# Character Name Played By Film Title

1 Vito Corleone Marlon Brando The Godfather (1972)

2 Fred C. Dobbs Humphrey Bogart The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

3 Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind (1939)

4 Norman Bates Anthony Perkins Psycho (1960) and three sequels

5 James Bond Sean Connery Dr. No (1962) and six later films

6 Annie Hall Diane Keaton Annie Hall (1977)

7 Indiana Jones Harrison Ford Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and two later films

8 Ellen Ripley Sigourney Weaver Alien (1979) and three later films
Fast Times at
Ridgemont High
9 Jeff Spicoli Sean Penn (1982)

The Lord of the Rings

10 Gollum Andy Serkis (2001-2003) trilogy

11 Margo Channing Bette Davis All About Eve (1950)

12 Charles Foster Kane Orson Welles Citizen Kane (1941)

13 Atticus Finch Gregory Peck To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

14 Randle Patrick McMurphy Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

15 Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and two later films

16 Robin Hood Errol Flynn The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

17 Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz (1939)

18 Carl Spackler Bill Murray Caddyshack (1980)

19 Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca (1942)

20 Detective Virgil Tibbs Sidney Poitier In the Heat of the Night (1967) and one later film

21 Susan Vance Katharine Hepburn Bringing Up Baby (1938)

22 Travis Bickle Robert De Niro Taxi Driver (1976)

23 Ethan Edwards John Wayne The Searchers (1956)

Scores of films,
beginning with
Mabel's Strange
Predicament (1914) -
actually first seen in
Kid Auto Races at
24 The Little Tramp Charlie Chaplin Venice (1914)
25 Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas Wall Street (1987)

26 E.T. -- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

27 Marge Gunderson Frances McDormand Fargo (1996)

28 Captain Quint Robert Shaw Jaws (1975)

29 Daphne/Jerry Jack Lemmon Some Like It Hot (1959)

30 King Kong -- King Kong (1933)

31 Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Breakfast at Tiffany's
32 Holly Golightly Audrey Hepburn (1961)

33 Ratso Rizzo Dustin Hoffman Midnight Cowboy (1969)

34 Bonnie Parker Faye Dunaway Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Austin Powers:
International Man of
Mystery (1997) and
35 Dr. Evil Mike Myers two later films
 Fatal Attraction
36 Alex Forrest Glenn Close (1987)

37 Jake Gittes Jack Nicholson Chinatown (1974) and one later film
Willy Wonka & the
Chocolate Factory
38 Willy Wonka Gene Wilder (1971)
39 Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels Dustin Hoffman Tootsie (1982)

40 The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator (1984) and two later films

Broadcast News
41 Jane Craig Holly Hunter (1987)

42 "Dirty" Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry (1971) and four later films

43 Forrest Gump Tom Hanks Forrest Gump (1994)

44 Jules Winnfield Samuel L. Jackson Pulp Fiction (1994)

45 Mary Poppins Julie Andrews Mary Poppins (1964)

Die Hard (1988) and
46 John McClane Bruce Willis two later films

47 Mrs. Robinson Anne Bancroft The Graduate (1967)

National Lampoon's
48 John "Bluto" Blutarsky John Belushi Animal House (1978)

49 Chance the Gardener Peter Sellers Being There (1979)

The Good, the Bad,
50 Blondie Clint Eastwood and the Ugly (1966)
A Nightmare on Elm
Street (1984) and too
51 Freddy Krueger Robert Englund many later films

52 Howard Beale Peter Finch Network (1976)

53 Ninotchka Greta Garbo Ninotchka (1939)

54 Frank Booth Dennis Hopper Blue Velvet (1986)

The Big Lebowski
55 The Dude (Jeff Lebowski) Jeff Bridges (1998)
My Favorite Year
56 Alan Swann Peter O'Toole (1982)
57 Tom Powers James Cagney The Public Enemy (1931)

58 Phyllis Dietrichson Barbara Stanwyck Double Indemnity (1944)

59 Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now (1979)

