Your Favorite [NOT the BEST] Actors: Alive & Deceased

Male Actors:

1. Jeff Bridges-Living
2. Bruce Lee-Deceased

Female Actors

1. Jody Foster-Living
2. Estelle Getty-Deceased

I have a few favorites, but IMO you can't beat Val Kilmer in Tombstone, or Racquel Welch in anything she did.

Jodie Foster is pretty much 1A on my list of living Actresses. A great talent.

Ever notice that many actors are famous or popular for acting like themselves? One of the reasons that I think that Daniel Day Lewis is such a great actor. No performance is like another. I love Pacino but Pacino from the seventies isn't Pacino today.

Daniel Day Lewis' performance in Lincoln is scary good

Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe. Fun to watch.

Male Actors:

1. Morgan Freeman-Living
2. Heath Ledger-Deceased

Female Actors

1. Jody Foster-Living
2. Katherine hepburn-Deceased

Heath Ledger, that's a good choice. Imagine his body of work had he lived.

Humphrey Bogart
Sophia Loren

Speaking of Bogart, last July in Riverside, CA, they had a Friday Bogart film festival. Every Friday in July they screened a different Bogart flick. Good times.

L: Gene Hackman (though he's retired)
D: Gary Cooper

L: Reese Witherspoon
D: Katherine Hepburn

Tommy Lee Jones, Gene Hackman, Paul Muni, Paul Scofield.

Eleanor Parker, Elizabeth Taylor, Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren.

Male: DeNiro, J. Depp, Jimmy Stewart
Female: J. Roberts, K. Hepburn, B. Davis

Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Tommy Lee Jones, Cary Grant

Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn, Helen Hent, Maria Bello

Casper?

Actors

L: Johnny Depp, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Russell Crowe
D: Paul Newman, Peter Sellers, Jimmy Stewart, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando

Actresses

L: Jennifer Anniston, Hallie Berry, Salma Hayek, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson
D: Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Sylvia Kristel, Elizabeth Taylor, Farrah Fawcett

Helen Hunt since her full frontal in "The Sessions"

Love this topic.

Off the top of my head: Buster Keaton, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Cillian Murphy, Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eddie Redmayne, Chloe Sevigne, Amanda Seyfried and Bill Skarsgaard gets an honorable mention for being perfect. I'd watch any movie any of those people were in.

Robert Duvall
Rita Hayworth
Ingrid Bergman
Jimmy Stewart
Naomi Watts

male actors: nick nolte, al pacino, chris walken, nicholas cage, jack nicholson
rip: paul newman, eli wallach, bruce lee

actresses: charlize therion, kirstie alley, ashley judd, faye dunaway, jodie foster
rip: farrah fawcett

I'll answer that with a Kai Yaaaaaaaaa-Bruce Lee.