Poll: John Wayne 7th Most Popular Star; Beats Clooney, Streep, Damon, Penn

Big Hollywood ^ | April 3, 2014 | John Nolte

[This Just In]

Since 1994, when Harris first began polling a large sample (2,311 this year) of Americans with the simple question "Who is your favorite movie star?", only one actor has made the top ten every year and only one actor has made it posthumously: John Wayne. In 2014, The Duke did it again, placing 7th -- holding the same spot he held last year.

[Chgogal]

Did you ever see The Grass is Greener with Robert Mitchum, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr and Jean Simmons? It is a cute and witty comedy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053877/

[virgil]

James Cagney should be somewhere.

And Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks and Greer Garson and Robert Donat, and, and, and,...There are so many wonderful actors from old Hollywood.

[virgil]

No, I’ve never seen The Grass is Greener. I was just thinking of Jean Simmons. That sounds like it would be good to watch. With the older movies, you can pick out a good one just by the actors that are in it. The new movies, you just don’t know if it’s any good until you watch it.

[Chgogal]

Then there’s countless actors that always played supporting roles, but whose talent gave so much to the quality of the pictures.

Yup, like Sidney Greenstreet and S.Z. Sakal who played small but important roles in Casablanca and numerous other films.

Stewart Granger in Solomon Mines was not bad.

[Chgogal]

Father Goose with Cary Grant, Trevor Howard and Leslie Caron another cute and witty comedy.

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/250888/Father-Goose-Movie-Clip-Opening-Credits.html

[virgil]

Seen Father Goose. Cary Grant can be very funny. He was funny in North by Northwest, a big favorite of mine. Probably lots of TCM fans here on FR.

[itsahoot]

Oops ... Forgot “Donovan’s Reef” as well!

Who could forget this one

The Conqueror is a 1956 CinemaScope epic film produced by Howard Hughes and starring John Wayne as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.

OK, just kidding. But there was Hatari.

[itsahoot]

[BerryDingle]

We own Rio Bravo (the version with Dean Martin and Walter Brennan).

Yeah, they're in it too, with Ricky Nelson.

[N. Theknow]

Donovan’s Reef is our favorite. Whenever we fall on our butts, one of us will always say, “ Did you hurt your....self.”

[JLAGRAYFOX]

My “ten” rating in no particular order. simply ten of the very best!!!

- John Wayne
- Charlton Heston
- George C. Scott
- Clark Gable
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Sandra Bullock
- Christian Bale
- Maureen O’Hara
- Robert Downey, Jr.
- Steve McQueen

Of course there are hundreds of great actors that belong in the top ten, Greg Peck, Cary Grant, Betty Davis, Clint Eastwood and many more low life types than rate being thrown in the garbage can. Here are ten deadbeats, IMHO.

- George Clooney
- Meryl Streep
- Oprah Winfrey
- Jack Nicholson
- Robert DeNiro
- Barbra Streisand
- Tom Hanks
- Julia Roberts
- Jane Fonda
- Morgan Freeman

Why? Politics and acting do not mix....ever!!! I go to see a film to get involved in the film and art work....not the actor’s politics!!!

[heylady]

While I love many of the old Hollywood actors and actresses, I find the older I get the more I come to appreciate the talented acting of Bette Davis.

[4everontheRight]

I have loved John Wayne since I was a small child. As an adult , the movies I enjoy most may have changed. ..as a child I loved Stagecoach and still do but I think my all time favorite movie of Wayne's is The Searchers. Wayne was phenomenal in that role. The combination of Wayne and John Ford is unbeatable. If I could own only one actors movies it would be Wayne. I love "They were expendable" and any western or WW2 movie Wayne made.
I notice the older I get, the more I appreciate older movies. Nothing is new under the sun and remakes of older movies leave little to the imagination and I think that cheapens a film and underestimates the audience. I could watch movies from 1939 all day long. But as far as great actors I would go with Wayne, Barbara Stanwick, William Holden, Paul Muni, Bogart, Heston, Claude Rains, Jimmy Stewart,Charles Laughton, Ingrid Bergman...Any of those will make me sit on the couch all day

[catfish1957]

Another vote for Jimmy Stewart, Great Actor, Great American, Great Conservative.

[Vermont Lt]

The only people answering their phones these days old people and kids at home who don’t have jobs.

John Wayne was an OK actor. The other people on the list are OK actors.

John Wayne, as a man, was no more or less “manly” than others who lived and actually went to war instead of getting deferment after deferment.

[BuffaloJack]

MY TOP 10:
John Wayne
Orson Wells
Yul Brenner
Charlton Heston
Gary Cooper
Clint Eastwood
Hedy Lamarr
Harrison Ford
Tom Hanks
Clark Gable
Robert DuVall

[buffaloguy]

John Wayne’s early movies are a real blast. 1932 or thereabouts, they are just plain fun.

I miss him.

[gogeo]

Unlike the others on the list, he did not consider his celebrity as a reason to push his POV...

I'm not sure exactly how you mean that, but word is he made The Green Berets in support of the effort in Vietnam.

[catman67]

I’m glad to see that someone else recognizes Walter Huston and his role in “Dodsworth”. That’s ACTING at its best!

[catman67]

You should add:

Robert Duvall
Gregory Peck
Robert Mitchum
Tom Hanks
Jimmy Cagney
Marilyn Monroe
Ava Gardner