there was disco on the dance floors but
these guys cut their shapes in the
cinema you honestly think that I tried
to run you over you just happened to hit
the gas as I walked in front of the car
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
decade defining actors of the 1970s
you’ll want to see how good you are then
you must be tired of living for our
series on the top 10 decade defining
male actors / period we’ve made our
choices based on a combination of their
commercial success their box-office
scores their productivity their awards
and how they helped set the tone and
raise the standard in Hollywood for the
era I’m sorry I can’t I’ve got to see a
picture exactly from the start to the
finish clothes Chris Emanuel number 10
Woody Allen how do I fit it after
signing a deal with United Artists at
the beginning of the decade Woody Allen
went on to write direct and star in a
number of projects that’s great yeah
that’s terrific
one such early movie was everything you
always wanted to know about sex but
we’re afraid to ask what’s black and
white black and white black and white
black and white a nun falling down the
stairs a risque tone within which Alan
would rebel this was followed by sleeper
a parody of science-fiction movies
that’s exactly what that was
however Manhattan and Annie Hall were
his most popular films both were set in
New York both set rom-com standards and
both made woody a household name were
you like New York Jewish left-wing
liberal intellectual Central Park West
Brandeis University the socialist summer
camps and the father with the bed Shan
drawings right and really
you know strike oriented kind of I’m
stopping before I make a complete
imbecile myself this is nuts
number nine Richard Dreyfuss sharp
that’s very sharp this guy’s first role
on film was actually a one-line cameo in
the Graduate in 1967 shall I get the
couch why I’ll get the cops hey wait a
minute between men and the mid-70s he
worked the stage and some television
parts away from me but it was alongside
Steven Spielberg that he became a
big-name star in 1975 with jaws and then
two years later with Close Encounters of
the Third Kind she a little strange with
dad ironically though his portrayal of a
struggling actor is what earned him the
most praise he won an Oscar for his role
in the goodbye girls
unmanned a dog stand no no I command and
that’s what happened – my breasts off I
sent paws directly to my foot my career
is over I am making a horse’s assets of
myself in number eight john-boy get
along little dogies cast in Midnight
Cowboy
in 1969 Jon Voight found fame at the end
of one decade and enjoyed it throughout
the next just very happy to be here
he got in with the wrong crowd and
deliverance this is ridiculous and
became known for macho roles by playing
a boxer twice most notably ends the
champ that I should show him what I got
I should step in that ring and show him
what I got but those roles fell either
side of his most critically acclaimed
work where a portrayal of an embittered
paraplegic Vietnam veteran his pardon
coming home had us all going to the
cinema
I spend 95% of my time at the hospital
thinking about making love with you
number seven
Robert Redford it’s for sure a future
recipient of the Academy’s Lifetime
Achievement Award
Redford found fame in 69 with Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid keep going
teacher lady
next he appeared opposite Barbra
Streisand in the way we were and scored
his biggest box-office hit with the
sting
reliving the glory of Butch Cassidy by
again pairing with actor Paul Newman and
director George Roy hill Redford plays a
conman but his acting abilities were the
real deal
I want a playful etiquette you know
anything about the guy ya croak Luther
anything else I gotta know they carried
over to 1976 when he indulged his
political side by trying to solve the
Watergate scandal in all the president’s
men stuck story is stalled on us and you
thought I’d help
I wouldn’t quote you even as an
anonymous source you’d be on deep
background
number six Bruce Lee a career cut
tragically short Bruce Lee achieved a
lot in a short life don’t con me
during the 60s the martial arts expert
worked mainly in fight choreography and
struggled to find success as an actor
the suggestion being that his ethnicity
was preventing a u.s. breakthrough I
know don’t worry about it in Hong Kong
he was a hit though making movies such
as the big boss and Fist of Fury are you
listen to me I’ll only say one we are
not sick man making a complete 180
Warner Brothers signed him up for Enter
the Dragon the biggest commercial
success of his life and one he wouldn’t
live to see release you have offended my
family and you have offended a Shaolin
Temple
number five Gene Hackman have you ever
been Poughkeepsie hey man come on give
me a you say come on have you ever been
for Kip see you better forget the onion
