Top 10 Greatest Film Characters
Revolver66
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Just for fun 
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Though I have a sneaking suspicion what most people's number 1 choice will be -{ I think it would be interesting to see what everyone's favourite film characters are.
We can do it including Bond or excluding, I don't mind, but here's mine.
1. James Bond - I feel the need to elaborate no further
2. Michael Corleone - Al Pacino (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II)
3. Hannibal Lector - Anthony Hopkins (The Silence Of The Lambs)
4. Rick Blaine - Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)
5. Norman Bates - Anthony Perkins (Psycho)
6. Vito Corleone - Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II) - I include Robert De Niro's brilliant portrayal of him in Part II in the reasoning of my vote on this. Though admittedly, the character is here because of Brando.
7. Indiana Jones - Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones Trilogy)
8. The Man With No Name - Clint Eastwood (The Dollars Trilogy)
9. Daniel Plainview - Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
10. Travis Bickle - Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver)
Honourable mentions - Darth Vader (Star Wars series), Holly Golighty (Breakfast At Tiffany's), Colonel Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds), Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane), Tony Montana (Scarface), The Joker (The Dark Knight), Anton Chigurgh (No Country For Old Men), The Dude (The Big Lebowski), Jake Gittes (Chinatown), Alexander De Large (A Clockwork Orange), Norma Desmond (Sunset Blvd.), Tuco (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly), Quint (JAWS)
) )Though I have a sneaking suspicion what most people's number 1 choice will be -{ I think it would be interesting to see what everyone's favourite film characters are.
We can do it including Bond or excluding, I don't mind, but here's mine.
1. James Bond - I feel the need to elaborate no further
2. Michael Corleone - Al Pacino (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II)
3. Hannibal Lector - Anthony Hopkins (The Silence Of The Lambs)
4. Rick Blaine - Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)
5. Norman Bates - Anthony Perkins (Psycho)
6. Vito Corleone - Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II) - I include Robert De Niro's brilliant portrayal of him in Part II in the reasoning of my vote on this. Though admittedly, the character is here because of Brando.
7. Indiana Jones - Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones Trilogy)
8. The Man With No Name - Clint Eastwood (The Dollars Trilogy)
9. Daniel Plainview - Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
10. Travis Bickle - Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver)
Honourable mentions - Darth Vader (Star Wars series), Holly Golighty (Breakfast At Tiffany's), Colonel Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds), Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane), Tony Montana (Scarface), The Joker (The Dark Knight), Anton Chigurgh (No Country For Old Men), The Dude (The Big Lebowski), Jake Gittes (Chinatown), Alexander De Large (A Clockwork Orange), Norma Desmond (Sunset Blvd.), Tuco (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly), Quint (JAWS)
Comments
(1) Matt Hooper from Jaws, he just does it for me,
(2) Odd ball in Kellys heroes ,says it all
(3) Dr Richard Treave in the Elephant man ,now he makes me cry due to his kindness
(4) granddad played by the wonderful lionel Jeffries in chitty chitty bang bang (a true English nut case )
(5) Benny hills professor in the Italian job (shes big I like em big)
(6)James Bond ,need I say more
(7) Steve Mcqueen in Bullit ,sultry cool viualy facialy expressive no dialogue needed by him ,his face says it all
(8)colour sgt Frank Bourne played by the talented Nigel Green in the classic film ZULU a true British hero
(9) Michael Caines ,Harry Palmer ,a real spy ,
(10) Peter sellers as the mad Inspector Clouseau, in the pink panther films
I hope your memories of these characters I love bring a smile or a tear to your face at the magic they bring to us on the big screen
In the order that they came to mind:
James Bond
Darth Vader - Star Wars
Harry Lime - The Third Man
Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs
Sherlock Holmes - the Basil Rathbone series
Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Vito Corleone - The Godfather
Blondie/The Man With No Name - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Marge Gunderson - Fargo
Inspector Clouseau - The Pink Panther
James Bond (Skyfall)
Indiana Jones (Raiders of the lost ark)
Captain Willard (Apocalypse Now)
Rick Deckard (Blade Runner)
Vincent (Collateral)
Cooper (Interstellar)
Captain Miller (Saving Private Ryan)
Driver (Drive)
Han Solo (Empire Strikes back)
Vesper (Casino Royale)
Han Solo
James Bond
Irwin M. Fletcher - from the Fletch movies/books
Khan - Star Trek II and a preceding episode from the TV series
Jack Burton - Big Trouble In Little China... (or anytime Kurt Russell and John Carpenter get together. Snake Plissken/RJ MacReady)
Indiana Jones
Biff (and his relatives) - Back To The Future I-III
Rocky Balboa
Quint - Jaws
And on my last one I'm going to cheat with a duo, as both are so great together and deserve to both be on the list but I hate to take up two spaces with one movie.... Dr. Richard Kimble and Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard from The Fugitive.
