i didnt find all of them but if anyone does, please post them


100. Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
95. Angela Bassett as Tina Turner- What's Love Got to Do With It (1993)
90. Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski- The Big Lebowski (1998)
85. Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer- Frances (1982)
80. Jeanne Moreau as Catherine- Jules and Jim (1962)
75. Julie Christie as Diana Scott- Darling (1965)
70. Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
65. Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne- Some Like It Hot (1959)
60. Diane Keaton as Annie Hall- Annie Hall (1977)
55. Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
50. Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
45. Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick- Election (1999)
40. Nicole Kidman as Suzanne Stone Maretto- To Die For (1995)
35. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote- Capote (2005)
30. James Stewart as John "Scottie" Ferguson- Vertigo (1958)
25. Greta Garbo as Ninotchka- Ninotchka (1939)
20. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone- The Godfather Part II (1974)
15. Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin- Big (1988)
11. Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown- My Left Foot (1989)

101-200 (In alphabetical order)

A
Julie Andrews as Maria, The Sound of Music
Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Fred Astaire as Tony Hunter, The Band Wagon

B
Javier Bardem as Ramon Sampedro, The Sea Inside
Carlo Battisti as Umberto Domenico Ferrari, Umberto D
Warren Beatty as George Roundy, Shampoo
John Belushi as John 'Bluto' Blutarsky, Animal House
Annette Bening as Myra Langtry, The Grifters
Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michel Poiccard/Laszlo Kovacs, Breathless
Ingrid Bergman as IIsa Lund, Casablanca
Ernest Borgnine as Marty Piletti, Marty
Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I, Elizabeth
Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather
Yul Brynner as King Mongkut of Siam, The King and I

C
Michael Caine as Alfie Elkins, Alfie
Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson, Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage as H.I. McDunnough, Raising Arizona
Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, The Truman Show
John Cazale as Sal, Dog Day Afternoon
John Cazale as Fredo, The Godfather Part II
Jackie Chan as Wong Fei-hung, The Legend of Drunken Master II
Montgomery Clift as George Eastman, A Place in the Sun
Montgomery Clift as Private Prewitt, From Here to Eternity
Montgomery Clift as Rudolph Petersen, Judgment at Nuremberg
Tom Courtney as Colin Smith, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Joseph Cotten as Jedediah Leland, Citizen Kane
Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie, Shadow of a Doubt
Tom Cruise as Frank T.J. Mackey, Magnolia

D
Marcel Dalio as Robert de la Cheyniest, La Regle de Jeu
Daniel Day-Lewis as Johnny, My Beautiful Laundrette
Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Robert De Niro John 'Johnny Boy' Civello, Mean Streets
Gerard Depardieu as Raoul, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
Richard Dreyfuss as Duddy, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

F
Peter Finch as Howard Beale, Network
Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, The Adventures of Robin Hood
Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, Shawshank Redemption

G
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind
Clark Gable as Peter Warne, It Happened One Night
Bruno Ganz as Damiel, Wings of Desire
Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar, American Splendor
John Gielgud as Carr Gomm, The Elephant Man
Lillian Gish as Letty Mason Hightower, The Wind
Alec Guinness as Col. Nicholson, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness as Sidney Stratton, Man in the White Suit

H
Gene Hackman as Det. Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle, The French Connection
Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett, Philadelphia
Chieko Higashiyama in as Tomi Hirayama, Tokyo Story
William Holden and Hal Carter, Picnic
Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath, The Piano
Isabelle Huppert as Marie, Story of Women
John Hurt as John Merrick/The Elephant Man, The Elephant Man

I
Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bulow, Reversal of Fortune

J
Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth Fielding, The Romantic Englishwoman
Emil Jannings as the hotel porter, The Last Laugh

K
Klaus Kinski as Don Lope de Aguirre, Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Anna Karina as Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie

L
Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi, Ed Wood
Martin Landau as Judah Rosenthal, Crimes and Misdemeanors
Charles Laughton as Senator Seabright Cooley, Advise & Consent
Carole Lombard as Irene Bullock, My Man Godfrey

