Earlier this year I made a ranking with my top 25 favorite Classic Actors (in Spanish). Now I've decided to update it after watching more movies: some guys proved to be just a temporary addiction, others have remained being solid performers, and I just got tired of a few. The top 6 didn't change. You'll notice a bunch of symbols:
ø = not longer in the list
↓ = lost kudos
↑ = gained kudos
⇒ = we have a new contender
The little number accompanying the symbols correspond to the former position in the ranking.
ø (19) Albert Finney
Favorite movies: "Two for the road" & "Murder on the Orient Express".
25.↓(23) Marlon Brando
(Marlon Brando, Jr.)
(Marlon Brando, Jr.)
Favorite movies: "On the Waterfront" & " A Streetcar Named Desire"
24. Christopher Plummer
(Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer)
Favorite movies: "The sound of music".
23.↑ (25) Melvyn Douglas
(Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg)
Favorite movies: "Ninotchka".
22. Laurence Olivier
(Laurence Kerr Olivier)
Favorite movies: "Wuthering Heights", "Rebecca", "That Hamilton woman", "Carrie" & "Sleuth".
21. Rex Harrison
(Reginald Carey Harrison a.k.a. 'Sexy Rexy')
Favorite movies: "The ghost and Mrs. Muir" , "Unfaithfully yours" & "My fair lady".
20. Richard Burton
(Richard Walter Jenkins)
(Richard Walter Jenkins)
Favorite movies: "The night of the iguana", "Boom", "Cleopatra".
⇒ 19. Michael Redgrave
(Michael Scudamore Redgrave)
Favorite movies: "The lady vanishes".
18. ↓(17) Jack Lemmon
(John Uhler Lemmon III)
Favorite movies: "The apartment" & "Avanti!".
(Fredrick Martin MacMurray)
Favorite movies: "Alice Adams", "Remember the night", "Take a letter darling", "The lady is willing", "Double indemnity".
16.↑(18) Burt Lancaster
(Burton Stephen Lancaster)
Favorite movies: "Separate Tables", "The Rainmaker" & "The Unforgiven".
15. James Stewart
(James Maitland Stewart)
Favorite movies: "Rear window", "Vertigo", "It's a wonderful life", "The shop around the corner", "Vivacious lady", "The Man Who Knew Too Much" & "Harvey".
14. Montgomery Clift
(Edward Montgomery Clift )
Favorite movies: "The Heiress", "A place in the sun", "From here to eternity" & "Suddenly last summer".
13.↑(16) William Holden
(William Franklin Beedle, Jr.)
Favorite movies: "Sunset Boulevard", "The country girl", "Paris when it sizzles" & "Picnic".
12. Charles Coburn
(Charles Douville Coburn)
(Charles Douville Coburn)
Favorite movies: "The More the Merrier", "Has anybody seen my gal?", "Bachelor Mother", "Vivacious lady" & "The lady Eve".
11.↓(7)Robert Taylor
(Spangler Arlington Brough)
Favorite movies: "Camille", "Waterloo Bridge" & "Three comrades".
10.↓(8) Charles Boyer
Favorite movies: "History is made at night", "Gaslight", "Hold back the dawn" & "Barefoot in the park".
9. ↑ (11) Paul Newman
(Paul Leonard Newman)
(Paul Leonard Newman)
Favorite movies: "Cool Hand Luke", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" & "The long Hot Summer".
8. ↑(10) Robert Mitchum
(Robert Charles Durman Mitchum)
Favorite movies: "The night of the hunter", "Heaven knows Mr. Allison" & "The sundowners".
7. ↑(9) Humphrey Bogart
(Humphrey DeForest Bogart a.k.a. Boogie)
(Humphrey DeForest Bogart a.k.a. Boogie)
Favorite movies: "Casablanca", "The barefoot contessa", "To have and have not", "Key Largo", "The African Queen".
