I can’t recall a time when I wasn’t enamoured by
what movie actors do onscreen. A substantial part of my memory bank is filled
with things I watched them do and things they made me feel.
My movie habit got started when I was a tot in
the early 1950’s and really hasn’t slowed down in the decades since. So I’ve
seen an awful lot of screen performances. But the pleasure I get from discovering
exciting new ones or revisiting favorites from the past has never abated.
I’ve decided to compile a list of the 20th
century performances that have lingered most fondly in my head. It’s pretty
massive, with over a thousand entries. A mix of leading and supporting turns,
but all vivid and impactful. I’ve divided them into dozens.
The decades I’m most keyed into are the 30’s, 40’s
and 50’s, the movies from that period being utterly formative for me. So there’s
a greater concentration of actors here from those decades. From 1930 to 1969 I’ve cited my dozen favorite performances from
each year.
At the end, I’ve also added two addendums, one
for pre-30’s films, one for post-60’s ones.
For those sections I’ve divided up the time
frames for my dozens a little differently.
Thankfully there have been great achievements in
rediscovery and restoration but so much from the silent era remains lost or
inaccessible. So – compared to later periods - there are fewer performances actually
available for viewing. For the purposes of my list I’ve divided the period into
three parts: pre-1920, 1920-to 1925 and 1926 to 1929.
As for the post-60’s era, I’ve divvied it up
into two year periods ending in 1999. Generally – but not always – I find my
reaction to these later films and the performances in them to be of a somewhat different
– perhaps more practical, less enchanted - perspective. There’s still magic – lots
of it. But – for me – it’s different and has less of the intrinsic fairy tale spell
that Hollywood films regularly used to cast.
There’s certainly no exact science to the
criteria I’ve used to choose my favorite performances. Some are undeniably
brilliant, inspired feats of acting. Others, concentrated examples of sheer, overwhelming
charm, personality or pulchritude.
Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the
beholder. And in this case the beholder is me.
Some of these performances occur in wonderful
films. Others are outstanding islands of brilliance in otherwise awful movies.
I’ve had to be ruthless about what I left out.
Some years were so jampacked with performances I treasure that I could have added
dozens more and still not presented nearly enough richly deserved roses.
But – anyway – here’s the list. You’ll probably
find many you already admire. Other choices may leave you scratching your head.
But hopefully, you may just be tempted to track down some of the ones you don’t
know. Every one of them is special to me.
DOWN TO A DOZEN (12 Favorite Performances per Year, listed alphabetically)
1930
LEW AYRES “All Quiet
on the Western Front”
JOAN BLONDELL
“Sinners’ Holiday”
JAMES CAGNEY “Doorway
to Hell”
JAMES CAGNEY “Sinners’
Holiday”
MARLENE DIETRICH
“Morocco”
TRIXIE FRIGANZA “Free
and Easy”
JOBYNA HOWLAND “The
Cuckoos”
IAN KEITH “The Big
Trail”
ADOLPHE MENJOU
“Morocco”
BOB STEELE “Headin’
North”
WOLFGANG VON
WALTERSHAUSEN “Menschen am Sonntag”/People on Sunday
JOHN WAYNE “The Big Trail”
1931
TED ADAMS “The Ridin’ Fool”
PAULE ANDRE “David
Golder”
JOAN BLONDELL “Blonde
Crazy”
JAMES CAGNEY “Blonde
Crazy”
JANE DARWELL
“Huckleberry Finn”
MARLENE DIETRICH
“Dishonored”
BORIS KARLOFF
“Frankenstein”
DOROTHY MACKAILL “Safe
in Hell”
FRANK McHUGH “Kiss Me
Again”
SYLVIA SIDNEY “Ladies
of the Big House”
BARBARA STANWYCK “Ten
Cents a Dance”
ROBERT WILLIAMS “Platinum Blonde”
1932
NANCY CARROLL “Hot
Saturday”
MAE CLARKE “Night
World”
BING CROSBY “The Big
Broadcast”
FRANCES DEE “Love is a
Racket”
MARLENE DIETRICH
“Blonde Venus”
WILLI
DOMGRAFF-FASSBAENDER “Die verkaufte Braut”/The Bartered Bride
HARRY EARLES “Freaks”
LOUISE CLOSSER HALE
“Shanghai Express”
GUY KIBBEE “Rain”
MAYO METHOT “Vanity
Street”
SYLVIA SIDNEY “Madame
Butterfly”
MAE WEST “Night After Night”
1933
FRED ASTAIRE “Flying
Down to Rio”
JOAN BLONDELL
“Footlight Parade”
JAMES CAGNEY
“Footlight Parade”
MARION DAVIES “Peg
o’My Heart”
CLAIRE DODD “Footlight
Parade”
RUTH DONNELLY “42nd
Street”
GLENDA FARRELL
“Mystery of the Wax Museum”
MARGARET LINDSAY “Lady
Killer”
EDWIN PHILLIPS “Wild
Boys of the Road”
GREGORY RATOFF “Let’s
Fall in Love”
WARREN WILLIAM
“Goodbye Again”
LORETTA YOUNG “She Had to Say Yes”
1934
TOMMY BUPP “It’s a
Gift”
MELVILLE COOPER “The
Private Life of Don Juan”
W.C. FIELDS” “It’s a
Gift”
W.C. FIELDS “You’re
Telling Me!”
