49. Chance the Gardener - Peter Sellers - Being There
48. John "Bluto" Blutarsky - John Belushi - Animal House - "Food fight!"
47. Mrs. Robinson - Anne Bancroft - The Graduate - "Would you like me to seduce you?"
46. John McClane - Bruce Willis - Die Hard - "Yippee ki yay."
45. Mary Poppins - Julie Andrews - "Just a spoonful of sugar..."
44. Jules Winfield - Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction - "I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?"
43. Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks - "Stupid is as stupid does."
42. "Dirty" Harry Callahan - Clint Eastwood - "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
41. Jane Craig - Holly Hunter - Broadcast News
40. The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger - "I'll be back."
39. Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels - Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie
38. Willy Wonka - Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
37. Jake Gittes - Jack Nicholson - Chinatown - "Shut the *%$! up." (Not exactly his most memorable line, but my favorite use of it in the history of the movies.)
36. Alex Forrest - Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
35. Dr. Evil - Mike Myers - Austin Powers - "It's quite breathtaking."
34. Bonnie Parker - Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde
33. Ratso Rizzo - Dutin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy - "I'm walking here!"
32. Holly Golightly - Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's - "The mean reds."
31. Norman Desmond - Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard - "I'm ready for my close-up."
30. King Kong - "It was beauty that killed the beast."
29. Daphe/Jerry - Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot - "Nobody's perfect."
28. Captain Quint - Robert Shaw - Jaws - "Man goes in the cage. Cage goes in the water. Shark's in the water."
27. Marge Gunderson - Frances McDormand - Fargo - "So...you were having sex with the little fellah?"
26. E.T. - "E.T. phone home."
24. The Little Tramp - Charlie Chaplin - Mabel's Strange Predicament
23. Ethan Edwards - John Wayne - The Searchers
22. Travis Bickle - Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver - "You talking to me?"
21. Susan Vance - Katherine Hepburn - Bringing Up Baby
20. Detective Virgil Tibbs - Sidney Poitier - In the Heat of the Night
19. Rick Blaine - Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca - "Here's looking at you kid."
18. Carl Spackler - Bill Murray - Caddyshack
17. Dorothy Gale - Judy Garland - The Wizard of Oz - "There's no place like home."
16. Robin Hood - Errol Flynn
15. Hannibal Lecter - Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
14. Randle Patrick McMurphy - Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
13. Atticus Finch - Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Charles Foster Kane - Orson Welles - Citizen Kane - "Rosebud!"
11. Margo Channing - Bette Davis - All About Eve - "Someone get me a drink."
10. Gollum - Andy Serkis - Lord of the Rings - "Buy the DVD, sheep!"
9. Jeff Spicoli - Sean Penn - Fast Times at Ridgemont High - "Hey buddy!"
8. Ellen Ripley - Sigourney Weaver - Alien - "Stupid cat."
7. Indiana Jones - Harrison Ford - Raiders of the Lost Ark - "You wanna talk to God?"
6. Annie Hall - Diane Keaton - "He must think I'm a total yo-yo."
5. James Bond - Sean Connery - Dr. No and six others - "Run along dear. It's time for man talk."
4. Norman Bates - Anthony Perkins - Psycho - "Mother!"
3. Scarlett O'Hara - Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind - "Tomorrow is another day!"
2. Fred C. Dobbs - Humphrey Bogart - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - "We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
1. Vito Corleone - Marlon Brando - The Godfather - "There's never enough time." (You thought I was gonna write that other thing, but this is actually my favorite line from the first "Godfather.")
Some other oversights that spring to mind without any real time for reflection include…
Jesus Christ (Willem Dafoe) - The Last Temptation of Christ
Death (Some Swede)- The Seventh Seal
Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro) - Raging Bull
Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) - The Godfather Part II (if you want to see the most beautiful expression of rage in all the movies, watch Pacino's eyes when Diane Keaton tells him what happened to the baby.)
Gen. George S. Patton (George C. Scott) – Patton
Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) – Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guiness) - Bridge on the River Kwai
Count Orlok (Max Shrek), Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror
T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) - Lawrence of Arabia.
Scotty Ferguson (James Stewart) – Vertigo
Don Logan (Ben Kingsley) - Sexy Beast
Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) - Amadeus
Hamlet, but which version?
Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) - Star Trek
Ed Wood (Johnny Depp) – Ed Wood
Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) – Yojimbo (the inspiration for Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name)
Higetora (Er…) - Ran
The Old Dude (Takashi Shimura) - Ikiru
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