My five favorite film noir actors are :
1. Robert Mitchum
2. Burt Lancaster
3. Richard Widmark
4. Vincent Price
5. Robert Ryan
What are yours?
Richard basehart
Robert Ryan
Humphrey Bogart
James Cagney
Sterling Hayden
Robert Mitchum
Favs:
1. Humphrey Bogart
2. Dana Andrews
3. Robert Mitchum
4. Burt Lancaster
5. Robert Ryan
****SPOILERS!**** I must admit liking Raymond Burr as the heavy. He's very good. This flik was a hoot! Vincent Price had me laughing which was odd in a film noir. Price is so good playing this character, I was hoping he wasn't going to be killed. I kinda figured Price's wife was going to change her mind about him. I'm not a big fan of Jane Russell(her mouth is so small), but she played the part very well. Mitchum was perfect as usual. 7 out of 10 I rated it.
NJprogfan
I've seen very few Price films but one of my favorite moments in HKOW! is the exchange between him and Mitchum about Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Sergio!
I am glad someone mentioned the much-neglected Dana Andrews. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" has to be a top Noir flick.
Now how about Dick Powell, and my favorite of all noir actor and one who was always fun to watch -- Edmond OBrien.
He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45
My top five noir actors are:
1. Robert Mitchum
2. Dana Andrews
3. Richard Widmark
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Edmond O'Brien (those eyebrows!)
Elisha Cook and Humphrey Bogart don't quite make my top five, but they're up there. I LOVE Vincent Price, but I associate him more with horror than noir (other than the fantastic Laura).
"He's already attracted to her. Time and monotony will do the rest."
Vincent Price and noir? That don´t really fit...
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
Mitchum
Lancaster
Bogart
Widmark
Douglas
If Shakespeare can salt his tragedies with comic relief, so can RKO in its noir.
Actually, this is my favorite Price performance. (My second is in Roger Corman's The Raven.) Price, like John Barrymore before him, was a fully self-aware ham of substantial, albeit narrow, talent--something that Ramon Burr would never admit to, but should have. Price's performance here prefigures Peter O'Toole's masterful take on Errol Flynn in My Favorite Year.
My favourite noir actors are Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr. I am a keen follower of Vincent Price. Essentially I don't really see him as a noir actor. But he does give a good noir performance in 'Shock.' Also the bonhomie of his character in 'Dangerous Mission' disguises the meanness that surfaces later in the film. So he could definitely deliver noir at times.
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