One great actor in 5 great films from five different genres?

well played! and including the genres helps, im looking at half these films trying to figure out which genre theyre in

 

Mickey Rooney
Not only did he appear in many great movies from many genres he is also known to have appeared in movies for 10 consecutive decades! I can't think of another actor or actress that has accomplished this.

 

ARNIE!

kindergarten cop
predator
terminator
true lies
twins

 

and most will probably disagree, but Elvis!

Jailhouse Rock
GI Blues
King Creole
It Happened At The World's Fair
Blue Hawaii

 

the great Harrison:
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Airforce One
The Fugitive
K-19

 

I gotta know, what are the different genres?

 

Frank Sinatra:
Anchors Away
Assault on a Queen
Suddenly
4 for Texas
Oceans 11

 

okay:
Jailhouse Rock is a film about a guy going to jail.
GI Blues is a about a dude in the army.
King Creole is about a night club singer.
It Happened at the Words Fair is about a guy who is a airplane pilot that
ends up at the World's Fair
and Blue Hawaii, is set in (whaddiya know) Hawaii!

 

those are the plots, theyre all musical genre though, jailhouse/king creole more musical-drama, the rest musical/comedy (I love them but I don't see five different genres)

 

oki doki fair enough. I never over analysed the films, your probably right.

 

Jean DuJardin

1) OSS-117: Cairo (Spy movie, spoof of 60s spy movies)

2) 99 Francs (satire of consumer culture)

3) CASH (great heist film)

4) The Artist (love story set in classic movies era)

5) The Connection (detective thriller)

 

Marlon Brando

On the Waterfront - Drama
Guys and Dolls - Musical
One Eyed Jacks - Western
Superman - superhero kind of movie
The Godfather - crime
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Viva Zapata - historical
Apocalypse Now - War
Teahouse of the August Moon - comedy
Last Tango in Paris - erotic kind of movie

 

When I saw Elvis, I thought of Charro! (Western) - that's one other one.

 

How are those from 5 different genres?

 

Steve Buscemi

Monsters Inc.
O Brother Where Art Thou
Reservoir Dogs
Fargo
Con Air

 

Performance charming and deadly at the same time.

 

TEN decades?

Edit: Including movies released posthumously, you would be right...technically.

 

1927 to 2012, plus a couple of posthumous ones.

 

Nicole Kidman

Dead Calm - thriller
To Die For - comedy-drama
Moulin Rouge - musical
Cold Mountain - historical drama
The Others - horror

 

britt2001b should have written “in 10 decades” rather than “for 10 decades” (the latter sounding like 100 years).

 

The guy lived longer than I remembered. Never liked him.

 

I think I can do some actors from older periods. One of my favorites is

Clark Gable

Run Silent, Run Deep - war (submarine)
The Misfits - "modern" western
Gone With the Wind - Southern gothic drama/war
After Office Hours - screwball comedy
Mogambo - safari romance
San Francisco - musical drama romance
It Happened One Night - romantic comedy
Chained - romantic drama (he had a lot of those)
Strange Cargo - Adventure drama
Wife versus Secretary - office comedy
Adventure - dramatic comedy
Mutiny on the Bounty - period adventure

I could go on and on. He had a long career even if he was only 59 when he died.

 

A lot of nit picking here to create separate genres....just like music!

 

Frank Sinatra

The Manchurian Candidate - thriller
Von Ryan's Express - action
From Here To Eternity - drama
High Society - musical/comedy
The Tender Trap - comedy

...but man, if only he and Francis Ford Coppola could have gotten in together for Godfather 3 - Sinatra was the original choice for Don Altobello.

 

You have five really good ones but, IMO, you missed a really great one: Kings Go Forth; and despite Natalie Woods's comparatively weak performance. It was really a Sinatra/Curtis tour de force proving, with the Manchurian candidate, that Sinatra really did have it in him to act with the great ones, once and for all.