Favorite Movie Characters

[Munson]

First three off the top of my head. I'll think of more.

[Drunkmasterflex]

Sam Elliot as SGM Plumley in We Were Soldiers.

[ice grillin you]

Sam Elliot in Roadhouse.

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[MDS]

Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights. Funniest movie evar!1!!11!!22!232

[hbionic]

Jesus. In any movie.

[Diomedes]

Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti in True Romance

Oh, agreed. 

Dustin Hoffman as Ratso in Midnight Cowboy.

[rjs246]

I'm going to be recycling some but here are the ones I can think of off the top of my head...

- Kilmer as Holiday. If this isn't my favorite, it's definitely top 5.
- Mickey Rourke as Marv in Sin City also gets a vote from me (getting the recycled ones out of the way early).
- John Goodman as Walter in The Big Lebowski. John Turturo as The Jesus would also be further down my list.
- Dennis Hopper as Clifford Worley in True Romance. Again, there are several characters here that I would consider. Slater, Arquette and Walken all are outstanding but Hopper steals the entire movie.
- Sonny Landham as Billy in Predator.
- Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien and Aliens. In fact, I think she might be #1 on my list.
- Peter Stormare as Satan in Constantine. This isn't a great movie, but Stormare plays such a great Satan that it's worth watching just for the 5 or 6 minutes that he's in it. Stormare also gets props for playing Karl Hungus, Nihilist/Porn Star, in The Big Lebowski.

[Diomedes]

- Dennis Hopper as Clifford Worley in True Romance. Again, there are several characters here that I would consider. Slater, Arquette and Walken all are outstanding but Hopper steals the entire movie.

Don't leave Gary Oldman off that list..his short turn at the beginning of the movie is magnificent.

[rjs246]

Ah! farg you're right. Gary Oldman as Drexl was amazing. In fact, Oldman is one of my favorite actors and I'd add at least one other of his characters to my list. Stansfeld in The Professional.

[Drunkmasterflex]

I think we all can agree that Val Kilmer in Tombstone is one of the all time best movie performances. 

Also Daniel Day-Lewis as William Cutting in Gangs of New York.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) in American Beauty.

[Rome]

Robert Shaw as Quint in "Jaws".

[DutchBird]

Tommy Lee Jones - As Marshal Samuel Gerard (The Fugitive) and warden Dwight McClusky (Natural Born Killers)

Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Jon Voight - all in "Heat"

Ed Harris - Seth Frank (Absolute power)

Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber (Die Hard with a vengeance)

Woody Harrelson - Mickey Knox (Natural born killers)

[Feva]

Ah! farg you're right. Gary Oldman as Drexl was amazing. In fact, Oldman is one of my favorite actors and I'd add at least one other of his characters to my list. Stansfeld in The Professional.

-- When I saw this thread title... that's one of the 1st I thought about.  He was great in that role.

-- I also gotta back IGY again with Don Cheadle as Mouse in Devil in a Blue Dress.

-- Sam Jackson as Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction.  Special shoutout to Harvey Keitel as The Wolf as well.

-- rjs tapped Billy in Predator... but I've got to give the nod to Jesse Ventura as Blaine.  "I ain't got time to bleed" may be the best line ever.

-- Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die-Hard.  Maybe the best villan ever in an action movie.

[DutchBird]

Ah! farg you're right. Gary Oldman as Drexl was amazing. In fact, Oldman is one of my favorite actors and I'd add at least one other of his characters to my list. Stansfeld in The Professional.

-- When I saw this thread title... that's one of the 1st I thought about.  He was great in that role.

Oldman was good in that movie (known in most of the rest of the world as 'Leon', its original title), but I have to say I liked Portman and Reno better.

I guess "Rome" would qualify as a series.... but still:

James Purefoy (Marc Anthony), Simon Woods (Octavian/Augustus), Kerry Condon (Octavia) were good as well.... despite the liberties that the wroters have taken, they might be quite close in character to what the historical persons might have been....