Do it please, AyaMelie. I'd say I want to have better idea of how final list will look like before we approach another group of honorable mentions, otherwise I would feel pretty overwhelmed by names.

Okey sure, let's leave the other list for now.
I will do it tonight when I get home.
Oh, and a big thank you for Bruno as well! Really interesting statistics.

List makers (27)
King Baggot
Bourvil
Cantinflas
John Carradine
Leslie Cheung
James Coburn
Chris Cooper
Peter Cushing
Denholm Elliott
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Fernandel
Glenn Ford
Gert Fröbe
Louis de Funès
Richard Gere
Woody Harrelson
Jean Hersholt
Pedro Infante
Arthur Kennedy
Shah Rukh Khan
Udo Kier
Victor Mature
Ewan McGregor
Anthony Perkins
Gérard Philipe
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Naseeruddin Shah



Honorable mentions / potential list makers (78)
Don Ameche
Edward Arnold
Lew Ayres
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Alec Baldwin
George Bancroft
Albert Bassermann
Ralph Bellamy
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Jim Broadbent
Charles Bronson
Daniel Brühl
Louis Calhern
Eddie Cantor
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Maurice Chevalier
Sonny Chiba
Bradley Cooper
Brian Cox
James Cromwell
Jeff Daniels
Danny DeVito
Pierre Fresnay
James Garner
Paul Giamatti
Jeff Goldblum
Hugh Grant
Edmund Gwenn
Cedric Hardwicke
Trevor Howard
Al Jolson
Louis Jourdan
Louis Jouvet
Raul Julia
Shintaro Katsu
Michael Keaton
Alan Ladd
Jude Law
John Lithgow
Roger Livesy
Paul Lukas
William H. Macy
Herbert Marshall
Dean Martin
Ray Milland
John Mills
Tom Mix
Eddie Murphy
Jorge Negrete
Leslie Nielsen
River Phoenix
Donald Pleasance
Christophe Plummer
Tyrone Power
Anthony Quayle
Basil Rathbone
Wallace Reid
Burt Reynolds
Jean Rochefort
Roy Rogers
Kurt Russell
Randolph Scott
Michael Shannon
Sylvester Stallone
Terence Stamp
Dean Stockwell
David Strathairn
The Three Stooges
Henry Travers
John Turturro
Peter Ustinov
Lino Ventura
Anton Walbrook
M. Emmett Walsh
Christoph Waltz
Jack Warden
Tom Wilkinson
Bruce Willis
Louis Wolheim
Anthony Wong



Possible honorable mentions (30)
Casey Affleck
Antonio Banderas
John Belushi
Albert Brooks
John Candy
Hume Cronyn
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Richard Farnsworth
Stepin Fetchit
Laurence Fishburne
Danny Glover
Hugh Griffith
Tom Hardy
Jack Hawkins
Stanley Holloway
Frank Langella
Malcolm McDowell
Adolphe Menjou
Burgess Meredith
Frank Morgan
Jack Palance
Eugene Pallette
Pete Postlehwaite
Richard Pryor
Jean Reno
Gilbert Roland
Tim Roth
Joseph Shildkrout
Timothy Spall
Lee van Cleef


Drop outs (10)
F. Murray Abraham
Harry Andrews
Dan Aykroyd
Lloyd Bridges
Broderick Crawford
Benedict Cumberbatch
Ben Gazzara
Van Heflin
Derek Jacobi
Richard Roundtree



This is the work so far, 27 definite list makers means that all actors from Fred MacMurray (#274) to Raf Vallone (#300) will now move to honorable mentions.

Hearty thank you for your work, AyaMelie. Are we ok with dropping most of potential honorable mentions? I'd say we have to in order to not blow this section out of proportion. If you disagree about anyone in particular let me know.

Feel free to suggest placement for future listmakers which is supposed to be that of highest ranked actor you believe they beat by criteria. Try to ignore outliers, actors you believe are too high or too low and focus on placements you generally agree with.

And:

Tom Wilkinson
Bruce Willis
Louis Wolheim
Anthony Wong

You are most welcome, Tim. Glad I could help.
I'd say Fairbanks, Fishburne, McDowell, Palance and Reno look like too big of names to be excluded completely, we can maybe move them to honorable mentions.
I'll try to think of possible rankings for some of our new list makers tomorrow.
Bruno, I updated the list with those names.

I am not opposed to it cause Lee is arguably more influential and legendary of two. I wonder how the rest of us feel about this.

