Favourite Actors.

I am not a great fan of today's television, in fact our TV is tuned mainly to BBC4 or ITV3. However, I do love films and have a huge collection of DVDs. I like to collect films that often chart the progress of an actors career, from early stuff right through to stardom and then the gentle decline. Some are quite obscure, for example Colin Firth did a lot of American based stuff in his early days. Anyone else into films and very old films?