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Criteria: Actors are ranked according to acclaim they received for their craft, popular and cultural recognition, influence they had on acting as well as on other actors and their body of work in terms of acclaim, influence and popularity.

Disclaimer: This list is strongly influenced by the Western canon of films. This means that in the broader scope of a global cinema certain regions may be underrepresented, among them Russia, India, China, Africa and Latin America

Edited By: Tim, AyaMelie, Bruno, Luuk
Last Updated: 2018-03-12

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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. Gérard Depardieu
27. Spencer Tracy
28. Peter O'Toole
29. Gene Hackman
30. Denzel Washington
31. Michael Caine
32. Clark Gable
33. Richard Burton
34. Max von Sydow
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. Gary Oldman
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. Dennis Hopper
79. James Mason
80. Louis de Funès
81. Robin Williams
82. Michel Simon
83. Woody Allen
84. Philippe Noiret
85. Bill Murray
86. Totò
87. Jeff Bridges
88. Amitabh Bachchan
89. John Barrymore
90. Chishu Ryu
91. Lon Chaney
92. Jean-Louis Trintignant
93. Laurel and Hardy
94. Jean-Pierre Léaud
95. Errol Flynn
96. Albert Finney
97. Emil Jannings
98. John Hurt
99. Russell Crowe
100. Walter Matthau
101. Uttam Kumar
102. George Clooney
103. Rod Steiger
104. Warren Beatty
105. Ralph Fiennes
106. Tony Leung Chiu Wai
107. Richard Harris
108. Raj Kapoor
109. Yves Montand
110. Yul Brynner
111. Charlton Heston
112. Steve McQueen
113. Mickey Rooney
114. Boris Karloff
115. Dirk Bogarde
116. John Gielgud
117. Vincent Price
118. Chow Yun-fat
119. Alberto Sordi
120. Conrad Veidt
121. Christopher Walken
122. Donald Sutherland
123. Kevin Spacey
124. Samuel L. Jackson
125. Michael Douglas
126. Dilip Kumar
127. Paul Muni
128. Lee Marvin
129. Jean Marais
130. Jerry Lewis
131. Rock Hudson
132. Ian McKellen
133. Naseeruddin Shah
134. Mack Sennett
135. Geoffrey Rush
136. Omar Sharif
137. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
138. Peter Finch
139. Lionel Barrymore
140. Rajesh Khanna
141. Sessue Hayakawa
142. King Baggot
143. Jacques Tati
144. Jeremy Irons
145. Jon Voight
146. Brad Pitt
147. Kenneth Branagh
148. Richard Attenborough
149. Gérard Philipe
150. Erland Josephson
151. Jim Carrey
152. Farid Shawqi
153. Ernest Borgnine
154. Matt Damon
155. Shah Rukh Khan
156. Charles Boyer
157. Javier Bardem
158. Bruce Lee
159. William Hurt
160. Liam Neeson
161. Fernandel
162. Nino Manfredi
163. David Niven
164. Ralph Richardson
165. Erich von Stroheim
166. Daniel Auteuil
167. Richard Dreyfuss
168. William S. Hart
169. Adel Imam
170. Innokenty Smoktunovsky
171. Fernando Rey
172. Maximilian Schell
173. Jackie Chan
174. Edward Norton
175. Tony Curtis
176. Walter Brennan
177. Dev Anand
178. Gunnar Björnstrand
179. W.C. Fields
180. Ed Harris
181. Tommy Lee Jones
182. Bourvil
183. Christian Bale
184. Aamir Khan
185. Christopher Lee
186. Will Smith
187. Claude Rains
188. Gene Wilder
189. José Ferrer
190. Fernando Fernán Gómez
191. Nikolay Cherkasov
192. Ryan Gosling
193. Nicolas Cage
194. Michel Serrault
195. Ugo Tognazzi
196. Choi Min-sik
197. Arthur Kennedy
198. Joseph Cotten
199. Willem Dafoe
200. Thomas Mitchell
201. Cantinflas
202. Karl Malden
203. Heath Ledger
204. Bruno Ganz
205. John Gilbert
206. James Coburn
207. Stellan Skarsgård
208. Gian Maria Volonté
209. Eli Wallach
210. Ahmed Zaki
211. Jean-Claude Brialy
212. Melvyn Douglas
213. Bob Hope
214. Walter Huston
215. Abbott and Costello
216. Nanni Moretti
217. Paul Robeson
218. Wallace Beery
219. Tom Courtenay
220. George Sanders
221. Richard Gere
222. Joel McCrea
223. Viggo Mortensen
224. Ewan McGregor
225. Bela Lugosi
226. Harvey Keitel
227. John Malkovich
228. The Three Stooges
229. Paul Scofield
230. Robert Shaw
231. Gaston Modot
232. Benicio del Toro
233. John Carradine
234. Harry Dean Stanton
235. Raimu
236. Paul Winfield
237. Mel Gibson
238. Rex Harrison
239. Bing Crosby
240. James Earl Jones
241. Robert Downey Jr.
242. Steve Buscemi
243. Denholm Elliott
244. Roberto Benigni
245. Dana Andrews
246. Michael Chekhov
247. Jason Robards
248. Leslie Cheung
249. Martin Sheen
250. Joe Pesci
251. Rudolf Klein-Rogge
252. Robert Ryan
253. William Powell
254. Joaquin Phoenix
255. Peter Cushing
256. Takeshi Kitano
257. Jake Gyllenhaal
258. Robert Donat
259. Matthew McConaughey
260. John Travolta
261. James Woods
262. Donald Crisp
263. Pedro Infante
264. Lee J. Cobb
265. Alan Rickman
266. Alastair Sim
267. Richard Widmark
268. Victor Mature
269. Victor McLaglen
270. Michael Redgrave
271. Armin Mueller-Stahl
272. Anthony Perkins
273. Walter Pidgeon
274. Giancarlo Giannini
275. Bob Hoskins
276. Glenn Ford
277. Gael García Bernal
278. James Caan
279. Martin Balsam
280. Alan Arkin
281. Brendan Gleeson
282. Andy Serkis
283. Leslie Howard
284. Woody Harrelson
285. Steve Martin
286. Martin Landau
287. Edward Everett Horton
288. Arnold Schwarzenegger
289. Tim Robbins
290. Sterling Hayden
291. Don Cheadle
292. Chris Cooper
293. Frank Sinatra
294. Roy Scheider
295. Vincent Cassel
296. Rutger Hauer
297. Gert Fröbe
298. Michael Fassbender
299. John Cleese
300. Jean Hersholt

