Best dead actor

[Otis Driftwood]

The Duke? Bogart? Fatty Arbuckle? Peter Lorre? Good choices all, but I go with this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBDEQe9CjOU

[Junker]

Charlie Chaplin.

[na§tee]

BUSTER. KEATON. HANDS. DOWN.

[Otis Driftwood]

Haha, I see two comedians.

[na§tee]

oh right, so people who are funny in films aren't acting?

[na§tee]

oh and.. so fatty arbuckle was a dead-on drama fiend then? didn't even raise a laugh! it's a shame he's almost always named silent film comedian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Arbuckle) everywhere on earth.

i think that's the sound of you eating your own words, otis. mmmm mmmm!

[Otis Driftwood]

Get a rabies shot or something, I was joking about you and Junker... Oh, the lolz.

[Junker]

Don't care.

Charlie > all

[paul jones]

Alec Guinness

[abcdefz]

I love Buster Keaton, I really do. And Kinski's performance in Aguirre is towering stuff. But I don't know.

I'm more inclined to think:


Marlon Brando
Orson Welles
Jimmy Stewart
Robert Mitchum
River Phoenix

...if James Dean had lived longer, then maybe him. He just didn't have enough work under his belt to really say.

I assume by "actors" we're talking about males, by the way. That's chauvanistic, I know, but...

[Yeti]

Alec Guinness

Marlon Brando just rolled over in his casket made for morbidly obese men.

[abcdefz]

Alec Guinness


That's a good one, too. (y)

[Randetica]

james dean! im good enough to judge from 3 movies

and i really like jack lemmon


klaus kinski was fucked in the head but in a good/bad/geniusly way

and marlon brando sure was a great actor but i always thought he was unappealing

[roosta]

Pat Morita

[Otis Driftwood]

River Phoenix

Pls explain... My own private Idaho was fantastic. In Stand by me he was still a teenager and I really can't remember anything else he did? How do you see him on par with the rest of your list?

[Schmeltz]

Richard Burbage

[Drederick Tatum]

Brando and Mitchum rule it.

[Otis Driftwood]

Not enough love for Peter Lorre, Edward "G" Robinson and Steve McQueen. :(
Also the guy who portraied Zap Rowsdower in Final Sacrifice... :D but he could still be alive...

[Lex Diamonds]

Marlon Brando tbh.

[camo]

John Candy

[ScarySquirrel]

Gregory Peck.

[Yeti]

Did anyone mention Lee Marvin? He was a great bad guy in westerns. I really liked The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

[abcdefz]

Pls explain... My own private Idaho was fantastic. In Stand by me he was still a teenager and I really can't remember anything else he did? How do you see him on par with the rest of your list?


Stand by Me
Running on Empty
Dogfight
Mosquito Coast
This Thing Called Love
My Own Private Idaho


But, yeah... you might be right. There's more stuff he did (Sneakers, I Love You to Death, etc.), but now that I look at it, there wasn't a huge amount of range.

[abcdefz]

Did anyone mention Lee Marvin? He was a great bad guy in westerns. I really liked The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.


Good choice, great movie.

[Otis Driftwood]

Remember when he "played" that drunk in Cat Ballou? I loved that opening scene with the escape from the gallows as a kid but I haven't seen it since. Some movies don't age too well. And don't forget the Dirty Dozen!

[Yeti]

Both Cat Ballou and The Dirty Dozen are great. Lee Marvin had a distinct look and played a great badass drunkard.

[abcdefz]

..did you ever see Addiction? Lee Marvin and Nick Nolte.

[Yeti]

No, I did not see that film. Is it good? I will look for it at the video store.

[abcdefz]

I never finished it. Not because it wasn't good, but it was just depressing as hell.

I think Marvin won his Oscar for that one. Abusive father stuff.

[Yeti]

I have a real affinity for depressing films............ and dark comedies are also a favorite. Some of my favorite films are One Flew over the Coo Coo's Nest, Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, Scarface, etc....
My wife gets a little annoyed with my choices from time to time. I guess the films subject matter makes me feel better about my life. At least that is my psychoanalysis.

[abcdefz]

I have a real affinity for depressing films............ and dark comedies are also a favorite. Some of my favorite films are One Flew over the Coo Coo's Nest, Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, Scarface, etc....
My wife gets a little annoyed with my choices from time to time. I guess the films subject matter makes me feel better about my life. At least that is my psychoanalysis.



Yeah -- I don't mind depressing or dark movies either. But this one, for various reasons, was too much at the wrong time.

[abcdefz]

*checks watch*

Not.... just..... yet.

[abcdefz]

Better. He had that little thing removed.

[Otis Driftwood]

No actor "plays dead" like Rintintin, eh?

[abcdefz]

oh my

[Auton]

Peter Sellers (y)

[GetYourWarOn]

I have a real affinity for depressing films............ and dark comedies are also a favorite. Some of my favorite films are One Flew over the Coo Coo's Nest, Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, Scarface, etc....
.


i can't believe you mentioned scarface in the same sentence as those other 3 films

[GetYourWarOn]

river phoenix

[TAL]

John Holmes

[Yeti]

i can't believe you mentioned scarface in the same sentence as those other 3 films

I was just naming some dark films that popped in my head. I agree that Scarface is not in the same category but I still like the movie.