LIST - O - MANIA
from the mind of Nathaniel R
Last update 07/22/2005
(Approximately. And Right About Now)
HIGHLY SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS I
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* I left one spot blank just in case I forgot someone
This list has the same numbers as the Actress List but not the same amount of passion. Cuz women are better actors. I'm just sayin'.
In tiered order (list compiled on 04/25/05)
The following lists of actors is not numbered but is tiered (then alphabetized). In some cases, tier might change as I see more films or the passion, god forbid, dwindles.
TIER 1
they inspire my eternal devotion
WARREN BEATTY
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
GENE KELLYTIER 2
I am enthusiastically smitten (and expect to remain so) with
JAMES DEAN
JOHNNY DEPP
CARY GRANT
GENE HACKMAN
DUSTIN HOFFMAN
JUDE LAW
TONY LEUNG CHIU-WAI
EWAN MACGREGOR
BRAD PITT
TIER 3
I have intermittently wild passion for
JEFF BRIDGES
HUGH GRANT
SIR IAN HOLM
RALPH FIENNES
BUSTER KEATON
JACK LEMMON
SIR IAN MCKELLEN
STEVE MARTIN
PAUL NEWMAN
JIMMY STEWART
TIER 4
I find them super --But I have, at this writing, not developed an intensely personal or faithful bond with any of the following...so they could be moving up or down.
MARLON BRANDO
RICHARD BURTON
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
ALBERT FINNEY
ROCK HUDSON
BEN KINGSLEY
BURT LANCASTER
JACK LEMMON
TOSHIRO MIFUNE
JACK NICHOLSON
PETER O'TOOLE
GREGORY PECK
SEAN PENN
DENZEL WASHINGTON
TIER 5 "RIGHT NOW" will the love last?
The love may be too fresh or too recently revived to be placed on any list --but what the hell...
CHRISTIAN BALE
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL
JIM BROADBENT
PETER SARSGAARD
CLIVE OWEN
MARK RUFFALO
TOM WILKINSON
TIER 6 ---"THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY"
Sadly, the passion has dwindled. But I won't deny the original love.
RUPERT EVERETT
HARRISON FORD
ED HARRIS
WILLIAM HURT
ROBERT REDFORD
TIER 7 -(My Apologies) More Men That Got Away
Another 50-to-Love (If it were a top 100)Woody Allen, Jean Hugues Anglade, Daniel Auteuil, Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, Paul Bettany, Yul Brynner, Stephen Boyd, Jim Carrey, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Bruce Davison, Gerard Depardieu, Robert Duvall, Henry Fonda, Morgan Freeman, Clark Gable, Richard Gere, John Gielgud, Rupert Graves, Alec Guiness, William Holden, John Hurt, Walter Huston, Jeremy Irons, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Danny Kaye, Harvey Keitel, Klaus Kinski...
...John Malkovich, Jean Marais, James Mason, Marcello Mastrantonio, Steve McQueen, Sal Mineo, Yves Montand, River Phoenix, William Powell, Dennis Quaid, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Keanu Reeves, Ralph Richardson, Linus Roache, Campbell Scott, Peter Sellers, Donald Sutherland, Terence Stamp, Orson Welles, Michael York
TIER 8
more runners up... (sorry. I'm sure I'm forgetting many many many)
Orlando Bloom, Adrien Brody, Leslie Cheung, Billy Crudup, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christopher Eccleston, Colin Farrell, Peter Finch, Jeff Goldblum, Rutger Hauer, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Jackman, Bill Murray, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Sam Neill, Edward Norton, Ryan O'Neal, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Mark Rylance, Roy Scheider, Sting, & Owen WilsonTIER ???
The ones you're 'supposed to' love...but I do not (Or those cases where I once loved and then suddenly very-much-hated)
Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Russell Crowe, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Robert DeNiro, Tom Hanks, Robert Mitchum, Sir Laurence Olivier, Al Pacino, Jason Robards, Kevin Spacey
Hey What About?
If they're not listed I've either...
a) never seen them. or am not familiar enough with their career.
b) am not particularly fond of them. Or at least not enough for a top 100
c) or (in rare cases) may have forgotten about them....
favorite actress
favorite movies 1915-1949
favorite movies 1950-1979
favorite movies 1980 -1989
favorite movies 1990-1999
favorite movies 2000 -2004
