The List
| Rank | Hero | Actor | Film | Villain | Actor | Film |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Atticus Finch | Gregory Peck | To Kill a Mockingbird | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs |
| 2. | Indiana Jones | Harrison Ford | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Norman Bates | Anthony Perkins | Psycho |
| 3. | James Bond | Sean Connery | Dr. No | Darth Vader | David Prowse (voiced by James Earl Jones) | Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back |
| 4. | Rick Blaine | Humphrey Bogart | Casablanca | The Wicked Witch of the West | Margaret Hamilton | The Wizard of Oz |
| 5. | Will Kane | Gary Cooper | High Noon | Nurse Ratched | Louise Fletcher | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 6. | Clarice Starling | Jodie Foster | The Silence of the Lambs | Mr. Potter | Lionel Barrymore | It's a Wonderful Life |
| 7. | Rocky Balboa | Sylvester Stallone | Rocky | Alex Forrest | Glenn Close | Fatal Attraction |
| 8. | Ellen Ripley | Sigourney Weaver | Aliens | Phyllis Dietrichson | Barbara Stanwyck | Double Indemnity |
| 9. | George Bailey | James Stewart | It's a Wonderful Life | Regan MacNeil / Pazuzu |
Linda Blair (voiced by Mercedes McCambridge) | The Exorcist |
| 10. | T. E. Lawrence | Peter O'Toole | Lawrence of Arabia | The Queen | Voice of Lucille La Verne | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| 11. | Jefferson Smith | James Stewart | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Michael Corleone | Al Pacino | The Godfather Part II |
| 12. | Tom Joad | Henry Fonda | The Grapes of Wrath | Alex Delarge | Malcolm McDowell | A Clockwork Orange |
| 13. | Oskar Schindler | Liam Neeson | Schindler's List | HAL 9000 | Voice of Douglas Rain | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| 14. | Han Solo | Harrison Ford | Star Wars | Xenomorph | Bolaji Badejo | Alien |
| 15. | Norma Rae Webster | Sally Field | Norma Rae | Amon Göth | Ralph Fiennes | Schindler's List |
| 16. | Shane | Alan Ladd | Shane | Noah Cross | John Huston | Chinatown |
| 17. | Harry Callahan | Clint Eastwood | Dirty Harry | Annie Wilkes | Kathy Bates | Misery |
| 18. | Robin Hood | Errol Flynn | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Shark | "Bruce" | Jaws |
| 19. | Virgil Tibbs | Sidney Poitier | In the Heat of the Night | Captain Bligh | Charles Laughton | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| 20. | Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid |
Paul Newman and Robert Redford |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Man | None | Bambi |
| 21. | Mahātmā Gandhi | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Mrs. Iselin | Angela Lansbury | The Manchurian Candidate |
| 22. | Spartacus | Kirk Douglas | Spartacus | The Terminator | Arnold Schwarzenegger | The Terminator |
| 23. | Terry Malloy | Marlon Brando | On the Waterfront | Eve Harrington | Anne Baxter | All About Eve |
| 24. | Thelma Dickinson & Louise Sawyer | Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon | Thelma & Louise | Gordon Gekko | Michael Douglas | Wall Street |
| 25. | Lou Gehrig | Gary Cooper | The Pride of the Yankees | Jack Torrance | Jack Nicholson | The Shining |
| 26. | Superman | Christopher Reeve | Superman | Cody Jarrett | James Cagney | White Heat |
| 27. | Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein |
Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman |
All the President's Men | Martians | The War of the Worlds | |
| 28. | Juror #8 | Henry Fonda | 12 Angry Men | Max Cady | Robert Mitchum | Cape Fear |
| 29. | General George S. Patton | George C. Scott | Patton | Reverend Harry Powell | Robert Mitchum | The Night of the Hunter |
| 30. | Luke Jackson | Paul Newman | Cool Hand Luke | Travis Bickle | Robert De Niro | Taxi Driver |
| 31. | Erin Brockovich | Julia Roberts | Erin Brockovich | Mrs. Danvers | Judith Anderson | Rebecca |
| 32. | Philip Marlowe | Humphrey Bogart | The Big Sleep | Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker |
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway | Bonnie and Clyde |
| 33. | Marge Gunderson | Frances McDormand | Fargo | Count Dracula | Béla Lugosi | Dracula |
| 34. | Tarzan | Johnny Weissmuller | Tarzan the Ape Man | Dr. Christian Szell | Laurence Olivier | Marathon Man |
| 35. | Alvin C. York | Gary Cooper | Sergeant York | J.J. Hunsecker | Burt Lancaster | Sweet Smell of Success |
| 36. | Rooster Cogburn | John Wayne | True Grit | Frank Booth | Dennis Hopper | Blue Velvet |
| 37. | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Alec Guinness | Star Wars | Harry Lime | Orson Welles | The Third Man |
| 38. | The Tramp | Charlie Chaplin | City Lights | Caesar Enrico Bandello | Edward G. Robinson | Little Caesar |
| 39. | Lassie | Pal | Lassie Come Home | Cruella de Vil | Voice by Betty Lou Gerson | One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
| 40. | Frank Serpico | Al Pacino | Serpico | Freddy Krueger | Robert Englund | A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| 41. | Arthur Chipping | Robert Donat | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Joan Crawford | Faye Dunaway | Mommie Dearest |
| 42. | Father Flanagan | Spencer Tracy | Boys Town | Tom Powers | James Cagney | The Public Enemy |
| 43. | Moses | Charlton Heston | The Ten Commandments | Regina Giddens | Bette Davis | The Little Foxes |
| 44. | Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle | Gene Hackman | The French Connection | Baby Jane Hudson | Bette Davis | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
| 45. | Zorro | Tyrone Power | The Mark of Zorro | The Joker | Jack Nicholson | Batman |
| 46. | Batman | Michael Keaton | Batman | Hans Gruber | Alan Rickman | Die Hard |
| 47. | Karen Silkwood | Meryl Streep | Silkwood | Tony Camonte | Paul Muni | Scarface |
| 48. | Terminator | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Roger "Verbal" Kint | Kevin Spacey | The Usual Suspects |
| 49. | Andrew Beckett | Tom Hanks | Philadelphia | Auric Goldfinger | Gert Fröbe (voiced by Michael Collins) | Goldfinger |
| 50. | Maximus | Russell Crowe | Gladiator | Detective Alonzo Harris | Denzel Washington | Training Day |
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