Okay, Actors who will make you watch

[Muzzy]

colin farrell,if carling made actors....probably the best actor in the world

carlsberg

 

[Danny-Boy]

I think Nicholas Cage always gives good value, even in bad films, such as 8mm and Face/Off, which he amply makes up for in Con Air and Lord of War (or is it War Lord?)

Robert Shaw, Stanley Baker and Rutger Hauer to add to the list also...

Yup I'd go for all these, especially Cage. "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" always gets me, especially the shooting of the Ities by the nasty Nazis.

Robert Shaw what can you say? Little-known fact, shortly before the filming of "The Sting" when Shaw had replaced another Hollywood legend who turned the part down, he hurt his leg. His limp was then written into the film.

Sir Yobbo of the Valleys (as "Private Eye" christened him after his knighthood) coached Harold Wilson and others in the Labour Party before the 1974 Elections.

Hauer in "Blade Runner"..scary.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Russell Crowe. "Master and Commander" is one of my favourite films and he is utterly believable in his role as a true English sea captain, despite his Ozziness.

They have postulated that the English accent of 200+ years ago was more Ozzy like. THe growth of big cities in the 19th Century apparently led to changing spech patterns. Hence rural and less densely populated regions speak slower and more roundedly.
The English accent of many youths of 20+ years ago was also Ozzi thanks to prolonged doses of "Neighbours" and "Home and Away". Now due to "Friends" its Califorkian.

 

[jakarta]

Another vote for Harvey Keitel.

Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Travolta, blah blah - Mr Kietel stole Pulp Fiction with his Cameo in my opinion...

 

[Trufflehound]

They have postulated that the English accent of 200+ years ago was more Ozzy like. THe growth of big cities in the 19th Century apparently led to changing spech patterns. Hence rural and less densely populated regions speak slower and more roundedly.

'Tis indeed true. The reason people from Birmingham and other parts of the Midlands speak nasally is entirely due to their forefathers getting soot up their noses during the Industrial Revolution.

And that is an actual fact, not an NSC FACT...

Same with Liverpudlians, Mancunians etc...

 

[Geoff Capes Shoebuff]

Paddy Considine, George Clooney, Bill Murray, Di Caprio, Maaaat Damooooon and as for the ladies I'd have to say Julianne Moore.

 

[Spider]

Yup I'd go for all these, especially Cage. "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" always gets me, especially the shooting of the Ities by the nasty Nazis.

But no matter how much you like some of his films, do you really want to sit through Bangkok Dangerous, Next, The Wicker Man, Knowing, Drive Angry, The Sorcerer's Apprentice?

If he's more of a favourite actor then that would be fair enough but for me he has nowhere near enough quality control to suit this thread.

 

[Trufflehound]

Pretty much every actor, no matter how much I like them, has made the odd turkey.

Take Clint Eastwood for example. A hero in my books, but you couldn't pay me to sit through Firefox again. Or Bronco Billy. Or Escape from Alcatraz. Or Any Which Way you Can...

 

[Mr Smggles]

i LOVE kevin spacey

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

Daniel Day Lewis, just because he is so rarely in ANYTHING.












And because he's quite a good actor.

 

[tonymgc]

Ed Norton (Ignoring The Hulk & The Italian Job)
Christian Bale
Michael Sheen

 

[ryeseagull]

The late Sir Ian Richardson.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

De Niro, Nicholson & Hoffman.

As actors, all have proved that they can play different roles, from villains to comedy and any film they are in should be worth a watch.

 

[The Modfather]

Al Pacino & Robert De Niro.

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Timothy Spall - never seen him be anything other than excellent - one of the most sensitive performers you could find. He was sensational in Poliakoff's Shooting the Past.

 

[16bha]

De Niro, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman

 

[Meade's Ball]

My workmate, who knows Robert De Niro for his work in Stardust, can't watch films with Gene Hackman in. He calls him The Barker. I, on the other hand, always love when he's in something. I think of the French Connection and The Conversation and The Unforgiven and Superman 1 and 2. You know someone is a quality actor when they are rather unappealing to look at, but master your attention. Hackman does that.