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| We've taken your Best British Actor nominations, and mixed in a few of our own, to come up with this definitive list of 50 for you to vote on. So, who is the biggest male screen star we've ever produced?
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50 - Ronald Colman
Before David Niven and Cary Grant there was Ronald Colman, the personification of the urbane English gent in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s. Most famous for his Academy Award-winning perfomance in 1947's A Double Life, in which he played an actor who becomes so swept up in his roles that he commits murder.
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49 - Stewart Granger
Granger became one of the UK's leading men in the 1940s, eventually signing a contract with MGM at the end of the decade. Whilst he never hit the giddy heights of fellow Brit in Hollywood Cary Grant, his period of popularity as a virile leading man in films like Beau Brummell (1954) was no mean achievement.
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48 - Ralph Richardson
Less recognised than his contemporaries, Olivier and John Mills, Richardson is nonetheless regarded as their equal in talent. Famed for his roles in Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol, and Lean's The Sound Barrier and Doctor Zhivago.
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47 - Trevor Howard
Considered the archetypal 'stiff upper lipped' Brit (an image reinforced by roles like Lord Cardigan in Charge Of The Light Brigade), Howard came to stardom - and now immortality - as the unrequited lover of Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter.
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46 - Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison cornered the market in suave Englishmen, his ability to deploy a sense of sly knowingness to roles making him a hit in films including The King Of Siam and My Fair Lady.
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