"I don't think anyone has been in more terrific movies than him"

so let's say you decide to watch 10 movies starring the same actor. who is the best choice?

If only John Cazale made more than six...

Christopher Walken

I'd probably say Jack Nicholson. He had an epic run before he became a ham but also a handful of valuable post-ham flicks.

guessing Brad Dourif

lotsa oldtimers. cary grant. jimmy stewart. edward g. robinson. cagney. lots of them.

burt lancaster.

I'd need to see more Isabelle Adjani films (like at least a total of ten) before making a ruling, but I love/she's been astounding in everything I've seen her in.

Tom Cruise is a boring but legit answer

oh okay the "him" threw me off. but if its women too uh another zillion people. lots of people have made lots of great movies actually. ONE person over all other people? uh i dunno. i love burt lancaster.

i think scott's right that a lot of old school actors used to rack them up quicker than post-60s people

anyway, cheating answer: Alfred Hitchcock

Jerry Lewis

do we get to pick the movies or are they randomly selected

Harry Dean Stanton or Katharine Hepburn or Cary Grant

David Niven

xxp you pick the movies

Robert Mitchum

Ian Holm

cary grant

Bette Davis made more movies terrific that would've otherwise not been. So her.

I guess I could watch anything Henry Fonda's in. I recently watched this just because TLJ was in it and I didn't even regret it

http://i.imgur.com/72BPC.jpg

kinda feel like Marilyn Monroe
she always had great costars

or maybe Brando

Humphrey Bogart:

The Petrified Forest
Brother Orchid
High Sierra
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
To Have and To Have Not
The Big Sleep
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Key Largo
Sabrina

Omitting The African Queen and The Barefoot Contessa, neither of which I like, and The Caine Mutiny because I haven't seen it.

james hong

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is a contender. Most of Wong Kar-Wai's best (Days of Being Wild, Ashes of Time, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, 2046), plus Hard-Boiled, Infernal Affairs, Cyclo, Flowers of Shanghai. And that's just among the ones I've seen.

Paul Newman's a good bet, too.

Cary Grant is a good answer

are there 10 great Robert Mitchum movies? I sure hope so

i would probably watch anything with james mason

i watched journey to the center of the earth

tbf that was awesome

ooh paul newman yes

this would be better if we couldnt pick the movies

Newman was the first name that came to mind, although he was often better than the films he was in. I'm sure there are character actors like Ned Beatty or Allen Garfield (or many from the studio days) who come close.

I can only get to nine with Cary Grant, but there's a lot I haven't seen.

The Awful Truth
Holiday
His Girl Friday
The Philadelphia Story
Suspicion
Arsenic and Old Lace
Notorious
North by Northwest
Charade

I've seen Bringing up Baby, but thought it was kind of terrible.

wondering abt someone like Buscemi, or Pesci

xxxp I might regret this if I can't pick the movies, but: Tim Curry

Cary Grant
Barbara Stanwyck
Gene Hackman
Bette Davis

Good call on Buscemi. I count eight, and I don't include three or four that most people like more than I do.

Hackman otm

adam sandler

jeff goldblum

Colin Farrell

Robert De Niro.

Looking at his imdb page though, it's amazing how few good movies he's been in since 1985.

yeah he's got 10 great movies but fuck he's got so many bad ones now

John C. Reilly

They both fall short for me--I'm too literal on the word "terrific"--but Martin Balsam and Jason Robards would work for many.

michael caine

I can get to seven with Sissy Spacek, without including a number of films where she was nominated for best actress somewhere prominent.

Isabelle Huppert.

Rock of Ages is a stumbling block for Cruise, Baldwin, Giamatti, Cranston...

bill hickman

Gene Hackman is a good call.

Clint Eastwood, maybe. Lots of good films, some dogs thrown in there, even his last few that I don't want to see are probably not unwatchable.

this would be better if we couldnt pick the movies

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 25 November 2012 18:46 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so otm

heretical moderns:

kevin corrigan (kinda the new christopher walken in terms of compelling bit-parts)
chloe sevigny
jeffrey wright
alex descas
isaac de bankole
isabelle huppert

corridas, YES

?

corrigan

i will watch any of his movies
& that's something
cause he has a movie
called registered sex offender

he was great in Fringe & Community

not movies I know but just sayin

Michael Shannon's good, even in Kangaroo Jack.

