Whos your favorite actor or actress?

[Euphoriameantime]

William Shatner is still best as Captain James T. Kirk, in my opinion. He's so strong, loyal, able and enlightened in that show, which is also one of my favorites (Trekkie alert!). He almost makes one want to turn gay and erect (wait for it..) a shrine in his honor. Closest thing to a man crush I've ever had. Still, Lauren Bacall remains the ideal (damn, I forgot to mention her!)

I can't stand the original Star Trek (though I am a huge trekkie). I can appreciate what it's achieved. My dislike has very little to do with Shatner or his acting but rather the plot. Every episode was the same thing. Kirk is a handsome captain and he's in trouble he meets hot alien woman who may be in trouble or the cause of the trouble. He loses his shirt kicking ass and then he gets it on with hot alien woman. Stay tuned next week where you'll watch the exact same thing. That is why almost every movie Jason Statham has been in is terrible.

Anita Eckberg will always be one of the greatest sex symbols ever, in my opinion. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Angelina.

[Bighuey]

Hump hrey Bogart
James Cagney
Lee Marvin
Robert Mitchum
Judy Garland
Rutger Hauer
Marlon Brando
Marcello Mastroianni
Al Pacino
Clint Eastwood
Richard Burton
Dennis Hopper
James Mason
Claudia Cardinale

Not really into the newish generation of actors..

You must be like me, Im not into the newer actors either. Your list is some of my favorites, too. Altho I never was too crazy about Marlon Brando, Ive only liked a couple of his movies. Lee Marvin and Dennis Hopper are great, did you ever see Nails with Hopper? Thats one of his best. I forgot to add Frank Sinatra, anything he was in was good.

No, I haven't seen that one yet. Been meaning to, though. Yeah, Marvin is the S-H-I-T. Point Blank changed my life, for the utter brutality it pictured. That fight in the bar/strip club(?) is something I'll never forget.

Point blank was good. Marvin was also good in The Big Red One, especially that one part where that guys nut got blown off by a grenade and Marvin told him"Dont worry about it, youve got another one" and he threw the guy's nut over his shoulder. Great scene

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You must be like me, Im not into the newer actors either. Your list is some of my favorites, too. Altho I never was too crazy about Marlon Brando, Ive only liked a couple of his movies. Lee Marvin and Dennis Hopper are great, did you ever see Nails with Hopper? Thats one of his best. I forgot to add Frank Sinatra, anything he was in was good.

No, I haven't seen that one yet. Been meaning to, though. Yeah, Marvin is the S-H-I-T. Point Blank changed my life, for the utter brutality it pictured. That fight in the bar/strip club(?) is something I'll never forget.

Point blank was good. Marvin was also good in The Big Red One, especially that one part where that guys nut got blown off by a grenade and Marvin told him"Dont worry about it, youve got another one" and he threw the guy's nut over his shoulder. Great scene

Samuel Fuller got screwed over so bad with this one. Really made me angry, after seeing the Recontruction Cut they did a few years ago. It's truly sublime. And you are right, that is a great scene. The black and white intro was also inspiring. Underrated, in all respects.

[FreeStyle]

Johnny Depp
Nicole Kidman
Hugh Jackman
Julia Roberts
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Orlando Bloom

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You must be like me, Im not into the newer actors either. Your list is some of my favorites, too. Altho I never was too crazy about Marlon Brando, Ive only liked a couple of his movies. Lee Marvin and Dennis Hopper are great, did you ever see Nails with Hopper? Thats one of his best. I forgot to add Frank Sinatra, anything he was in was good.

No, I haven't seen that one yet. Been meaning to, though. Yeah, Marvin is the S-H-I-T. Point Blank changed my life, for the utter brutality it pictured. That fight in the bar/strip club(?) is something I'll never forget.

Point blank was good. Marvin was also good in The Big Red One, especially that one part where that guys nut got blown off by a grenade and Marvin told him"Dont worry about it, youve got another one" and he threw the guy's nut over his shoulder. Great scene

Samuel Fuller got screwed over so bad with this one. Really made me angry, after seeing the Recontruction Cut they did a few years ago. It's truly sublime. And you are right, that is a great scene. The black and white intro was also inspiring. Underrated, in all respects.[/quote]

I dont know if you get it in Europe, but in the states they have on cable Turner Classic Movies, where they show old classic movies. They had one day where they showed all of Samuel Fullers movies and one that impressed me was one with James Best, he was Roscoe P. Coltrane in the Dukes of Hazard, that was about mentally disturbed people in an asylum, I dont remember the name of it but it was quite good. Fuller made some very good movies that were ahead of his time.

[Fran]

Meryl Streep
Helen Mirren
Sean Penn
Steve McQueen
Morgan Freeman
Brendan Gleeson
Robert Redford
Sean Connery

to mention just a few

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@ Fran, My wife was nuts over Helen Mirren. Wasnt she a singer too?

[StephenKingman]

@ Fran, My wife was nuts over Helen Mirren. Wasnt she a singer too?

Well if she was thats news to me, im not sure she was but i couldnt be 100% on that- over to you, Fran?

[Bighuey]

I think we had an 8-track tape with her songs my wife really liked it.

[J.Alfred Prufrock]

I enjoy Edward Norton, Nicholas Cage, Robert De Niro, and a few others.

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No, I haven't seen that one yet. Been meaning to, though. Yeah, Marvin is the S-H-I-T. Point Blank changed my life, for the utter brutality it pictured. That fight in the bar/strip club(?) is something I'll never forget.

Point blank was good. Marvin was also good in The Big Red One, especially that one part where that guys nut got blown off by a grenade and Marvin told him"Dont worry about it, youve got another one" and he threw the guy's nut over his shoulder. Great scene

Samuel Fuller got screwed over so bad with this one. Really made me angry, after seeing the Recontruction Cut they did a few years ago. It's truly sublime. And you are right, that is a great scene. The black and white intro was also inspiring. Underrated, in all respects.

I dont know if you get it in Europe, but in the states they have on cable Turner Classic Movies, where they show old classic movies. They had one day where they showed all of Samuel Fullers movies and one that impressed me was one with James Best, he was Roscoe P. Coltrane in the Dukes of Hazard, that was about mentally disturbed people in an asylum, I dont remember the name of it but it was quite good. Fuller made some very good movies that were ahead of his time.[/quote]

I believe you're looking for the title 'Shock Corridor'. Got very political, that one. The part with the black man proclaiming he was a member of the Klu Klux Klan screwed me up.

But yeah, he was decades ahead, and got punished for it. That's how it always goes..

[Bighuey]

Shock Corridor, that was it. That black guy was some kind of a reverse racist. it was funny.

[neha46101]

Hello friends,

MY favorite actor and actress are

Jackie chan
Lee Marvin
Judy Garland
Marlon Brando
Al Pacino
Richard Burton

[dindindin]

Brando, Nicholson, Streep, Close and a few more.............

[Ant]

BH, we get Turner Classic Movies here on cable, some great films shown on it.
Din3, agree with Jack Nicholson, some actors have a presence on a film set....he is one along with DeNiro and Meryl Streep and Chris Walken, also think Donald Sutherland is a fine actor along with one of my all time favourites Jimmy Cagney.
Favourite recent actress is Uma Thurman 1st with Juliette Lewis a close 2nd.