Greatest acting performances of all time...

[BlueBearBoots]

Vivienne Leigh in gone with the wind - she played the spoilt southern belle to perfection

Good shout that. Olivia de Haviland was her sublime self in the same film but she was even better again in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.
Which in turn reminds me of Rita Hayworth in The Snake Pit and Kirk Douglas in Ace in the Hole. Shirley Maclaine, too, for any number of performances but let's go with The Apartment because that gives me an excuse to mention Jack Lemmon and Fred Mc Murray.

How I love all those old films when women were real and men were men :)

 

[Bill]

newman, cool hand luke.

 

[tiggsywiggsywoo]

Brando as Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar had astonishing intensity:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY1ezMyRV9w[/video]

Brando is amazing!

 

[mscenterh750]

Luis Suarez.

 

[jimharri]

newman, cool hand luke.

''Still shaking it boss''! George Kennedy also played a blinder in that film; the ''car wash'' scene is an epic.

 

[Bill]

anything pete postlewaite did.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Brad Davis - midnight express
Marlon Brando - The Godfather
Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
Ralph fiennes- The English Patient
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
Colin Firth - The Kings Speech
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips

Kate Winslett - The Reader
Halle Berry - Monsters Ball
Jodie Foster-silence of the Lambs

 

[mscenterh750]

Dustin Hoffman in rain man

 

[morleyswife]

Not my favourite but thought Michael Douglas was good in falling down

 

[jimharri]

It's a Wonderful Life= James stewart

I have never watched that all the way through yet - watched the first half about 50 times lol

the butler did it.

In the library, with the candlestick.