I like actors who can genuinely play tough or scary guys.

Michael Ironside, probably forgotten by most people, used to scare me when I was a kid.

Robert Mitchum

Clifton Powell

Lee Van Cleef

Tim Roth

Gary Oldman

Fredrick March
Tyrone Power
Charlton Heston
Gregory Peck
Stephen Boyd
Al Pacino
Burt Lancaster
Kirk Douglas
Armand assante
Lawrence Olivier

Check our Abandon ship staring Tyrone Power, Lloyd Nolan and Stephen Boyd. It on YouTube. Who do you think could play in a remake if made today?

Growing up probably Jean Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal.

My childhood consisted of watching Bloodsport and Kickboxer on repeat lol.

Bloodsport was great! Loved the tournament, always hoped to see JCVD matchup against the guy who fought monkey style. I think they didn't give us that matchup because we'd be rooting against JCVD.

Great list. I'm going to look up that movie and tell you. What was the first movie you ever saw at the movie theater?

I watched Rio Bravo last night. Wayne and Mitchum were two actors who filled up the screen just like Burt Lancaster and Humphrey Bogart. As much as I like Pacino and DeNiro in their various roles, their performances just don't have the power of the 40s and 50s male actors.

U forgot 2 mention how delicious (always) Angie Dickinson looks.., not bad acting chops either,nothing 2 write home about on acting , but it is Angie fuckin' Dickinson...1 whiff of her merely near me & I would have cum in my undies..

Oh my God..Diane Lane on the Chew right now ,she still looks young,not 2 mention ABSOLUTELY SMOKIN'..not so suprised,she takes good care of herself..

ohh yeah i agree with you, van cleef was great actor !!

I can't remember probably a monster movie I spent a lot of time in movies after I ran away from home. Globe Theather in the Bronx was the best. Get there in the morning cost 25 cents you got three monster movies, 25 cartoons at least 4 cereals like Flash Gordon. If the monster movies were good and they were good would see them all twice. Now if I see them on Amazon I buy them.

That's some deal 25 cents. My Dad said he saw King Kong as his first movie, I think he was 8. This was back in the 40's. Was that back in the 40's or 50's?

I watched about 40 minutes of that movie Abandon Ship. None of today's actors can come close to Tyrone Power's outstanding performance in that role imo. As soon as I started watching it I thought of George Clooney because he has the looks and the ability to play the character but lacks that confidence and power that Tyrone P had. Another actor I thought of was Henry Cavill who played Superman in Man of Steel. Some other actors I thought of for that role were Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy. If Tom Hanks wasn't so goofy he could play him.

Tyrone Power is the perfect man. He had the confidence, the intelligence, the power, the good looks, the charm. He had just the right balance of what a man needed to handle that situation he was in. He was very fair minded too. I'll watch the rest of the movie one day, kind of depressing. I skipped to the end to make sure it had a happy ending

You turned it off before the best part. He did something some might call fucked up. I can't tell you any more then that it will spoil it for you watch the rest.

A Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis film, "Pardners". It was one of their last movies they made together. A hot summer night in 1956; I was five years old. My parents wanted to get out of the hot apartment (this was in the days before everyone had air-conditioning at home) so they took me to the local theater and we watched Martin & Lewis in a COOL room.

It was over sixty years ago but I still remember being thrilled at going into this huge, cavernous, dark room and seeing all these people watching the screen. I knew who the stars were (from television) and I think watched about thirty minutes of the movie before I fell asleep. I'd go on to visit that theater many, many times while I was growing up. I'd go with my friends once a month on a Saturday and spend the entire day there for 50¢ to see two main movies, a serial and some cartoons. Then, as I got older, I'd go there on dates. I'd still go there with my wife after I got married. Then the theater became a gym.

Somehow everything came full cycle. Now when I go to a theater I fall asleep again. Only difference is, I snore now.

Favorite actors:

Robert De Niro
Harvey Keitel
Edward Norton
Ray Liotta
Samuel L. Jackson
Kevin Spacey
Michael Douglas
Robin Williams
Ben Stiller
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Actors who irritate me:

Christoph Waltz

Favorite performance in a movie:

Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross

Favorite ensemble:

Cop Land

Since I don't remember it, my sisters had to remind me. We went to a neighborhood theater called the Dink on Lincoln Avenue. We watched the plethora of cowboys movies that dominated the screens in those days. Otherwise, the earliest movie that I do remember seeing was either Battle Cry (at the drive-in with my Dad and sisters) with Aldo Ray or The Ten Commandments (with the incomparable Charleton Heston) at the Warner Theater in Downtown Pittsburgh.

