Poll: Real Life 'Kings' on Celluloid

A poll by Dibyayan_Chakravorty

Results of 393 votes:

  1. 133

    Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010)

  2. 35

    Peter O'Toole in The Lion in Winter (1968)

  3. 25

    Yul Brynner in The Ten Commandments (1956)

  4. 20

    Kenneth Branagh and Michael Williams in Henry V (1989)

  5. 16

    Shah Rukh Khan in Asoka (2001)

  6. 16

    Alec Guinness in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

  7. 13

    Leonardo DiCaprio in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)

  8. 12

    Hrithik Roshan in Jodhaa Akbar (2008)

  9. 12

    Yul Brynner "The King and I" 1956 20th Century Fox

  10. 11

    Nigel Hawthorne in The Madness of King George (1994)

  11. 10

    Colin Farrell in Alexander (2004)

  12. 9

    Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)

  13. 8

    Richard Vuu in The Last Emperor (1987)

  14. 8

    Peter Ustinov and Patricia Laffan in Quo Vadis (1951)

  15. 8

    Tadanobu Asano in Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)

  16. 8

    #29

  17. 6

    Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm in Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin (1956)

  18. 6

    Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

  19. 6

    Laurence Olivier in Richard III (1955)

  20. 5

    Robert Shaw in A Man for All Seasons (1966)

  21. 5

    Richard Burton in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

  22. 5

    Laurence Olivier in Henry V (1944)

  23. 4

    Michael Jayston in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

  24. 4

    Mikkel Boe Følsgaard in A Royal Affair (2012)

  25. 3

    Helmut Berger in Ludwig (1973)

  26. 2

    Ray Winstone in Henry VIII (2003)

  27. 1

    Mughal-E-Azam (1960)

  28. 1

    James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough in W.E. (2011)

  29. 1

    James Fox in A Long Way from Home (2013)

  30. 0

    Rex Harrison in Anna and the King of Siam (1946)

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