MY FAVORITE ACTORS

I count many actors among my favorites, but the first 8 are my absolute faves. Though all 8 men are pretty much on the same plane and I am wildly crazy about each of them, if pushed to choose a #1 guy, it would be a tie between William Holden and Robert Ryan, with the next 6 guys only a tiny breath behind them.  The #9 through #25 guys are my next wave of faves...one of them may be higher one month and lower the next, depending on whose films I am currently OD'ing on, but they always move around within that range...never dropping out of the top 25.  The 26 through 40 guys would be my next tier, and any of them is likely to move up or down within that range...that's not to say, though, that one of them won't one day be in the top 25, but just who I would have to remove to put anyone else there, I'm not sure! Occasionally, a guy in this tier falls off the list so as to make room for someone else to be added.

1. William Holden
2. Robert Ryan
3. Gary Cooper
4. Montgomery Clift
5. James Cagney
6. John Garfield
7. Fredric March
8. Tyrone Power
9. Sidney Poitier
10. Cary Grant
11.  Robert Taylor
12. Clark Gable
13. Frank Sinatra
14. Ray Milland
15. Gregory Peck
16. Humphrey Bogart
17. James Stewart
18. Stewart Granger
19. Audie Murphy
20. Richard Widmark

21.  Van Heflin

22. Dana Andrews

23. Rock Hudson

24. Joel McCrea

25. Claude Rains
26. Dan Duryea
27. George Brent
28. George Raft
29. Spencer Tracy
30. Kirk Douglas
31.  Arthur Kennedy
32.  Herbert Marshall
33.  Burt Lancaster
34.  Joseph Cotten
35.  Franchot Tone
36.  Gene Kelly
37.  William Powell
38.  Walter Huston
39.  Glenn Ford
40.  James Mason


NOTE:  This page is updated frequently.  Last update June 2013.