poll of British "epic carouser" and "working class" actors

Burton is easily the best here because he's one of the best ever. no one in this company can touch him as great as (some of them) are.

although O'Toole is someone i've never liked to watch.

agreed on all points jed

"British"

I know what you mean though

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Voting Caine because, even though he's more limited than some of the others, he's been great in more films that I've actually seen (Burton and O'Toole knowledge especially thin)

Where, oh where, is Tom Baker?

Albert Finney, I think.

The sheer volume of dogshit Michael Caine work-for-hire rules him out for me.

No one repping for the elephant in the room?

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Reed wasn't working class.

Peter O'Toole could read the phone book interspersed with random swearing and I'd watch it, open-mouthed and quite possibly drooling. This thread is missing its Anthony Hopkins (from the same town as Burton) and its Tom Courtenay (in the same drama school class as Albert Finney and Peter O'Toole and a load of famous character actors).

Michael Caine, who really ought to know better, came out with this shit in 2009:

"The government has taken tax up to 50%, and if it goes to 51% I will be back in America," he said this week in an attack on Alistair Darling's tax rise for the highest earners. "We've got 3.5 million layabouts on benefits, and I'm 76, getting up at 6am to go to work to keep them. Let's get everybody back to work so we can save a couple of billion and cut tax, not keep sticking it up."

Twat.

SUZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, Richard Harris for me. Mainly for siring Jared.

i think maybe Finney is the best actor of these guys, Burton's a great showboater but he's got 2 notes, tops

where is michael caine's great personal mate terence stamp?

Suzy xp: ah yes, those "layabouts who lay about." My former next-door neighbour, was Sir Mike, and fervently did he complain about part of the Chelsea Harbour complex being given over to "social housing."

I still imagine him marching angrily into Phonica one Thursday morning: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU AVEN'T GOT FAR SIDE VIRTUAL? GET YOUR LAYABOUT ARSE IN THE BLADDY STOCKROOM AND GET ME A COPY NAAAHHH!"

(split second pause)

"He's a very nice young bloke, is James Ferraro."

No one repping for the elephant in the room?

Or, the wierhere in the room?

Wait, is Richard Harris even British? I'm not sure.

Ah, there are so many missing in this list.

Peter Finch was Australian, O'Toole and Harris Irish, Burton Welsh.

he's from limerick, that's even more irish than dublin

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Well, we really need "British" in quotation marks, too, then. (Wales was still in Britain, last time I checked, though.)

Michael Caine also eligible for the Irish football team, iirc.

to be fair everybody who's ever done a stag weekend in Dublin is eligible

What are the real qualifications? (And do I really want to know?)

Yes, that's true about Wales still being part of Britain. Burton was never a Son of Glwyndwr type.

to be fair everybody who's ever done a stag weekend in Dublin is eligible

these people are eligible for another poll.

Burton was never a Son of Glwyndwr type.

isn't he famous for his passionate speeches about mining?

Yep, "when I make my money I'll come back here and it'll be jobs for the boys." Instead, he cleared off to Switzerland.

Unless the Meibion Glyndŵr were planning to mine a new canal between England and Wales, leaving the Union would still not cause Wales to leave Britain. ;-)

Have always wondered how Harris felt abt working w/ Antonioni on 'Red Desert' - he seems v uneasy playing a far more passive, bourgeois character than normal, but that actually suits the mood/feel of the film.

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^ always liked this guy although obviously he's nothing to do with Hollywood

Yeah two of these aren't British. Finney is the best actor there.

He was in The Wild Geese with Richard Harris and Richard Burton though xp

Stanley Baker. Ian Hendry. Both miles better than Michael Caine, of course.

caine not a carouser tbh, certainly not that i've ever heard by comparison to the guys listed

Poll is on actors mentioned in the original article. Obv. there's a ton more carousers and w/c actors.

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and 1984 are my favourite films by any of them, so Burton on the basis of that--though Miller's Crossing is very close. Burton wallows around in self-disgust in those two movies more convincingly than anyone I've ever seen. And great in Virginia Woolf too, of course.

