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A poll by ElMaruecan82.

This list features all the actors with at least 4 pre-2000 screen characters nominated to the
American Film Institute Top 100 Heroes and Villains. To give you an idea, these 15 actors and Share this page:
actress (kudos to Bette Davis!) put together, represent about 20% of all the nominated characters

that impacted American movies' memories and about 25% of the Top 100 list. This called for a
poll!
They're ranked in order of number of nominated characters, but since quality matters more than
quantity, which of these actors or actress, in your opinion, deserves the title of most iconic
American Cinema's actor of the last century?

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In bold letters, the characters who made the AFI's Top 100 list. costas-1377
voted for
Humphrey Bogart

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OleLadyWho
voted for James
Stewart
John Wayne
7 CHARACTERS :
sointober
voted for Marlon
Captain Nathan Brittles (Hero) in SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON Brando
Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn (Hero) in TRUE GRIT
Davy Crockett
(Hero) in THE ALAMO
Tom Doniphon (Hero) in THE MAN WHO SHOT
LIBERTY VALANCE
The Ringo Kid (Hero) in STAGECOACH
Sgt. John M. fertukolinert
voted for Marlon
Stryker (Hero) in SANDS OF IWO JIMA
Ethan Edwards (Hero) in THE Brando
SEARCHERS

Vote! jazerbini
voted for Charlton
Heston

daveashaw
voted for Charlton
Heston

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Gary Cooper fenwayfan4life

voted for
Charlton Heston
6 CHARACTERS :
Henry "Lou" Gehrig (Hero) in THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
Michael "Beau" Geste (Hero) in BEAU GESTE
Will Kane (Hero) in miguelmarpu
voted for Jack
HIGH NOON
The Virginian (Hero) in THE VIRGINIAN
John Willoughby Nicholson
(Hero) in MEET JOHN DOE
Alvin C. York (Hero) in SERGEANT
YORK
mrnylon
voted for Harrison Ford

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Henry Fonda ceertolk
voted for Marlon Brando
6 CHARACTERS :
Lt. Colonel Daniel Kiley (Hero) in BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Abraham
Lincoln (Hero) in Young Mr. Lincoln
Wyatt Earp (Hero) in MY DARLING
CLEMENTINE
Frank (Villain) in ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
Tom
Joad (Hero) in THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Juror #8 (Mr. Davis)
(Hero) in 12 ANGRY MEN

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Harrison Ford
6 CHARACTERS :
John Book (Hero) in WITNESS
Rick Deckard (Hero) in BLADE RUNNER
Han Solo (Hero) in STAR WARS
Indiana Jones (Hero) in
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Dr. Richard Kimble (Hero) in THE
FUGITIVE
Jack Ryan (Hero) in PATRIOT GAMES

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Humphrey Bogart
5 CHARACTERS :
Rick Blaine (Hero) in CASABLANCA
Fred C. Dobbs (Villain) in THE
TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
Duke Mantee (Villain) in THE
PETRIFIED FOREST
Philip Marlowe (Hero) in THE BIG SLEEP
Lt.
Commander Philip Francis Queeg (Villain) in THE CAINE MUTINY

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Jack Nicholson
5 CHARACTERS :
J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Hero) in CHINATOWN
Colonel Nathan R. Jessep
(Villain) in A FEW GOOD MEN
The Joker (Villain) in BATMAN
Randle
Patrick McMurphy (Hero) in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO's NEST
Jack Torrance (Villain) in THE SHINING

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Gregory Peck
5 CHARACTERS :
Atticus Finch (Hero) in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Phil Green
(Hero) in GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
General Douglas MacArthur
(Hero) in MACARTHUR
Dr. Josef Mengele (Villain) in THE BOYS FROM
BRAZIL
Brig. General Frank Savage (Hero) in TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH

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James Stewart
4 CHARACTERS :
George Bailey (Hero) in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Thomas J.
Destry, Jr. (Hero) in DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Hero) in
REAR WINDOW
Jefferson Smith (Hero) in MR. SMITH GOES TO
WASHINGTON

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Bette Davis
4 CHARACTERS :
Leslie Crosbie (Villain) in THE LETTER
Regina Giddens (Villain) in
THE LITTLE FOXES
"Baby" Jane Hudson (Villain) in WHATEVER
HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
Julie Marsden (Hero) in JEZEBEL

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Paul Muni
4 CHARACTERS :
James Allen (Hero) in I AM FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Tony
Camonte (Villain) in SCARFACE: THE SHAME OF A NATION
Louis
Pasteur (Hero) in THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR
Emile Zola (Malcolm
Little) (Hero) in THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA

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Marlon Brando
4 CHARACTERS :
Vito Corleone (Villain) in THE GODFATHER
Stanley Kowalski (Villain) in
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Villain) in
APOCALYPSE NOW
Terry Malloy (Hero) in ON THE WATERFRONT

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Charlton Heston
4 CHARACTERS :
Judah Ben-Hur (Hero) in BEN-HUR
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (Hero) in EL
CID
Moses (Hero) in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Colonel George
Taylor (Hero) in PLANET OF THE APES

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Gene Hackman
4 CHARACTERS :
Sheriff "Little Bill" Dagget (Villain) in UNFORGIVEN
Jimmy "Popeye"
Doyle (Hero) in THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Lex Luthor (Villain) in
SUPERMAN
Reverend Frank Scott (Hero) in THE POSEIDON
ADVENTURE

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Warren Beatty
4 CHARACTERS :
Clyde Barrow (Villain) in BONNIE AND CLYDE
Joseph Frady
(Hero) in THE PARALLAX VIEW
Bugsy Siegel (Villain) in BUSGY
Dick
Tracy (Hero) in DICK TRACY

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Tom Hanks
4 CHARACTERS :
Andrew Beckett (Hero) in PHILADELPHIA
Forrest Gump (Hero) in
FORREST GUMP
Jim Lovell (Hero) in APOLLO 13
Captain John H. Miller
(Hero) in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

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