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Best, or Most Memorable Performances, By Year: 1968

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Here's an opportunity to revisit and review great acting work of randomized years of world cinema.

Please list at least 10 of your favorite, or at least noteworthy, acting performances of the Cinema Year 1968.

You needn't distinguish between Lead and Supoorting Performances - no need to quibble about actors' screen time.

It should be a given that there's no "right" or "wrong" answers here. Just looking to stir up a little fun conversation about actors, actresses and movies, that's all.

My '68 list currently looks a little something like this:

Actress - 1 Catherine Deneuve, Belle de Jour 2 Olivia Hussey, Romeo & Juliet 3 Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter 4 Tuesday Weld, Pretty Poison 5 Ruth Gordon, Rosemary’s Baby 6 Pat Heywood, Romeo and Juliet 7 Beverly Garland, Pretty Poison 8 Beryl Reid, The Killing of Sister George 9 Kim Hunter, Planet of the Apes 10 Claudia Cardinale, Once Upon a Time in the West

Actor - 1 Peter O’Toole, The Lion in Winter 2 Anthony Perkins, Pretty Poison 3 Anthony Hopkins, The Lion in Winter 4 Burt Lancaster, The Swimmer 5 Henry Fonda, Once Upon a Time in the West 6 Jack Albertson, The Subject Was Roses 7 Dick Shawn, The Producers 8 Walter Matthau, The Odd Couple 9 Leonard Whiting, Romeo & Juliet 10 Vincent Price, The Conqueror Worm

What do you think, what are your opinions? Cheers!

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u/Sn3akyMuffin avatar
  1. Duan Jones - Night of the Living Dead

  2. Mia Farrow - Rosemary's Baby

  3. Klaus Kinski - The Great Silence

  4. Liv Ulman - Night of the Living Hunter

  5. Max von Sydow - Night of the Hunter

  6. Burt Lancaster - The Swimmer

  7. Terrance Stamp - Toby Dammit

  8. Yachie Matsui - The Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch

  9. John Cassavetes - Rosemary's Baby

  10. Douglas Rain - 2001 A Space Odyssey

I recently watched The Swimmer and I was blown away by it. Burt Lancaster was a proto Don Draper.

u/West4thStreetHoops avatar

need to see many of these titles, but John Cassavetes in Rosemary's Baby certainly is worthy of more praise.

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u/shaykelliher60 avatar

You’ve got a great selection there! Mine is unranked but here are some favourites:

Duane Jones - Night of the Living Dead, Boris Karloff - Targets, Jean-Pierre Léaud - Stolen Kisses, Charlton Heston - Planet if the Apes, Roddy McDowall - Planet of the Apes, Klaus Kinski - The Great Silence, Jack Lemmon - The Odd Couple, Walter Matthau - The Odd Couple, Liv Ullman - Hour of the Wolf/Shame, Malcolm McDowell - If…, Rod Steiger - No Way to Treat a Lady, Lee Marvin - Hell in the Pacific, Toshirō Mifune - Hell in the Pacific , Burt Lancaster - The Swimmer, Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl, Mia Farrow - Rosemary’s Baby, Gena Rowlands - Faces,

What a great year for movies!

u/West4thStreetHoops avatar

Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune, Rod Steiger and Boris Karloff....good stuff! Thanks!

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