[Film] Your best ever acting performance in a film

[montag]

Charles Hawtrey in carry on camping

 

[seagull_special]

Nicholson in OFOTCN an Christopher Walker in The Deer Hunter are Contenders but my favourite is James Cagney in White Heat.

 

[OzMike]

I used to do a bit of amateur theatre years ago, but I always got the role of the con man or villain and I am really quite a nice chap.

 

[jakarta]

Michael Redgrave in Dead of Night.

Also as Barnes Wallis in The Dambusters, I would add in Richard Todd as Guy Gibson, that final scene after the Raid where he walks away from Redgrave because he has to write a few letters is heartbreaking.

 

[bWize]

Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan and the Green Mile for me.

Incredible actor

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Top of my list is the cameo role of Orson Welles in The Third Man. The setting, the glorious mood enhancing music and the film building to that first glimpse of him, shadowed in a doorway. There then follows a relatively brief but mesmeric and charismatic performance, climaxing in one of the great movie speeches of all time. Actors don't always have to fill the screen for two hours to make a lasting impression.

 

[goldstone68]

Marlon Brando - On the waterfront
Tom Hardy - Lawless
Johnny Depp - Lone Ranger

 

[Withdean11]

Margot Robbie in Wolf of Wall Street / Suicide Squad

Could watch her in those over and over.

 

[pearl]

Marlon Brando - On the waterfront
Tom Hardy - Lawless
Johnny Depp - Lone Ranger

Loved Lawless, read the book after, but film was better

 

[desprateseagull]

Robert De Niro, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I missed start, didnt realise it was him until end credits.. Incredible emotions portrayed.

 

[smelly]

Emma Bunton. Spice World. Thread closed

 

[Is it PotG?]

Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

Soon set for our TV enjoyment it seems, hope it's better than that Lock Stock TV series which was shite.

https://thekillingtimestv.wordpress.com/2018/08/17/sexy-beast-to-be-adapted-for-tv/

 

[goldstone]

I've never been in a film and I can't act.

Same here.

Very poorly written title for this thread!

 

[maltaseagull]

Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan and the Green Mile for me.

Incredible actor

Philadelphia?

Also, although not a film, I thought Hugh Grant was brilliant in A very English scandal.

 

[OzMike]

Same here.

Very poorly written title for this thread!

I have done a bit of stage stuff, but no films as yet.

 

[luppers]

Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man

 

[theboybilly]

Dennis Price/Alec Guinness - Kind Hearts & Coronets (I can't choose between 'em, both superb)

 

[Albion my Albion]

At my sister's wedding. I acted like I was enjoying myself and my wife filmed me dancing. It was worth an Oscar.

 

[marlowe]

There"ll probably be a few raised eyebrows with this nomination but the performance of Briditte Bardot in "La Verite" (The Truth) was outstanding and probably her most accomplished acting role. Proved beyond doubt that she was more than a mere "sex kitten".

https://youtu.be/CejcRKSwaq0


....and here's the whole film with English subtitles. Brilliant film.

https://youtu.be/qWnsdigcny0

 

[The Clamp]

Tom Hardy in Locke
Brendan Gleason in In Bruges
Arnie in Hercules in New York.