Actors/Actresses you cherish

[greennui]

Cuz we can't just be all negative nellies.

Dan Duryea - No sound sweeter in film noir than a pissy Dan Duryea wanting money that he feels is owed to him.

Marcel Dalio - A French film noir usually set around a port town is basically incomplete without Dalio in a sleazy bit part role.

Ingrid Caven - One of my favs of the Fassbinder troupe. I like her best when she's just mincing around, which I think Guadagnino does as well because that was basically the only thing she was doing in the Suspiria remake.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

My most cherished performers tend to be performers who stand slightly askew from the mainline of studio system stardom. Character actors and/or stars whose stardom is about more than their capacity to arouse you or be a sexual role model.

There are so many I cherish. Just limiting myself to those I've been particularly appreciating this past year:

• Edward G. Robinson, the left-wing asexual-spectrum intellectual's movie star

• Deanna Durbin, the childhood friend of my dreams

• Margaret Rutherford, my role model, I can't wait to be an old spinster solving crimes

• Gabby Hayes, S.Z. Sakall, Edward Everett Horton, and a number of similar character actor types

• Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, two of the greatest performers Hollywood and sub-Hollywood Poverty Row horror ever had, and I confess to having developed sincere crushes on both

[Umbugbene]

I could list tons from Fassbinder's troupe alone - Margit Carstensen, Kurt Raab, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Günther Kaufmann, Volker Spengler, Brigitte Mira, and a few others.

Here's a draft of my pantheon:

Humphrey Bogart
Bette Davis
Marilyn Monroe
Anna Karina
Jean Marais
Ingrid Bergman
Dirk Bogarde
Gérard Philipe
Monica Vitti
Shah Rukh Khan
Jeanne Moreau
Jean Harlow
Charles Laughton
Jack Nicholson
Claude Rains
Fred Astaire
Tatsuya Nakadai
Anne Baxter
Stefania Sandrelli
Peter Lorre
Charles Chaplin
Max von Sydow
Judy Holliday
Raj Kapoor
Kinuyo Tanaka
Clara Bow
Delphine Seyrig
Ingrid Thulin
George Sanders
Setsuko Hara
Thelma Ritter
Alastair Sim
Herbert Lom
Harpo Marx
Stéphane Audran
Soumitra Chatterjee
Kim Novak
Conrad Veidt
Alec Guinness
Bibi Andersson
Groucho Marx
Dan Duryea
Keir Dullea

[wba]

I just listed some 100+ actors and actresses from the top of my head but SCFZ broke down when I tried the submit button...

Well, it's a lot! Some 200 to 300 favorites


Just a few for now

Bill Murray
Susumu Terajima
Kurt Meisel
Hans Moser
Sylvia Sidney


and from those already mentioned:

Lionel Atwill
Kurt Raab
Humphrey Bogart
Bette Davis
Jeanne Moreau
Jack Nicholson
Claude Rains
Charles Chaplin
Herbert Lom
Conrad Veidt
Dan Duryea

[flip]

i don't usually choose to watch films because of the casting, and i can only think of three actors whose movies i've sought out specifically because they appeared in them:

buster keaton
deanna durbin
anna faris

i'm sure a dozen more names will come to mind as i think about it, but a few off the top of my head that i admire, some from popular hollywood films, some i think of as underutilized talents:

sz sakall
audrey totter
hazel brooks
dan duryea
rod steiger
onahoua rodriguez
emily mortimer
julia stiles
anna kendrick

[MrCarmady]

just to throw some more names into the mix, some of whom have already been mentioned:
Elliot Gould
Mia Wasikowska
Nic Cage
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Isabelle Huppert
George Sanders
Buster Keaton
Toshiro Mifune
Jean-Pierre Leaud
Rooney Mara
Jesse Eisenberg
Bill Murray
Jason Schwartzman
Juliette Binoche
Barbara Stanwyck
Claudette Colbert
Greta Gerwig

[Roscoe]

Lon Chaney
Douglas Fairbanks
Zasu Pitts
Dale Fuller
Fay Wray
John Barrymore
Bette Davis
Bert Lahr
Mel Blanc
Marie Dressler
Jessie Royce Landis
Lesley Manville
Audra McDonald
Bernadette Peters
Lucille Ball
Mary Tyler Moore
Walter Connolly
Thomas Mitchell
Johnny Depp -- there I said it, at his best he's as good as anyone anytime anywhere jeer away you jackals
Nicolas Cage -- see above, you jackals.
Edward Everett Horton
Toshiro Mifune
Minoru Chiaki
Takashi Shimura
Setsuko Hara
Gunnar Bjornstrand
Harpo Marx
Groucho Marx

[Caracortada]

Charlie Chaplin
Laurel & Hardy
The Marx Brothers
Fred Astaire
Edward G. Robinson
Humphrey Bogart
James Stewart
Cary Grant
Jack Lemmon
Walter Matthau
Dustin Hoffman
Al Pacino
Robert De Niro
Anthony Hopkins
Michael Caine
Antonio Banderas
Colin Firth
Louis De Funès
Gérard Depardieu
Marcello Mastroianni
Max von Sydow
Mads Mikkelsen
Nikolai Lie Kaas

Mary Pickford
Ginger Rogers
Bette Davis
Olivia de Havilland
Lana Turner
Ingrid Bergman
Marilyn Monroe
Audrey Hepburn
Shirley MacLaine
Goldie Hawn
Jodie Foster
Michelle Pfeiffer
Nicole Kidman
Winona Ryder
Natalie Portman
Scarlett Johansson
Catherine Deneuve
Isabelle Adjani
Emmanuelle Béart
Victoria Abril
Gina Lollobrigida
Hanna Schygulla
Bibi Andersson
Zhang Ziyi
Alicia Vikander

[Silga]

It's a lot easier for me to find who I cherish.

