The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Who is your favorite actor AND actress?
Talk about it.
i really loved anne hathaway in Intetstellar and dark knight rises.
Lucille Ball and Cary Grant!
John Wayne
Maureen O’Hara
I totally concur. They really do not make them like that anymore.
if forced to pick only one; Lee Van Cleef
Diane Keaton and Sissy Spacek come to mind because they are versatile and very good at what they do. I especially like how Diane Keaton has aged so gracefully over the years without any plastic surgery and still retains her beauty.
The question didn’t ask if they are still alive, but as an actor, Dean Martin was my all time favorite. He too was versatile, he could act in comedy and drama, he could play a nice guy or a nasty villain, plus he could sing and had a lot of class.
Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Burt Reynolds, and John Wayne, are my favorite actors that were actually not very good actors, but were fun to watch.
I enjoy Jim Carey he so funny!!!!!!
John Wayne because he was fun. Katheryn Hepburn because was good.
If you want living ones: Tom Hanks and Anne Hathaway, both of whom are fun and good.
Perfect subject to get our minds of the virus. Where to start, too many to mention. I’m a woman who appreciate a good looking man, so here are 2 of my favorite, both was known for their blue eyes. Paul Newman in almost any movie, George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, especially when he tells Holly “in a minute” when she asks him if he would marry her for money. Bad boy also known for his blue eyes Steve McQueen.
Gregory Peck in to Kill a mockingbird, Sidney Poitier in The heat of the night, Clift in From Here to Eternity. Others that just are either great actors, or have certain screen presence Peter O’Toole, Rod Steiger, Burt Lancaster, Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman Richard Burton and Tom Cruise in some of his earlier movies. Some of my contemporaries William Hurt, Kevin Klein, Al Pacino.
For woman 3 top favorites, Ingrid Bergman especially in Casablanca and Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn, then in no particular order Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Taylor, Julie Christie, Candice Bergen, Natalie Wood, Anne Bancroft, French actress Jeanne Moreau and Norwegian Liv Ullman. I could go on, I don’t watch many movies but love movies from the thirties through the eighties, and have seen a lot of them.
Actor: Kenan Thompson
Actress: Jennifer Aniston
Actor: Kenan Thompson
Actress::Jennifer Aniston
Favorite actor: Gary Sinese….for his amazing support of our troops!!
Favorite actress: don’t really have one.
I am not a “hollywood” type that even thinks about stuff like this. Actors/actresses are just other human beings not really worth the energy and time to follow and think about except for ones like Gary mentioned above that do so much for others.
Well caskydiver… you are just too much fun! 😉
Actor: Sam Rockwell
Actress: Frances McDormand
Tom Cruise
Scarlett Johansson
So many to choose from but if I had to pick one, my absolute favorites are:
Favorite actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Favorite actress: Ana de Armas (honestly though I always lose track of the plot when she’s in a scene :))
William Powell and Myrna Loy. Their banter is so natural and fun, almost like a jazz musician riffing and improvising. Loved them in Libeled Lady and the thin man movies.
at the moment, Norman Reedus
Oh… AND Actress:
Lesley Ann Warren
I’ll stick to the living to keep it simple. Male actors I like Brad Pitt (I know, right?) and Ian McShane. Female actors I dig Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie. (Check out Atomic Blonde and Terminal).
Jim Carey in LIAR, LIAR and The Mask
Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightly in Pirates of the Caribbean
Old school: Jean Arthur & Jack Lemmon
Current: 🧐
Lucille Ball, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts
Leonardo, Brad, Jim and Will
Curly Howard
Barbara Eden
female favorites:
Sally Fields
Judy Dench
Males, most skilled: Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman
Combo of acting/best looking male with brown eyes:
Sam Elliot
Combo of acting/best looking male with blue eyes:
Paul Newman
Actresses, skill: Sally Fields
Judy Dench
Judi Dench…dang I forgot her.
Most recently, I have admired her performance in the film version of “Cats”. She was cast as “Old Deuteronomy” and played the role to her usual perfection.
(And sincere thanks for correcting my spelling of her first name!”)
Not to be that guy Antler but I believe it’s Dame Judi Dench. She’s titled.
Hedy Lamarr for her brains and beauty.
James Woods for his brain and acerbic wit.
I went the first 25 years of my life thinking Hedy Lamar was an old western male star. Boy was I wrong. Va va boom!
Denzel Washington, George Clooney,
Sissy Spacek and Sally Fields
Oooooo…. GOOD ones, KAD!
Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne
Grace Kelly and Ingrid Bergman
Grace Kelly and Ingrid Bergman, Both beautiful and classy, in different ways. Ingrid Bergman great actress, go on u tube and watch clips of Casablanca, amazing.
Actors: Paul Newman-James Earl Jones- John Barrymore
Actresses: Katharine Hepburn-Sophia Loren
Claycord, How about next “water cooler question” which is your favorite movie? It is such a relief to write and think about something other than the VIRUS.
While I’m on here let me just add a few more actors that I adore Alan Alda and George Hamilton. Two that are mostly known for tv, but very sexy Patrick Dempsey, and Perry King, especially in “The Last Convertible” a great mini series about the greatest generation also a very good book.
Last Tim Matheson in “Animal House” a dead ringer for someone I dated in the late sixties.
Good suggestion. One movie would be difficult; how about do Genre categories? You can only pick 1 per:
Action:
Comedy:
Fantasy:
Mystery:
Romance:
Western:
Wild Card:
oh, forgot
Scary
Sci-Fi
sure there is more categories.
S As you can tell I have problems keeping these lists short, especially when there is such an abundance to choose from. Don’t watch many scary movies, have seen a few in the past, more old school scary Hitchcock, Psycho, the Birds. Sci-Fi would have to think hard. As you can see if Claycord ask us to list one or two, many don’t take that too seriously.
Yep! I know what you mean…
Action: Electra Glide in Blue 1973
Comedy: Blazing Saddles 1974
Fantasy: Wizard of Oz 1939
Mystery: Rear Window 1954
Romance: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella 1965
Scary: The Birds 1963
Sci-Fi: Soylent Green 1973
Western: Nevada Smith 1966
Wild Card: The Man with One Red Shoe 1985
.Let me see what I can come up with even though it is kind of late. Romance Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen was Danish and where she grew up is now a museum which I visited just north of Copenhagen) Is Gone with the wind considered a romance movie, I guess so. Comedy Animal House and It’s a mad, mad world. Western Red River with Montgomery Clift and John Wayne, and the Oxbow Incident with Henry Fonda. Action, Bullet with Steve McQueen, and the French Connection. Scary definitely the Birds, and Rosemary’s Baby. Mystery North by Northwest Cary Grant. Sci Fi the only one I can think of is the Blob with Steve McQueen, not a fan of Sci Fi.
There is a lot more categories: Coming of age The Graduate, War movies: From here to Eternity, The Young Lions Marlon Brando, Dean Martin (who was quite good) and Montgomery Clift, Judgement at Nuremburg Spencer Tracy and the Longest Day. Friendship The Big Chill. Race relations: In the Heat of the Night, and Guess who is coming to Dinner, last one somewhat outdated, but stellar cast. Holiday movie: It’s a Wonderful Life. Wild card: Exodus, Cat on Hot Tin Roof, the Long Hot summer, these 3 could be because of Paul Newman, although they are still good movies. Have to add the Great Escape.