Denzel is numero uno
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

I still say that when you size them all up pound-for-pound …in terms of their achievements …no one even comes even remotely close to Sidney Poitier.
He alone is the most significant African-American actor ever to have emerged since World War Two.
Everyone else simply follows in the path he cut. He was the pioneer, he was the trail-blazer. His name towers over every other.
He's the only actor with chops not
'furnished for him'
by the hype machines in LA and New York.
All the agents, all the managers, all the PR lackeys…it's easy to follow in someone's wake when you've never navigated on your own.
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player

Blacktors and Blactress's

Wildman Wizard.
My password is password.

Who replied to me? They're on block.
Donna/LadyGigi Savige needs to sit her ass down!

Welcome to earth!
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Wildmanwizard

Will 'Ears' Smith would be last.
The rest are all the same.
Donna/LadyGigi Savige needs to sit her ass down!

Washington
Elba
Freeman
Jackson
Smith
About 100 other black actors
Foxx

1. Will Smith
2. Jamie Foxx
3. denzel, morgan and idris all play the same character every time
4. sam jackson is a racist cry baby who needs to kill himself
   jestergooning

I vaguely remember this show as a kid. Jeez I never knew they did a bit like this. No wonder it's under the radar. Funny though.
What's a buna?
Slash__undie, shlundie

These 4 bunas

1. Denzel
2. Sam
3. Idris
4. Morgan
5. Jamie
6. Schill
   Slash__undie, shlundie

Is it me, or is Freeman overrated!?
He doesn't have to act, just be himself and deliver lines.
Smith and Alba would be at the bottom.

I like him too
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

Hallo –if your reply is to me –then, I appreciate your input on this.
I acknowledged in my post that there may be a few names I might be overlooking.
In this specific case, no. He's not a name I would include in my personal rankings.
See, I didn't just round up every famous name I could think of, I gathered together only those actors who's work I've admired.
Never seen Cheadle in anything notable, which I recall enjoying. He seems to be just another black celeb from this schlock, modern-day Biedermeier-Period we're trapped in.
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player

Yes, you forgot Don Cheadle.
Donna/LadyGigi Savige needs to sit her ass down!

Advanced degrees from one of the best schools in the country.
What's puzzling you here is that I just don't waste my time with sub-par, garbage-y popculture.
It's a matter of maintaining high standards and refusing to settle for what is bourgeoise.
I only give my attention to what is proven to be excellent. Nothing but the best.
Whereas you and your pals will watch any movie that is generating 'buzz'. You are pawns of the media, led around by the nose by advertisers and spin-doctors.
Manipulated by the money-men and the hype-mongers.
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player

You must be spectacularly ignorant.
Or maybe just racist.
My password is password.

"some of the biggest actors in the last …"
That makes them just "celebs", not actors of any true, proven, established talent.
We're drowning in phony, faux, fraudulent celebs. We're in the world predicted by Andy Warhol.
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player

How is only one of them familiar to you? They are some of the biggest actors in the last 40 years!

Only one looks slightly familiar. But, nevermind.
In my book: it is
Sidney Poitier
all the way. Finest African-American actor ever.
Then, some of my other faves are:
~ Duane Jones
('The Night of the Living Dead')
~ James Edwards
('The Killing', 'The Manchurian Candidate')
~ Dooley Wilson
'Casablanca'
~ Louis Gossett Jr.
~ Yaphet Kotto
~ Harry Belafonte
~ Paul Robeson Jr.
~ Cleavon Little
~ Richard Pryor
~ Jim Brown
('The Dirty Dozen')
~ Woody Strode
~ Leigh Whipper
('The Ox-Box Incident')
~ Nat King Cole
~ Cab Calloway
~ Hari Rhodes
('Shock Corridor')
~ Earl Cameron
('Guns at Batasi')
~ Breno Mello
('Black Orpheus')
~ Sammy Davis Jr.
~ Bill Bojangles
~ Ossie Davis
~ Moses Gunn
Special love for:
~ The Nicholas Brothers
(arguably the best dancing team in history)
hon. mention to some of these others …
~ Scatman Crothers
~ James Earl Jones
~ Billy Dee Williams
~ Ivan Dixon
~ Bill Cosby
~ John Amos
~ Geoffrey Holder
~ Paul Winfield
~ James McEachin
~ Glen Turman
~ Percy Rodriguez
Probably forgettin' a few – especially without even mentioning actresses, and without going back even further to the '20s & '30s …
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player

1. Denzel
2. Sam
3. Idris
4. Will
5. Jamie
6. Morgan
   Put a muzzle on Tits Malone, PI

Too many to consider. Can I get back to you in June
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