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Well-known Hollywood

The sunny American West Coast is the territory the place the world headquarters of cinema is positioned: Hollywood. Due to this fact, we additionally discover essentially the most well-known actors and actresses on this planet. 

The newest information and images of essentially the most worldwide huge display screen actors. All of the information, their tasks and the personal lifetime of actors like Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz and Jennifer Lawrence, right here.

The 25 greatest actors in historical past

You may all the time keep in mind the previous hackneyed saying "Being an actor isn't a dash, it is a long-distance race", and the next listing is additional proof of this axiom. These actors who at present get pleasure from nice skilled fame didn't obtain the popularity they deserved till effectively into their years, and none of them will let you know that they really feel dangerous about it.

These beings who in actual life behave in roughly orthodox methods, however on the screens... on the screens may be from cowboys to attorneys to warriors to gangsters and even actual life beings who behave in numerous methods. roughly orthodox.

Benefiting from the celebration of the Worldwide Day of the Actor and the Actress , right here is the listing of the 50 greatest performers in historical past divided into two blocks: those that make up the 25 legends of the seventh artwork (chosen by the AFI) and people 25 performers fashionable  characters (chosen by us) who've reached the best stage of camouflage with their characters.

Within the listing of legends, ready by the AFI (American Movie Institute) , and for geographical causes, there are a collection of notable absences similar to Toshiro Mifune, Marcello Mastroianni or our Paco Rabal, José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Landa or Fernando Fernan- Gomez.

What's much more unusual is that names as indisputably legendary as Jack Lemmon, Paul Newman, Charlton Heston, Peter Ustinov, John Cazale or Tony Curtis , or, as a result of their truncated careers, Heath Ledger or Phillip Seymour Hoffman , don't seem on that listing . However that is the listing that makes up, in line with the AFI, the 25 myths of cinema.

THE 25 LEGENDS

1- HUMPHREY BOGART


The actor who has greatest recognized tips on how to fill the display screen, a really nonetheless titan on a bar. Hat. Trench coat. He gained an Oscar for The African Queen however he may even be remembered for The Maltese Falcon, The Large Sleep or, above all, his Rick in Casablanca . He has by no means tried to mimic him, who might?

2-CARY GRANT


Eternal picture of a good-looking man, midway between amazement and a smile, solely Cary Grant was able to coping with Katharine Hepburn in The Beast of My Lady or operating like in With Demise on His Heels and by no means profitable an Oscar (apart from the Honorary) or a Golden Globe. And even so, his place on this listing is indeniable.

3- JAMES STEWART

He taught us how lovely it's to dwell! , he handled Hitchcock 's Vertigo and Rear Window and was fairly the Knight And not using a Sword . James Stewart is that actor for whom a single Oscar (for Philadelphia Story) appears little. For simplicity. Out of disdain for delight. For being a star earlier than ascending to heaven.

4- MARLON BRANDO

A real drive of Nature, a volcano, a very good twister, Marlon Brando went from essentially the most overflowing ardour in A Streetcar Named Want or The Regulation of Silence to the emotionless and taciturn Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather .In between he left a paper for the reminiscence of every viewer. Pure hearth performing, even his college, the road, continues to be legitimate.

5- FRED ASTAIRE

jumps. turns. Choreographies for posterity. She endowed the pentagram with the cell of his physique. He managed each muscle like a dance surgeon. Fred Astaire modified musical cinema perpetually with movies like Prime Hat, Broadway Melodies or A Face with an Angel.

6- HENRY FUNDA

Henry Fonda did every part and every part in a superlative manner: the one simply man of these 12 cruel males , the proper previous age of Within the golden pool and even the exact antagonist of Till his time got here . He had the ocean in his eyes. And a watch to carve out a profession that weighs closely on the reminiscence. In a phrase: unrepeatable.

7- CLARK GABLE

Though perpetually immortalized in that 'Frankly expensive, I do not give a rattling' by no means translated into Spanish from Gone with the Wind , Clark Gable was all the time rather more. He starred in It Occurred One Evening , the primary movie to win all 5 main Oscars (Film, Director, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, and Screenplay), nevertheless it nonetheless is not sufficient. With out artifice, Clark Gable made performing a steady mannerism, an excellent mirror.

8- JAMES CAGNEY

Together with his indomitable gangster options, James Cagney all the time knew tips on how to win over the general public with a gun in hand: Pink Scorching, The Public Enemy or Angels with Soiled Faces show it. And he knew tips on how to snicker at all of it in Billy Wilder 's fantastic One, Two, Three . With the dandyism of a intelligent little boy, Cagney bellowed and whispered with the identical obvious ease.

9- SPENCER TRACY

It is not possible to think about Spencer Tracy with out his spouse Katharine Hepburn by his facet ( Adam's Rib, Guess Who's Coming Tonight ) however he dared every part from Nazi trials ( Winners or Vanquished ) to Hemingway The Outdated Man and the Sea ). He gained two Oscars. And an animated tribute with that protagonist of Up who's so much like him.

10- CHARLIE CHAPLIN

They are saying that when he entered a Charlot impersonator contest and got here third. Yet one more joke from this genius of humor who was both giving speeches or enjoying - what metaphors of no subtlety - with the ball of the world ( The Nice Dictator ), within the manufacturing unit or making up a tune on the fly ( Trendy Occasions ) or as a father adoptive ( The boy ), the smile is indivisible to his movies.