M
Anna Magnani as Mamma Roma, Mamma Roma
Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Rubini, La Dolce Vita
Ewan McGregor and Renton, Trainspotting
Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey / Jeff Markham, Out of the Past
Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell, Night Of The Hunter
Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine, Trading Places

N
Jack Nance, Eraserhead
Jack Nicholson as Jake 'J.J.' Gittes, Chinatown
Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack, Airplane!
Kim Novak as Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton, Vertigo

O
Warren Oates as G.T.O., Two Lane Blacktop

P
Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito, Goodfellas
Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli, Fast Times at Ridgmont High
Richard Pryor as Harry Monroe, Stir Crazy

R
Robert Redford or Roy Hobbs, The Natural
Lynn Redgrave as Georgy, Georgy Girl
Vanessa Redgrave as Isadora Duncan, Isadora
Vanessa Redgrave as Ruth Wilcox,Howards End
Keanu Reeves as Ted Logan, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Mickey Rourke as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell, Diner

S
Hanna Schygulla as Maria Braun, The Marriage of Maria Braun
Andy Serkis as Gollum, The Lord of the Rings
Robert Shaw as Quint, Jaws
Michel Simon as Priape Boudu, Boudu Saved From Drowning
Victor Sjsstrsm as Professor Isak Borg, Wild Strawberries
Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Kevin Spacey as Roger 'Verbal' Kint, The Usual Suspects
Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, Rocky
Meryl Streep as Susan Orlean, Adaptation

T
Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos, Monster
David Thewlis as Johnny, Naked
John Travolta as Tony Manero, Saturday Night Fever

V
Jon Voight as Luke Martin, Coming Home

W
Orson Welles as Hank Quinlan, Touch of Evil
Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane
Robin Williams as the Genie, Aladdin
Jeffrey Wright as Jean Michel Basquiat, Basquiat

Tom Hanks in...Big? That better not be his highest ranked performance.

Hopkins as Lecter is too low.

Big (and Hanks in it) is so underrated right now... I looove Big and I actually think he should have won the Oscar that year (he was against who.. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man?)

Love the inclusions of Kidman's To Die For and Witherspoon's Election, but even I think they're way too high...

Big is a great movie.
Infact nearly all the age swap movie actors pull it off really well.

This is a pretty good list, actually....

45. Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick- Election (1999)

Great Choice I loved this movie.

I'm sorry but no Reeves as Superman, Ford as Indiana Jones, hell not even Gregory peck as Atticus Finch.

Deeply flawed list.

if you didnt notice, the list is incomplete

Edit:

these are 100 greatest characters.... let me try to find performances.


