AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains

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AFI 100 Years... series:
100 Movies - (1998)
100 Stars - (1999)
100 Laughs - (2000)
100 Thrills - (2001)
100 Passions - (2002)
100 Heroes and Villains - (2003)
100 Songs - (2004)
100 Movie Quotes - (2005)
Film Scores - (2005)
Musicals - (2006)
100 Cheers - (2006)
100 Movies (10th Anniversary) - (2007)
AFI's 10 Top 10 - (2008)

AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains is a list of the 50 greatest movie heroes and villains chosen by American Film Institute in June of 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The series was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The presentation program was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special.[1]

In several cases, the characters on the lists are seen in two or more films. The primary or original (if possible) film that character(s) was in is listed, or that film that was given particular attention during the program.

Contents

[edit] The list

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

[edit] The characters

  • Batman, It's a Wonderful Life, Schindler's List, and The Silence of the Lambs are the only films to have characters appear on both lists (the Alien is from Alien and Ripley is listed for the sequel, Aliens, Darth Vader is listed for The Empire Strikes Back and not Star Wars, and James Bond is listed for Dr. No and not Goldfinger).
  • The Terminator is the only character to appear on both lists, although strictly speaking the villain and hero are separate characters.
  • Star Wars is the only film to have two characters appear in the same list, Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi as heroes.
  • Three characters from three separate Stanley Kubrick films appear on the villains list (Alex DeLarge, HAL 9000, and Jack Torrance).

[edit] The actors

  • Gary Cooper is the only actor to appear three times on the list; in all three he appeared as a hero.
  • Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, Robert Mitchum, Robert Redford, Bette Davis and Paul Newman each appear twice on the same list.
  • Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger each appear on both lists.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger is the only actor to appear at least once on each list for playing identical characters.

[edit] Real people

In some cases on the list, real people (portrayed by actors) or characters based on real people appear.

One hero, Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, is based on a real-life New York City detective named Eddie Egan.

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