they were more than acceptable in the
80s they were extraordinary god damn it
man The Doobie Brothers broke up welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
decade defining actors of the 1980s
well mrs. crane your little monkey woman
you know that you’re the monkey woman
you’re lean and mean and you’re not too
far between either and Ben are you here
for our series on the top ten decade
defining male actors per 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 you know you don’t act like
a scientist they’re usually pretty stiff
you’re more like a game show host number
10
Bill Murray yeah what do you think after
making his mark on Saturday Night Live
in the 70s like his fellow comedy main
stage Chevy Chase Bill Murray’s film
career really took off in the 80s is
this a trick question his portrayal of
cult writer Hunter S Thompson in where
the buffalo roam set his cool classy
tone real heavyweight water buffalo tag
who could uh chew his way through a
concrete wall and spit out the other
side cover with lime and chalk and look
look good in doing it and hearts in
box-office hits like Caddyshack
and Tootsie cemented his reputation I
like it when people come up to me the
next day or a week later and they say
I saw your play what happened what he’ll
really be remembered for though is
ghostbusters
we Came we saw we kicked its ass as dr.
Peter Venkman Murray wise cracked his
way to greatness I’d call that a big yes
he appeared in little else during the
decade but he’d make mark enough to
achieve continued success it’s no big
deal
Oh number nine
Dustin Hoffman Charlie dance do Sally
for six whoa-oh-oh-ah 9 – how did you
know my phone number
how’d you know that should read the
telephone book last night
dibbs Sally 46 101 92 Hoffman first
caught our attention two decades before
this one as a lovestruck youngster in
the graduate will you unzip my dress I
think I’ll go to bed
oh well good night but for him the 80s
proved to be a high point among many
high points in a glittering film career
I’m an excellent driver
that’s good come on come on he led while
Bill Murray supported in Tootsie and he
earned an Oscar nomination for it huh my
name is Dorothy
it’s that Tootsie Oh toots or sweetie oh
honey a down oh Christ
no just Darci now Aaron’s always Alan
tom was always Tom and John’s always
John I have a name – its Dorothy capital
D o ro t hy Dorothy he was also part of
Sidney Lumet’s all-star cast in family
business we are son family his most
notable role however was as Raymond
Babbitt in Raymond factory all the
tables my brother Charlie as Tom
Cruise’s autistic brother he portrayed
the condition with respect loyalty and
sheer brilliance mystifying which has
20,000 160 minutes with 1 million two
hundred nine thousand six hundred six
hundred seconds number eight
Bruce Willis dropping ticket
Alysha former private investigator bruce
willis turned to acting in the 80s and
aren’t we glad of it
she had a good job turned into a great
career after winning an Emmy for his
role in the TV show moonlighting
he broke onto the big screen with some
uncharacteristic roles in blind date and
sunset that’s right I give you a lift
into town on your horse Tony jr. ain’t
got no license plates
we got the ride in the Duesenberg but
then he performed an inspired change of
direction when he played one liner
wielding reluctant hero John McClane
diehard set an all new standard for
action movies and Willis was the modern
archetype of an action hero
yippee-kay-yay yippee-kay-yay mother hi
number seven Michael Douglas Gris for
lack of a better word is good greed is
right greed works action-adventure
romantic comedy Romancing the Stone is
what announced Michael Douglas into the
80’s consciousness opposite Kathleen
Turner he proved himself as leading man
material and provided director Robert
Zemeckis with his first box office
success trustworthy however it was in
1987 that he truly followed his father
Kirk into Hollywood history think he can
handle that fatal attraction was the
second highest grossing film of the year
and for his role as Gordon Gekko in Wall
Street he did what his dad couldn’t do
he won the Academy Award for Best Actor
Jesus Christ II this guy owned a funeral
parlor no one would die this turkey is
totally brain-dead okay alright
Christmas is over and business is
business you keep on buying dilute the
son of a bitch number six Sylvester
Stallone right
don’t look at me look at the road
that’s all accidents at Sly Stallone
introduced himself to the world in the
70s with rocky really don’t matter if I
lose this like really don’t know if this
guy opens my head here and the following
decade he cemented his reputation as the
toughest of a group of tough guys that
included the likes of jean-claude Van
Damme and more in the 80s Stallone’s
role alongside Michael Caine and escape
to victory proved his on-screen presence
if not his soccer ability rocky kept
fighting and a second movie franchise
was born with 1982 s first blood I got
it don’t move
I don’t want you to cut your own throat
he’d taken his persona out of the boxing
ring and into the war zone
the Italian stallion quickly became
Hollywood’s heavy artillery
nothing is over nothing you just don’t
turn it off
it wasn’t my war you asked me I didn’t
ask you and I did what I had to do to
win but somebody wouldn’t let us win
number five Arnold Schwarzenegger come
on kill me I’m here way before he was a
face of American politics Schwarzenegger
was Arnie the heroic body of many an
action movie you know that he first
gained mainstream notice as a silver
screen strongman in Conan the Barbarian
crush’ enemies see them driven before
you
they had a lamentation of the women many