Forrest Gump
Darth Vader
Mary Poppins- Julie Andrews
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio)- Inception
Holly Golightly- Breakfast at Tiffany's
Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) - Singing in the rain
Charles (Hugh Grant- Four weddings and a funeral
Phil Connors (Bill Murrary)- Groundhog Day
Michael Corelone (Al Pacino)- Godfather
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Phiilp Marlowe – Humphrey Bogart (The Big Sleep)
Randle McMurphy – Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Sean Maguire – Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting)
Clarice Starling – Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
Sean Devine – Kevin Bacon (Mystic River)
Inspector Clouseau - Peter Sellers – (The Pink Panther - various)
Marion Crane - Janet Leigh – (Psycho)
Rubin Carter – Denzel Washington (The Hurricane)
Atticus Finch – Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Blondie – Clint Eastwood (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
Scarlett O'Hara- Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind)
Susan Vance- Katharine Hepburn (Bringing Up Baby)
Plato- Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause)
Michael Corleone - Al Pacino (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II)
Rocky Balboa- Sylvester Stallone (Rocky)
Margot Tenenbaums- Gwyneth Paltrow (the royal tenenbaums)
Shane- Alan Ladd (Shane)
The Dude- Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski)
John Ferguson -James Stewart- (Vertigo)
Lassie
Great list! John Ferguson is a fascinating character, though a tad creepy
Sam Spade The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Rick Blaine Casablana (1943)
Tom Ripley Ripley movies (1960, 1997, 2002)
Frank Bullitt Bullitt (1968)
Blondie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Harry Calaghan Dirty Harry I - V (1971-1989)
Indiana Jones Raiders of the lost Ark (1981)
Han Solo Star Wars (1977)
Keyser Soze The Usual Suspects (1996)
Vicomte de Valmont Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
James Bond
Marge Gunderson - Fargo
The Dude - The Big Lebowski
Indiana Jones
Captain Mal Raynolds - Serenity
Ripley - Alien and sequels
Gromit - Wallace and Gromit
Frank Drebin - The Naked Gun
Ethan Edwards - The Searchers
Ludvig - the Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (may not be universally known
James Bond
Dirty Harry Callahan
J B Books (John Wayne - The Shootist)
Vin (Steve McQueen - Magnificent Seven)
Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart - Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance)
John Mallory (James Coburn - A Fistful Of Dynamite)
Rambo
The Bride (Uma Thurman - Kill Bill)
Juror 8 (Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men)
I had a hard time choosing between Lassie and Harvey the rabbit.
Your top two choices are the first ones that popped in my mind. -{
Great minds my friend
Bond - obviously -{
Captain (!) Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean
Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Han Solo - Star Wars
The Man with no Name (except maybe Blondie!) - a Fistful of Dollars
Wade Wilson - Deadpool
Roger Thornhill (or is George Kaplan?
Kaiser Soze - The Usual Suspects
Stanislaw Spielman - The Pianist (not a fictional character as such but just such a moving film)
Larry Talbot (the Wolf Man), and both Frankenstein & the monster as played by Karloff in The Bride of Frankenstein are also among my favourite cinematic characters -{
It figures he probably would, I guess my list had him three times though I wasn't really thinking about it. He was in a lot of popular films and film franchises, and ones that it figures James Bond fans would also enjoy. He was in a lot of fun action/adventure stuff and teamed up with Connery in the third Indy movie. Plus he was Jack Ryan: America's half-ass James Bond. They're cool movies though, however he wasn't in The Hunt For Red October which was the best one.
Great call on Roger Thornhill! What a great character that is. And what a great film! Cary Grant was just the man
James Bond
Indiana Jones
Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness- Man in the White Suit)
Jack Burton
Apollo (Original Battlestar Galactica)
Luke Skywalker
Superman (Chris Reeve)
Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn- Charade)
Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando- On the Waterfront)
ronin (Toshiro Mifune- Yojimbo, Sanjuro)
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Nice, I had Jack Burton too. I couldn't decide on which Russell/Carpenter character was the best. They all could have been on the list but I think Jack was probably the best overall character of the three. Snake and MacReady were more of the silent/cool type.
Jules Winfield (Samuel L Jackson ~ Pulp Fiction)
Richie Cusack (William Hurt ~ A History of Violence)
Ferris Buller (Matthew Broderick ~ Ferris Bullers Day Off)
Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid ~ Various Nationa Lampoon Vacation movies)
Mitch Leary (John Malkovich ~ In the Line Of Fire)
James Bond
Yoda
Hannibal Lector
Indiana Jones
Quint (Jaws)
Rocky Balboa
Dirty Harry Callahan
Ted - just love the concept of a sex-mad, permanently stoned teddy bear
Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
Blondie (the Good, the Bad & the Ugly)
Other mentions would be Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor, Christopher Reeve's Superman, John Rambo, Jack Nicholson's Colonel Nathan R Jessop, Leslie Neilsen's Frank Drebin, Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura, Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, David Prowse / James Earl Jones as Darth Vader etc etc.
Adding to my five above:
Goldfinger (Gert Frobe ~ Goldfinger)
Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey ~ The Truman Show)
Joker (Heath Ledger ~ The Dark Knight)
Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving ~ All Three Matrix Movies)
Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones ~ The Fugitive)