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Frank Sinatra • Jack Nicholson • Robert De Niro • Brad Pitt • George Clooney • Mark Rylance • Michael Caine • Tommy Lee Jones • Sean Connery • Robin Williams • Kevin Spacey • Denzel Washington • Jim Broadbent • Morgan Freeman • Jack Lemmon • Robert Downey, Jr. • Javier Bardem • Christian Bale • Christopher Plummer • John Gielgud • Peter Ustinov • Walter Brennan • Christopher Walken • Tim Robbins • Jared Leto • Jason Robards • Walter Matthau • George Burns • Anthony Quinn • Christoph Waltz • Joe Pesci • Benicio Del Toro • Mahershala Ali • Gene Hackman • J.K. Simmons • Heath Ledger • John Mills • Walter Huston • John Houseman • George Kennedy • Karl Malden • Jack Albertson • Don Ameche • Red Buttons • Joseph Schildkraut • Haing S. Ngor • Hugh Emrys Griffith • Louis Gossett, Jr. • Martin Balsam • Ben Johnson • Cuba Gooding, Jr. • Alan Arkin • Kevin Kline • Daniel Kaluuya • Martin Landau • Timothy Hutton • Sam Rockwell • Joel Grey • George Sanders • Chris Cooper

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