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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2020 1:07:04 GMT
To complement our Dame thread.  My choice? The incredibly talented (and incredibly sexy  ) Sir Alan Bates.  P.S.: Love this! Glenn Close posted the two of them riding together before filming of Hamlet began about a month ago. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-OuTK4gXzO |
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Post by pacinoyes on May 27, 2020 1:29:01 GMT
LORD Laurence Olivier - I mean it's almost like they are all lesser artists than him......oh wait...... 
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Post by pupdurcs on May 27, 2020 1:31:47 GMT
Sir Gary Oldman
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Post by Mattsby on May 27, 2020 1:36:20 GMT
Living: Hopkins , though I'd wanna put him in the same porridge pot with Kingsley and Caine and not have to choose! Courtenay and his runner-brain a stone under them. No longer living: Olivier, with Ralph Richardson turning on a sixpence to see the lead (not quite there) as I've loved a lot of his perfs lately. @tyler have you seen Butley with Bates? Smashing perf.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on May 27, 2020 1:52:19 GMT
Seconded. He's one of my favorite actors working period as well. |
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Post by pupdurcs on May 27, 2020 1:55:04 GMT
Seconded. He's one of my favorite actors working period as well. Me too. Shame he hasn't actually been knighted yet.  Was wondering if people would pick up on that. Obviously he deserves it, and it's a bit surprising it hasn't happened yet. Sir Gary Oldman rolls off the tongue though. |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2020 2:03:18 GMT
pacinoyes - Check this out at the 3:56 mark - Sir Tom Courtenay (my runner-up choice - my maternal grandfather looks so much like him - a Southern version!) talks about working with Rampling, and how different her approach is to stage acting. You'll see what I mean about Olivier. Mattsby - I haven't, but it looks great! I will watch Bates in anything - thank you for recommendation. pupdurcs - Hm... I'm not sure - Oldman hasn't really done any stage work, and that's a huge part of receiving a Knighthood or Damehood - does he live in the US? I know they prefer for you to stay in the UK. It's only a matter of time for say, Jonathan Pryce, though.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on May 27, 2020 2:04:42 GMT
Seconded. He's one of my favorite actors working period as well. Me too. Shame he hasn't actually been knighted yet. Was wondering if people would pick up on that. Obviously he deserves it, and it's a bit surprising it hasn't happened yet. Sir Gary Oldman rolls off the tongue though. I actually had to look it up, to see if he had been knighted for a real. For a second, I almost got fooled there. Lol! I'm honestly surprised he hasn't been knighted either. He's over sixty, and has had a long illustrious acting career, and finally just got respect from awards circuits. You'd think they'd wanna treat him like royalty or something? It's strange. |
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Post by pupdurcs on May 27, 2020 2:16:32 GMT
pacinoyes - Check this out at around the 4:00 mark - Sir Tom Courtenay (my runner-up choice - my maternal grandfather looks so much like him - a Southern version!) talks about working with Rampling, and how different her approach is to stage acting. You'll see what I mean about Olivier. Mattsby - I haven't, but it looks great! I will watch Bates in anything - thank you for recommendation. pupdurcs - Hm... I'm not sure - Oldman hasn't really done any stage work, and that's a huge part of receiving a Knighthood or Damehood - does he live in the US? I know they prefer for you to stay in the UK. It's only a matter of time for say, Jonathan Pryce, though. did plenty of stage work in the 1980's. He was a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court Theatre. He acted opposite Glenda Jackson in Summit in 1982. He split the Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor in 1984 with Anthony Hopkins. In terms of accolades, he was a more acclaimed stage actor than his contemporary Daniel Day-Lewis, though they both gave it up around the same time as Hollywood came calling. Far from not doing any stage work, Oldman was on course to being a stage great, but the lure of movies proved too strong and lucrative. So his stage career is chalked up now to "unfufilled potential". I think the perception that he went "Hollywood" and "sold out", leaving British theatre and film (till Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) behind certainly played a part in why he's not yet been up for a Knighthood. But he's won an Oscar for playing Winston Churchill. They should be over that by now. You do get actors who only do film being knighted (like Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Roger Moore), but they are percieved to have really done something big in promoting British culture globally (like playing James Bond). |
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Post by stephen on May 27, 2020 2:20:35 GMT
Wayne Knight.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2020 2:29:55 GMT
pupdurcs - I was unaware of his early stage career - apologies for misspeaking. Still, it's a little odd that at his age (62), he wouldn't have at least received an OBE or CBE by now... And he does live in LA... But hey, so does the Queen's own grandson.  We'll see. stephen - Um... Ha ha?
