've never been one to be a fan of a particular actress or actor. More often I'll follow the work of certain directors. The best ones tend to also find or attract the best acting talent, not to mention best writers as well.

There's so many good actors/actresses out there, many of them "undiscovered" because they haven't been given a good enough role to show off what they can do.

To pin things down specifically, I do like Anne Hathaway for some odd reason. Maybe I just find her really beautiful. She's the only reason why I watched The Devil Wears Prada all the way through when it played on HBO.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-18-2009, 08:24 PM:

quote: Bobby Henderson
To pin down Anne Hathaway for some really beautiful reason

OK, so I cut some bits out...but it's Bobby!

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-19-2009, 12:33 AM:

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 11-19-2009, 08:18 AM:

From being cast as a puppy in "Pound", to Chaplin, To Kirk Lazarus and the upcoming Sherlock Holmes....Robert Downey Jr. [Cool]

Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 11-19-2009, 08:32 AM:

Ditto Gary Oldman.
Rip Torn is the great under appreciated actor of our times
Philip Seymour Hoffman is the modern Rip Torn (though more appreciated).
Both Torn and Hoffman have been great in awful movies.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 11-19-2009, 11:49 AM:

Agreed about Rip Torn. He is excellent. Did you see him in "Coma?" He totally rocks in that movie even though it's a fairly small part.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-19-2009, 02:26 PM:

quote:
George Clooney is a huge talent. In both serious roles like Michael Clayton, and in comedic roles like O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Irreconcilable Differences

Look out Mark...you're showing your age. [Wink]

Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 11-19-2009, 04:37 PM:

Yeah, you're right, on both counts. I can barely remember what I had for breakfast this morning, let alone movie titles. Ah youth, wasted on the young as always. What'd you say your name was again?

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-19-2009, 04:44 PM:

George Clooney. [Razz]

Posted by Jeff Stricker (Member # 224) on 11-20-2009, 07:03 AM:

Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, James Stewart - very versitle actors.