Don’t forget Edward G Robinson and Walter Brennan.
Bogey was great in everything I saw him in.
I watched Key Largo with my dad at least 10 times growing up.
Chew scenery is the key, he's lost the brilliant acting of his earlier career in favour of chewing.Daniel Day Lewis can chew scenery with the best of them. I like that he's been so selective with his roles though
Ray Meagher?To exclude TV seems a bit silly seeing as most of the best stuff from the last 20+ years has came from that medium
Don’t forget Fire in the stone.Ray Meagher?
He was pretty good in The Odd Angry Shot & Breaker Morant.
Good to see a few mentions from the golden years. William Holden was amazing. Counterfeit Traitor & Stalag 17 are among my favorite movies.
He was my Mums first crush apparently. Probably why I was exposed early. Ha haWilliam Holden was my mums favourite but it was more for movies like Picnic, Sabrina ,
Sunset Boulevard and Love Is a Many Splendid Thing .
*Dwayne Johnson: Agree with you 100%. Im disliking his movie choices the longer his career goes. His best movie was "Welcome to the Jungle".....his second film. Perfect blend of the Rock being the Rock and his chemistry with Seann William Scott.
*Jason Statham: I agree again....but I like a lot of his movies though. I really enjoyed "The Beekeeper".
*Ryan Reynolds: I agree again...but he is the only actor out of the three guys with genuinely good acting chops....he just chooses to be the same old Ryan Reynolds in just about every movie he is in because it pays the bills for him. But, if you have seen the movie "Buried", you'll notice that he is a damn good actor....when he wants to be.
Great list.My top 10 from the last 100 years
Clint Eastwood - so many great roles in so many great films, a real entertainer.
Humphrey Bogart - grew up watching this tough guy.
Marlon Brando - the greatest "actor" I've ever seen, so much style.
Toshiro Mifune - embodiment of the Samurai warrior and nailed every other role as well.
Henry Fonda - just watch him as Wyatt Earp in "My Darling Clementine" and you'll know why I picked him.
Robert Mitchum - nailed every role, good guy, tough guy, romantic lead, reluctant hero, cowboy and a couple of the best bad guy roles you'll ever see in "Night Of The Hunter" (an evil f**ker with those LOVE / HATE tattooes on his fingers) and as Max Cady in "Cape Fear" ( I thought he did a better job than even the great DeNiro in the remake).
Bill Murray - I just love this guy in everything, great comedy actor, looks like he has fun doing what he does.
Robert DeNiro - all class. Taxi Driver, insane acting.
Takashi Shimura - I watch a lot of Japanese films and this guy is one their best - the lead actor in "Seven Samurai" (plays the same role Yul Brunner did in the US remake, The Magnificent Seven only better), "Rashomon", "Stray Dog", "Ikiru", "Throne Of Blood", "Yojimbo", a bunch of Godzilla films including the lead in the 1954 original, "Hidden Fortress", "Kwaidan" and a heap of Yakuza films. All up 330 credits on imdb, busy man.
Michael Caine - too cool, style master and subject of many great and not so great impressions. I myself do a really bad impersonation, "not a lot of people know this".
Great list.
Clint Eastwood is an interesting one though. Out of all the actors you listed, a Clint Eastwood movie is easily the one I want to watch the most out of those actors.....so I absolutely love the bloke. But even I have to admit, he basically played the same type of person pretty much throughout his career....albeit a bloody entertaining watch.
Clint definitely brings a lot to the table when it comes to delivering a performance. But, he is definitely not an actor that really stretches his acting abilities too much.