60 George Bailey James Stewart It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

61 J. J. Hunsecker Burt Lancaster Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

62 John Shaft Richard Roundtree Shaft (1971)

63 Carrie White Sissy Spacek Carrie (1976)

64 Rocky Balboa Sylvester Stallone Rocky (1976) and four later films
Edward Scissorhands
65 Edward Scissorhands Johnny Depp (1990)
66 Navin Johnson, aka "The Jerk" Steve Martin The Jerk (1979)
The Pink Panther
(1964) and four later
67 Inspector Jacques Clouseau Peter Sellers movies

68 Alex DeLarge Malcolm McDowell A Clockwork Orange (1971)

69 Terry Malloy Marlon Brando On the Waterfront (1954)

Private Benjamin
70 Judy Benjamin Goldie Hawn (1980)

71 Rev. Harry Powell Robert Mitchum The Night of the Hunter (1955)

72 Lloyd Dobler John Cusack Say Anything... (1989)

73 Norma Rae Sally Field Norma Rae (1979)

74 Tony Montana Al Pacino Scarface (1983)

75 Dr. Strangelove Peter Sellers Dr. Strangelove Or: ... (1964)

Saturday Night Fever
(1977) and one later
76 Tony Manero John Travolta film

77 Annie Wilkes Kathy Bates Misery (1990)

Mad Max (1979) and
78 "Mad" Max Rockatansky Mel Gibson two later films
79 Hans Beckert Peter Lorre M (1931)
80 Sam Spade Humphrey Bogart The Maltese Falcon (1941)

81 Aurora Greenway Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment (1983) and one later film

82 Jack Torrance Jack Nicholson The Shining (1980)

Gangs of New York
83 William 'Bill the Butcher' Cutting Daniel Day-Lewis (2002)

David Prowse/James Earl

84 Darth Vader Jones (voice) Star Wars (1977) and two later films

85 Stanley Kowalski Marlon Brando A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

86 Melanie Daniels Tippi Hedren The Birds (1963)

Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse
of the Black Pearl
87 Captain Jack Sparrow Johnny Depp (2003)
88 Raymond Babbitt Dustin Hoffman Rain Man (1988)

89 Sandy Olsson Olivia Newton-John Grease (1978)

Being John Malkovich
90 John Malkovich John Malkovich (1999)

91 Mrs. Iselin Angela Lansbury The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

The Crying Game
92 Dil Jaye Davidson (1992)

93 Harry Lime Orson Welles The Third Man (1949)

94 Rose Sayer Katharine Hepburn The African Queen (1951)

95 Oda Mae Brown Whoopi Goldberg Ghost (1990)

96 Tommy DeVito Joe Pesci GoodFellas (1990)

Ace Ventura: Pet
Detective (1994) and
97 Ace Ventura Jim Carrey one later film

The 400 Blows (1959)

98 Antoine Doinel Jean Pierre Leaud and four later films
Home Alone (1990)
99 Kevin McCallister Macauley Culkin and one later film
The Usual Suspects
100 Roger "Verbal" Kint Kevin Spacey (1995)
Defining Moment
Vito's promise to cream puff crooner Johnny Fontane (Al Martino) who doesn't believe
that he'll get an acting role from a Hollywood big shot director: "I'm gonna make him
an offer he can't refuse."

Dobbs' reaction to Curtin's (Tim Holt) challenge about putting his hand under a rock,
where he doesn't believe that a Gila monster is hiding.
After the death of Scarlett's second husband, Rhett Butler's (Clark Gable) grand
proposal and her scornful rejection, followed by his passionate kiss to erase all thought
of Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard).

Norman's stunning, sudden, rage-filled reaction when future victim Marion Crane
(Janet Leigh) suggests that his mother be put "somewhere."

Bond's suave remark to doomed Professor Dent (Anthony Dawson): "You've had your
six [shots]".
Annie's decision to remain in LA with a music producer (Paul Simon), with newly-
discovered self-recognition, rather than return to New York to marry Alvy (Woody
Allen).

Indy's overcoming of several treacherous challenges in the film's opening sequence,

only to lose the priceless artifact to French nemesis Rene Belloq (Paul Freeman).

