Best British actor thread
Kilroy Bass
Who's your favorite british actor/actress and why?
Mike O'Sullivan
captain in the Soviet Navy.
"Kilroy Bass" <kilro...@catlover.com> wrote in message
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David
>Who's your favorite british actor/actress and why?
Laurence Olivier, because of his physical & speech idiosyncrasies as
well as his daring & stretching.
Dean Eaton
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
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David
>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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Joe Gillis
>Sean Connery, because he played the only Scottish submarine
>captain in the Soviet Navy.
"And THAT is how you get Capone!!"
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"I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy." -- Samuel Butler
Rosanne
comedy or drama, he was great.
I also enjoyed hearing the Liverpool accents of the Beatles in
"Help" and "Hard Day's Night".
Rosanne
Steve Oldham
Steve
TJNORT
be added to the list.
Stephen Cooke
I see no one's mentioned Christopher Lee yet...
^Cicero
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> I see no one's mentioned Christopher Lee yet...
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Let me see...Alistair Sim
Margaret Lockwood
Charlie Chaplin
Sylvia Simms
Jessie Matthews
Greta Gynt (I don't know why.....)
Dean Eaton
"It remindsh me of the heady daysh of Shputnik - and Yuri Gagarin!" - "Red
October"
"I'm not a shpy, I've never been a shpy!" - "Russia House"
"I am Muli el Raishuli the Magnifichent - chief of the Riffian Berbersh!" -
"Wind and the Lion"
Dean
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Jim Powers
Tony Spadaro wrote:
> Grommit because he has such expressive eyes.
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> --
Ginger--I really dig British chicks!
Jim Powers
Joe Gillis wrote:
> >
> >Sean Connery, because he played the only Scottish submarine
> >captain in the Soviet Navy.
>
> "And THAT is how you get Capone!!"
>
> =================================================
"Thus endeth the lesson."
Jeff Duncanson
> Hey,
>
> Who's your favorite british actor/actress and why?
Trevor Howard for past actors
Gary Oldman for current
Dean Eaton
Dean
GC
Lknafc
in.
LK
Shawn50273
Sir Derek Jacobi, the best Shakesperian actor alive IMHO.
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Shawn
Andy Averill
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> Who's your favorite british actor/actress and why?
Benny Hill. Why not?
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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
Htn963
than any actor alive: I can never again eat organ meats and fava beans and
drink chianti without thinking of him.
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Ht
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never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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LILLIBUNNY
>I see no one's mentioned Christopher Lee yet...
>
I thought someone asked about BEST actor.
Trish Bennett
favorites:
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
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MadiHolmes
MadiHolmes
David Sander
>
> Jeremy Irons is definitely up there. Cary Grant too.
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
Stephen Cooke
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Trish Bennett wrote:
> 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
MadiHolmes
>> 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.)?
Peter Lorre was a Jewish Austrian. His real name was Laszlo Lowenstein, or
something to that effect.
MadiHolmes
Trish Bennett
day...
Trish
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Grethe Bachmann
like to see in movies/TV. Olivier, O´Toole, Burton, and many more, fx Ian
McKellen (Richard III)
But there is one who comes to my mind right now: RUPERT GRAVES. He was
extremely good in the TV-series: "The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall".
Cheers
Grethe
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Polar
<res0...@verizon.net> wrote:
>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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Polar
Steve Oldham
to imagine better actors of any nationality.
Steve
LILLIBUNNY
>I didn't either, and frankly I'm sick of "best" ANYTHING threads.
>
Then why are you reading this?
David Sander
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> On 24-Nov-2001, David Sander <sur...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
SA???
AFAIK all the ones I listed were born in the UK.
At least, that's what their bios in IMDB said.
David
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Bob
"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
Steve Oldham
<les...@mrwelch.screaming.net> wrote:
>Hows about Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin
I can see that.......with maybe Ben Turpin playing Caesar.
David Matthews
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> http://us.imdb.com/Name?Johns,+Glynis
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
Jim Linwood
>Rathbone in South Africa and Nigel Bruce in Mexico.
To add to the list, Lawrence Harvey was born in Lithuania and stereotypical
Aussie, Peter Finch, was born in London.
JL
David Matthews
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..and one I forget. The all American Elizabeth Taylor was born in London,
England.
Dave
Rosanne
> ..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
David Sander
...eep...
The only one I didn't look up because my mother *insisted* she was born
in London.
Bad David, no bikkit :o)
David
Cicero
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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.
David Matthews
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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
Cicero
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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.
Jim Linwood
>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
David Matthews
amongst the various web pages about both her date of birth and her
birthplace. Here are a few pages for anyone interested :-
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.