Greatest Actor Nominations

[Superpan]

Hey, everyone!

Because you asked for it...heeeerrrrrreee's the GREATEST ACTOR EVER NOMINATIONS!

You can nominate anyone who has ever acted in anything! Movies, TV, Theatre, even video games! Keep in mind, though, that I have to find a IMDB page or at least a Wikipedia page on each person so....don't go TOO obscure.

Now, having discussed this with cradleman, I've decided to not have competing Actor and Actress threads. That said, I do hope that girls get a bit more of a presence in this contest then they did in Greatest Historical Figure.

UNLIMITED NOMINATIONS!

1. Mark Hamill
2. Rachel Hurd Wood
3. Jimmy Stewart
4. Orson Welles
5. Joseph Cotten
6. Elizabeth Taylor
7. Patrick Warburton
8. Katharine Hepburn
9. Gregory Peck
10. Marlon Brando
11. James Dean
12. Peter O'Toole
13. Marilyn Monroe
14. Bette Davis
15. Anne Banecroft
16. Humphrey Bogart
17. Robert DeNiro
18. Leonardo DiCaprio
19. William Holden
20. Audrey Hepburn
21. Cary Grant
22. Anna Paquin
23. Patrick Stewart
24. Johnny Depp
25. Jeff Bridges
26. George Clooney
27. Jack Nicholson
28. Charlie Chaplin
29. Meryl Streep
30. Frances McDormand
31. Faye Dunaway
32. Natalie Portman
33. Jared Leto
34. Toshiro Mifune
35. Robert Downey Jr.
36. Tom Hanks
37. Zhang Ziyi
38. David Bowie
39. Vincent D'Onofrio
40. Sigourney Weaver
41. Jackie Chan
42. Bruce Lee
43. Ryan Reynolds
44. Kenan Thompson
45. Dakota Fanning
46. Jet Li
47. Eddie Murphy
48. Lucy Liu
49. Heath Ledger
50. Martin Sheen
51. Mickey Rourke
52. Emma Stone
53. Michael J. Fox
54. Christopher Lloyd
55. Sylvester Stallone
56. Christian Bale
57. Daniel Day-Lewis
58. Ian McShane
59. Sian Phillips
60. Patrick McGoohan
61. Steve Buscemi
62. Michael K. Williams
63. Steve Martin
64. Will Smith
65. Morgan Freeman
66. Harrison Ford
67. Jim Carrey
68. Robin Williams
69. Paul Newman
70. Alec Guiness
71. Colin Firth
72. Jake Gyllenhaal
73. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
74. Sandra Bullock
75. Jay Baruchel
76. Clark Gable
77. Michael Cera
78. John Travolta
79. Geoffrey Rush
80. Chris Evans
81. Angelina Jolie
82. Amy Adams
83. James Franco
84. Denzel Washington
85. Chris Pine
86. Tobey Maguire
87. Sean Connery
88. Leslie Nielsen
89. Kurt Russell
90. Clint Eastwood
91. Tommy Lee Jones
92. Samuel L. Jackson
93. Mel Gibson
94. Sidney Poitier
95. Bruce Campbell
96. William Shatner
97. Peter Sellers
98. Bill Murray
99. Gwyneth Paltrow
100. Lauren Bacall
101. Cate Blanchett
102. Virginia Madsen
103. Kerry Washington
104. Betty White
105. Anne Hathaway
106. Scarlett Johansson
107. Whoopi Goldberg
108. Shirley MacLaine
109. Shia Lebeouf
110. Ingrid Bergman
111. Kate Winslet
112. Paulette Goddard
113. Jodie Foster
114. John Goodman
115. Ian McKellan
116. Hugh Jackman
117. Mel Brooks
118. Gene Wilder
119. Buster Keaton
120. Dustin Hoffman
121. Alyson Hannigan
122. David Boreanez
123. Don Adams
124. Don Knotts
125. Neil Patrick Harris
126. Emily Deschanel
127. Zooey Deschanel
128. Daniel Craig
129. James Roday
130. Matt Bomer
131. Bob Hope
132. William Abbot
133. Lou Costello
134. Andy Griffith
135. Bill Hader
136. Spencer Tracy
137. Henry Fonda
138. Clark Gable
139. Al Pacino
140. George C. Scott
141. Claude Rains
142. Steve Carell
143. Liam Neeson
144. Gillian Jacobs
145. Jason Segal
146. Groucho Marx
147. Natalie Wood
148. Mary Pickford
149. Jack Lemmon
150. Ann Margaret
151. Gene Hackman
152. Dennis Hopper
153. Arnold Schwarzenegger
154. Ellen Page
155. Joe Pesci
156. Michael C. Hall
157. Kelly McDonald