Ackman proved to be one of hollywood’s
most versatile performers in the 70s
eating praise for a variety of roles
hell I had to look it up the map to find
out where I was going his highest
acclaim came for a performance as NYC
detective Popeye Doyle in the French
Connection which proved his credentials
as a leading man
he also starred in the disaster flick
the Poseidon Adventure the following
year
we’re cut off from the rest of the world
they can’t get to us maybe we can get to
them later as Superman’s nemesis Lex
Luthor he became a household name and
part of a series that spawned three
sequels in the 80s now call me foolish
call me irresponsible it occurs to me
that I’m 500 Megaton bomb planted at
just the proper point would would
destroy most of California
you wanted a hostage that vote went out
oh you wouldn’t or not I pray I do you
wanna gave you one like I said you
should pick up the phone number for Al
Pacino
this guy’s career is particularly hard
to nail down to one decade but largely
for his part in the Godfather series he
was a huge star of the 70s said I have a
guarantee no more attempts on my
father’s life
he played mobster Michael Corleone in
Francis Ford Coppola ‘he’s iconic
gangster film and was nominated for a
Best Supporting Actor Oscar don’t ask me
about my business
no he boycotted the ceremony though
believing his role to be lead actor
material that’s crap and you know it
ironically he went on to be nominated
for the desired award four times during
the decade including one nomination for
the Godfather Part two in my bedroom
where my wife sleeps where my children
come and play with their toys
number three John Travolta
away from the movie theater 70s music
was also rapidly evolving disco was rife
and its representative on the big screen
was a young John Travolta I work on the
hair a long time you hit it he hits my
hair most notably he played Tony Manero
in Saturday Night Fever and his white
suit and slick black hair are an iconic
image and an oscar-nominated role what
the following year he swapped the suit
for a tight black t-shirt and as Danny
Zuko in grease
he assumed the role of one of the most
memorable characters in film history
I did I didn’t meet this one chick she
is a shear sort of cool he was the one
that we wanted
number two Jack Nicholson how’d you get
past the guard I tell you the truth I
lied a little like other actors on our
list it’s hard to confine Nicholson’s
excellence to one time period after all
he’s had such an illustrious career I
hear you but Oscar nominations for his
roles in the last detail and Chinatown
as well as the first of three wins for
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest make
this decade a particular success Jesus
Christ as Randall McMurphy he plays a
forcibly repressed man who tries to
break out and as an actor Jack Nicholson
sure breaks the mold yeah I know but you
think we might ease it down a little bit
so maybe the boys didn’t have to shout
huh before we unveil our pick for decade
defining actor of the 1970s here are a
few honorable mentions when business
will have to suffer all right and let’s
do me a favor time no more advice on how
to patch things up just help me win
please all right hey son
nothing else on the world smells like
that
I love the smell of napalm in the
morning I want you to get up now I want
all of you to get up out of your chairs
I want you to get up right now and go to
the window open it and stick your head
out and yell I’m as mad as hell and I’m
not going to take this anymore we’re
getting up a football game against the
guards wondered if maybe you and some of
your buddies here would like to join in
on the fun we’re four guards uh-huh
hello animals hey why’d you get tonight
Ally missed on the last go off Cavallari
none of your business
number one Robert De Niro I see my enjoy
soon no G symmetry a Joey at Martha
Wayne no just someone Marty
he’s as a list as they come and he tops
our talented tree De Niro found fame
with in a partnership he formed in the
early 70s with director Martin Scorsese
beginning with mean streets and taxi
driver you talking to me by 77 everyone
was talking to him or at least about him
and a role as Michael Vronsky in the
Vietnam War movie The Deer Hunter
further established his reputation maybe
you’ve got to do it you don’t do it
they’re gonna throw you in a pit and
throw you in the pit you’re gonna die of
course he also managed the small feat of
playing the oscar-winning part of Vito
Corleone in The Godfather Part 2 what a
man that’s not the father me I take
everything you are central to the cause
Yeomans own unique umayyah admission may
do you agree with our list no no which
1970s actor do you think is the most
iconic I shut up shut up for more
classic top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com don’t
knock masturbation it’s sex with someone
I love
you