GRETA GARBO “The
Painted Veil”
ETIENNE GIRARDOT “The
Firebird”
KATHLEEN HOWARD “It’s
a Gift”
GUY KIBBEE “Dames”
JESSIE MATTHEWS
“Evergreen”
MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN
“Tarzan and His Mate”
MERLE OBERON “The
Private Life of Don Juan”
WALLY WALES “The Way of the West”
1935
ALICE BRADY
“Gold-diggers of 1935”
W.C. FIELDS “Man on
the Flying Trapeze’
ERROL FLYNN “Captain
Blood”
ETIENNE GIRARDOT “The
Whole Town’s Talking”
HUGH HERBERT
“Gold-diggers of 1935”
KATHLEEN HOWARD “Man
on the Flying Trapeze”
BORIS KARLOFF “Bride
of Frankenstein”
FRED MacMURRAY “Alice
Adams”
HATTIE McDANIEL “Alice
Adams”
UNA O’CONNOR “Bride of
Frankenstein”
EDNA MAY OLIVER “David
Copperfield”
BASIL RATHBONE “David Copperfield”
1936
MARY ASTOR “Dodsworth”
JOE E. BROWN
“Earthworm Tractors”
RUTH CHATTERTON
“Dodsworth”
LAURA HOPE CREWS
“Camille”
JANE DARWELL “Ramona”
MARCIA MAE JONES
“These Three”
GUY KIBBEE “Earthworm
Tractors”
ALMA KRUGER “These
Three”
JEANETTE MacDONALD
“Rose Marie”
IRIS MEREDITH “The
Cowboy Star”
GLORIA STUART “The
Girl on the Front Page”
LORETTA YOUNG “Ramona”
1937
JANE BRYAN
“Confession”
JOHN CLEMENT “Knight
Without Armour”
RONALD COLMAN “Lost
Horizon”
DERRICK De MARNEY
“Young and Innocent”
IRENE DUNNE “The Awful
Truth”
BILLY HALOP “Dead End”
PHILIP HURLIC “Penrod
and Sam”
JEANETTE
MacDONALD “The Firefly”
BILLY MAUCH/BOBBY
MAUCH “The Prince and the Pauper”
MARY NASH “Heidi”
PARKYAKARKAS “She’s
Got Everything”
DOUGLAS WALTON “Flight from Glory”
1938
ANDREX “La
Marseillaise”
WILL HAY
“Convict 99”
HEDY LAMARR “Algiers”
ZARAH LEANDER “Der
Blaufuchs”/The Blue Fox
GENE LOCKHART
“Algiers”
GENE LOCKHART
“Sweethearts”
JEANETTE MacDONALD
“The Girl of the Golden West”
JEANETTE MacDONALD
“Sweethearts”
ROBERT MORLEY “Marie
Antoinette”
DORIS NOLAN “Holiday”
ELIZABETH PATTERSON
“Sing, You Sinners”
NORMA SHEARER “Marie Antoinette”
1939
BRIAN
AHERNE “Juarez”
GEORGE BRENT “The
Rains Came”
KAY FRANCIS “In Name
Only”
LOUIS HAYWARD “The Man
in the Iron Mask”
GLORIA JEAN “The
Under-Pup”
HEDY LAMARR “Lady of
the Tropics”
CHARLES LAUGHTON “The
Hunchback of Notre Dame”
VIVIEN LEIGH “Gone
with the Wind”
HATTIE McDANIEL “Gone
with the Wind”
MERLE OBERON “Over the
Moon”
HELEN PARRISH “First
Love”
LUCILE WATSON “Made for Each Other”
1940
FLORENCE BATES
“Rebecca”
NANA BRYANT “Father is
a Prince”
JANE DARWELL “The
Grapes of Wrath”
IRENE DUNNE “My
Favorite Wife”
ERROL FLYNN “The Sea
Hawk”
GREER GARSON “Pride
and Prejudice”
JOHN JUSTIN “The Thief
of Bagdad”
MERLE OBERON “’Til We
Meet Again”
LAURENCE OLIVIER
“Pride and Prejudice”
DICK POWELL “Christmas
in July”
TYRONE POWER “The Mark
of Zorro”
VICTOR SEN YUNG “The Letter”
1941
JEAN ARTHUR “The Devil
and Miss Jones”
HUMPHREY BOGART “High
Sierra”
SPRING BYINGTON “The
Devil and Miss Jones”
CHARLES COBURN “The
Devil and Miss Jones”
RAY COLLINS “Citizen
Kane”
SYDNEY GREENSTREET
“The Maltese Falcon”
SUSAN HAYWARD “Among
the Living”
RITA HAYWORTH “You’ll
Never Get Rich”
FRIEDA INESCORT
“You’ll Never Get Rich”
JOAN LESLIE “High
Sierra”
RANDOLPH SCOTT
“Western Union”
LANA TURNER “Ziegfeld Girl”
1942
ANNE BAXTER “The
Magnificent Ambersons”
WILLIAM BENDIX “The
Glass Key”
CLAUDETTE COLBERT “The
Palm Beach Story”
RAY COLLINS “The
Magnificent Ambersons”
LAIRD CREGAR “This Gun
for Hire”
SUSAN HAYWARD “I
Married a Witch”
TIM HOLT “The
Magnificent Ambersons”