6. Gregory Peck
(Eldred Gregory Peck)
Favorite movies: "Roman Holiday", "The big country", "To Kill a Mockinbird", "Beloved Infidel" & "Spellbound".
5. Clark Gable
(William Clark Gable)
(William Clark Gable)
Favorite movies: "Gone with the wind", "No man of her own", "Wife versus secretary", "It happened one night" & "Teacher's pet".
4. William Powell
(William Horatio Powell)
Favorite movies: "The Thin Man" series, "My Man Godfrey", "Libeled Lady, "Evelyn Prentice".
3. Errol Flynn
(Errol Leslie Flynn)
Favorite movies: "Captain Blood", "The adventures of Robin Hood", "Dodge City", "They Died with their Boots On" & The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex".
2. Gary Cooper
(Frank James Cooper)
Favorite movies: "The wedding night", "Meet John Doe", "Morocco", "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife", "Mr. Deeds goes to town", "Ball of fire" & "For whom the bell tolls".
1. Cary Grant
(Archibald Alexander Leach)
Favorite movies: "People will talk", "Penny Serenade", "His girl Friday", "The awful truth", "Notorius", "An affair to remember", "Holiday", "In name only" & "The Philadelphia story"...etcetera, etcetera, etcetera (as Yul Brynner would say).
I made up a list of my top 7 seven actors recently... and now I won't feel so guilty about including Errol Flynn! He was 7th though. Greg Peck made first.
ReplyDeleteI made a list too..#1 Errol Flynn,
ReplyDelete#2 Walter Piegon, #3 Albert Fenny,
#4 Cary Grant,#5 Gary Cooper,
#6 Burt Lancaster
#7 Gregory Peck
Wow, that was fun.
yvonne
Emm: Ah, Errol, the guilty pleasure :) You shouldn't mind, he's great. Thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteYvonne: Cool list! I should check more movies starring Walter Pidgeon, I don't know him very much.
sólo me duele mi corazón de q con Charles no hayas incluído LOVE AFFAIR y con Cary incluíste la espantosidad de An Offense to Remember jaja no lo supero =( fuera de eso, amo tu blog =)
ReplyDeleteHola Rena!! Tanto tiempo!! Qué onda, andas de camaleón, cambiando usuario y blog con cada temporada? :)
ReplyDeleteBueno, uhm, la verdad es que no he visto "Love affair", pero sé que "An affair to remember" fue copiada fotoframa por fotograma...pero nada que decir, igual me gusta :) Vi que me escribiste en varios posts, gracias! Te responderé a cada uno en su post original para no enredarme :)
Hola Clara! You must be dancing in the streets these past couple of days! Many of us in the US have been watching the live feeds of the rescues with happy smiles and tears of joy in our eyes. The miners all look so good. I hope they manage their adjustment to being up top again well!
ReplyDeleteKC: Yeah, it was a great joy to see them finally coming from the depths in such a great shape. The only thing that I didn't like was the way the press covered the story, as a reality show. I think it was too much; there are points were the images speak for themselves and they didn't need to interview aaaall the members of the miners' families. Have you seen "Ace in the Hole"? Well, it was a show like that.
ReplyDeleteBut besides that, this was an unforgettable human story and incredible rescue. I only hope that these kind of accidents never happen again.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts KC :)
KC: Yeah, it was a great joy to see them finally coming from the depths in such a great shape. The only thing that I didn't like was the way the press covered the story, as a reality show. I think it was too much; there are points were the images speak for themselves and they didn't need to interview aaaall the members of the miners' families. Have you seen "Ace in the Hole"? Well, it was a show like that.
ReplyDeleteBut besides that, this was an unforgettable human story and incredible rescue. I only hope that these kind of accidents never happen again.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts KC :)
Emm: Ah, Errol, the guilty pleasure :) You shouldn't mind, he's great. Thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteYvonne: Cool list! I should check more movies starring Walter Pidgeon, I don't know him very much.