American Reacts to Top 10 British Actors
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As Americans we are very guilty of not knowing when a famous actor is British, and also not knowing great British actors in general that might not be that big over here. Today I want to check out this video by watchmojoUK.com about the Top 10 UK Actors Of All Time. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I cannot believe anyone in the Western world does not know Cary Grant. 😮 (and I am not British or American)
After hearing that I've had enough! The man's a bonehead.
You've got to excuse Tyler, he's a dumb American . 😂
Yes! I were gob smacked (as they say in the UK) when he (a American) did not know of Cary Garant - Truly staggering!
I bet he has never heard of North by North West.
@@captainadams8565 Plenty of people these days don't know Cary Grant, I asked our apprentice lads, 3 of them ( in the UK). 2 had never heard of him and one thought he was an old singer.. Who we later nailed down to Dean Martin.
You're allowed to know about things "before your time" it's called History 🙄🎩
How could someone claiming to love movies not know of Cary Grant? His prime was long before I was born, but he's 1 of my all-time favourite actors....and I'm Canadian.
Tyler needs to tell us his top ten movies.
As an 81 y/o Montrealer, Tyler is typical of no American I've ever met in my extensive travel in the USA.
Archibald leach from Bristol
Never heard of Cary Grant - how sad.. regardless of origin 'Archibald Leach' was one of the most famous actors who ever lived. 🍁It's not about being American.. it's about being young and it's sad (pathetic) that all he knows are Harry Potter films. I'm not sure what has happened to people because like you, I know films/actors from 40 years before my time.. this doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I don't know your age but I wonder if it's because, as children, I/we saw old films on TV when there were fewer options and with internet kids aren't exposed to classics unless they choose to seek them out - which they don't.
@@odinskeeperscosplay8239 Bringing up Baby and Arsenic and old Lace are amazing... Loved them as a kid and when they come on today...
Tyler is guilty of not knowing anything.
Yet you still watch , that says something, boohoo won't he talk to you...
And you are guilty of posting specious twaddle.
@@keefsmiff What a weird reply. He didn't, at any point, suggest he didn't enjoy his content
Just another willfully ignorant American with zero social awareness of anything.
And yet, still proud of himself.💁♀️
"I'm really into movies" "I've never heard of Cary Grant"
"Alan Rickman must have a great deal more to his career than I know about" You don't say......
All of these are very well known in America- and in many cases are best known in the UK for their US work.
Alan Rickman was the quintessential Sheriff of Nottingham.
And Hans Gruber has in Die Hard! What about t Truly, Madly, Deeper.
If Tyler is an average American, then America is seriously fucked
Were you there for the video when he asked if James Bond was British?
Sadly I was. As someone else said his references in relation to films are Marvel, Batman and Harry Potter. How can you not of heard of Cary Grant and Laurence Olivier.
@@stephenrichards2063but I’m Canadian and own the Uk
40% of Americans think that humans coexisted with dinosaurs, I think that tells you everything you need to know, lol, and that’s just one example
I burst out laughing when I read that, but it's true.
You have never seen Lawrence of Arabia, to name just one role? How long have you been conscious and with an access to electricity?
Give him a break, he is young, and 'Laurence of Arabia' was released in 1962, that's 7 years before I was born! Tyler clearly hasn't a long range of films that he watches, but so what, not everyone is a film buff.
You do know film still exists beyond your birth, one of my favourite films is from 1936. Many great films were post WWII and believe it or not new is not automatically better. These days it's barely adequate.
Tyler is American, so consciousness to him is not the same as it is to a European. The null signal going through his mind is considered normal and healthy in the US.
it’s worse he said he’s never even heard of arabia the other day let alone lawrence
You need to watch films older than yourself Tyler
Tyler’s real surname is Fritzel and so should be forgiven he spent many years in a dark cellar
This guy must have lived in a cupboard growing up
But not under the stairs.
And not even the cubboard under the stairs!
@andrewobrien6671 he grew up in a cold, damp basement and once a day he was thrown a brown bag with a stale peanut butter sandwich.
As an Australian, I have heard of all of them
Yep. As another Australian so have I.
Have you heard of director Alfred Hitchcock? Cary Grant was one of his big stars!
Lincoln was one of the founding fathers, Lincoln was born in 1809.god help me how dumb can you be.
Hey don't be hard on Tyler he went through the American education system, where it is very unamerican to teach any real history, politics, science, or truth, let alone question thought or beliefs, politics, or history.