Lee is an icon that surpasses films, acting, and martial arts. That could make up for his small filmography and lack of exceptional acting ability.

Switched them.

Placements I am considering for new listmakers:

King Baggot: #139, between Hayakawa and Irons

Bourvil: #171, between TLJ and Bale

Cantinflas: #185, between Mitchell and Malden

John Carradine: #212, between Del Toro and HDS

Leslie Cheung: #224, between Robards and Sheen

James Coburn: #190, between Gosling and Cage

Chris Cooper: #259, between Cheadle and Sinatra

Peter Cushing: #230, between Phoenix and Kitano

Denholm Elliott: #220, between Buscemi and Benigni

Fernando Fernán Gómez: #178, between Ferrer and Cherkasov

Fernandel: #153, between Neeson and Manfredi

Glenn Ford: #246, between Hoskins and GGB

Gert Fröbe: #256, between EEH and Robbins

Louis de Funès: #79, between Toto and Williams

Richard Gere: #204, between Sanders and McCrea

Woody Harrelson: #252, between Howard and McConaughey

Jean Hersholt: #265, between Cleese and Jurgens

Pedro Infante: #236, between Crisp and Cobb

Arthur Kennedy: #182, between Choi Mink-sin and Cotten

Shah Rukh Khan: #148, between Damon and Boyer

Udo Kier: #272, between Costner and Cazale

Victor Mature: #240, between Widmark and McLaglen

Ewan McGregor: #206, between Mortensen and Lugosi

Anthony Perkins: #214, between Winfield and Gibson

Gérard Philipe: #143, between Attenborough and Josephson

Arnold Schwarzenegger: #263, between Hauer and Fassbender

Naseeruddin Shah: #130, between Muni and Marvin

Feel free to object.

Only real objection I have is #214 for Perkins. Yes, his role in Psycho is a milestone in film villain history, and it definitely changed the way villainous characters were written, portrayed and performed. But as you said before I believe, Tim, this led to serious typecasting for the rest of Perkins' career. His filmography is pretty good, but he often played small roles. Because of this, I feel he should be in the region between Peter Cushing (#230) and Glenn Ford (#246).

New version of main list:

1. Marlon Brando
2. Charles Chaplin
3. Laurence Olivier
4. Robert De Niro
5. James Stewart
6. Jack Nicholson
7. Al Pacino
8. Paul Newman
9. Humphrey Bogart
10. Toshiro Mifune
11. Cary Grant
12. Buster Keaton
13. Dustin Hoffman
14. Marcello Mastroianni
15. Daniel Day-Lewis
16. Henry Fonda
17. Alec Guinness
18. Jean Gabin
19. Jack Lemmon
20. John Wayne
21. Tom Hanks
22. Gregory Peck
23. Sidney Poitier
24. Gary Cooper
25. James Cagney
26. Gerard Depardieu
27. Spencer Tracy
28. Peter O'Toole
29. Gene Hackman
30. Michael Caine
31. Clark Gable
32. Richard Burton
33. Max von Sydow
34. Denzel Washington
35. Burt Lancaster
36. Clint Eastwood
37. Jean-Paul Belmondo
38. William Holden
39. Robert Mitchum
40. Peter Sellers
41. Kirk Douglas
42. Morgan Freeman
43. Leonardo DiCaprio
44. Vittorio Gassman
45. Orson Welles
46. Harold Lloyd
47. Sean Connery
48. Robert Duvall
49. Anthony Quinn
50. Rudolph Valentino
51. George C. Scott
52. Robert Redford
53. Montgomery Clift
54. Anthony Hopkins
55. James Dean
56. Alain Delon
57. Michel Piccoli
58. Klaus Kinski
59. Harrison Ford
60. Gene Kelly
61. Peter Lorre
62. Fred Astaire
63. Edward G. Robinson
64. Charles Laughton
65. Takashi Shimura
66. Sean Penn
67. Philip Seymour-Hoffman
68. Dennis Hopper
69. Max Linder
70. Groucho Marx / The Marx Brothers
71. Ronald Colman
72. Douglas Fairbanks
73. Tom Cruise
74. Tatsuya Nakadai
75. Johnny Depp
76. Ben Kingsley
77. Fredric March
78. Totò
79. Louis de Funes *****
80. Robin Williams
81. Michel Simon
82. Woody Allen
83. Philippe Noiret
84. Bill Murray
85. Gary Oldman
86. Jeff Bridges
87. Amitabh Bachchan
88. John Barrymore
89. Chishu Ryu
90. Lon Chaney
91. Jean-Louis Trintignant
92. Laurel and Hardy
93. Jean-Pierre Léaud
94. Errol Flynn
95. Albert Finney
96. Emil Jannings
97. John Hurt
98. Russell Crowe
99. Walter Matthau
100. James Mason