ALAN LADD “This Gun
for Hire”
JEANETTE MacDONALD “I
Married an Angel”
IRENE MANNING “Spy
Ship”
BRENDA MARSHALL
“Captains of the Clouds”
SIMONE SIMON “Cat People”
1943
DANA ANDREWS “The
Ox-Bow Incident”
JEAN BROOKS “The
Seventh Victim”
JACK CARSON “The Hard
Way”
CONNIE GILCHRIST
“Presenting Lily Mars”
SALLY ANN HOWES
“Thursday’s Child”
JENNIFER JONES “The
Song of Bernadette”
IDA LUPINO “The Hard
Way”
GEORGES MARCHAL
“Lumiere d’Ete”/Summer Light
THOMAS MITCHELL “Flesh
and Fantasy”
ROBERT PAIGE “Son of
Dracula”
VINCENT PRICE “The
Song of Bernadette”
ANNE REVERE “The Song of Bernadette”
1944
LEON AMES “Meet Me in
St. Louis”
LAUREN BACALL “To Have
and Have Not”
ANN CARTER “The Curse
of the Cat People”
CLAUDETTE COLBERT
“Since You Went Away”
JOSEPH COTTEN “Since
You Went Away”
HENRY DANIELL “Jane
Eyre”
IRENE DUNNE “Together
Again”
JOAN FONTAINE “Jane
Eyre”
JUDY GARLAND “Meet Me
in St. Louis”
SYDNEY GREENSTREET
“The Mask of Dimitrios”
ANGELA LANSBURY
“Gaslight”
JEAN PARKER “Bluebeard”
1945
INGRID BERGMAN “The
Bells of St. Mary’s”
BING CROSBY “The Bells
of St. Mary’s”
LINDA DARNELL “Fallen
Angel”
ROSALIND IVAN “The
Corn is Green”
ANDREA KING “Hotel
Berlin”
MARGARET LOCKWOOD “The
Wicked Lady”
FRED MacMURRAY
“Murder, He Says”
JAMES MASON “The
Wicked Lady”
ANNE REVERE
“National Velvet”
ANN SAVAGE
“Detour”
GENE TIERNEY “Leave
Her to Heaven”
ESTHER WILLIAMS “Thrill of a Romance”
1946
DANA ANDREWS “The Best
Years of Our Lives”
MICHAEL CHEKHOV
“Specter of the Rose”
JOAN CRAWFORD
“Humoresque”
MARIA FELIX
“Enamorada”
JUDY GARLAND “The
Harvey Girls”
SYDNEY GREENSTREET
“Three Strangers”
MARTITA HUNT “Great
Expectations”
ELEANOR PARKER “Of
Human Bondage”
GREGORY PECK “Duel in
the Sun”
JEAN SIMMONS “Great
Expectations”
GENE TIERNEY “The
Razor’s Edge”
CLIFTON WEBB “The Razor’s Edge”
1947
DANA ANDREWS “Daisy
Kenyon”
JOAN BENNETT “The
Macomber Affair”
BING CROSBY “Road to
Rio”
JANE GREER “Out of the
Past”
BOB HOPE “Road to Rio”
IDA LUPINO “The Man I
Love”
DOROTHY McGUIRE
“Gentleman’s Agreement”
JEAN PETERS “Captain
from Castile”
ALIDA VALLI “The
Paradine Case”
ESTHER HOWARD “Born to
Kill”
MARTHA STEWART “I
Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now”
NATALIE WOOD “Miracle on 34th Street”
1948
GLENN ANDERS “The Lady
from Shanghai”
LOU COSTELLO “Abbott
& Costello Meet Frankenstein”
MARLENE DIETRICH “A
Foreign Affair”
DAN DURYEA “Another
Part of the Forest”
HOPE EMERSON “Cry of
the City”
ERROL FLYNN
“Adventures of Don Juan”
REGINALD GARDINER
“Fury at Furnace Creek”
GENE KELLY “The
Pirate”
IDA LUPINO “Road
House”
JEANETTE MacDONALD
“Three Daring Daughters”
MOIRA SHEARER “The Red
Shoes”
JOHN WAYNE “Red River”
1949
LINDA DARNELL “A
Letter to Three Wives”
DORIS DAY “My Dream is
Yours”
YVONNE De
CARLO “Criss Cross”
KIRK DOUGLAS
“Champion”
KIRK DOUGLAS “A Letter
to Three Wives”
PAUL DOUGLAS “A Letter
to Three Wives’
AVA GARDNER “East
Side, West Side”
VALERIE HOBSON “The
Rocking Horse Winner”
BURT LANCASTER “Criss
Cross”
DENNIS PRICE “Kind
Hearts and Coronets”
ANN SOTHERN “A Letter
to Three Wives”
EVELYN VARDEN “Pinky”
1950
INGRID BERGMAN
“Stromboli”
CORNELL BORCHERS “The
Big Lift”
LOUIS CALHERN “The
Asphalt Jungle”
PEGGY CUMMINS “Gun
Crazy”
LINDA DARNELL “No Way
Out”
CHARLES DRAKE
“Winchester ‘73”
FAITH DOMERGUE “Where
Danger Lives”
HOPE EMERSON “Caged!”
ZERO MOSTEL “Panic in
the Streets”
ELEANOR PARKER
“Caged!”
