Fantastic Moustaches
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Fantastic Moustaches

Big ones, little ones, skinny ones, bushy ones... yes, we're talking about moustaches. Some men can wear them, some look like fools. Which of these actors is your favorite when he's sporting 'stache?

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1 Robert Redford
Not everyone can work the Marlboro Man look, but Redford pulls it off in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). 124 292
2 Burt Reynolds
Reynolds epitomized the hairy, macho man of the 1970s, and was still sporting hfine facial hair in 1980's Cannonball Run. 88 268
3 Clark Gable
Slim, dashing and with a hint of danger -- that describes both Gable and his facial hair in Gone with the Wind (1939). 88 256
4 Charles Chaplin
On Chaplin, the small, squared-off moustache is funny. On Hitler, not so much. Unless Chaplin's playing him in The Great Dictator (1940). 63 263
5 Chuck Norris
Norris' manly 'stache-and-beard combo in 1985's Code of Silence could scare the bad guys to death. 54 242
6 Groucho Marx
Did anyone every get such mileage from flamboyantly fake facial hair as Groucho Marx in Duck Soup (1933)? 51 247
7 Charles Bronson
Bronson opted for the mean slash 'stache when he first played the lead vigilante in the Death Wish franchise. 41 221
8 Billy Dee Williams
The brother from another planet rocked a neatly bushy upper-lip look as Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back (1981). 28 198
9 Daniel Day-Lewis
It takes a tough man to overpower a giant moustache like the one Day-Lewis sports in There Will Be Blood (2007), but he did it. 23 225
10 Wilford Brimley
A hand, please, for Brimley: The gigantic walrus moustache he wore in The Firm (1993) would have broken a lesser man's neck. 21 185
11 Richard Pryor
Say it loud: Comic genius Richard Pryor's Live on the Sunset Strip (1982) moustache is black and it's proud! -2 190
12 Cary Elwes
Is that a tiny caterpillar on Elwes lip in The Princess Bride (1987)? It's a good thing he's so good looking. -24 200
13 Will Ferrell
Ferrell wears his full '70s moustache as though he means it in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004). -50 216
14 Harry Shearer
Shearer's handlebar moustache says "rock god" (or is that "barbershop quartet") in This is Spinal Tap (1984). -52 162
15 Sacha Baron Cohen
Want your moustache to say "I'm an ignorant, clueless, backwoods hick?" Try Sacha Baron Cohen's brushy Borat (2005) moustache. -76 214