Saturday, March 4, 2017

100 Greatest Movie Characters

100) "George Banks", played by Steve Martin in Father of the Bride I & II (1991 & 1995)

99) "Hildy Johnson", played by Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday (1940)

98) "Gen. Buck Turgidson", played by George C. Scott in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)


97) "Clark W. Griswold", played by Chevy Chase in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)


96) "Diana Christensen", played by Faye Dunaway in Network (1976)

95) "The Addams Family", played by Raul JuliĆ”, Anjelica Huston, etc. in The Addams Family & Addams Family Values (1991 & 1993)

94) "Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes", played by Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd (1957)

93) "Annie Wilkes", played by Kathy Bates in Misery (1990)

92) "Cody Jarrett", played by James Cagney in White Heat (1949)

91) "Max Fischer", played by Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore (1998)

90) "Maria", played by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (1965)

89) "Patrick Bateman", played by Christian Bale in American Psycho (2000)

88) "Frances", played by Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha (2013)

87) "Captain Ron", played by Kurt Russell in Captain Ron (1992)

86) "Captain Jack Sparrow", played by Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean Series (2003-2017)

85) "Willy Wonka", played by Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

84) "Suzanne Stone Moretto", played by Nicole Kidman in To Die For (1995)

83) "Jeff Spicoli", played by Sean Penn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

82) "Buddy the Elf", played by Will Ferrell in Elf (2003)

81) "Cher Horowitz", played by Alicia Silverstone in Clueless (1995)

80) "Guido Anselmi", played by Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2 (1963)

79) "Alex DeLarge", played by Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1971)

78) "Fran Kubelik", played by Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment (1960)

77) "Pat Healy", played by Matt Dillon in There's Something About Mary (1998)

76) "Sonny Wortzik", played by Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

75) "Amanda & Adam Bonner", played by Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy in Adam's Rib (1949)

74) "Marge Gunderson", played by Frances McDormand in Fargo (1996)

73) "Joe Gideon", played by Roy Scheider in All That Jazz (1979)

72) "Harry Lime", played by Orson Welles in The Third Man (1949)

71) "Tracy Flick", played by Reese Witherspoon in Election (1999)

70) "Caden Cotard", played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche, New York (2008)

69) "Phyllis Dietrichson", played by Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944)

68) "Annie Hall & Alvy Singer", played by Diane Keaton & Woody Allen in Annie Hall (1977)

67) "Lloyd Christmas & Harry Dunne", played by Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels in Dumb & Dumber (1994)

66) "Tony Manero", played by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977)

65) "Marty McFly & Emmett 'Doc' Brown", played by Michael J. Fox & Christopher Lloyd in the Back to the Future Trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990)

64) "Tom Joad", played by Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

63) "Borat", played by Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

62) "Captain Louis Renault", played by Claude Rains in Casablanca (1942)

61) "Sugar Kane Kowalczyk", played by Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot (1959)

60) "Michel Poiccard", played by Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless (1960)

59) "Norma Desmond", played by Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

58) "John 'Bluto' Blutarsky", played by John Belushi in Animal House (1978)

57) "Belle", voiced by Paige O'Hara in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

56) "John McClane", played by Bruce Willis in Die Hard (1988)

55) "Crash, Annie, and 'Nuke'", played by Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins in Bull Durham (1988)

54) "Sarah Connor", played by Linda Hamilton in The Terminator & Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1984 & 1991)

53) "Mia Wallace", played by Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction (1994)

52) "E.T.", voiced by Pat Welsh in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

51) "Jean Louis 'Scout' Finch", played by Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

50) "Pinocchio", voiced by Dickie Jones in Pinocchio (1940)

49) "Nurse Ratched", played by Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

48) "Genie", voiced by Robin Williams in Aladdin (1992)

47) "Martha", played by Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

46) "Rod Tidwell", played by Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire (1996)

45) "The Cleveland Indians", played by Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, etc. in Major League I & II (1989 & 1994)

44) "Ellen Ripley", played by Sigourney Weaver in Alien & Aliens (1979 & 1986)

43) "Jules Winnfield", played by Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (1994)

42) "'Cool Hand' Lucas Jackson", played by Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

41) "Phil Connors", played by Bill Murray in Groundhog Day (1993)

40) "Nurse Alma", played by Bibi Andersson in Persona (1966)

39) "Norman Bates", played by Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)

38) "Remy", voiced by Patton Oswalt in Ratatouille (2007)

37) "Jerry/Daphne", played by Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot (1959)

36) "Mrs. Robinson", played by Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (1967)

35) "Armand & Albert Goldman", played by Robin Williams & Nathan Lane in The Birdcage (1996)

34) "Princess Leia Organa", played by Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars Series (1977, 1980, 1983, 2015)

33) "Ron Burgundy", played by Will Ferrell in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

32) "Holly Golightly", played by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

31) "Projectionist/Sherlock Jr.", played by Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. (1924)

30) "James Bond", played by Sean Connery and many others in the James Bond Series (1962-2015)

29) "The Joker", played by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008)

28) "Rob Gordon", played by John Cusack in High Fidelity (2000)

27) "Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski", played by Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski (1998)

26) "Benjamin Braddock", played by Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)

25) "Jesse & Celine", played by Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy in the Before Trilogy (1995, 2004, 2013)

24) "HAL 9000", voiced by Douglas Rain in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

23) "Daniel Plainview", played by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will be Blood (2007)

22) "Atticus Finch", played by Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

21) "Darth Vader", played by David Prowse & voiced by James Earl Jones in the Star Wars Trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983)

20) "Indiana Jones", played by Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones Series (1981-2008)

19) "Hannibal Lecter", played by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

18) "Woody & Buzz Lightyear", voiced by Tom Hanks & Tim Allen in the Toy Story Trilogy (1995, 1999, 2010)

17) "Ferris Bueller", played by Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

16) "Truman Burbank", played by Jim Carrey in The Truman Show (1998)

15) "Harry Burns & Sally Albright", played by Billy Cristal & Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

14) "Rick Blaine", played by Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)

13) "Margo Channing", played by Bette Davis in All About Eve (1950)

12) "Don Vito Corleone", played by Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972) & by Robert DeNiro in The Godfather: Part II (1974)

11) "Travis Bickle", played by Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver (1976)

10) "Han Solo", played by Harrison Ford in the Star Wars Series (1977, 1980, 1983, 2015)

9) "Jerry Maguire", played by Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire (1996)

8) "Tracy Lord", played by Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

7) "Randle Patrick McMurphy", played by Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

6) "Scarlett O'Hara", played by Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind (1939)

5) "Joel Barish & Clementine Kruczynski", played by Jim Carrey & Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

4) "Charles Foster Kane", played by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941)

3) "George Bailey", played by James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

2) "Michael Corleone", played by Al Pacino in the Godfather Trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990)

1) "the Little Tramp", played by Charlie Chaplin in many films from Kid Auto Races at Venice(1914) to Modern Times(1936)