AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains
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1999     100 Stars
2000     100 Laughs
2001     100 Thrills
2002     100 Passions
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2004     100 Songs
2005     100 Movie Quotes
2005     25 Scores
2006     100 Cheers
2006     25 Musicals
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains is a list of the one-hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The presentation programme was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special.[1]
Contents

    1 The list
        1.1 Heroes
        1.2 Villains
    2 The characters
    3 The actors
    4 References
    5 External links

The list
Heroes
Rank     Hero     Actor     Film     Year     Notes
1.     Atticus Finch     Gregory Peck     To Kill a Mockingbird     1962     Loosely based upon the father of Harper Lee
2.     Indiana Jones     Harrison Ford     Raiders of the Lost Ark     1981     
3.     James Bond     Sean Connery     Dr. No     1962     
4.     Rick Blaine     Humphrey Bogart     Casablanca     1942     
5.     Will Kane     Gary Cooper     High Noon     1952     
6.     Clarice Starling     Jodie Foster     The Silence of the Lambs     1991     
7.     Rocky Balboa     Sylvester Stallone     Rocky     1976     
8.     Ellen Ripley     Sigourney Weaver     Aliens     1986     
9.     George Bailey     James Stewart     It's a Wonderful Life     1946     
10.     T. E. Lawrence     Peter O'Toole     Lawrence of Arabia     1962     Historical figure
11.     Jefferson Smith     James Stewart     Mr. Smith Goes to Washington     1939     
12.     Tom Joad     Henry Fonda     The Grapes of Wrath     1940     
13.     Oskar Schindler     Liam Neeson     Schindler's List     1993     Historical figure
14.     Han Solo     Harrison Ford     Star Wars     1977     
15.     Norma Rae Webster     Sally Field     Norma Rae     1979     Based upon southern mill worker Crystal Lee Sutton
16.     Shane     Alan Ladd     Shane     1953     
17.     Harry Callahan     Clint Eastwood     Dirty Harry     1971     
18.     Robin Hood     Errol Flynn     The Adventures of Robin Hood     1938     
19.     Virgil Tibbs     Sidney Poitier     In the Heat of the Night     1967     
20.     Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid     Paul Newman
and Robert Redford     Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid     1969     Historical figures
21.     Mahatma Gandhi     Ben Kingsley     Gandhi     1982     Historical figure
22.     Spartacus     Kirk Douglas     Spartacus     1960     Historical figure
23.     Terry Malloy     Marlon Brando     On the Waterfront     1954     
24.     Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer     Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon     Thelma & Louise     1991     
25.     Lou Gehrig     Gary Cooper     The Pride of the Yankees     1942     Historical figure
26.     Superman     Christopher Reeve     Superman     1978     
27.     Bob Woodward
and Carl Bernstein     Robert Redford
and Dustin Hoffman     All the President's Men     1976     Historical figures
28.     Juror #8     Henry Fonda     12 Angry Men     1957     
29.     General George Patton     George C. Scott     Patton     1970     Historical figure
30.     Lucas (Luke) Jackson     Paul Newman     Cool Hand Luke     1967     
31.     Erin Brockovich     Julia Roberts     Erin Brockovich     2000     Historical figure
32.     Philip Marlowe     Humphrey Bogart     The Big Sleep     1946     
33.     Marge Gunderson     Frances McDormand     Fargo     1996     
34.     Tarzan     Johnny Weissmuller     Tarzan the Ape Man     1932     
35.     Alvin York     Gary Cooper     Sergeant York     1941     Historical figure
36.     Rooster Cogburn     John Wayne     True Grit     1969     
37.     Obi-Wan Kenobi     Alec Guinness     Star Wars     1977     
38.     The Tramp     Charlie Chaplin     City Lights     1931     
39.     Lassie     Pal     Lassie Come Home     1943     
40.     Frank Serpico     Al Pacino     Serpico     1973     Historical figure
41.     Arthur Chipping     Robert Donat     Goodbye, Mr. Chips     1939     
42.     Father Edward     Spencer Tracy     Boys Town     1938     Historical figure
43.     Moses     Charlton Heston     The Ten Commandments     1956     Biblical figure
44.     Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle     Gene Hackman     The French Connection     1971     Based upon New York City Police Detective Eddie Egan
45.     Zorro     Tyrone Power     The Mark of Zorro     1940     
