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GREASTEST ACTORS
GREASTEST ACTORS
Early Days Productions: Greatest Actors 1930 - 1960 Last updated 07/13/2010
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (1899-1957) was an Academy Award-winning American actor and film star. He is recognised for playing typically smart, playful, courageous, tough, occasionally reckless characters who lived in a corrupt world, anchored by a hidden moral code. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Bogart's most notable films include "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "Casablanca" (1942), "To Have and Have Not" (1944), "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), "The African Queen" (1951) (for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor), "The Caine Mutiny" (1954), "We're No Angels" (1955) and "The Left Hand of God" (1955). Altogether, he appeared in 75 feature motion pictures. Edited from Wikipedia.
Cary Grant (1904-1986) was an English-born actor known for mostly American films. With his distinctive Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time of American cinema, after Humphrey Bogart, by the American Film Institute. His popular classic films include "The Awful Truth" (1937), "Bringing Up Baby" (1938), "Gunga Din" (1939), "Only Angels Have Wings" (1939), "His Girl Friday" (1940), "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), "Suspicion" (1941), "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944), "Notorious" (1946), "To Catch A Thief" (1955), "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "North by Northwest" (1959), and "Charade" (1963).Edited from Wikipedia.
Clark Gable (1901-1960) was an iconic and legendary American actor. He has been nicknamed "The King of Hollywood." In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. Gable's most famous role was Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film "Gone with the Wind". His performance earned him his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor; he won for "It Happened One Night" (1934) and was also nominated for "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935). Later performances were in "Run Silent, Run Deep", a submarine war film, and his final film, "The Misfits" (1961), which paired Gable with Marilyn Monroe in her last screen appearance. Edited from Wikipedia.
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (1908 – 1997) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime Achievement award. Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), "Rope" (1948), "Harvey" (1950), "Rear Window" (1954), "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956), and "Vertigo" (1958). Edited from Wikipedia.
James Francis Cagney, Jr. (1899 – 1986) was an American film actor. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. Cagney's films include "The Public Enemy" (1931), notable for its famous grapefruit scene, "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), "Love Me or Leave Me" (1955), and his final film "Ragtime" (1981). Edited from Wikipedia.
