Favorite Actors

My Top 10 Actors 

(including my three favorite roles):

 

1. Marlon Brando

Don Corleone in The Godfather

Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire

Terry Malloy in On The Waterfront

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Robert De Niro

Johnny Boy in Mean Streets

James Conway in Goodfellas
Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver

 

 

 

 

 

3. Paul Newman

Brick Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Luke in Cool Hand Luke
Frank Galvin in The Verdict

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Bela Lugosi

Ygor in Son of Frankenstein

Count Dracula in Dracula 
Dr. Vitus Werdegast in The Black Cat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. James Cagney

Tom Powers in The Public Enemy

Cody Jarrett in White Heat 
George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy

 

 

 

 

  

 

6. Spencer Tracy

Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind

John J. Macreedy in Bad Day at Black Rock 
Judge Dan Haywood in Judgment at Nuremberg

 

 

 

 

7. Peter O'Toole

King Henry II in The Lion in Winter

Jack, 14th Earl of Gurney in The Ruling Class 
Alan Swann in My Favorite Year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. Vincent Price

Frederick Loren in House on Haunted Hill

Prof. Henry Jarrod in House of Wax 
Prince Prospero in The Masque of the Red Death

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9. Al Pacino

Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon

Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Part II 
Lefty Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10. Jack Lemmon

Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts

Felix Unger in The Odd Couple 
Shelley Levine in Glengarry Glen Ross