Jimmy Chitwood
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i'm not one to repeat names, but it seems many of you are. that being the case, i can't believe Viggo Mortensen isn't getting more acknowledgement. if there's a better actor working these days, i don't know who it'd be.
Who are your favorite White actors?
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I hardly seen his movies, but I can't doubt his reputation and accomplishments.Jimmy Chitwood said:
I should also mention:
Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones', The Fugitive)
Charles Bronson (Death Wish, The Mechanic)
Gregory Peck
Roger Moore (James Bond)
Sean Connery (The Rock)
Michael J. Fox (Back to the Futures)
Brendan Fraser (The Mummies)
Matt Damon
Kevin Bacon
Robert Redford (Sting, The Natural)
Jeff Daniels
Jeff Bridges
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If comedies count, Jim Carrey and Leslie Nielsen.
Silent and Early Sound Era:Don Wassall said:
The Three Stooges
Stanley and Laurel
The Marx Brothers
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd
Modern Sound Era:
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Jack Nicholson (very versatile)
Bill Murray (better than most think)
Dan Akroyd
Tom Hanks (very versatile)
Gene Wilder (White Jew, blond, and blue-eyed)
Steve Martin
Jim Carey (Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura)
Leslie Nielsen (Naked Guns)
Jim Belushi (K-9)
Adam Sandler (quite annoying at times)
Non-American:
Ben Kinglsey (half-Indian)
Michael Caine
Alan Rickman
Jeremy Irons
Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean)
Anthony Hopkins
Pierce Brosnan
Daniel Craig
Clive Owen
Alec Guiness (Ben Kenobi)
Hugh Laurie (House)
More Action Stars:
Chuck Norris (not the best actor, but fun to watch)
Steven Seagal (always action movies)
Jean Claude Van Damme (serious wooden action star)Edited by: j41181
You know your actors, j41181.
I'll always be partial to the Stooges, at least up until the Curley Joe era.Let's notforget Benny Hill either. Peter Sellers was funny in the Pink Panthers movies.
I'll always be partial to the Stooges, at least up until the Curley Joe era.Let's notforget Benny Hill either. Peter Sellers was funny in the Pink Panthers movies.
Thanks, DW!Don Wassall said:You know your actors, j41181.ÂÂÂÂ
I'll always be partial to the Stooges, at least up until the Curley Joe era.  Let's not forget Benny Hill either. Peter Sellers was funny in the Pink Panthers movies.ÂÂ
More great white actors:
Walter Matthau (very funny)
Jack Lemmon (very funny)
Carey Grant (very cool)
Henry Fonda
George Hamilton
Paul Newman (Cat on a Hot Thin Roof, Sting)
Tom Cruise (late 80's and 90's movies)
Bryan Brown (F-X movies)
Brian Dennehy (very versatile)
John Goodman
Billy Crystal
Who sez white guys are lame? Edited by: j41181
these are some good lists
I have been trying to look for younger, rising stars that are not jewish that will replace the older stars eventually.
Shia LaBeouf from transformers and disturbia is jewish
all the new teen/young adult hip movies are made by the seth rogan group of jews like Superbad. Total nerds, wimpy or fat, or both.
I remember talking on a youtube video saying there are plenty of White guys being athletic enough to play halfback in the nfl/college if they actually got an opportunity.
and one of the responses was "so you think someone like Mclovin from Superbad could play halfback if he worked out...hahah yeah right. genetics plays a huge factor"
well that guy is actually jewish but yet potrays this wimpy White guy image and most people dont know the difference.
Yes there are a few White scrawny people but for the most part in the south the White people that live here seem to be large and muscular or short and muscular, usually the shorter ones are stocky, very few wimps. Very few people that arent solidly built. Yes there are some with a beer gut but they can still do some hard work that requires strength and athleticism to a degree.
The ones that are completely out of shape are hooked on fast food like mcdonalds, which airs constant commercials to try and get people to eat their unhealthy food.
