20 Greatest Performances by an Actor

The following is a list of the twenty best performances by an actor in a motion picture. Their name and the film which they appeared in is listed.

1. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)

2. Humphrey Bogart(Casablanca)

3. Humphrey Bogart (The Maltese Falcon)

4. Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times)

5. Charlie Chaplin (The Great Dictator)

6. Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of Lambs)

7. Clark Gable (Gone With the Wind)

8. Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)

9. Anthony Perkins (Psycho)

10. James Stewart (It's a Wonderful Life)

11. Yul Brynner (The King and I)

12. Charlie Chaplin (The Gold Rush)

13. Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet)

14. James Dean and Rock Hudson (Giant)

15. Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia)

16. James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause)

17. Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)

18. Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford (All the President's Men)

19. Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient)

20. Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie)

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