AFI's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time

The American Institue of Film had the tough job of ranking the legendary actors we all know and love into the top twenty-five of all time.
The world will never see the likes of any of these men again and their rankings are all well deserved.

The Song:
"Viva La Vida" by Coldplay. I do not own the rights to this song or the photographs.

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• Old
• Hollywood
• Top
• Actors
• William
• Holden
• Clark
• Gable
• Cary
• Grant
• John
• Wayne
• James
• Stewart
• Humphrey
• Bogart
• Gregory
• Peck
• The
• Marx
• Brothers
• Buster
• Keaton
• Gene
• Kelly
• Fred
• Astaire
• Marlon
• Brando
• Dean
• Henry
• Fonda
• Gary
• Cooper
• Robert
• Mitchum
• Cagney
• Edward
• Robinson
• Burt
• Lancaster
• Laurence
• Olivier
• Sidney
• Poitier
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[ajaxfitch]

Everybody just Shut the Fuck up.

These are not the greatest actors, They are the Top 25 SCREEN LEGENDS. They are way better than the fucking pussies now adays like Zac Afron

[GSheppo92]

I dont think this video shows the "greatest actors" as in Acting skill. For example James Dean is at 18 and Cary Grant and Bogart are at 2 and 1... neither Grant or Bogart where very good actors.. Bogart was wooden and Grant was the same in every film... the same goes for John wayne... you never went to see John wayne play somebody in a film... you just went to she John Wayne being John wayne ... in his very limited role range.

[kylepezzullo]

wtf? the only actors here that ive even heard of are marlon brando and charlie chaplin! go back to the fortys!!!

[3Axy10Est13]

Kind of biased, all these actors are pre 60's beside Marlon Brando...sorta, i think an acting list without Al Pacino is criminal.

[Onlymusical]

@Susi2584 A lot of your comments are being flagged as spam but I don't know why. Anyway, I did not see the movie but I do know that it's quite good, by all accounts. I'll wait and catch it in some other context than full theatre price, though. The theatrical movie you should see right now is definitely "The Artist." One of the best movies I've ever seen.

[Onlymusical]

@Susi2584 I believe it was both nose and chin. You can look at early pictures online of her and spot the difference immediately. There are at least 2 lavish books out right now of pre-surgery photos. There was an HBO TV-movie in '96 called "Norma Jean and Marilyn" in which Ashley Judd played her before the surgery and Mira Sorvino portrayed her after the surgery, which was good casting.

[Susi2584]

@Onlymusical I didn't know Marilyn had surgery...for me her face looked the same...you know when she was Norma Jean and became Marilyn...she just changed her hair and always had a lot of make up on that's why she was so pretty...I mean her hair was always extraordinary kept .where did she have plastic surgery? nose? chin?..those are great movies that you listed as your favourites:D..I need to see ''Sunrise'' although it's very old:D

[Onlymusical]

@Susi2584 By the way, I prefer film and photos of Monroe from pre-surgery (there are many stills and some film) and I can't figure out whether it's because she's younger or because I actually prefer her face that way. Also, Bob Hope's face was destroyed in his teens and reconstructed by a 1920s plastic surgeon, which is where the weird ski nose and lantern jaw came from. He looks normal in what very few earlier photos exist.

[Onlymusical]

@Susi2584 Monroe literally WAS too pretty to be true, in fact, i.e. the facial surgery. Favorites from the past 20 yrs? Miami Vice (the movie w/ Colin Farrell and Gong Li); The Artist (in theatres now); The English Patient; Pulp Fiction; 3 Kings; True Romance, just off the top of my head in no particular order. I'm sure I'm leaving out many and I'd do better with silent films or the 1930s, when most of my favorites were produced. My all-time favorite? Maybe "Sunrise" (1927).

[Onlymusical]

@Susi2584 Monroe exuded a fantastic charisma that was unmatchable by any post-WW2 actresses. Look at the footage of Lee Remick vs. Monroe after Remick replaced her on "Something's Got to Give," the remake that Dean Martin deep-sixed after Monroe's replacement. Monroe glows, and you can see the emotions passing across her face and in her eyes most powerfully. She had an almost unearthly raw power on film. As for her beauty, she had plastic surgery on her face to refine it more and that worked.