were of the opinion that his acting
ability was not his home as his
abdominal muscles I think this guy’s a
couple cans short of a six-pack your
clothes give him to me now you asshole
but Arnie fended off his critics by
starring in one of the biggest movies of
the decade The Terminator
you asshole he proved far from wooden as
the cyborg assassin
even if his lines did amount to less
than 100 words I’ll be back
number four
Harrison Ford he’s good missing out on
our podium but dominating eighty cinema
Harrison Ford is probably best
remembered for his fantastic franchises
who get all mushy on me so long princess
as han Solo
he first starred in Star Wars in 1977
and followed that up with the Empire
Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in
the 80s
keep your distance though Chewie but
don’t look like you’re trying to keep
your distance
I don’t know fly casual not content with
only one multi movie leading role ford
starred in three blockbusters steven
spielberg pictures as indiana jones that
decade as well
Bettye Mississippi to throw in lead
roles in acclaimed movies like Ridley
Scott’s Blade Runner and you see why
Ford’s at number four wake up time to
die
number three Eddie Murphy come on in
experience on that bullshit
after finding fame as a cast member on
TV Saturday Night Live
ha but we remember me Eddie Murphy’s
transition into film was highly
anticipated and expertly executed I’ll
kind of cop are you
you know when I am I’m your worst
fucking nightmare man
I mean with a badge I mean I got the
mission to kick your ass whenever I feel
like it his first feature-length 48
hours was a hit and when he paired up
with fellow SNL alum dan Aykroyd for
Trading Places his comedic credentials
were mounting up the African education
conference right Simon I was director of
cultural events at the Haile Selassie
Pavillion I remember the pavilion we
have big fun there for him away but when
I get half well acquainted with haha a
role as tough talking joke machine Axel
Foley in Beverly Hills Cop also
propelled him to humorous highs and to
further sequels one of which fell in the
1980s you told me about the Jews I don’t
come in home about that as well number
two Michael J Fox
oh my god he was famous in the 80s but
he was famous for the 50s Michael J Fox
played one of the iconic characters of
the decade when he stepped in to Marty
McFly’s Nikes for Back to the Future are
you telling me you built a time machine
out of a DeLorean the sequels were
equally successful and splendid but the
actor is more than a 1 mega trick pony
well how do I look middle-aged after his
big break came on the small screen as
family ties young Republican Alex Pete
Keaton Teen Wolf showed he was the baby
face of the decade
oh and casualties of war proved he was
five-star acting material we connect
from a village
and the other four men
raped her and emerge
before we unveil our pick for decade
defining actor of the 1980s here are a
few honorable mentions why did you kiss
right here why are you holding my hand
or your other hand between two pillows
those aren’t pillows he’s gonna marry
the first girl he lays and she’s gonna
treat him like shit because she will
have given him what he has built up in
his mind as the end-all be-all of human
existence believe this huh it’s about
the size of a cigar do I stutter drugs
thank you no I’m straight I meant are
you in here for drugs I don’t think that
you ever had any intention of telling
him ever you and me two hits me hitting
you you hitting the floor
anytime you’re ready pal number one Tom
Cruise just take those
risky business is thought of as his
breakthrough movie and it ensured that
working with Tom Cruise would be
anything but risky from then on all
right all right
a stellar name in cinema for over three
decades now the impact he had in his
first 10 years was unrivaled with Top
Gun he flew further up the acting ladder
and with born on the fourth of July he
picked up his first major award a Golden
Globe for Best Actor killing our
brothers in the truth tonight setting
the standard for a glittering career
cruise controlled Hollywood in the 80s
and that’s why he’s our top pick go
fight go kill charge you’re damn right
car now let’s go left
oh look come left it’s all idle do you
agree with our list which 1980s actor do
you think is the most iconic for more
classic top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
80s they were extraordinary god damn it
man The Doobie Brothers broke up welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
decade defining actors of the 1980s
well mrs. crane your little monkey woman
you know that you’re the monkey woman
you’re lean and mean and you’re not too
far between either and Ben are you here
for our series on the top ten decade
defining male actors per 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 you know you don’t act like
a scientist they’re usually pretty stiff
you’re more like a game show host number
10
Bill Murray yeah what do you think after
making his mark on Saturday Night Live
in the 70s like his fellow comedy main
stage Chevy Chase Bill Murray’s film
career really took off in the 80s is
this a trick question his portrayal of
cult writer Hunter S Thompson in where
the buffalo roam set his cool classy
tone real heavyweight water buffalo tag
who could uh chew his way through a
concrete wall and spit out the other
side cover with lime and chalk and look
look good in doing it and hearts in
box-office hits like Caddyshack
and Tootsie cemented his reputation I
like it when people come up to me the
next day or a week later and they say
I saw your play what happened what he’ll
really be remembered for though is
ghostbusters
we Came we saw we kicked its ass as dr.