JANE POWELL “Two Weeks
with Love”
SPENCER TRACY “Father of the Bride”
1951
LESLIE CARON “An
American in Paris”
STEVE COCHRAN “Storm
Warning”
DORIS DAY “Storm
Warning”
NINA FOCH “An American
in Paris”
AVA GARDNER “Show
Boat”
ADELE JERGENS “Abbott
& Costello Meet the Invisible Man”
EVELYN KEYES “The
Prowler”
RALPH MEEKER “Teresa”
AUDIE MURPHY “The Red
Badge of Courage”
ELEANOR PARKER
“Detective Story”
LURENE TUTTLE
”Tomorrow is Another Day”
OSKAR WERNER “Decision Before Dawn”
1952
CHARLES COBURN “Has
Anybody Seen My Gal?”
BRANDON de WILDE “The
Member of the Wedding”
VALERIE HOBSON “The
Card”
ADELE JERGENS “Aaron
Slick from Punkin Crick”
MARILYN MONROE “Don’t
Bother to Knock”
LAURENCE OLIVIER
“Carrie”
ELEANOR PARKER
“Scaramouche”
ALICE PEARCE “The
Belle of New York”
BARBARA STANWYCK
“Clash By Night”
RICHARD TODD “The
Story of Robin Hood”
CLAIRE TREVOR “My Man
and I”
JON WHITELEY “Hunted”
1953
FRED ASTAIRE “The Band
Wagon”
DORIS DAY “Calamity
Jane”
DEBORAH KERR “Thunder
in the East”
BARBARA STANWYCK
“Titanic”
SPENCER TRACY “The
Actress”
CLIFTON WEBB “Titanic”
BRANDON de WILDE
“Shane”
EDITH EVANSON “The Big
Heat”
NANETTE FABRAY “The
Band Wagon”
KURT KASZNAR “Give a
Girl a Break”
REX THOMPSON “Young
Bess”
JOSEPH TOMELTY “Meet Mr. Lucifer”
1954
MARLON BRANDO “On the
Waterfront”
RHONDA FLEMING
“Jivaro”
CHARLTON HESTON
“Secret of the Incas”
GIULIETTA MASINA “La
Strada”
COLLEEN MILLER “Four
Guns to the Border”
MARILYN MONROE “River
of No Return”
JANE POWELL “Seven
Brides for Seven Brothers”
STANLEY BAKER “The
Good Die Young’
BELLA DARVI “The
Egyptian”
MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE
“Johnny Guitar”
THOMAS MITCHELL
“Secret of the Incas”
TOMMY RETTIG “River of No Return”
1955
ROSSANO BRAZZI
“Summertime”
JAMES CAGNEY “Love Me
or Leave Me”
RICHARD CONTE “The Big
Combo”
LILLIAN GISH “The
Night of the Hunter”
SUSAN HAYWARD “I’ll
Cry Tomorrow”
ADELE JERGENS “Day the
World Ended”
MARGARET LOCKWOOD
“Cast a Dark Shadow”
JEFF MORROW “This
Island Earth”
JO VAN FLEET “I’ll Cry
Tomorrow”
EVELYN VARDEN “The
Night of the Hunter”
JEAN WALLACE “The Big
Combo”
RICHARD WORDSWORTH “The Quatermass Xperiment”
1956
BRIGITTE
BARDOT “Et Dieu Crea la Femme”
ANNE BAXTER “The Ten
Commandments”
YUL BRYNNER “The Ten
Commandments”
WENDELL COREY “The
Killer is Loose”
DIANA DORS “Yield to
the Night”
SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE
“The Ten Commandments”
MARIA SCHELL
“Gervaise”
RANDOLPH SCOTT “Seven
Men from Now”
ROD STEIGER “Back from
Eternity”
JOHN WAYNE “The
Searchers”
JEAN WILLES “The King
and Four Queens”
HANK WORDEN “The Searchers”
1957
ANN BLYTH “The Helen
Morgan Story”
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
“Island in the Sun”
SOPHIA LOREN “Boy on a
Dolphin”
NIALL MacGINNIS “Night
of the Demon”
PATRICIA NEAL “A Face
in the Crowd”
BARBARA NICHOLS “Sweet
Smell of Success”
UNA O’CONNOR “Witness
for the Prosecution”
TYRONE POWER “Seven
Waves Away”/Abandon Ship
RANDOLPH SCOTT
“Decision at Sundown”
JEAN SEBERG “Saint
Joan”
GRANT WILLIAMS “The
Incredible Shrinking Man”
CLIFTON WEBB “Boy on a Dolphin”
1958
MAY BRITT “The Young
Lions”
JOSEPH CALLEIA “Touch
of Evil”
CHUCK CONNORS “The Big
Country”
HERMIONE GINGOLD
“Gigi”
SHIRLEY MacLAINE “Some
Came Running”
JEANNE
MOREAU “Ascenseur pour l’Echafaud”/Elevator to the Gallows
PAUL NEWMAN “The Long
Hot Summer”
KIM NOVAK “Bell, Book
and Candle”
JEAN SEBERG
“Bonjour Tristesse”
JAMES
STEWART “Vertigo”
YVETTE VICKERS “Attack
of the 50 Foot Woman”
ORSON WELLES “Touch of Evil”
1959
ED BEGLEY “Odds
Against Tomorrow”
STEPHEN BOYD “Ben-Hur”
JOAN COPELAND “Middle
of the Night”
ARLENE DAHL “Journey
to the Center of the Earth”
ALBERT DEKKER “Middle
of the Night”
CHARLTON HESTON
“Ben-Hur”
JACK LEMMON “Some Like
It Hot”
FREDRIC MARCH “Middle
of the Night’
JAMES MASON “Journey
to the Center of the Earth”
THELMA RITTER “A Hole
in the Head”
EDWARD G. ROBINSON “A
Hole in the Head”
RANDOLPH SCOTT “Ride Lonesome”
1960
NANCY KWAN “The World
of Suzie Wong”
ANNA
MAGNANI “Risate di Gioia”/The Passionate Thief
MARCELLO
MASTROIANNI “La Dolce Vita”
KIM NOVAK “Strangers
When We Meet”
RANDOLPH
SCOTT “Comanche Station”
SIMONE
SIGNORET “Adua e le Compagne”/Adua and Her Friends
YVONNE
FURNEAUX “La Dolce Vita”
JANET LEIGH “Psycho”
KARL MALDEN
“Pollyanna”
BARBARA NICHOLS/JOI
LANSING “Who Was That Lady?”
