Top 10 actors/actresses
 

Morgan Freeman
Sigourney Weaver
Vivien Leigh
Elizabeth Taylor
Jack Nicholson
Cher
Jessica Lange
Laurence Olivier
Meryl Streep
Gary Sinise

Raymond Walburn
W.C. Fields
Jean Arthur
Edna May Oliver
Ralph Richardson
Nadia Sibirskaia
Grady Sutton
Arthur Hunnicutt
Eddie Bracken
Deborah Kerr

special mention: Mae Marsh

1. Joaquin Phoenix
2. Russell Crowe
3. Johnny Depp
4. Leonardo DiCaprio
5. Bruce Campbell
6. Kevin Spacey
7. Vince Vaughn
8. Geoffrey Rush
9. Samuel L. Jackson
10. Tom Hanks

All of these men I really love to watch, but some of them I also really like looking at. :D

my list tends to change, but here goes (in random order):

Shirley MacLaine
Barbra Streisand
Morgan Freeman
Meryl Streep
Diane Keaton
Kevin Bacon
Robin Williams
Julia Roberts (sorry)
Jennifer Lopez (sorry again)
Harrison Ford

honorable mention: Michelle Pfeiffer

Ed Harris
Christopher Walken
Briget Fonda
Hilary Swank
Jack Nicholson
Al Pacino
Robert De Niro
Josh Brolin
Meryl Streep
Johnny Depp

Katharine Hepburn
Bette Davis
Rosalind Russell
Vivien Leigh
Jodie Foster

Cary Grant
Laurence Olivier
Jimmy Stewart
Jack Nicholson
Kevin Kline

Honorable mentions: Kathy Bates & Jeremy Irons

1. Joan Crawford

and then in no order

Sigourney Weaver
Bette Davis
Marilyn Monroe
Sharon Stone
Arnold Schwarzenegger (sad but true)
Sam Neill
Michael Douglas
Kathleen Turner
Meryl Streep (moreso for comedic roles)

Do you like SHe Devil that she was in? Thats one of my absolute favorites!:nod::lol:

Julia rules. No sorry needed. But JLo.. hard to forgive you :laugh::laugh:

No George Sanders?

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I always remember my mother when I see Deborah. They were not that look-alike (mom looked far more like Natalie Wood in her youth), but she was fan of Deborah Kerr. My fave movie of DK is An Affair to remember.

You're leaving it up to interpretation, just what you mean by "top." Not sure if you mean who I think are the "best" ones or who are my "favorites" (yes, I do see a difference). So I'm taking it to mean the latter. (Sorry, trying to protect myself by reading all the small print. You never know who might sue you. ;):wavey:)
Basically in order:

Gregory Peck
Spencer Tracy
Cary Grant
Gene Kelly
Charlie Chaplin
Paul Rudd
Albert Brooks

Ruth Gordon
Dianne Wiest
Glenn Close
Meryl Streep
Madeline Kahn
Lee Remick
Carole Lombard

- Jake

Just came back to edit the above. First of all, I had meant Peck when I typed in Tracy - they did both play lawyers. Also, since others aren't sticking to ten, me neither.:> )

Spencer Tracy
Hanna Schygulla
Carole Lombard
Romolo Valli
Clifton Webb
Anna Magnani
Philippe Noiret
Cheng Pei Pei
Maggie Smith
Aleksander Bardini

Honorable mentions: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Maggie Cheung

Romy

Marcello Mastroianni
Peter Sellers
Emily Watson
Gabriel Byrne
Eric Bana
Adrien Brody
Ralph fiennes
Sam Neil
Kathy Burke
Daneil Day Lewis

I'm not George Sanders's biggest fan, no. However, Edgar G. Ulmer -- one of my cinematic heroes & the man who I think should have directed Gone With the Wind (in a style approximating that of his great Detour) -- directed Sanders in an excellent role & performance opposite Hedy Lamarr in a film called Strange Woman. That's my favorite Sanders performance, followed probably by his dastardly cousin in Hitchcock's Rebecca.

Sanders was also excellent as the King in Preminger's Forever Amber, another film that should have served as the model for GWTW & directorial style & personality. (I'm an oddball Preminger fan because I consider Whirlpool his greatest & one of Ben Hecht's best & weirdest screenplays.)

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Sanders's role in All About Eve is a bit of a puzzle because I can't quite tell whether he's meant to approximate George Jean Nathan or James Agate. http://www.logoslibrary.eu/users/bio_images/agate.jpg