RANK

HEROES

VILLAINS

1.

Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird

Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

2.

Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark

Norman Bates in Psycho

3.

James Bond in Dr. No

Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back

4.

Rick Blaine in Casablanca

The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz

5.

Will Kane in High Noon

Nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

6.

Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life

7.

Rocky Balboa in Rocky

Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction

8.

Ellen Ripley in Aliens

Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity

9.

George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life

Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist

10.

T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia

The Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

11.

Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Part II

12.

Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath

Alex De Large in A Clockwork Orange

13.

Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List

HAL 9000 in 2001 - A Space Odyssey

14.

Han Solo in Star Wars

The Alien in Alien

15.

Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae

Amon Goeth in Schindler's List

16.

Shane in Shane

Noah Cross in Chinatown

17.

Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry

Annie Wilkes in Misery

18.

Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Shark in Jaws

19.

Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night

Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty

20.

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Man in Bambi

21.

Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi

Mrs. John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate

22.

Spartacus in Spartacus

Terminator in The Terminator

23.

Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront

Eve Harrington in All About Eve

24.

Thelma Dickerson & Louise Sawyer in Thelma & Louise

Gordon Gekko in Wall Street

25.

Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees

Jack Torrance in The Shining

26.

Superman in Superman

Cody Jarrett in White Heat

27.

Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men

Martians in The War of the Worlds

28.

Juror #8 in 12 Angry Men

Max Cady in Cape Fear (1962) [also see Cape Fear (1991)]

29.

General George Patton in Patton

Reverend Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter

30.

Luke Jackson in Cool Hand Luke

Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver

31.

Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich

Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca

32.

Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep

Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde

33.

Marge Gunderson in Fargo

Count Dracula in Dracula

34.

Tarzan in The Tarzan, The Ape Man (starring Johnny Weissmuller) [also see Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)]

Dr. Szell in Marathon Man

35.

Alvin York in Sergeant York

J.J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success

36.

Rooster Cogburn in True Grit

Frank Booth in Blue Velvet

37.

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars

Harry Lime in The Third Man

38.

The Tramp in City Lights

Caesar Enrico Bandello in Little Caesar

39.

Lassie in Lassie Come Home

Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmations

40.

Frank Serpico inSerpico

Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street

41.

Arthur Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest

42.

Father Edward in Boys Town

Tom Powers in The Public Enemy

43.

Moses in The Ten Commandments

Regina Giddens in The Little Foxes

44.

Jimmy Popeye Doyle in The French Connection

Baby Jane Hudson in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

45.

Zorro in The Mark of Zorro

The Joker in Batman

46.

Batman in Batman

Hans Gruber in Die Hard

47.

Karen Silkwood in Silkwood

Tony Camonte in Scarface

48.

Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects

49.

Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia

Auric Goldfinger in Goldfinger

50.

General Maximus Decimus Meridus in Gladiator

Alonzo Harris in Training Day