You have the yearly lists saved too, Tim?

I forgot to save the ones from 2020 to 2023 so we may need to do them from scratch.

I was able to get them from the Wayback Machine, for whenever you feel like reposting.

Thanks, appreciate that.

Tim wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:23 am I forgot to save the ones from 2020 to 2023 so we may need to do them from scratch.

I MAY have those drafts saved in my "archives" - let me check....I noticed they are not on the front page unfortunately.

Sherick wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:39 am I was able to get them from the Wayback Machine, for whenever you feel like reposting.

That's even better...thank you Sherick! (I'm already putting together my 2024 draft...)

Dubrow555 wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:28 pm

Sherick wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:39 am I was able to get them from the Wayback Machine, for whenever you feel like reposting.

That's even better...thank you Sherick! (I'm already putting together my 2024 draft...)

There's no way to login unfortunately so anything below Video Games is gone, but you should be able to recover most things dating as recently as last November.

Any updates on the performances top 20 lists for 2020-present? I'm working on my 2024 draft currently.

Tim, would you ever considering Indian actors Irrfan Khan or Anil Kapoor?

Sure, why not? Any idea for a placement/actors you see them replacing?

I have the impression that this is not the last update to the list. I think DiCaprio and Hopkins were higher, as was Pitt.

The forum version I have saved:

Criteria: Actors are ranked according to acclaim they received for their craft, popular and cultural recognition, influence they had on acting as well as on other actors and their body of work in terms of acclaim, influence and popularity.

Disclaimer: This list is strongly influenced by the Western canon of films. This means that in the broader scope of a global cinema certain regions may be underrepresented, among them Russia, India, China, Africa and Latin America

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. Denzel Washington
27. Gérard Depardieu
28. Spencer Tracy
29. Peter O'Toole
30. Gene Hackman
31. Clark Gable
32. Richard Burton
33. Max von Sydow
34. Burt Lancaster
35. Robert Mitchum
36. Peter Sellers
37. Clint Eastwood
38. William Holden
39. Kirk Douglas
40. Leonardo DiCaprio
41. Michael Caine
42. Morgan Freeman
43. Jean-Paul Belmondo
44. Vittorio Gassman
45. Orson Welles
46. Harold Lloyd
47. Sean Connery
48. Anthony Hopkins
49. Robert Duvall
50. Anthony Quinn
51. Rudolph Valentino
52. George C. Scott
53. Robert Redford
54. Montgomery Clift
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. Gary Oldman
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. James Mason
79. Louis de Funès
80. Robin Williams
81. Michel Simon
82. Philippe Noiret
83. Bill Murray
84. Totò
85. Jeff Bridges
86. Amitabh Bachchan
87. Dennis Hopper
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. Tony Leung Chiu Wai
98. John Hurt
99. Russell Crowe
100. Walter Matthau

