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Posted: 5/18/2021 8:04:04 AM EST

[#1]

Poll is lame.

Yaphet Kotto
Laurence Fishburne
Idris Elba

ETA: If they haven't done Shakespeare, they're not really accomplished actors. I can't quite see Samuel Jackson or Denzel Washington as Aaron or Othello.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:04:25 AM EST

[#2]

Why is the Rock on that list?

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:05:08 AM EST

[#3]

Bill Cosby

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:05:27 AM EST

[#4]

Darth Vader

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:05:35 AM EST

[#5]

I would classify Denzel as one of the best actors of all time in general - black/white, male/female.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:05:37 AM EST

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Posted: 5/18/2021 8:06:05 AM EST

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Denzel probably.

Idris Elba gets a vote from me though.

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Idris Elba was pretty phenomenal in Beasts of no Nation.

Denzel isn't as good an actor imo, but I like everything I've ever seen him in.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:07:30 AM EST

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No Morgan Freeman?

Agreed.

Umm ya

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:08:09 AM EST

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"Range"? Motherfucker is a walking meme. How many roles has he been in that The Fresh Prince didn't peek through. Ali? Maybe Happyness?

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Poll fail - How is the Rock on the list and not Morgan Freeman

Out of your list, Will Smith probably has the most range making him the best "actor" but I'm a big fan of most of Denzel's work.

"Range"? Motherfucker is a walking meme. How many roles has he been in that The Fresh Prince didn't peek through. Ali? Maybe Happyness?

This. Will Smith is a movie star, not an actor.

Tough call between Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman.
Second place is a deathmatch between Laurence Fishburne and Idris Elba

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:09:42 AM EST

[#11]

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Posted: 5/18/2021 8:11:02 AM EST

[#12]

What no Al Jolson?

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:11:16 AM EST

[#13]

Stepin Fetchit.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:11:49 AM EST

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Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry

May 30, 1902
Key West, Florida
DiedNovember 19, 1985 (aged 83)
Woodland Hills, California
Resting placeCalvary Cemetery, Los Angeles
OccupationActor
Years active1925–1976
Spouse(s)
Dorothy Stevenson (1929–1931)[1]
Bernice Sims (1951–1984)[2] (her death)
Children2

Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first Black actor to have a successful film career.[3] His highest profile was during the 1930s in films and on stage, when his persona of Stepin Fetchit was billed as the "Laziest Man in the World".

Perry parlayed the Fetchit persona into a successful film career, becoming the first Black actor to earn $1 million. He was also the first Black actor to receive featured screen credit in a film.[4][5]

Perry's film career slowed after 1939 and nearly stopped altogether after 1953. Around that time, Black Americans began to see his Stepin Fetchit persona as an embarrassing and harmful anachronism, echoing negative stereotypes. However, the Stepin Fetchit character has undergone a re-evaluation by some scholars in recent times, who view him as an embodiment of the trickster archetype.[6]

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:11:52 AM EST

[#15]

Who can disappear into their character like Daniel Day-Lewis?

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:13:52 AM EST

[#16]

Honorary mention for Woody Strode. Great actor, and a trailblazer. Took some risks.

Sergeant Rutledge is a 1960 American Technicolor Western crime film directed by John Ford and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Woody Strode and Billie Burke. Six decades later, the film continues to attract attention because it was one of the first mainstream films in the U.S. to treat racism frankly and to give a starring role to an African-American actor. The film starred Strode as Sergeant Rutledge, a black first sergeant in a colored regiment of the United States Cavalry. At a U.S. Army fort in the early 1880s, he is being tried by a court-martial for the rape and murder of a white girl as well as for the murder of the girl's father, who was the commanding officer of the fort. The story of these events is recounted through several flashbacks.

Sergeant Rutledge - "It ain''t your father now... it''s you, & me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMamqOkJhYU

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:14:05 AM EST

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Who can disappear into their character like Daniel Day-Lewis?

