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Post by wallsofjericho on Aug 12, 2018 7:55:47 GMT
Albert Finney
John Hurt
Tom Courtenay
Gary Oldman
Richard Attenborough
Alec Guinness
Daniel Day-Lewis
Robert Shaw
James Mason
Alan Rickman
Paul Scofield
Ian McKellen
Laurence Olivier
Bob Hoskins
Michael Caine
Probably missing more.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 12, 2018 9:08:34 GMT
Ben Kingsley and Richard Burton would be in my top 15 - Burton is the heir to Olivier for a stretch and he is an odder "type" for a British actor in that his manliness is noticeable - his virility is either expressed poetically in his acting (in his case mostly his voice) or used to express something else where he suppresses it. He is Finney before Finney.......and Kingsley is somewhat like DDL before DDL - especially early on - Gandhi-Bugsy.
Jeremy Irons would also rank highly for me, especially in his 80s work.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Aug 12, 2018 13:39:05 GMT
Off the top of the head...
Timothy Spall
Daniel Day-Lewis
Christian Bale
Tim Curry
Malcolm McDowell
Robbie Coltrane
Michael Caine
Gary Oldman
David Jason
Kenneth Branagh
Jim Broadbent
Ray Winstone
Peter Sellers
Toby Jones
John Hurt
Loads more of course, although I do love them British Actresses even more.
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Post by cranly on Aug 12, 2018 20:50:25 GMT
Charles Laughton Anthony Hopkins Charles Chaplin Cary Grant Trevor Howard James Mason Laurence Olivier Albert Finney Daniel Day-Lewis Boris Karloff Peter Sellers Alec Guinness Michael Redgrave Richard Burton John Hurt |
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 12, 2018 21:16:29 GMT
Peter Sellers
Albert Finney
Laurence Olivier
Daniel Day Lewis
Gary Oldman
Ralph Fiennes
Ben Kingsley
Jeremy Irons
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
John Hurt
Michael Caine
Christian Bale
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Post by wallsofjericho on Aug 12, 2018 22:07:34 GMT
HM to Pete Postlewaite. I might actually replace Caine for him.
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Post by CookiesNCream on Aug 13, 2018 9:34:54 GMT
Not in any particular order:
Emma Thompson
Gary Oldman
Juile Andrews
Daniel Day-Lewis
David Oyelowo
David Tennant
Boris Karloff
Judi Dench
Ben Kingsley
Alan Rickman
Iris Elba
Bill Nightly
Charlie Chaplin
Eddie Redmayne
Audrey Hepburn
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 15:05:45 GMT
Alphabetically:
Alan Bates
Dirk Bogarde
Jim Broadbent
Richard Burton
Tom Courtenay
Ralph Fiennes
Albert Finney
Cary Grant
Ian Holm
Jude Law
Ewan McGregor
Ian McKellen
Peter O'Toole
Terence Stamp
Tom Wilkinson
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 13, 2021 0:45:32 GMT
No other mention of Hopkins?? Anyway I wanted to update and stretch my list to see if I could get Stephen Graham or Ben Wishaw in there and looks like not yet. Finney #1 ..... the rest can be sort of shuffled.
Albert Finney
Peter Sellers
Laurence Olivier
Alan Bates
Anthony Hopkins
Gary Oldman
Ben Kingsley
Ralph Fiennes
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jeremy Irons
Michael Caine
Ralph Richardson
Christian Bale
Richard Burton
Peter Cushing
Tom Courtenay
Donald Pleasence
Peter O'Toole
Cary Grant
Tim Roth
Ian Holm
Bob Hoskins
Dirk Bogarde
Boris Karloff
John Hurt
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 13, 2021 7:51:35 GMT
Ben Kingsley and Richard Burton would be in my top 15 - Burton is the heir to Olivier for a stretch and he is an odder "type" for a British actor in that his manliness is noticeable - his virility is either expressed poetically in his acting (in his case mostly his voice) or used to express something else where he suppresses it. He is Finney before Finney.......and Kingsley is somewhat like DDL before DDL - especially early on - Gandhi-Bugsy. Jeremy Irons would also rank highly for me, especially in his 80s work. Very hard to do 15 film actors without drifting into favorites .......just tried to do "best" here and keep it at 15..........there's no way I can leave off Grant (too singular), Scofield (too specific)........ under that "best" criteria ....... 1 Olivier (the de facto 1 - starting point like Brando)
2 Finney
3 DDL
4 Hopkins
No order:
O'Toole
Burton
Irons
Kingsley
Oldman
Guinness
Caine
Sellers
Mason
Cary Grant
Paul Scofield |
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Post by jakesully on Jul 14, 2021 19:27:55 GMT
This is in no particular order but I think I'll start with the British actors that were all in The Dark Knight Rises together  Gary Oldman Michael Caine Christian Bale Tom Hardy Cary Grant Sean Connery Eddie Marsan Stephen Graham Jude Law Hugh Grant Ian McKellen Anthony Hopkins Idris Elba Ralph Fiennes Daniel Day Lewis |
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Post by franklin on Jul 15, 2021 8:53:45 GMT
Daniel Day-Lewis
Peter O'Toole
Anthony Hopkins
Gary Oldman
Ralph Fiennes
Christian Bale
Ben Kingsley
Mark Rylance
Ian McKellen
Tom Hardy
Laurence Olivier
Malcolm McDowell
Ray Winstone
Stephen Graham
Cillian Murphy
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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 15, 2021 10:26:02 GMT
No order.
M. Caine
A. Hopkins
S. Connery
G. Oldman
L. Olivier
DDL
P. Sellers
C. Chaplin
P. O'Toole
B. Kingsley
H. Grant
J. Irons
C. Grant
R. Burton
C. Lee
+ the whole group of Monty Python!
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