Angela Lansbury
Average career score: 66
Highest Metascore: 95 Beauty and the Beast
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Poll: Metacritic's Top Rated Actors of Yesteryear
Metacritic keeps a numeric figure for actors that is their total rated titles' average. This is an actors average career score.
Who is your favorite actor born on or before 1925?
Note: Must have at least one title rated 85 and above and an overall 60 or above average.
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Robert Mitchum
Average career score: 65Highest Metascore: 99 The Night of the Hunter
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Henry Fonda
Average career score: 69Highest Metascore: 96 12 Angry Men
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Marlon Brando
Average career score: 74Highest Metascore: 100 The Godfather
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William Holden
Average career score: 72Highest Metascore: 97 The Wild Bunch
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Humphrey Bogart
Average career score: 80Highest Metascore: 100 Casablanca
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Charles Chaplin
Average career score: 80Highest Metascore: 99 City Lights
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Marlene Dietrich
Average career score: 78Highest Metascore: 88 The Blue Angel
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Paul Newman
Average career score: 67Highest Metascore: 92 Cool Hand Luke
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Vivien Leigh
Average career score: 97Highest Metascore: 97 Gone with the Wind
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Peter Sellers
Average career score: 68Highest Metascore: 97 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Fred Astaire
Average career score: 77Highest Metascore: 93 The Band Wagon
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Judy Garland
Average career score: 83Highest Metascore: 100 The Wizard of Oz
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Cary Grant
Average career score: 88Highest Metascore: 100 Notorious
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Ingrid Bergman
Average career score: 77Highest Metascore: 100 Casablanca
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Gregory Peck
Average career score: 70Highest Metascore: 94 The Gunfighter
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Laurence Olivier
Average career score: 65Highest Metascore: 87 Spartacus
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Alec Guinness
Average career score: 75Highest Metascore: 100 Lawrence of Arabia
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Jack Lemmon
Average career score: 69Highest Metascore: 98 Some Like It Hot
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Tony Curtis
Average career score: 67Highest Metascore: 100 Sweet Smell of Success
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Burt Lancaster
Average career score: 70Highest Metascore: 100 The Sweet Smell of Success
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Gary Cooper
Average career score: 78Highest Metascore: 89 High Noon
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Clark Gable
Average career score: 80Highest Metascore: 87 It Happened One Night
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Lee Marvin
Average career score: 62Highest Metascore: 94 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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Errol Flynn
Average career score: 79Highest Metascore: 97 The Adventures of Robin Hood
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Jessica Tandy
Average career score: 65Highest Metascore: 90 The Birds
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Toshirô Mifune
Average career score: 72Highest Metascore: 98 Seven Samurai
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Gene Kelly
Average career score: 69Highest Metascore: 99 Singin' in the Rain
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Frank Sinatra
Average career score: 70Highest Metascore: 94 The Manchurian Candidate
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Deborah Kerr
Average career score: 75Highest Metascore: 88 From Here to Eternity
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James Cagney
Average career score: 71Highest Metascore: 89 Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Sterling Hayden
Average career score: 76Highest Metascore: 100 The Godfather
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Montgomery Clift
Average career score: 70Highest Metascore: 85 From Here to Eternity
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Ruth Gordon
Average career score: 63Highest Metascore: 96 Rosemary's Baby
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George Sanders
Average career score: 83Highest Metascore: 100 Voyage to Italy (re-release)
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