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Posted: 5/18/2021 8:14:51 AM EST

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This is the best choice. Denzel is good and playing Denzel

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:15:31 AM EST

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I'm not one to label people, so did not realize the rock was considered black.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:16:51 AM EST

[#20]

THIS is phenomenal acting.

Homicide: Life On The Street s03e18 - G's Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkcqtLIxZCg

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:16:53 AM EST

[#21]

There are some really good actors listed in this thread. Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington have to be right up there. Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor are great. I'll throw another name into the ring: Djimon Hounsou. He was excellent in Amistad, Gladiator, and Blood Diamond.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:19:48 AM EST

[#22]

The real Super Fly, Ron O’Neil

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Posted: 5/18/2021 8:20:30 AM EST

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Posted: 5/18/2021 8:20:41 AM EST

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Gary Oldman.

Black actors? Idris Elba for sure. Morgan Freeman maybe, but most of his roles have a paternal theme to them.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:22:25 AM EST

[#25]

Where is Wesley Snipes?

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:27:58 AM EST

[#26]

The Rock isn't black. He's Polynesian or whatever they call Pacific Islanders these days.

I voted for Denzel and Will Smith.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:28:38 AM EST

[#27]

This poll is a fraud without listing the greatest Black actor of all time, James Earl Jones.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:28:53 AM EST

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[#29]

Charlie Murphy

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:29:04 AM EST

[#30]

Voted Denzel, but poll fail for not including Idris. He'd be a close second.

Eta- And Freeman. Super poll fail.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:29:14 AM EST

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I don't know what fucking movies you've been watching but he's got a lot more range then any of the other so called actors on this listed. I love a good Denzel movie but that fucker is Denzel no matter what name his characters is. And don't even get me started about Samuel "motherfucker" Jackson. he couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:31:07 AM EST

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I don't know what fucking movies you've been watching but he's got a lot more range then any of the other so called actors on this listed. I love a good Denzel movie but that fucker is Denzel no matter what name his characters is. And don't even get me started about Samuel "motherfucker" Jackson. he couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag.

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"Range"? Motherfucker is a walking meme. How many roles has he been in that The Fresh Prince didn't peek through. Ali? Maybe Happyness?

I don't know what fucking movies you've been watching but he's got a lot more range then any of the other so called actors on this listed. I love a good Denzel movie but that fucker is Denzel no matter what name his characters is. And don't even get me started about Samuel "motherfucker" Jackson. he couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag.

I agree, they also suck.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:31:37 AM EST

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Poll fail - How is the Rock on the list and not Morgan Freeman

Out of your list, Will Smith probably has the most range making him the best "actor" but I'm a big fan of most of Denzel's work.

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Will Smith and range should’nt be mentioned in the same zip code much less sentence

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:33:38 AM EST

[#34]

Family Guy - Dwayne The Rock Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5I4rUzyC64

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:34:59 AM EST

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Denzel probably.

Idris Elba gets a vote from me though.

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Idris Elba in Luther is great.

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:35:15 AM EST

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Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:37:25 AM EST

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Denzel probably.

Idris Elba gets a vote from me though.

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Posted: 5/18/2021 8:37:38 AM EST

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No Jaime Foxx?

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This!

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:38:13 AM EST

[#39]

Who the fuck voted for the rock?

Posted: 5/18/2021 8:39:48 AM EST

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Posted: 5/18/2021 8:41:13 AM EST

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"Range"? Motherfucker is a walking meme. How many roles has he been in that The Fresh Prince didn't peek through. Ali? Maybe Happyness?

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I'll throw a quick list together for you.
Collateral Beauty
Concussion
Ali
Seven Pounds
Pursuit of Happyness
Legend of bagger vance
Six degrees of separation.

Still not my vote, but he is a better actor than he gets credit for.

Edit: he is certainly better than samuel l jackson.

I might actually throw up Mos Def. Far better than people give him credit for too. Something God Made and 16 blocks both are great movies because of him.