Top 10 Male Actors of All Time
There are many talented actors in Hollywood, but some just shine brighter than others. The men on this list are considered to be the best actors of all time. Some of them may surprise you but they have all left their mark on Hollywood and continue to influence actors today.
1. Marlon Brando
2. Al Pacino
3. Robert DeNiro
4. Daniel Day-Lewis
5. Jack Nicholson
6. Dustin Hoffman
7. Tom Hanks
8. Morgan Freeman
9. Denzel Washington
10. Leonardo DiCaprio
Top 10 Male Actors of All Time
1. Marlon Brando
2. Al Pacino
3. Robert De Niro
4. Humphrey Bogart
5. Paul Newman
6. Jack Nicholson
7. Denzel Washington
8. Morgan Freeman
9. Leonardo DiCaprio
10. Matt Damon
We often hear from fans of this blog asking who we believe are the best male actors of all time. It’s always been a difficult question for us. We have SO many actors that we love. The best way to honor those that we truly enjoy and to make a list of the best male actors we decided to ask our readers to help us out. We made a poll with ten male actors and asked our fans to vote on their favorite. Below are the results of that poll, the top 10 male actors of all time.
Marlon Brando: Marlon Brando is an American actor and film director with a career spanning 60 years, during which he won the Oscar for Best Actor twice. He is well-regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film. Brando’s Academy Award-winning performances include that of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972). His other Oscar nominations were for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), Julius Caesar (1953), Last Tango in Paris (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979).
Jack Nicholson: John Joseph “Jack
Jack Nicholson. The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Chinatown, Batman, A Few Good Men.
Marlon Brando. The Godfather, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Apocalypse Now.
Robert De Niro. Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Cape Fear.
Al Pacino. The Godfather, Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, Scent of a Woman.
Daniel Day-Lewis. There Will Be Blood, My Left Foot, Lincoln.
Laurence Olivier. Hamlet (1948), Rebecca (1940), Sleuth (1972).
Dustin Hoffman. Kramer vs Kramer (1979), Tootsie (1982), Rain Man (1988).
Humphrey Bogart. Casablanca (1942), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The African Queen (1951).
Tom Hanks. Forrest Gump (1994), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Cast Away (2000).
Anthony Hopkins. The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001).
1. Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro is an American actor, producer and director who has both Italian and American citizenship. He was cast as the young Vito Corleone in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2016.
2. Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is a retired English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship. Born and raised in London, he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre, before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years.
3. Al Pacino
Alfredo James “Al” Pacino is an American actor of stage and screen, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Pacino has had a career spanning more than five decades, during which time he has received numerous accolades and honors both competitive and honorary, among them
1. Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in 1949, a decision for which he was severely criticized when his star began to dim in the 1960s and he was excoriated for squandering his talents. No actor ever exerted such a profound influence on succeeding generations of actors as did Brando.
Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Marlon Brando, Sr., a pesticide and chemical feed manufacturer, and Dorothy Julia Pennebaker, whose sister Frances was married to playwright Tennessee Williams. His ancestry included German, Dutch, English, and Irish. He was sent to Shattuck Military Academy when he was 13 years old and had already been expelled from one school. After graduation from Libertyville High School in Libertyville, Illinois, he worked as a ditch-digger as a stock handler in a warehouse as a salesman in Minnesota before deciding to become an actor. He joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California where he also worked as janitor and wrote trade journal
1.Marlon Brando: Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in 1949, a decision for which he was severely criticized when his star began to dim in the 1960s and he was excoriated for squandering his talents.
Brando was born on April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Marlon Brando Sr., a pesticide and chemical feed manufacturer, and Dorothy Julia (née Pennebaker) Brando. His ancestry included German, Dutch, English, and Irish. His patrilineal immigrant ancestor, Johann Wilhelm Brandau (1640–1706), arrived in New York from the Palatinate in Germany and became a Colonial American of old New York stock. He has said: “I am very proud to be a Creole because that means we are a mixture of all those different nationalities.”
Brando was raised a Christian Scientist, with his mother being particularly devout until her death in 1954. However he rejected organized religion; later saying: “I
