This week The Best Actors tells you about Jose Ferrer, who won an Oscar for his fabulous performance in the classic romance, CYRANO DE BERGERAC. Ferrer's spanned over fifty years and included award-winning turns in film and on the stage. He dir...

This week, I highlight the terrific Oscar-winning performance by Broderick Crawford as politician Willy Stark in ALL THE KING'S MEN. Prior to his Academy Award, Crawford mostly acted in "B" pictures, and afterwards, he mostly took on supporting...

Laurence Olivier is widely considered to be one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, and sometimes THE greatest. In this episode of The Best Actors, I'll examine Olivier's considerable Oscar legacy (10 nominations), his life and lov...

Ronald Colman—a handsome actor with a warm, cultivated voice—was rewarded with an Oscar for his multi-faceted performance in A DOUBLE LIFE. In this episode, I explore Colman's biography and filmography, and I discuss the movie that won him Holl...

Fredric March won his second Oscar for one of the all-time classics, William Wyler's THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, a moving drama about returning World War II veterans. In this episode, I talk about March's career since his first Oscar win in 19...