Favorite classic actors

[telecom_goddess]

On another twist from the overrated thread...what actors do you think are classics and are just always good no matter what?

Robert Redford would be one. Not that I'm a huge fan of him or anything but you gotta admit he's been a great hot actor for a really long time. Just saw him again in The Way We Were (don't judge ) and Indecent Proposal. Wide span of years there but he was just as good in the later one as in the first one.

Michael Douglas...just consistently good for decades.

[AdminAssistant]

Clint Eastwood, with the possible exception of the Every Which Way But Loose era (those would be the films he did with the monkey).

[telecom_goddess]

Clint Eastwood, with the possible exception of the Every Which Way But Loose era (those would be the films he did with the monkey).

Agreed and I would have to make The Bridges of Madison County an exception also. Annoying that had the potential to be a great movie but it just wasn't. However Play Misty for Me was amazing!

[Andara Bledin]

Cary Grant. Timeless.

James Stewart. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything I didn't like him in.

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[Ginger Tea]

He's not 'classic', but as far as film saving every Nick Cage movie I've seen, no matter how bad has always had him saving it in some way. (but I think I posted this already, or atleast meant to in another thread)
Having said that there are alot of really good Nick Cage movies that don't need him 'caging' a scene, so hes not just a scene saving superhero.

[telecom_goddess]

Lets see Nick Cage has been at it since about 1982 or so ...I think he qualifies as classic by now

[muses_nightmare]

Marilyn Monroe and Gene Kelly are my two favorite for sure, along with Audrey Hepburn.

[Boozy]

Clint Eastwood, with the possible exception of the Every Which Way But Loose era (those would be the films he did with the monkey).

I don't like Clint Eastwood as an actor. Perhaps I have not seen him in his good roles.

I love him as a director, though.

[telecom_goddess]

I think I'm going to include Goldie Hawn in this. She's been in the business since the late 1960's and has done some fine work. One of my favorites I think is her second or third film -- Butterflies Are Free. Based on a play.

[Ginger Tea]

Some are better actors when they are older, or if not better at their craft, they are offered better characters when they are older.

Eastwood could not be Harry Callahan forever and I'm glad he only made as many films as he did, although I'm not sure about the dead pool.
Being 70's movies, they were 70's movies, Unforgiven, if made in the 70's would be on par with other 70's westerns of the time.
Although I can only think of 'post' western movies off the top of my head, The Wild Bunch, Butch and Sundance and I was thinking of a third but I just can't think of it now I've typed those two.
Unforgiven could have been in their league, but it could also have been pideoned with his spaghetti western trilogy.

If you listen to dialogue from 80's movies, you begin to wonder if people ever spoke that way, yet in the 90's and beyond a more solid form of realism in dialgue writing and delivery started to emerge. I don't know if it was here or another site where someone said 40's and 50's dialogue always seemed to be delivered as if reading of cue cards.

[AdminAssistant]

I don't like Clint Eastwood as an actor. Perhaps I have not seen him in his good roles.

I guess for me it stems from growing up on his movies, especially the westerns. Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Hang 'em High, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Two Mules for Sister Sara, etc. Watched some John Wayne, of course, but Dad was a bigger Eastwood fan, so that's what was on our TV. I actually watched In the Line of Fire not terribly long ago - good movie. He is a bit of a one-note actor, playing an emotionally distant loner who comes in, does the right thing after a moral struggle, then disappears.

His directing work is also excellent, and I love the stories of actors who have worked with him. Apparently, he's a great director to work with, very relaxed, always brings movies in on time and under budget.

[anakhouri]

Dana Andrews had quite the charm. I love everything he's been in.

My favorites are Ingrid Bergman, Marlene Dietrich, Humphrey Bogart, and Anthony Hopkins. Even if they're in bad movies, they are good enough to keep watching.

[telecom_goddess]

Dana Andrews had quite the charm. I love everything he's been in.

My favorites are Ingrid Bergman, Marlene Dietrich, Humphrey Bogart, and Anthony Hopkins. Even if they're in bad movies, they are good enough to keep watching.

I like Ingrid Bergman too she had the most wonderful accent to listen to. I like her daughter Isabella Rosellini for the same reason

[McDreidel09]

Would Cary Elwes be considered classic? I love how every role he touches turns to dapper.

[Gravekeeper]

Clint Eastwood, with the possible exception of the Every Which Way But Loose era (those would be the films he did with the monkey).

Hahaha, I totally forgot about those. I use to love renting those as a kid. >.>