My Favorite Characters
Submitted by AJDaGreat on Mon, 11/17/2003 - 05:46
Tags:
- MOVIES
- Sister Alma (Bibi Andersson) - Persona
- Bernie Bernbaum (John Turturro) - Miller's Crossing
- Billy Bibbit (Brad Dourif) - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) - Taxi Driver
- Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) - Harold and Maude
- Hortense Cumberbatch (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) - Secrets and Lies
- Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) - Sunset Blvd.
- Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) - Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) - Pink Panther series
- Gunnery Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) - Full Metal Jacket
- Prince Herbert (Terry Jones) - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Hobson (John Gielgud) - Arthur
- Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) - Notorious
- Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) - The Jerk
- Juror #8 (Henry Fonda) - 12 Angry Men (Note: I realize this is also a play; however, I haven't seen or read the play)
- Hannibal Lechter (Anthony Hopkins) - The Silence of the Lambs
- The Little Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) - Various
- Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal) - Paper Moon
- Luke (Paul Newman) - Cool Hand Luke
- Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) - The Station Agent
- Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) - Juno
- Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) - The Bridge Over the River Kwai
- Paul (Marlon Brando) - Last Tango in Paris
- Homer Parrish (Harold Russell) - The Best Years of Our Lives
- Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) - Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) - Memento
- Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) - Ruthless People
- Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) - Pulp Fiction
- The Wienie King (Robert Dudley) - The Palm Beach Story
- Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen) - Zelig
- TELEVISION
- Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) - Friends
- GOB Bluth (Will Arnett) - Arrested Development
- George Costanza (Jason Alexander) - Seinfeld
- Wile E. Coyote (Mel Blanc) - Looney Tunes
- Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) - House
- Stanley Hudson (Leslie David Baker) - The Office
- Jimmy James (Stephen Root) - NewsRadio
- Omar Little (Michael K. Williams) - The Wire
- Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) - 30 Rock
- Homer Simpson (voice of Dan Castellanata) - The Simpsons
- Dick Solomon (John Lithgow) - Third Rock From the Sun
- Yakko Warner (voice of Rob Paulsen) - Animaniacs
- Dr. Zoidberg (voice of Billy West) - Futurama
- BOOKS / SHORT STORIES
- Candide - Candide by Voltaire
- Madame Defarge - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Albus Dumbledore - Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Jay Gatsby - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Captain Hart - "The Man" by Ray Bradbury (in his The Illustrated Man)
- Linley - "Two Bottles of Relish" by Lord Dunsany
- Major Major - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Walter Mitty - "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber
- Winston Smith - 1984 by George Orwell
- The Wife of Bath - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- PLAYS/MUSICALS
- Aldolpho - The Drowsy Chaperone (book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar)
- Andrew Aguecheek - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Bernie - Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet
- Barney Cashman - Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon
- Fraulein Schneider - Cabaret (book by Joe Masteroff)
- Iago - Othello by William Shakespeare
- Logician - Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
- Willy Loman - Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- Senex - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart)
- OTHER
- Calvin - comic strip Calvin and Hobbes
- Cassandra - prophetess in Greek / Roman mythology
- Strong Bad - www.homestarrunner.com
- Guybrush Threepwood - "Monkey Island" computer game series
Author Comments:
Thanks to lbangs and stumpy for setting the precedent. No real people allowed.
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Exceptional list. How do you do that Inspired By thing at the bottom?
Thanks! Glad you like it, and glad I decided to revisit it recently.
The Inspired By thing just pops up whenever you Clone a list. :-)