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Character Name |
Played By |
Film Title |
The Performance |
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50
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Sam Spade |
Humphrey Bogart |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
A wise-cracking, tough-acting, seedy detective. |
|
49
|
Elisabet Vogler |
Liv Ullmann |
Persona (1966) |
A stage star who suddenly stops speaking. |
|
48
|
Phil Connors |
Bill Murray |
Groundhog Day (1993) |
A sarcastic, misanthropic weatherman reliving
the same day in the same small town many times. |
|
47
|
Randle Patrick McMurphy |
Jack Nicholson |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
A mischievous, low-level, misfit asylum inmate
who fakes his mental illness. |
|
46
|
Chuck Noland |
Tom Hanks |
Cast Away (2000) |
A desperate island castaway forced to communicate
with a volleyball. |
|
45
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Tracy Flick |
Reese Witherspoon |
Election (1999) |
An anal-retentive go-getter determined to
win a student council election with the slogan "Pick Flick". |
|
44
|
Tramp |
Charlie Chaplin |
City Lights (1931) |
An iconic, desperately poor and compassionate
Tramp infatuated with a poor, blind flower girl, and friends with a suicidal,
alcoholic millionaire. |
|
43
|
Jim Stark
|
James Dean |
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) |
An anguished teenager pained by his parents
("You're tearing me apart"). |
|
42
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Travis Bickle |
Robert De Niro |
Taxi Driver (1975) |
An intensely violent loner intent on cleaning
up New York's streets. |
|
41
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Jules Winnfield |
Samuel L. Jackson |
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
A modern-day, chattering hitman/gangster
who engages in Biblical gunplay. |
|
40
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Suzanne Stone |
Nicole Kidman |
To Die For (1995) |
A sexy, and sometimes cool, aspiring anchorwoman. |
|
39
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Richard III |
Laurence Olivier |
Richard III (1955) |
A sinister and murderous king. |
|
38
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Maria Tura |
Carole Lombard |
To Be or Not to Be (1942) |
A beguiling, ravishing wife of a Warsaw acting
couple that resists the Nazis. |
|
37
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Harry Caul |
Gene Hackman |
The Conversation (1974) |
A quiet, repressed, and intensely private
expert wiretapper with a guilty conscience. |
|
36
|
Evelyn Cross Mulwray |
Faye Dunaway |
Chinatown (1974) |
A damaged, world-weary, and innocent femme
fatale. |
|
35
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Truman Capote |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Capote (2005) |
A vain and self-loathing gadfly writer who
ends up in catatonic despair. |
|
34
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Johnny Gray |
Buster Keaton |
The General (1927) |
A stunt-performing train engineer who must
save his two loves, his sweetheart and his locomotive. |
|
33
|
Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels |
Dustin Hoffman |
Tootsie (1982) |
A frustrated cross-dressing New York actor
transformed into a wispy-voiced steel magnolia. |
|
32
|
Holly Golightly |
Audrey Hepburn |
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) |
A regal, ditzy, coy and beguiling New York
City call girl. |
|
31
|
Ray Charles |
Jamie Foxx |
Ray (2004) |
An R&B legend and unique voice in pop
music. |
|
30
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John "Scottie" Ferguson |
James Stewart |
Vertigo (1958) |
An obsessed, mourning fetishist only interested
in dressing up a woman in the likeness of his dead, platinum-tressed lover. |
|
29
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Chance the Gardener |
Peter Sellers |
Being There (1979) |
An, innocent, illiterate fool-sage gardener
with pure and simple (and misinterpreted) observations about caring for
plants. |
|
28
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Hildy Johnson |
Rosalind Russell |
His Girl Friday (1940) |
A retiring, whip-smart journalist wishing
to get married, with razor-sharp, sparkling wit. |
|
27
|
Paul |
Marlon Brando |
Last Tango in Paris (1972) |
A grieving, toxic-raging widower
involved with an anonymous lover. |
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26
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Joan of Arc |
Maria Falconetti |
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) |
A wide-eyed, saintly martyr who suffers trial
and execution. |