I visited my mom today and she had my nephew who is 18 months and she needed food for him and i suggested some healthy foods, and she was like "I DONT HAVE MONEY FOR THAT" and i was like well ill help pay, and she said "I DONT HAVE TIME TO GO THERE" and he wound up eating french fries. Which he is constantly eating foods like that. That doesnt seem healthy to be feeding a child foods like that. I wonder who controls the fast food companies.
and i have been noticing subtle little bs things in old movies ive watched. I rewatched 3 Kings with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube. They had these nerf footballs with explosives stuffed inside. One of the White guys criticized Ice Cube's throwing, and then said "black people make better receivers than quarterbacks." and Ice Cube says "Warren Moon" and was told something along the lines that Warren Moon was average at best, and when asked about Randall Cunningham he said "he wont ever win a superbowl." Then Ice Cube ends it with "DOUG WILLIAMS, took the Redskins to the superbowl and won it ,carrying the whole team on his back." then the White guy shut up. Later in the movie Ice Cube needs to throw one of these footballs to blow up a helicopter and he nails it with his "rocket arm", except when coming out of his hand it looked like a dying duck and from a different angle coming towards the helicopter it was in a perfect spiral.
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I have been trying to look for younger, rising stars that are not jewish that will replace the older stars eventually.
Shia LaBeouf from transformers and disturbia is jewish
all the new teen/young adult hip movies are made by the seth rogan group of jews like Superbad. Total nerds, wimpy or fat, or both.
I remember talking on a youtube video saying there are plenty of White guys being athletic enough to play halfback in the nfl/college if they actually got an opportunity.
and one of the responses was "so you think someone like Mclovin from Superbad could play halfback if he worked out...hahah yeah right. genetics plays a huge factor"
well that guy is actually jewish but yet potrays this wimpy White guy image and most people dont know the difference.
Yes there are a few White scrawny people but for the most part in the south the White people that live here seem to be large and muscular or short and muscular, usually the shorter ones are stocky, very few wimps. Very few people that arent solidly built. Yes there are some with a beer gut but they can still do some hard work that requires strength and athleticism to a degree.
The ones that are completely out of shape are hooked on fast food like mcdonalds, which airs constant commercials to try and get people to eat their unhealthy food.
I visited my mom today and she had my nephew who is 18 months and she needed food for him and i suggested some healthy foods, and she was like "I DONT HAVE MONEY FOR THAT" and i was like well ill help pay, and she said "I DONT HAVE TIME TO GO THERE" and he wound up eating french fries. Which he is constantly eating foods like that. That doesnt seem healthy to be feeding a child foods like that. I wonder who controls the fast food companies.
and i have been noticing subtle little bs things in old movies ive watched. I rewatched 3 Kings with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube. They had these nerf footballs with explosives stuffed inside. One of the White guys criticized Ice Cube's throwing, and then said "black people make better receivers than quarterbacks." and Ice Cube says "Warren Moon" and was told something along the lines that Warren Moon was average at best, and when asked about Randall Cunningham he said "he wont ever win a superbowl." Then Ice Cube ends it with "DOUG WILLIAMS, took the Redskins to the superbowl and won it ,carrying the whole team on his back." then the White guy shut up. Later in the movie Ice Cube needs to throw one of these footballs to blow up a helicopter and he nails it with his "rocket arm", except when coming out of his hand it looked like a dying duck and from a different angle coming towards the helicopter it was in a perfect spiral.
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GiovaniMarcon
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Great lists, guys;
a couple of names I haven't seen come up yet:
William Holden. Remember when he b**ch-slapped Sergeant Price in Stalag 17? Classic...
Also, Lee Marvin. He really kicked a$$ in The Dirty Dozen, which reminds me of Charles Bronson -- he was a good actor too, though I think he might be partly Mongolian.
The reason I say Mel Gibson stood up to the Jews is that he made The Passion of the Christ despite a lot of Jewish groups (especially where I live in West LA) trying to discourage him from doing so, and accusing the finished product of being nothing more than pro-Christianity propaganda and lies.
Marlon Brando was also -- until the late 60s -- considered a quintessential athletic, white male.