A long, LONG list:

Ladies: Gloria Swanson, Ann Sheridan, Mary Astor, Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Teresa Wright, Shirley MacLaine, Audrey Hepburn, Maggie Smith, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Diane Keaton, Ellen Burstyn, Julie Walters, Goldie Hawn, Anne Bancroft, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Frances McDormand, Glenn Close, Dianne Wiest, Holly Hunter, Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Nicole Kidman, Sandrine Bonnaire, Marion Cotillard, Natasha Richardson, Lindsay Duncan, Bridget Fonda, Saoirse Ronan, Julianne Moore, Elle Fanning, Jacki Weaver, Olivia Colman, Olivia Williams, Raffey Cassidy, Belinda Bromilow, Zhao Tao, Natalie Portman, Patricia Arquette, Alba Rohrwacher, Elizabeth Debicki, Penélope Cruz, Lesley Manville, Judi Dench, Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson, Jessica Chastain, Andrea Riseborough, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Elena Lyadova, Catherine Keener, Sonia Braga, Emmanuelle Riva, Gong Li, Ariane Labed, Kerry Washington, Aleksa Palladino, Agata Kulesza, Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Keri Russell, Brit Marling, Isabelle Huppert

Gents: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Chaplin, Claude Rains, Charles Laughton, James Stewart, Anthony Quinn, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Lee J. Cobb, Alastair Sim, Eli Wallach, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ben Gazzara, Rod Steiger, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Yaphet Kotto, Albert Finney, George Burns, Danny DeVito, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Jeff Bridges, M. Emmet Walsh, Johnny Depp, Mickey Rourke, Willem Dafoe, John Goodman, Nicolas Cage, Nick Nolte, J.T. Walsh, James Earl Jones, Gary Oldman, Denzel Washington, Ed Harris, Ossie Davis, Richard Jenkins, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Steve Buscemi, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy, Billy Bob Thornton, Leonardo DiCaprio, John C. Reilly, J.K. Simmons, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Sam Rockwell, Brendan Gleeson, David Thewlis, Benicio Del Toro, Mahershala Ali, Stellan Skarsgård, Alexander Skarsgård, Elliot Gould, Michael Caine, Jesper Christensen, Tim Blake Nelson, Mads Mikkelsen, Ricardo Darín, Javier Bardem, Daniel Day-Lewis, Mark Rylance, Bruno Ganz, Antonio de la Torre, Luis Tosar, Christopher Plummer, Richard Griffiths, Michael Shannon, Paul Giamatti, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Graham, Michael Stuhlbarg, Michael Kenneth Williams, Christoph Waltz, Oscar Isaac, Vincent Lindon, John Carroll Lynch, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Gandolfini, Timothy Spall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Servillo, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Toby Jones

[Lencho of the Apes]

First two that come to mind: Lalo Gonzalez and P Ramlee.

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And I've only seen him in three movies (one of them scripted but not directed by Luis Bunuel), but today I'm crushing out on the comic energies of Argentine actor Pepe Iglesias. He's sort of like Groucho and Harpo inhabiting the same body... but he may not have much range; he played an identical character in one of the others if not both.

EDIT: Plus Peter Lorre, of course...and Isabela Corona...

[liquidnature]

Anton Walbrook
Arnold Schwarzenneger
Barbara Stanwyck
Bill Murray (love all the love he is getting around here!)
Charles Laughton (him and Nic Cage with their gloriously insane over-acting)
Clint Eastwood
Diane Kruger ♥
Fred MacMurray
George Sanders (that voice)
Ginger Rogers
Jake Gyllenhaal (controversial but I like him a lot)
James Stewart
John Wayne
Julie Andrews
Kirk Douglas (highly controversial)
Laird Cregar
Nicolas Cage
Peter Falk
Tom Cruise
Walter Brennan
Walter Matthau

[john ryan]

I cannot get enough of Jean Arthur

[flip]

I cannot get enough of Jean Arthur

yes! i forgot to put jean arthur on my list

laird cregar too, who liquidnature mentioned

[Roscoe]

Every list brings new "I can't believe I forgot X" reminders. Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Anton Walbrook...

[Umbugbene]

Absolutely... and I also appreciate a few of those reminders, including Laird Cregar, Gunnar Bjornstrand, and Marie Dressler. I'm working on a more comprehensive list to post in WBA's Actor/Actress threads, but it might take some time because I don't want to leave any favorites off this time.

[wba]

Absolutely... and I also appreciate a few of those reminders, including Laird Cregar, Gunnar Bjornstrand, and Marie Dressler. I'm working on a more comprehensive list to post in WBA's Actor/Actress threads, but it might take some time because I don't want to leave any favorites off this time.

Don't worry, I'm also still working on it, and it takes a lot of time.

[Roscoe]

OMG I CAN"T BELIEVE I FORGOT

Frank Morgan
James Cagney -- I was late to appreciation of his genius.
William Powell
Myrna Loy -- let no one presume on their good fortune until they find a spouse who looks at them the way Myrna Loy looks at William Powell
Sissy Spacek
George C. Scott
that little boy in BICYCLE THIEVES
Julie Walters -- I sat through that final Harry Potter thing for the SOLE PURPOSE of hearing her deliver one single line of dialogue, and her genius did not disappoint.
John Cazale
Anthony Quinn