158. Sean Bean
159. Alan Alda
160. Hayden Panettiere
161. Tony Leung
162. Renee Zellweger
163. Tom Selleck
164. Jamie Foxx
165. Shelley Duvall
166. River Phoenix
167. Chico Marx
168. Harpo Marx
169. W. C. Fields
170. Woody Allen
171. Diane Keaton
172. Mia Farrow
173. Ruth Gordon
174. Jessica Lange
175. John Huston
176. Barbara Stanwyck
177. Anthony Hopkins
178. Ken Wantanbe
179. Viggo Mortenson
180. Grace Kelly
181. Dana Carvey
182. Will Ferrell
183. Lon Chaney
184. Daws Butler
185. Tara Strong
186. Tom Kenny
187. Mel Blanc
188. Dee Bradley Baker
189. Casey Kasem
170. Lee Van Cleef
171. Eli Wallach
172. Mia Wasikowska
173. Saoirse Ronan
174. Josh Hutcherson
175. Brad Swaile
176. Maile Flanagan
177. Douglas Fairbanks
178. Clara Bow
179. Gloria Swanson
180. Errol Flynn
181. Basil Rathbone
182. Vincent Price
183. Frank Sinatra
184. Jack Black
185. Steve Blum
186. Johnny Yong Bosch
187. Crispin Freeman
188. Vic Mignogna
189. Kyle Herbert
190. Scott McNeil
191. Troy Baker
192. Stephine Sheh
193. Phil Lamarr
194. Nolan North
195. Cree Summer
196. Lex Lang
197. Josh Keaton
198. Travis Willingham
199. David Kaye
200. Christopher Robin Sadat
201. Clancy Brown
202. Richard Epcar
203. Laura Bailey
204. Wendee Lee
205. Liam O'Brien
206. Patrick Seitz
207. Kari Wahlgren
208. James Sie
209. Ron Pearlman
210. Kirk Thornton
211. Jamieson K Price
212. Yuri Lowenthal
213. Dave Wittenberg
214. Keith David
215. Gerald C. Rivers
216. Sutton Foster
217. John Malkovich
218. J. K. Simmons
219. Bruce Willis
220. Sean Penn
221. Tim Robbins
222. Kevin Bacon
223. James Earl Jones
224. Michael Caine
225. Aaron Eckhart
226. Nicholas Cage
227. Karl Urban
228. Zachary Quinto
229. Masi Oka
230. Ewan McGregor
231. Halle Berry
232. Sharon Stone
233. Michael Douglas
234. Kirk Douglas
235. Audie Murphy
236. Tony Shaloub
237. Antonio Banderas
238. Catherine Zeta-Jones
239. Brad Pitt
240. Edward Norton
241. Joseph Fiennes
242. Chloe Grace Moretz
243. Tim Allen
244. Simon Baker
245. Jason Mewes
246. Kevin Smith
247. Adam Sandler
248. Tyrone Power
249. Marlene Dietrich
250. Nicholas Brendan
251. Jason Marsters
252. Michael Keaton
253. Danny Devito
254. Ted Levine
255. Robert Redford
256. George Reeves
257. Christopher Reeves
258. Dean Cain
259. Christopher Lee
260. Elijah Wood
261. Sean Astin
262. John Astin
263. Frank Gorshin
264. Cesar Romero
265. Adam West
266. Andy Serkis
267. Sean William Scott
268. Jason Biggs
269. Reese Witherspoon
270. Marion Cotillard
271. Mila Kunis
272. Ashton Kutcher
273. Demi Moore
274. Patrick Swayze
275. Neve Campbell
276. Courtney Cox
277. Jennifer Aniston
278. Boris Karloff
279. Bela Lugosi
280. Lon Chaney Jr.
281. Jerry Lewis
282. Bing Crosby
283. Billy Crystal
284. Bill Cosby
285. Harvey Keitel
286. Doris Day
287. Rock Hudson
288. Gene Kelly
289. Matt Damon
290. Ben Affleck
291. Catherine Keener
292. Fred McMurray
293. Tony Curtis
294. Laurence Olivier
295. Audrey Tatou
296. Catherine Deneuve
297. John Wayne
298. Christoph Waltz
299. Alan Rickman
300. Alan Arkin
301. Kirsten Dunst
302. Holly Hunter
303. Annette Bening
304. Kevin Spacey
305. Mark Ruffalo
306. Greta Garbo
307. Melissa Leo
308. Madeline Kahn
309. Mark Wahlberg
310. Judy Garland
311. John Cusack
312. Cameron Diaz
313. Alfred Molina
314. Willem Dafoe
315. Philip Seymour Hoffman
316. John Cassavetes
317. Farley Granger
318. Robert Walker
319. Paul Robeson
320. Bette Midler
321. Lily Tomlin
322. Barbara Streisand
323. Richard Pryor
324. Jimmy Walker
325. David Cross
326. Jerry Seinfeld