1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather
2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind
4. Norman Bates of Psycho
5. James Bond of Dr. No
6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall
7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Ellen Ripley of Alien
9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings
11. Margo Channing of All About Eve
12. Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane
13. Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird
14. Randle McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15. Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs
16. Robin Hood of The Adventures of Robin Hood
17. Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz
18. Carl Spackler of Caddyshack
19. Rick Blaine of Casablanca
20. Virgil Tibbs of In the Heat of the Night
21. Susan Vance of Bringing up Baby
22. Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver
23. Eathan Edwards of The Searchers
24. The Little Tramp of Mabel's Strange Predicament
25. Gordon Gekko of Wall Street
26. E.T. of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
27. Marge Gunderson of Fargo
28. Captain Quint of Jaws
29. Daphne/Jerry of Some Like it Hot
30. King Kong of King Kong
31. Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard
32. Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany's
33. Ratso Rizzo of Midnight Cowboy
34. Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde
35. Dr. Evil of Austin Powers
36. Alex Forrest of Fatal Attraction
37. Jake Gittes of Chinatown
38. Willy Wonka of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
39. Michael Dorsey/Dorthy Michaels of Tootsie
40. The Terminator of The Terminator
41. Jane Craig of Broadcast News
42. "Dirty" Harry Callahan of Dirty Harry
43. Forrest Gump of Forrest Gump
44. Jules Winnfield of Pulp Fiction
45. Mary Poppins of Mary Poppins
46. John McClane of Die Hard
47. Mrs. Robinson of The Graduate
48. John "Bluto" Blutarsky of Animal House
49. Chance the Gardener of Being There
50. Blondie of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
51. Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street
52. Howard Beale of Network
53. Ninotchka of Ninotchka
54. Frank Booth of Blue Velvet
55. The Dude of The Big Lebowski
56. Alan Swann of My Favorite Year
57. Tom Powers of The Public Enemy
58. Phyliss Dietrichson of Double Indemnity
59. Lt. Kilgore of Apocalypse Now
60. George Bailey of It's a Wonderful Life
61. J.J. Hunsecker of Sweet Smell of Success
62. John Shaft of Shaft
63. Carrie White of Carrie
64. Rocky Balboa of Rocky
65. Edward Scissorhands of Edward Scissorhands
66. Navin Johnson of The Jerk
67. Inspector Clouseau of The Pink Panther
68. Alex DeLarge of A Clockwork Orange
69. Terry Malloy of On the Waterfront
70. Judy Benjamin of Private Benjamin
71. Rev. Harry Powell of The Night of the Hunter
72. Lloyd Dobler of Say Anything
73. Norma Rae of Norma Rae
74. Tony Montana of Scarface
75. Dr. Strangelove of Dr. Strangelove
76. Tony Manero of Saturday Night Fever
77. Annie Wilkes of Misery
78. "Mad" Max Rockatansky of Mad Max
79. Hans Beckert of M
80. Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon
81. Aurora Greenway of Terms of Endearment
82. Jack Torrance of The Shining
83. William Cutting of Gangs of New York
84. Darth Vader of Star Wars
85. Stanley Kowalski of A Streetcar Named Desire
86. Melanie Daniels of The Birds
87. Captain Jack Sparrow of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
88. Raymond Babbitt of Rain Man
89. Sandy Olsson of Grease
90. John Malkovich of Being John Malkovich
91. Mrs. Iselin of The Manchurian Candidate
92. Dil of The Crying Game
93. Harry Lime of The Third Man
94. Rose Sayer of The African Queen
95. Oda Mae Brown of Ghost
96. Tommy DeVito of GoodFellas
97. Ace Ventura of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
98. Antoine Doinel of The 400 Blows
99. Kevin McCallister of Home Alone
100. Roger "Verbal" Kint of The Usual Suspects

Pretty good characters list. Only problem for me is Jeff Spicoli at #9, he's nothing more than a regular high-school stoner. Nothing special about that.

92. Dil of The Crying Game

I have to laugh.. this list is overtly politcal... usually Nurse Ratchet in Cukoo's Nest is always in the top ten... and no John Wayne... tsk, tsk........

How is this even possible? Ace Ventura and Kevin McCallister ahead of Verbal Kint? Wow...

Malcolm McDowell needs to be wayyy higher on that list. He was absolutely brilliant as Alexander DeLarge. I'm shocked he wasn't even nominated for best actor that year.

You're actually wrong about that. Spicolli is the original highschool stoner. no one did it before him and it transcends a performance. If you were around in 82, you'd know why he is ranked that high. A great choice in my opinion.

Dil should be much higher...

Why the hell is Jane Craig of Broadcast News so high?

Hell, why is Jane Craig of Broadcast News even on the list at all?

Stumbles upon this list. Glad I ran a search first of it would have been a double. This is the full list that Matatonio couldn't find before.



The two bolded. Nice to see Masina getting acknowledgement for her acting. Highest ranked foreign language actor/actress of the list. That's surprising (on the part of this magazine), though I'll agree with her handling of the role and think its one of the best performances ever.

Wanted to point out Gong's high ranking. Only Chinese actor/actress to make the list. I can't wait until she gets the viewership here she deserves.


Here are the descriptions of the roles: http://www.premiere.com/article.asp?sec ... le_id=2692

Can't say I'm too thrilled.

1. Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2. Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954)
3. Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie's Choice (1982)
4. Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
5. Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950)
6. James Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
7. Dustin Hoffman as "Ratso" Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
8. James Stewart as George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
9. Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein (1974)
10. Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980)
11. Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989)
12. Jack Nicholson as "Badass" Buddusky in The Last Detail (1973)
13. Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968)
14. Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies (1983)
15. Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin in Big (1988)
16. Cary Grant as T.R. Devlin in Notorious (1946)
17. Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992)
18. Emily Watson as Bess McNeill in Breaking the Waves (1996)
19. Paul Newman as Frank Galvin in The Verdict (1982)
20. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974)
21. Giulietta Masina as Cabiria in Nights of Cabiria (1957)
22. Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands in Edward Scissorhands (1990)
23. Russell Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider (1999)
24. Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
25. Greta Garbo as Ninotchka in Ninotchka (1939)
26. Maria Falconetti as Joan of Arc in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
27. Marlon Brando as Paul in The Last Tango in Paris (1972)
28. Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday (1940)
29. Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener in Being There (1979)
30. James Stewart as John "Scottie" Ferguson in Vertigo (1958)
31. Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004)
32. Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
33. Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie (1982)
34. Buster Keaton as Johnny Gray in The General (1927)
35. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote (2005)
36. Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Cross Mulwray in Chinatown (1974)
37. Gene Hackman as Harry Caul in The Conversation (1974)
38. Carole Lombard as Maria Tura in To Be or Not to Be (1942)
39. Laurence Olivier as Richard III in Richard III (1955)
40. Nicole Kidman as Suzanne Stone Maretto in To Die For (1995)
41. Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction (1994)
42. Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)
43. James Dean as Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
44. Charlie Chapman as a Tramp in City Lights (1931)
45. Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick in Election (1999)
46. Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland in Cast Away (2001)
47. Jack Nicholson as Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
48. Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day (1993)
49. Liv Ullmann as Elisabet Vogler in Persona (1966)
50. Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
51. Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
52. Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day (1993)
53. Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York (2002)
54. Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
55. Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)
56. Jodie Foster as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988)
57. Max Von Sydow as Lasse Karlsson in Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
58. Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Aliens (1986)
59. Catherine Deneuve as Severine Serizy in Belle de Jour (1967)
60. Diane Keaton as Annie Hall in Annie Hall (1977)
61. Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's List (1993)
62. Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy (1986)
63. Gena Rowlands as Mabel Longhetti in A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
64. Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961)
65. Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne in Some Like It Hot (1959)
66. Holly Hunter as Jane Craig in Broadcast News (1987)
67. Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind (1960)
68. Cary Grant as Dr. David Huxley in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
69. Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
70. Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
71. Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood in Silkwood (1983)
72. Judy Garland as Esther Blodgett, A.K.A. Vicki Lester in A Star Is Born (1954)
73. John Travolta as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977)
74. Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles (1974)
75. Julie Christie as Diana Scott in Darling (1965)
76. Burt Lancaster as J.J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
77. Morgan Freeman as Leo Smalls Jr., A.K.A. Fast Black in Street Smart (1987)
78. Toshiro Mifune as Sanjuro Kuwabatake in Yojimbo (1961)
79. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
80. Jeanne Moreau as Catherine in Jules and Jim (1962)
81. Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
82. George C. Scott as General George S. Patton Jr. in Patton (1970)
83. Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (1999)
84. Anjelica Huston as Lilly Dillon in The Grifters (1990)
85. Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer in Frances (1982)
86. Robert Walker as Bruno Anthony in Strangers on a Train (1951)
87. John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in The Searchers (1956)
88. Christopher Walken as Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter (1978)
89. Gong Li as Juxian in Farewell My Concubine (1993)
90. Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in The Big Lebowski (1998)
91. Jane Fonda as Bree Daniels in Klute (1971)
92. Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971)
93. Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce (1945)
94. Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert in M (1931)
95. Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It? (1993)
96. Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday (1950)
97. Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast (2001)
98. Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944)
99. Steve Martin as Navin Johnson in The Jerk (1979)
100. Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange (1971)


OVERRATED.


really happy to see that day-lewis gangs role on there... one of the best performances ive ever seen.

Never, Depp was best in recent blockbusters. Its getting rare to see great acting in blockbuster as they rely more on special effects

Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)


Hmm, agrees but not #1 more like top ten. He was very good and he rode the camel in a very strange way.

The list is mostly crap, but...


Honestly, he was better in Willy Wonka.


Ugh.


Yay!


No way.


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


attn: Dolce.

How about Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday?
How about Sylvester stallone a Rocky?