Actors that I admire - men and women
by adrianbonds | created - 20 Jan 2017 | updated - 17 Feb 2018 | PublicThese are my 12 absolute favourite actors and I write the movies I appreciate them in under.
1. Audrey Hepburn
Actress | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Audrey Hepburn was born as Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, was a Dutch noblewoman, while her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in Úzice, Bohemia, to English and Austrian parents.
After her parents' divorce, ...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, My fair lady, The Children's Hour, How to steal a million, Green mansions, Charade, Love in the afternoon etc...
2. Sophia Loren
Actress | La ciociara
Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...
3. Millie Bobby Brown
Actress | Enola Holmes
Millie Bobby Brown (born 19 February 2004) is an English actress and model. She rose to prominence for her role as Eleven in the Netflix science fiction drama series Stranger Things (2016), for which she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series ...
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4. Roger Moore
Actor | Moonraker
Roger Moore will perhaps always be remembered as the man who replaced Sean Connery in the James Bond series, arguably something he never lived down.
Roger George Moore was born on October 14, 1927 in Stockwell, London, England, the son of Lillian (Pope) and George Alfred Moore, a policeman. His ...
The Saint, The Persuaders, Bond
5. Hasse Ekman
Writer | Sommarnöje sökes
Being the son of actor / theatre director Gösta Ekman, it was natural for him to start a career in the movie business. He was first noticed for playing against his father in Intermezzo (1936). He also showed a talent for writing, and his first script was filmed as Blixt och dunder (1938). Producer ...
Ratataa, Sjunde himlen, Fram för lilla Märta, Lågor i dunklet
6. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
7. Tony Curtis
Actor | Some Like It Hot
Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the eldest of three children of Helen (Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Curtis himself admits that while he had almost no formal education, he was a student of the "school of hard knocks" and learned from a young age that the only ...
The Persuaders, Some like it Hot, Spartacus
8. Sickan Carlsson
Actress | Charlotte Löwensköld
Her first public performance was on radio at the age of 10, together with her friend Birgit Tengroth. She debuted in a revue held at her father's place of work when she was 15. This led to more work at the theatre, a screen test for Svensk Filmindustri and a small role in Kära släkten (...
Sjunde himlen, En fästman i taget, Bara en trumpetare, Gröna hissen
9. Charlton Heston
Actor | Ben-Hur
With features chiseled in stone, and renowned for playing a long list of historical figures, particularly in Biblical epics, the tall, well-built and ruggedly handsome Charlton Heston was one of Hollywood's top leading men of his prime and remained active in front of movie cameras for over sixty ...
10. Kirk Douglas
Actor | The Final Countdown
Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...
11. Allan Edwall
Actor | Jungfrukällan
Allan Edwall was born in a working class home in Jämtland, Sweden in 1924. His father was a trade-union man and a communist. 1949-52 he attended Stockholm's Royal Daramatic Theatre School. Through the years he made more than 400 parts in theater, film, television and radio. He was also a director, ...
Emil i Lönneberga, Ronja Rövardotter, Rasmus på Luffen, Madicken, Bröderna Lejonhjärta, Hemsöborna, Engeln
12. Christopher Lee
Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it ...
The Lord of the Rings, Mio min Mio, The Man with The Golden Gun, Bilbo
13. Patrick Stewart
Actor | Logan
Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (Barrowclough), a textile worker and weaver, and Alfred Stewart, who was in the army. He was a member of various local drama groups from about age 12. He left school at age 15 to work as a junior reporter on a local paper; he ...
Star Trek: The next generation
14. Per Oscarsson
Actor | Sult
Per Oscarsson was born on January 28, 1927 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor and writer, known for Hunger (1966), The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) and Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984). He was married to Gerd Hegnell and Kia Östling. He died on December 31, 2010 in Skara, ...
Ronja Rövardotter, Bröderna Lejonhjärta, Kaspar i Nudådalen, Svält
15. Torsten Lilliecrona
Actor | Vi på Saltkråkan
Torsten Lilliecrona was born on January 4, 1921 in Jönköping, Jönköpings län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Life on Seacrow Island (1964), Den långa julmiddagen (1956) and Någonstans i Sverige (1973). He was married to Gun Malmhed. He died on October 15, 1999 in Höganäs, Skåne län,...
Vi på Saltkråkan
16. Stig Järrel
Actor | Hets
Once one of Sweden's hardest working actors, he has descibed himself as a workaholic during the 1940s. He has played all kinds of roles, both comedy as in Fram för lilla Märta eller På livets ödesvägar: Ett biografdrama i prolog, epilog och ett antal tableauxer (1945) as ...
Hets, Lågor i dunklet, Fram för Lilla Märta, Ratataa
17. Maggie Smith
Actress | Gosford Park
One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor ...
Downton Abbey
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