327. Beyonce Knowles
328. Lisa Bonet
329. Lenny Kravitz
330. Queen Latifah
331. Ice Cube
332. Ice T
333. Gina Torres
334. Tunde Adebimpe
335. Molly Ringwald
336. Judd Nelson
337. Emilio Estevez
338. Ally Sheedy
339. Christina Hendricks
340. Geena Davis
341. Bill Cosby
342. Jennifer Hudson
343. Thora Birch
344. Meiko Kaiji
345. Christina Lindberg
346. Faye Wrong
347. Tony Jaa
348. Stephen Chow
349. Shu Qi
350. Spike Lee
351. Terry Crews
352. Kym Whitley
353. Bernie Mac
354. Maggie Cheung
355. Sammo Hung
356. James Mason
357. Robert Mitchum
358. Donald Glover
359. Danny Pudi
360. Joel McHale
361. Allison Brie
362. Chevy Chase
363. Lillian Gish
364. Josh Radnor
365. Nathan Lane
366. Matthew Broderick
367. Cobie Smulders
368. Ray Bolger
369. Debbie Reynolds
370. Donald O'Connor
371. Fred Astaire
372. Will Friedle
373. Hedy Lamarr
374. Mabel Normand
375. Anthony Michael Hall
376. Ginger Rogers
377. Wesley Snipes
378. Mirina Sirtis
379. Harry Connick Jr.
380. Cassandra Petersen (aka Elvira)
381. Kristen Bell
382. Walt Disney
383. Richard Burbage
384. Henry Irving
385. Ellen Terry
386. Sarah Bernhardt
387. Maude Adams
389. Gary Oldman
390. Don Rickles
391. Jim Varney
392. Wallace Shawn
393. John Ratzenberger
394. Annie Potts
395. John Morris
396. Blake Clark
397. James Marsden
398. R. Lee Ermy
399. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
400. Shirley Temple
401. George Carlin
402. Ed Asner
403. Julie Andrews
404. Warren Beatty
405. John Ratzenberger
406. Mandy Moore
407. Alec Baldwin
408. Tina Fey
409. Pam Grier
410. Charles Bronson
411. Brigette Lin
412. Jim Caviezel
413. Glenn Close
412. Tilda Swinton
413. David Hyde-Pierce
414. Bonnie Hunt
415. Evan Rachel Wood
416. Jeremy Renner
417. Amy Poehler
418. Jane Lynch
419. Tim Curry
420. John Morris
421. Jude Law
422. Mickey Rourke
423. Ellen DeGeneres
424. Nicole Kidman
425. Leonard Nimoy
426. Zachary Levi
427. Jessica Alba
428. Chris Hemsworth
429. Fred Armisen
430. Taran Killam
431. Jason Sudekis
432. Kristen Wiig
433. Richard Burton
434. Roy Scheider
435. Tracey Morgan
436. Tom Wilkinson
437. Charlton Heston
438. Michelle Pfeiffer
439. Helen Mirren
440. Brad Garrett
441. Frank Oz
442. Frank Welker
443. Joan Cusack
444. Owen Wilson
445. Ben Stiller
446. Chris Rock
447. Grey DeLisle
448. Carrie Fisher
449. Robert Shaw
440. John Hurt
441. Tom Cruise
442. Hugh Laurie
443. Ian Holm
444. Lucille Ball
445. Peter Boyle
446. Hailee Steinfeld
447. Rusell Crowe
448. Djimon Hounsou
449. Jennifer Conelly
450. Ray Romano
451. Takashi Shimura
452. Rita Hayworth
453. Jon Cryer
454. Jason Issacs
455. Ray Milland
456. Rudolf Klein-Rogge
457. Diana Rigg
458. Rod Steiger
459. Michael Chiklis
460. Kelsey Grammer
461. Wayne Knight
462. Estelle Harris
463. Bibi Andersson
464. Jessica Biel
465. Isabella Rosselini
466. Brigitte Bardot
467. James Spader
468. Michael McKean
469. Ralph Fiennes
470. Timothy Spall
471. Ian Richardson
472. Brad Dourif
473. Idris Elba
474. Leo McKern
475. Naomi Watts
476. Laura Harring
477. Jon Voight
478. Peter Finch
479. James Coburn
480. Albert Brooks
481. Alexander Gould
482. Keira Knightley
483. Chris Cooper
484. Adrien Brody
485. Liv Ullman
486. John Cazale
487. Christopher Walken
489. Cary Elwes
490. Jean Arthur
491. Jean Harlow
492. Peter Graves
493. Chris Sarandon
494. Albert Finney
495. Jane Russell
496. Orlando Bloom
497. Craig T. Nelson
498. Sarah Vowell
499. Spencer Fox
500. Paul Giamatti
501. Uma Thurman
502. Rhys Ifans
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[JasonFox]

