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Tuesday
01Sep2009

Sean Connery Takes Top Prize in Worst Accent Poll

I have no idea where John Malkovich's Teddy KGB is on the list, but he didn't crack the top ten. Empire conducted a poll of the worst movie accents of all time. The ones that did crack the list are also doozies, though, so don't worry about a big letdown.

Sean Connery has been inducted in the hall of shame for his Oscar-winning...uh..."Irish" accent in The Untouchables. Other icons, like Charlton Heston, Meryl Streep, and Sir Laurence Olivier, also made their marks on voters, as did less-esteemed performers like Heather Graham and Keanu Reeves. But no Teddy KGB, which I just can't wrap my head around.

Anyway, here's the list. See if one of your favorites made the cut:

1 - Sean Connery in The Untouchables
2 - Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
3 - Brad Pitt in Seven Years In Tibet
4 - Charlton Heston in Touch Of Evil
5 - Heather Graham in From Hell
6 - Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula
7 - Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly
8 - Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer
9 - Pete Postlethwaite in The Usual Suspects
10- Meryl Streep in Out Of Africa

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSara

You could give mister Cool Breeze Over the Mountain a double whammy for his work in Dangerous Liasons as well. But that was worth sitting through just for that one shot of Uma...

The one that sticks out to me that should be on the list is Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules. He's just in so many movies, it's difficult to buy into anything different out of his mouth.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMRPigg

Keanu was pretty bad in Dracula, in his case you just sit back and enjoy the Keanu show. Chekov in the new Start Trek was just awful, worst Russian accent i've heard- ruined every scene he was in- he looks like he's 12 years old. I agree with John Malkovic as Teddy, at least he adds some comedic relief to the movie, and Dick Van Dyke wasn't so bad - looking back on Mary Poppins, i don't think he was going for the Oscar, just a loveable bloke. The man is very talented, don't see any others on the list that could sing/dance like Mr. Van Dyke does. So, he gets a pass in my book.
I once had a farm in Africa - horrible movie? Or was it just me?

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Unregistered Commentermaddy

Hmmm.... I would have to debate the Meryl Streep selection. My mother said that her Danish accent in "Out of Africa" was identical to that of her grandmother that came over from the old country.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCJ Smith

Anton Yelchin is the actor who plays Chekov in Star Trek. He's actually Russian-born.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKrystal

YEAH what the hell are some of the posts talking about...

Anton Yelchin is a fucking Russian born jewish actor.... How was his accent bad ???

Also, Meryl Streep's accent was amazing I dunno how the hell it got nominated as one of the Worst Ever but definitly not at all, CJ Smith above is right indeed...

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSEAN

Maybe his accent comes out as something special when he speaks English? When he's speaking Russian it's not even interesting.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTjei

Did everyone forget about John Wayne as Gengis Khan in 1956's The Conqueror. Probably on of his worst movies ever made. His accent was horrible. The exterior scenes were shot on location near St. George, Utah, 137 miles downwind of the United States government's Nevada Test Site, Operation Upshot-Knothole, where extensive above-ground nuclear weapons testing occurred during the 1950s. The cast and crew spent many difficult weeks on the site. In addition, Hughes later shipped 60 tons of dirt back to Hollywood for re-shoots. The cast and crew knew about the nuclear tests—there are pictures of Wayne holding a Geiger counter during production—but the link between exposure to radioactive fallout and cancer was poorly understood then.

Powell died of cancer in January 1963, only a few years after the picture's completion. Hayward, Wayne, and Moorehead all died of cancer in the mid to late 1970s. Cast member actor John Hoyt died of lung cancer in 1991. Pedro Armendáriz was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 1960 and committed suicide after he learned it was terminal. Skeptics point to other factors such as the wide use of tobacco—Wayne and Moorehead in particular were heavy smokers—and the notion that cancer resulting from radiation exposure does not have such a long incubation period. The cast and crew totaled 220. 91 developed some form of cancer by 1981 and 46 had died of it by then.[1] Dr. Robert Pendleton, professor of biology at the University of Utah, stated, "With these numbers, this case could qualify as an epidemic. The connection between fallout radiation and cancer in individual cases has been practically impossible to prove conclusively. But in a group this size you'd expect only 30 some cancers to develop...I think the tie-in to their exposure on the set of The Conqueror would hold up in a court of law

Sunday, September 6, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAndy Vacca

sean is not irish he is scotish and he has a very beautiful voice
and that swet scotish acent. face he is the best actor in the world.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | Unregistered Commentercarla

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