My Top 35 Favorite Historical Male Performances

Submitted by allegheny on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 13:16
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  1. Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence
  2. Peter O'Toole as Henry II (Lion In Winter)
  3. Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler
  4. Robert DeNiro as Jake "The Raging Bull" LaMotta
  5. Daniel Day-Lewis as Christie Brown (My Left Foot)
  6. Liam Neeson as Michael Collins (Michael Collins)
  7. Jeff Daniels as Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Gettysburg)
  8. Brian Keath as Pres. Theodore Roosevelt (The Wind and The Lion)
  9. Jeff Daniels as Gen. George Washington (The Crossing)
  10. Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles Robinson (Ray)
  11. Denzel Washington as Ruben "Hurricane" Carter (Great performance even if innacurate)
  12. George C. Scott as General George S. Patton
  13. John Hurt as Joseph Carey Merrick (The Elephant Man)
  14. Henry Fonda as Abraham Lincoln (Young Mr. Lincoln)
  15. F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri (Amadeus)
  16. Tom Halice as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Amadeus)
  17. Dimjon Hounsou as (Joseph) Cinque (Amistad)
  18. Anthony Hopkins as John Q. Adams (Amistad)
  19. Sebastian Roche as Col. John Glover (The Crossing)
  20. Howard DeSilva as Benjamin Franklin (1776)
  21. William Daniels as John Adams (1776)
  22. Martin Sheen as General Robert E. Lee (Gettysburg)
  23. Stephen Lang as General George Pickett (Gettysburg)
  24. Richard Jordan as General Lewis Armistead (Gettysburg)
  25. David Straithairn as Edward R. Morrow (Good Luck and Good Night)
  26. Gene Hackman as NYPD detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, psuedonym for Eddie "Popeye" Egan (The French Connection)
  27. Patrick McGoohan as King Edward I "Longshanks" (Braveheart)
  28. Al Pacino as Frank Serpico (Serpico)
  29. Denzel Washington as Malcolm "X" Little (Malcolm X)
  30. Robert Downey Jr. as Charles Chaplin (Chaplin)
  31. Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More (A Man For All Seasons)
  32. Robert Shaw as Henry VIII (A Man For All Seasons)
  33. Sir Ben Kingsley as Mohamadas Gandhi (Gandhi)
  34. Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito, psuedonym for Tommy DeSimone (Goodfellas)
  35. Sam Waterson as Abraham Lincoln (Gore Vidal's Lincoln)
JohnnyW02/17/2008

I haven't seen some of these movies (1776, Gettysburg), but of the ones I have, Downey, Jr's Chaplin, Hurt's Merrick, Day-Lewis' Conlin, Scott's Patton, and Straithairn's Morrow really stand out for me. I also haven't seen A Man for All Seasons in over ten years, but seeing the names here makes me want to rewatch it. Good list.

Johnny Waco