Favorite Actors/Films - With a slight twist!

Alright, here's how it works. This should produce interesting results.

Post your top five favorite actors (in order, if you can), and after each actor, type out your favorite two movies that that actor starred in.

Be sure to give PLENTY of reasons why wherever you see fit.

Example:

1) Insert Actor Name Here
- Insert Movie Title (with said actor) Here.
- Insert Movie Title (with said actor) Here.
2) Insert Actor Name Here
- Insert Movie Title (with said actor) Here.
- Insert Movie Title (with said actor) Here.

And so forth...

Anyway, the concept's not that hard, I just wanted to make sure it was fully understood.

So, have at it!

1) Toshiro Mifune
- Yojimbo
- Seven Samurai
2) Clint Eastwood
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- The Outlaw, Josey Wales
3) Christian Bale
- Batman Begins
- The Prestige
4) Harvey Keitel
- Reservoir Dogs
- Pulp Fiction

1) Johnny Depp

- Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
- Ed Wood

He's easily the most versatile actor of all time. It's not often when an actor can take to so many different roles and still be as convincing no matter what he does.

2) Nicolas Cage

- Matchstick Men
- Bringing Out the Dead

Nic's versatile as well, but he's a signature charisma in all his movies, namely because of his drawl. Just very easy, but tense at the same time. He's just very entertaining, and always has a real subtle James Dean like bad boy quality to him.

3) Mark Wahlberg

- Rock Star
- The Italian Job

Mark's been a favorite of mine ever since he scared the hell out of me in "Fear". I am so glad that people got past the whole "Marky Mark" deal and saw that he has some acting chops. Always entertaining, and takes to the tough guy role more verbally than physically, which works just as well.

4) Ed Norton

- American History X
- Primal Fear

Diversity in roles is important to me here, too, and Ed's just as good. I picked these two movies because they're his two strongest performances. "American History X" first because he was eerily convincing, as if he had led such a lifestyle before the movie. "Primal Fear" because it's got one of the best twists I've ever seen, and I was sold on the emotional innocence of his character, and still would be, even having seen the movie 3 times, and knew the ending before hand.

There's more..but those are probably my top 4..

Nice choices, guys.

Keep em coming!

I might post mine later.

It's hard to choose my favorites 'cause odds are somebody can name someone I like more.

1) Bruce Campbell
- Evil Dead 2
- The Evil Dead
2) Hilary Swank
- 11:14
- Million Dollar Baby
3) Christian Bale
- Equilibrium
- American Psycho
4) Edward Norton
- American History X
- Fight Club
5) Brad Pitt
- Fight Club
- Se7en

1)Nicholas Cage
-The Rock
-Matchstick Men

2)Edward Norton
-Fight Club
-Keeping the Faith

3)Johnny Depp
-Pirates of the Caribbean
-Legend of Sleepy Hollow

4)Hugh Jackman
-X-Men I
-X-Men II. (X-Men III as well).

5)Tobey Maguire
-Spiderman I
-Spiderman II

1. Bill Murray
- Lost in Translation
- Caddyshack

2. Tony Leung
- 2046
- In the Mood for Love

3. Johnny Depp
- Ed Wood
- Edward Scissorhands

4. Kyle MacLachlan
- Blue Velvet
- Twin Peaks

5. Alain Delon
- The Red Circle
- The Eclipse

Really, really tough. I'd also mention Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Norton, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Naomi Watts, Orson Welles, Tom Cruise, Robert Mitchum, Jimmy Stewart, Dustin Hoffman, and Jason Schwartzman.

jack nicholson
batman anger management

will ferrel
anchorman
kicking and screaming

adam sandler
happy gilmore
longest yard

jim carry
me myself and irene
the mask

arnold

terminator 2
jingle all the way

dustin hoffman
-the graduate
-rain man

bill murray
-groundhogs day
-life aquatic

ben kingsley
-sexy beast
-ghandi

robin williams
-the fisher king
-one hour photo

nic cage
-raising arizona
-leaving las vegas

Not really in any order

1) Kevin Spacey
-American Beauty
-Se7en

I love actors that can deliver a perfect deadpan. And with Kevin, he can even do deadpan with some ferocity behind it. It's glorious