Sam Rockwell
Phillip Seymour Hoffman

....keanu reeves

keanu is kinda a good answer, there maybe needs to be a modern analogue for gene hackman, someone who you'll watch a lot of shit for.

I can only get to nine with Cary Grant, but there's a lot I haven't seen.

haven't seen To Catch a Thief?

Newman's a great answer, hadn't thought of him before I said Grant. Hard to choose between the two...Grant is more classic Film Star, Newman more relatable.

kevin corrigan (kinda the new christopher walken in terms of compelling bit-parts)

do Corrigan and Walken appear in the same scene in Seven Psychopaths? idrc

Jean-Pierre Léaud.

oh damn yeah
even lately

dirk bogarde

roy scheider
Dustin hoffman
Alec guinness

nic fuckin cage
sam rockwell

Toshiro Mifune

Max Von Sydow:

The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Hour of the Wolf
The Exorcist
Three Days of the Condor
Flash Gordon
Conan the Barbarian
The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew
Hannah and Her Sisters
Ghostbusters II (Vigo)
Minority Report
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Shutter Island
Skyrim

Chow Yun Fatt
Jackie Chan
Keith David

bill murray

Takashi Shimura
Buster Keaton

Alec Guinness is a good answer IMO. Also, when it comes to thesps of roughly that era David Niven, Basil Rathbone and Errol Flynn all spring to mind.

It's totally Newman. Would legit say yes if anyone said, 'Hey wanna watch...'

The Long, Hot Summer
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Hustler
Hud
Torn Curtain
Harper
Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Sting
The Towering Inferno
Slap Shot
Absence of Malice
The Verdict
The Color of Money
The Hudsucker Proxy
Road to Perdition

Sam Rockwell and Bill Murray are great choices. Intensely charismatic and watchable and always elevating the material. Like, Murray's in some of my favorite movies, and I'm suddenly forced to wonder if I would have liked them nearly as much without him.

Harry Dean Stanton is a great call. Out of the stuff I know:

A Fistful of Dollars
Cool Hand Luke
Kelly's Heroes
Two Lane Blacktop
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
The Godfather: Part II
Alien
Escape From New York
Repo Man
Paris, Texas
Pretty In Pink
Wild At Heart
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Inland Empire

Yeah, c'mon: You can't 'pick the movies', otherwise this is "person who's been in 10 great movies or more"

e.g. Jim Carey has been in 10 (maybe) awesome movies, but you'd be playing russian roulette if.

Add Cisco Pike and Straight Time to H.D.'s list.

Maybe Warren Oates?

if you can't pick the movies why would you pick the actor

Dennis Hopper

Gary Oldman!

Sid and Nancy
Prick up Yr Ears
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Henry & June
JFK
Dracula
True Romance
5th Element
Harry Potter films
Tinker Tailor etc
Bagtman Begins
Dark Knight

etc etc etc

xp good call, I watched Blue Velvet at the wknd which is simultaneously horrible and hilarious, thanks in large part to DH.

jimmy stewart

Horrible and hilarious in River's Edge too, makes a good companion to Blue Velvet if you haven't seen it xp

cool thx, will check that out.

RUTGER HAUER

harrison ford!

jean-pierre leaud
michel piccoli
christopher lee
peter cushing
sid james

if you can't pick the movies why would you pick the actor

Yeah--I don't really understand what people mean when they keep saying this. The thread title suggests that you're basing your choice on specific films.

wow @ that von sydow list.

Always wanted to see the adaptation of Steppenwolf that he was in. Anyone seen that?

Would watch possibly any random Donald Sutherland film, though things do look a bit iffy from the 90s onwards.

Was going to say John Hurt, because he's been in a lot of movies I like, but on review his filmography is pretty scattershot. True of a lot of those Brit character-actor types.