Poor Tyler grew up in the US education sausage machine designed to feed young impressionable minds with Sugar and Cinnamon coated propaganda, sprinkling in 1% truth and 99% BS. Like a Willy Wonka chocolate factory its a facade and fantasy where the American mind is being fed sprinkles from behind the curtain by cartoon characters.
This guy has confirmed how little he knows of movies, unless it's a "modern" block buster!
@@davidclarke7122 That's alright though. I don't know anything about modern block busters.
Tyler: "I love movies", but have never heard of Cary Grant. What next? "I love England", but doesn't know it's on an island? "I love music", but never heard of Mozart? "I love fine art", but didn't know van Gough was Dutch? 😅
I do understand what you are saying but he is a young bloke and just doesn't understand. I grew up watching 'Gone with the wind'. I understand that someone 10 years younger didn't. It is relevant to him. Gary Oldman.. I just loved him in Leon, same as Natalie Portman but young people don't. Do I agree, no, but I don't have to dish a younger person for thinking differently. We will be class as oldies soon enough.
Van Gogh
Tyler is incredibly ignorant by knowing nothing of Charlie Chaplin's life.
Chaplin had a greater claim to be Swiss than American.
Çary Grant was universal , I can't believe you've never heard of him . Liam Neeson is Irish by the way . 🇬🇧
noliam neelson is not irish hes is from ulster :P
@@malcomflibbleghast8140 your splitting hairs mate , N I then
@@johnnybeer3770 take a walk down Shankill Road, and let the locals know they are irish.....
Still haven’t forgiven you for asking if James Bond was British, in a previous video
Truly - I've met villagers in Papua New Guinea who know who Cary Grant was! (And Errol Flynn. Because he lived there and worked a copper mill just outside Port Moresby. Moresby's main pub's outdoor verandah was re-named The Snake Pit because of Flynn coming into Town every weekend and going "Troppo".)
Lincoln is a founding father, omg Tyler you really do say some dumb things...
You claim to like watching films but I get the impression that your level of entertainment is The Return of the Killer Tomatoes! Thank goodness you do, at least, know of Day-Lewis.
I think Tyler has spent his time watching adolescent films - he needs to broaden his horizons a lot!
Wow. All his reference points are marvel movies, batman or (at best) harry potter... A true film savage. Cinema is an art form, no less than books and the only things he has seen are the equivalent of Dan Brown books. I feel like we should put together a watch list for him to help with his education.
Great idea
Does Tyler seriously believe all Americans are as ignorant as him?
Fact was most of these people was on us talk shows in the 70s. Dick Cavet would have them all on, same with Johnny Carson.
He's one of the brighter ones 🙄
@@JenniferRussell-qw2co ???
Charlie Chaplin also had a good American accent, especially in his silent movies.
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Nice one!! 🤪🤪🤪
@@Sams_EnglishCountyTravels 😂😂
My Great Grandma’s cousins were called Lorna and Toots Pounds and they were in several of Charlie Chaplins films. Lorna and Toots were originally from Australia, but moved to England when they were little. They were famous world wide for acting, singing and being impressionists.
It's embarrassing that you didn't know Cary Grant. Alec Guinness should not have been an honourable mention. He was a premier actor for example - he played a young middle class man in Great Expectations and then straight after an old evil Jewish criminal in Oliver Twist. His career took in every kind of role; he was a real actor in other words he became a different personality for each role. His least taxing role was in Star Wars - he must have needed the money. :)This list didn't even feature John Mills another premier actor half these guys are recent - this list seems based on the compiler's own life memory rather than actors who really made an impact.
I've never understood people whose lame excuse for not knowing something is because "it's before my time". I wasn't around in 1066 but I still bloody well know what happened.
Likewise, I wasn't born when Charlie Chaplin made films but I'm well aware of him and his work.
"Before my time" just doesn't cut it as an excuse.
even if Cary Grant was way before my time i know him, ofc how can you not , if ur interested in film that is.
Now im one of the last GenX (born july 1980) and both music, books and movies iv also look to the past, but my younger brother was for time "if it not made today, I dont care". which is kinda funny as today he is a sad hipster looking for obscure old jazz records (wher I got cheap music when records where uncool)
But yes its weird that some dont wanne try movies or music older than them
He's a facts for you did you know in the Harry potter films there were all British actors because JK Rowling wanted it that way
I've watched a few of Tyler's videos and often there's a reference he doesn't understand but he is able to work it out from the context.
He's smart but has surprising gaps in his knowledge lol.
My jaw dropped when he'd never heard of Cary Grant.