2) Christopher Walken
-The Deer Hunter
-Pulp Fiction

His speech patterns are unmatched

3) Nicolas Cage
-Lord of War
-The Weather Man

Like Core, I just love the way he talks

4) Scarlett Johansson
-Lost in Translation
-The Prestige

A fantastic actor for being so young, plus she's hot

5)Bruce Campbell
-Evil Dead 2
-Bubba Ho-Tep

The nicest guy in the business. Great comedic timing too

Good list ^

I enjoy very much hearing peoples' reasons for choosing who they do.

No particular order.

1.Edward Norton
- Fight Club
- American History X

No matter what character he plays, he plays that character to perfection IMO.

2.Bill Paxton
- Aliens
- Near Dark

I loved him in Aliens and he was hilarious in Near Dark. One of the most under rated actors ever.

3.Tim Robbins
- Jacob's Ladder
- The Shawshank Redemption

He always makes the audience feel for his character and does a great job doing so.

4.Hugo Weaving
- The Matrix
- V for Vendetta

He has a certian quality about him that I like.

5.Christian Bale
- American Psycho
- Batman Begins

Like Ed Norton, I feel he plays his characters extremely well. He had Patrick Bateman down perfectly.

My favourite actors with their movies>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Stellan Skarsgard : (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, King Arthur,
Good Will Hunting)

Ashley Walters : (Stormbreaker, Bullet Boy, Goal, Get Rich and Die Tryin’)
Tom Hardy : (Marie Antoinette, Layer Cake, The Reckoning)

1) the greatest of all time (robin williams
- HOOK
- Jumanji
- good morning vietnam
- what dreams may come
- patch adams

2) Mel Gibson
- Braveheart -best movie ever made
- lethal weapon 1-4
- the patriot

3) Jim Carry
- The Mask
- dumb and dumber
- the cable guy
- bruce allmighty

4) clint eastwood
- in the line of fire
- million dollar baby
- fistfull of dollars
- pretty much all wetserns

5) last but not least (brad pitt)
- troy
- snatch
- mr. mrs. smith

without a shadow of a doubt. the best of all time is robin williams.
talk about versatility.

Hook makes me feel like a kid again.
jumanji and popeye, and toys make me laugh.
then he hits you with something like what dreams may come and patch adams, which make you cry like a girl.
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I try to watch all the movies of Tobey Maguire and Drew Barrymore

Christian Bale -Equilibrium and American Psycho
I like dark movies and Bale was perfect.
Lucy Liu- Cypher and Charlies Angels
Rusell Crowe- Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind
I am a history major and I love this movie.

Jack Nicholson-Batman and As Good as It Gets
one of the best screen villains of all time

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Still would like to hear everyones' opinions!

Adrian Brody
1. Dummy
2. Piano

Russel Crowe
1. Gladiator
2. The Insider

Steve Mcqueen
1. Bullit
2. The getaway

Christian Bale
1. The machinist
2. Prestige

Val Kilmer
1. The Doors
2. Tombstone

Wow, hard question! Not so much to pick my 5 faves, but to only pick TWO of the movies that I like them in.

In no order:

Liam Neeson
-Schindlers List
-Batman Begins/Episode I (pretty much the same character, one just goes bad)

Morgan Freeman
-Shawshank Redemption
-Driving Miss Daisy (yeah I said it, sue me)

Samuel L. Jackson
-Pulp Fiction
-187 (tie with Jackie Brown)

Tom Hanks
-Saving Private Ryan
-Forrest Gump

Christian Bale
-Equilibrium
-Rescue Dawn/Batman Begins

Bruce Campbell
-Evil Dead 2
-Army of Darkness

Steve Buscemi
-Reservoir Dogs
-The Big Lebowski

Kevin Spacey
-American Beauty
-The Usual Suspects

John Candy
-Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
-Uncle Buck

Gene Wilder
-Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
-Young Frankenstein