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DiCaprio and De Niro and Nicholson are great lead actors. They set the tone and everyone follows. GREAT LEADS DO NOT GROW ON TREES

Brando as well was and Ronald Reagan LOL
OP wants you to pick ONE.
 

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King of Comedy was brilliant...and Jerry Lewis’ performance in that film is under-rated imo.
Total reversal of each's career persona.

De Niro plays the goofy comic and Lewis plays the serious business-oriented professional. Kudos to Scorcese.
 

Knuckle Ball

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Total reversal of each's career persona.

De Niro plays the irreverent comic and Lewis plays the serious unfunny professional.
I remember watching that film with a buddy of mine many years ago back in university- he’d seen the movie before and I was seeing it for the first time. Anyway...my friend’s comment was that this was undoubtedly what Jerry Lewis was like in real life...and it made sense...and then I thought, “Jerry Lewis nailed this performance.” LOL.

It was sorta like watching Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems; or Jim Carey playing a serious role: You’re kinda wondering how this is gonna go; and then all of a sudden you see a completely different side of this performer’s skill in an unexpected place...and it turns out to be unexpectedly great.
 

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I remember watching that film with a buddy of mine many years ago back in university- he’d seen the movie before and I was seeing it for the first time. Anyway...my friend’s comment was that this was undoubtedly what Jerry Lewis was like in real life...and it made sense...and then I thought, “Jerry Lewis nailed this performance.” LOL.

It was sorta like watching Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems; or Jim Carey playing a serious role: You’re kinda wondering how this is gonna go; and then all of a sudden you see a completely different side of this performer’s skill in an unexpected place...and it turns out to be unexpectedly great.
The Truman Show. He was superb. All other movies he played a clown in one form or another. The Riddler, ACE Ventura, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, The Cable Guy, Mr Popper, The Grinch, etc.
 

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Can't really name just one. Peter Sellers would probably come the closest, but then what about Tyrone Power, Bogart, Gable, Peter Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper? If you love cinema, you can't possibly name just one.
 

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Gary Oldman has an impressive career
 

Insidious Von

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Gary Oldman has an impressive career
Like Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman could pick up his second Oscar later in his career. So far David Fincher's Mank hasn't been moved from its American Thanksgiving release date. Fincher has always been a director that casts to fit a role, not star power. I'm looking forward to Oldman as Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, with Amanda Seyfried as William Randolph Hearst's mistress Marion Davies. The real dark horse of the project is Tom Burke as Orson Wells.

He's definitely an actor to watch this decade.

 

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When I was a young teen in the mid 70's me and
none of my school buddies would ever base our
choice of a film to watch on the name of the actor.
We must have heard of big stars like Clint Eastwood,
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Sean Conery and
Robert Redford. But star powers meant little to us
adolescents who had yet to appreciate the great art
of acting. The one and only actor whose reputation
alone was big enough to draw us into the cinema was
Lando Buzzanca. We didn't even care how terrible
the production value of some of his films were.
 

Insidious Von

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Wow oil&gas, you amaze.

Lando Buzzanca was a big deal when I first returned to Italy, he even had his own comic strip. The film Cinema Paradiso is partially based on his childhood.

He's a Sicilian actor who made his name making spoofs like Goldsinger and For A Few Dollars Less. Looks wise he's a more rugged version of Robert De Niro. When Peter Sellers made his Fellini spoof After The Fox, he cast Buzzanca as the Police Chief. Then Buzzanca spoofed Sellers film The World of Henry Orient with X-Rated Girl...in which Laura Antonelli played his cello. He was still working late into the last decade.

He must have been a real ladies man in his prime - Laura Antonelli is in this clip, can you recognize her?

 

oil&gas

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"After the fox" wasn't the type of film that got us interested
in Lando Buzzanca. We didn't care much for his flair for comedy.
We were just desperate for a glimpse of the skin of Agostina Belli,
Femi Benussi, Laura Antonelli and Rossana Podesta.
 

Insidious Von

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Lando Buzzanca was a master of the sex comedy but I have to ask, did you follow the dialogue or read the sub-titles?

 

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Sean Connery, post Bond mivies. The Rock, Hunt for Red October et al.......brilliant.

Honourable mention to John Travolta, strange choice maybe, however he had the bad guy role down pat IMHO. Swordfish, Broken Arrow, Taking of Pelham 123.
 

Insidious Von

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Toliker do yourself a favour and watch the original The Taking of Pelham 123.

The leads are Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw and Jerry Stiller. Sorry but Shaw makes Travolta look like Ralphiecakes.

 
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