Best Movie Characters of All Time
 

Here's a list from Premiere of the 100 Best Characters of All Time.

http://www.premiere.com/article.asp?...page_number=12

I didn't agree with a lot of it, so how about we put our top ten (in no particular order). You don't even have to like the movie! Just put your favorite characters. Some movies suck but had an awesome character.

Mine are:

Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill) - Uma Thurman
Private Joker (Full Metal Jacket) - Matthew Modine
Elwood Blues (The Blues Brothers) - Dan Akroyd
T-1000 (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) - Robert Patrick
Tony Montana (Scarface) - Al Pacino
Wyatt (Easy Rider) - Peter Fonda
Jack Torrance (The Shining) - Jack Nicholson
David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints) - David Della Rocco
The Dude (The Big Lebowski) - Jeff Bridges
Tyler Durden (Fight Club) - Brad Pitt






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Here's some more I agree with.
Agent Smith (The Matrix trilogy) - Hugo Weaving
Ash (Evil Dead trilogy) - Bruce Campbell
Budd (Kill Bill series) - Michael Madsen
Han Solo (Star Wars) - Harrison Ford
El (Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) - Antonio Banderas
Agent Sands (Once Upon a Time in Mexico) - Johnny Depp

0) -> Harry Lime - AKA The Third Man as Portrayed by Orson Welles in the 1950 film. The character was fleshed out some in the superb radio show in '52 also starring George Orson Welles.
1) -> Bette Davis in The Little Foxes; excellent portrayal of the negative effects of someone placing high-profile business (the family in the film was at least $400K in 1900 if memory serves) before everything else including family. Excellent prequel as well set during the war between the states showing how the only daughter of the family gained control.
2) -> Charlie Chaplin in his numerous portrayals of 'The Tramp' character
3) -> W.C. Fields playing the lovable usually drunk scoundrel/petty crook (pretty much all of his films)
4) -> Brigitte Helm playing the robot in the oft-copied groundbreaking Fritz Lang masterpiece Metropolis
5) -> Archibald "Cary Grant" Leach playing Mortimer Brewster in the timeless Arsenic and Old Lace - he showcases his full incredibly flexible range (and Priscilla Lane is damn fine too).
6) -> Humphrey Bogart setting the standard for the Film Noir genre with movies like The Maltese Falcon and the The Big Sleep
7) -> Barbara Stanwyck playing the treacherous vixen and using Fred McMurray as the dupe in Double Indemnity

might think of more later, those are just off the top of my head, and I did try to think of someone later than 1950.
edit: thought of some more. might try to do a list of characters after 1950 or so but most of my focus musically and in films is <1955.

Harmonica- Once upon a time in the West
Man with No Name - Dollars Trilogy
Robert Neville- The Omega Man
Ash- The Evil Dead Trilogy
Jules Winnfield- Pulp Fiction
Leon - Leon: The Professional
Indiana Jones -Indiana Jones Trilogy
Snake Plisskin- Escape from New York
Nada- They Live
Charles Kane- Citizen Kane

Everbody else orignated in books(atticus Finch,quint,etc.). I only included neville since omega man is pretty diffrent from the book

My Top 3, making a Top 10 would be impossible.

Darth Vader (STAR WARS)
Kikuchiyo (SEVEN SAMURAI)
Tyler Durden (FIGHT CLUB)

No particular order either...

Absolutely.
I'll add:
Chewbacca - a roar and a grunt just about says it all
Princess Leia - strong female character, while being sexy
Ellen Ripley from the Alien movies - " "
Kid Shelleen/Strawn - from Cat Ballou, and from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Liberty Valance.
Elwood P. Dowd - Harvey - great lovable character
Erik, The Phantom - from The Phantom of the Opera, 1925 version - scary looking dude ;)
Maria - The Sound of Music

Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Lester Burnham - American Beauty - Kevin Spacey
Brodie - Mallrats - Jason Lee
Jay and Silent Bob - any movie they're in - Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith
Bill Lumbergh - Office Space - Gary Cole
Mickey Knox - Woody Harrelson - Natural Born Killers
Roy Munson - Woody Harrelson - Kingpin
Tony Montana - Al Pacino - Scarface

among others.

Pacino in Scarface
Leon from The Professional
Hannibal Lecter
Sally Field as Sybil

Most of mine have been listed.

