Best Actors (IMDB: by ChrisWalczyk55)

A subjective ranking by ChrisWalczyk55. Actors ranked according to acting abilities, success, versatility, and the difficulty of the roles played...

100 records

Rank Actor Name Birth Date Birth Country
1 Jack Nicholson 04/22/1937 US
2 Marlon Brando 04/03/1924 US
3 Robert De Niro 08/17/1943 US
4 Al Pacino 04/25/1940 US
5 Daniel Day-Lewis 04/29/1957 GB
6 Dustin Hoffman 08/08/1937 US
7 Tom Hanks 07/09/1956 US
8 Anthony Hopkins 12/31/1937 GB
9 Paul Newman 01/26/1925 US
10 Denzel Washington 12/28/1954 US
11 Spencer Tracy 04/05/1900 US
12 Laurence Olivier 05/22/1907 GB
13 Jack Lemmon 02/08/1925 US
14 Jeff Bridges 12/04/1949 US
15 James Stewart 05/20/1908 US
16 Sean Penn 08/17/1960 US
17 Michael Caine 03/14/1933 GB
18 Morgan Freeman 06/01/1937 US
19 Robert Duvall 01/05/1931 US
20 Gene Hackman 01/30/1930 US
21 Clint Eastwood 05/31/1930 US
22 Gregory Peck 04/05/1916 US
23 Robin Williams 07/21/1951 US
24 Ben Kingsley 12/31/1943 GB
25 Philip Seymour Hoffman 07/23/1967 US
26 Johnny Depp 06/09/1963 US
27 Leonardo DiCaprio 11/11/1974 US
28 Tommy Lee Jones 09/15/1946 US
29 Russell Crowe 04/07/1964 NZ
30 Kevin Spacey 07/26/1959 US
31 Alec Guinness 04/02/1914 GB
32 Geoffrey Rush 07/06/1951 AU
33 Humphrey Bogart 12/25/1899 US
34 Clark Gable 02/01/1901 US
35 George C. Scott 10/18/1927 US
36 Gary Cooper 05/07/1901 US
37 Jason Robards 07/26/1922 US
38 James Dean 02/08/1931 US
39 Peter Sellers 09/08/1925 GB
40 Peter Finch 09/28/1916 GB
41 Charles Chaplin 04/16/1889 US
42 James Cagney 07/17/1899 US
43 Henry Fonda 05/16/1905 US
44 Burt Lancaster 11/02/1913 US
45 Kirk Douglas 12/09/1916 US
46 Cary Grant 01/18/1904 US
47 Richard Burton 11/10/1925 WL
48 William Holden 04/17/1918 US
49 John Wayne 05/26/1907 US
50 Christopher Plummer 12/13/1929 CA
51 Sidney Poitier 02/20/1927 US
52 Peter O'Toole 08/02/1932 GB
53 Alan Arkin 03/26/1934 US
54 Sean Connery 08/25/1930 GB
55 Christopher Walken 03/31/1943 US
56 Joe Pesci 02/09/1943 US
57 Heath Ledger 04/04/1979 US
58 Javier Bardem 03/01/1969 ES
59 Christoph Waltz 10/04/1956 US
60 Ralph Fiennes 12/22/1962 GB
61 Jamie Foxx 12/13/1967 US
62 Joaquin Phoenix 10/28/1974 US
63 Colin Firth 09/10/1960 GB
64 Matthew McConaughey 11/04/1969 US
65 Hugh Jackman 10/12/1968 WL
66 Gary Oldman 03/21/1958 US
67 Edward Norton 08/18/1969 US
68 Christian Bale 01/30/1974 WL
69 John Malkovich 12/09/1953 US
70 Ian McKellen 05/25/1939 GB
71 F. Murray Abraham 10/24/1939 US
72 Jon Voight 12/29/1938 US
73 Benicio Del Toro 02/19/1967 US
74 Michael Douglas 09/25/1944 US
75 Harrison Ford 07/13/1942 US
76 Kevin Kline 10/24/1947 US
77 Jeremy Irons 09/19/1948 GB
78 Brad Pitt 12/18/1963 US
79 Robert Downey Jr. 04/04/1965 US
80 Forest Whitaker 07/15/1961 US
81 George Clooney 05/06/1961 US
82 Tom Cruise 07/03/1962 US
83 Will Smith 09/25/1968 US
84 Matt Damon 10/08/1970 US
85 Samuel L. Jackson 12/21/1948 US
86 Liam Neeson 06/07/1952 US
87 Ed Harris 11/28/1950 US
88 Tim Robbins 10/16/1958 US
89 Robert Redford 08/18/1936 US
90 Orson Welles 05/06/1915 US
91 Steve McQueen 03/24/1930 US
92 Charlton Heston 10/04/1923 US
93 Bill Murray 09/21/1950 US
94 Jim Carrey 01/17/1962 CA
95 Mel Gibson 01/03/1956 US
96 Martin Sheen 08/03/1940 US
97 Don Cheadle 11/29/1964 US
98 Kevin Costner 01/18/1955 US
99 Gene Kelly 08/23/1912 US
100 Robert Mitchum 08/06/1917 US

Notes

  • Last updated on July 23, 2015
  • Best Actors (IMDB: by ChrisWalczyk55) data as of July 23, 2015 courtesy of IMDB.