Posted on 08/08/2005 8:16:09 AM PDT by pissant
Tired of the metrosexuals and weenies disgracing the silver screen as of late. If so, then this is the list for you. There was a time in hollywood when the actors portraying the "tough guy" were real men. Sure there are a few actors today deserving of mention, but most have long since passed away.
The Top 5 Hollywood Tough guys
1. John Wayne: The quintessential tough guy. Could ride a horse very well, even into old age. Did many of his own stunts. And had the priveledge of Maureen O'Hara as his on-screen love interest! Best Movie: True Grit.
2. Humprhey Bogart: Was the perfect reluctant hero. The looks on his face conveyed more substance than all of Hollywoods actors' dialog for the last 20 years. Managed to sweep a young and beautiful Lauren Bacall off of her feet! Now that's a man! Best Movie: Casablanca
3. Robert Mitchum: He was no stranger to trouble during his life, that included a stint as a boxer. He played a soldier or a cowboy with equal believability. And looked as if he could drink just about anyone under the table. Best Movie: Cape Fear
4. Clint Eastwood: Still going strong in his seventies, though he's tossed in some "sensitive guy" movies along the way. But for sheer "anti-hero" bravado, no one did it better than Clint. Plus, he's a republican! Best Movie: The Eiger Sanction.
5. Kirk Douglas: The cleft in his chin and fiery personality made Issur Danielovitch Demsky a natural for the tough guy roles. He was a poor ghetto kid from immigrant parents who was a wrestler who joined the Navy in 1941. How he raised such a metrosexual son is a mystery! Best Movie: Spartacus
The guy from My Three Sons??
Jimmy Cagney deserves honorable mention!
Cagney may have been a tough guy, but my favorite Cagney role was as the Coca-Cola exec in "One, Two, Three."
LOL. They needed to be actors. Damn he is bad. (But for some reason I still watched Walker, Texas Ranger)
James Caan
Thief
He was awesome as Patton!
He was also the most awesome Scrooge, bar none. Talk about "tough" and NASTY.
2. Ruper Everett
3. Charles Nelson Reilly
4. Rip Taylor
5. Tom Cruise
You left off Jim J Bullock.
Yeah, yeah, yeah....
In his day, he was the ranking BMF. I really loved how the Dirty Harry series pointed out the bullsh*t or liberals.
Also, High Plains Drifter is right up at the top.
Bingo! That is his defining iconic character, exploited in subsequent movies, but never equalled.
LOL
Jimmy was the real deal, piloted 20 bombing missions over Germany in a B-17.
Well they certainly are "man's men."
Definitely worthy. But I only could choose 5! Time constraints and all!
"The gay list forms to the right."
Jim Nabors.
Alan Badillion Trahern - or something similar to that.....
Jim Nabors.
Didn't he use to vacation up the Hudson?
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