AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains is a list of the 100 greatest screen characters (50 of both the hero and villain category) chosen by the American Film Institute


Hero ( Actor ) , Film

1 Atticus Finch ( Gregory Peck ) , To Kill a Mockingbird
2 Indiana Jones ( Harrison Ford ) , Raiders of the Lost Ark
3 James Bond ( Sean Connery ) , Dr. No
4 Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) , Casablanca
5 Will Kane ( Gary Cooper ) , High Noon
6 Clarice Starling ( Jodie Foster ) , The Silence of the Lambs
7 Rocky Balboa ( Sylvester Stallone ) , Rocky
8 Ellen Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ) , Aliens
9 George Bailey ( James Stewart ) , It's a Wonderful Life
10 T. E. Lawrence ( Peter O' Toole ) , Lawrence of Arabia
11 Jefferson Smith ( James Stewart ) , Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
12 Tom Joad ( Henry Fonda ) , The Grapes of Wrath
13 Oskar Schindler ( Liam Neeson ) , Schindler's List
14 Han Solo ( Harrison Ford ) , Star Wars
15 Norma Rae Webster ( Sally Field ) , Norma Rae
16 Shane ( Alan Ladd ) , Shane
17 Harry Callahan ( Clint Eastwood ) , Dirty Harry
18 Robin Hood ( Errol Flynn ) , The Adventures of Robin Hood
19 Virgil Tibbs ( Sidney Poitier ) , In the Heat of the Night
20 Butch Cassidy ( Paul Newman ) , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
and The Sundance Kid ( and Robert Redford ) ,
21 Mahātmā Gandhi ( Ben Kingsley ) , Gandhi
22 Spartacus ( Kirk Douglas ) , Spartacus
23 Terry Malloy ( Marlon Brando ) , On the Waterfront
24 Thelma Dickinson & Louise Sawyer ( Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon ) , Thelma & Louise
25 Lou Gehrig ( Gary Cooper ) , The Pride of the Yankees
26 Superman ( Christopher Reeve ) , Superman
27 Bob Woodward ( Robert Redford ) , All the President's Men
and Carl Bernstein ( and Dustin Hoffman ) ,
28 Juror #8 ( Henry Fonda ) , 12 Angry Men
29 General George S. Patton ( George C. Scott ) , Patton
30 Luke Jackson ( Paul Newman ) , Cool Hand Luke
31 Erin Brockovich ( Julia Roberts ) , Erin Brockovich
32 Philip Marlowe ( Humphrey Bogart ) , The Big Sleep
33 Marge Gunderson ( Frances McDormand ) , Fargo
34 Tarzan ( Johnny Weissmuller ) , Tarzan the Ape Man
35 Alvin C. York ( Gary Cooper ) , Sergeant York
36 Rooster Cogburn ( John Wayne ) , True Grit
37 Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Alec Guinness ) , Star Wars
38 The Tramp ( Charlie Chaplin ) , City Lights
39 Lassie ( Pal (dog actor) ) , Lassie Come Home
40 Frank Serpico ( Al Pacino ) , Serpico
41 Arthur Chipping ( Robert Donat ) , Goodbye, Mr. Chips
42 Father Flanagan ( Spencer Tracy ) , Boys Town
43 Moses ( Charlton Heston ) , The Ten Commandments
44 Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle ( Gene Hackman ) , The French Connection
45 Zorro ( Tyrone Power ) , The Mark of Zorro
46 Batman ( Michael Keaton ) , Batman
47 Karen Silkwood ( Meryl Streep ) , Silkwood
48 Terminator ( Arnold Schwarzenegger ) , Terminator 2: Judgment Day
49 Andrew Beckett ( Tom Hanks ) , Philadelphia
50 General Maximus Decimus Meridius ( Russell Crowe ) , Gladiator














Villain ( Actor ) , Film

1 Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins ) , The Silence of the Lambs
2 Norman Bates ( Anthony Perkins ) , Psycho
3 Darth Vader ( David Prowse/James Earl Jones ) , The Empire Strikes Back
4 The Wicked Witch of the West ( Margaret Hamilton ) , The Wizard of Oz
5 Nurse Ratched ( Louise Fletcher ) , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6 Mr. Potter ( Lionel Barrymore ) , It's a Wonderful Life
7 Alex Forrest ( Glenn Close ) , Fatal Attraction
8 Phyllis Dietrichson ( Barbara Stanwyck ) , Double Indemnity
9 Pazuzu/Regan MacNeil ( Linda Blair (voiced by Mercedes McCambridge) ) , The Exorcist
10 The Queen ( Voice of Lucille LaVerne ) , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
11 Michael Corleone ( Al Pacino ) , The Godfather Part II
12 Alex Delarge ( Malcolm McDowell ) , A Clockwork Orange
13 HAL 9000 ( Voice of Douglas Rain ) , 2001: A Space Odyssey
14 Xenomorph ( Bolaji Badejo ) , Alien
15 Amon Göth ( Ralph Fiennes ) , Schindler's List
16 Noah Cross ( John Huston ) , Chinatown
17 Annie Wilkes ( Kathy Bates ) , Misery
18 The Shark ( Bruce ) , Jaws
19 Captain Bligh ( Charles Laughton ) , Mutiny on the Bounty
20 Man ( Man ) , Bambi
21 Mrs. Iselin ( Angela Lansbury ) , The Manchurian Candidate
22 Terminator ( Arnold Schwarzenegger ) , The Terminator
23 Eve Harrington ( Anne Baxter ) , All About Eve
24 Gordon Gekko ( Michael Douglas ) , Wall Street
25 Jack Torrance ( Jack Nicholson ) , The Shining
26 Cody Jarrett ( James Cagney ) , White Heat
27 Martians ( ) , The War of the Worlds
28 Max Cady ( Robert Mitchum ) , Cape Fear
29 Reverend Harry Powell ( Robert Mitchum ) , The Night of the Hunter
30 Travis Bickle ( Robert De Niro ) , Taxi Driver
31 Mrs. Danvers ( Judith Anderson ) , Rebecca
32 Clyde Barrow ( Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway ) , Bonnie and Clyde
and Bonnie Parker
33 Count Dracula ( Béla Lugosi ) , Dracula
34 Dr. Christian Szell ( Laurence Olivier ) , Marathon Man
35 J.J. Hunsecker ( Burt Lancaster ) , Sweet Smell of Success
36 Frank Booth ( Dennis Hopper ) , Blue Velvet
37 Harry Lime ( Orson Welles ) , The Third Man
38 Caesar Enrico Bandello ( Edward G. Robinson ) , Little Caesar
39 Cruella de Vil ( Voiced by Betty Lou Gerson; Glenn Close ) , One Hundred and One Dalmatians; '101 Dalmatians
40 Freddy Krueger ( Robert Englund ) , A Nightmare on Elm Street
41 Joan Crawford ( Faye Dunaway ) , Mommie Dearest
42 Tom Powers ( James Cagney ) , The Public Enemy
43 Regina Giddens ( Bette Davis ) , The Little Foxes
44 Baby Jane Hudson ( Bette Davis ) , What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
45 The Joker ( Jack Nicholson ) , Batman
46 Hans Gruber ( Alan Rickman ) , Die Hard
47 Tony Camonte ( Paul Muni ) , Scarface
48 Roger "Verbal" Kint ( Kevin Spacey ) , The Usual Suspects
49 Auric Goldfinger ( Played by Gert Fröbe ) , Goldfinger
( Voiced by Michael Collins ) ,
50 Alonzo Harris ( Denzel Washington ) , Training Day