Top Eleven Favorite Actors

These are my Top Eleven Favorite Actors (because Top 10 Lists are for cowards). List yours and the reasons why.

In no particular order

* Paul Neuman--An all time classic. Eddie Felson, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy, Reggie Dunlop(Slap Shot), Henry Gondorff (The Sting), Frank Galvin (The Verdict), need I go on?

* Tom Cruise--He's a great actor who's brought a lot of great movies to life. But yes, he's still a freak in real life!



* Sean Connery--The voice, the wit, the charisma. Arnold wishes he were half as bad-ass as Sir Sean. Who else could be Indiana Jones' Dad? As an actor, he's "Untouchable".

* Harrison Ford--He's been in some of the biggest box office smashes of all time. The Star Wars Trilogy, Indiana Jone Series, American Graffiti, Witness, The Mosquito Cost---oh wait, forget that last one.

* Charlton Heston--He's been Moses, Ben-Hur, The Omega Man, Michelangelo, and don't forget Colonel George Taylor--"Get your hands off me, you Damn Dirty Ape!!

* Bill Murray--Yes, Bill Murray. A great body of work starting with SNL. He's been in a shit-load of funny movies: Caddy Shack, Ghostbusters, Stripes, Scrooged, and one of my all-time favs Groundhog Day.

* Val Kilmer--Try these on for size: Top Secret, Real Genius, Willow,Top Gun, The Doors, Batman Forever, Heat, and Tombstone--" I'll be your Huckleberry". His Doc Holiday rules!

*Clint Eastwood--Maybe the only other actor who is as bad-ass as Sir Sean. Classic on-screen roles include: Dirty Harry, Josey Wales, William Munny (Unforgiven), Private Kelly (Kellys' Heroes), and of course, the Man with No Name in five different Westerns--all classics.

* John Travolta--A guilty pleasure, maybe. But this guy just ozzes cool! Saturday Night Feaver,Grease, Urban Cowboy. He then disappeared, only to reappear to another generation as cool as ever: Pulp Fiction, Broken Arrow, Get Shorty, Wild Hogs. Hey, he's Vinnie Barbarino!

* Tom Hanks--His roles in Big, Splash, Philidelphia, A League of their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Saving Private Ryan, Castaway, Toy Story, That Thing You Do, The Davinci Code, Forest Gump put him right up there with the all-time greats. Wow, even I didn't realize he had been in that many great movies!

* Morgan Freeman--A great voice and actor, his best work has actually been in supporting roles. In everything from Driving Miss Daisy, Robin Hood, Seven, The Shawshank Redemption, Unforgiven, Bruce Almighty, Batman Begins, and of course his Oscar winning role in Million Dollar Baby, he shines without hogging the spotlight.

Just missed the cut: Jack Nicolson, Johnny Depp, Jimmy Stewart, AL Pacino, Robert DeNiro, and Jim Carrey. Yeah, that makes it more than 11, but it's my list!

 

Great list Sumone! We have a lot of overlap. If you don't want to list 11, just pick your own number, 5 or 7 or whatever. I won't call you a coward!!


Ok, edit--

Darn, not quite as much O/L as I though. Where was John Malcovich?? Still great!!

 

Another great list! Yes, Patrick Stewart--make it so! And Will Ferrell--let's go streakin' in the quad! And you are so right about Eddie Murphy. He used to be the shit! Donkey is really the only thing he's done in years that shows that. Nice Job!!!

 

LOL, great comment M. He is a freak of nature. I like him in a couple of things, but how he got so huge is beyond me. He's more irritating most of the time, and butt-ugly IMHO. And you beat me too it MF! Great minds think alike!! Yes, in all likelihood your friends came in on the short (Nick Cage)bus!!

 

Yes, I knew this. I don't hate him persay LM. I just don't think he is a very versatile actor and can be annoying in many of his roles. I just don't see how some actors become so popular while others with seemingly more talent are not. Nick Cage is very quirky in my mind, and would come off better in more supporting roles. Too late for that now though. And I did love him in "Valley Girl"--still one butt/ug dude if you ask me!