Awnold of course. He has the most charisma in cinema history imo too. He makes you cheer for him. Even despite his bad acting.

After him it's Willis, Gibson, Stallone, The Rock...etc.

The closest guy we have to Arnold today is Dwayne Johnson. As far as on screen charisma it's 1) Arnold 2) Johnson 3) Stallone 4) Everybody else. Johnson is a throwback. You want him to win. Even when he is the bad guy. He is just compelling on screen, the same way Arnold was.

What is strange is how on screen charisma seems to stem from their strength. When Johnson lost all that weight. His movies started to suck, badly. Then he got huge again. and all of a sudden he is one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. Arnold's charisma started to wain as he got older and lost the physical presence he had always carried with him. Stallone has been able to keep it, mostly thanks to HGH.

Edit: Best action actor that no one ever notices is Karl Urban. He just hasn't had a ton of attention. I have no idea why either, dude is always good in an action flick.

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Posted by theGarnetWay

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Posted on 8/29/15 at 9:12 pm to VaBamaMan

Grew up a huge Rock fans (when he was wrestling).

Initially hated him doing movies because it took him away from wrestling. And when he did leave it was for B- movies, not bad.. but small movies, or kid's movies, it was even worse. Then when they started billing him as the Rock to Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson to just Dwayne Johnson!?

With that said, I'm glad to see him doing so damn well and get so damn popular. Had a friend's gf say she didn't even know he was a wrestler. Guess we've gotten to that point.

One of my favorite roles of his is actually Pain & Gain, surprised he could play the over-emotional role so well.