Greatest Film Performances of the 1930s (US/UK)

  Actor - Film Title (Year of Release)

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  1. James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  2. Charlie Chaplin - City Lights (1931)
  3. Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind (1939)
  4. Charlie Chaplin - The Modern Times (1936)
  5. Clark Gable - Gone With the Wind (1939)
  6. James Cagney - The Public Enemy (1931)
  7. Cary Grant - Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  8. Bette Davis - Jezebel (1938)
  9. Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
10. Greta Garbo - Camille (1936)
11. Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage (1934)
12. Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory (1933)
13. Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
14. Paul Muni - I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
15. Greta Garbo - Anna Christie (1930)
16. Norma Shearer - The Divorcee (1930)
17. Clark Gable - It Happened One Night (1934)
18. Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night (1934)
19. James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
20. Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights (1939)
21. Spencer Tracy - Boys Town (1938)
22. Bette Davis - Dangerous (1935)
23. Katharine Hepburn - Holiday (1938)
24. Greta Garbo - Ninotchka (1939)
25. Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
26. Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
27. Edward G. Robinson - Little Caesar (1931)
28. Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
29. Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous (1937)
30. William Powell - The Thin Man (1934)
31. Jean Harlow - Red Dust (1932)
32. Paul Muni - Scarface (1932)
33. Bette Davis - Dark Victory (1939)
34. Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
35. Leslie Howard - Pygmalion (1938)
36. Katharine Hepburn - Bringing Up Baby (1938)
37. Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach (1939)
38. Judy Garland - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
39. John Wayne - Stagecoach (1939)
40. Katharine Hepburn - Little Women (1933)
41. Greta Garbo - Queen Christina (1933)
42. Claude Rains - The Invisible Man (1933)
43. Groucho Marx - Duck Soup (1933)
44. Peter Lorre - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
45. Myrna Loy - The Thin Man (1934)
46. W.C. Fields - It's a Gift (1934)
47. Victor McLaglen - The Informer (1935)
48. Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
49. Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
50. Luise Rainer - The Good Earth (1937)
51. Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall (1937)
52. Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams (1935)
53. Fred Astaire - Top Hat (1935)
54. Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades (1938)
55. Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
56. Marie Dressler - Min and Bill (1930)
57. Shirley Temple - Bright Eyes (1934)
58. Robert Donat - The Citadel (1938)
59. Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion (1938)
60. Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
61. Ray Bolger - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
62. Greer Garson - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
63. Marlene Dietrich - Morocco (1930)
64. Greta Garbo - Romance (1930)
65. Greta Garbo - Grand Hotel (1932)
66. Marlene Dietrich - Shanghai Express (1932)
67. Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
68. Boris Karloff - The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
69. Cary Grant - The Awful Truth (1937)
70. Paul Muni - Black Fury (1935)
71. Ginger Rogers - Top Hat (1935)
72. Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth (1937)
73. Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina (1935)
74. Boris Karloff - Frankenstein (1931)
75. John Barrymore - Grand Hotel (1932)
76. Lew Ayers - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
77. Miriam Hopkins - Trouble in Paradise (1932)
78. Herbert Marshall - Trouble in Paradise (1932)
79. Clark Gable - Red Dust (1932)
80. Wallace Beery - The Champ (1931)
81. Irene Dunne - Cimarron (1931)
82. Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul (1931)
83. Henry Fonda - Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
84. Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
85. Walter Huston - Dodsworth (1936)
86. Miriam Hopkins - Becky Sharp (1935)
87. Groucho Marx - A Night at the Opera (1935)
88. Michael Redgrave - The Lady Vanishes (1938)
89. Mickey Rooney - Boys Town (1938)
90. Fay Bainter - White Banners (1938)
91. Olivia de Havilland - Gone with the Wind (1939)
92. Paul Muni - The Good Earth (1937)
93. Charles Boyer - Conquest (1937)
94. Fredric March - A Star Is Born (1937)
95. Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas (1937)
96. Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey (1936)
97. William Powell - My Man Godfrey (1936)
98. Spencer Tracy - San Francisco (1936)
99. Errol Flynn - Captain Blood (1935)
100. Robert Donat - The 39 Steps (1935)

