David Oberman wrote:
> Dave in Toronto wrote:
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>>>woody strode
>>>alan ladd
>>>bruce lee
>>>arnold schwarzenegger
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>>Cary Grant - Sean Connery
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> Not to mention many of the silent knockabout farceurs & gag-performers
> like Keaton, Harold Lloyd & Fairbanks Sr.
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> A lot of actors, especially these days, are very athletic & do
> multiple sports (like Paul Walker or Antonio Banderas), but they're
> often not very good at acting (Keanu Reeves, Jason Scott Lee, Will
> Smith, Jan-Michael Vincent). I'm not counting the Van Dammes & the
> Seagals because they're only actors by dint of the fact that there's a
> camera on them. If Demi Moore did even half her own stunts in that
> military pic, she's highly athletic.
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> Among the absolute greatest actors, Laurence Olivier was athletic, &
> trained heavily during various periods of his career.
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> The blind are leading the blind.
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> -- Beethoven, on the Archduke's flight from Vienna, 1809
And -- where is Burt Lancaster in this list - he who did his own stunts?
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