Greatest Living British Actors?

[White Noise]

Just watching an interview with Brian Cox. Great actor - but we still have plenty when you look at it -

Michael Gambon
John Hurt
Albert Finney
Sean Connery
Ian McKellen
Gary Oldman
Michael Caine
Joss Ackland
Tom Courtenay
Simon Russell Beale
Tony Hopkins
Christopher Lee
Alan Rickman
Tim Roth
Daniel Day-Lewis
Terence Stamp
Bob Hoskins

Any others?

[finnster01]

Roger Moore
Timothy Dalton

[jarv]

Tom Bell, early films were excellent then he did more in tv stuff.

[Jimpav]

Ray Winstone

[RidgeRider]

Hopkins, Lewis, Finney and Oldman are the cream of that crop, IMHO.

Finn, Roger Moore is not an actor, he is manikin.  ;)

[finnster01]

Hopkins, Lewis, Finney and Oldman are the cream of that crop, IMHO.

Finn, Roger Moore is not an actor, he is manikin.  ;)

Granted, there is a fair bit of plastic in there, but I am one of the few that still thinks he was a better Bond than that prejudiced sweaty sock before him

[TheDaddy]

Edward Woodward
Alec Guinness
Richard Attenborough

[RidgeRider]

Hopkins, Lewis, Finney and Oldman are the cream of that crop, IMHO.

Finn, Roger Moore is not an actor, he is manikin.  ;)

Granted, there is a fair bit of plastic in there, but I am one of the few that still thinks he was a better Bond than that prejudiced sweaty sock before him

That's blasphemy! Connery was Bond.  :D Moore is an under-muscled, overly-coiffed version of Bond. I could never believe him in the role, admittedly when I was younger I did, but as I aged and reality sort of became important, he just didn't cut it for me. Actually, I thought Dalton was decent but not many others did.

[TheDaddy]

Edward Woodward
Alec Guinness
Richard Attenborough

Whoops must lean to read the tittle of the thread  :-[

[finnster01]

Edward Woodward
Alec Guinness
Richard Attenborough

Mr Daddy, I don't want to rain on your parade but the only "living" actor on your list is Richard Attenborough but he sure is a good one and should indeed be on the list, for nothing but the Great Escape itself

[ron]

Michael Kitchen, noted for the title role in the series "Foyle's War"

Actors are few and far between who can steal a scene with a simple..."Ah"

[White Noise]

Agree about Tom Bell - is he alive?

Is dear dear Johnny Mills still going?

How about Peter O'Toole - or is he Irish.

Jeremey Irons?

Euan McGregor?

Bob Hoskins

[finnster01]

Agree about Tom Bell - is he alive?

Is dear dear Johnny Mills still going?

How about Peter O'Toole - or is he Irish.

Jeremey Irons?

Euan McGregor?

Bob Hoskins

Peter O'toole's middle name is Seamus, so what do you think  ;)

[RidgeRider]

Colin Firth

[Rupert]

How about Hugh Lawrie? Not just a comedian judging by the number of awards he is picking up for "House". Also, if any of you saw a film called "Peter's Friends", out about fifteen years ago, he gave a magnificent performance (in a comedy!) of a man coming to terms with his actions on the night his child died from cot death.

From the same film (and a few rather better known ones) Ken Brannagh.

John Cleese. He has said that comedy acting is harder than straight acting. Did a very good Shakespeare play thirty-odd years ago, too.

Richard Griffiths, more a character actor, I suppose, but I tend to like anything he is in.

Who of the up and coming bunch do you think will become "great" in the next ten years? Christian Bale? Simon Pegg? Damien Lewis? David Tennant? Anyone with Fiennes in his name?

[TheDaddy]

Agree about Tom Bell - is he alive?

Is dear dear Johnny Mills still going?

How about Peter O'Toole - or is he Irish.

Jeremey Irons?

Euan McGregor?

Bob Hoskins

Sir John Mills died in 2005 aged 97

[FatFreddysCat]

Sir Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.  :D

[Rupert]

Good call, Fred :D

He's been excellent in a lot of things.

[HammyH3]

Timothy Spall
Terence Stamp
Ralph Fiennes

[Lighthouse]

Tom Bell is sadly no longer with us either