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Post by hi224 on Aug 29, 2020 11:16:24 GMT
Like your top three you'd place first? For me it's Humphrey Bogart, Al Pacino, Montgomery Clift and for the quadrant probably O'Toole or Burton. Maybe Mastroianni.
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Post by Isapop on Aug 29, 2020 12:09:00 GMT
A six-pack has more of a religious resonance with me.
In that spirit:
Sean Connery, James Mason, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Aug 29, 2020 12:46:15 GMT
Dustin Hoffman, maybe.
Gene Hackman maybe.
And marlon brando for the only thing i've seen him in which was from the late 90's.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 29, 2020 14:38:35 GMT
Just all around favorites? Or by ranking their perceived talent? In the latter case, I'd pick Peter O'Toole, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas. They're in my top ten, fifteen.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 29, 2020 17:08:14 GMT
Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
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Post by hi224 on Aug 29, 2020 20:00:39 GMT
Just all around favorites? Or by ranking their perceived talent? In the latter case, I'd pick Peter O'Toole, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas. They're in my top ten, fifteen. favorites, and i knew theres a reason were friends.
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Post by jervistetch on Aug 29, 2020 20:26:03 GMT
William Holden
Paul Newman
Jack Nicholson
(HM: Gene Hackman)
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Post by marshamae on Aug 29, 2020 20:45:21 GMT
The Three I would always drop everything to watch? Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant, william Powell ....plus about twenty others
Not even sure what talent means in acting. Most emotionally available? Most able to fit into various roles? Most able to command the screen while presenting a viable version of the character? Anyone who ever worked with Chris Sarandon feels he was very very talented. Steven Hill was considered the best actor produced by the Actor’s Studio in his generation which included Martin Landau , I love Tom Conti for his cleverness, said to be a deadly trap. Brando was unquestionably the towering actor of his generation by every measure ( except vocal quality , he had an awful voice) but he made a lot of dull and bad movies because he needed money . Same with Peter OToole , and Olivier though they generally gave good performances even if the film was trash.
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Post by OldAussie on Aug 29, 2020 21:58:59 GMT
O'Toole / Brando / Holden
are probably top 3 but love many others.
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Post by divtal on Aug 29, 2020 22:58:25 GMT
Alec Guinness
Jack Lemmon
Anne Bancroft
They were all adept at the joys of comedy, and the depth of drama.
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Post by marshamae on Aug 30, 2020 0:21:07 GMT
Alec Guinness Jack Lemmon Anne Bancroft They were all adept at the joys of comedy, and the depth of drama. They all could lead and carry a film though they approached the role like character actors.
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Post by phantomparticle on Aug 30, 2020 1:13:13 GMT
Wow! Okay. Started considering actors by the decade, from silent to the present. After a while I stopped, took a drink and tried again. This is as close as I can get. Boris Karloff Gene Hackman Russell Crowe Well....it's a diverse trio, to say the least.  |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 30, 2020 2:31:44 GMT
~ Bela Lugosi /Michel Piccoli / Al Pacino ?
I suspect I'd find a way to include Tatsuya Nakadai if I had seen more Japanese cinema as I find him totally fascinating as a performer.
... today, it's Daniel Auteuil, Steve Buscemi, Samuel L. Jackson
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Aug 30, 2020 6:30:39 GMT
Fun question. Since you've used the word "trinity" as in "one God in three Divine persons"...
Hollywood Trinities:
Father: Jack Nicholson
Son: Heath Ledger
Holy Ghost: Joaquin Phoenix
Mother: Vanessa Redgrave
Daughter: Jane Fonda
Holy Spirit: Meryl Streep
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 30, 2020 13:01:15 GMT
The Mount Rushmore of American actors:
Fonda / Stewart / Wayne
Cooper would make the fourth face
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 30, 2020 22:48:21 GMT
William Holden
Humphrey Bogart
Burt Lancaster
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Sept 1, 2020 13:23:09 GMT
Grant
Fontaine
Newman
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Post by millar70 on Sept 1, 2020 22:09:17 GMT
This is so debatable, but if I must choose just three......
Brando
Nicholson
Pacino
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Sept 2, 2020 2:08:44 GMT
Cate Blanchett
Noomi Rapace
Eva Green
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Post by london777 on Sept 2, 2020 22:32:06 GMT
They are all expendable. For every role there are a thousand "resting" actors who would relish the part, and out of that thousand at least a dozen who could equal or improve upon the eventual selection*.
Turn your gaze to the real creative talents, young man, like writers and directors.
*unless that happened to be Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum or Dirk Bogarde.
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