DAVID OPATOSHU
“Exodus”
BARBARA RUSH “Strangers When We Meet”
1961
MARY ASTOR “Return to
Peyton Place”
MONTGOMERY CLIFT “The
Misfits”
MARLENE DIETRICH
“Judgment at Nuremberg”
CLARK GABLE “The
Misfits”
JULIETTE GRECO “The
Big Gamble”
VIVIEN LEIGH “The
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone”
LOTTE LENYA “The Roman
Spring of Mrs. Stone”
LEO McKERN “The Day
the Earth Caught Fire”
MARILYN MONROE “The
Misfits”
RITA MORENO “West Side
Story”
THELMA RITTER “The
Misfits”
SPENCER TRACY “Judgment at Nuremberg”
1962
ANNE BANCROFT “The
Miracle Worker”
JOAN CRAWFORD
“Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
PATTY DUKE “The
Miracle Worker”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
“Long Day’s Journey into Night”
ANGELA LANSBURY “The
Manchurian Candidate”
JACK LEMMON “Days of
Wine and Roses”
JAMES MASON “Lolita”
ANTHONY QUINN “Requiem
for a Heavyweight”
LEE REMICK “Days of
Wine and Roses”
RALPH RICHARDSON “Long
Day’s Journey into Night”
ROSALIND RUSSELL
“Gypsy”
SHELLEY WINTERS “Lolita”
1963
CAPUCINE “The Pink
Panther”
MELVYN DOUGLAS “Hud”
JUDY GARLAND “I Could
Go On Singing”
HUGH GRIFFITH “Tom
Jones”
KAZUO HASEGAWA “An
Actor’s Revenge”
WENDY HILLER “Toys in
the Attic”
JEANNE
MOREAU “La Baie des Anges”/Bay of Angels
GERALDINE PAGE “Toys
in the Attic”
ANTHONY PERKINS “The
Trial”
FLORA ROBSON “55 Days
at Peking”
TUESDAY WELD “Soldier
in the Rain”
JONATHAN WINTERS “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”
1964
MARY ASTOR “Hush …
Hush, Sweet Charlotte”
FRED CLARK “The Curse
of the Mummy’s Tomb”
BETTE DAVIS “Hush ,,,
Hush, Sweet Charlotte”
DORIS DAY “Send Me No
Flowers”
CATHERINE
DENEUVE “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg”/The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
HENRY FONDA “Fail
Safe”
LILA KEDROVA “Zorba
the Greek”
FREDRIC MARCH “Seven
Days in May”
GERALDINE PAGE “Dear
Heart”
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
“The Fall of the Roman Empire”
TONY RANDALL “Send Me
No Flowers”
ANN SOTHERN “Lady in a Cage”
1965
JULIE CHRISTIE
“Darling”
ANJANETTE COMER “The
Loved One”
DORIS DAY “Do Not
Disturb”
SAMANTHA EGGAR “The
Collector”
GIULIANO GEMMA “Una
Pistola per Ringo”/A Pistol for Ringo
GIULIANO GEMMA “Il
Ritorno di Ringo”/The Return of Ringo
JOHN GIELGUD “The
Loved One”
SHIRLEY MacLAINE “The
Yellow Rolls-Royce”
PETER O’TOOLE “What’s
New, Pussycat?”
