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I got to watching older movies recently and started wondering has an actor ever had a better ten year stretch than Russell Crowe from 1997-2007? Please list any you think top it. TIA

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Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
Master & Commander
Cinderella Man
3:10 to Yuma
American Gangster
 
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I would go with Jim Carrey.

The Mask
Ace Ventura 1 & 2
Dumb and Dumber
The Truman Show
Liar Liar
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Bruce Almighty
The Cable Guy
Batman Forever
Man on the Moon
Me, Myself and Irene
The Majestic- criminally underrated movie

That is what he did from 1994 - 2004.

Brad Pitt would also have a strong case.
 
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LawDawg97

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Good list. I’d go Tom Hanks 1992 - 2002

League of Their Own
Sleepless in Seattle
Philadelphia
Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
Toy Story
That thing you do
Saving Private Ryan
You’ve Got Mail
Toy Story 2
Green Mile
Castaway
Road to Perdition
Catch Me If You Can

And if you want to go with a 20 year run, Harrison Ford from ‘77 to ‘97 (Star Wars to Air Force One) is pretty damn strong.
 
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Tom Hanks 1994-2004

Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
Toy Story
That thing you do
Saving Private Ryan
You've got mail
Toy Story 2
The Green Mile
Cast Away
Road to Perdition
Catch me if you can
The Ladykillers
The terminal
Polar Express
 
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Looking at that Tom Hanks list, I’d say that one would be hard to beat. Forrest Gump alone is worth probably 4 good movies on any other list.
 
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drummerdawg said:
Tom Hanks 1994-2004

Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
Toy Story
That thing you do
Saving Private Ryan
You've got mail
Toy Story 2
The Green Mile
Cast Away
Road to Perdition
Catch me if you can
The Ladykillers
The terminal
Polar Express
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You you are going Tom Hanks, it's 90-2000.

The list would be similar to yours but end at Castaway. But it would add in Joe vs the Volcano, Bonfire of the Vanities, A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, and Philadelphia prior to Forest Gump.

The fact is, Tom Hanks has never made a bad movie.
 
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Yeah Hanks will be tough to beat. From more of the action movie side of things Arnold had a helluva run from 84-94. Terminator, T2, Predator, Commando, Running Man, True Lies, Kindergarten Cop, Total Recall.
 
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DoomSlayer said:
Yeah Hanks will be tough to beat. From more of the action movie side of things Arnold had a helluva run from 84-94. Terminator, T2, Predator, Commando, Running Man, True Lies, Kindergarten Cop, Total Recall.
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82-92 gives you his best years. Because that will give you Conan.

And how can you forget Twins?
 
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Sean Connery had a nice run from 89-2000

Indiana Jones Last Crusade
Hunt For Red October
The Russia House
RobinHood Prince of Thieves
Medicine Man
The Rock
Rising Sun
First Knight
Avengers
Dragon Heart
Finding Forrester
Entrapment
 
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Tom Hanks is hard to beat but I'm gonna go back aways and say Humphrey Bogart from 1942 to 1955

High Sierra
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
To Have and Have Not
The Big Sleep
Dead Reckoning
Dark Passage
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Key Largo
The African Queen
The Caine Mutiny
Sabrina
The Barefoot Contessa
The Desperate Hours
 
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PineGroveBully said:
Larry Crowne was not a good movie. Other than that I don’t disagree with your statement
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Sully sucked too. That Thing You Do wasn't great. Going back to the late 80s, Dragnet was pretty bad. But he's made a lot of great ones.
 
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Tom Cruise. 1983 to 1993.
The Outsiders
Risky Business
All the Right Moves
Top Gun
The Color of Money
Cocktail
Rain Man
Born on the Fourth of July
Days of Thunder
A Few Good Men
The Firm

And then you add in all the Mission Impossible movies the next ten plus years, plus his lighter/funnier side in Tropic Thunder and Rock of Ages and ol Tom is hard to beat for one of the all time greats.
 
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DAWG61 said:
I got to watching older movies recently and started wondering has an actor ever had a better ten year stretch than Russell Crowe from 1997-2007? Please list any you think top it. TIA

LA Confidential
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
Master & Commander
Cinderella Man
3:10 to Yuma
American Gangster
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has been throwing fastballs since Romeo + Juliet in the mid 90's.

