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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jan 15, 2020 17:54:29 GMT
Well my favourite actor of all time is Cary Grant, so the answer is no to the thread opening question. But he's definitely in my top ten, a true classic trained actor. Ham - spam! Given the right director who could rein him in if the material required, he was quite something to behold. Amazingly, since I'm British myself, I have never done a top ten British actors - cool, I have a little project to do now with a nice glass of Wolf Blass
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 15, 2020 18:04:43 GMT
Well my favourite actor of all time is Cary Grant, Ha he was Vincent Price's favorite actor too. He said he voted for him every year, even if he didn't have a movie out.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jan 15, 2020 18:11:27 GMT
Well my favourite actor of all time is Cary Grant, Ha he was Vincent Price's favorite actor too. He said he voted for him every year, even if he didn't have a movie out. He was out on his own, there was nobody else like him. They argued he's just being Cary Grant all the time, but that's the thing, there was nobody else to do a Cary Grant - still isn't! It's hardly a negative having an acting style that nobody else had. God bless Vincent Price, another legend as well.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 15, 2020 18:20:50 GMT
He used to be my favorite British actor, he is still one of my favorite actors.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 15, 2020 19:25:15 GMT
England had a strong film industry from 1950 to 1970 and then it just died overnight. One theory blamed Nixon (lol) that he changed a law which took away monetary incentives for business that had foreign operations so it eliminated the overseas productions for Hollywood studios but I don't think that explains it-especially given all the Hollywood movies shot in England after that--Star Wars, ALIEN etc. Rank Organization, EMI, British Lion...and some UK actors tried to get somewhere in Hollywood but gave up--Peter Cushing tried in the 1930s, Christopher Lee in the 70s, it seems to me that as the British film industry winded down, there was a strategic placement of English actors in Hollywood blockbusters--Jaws had Robert Shaw, Star Wars had Guinness and Cushing, Superman had Trevor Howard, Susannah York, Harry Andrews etc.. Donald Pleasence in Halloween..I consider it the "downsizing" period, so sticking Brits in those films may have added a certain respectability (Shaw in particular gives Jaws a kind of Gothic ambience in his Indianapolis speech).
The Dr Loomis speech about Michael Myers in Halloween is, like the Shaw monologue, an entirely performer-driven ghost story moment. It's spectacularly unfortunate that UK film was demolished though. One of the last ones of the 70s THE WILD GEESE--just made it out before the distributor collapsed from what I hear and got a ROI thanks to cable.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 15, 2020 23:45:56 GMT
Well my favourite actor of all time is Cary Grant, so the answer is no to the thread opening question. But he's definitely in my top ten, a true classic trained actor. Ham - spam! Given the right director who could rein him in if the material required, he was quite something to behold. Amazingly, since I'm British myself, I have never done a top ten British actors - cool, I have a little project to do now with a nice glass of Wolf Blass post as well.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jan 17, 2020 0:42:12 GMT
Cary Grant James Mason Alec Guinness Trevor Howard Stanley Baker Laurence Olivier Peter Cushing Claude Rains Boris Karloff Ray Milland
Peter O'Toole isn't British folks, he's from Eire (Richard Harris as well).
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Post by teleadm on Jan 17, 2020 19:04:53 GMT
I wouldn't call Laurence Olivier a favorite actor, but I usually like when I notice his name in the cast.
The Entertainer 1960, where he plays a third class entertainer at British seaside resorts, is a special favorite, selfish, too old and still think's he's going to hit the good times, can't cope with the real world, even using his once popular but now fragile father to boost his career.
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