The Coolest Actors Ever
List Rules Vote up the actors, living or passed, who epitomize cool onscreen and off.
As movie fans, we like to think of our favorite actors as being larger than life. With all of the coverage that these stars get, these cool customers know how to function both on and off the screen. Often times we think of our favorite actors as being fairly close in personality to our favorite characters to whom which they portray. Obviously it's impossible for them to be a lot like their famous portrayals, but that doesn't mean that these guys aren't cool. In fact, most of these guys epitomize what cool is. Beginning with actors like Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant during the Golden Age of Film, the best leading men have had a certain aura about them. James Dean, Marlon Brando and Steve McQueen are other actors who are considered some of the coolest guys ever.
More recently, tough guy actors like Bruce Willis and Daniel Craig mix brains with brawn in their iconic roles as John McClane and James Bond each. While they each exemplify a different kind of cool, people are still attracted to these actors because this coolness factor. These actors of the guys who you'd want to hang out with, talk shop and maybe down an adult beverage or two with.
Vote for who you think is the coolest actor ever. If you don't see a name on this list and the actor is cool, feel free to add a name to the legendary list of the coolest people history.
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Credits: The Deer Hunter, Pulp Fiction, Catch Me If You Can, Wedding Crashers
Profession: Screenwriter, Actor, Voice acting, Film Director
Schools: Hofstra University, Professional Children's School
Credits: The Da Vinci Code, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile
Profession: Television director, Television producer, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, + more
Schools: California State University, Sacramento, Skyline High School, Chabot College
Major/Field Of Study: Theatre
Credits: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, All the President's Men, Out of Africa
Profession: Activist, Businessperson, Environmentalist, Television producer, Film Producer, + more
Schools: American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Van Nuys High School, Pratt Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
Major/Field Of Study: Painting
Credits: The Prestige, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men, Les Misérables
Profession: Television producer, Film Producer, Actor, Voice acting, Singer, + more
Schools: Knox Grammar School, Pymble Public School, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, University of Technology, Sydney, + more
Credits: The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Superman, On the Waterfront
Profession: Actor
Schools: Actors Studio, The New School, Shattuck-Saint Mary's
Cause Of Death: Cardiovascular disease, Liver tumour, Respiratory failure
Credits: Hulk, Up in the Air, Tombstone, We Were Soldiers
Profession: Film Producer, Actor, Voice acting
Schools: David Douglas High School, Clark College
Credits: The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, The Prestige, Inception
Profession: Entrepreneur, Film Producer, Author, Actor, Voice acting
Schools: Hackney Downs School, Wilson's School
Credits: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Die Hard, Galaxy Quest
Profession: Film Producer, Screenwriter, Graphic Designer, Actor, Voice acting, + more
Schools: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Latymer Upper School, Derwentwater Primary Schooll, Royal College of Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design
Credits: The Avengers, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Iron Man 2
Profession: Comedian, Singer-songwriter, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Actor
Schools: Santa Monica High School
Credits: No Country for Old Men, Men in Black, Men in Black II, The Fugitive
Profession: Film Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, Voice acting, Film Director
Schools: Robert E. Lee High School, Harvard College, Harvard University, St. Mark's School
Credits: The Godfather, Scarface, Heat, The Godfather: Part II
Profession: Theatre Director, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, Film Director
Schools: High School of Performing Arts, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
Credits: Training Day, American Gangster American Gangster, Man on Fire, Inside Man
Profession: Spokesperson, Film Producer, Actor, Voice acting, Film Director
Schools: Oakland Military Academy, Mainland High School, Fordham University, Pennington-Grimes Elementary School
Major/Field Of Study: Journalism
Credits: The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en, Driving Miss Daisy, Million Dollar Baby
Profession: Businessperson, Television producer, Film Producer, Actor, Voice acting, + more
Schools: Los Angeles City College, Pasadena Playhouse
Credits: His Girl Friday, Notorious, North by Northwest, Charade
Profession: Actor
Schools: Bishop Road Primary School, Fairfield Grammar School
Cause Of Death: Cerebral hemorrhage
Credits: The Big Lebowski, Iron Man, True Grit, TRON: Legacy`
Profession: Spokesperson, Musician, Film Producer, Actor, Composer, + more
Schools: Palisades Charter High School, HB Studio
Credits: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, A History of Violence, The Road
Profession: Painter, Poet, Musician, Film Producer, Author, + more
Schools: St. Lawrence University
Credits: Hannibal, Red Dragon, The Elephant Man, The Silence of the Lambs
Profession: Film Score Composer, Musician, Actor, Film Director
Schools: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, West Monmouth School, Cowbridge Grammar School, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Credits: The Sixth Sense, Die Hard, The Fifth Element, Armageddon
Profession: Businessperson, Television producer, Musician, Film Producer, Actor, + more
Schools: Penns Grove High School, Montclair State University
Credits: Schindler's List, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Batman Begins, Taken
Profession: Actor, Voice acting
Schools: Gaiety School of Drama, Queen's University Belfast
Credits: Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Hateful Eight
Profession: Television producer, Film Producer, Actor, Voice acting
Schools: Morehouse College
Major/Field Of Study: Drama
Credits: Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Big Sleep
Profession: Actor
Schools: Delancey School, Trinity School, Phillips Academy
Cause Of Death: Esophageal cancer, Cancer of the larynx
Credits: Interstellar, The Wolf of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers Club, Mud
Profession: Film Producer, Actor, Voice acting, Film Director
Schools: Longview High School, University of Texas at Austin College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
Credits: Dr. No, The Hunt for Red October, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Rock
Profession: Film Producer, Actor, Voice acting
Schools: Tollcross Primary School
Credits: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner
Profession: Pilot, Film Producer, Carpenter, Actor
Schools: Maine East High School, Ripon College
Credits: The Rockford Files, The Notebook, The Great Escape, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Profession: Soldier, Television producer, Film Producer, Actor, Voice acting
Schools: University of Oklahoma, Hollywood High School