(same goes double for Bob Hoskins)

tatsuya nakadai

Takeshi Kitano

robert duvall

I really can't decide, there are too many old hollywood actors I love.

alain delon
hanna schygulla
klaus kinski
setsuko hara

+ Kinuyo Tanaka

I'm still not quite sure how this list works--is it ten random films by the selected actor, or ten top picks?--but odds seem to be in the viewers favour with Bogart, Stewart, Grant or Nicholson. Wish I had a more interesting answer.

Bill Murray, Jimmy Stewart, Toshiro Mifune and Max Von Sydow are great choices.

Also, if you don't pick the movies, how can you verify in your own mind that this person has been in at least 10 terrific movies? Depending on your definition of terrific, it's actually a pretty difficult milestone.

Eddie Marsan

If Jean Gabin has been in 10 terrific movies, then him, because the two I've seen were fantastic.

No one's mentioned Woody Allen...special case, I guess, even if you think there are ten.

clicked solely to say Gabin

...tho another obv French answer is Michel Piccoli.

Def ten Woody Allens, though that felt like cheating.

Von Sydow, too, though most of those woud be Bergman (plus one Woody Allen...ha!)

already picked piccoli

elisha cook jr has been a lot of good films i bet

Morbs, do you have a few Gabin recommendations you could give beyond the ones I've seen, Grand Illusion and La Bête Humaine? Hulu has Pépé le Moko and The Lower Depths, so I was going to check those two out next.

If you can forgive him Mr. Moto, Peter Lorre's massive filmography is a nice mix of outright classics and enjoyable trash.

yes, those two, WmC. Then anything that's on Criterion.

Port of Shadows
La Bete Humaine
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
french Cancan

you know, in sheer quantity, Gabin may not be among the top answers!

I'll switch to Cagney and Tracy.

Pepe le Moko is great fun, and he dances well in French Can Can

Just watched Lorre in Black Angel last night.

richard widmark

Sean Penn gets you everything from "Fast Times" to "At Close Range" to "Dead Man Walking."

everything

both those last two have been in a lotta good stuff and a lotta crap, which is what's most likely to happen when an actor works a lot.

Just discovered French Cancan and Remorques are on Hulu also! Their search function and site navigation are so fucked.

Might watch Pepe le Moko tonight.

Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Nicholson give you a great range of awesome, too.

I'd throw Clint Eastwood into the ring here.

I'm sure there are character actors like Ned Beatty or Allen Garfield (or many from the studio days) who come close.

Thomas Mitchell

^his 1939: Stagecoach, Only Angels Have Wings, Gone with the Wind, Mr Smith Goes to Washington

There are probably a few Ford/Hawks/Capra regulars who qualify.

Michael Ripper!

How about Mickey Rourke?

look up "terrific"

http://www.watchmojo.com/liveBlogs/blog_flick/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/passion-play-poster.jpg

Disqualifier for all parties involved.

John Mahoney has a good CV, mostly 1986-1989: Moonstruck, Barton Fink, Tin Men, Say Anything.

so glad they dramatised the kid rock/sheryl crow/roy orbison tour

slept on: juliette binoche

lists so far: Bogart, Grant, Von Sydow, Newman, Stanton, Oldman

I come up short of 10 myself, but I bet Nick Nolte would rank for a lot of people.

Henry Fonda:

You Only Live Once
Jezebel
Drums Along the Mohawk
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Grapes of Wrath
The Lady Eve
The Male Animal
Tales of Manhattan
The Ox-Bow Incident
My Darling Clementine
The Fugitive
Daisy Kenyon
Fort Apache
Mister Roberts
War and Peace
The Wrong Man
12 Angry Men
Advise & Consent
The Longest Day
Fail-Safe
Madigan
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Boston Strangler
There Was a Crooked Man

It's totally Newman. Would legit say yes if anyone said, 'Hey wanna watch...'

The Long, Hot Summer
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Hustler
Hud
Torn Curtain
Harper
Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Sting
The Towering Inferno
Slap Shot
Absence of Malice
The Verdict
The Color of Money
The Hudsucker Proxy
Road to Perdition

congratulations (n/a) wrote this on thread TOP 100 COMEDY FILMS OF ALL TIME NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION THREAD on board I Love Everything on Mar 5, 2012

Sutherland’s been in some bangers

https://youtu.be/fY2fkMdW-pI