46.     Batman     Michael Keaton     Batman     1989     
47.     Karen Silkwood     Meryl Streep     Silkwood     1983     Historical figure
48.     The T-800     Arnold Schwarzenegger     Terminator 2: Judgment Day     1991     
49.     Andrew Beckett     Tom Hanks     Philadelphia     1993     
50.     General Maximus Decimus Meridius     Russell Crowe     Gladiator     2000     
Villains
Rank     Villain     Actor     Film     Year     Notes
1.     Dr. Hannibal Lecter     Anthony Hopkins     The Silence of the Lambs     1991     
2.     Norman Bates     Anthony Perkins     Psycho     1960     Loosely based upon killer Ed Gein
3.     Darth Vader     David Prowse (voiced by James Earl Jones)     The Empire Strikes Back     1980     
4.     The Wicked Witch of the West     Margaret Hamilton     The Wizard of Oz     1939     
5.     Nurse Ratched     Louise Fletcher     One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest     1975     
6.     Mr. Potter     Lionel Barrymore     It's a Wonderful Life     1946     
7.     Alex Forrest     Glenn Close     Fatal Attraction     1987     
8.     Phyllis Dietrichson     Barbara Stanwyck     Double Indemnity     1944     
9.     Regan MacNeil (as possessed by "Satan")     Linda Blair (voiced by Mercedes McCambridge)     The Exorcist     1973     
10.     The Evil Queen     Voice of Lucille La Verne     Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs     1937     
11.     Michael Corleone     Al Pacino     The Godfather Part II     1974     
12.     Alex DeLarge     Malcolm McDowell     A Clockwork Orange     1971     
13.     HAL 9000     Voice of Douglas Rain     2001: A Space Odyssey     1968     
14.     The Alien     Bolaji Badejo     Alien     1979     
15.     Amon Goeth     Ralph Fiennes     Schindler's List     1993     Historical figure
16.     Noah Cross     John Huston     Chinatown     1974     
17.     Annie Wilkes     Kathy Bates     Misery     1990     
18.     The Shark     "Bruce"[2]     Jaws     1975     
19.     Captain Bligh     Charles Laughton     Mutiny on the Bounty     1935     Historical figure
20.     Man     Voiced by Paul Starrs     Bambi     1942     
21.     Mrs. Eleanor Iselin     Angela Lansbury     The Manchurian Candidate     1962     
22.     Terminator     Arnold Schwarzenegger     The Terminator     1984     
23.     Eve Harrington     Anne Baxter     All About Eve     1950     
24.     Gordon Gekko     Michael Douglas     Wall Street     1987     
25.     Jack Torrance     Jack Nicholson     The Shining     1980     
26.     Cody Jarrett     James Cagney     White Heat     1949     
27.     Martians     Various     The War of the Worlds     1953     
28.     Max Cady     Robert Mitchum     Cape Fear     1962     
29.     Reverend Harry Powell     Robert Mitchum     The Night of the Hunter     1955     
30.     Travis Bickle     Robert De Niro     Taxi Driver     1976     
31.     Mrs. Danvers     Judith Anderson     Rebecca     1940     
32.     Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker     Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway     Bonnie and Clyde     1967     Historical figures
33.     Count Dracula     Bela Lugosi     Dracula     1931     
34.     Dr. Szell     Laurence Olivier     Marathon Man     1976     
35.     J.J. Hunsecker     Burt Lancaster     Sweet Smell of Success     1957     Based upon columnist Walter Winchell
36.     Frank Booth     Dennis Hopper     Blue Velvet     1986     
37.     Harry Lime     Orson Welles     The Third Man     1949     
38.     Caesar Enrico Bandello     Edward G. Robinson     Little Caesar     1931     
39.     Cruella De Vil     Voice by Betty Lou Gerson     One Hundred and One Dalmatians     1961     
40.     Freddy Krueger     Robert Englund     A Nightmare on Elm Street     1984     
41.     Joan Crawford     Faye Dunaway     Mommie Dearest     1981     Historical figure
42.     Tom Powers     James Cagney     The Public Enemy     1931     
43.     Regina Giddens     Bette Davis     The Little Foxes     1941     
44.     Baby Jane Hudson     Bette Davis     What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?     1962     
45.     The Joker     Jack Nicholson     Batman     1989     
46.     Hans Gruber     Alan Rickman     Die Hard     1988     
47.     Tony Camonte     Paul Muni     Scarface     1932     
48.     Verbal Kint     Kevin Spacey     The Usual Suspects     1995     
49.     Auric Goldfinger     Gert Fröbe (voiced by Michael Collins)     Goldfinger     1964     
50.     Detective Alonzo Harris     Denzel Washington     Training Day     2001     
The characters

