Top 10 Greatest Classic Hollywood Actors of All Time
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2023
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Most of these actors in classic films passed away 😢
I can't pick just one! But if I absolutely had to, I would say either Clark Gable, James Stewart, or Gene Kelly.
So Laurence Olivier is the top actor on another list, but this one he doesn't even make the list.
Humphrey Bogart
Where is John Wayne and Gary Cooper?
Jimmy Stewart was one of the greatest actors to ever live. He always played the moral everyman role to perfection, from the 30's all the way to his final role in 1991. And his voice is one of the most iconic ones in Hollywood history. The number of times people have replicated it can't be counted.
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I loved him too. So tired of all the anti-heroes. He was an icon.
Jack Lemmon too
This list should have been a top 15. I can’t believe Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck were honorable mentions and Sidney Poitier was not even on the list. 😢
At least everyone on the list starred in some of the best performances of that era.
Cary Grant and Marlon Brando are my absolute favorite classic actors. But I will say that Gene Kelly knew how to cut a rug with those moves!
Great list, but i miss Paul Newman, William Holden, Sidney Poitier, Gary Cooper.
I liked the movie Picnic with William Holden. Especially when he made a appearance on I Love Lucy.
Yes! William Holden for sure. LOVE Poitier and Newman, but maybe they were left off because they kind of straddled the classic and new wave eras.
You also missed the part where they said the list was "The golden age of Hollywood" Poiteir and Newman were 1950's , Holden also had his best pictures in the 50's and 60's.
Seeing Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on this list. Love their work in Musicals.
both men are not among the best actors in film..by a long shot....but...lists are about personal favorites...right?
LOVINGGGG these classic Hollywood lists recently! 🥰🥰🥰
Good list! If you do a top 20 list, please include Kirk Douglas, Basil Rathbone, Vincent Price and Errol Flynn! Also, if you do a list of underrated classic Hollywood actors, please include James Mason!
Also: Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger, & don't forget Sidney Poitier, "They Call Me Mr. Tibbs", although my favorite Poitier movie is "A Patch Of Blue".
@@dee_dee_place Of course, my bad! Can't leave them out, especially Poitier! Thanks.
@@celticpoet21 No problem.
Yup… Not to mention Richard Burton. But as I said above… Leaving out James Cagney especially… Egregious! ❤
I’m so glad you included Gene Kelly! He was brilliant and I don’t think he gets enough credit. My favorite!
James Cagney and Kirk Douglas were missed on your list.
Especially Cagney. I don't see how any such list could fail to include him.
@@kelleyceccato7025 When I saw the video title, I started thinking they better include James Cagney, but wasn't surprised Cagey wasn't.
THANK you. Great choices and articulate reasons… But leaving out James Cagney is frankly… Weird and excusable.
Let’s face it, no less than Orson Welles called him “the finest ever to face a Camera. “. So ….
- Also… You’re only putting Humphrey Bogart in “honorable mention?” Hmm ….
@@virghammer1 Bogart was no. 1. I disagree. He always played himself. I don't think he should be on this list.
James cagney for sure should be on this list without a doubt..Edward g Robinson as well. Honorable mentions was chaplin. He should have been in top 5.
Love these Old Hollywood videos...Good Job Ms.Mojo I agree with lot of the people on this list
Let’s give it up for some of the international men: Charles Boyer, Valentino, Alain Delon, Omar Sharif, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Paul Belmondo, Maximillian Schell, Louis Jourdan
Jean Gabin
Tony Curtis needs to be on this list, he was so much fun in comedy movies and extremely captivating in dramatic ones too, he is very overlooked.
Douglas Fairbanks deserves at least an honorable mention yet for someone who had most of his fame in the silent film era it's hard to get people to pay attention to that era.
He was a one-trick pony.
Speaking of Charlie Chaplin only being an honorable mention on this list, do a top 10 classic silent film actors and another one for top 10 silent film actresses. I see a lot of potential on this topic!
Chaplin should have been above most of these.
And the funniest man I've ever seen, Buster Keaton. Laughton was also a great comedian, he could do broad and subtle both.
