Gary Cooper - Meet John Doe, A Farewell To Arms, High Noon, Pride of the Yankees, Beau Geste, Mr Deeds Goes To Town. (my favorite actor of all time, so I could list all of his movies, here)
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda, Talk To Me
Sidney Poitier - In The Heat Of The Night, Raisin In The Sun
Lon Chaney - HE Who Gets Slapped, Tell It To The Marines, The Ace Of Hearts, et al
Richard Barthelmess - Heroes For Sale, Tol'lable David, The Patent Leather Kid, The Enchanted Cottage
John Gilbert - Flesh & The Devil, The Big Parade, Downstairs
John Barrymore - Dinner At Eight, Don Juan, Arsene Lupin, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Svengali
Fredric March - A Star Is Born, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Inherit The Wind
Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous, A Guy Named Joe, Inherit The Wind, Bad Day At Black Rock
Walter Huston - Dodsworth, American Madness, The Furies, Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Colman - The Light That Failed, Random Harvest, Stella Dallas, Beau Geste, Lost Horizon
James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Harvey
Henry Fonda - Grapes of Wrath, You Only Live Once, The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts, 12 Angry Men
Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr Jordan, Night Must Fall
Robert Taylor - Magnificent Obsession, Camille
James Cagney - The Public Enemy, Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Heat
Paul Muni - Scarface, I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, The Story Of Louis Pasteur, The Good Earth, The Life of Emile Zola, Angel On My Shoulder
Robert Deniro - Raging Bull
Al Pacino - Serpico
Toshiro Mifune - Seven Samurai
Tony Leung Chiu Wai - Ashes Of Time, Hard Boiled, Infernal Affairs, In The Mood For Love, 2046
Andy Lau - Shaolin, Infernal Affairs, The Warlords
Cary Grant - Father Goose, None But the Lonely Heart, The Philadelphia Story, Penny Serenade, Suspicion
Charles Boyer - Love Affair, Algiers, L'homme du large, Hold Back The Dawn
John Boles - Back Street, The Love of Sunya
Freddy Bartholomew - Captains Courageous, Little Lord Fauntleroy
Dana Andrews - Laura, The Best Years Of Our Lives
Edward G Robinson - Little Caesar, Double Indemnity, Key Largo
Robert Mitchum - Cape Fear, The Night of The Hunter
Gregory Peck - To Kill A Mockingbird, Duel In the Sun
Clark Gable - Gone With The Wind, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on The Bounty
Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles Laughton - Mutiny On the Bounty, The Canterville Ghost, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Big Clock, Sign of the Cross
Ramon Novarro - Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ, Scaramouche
George Sanders - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Rebecca, The Saint
Chiwetal Ejiofor - Kinky Boots, Dirty Pretty Things, (edited to add) 12 Years a Slave
soooo many more
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realistdreamer
12 years ago
I cannot believe more people have not mentioned Ralph Fiennes for Schindler's List. When you account for the fact that the movie is very long, he essentially puts in a lead performance and the conflictedness of his character is just phenominal.I think Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry was also a fabulous performance that has been overlooked. Same with Cary Grant for Notorious - he was also great in Suspicion, an overlooked film. Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot has only been mentioned 4 or 5 times and he is fabulous as well. I think Brando was best in a Streetcar Named Desire.
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