Ten Favorite Acting Performances

[Film-Junkie Zach]

1.Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The Seven Samurai
2.Robert De Niro as La Motta in Raging Bull and as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II
3.Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca
4.Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good The Bad and The Ugly
5.Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction
6.Takashi Shimura as Kanji in Ikiru
7.Marlon Brando as Paul in Last Tango In Paris
8.Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver
9.Russ Tamblyn as Riff in West Side Story
10.Sean Penn as Paul Rivers in 21 Grams

[Belkin]

1.   Walter Huston      THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
2.   Humphrey Bogart      THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
3.   Burt Lancaster      ELMER GANTRY (1960)
4.   Robert Vaughn      THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960)
5.   Glenn Ford      THE BIG HEAT (1953)
6.   Jean Gabin      QUAI DES BRUMES (1938) n’ LA GRANDE ILLUSION (1937)
7.   Tyrone Power      NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
8.   Yves Montand      THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953)
9.   Simone Signoret      LES DIABOLIQUES (1954)
10.   John Wayne      THE SEARCHERS (1956).      

[Bill Carson]

aaahhh.... mmmm....

ELI WALLACH as Tuco in GBU

RUTGER HAUER as THE HITCHER

TIM ROBBINS as Andy Defresne in THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

JEAN RENO as LEON

AL PACINO as Tony Montana in SCARFACE

RAY LIOTTA as Henry Oak in NARC

TOM HANKS as Capt. Miller in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

ROBERT DeNIRO as Jimmy Conway in GOODFELLAS

MORGAN FREEMAN as Red in THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

SYLVESTER STALLONE as Freddy Heflin in COPLAND  

.... among others...

[Two Kinds of ...]

De Niro as Noodles

De Niro as LaMotta

Pacino as Michael Corleone

Clint as the Man With No Name - he's literally PERFECT in these three movies

Brando as Terry Malloy

Brando as Vito Corleone

George C. Scott as Patton

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade

Jimmy Stewart as George

Sterling Hayden in the Killing


This is all off the top of my head, I'm sure there are others.

[cigar joe]

Eli Wallach as Tuco in GBU

George C. Scott as General Buck Torgison in Dr. Strangelove

Dennis Hopper as Frank in Blue Velvet

Jeff Bridges as The Dude in The Big Liebowski.

Derek Jacobi as Claudius in I Claudius

John Hurt as Caligula in I Claudius

Richard Burton in Night of the Iguana

Orson Wells in Touch of Evil

George Segal in King Rat

Giancarlo Gianinni in Pasqualino Sette Bellze

[Il Buono]

Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman
Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco
Clint Eastwood as the Man with No Name
Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones
Nicholas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas
Sean Connery in The Rock
Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump
Marlon Brando in The Godfather
Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now
Henry Fonda in OUTIW
Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction
Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade

... and others that I certainly have forgotten

[John Baldwin]

Eastwood as Blondie in GBU
Wallach as Tuco in GBU
Jean Reno as Leon
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
Johnny Dep as Edward cissors hand
Edward Norton in American history X
Edward Norton and Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Brad Pitt in interview with a vampire
Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnam in American Beauty

There are anothers I don't think

[noodles_leone]

fonda as frank
jason robard as cheyenne
eastwood as blondie
wallach as tuco
van cleef as angel eyes
meryl streep in the bridges of madison county
sean penn in mystic river
james coburn in dys
de niro in ouatia
micheal madsen in reservoir dogs
harvey keytel and de niro in Mean Street
...
excuse me, it is a little bit more than 10, but i can't stop to 10... and i'me thinking to so much others right now!

[Half Soldier]

The wife is hassling me to hurry up so I'll say eight from SL's movies plus

Leonardo in What's eating Gilbert Grape and Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter

Sorry for cheating but ...

[redyred]

In no particular order...

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Robert de Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver
Samuel L Jackson as Jules in Pulp Fiction
Takashi Shimura as Kanji in Ikiru
Klaus Kinski as Aguirre in Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai
Anna Magnani as Pina in Roma Citta Aperta
Christopher Lee as Lord Summersisle in The Wicker Man
Michael Caine as Jack Carter in Get Carter
Bunta Sugawara as Shozo Hirono in Battles without Honour and Humanity

[grandpa_chum]

In No Order

Robert De Niro... ouatia
John Wayne... the quiet man
James Stewart... Firecreek
henry fonda... OUATIW
Charles Bronson... OUATIW
Kirk Douglas... Paths of glory
Marlon Brando... Superman
james coburn... Duck you sucker
Gregory Peck... to kill a mockingbird
Clint Eastwood... Fistful Of Dollars

[DJIMBO]

In No Order

Robert De Niro... ouatia
John Wayne... the quiet man
James Stewart... Firecreek
henry fonda... OUATIW
Charles Bronson... OUATIW
Kirk Douglas... Paths of glory
Marlon Brando... Superman
james coburn... Duck you sucker
Gregory Peck... to kill a mockingbird
Clint Eastwood... Fistful Of Dollars

lol, brando's performances were often as short and as financially rewarding as they were great...im thinking superman and apocalypse now, his later ones

[grandpa_chum]

despite all of it... they were still great... and i had to have him in the top 10 and sadly those are the only two performances i've seen of his... except for the godfather... which i didn't really like him in... maybe it was the character and not him though

[David Aaronson]

In no particular order:

Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On The Waterfront
Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire
Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver
Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull
Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin in The King Of Comedy
Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather
Al Pacino as Sonny (forgot his last name) in Dog Day Afternoon
Robert Duvall as Col. Killgore in Apocalypse Now
Takashi Shimamura as Watanabe in Ikiru

[grandpa_chum]

Duvall as kilgore was very close to making it on mine.