Yaa a ripoff chaplin should be in top 5
I'm very interested in the Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire biopics coming soon with Tom Holland and Chris Evans playing them respectively as they can expand outside of the Marvel brand.
Actually I wonder how would they make the Astaire biopic because in his will he left a statement that such movie never takes place
@@agustinprystupa280 Really? I didn't know that.
Omg what?! I didn’t no that. I can’t wait to watch that shit!!
@@agustinprystupa280Both Astaire and Kelly made will/statements about not making a biopic. But they are probably gonna fictionalise it. Back in the day they didn’t knew that biopic can be such a succes and real Omache to a person. Really curious what Evans and Holland are going to do. Also Jamie Bell will also play Fred in a biopic about him and Ginger Rogers
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Ryan Gosling as Fred Astaire, Colin Farrel as Cary Grant and Chris Evan as Gene Kelly...both have gay face.
When I was younger and would act out movie scenes by myself looking in the mirror or whatever, 90% of the time I was always Lauren Bacall, and of course my leading man was Humphrey Bogart. And you guys are right, there's just something about him. James Stewart was always a favorite of mine too
Great list, just missing William Holden.
Henry fonda was truly a gifted actor of his generation 💯
So many left off this list: Carney, Newman Wayne and what about James Dean... an actor with only 3 movies but all 3 were great performances . I think that warrants at least an honorable mention
Yes I agree on cagney and wayne
Sidney Poitier & William Powell, amazing actors!!❤
WOW!!! This was a hard to list to comprise. This should have been a top 20 list instead. There are way too many great actors from this era, in my humble opinion. My personal favorite, Jimmy Stewart. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
see..thats the point..my personal favorite as opposed to the best...example?
Claude Rains...is easily the equal to most of these actors...no one even mentions him
James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Kirk Douglas
Cagney for sure
Cary Grant's my favorite. Especially in Arsenic and Old Lace and Monkey Business.
Every one on this list is an icon, even long after their deaths
Sidney Poitier, John Wayne, Jack Lemmon or Gary cooper didn’t make the cut? I love all the stars on the list, just too bad they can’t include all of them!!! 🌟
Wayne and Cooper were basically one trick ponies with a very limited range.
You forgot Sidney Poitier
The Roles Sidney Poitier got were far and in between for a man of color during that period! But every role he had was incredible acting!
Yaa sydney poitier should be considered
Sucks we don't get actors like them anymore
I think Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift deserved more than honorable mention.
Very surprised to not see James Cagney on this list
U r so right
Tied for 1st place: Gregory Peck & Jimmy Stewart.
My top 5 are on this list.
1. Gene Kelly
2. Jimmy Stewart
3. Henry Fonda
4. Humphrey Bogart
5. Cary Grant
Isn't Laurence Olivier considered one the greatest actors of the 20th Century--as opposed to just and honourable mention? I think Oscar winner Gary Cooper is missing from the top ten as well.
these lists mean nothing...yes critics would choose other actors but doesn't it boil down to who you like?
ask a 25-year-old who their favorite actors are and they wouldn't even have heard of 90% of these guys...and yes..Olivier was certainly one of the greatest actors ever
I really don’t understand the appeal of Gary Cooper. I don’t think he was a very good actor, in spite of the fact that he won an Oscar. He always sounded rather wooden to me.
@@MsAppassionata Cooper won 2 Oscars...he is likable but hardly astounding like Cagney, Laughton or Spencer Tracy etc.
Here are some I would add to the list:
1) Claude Rains
2) Boris Karloff
3) James Cagney
4) Frank Sinatra
5) Kirk Douglas
6) Ronald Colman
Yaa James cagney for sure
Kirk Douglas? His performance in"Ace In The Hole" is sublime (among many others).
I believe Spencer Tracy was the most talented and natural actors of the 20th century. He made it look easy!
I cry every time I watch his performance in Captains courageous. One of my favorite movies.
Yes for sure.tracy was great in captain courageous
Walter Matthau! Another brilliant actor in his day.
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Astaire & Kelly's genius lay elsewhere. Charles Laughton had the most expansive range & James Cagney's fizzing dynamism was startling to behold. Totally ridiculous list without those two...
Hooray! At last, s.o. with brains! Astaire and Kelly were dancers.