@@jimus55 But he doesn't fill those gaps by listening to the information in videos he reacts to or by reading the repeated (multiple) information provided in the comments because he doesn't read them - despite asking people to comment (so basically just looking to improve his stats for YT). He has been doing this for years and has only just recently cottoned on how to pronounce the river Thames, and still hasn't worked out kettles and puddings.
This guy doesn't know a thing. Like painfully so, he tries to speak for Americans but I think he knows alot less than the average yank.
@magik410 Or he's extracting the Michael (or taking the piss?). NOBODY has not heard of Cary Grant, Laurence Olivier, Charlie Chaplin . . . where do I stop. Tyler cannot be this limited. I often suspect that he's enjoying stirring the "Stupid Yank" stereotype pot.
Plenty of folk haven't heard of Cary Grant.. Even in the UK. I just asked our apprentices at work.. One ( who had thought he had heard of him) thought he was an old singer. @@aidencox790
Think Tyler must be a genius method actor, he really can't be that much of a moron. He's watching a list of best British actors and then goes he's British? every time. Claims to be a movie fan but then goes on to show how terrible his movie taste is by only getting excited by people who he recognised from Harry Potter.
Tyler needs to see more movies and theatre...
But he's "really into movies" though
Allegedly!
Cary Grant was huge in movies.
You have to remember it not about him learning something, its so he can
Say like all the talk Loud and do the silly laugh.
Its remarkable that Tyler can remember his own name because he can't remember much else.
Tyler has the courage of a lion. He doesn't mind admitting when he doesn't know something. I hope people will be kind.
Stan Laurel wasn't mentioned he is British and buried in the US, there is a clue that a person is British by the sir .
How did Watch Mojo not mention Sean Connery as James Bond, and Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard & Professor X 🤦🏾♂️
If you love films then how can people not know Cary grant?
Lord Olivier did a lot of films as well as stage plays.
How can anyone make a list of best British actors of all time and not even mention Peter Sellers. Could easily take a couple of those actors off the top ten list and replace them with any of the following: Charles Laughton, Richard Burton, Boris Karloff, Claude Rains, Sean Connery, James Mason, Stan Laurel, George Sanders, Herbert Lom (Czech-British), Basil Rathbone, Robert Newton, Rex Harrison, Jack Hawkins, John Mills, John Hurt, Alistair Sim, Peter Cushing, David Niven or several others. Not saying he's not good but I also wouldn't put Daniel Day Lewis at no.1
They may have been taken objective measures like number of oscars or nominations combined with film earnings (inflation adjusted) rather than a subjective view. Dunno though as they dont explain where the list comes from.
Also Christopher Lee.
Add Trevor Howard, Robert Shaw, Kenneth More...
Birdie num num🍁
Neither would i
Laurence Oliver considered by many to be the best actor ever .
Which is why he became a Lord
Too ‘stagey’
OMG Carrie Grant made so many great movies
I’m Canadian
Oh come one! Cary Grant is ultra famous! How can you not know who Cary Grant is? He was before most of everyone's time... we still watched him on TV in reruns of movies.
Dick Van Dyke is a prime example of an American who can't do the British accent. Take his role in Mary Poppins for example.
SIR Anthony Hopkins. SIR Daniel Day-Lewis. The "Sir" didn't tip you off?
@@nolasyeila6261 yeah they rarely call them that though, especially if you don't know about the title. We always say "Wasn't Anthony Hopkins in..." Nobody but nobody has ever talked about Sir Anthony Hopkins to me.
This guy is not a movie fan. He is not aware actors are famous for their Stage performances on Broadway. He has never heard of Cary Grant, has never watched "Die Hard" or silent movies. He has never watched Lawrence of Arabia. He has never seen Wuthering Heights, The Boys from Brazil, the original Italian Job or Get Carter. Tyler is most definitely not a movie buff.
Michael Caine in Zulu and the Italian Job must watch
Mind you, NOT the remake Italian Job.
Stop throwing those bloody spears
The best film he ever did was 'Get Carter,' one of the greatest British gangster films ever.
The Man Who Would Be King was outstanding too.
The Ipress file.
Gary Oldman playing thee role of Winston Churchill in the film 'Darkest Hour' was outstanding. He played the most intense, amazing Dracula I've ever seen in 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' and normally I'm not into horror movies, but what Oldman brought to that role was so much more than thee usual portrayal of the evil Count. You referenced his portrayal of Commissioner Gordon in the Batman movies, add to that the Russian villain in Airforce One and his recent excellent leading role in the Apple TV series 'Slow Horses'
For Charlie Chaplin, watch The great Dictator. It was his first talking role and it's an outstanding film, still works rather well.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieve is my favourite Alan rickman film
I loved him in Sense and Sensibility.😊
when you say American you mean kids cos most Americans know all these actors
Sir Sean Connery should have been on that list
...and one of the greatest actors ever: Richard Burton.
