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I don't know what the definition is. This is loose and casual topic. I wasn't sure whether you were being serious or not (now I know; but I wasn't disparaging Groucho Marx, I'm just not very familiar with him).

Half of each. [:)]

Groucho is underrated. One of my favorite quotes of all time: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

John Wayne
Jimmy Stewart
Laurence Olivier
Robert Mitchum
Anthony Hopkins

Burt Lancaster and Steve McQueen.

I second James Stewart. If you are asking for an actor who single-handedly defined the movies he was in and made those movies great, I think that he is my top choice. So many great movies that were simply great because he was the lead actor in them.

John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck, and Russell Crowe are my favorites.

Okay, you guys are in trouble. I just spoke with my mother, who is about to celebrate her 83rd birthday. She's smart, she's classy, she's funny, she's given to the worst verbal goofs I've ever heard ("hyponemic durdle" and "Ingledink Hunkleburt" being my two favorites of all time). I didn't tell her about this little excercise, but I had told her about my daughter's "Bridge On the River Kwai" episode yesterday. Thus prompted, my mom opined that Cary Grant is the greatest leading man of all time. She says Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace was just about perfection.

Truly, Grant may be the greatest leading man of all time. Anybody care to argue with my mom?

+1 Stormwolf on Robert Duval, he's one of the greatest actors I've ever seen.

How did you forget Charles Laughton? Captain Bligh and the Hunchback.

Or Robert Newton? Everyone in the world knows his Long John Silver, "Arrrrrrrrr".

Was Al Pacino on the list? Peter Sellers? Dustin Hoffman? James Dean?

Here's one that excelled in two categories: Drama, "Forbidden Planet" and Comedy, "Naked Gun" - Leslie Nielsen

I like Robert Mitchum a lot, but I won't say the greatest. Marlon Brando is real strong.

I've got to mention Denzel Washington, too. And frigging Sydney Poitier!

Was Tom Hanks on the list?

Oh, and since we're only talking about leading MEN, what about Sigourney Weaver in "Alien"? [:D]

I've edited the list as nominations have come in. The list is huge! There have been a heckuva lot of memorable leading men.

I will say, though, that the vast majority of these are clearly not in the "elite" class. I think the truly elite might number around 10. Then you can argue number one. (But I think mom may be right....)

Alec Guiness? Peter O'Toole?

The List of those Who Shall Not Be Nominated: Ben Affleck, Donald Southerland, Robin Williams, Bill Paxton, Brendan Frazer, Val Kilmer, Leonardo DiCaprio

Rasil Bathbone?

Oh, yeah. He needs to be added. He's charming and fun in the Sherlock Holmes movies.

Anthonius Quinnius.


I see you mentioned Archibald Alexander Leach. What about Maurice Joseph Micklewhite?

Oh, and as a proxy for Michelle Bachmann, John Wayne Gacy.

Paxton?

Third best thing in Aliens after Ripley and the big alien!

"Game over, man, game over"

My first choice is Groucho. He would be leading his hordes to er... chaos, but who cares [8D] A necessarily bold commander on my book.

My second choice is obviously Jack Sparrow.

Edited to Omit

CR, how can you find the time for your job, your family, one or more AE games (OK, maybe not right now [:(]) and for movies as well? I strongly suspect days in CSA are 26-27 hours long [:D]
Anyway, Dustin Hoffman is of the same class of the "original five" you have mentioned. Well, I'd say he's at the top of the list, much better than Harrison Ford. My two cents...

Marx was good until he went into politics.

I have time for two reasons: At work, much of my time is spent typing - either writing or editing. If I do that non stop, eight hours a day, I go crazy. So I take breaks to run or ride or play games. At home, we don't have television, so I read, watch old movies, and harrass the cat.