The single greatest acting performance Ive ever seen was Ian McKellen in AMADEUS on Broadway. But I thought it would be fun to list, off the top of my head, the greatest film performances Ive ever seen. Cant imagine I wont leave some out. 1. Robert Ryan in THE ICEMAN COMETH. Nothing tops this film performance for me. 2. Fredric March in THE ICEMAN COMETH. Close second. The rest are just as they occur to me. Vanessa Redgrave in HOWARDS END and JULIA. Meryl Streep in SOPHIES CHOICE. Robert Blake in IN COLD BLOOD. Rod Steiger in THE PAWNBROKER. Victoire Thivisol in PONETTE. Toshiro Mifune in ARU KENGO NO SHOGAI and YOJIMBO. Robert Mitchum in CAPE FEAR (1962), THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, and THE STORY OF G.I. JOE. Henry Fonda in THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Charlie Chaplin in CITY LIGHTS. Giulietta Massina in LA STRADA. Lon Chaney in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. Buster Keaton in OUR HOSPITALITY. Lillian Gish in THE WIND. Falconetti in THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC. Peter Lorre in M. John Barrymore in GRAND HOTEL and A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT. Groucho Marx in DUCK SOUP. Victor McLaglen in THE INFORMER. James Cagney in ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES. Lon Chaney Jr. in OF MICE AND MEN. James Stewart in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON and ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE. Gary Cooper in MEET JOHN DOE. Barbara Stanwyck in THE LADY EVE. Olivia de Havilland in THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE and THE HEIRESS. Mickey Rooney in THE HUMAN COMEDY. Betty Hutton in THE MIRACLE OF MORGANS CREEK. Humphrey Bogart in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. John Wayne in THE SEARCHERS and THE SHOOTIST. John Garfield in FORCE OF EVIL and THE BREAKING POINT. Richard Todd in THE HASTY HEART. Montgomery Clift in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY and JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG. Judy Garland in THE WIZARD OF OZ and JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG. Takashi Shimura in STRAY DOG, IKIRU, and SEVEN SAMURAI. Kirk Douglas in CHAMPION and LUST FOR LIFE. Sterling Hayden in THE ASPHALT JUNGLE and DR. STRANGELOVE. Marlon Brando in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and ON THE WATERFRONT. Laurence Olivier in CARRIE, OTHELLO, and MARATHON MAN. James Dean in EAST OF EDEN. Burt Lancaster in SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS and ELMER GANTRY. Orson Welles in TOUCH OF EVIL and COMPULSION. Yul Brynner in THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. Robert Preston in THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. Peter OToole in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, THE RULING CLASS, THE STUNT MAN, and THE LION IN WINTER. Katharine Hepburn in THE LION IN WINTER. Ralph Richardson in LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. Jason Robards Jr. in LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT and THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE. Jackie Gleason in SOLDIER IN THE RAIN. Richard Burton in THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Mako in THE SAND PEBBLES. Steve McQueen in THE SAND PEBBLES. Wilfrid Lawson in THE WRONG BOX. Paul Newman in COOL HAND LUKE and HUD. Charlton Heston in WILL PENNY. Olivia Hussey in ROMEO AND JULIET. Jane Fonda in THEY SHOOT HORSES DONT THEY. George C. Scott in PATTON, THE HOSPITAL, and THE HUSTLER. Ben Johnson in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. Ruth Gordon in HAROLD AND MAUDE. Robert DeNiro in MEAN STREETS and BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY. Richard Dreyfuss in THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ. Warren Oates in BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA and THE WILD BUNCH. Maximilian Schell in THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH and JULIA. Al Pacino in DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Maksim Munzuk in DERSU UZALA. William Holden in THE WILD BUNCH and NETWORK. James Mason in MURDER BY DECREE. John Hurt in MIDNIGHT EXPRESS and THE ELEPHANT MAN. Robert Duvall in TRUE CONFESSIONS. Jennifer Jason Leigh in LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN and WASHINGTON SQUARE. Richard Harris in THE FIELD. Leonardo DiCaprio in WHATS EATING GILBERT GRAPE? Richard Jordan in GETTYSBURG. Katrin Cartlidge in NAKED. Martin Landau in ED WOOD. Massimo Troisi in IL POSTINO. Kevin Spacey in THE USUAL SUSPECTS. Emily Watson in BREAKING THE WAVES. Shirley Henderson in TOPSY TURVY. Haley Joel Osment in THE SIXTH SENSE. Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA and RAIN MAN. Charlize Theron in MONSTER. Bruno Ganz in DER UNTERGANG. Daniel Day-Lewis in MY LEFT FOOT, LINCOLN, and THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Marion Cotillard in LA VIE EN ROSE. J.K. Simmons in WHIPLASH.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:24:42 +0000
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