these guys cut their shapes in the
cinema you honestly think that I tried
to run you over you just happened to hit
the gas as I walked in front of the car
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
decade defining actors of the 1970s
you’ll want to see how good you are then
you must be tired of living for our
series on the top 10 decade defining
male actors / period we’ve made our
choices based on a combination of their
commercial success their box-office
scores their productivity their awards
and how they helped set the tone and
raise the standard in Hollywood for the
era I’m sorry I can’t I’ve got to see a
picture exactly from the start to the
finish clothes Chris Emanuel number 10
Woody Allen how do I fit it after
signing a deal with United Artists at
the beginning of the decade Woody Allen
went on to write direct and star in a
number of projects that’s great yeah
that’s terrific
one such early movie was everything you
always wanted to know about sex but
we’re afraid to ask what’s black and
white black and white black and white
black and white a nun falling down the
stairs a risque tone within which Alan
would rebel this was followed by sleeper
a parody of science-fiction movies
that’s exactly what that was
however Manhattan and Annie Hall were
his most popular films both were set in
New York both set rom-com standards and
both made woody a household name were
you like New York Jewish left-wing
liberal intellectual Central Park West
Brandeis University the socialist summer
camps and the father with the bed Shan
drawings right and really
you know strike oriented kind of I’m
stopping before I make a complete
imbecile myself this is nuts
number nine Richard Dreyfuss sharp
that’s very sharp this guy’s first role
on film was actually a one-line cameo in
the Graduate in 1967 shall I get the
couch why I’ll get the cops hey wait a
minute between men and the mid-70s he
worked the stage and some television
parts away from me but it was alongside
Steven Spielberg that he became a
big-name star in 1975 with jaws and then
two years later with Close Encounters of
the Third Kind she a little strange with
dad ironically though his portrayal of a
struggling actor is what earned him the
most praise he won an Oscar for his role
in the goodbye girls
unmanned a dog stand no no I command and
that’s what happened – my breasts off I
sent paws directly to my foot my career
is over I am making a horse’s assets of
myself in number eight john-boy get
along little dogies cast in Midnight
Cowboy
in 1969 Jon Voight found fame at the end
of one decade and enjoyed it throughout
the next just very happy to be here
he got in with the wrong crowd and
deliverance this is ridiculous and
became known for macho roles by playing
a boxer twice most notably ends the
champ that I should show him what I got
I should step in that ring and show him
what I got but those roles fell either
side of his most critically acclaimed
work where a portrayal of an embittered
paraplegic Vietnam veteran his pardon
coming home had us all going to the
cinema
I spend 95% of my time at the hospital
thinking about making love with you
number seven
Robert Redford it’s for sure a future
recipient of the Academy’s Lifetime
Achievement Award
Redford found fame in 69 with Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid keep going
teacher lady
next he appeared opposite Barbra
Streisand in the way we were and scored
his biggest box-office hit with the
sting
reliving the glory of Butch Cassidy by
again pairing with actor Paul Newman and
director George Roy hill Redford plays a
conman but his acting abilities were the
real deal
I want a playful etiquette you know
anything about the guy ya croak Luther
anything else I gotta know they carried
over to 1976 when he indulged his
political side by trying to solve the
Watergate scandal in all the president’s
men stuck story is stalled on us and you
thought I’d help
I wouldn’t quote you even as an
anonymous source you’d be on deep
background
number six Bruce Lee a career cut
tragically short Bruce Lee achieved a
lot in a short life don’t con me
during the 60s the martial arts expert
worked mainly in fight choreography and
struggled to find success as an actor
the suggestion being that his ethnicity
was preventing a u.s. breakthrough I
know don’t worry about it in Hong Kong
he was a hit though making movies such
as the big boss and Fist of Fury are you
listen to me I’ll only say one we are
not sick man making a complete 180
Warner Brothers signed him up for Enter
the Dragon the biggest commercial
success of his life and one he wouldn’t
live to see release you have offended my
family and you have offended a Shaolin
Temple
number five Gene Hackman have you ever
been Poughkeepsie hey man come on give
me a you say come on have you ever been
for Kip see you better forget the onion
Ackman proved to be one of hollywood’s
