Best Actor To Ever Appear in a Bond film.

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  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited January 2018 Posts: 7,110
    I agree and I’d add:

    - Max von Sydow in Det sjunde inseglet (aka The Seventh Seal) and pretty much every other Ingmar Bergman film he appeared in.
    - Gabriele Ferzetti in L’avventura
    - Timothy Dalton in The Lion in Winter (for the best screen debut)
    - Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man
    - Klaus Maria Brandauer in Mephisto
    - Sophie Marceau and Tchécky Karyo in L’amour braque (aka Mad Love)
    - Sean Bean in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (the most complicated character of the trilogy, make no mistake about it)
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    I agree and I’d add:
    - Max von Sydow in Det sjunde inseglet (aka The Seventh Seal) and pretty much every other Ingmar Bergman film he appeared in.
    - Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man
    - Klaus Maria Brandauer in Mephisto

    Yep three very obvious ones I should've got.
  • 001001
    edited January 2018 Posts: 1,575
    I dont think anyone has said Ralph Fiennes yet have they?
    barryt007 wrote: »
    At the end of the day its an impossible question to answer.

    Well...I think we can probably rule out Soon Taik Oh and the bloke who plays the French cab driver in AVTAK at the very least.

    I'm just waiting for @001 to chip in with Mohammed Salah!

    Who ??????????? Never heard of him........ :)
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    No love for John Terry on this thread?

    His, "Well you've got ME, James!" delivery was miles above half the actors who just won Golden Globes this year.

    Really is a tough question to answer. There have been many great actors in the Bonds, Christopher lee being my all time favorite.
    You can easily name Max von Sydow, Albert Finney, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Christopher Walken, Lotte Lenya, Judi Dench, Sean, Tim, Robert Shaw, etc as the greatest.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    What is the best performance by any actor who has been in a Bond film?

    Diana Rigg's Medea, the most terrifying thing I have ever witnessed in the theatre.
  • 001001
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    I agree and I’d add:
    - Max von Sydow in Det sjunde inseglet (aka The Seventh Seal) and pretty much every other Ingmar Bergman film he appeared in.
    - Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man
    - Klaus Maria Brandauer in Mephisto

    Yep three very obvious ones I should've got.

    Isn't Another very obvious one for you is Your Hero, Rory Kinnear in everything he does.
    You adore his performances in bond films. :)
    Don't get to excited from the image i've posted.
    Are you going to print it, frame it and add it to your Rory Room ? :)

    rex-rory-kinnear-hamlet-redonline.co.uk__landscape.jpg
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    "Hey, are you listening?"

    "No. Bored out of my skull."
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    Tanner's insanely dull exposition was so exhausting, that by the end of it, Bond was just dead.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    "This is actually Ian Fleming? Are you pulling my leg, Sam?"
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    No love for John Terry on this thread?

    His, "Well you've got ME, James!" delivery was miles above half the actors who just won Golden Globes this year.

    Really is a tough question to answer. There have been many great actors in the Bonds, Christopher lee being my all time favorite.
    You can easily name Max von Sydow, Albert Finney, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Christopher Walken, Lotte Lenya, Judi Dench, Sean, Tim, Robert Shaw, etc as the greatest.

    I recently re-watched 24 Season 2, completely missed first time round in 2003 that John Terry was in it!
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    In general? Walken. Quite easily.

    But his performance in A View to a Kill is quite possibly his worst turn ever. Yeah it's a ridiculous interpretation, but I also get the impression he didn't care for the material and so it somehow comes across as simultaneously phoned in. At Close Range came out the year after AVTAK and it's a masterful performance.
  • SatoriousSatorious Brushing up on a little Danish
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    Not the best, but classy nonetheless (and not yet mentioned) - wasn't a young Charles Dance hiding in FYEO as a hench-person (probably his first major film role)?
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Walked above Von Sydow?

    Not in my book. Von Sydow excelled in several films of what is quite possibly the greatest film director that ever walked the Earth.
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    Dennison wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    No love for John Terry on this thread?

    His, "Well you've got ME, James!" delivery was miles above half the actors who just won Golden Globes this year.