CLAUDE RAINS “The
Greatest Story Ever Told”
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL
“Return from the Ashes”
FERNANDO SANCHO “Una Pistola per Ringo”/A Pistol for Ringo
1966
RICHARD BURTON “Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
DORIS DAY “The Glass
Bottom Boat”
DOM DeLUISE “The Glass
Bottom Boat”
JOHN GIELGUD “Chimes
at Midnight”
WENDY HILLER “A Man
for All Seasons”
MARTHA HYER “The
Chase”
LILA KEDROVA “Torn
Curtain”
JOHN PHILLIP LAW “The
Russians are Coming”
JEANNE MOREAU
“Mademoiselle”
JANICE RULE “The
Chase”
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
NATALIE WOOD “This Property is Condemned”
1967
ANNE BANCROFT “The
Graduate”
ELEANOR BRON “Two for
the Road”
RICHARD BURTON “The
Taming of the Shrew”
GENE HACKMAN “Bonnie
and Clyde”
BRIAN KEITH
“Reflections in a Golden Eye”
SOPHIA LOREN “More
Than a Miracle”
ALFRED LYNCH “The
Taming of the Shrew”
MILDRED NATWICK
“Barefoot in the Park”
ESTELLE
PARSONS “Bonnie and Clyde”
VANESSA REDGRAVE
“Camelot”
OMAR SHARIF “More Than
a Miracle”
SHELLEY WINTERS “Enter Laughing”
1968
LYNN CARLIN “Faces”
KEIR DULLEA “2001: A
Space Odyssey”
MIA FARROW “Rosemary’s
Baby”
RUTH GORDON
“Rosemary’s Baby”
GARY LOCKWOOD “2001: A
Space Odyssey”
KAY MEDFORD “Funny
Girl”
OMAR SHARIF “Funny
Girl”
BARBRA STREISAND
“Funny Girl”
LEIGH TAYLOR-YOUNG “I
Love You, Alice B. Toklas”
JO VAN FLEET “I Love
You, Alice B. Toklas”
JOYCE VAN PATTEN “I
Love You, Alice B. Toklas”
NORMAN WISDOM “The Night They Raided Minsky’s”
1969
BONNIE BEDELIA “They
Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
RED BUTTONS “They
Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
PETER CUSHING
“Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed”
ROBERT FORSTER “Medium
Cool”
PAMELA FRANKLIN “The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”
LEE GRANT “The Big
Bounce”
VAN HEFLIN “The Big
Bounce”
FREDDIE JONES
“Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed”
JACK KLUGMAN “Goodbye
Columbus”
SHIRLEY MacLAINE
“Sweet Charity”
ALLYN ANN McLERIE
“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
LEIGH TAYLOR-YOUNG “The Big Bounce”
ADDENDUM ONE: Pre-1930
Pre-1920
JEWEL CARMEN “The
Half-Breed”(1916)
FABIENNE FABREGES
“Signori Giurati”(1916)
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS “His
Majesty the American(1919)
LILLIAN GISH “Broken
Blossoms”(1919)
ROBERT HARRON
“Intolerance”(1916)
WILLIAM S. HART “The
Narrow Trail”(1917)
DORIS KENYON “A Girl’s
Folly”(1917)
PINA MENICHELLI “Tigre
Reale”(1916)
SEENA OWEN
“Intolerance”(1916)
MARY PICKFORD “Stella
Maris”(1918)
CONSTANCE TALMADGE
“Intolerance”(1916)
FANNIE WARD “The Cheat”(1915)
1920-1925
ENID BENNETT “The Red
Lily”(1924)
LEW CODY “Souls for
Sale”(1923)
RONALD COLMAN “Her
Night of Romance”(1924)
JACKIE COOGAN “The
Kid”(1921)
LILLIAN GISH “Way Down
East”(1920)
GEORGE GRAN “Her Night
of Romance”(1924)
BUSTER KEATON “Seven
Chances”(1925)
VALENTINA KUINDZHI
“Aelita”(1924)
ADOLPHE MENJOU “A
Woman of Paris”(1923)
EDNA PURVIANCE “A
Woman of Paris”(1923)
CONSTANCE TALMADGE
“The Love Expert”(1920)
CONSTANCE TALMADGE “Her Night of Romance”(1924)
1926-1927
RAYMOND BLOOMER
“Sensation Seekers”(1927)
CLARA BOW “It”(1927)
CLIVE BROOK “Barbed
Wire”(1927)
LOUISE BROOKS “Love
‘Em and Leave ‘Em”(1926)
BILLIE DOVE “Sensation
Seekers”(1927)
JEANNE EAGELS “Man,
Woman and Sin”(1927)
GRETA GARBO “The
Temptress”(1926)
OTIS HARLAN “What
Happened to Jones”(1926)
AL JOLSON “The Jazz
Singer”(1927)
HARRY LANGDON “The
Strong Man”(1926)
POLA NEGRI “Barbed
Wire”(1927)
RUDOLPH VALENTINO “The Son of the Sheik”(1926)
1928-1929
OLGA BACLANOVA “The
Docks of New York”(1928)
ELEANOR BOARDMAN “The
Crowd”(1928)
LOUISE BROOKS “Die
Buchse der Pandora”/Pandora's Box(1929)
MARION DAVIES “The
Patsy”(1928)
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR.
“The Power of the Press”(1928)
WILLY FRITSCH
“Spione”/Spies(1928)
GRETA GARBO “The
Mysterious Lady”(1928)
BESSIE LOVE “The
Broadway Melody”(1929)
NINA MAE McKINNEY
“Hallelujah”(1929)
HELEN MORGAN
“Applause”(1929)
CONRAD NAGEL “The
Mysterious Lady”(1928)
ANNA MAY WONG “Piccadilly”(1929)
ADDENDUM TWO: 70’s, 80’s, 90’s
1970/1971
MAX ADRIAN “The Boy
Friend”(1971)
MICHAEL CAINE “The
Last Valley”(1971)
ANTONIA ELLIS “The Boy
Friend”(1971)
MOYRA FRASER “The Boy
Friend”(1971)
ALEC GUINNESS
“Cromwell”(1970)
BARBARA HARRIS
“Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Things About Me?(1971)
TREVOR HOWARD “Ryan’s
Daughter”(1970)
SARAH MILES “Ryan’s
Daughter”(1970)
LEO McKERN “Ryan’s
Daughter”(1970)
PIPPA SCOTT “Cold
Turkey”(1971)
TWIGGY “The Boy
Friend”(1971)
DICK VAN DYKE “Cold Turkey”(1971)
1972/1973
LOU JACOBI “Everything
You Always Wanted to Know About Sex”(1972)
MADELINE KAHN “What’s
Up, Doc?”(1972)
STACY KEACH “Fat
City”(1972)
MARGARET LEIGHTON
“Lady Caroline Lamb”(1972)
FIONA LEWIS “Dr.