most versatile performers in the 70s
eating praise for a variety of roles
hell I had to look it up the map to find
out where I was going his highest
acclaim came for a performance as NYC
detective Popeye Doyle in the French
Connection which proved his credentials
as a leading man
he also starred in the disaster flick
the Poseidon Adventure the following
year
we’re cut off from the rest of the world
they can’t get to us maybe we can get to
them later as Superman’s nemesis Lex
Luthor he became a household name and
part of a series that spawned three
sequels in the 80s now call me foolish
call me irresponsible it occurs to me
that I’m 500 Megaton bomb planted at
just the proper point would would
destroy most of California
you wanted a hostage that vote went out
oh you wouldn’t or not I pray I do you
wanna gave you one like I said you
should pick up the phone number for Al
Pacino
this guy’s career is particularly hard
to nail down to one decade but largely
for his part in the Godfather series he
was a huge star of the 70s said I have a
guarantee no more attempts on my
father’s life
he played mobster Michael Corleone in
Francis Ford Coppola ‘he’s iconic
gangster film and was nominated for a
Best Supporting Actor Oscar don’t ask me
about my business
no he boycotted the ceremony though
believing his role to be lead actor
material that’s crap and you know it
ironically he went on to be nominated
for the desired award four times during
the decade including one nomination for
the Godfather Part two in my bedroom
where my wife sleeps where my children
come and play with their toys
number three John Travolta
away from the movie theater 70s music
was also rapidly evolving disco was rife
and its representative on the big screen
was a young John Travolta I work on the
hair a long time you hit it he hits my
hair most notably he played Tony Manero
in Saturday Night Fever and his white
suit and slick black hair are an iconic
image and an oscar-nominated role what
the following year he swapped the suit
for a tight black t-shirt and as Danny
Zuko in grease
he assumed the role of one of the most
memorable characters in film history
I did I didn’t meet this one chick she
is a shear sort of cool he was the one
that we wanted
number two Jack Nicholson how’d you get
past the guard I tell you the truth I
lied a little like other actors on our
list it’s hard to confine Nicholson’s
excellence to one time period after all
he’s had such an illustrious career I
hear you but Oscar nominations for his
roles in the last detail and Chinatown
as well as the first of three wins for
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest make
this decade a particular success Jesus
Christ as Randall McMurphy he plays a
forcibly repressed man who tries to
break out and as an actor Jack Nicholson
sure breaks the mold yeah I know but you
think we might ease it down a little bit
so maybe the boys didn’t have to shout
huh before we unveil our pick for decade
defining actor of the 1970s here are a
few honorable mentions when business
will have to suffer all right and let’s
do me a favor time no more advice on how
to patch things up just help me win
please all right hey son
nothing else on the world smells like
that
I love the smell of napalm in the
morning I want you to get up now I want
all of you to get up out of your chairs
I want you to get up right now and go to
the window open it and stick your head
out and yell I’m as mad as hell and I’m
not going to take this anymore we’re
getting up a football game against the
guards wondered if maybe you and some of
your buddies here would like to join in
on the fun we’re four guards uh-huh
hello animals hey why’d you get tonight
Ally missed on the last go off Cavallari
none of your business
number one Robert De Niro I see my enjoy
soon no G symmetry a Joey at Martha
Wayne no just someone Marty
he’s as a list as they come and he tops
our talented tree De Niro found fame
with in a partnership he formed in the
early 70s with director Martin Scorsese
beginning with mean streets and taxi
driver you talking to me by 77 everyone
was talking to him or at least about him
and a role as Michael Vronsky in the
Vietnam War movie The Deer Hunter
further established his reputation maybe
you’ve got to do it you don’t do it
they’re gonna throw you in a pit and
throw you in the pit you’re gonna die of
course he also managed the small feat of
playing the oscar-winning part of Vito
Corleone in The Godfather Part 2 what a
man that’s not the father me I take
everything you are central to the cause
Yeomans own unique umayyah admission may
do you agree with our list no no which
1970s actor do you think is the most
iconic I shut up shut up for more
classic top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com don’t
knock masturbation it’s sex with someone
I love
you
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