Top of the World: My Ultimate Top 100 Favourite Actors

I once presented you top 10 favourite actors. But, of course, I have much more than only 10 favourite actors, even more than 100 favourite actors. But I’ll keep that to this number as it is a beautiful number, no? Of course this list contains my own personal choices. I don’t say that an actor is better than another one if he is higher in the list. The most important thing to know here is that, I love all the actors on this list, even number 100!

It was, of course, not an easy exercise and I’m working on it since quite a long time. Of course, is this actor REALLY my #58? Well, for the moment, yes, but it may always change. The thing is, there are some actors I love as much as some others, so it’s hard to make decisions.

Anyway, in general, this list will give you a view of what my tastes are. Here, we have all types of actors, classic, modern, leading man, character actors, etc. I only want to precise that, on my list, I only included the actors from whom I had seen at least two films.

So, here we go! Enjoy!

1. James Stewart

2. William Holden

3. Marlon Brando

4. Cary Grant

5. Burt Lancaster

6. Gregory Peck

7. Joseph Cotten

8. Robert de Niro

9. Gary Cooper

10. Peter O’Toole

11. Jack Lemmon

12. Buster Keaton

13. Charlie Chaplin

14. Michael Redgrave

15. James Cagney

16. James Mason

17. Robert Mitchum

18. Fredric March

19. Laurence Olivier

20. Claude Rains

21. John Gielgud

22. Peter Lorre

23. Sidney Poitier

24. Robert Young

25. Jack Carson

26. Humphrey Bogart

27. George Kennedy

28. Paul Douglas

29. Charles Laughton

30. Jack Nicholson

31. Eli Wallach

32. Montgomery Clift

33. Spencer Tracy

34. Herbert Marshall

35. Henry Fonda

36. Dustin Hoffman

37. Anthony Hopkins

38. Stewart Granger

39. Paul Newman

40. Leonardo DiCaprio

41. Earl Holliman

42. David Niven

43. Rémy Girard

44. Robert Donat

45. John Williams

46. Clark Gable

47. Arthur Kennedy

48. John Mills

49. Lee J. Cobb

50. Cecil Kellaway

51. Paul Henreid

52. Michel Côté

53. Edward G. Robinson

54. Walter Pidgeon

55. Paul Dupuis

56. Pierre Fresnay

57. Lew Ayres

58. Rod Steiger

59. Dana Andrews

60. Karl Malden

61. Tom Hanks

62. Bing Crosby

63. Frank Sinatra

64. Gilbert Sicotte

65. Robert Ryan

66. Naunton Wayne

67. Louis Calhern

68. Dennis Hopper

69. Glenn Ford

70. Brian Aherne

71. Robin Williams

72. Thomas Mitchell

73. Charlton Heston

74. Yul Brynner

75. Tony Curtis

76. George Raft

77. Lionel Barrymore

78. Basil Radford

79. Morgan Freeman

80. George Sanders

81. Al Pacino

82. Sterling Hayden

83. Michael Rennie

84. Eric Blore

85. S.Z Sakall

86. Martin Balsam

87. James Dean

88. Paul Lukas

89. Alan Arkin

90. Wallace Ford

91. Tyrone Power

92. Rod Taylor

93. Richard Basehart

94. Jude Law

95. Richard Dreyfuss

96. Andrew Prine

97. Robert Duvall

98. Roger Moore (the only exception to the rules, as I haven’t seen him in any movies, but only a TV show: The Saint.)

99. Walter Matthau

100. Cliff Robertson

Ok, honorable mention to Warren Beatty, Kevin Spacey, Clint Eastwood, Louis Jourdan, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Richard Burton, Ernest Borgnine and many others favourites that I would have loved to include on the list. I have to say, that’s the hardest thing I ever did for my blog! A very difficult, but worthy exercise. The problem with these tops is that they may always change depending on the actors you discover in the future.

Anyway, I hope there’s at least ONE actor you like or love among those on this list. Otherwise, well, we have VERY different tastes ahah!

Stay tuned for a ultimate top 100 of my favourite actresses!