Actor with the greatest range

[laserblue]

You sure about that one?

Maybe not. I did have second thoughts about it after I posted :)

 

[chesterbells]

Di Caprio for his parts in Jango and TWoWS. Absolutely top class performances and entirely different from the likes of Inception and the Revenant.

Robin Williams. From funny guy to acting out heartfelt scenes. Guy was a genius.

Denzel Washington. Can play a bad guy that scares the shit out of you to amazing performances in The Book of Eli.

Joaquin Pheonix. Always amazed at how much I hated him as Emperor in the Gladiator (Crowe had a great performance also) to absolutely mastering Jonny Cash. And his Joker performance was nothing short of perfection.

David Tennant if were looking outside Hollywood.

Some top suggestions there pal.

 

[jimharri]

Chris Quinten. A stellar career.

 

[tregyblue61]

Anthony Quayle

 

[dickie davies]

Richard Attenborough was a superb actor and played so many varying roles

the strict sergeant major
spiv eastender
murdering rapist
billionaire philanthropist

 

[blumanchu]

Not a global star but Steve pemberton

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Jason Statham :+)

 

[Pell]

Nicholas Cage.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

 

[Big Swifty]

Jason Statham :+)

The only one I can think of to equal Statham's narrow range of characters was Anton Diffring - Nazi/Gestapo/SS and that was it.
It's not widely known that Diffribg was not German but Austrian, and had to flee the country after the Anschluss not because he was a Jew, but because he was a known homosexual, and was thus liable to persecution by real Nazis.