Sedan jag började matcha mina filmval mot IMDB så har ingen skådespelare lyckats lura in mig i en dålig film, vilket däremot kunde hända ofta förr i tiden när det var just skådespelarna som blev referens för vad man hyrde hem från videohyllan.
Kvinnliga skådespelarfavoriter:
Katharine Hepburn - Förmodligen världens största skådespelerska genom tiderna. The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen, Holiday, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, On Golden Pond m.fl
Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday, Sabrina, The Nun's Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Wait Until Dark, My Fair Lady, Charade, Love in the Afternoon
Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca, Gaslight och Höstsonaten
Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, Out of Africa, The Devil Wears Prada, Doubt
Giulietta Masina - La strada och Le notti di Cabiria
Liv Ullmann - Persona, Vargtimmen, Skammen, Viskningar och rop, Scener ur ett äktenskap, Ansikte mot ansikte, Höstsonaten
Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Giant
Catherine Deneuve - Les parapluies de Cherbourg, Repulsion, Les demoiselles de Rochefort, Belle de jour, Tristana
Jodie Foster - The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, The Accused, The Silence of the Lambs,
Jean Simmons - The Big Country, Elmer Gantry, Spartacus
Bette Davis - All about Eve, Now Voyager och Dark Victory.
Marlene Dietrich - Witness for the Prosecution, Der blaue Engel, Judgment at Nuremberg, Destry Rides Again
Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette och Since You Went Away
Julie Christie - Darling, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Away from Her, Doctor Zhivago, Billy Liar
Olivia de Havilland - Gone with the Wind, The Heiress, The Snake Pit
Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie men framför allt för rollen i Downton Abbey.
Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire, Waterloo Bridge
Greta Garbo - Grand Hotel och Camille
Manliga skådespelarfavoriter:
James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again, The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm, The Philadelphia Story, Rope, Harvey, The Naked Spur, Rear Window, The Man from Laramie, Vertigo och Anatomy of a Murder
Gary Cooper - Meet John Doe, Sergeant York, The Pride of the Yankees, High Noon, Love in the Afternoon
Alec Guinness - Oliver Twist, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ladykillers, Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars
Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Papillon, Straw Dogs, Marathon Man, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Wag the Dog, Last Chance Harvey
Al Pacino - The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Scarface, Scent of a Woman, Carlito's Way, Heat, The Devil's Advocate
Jack Nicholson - Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, A Few Good Men m.fl.
Robert De Niro - The Godfather: Part II, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, The Untouchables, Midnight Run, Goodfellas, Heat, Wag the Dog
Clark Gable - It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind, The Misfits
Cary Grant - The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday, His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, The Talk of the Town, Arsenic and Old Lace, An Affair to Remember, North by Northwest, Charade
Humphrey Bogart - High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The African Queen, The Caine Mutiny, Sabrina, The Desperate Hours, The Harder They Fall
Fred Astaire - The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Shall We Dance, Holiday Inn, The Band Wagon, Easter Parade
James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Heat, Mister Roberts, Angels with Dirty Faces
Maurice Chevalier - The Smiling Lieutenant, Gigi, Love Me Tonight
Marlon Brando - A Dry White Season, The Godfather, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire
Takashi Shimura - Shichinin no samurai, Ikiru, Rashômon, Kumonosu-jô
Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath, The Ox-Bow Incident, My Darling Clementine, Mister Roberts, The Wrong Man, 12 Angry Men, C'era una volta il West, On Golden Pond
Max von Sydow - Det sjunde inseglet, Smultronstället, Ansiktet, Jungfrukällan, Såsom i en spegel, Nattvardsgästerna, Vargtimmen, Skammen
Dessutom...
Errol Flynn, Spencer Tracy, Paul Muni, Orson Welles, Joel McCrea, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, Charles Chaplin, William Holden, James Mason, Jack Lemmon, Kirk Douglas, Montgomery Clift, Richard Burton, Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Sean Connery, Peter O'Toole, Charles Bronson, Paul Newman, Alain Delon, Anthony Quinn, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Ryan O'Neal, Steve McQueen och Jon Voight
