He received success as an actor that is fact,if not he would not have been paid so much to act and millions of people would not have gone to see his movies,unless you judge success as having won an oscar then that would put him in the company of the likes of Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas to name a few unless you think they are not good actors also.
Easy on there Bridget Jones - me thinks you have a small crush for the bumbling idiot englishman - would I be right now