One more really good actor was Fred MacMurray, who was adept at playing bumbling fools in Disney films as well as cold blooded killers in film noir.
a couple of names I haven't seen come up yet:
William Holden. Remember when he b**ch-slapped Sergeant Price in Stalag 17? Classic...
Also, Lee Marvin. He really kicked a$$ in The Dirty Dozen, which reminds me of Charles Bronson -- he was a good actor too, though I think he might be partly Mongolian.
The reason I say Mel Gibson stood up to the Jews is that he made The Passion of the Christ despite a lot of Jewish groups (especially where I live in West LA) trying to discourage him from doing so, and accusing the finished product of being nothing more than pro-Christianity propaganda and lies.
Marlon Brando was also -- until the late 60s -- considered a quintessential athletic, white male.
One more really good actor was Fred MacMurray, who was adept at playing bumbling fools in Disney films as well as cold blooded killers in film noir.
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Top ten favorites:
Gary Cooper
Errol Flynn
Burt Lancaster
Charles Heston
John-Claude Van Damme
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Michael Caine
Stewart Granger
Anthony Hopkins
John Malkovich
Worst five:
Willem DaFoe
Dustin Hoffman
James Caan
Daniel Day-Lewis
Sean Penn
Gary Cooper
Errol Flynn
Burt Lancaster
Charles Heston
John-Claude Van Damme
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Michael Caine
Stewart Granger
Anthony Hopkins
John Malkovich
Worst five:
Willem DaFoe
Dustin Hoffman
James Caan
Daniel Day-Lewis
Sean Penn
Charles Martel
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j41181 said:
Crystal, Goodman, Newman, and Matthau are Jewish.
Remember, Jews don't consider themselves white, although in reality, most of them are.
DixieDestroyer
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My favorites...the Duke, Eastwood, Sam Elliott, Tommy Lee Jones, Slim Pickens, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin, Chuck Norris, John Candy and Chris Farley.
Quiet Speed
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It's been many, many years since I've seen it, but Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Captain Bligh in the 80's version of the mutiny on the Bounty (titled The Bounty) was a performance that stuck out for me.
As far as least favorite, I would have to say Richard Dreyfuss.
As far as least favorite, I would have to say Richard Dreyfuss.
Quiet Speed said:
I like that movie quite a bit as well. Hopkins is a great actor, and one of the best ever, Laurence Olivier, has a modest part in the movie, too.
I've always been interested in the history behind that event. And all the topless native girls in that PG-rated movie didn't hurt either.
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My favorite actor by far is Eastwood. He should have been around for silent movies--his facial expressions always get the point across regardless of the amount of dialogue.
Kurt Russell is another one, especially when the scene calls for an exasperated mood. I always liked Harrison Ford in movies when I was a kid, but he seems to have declined in ability.
This appraisal is based on acting alone--I know Harrison Ford is a half-tribal that somehow loves Ayn Rand and Bill Clinton at the same time. Eastwood seems OK in a lot of his views but I'm not the kind to senselessly set myself up for disappointment on the hope that an actor might see things straight. I know very little about Russell.
Kurt Russell is another one, especially when the scene calls for an exasperated mood. I always liked Harrison Ford in movies when I was a kid, but he seems to have declined in ability.
This appraisal is based on acting alone--I know Harrison Ford is a half-tribal that somehow loves Ayn Rand and Bill Clinton at the same time. Eastwood seems OK in a lot of his views but I'm not the kind to senselessly set myself up for disappointment on the hope that an actor might see things straight. I know very little about Russell.
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For some reason, I hardly ever see a movie when it's first released. Sometimes it's years before I watch a movie. One actor I have come to like is Matt Damon. I loved the Bourne trilogy and just saw Good Will Hunting, which was damn immpressive.
I think Arnold Schwarzenegger has a pretty good body of work also. Some pretty good sci-fi stuff.
In general, I like just about all the actors that have already been mentioned. I do want to add a couple of guys to the old timers list, Abbott & Costello. I grew up watching their movies every Sunday morning. Except for their Who's on First routine, all of their creative and funny bits seem to have been forgotten.