Ripley's nervy refusal to open the ship's hatch so that Kane (John Hurt) can be admitted
- with a thing attached to his face.
Spicoli's order of a pizza that is delivered in Mr. Hand's (Ray Walston) history class, and
his reply to an incredulous question about what he's doing: "Learning about Cuba and
having some food."

Gollum's twisted, tortured wrestle with himself.

Margo's menacing, self-mocking, legendary quip at a party as guests arrive, as she
jealously suspects young acolyte Eve (Anne Baxter): "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to
be a bumpy night."
Kane's plea to his second wife Susan (Dorothy Comingore) as she leaves him: "You can't
do this to me."

Atticus' lesson to daughter Jean Louise ('Scout') (Mary Badham) who got into a fight at
school: "Do you know what a compromise is? It's an agreement reached by mutual
consent."

Randle's bravura boat-trip scene and exhortation: "You're not a goddamn loony now,
boy, you're a fisherman!"

Hannibal's death rattle after pronouncing: "Chianti."

Robin's crashing of a dinner event being held by Prince John (Claude Rains), with a
dead deer draped on his back, and being called a "saucy fellow."

Dorothy's singing of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

Spackler's explanation of the golfing turf he invented: "The amazing stuff about this is
that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home, and just get stoned to
the bejesus belt that night."
Rick's decision to help a young couple win at the roulette wheel, in order to spare the
wife from having to sleep with the shady Captain Renault (Claude Rains) to acquire exit
papers.

Virgil's unblinking response through clenched teeth: "They call me Mister Tibbs," after
being insulted by chief of police Bill Gillepsie (Rod Steiger): "Virgil - that's a funny name
for a nigger boy from Philadelphia. What do they call you up there?"

Susan's gleeful exclamation after chasing after her terrier who has buried David's (Cary
Grant) prized dinosaur bone: "Isn't this fun, David? Just like a game."
Travis' massacre rehearsal, "You talkin' to me?" and the scene in which he slowly rocks
his TV set and eventually crashes it to the floor.

Ethan's chase after his terrified niece Debbie (Natalie Wood), threatening to kill her -
but then lifting her into the air and telling her: "Let's go home, Debbie."

The Little Tramp's beatific smile at the end of City Lights (1931).
Gekko's "Greed is Good" speech before an audience of corporate stockholders.

The moment that Elliott's bike (with E.T. in the basket) is propelled into the night sky by
E.T.'s powers.

Pregnant Marge's near loss of her breakfast at a crime scene, but not due to the gore.
Quint's slippery slide into the jaws of the awaiting shark, and his speech about
surviving the disaster at sea on the U.S.S. Indianapolis: "When he comes after you, he
doesn't seem to be living until he bites you."

Daphne's repetition of a litany after a stern warning by Joe (Tony Curtis), in an all-
female sleeping car of a train: "I'm a girl...I'm a girl...I wish I were dead...I'm a girl."
The Beast atop the Empire State Building, risking everything for his Beauty Ann Darrow
(Fay Wray).

Norma's final appearance: "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
Holly's kiss of Paul (George Peppard) in the pouring rain, while sheltering Cat under her
coat.

Ratso's shrill and improvised line to a cab driver, as he slaps on the car's hood: "I'm
walkin' here!" in a cross-walk

Bonnie's decision to kiss captured and humiliated Texas Ranger Frank Hamer (Denver
Pyle) while a photograph is taken.

Dr. Evil's revelation about dominating the planet to his staff: "We shall hold the world
ransom for...one million dollars!!"
Alex's conversation with Dan (Michael Douglas) the morning that he leaves: "You
thought you'd have a good time. You didn't stop for a second to think about me."

Jake's crafty rip of a city ledger page (under the sound of a fake cough), and use of an
ethnic slur to fool a nursing home's corrupt director.

Willy's whimsical entrance - first teetering with a cane, and ending with the execution
of a perfect somersault.
Dorothy's improvised on-air confession: "But...as a woman!"

The Terminator's quote: "I'll be back" at the police station slaughter, and his surgery
upon his own skin and eyeball (his eyesocket glows red) in a motel room.

Jane's response, "No, it's awful," when her boss snaps: "It must be nice to always
believe you know better - to always think you're the smartest person in the room."

