Thanks lol, thought it was about time someone put in some performances that people are old enough to remember being at the cinema rather than the cliche's that have been thrown about on this thread
I think Stallone in Rocky and Nicholson in One flew over the Cookoo's nest are the two the stick out from those mentioned. Burgess Meredith's performance in Rocky was also pretty iconic.
Denziel Washington in Glory
Arnold Schwarzeneger in Terminator
Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy.
Henry Fonda in 12 angry men.
Morgan Freeman - shawshank redemption
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
River Phionix(sp) - stand by me
Tom Hank - Green Mile (and the big guy - cant think of his name)
Double Indemnity - Barbra Stanwick
All About Eve - Bette Davis
Faye Dunaway - As Joan Crawford in Momma Dearest - NO MORE WIRE HANGERS - great effing line
Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry
Gene Hackman - French Connection
Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard - superb!
Bette Davis - Now Voyager - in fact damn mear anything she did - my favourite actress of all time
John Wayne - The Searchers
Gary Cooper - High Noon - forget Grace Kelly!
Shirley McClaine - The Apartment - very progressive for its time
Gregory Peck in Moby Dick & To Kill a Mocking Bird
Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk
Johnny Depp in Edward ScissorhanRAB
Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man
Christopher Reeve in Superman
Cloris Leachman in High Anxiety
Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood
Liza Minelli in "Cabaret".....and I know she's being slagged off at the moment in another thread for her ghastly appearance on Parkinson, but you can't take it away from the girl, she was,simply, magnificent.
Jimmy Stewart - Its a Wonderful Life
Humphrey Bogart- Maltese Falcon
Maureen O'Sullivan- Tarzan
Gene Hackman - French Connection
Paul Newman- Cool Hand Luke
Laure AND Hardy- Way Out West
Boris Karloff- Frankenstein
Harrison Ford - Star Wars