101. George Clooney
102. Rod Steiger
103. Warren Beatty
104. Ralph Fiennes
105. Tony Leung Chiu Wai
106. Richard Harris
107. Raj Kapoor
108. Yves Montand
109. Yul Brynner
110. Charlton Heston
111. Steve McQueen
112. Mickey Rooney
113. Boris Karloff
114. Dirk Bogarde
115. John Gielgud
116. Vincent Price
117. Chow Yun-fat
118. Alberto Sordi
119. Conrad Veidt
120. Christopher Walken
121. Donald Sutherland
122. Kevin Spacey
123. Samuel L. Jackson
124. Michael Douglas
125. Dilip Kumar
126. Jean Marais
127. Jerry Lewis
128. Rock Hudson
129. Ian McKellan
130. Paul Muni
131. Naseeruddin Shah *****
132. Lee Marvin
133. Mack Sennett
134. Geoffrey Rush
135. Omar Sharif
136. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
137. Peter Finch
138. Lionel Barrymore
139. Sessue Hayakawa
140. King Baggot *****
141. Jeremy Irons
142. Jon Voight
143. Brad Pitt
144. Kenneth Branagh
145. Richard Attenborough
146. Gerard Phillipe *****
147. Erland Josephson
148. Jim Carrey
149. Jacques Tati
150. Ernest Borgnine
151. Matt Damon
152. Shah Rukh Khan *****
153. Charles Boyer
154. Javier Bardem
155. Bruce Lee
156. William Hurt
157. Liam Neeson
158. Fernandel *****
159. Nino Manfredi
160. David Niven
161. Ralph Richardson
162. Erich von Stroheim
163. Daniel Auteuil
164. Richard Dreyfuss
165. William S. Hart
166. Innokenty Smoktunovsky
167. Fernando Rey
168. Maximilian Schell
169. Jackie Chan
170. Edward Norton
171. Tony Curtis
172. Walter Brennan
173. Gunnar Björnstrand
174. W.C. Fields
175. Ed Harris
176. Tommy Lee Jones
177. Bourvil *****
178. Christian Bale
179. Aamir Khan
180. Christopher Lee
181. Will Smith
182. Claude Rains
183. Gene Wilder
184. José Ferrer
185. Fernando Fernan Gomez *****
186. Nikolay Cherkasov
187. Michel Serrault
188. Ugo Tognazzi
189. Choi Min-sik
190. Arthur Kennedy *****
191. Joseph Cotten
192. Willem Dafoe
193. Thomas Mitchell
194. Cantinflas *****
195. Carl Malden
196. Heath Ledger
197. Bruno Ganz
198. John Gilbert
199. Ryan Gosling
200. James Coburn *****