Harry's reaction that the killer he just apprehended and tortured will be released
because of the violation of his rights: "Well, the law's crazy!"

Forrest's conversation with a bus-stop bench woman, including: "My momma always
said life was like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get."
The foot massage sequence, the Ezekiel speech, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese
dialogue, and the 'what' sequence.
Mary Poppins' singing of "Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down!" to
show her charges that tidying up the nursery can be fun.

McClane's reply to evil Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman): "Yippee-kay-yay, motherf--ker!"

Mrs. Robinson's toss of Benjamin Braddock's (Dustin Hoffman) car keys into his fish
tank, to make sure he drives her home.

Bluto's food fight scene in which he makes his face a zit - by filling his cheeks with
mashed potatoes and spraying the contents onto a sorority girl.

Chance's bland but insistent mantra, "I like to watch" that is misinterpreted by a love-
deprived society wife Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine).

Blondie's writing-the-name-on-the-rock gambit before the climactic, operatic shootout.

Freddy's sadistic pinning of a victim to the ceiling with his claw before slashing him.

Howard's "I'm mad as hell" speech, and his silence during the delivery of a sermon on
corporate America by the network president Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty).
Ninotchka's long-suppressed laugh, after Leon (Melvyn Douglas) accidentally falls off
his chair in a Paris bistro.

Frank's breathing of gas through a plastic mask while engaging in foreplay with Dorothy
(Isabella Rossellini).
The Dude's post-coital chat with Maude (Julianne Moore) about his student radical
days.

Alan's triumphant horseback ride through Central Park.

Tom's self-aware statement as he is shot in the rain: "I ain't so tough."

Phyllis' palpable fear - and regret - after her stooge insurance salesman Walter Neff
(Fred MacMurray) killed her husband, and suspicions were aroused.

Kilgore's pause during the war for a soliloquy: "I love the smell of napalm in the
morning..."

George and Mary's (Donna Reed) first dance - in which they step into a swimming pool.

Hunsecker's evisceration of Falco (Tony Curtis), a senator, his bimbo consort, and her
manager at a table in a NY nightspot.
Shaft's emergence from a 42nd Street subway station and invulnerable stroll into
oncoming traffic.
Carrie's humiliating experience in the girls' locker room in the opening scene, and the
shattering of her first light bulb.

Rocky's early morning run through the city's streets, and triumphant race up the steps
of the Philadelphia Museum of Art - with victorious fist high in the air.
Edward's bittersweet reply - "I can't" - to the girl (Winona Ryder) he loves when she
whispers to him, "Hold me."
The Jerk's inexplicable targeting by a sniper at a gas station.

Clouseau's clumsy destruction of a 'priceless Steinway' after getting his hand stuck in a
chain mail glove connected to a spiked flail.
Alex's version of 'Singin' in the Rain' while attacking a couple in their home with his
band of droogs.
Terry's taxi-cab speech to his brother Charley (Rod Steiger) about his betrayal: "I coulda
been a contender..."
Judy's departure from the Army, something that causes the sergeant to be overjoyed
and promote the signing of the release document.

Rev. Powell's explanation of the "Love" and "Hate" tattoos on the fingers of his right
hand and left hand.
Lloyd's statement: "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a
career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or
processed..."

Norma's defiant stand on a factory table, while brandishing a sign that reads, "Union."
Tony's taunt to those about to slice open his friend Chi Chi's (Angel Salazar) head with a
chain saw.
Dr. Strangelove's final proposal in the War Room, while preventing his gloved hand
from self-strangulation.

Tony's reveling in his power alone on the dance floor.

Annie's smashing the legs of her favorite writer Paul Sheldon (James Caan) so he won't
leave her.

Max's witnessing of the slaughter of his family by hoodlums.

Hans' shriek to his tormentors that they don't know what it's like to be him.
Sam's act of turning over femme fatale love Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor) to the
cops.

Aurora's prophetic warning to her daughter Emma (Debra Winger) on the eve of her
wedding.

Jack's hallucinatory drink order to a non-existent bartender in the Gold Room of the
Overlook Hotel.