By the way, I just came across this. These aren't my favorite actors, but this history makes them more interesting:

Dolph Lundgren, who played Ivan Drago in Rocky IV and is known for playing hulking action roles, has an IQ of over 160 and holds degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry. Ashton Kutcher was planning to do a Masters in Biochemical Engineering before he signed on for That '70s Show.

First movie at a theater: "How the West Was Won," probably 1962. We would have had at least four kids, maybe as many as six. I mostly just remember being in the dark at the back of the theater (too small to see anything) and that it went on forever, and that we lots of sandwiches and things we brought from home.

If you liked him in that you'll love his performance in "Save the Tiger".

Dolph was on the door at studio 54

I enjoyed reading all your stories about your first movie theater experience. Thanks for sharing.

I watched the rest of it. And now, I think even more highly of Alec Holmes played by Tyrone Power. He got the situation handled, never backing down or second guessing himself. That is what I call a REAL man. He had to make extremely difficult decisions, everyone was against him. Not an easy job. Only a true ALPHA MALE can do that. Meow.

Not too many men like that around in the real world today.

I still believe my list of actors could play that role, just not as well as Power did.

Do you have another movie for me to watch? The older the better.

for me clint eatwood is the best ever !

I'm watching Destination Tokyo with Cary Grant and John Garfield. I haven't thought of Garfield in quite awhile, but he was good and underrated. He made alot of movies in the 40s. I first remember him in Body and Soul when he played a boxer. He's a NY guy and played most of his roles with that NY moxie.

John Garfield was a fantastic actor. He made a lot of great movie and he died very young. Gentlemens Agreement,they made me a criminal with the dead end kids was very good,nobody livers forever, the sea wolf,pride of the marines,postman always rings twice. He was very very good.

Another actor who one hears little about is Montgomery Clift. His tenure on screen was short-lived, but I really liked him. I especially liked him in his first movie Red River. His performances were understated, but so effective.

Another actor I can't stand is Michael Pena. If he's in a movie I will automatically be less inclined to see it.

Has there ever been a casting choice so off the wall it has stopped you from seeing a movie you were otherwise very interested in seeing?

I was extremely looking forward to seeing The Program with Ben Foster as Lance Armstrong until Chris O'Dowd was cast in the other leading role as the journalist who exposed him as a cheat.

So miscast I couldn't look past it; too young, inexperienced and unqualified for a role he was so unsuited for, having cut his teeth in D list British comedies.

Clifton Collins Jr. is a character actor I've been impressed with in anything I've seen him in.

I thought red river was great. John Wayne's performance in that movie should have got him an Oscar nomination.

Tyrone Power was discovered in a play on Broadway. No matter how many movies he was in he always would appear on Broadway in between.

A favorite movie with Tyrone Power was a movie called Johnny Appolo. Good movie Lloyd Noland was also in that one.

I think my favorite of his was Mississippi Gambler all of these are on youtube. They put in a lot of money in that movie. Chester from Gunsmoke had a small part in it. The female lead was the girl in the Hustler I forget her name. The second female lead was in a monster movie I liked Creature from the black lagoon. Both women I think are still alive today.

The dance scene with the chicken was arranged by the great Gwen Verdon. The guy that played the female leads father was great in this movie.

Brad Pitt's cameo almost ruined 12 Years a Slave single-handedly.

The script for Seven was so good even his shitty acting couldn't ruin that movie though.

Kevin Spacey's acting towards the end when Morgan Freeman and Pitt are driving him to the desert is chilling.

Sean Penn is somewhat of an overactor.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Al Pacino are obviously great actors but I think they have a tendency to ham it up whereas Robert De Niro has more of an understated intensity that I appreciate more.

These are my 10 favorite actors, it's not a Top 10, they are in random order:

Robert DeNiro

Jack Nicholson

Daniel Day-Lewis

Al Pacino

Denzel Washington

Kevin Spacey

Christian Bale

Marlon Brando

Anthony Hopkins

Russell Crowe

Jet li is great actor too !
Also aaron paul for breaking bad i like his acting there

De Niro but he hasn't done anything worthwhile for 20 years.

Leonardo DiCaprio is the number 1 actor in the world today in my opinion..