Top 10 of My Favorite Actors (Part 8)

The Best of the Best Of Ten of My Favorite Actors, Part 8.

Olivier, Richardson, Gielgud, Everett, Day Lewis, Firth, Oldman, Grant, Jennings and Hurt.

LAURENCE OLIVIER HAS GIVEN SIX TRANSCENDENT PERFORMANCES (listed in chronological order).

1. Henry V (1946)
2. Hamlet (1948)
3. Carrie (1952)
4. Richard III (1956)
5. Spartacus (1960)
6. Marathon Man (1976)

RALPH RICHARDSON HAS GIVEN THREE TRANSCENDENT PERFORMANCES (listed in chronological order).

1. The Four Feathers (1939)
2. The Heiress (1949)
3. Richard III (1956)

JOHN GIELGUD HAS GIVEN THREE TRANSCENDENT PERFORMANCES (listed in chronological order).

1. Becket (1964)
2. Plenty (1985)
3. The Shooting Party (1985)

RUPERT EVERETT HAS GIVEN ONE TRANSCENDENT PERFORMANCE

1. My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

DANIEL DAY LEWIS HAS GIVEN EIGHT TRANSCENDENT PERFORMANCES (listed in chronological order).

1. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
2. A Room with a View (1986)
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1987)
4. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
5. The Age of Innocence (1993)
6. In the Name of the Father (1993)
7. There Will Be Blood (2007)
8. Phantom Thread (2017)

COLIN FIRTH HAS GIVEN FOUR TRANSCENDENT PERFORMANCES (listed in chronological order).

1. A Single Man (2009)
2. The King’s Speech (2010)
3. Supernova (2020)
4. The Staircase (2022)

GARY OLDMAN HAS GIVEN FOUR TRANSCENDENT PERFORMANCES (listed in chronological order).

1. Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
2. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
3. Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
4. Darkest Hour (2017)

HUGH GRANT HAS GIVEN ONE TRANSCENDENT PERFORMANCE

1. A Very English Scandal (2018)

ALEX JENNINGS HAS GIVEN ONE TRANSCENDENT PERFORMANCE

1. A Very English Scandal (2018)

JOHN HURT HAS GIVEN FOUR TRANSCENDENT PERFORMANCES (listed in chronological order).

1. The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
2. I Claudius (1976)
3. The Elephant Man (1980)
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)