Gregory Peck
Marlon Brando
James Dean
Peter O'Toole
Marilyn Monroe
Bette David
Anne Banecroft
Humphrey Bogart

 

[cradleman]

well, i thought you were only doing actors. if we are including actresses, that should be doubled.

Robert DeNiro
Leonardo DiCaprio
William Holden
Audrey Hepburn
Cary Grant
Anna Paquin
Patrick Stewart
Johnny Depp

 

[Superpan]

But in that discussion we were discussing both actors AND actresses....okay, I'll double them.

Incidentally, many women in the profession now PREFER to be called "actors" instead of "actresses". So, it is kind've more appropriate.

 

[SpideyFan914]

Yeah, I think 256 should be good. We'll see though.

Jeff Bridges
George Clooney
Jack Nicholson
Charlie Chaplin
Meryl Streep
Frances McDourmand
Faye Dunaway
Natalie Portman

 

[the greenman]

Pan, I don't know if it's such a good idea to include actresses either. Seprate, but equal yes, but many I don't want someone like Marilyn Monroe competing with Marlon Brando. I mean, sure we could get Katherine Hepburn against Monroe, but it's two different sides of the brain working.

I will list my noms upon an answer.

 

[SpideyFan914]

.... I don't get it, why can't we have Marilyn Monroe v. Marlon Brando? Brando wins, duh.

I can see an argument for splitting them up, though. Namely:
-The Oscars split up actors and actresses, as do the Golden Globes and, uh, everyone else.
-Because films are sexist and do favor male roles. Males dominate the industry, especially in action/adventure genres (which tend to be popular on this board especially) and thus have more opportunities.

However, I actually think actresses get a lot more attention than women do in most other careers. There are tons of actresses who can go toe-to-toe with Marlon Brando - the ones I nominated, plus Kate Winslett, Ingrid Bergman, and Jodie Foster, just to name a few that pop into mind. Will the competition be more male-dominating? Yes, but not as much as Greatest Filmmaker (in which all women lost in round one).

 

[cradleman]

I'm of the opinion that we should just have 2 threads. one for actor, and one for actress, running simultaneously with no crossover because they really aren't that comparable. but its up to superpan

 

[defunctzombie]

I tried to be balanced here, with a mix of old and new actors and actresses, but in the end it comes down to who I know. Yes someone like Liz Taylor is awesome, but I just don't watch her work so my vote would be biased.