Also Paul Newman, Errol Flynn, John Barrymore
I missed Orson Wells, Charles Laughton, Paul Newman, Mel Ferrer, James Cagney, Charles Boyer, Gary Cooper, Anthony Quinn, Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis.....
Robert mitchum was a brilliant actor loved him in out of the past
Love me some gene Kelly. Had the biggest crush on him wen I was a kid lol! I watched singing in the rain for the 1st time in 1994, I was 5 n I fell in love lol x
Excellent list of "greatest" actors.
My favorite is Cary Grant, but great list they don't have actors like this today!
My Personal List Only a Top 5
1 Spencer tracy
2 Laurence Olivier
3 Cary Grant
4 Clarke Gable
5 Marlon Brando
A good old classic Hollywood. I do miss it much but at the same time I don't miss it. You know what I mean
gr8 list but think sir laurence olivier should have been in it
My 10 Favorite Character/Actors/Creators.... Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Paul Newman, Randolph Scott, Gary Cooper, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Burt Lancaster, Lee Van Cleef, Steve McQueen.... Hon Mention, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck, Harrison Ford.
I agree with most of them!
Should add Orson Welles, Paul Newman, John Wayne and Peter O'Toole
Was looking for a John Wayne comment
If he was on here he would win for me
Not John Wayne. Otherwise, yes.
John Wayne was NOT a good actor. Johnny one note.
Qué diferencia con la actualidad!
These are all great picks but so many are missing. James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Gary Cooper, John Wayne just to name a few. But a good video. 😊
Charlton Heston should’ve gotten an honorable mention
I love Gene Kelly he was the best ❤❤
My top 10:
1) Humphrey Bogart
2) James Stewart
3) Marlon Brando
4) John Wayne
5) Kirk Douglas
6) Robert Mitchum
7) Gary Cooper
8) Henry Fonda
9) Spencer Tracy
10) Cary Grant
Honorable mentions:
Gregory Peck
Burt Lancaster
Charlton Heston
Paul Newman
Edward G. Robinson
When I saw this list I thought - What! no James Cagney? Then I read the comments and nearly every second one says "Where the hell is James Cagney?"
Charlton Heston
John Wayne is an American icon and never gets the credit for how great of an actor he was. Fonda, Gable, Tracy, Grant Stewart & Bogart all deserve to be on the list. I also have gained a lot of respect for Errol Flynn. He was an incredible actor and screen presence. Cagney & Holden would be in the top 10 as well.
Humphrey Bogard, Gregory Peck is my favorite classic actors!
Have you ever heard about two great actors who won the Academy Award twice ? I mean Fredric March and most of all Gary Cooper.
Also :
James Cagney
Lionel Barrymore
Charles Laughton
Sidney Poitier
William Holden… all Oscar winners
And others :
Charles Boyer
Walter Pidgeon
Joseph Cotten… etc
Finally, s.o. mentions Charles Laughton, one of the greatest of all.
I don’t think that Cooper was a good actor. Too wooden.
Should be entitled “10 of notable top 100 greatest actors”. They used a dart board and blindfold on this one. But Brando yes.
They are missing:
Richard Burton - 7 Oscar-nominated
Peter O' Toole - 7 Oscar-nominated
Paul Newman - 9 Oscar-nominated / Won 1 Oscar
James Dean? Yes,he died young. But He was great.
James Dean had a pormising career if it hasn't been a car accident that took his short life but he would the greatest legends than Paul Newman,Robert Redford,Marlon Brando,Burt Reynolds,Frank Sinatra,Warren Beatty,Elvis Persley,Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood he would out-shine them all.
You should next do a list of top character actors in history. I got your number 1, Strother Martin
My favorite of all time: Tyrone Power
let's go Brando! 😍🔥😱🥵 and of COURSE I mean Marlon....😌 he's MY fav in the list! 😳
You shouldn’t forget about Bogart’s work as a greedy and paranoid prospector in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or as an uneducated but romantic and adventurous boatman in The African Queen either.
Seriously. Not even an hounarble mention to Gary Cooper or Jack Lemmon?
Charlton Heston and Claude Rains
Surprised Buster Keaton or Sidney Poitier didn't get a mention
Buster Keaton was the funniest comic ever.
