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1948-1959












::: Boris Karloff ( The Lark )
::: Michael Redgrave ( Tiger At The Gates )
::: Edward G. Robinson ( Middle Of The Night )


::: Wilfred Hyde-White ( The Reluctant Debutante )
::: Eric Portman ( Separate Table )
::: Ralph Richardson ( The Waltz Of The Toreadors )
::: Cyril Ritchard ( A Visit To A Small Planet )


::: Hugh Griffith ( Look Homeward, Angel )
::: Laurence Olivier ( The Entertainer )
::: Anthony Perkins ( Look Homeward, Angel )
::: Peter Ustinov ( Romanoff And Juliet )
::: Emlyn Williams ( A Boy Growing Up )


::: Alfred Lunt ( The Visit )
::: Christopher Plummer ( J. B. )
::: Cyril Ritchard ( The Pleasure Of His Company )
::: Robert Stephens ( Epitaph For George Dillon )


1960-1969



::: Jason Robards, Jr. , ( Toys In The Attic )
::: Sidney Poitier ( A Raisin In The Sun )
::: George C. Scott ( The Andersonville Trial )


::: Sam Levene ( The Devil's Advocate )
::: Anthony Quinn ( Beckett )


::: John Mills ( Ross )
::: Donald Pleasence ( The Caretaker )


::: Paul Ford ( Never Too Late )
::: Bert Lahr ( The Beauty Part )


::: Albert Finney ( Luther )
::: Jason Robards, Jr. ( After The Fall )


::: Donald Pleasence ( Poor Bitos )
::: Jason Robards ( Hughie )


::: Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford ( Philadelphia, Here I Come! )
::: Nicol Williamson ( Inadmissible Evidence )


::: Donald Madden ( Black Comedy )
::: Donald Moffat ( Right You Are And The Wild Duck )


::: Milo O'Shea ( Staircase )
::: Alan Webb ( I Never Sang For My Father )


::: Alec McGowen ( Hadrian VII )
::: Donald Pleasence ( The Man In The Glass Booth )


1970-1979



::: Frank Grimes ( Borstal Boy )
::: Stacy Keach ( Indians )


::: Alec McGowen ( The Philanthropist )
::: Ralph Richardson ( Home )


::: Donald Pleasence ( Wise Child )
::: Jason Robards ( The Country Girl )


::: Wilfrid Hyde-White ( The Jockey Club Stakes )
::: Paul Sorvino ( That Championship Season )


::: Jason Robards ( A Moon For The Misbegotten )
::: George C. Scott ( Uncle Vanya )
::: Nicol Williamson ( Uncle Vanya )



::: Peter Firth ( Equus )
::: Henry Fonda ( Clarence Darrow )
::: Ben Gazzara ( Hughie And Duet )
::: John Wood ( Sherlock Holmes )


::: George C. Scott ( Death Of A Salesman )
::: Donald Sinden ( Habeas Corpus )


::: Ben Gazzara ( Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? )
::: Ralph Richardson ( No Man's Land )


::: Frank Langella ( Dracula )
::: Jason Robards ( A Touch Of The Poet )


::: Jack Lemmon ( Tribute )
::: Alec McCowen ( St. Mark's Gospel )


1980-1989



::: Gerald Hiken ( Strider )
::: Judd Hirsch ( Talley's Folly )


::: Roy Dotrice ( A Life )
::: Jack Weston ( The Floating Light Bulb )


::: Milo O'Shea ( Mass Appeal )
::: Christopher Plummer ( Othello )


::: Edward Herrmann ( Plenty )
::: Tony Lo Bianco ( A View From The Bridge )


::: Rex Harrison ( Heartbreak House )
::: Ian McKellen ( Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare )


::: Jonathan Hogan ( As Is )
::: John Lithgow ( Requiem For A Heavyweight )


::: Ed Harris ( Precious Sons )
::: Jack Lemmon ( Long Day's Journey Into Night )


::: Richard Kiley ( All My Sons )
::: Alan Rickman ( Les Liaisons Dangereuses )


::: John Lithgow ( M. Butterfly )
::: Robert Prosky ( A Walk In The Woods )


::: Victor Garber ( Lend Me A Tenor )
::: Bill Irwin ( Largely New York )


1990-1999



::: Dustin Hoffman ( The Merchant Of Venice )
::: Tom Hulce ( A Few Good Men )


::: Tom McGowan ( La Bête )
::: Courtney B. Vance ( Six Degrees Of Separation )


::: Alec Baldwin ( A Streetcar Named Desire )
::: Brian Bedford ( Two Shakespearean Actors )


::: Liam Neeson ( Anna Christie )
::: Stephen Rea ( Someone Who'll Watch Over Me )


::: Christopher Plummer ( No Man's Land )
::: Sam Waterston ( Abe Lincoln In Illinois )


::: Roger Rees ( Indiscretions )
::: Joe Sears ( A Tuna Christmas )


::: George C. Scott ( Inherit The Wind )
::: Martin Shaw ( An Ideal Husband )


::: Michael Gambon ( Skylight )
::: Antony Sher ( Stanley )


::: John Leguizamo ( Freak )
::: Alfred Molina ( Art )


::: Corin Redgrave ( Not About Nightingales )
::: Kevin Spacey ( The Iceman Cometh )


2000-2009



::: Philip Seymour Hoffman ( True West )
::: John C. Reilly ( True West )
::: David Suchet ( Amadeus )


::: Conleth Hill ( Stones In His Pockets )
::: Brian Stokes Mitchell ( King Hedley II )
::: Gary Sinise ( One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest )


::: Liam Neeson , The Crucible
::: Alan Rickman , Private Lives
::: Jeffrey Wright , Topdog/Underdog


::: Eddie Izzard , A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
::: Paul Newman , Our Town
::: Stanley Tucci , Frankie And Johnny In The Clair De Lune


::: Kevin Kline , Henry IV
::: Frank Langella , Match
::: Christopher Plummer , King Lear


::: Billy Crudup , The Pillowman
::: James Earl Jones , On Golden Pond
::: Brian F. O'Byrne , Doubt