201. Nicolas Cage
202. Stellan Skarsgård
203. Gian Maria Volonte
204. Eli Wallach
205. Jean-Claude Brialy
206. Melvyn Douglas
207. Bob Hope
208. Walter Huston
209. Abbott and Costello
210. Nanni Moretti
211. Paul Robeson
212. Wallace Beery
213. Tom Courtney
214. George Sanders
215. Richard Gere *****
216. Joel McCrea
217. Viggo Mortensen
218. Ewan McGregor *****
219. Bela Lugosi
220. Harvey Keitel
221. John Malkovich
222. Paul Scofield
223. Robert Shaw
224. Benicio Del Toro
225. John Carradine *****
226. Harry Dean Stanton
227. Paul Winfield
228. Mel Gibson
229. Rex Harrison
230. Bing Crosby
231. James Earl Jones
232. Robert Downey Jr
233. Steve Buscemi
234. Denholm Elliot *****
235. Roberto Benigni
236. Dana Andrews
237. Michael Chekhov
238. Jason Robards
239. Leslie Cheung *****
240. Martin Sheen
241. Joe Pesci
242. Rudolf Klein-Rogge
243. Robert Ryan
244. William Powell
245. Joaquin Phoenix
246. Peter Cushing *****
247. Takeshi Kitano
248. Jake Gyllenhaal
249. Robert Donat
250. John Travolta
251. James Woods
252. Donald Crisp
253. Pedro Infante *****
254. Lee J. Cobb
255. Alan Rickman
256. Alastair Sim
257. Richard Widmark
258. Victor Mature *****
259. Victor McLaglen
260. Michael Redgrave
261. Armin Mueller-Stahl
262. Anthony Perkins *****
263. Walter Pidgeon
264. Giancarlo Giannini
265. Bob Hoskins
266. Glenn Ford *****
267. Gael Garcia Bernal
268. James Caan
269. Martin Balsam
270. Alan Arkin
271. Brendan Gleeson
272. Leslie Howard
273. Woody Harrelson *****
274. Matthew McConaughey
275. Steve Martin
276. Martin Landau
277. Edward Everett Horton
278. Gert Frobbe *****
279. Tim Robbins
280. Sterling Hayden
281. Don Cheadle
282. Chris Cooper *****
283. Frank Sinatra
284. Roy Scheider
285. Vincent Cassel
286. Rutger Hauer
287. Arnold Schwarzenegger *****
288. Michael Fassbender
289. John Cleese
290. Jean Hersholt *****
291. Curd Jurgens
292. John Goodman
293. Franco Nero
294. Jurgen Prochnow
295. Horst Buchcholz
296. Minoru Chiaki
297. Kevin Costner
298. Udo Kier *****
299. John Cazale
300. Robert Montgomery

Leftovers from paul's list plus leftovers from mine plus Bruno's suggestions with couple of random actors thrown in:

Tadanobu Asano
Gene Autry
Kevin Bacon
Jean-Louis Barrault
Jack Benny
Edgar Bergen
Milton Berle
Josh Brolin
Mel Brooks
George Burns
Bruce Campbell
Harry Carey Jr.
David Carradine
John Cassavetes
Lon Chaney Jr.
Cheech & Chong
Buster Crabbe
Daniel Craig
Robert Cummings
John Cusack
Joe Dallesandro
Sammy Davis Jr.
Matt Dillon
Divine
Brad Dourif
Buddy Ebsen
Sam Elliot
Peter Falk
Barry Fitzgerald
Peter Fonda
Jamie Foxx
Andy García
John Garfield
Götz George
Jackie Gleason
Joseph Gordon-Lewitt
Stewart Granger
Christopher Guest
Abdel Halim Hafez
Robert Harron
Laurence Harvey
George "Gabby" Hayes
John Houseman
Tab Hunter
John Huston
Adel Imam
Burl Ives
Hugh Jackman
Georg John
Ben Johnson
Mathieu Kassovitz
Howard Keel
Val Kilmer
Hardy Krüger
Christopher Lambert
Evgeny Leonov
Tony Ka Fai Leung
Roddy McDowall
Mads Mikkelsen
Sal Mineo
Alfred Molina
Ricardo Montalbán
Roger Moore
Mike Myers
Reggie Nalder
Bill Nighy
Daniel Olbrychski
Guy Pearce
George Peppard
Ron Perlman
Jacques Perrin
Slim Pickens
Dick Powell
Elvis Presley
Robert Preston
Dennis Quaid
George Raft
Ronald Reagan
Keanu Reeves
John C. Reilly
Pierre Richard
Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Will Rogers
Cesar Romero
Sabu
Hiroyuki Sanada
Adam Sandler
Andy Serkis
Farid Shawqi
Gary Sinise
Red Skelton
Patrick Stewart
Sol Kyung-gu
Song Kang-ho
Ben Stiller
Topol
Ulrich Tukur
Ken Watanabe
Hugo Weaving
Clifton Webb
Johnny Weissmuller
James Whitmore
Jeffrey Wright
Oleg Yankovsky
Ismail Yassine
Ahmed Zaki

Some more suggestions, including some I should have thought of a long time ago:

Movie actors from the "100 Greatest French People" missing from the list:
Coluche
Lino Ventura
Charles Aznavour
Raimu
Serge Raggiani

Some names from the early days of cinema:
Alfred Abel
Richard Barthelmess
Henry Bergman
Monte Blue
Charles Farrell
William Haines
Gaston Modot
Ivan Mozzhukhin
Ramon Novarro
George O'Brien
Mack Swain
Ernest Torrence
H.B. Warner

and then:
Dev Anand
Claude Brasseur
Kamal Haasan
Rajesh Khanna
Uttam Kumar
Hrithik Roshan