Who were your favorite classic actors and actresses?

Here are some.

Spencer Tracy
Cary Grant
John Wayne
Paul Newman
Burt Lancaster
Humphery Bogart
Marlon Brando
Errol Flynn
Clark Gable
Jimmy Stewart
Henry Fonda

Some others that didn't fit in the poll or I remembered after.

Gregory Peck
Clint Eastwood
Robert Redford
Lee Marvin
Peter Lorre
Peter O'Toole
Charlton Heston
Peter Sellers
Gene Hackman
Robert DeNiro
Al Pacino
George Raft
Charles Laughton
Kirk Douglas
Laurence Olivier
Boris Karloff
Christopher Lee

From your list I'd pick Cary Grant, but there were many others I'd vote for.

Good choice from his comedies - His Girl Friday and Bring Up Baby to his many other movie roles including his Hitchcock movies.

Just a great leading man for about 40 years in the movies.

In honor of the first posters answer - Here's Cary Grant.

Walk Don't Run (1966) .... Sir William Rutland
Father Goose (1964) .... Walter Christopher Eckland/Mother Goose
Charade (1963) .... Peter Joshua
That Touch of Mink (1962) .... Philip Shayne
The Grass Is Greener (1960) .... Victor Rhyall, Earl
Operation Petticoat (1959) .... Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman
North by Northwest (1959) .... Roger O. Thornhill
Houseboat (1958) .... Tom Winters
Indiscreet (1958) .... Philip Adams
Kiss Them for Me (1957) .... Cmdr. Andy Crewson
The Pride and the Passion (1957) .... Anthony
An Affair to Remember (1957) .... Nickie Ferrante
To Catch a Thief (1955) .... John Robie
Dream Wife (1953) .... Clemson Reade
Monkey Business (1952) .... Dr. Barnaby Fulton
Room for One More (1952) .... George 'Poppy' Rose
People Will Talk (1951) .... Dr. Noah Praetorius
Crisis (1950) .... Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson
I Was a Male War Bride (1949) .... Capt. Henri Rochard
Every Girl Should Be Married (1948) .... Dr. Madison Brown
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) .... Jim Blandings
The Bishop's Wife (1947) .... Dudley
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) .... Richard Nugent
Notorious (1946) .... T.R. Devlin
Night and Day (1946) .... Cole Porter
Without Reservations (1946) (uncredited) .... Cameo appearance
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) .... Mortimer Brewster
None But the Lonely Heart (1944) .... Ernie Mott
Once Upon a Time (1944) .... Jerry Flynn
Destination Tokyo (1943) .... Capt. Cassidy
Mr. Lucky (1943) .... Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) .... Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole
The Talk of the Town (1942) .... Leopold Dilg
Suspicion (1941) .... Johnnie Aysgarth
Penny Serenade (1941) .... Roger Adams
The Philadelphia Story (1940) .... C. K. Dexter Haven
The Howards of Virginia (1940) .... Matt Howard
My Favorite Wife (1940) .... Nick Arden
His Girl Friday (1940) .... Walter Burns
In Name Only (1939) .... Alec Walker
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) .... Geoff Carter
Gunga Din (1939) .... Sgt. Archibald Cutter
Topper Takes a Trip (1939) .... George Kerby (archive footage from: Topper)
Holiday (1938) .... John 'Johnny' Case
Bringing Up Baby (1938) .... Dr. David Huxley
The Awful Truth (1937) .... Jerry Warriner
The Toast of New York (1937) .... Nicholas 'Nick' Boyd
Topper (1937) .... George Kerby
When You're in Love (1937) .... Jimmy Hudson
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936) .... Ernest Bliss
Wedding Present (1936) .... Charlie
Suzy (1936) .... Capt. Andre Charville
Big Brown Eyes (1936) .... Danny Barr
Sylvia Scarlett (1935) .... Jimmy Monkley
The Last Outpost (1935) .... Michael Andrews
Wings in the Dark (1935) .... Ken Gordon
Enter Madame (1935) .... Gerald Fitzgerald
Ladies Should Listen (1934) .... Julian De Lussac
Kiss and Make Up (1934) .... Dr. Maurice Loman
Born to Be Bad (1934) .... Malcolm 'Mal' Trevor
Thirty Day Princess (1934) .... Porter Madison III
Alice in Wonderland (1933) .... The Mock Turtle
I'm No Angel (1933) .... Jack Clayton
Gambling Ship (1933) .... Ace Corbin
The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) .... Henry Crocker
Woman Accused (1933) .... Jeffrey Baxter
She Done Him Wrong (1933) .... Capt. Cummings
Madame Butterfly (1932) .... Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton
Hot Saturday (1932) .... Romer Sheffield
Blonde Venus (1932) .... Nick Townsend
Devil and the Deep (1932) .... Lieutenant Jaeckel
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) .... Charlie Baxter 'DeBrion'
Singapore Sue (1932) (uncredited) .... First sailor
Sinners in the Sun (1932) .... Ridgeway
This Is the Night (1932) .... Stephen

Of his comedies, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is my absolute favorite. He was simply wonderful in so many different roles.

Where are these "actresses" on your list? :wink:


The best is Humphrey Bogart, he is coooool.

Since there are only 10 spots, you can see that I did the actors - even though I needed about 25 polling lines.

So on the actress, I didn't want to mix them up.

But you are welcome to mention your favorite actresses here.

and Bogart is a great choice - so many incredible roles and movies.

The Maltese Falcon stands out for me as his pivotal role, i love it more than any of his.

African Queen and Casablanca, i did not like too much, tbh i havent seen much of them, but what i have seen did ot impress me at all.

He did one about a boat, and he is a Captain, a grumpy one, but he dies....or gets repremanded by his staff and there is a courtcase, very good movie.

If I had to choose one classic actress it would be Katharine Hepburn.

Yes on Bogart, the Maltese Falcon was a classic role.

And I think the boat movie you mentioned at the end was the African Queen.

And the other movie was the Caine Mutiny with a great role by Bogart and a good performance with Fred MacMurray as an cowardly officer.

Yes KH is considered one. I think she has the female Oscar winner the most times.

Mine might be Audrey Hepburn.

Then others would include - off the top of my head.

Lauren Bacall
Lucielle Ball
Jean Authur
Marilyn Monroe
Rita Hayworth
Marlene Dietrich
Myrna Loy
Loretta Young
Gene Tierney
Jean Simmons