I'll start off this one with my own personal favourite Jean Gabin. At the age of nineteen he entered show business and he never looked back. His acting career spans the major part of the last century, having played in theater, music halls and movies. As an young man he sang for his bread, acted in movies and the theater various different and highly distinctive roles, and eventually sank almost his whole money into a horse farm
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It's hard to narrow it down to one. Conrad Veidt, Robert Ryan and Graham Greene quickly come to mind. I also really admire actors like Ernest Borgnine and Edward G. Robinson who could be so likeable in one role then do a complete turnaround and be the meanest SOB alive in the next, and be completely believable in either role.
@originnone Yes, that was in The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine (1959). Lots of other good actors in there also. I wonder if they'd get those in a similar tv show these days
