Movie actors and their best acting roles

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John Wayne - Red River
Gregory Peck - To Kill A Mockingbird
Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca, The Caine Mutiny, The African Queen, Maltese Falcon
Jimmy Stewart – It’s Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Harvey
Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath
 
Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful
Michael Douglas - Wall Street
Clark Gable - Gone with the Wind
Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Rita Hayworth - Gilda
Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame, The Women (I can’t choose)
Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men
 
Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty, Les Miserables, heck - ALL his films!
Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola, Juarez - again, ALL of them!
Fredric March - Inherit the Wind
Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind, Adam’s Rib
John Barrymore - ALL, OF COURSE!
Bette Davis - The Corn is Green, Mr. Skeffington, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? nearly ALL!
Meryl Streep - ALL!
Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
Helen Mirren - ALL!
Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, etc., etc.
 
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Bette Davis - All About Eve
Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce
Ronald Reagan - Kings Row
Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution
Marlene Dietrich - The Blue Angel
 
It’s a good movie, but in real life they would have hurried up and convicted the guy so the one dude could get to the ball game.

Then a heroic lawyer would save the kid from the chair on appeal. 😃
 
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Peter O’Toole - Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, The Lion in Winter
Richard Burton - Becket, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Paul Newman - The Verdict, Cool Hand Luke
Montgomery Clift - The Heiress
Alec Guinness - ALL, AND THEN SOME!
Katharine Hepburn - Adam’s Rib, The Lion in Winter
Audrey Hepburn - The Nun’s Story, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady
Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion
Anne Bancroft - The Graduate, The Miracle Worker
 
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Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary’s
Montgomery Clift - I Confess
Bing Crosby - Going My Way
James Cagney - Angels With Dirty Faces
Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette
Karl Malden - On the Waterfront
 
Clint Eastwood–The Outlaw Josey Wales
Kurt Russell–Tombstone
Val Kilmer–Tombstone
Daniel Day-Lewis–Last of the Mohicans
James Stewart–The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
Gene Hackman–Unforgiven
David Carradine / Keith Carradine–The Long Riders
 
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Jennifer Lopez–Anaconda.
Jack Palance–City Slickers.
 
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Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night

George C. Scott, Patton

Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot

Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove
 
Marlene Dietrich - Judgement at Nuremberg
Spencer Tracy - Judgement at Nuremberg and Inherit the Wind
 
Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca
Montgomery Cliff - Red River and Judgment at Nuremberg
Bing Crosby - And of the Road To movies with Bob Hope
James Cagney - Public Enemy
Jennifer Jones - Duel in the Sun
Karl Malden - One Eyed Jacks
 
Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
Montgomery Clift - I Confess
Daniel Day-Lewis - The Age of Innocence
Katherine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter
 
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