101. Bela Lugosi - Dracula (1931)
102. Stan Laurel - Babes in Toyland (1934)
103. Oliver Hardy - Babes in Toyland (1934)
104. Fred Astaire - Swing Time (1936)
105. Ginger Rogers - Swing Time (1936)
106. Jean Arthur - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
107. Janet Gaynor - A Star Is Born (1937)
108. Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
109. Ronald Colman - The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
110. Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms (1939)
111. Irene Dunne - Love Affair (1939)
112. Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
113. Norma Shearer - The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
114. Oliver Hardy - Sons of the Desert (1933)
115. Stan Laurel - Sons of the Desert (1933)
116. Wallace Beery - The Big House (1930)
117. Ruth Chatterton - Sarah and Son (1930)
118. Joan Crawford - Grand Hotel (1932)
119. Gary Cooper - A Farewell to Arms (1932)
120. Ronald Colman - Arrowsmith (1931)
121. Barbara Stanwyck - Night Nurse (1931)
122. Barbara Stanwyck - The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
123. Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette (1938)
124. Elisabeth Bergner - Escape Me Never (1935)
125. Merle Oberon - The Dark Angel (1935)
126. Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds (1935)
127. Marie Dresser - Dinner at Eight (1933)
128. Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square (1933)
129. John Barrymore - Counsellor At Law (1933)
130. Grace Moore - One Night of Love (1934)
131. Charles Laughton - The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
132. John Barrymore - Twentieth Century (1934)
133. Jean Harlow - Bombshell (1933)
134. May Robson - Lady for a Day (1933)
135. Jean Harlow - Dinner at Eight (1933)
136. Ann Harding - Holiday (1930)
137. Nancy Carroll - The Devil's Holiday (1930)
138. Norma Shearer - Their Own Desire (1930)
139. Marie Dressler - Emma (1932)
140. Louis Wolheim - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
141. Jackie Cooper - Skippy (1931)
142. Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman (1931)
143. Lynn Fontanne - The Guardsman (1931)
144. Walter Brennan - Come and Get It (1936)
145. Miriam Hopkins - These Three (1936)
146. Walter Brennan - Kentucky (1938)
147. Alice Brady - In Old Chicago (1938)
148. Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
149. May Whitty - Night Must Fall (1937)
150. Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane (1937)
151. Gladys George - Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
152. Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth (1937)
153. Eugene Pallette - My Man Godfrey (1936)
154. Errol Flynn - The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
155. Charles Boyer - Algiers (1938)
156. Oliver Hardy - Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
157. Stan Laurel - Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
158. Diana Wynyard - Cavalcade (1933)
159. Victor McLaglen - The Lost Patrol (1934)
160. Claudette Colbert - Imitation of Life (1934)
161. Paul Lukas - Little Women (1933)
162. James Cagney - Footlight Parade (1933)
163. Marie Dressler - Anna Christie (1930)
164. Lon Chaney - The Unholy Three (1930)
165. Jean Harlow - Hell's Angels (1930)
166. George Arliss - The Green Godness (1930)
167. Irene Dunne - Show Boat (1936)
168. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
169. Victor Moore - Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
170. Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page (1931)
171. Clark Gable - A Free Soul (1931)
172. Marlene Dietrich - The Scarlet Empress (1934)
173. Warner Baxter - 42nd Street (1933)
174. Norma Shearer - A Free Soul (1931)
175. Maurice Chevalier - Love Me Tonight (1932)
176. Robert Donat - The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
177. Henry Brandon - Babes in Toyland (1934)
178. Fredi Washington - Imitation of Life (1934)
179. Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
180. Thomas Mitchell - Gone With the Wind (1939)
181. Basil Rathbone - The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
182. Boris Karloff - The Mummy (1932)
183. Johnny Weissmuller - Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
184. Olga Baclanova - Freaks (1932)
185. Elsa Lancaster - The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
186. Olivia de Havilland - Captain Blood (1935)
187. Anne Shirley - Stella Dallas (1937)
188. Lionel Barrymore - Captains Courageous (1937)
189. Lawrence Tibbett - The Rogue Song (1930)
190. Maurice Chevalier - The Big Pond (1930)
191. Jeanette MacDonald - Love Me Tonight (1932)
192. Wallace Beery - Min and Bill (1930)
193. Joel McCrea - The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
194. Greta Garbo - Mata Hari (1931)
195. Jackie Cooper - The Champ (1931)
196. Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette (1938)
197. Geraldine Fitzgerald - Wuthering Heights (1939)
198. Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn (1936)
199. Alice Brady - My Man Godfrey (1936)
200. Hattie McDaniel - Gone with the Wind (1939)