FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever.

[Wichita Lineman]

Mostly wider margins than I expected and in the one tight battle Colin Firth pips Kevin Spacey by a single vote. 

In the next lot we have a couple of big names and at least 3 who would be better known for their TV work although all have also featured on the big screen. 

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Results -
William Holden 3 v 8 Marlon Brando
Kevin Spacey 5 v 6 Colin Firth
James Earl Jones 2 v 9 Paul Newman
Dan Aykroyd 10 v 1 Kate Mulgrew
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Round 1 - Matches 61 - 64


Ben Kingsley -   Has three films on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time: Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) at #96, Gandhi (1982) at #29, and Schindler's List (1993) at #3.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001426/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Tyrone Power - Interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever), Hollywood, CA. His tombstone includes the masks of Comedy and Tragedy and the inscription, "Good night, sweet prince . . . ".
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000061/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Will Smith - Shares a birthday with Christopher Reeve and have both played superheroes. Reeve in Superman (1978) and Smith in Hancock (2008).
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000226/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

David Jason - He worked as an electrician, which involved licking a finger and poking live circuitry to see how much of a shock you got. He considered a career as an electrician but then went to drama school at the age of 24. When acting dried up in the early years of his career, he went back to work as an electrician.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419248/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Daryl Hannah - Since there was no girls' soccer team at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, she played on the boys' team.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000435/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Mark Harmon - Worked as a carpenter before he hit it big, foretelling the carpentry and wooden boat-building interest and skills of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the character he plays on NCIS (2003).
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001319/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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Alan Alda - Alda almost turned down the role of Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H (1972) because he did not want war to be a "backdrop for light-hearted hijinks... "I wanted to show that the war was a bad place to be."
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Yves Montand -  Montand's family left Italy in 1923 at the beginning of fascist era because his parents were socialist activists.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598971/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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Ben Kingsley v Tyrone Power
Will Smith v David Jason 
Daryl Hannah v Mark Harmon
Alan Alda v Yves Montand
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