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

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

301. Ken Takakura
302. John Garfield
303. Curd Jürgens
304. John Goodman
305. Franco Nero
306. Christopher Plummer
307. Peter Ustinov
308. Jürgen Prochnow
309. Gert Fröbe
310. Horst Buchcholz
311. Ethan Hawke
312. Charles Bronson
313. Minoru Chiaki
314. Kevin Costner
315. John Cazale
316. River Phoenix
317. Robert Montgomery
318. Basil Rathbone
319. Fred MacMurray
320. Forest Whitaker
321. Billy Bob Thornton
322. Paul Giamatti
323. Ray Milland
324. Sylvester Stallone
325. Jean Hersholt
326. Randolph Scott
327. Bruce Dern
328. Ward Bond
329. George Arliss
330. Aldo Fabrizi
331. Kevin Kline
332. Nick Nolte
333. Charles Bickford
334. Mickey Rourke
335. Mark Ruffalo
336. Christoph Waltz
337. John Turturro
338. Ned Beatty
339. Ian Holm
340. Colin Firth
341. Anthony Wong
342. Oleg Yankovsky
343. Jeff Daniels
344. Tom Hardy
345. Jude Law
346. Raúl Juliá
347. Barry Fitzgerald
348. Jack Palance
349. Donald Pleasence
350. Ossie Davis

351. Vittorio De Sica
352. Michael Shannon
353. Paul Lukas
354. Udo Kier
355. Jet Li
356. Ulrich Mühe
357. Jim Broadbent
358. Maurice Chevalier
359. Eddie Murphy
360. Oliver Reed
361. Sidney Greenstreet
362. Wallace Reid
363. Timothy Spall
364. Alan Hale Sr.
365. Masahiro Motoki
366. Rossano Brazzi
367. Chiwetel Ejiofor
368. Raf Vallone

Alfred Abel
Don Ameche
Edward Arnold
Tadanobu Asano
Lew Ayres
Kevin Bacon
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Alec Baldwin
George Bancroft
Sacha Baron Cohen
Jean-Louis Barrault
Richard Barthelmess
Albert Bassermann
Ralph Bellamy
Mel Blanc
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Claude Brasseur
Josh Brolin
Mel Brooks
Louis Calhern
Eddie Cantor
Harry Carey Jr.
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Sonny Chiba
Charles Coburn
Brian Cox
James Cromwell
Joe Dallesandro
Danny DeVito
Divine
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Laurence Fishburne
Pierre Fresnay
James Garner
Götz George
Danny Glover
Jeff Goldblum
Hugh Grant
Hugh Griffith
Edmund Gwenn
Kamal Haasan
Cedric Hardwicke
Jack Hawkins
Stanley Holloway
Trevor Howard
Hugh Jackman
Ben Johnson
Al Jolson
Louis Jourdan
Louis Jouvet
Shintaro Katsu
Michael Keaton
George Kennedy
Hardy Krüger
Alan Ladd
Evgeny Leonov
Tony Leung Ka Fai
John Lithgow
Roger Livesey
William H. Macy
Herbert Marshall
Dean Martin
Malcolm McDowell
John Mills
Tom Mix
Alfred Molina
Frank Morgan
Masahiro Motoki
Ivan Mozzhukhin
Jorge Negrete
Leslie Nielsen
Ramon Novarro
Daniel Olbrychski
Michael Palin
Jacques Perrin
Tyrone Power
Richard Pryor
Anthony Quayle
Keanu Reeves
Jean Reno
Burt Reynolds
Jean Rochefort
Sam Rockwell
Roy Rogers
Hrithik Roshan
Kurt Russell
Hiroyuki Sanada
Gary Sinise
Sol Kyung-gu
Anatoly Solonitsyn
Song Kang-ho
Terence Stamp
Dean Stockwell
David Strathairn
Henry Travers
Lee Van Cleef
Lino Ventura
Anton Walbrook
M. Emmett Walsh
Jack Warden
H. B. Warner
Tom Wilkinson
Louis Wolheim

Yes, this one.

Gene Hackman RIP.

Tim wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 4:39 amGene Hackman RIP.

Fuck, probably my favorite actor of all time. Haven't been very active here lately, but felt the need to respond to this news. Incredible career with a lot of fantastic performances, with "The Conversation" and "Mississippi Burning" as my favorites.