Peter Venkman Murray wise cracked his
way to greatness I’d call that a big yes
he appeared in little else during the
decade but he’d make mark enough to
achieve continued success it’s no big
deal
Oh number nine
Dustin Hoffman Charlie dance do Sally
for six whoa-oh-oh-ah 9 – how did you
know my phone number
how’d you know that should read the
telephone book last night
dibbs Sally 46 101 92 Hoffman first
caught our attention two decades before
this one as a lovestruck youngster in
the graduate will you unzip my dress I
think I’ll go to bed
oh well good night but for him the 80s
proved to be a high point among many
high points in a glittering film career
I’m an excellent driver
that’s good come on come on he led while
Bill Murray supported in Tootsie and he
earned an Oscar nomination for it huh my
name is Dorothy
it’s that Tootsie Oh toots or sweetie oh
honey a down oh Christ
no just Darci now Aaron’s always Alan
tom was always Tom and John’s always
John I have a name – its Dorothy capital
D o ro t hy Dorothy he was also part of
Sidney Lumet’s all-star cast in family
business we are son family his most
notable role however was as Raymond
Babbitt in Raymond factory all the
tables my brother Charlie as Tom
Cruise’s autistic brother he portrayed
the condition with respect loyalty and
sheer brilliance mystifying which has
20,000 160 minutes with 1 million two
hundred nine thousand six hundred six
hundred seconds number eight
Bruce Willis dropping ticket
Alysha former private investigator bruce
willis turned to acting in the 80s and
aren’t we glad of it
she had a good job turned into a great
career after winning an Emmy for his
role in the TV show moonlighting
he broke onto the big screen with some
uncharacteristic roles in blind date and
sunset that’s right I give you a lift
into town on your horse Tony jr. ain’t
got no license plates
we got the ride in the Duesenberg but
then he performed an inspired change of
direction when he played one liner
wielding reluctant hero John McClane
diehard set an all new standard for
action movies and Willis was the modern
archetype of an action hero
yippee-kay-yay yippee-kay-yay mother hi
number seven Michael Douglas Gris for
lack of a better word is good greed is
right greed works action-adventure
romantic comedy Romancing the Stone is
what announced Michael Douglas into the
80’s consciousness opposite Kathleen
Turner he proved himself as leading man
material and provided director Robert
Zemeckis with his first box office
success trustworthy however it was in
1987 that he truly followed his father
Kirk into Hollywood history think he can
handle that fatal attraction was the
second highest grossing film of the year
and for his role as Gordon Gekko in Wall
Street he did what his dad couldn’t do
he won the Academy Award for Best Actor
Jesus Christ II this guy owned a funeral
parlor no one would die this turkey is
totally brain-dead okay alright
Christmas is over and business is
business you keep on buying dilute the
son of a bitch number six Sylvester
Stallone right
don’t look at me look at the road
that’s all accidents at Sly Stallone
introduced himself to the world in the
70s with rocky really don’t matter if I
lose this like really don’t know if this
guy opens my head here and the following
decade he cemented his reputation as the
toughest of a group of tough guys that
included the likes of jean-claude Van
Damme and more in the 80s Stallone’s
role alongside Michael Caine and escape
to victory proved his on-screen presence
if not his soccer ability rocky kept
fighting and a second movie franchise
was born with 1982 s first blood I got
it don’t move
I don’t want you to cut your own throat
he’d taken his persona out of the boxing
ring and into the war zone
the Italian stallion quickly became
Hollywood’s heavy artillery
nothing is over nothing you just don’t
turn it off
it wasn’t my war you asked me I didn’t
ask you and I did what I had to do to
win but somebody wouldn’t let us win
number five Arnold Schwarzenegger come
on kill me I’m here way before he was a
face of American politics Schwarzenegger
was Arnie the heroic body of many an
action movie you know that he first
gained mainstream notice as a silver
screen strongman in Conan the Barbarian
crush’ enemies see them driven before
you
they had a lamentation of the women many
were of the opinion that his acting
ability was not his home as his
