My Top 30 Actors
by rogerfedererfan98 | created - 21 Aug 2014 | updated - 28 Aug 2015 | Public
1. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
My favourite actor.
Favourite role: Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II
Movies watched: 9 (6 and a cameo):
1. The Godfather: Part II
2. Goodfellas
3. Once Upon a Time in America
4. Taxi Driver
5. Raging Bull
6. The Deer Hunter
7. Casino
8. Brazil (cameo)
9. Meet the Fockers
2. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
Favourite role: George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life
Movies watched: 7
1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Rear Window
3. Vertigo
4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
5. Anatomy of a Murder
6. Rope
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
Favourite role: The Man with no Name in The Good The Bad and The Ugly, For a Few Dollars More and A Fistful of Dollars
Movies watched: 8
1. The Good The Bad and The Ugly
2. For a Few Dollars More
3. Unforgiven (actor and director)
4. Dirty Harry
5. A Fistful of Dollars
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. Gran Torino (actor and director)
8. A Perfect World (actor and director)
4. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
Favourite role: Michael Corleone in The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II
Movies watched: 7
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather: Part II
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Scarface
5. Scent of a Woman
6. The Devil's Advocate
7. 88 Minutes
5. Marlon Brando
Actor | Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...
Favourite role: Vito Corleone in The Godfather
Movies watched: 4
1. The Godfather
2. On the Waterfront
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Apocalypse Now
6. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
Favourite role: Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump
Movies watched: 8+voice in Toy Story 2
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Forrest Gump
3. The Green Mile
4. Philadelphia
5. The Da Vinci Code
6. Angels&Demons
7. Cast Away
8. Apollo 13
7. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
Favourite role: Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Movies watched: 8
1. Chinatown
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. The Shining
4. The Departed
5. Easy Rider
6. A Few Good Men
7. The Bucket List
8. Anger Management
8. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
Favourite role: Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street
Movies watched: 7
1. Inception
2. Django Unchained
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
4. The Departed
5. Titanic
6. Shutter Island
7. Blood Diamond
9. Henry Fonda
Actor | 12 Angry Men
This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He was born in Grand Island, ...
Favourite role: Juror #8 in 12 Angry Men
Movies watched: 5
1. 12 Angry Men
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. The Grapes of Wrath
4. The Ox-Bow Incident
5. The Wrong Man
10. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
Favourite role: Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding in The Shawshank Redemption
Movies watched: 8
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Dark Knight
3. Se7en
4. Unforgiven
5. Million Dollar Baby
6. The Bucket List
7. Gone Baby Gone
8. Bruce Almighty
11. Harrison Ford
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...
Favourite Role: Indy in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Movies watched: 7
1. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Star Wars
4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
5. Blade Runner
6. American Graffiti
7. The Fugitive
12. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
Favourite role: Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Movies watched: 7
1. Fight Club
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. Se7en
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Inglorious Basterds
6. 12 Monkeys
7. Troy
13. Humphrey Bogart
Actor | Casablanca
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...
Favourite role: Rick Blaine in Casablanca
Movies watched: 5
1. The Maltese Falcon
2. Casablanca
3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4. The Big Sleep
5. In a Lonely Place
14. Edward Norton
Actor | Fight Club
American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.
His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...
Favourite role: Aaron in Primal Fear
Movies watched: 8
1. Fight Club
2. American History X
3. Hotel Grand Budapest
4. Primal Fear
5. 25th Hour
6. Birdman
7. The Illusionist
8. After the Sunset
15. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
Favourite role: The Tramp in all his movies
Movies watched: 3
1. City Lights
2. The Great Dictator
3. The Gold Rush
16. Joe Pesci
Actor | Goodfellas
Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. Pesci first broke into entertainment as a child actor, and by the mid-1950s, was starring on the series "Star Time Kids"....
Favourite role: Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas
Movies watched: 6
1. Goodfellas
2. Once Upon a Time in America
3. Raging Bull
4. Casino
5. Home Alone
6. Home Alone 2
17. Kevin Spacey
Actor | L.A. Confidential
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...
Favourite role: Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects
Movies watched: 5
1. The Usual Suspects
2. Se7en
3. L.A. Confidential
4. American Beauty
5. The Life of David Gale
18. Christian Bale
Actor | The Dark Knight
Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...
Favourite role: Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
Movies watched: 4
1. The Prestige
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Machinist
4. American Psycho
19. Alec Guinness
Actor | Star Wars
Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...
Favourite role: Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars movies
Movies watched: 7
1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
3. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai
5. Doctor Zhivago
6. Kind Hearts and Coronets
7. Murder by Death
20. Dustin Hoffman
Actor | Tootsie
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
Favourite role: Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man
Movies watched: 5+voice in Kung Fu Panda
1. The Graduate
2. Rain Man
3. Kramer vs Kramer
4. Meet the Fockers
5. Stranger Than Fiction
21. Paul Newman
Actor | The Hustler
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...
Favourite role: Luke in Cool Hand Luke
Movies watched: 4
1. The Sting
2. Cool Hand Luke
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4. The Hustler
22. Jim Carrey
Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: ...
Favourite role: Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Movies watched: 9
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. The Truman Show
3. The Number 23
4. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
5. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
6. Dumb&Dumber
7. Fun With Dick and Jane
8. Me, Myself and Irene
9. Bruce Almighty
23. Russell Crowe
Actor | Les Misérables
Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham),...
Favourite role: John Nash in A Beautiful Mind
Movies watched: 4
1. A Beautiful Mind
2. Gladiator
3. L.A. Confidential
4. Cinderella Man
24. Peter Sellers
Actor | Being There
Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers to a well-off acting family in 1925 in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. He was the son of Agnes Doreen "Peg" (Marks) and William "Bill" Sellers. His parents worked in an acting company run by his ...
Favourite role: Dr. Strangelove in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Movies watched: 4
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Lolita
3. Being There
4. Murder by Death
25. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
Favourite role: Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane
Movies watched: 3
1. Citizen Kane (actor and director)
2. The Third Man
3. Touch of Evil (actor and director)
26. Michael Caine
Actor | The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...
Favourite role: Milo Tindle in Sleuth
Movies watched: 6
1. Interstellar
2. Inception
3. The Prestige
4. The Dark Knight
5. Sleuth
6. Children of Men
27. Cary Grant
Actor | North by Northwest
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...
Favourite role: Roger O. Thornhill in North by Northwest
Movies watched: 2
1. North by Northwest
2. Notorious
28. John Cazale
Actor | Dog Day Afternoon
John Cazale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to an Irish-American mother, Cecilia (Holland), and an Italian-American father, John Cazale. Cazale made only five feature films in his career, which fans and critics alike call classics. But before his film debut, in the short The American Way (1962),...
Favourite role: Fredo in The Godfather: Part I and Part II
Movies watched:4
1. The Godfather: Part I
2. The Godfather: Part II
3. The Deer Hunter
4. Dog Day Afternoon
29. William Holden
Actor | Stalag 17
Billy Wilder proclaimed William Holden to be "the ideal motion picture actor". For almost four decades, the handsome, affable 'Golden Holden' was among Hollywood's most durable and engaging stars. He was born William Franklin Beedle Jr., one of three sons to a high school English teacher, Mary ...
Favourite role: Joe Gillis in Sunset Blvd.
Movies watched: 4
1. Sunset Blvd.
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Network
4. The Wild Bunch
30. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor | There Will Be Blood
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...
Favourite role: Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood
Movies watched: 2
1. There Will Be Blood
2. In the Name of the Father
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