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Paul Newman • Robert De Niro • Sidney Poitier • Denzel Washington • Clark Gable • Al Pacino • John Wayne • Tom Hanks • Jack Nicholson • Brendan Fraser • Kevin Spacey • Anthony Hopkins • Leonardo DiCaprio • Laurence Olivier • Michael Douglas • Will Smith • Jeff Bridges • Henry Fonda • Dustin Hoffman • Jamie Foxx • Humphrey Bogart • Russell Crowe • Colin Firth • Rami Malek • Richard Dreyfuss • Sean Penn • James Cagney • Marlon Brando • Gary Oldman • Cillian Murphy • Matthew McConaughey • Joaquin Phoenix • James Stewart • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Alec Guinness • Burt Lancaster • Geoffrey Rush • Roberto Benigni • Robert Duvall • Paul Muni • Nicolas Cage • Ben Kingsley • Cliff Robertson • Fredric March • Charlton Heston • Spencer Tracy • F. Murray Abraham • Jack Lemmon • Gregory Peck • Ernest Borgnine • Adrien Brody • Eddie Redmayne • Ronald Colman • Jon Voight • George C. Scott • Forest Whitaker • William Holden • Art Carney • Yul Brynner • Bing Crosby • Casey Affleck • Gene Hackman • Charles Laughton • Emil Jannings • Peter Finch • Lionel Barrymore • Jeremy Irons • Rod Steiger • Rex Harrison • Lee Marvin • Gary Cooper • Paul Scofield • José Ferrer • William Hurt • David Niven • Robert Donat • Victor McLaglen • Wallace Beery • George Arliss • Ray Milland

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