Movies Who's the 3 most influential male actors of all-time?

[Takes_Two_To_Tango]

Laurence Olivier

Robert De Niro

James Stewart

James Dean

Montgomery Clift

Paul Muni

Gary Oldman

Charlie Chaplin

Daniel Day-Lewis

Denzel Washington

Clint Eastwood

Marlon Brando

Al Pacino

Jack Nicholson

Sidney Poitier

Peter Sellers

Robin Williams

Humphrey Bogart

 

[RowdyLesnar]

Brando
Deniro
Chaplin

 

[Madmick]

Painful not to be able to include Jack, but Clift and Brando pioneered method acting which has taken over while Clint effectively defined the stoic, laconic tough guy who delivers sarcastic one-liners before sending off his antagonists that every action hero of the late 20th century emulated. When I watch Tom Hardy play Mad Max all I see is Blondie in a fictional, post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Brando is the flamboyant, Clint is the understated, and Clift is the man between.

 

[IndyCovaHart]

Nick Cage.

 

[JSN]

Is do you mean influential in the true sense; or are you looking for greatest?

 

[John Mabrey]

Deniro, eastwood, pacino

 

[JSN]

Painful not to be able to include Jack, but Clift and Brando pioneered method acting which has taken over while Clint effectively defined the stoic, laconic tough guy who delivers sarcastic one-liners before sending off his antagonists that every action hero of the late 20th century emulated. When I watch Tom Hardy play Mad Max all I see is Blondie in a fictional, post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Brando is the flamboyant, Clint is the understated, and Clift is the man between.

Don’t sleep on Olivier though. There are tons of aussies and britishers killing it in Hollywood who have a more classical style and Olivier largely adapted stage techniques to a more natural, mature cinematic style of acting.

 

[I Am Legion]

Jimmy Stewart is in the best movies of all time:
It’s a Wonderful Life, was Alfred Hitchcock’s guy in all his best ones.
Fantastic Westerns and War movies. He is the standard.

DDL
Last of The Mohicans, In the Name of The Father, My left Foot, Gangs, this dude is giant.

Jack Nicholson
China Town, One Flew over The Cuckoos Nest, A Few Good Men, The Departed, a perfect Joker in Batman, The Shining......

 

[SammyPops]

Need Jon Holmes on that list bro, he changed p0rn

 

[TheNinja]

I went with Brando and Nicholson and I couldn't decide on my 3rd pick between DeNiro and Denzel. I went with Denzel but it's probably not the correct choice.

 

[Jose Beehive]

 

[ookii]

Deniro, Chaplin, and Brando

 

[faustian]

Bill Duke
Shia LaBeouf
DJ Qualls

 

[dc007]

Brando, DeNiro, Dean

 

[Valhoven]

If scope ITT is expressly 'influential', one has to include Eastwood in whatever, to say, troika of film talent you're putting forth. He's a textbook case for a modern male paragon or then the masculine mould.

 

[Damien Karras]

This list is missing Humphrey Bogart

 

[loyalyolayal]

Chaplin
Brando
Poitier

 

[ookii]

Brando, DeNiro, Dean

Brando already took Dean's cool personification with The Wild One so it frees up room for one other actor

 

[Takes_Two_To_Tango]

Is do you mean influential in the true sense; or are you looking for greatest?

Basically who influenced a generations of actors. Who had the greatest influence?

 

[HARRISON_3]

Bill Duke
Shia LaBeouf
DJ Qualls