New York Magazine asks, "Was Fredo the greatest actor of his generation?"

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I don't know about that, but I do know that if you take every significant actor and figure the average IMDb score of the feature films they were in, ol' Fredo would be #1 by a mile, much higher even than Ed Norton or Ken Brannagh. Based on those scores, his WORST movie was The Conversation, an Oscar best picture nominee which is rated in the all-time top 250.

He made his first film at 37, his last at 42, after which he died of bone cancer. He was engaged to Meryl Streep at the time. Hard to believe he has now been dead more than 30 years. Tempus fugit.