Phibes Rises Again”(1972)
SARAH MILES “Lady
Caroline Lamb”(1972)
VERA MILES “Molly and
Lawless John”(1972)
RYAN O’NEAL “What’s
Up, Doc?”(1972)
TATUM O’NEAL “Paper
Moon”(1973)
ROBERT QUARRY “Dr.
Phibes Rises Again”(1972)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR “Ash
Wednesday”(1973)
SUSAN TYRRELL “Fat City”(1972)
1974/1975
ANNE BANCROFT “The
Hindenburg”(1975)
JACQUELINE BISSET “La
Nuit Americaine”/Day for Night(1974)
RONEE BLAKLEY
“Nashville”(1975)
ELLEN BURSTYN “Alice
Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”(1974)
ROBERT DE NIRO “The
Godfather Part II”(1974)
LOUISE FLETCHER “One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”(1975)
BARBARA HARRIS
“Nashville”(1975)
MADELINE KAHN “Young
Frankenstein”(1974)
MILDRED NATWICK “Daisy
Miller”(1974)
ROY SCHEIDER
“Jaws”(1975)
ROBERT SHAW
“Jaws”(1975)
KEENAN WYNN “Nashville”(1975)
1976/1977
JULIE BOVASSO
“Saturday Night Fever”(1977)
GENEVIEVE BUJOLD
“Obsession”(1976)
JOAN COPELAND
“Roseland”(1977)
MELINDA DILLON “Close
Encounters of the Third Kind”(1977)
HELEN GALLAGHER
“Roseland”(1977)
KAREN LYNN GORNEY
“Saturday Night Fever”(1977)
DIANE KEATON “Annie
Hall”(1977)
DONNA PESCOW “Saturday
Night Fever”(1977)
ROMAN POLANSKI “The
Tenant”(1976)
CLIFF ROBERTSON
“Obsession”(1976)
ZERO MOSTEL “The
Front”(1976)
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN “Roseland”(1977)
1978/1979
CHERYL BARNES
“Hair”(1979)
CANDICE BERGEN
“Starting Over”(1979)
INGRID BERGMAN “Autumn
Sonata”(1978)
ELLEN BURSTYN “A Dream
of Passion”(1978)
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER
“Breaking Away”(1979)
JILL CLAYBURGH
“Starting Over”(1979)
PAUL DOOLEY “Breaking
Away”(1979)
CHARLES DURNING
“Starting Over”(1979)
FREDERIC FORREST
“Apocalypse Now”(1979)
UTA HAGEN “The Boys
from Brazil”(1978)
LAURENCE OLIVIER “The
Boys from Brazil”(1978)
BURT REYNOLDS “Starting Over”(1979)
1980/1981
NANCY ALLEN “Blow
Out”(1981)
ROBERT DE NIRO “Raging
Bull”(1980)
FAYE DUNAWAY “Mommie
Dearest”(1981)
JANE FONDA “9 to
5”(1980)
ROBERT HAYS
“Airplane!”(1980)
PAUL Le MAT “Melvin
and Howard”(1980)
MARY TYLER MOORE
“Ordinary People”(1980)
CATHY MORIARTY “Raging
Bull”(1980)
JOE PESCI “Raging
Bull”(1980)
BERNADETTE PETERS
“Pennies from Heaven”(1981)
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING
“Stardust Memories”(1980)
MARY STEENBURGEN “Melvin and Howard”(1980)
1982/1983
DON AMECHE “Trading
Places”(1983)
SANDAHL BERGMAN “Conan
the Barbarian”(1982)
JOSEPH BOLOGNA “My
Favorite Year”(1982)
JILL CLAYBURGH “I’m
Dancing As Fast As I Can”(1982)
FAYE DUNAWAY “The
Wicked Lady”(1983)
TERI GARR
“Tootsie”(1982)
RUTGER HAUER “Blade
Runner”(1982)
WENDY HUGHES “Careful,
He Might Hear You”(1983)
LAINIE KAZAN “My
Favorite Year”(1982)
MARK LINN-BAKER “My
Favorite Year”(1982)
MICHAEL MORIARTY
“Q”(1982)
GRETA SCACCHI “Heat and Dust”(1983)
1984/1985
CLANCY BROWN “The
Bride”(1985)
ROBERT FORSTER
“Walking the Edge”(1985)
TERI GARR “After
Hours”(1985)
JEROEN KRABBE “The
Fourth Man”(1984)
JAMES MASON “The
Shooting Party”(1985)
GERALDINE PAGE “The
Trip to Bountiful”(1985)
JONATHAN PRYCE
“Brazil”(1985)
DAVID RAPPAPORT “The
Bride”(1985)
SCOTT TILER “Once Upon
a Time in America”(1984)
KATHLEEN TURNER
“Romancing the Stone”(1984)
FRED WARD
“UFOria”(1985)
OPRAH WINFREY “The Color Purple”(1985)
1986/1987
ANTONIO
BANDERAS “La Ley del Deseo”/Law of desire(1987)
CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN “The
Hidden”(1987)
LILLIAN GISH “The
Whales of August”(1987)
JOAN HICKSON
“Clockwise”(1986)
ANN WAY
“Clockwise”(1986)
SALLY KELLERMAN
“Someone to Love”(1987)
SALLY KIRKLAND
“Anna”(1987)
ESAI MORALES “La
Bamba”(1987)
MERYL STREEP
“Ironweed”(1987)
TOM WAITES
“Ironweed”(1987)
ORSON WELLES “Someone
to Love”(1987)
JAMES WILBY “Maurice”(1987)
1988/1989
DANNY AIELLO “Do the
Right Thing”(1989)
MATTHEW BRODERICK
“Torch Song Trilogy”(1988)
JACKIE BURROUGHS “A
Winter Tan”(1988)
MELINDA DILLON
“Staying Together”(1989)
HARRISON FORD “Working
Girl”(1988)
JOHN MAHONEY “Say
Anything”(1989)
ROSIE PEREZ “Do the
Right Thing”(1989)
IONE SKYE “Say
Anything”(1989)
KATHLEEN TURNER “The
War of the Roses”(1989)
JOHN VERNON “Killer
Klowns from Outer Space”(1988)
FRED WARD “Big
Business”(1988)
SIGOURNEY WEAVER “Working Girl”(1988)
1990/1991
NIELS ARESTRUP
“Meeting Venus”(1991)
KEVIN BACON
“JFK”(1991)
TANTOO CARDINAL “Dances with Wolves”(1990)
JOHNNY DEPP “Edward
Scissorhands”(1990)
CHRIS EIGEMAN
“Metropolitan”(1990)
ROBIN GIVENS “A Rage
in Harlem”(1991)
GRAHAM GREENE “Dances with Wolves” (1990)
ANJELICA HUSTON “The
Grifters”(1990)
MAUREEN O’HARA “Only
the Lonely”(1991)
RIVER PHOENIX “My Own
Private Idaho”(1991)
MIMI ROGERS “The
Rapture”(1991)
DIANNE WIEST “Edward Scissorhands”(1990)
1992/1993
GEENA DAVIS “A League
of Their Own”(1992)
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO
“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?”(1993)
MICHAEL DOUGLAS
“Falling Down”(1993)
DENICE DUFF
“Bloodstone: Subspecies II”(1993)
MORGAN FREEMAN
“Unforgiven”(1992)
GENE HACKMAN
“Unforgiven”(1992)
RICHARD HARRIS
“Unforgiven”(1992)
ANDERS HOVE
“Bloodstone: Subspecies II”(1993)
JACK LEMMON “Glengarry
Glen Ross”(1992)
PAUL MERCURIO
“Strictly Ballroom”(1992)
GARY OLDMAN “Bram
Stoker’s Dracula”(1992)
AL PACINO “Glengarry Glen Ross”(1992)
1994/1995
JAVIER
BARDEM “Boca a Boca”/Mouth to Mouth(1995)
JAMIE LEE
CURTIS “True Lies”(1994)
GINA GERSHON
“Showgirls”(1995)
TOMMY LEE JONES “Blue
Sky”(1994)
JESSICA LANGE “Blue
Sky”(1994)
FRANK LANGELLA
“Cutthroat Island”(1995)
PIPER LAURIE “The
Grass Harp”(1995)
VIVECA LINDFORS
“Stargate”(1994)
LINUS ROACHE
“Priest”(1994)
JAMES SPADER
“Stargate”(1994)
TOM WILKINSON
“Priest”(1994)
BRUCE WILLIS “Pulp Fiction”(1994)
1996/1997
SAFFRON BURROWS
“Lovelife”(1996)
MAHIMA
CHAUDHARY “Pardes”(1996)
ROBERT De
NIRO “Jackie Brown”(1997)
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO
“Titanic”(1997)
FRANCES FISHER
“Titanic”(1997)
BRIDGET FONDA “Jackie
Brown”(1997)
ROBERT FORSTER “Jackie
Brown”(1997)
ELLIOTT GOULD
“Johns”(1996)
PHILIP BAKER HALL
“Hard Eight”(1997)
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
“Jackie Brown”(1997)
AKSHAYE KHANNA
“Himalay Putra”(1997)
JULIANNE MOORE “Boogie Nights”(1997)
1998/1999
DYLAN BAKER
“Happiness”(1998)
STEVE BELL “Like It
Is”(1998)
HELENA BONHAM CARTER
“Fight Club”(1999)
SHIRLEY HENDERSON
“Topsy Turvy”(1999)
ASHLEY JUDD “Eye of
the Beholder”(1999)
AKSHAYE KHANNA
“Taal”(1999)
ELIAS KOTEAS “The Thin
Red Line”(1998)
LISA KUDROW “The
Opposite of Sex”(1998)
BRAD PITT “Meet Joe
Black”(1998)
AISHWARYA
RAI “Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam”(1999)
HANNA SCHYGULLA “La
Nina de Tus Ojos”/The Girl of Your Dreams(1998)
SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT
“American Pie”(1999)
