Who's your favorite british actor/actress and why?
"Kilroy Bass" <kilro...@catlover.com> wrote in message
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>Who's your favorite british actor/actress and why?
Laurence Olivier, because of his physical & speech idiosyncrasies as
well as his daring & stretching.
My favorite British actors are all those stalwart supporting players who
always show up in English-made WW2 and/or adventure films from the 1950s and
60s.
For those of you don't know Anthony Quayle, Michael Hordern, Andrew Kier,
Harry Andrews, Lawrence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Noel Purcell and Nigel
Green, you should start renting and/or taping such classics as "Sink the
Bismarck!", "Ice Cold in Alex", "Damn the Defiant", "Jason and the
Argonauts" and about a thousand others.
Dean
"Mike O'Sullivan" <mi...@REMOVEbarnaby0.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>For those of you don't know Anthony Quayle, Michael Hordern, Andrew Kier,
>Harry Andrews, Lawrence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Noel Purcell and Nigel
>Green, you should start renting and/or taping such classics as "Sink the
>Bismarck!", "Ice Cold in Alex", "Damn the Defiant", "Jason and the
>Argonauts" and about a thousand others.
You can also buy a number of great theater performances with Anthony
Quayle, a Shakespearean of the highest order, on cassette/CD,
including a galvanizing reading of "Macbeth" with Gwen F-Davies as The
Lady.
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"Kilroy Bass" <kilro...@catlover.com> wrote in message
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I also enjoyed hearing the Liverpool accents of the Beatles in
"Help" and "Hard Day's Night".
Rosanne
Steve
Let me see...Alistair Sim
Margaret Lockwood
Charlie Chaplin
Sylvia Simms
Jessie Matthews
Greta Gynt (I don't know why.....)
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Dean
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> >Sean Connery, because he played the only Scottish submarine
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"Thus endeth the lesson."
Trevor Howard for past actors
Gary Oldman for current
Dean
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Sir Derek Jacobi, the best Shakesperian actor alive IMHO.
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If you do not count Cary Grant:
1. Leslie Howard
2. Laurence Olivier
3. Ronald Colman
1. Greer Garson
2. Joan Fontaine
3. Deborah Kerr
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I thought someone asked about BEST actor.
Christopher Plummer is always good. (And Christopher Lee... :-) I also like
Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre (is he British? LOL).
I also love David Niven, Peter O'Toole and sometimes Richard Harris. I know
there are a ton more, but my brain just blew a circuit and I can't think of
any more right now.
Trish
"LILLIBUNNY" <lilli...@aol.com> wrote in message
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MadiHolmes
How about Alec Guinness, Lawrence Olivier, Peter Sellers, Greer Garson,
Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton, James Mason, Glynis Johns, Robert
Newton, Donald Pleasence or Peter Cushing.
I missed the earlier part of the thread too. Sorry if these have already
been named :-)
David
> Christopher Plummer is always good.
He's also always Canadian.
(And Christopher Lee... :-)
I liked his work with his brother Bruce. :)
> I also like Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre (is he British?
> LOL).
I thought Lorre was Hungarian (and a friend of Bela Lugosi's going waaaay
back.)?
Stephen
Peter Lorre was a Jewish Austrian. His real name was Laszlo Lowenstein, or
something to that effect.
MadiHolmes
Trish
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Cheers
Grethe
"Trish Bennett" <res0...@verizon.net> skrev i en meddelelse
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>I don't see the beginning of this thread, but here are a few of my
>favorites:
I didn't either, and frankly I'm sick of "best" ANYTHING threads.
[...]
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Steve
Then why are you reading this?
SA???
AFAIK all the ones I listed were born in the UK.
At least, that's what their bios in IMDB said.
David
"Steve Oldham" <stev...@rocsoft.net> wrote in message
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"bt.internet.com" wrote:
> Hows about Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplain
>
Excellent, although I put Laurel a notch above Chaplain. Yes, I know the
public and the industry did not, but then, this is opinion.
Bob
>Hows about Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin
I can see that.......with maybe Ben Turpin playing Caesar.
Just veering off topic here but how does one define nationality? Place of
birth? Residence? How the actor/ actress prefers to think of themselves? I
suppose anyone born it what was the British Empire (like Glynnis Johns and
Merle Oberon) were technically British citizens. . Audrey Hepburn was born
in Belgium of mixed continental European/British ancestry but said she
always thought of herself as British and Glynnis Johns was always very proud
of her Welsh ancestry. Actors like Glenn Ford, Raymond Burr and Deanna
Durbin were all born in Canada, but I feel regarded themselves as American.
Of the stereotypical Brits George Sanders was born in Russia, Basil
Rathbone in South Africa and Nigel Bruce in Mexico.
The Duke of Wellington, who was born in Dublin but hating to be referred to
as Irish said "If a man is born in a stable does he become a horse?". (Or
something like that anyway.)
Dave
To add to the list, Lawrence Harvey was born in Lithuania and stereotypical
Aussie, Peter Finch, was born in London.
JL
..and one I forget. The all American Elizabeth Taylor was born in London,
England.
Dave
> ..and one I forget. The all American Elizabeth Taylor was born in London,
> England.
>
> Dave
I had read somewhere that Elizabeth actually had duel citizenship, as her
parents, were Americans from St. Louis, Mo. and her dad moved the family there
to work in an art gallery, then returned to the states and LA, CA when it was
apparent WWII was eminent.
Another all American, Bob Hope was born in London also.
Rosanne
...eep...
The only one I didn't look up because my mother *insisted* she was born
in London.
Bad David, no bikkit :o)
David
Does Greer Garson qualify? I think she was born in Dublin which I guess was
British at her date of birth but later became the Republic of Ireland.
According to imdb she was born in London, England. Go to :-
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Garson,+Greer and educated at the University of
London.
Dave
In the MacMillan Film Encyclopaedia she is listed as born in County Down,
Ireland and educated in London. I don't know where I got Dublin from, but it
was Ireland- however as County Down is in Northern Ireland I guess she was
technically British.
Most sources give the birthplace of Eileen Evelyn Garson as Manor Park, Essex
on 29 September 1904. Manor Park has since been swallowed up by Greater London.
The original Essex Girl.
Jim
http://members.aol.com/cinemabritain/index.html
JL
http://www.tqci.net/~dagrierson/garson.html
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/2440/garson.html
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/4988/ggbio.html
Wherever she was born she was very patriotically British. When Britain was
at war with Germany she had an interview with the British Ambassador to
America to ask what she could do to help the war effort. He said the best
thing she could do was stay in Hollywood and make more films like "Mrs
Minniver".
Dave.