Who are your favorite movie characters?

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Who are some of your favorite movie characters? List as many as you want, please include the movie they are from if you don’t think they will be recognized. Feel free to explain your choices. Here are some of mine in no particular order…

Darth Vader

Indiana Jones

Man With No Name (Fist Full of Dollars series)

Andy Dufresne (Shawshank Redemption)

Agent Smith (The Matrix)

Most of the characters in The Princes Bride

Yoda
 
William Wallace (Braveheart)
Yoda
Jim Street (SWAT)
Memphis Rain (Gone in 60 Seconds)
Tito (Oliver & Company)
 
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William Wallace (Braveheart)
Yoda
Jim Street (SWAT)
Memphis Rain (Gone in 60 Seconds)
Tito (Oliver & Company)
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Hey Nick - you forgot Vin Diesel! :rotfl:
 
Glenn Holland - Mr. Holland’s Opus
John Dunbar - Dances W/ Wolves
Thomas Moore - A Man for All Seasons
Thomas Becket - Becket
Josh Bascom - Big
 
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Hey Nick - you forgot Vin Diesel! :rotfl:
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I couldn’t figure out which movie of mine I wanted to put down. Besides, it’s a little vain to vote myself one of my favorite movie characters…😉

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I couldn’t figure out which movie of mine I wanted to put down. Besides, it’s a little vain to vote myself one of my favorite movie characters…😉

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Hey - when ya got it, ya got it! 😉
 
Forrest Gump
The entire cast of Return to Me
The Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz
Charlie Anderson from Shenandoah (actually his whole family)
Robbie Hart from The Wedding Singer
Gus and Woodrow from Lonesome Dove
Atticus and Scout
Bernadette from The Song of Bernadette
Mel Gibson and his brother and kids from Signs
Mel Gibson as William Wallace
Goose from Top Gun
Pony Boy Curtis and Johnny from The Outsiders
Rocky
Rudy
Dominick from Dominick and Eugene
 
The Bride: Kill Bill
O Ren Ishii: Kill Bill
Blondie: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Tucco: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Willem Wallace: Braveheart
Gladiator
Marv: Sin City
Neo, Trinity & Morpheous: The Matrix
Kersey: Death Wish
Chuck Bronson again in “Hard Times”
Travolta in Saturday Night Fever

To name a few…too many… needless to say…I am drawn to complex dark people…much more interesting… I do admire…

Julie Andrews in Sound of Music & Mary Poppins
Dick Van Dyke and the lady who played Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang…also, Travolta in Grease… to name a few more. 🙂
 
Diego Diaz de Bivar - El Cid
Judah Ben Hur
William Wallace
Eleanor of Acquitaine (Katherine Hepburn)
Maximus
Indiana Jones and Dr. Jones, his father
Aubrey and Maturin - Master and Commander
Thomas More
Thomas a’Becket
The Four Musketeers (Oliver Reed, Michael York, etc) and of course Charlton Heston as Count Richelieu.
 
Too many to list 'em all, but here’s a woeful sample:

Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon
Rick Blaine in Casablanca
Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep
Charlie Allnut and Rosie in The African Queen

and in case anyone is sensing a pattern there:

Mame Dennis Burnside in Auntie Mame
(not to mention Mother Superior in The Trouble with Angels and Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows)

Rooster Cogburn, Mattie Ross and Le Boeuf in True Grit (and bonus favorite character Lawyer Daggett)

The entire casts of Apollo 13 and Remember The Titans
 
Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver

Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca

Gregory Peck in Keys of the Kingdom, well, Gregory Peck in anything, especialy if it involves Audrey Hepburn

Alec Guinness in Bridge on the River Kwai, what a whacko

Obi wan kenobe, looks exactly like one of my favorite Franciscan friars, and talks just like him

Babe the pig

Life is Beautiful, the father

Jo, Little Woman (winona ryder was the best one)

Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma, perfectly captured the role

Emma Thompsan as Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, ditto

Yul Brynner in the King and I, love that waltz scene one two three

Tony Curtis in the Vikings and the Gladiators, his philly accent always cracks me up. I loved him in the movie where he played an imposter who took on several personas.

Paul Scofield as St. Thomas More

James Earl Jones as the king in Coming to America
 
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