All I can add is:

Crash Davis - Kevin Costner - Bull Durham

Here are a few of mine:

1) Doc Holliday - Tombstone
2) Buckaroo Banzai - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension
3) Photo Journalist - Apocalypse Now (Dennis Hopper)
4) The Lord Of Darkness - Legend
5) Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding - The Shawshank Redemption
6) Verbal Kint - The Usual Suspects
7) T. E. Lawrence - Lawrence Of Arabia
8) Gabriel - The Prophecy
9) Jules Winnfield - Pulp Fiction
10) Mitch Henessey - The Long Kiss Goodnight
11) David St. Hubbins - This Is SpinalTap
12) Derek Zoolander - Zoolander
13) Bandit - Smokey And The Bandit
14) Frank T.J. Mackey - Magnolia
15) Gabriel - The Mission

And..........

Captain Chaos - Cannonball Run

Eric Draven - The Crow
Mickey O'Neil - Snatch (My avatar)
Vincent Vega - Pulp Fiction
Neo - The Matrix
Stiffler - American Pie
Bankie - Chasing Amy
Verbal - The Usual Suspects
Tony Montana - Scarface
Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the carribean
Leon - Leon The Proffesional
Morgan freeman's char from The Shawshank Redemption
William Wallace - Braveheart

i'll stop there..

A-freakin'-men.

Pinky - Next Friday and Friday after Next
Martin Short - Clifford
Lefty Ruggiero - Donnie Brasco
Joaquin Phoenix & Billy Bob Thornton - U Turn
Teddy KGB - Rounders
Woody Harrelson - White Men Cant Jump
John McLane - Die Hard
Seth Green - Cant Hardly Wait
Dr. Evil - Austin Powers
Ben Stiller - Meet the Parents

James Bond (Sean Connery)
J. D. (Christian Slater) - Heathers
Harold & Maude
Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) - The Bridge on the River Kwai

jill from once upon a time in the west

can't believe Ed Norton's character (Aaron Stampler) in Primal Fear wasn't on this list
I guess they didnt extend it to supporting actors..

Alexander de Large-Clockwork Orange
The Dude-Big Lebowski
Richard Brown-The Hours
Harry the Hatchet-Lock, Stock
Bernadette-Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Beatrix Kiddo - Kill Bill
Samwise Gamgee - LOTR
Rusty Ryan - Ocean's Eleven
Vincent Vega - Pulp Fiction
Jules Winfield - Pulp Fiction
Spence - Ronin
Bill - Kill Bill
Katsumoto - The Last Samurai
Harry Potter - Harry Potter and ____
Ash - All Evil Dead movies

1. Tyler Durden - Fight Club
(in no particular order)
Bluto - Animal House
Stiffler - American Pie
Rocky Balboa - Rocky
Rambo - First Blood/ First Blood pt. 2/ Rambo III
Tweeder - Varsity Blues
Maximus- The Gladiator
Van Wilder - Van Wilder
Harry and Lloyd - Dumb and Dumber
Animal Mother - Full Metal Jacket

oh man, i forgot about buckaroo bonzai.
Howabout Phlio Beto (clint eastwood) from "Anywhich Way But Loose"? and the classic sequel "Anywhich Way You Can" natch.

which brings to mind yet another great screen presence: Clint's co-star Clyde

Beatrix Kiddo - Kill Bill
"Tyler Durden" - Fight Club( Ed Norton)
Katsumoto - The Last Samurai
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Neo - The Matrix
Ben Stiller - Meet the Parents

I have seen two of those and liked one of them, that would be The Matrix before watching too many times* made me just plain sick of it

*no doubt due to being stuck in the middle of the Atlantic and sitting in a berthing with little else to do where it was played at least 10-20 times in the course of one week.

Agent Smith - The Matrix. I love it when he says "Mr. Anderson" with the accent
Wong Fei Hong - Once Upon a Time in China - Jet Li (chinese movie)
Fong Sai Yuk - Legend of Fong Sai Yuk - Jet Li (also chinese)
Cheung Wo Ki - Dragon Sabre and Heave Sword - Jet Li (yeah..chinese again..hehe)
Zheung Wa - Return of Condor Hero - Louis Koo (chinese...)
*Little Dragon Girl*- Return of Condor Hero - Carmen Lee
Kwok Ting - Condor Hero - Julian Cheung (chinese..)
Wong Zhung - Condor Hero - Athena Chu
Vi Tieu Bao - Duke of Mountain Deer - Dicky Cheung (chinese...:D)
Aragorn, Legolas, Ghimli, Frodo, Samwise, Gandalf, Merry & Peppin, Ring Wraiths, - LOTR

will post more later....