    The Silence of the Lambs and It's a Wonderful Life are the only films to place a character in the top ten of both lists. In addition, Batman, and Schindler's List are the only other films to have characters appear on both lists.
    Four franchises have both a hero and villain listed for separate films: the Alien is from Alien while Ellen Ripley is listed for the sequel, Aliens; Darth Vader is listed for The Empire Strikes Back while Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi are cited for A New Hope; the Terminator is listed as a villain for The Terminator and as a hero for Terminator 2: Judgment Day; and James Bond is listed for Dr. No while Auric Goldfinger of Goldfinger was the only Bond villain cited.
    The Terminator is the only character to be listed as both a villain (The Terminator) and a hero (Terminator 2: Judgment Day).  Within the films, these are different but physically identical characters, both played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
    Four characters from four different Stanley Kubrick films appear: three villains (Alex DeLarge, HAL 9000, and Jack Torrance) and one hero (Spartacus).
    On each list, there appears only a single character of African descent: Virgil Tibbs as a hero for In the Heat of the Night and Alonzo Harris as a villain for Training Day.
    Only eight human heroines and fifteen villainesses are listed. The heroine Lassie is female, though she was portrayed by a male dog in all television shows and movies featuring the character.
    Twelve-year-old Regan MacNeil from The Exorcist is the youngest human character on the list.  However, the evil dæmon that possessed her throughout the film, Pazuzu, is implied to be centuries, if not millennia, old.
    Lassie, the Terminator, and Superman are the only non-human heroes.  The shark from Jaws, the Terminator, HAL 9000, the Martians, and the Alien are the only non-human villains.
    In Bambi, "Man" specifically refers to the man who killed Bambi's mother. He is also the only character on either list not to appear on screen in any way.
    Only three characters from animated films appear, all as villains: Queen Grimhilde, "Man", and Cruella de Vil.  All are in Walt Disney Animation Studios films.

The actors

    Gary Cooper is the only actor to appear three times on the list; in all three instances, he appears on the heroes list.
    Twelve actors appear twice on the same list: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Robert Mitchum, Faye Dunaway, and Jack Nicholson on the villains list; and Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and James Stewart on the heroes list.
    Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger are the only actors to appear on both lists. Schwarzenegger appears on both lists portraying different Terminators, while Pacino appears as characters from unrelated films.
    Out of all the actors who appear on the list, twenty-one of them—Kathy Bates, Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Russell Crowe, Robert Donat, Michael Douglas, Sally Field, Louise Fletcher, Jodie Foster, Gene Hackman, Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley, Frances McDormand, Gregory Peck, Julia Roberts, George C. Scott, Kevin Spacey, Spencer Tracy, Denzel Washington, and John Wayne—received Academy Awards for their performances. Gary Cooper won twice, once for Will Kane and once for Alvin York (he also received a third nomination, for the role of Lou Gehrig).  Of the remaining actors, Judith Anderson, Anne Baxter, Warren Beatty, Linda Blair, Humphrey Bogart, Glenn Close, Bette Davis, Geena Davis, Faye Dunaway, Ralph Fiennes, Henry Fonda, Alec Guinness, Angela Lansbury, Charles Laughton, Paul Muni, Liam Neeson, Paul Newman, Robert De Niro, Laurence Olivier, Peter O'Toole, Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon, Sylvester Stallone, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Meryl Streep, and Sigourney Weaver were also nominated, but did not win.