The 100 Greatest Movie Heros & Villians

as voted (in 2003) by the American Film Institute afi.gif (1701 bytes)

                HERO                    VILLIAN

1

Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck)
"To Kill a Mockingbird
"
Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)
"The Silence of the Lambs
"
2 Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)
"Raiders of the Lost Ark
"
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)
"Psycho
"
3 James Bond (Sean Connery)
"Dr. No."
Darth Vader
(David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones)
"The Empire Strikes Back
"
4 Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart)
"Casablanca
"
The Wicked Witch of the West
(Margaret Hamilton)
"The Wizard of Oz
"
5 Will Kane (Gary Cooper)
"High Noon
"
Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher)
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
"
6 Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster)
"The Silence of the Lambs
"
Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore)
"It's a Wonderful Life
"
7 Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)
"Rocky
"
Alex Forrest (Glenn Close)
"Fatal Attraction
"
8 Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)
"Aliens
"
Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) "Double Indemnity"
9 George Bailey (James Stewart)
"It's a Wonderful Life
"
Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair)
"The Exorcist
"
10 T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole)
"Lawrence of Arabia
"
The Queen (voiced by Lucille LaVerne)
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
"
11 Jefferson Smith (James Stewart)
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
"
Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)
"The Godfather Part II
"
12 Tom Joad (Henry Fonda)
"The Grapes of Wrath
"
Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell)
"A Clockwork Orange
"
13 Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson)
"Schindler's List
"
HAL 9000 (voiced by Douglas Rain)
"2001: A Space Odyssey
"
14 Han Solo (Harrison Ford)
"Star Wars
"
The Alien (Bolaji Badejo)
"Alien
"
15 Norma Rae Webster (Sally Field)
"Norma Rae
"
Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes)
"Schindler's List
"
16 Shane (Alan Ladd)
"Shane
"
Noah Cross (John Huston)
"Chinatown
"
17 Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood)
"Dirty Harry
"
Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates)
"Misery
"
18 Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
"The Adventures of Robin Hood
"
The Shark
"Jaws
"
19 Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier)
"In the Heat of the Night
"
Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton)
"Mutiny on the Bounty
"
20 Butch Cassidy the Sundance Kid
(Paul Newman and Robert Redford)
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
"
Man
"Bambi
"
21 Mahatma Gandhi (Ben Kingsley),
"Gandhi
"
Mrs. John Iselin (Angela Lansbury)
"The Manchurian Candidate
"
22 Spartacus (Kirk Douglas)
"Spartacus
"
The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
"The Terminator
"
23 Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando)
"On the Waterfront
"
Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter)
"All About Eve
"
24 Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer
(Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon)
"Thelma and Louise
"
Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)
"Wall Street
"
25 Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper),
"The Pride of the Yankees
"
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson)
"The Shining
"
26 Superman (Christopher Reeve)
"Superman
"
Cody Jarrett (James Cagney)
"White Heat
"
27 Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
(Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman)
"All the President's Men
"
The Martians
"War of the Worlds
"
28 Juror No. 8 (Henry Fonda)
"12 Angry Men
"
Max Cady (Robert Mitchum)
"Cape Fear
"
29 Gen. George Patton (George C. Scott) "Patton" Rev. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum)
"The Night of the Hunter
"
30 Luke Jackson (Paul Newman)
"Cool Hand Luke
"
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro)
"Taxi Driver
"
31 Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts)
"Erin Brockovich
"
Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson)
"Rebecca
"
32 Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart)
"The Big Sleep
"
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker
(Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway)
"Bonnie and Clyde
"
33 Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand)
"Fargo
"
Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi)
"Dracula
"
34 Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller)
"Tarzan the Ape Man
"
Dr. Szell (Laurence Olivier)
"Marathon Man
"
35 Alvin York (Gary Cooper)
"Sergeant York
"
J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster)
"Sweet Smell of Success
"
36 Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne)
"True Grit
"
Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper)
"Blue Velvet
"
37 Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness)
"Star Wars
"
Harry Lime (Orson Welles)
"The Third Man
"
38 The Tramp (Charles Chaplin)
"City Lights
"
Rico Bandello (Edward G. Robinson)
"Little Caesar
"
39 Lassie (Pal the dog)
"Lassie Come Home
"
Cruella De Vil
(voiced by Betty Lou Gerson)
"One Hundred and One Dalmatians
"
40 Frank Serpico (Al Pacino)
"Serpico
"
Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund)
"A Nightmare on Elm Street
"
41 Arthur Chipping (Robert Donat)
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips
"
Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway)
"Mommie Dearest
"
42 Father Edward Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) "Boys Town" Tom Powers (James Cagney)
"The Public Enemy
"
43 Moses (Charlton Heston)
"The Ten Commandments
"
Regina Giddens (Bette Davis)
"The Little Foxes
"
44 Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman)
"The French Connection"
Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis)
"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
"
45 Zorro (Tyrone Power)
"The Mark of Zorro"
The Joker (Jack Nicholson)
"Batman
"
46 Batman (Michael Keaton)
"Batman"
Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman)
"Die Hard
"
47 Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep)
"Silkwood"
Tony Camonte (Paul Muni)
"Scarface
"
48 The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger),
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey)
"The Usual Suspects
"
49 Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks)
"Philadelphia"
Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe)
"Goldfinger
"
50 Maximus (Russell Crowe)
"Gladiator"
Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington)
"Training Day
"

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