The man that said it was okay to give women a slap now and then to keep them in place, and he still defended what he said until the day he died. No thank you, his knighthood should be posthumously revoked.
@@clairelofty3015 Hahahaha utter bullshite! That interview was edited to make him look bad, he was referring to his ex wife who was a violent drunk who came at him with a knife while he was holding their infant son, and was talking about women who deliberately goaded men to hit them, so that they could get a better divorce payout and ruin their reputation! Also he DID quote in the Times, that there is NEVER an excuse to abuse women, funny how you mentioned him yet not the well documented paedophile Charlie Chaplin.
I love him as Bond but somewhat a one trick pony
What going on everyone? I'm just the typical, average American, here to use, exploit and rip off videos made by other people.
Why does he screw up his face and close one eye when he says that intro? I have to fast forward that bit.
Rene Zellwegger's English accent in the Bridget Jones films was very good but Americans do struggle to get the accent spot on. The worst example is famously Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent (London) in Mary Poppins.
Meryl Streep had an excellent English accent - The French lieutenant's woman"
Lawrence of Arabia (3 hours) is still a must.
A stellar film.
Cary Grant is an all time favourite , in fact they are all great actors in their own right .
About the only award Rickman didn't win for acting was an Oscar.
Tyler didnt you watch old movies when you were a child. I am 72 and watched Cowboy films when i was a child and know the names of many American old actors. Alan Rickman played in Die Hard with Bruce Willis and much more. You should have known Die Hard. Come on Tyler !
the younger generation dont watch tv the same way. they dont watch some old film because nothing else is on. now its all netflix and other apps where you watch what you want when you want. Sadly this leads to having to know a film to search and watch it, so many just miss out on anything that is old.
@@ronuss that is so sad !
For the modern generation, Harry Potter is "Ye Olde Tyme Moving Picture Showe".
Bob Hope was born in London ... as was Jerry Springer!
There is the Bob Hope theatre is in Eltham, in south east London.
Cary Grant was born in Bristol in the west of England and went to the same school as my mum, just a few years earlier……….😊
And he went out with my friend's mum!
Born Archibald Leach...
Bristol accent traveled with the Pilgrim Fathers to America, and influenced the development of the American accent...
I cannot you have never heard of Cary Grant good God
Clearly not a real film buff, you won't see these actors in many popcorn movies. Never heard of Peter o Toole, Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin astonishing....
It would be nice if you reacted to comments from your viewers.
You ARE where you were BORN !! Born in England = English. Born in America = American ( not "African" or " Asian" American....JUST American) !
Born in Scotland = SCOTTISH not ENGLISH !!
NEVER heard of CARY GRANT !!!??? What rock do you live under !?
Liam Neeson is IRISH !!
Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter ! I that all Americans know about Britain !!??
If an actor is speaking English doesn't mean its a british film
I know I'm a Brit - but I was truly APPALLED by your lack of knowledge about these amazing, so-incredibly-famous-that-how-could-you-POSSIBLY-have-never-heard-of-ANY-of-these actors? Are you SURE you're just a typical, average American, Tyler?
I've asked that question before. He appears to be rather ignorant of anything outside of America.
Am a South African, and agree with you.
British actors also act on stage, saw IAN Mc in Perth Australia in "waiting for Godot"
One of his iconic roles
Given that "actresses" are now referred to as actors I am surprised that there are no women actors on this list.
Gary Oldman: delivering fart jokes with style in Slow Horses
Michael Caine in Alfie...one of the best...
Tyler do you talk for all your fellow Americans, I think you'll find they'll know all these people and the movies they've starred in.
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Oh Tyler. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. I'm flabbergasted.
Michael Caine was in Muppets Christmas carol
Lol, love movies but never seen Rear window, the birds or Its a Wonderful Life.
If Jonathan Ross saw this he would punch his tv.
When my daughter was 5 i started showing her Charlie Chaplin, then Harold Lloyd and we worked our way through all the greats.
Everyone’s seen It’s a Wonderful Life.
@@marisaevancoe2157 you would think so, wouldn't you
This is an amazing list of incredibly talented actors. We definitely had more exposure to British films here in South Africa.
Here's a piece of daft trivia: In Some Like It Hot, Tony Curtis did a Cary Grant impersonation when he was pretending to be rich.
