MOVIES
Critical Response - AFI
25 Greatest Male Stars
This list features male movie stars that have been rated as most legendary by the American Film Institute.
RANK | ACTOR | NOTABLE FILM | LIFESPAN |
1 | Humphrey Bogart | Casablanca (1942) | 1899–1957 |
2 | Cary Grant | His Girl Friday (1940) | 1904–1986 |
3 | James Stewart | It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) | 1908–1997 |
4 | Marlon Brando | The Godfather (1972) | 1924–2004 |
5 | Fred Astaire | Top Hat (1935) | 1899–1987 |
6 | Henry Fonda | 12 Angry Men (1957) | 1905–1982 |
7 | Clark Gable | Gone with the Wind (1939) | 1901–1960 |
8 | James Cagney | White Heat (1949) | 1899–1986 |
9 | Spencer Tracy | Inherit the Wind (1960) | 1900–1967 |
10 | Charlie Chaplin | The Tramp (1915) | 1889–1977 |
11 | Gary Cooper | High Noon (1952) | 1901–1961 |
12 | Gregory Peck | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | 1916–2003 |
13 | John Wayne | The Searchers (1956) | 1907–1979 |
14 | Laurence Olivier | Hamlet (1950) | 1907–1989 |
15 | Gene Kelly | Singin’ in the Rain (1952) | 1912–1996 |
16 | Orson Welles | Citizen Kane (1941) | 1915–1985 |
17 | Kirk Douglas | Spartacus (1960) | 1916–2020 |
18 | James Dean | Rebel Without a Cause (1955) | 1931–1955 |
19 | Burt Lancaster | From Here to Eternity (1953) | 1913–1994 |
20 | Marx Brothers | Duck Soup (1933) | Chico 1887–1961 / Harpo 1888–1964 / Groucho 1890–1977 |
21 | Buster Keaton | The General (1926) | 1895–1966 |
22 | Sidney Poitier | Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) | 1927–2022 |
23 | Robert Mitchum | Night of the Hunter (1955) | 1917–1997 |
24 | Edward G. Robinson | Little Caesar (1931) | 1893–1973 |
25 | William Holden | Sunset Boulevard (1950) | 1918–1981 |
References