John Wayne!! Van Johnson!! Joseph Cotton!! Bing Crosby!! Danny Kaye…some of my faves that didn’t make this list…y’all need to do a part 2
Take John Wayne off, and Bing Crosby. Otherwise, I agree.
Where is Christopher Plummer Rock Hudson , Kurt Douglas, James dean ?
Kirk
Paul Newman should be on this list!
PS. So glad that so many of us have agreed about James Cagney. He has been my favorite for so many decades …. Unparalleled, if you ask me. Also one heck of a brilliant dancer. - Be well, all… Great list here, don’t get me wrong… It’s just… Well… “You dirty rats - “I hate your guts! Lol 😊. ❤
PS. I know, I know… He never did say “you dirty rats.” In any film…
It's so sad that James Cagney Edward G Robinson Gary Cooper Joel McCrea Fred MacMurray didn't make it but I'm happy Bogie it's number 1
I wondered the same thing!!!!
Cagney, Robinson, and Cooper should no doubt have been mentioned. Stewart is my all-time favorite, and Bogey was fantastic. I'm glad Astaire is on the list.
Robert Mitchum, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Gregery Peck, Charlie Chaplin, and Humphrey Bogart are some of my favorite actors from this list...although i like marlon brando too. I also absolutely LOVE Petter Lorre and James Mason....why arnt they on the list or at least honerable Mentions?
Peter Lorre.
Great actor.
Good list of actors considered leading actors, how about lists of 'character' actors?
You left out the two who essentially created the film acting art form. I'm, of course, talking about Paul Muni & Fredric March. They must be included. Also, how could you leave out scenes from American film's masterwork of art, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre which is both Bogart's & John Huston's pinnacle.
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I love all of them actors 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
No Rock Hudson? What?
He was wooden. Handsome movie star.
You blew it MsMojo. You didnt include James Cagney, he was one of the best
How can Charlie Chaplin & Lawrence Olivie be Not in the List, i'm Dissapointed.
What?
Errol flynn
James.cagney
Laurel and hardy
Just a few for another list
well you sure got the top 3 correct :)
Clark Gable. Clark Gable. Clark Gable
Wow, I really thought James Cagney would be #1 or at least in the top 10.
How other Hollywood Legends like Mickey Rooney,Ernest Borgnine,Dean Martin,Sean Connery,Telly Savalas,Burt Reynolds,William Shatner,Martin Landau,Warren Beatty,Jack Nicholson,Gene Hackman,Glenn Ford,Richard Widmark,Robert Wagner,George Raft,Ed Asner,James Cann,Robert Duvall,Robert De Niro,Buddy Ebsen,Claude Akins,Lee Marvin,Charles Bronson,Alan Ladd,Dustin Hoffman,Rod Steiger,Dennis Hopper,James Dean,Ray Milland,Lloyd Bridges,Michael Caine,Jackie Gleason,Raymond Burr,James Garner and Clint Eastwood.
I think the list was for older actors. If you named up to date, you'd have to list Daniel Day Lewis. TIME called him the greatest. He called Charles Laughton the best to come out of that period and said he was one of his inspirations.
No James Dean woow
James Cagney and Edward G Robinson both belong on the list, well above Robert Mitchum.
Marlon Brando revolutionized acting - and that’s the difference.
What about James Cagney?
Can agree with most of these but James Cagney has to be included. You should also consider John Wayne for the western genre.
You forgot Robert Taylor, who is very handsome and a great actor.
RT is alongside Glenn Ford and Richard Widmark the most underrated classic Hollywood actor. He made a lot of classics and sleepers. Especially his westerns of the 50s are very unknown nowadays, like DEVIL'S DOORWAY, WESTWARD THE WOMEN and THE LAST HUNT (RT in a oscar-worthy role).
The movie against all odds starring Jeff bridges and Rachel ward is actually a remake of the movie out of the past
Chaplin
Brando
Bogart
Cagney
Spencer Tracey
Gregory Peck
Jimmy Stewart
Robert Mitchum
Cary Grant
Pacino. De Niro. Nicholson.
Montgomery Clift ❤
It's deplorable that Gary Cooper is not on the list.