A lot of these actors have done stage plays. The royal Shakespeare company has produced some of the best actors .
Tyler saw" Hamlet" listed in top 10 British movies and commented "this must be the British version". 😮
I've seen every Dracula films going and nobody plays Dracula better than Christopher lee
I have to check. Have you seen the Spanish Count Dracula film with Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski and Herbert Lom? :) If not, go and find it it's here on TH-cam. :D
Gary Oldman is the master that Dracula is set by today.
Don't call yourself a movie lover if you don't own films from all periods. My movie collection starts in 1912 with the masterpiece Birth of a Nation, and then all my Kurosawa stuff. So I own about 12 black and white movies. You should own about 1000 DVDs to beat me. I lost 700 movies in a break in but I've built them back up again.
America has made more documentaries about Chaplin than any other country. So no, he's well known, it's just you being dumb. And this goes for Hitchcock as well. Having heard about 5% of films is not impressive at all Tyler, I wouldn't be proud.
Harry Potter didn't make anybody in here... They where all big 10 years before that stuff..
watch Caine in Get Carter, Zulu and the Italian Job. All excellent
A fan of movies ..... and yet.....????? Quite unbelievable....
I am a French woman and I own 51 DVDs starring Cary Grant.
Don’t hesitate any longer, just dive into black and white period, you’ll discover real gems !
He disappears into the role so I don't even know its Gary Oldman - isn't that the very definition of an actor? So many of the actors we see today play themselves as the character rather than portraying the character itself. No names but some actors simply aren't actors, as such, merely themselves in nearly every "role" they "play".
Perhaps that’s why Hugh Grant didn’t make the cut.
Unfair, no names needed.
@@frankbudge2500 I don’t see the big deal. Sorry if I offended you somehow.
Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.... and Mel Gibson in Robin Hood, is like they gave up on the accent half way through the film.
Mel Gibson... well he played Hamlet. Edit: or did you mean Braveheart?
Tyles bubbles are like layers of an onion! "never heard of Lawrence Olivier, Cary Grant or Peter O'Toole LOL! Most of the British actors in the A list are Royal Shakespeare Theatre members. Reference to Liam he Northern Irish, while Scotland is still in Britain. The block busters your quoting shows its time for you to get out of the closet and watch some classic movies. For the Best British Female actresses I would add Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Julie Walters, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, Julie Andrews, and Maggie Smith (Sorry if I have missed your faves!.
Zulu is an amazing movie! It tells the story of the battle of Rorke's Drift near my home town in South Africa. Please watch it if you can.
I am Aussie and love that movie!
I'm only here to see the comments about Tyler not knowing Cary Grant 🙄🙄🙄😆😆
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I first saw Ian McKellen on stage as a (naked) Edgar in King Lear, when I was studying the play at school - this must have been around 1973-4. He had an incredible stage presence and just drew the audience in. Quite remarkable.
Cary Grant was a huge star! You should watch Zulu, it's one of the best films ever made and Michael Caine was brilliant in it. The last of the Mohicans is one of my favourite films with Daniel Day Lewis.
Peter O Toole, though born in England, identified as being Irish. And Day Lewis and Liam Neeson are Irish citizens (and thus not British)
I would have put Sir Alec Guinness a lot higher than an 'honorable mention'!
Tyler starts his TH-cam videos by saying he is “just a typical average American “ unfortunately that is sadly and precisely what he is. To be fair we have lots of very similar people of his age in the UK as well.
Peter O'Tooles performance in the Lion in Winter is an acting master class. Katherine hepburn won an Oscar for the same film but Peter should have got one too. Where the hell was Richard Burton another great Welsh actor or Kenneth Brannagh.
Many of Charlie Chaplin's works were in the silent movie era.
Liam neeson is northern irish
Where have you been all your life.. Chaplin is Geraldine Chaplin father... He was very poor in England, his mother was in a work house and he worked hard to take his mum and sibling to America where he began acting and probably the most famous actor of all time. You need to study more.
some actors just play devious roles so well, Alan Rickman was one of those.
Liam Neeson "I think he's Scottish". Oh dear, Tyler, wrong again.
IRISH, NORTH.
Don't forget the pinnacle of Michael Caine's career...The Muppets Christmas Carol :))
Words fail me. How can you not know these legends?
How do you not know Cary Grant? He was one of Hollywood's greatest stars from the thirties to the sixties! You must immediately go away and watch "Bringing Up Baby". And then "North by Northwest". And then "Charade". And then "To Catch a Thief". And so on and so on.
Gillian Anderson is American but lived in the UK as a child she can do both accents so well