Favourite Characters

[subscape]

Pretty self Explanatory

[Kopenhaver]

The Man With No Name.

[MmzHrrdb]

The American Soldier
Bob Le Flambeur
Belmondo's character in Breathless
The Cremator
Martha (fassbinder)
The poet in Satansbraten
Gelsomina, Zampano, and the fool in La Strada
Chow Yun-Fat in everything
the pervert in Claire's Knee
Anna Karina in L'alliance
Lancelot in Lancelot du Lac
Peewee Herman

[kevinjoseph]

This is a rough list, but:

Hannah Pitt (Meryl Streep in Angels in America)
Bobby Peru (William Dafoe in Wild at Heart)
Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening in American Beauty)
Johnny (David Thewlis in Naked)
Martha (Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand in Fargo)
Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds)
Selma Ježková (Bjork in Dancer in the Dark)
Sir Wilfred Robarts (Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution)
Blanche DuBois (Vivian Leigh in Streetcar Named Desire)

[Anomaly]

The Man With No Name.

Sanjuro.

[RoboShark]

subscape, your list is terrible, see more movies.

Anyway, my list:

Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension)
Stanley Spidowski (Michael Richards in UHF)
Cabiria (Giuletta Masina in Nights of Cabiria)
Captain von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim in Grand Illusion)
John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart in Vertigo)
Tuco (Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
Carol (voiced by James Gandolfini in Where the Wild Things Are)
Gilda (Rita Hayworth in Gilda)
The detective (M. Emmett Walsh in Blood Simple)
Tommy Corn (Mark Wahlberg in I Heart Huckabees)
Lily von Schtupp (Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles)
Nausicaa (from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)
Dr. Pretorious (Ernest Thesinger in Bride of Frankenstein)

[TheDenizen]

Just a handful off the top of my head

Conan the Barbarian
Django (Franco Nero version)
Cuchillo (Tomas Milian's Mexican thief character who appeared in a couple of Spaghetti Westerns)
Kanbei Shimada (the lead Samurai in Seven Samurai)
Harry Tuttle (terrorist repairman in Brazil)
Dr. Satan (chubby Turkish guy with a huge Fu Manchu and a cardboard robot in The Deathless Devil)
Josey Wales (my favorite Clint Eastwood character/movie)
Black Dynamite (he's just so...righteous)

[KGB]

Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood. Just rewatched that film, I forgot how great Landau was in it.

[Bojangles]

Dignan

[paulofilmo]

Billy Kwan - The Year of Living Dangerously
Johnny - Naked
Alex - A Clockwork Orange
Robert Eroica Dupea - Five Easy Pieces
Furious Styles - Boyz n the Hood
Tristan - Legends of The Fall
Roger - Roger Dodger
The Tramp - The Circus/Gold Rush
The Boy (Toshio, or something) - Only Yesterday
Addison DeWitt - All About Eve (and pretty much every other George Sanders character)
Harold and Maude
Leeloo - The Fifth Element
The Shrink - Good Will Hunting
Blondie - GBU
Henry Van Cleve - Heaven Can Wait
The Princess/Death - Orphee
Ripley
Mr. Rochester - Jane Eyre
Joe Black - Meet Joe Black
Cyrano de Bergerac
Camilla - The Golden Coach
Denis Dimbleby Bagley - How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Withnail
Lady with Red Dress Memory - After Life
John J. Macreedy - Bad Day at Black Rock
Ester - The Silence
George and Martha - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Phil - All or Nothing
Most of the cast - My Darling Clementine
Tamsin - My Summer of Love
Léon
Father/Ivan - The Return
Any character from any Shane Meadows movie
Bill and Ted
Debraj Sahai - Black
Ivan - Ivan's Childhood
Leonard - Memento
Pocahontas - The New World
Olivier - The Son
J.J. Hunsecker - Sweet Smell of Success
Joe Oramas and Finbar - The Station Agent
Joker - TDK
The kids in - Whisper of the Heart
Schmidt - About Schmidt
Patrick Bateman - American Psycho
Irene Jansen - Dark Passage
Keane
Rupert Pupkin/Masha - King of Comedy
Everyone in Kung Fu Hustle
Peter Carter - A Matter of Life and Death
Joe Buck - Midnight Cowboy
Gordon and Selina - Patch of Blue
David Sumner - Straw Dogs
H.I. and Ed - Raising Arizona
They're not characters, but as good as. Everyone in - American Movie
Ana - Spirit of the Beehive
Ameilie
Bourne
Clarice/Lecter - Silence of the Lambs
Mrs. Appleyard - Picnic at Hanging Rock
Richard B. Riddick - Pitch Black
Dorota - A Generation
Martin Q. Blank - Grosse Pointe Blank
Nick Naylor - Thank You for Smoking
Grandmother - The Way Home
John Horatio Malkovich - Being John Malkovich
Old dude with the fiddle - Bride of Frankenstein
Billy Brown - Buffalo '66
Okwe - Dirty Pretty Things
Alma Brown - Hud
Carol Beldon - Mrs. Miniver

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