Round Two! 2016 Favorite Classic Movie Actor Tournament!
Voting in this part of round two runs until lunchtime Wednesday. Part two starts Wednesday around dinner time. To vote on the 1940s and 1960s brackets, click here.
They say the customer is never wrong, but in this case, the customers were wrong. Alec Guinness is on a shortlist of the greatest actors of all time.
Certainly he was one of my very favorites, especially all those comedies he did in the 1950s. The Horse's Mouth is a very personal favorite for me -- whenever I watch it, I feel like I'm looking in a funhouse mirror.
And you can't make a David Lean movie without Alec Guinness.
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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And, this is exactly why I never put up polls on my own site. Alec Guinness didn't make it through Round 1 but both Dean Martin and Rock Hudson did?
They say the customer is never wrong, but in this case, the customers were wrong. Alec Guinness is on a shortlist of the greatest actors of all time.
Certainly he was one of my very favorites, especially all those comedies he did in the 1950s. The Horse's Mouth is a very personal favorite for me -- whenever I watch it, I feel like I'm looking in a funhouse mirror.
And you can't make a David Lean movie without Alec Guinness.
And ... Star Wars! Come on, Star Wars!
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