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My favorite actors. An actor's body of work is indicative of their luck, talent, and taste. It is hard to resist insinuating characteristics of a role played by an actor with the actor's actual character. However, I am not a fanatical fan, and I know that I don't really know any of these people. The nice thing about discussing actors is that I can also simultaneously do a discuss the shows they've been in.

Anthony Hopkins

Astonishing how he conveys so much energy with so much reserve.

• Works include: Silence of the Lambs and Shadowlands. 

Antonio Banderas

A guy's guy. Smashing accent.

• Works include: Mask of Zorro and Evita.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Great sci fi guy.

• Works include: Conan the Barbarian, Total Recall and the Terminator series.

Bill Cosby

One of the funniest men ever. Lousy movies though.

Cary Grant

A remarkably handsome man who combined a graceful charm with outstanding comic delivery. I often wish I had his charm.

• Works include: Arsenic and Lace, Mother Goose, Notorious, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, That Touch of Mink, and North by Northwest.
• Cary Grant with Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth.
  

Catherine Zeta-Jones

All right, all right: she's listed mainly because she's a knockout.

• Works include: Mask of Zorro.
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Charlie Chaplin

The silent genius.

Christopher Walken

Picks the most magnificently spooky and funny roles.

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Clint Eastwood

A guy's guy.

• Works include: The Outlaw Mosley Jones, Unforgiven and all his spaghetti westerns including Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, and Two Mules for Sister Sara.
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Cuba Gooding Jr.

Energy, charm, humor, style, and seriousness.

Danny Kaye

Not only does he sing, dance, and act but he's great at word twisters. In spite of his lightness, he seems to have a melancholy shadow.

Denzel Washington

Conveys intelligence and seriousness.

Doris Day

I'm surprised that she isn't too sweet, too American, too 1950s.

• Works include: Calamity Jane, Touch of Mink, Pillow Talk, and That Touch of Mink.
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Eva Habermann

She's also listed mainly because she's a knockout. I've only seen her play Zev Bellringer in the Lexx, the German and Canadian TV series, featuring a living ship that is the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes. Her German accent is so riveting.

• Works include: Lexx.
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Gene Wilder

This guy is nuts!

• Works include: Young Frankenstein and Stir Crazy.

Harrison Ford

A guy's guy.

• Works include: Star Wars, The Fugitive, Blade Runner, and Presumed Innocent.

Humphrey Bogart

You wouldn't think it to look at him but he has an amazing body of work.

• Works include: The African Queen, Casablanca, Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, and Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Ingrid Bergman

Her Swedish accent is hypnotic.

• Works include: Casablanca (1942), Notorious (1946), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958), i (1969).
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Jack Nicholson

The trouble with this guy is he always plays himself.

• Works include: The Shining and Batman.

Jessica Alba

Former tom boy sweet hottie.

Jimmy Stewart

How can you not like Jimmy Stewart?

• Works include: It's a Wonderful Life, The Shop Around the Corner, Philadelphia Story, Flight of the Phoenix, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Rear Window. 
• Jimmy Stewart with Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life.
  

Jodie Foster

She delivers intelligence and mischievousness with that darling accent.

• Works include: Silence of the Lambs, Bugsy Malone, and Nell.
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John Cleese

One of the funniest men ever. The mere sight of him is comical.

• Works include: Monty Python, A Fish Called Wanda, and Faulty Towers.

Johnny Depp

Chooses roles both dark and funny.

• Works include: Edward Scissor Hands, Legend of Sleep Hollow, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Katherine Hepburn

A pure infusion of style, smarts, and the human heart.

• Works include: The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, and Stage Door.
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Kathy Bates

Picks feisty, natural characters.

• Works include: Fried Green Tomatoes, Titanic, Misery and Delores Claiborne.
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Kevin Kline

• Works include: Dave and A Fish Called Wanda.

Kirk Douglas

A guy's guy. You see that chin and you feel the energy.

• Works include: Spartacus, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ulysses, and Lust for Life.

• Works include: Hans Christian Anderson and The Inspector General.

Madeline Kahn

• Works include Blazing Saddles, Paper Moon, Clue and Young Frankenstein.
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Marilyn Monroe

Great actress. Bewitchingly beautiful. Tragic life. American icon.

• Works include: Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, The Misfits.
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Mel Gibson

A guy's guy. Gets characters that are funny, brave, whacked, and good with the ladies. Mel Gibson is also a good director but we know him best as an actor.

• Works include: Braveheart, The Road Warrior series, the Lethal Weapon series, and Hamlet.
• Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart.
  

Nicholas Cage

I like that he has a range of work.

• Works include: Raising Arizona.

Peter Lorre

• "Please, don't hurt me." One of the original creepy but funny guys. 
• Works include: Arsenic and Old Lace, Casablanca, The Maltese Flacon, and The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Peter Seller

"That was not my dog."

Richard Chamberlain

I actually disliked this guy until I saw him play a very seedy and creepy role in a movie about a wealthy woman named Duke. Since then he's acquired my respect.

• Works include: The Count of Monte Cristo, Shogun, The Three Musketeers, and The Man in the Iron Mask.

Rutger Hauer

Picks bold characters who are both bizarre and tragic.

• Works include: Lady Hawke and Blade Runner. 
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Sidney Poitier

Demands and earns respect.

• Works include: In the Heat of the Night (1967; Famous for "They call me Mr. Tibbs!") and Lilies of the Field (1963).

Sigourney Weaver

She exudes strength and determination while being totally a woman.

• Works include: the Alien series, Galaxy Quest, Dave.

Susan Sarandon

Great actress. Bold choices.

• Works include: Rocky Horror Picture Show and Thelma and Louise.

Tim Curry

Funny, curious, sexually tainted.

• Works include: Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clue.

Tom Hanks

Funny and serious. Very human.

• Works include: Cast Away; Toy Story; Forrest Gump; Big.

Toshiro Mifune

The penultimate samurai actor of Japanese samurai movies.

• Works include: a number of excellent movies by Akira Kurosawa including Seven Samurai.
• Toshiro Mifune as the brash samurai with a particularly big sword in Seven Samurai.
  

Winona Ryder

Great actress, elfishly beautiful. Chooses roles both dark and funny.

• Works include: Edward Scissor Hands, Brahm Stroker's Dracula, and Legend of Sleep Hollow.
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