Jared Leto (the man is devoted to his work. i would have never gained weight to play Chapman like he did)
Toshiro Mifune (the man is THE samurai)
Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, and Sherlock Holmes. Same man. )
Tom Hanks (such a versatile actor)
Zhang Ziyi (or Ziyi Zhang depending on which country you're in)
David Bowie (yes, he counts! )
Vincent D'Onofrio (You know he's the bug in MIB and the nutty detective in L&O? I couldn't believe it, he was that good)
Sigourney Weaver (again, versatility. From blockbusters to tv movies, this girl's got it)

Keep actresses in this thread. By splitting them, you acknowledge that they are not in the same league as male actors. Let the voters be the biased ones.

 

[HEATXZ]

Jackie Chan
Bruce Lee
Ryan Reynolds
Kenan Thompson
Dakota Fanning
Jet Li
Eddie Murphy
Lucy Liu

 

[Daxdiv]

Heath Ledger
Martin Sheen
Mickie Rourke
Emma Stone
Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Sylvester Stallone
Christan Bale

 

[Prof. Mecavio]

Daniel Day-Lewis
Ian McShane
Sian Philips
Patrick McGoohan
Derek Jacobi
Steve Buscemi
Michael K. Williams

 

[SpideyFan914]

I'm of the opinion that we should just have 2 threads. one for actor, and one for actress, running simultaneously with no crossover because they really aren't that comparable. but its up to superpan

I would be fine with it either way, I think.

Keep actresses in this thread. By splitting them, you acknowledge that they are not in the same league as male actors. Let the voters be the biased ones.

Not necessarily. I don't look it as an "affirmative action" type thing as much as a "separation by type" type thing. Actors and actresses play different types of roles - it would basically be the same as splitting up the heroes and villains threads.

 

[The Cartoon]

Really looking forward to this one.

Steve Martin
Will Smith
Morgan Freeman
Harrison Ford
Jim Carrey
Robin Williams
Paul Newman
Alec Guiness

I'll add way more if the nomination limit rises. (Oh, and I'm in favor of keeping actresses in this thread)

 

[Superpan]

Yeah, I'm thinking it over and I agree: actors and actresses are both in the same profession and thus act in a wide variety of roles.

Example: Can someone tell me the real difference between Lara Croft and Indiana Jones?

So I'm keeping them in the same thread....otherwise, how can we decide who is truly the GREATEST ACTOR EVER!

By the way, everyone can now nominate ANOTHER TEN PEOPLE!

 

[Blankments]

Yeah, I'm excited for this one too!

Colin Firth
Jake Gyllenhaal
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Sandra Bullock
Jay Baruchel
Clark Gable
Michael Cera
John Travolta
Geoffrey Rush
Chris Evans
Angelina Jolie
Amy Adams
George Clooney
James Franco
Denzel Washington
Chris Pine
Tobey Maguire
Sean Connery
Leslie Neilsen
Sydney Poitier

 

[the greenman]

Fair enough, Superpan. This will be interesting either way. I think 14. is supposed to be Bette Davis.

Kurt Russell
Clint Eastwood
Tommy Lee Jones
Samuel L Jackson
Mel Gibson
Jimmy Stewart
Bruce Campbell
William Shatner
Peter Sellers
Bill Murray

Gwenyth Paltrow
Lauren Bacall
Cate Blanchette
Virginia Madsen
Kerri Washington
Bette White
Anne Hathaway
Scarlett Johansen
Whoopi Goldberg
Shirley Maclaine

I hope I didn't put too many. I didn't put my initial 8.

 

[SpideyFan914]

Fair enough. Hey, we could always redo "actor only" or "actress only" threads later if we want.

Also, Blanks, I already got George Clooney.

Ingrid Bergman
Kate Winslett
Paulette Goddard
Jodie Foster
John Goodman
Ian McKellan
Hugh Jackman
Buster Keaton
Mel Brooks
Gene Wilder

 

[Blankments]

Also, Blanks, I already got George Clooney.

Oh, sorry I missed that. I'll change that nom to Shia LaBeouf then. He's a decent young actor.

 

[cradleman]

this includes both movies and tv, correct?