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Best Movie Performances from Classic Actors

 

Buster Keaton – Sherlock Jr.

 

Cary Grant – North by Northwest

 

Charlie Chaplin – The Great Dictator

 

Charlton Heston – Ben-Hur

 

Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII

 

Clark Gable – It Happened One Night

 

Edward G. Robinson – Five Star Final

 

Emil Jannings – The Last Command

 

Fred Astaire – Top Hat

 

Fred MacMurray – Double Indemnity

 

Ernest Borgnine – Marty

 

Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

 

Gary Cooper – High Noon

 

Gene Kelly – An American in Paris

 

Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond

 

Humphrey Bogart – In a Lonely Place

 

Jack Lemmon – The Apartment

 

James Cagney – Angels with Dirty Faces

 

James Dean – East of Eden

 

James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

 

John Wayne – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

 

Joel McCrea – Sullivan’s Travels

 

Kirk Douglas – Paths of Glory

 

Laurence Olivier – Hamlet

 

Lon Chaney – The Unknown

 

Marlon Brando – On the Waterfront

 

Montgomery Clift – A Place in the Sun

 

Omar Sharif – Funny Girl

 

Paul Newman – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

 

Peter O’Toole – The Lion in Winter

 

Ray Milland – The Lost Weekend

 

Richard Burton – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe

 

Robert Mitchum – Out of the Past

 

Ronald Colman – Lost Horizon

 

Sidney Poitier – In the Heat of the Night

 

Spencer Tracy – Adam’s Rib

 

Vincent Price – House on Haunted Hill

 

Warren Beatty – Splendor in the Grass

 

William Powell – My Man Godfrey

 

Yul Brynner – The King and I