Can someone explain to me why Ash from Army of Darkness not only got left off the list but didnt even take the #1 spot?

haha word

hmm... hard question.... Sarah connor from T2:best movie
jules or vince from Pulpfiction:2nd best movie
Jack from Fightclub: 3rd best movie! and Jack is played by Ed.norton.
Peter from office space: best comedy! cuz i work at initech. :(

Frank'n'furter- Rocky Horror Show- Tim Curry
Stephen- Braveheart
Donnie Darko- Donnie Darko
Wesly- Princess Bride- Carry Elwes
Bart- Blazing Saddles
Samwise- Lord of the rings trilogy- Sean Austin
Garland Green- Con Air
Cyrus the virus- Con Air
Martin Blank- Grosse Point Blank
Jay & Silent Bob- Mallrats & Dogma

These are more favourite than best, and are in no particular order:

The Dude - The Big Lebowski
Vincent Vega - Pulp Fiction
Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean :(
Shaun - Shaun of the Dead
Forrest Gump - Forrest Gump
Tony Montana - Scarface
Michael Corleone - The Godfather
Roger Rabbit - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Spooney - Dog Soldiers
"The Wolf" - Pulp Fiction
Everyone else in - Pulp Fiction
Big Boy - Dick Tracy
Aragorn - LOTR
Pinhead - Hellraiser
He-Man - Masters of the Universe

in no order:

kayser sozei - the usual suspects
HAL - 2001 a space oddity
drexl - true romance
jason - jason and the argonauts
go go yubari - kill bill

How can you guys forget:

Jack Burton - Big Trouble in Little China

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What about Xander Cage from xXX?



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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I'm glad somebody finally mentioned him. A great job by Kevin Spacey.

Off the top of my head, here are some notable characters from the '60s and earlier:

The Fat Man in "The Maltese Falcon" (Sydney Greenstreet)

Frankenstein in the movie of the same name (Boris Karloff).

Dracula (Bela Lugosi), again in the movie of the same name.

"Scarface Tommy Udo" in "Kiss of Death" -- Richard Widmark as the prototype for all drug-addict psycho-killers in all movies thereafter.

Klaatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (Michael Rennie). "Klaatu Barrada Nicto!"

Major "King" Kong in "Dr. Strangelove" (Slim Pickens). He's the bomber pilot who rides the H-bomb down to ground zero!

Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny" (Humphrey Bogart). All those great rants, including the one about who stole his strawberries. And the way he clicked ball bearings in one hand when he was about to lose it.

Professor Quatermass in "The Quatermass Experiment" and "Quatermass 2." (Brian Donlevy). Before Quatermass, all scientists in the movies were either mad or nice old duffers with beautiful daughters. Quatermass was "good," sort of, but also a cold-blooded bastard who'd do anything to get a rocket into space.

The actors John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Spencer Tracy (and the comedians W.C. Fields and the Marx Brothers) basically played the same character in every movie they ever made, so they are actors who also count as "characters." You can say the same thing about Bruce Willis, pretty much.

Oh yes, Charles' Laughton's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" in the original sound picture of the same name. A great part.

The Dude



End of story.

Verbal Kint/Kaiser Soze--Kevin Spacey--Usual Suspects
Capt. Jack Sparrow--Depp--Pirates of the Carribean
Jules--Samuel Jackson's character--Pulp Fiction


Multiple characters--Brendan Frasier--Bedazzled, am I the only one who loves this movie???

Pai Mei - Kill Bill Volume 2.

maybe not the best (whatever that means)... but definitely the most memorable was:

Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) - Blue Velvet

why is it always Pitt's character in fight club,? I thought Norton was so much better.

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing
Ash - Evil Dead 2/Army of Darkness
Sonny Corleone - Godfather
Cpt. Jack Sparrow - PoTC
The Dude - Big Lebowski
John McLane - Die Hard
Indiana Jones - Indiana Jones Trilogy
Porter - Payback
Boromir - Lord of the Rings
Tyler Durden (both of them) - Fight Club

Buddy Ackerman - Swimming with Sharks

Pacino as the Devil in Devil's Advocate "God played the greatest joke on man........."

Pacino in And Justice For All "I'm out of order, you're out of order, the whole fuckin system is out of order

Nicholson in his greatest performance One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest "Nurse Cratchit"

Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon "I'm dying here Sonny, I'm goin to Wisconsin."

Nicholson in Witches of Eastwick "Maybe there's a cure, 50 pushups a day and you'll never need a woman again."

Anything by Bogie and Cagney

Depp as Ed Wood

Finally, Hoffman as Raymond (Rain Man) "K-mart succks" "You had a girl kiss you Raymond, how did it feel?" "It felt wet."