American Film Institutes

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American Film Institutes

• 100 Greatest
• Heroes and Villains

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Notable Nominations

• Some of the 400 candidates were nominated as
  groups The Dirty Dozen, The Three Musketeers,
  The Magnificent Seven
• The most represented actor was John Wayne with
  seven characters, Harrison Ford, Gary Cooper, and
  Henry Fonda were nominated six times each
• Alfred Hitchcock directed 11 films starring
  nominated characters
• There were 5 characters from Star Wars nominated
  Darth Vader, Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke
  Skywalker, and Princess Leia
• Many non-humans were nominated, including the
  Monster from Frankenstein, the Blob, the Birds,
  the Headless Horseman
• Two nominees who never appeared on screen
• Man from Bambi and the Blair Witch
• One actor played both the hero and villain in the
  same film
• Mike Meyers as Austin Powers and Dr. Evil

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Villains

• 41-50
• Detective Alonzo Harris (Training Day, 2001)
• Auric Goldfinger (Goldfinger, 1964)
• Roger Verbal Kent (The Usual Suspects, 1995)
• Tony Camonte (Scarface, 1932)
• Hans Gruber (Die Hard, 1988)
• The Joker (Batman, 1989)
• Baby Jane Hudson (Whatever Happened to Baby
  Jane?, 1962)
• Regina Giddens (The Little Foxes, 1941)
• Tom Powers (The Public Enemy, 1931)
• Joan Crawford (Mommie Dearest, 1981)

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Villains

• 31-40
• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984)
• Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmations, 1961)
• Rico (Little Caesar, 1930)
• Harry Lime (The Third Man, 1949)
• Frank Booth (Blue Velvet, 1986)
• J.J. Hunsecker (Sweet Smell of Success, 1957)
• Dr. Szell (Marathon Man, 1976)
• Count Dracula (Dracula, 1931)
• Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker (Bonnie Clyde,
  1967)
• Mrs. Danvers (Rebecca, 1940)

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Villains

• 21-30
• Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver, 1976)
• Reverend Harry Powell (The Night of the Hunter,
  1955)
• Max Cady (Cape Fear, 1962)
• Martians (War of the Worlds, 1953)
• Arthur Cody Jarrett (White Heat, 1949)
• Jack Torrance (The Shining, 1980)
• Gordon Gekko (Wall Street, 1987)
• Eve Harrington (All About Eve, 1950)
• T-800 (Terminator, 1984)
• Mrs. John Iselin (The Manchurian Candidate, 1962)

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Villains

• 11-20
• Man (Bambi, 1942)
• Captain Bligh (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935)
• The Shark (Jaws, 1975)
• Annie Wilkes (Misery, 1990)
• Noah Cross (Chinatown, 1974)
• Amon Goeth (Schindlers List, 1993)
• The Alien (Alien, 1979)
• Hal 9000 (2001 A Space Odyssey, 1968)
• Alex DeLarge (A Clockwork Orange, 1971)
• Michael Corleone (Godfather II, 1974)

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Villains

• 6-10
• The Queen voice of Lucille LaVerne
• (Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, 1937)
• Regan MacNeil (Satan) Linda Blair
• (The Exorcist, 1973)
• Phyllis Dietrichson Barbara Stanwyck
• (Double Indemnity, 1944)
• Alex Forrest Glenn Close
• (Fatal Attraction, 1987)
• Mr. Potter Lionel Barrymore
• (Its A Wonderful Life, 1946)

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Villains

• 5 Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the
  Cuckoos Nest (1975) played Louise Fletcher.

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Villains

• 4 The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard
  of Oz (1939) played by Margaret Hamilton

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Villains

• 3 Darth Vader from The Empire Strikes Back
  (1980) played by David Prowse and voiced by James
  Earl Jones.

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Villains

• 2 Norman Bates from Psycho (1960) played by
  Anthony Perkins

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AFIs 1 Villain

• 1 Dr. Hannibal Lechter from Silence of the
  Lambs (1991) played by Anthony Hopkins

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Heroes

• 41-50
• General Maximus Decimus Meridus (Gladiator, 2000)
• Andrew Beckett (Philadelphia, 1993)
• T-800 (Terminator 2 Judgment Day, 1991)
• Karen Silkwood (Silkwood, 1983)
• Bruce Wayne (Batman, 1989)
• Don Diego De Vega (The Mask of Zorro, 1940)
• 44. Jimmy Popeye Doyle (The French
  Connection, 1971)
• Moses (The Ten Commandments, 1956)
• Father Edward J. Flanagan (Boys Town, 1938)
• Mr. Chipping (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, 1939)

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Heroes

• 31-40
• Frank Serpico (Serpico, 1973)
• Lassie (Lassie Come Home, 1943)
• The Tramp (City Lights, 1931)
• Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars, 1977)
• Reuben J. Rooster Cogburn (True Grit, 1969)
• Alvin York (Sergeant York, 1941)
• Tarzan (Tarzan the Ape Man, 1932)
• Marge Gunderson (Fargo, 1996)
• Philip Marlowe (The Big Sleep, 1946)
• Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich, 2000)

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Heroes

• 21-30
• Lucas Jackson (Cool Hand Luke, 1967)
• General George Patton (Patton, 1970)
• Juror 8 Mr. Davis (12 Angry Men, 1957)
• 27. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (All The
  Presidents Men, 1976)
• Clarke Kent (Superman, 1978)
• Lou Gehrig (The Pride of the Yankees, 1942)
• Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer (Thelma
  Louise, 1991)
• Terry Malloy (On The Waterfront, 1954)
• Spartacus (Spartacus, 1960)
• Mahatma Ghandi (Ghandi, 1982)

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Heroes

• 11-20
• Butch Cassidy the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Virgil Tibbs (In The Heat of The Night, 1967)
• Robin Hood (The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938)
• Detective Harry Calahan (Dirty Harry, 1971)
• Shane (Shane, 1953)
• Norma Rae Webster (Norma Rae, 1979)
• Han Solo (Star Wars, 1977)
• Oskar Schindler (Schindlers List, 1993)
• Tom Joad (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940)
• Jefferson Smith (Mr. Smith Goes To Washington,
  1939)

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Heroes

• 6-10
• T. E. Lawrence Peter OToole
• (Lawrence of Arabia, 1962)
• George Bailey James Stewart
• (Its A Wonderful Life, 1946)
• Ellen Ripley Sigourney Weaver
• (Aliens, 1986)
• Rocky Balboa Sylvester Stallone
• (Rocky, 1976)
• Claris Starling Jodie Foster
• (Silence of the Lambs, 1991)

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Heroes

• 5 Will Kane from High Noon (1952) played by
  Gary Cooper

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Heroes

• 4 Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942) played by
  Humphrey Bogart

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Heroes

• 3 James Bond from Dr. No (1962) played by Sean
  Connery

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Heroes

• 2 Indiana Jones from Raiders of the Lost Ark
  (1981) played by Harrison Ford

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AFIs 1 Hero

• 1 Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird
  (1962) played by Gregory Peck