Favourite: My Favourite Characters from Film, Literature and TV
Submitted by 1922 on Sat, 11/06/2004 - 08:00
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Film
- Archie Leach (John Cleese) (A Fish Called Wanda)
- Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) (To Kill a Mockingbird)
- Cal Trask (James Dean) (East of Eden
- Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) (Alien)
- Frank Slade (Al Pacino) (Scent of a Woman)
- George Bailey (James Stewart) (It's a Wonderful Life)
- Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
- Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) (a Shot in the Dark
- James Bond (Sean Connery/ Roger Moore) (From Russia With Love/ Live and Let Die)
- Jim Stark (James Dean) (Rebel without a Cause)
- Juror #8 (Henry Fonda) (12 Angry Men)
- Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) (As Good As It Gets)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) (Star Wars)
- Otto West (Kevin Kline) (A Fish Called Wanda)
- Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) The Big Sleep
- Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
- Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) Casablanca
- T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) (Lawrence of Arabia)
- Thomas Babington 'Babe' Levy (Dustn Hoffman) (Marathon Man)
Literature
- Johnny Marinville, Desperation (Stephen King)
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. Abraham Van Helsing, Dracula (Bram Stoker)
- Gandalf, the White, The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- Tom Joad, The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- Ma Joad, The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- Lee, East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
- Monsieur Ibrahim, Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt)
- Paul Sheldon, Misery (Stephen King)
- Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
TV
- Tim Taylor (Tim Allen), Home Improvement
- Jill Taylor (Patricia Richardson), Home Improvement
- Wilson Wilson (Earl Hindman), Home Improvement
- Al Borland (Richard Karn), Home Improvement
- Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller), King of Queens
- Heathcliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby), The Cosby Show
- Dan Connor (John Goodman), Roseanne
- Roseanne Connor (Roseanne), Roseanne
- Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck), Magnum
- Dr. Quincy (Jack Klugman), Quincy
- Columbo (Peter Falk), Columbo
- Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), Monk
- Ray Barone (Ray Romano), Everybody Loves Raymond
- Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), Fawlty Towers
- Marge Simpson, The Simpsons
Villains
- Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier), (Marathon Man)
- Darth Vader (David Prowse), (Star Wars)
- Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum), (The Night of the Hunter)
- Michael Myers (??), Halloween