Bill's flag-draped soliloquy, and his stabbing of the hand of fellow card player.

In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Vader's revelation that he is Luke's (Mark Hamill)
father.

Stanley's anguished, animalistic cry-yell at the bottom of the stairs for his wife Stella
(Kim Hunter).

Melanie's venture into an upstairs bedroom, where she is viciously attacked by birds.

Capt. Jack's triumphant arrival at Port Royal in a decrepit vessel.

Raymond's panic-fit when brother Charlie (Tom Cruise) runs a hot bath for him.
Wearing black pants, red heels, and a leather jacket, Bad Sandy's bringing of Danny
Zuko (John Travolta) to his knees.
John's yelling of "It's my heeeead!" while on the shoulder of the NJ Turnpike, after
which a taunting trucker hurls a can at him.

Mrs. Iselin's incestuous kiss on the lips of her robotic, programmed, killing-machine son
Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey).

Dil's startling revelation of his gender.

Harry's "cuckoo clock" speech.

Heroine Rose's moment of emotional liberation after 'going over the falls'.

Oda's reluctant donation of a $4 million check to charity, after being prompted by Sam.
Tommy's 'How Am I Funny' routine, and his deadly showdown with Spider (Michael
Imperioli) during a card game.

Ace's calling of his pets in his apartment after lying to his landlord about not having
animals in his place.

Antoine's reaction when asked by a reform school psychiatrist if he's ever slept with a
girl.

Kevin's slapping of aftershave on his cheeks, and his "Aaaahhh!" reaction.

Verbal's informed scanning of a bulletin board while awaiting interrogation.

 Movie
1 It's a Wonderful Life
2 To Kill a Mockingbird
3 Schindler's List
4 Rocky
5 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
6 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
7 The Grapes of Wrath
8 Breaking Away
9 Miracle on 34th Street
10 Saving Private Ryan
11 The Best Years of Our Lives
12 Apollo 13
13 Hoosiers
14 The Bridge on the River Kwai
15 The Miracle Worker
16 Norma Rae
17 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
18 The Diary of Anne Frank
19 The Right Stuff
20 Philadelphia
21 In the Heat of the Night
22 The Pride of the Yankees
23 The Shawshank Redemption
24 National Velvet
25 Sullivan's Travels
26 The Wizard of Oz
27 High Noon
28 Field of Dreams
29 Gandhi
30 Lawrence of Arabia
31 Glory
32 Casablanca
33 City Lights
34 All the President's Men
35 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
36 On the Waterfront
37 Forrest Gump
38 Pinocchio
39 Star Wars
40 Mrs. Miniver
41 The Sound of Music
42 12 Angry Men
43 Gone With the Wind
44 Spartacus
45 On Golden Pond
46 Lilies of the Field
47 2001: A Space Odyssey
48 The African Queen
49 Meet John Doe
50 Seabiscuit
51 The Color Purple
52 Dead Poet's Society
53 Shane
54 Rudy
55 The Defiant Ones
56 Ben-Hur
57 Sergeant York
58 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
59 Dances With Wolves
60 The Killing Fields
61 Sounder
62 Braveheart
63 Rain Man
64 The Black Stallion
65 A Raisin in the Sun
66 Silkwood
67 The Day the Earth Stood Still
68 An Officer and a Gentleman
69 The Spirit of St. Louis
70 Coal Miner's Daughter
71 Cool Hand Luke
72 Dark Victory
73 Erin Brockovich
74 Gunga Din
75 The Verdict
76 Birdman of Alcatraz
77 Driving Miss Daisy
78 Thelma & Louise
79 The Ten Commandments
80 Babe
81 Boys Town
82 Fiddler on the Roof
83 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
84 Serpico
85 What's Love Got to Do With It
86 Stand and Deliver
87 Working Girl
88 Yankee Doodle Dandy
89 Harold and Maude
90 Hotel Rwanda
91 The Paper Chase
92 Fame
93 A Beautiful Mind
94 Captains Courageous
95 Places in the Heart
96 Searching for Bobby Fischer
97 Madame Curie
98 The Karate Kid
99 Ray
100 Chariots of Fire
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