Top Male Movie Actors
While the top movie actors in the world might change from year to year, moment-to-moment, there are some that are considered to be the best of the best, even when they produce crappy movies. Here are the top male movie actors of the current generation, according to movie industry experts:
- Marlon Brando
- Laurence Olivier
- Robert DeNiro
- James Stewart
- Alec Guinness
- Humphrey Bogart
- Gregory Peck
- Jack Nicholson
- Henry Fonda
- Spencer Tracy
- Charlie Chaplin
- Gary Cooper
- James Cagney
- Al Pacino
- Cary Grant
- Sidney Poitier
- Paul Newman
- George C. Scott
- Burt Lancaster
- Anthony Hopkins
- Dustin Hoffman
- Peter Sellers
- Robert Mitchum
- Richard Burton
- Yul Brenner
- Edward G. Robinson
- Charlton Heston
- Clark Gable
- Jack Lemmon
- Gene Kelly
- Denzel Washington
- Errol Flynn
- Kirk Douglas
- James Dean
- Orson Welles
- Gene Hackman
- Robert DuVall
- John Wayne
- Anthony Quinn
- Michael Caine
- Sean Connery
- Peter O'Toole
- Harrison Ford
- Robert Redford
- Buster Keaton
- Richard Harris
- Sean Penn
- Morgan Freeman
- Kenneth Branagh
- Steve McQueen
- Ben Kingsley
- Ralph Richardson
- Montgomery Clift
- Victor Mature
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Tom Hanks
- Christopher Walken
- Clint Eastwood
- Walter Matthau
- Peter Finch
- Gary Oldman
- John Malkovich
- Daniel Day Lewis
- Dennis Hopper
- Liam Neeson
- Geoffrey Rush
- Samuel L. Jackson
- James Mason
- Peter Lorre
- Fred Astaire
- Jon Voight
- Mel Gibson
- Johnny Depp
- Gerard Depardieu
- James Caan
- Ralph Fiennes
- John Hurt
- Boris Karloff
- Kevin Spacey
- Nicolas Cage
- Micheal Douglas
- Russel Crowe
- William Hurt
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Ian McKellan
- Robin Williams
- Tom Cruise
- Willem Dafoe
- Gene Wilder
How to Become a Top Male Movie Actor
If you want to be someone that girls salivate over, you need to have an ounce of talent, the drive to succeed, and a famous last name. Well, that’s probably not all you need, but if you want to succeed in movies, the best advice is to:
- Get trained – If you’re in college, it’s a good idea to get trained in a theater arts program. This will give you the skills and the connections to get ahead.
- Practice – You can’t become a good actor if you don’t practice your craft. Make sure to practice acting as much as possible, especially with your family.
- Audition – You need to build up your portfolio in order to get into the bigger movies. Make sure to try out for anything and everything you can.
- Learn about movies – If you want to make sure you have a place in the history of cinema, you need to make sure to learn more about movies, how they’re made, and what your role would be in them.
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