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RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Kol - 30-10-2021 Faye Dunaway Kevin Bacon Jonathan Frakes Bill Pullman RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - quickbeam - 30-10-2021 Peter Cushing v Faye Dunaway - a tough one, Cushing is undoubtedly more classic, but somewhat a one trick pony. Faye is less classic, though more varied an actor. Kevin Bacon v Jodell Ferland - Jodell who??? Jamie Foxx v Jonathan Frakes - for obvious reasons Viola Davis v Bill Pullman - this is a tough one. Viola is probably the better actor, but I've loved a lot more of Bill's movies, including one of my favourite RomComs in While You Were Sleeping which was simply adorable. RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - DejaBoo - 30-10-2021 Peter Cushing Jodell Ferland Jonathan Frakes Bill Pullman RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - quickbeam - 30-10-2021 WTF is wrong with Kevin Bacon?? RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - DejaBoo - 30-10-2021 (30-10-2021, 06:02 PM)quickbeam Wrote: WTF is wrong with Kevin Bacon??sorry, didnt meant to offend, just not a fan is all. RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Wichita Lineman - 30-10-2021 RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - RSOAPS - 30-10-2021 Peter Cushing Kevin Bacon Jamie Foxx Viola Davis Bacon v Ferland and Foxx v Frakes were unfortunate draws for the latter in each pairing, coming up against a couple of heavy hitters. Tempted as I was to go for the underdog in each of those bouts with me being a big fan of both Dark Matter and Star Trek: TNG, Bacon and Foxx are just in a different league and I can't deny them my vote on this occasion. RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Zaph - 30-10-2021 (30-10-2021, 05:59 PM)quickbeam Wrote: Kevin Bacon v Jodell Ferland - Jodell who??? Never heard of her either. Just looked at her filmography and she's been in a crap load of films and TV shows. I think the only thing I've seen of them was the one episode of Dark Angel that she appeared in when she was 7. I think she definitely plays to a completely different demographic. RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Zaph - 30-10-2021 Peter Cushing Kevin Bacon Jamie Foxx Bill Pullman RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - RSOAPS - 30-10-2021 (30-10-2021, 06:11 PM)Zaph Wrote:(30-10-2021, 05:59 PM)quickbeam Wrote: Kevin Bacon v Jodell Ferland - Jodell who??? I recommend checking out Dark Matter... 'Tis the type of show I think might be to your liking... RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Wichita Lineman - 30-10-2021 I had hoped that we might pick up on something / someone we'd never seen as part of the 'game'. I'm a big fan of Camille Cottin and she got blitzed earlier. C'est la vie and all that. RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Zaph - 30-10-2021 (30-10-2021, 06:16 PM)Rachel Stevens on a Pogo Stick Wrote:(30-10-2021, 06:11 PM)Zaph Wrote: Never heard of her either. Just looked at her filmography and she's been in a crap load of films and TV shows. I think the only thing I've seen of them was the one episode of Dark Angel that she appeared in when she was 7. I think she definitely plays to a completely different demographic. Premise looks interesting all right. Not any any of my streaming services at the moment unfortunately, but I'll keep an eye out for it. RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - quickbeam - 30-10-2021 (30-10-2021, 06:07 PM)DejaBoo Wrote: sorry, didnt meant to offend, just not a fan is all. No offense taken. Just surprised. RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Zaph - 30-10-2021 (30-10-2021, 06:23 PM)Wichita Lineman Wrote: I had hoped that we might pick up on something / someone we'd never seen as part of the 'game'. I'm a big fan of Camille Cottin and she got blitzed earlier. C'est la vie and all that. Only ever seen her in Call My Agent (I'm guessing the same for most people). She was decent in it but she's no Aunt May RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - DejaBoo - 30-10-2021 (30-10-2021, 06:44 PM)quickbeam Wrote:My strong aversion to Jack Nicholson surprises most people. Like Lineman said, no accounting for taste - I would be in the minority for most entertainment genres.