Film Greatest film presence of all time - give your top 5.

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Gandolfini, albeit in his TV role as Tony Soprano. You can often feel his more in the scenes he's physically absent from.
 

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Louise Brooks.
 

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Alain Delon
Marlon Brando
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Yusaku Matsuda
Rita Hayworth
 

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Henry Fonda
Arnie
Jim Carey
Toshiro Mifune
Harrison Ford

Hon. mentions
Ryan Gosling
Samuel L. Jackson
Meg Ryan
Charles Bronson
Choi Min Sik
Jack Nicholson
Christopher Walken
Bill Murray
Sean Connery
Gary Oldman
Christopher Waltz
 

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For personalities that stood out while others just blurred around them, acting ability not withstanding:
James Dean
Marlon Brando
Bruce Lee
Bogart
Eastwood
 

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I can't do a top 5 so I'll just list some of my picks and others can use them to influence their top 5s.

Al Pacino
Marlon Brando
Anthony Hopkins
Samuel L. Jackson
Will Smith
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jodie Foster
Christopher Waltz
Tom Hanks
Nicola Kidman
Michael Caine
Ryan Gosling
Reese Witherspoon
Ian McKellen
Scarlett Johansson
Jamie Lee Curtis
Patrick Stewart
Alan Rickman
Denzel Washington
 

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Gene Hackman
Jack Nicholson
Marlon Brando
Clint Eastwood
Robert De Niro
 

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Anthony Hopkins
Denzel Washington
Amy Adams
Christopher Walken
Meryl Streep

I once saw Washington eating a bite of food in a movie and I instantly became hungry.
 

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By no means greatest of all time, but I like Ray Liotta too. Always seems to capture my attention.
 

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Christopher Walken- supposedly has so much presence that people tingles when he walks into the room. He owned the screen in The Prophecy.

Daniel Day Lewis as Bill The Butcher in Gangs of New York.
De Niro as Max Cady in Cape Fear
Clint Eastwood as William Munny in Unforgiven
Al Pacino as Antonio Montana in Scar Face
 
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1. Toshiro Mifune
2. Peter Lorre
3. Richard Burton
4. Charlie Chaplin
5. Orson Wells

1. Greta Garbo
2. Liz Taylor
3. Lauren Bacall
4. Clara Bow
5. Marilyn Monroe
 

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I recently watched Outlaw King and everytime Aaron Taylor Johnson is on screen your eyes are just drawn to him.

I honestly can’t say there is an actor or actress where every film they do they give out a constant aura or persona. There are films where people are undeniable and steal everything, Denzel in Training Day, Matthew Mcconaughey in Reign of Fire, Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York, Bale in The Fighter, Portman in Leon and Black Swan. Lawrence and John Hawkes in Winters Bone. Could go on and on naming standout performances where people’s aura and presence over powered everyone else.
 

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Anthony Hopkins
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Tom Cruise
 

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Daniel Day Lewis and another four that I don't care to list.
 
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