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Post by mhynson27 on May 27, 2020 4:40:21 GMT
Don't worry stephen , I thought it was funny. |
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Post by TerryMontana on May 27, 2020 5:19:32 GMT
Olivier and Hopkins.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 27, 2020 9:18:03 GMT
pacinoyes - Check this out at the 3:56 mark - Sir Tom Courtenay (my runner-up choice - my maternal grandfather looks so much like him - a Southern version!) talks about working with Rampling, and how different her approach is to stage acting. You'll see what I mean about Olivier. recommendation. I love Courtenay and know what he means but having said that - I am not a believer in acting having to be "naturalistic" or even "realistic" at all costs - there are all kinds of acting - pantomime, kabuki etc. some with glorious traditions and often if you mix naturalism with classical technique you can just get a mess too. Of course what he's saying isn't that but I quite loathe the championing of naturalism and realism (which is not exactly the same thing) all the time above all else - this the curse of the Actors Studio and the idolization of Brando in many ways too (and I idolize him too but it's a flaw in OUR thinking) .....acting shouldn't always go unseen .........and that's across mediums too. Anyway that's a nice compliment and I like to compare and contrast actors who've worked together and those who haven't when they offer praise - you get a fascinating cross-analysis in that way and of course these two were in sync so beautifully in their work together. |
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Post by ibbi on May 27, 2020 9:23:22 GMT
LORD Laurence Olivier - I mean it's almost like they are all lesser artists than him......oh wait......  |
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Post by sirjeremy on May 28, 2020 12:47:58 GMT
My favourite photo of my favourite acting knight:  |
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Post by futuretrunks on May 28, 2020 16:41:09 GMT
pacinoyes - Check this out at around the 4:00 mark - Sir Tom Courtenay (my runner-up choice - my maternal grandfather looks so much like him - a Southern version!) talks about working with Rampling, and how different her approach is to stage acting. You'll see what I mean about Olivier. Mattsby - I haven't, but it looks great! I will watch Bates in anything - thank you for recommendation. pupdurcs - Hm... I'm not sure - Oldman hasn't really done any stage work, and that's a huge part of receiving a Knighthood or Damehood - does he live in the US? I know they prefer for you to stay in the UK. It's only a matter of time for say, Jonathan Pryce, though. did plenty of stage work in the 1980's. He was a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court Theatre. He acted opposite Glenda Jackson in Summit in 1982. He split the Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor in 1984 with Anthony Hopkins. In terms of accolades, he was a more acclaimed stage actor than his contemporary Daniel Day-Lewis, though they both gave it up around the same time as Hollywood came calling. Far from not doing any stage work, Oldman was on course to being a stage great, but the lure of movies proved too strong and lucrative. So his stage career is chalked up now to "unfufilled potential". I think the perception that he went "Hollywood" and "sold out", leaving British theatre and film (till Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) behind certainly played a part in why he's not yet been up for a Knighthood. But he's won an Oscar for playing Winston Churchill. They should be over that by now. You do get actors who only do film being knighted (like Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Roger Moore), but they are percieved to have really done something big in promoting British culture globally (like playing James Bond). |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 28, 2020 20:42:07 GMT
Glancing through the list of CBEs I thought this would be a really difficult choice, until I saw this guy.  |
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) Sir Alan Bates.
We'll see.