Denzel circa '94-'04 honorable mention. I was just thinking the other day how I wanted to watch Training Day to see how it holds up.
 
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Lachien said:
has been throwing fastballs since Romeo + Juliet in the mid 90's.

Denzel circa '94-'04 honorable mention. I was just thinking the other day how I wanted to watch Training Day to see how it holds up.
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I started Training Day for the first time during the middle of the bad weather. Power went out as Denzel was about to shoot rook in the face for not smoking the bowl. I havnt gone back to watch it but I’ll go ahead and say...it’s gonna hold up.
 
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Will Ferrell had a pretty good run for comedies from 2003-2010

Old School
Anchorman
Wedding Crashers (although probably wouldn’t cal this a Ferrell movie)
Kicking and Screaming
Talladega Nights
Blades of Glory
Semi Pro
Step Brothers
The Other Guys
 
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Not to change the subject bc I know the OP was for actors but I have really enjoyed this run that Christopher Nolan has been on as a director since 2005

Batman Begins
The Prestige
The Dark Knight
Inception
Dark knight rises
Interstellar
Dunkirk
Tenet
 
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JoeLee'sSocks said:
Harrison Ford has done it twice. The man is Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Dr. Richard Kimble, Rick Deckard, and Jack Ryan.

That 73-83 run was something else.

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Ill see your HF and raise you julia roberts

89-01

Steel Magnolias
Pretty Women
Sleeping With The Enemy
Hook
pelicans brief
Something to Talk About
My Best Friends Wedding
Conspiracy Theory
Notting Hill
Erin Brokovich
Run Away Bride
oceans 11


run it out a few more years and it’s truly impressive
 
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Drebin said:
Sully sucked too. That Thing You Do wasn't great. Going back to the late 80s, Dragnet was pretty bad. But he's made a lot of great ones.
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Sully was a fine movie.

Anybody who doesn't like Dragnet is an uncultured lout.
 
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John Cazale

Every picture he made was nominated for best picture

1972-1978
 
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dawgnabit said:
Will Ferrell had a pretty good run for comedies from 2003-2010

Old School
Anchorman
Wedding Crashers (although probably wouldn’t cal this a Ferrell movie)
Kicking and Screaming
Talladega Nights
Blades of Glory
Semi Pro
Step Brothers
The Other Guys
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You forgot Elf
 
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Al Pacino (73-83)
The Godfather
Serpico
The Godfather Part II
Dog Day Afternoon
And Justice for All
Cruising
Scarface

Robert De Niro (73-95)...a few duds here and there, but still some amazing movies through this span....
Mean Streets
The Godfather Part II
Taxi Driver
1900
New York, New York
The Deer Hunter
Raging Bull
The King of Comedy
Once Upon a Time in America
The Mission
Angel Heart
The Untouchables
Midnight Run
Goodfellas
Awakenings
Cape Fear
A Bronx Tale (also directed by)
Casino
Heat
 
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msstatelp1 said:
and he got to bump uglies with a young Meryl Streep
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nothing about Meryl Streep is attractive to me. she looks like a man before women looking like a man was cool.

Tom Hanks/Harrison Ford/Tom Cruise all hard to beat answers
 
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Some of these are niche but I love Phillip Seymour Hoffman 2002-2012:

Punch Drunk Love
Red Dragon
Capote
MI: 3
The Savages
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Charlie Wilson’s War
Synecdoche, New York
Doubt
Moneyball
The Master

He’s also by far the best part of Along Came Polly, among others.

And in the 5-6 years before that you get Magnolia, Almost Famous, Hard Eight, Patch Adams, The Big Lebowski, Happiness, Boogie Nights

I love Daniel Day Lewis too, but his volume is so low that’s it tough to get far with a 10 year list
 
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Mobile Bay said:
Sully was a fine movie.

Anybody who doesn't like Dragnet is an uncultured lout.
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Meh, Dragnet sucked. It was some 80s cheese. Hanks himself has said he wishes he could forget it. Turner and Hooch is another bad one. Punchline sucked. As far as later movies of his, Captain Phillips wasn't very good, nor did I think Sully was good.

Most of his movies have been really good though. He'd definitely be my pick for actor with the highest percentage of good to great movies starred in. Just about everything he touched in the 90s turned to gold.
 
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