The ten best actors of the first half of the 20th century

Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Burt Lancaster, Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, Fred Astaire, John Wayne, Clark Gable, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and the Marx Brothers are some of the men who came to fame in films during the first half of the 20th century.

Here are our picks for the ten best actors of that era.





1) Humphrey Bogart

2) John Garfield

3) Cary Grant

4) Paul Robeson

5) James Cagney

6) Gene Kelly

7) Bill Robinson

8) Charlie Chaplin

9) Ramon Novarro

10) Orson Welles