abdominal muscles I think this guy’s a
couple cans short of a six-pack your
clothes give him to me now you asshole
but Arnie fended off his critics by
starring in one of the biggest movies of
the decade The Terminator
you asshole he proved far from wooden as
the cyborg assassin
even if his lines did amount to less
than 100 words I’ll be back
number four
Harrison Ford he’s good missing out on
our podium but dominating eighty cinema
Harrison Ford is probably best
remembered for his fantastic franchises
who get all mushy on me so long princess
as han Solo
he first starred in Star Wars in 1977
and followed that up with the Empire
Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in
the 80s
keep your distance though Chewie but
don’t look like you’re trying to keep
your distance
I don’t know fly casual not content with
only one multi movie leading role ford
starred in three blockbusters steven
spielberg pictures as indiana jones that
decade as well
Bettye Mississippi to throw in lead
roles in acclaimed movies like Ridley
Scott’s Blade Runner and you see why
Ford’s at number four wake up time to
die
number three Eddie Murphy come on in
experience on that bullshit
after finding fame as a cast member on
TV Saturday Night Live
ha but we remember me Eddie Murphy’s
transition into film was highly
anticipated and expertly executed I’ll
kind of cop are you
you know when I am I’m your worst
fucking nightmare man
I mean with a badge I mean I got the
mission to kick your ass whenever I feel
like it his first feature-length 48
hours was a hit and when he paired up
with fellow SNL alum dan Aykroyd for
Trading Places his comedic credentials
were mounting up the African education
conference right Simon I was director of
cultural events at the Haile Selassie
Pavillion I remember the pavilion we
have big fun there for him away but when
I get half well acquainted with haha a
role as tough talking joke machine Axel
Foley in Beverly Hills Cop also
propelled him to humorous highs and to
further sequels one of which fell in the
1980s you told me about the Jews I don’t
come in home about that as well number
two Michael J Fox
oh my god he was famous in the 80s but
he was famous for the 50s Michael J Fox
played one of the iconic characters of
the decade when he stepped in to Marty
McFly’s Nikes for Back to the Future are
you telling me you built a time machine
out of a DeLorean the sequels were
equally successful and splendid but the
actor is more than a 1 mega trick pony
well how do I look middle-aged after his
big break came on the small screen as
family ties young Republican Alex Pete
Keaton Teen Wolf showed he was the baby
face of the decade
oh and casualties of war proved he was
five-star acting material we connect
from a village
and the other four men
raped her and emerge
before we unveil our pick for decade
defining actor of the 1980s here are a
few honorable mentions why did you kiss
right here why are you holding my hand
or your other hand between two pillows
those aren’t pillows he’s gonna marry
the first girl he lays and she’s gonna
treat him like shit because she will
have given him what he has built up in
his mind as the end-all be-all of human
existence believe this huh it’s about
the size of a cigar do I stutter drugs
thank you no I’m straight I meant are
you in here for drugs I don’t think that
you ever had any intention of telling
him ever you and me two hits me hitting
you you hitting the floor
anytime you’re ready pal number one Tom
Cruise just take those
risky business is thought of as his
breakthrough movie and it ensured that
working with Tom Cruise would be
anything but risky from then on all
right all right
a stellar name in cinema for over three
decades now the impact he had in his
first 10 years was unrivaled with Top
Gun he flew further up the acting ladder
and with born on the fourth of July he
picked up his first major award a Golden
Globe for Best Actor killing our
brothers in the truth tonight setting
the standard for a glittering career
cruise controlled Hollywood in the 80s
and that’s why he’s our top pick go
fight go kill charge you’re damn right
car now let’s go left
oh look come left it’s all idle do you
agree with our list which 1980s actor do
you think is the most iconic for more
classic top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
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