11- GARY COOPER

Simply being the sheriff dealing with that vacant chair in Alone in Hazard would already need to be on this listing, however Gary Cooper was additionally Sergeant York and starred in For Whom the Bell Tolls . Phrases are pointless.

12- GREGORY PECK

Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird . The film character that everybody needs to be. Solely somebody who exuded Peck's honesty might convey it to life. Inexorably an actor, he confirmed off his bonhomie in each movie he had for him: Roman Holidays or The Weapons of Navarone attest to this.

13- JOHN WAYNE

The quintessential cowboy archetype. The western is synonymous along with his hat. The person from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance . The Quiet Man from The Quiet Man . Centaur in Centaurs of the Desert . Imposing, drinker and incomparable, as if that weren't sufficient, there are La diligencia, Río Bravo or Valor de Ley , which gained him an Oscar.

14- LAURENCE OLIVIER

Shakespeare made flesh. Hamlet, Othello, Richard III, Henry V ... And he did not cease there: a dentist with out beautiful manners in Marathon Man , a Roman common seeking Spartacus, a life-or-death gambler in The Footprint , and Zeus himself! in Conflict of the Titans . Nobody can deny him the status of being a legend.

15- GENE KELLY

It is frankly tough for somebody to not have hummed 'I am singing within the rain' on a wet day. Inconceivable. And he owes all of it to this musical actor who filmed compulsively , with a fever, with milk as a substitute of water and who gave masterpieces similar to Elevating Anchors, An American in Paris or A Day in New York.

16- ORSON WELLES

His is the Rosebud from Citizen Kane . Purpose sufficient to be fable. However he additionally occupied the frames of The Woman from Shanghai . The reverse pictures of Thirst for evil . And he even gave himself top-of-the-line phrases in cinema in The Third Man : "In Italy, in 30 years of Borgia domination, there was nothing however terror, wars, massacres,... however Michelangelo emerged, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, quite the opposite, that they had 500 years of affection, democracy and peace. And what was the consequence? The cuckoo clock . " What else.

17- KIRK DOUGLAS

The one legend that's nonetheless alive (and this yr he turns 100). The spitting picture of Vincent van Gogh in The Idiot with the Pink Hair , leaping from oar to oar in The Vikings, fighter within the Paths of Glory , due to Kirk Douglas everybody imagines Spartacus with a dimple. And that look.

18- JAMES DEAN


 The youngest of legends. Probably the most untamed Probably the most enigma Prototype of 'dwell quick, die younger and go away a stupendous corpse ', James Dean solely wanted three movies to enter Olympus: East of Eden, Big and, in fact, Insurgent And not using a Trigger .

19- BURT LANCASTER

 With essentially the most well-known kiss on the seaside in film historical past ( From Right here to Eternity ), Burt Lancaster would hardly not seem on this listing. With an angular face and the demeanor of a good-natured big, the actor was able to carrying the burden of a 3-hour movie on his shoulders De él ( El Gatopardo ) with out flinching. He gained an Oscar.

20- THE MARX BROTHERS (GROUCHO, CHICO AND HARPO)

 The comedy of the absurd and clever humor have by no means come collectively in addition to within the identify of those three brothers (or was it 4, Zeppo?) who exuded charisma and laughter in equal elements in every incidence. A legendary phrase from Groucho right here, a duplicate -on piano- from Chico there and Harpo's horn to complete off. And two hard-boiled eggs. Cinema could be a nasty hieroglyph with out them.

21- BUSTER KEATON

The unhappy clown par excellence. Sitcom at its most interesting. Buster Keaton created a manner of understanding what the viewer needed from the simplicity of a languid take care of an incorrigible blunder. There they're to show it The final machinist or The trendy Sherlock Holmes.

22- SIDNEY POITIER

It was all presence. He was the one who broke the racist taboo of previous Hollywood with one thing so simple as being the very best at your job. Riot within the lecture rooms, Guess who's coming tonight or Within the warmth of the evening solely served to punch the homophobic desk of the time. With The Lilies of the Valley he turned the primary black actor to win the Oscar for Finest Main Actor.

23- ROBERT MITCHUM

Rogue complexion and a fedora hat. He was distinctive. His tattooed knuckles ended up making him everlasting. Robert Mitchum was that form of actor who is known as versatile : he was the nightmare of two generations -at least- with The Evening of the Hunter and Cape Terror , however he additionally knew tips on how to convey out the schoolteacher from Ryan's Daughter and the previous Again to the Previous detective . He all the time knew his place in films and that has earned him his spot on this listing.

24- EDWARD G. ROBINSON

Probably the most unknown of the legends was nevertheless an absolute on the display screen. A high-end secondary common ( Key Largo, Doom, The Ten Commandments ), Edward G. Robinson all the time had that movie noir thriller with him, like a broad shadow, which he made essentially the most of in The Stranger . Small big.

25 - WILLIAM HOLDEN

William Holden might be one of many actors with some of the envied and unrepeatable careers: Twilight of the Gods, Wild Bunch, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Community, a relentless world ... However that heavenly gaze is equally envied and unrepeatable. His glory is to stay in drive, as if sculpted, in reminiscence.