Talking of 1984, I was thinking the other day that there has never been a John Hurt thread, and then I thought a John Hurt poll would be good but I couldn't cut it down to just 50 choices and Alien always wins things anyway so oh

"Who Do You Think You Are" would get my vote. His appearance on that is all time classic.

I've been up and down with Hurt, but he's so good in 1984.

He's too much of a British Actoooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr for my liking

Talking of 1984, I was thinking the other day that there has never been a John Hurt thread, and then I thought a John Hurt poll would be good but I couldn't cut it down to just 50 choices and Alien always wins things anyway so oh

I almost certainly would vote "The Elephant Man" or "1984" for that.

Richard Harris gets plus points for making two albums of Jimmy Webb songs despite not being able to sing... and playing Olver Cromwell, which for an Irishman takes a lot of chutzpah

Terence Stamp can be found most weekends pottering around a certain farmer's market, buying gluten-free bread. When he turns up, nearby stall-holders whisper, 'kneel before Zod!' He should totally be in the poll.

Peter O'Toole was offered a knighthood in 1987, but turned it down because POLITICS. He was also originally supposed to play a) the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman and b) TJ Newton in The Man Who Fell To Earth. His father was Irish, his mother was Scottish - and he claims not to know whether he was born in Ireland or England.

For years, whenever he was in London, Harris resided at the Savoy Hotel. According to the hotel archivist Susan Scott, as Harris was being taken from the hotel on a stretcher, shortly before his death, he warned the diners, "It was the food!"

no idea whether to vote on carousing or acting

also just makes me think of SCTV's "The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes."

I took an elevator with O'Toole once. Charming drunk.

A relative once worked for a guy who was one of Peter O'Toole's drinking buddies. Dude could cane it like a madman.

shortly before his death, he warned the diners, "It was the food!"

Particularly the cakes, which had been left out in the rain.

That must've been the world's most dapper/tailored elevator ride, MW.

Was walking with friend and his girlfriend near the British Museum a few years ago, and we strolled by a gaunt figure who could've passed for Karl Lagerfeld. A block down the road, my friend gave me the side-eye and said 'I can't believe we just walked past Peter O'Toole and YOU DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE.'

Nah, I was in LA the day he got his lifetime achievement award. It was too warm to be too dapper. It was funny 'cause the night before my gf and I were drinking champagne on the balcony of our room and she saw a limo pull up and a gentleman get out and she said, "Who's he? He's drunk!"

You know what keeps coming back to me, though? Finney's performance in Karaoke.

My mother got me tickets to Pygmalion on Broadway for a 19th birthday present; Peter O'Toole was playing Higgins. When I went to pick up the tickets from the theatre, he was leaving rehearsals and stopped to chat XD XD XD

I saw that production too, but was not so lucky!

With all the amazing things Peter O'Toole has done in his career, I saw My Favorite Year so many times on HBO when I was young that that's nearly his ur-performance for me. That and The Stunt Man.

Caine's got the best track record of being good in good films, so him

Finney close second

"Is that a real minute, or an Eli minute?' - as script quotes go, that one from The Stunt Man comes in handy A LOT.

A story of Peter O'Toole's about approaching hookers with another teenager and, erm, soliciting was helpful the one time a creepy stranger cornered me to ask if I would like to see his cock. Before I RAN AWAY, I simply borrowed the reply given by the hooker to Peter O'Toole and his friend: 'put it on the mantelpiece, I'll smoke it later!'

omg the stunt man

a friend of mine was capital-o obsessed with that movie

Peter O'Bsessed

Is Caine actually the source of the "good house paid for by bad film" quip?

yeah, Jaws: The Revenge

My cocaine

No reps for O'Toole in "The Ruling Class?" It's showboating of the highest order, but damn, is it entertaining. Has there been a similar poll for the Brit Pack?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

damn, time for a carouse-off

no Oliver Reed? hmph

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I read the American follow-up on the right. It wasn't particularly wild or fast.

When in residence at the Savoy, Harris could be seen most afternoons in the Coal Hole, sitting on his own with a pint of Guinness at a table at the back, next to the fruit machine. In later years the recognition from Harry Potter fans seemed to get on his nerves.

Wondering if the Coal Hole's 'sister' pub is the nearby Bung Hole.