John Cusack. Di Caprio. Day-Lewis. Also Lenny James.
Cusack has been in some Brilliant Films BUT he always plays the same character.
75% of the actors on this thread do/ did the same performance over and over again. Morgan Freeman!? Oh please! That guy has been phoning in performances for 20 years. It's embarrassing. Almost as bad as Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.
There has to be some criteria or justification!! Seth Rogen got mentioned on here in the same breath as Clint Eastwood.
Can you judge acting when it is TV and Film, and they have loads of takes to get it right? I propose that only performances live should qualify for 'good'. However for 'favourite' the rules are your own. Having said all that, it is amazing how poor some film/tv performances are considering they can always do it again.
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David Jason
Denzel Washington
Robert Shaw
and Kevin Spacey (mainly for American beauty)
For one that probably hasn't been mentioned, Paul Whitehouse, who is Johnny Depth's favourite actor!
There has to be some criteria or justification!! Seth Rogen got mentioned on here in the same breath as Clint Eastwood.
Idris Elba is one step above Eastenders acting.
Denzel Washington.
Seth Rogen.
John C. Reilly.
Jack Nicholson.
Edward Norton.
Paul Rudd.
Ryan Gosling.
Morgan Freeman.
Clint Eastwood.
Would give any film a watch if the above were in it.
This from dead man's shoes is a great example why . Fantastic versatile British actor .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmjNLAU7zLQ
Eddie Marsan
Sean Harris
Having said all that, it is amazing how poor some film/tv performances are considering they can always do it again.
Put it this way he plays a nice happy like-able bloke in Alfie to a good standard, and is probably quite the opposite when not acting.