I think Arnold Schwarzenegger has a pretty good body of work also. Some pretty good sci-fi stuff.
In general, I like just about all the actors that have already been mentioned. I do want to add a couple of guys to the old timers list, Abbott & Costello. I grew up watching their movies every Sunday morning. Except for their Who's on First routine, all of their creative and funny bits seem to have been forgotten.
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Don Wassall said:Quiet Speed said:
I like that movie quite a bit as well. Hopkins is a great actor, and one of the best ever, Laurence Olivier, has a modest part in the movie, too.ÂÂ
I've always been interested in the history behind that event. And all the topless native girls in that PG-rated movie didn't hurt either.ÂÂ
The best thing about this version of the Bounty saga is that it is historically accurate. The portrayals of Bligh and Christian by Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson were the first time it had been done by the historical record.
The movie stops with Christian arriving at Pitcairn's Island with his mixed band of natives and mutineers. Even if you don't know what happened afterward, the implication is that things are going to go badly. The "multicultural paradise" on Pitcairn's Island went very wrong. The native men Fletcher Christian brought to work for the mutineers eventually started killing the mutineers (Christian was among the first to be murdered) over the native women. The white men killed the native men after some grisly violence.
The late cultural critic, Richard Grenier, had a great article on the subject around 25 years ago in Commentary magazine. Yes, I used to read Commentary when Grenier had an article in the magazine.
sport historian said:
I used to read it too way back when.
DixieDestroyer
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DWFan said:
Russell is a Libertarian, who starred in alotta movies when he was a kid-through teen (Disney flicks, etc.). I like ol' Kurt too...especially as "Snake Plitzken" and "Jack Burton" ("Big Trouble in Little China").
The Hock
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"Acting is good work, if you can get it."
"Actors are people who make faces for a living."
"Acting is a respectable way to make a living, as long as no one catches you doing it."
(Just some quotes about acting off the top of my head)
"Actors are people who make faces for a living."
"Acting is a respectable way to make a living, as long as no one catches you doing it."
(Just some quotes about acting off the top of my head)
DixieDestroyer
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Other favorites include Claude Akins, Lee Majors, Jerry Reed and Michael Rooker.
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Jimmy Steward
First name that came to me. His characters were always noble and had to overcome problrms to succeed- whether it was a plane crash in Flight of the Phoenix or two broken legs in Rear Window.
He starred with some of the best actresses of his time- Kim Novak, Grace Kelly, Marlene Detreik, Bridgett Bardot, and was always a gentleman.
In real life, he was a bomber pilot and a general.
other actors:
Glenn FordClark GableAnthony Hopkins
Lee MarvinBurt Lancaster Lawence Olivier, Micky Rooney Eric Flemming Mel Gibson John Wayne
Liberal actors that have some good films in them
Henry Fonda
Gregory Peck (12 OClock High, Pork Chop Hill)
First name that came to me. His characters were always noble and had to overcome problrms to succeed- whether it was a plane crash in Flight of the Phoenix or two broken legs in Rear Window.
He starred with some of the best actresses of his time- Kim Novak, Grace Kelly, Marlene Detreik, Bridgett Bardot, and was always a gentleman.
In real life, he was a bomber pilot and a general.
other actors:
Glenn FordClark GableAnthony Hopkins
Lee MarvinBurt Lancaster Lawence Olivier, Micky Rooney Eric Flemming Mel Gibson John Wayne
Liberal actors that have some good films in them
Henry Fonda
Gregory Peck (12 OClock High, Pork Chop Hill)
I like the characters Mel Gibson played in "Braveheart" and "The Patriot." There seems to a common bond, as though Gibson brought some latent part of himself to these heroic characters. Mel's best acting, however, was probably in "Man Without A Face."
Anthony Hopkins is an excellent movie actor.
Sean Connery is very good, too.
Anthony Hopkins is an excellent movie actor.
Sean Connery is very good, too.