    Really is a tough question to answer. There have been many great actors in the Bonds, Christopher lee being my all time favorite.
    You can easily name Max von Sydow, Albert Finney, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Christopher Walken, Lotte Lenya, Judi Dench, Sean, Tim, Robert Shaw, etc as the greatest.

    I recently re-watched 24 Season 2, completely missed first time round in 2003 that John Terry was in it!

    Nice! I remember really liking the cult classic: HAWK THE SLAYER as a kid. Mostly for Jack Palance, but John Terry was great as the hero. He was also on PHILIP MARLOWE: PRIVATE EYE with Powers Boothe.
    I always thought he might have made a decent Felix if he had something to work with (and a cooler haircut). To be fair, Felix in TLD is a pretty tiny role.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Never really had that much trouble with him in TLD. Still though, he’s outdhined by no less than three other allies: Saunders, Pushkin and Kamran Shah.

  • 001001
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    MGW
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    Get Gary Oldman for Bond 25, and then it will be easier.

    True.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    Daniel Craig is up there!
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    suavejmf wrote: »
    Get Gary Oldman for Bond 25, and then it will be easier.

    True.

    Gary Oldman makes any film better!
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    suavejmf wrote: »
    Daniel Craig is up there!
    001 wrote: »
    Connery easily.
    M_Balje wrote: »
    Pierce Brosnan
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Roger Moore !!

    4 down and only 2 left to go.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    bondjames wrote: »
    suavejmf wrote: »
    Daniel Craig is up there!
    001 wrote: »
    Connery easily.
    M_Balje wrote: »
    Pierce Brosnan
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Roger Moore !!

    4 down and only 2 left to go.

    The irony being Dalton is technically probably a better actor than all of them.

    Although I can't quite say the same for Laz despite his tour de force performance in Emmanuelle.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    bondjames wrote: »
    suavejmf wrote: »
    Daniel Craig is up there!
    001 wrote: »
    Connery easily.
    M_Balje wrote: »
    Pierce Brosnan
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Roger Moore !!

    4 down and only 2 left to go.

    I mentioned Dalton!

    No surprise there. I think he’s the best actor who ever played Bond so far.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    Yes - I think my top picks are Rigg, Dalton and Dench. All the stagey ones!
  • DrunkIrishPoetDrunkIrishPoet The Amber Coast
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    Where's the love for Robert Davi?!? Davi is a wonderful actor.
    Maybe not in the same echelon as Dench and Fenney and von Sydow... but right up there with Shaw and Walken and Lee.
    Hell, I rate Davi above Bardem and Waltz any day.
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    Where's the love for Robert Davi?!? Davi is a wonderful actor.
    Maybe not in the same echelon as Dench and Fenney and von Sydow... but right up there with Shaw and Walken and Lee.
    Hell, I rate Davi above Bardem and Waltz any day.

    I most certainly rate Davi above Bardem and Waltz as well. No question.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    In my opinion Christoph Waltz is the best actor to appear in a Bond film, pitty
    it was such a weak performance in Spectre. I was expecting much more from
    him.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Where's the love for Robert Davi?!? Davi is a wonderful actor.
    Maybe not in the same echelon as Dench and Fenney and von Sydow... but right up there with Shaw and Walken and Lee.
    Hell, I rate Davi above Bardem and Waltz any day.

    You must be drunk for sure.
  • RoadphillRoadphill United Kingdom
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    Come on now. Davi is a good actor, but he isn't better than Waltz or Bardem. Never mind Shaw or Walken.
  • JamesBondKenyaJamesBondKenya Danny Boyle laughs to himself
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    Just watched LTK and Davi May be the best Bond villain ever
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    Just watched LTK and Davi May be the best Bond villain ever

    I think he's certainly the most underrated. Perhaps his performance gets lost in people's views of LTK as a Miami Vice film and Sanchez is merely a drug dealer and not some megalomaniac out to destroy the world.

    It's not a showy performance, but one that has power to it due to the actor. He's frightening without having a scar or some other physical distinction to make him more noticeable.
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