(30-10-2021, 06:07 PM)DejaBoo Wrote: sorry, didnt meant to offend, just not a fan is all. RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - ari101 - 30-10-2021 Faye Dunaway Kevin Bacon Jamie Foxx Bill Pullman RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - ShaneU - 30-10-2021 Peter Cushing Kevin Bacon Jamie Foxx Bill Pullman RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - cee_jay - 30-10-2021 Faye Dunaway Kevin Bacon Jamie Foxx Viola Davis RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Trigger - 30-10-2021 Peter Cushing Kevin Bacon Jamie Foxx Bill Pullman RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Sawduck - 30-10-2021 Faye Dunaway Kevin Bacon Jamie Foxx Viola Davis RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Wichita Lineman - 31-10-2021 I'm posting this now as I wont have time to do it in the morning. I didnt post it around 9pm like I'd hoped as I was having too much fun at DejaBoo's ms paint reveal for Halloween. It wont close until the afternoon. I thought the Viola Davis / Bill Pullman & Jamie Foxx / Jonathan Frakes ties were going to be closer particularly as Mr. Frakes bolted into a 3-1 lead early on. Jodell Ferland had a tough break drawing Kevin Bacon. Sometimes the underdog wins and sometimes they dont. There are some real legendary cinematic names in the next group. This is a tough draw and obviously they cant all make it through. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Results: Peter Cushing 6 v 4 Faye Dunaway Kevin Bacon 9 v 1 Jodell Ferland Jamie Foxx 7 v 3 Jonathan Frakes Viola Davis 3 v 7 Bill Pullman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Katharine Hepburn - Walked around the studio in her underwear in the early 1930s when the costume department stole her slacks from her dressing room. She refused to put anything else on until they were returned. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Barry Fitzgerald - Broke the head off his 'Best Supporting Actor' Oscar (Going My Way (1944)) practicing his golf swing. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0280178/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Perkins - Got the role of "Susan Lawrence" in Big (1988) after Debra Winger withdrew due to pregnancy. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001610/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Ian McKellen - Was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford-upon-Avon at the same time as Sir Patrick Stewart. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005212/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Rhys - He played Justin Price in Columbo: Columbo Likes the Nightlife (2003) and is therefore the final actor to play a murderer who was investigated by Peter Falk's Lt. Columbo. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722629/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Ingrid Bergman - Visited Hotel Panamonte in Panama twice, and so the suite was named after her. Flavored with vibrations from Hollywood's "Golden Heyday," her luxurious rooms retain their original décor. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000006/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rock Hudson - Worked as a truck driver when he first moved to Los Angeles, but he spent his spare time idling outside of studio gates and sending photographs of himself to various producers. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001369/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 John Wayne - He considered Maureen O'Hara one of his best friends; over the years he was more open to her than anyone. When asked about her he always replied, "The greatest guy I ever knew." They were friends for 39 years, from 1940 until his death in 1979. Today she is considered by many to be his best leading lady; they starred in five films together. She referred to a wing in her home as the "John Wayne Wing". https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================= Voting on post 9 remains open for at least 3 hours / until post 10 arrives. ========================================== Katharine Hepburn v Barry Fitzgerald Elizabeth Perkins v Ian McKellen Matthew Rhys v Ingrid Bergman Rock Hudson v John Wayne ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Zaph - 31-10-2021 Katharine Hepburn Ian McKellen Ingrid Bergman John Wayne RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Trigger - 31-10-2021 Katharine Hepburn Ian McKellen Ingrid Bergman John Wayne RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - ShaneU - 31-10-2021 Katharine Hepburn Ian McKellen Ingrid Bergman John Wayne RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - RSOAPS - 31-10-2021 Katharine Hepburn Ian McKellen Ingrid Bergman Rock Hudson RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Kol - 31-10-2021 (31-10-2021, 12:54 AM)Zaph Wrote: Katharine HepburnSame please RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - nothing - 31-10-2021 Katharine Hepburn Ian McKellen Ingrid Bergman John Wayne RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - quickbeam - 31-10-2021 Katharine Hepburn v Barry Fitzgerald - because Hepburn is just great and Fitzgerald probably didn’t do any favours to the diddly eye reputation of the Irish in Hollywood. Elizabeth Perkins v Ian McKellen - Ian has been in some great stuff and not just LotR or X Men. Matthew Rhys v Ingrid Bergman - because Ingrid is gonna walk it, deservedly so, but Rhys doesn’t deserve a whitewash. Rock Hudson v John Wayne - cos he’s the goddamned duke! RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - cee_jay - 31-10-2021 Katharine Hepburn Ian McKellen Ingrid Bergman John Wayne RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Neowise - 31-10-2021 Katharine Hepburn Ian McKellen Ingrid Bergman John Wayne RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Wichita Lineman - 31-10-2021 Quickbeam gave a 'no whitewash' vote to Matthew Rhys who was always up against it having drawn the legendary screen star Ingrid Bergman. Four straight calls really. Results - Katharine Hepburn 9 v 0 Barry Fitzgerald Elizabeth Perkins 0 v 9 Ian McKellen Matthew Rhys 1 v 8 Ingrid Bergman Rock Hudson 1 v 8 John Wayne ------------------------------------------------- Round 1 - Matches 37 - 40 Kirk Douglas - Had appeared in a stage production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and later bought the film rights. He didn't make a movie of this and eventually turned the rights over to his son Michael Douglas, who was able to secure financing and produce the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000018/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Allison Janney - Was discovered by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward while acting in a play, directed by Newman, at Kenyon College, Ohio. They encouraged her to head to New York City after graduation in order to study at the Neighbourhood Playhouse. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005049/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cillian Murphy - He was planning a career in law until he discovered the world of acting. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614165/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Jean Simmons - Amazed with her performance in The Blue Lagoon (1949), William Wyler wanted her for the role of Princess Ann in Roman Holiday (1953), but Howard Hughes, who owned her contract, would not loan her out to Paramount to do the film. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001739/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kaitlyn Dever - Quote - "It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3239803/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Diane Lane - She is a favourite actress of director Francis Ford Coppola and has appeared in four films directed by him: The Outsiders (1983), Rumble Fish (1983), The Cotton Club (1984) and Jack (1996). She also starred in the first of two (as of 2021) non-documentary films directed by Coppola's wife Eleanor Coppola, Paris Can Wait (2016). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000178/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jodie Foster - For Sommersby (1993), Foster learned how to handle a horse-pulled buckboard. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000149/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Giovanni Ribisi - Often eats at Los Feliz restaurant Little Doms. Sandra Oh, Hannah Telle, Michael Cera, Drew Barrymore, Bo Barrett and Katherine Heigl also frequent this local hot spot. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000610/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================= Voting on post 10 remains open for at least 3 hours / until post 11 arrives. ========================================== ------------------------------------ Kirk Douglas v Allison Janney Cillian Murphy v Jean Simmons Kaitlyn Dever v Diane Lane Jodie Foster v Giovanni Ribisi RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Neowise - 31-10-2021 Kirk Douglas Cillian Murphy Kaitlyn Dever Jodie Foster RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Kol - 31-10-2021 Kirk Douglas Cillian Murphy (I'd normally side with a silver screen icon but I think Cillian is very underrated) Diane Lane Jodie Foster (not really a fan of her but she deserves to go further) RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - ShaneU - 31-10-2021 Kirk Douglas Cillian Murphy Diane Lane Jodie Foster RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - RSOAPS - 31-10-2021 Allison Janney Jean Simmons Kaitlyn Dever Giovanni Ribisi RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - cee_jay - 31-10-2021 Kirk Douglas Cillian Murphy Diane Lane Jodie Foster RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - nothing - 31-10-2021 Kirk Douglas Jean Simmons Diane Lane Jodie Foster RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - quickbeam - 31-10-2021 Kirk Douglas v Allison Janney - oh gods, I love Allison, especially CJ Cregg, but I can't vote against Spartacus and the other classics that Douglas has been part of. Cillian Murphy v Jean Simmons - another tough one, gonna go with Simmons here for being Spartacus' missus, and several other great roles she's been in. Kaitlyn Dever v Diane Lane - Kaitlyln who? Jodie Foster v Giovanni Ribisi - because I don't discriminate against much on this earth, but I don't like Scientologists. Plus, like, Jode's great! RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Necro - 31-10-2021 Cillian Murphy Jodie Foster Abstain on the other two RE: FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever. - Zaph - 31-10-2021 Kirk Douglas Cillian Murphy Diane Lane Jodie Foster |