Which actor is LEAST deserving of being a SIR?

Paul McCartney.

Sir Bob Geldof is a joke because he's an Irish citizen.

Branagh is such a dim talent, for all his acclaim (and odd staying power). Enormously overrated as an actor and especially as a filmmaker.

I know a lot of you are sentimental towards MONTY PYTHON, but Michael Palin doesn't even possess staying power. He's not even the best and brightest of the Python gang.

All of them. It’s all BS.

R3 palin was the one to move on to a different career. The others coasted on monty. Still it’s all bs

I have occasionally found Mark Rylance annoying as an actor, but I don't question his talent, particularly onstage.

Mark Rylance got a non-simulated blowjob in a movie. That doesn’t seem very Knightly

So far Derek Jacobi and Anthony Hopkins have zero votes. They are the two best actors out of the group.

Michael Gambon always seemed down to Earth and more "blue collar" than his contemporaries.

“Knighthood”, OP.

[quote]Branagh is such a dim talent, for all his acclaim (and odd staying power). Enormously overrated as an actor and especially as a filmmaker.

Branagh has never been considered a GREAT actor or a movie star, the way Daniel Day Lewis is, but he is recognised as a great filmmaker - without his adaptations of Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing there wouldn't have been Richard III or Romeo & Juliet or 10 Things I Hate About You, he did a great job with Thor and Cinderella. The snobbery directed at him was quite blatant a working class boy FROM BELFAST of all places having the nerve to be ambitious and direct Shakespeare and set up his own production company by the age of 30! Hamlet is a masterpiece. I was so lucky to get to see it in the cinema.

Branagh has always had a campy way of delivering his lines.

Kenneth Branagh will always be an arrogant hack to me because of how badly he messed up Orient Express with shitty action sequences, CGI and self-serving character rewrites (Periot is NOT supposed to be an athletic manly man). Take the fucking title away.

All of 'em, it's just a bunch of phony, elitist bullshit. Give me a break. Let me knight my plumber, thanks for fixing the toilet.

They're all deserving, in my opinion

Branagh for how he wrecked Murder on the Orient Express.

Gambon for not reading Harry Potter and ruining Dumbledore (although I like him in other roles. Poor man has dementia now I think).

I actually had no idea DDL and Rylance have the "Sir" title. I don't think I've ever heard either of them called that before, though would definitely say they're both deserving.

And OP, I'm sure Ben Kingsley would thank you for not including him in your poll.

[quote] So far Derek Jacobi and Anthony Hopkins have zero votes.

Maybe it was misread as Lou… in which case… spot on!

I don't know that Branagh is a "great" filmmaker. Certainly HENRY V, most of HAMLET, and much of MUCH ADO are wonderful, but he has a tendency towards heavy-handedness. And the other two Shakespeare film of his I saw (LOVE'S LABOURS LOST and AS YOU LIKE IT) were awful.

His real genius is for self-promotion.

Vivian Vance